The Boys- Apprentice

The Gala

I arrived at Vought expecting to more of the usual everyday stuff I have done in the past. But unexpectedly things started to change. I started to get assigned more and more work alone. I wasn't just carrying around messages anymore, I was being given paperwork that I needed to fill out for my copyright purposes for my image. I quickly began to realize that I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. I can fight and I am pretty smart, but I had just graduated from high school. I wasn't very educated on contract laws and other such things so I began to look into what I should do to fix this unfortunate lack of knowledge on my part.

I wasn't sure where to start looking to fix this so I did what I had done in the past when I wasn't sure what to do; I called my parents asking me for help. The solution that they suggested was to find a lawyer and, with how much money it looked like I was going to be making in the future, that seemed like the prudent thing to do. The problem was I had no idea on how to go about hiring a lawyer, so I went to where I usually go to fix any ignorance that I discover outside of my parents, the internet.

I quickly found a website for a law firm that deals with copyright and finance law.  After checking out how highly rated they were I decided to call them and make an appointment. They quickly acquiesced and I scheduled an appointment with them for tomorrow. So, after doing all of that I thanked all of the Vought employees for their time, but told them that I would not be signing anything before having a lawyer look over everything. I quickly said that I would have someone available to look over these documents within the week and that I should have it all filled out within that time frame. I went on to say, "Look everyone, I'm 18 years old and have never needed to sign a serious contract in my life. I just want to have a lawyer advise me so I don't accidently make a mistake filling out the paperwork or sign something that I really shouldn't have."

After that was sorted out, I basically had nothing to do for the rest of the day. So I just went over to see if Queen Maeve needed any help. After going to her office I asked if she needed anything. Queen Maeve looked over startled then responded by saying, "Oh Metallic, I was just about to go looking for you. There's a gala going on this afternoon that is very important to Vought industries. This party will be used to help get Vought into the military."

I paused for a moment thinking about what she just said and then responded by stating, "Wait, Vought is trying to get into the military. That can't be too difficult to achieve, I'd think that the militaries would be all over having supers in their service."

Queen Maeve responded, "You'd think so, but many leaders of the military have stocks in private arms corporations that make them lots of money. So if Vought is brought into the military to fight wars for America, then the arms suppliers would lose their government contracts, causing them to lose a lot of money, which in turn would cause a lot of the military leaders to lose a lot of money. Another reason why they are reluctant to let Vought take care of foreign conflicts is that it would mean giving a lot of power over to Vought and it would mean privatizing war and they are very reluctant to do that. There are a lot of other reasons why they are reluctant, but those are the main ones. "

I took a moment to absorb all of the information that she had just given me and had to admit that all of it made a lot of sense. For a second I was even confused on why we wanted into the military in the first place, so I asked, "Why do we want into the military in the first place?"

She responded quickly, "Well for a number of reasons, we would get those government contracts instead of the arms manufacturers making us a lot of money. We would also be able to take care of foreign enemies much more easily than the armed forces."

This explained that rather easily to me. I wondered why I was ever confused in the first place. So, I quickly acquiesced and said that I would be at the gala. Right as I was about to leave, I quickly remembered to ask some pretty important questions, "Quick question, what should I wear, where will the gala be, and when is it?"