"Ah, home sweet home! Do you even know how happy I am to see you?" Thankappan spoke as he stroked the front door of room #306 as gently as he could while the others got creeped out by this behavior of his.
"Don't make it any weirder than this, for Pete's sake. Open the door now, will ya?" Lonappan urged him.
"Gee, fine! Seems like you're really enthusiastic in getting back to your home… Did your wife cook you some good food or something?" Thankappan asked.
"What my wife cooks is none of your business. So, are you gonna open that door or are you gonna keep stalling for time and earn a whooping from me?" He asked back.
"Seems like someone's getting a bit moody." Thankappan mumbled as he opened the door.
"By the way, where's John? It's kinda late, so I thought he'd be here already." Taro looked around and asked.
"Hmm, John will not be coming here today." Lonappan replied.
"Huh?" The people around were baffled upon hearing this.
"Why is he not coming? Isn't it kinda dangerous-" Gibli raised his voice in opposition, however he was quickly interrupted.
"John is currently with the commanding officer of the Snehatheeram base. So, if Ponnappan can't tackle unforeseen circumstances, I believe no one in this base is capable of doing so." Lonappan replied with conviction.
"I will have to vouch for our leader as well. He's great… Or at least I've heard that he's great. Not seen him in action though. Oh, how I would spend my entire fortune to see him do the field work once…" Thankappan replied, totally fanboying over his superior.
"I wouldn't go that far especially after seeing him work. I mean, he's not sloppy, but he's not that great either." Lonappan replied.
"Why isn't John coming though? Is there any problem with him lurking around?" Taro asked.
"Well, if he's here, he'd have to sit through the punishment you have to face, right?" Lonappan asked with a sinister smile on his face. Upon this declaration, the faces of everyone in the room went pale. The atmosphere suddenly got gloomy as well.
"Punishment, you say… Didn't that end when we got kicked out from that bingo hall?" Thankappan asked, giving out a nervous chuckle as well.
"What are you saying? Did I ever say that the punishment ended?" Lonappan asked with a shocked look on his face, as if Thankappan just blurted out something blasphemous. That's when they realized that Lonappan was a freaking demon. He intentionally left out that the punishment wasn't over yet to give them a false sense of satisfaction only to bind them with the harsh truth.
"Ah… But what punishment can you even give us at home?" Thankappan asked in a tone similar to mockery.
"Don't say that! People have been doing a variety of stuff from home these days. So, a little mental torture isn't that big deal as long as you have a television set in the house, which you obviously have." Lonappan replied as he pointed to their television.
"Curses! What are you trying to do, you demon!" Thankappan pulled out a cross with his hands.
"Now, now. It's not that big of a deal. You just have to sit here and watch everything that I'm gonna show you through that television." Lonappan replied, upon which the aliens calmly took the seat. It had been a long time since they had been tortured by someone. Like, the war veteran Plankton #69420 would never have imagined that he would find a pack of old people staring darts at him as unbearable. The situation was pretty similar to the other two as well; so they were kinda intrigued about what Lonappan's gonna do. Unbeknownst to them, they turned into fine masochists.
However, that wasn't it in Thankappan's case. He was legit afraid of his senior's sadistic side. He had worked with him for a long time to realize what kinda monster Lonappan is. In fact, he remembered a rumor that he used to hear from his colleagues when he was the new kid on the block. The rumor said how Lonappan was the greatest torture specialist in their sector and at least a top hundred material in the entire world. It was said that he dishes out tailor made tortures for each one of his victims. The name of the torture specialist was so well known at a point, that the criminal aliens voluntarily revealed all their sins and asked MIB to give them jail time. However, some day, the torture master voluntarily walked away from torturing them because he didn't felt like it. It was said that aliens all over the world… yes, the whole world, rejoiced upon hearing this. However, Thankappan wasn't present to see this since Lonappan stopped going the torture master path by the time he was assigned to Thankappan. Nevertheless, the rumors were silently floating throughout MIB, so Thankappan happened to hear it as well.
After a bit of convincing or if you wanna be all technical about it...threatening, Thankappan eventually gave up and sat with the aliens. He plugged in the USB on to the television and clicked a video. The first video showed two rather fine Brazilian girls. It was all fine in the beginning, even a little sexy. But everything changed when they took a cup out of nowhere.
"Eww! What are they? Eww! Oh, my God! My brain! This is gonna remain there forever! Why would you do this to me?" Thankappan cried, while the other three watched without batting an eye. He wasn't that surprised by that. However, what surprised him was that Lonappan proactively watched the video without even flinching, while he himself felt like puking. "How are you even watching this?" He directed his question towards Lonappan.
"Oh, I'm not affected by any kinda mental torture. This doesn't make me feel anything." Lonappan replied with a pleasant smile as disgusting scenes ran in the background.
Realizing that he's the only one getting affected by this, he quickly resorted to the only thing he could rely on. "Lonappan! According to Indian Penal Code, section 354 A, you can't force another person to watch obscenity like this. So, stop it at once!" He ordered. He somehow remembered the laws because he once read it out of interest. Furthermore, he's a bit of a genius, so he kinda does stuff like this.
However, Lonappan looked unimpressed. "Hmm… I could poke out a few loopholes to what you just said. First of all, that works only if a man shows this material to a woman. Are you a woman? No. Secondly, let's just say for argument's sake that the law equally covers every person in India, is there any proof that you're a legal citizen of this country? No. Thankappan technically doesn't exist and even if he does, he isn't an Indian citizen. I can also conclude that even if you try arguing again, I, a person who doesn't exist, am watching this with four people, who also don't exist. So, the penal code doesn't apply to us." Lonappan replied. The argument that Thankappan thought to give him a little bit of fighting chance was instantly thwarted by the demon. He never expected Lonappan to be so well-versed in law.
In the end, Thankappan was toast after he had to watch the entire content from beginning to end, without skipping even once. After that was completed, the only one whose eyes looked defeated was Thankappan, so he was exempt from the rest.
"So, what are you gonna do with us?" Taro asked, to which Lonappan smiled brightly.
"I still have quite a bit on my arsenal." Lonappan smirked as the video suddenly changed for one with an anime girl.
"Hitomi-chan!" A voice was heard. It was Gibli. It looked as if he knew who this character was. However, it only dawned to him a bit later that this was a punishment. "What… what are you gonna do to Hitomi-chan?" He asked.
"Just watch." Lonappan replied.
"Atsushi-kun! Ah, Hitomi-chan and Atsushi-kun… What a nice… Hitomi-chan? What the? Who are these people?" What followed next was Gibli's confused and painful screams. Each time Atsushi-kun had to see what Hitomi-chan was doing with old men, he cried like a baby, until he couldn't handle it anymore and cried a river. Lonappan effectively ruined Gibli's anime watching experience that day.
Upon seeing the defeated look on Gibli's face as well, he sent Gibli out to recuperate.Two people remained after this. Those two didn't even flinch both times. They expected Thankappan to lose early because he had human emotions when he saw human stuff, however the one with Gibli was unexpected. They never knew that Gibli was interested in anime, which made them wonder how Lonappan found his anime love and even his favorite characters out.
"I don't know how you found out Gibli's weakness, however that's not gonna work with us. You know that, right? This… sex video route doesn't invoke any feelings in us… Just like you. So, if this is it, then we win!" Kunjan spoke, to which Lonappan laughed for a hot minute like a crazy bastard.
"Do you know I hate losing? I knew this wouldn't work on you. So, I went on a different route for you two. Are you ready?" Lonappan asked, with his smile growing more maniacal with each passing second.
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