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It was late at night at the office and both Jon and Dante were working over time. Both of them were vying for the same promotion and only one of them was going to get it while the other would be left out in the cold. There were stakes and while both men were generally friendly towards each other under normal circumstances, it was also every man for himself. 

 

Both men wanted the job so badly that they didn't know they were about to be tested. Their boss was a man who had trust issues, having been burnt by a former right hand man whom he had to deal with in a manner that would result in a lot of uneasy questions to be asked had the information come to light. He needed to find out between both Jon and Dante which one was the more trustworthy, so he devised a little test for them. A test they of course wouldn't possibly be aware of.

 

The boss had planted suspicion in both Jon and Dante's minds that he was doing a little something off the books and leaving the two of them alone in his office, he hired a goon to pay the boys a little visit.

 

As Jon and Dante both failed the test and snooped into their boss's secret archives, hacking through seemingly impenetrable firewall and the like, a masked man observed the boys clever doing. What the boss didn't know was that the masked man he hired actually worked for a rival company whom the boss nearly financially crippled. This firm had been biding their time for revenge and now they had it.

 

The masked man was impressed with the work both Jon and Dante showed as a team and even was willing to offer them a position in the rival business. Both boys for some strange reason (a misguided loyalty or fear of their boss) refused the deal, which annoyed the masked man. Still the information they uncovered was too good to pass up, so the masked man did the only thing he could do. 

 

Despite their feeble protests and attempts to change their minds, both Jon and Dante wound up bound and gagged and shoved into a utility closet as the masked man copied all of the incriminating evidence onto a flashdrive before leaving the boys to try and free themselves.

 

The next morning their gags had been removed and the boss had heard that their snooping had resulted in his imminent ruin. The boss knew he needed to do damage control, so he shoved the gags back into Jon and Dante's mouths, leaving them in the utility closet for the rest of the day while he took care of the masked man himself. Jon and Dante did their best to get free to no avail and when they heard the footsteps of their angry boss returning, they grimly realised they were another loose end that needed to be tied up for good.