With all business done, they got ready for bed and went for an early sleep.
Ajentt, now James laid down in his new room, with Anny jumping on the bed too and laying right next to him, James smiled before stroking Anny's back and telling her goodnight.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Meow!" A paw was placed on James face.
Morning arrives, opening his eyes, he sees Anny on top of him with her paws on his face, grabbing Anny and setting her aside, he rubs his eyes and yawns.
*Bzzzt! A jolt of shock spread throughout James body, "Morning stupid master, a wakeup shock should get you ready for the day."
"Oh my heart, I just can't get used to that whenever you do that." James complains as he gets himself ready, not forgetting to make sure that Anny has food for the whole day and possibly longer just in case.
Meeting up with Cross, before they both leave to pick up whatever they would need for the siege and info gathering, James asks for a favor. "Hey Cross, since your getting some gears and stuff, mind getting me a pair of pistols? I'm just gonna set the Imanishi aside till I get my hands on a perfect pair for it, so two simple pistols that I can use Akimbo style would be nice."
"You know, it's not really easy to use two pistols and hit a target with every shot, but with my blood in your veins and proper training, it will be something they would fear from you, I'll get you a good one, treat it as a gift." Cross just replies back, hoping it gaved him a nice dad vibe from all the years he lost.
As Cross has left, he double checks himself to make sure he doesn't look recognizable before going out aswell and getting a taxi.
"Ajentt had left the building, do we continue tracking him sir? Or should we follow Cross?" An agent reported to the man in a suit.
"Follow the boy, it's suspicious how he gained intel about his father, more so the location of where his father stayed." A somewhat balding man ordered and pondered the situation.
"Yes sir, will you be going back sir?" the agent asks.
"Yes, just keep an eye out, report any events that happen, the situation with the Stark is a more important problem. Just putting that kid under surveillance should be enough for now." The higher agent replied.
James got off the taxi and headed for a second hand electronics store with lots of spare parts to find what he needed.
Earlier in the morning, he had asked Cortana for ways to build a communication tapping device(CTD), hopeful in being able to pick up any communication between Sloan and the mysterious organizations.
With a list on hand, James went to the sales clerk on certain parts, from antennas to radios and routers, to signal boosters and headsets.
Though with all the items inquired, the seller had a hint of what James was up to, but as a rule of business, never ask to not bring trouble, of course with having a clue of what James wanted, he used all his knowledge to give him more extra things and advice to make his device better.
James was confused then thankful for the advice he was given, 'As Long as he doesn't stick his nose in my business, I'll let this slide since he's just trying to make money off me aswell as helping me out'.
Making his way out of the store with all his stuff and hailing a taxi, James can't help but question Cortana.
"Hey Cortana, why didn't you say anything with what the guy had been telling me? Don't tell me the build for our tapping ain't that good compared to what he said?" James says with a smirk, teasing Cortana.
"As you know master, there are still countless pieces of data I have to sort, and not everything on the internet is true, sometimes people have knowledge that is only shared through word of mouth that is impossible for me to gain access to." Cortana replies with a somewhat grumbling tone to it, which made James smile a little for being able to tease Cortana.
Finally in a taxi with everything he needs, he heads back.
Arriving back to his new possibly temporary home, Cross had been waiting for him.
"Welcome back, Got everything you need?" Carlos greeted.
"Some stuff for now, how about you?" James answered back.
"Got everything I need, just gotta prepare it all and wait your call."
Cross comes closer to James as he brings out a briefcase, opening it, he introduces his new pistols. "Here, the pistols you wanted, a custom made Beretta 92f firing 9mm with dead point accuracy and easy maintenance,
and a custom M1911 that fires a much larger .45 ACP, slim and easily concealed, but surprisingly packs a punch."
James reaches out his hands as he picks up the guns, first inspecting the 92f, with its much larger and heavier frame compared to the M1911, but has more ammunition due to it being double stacked.
Looking at the M1911, it looked slicked and light, though with less bullets, it uses a .45 that would give it more recoil but greater power in killing his targets.
Along with the new guns, Cross also gives him a custom holster to keep his new guns under his shirt to be easily retrieved and concealed.
Holstering his Beretta 92f to his right and the M1911 to his left, he did a few test draw on how fast he could bring out his weapon and pointing it at his enemies, with the Beretta 92f in his left hand and the M1911 on his right hand.
After the introduction of his new weapons, they began their talk about the Fraternity.
On what he knows of the people in it and those outside, on how well their plan would work out or whether they should worry about the people still outside of the Fraternity base.
Finishing their talk, they both went on their separate ways, right after he asked Crossed to get him an unnoticeable van he could use to not get noticed by the Fraternity when he gathers intel.
Making his way into his new room, he begins to assemble his CTD with Cortana's help along with the advice that he received from the store clerk.