Oppression

Oppression is the sixth episode of season one in Bandit Territory. In this episode, 
The episode marks the debut of Mimic the Impressionist and Dr. Faust.
==Plot==
Outside of a Zhao Industries facility, a van parks and several men exit the vehicle. Inside, a scientist is apprehensively attempting to perfect a strange serum. The scientist adjusts his glasses and rests his hands on his forehead, displaying clear signs of anguish. The scientist decides to cool off in the bathroom but is instead greeted by the men from outside. They began defacing his office as the scientist watches powerlessly. The leader of the men, Mimic, grasps the serum the scientist was working on. It is revealed that the scientist, Dr. Faust, is being blackmailed by Mimic and his gang to augment a chemical called Spongerachotoxin. The scientist claims that he needs more time to improve the formula, but Mimic isn't trying to hear it. Mimic drinks the chemical out of its test tube but it has no effect on him. Believing Faust needs better motivation, Mimic and his Russian Mob decide to pay Faust's family a visit...
The next day, John watches a news report about the kidnapping of Faust and his pregnant wife Gretchen. Their teenage daughter, who was left behind intentionally, explains the abduction in great detail. Though he doesn't want to, John decides to ultimately investigate the kidnapping and learns of Dr. Faust's career: a scientist employed by Zhao Industries. John travels to the only Zhao Industries facility in Fort Pooda and sneaks in, scrutinizing the layout of the building vigilantly and keeping a watchful eye for Faust's office. John eventually finds the office but in shambles so he isn't able to find much evidence at first but the footsteps of approaching strangers forces him to hide inside an air vent. Two men enter the office: corrupt deputy chief of police, Hirul Thresh, and Mimic the Impressionist's right-hand man, Barrion. The two look over Faust's office and discuss their cover-up for the crime, allowing John to learn that the Russian Mob is responsible for Faust's abduction and that they're bribing the police so that they'll get away with the crime.
John decides that he's going to tail Barrion when he leaves, but things take a turn for the worst when Barrion detects John in the air vent. Being a member of the Ignavus species, the tips of Barrion's horns allow him to generate an imperceptible, fifty meter field around him that can be used to detect anyone nearby. Barrion forcefully pulls John out of the vent and throws him across a table where Hirul begins to beat him on the floor. After taking a couple of kicks, John grabs Hirul's leg and pulls downward, making him bash his head on a counter and collapse on the floor. John then gets back up and takes on Barrion, managing to quickly overwhelm him which forces Barrion to retreat. Marksman purposely lets him get away in order to follow him to the Russian Mob's base of operations.
John follows Barrion to an abandoned Good Boy Corporation amusement park, apparently one of the Russian Mob's many bases of operation. The theme park is a maze with dozens of ways to be flanked and surrounded so John decides to pose as one of the Russian mobsters, noiselessly incapacitating a member and taking his clothes. He then relies on eavesdropping to lead him to the room where the hostages are being held, where he finds two men guarding it. Effortlessly taking them out, John proceeds to enter the room where he only finds a gagged up Gretchen. He frees her and asks where Faust is but she doesn't know.
TBC.
==Cast and characters==
TBA.
==Soundtrack==
TBA.
==Quotes==
==Trivia==
*Faust was the protagonist of classic German folklore. In most depictions of the story, Faust sells his soul to the Devil and falls in love with an innocent girl named Gretchen. The name of the doctor and his wife in this episode is Dr. Faust and Gretchen respectively, and in ways Mimic symbolizes the Devil.
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