The Sellouts Read Free

she told the panel.
                  “You still haven’t answered the question, Miss Oslett.” the Senator asked.
                  “My answer is that the working knowledge of our company is classified by the President of the United States, and if you’d like to know more, you will need authorization from him.” she said coldly.
                  “What can you tell us about why we’re spending four billion dollars a year for services that our own law enforcement agencies can handle?” asked the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, John Clouse.
                  “I can do more than tell you, Sir. I brought videos of why your law enforcement agencies aren’t equipped to handle these monsters.” she said as she held up a DVD. A man in uniform came and collected it, and put it into the player. He gave the remote to Trisha, who immediately hit play.
                  “Come on coppers! You got nothin’ that’ll hurt me!” said the well-muscled man in the video. The camera shook, as though it was a cell phone recording from a bystander.
                  “Get on the ground and put your hands behind your head!” said one of the policemen from behind a police car through his megaphone.
                  “Fuck you, copper!” the well-muscled man shouted as he ran and jumped on the police car as the other officers started shooting at him.
    Bullets just ricocheted off his shirtless chest as he grabbed the megaphone wielding officer and beat him until he collapsed. An officer to the left fired his taser at him. The wires hit his chest – only to fall to the ground. The taser wielding officer was the next to be beaten bloody. Two officers then attempted to wrestle with him, only to be thrown to the ground and also beaten bloody.
    After three more officers were brutally beaten on film, the well-muscled man started going after the civilians, and the cell phone was dropped. Only screams could be heard.
    Trisha paused the video just as a splatter of blood covered the screen.
    “Do you remember Chase Manton? Seven officers died that day. Twenty four officers were seriously injured, and eight civilians were also seriously injured before we got the call to take him down.” she said.
    “And how did you take him down?” asked John Clouse.
    “That’s classified. All I can tell you is that he was disabled promptly, and is currently imprisoned in a cell specially designed for his powers of super strength and impenetrable skin.” she said. “Shall we continue?” she said as she pushed play again.
    “Hahahaha!” came an evil laugh from atop the Empire State Building. It could be heard all the way down at the ground. “You all die today!” the voice said. This footage looked like another cell phone recording.
    A high pitched shriek was heard and parts of the buildings next to the Empire State building broke off and fell to the ground, smashing people and vehicles alike. The video went to static as a huge piece of glass was shown coming straight for it.
    “Chris Gallow killed eighty seven people that day before we got the call to take him down. He is currently serving twelve consecutive life sentences in one of our specially designed cells to negate his power of sound manipulation.” she said as she turned towards the panel. “This video is filled with sixteen more examples of traditional law enforcement not being able to handle these monsters. I will be happy to run through them all, if you’d like.” she told them as she hit play again and screams came from the video.
    She paused it when one of the members held up a hand. “We need a few moments to confer.”
    She sat down as the entire panel put their hands over their microphones and quietly spoke to each other. It was after about ten minutes that the Senator took his hand off his and spoke again.
    “We believe, in the interest of the United States of America, that we can