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Coulda Just Asked

I surprised myself by not screaming at the top of my lungs, even though I was currently in the air after the three men had lunged through and completely shattered my window. Fortunately though, it made the sack atop my head pop up so I got a fantastic view of the ground 5 stories beneath us. But then I heard a loud clang and felt a thump, which was us landing on the fire escape. Now it was as if they were some sort of spider monkey hybrid, they weren't going down the steps of the apartment building at all. They were grabbing to the outside of the railings and dropping, grabbing to the railings bellow that and dropping again in a matter of seconds. Soon I saw their feet touch the ground, and the continue running.
"Damn, you guys must be hyped up on a top of Redbulls or something" I said, sometimes talking helped me feel a bit better, but that was not the case today. Though I do believe that I deserve a medal for not going complete panic mode. They said nothing and just kept running until they reached the black van. The door was opened and they leaped inside and I heard the tires screeching as we started driving and the sack was removed and set aside. Now none of the men were wearing masks, and they were surprisingly young and very unthreatening. In fact one had a very child-like look in his eyes, he looked to be not much older than myself, I'd say 19 or so. He had curly brown hair, olive skin, chocolate brown eyes, and looked to be pretty tall even though he was sitting down. He was the one who spoke first.
"Sorry 'bout that. It wasn't necessarily my idea."
Then one of the other men spoke up, he had black hair sleeked back, piercing blue eyes and rather pale skin.
"Um Kai you were the one who suggested we wear masks"
"And you said we should go through the window too!" A man with red hair said. He had rather "flippy" and he had bright green eyes, he actually looked very short, shorter than me, and I was 5'4. This was to weird and when I finally found my voice I used it to the fullest. I suppose in this situation the average person would be afraid, terrified even, but not me, I was infuriated.
"Okay if one of you doesn't pipe up and explain what the hell is going on in 15 seconds I will kill all of you with one of my 3 handguns hidden on my person!" My voice came out in a very loud, enraged manner that I didn't know I had in me. And of course I was bluffing, I wasn't a secret agent or anything and how could I afford that many guns? I mean I had a pocket knife in one of my back pocket but it was to small to do any real damage. The four men that were in the back of the van with me just stared at me shocked, as if they had forgotten my existence in that short time.
"Um yes of course" the one with the curly brown hair who reminded me of Leo Valdez began speaking "So we're a kind of spy-like organization, you see. Like MI6 without the British sophistication. Anyway we've been observing you in this van for a while, you noticed a few times I'm sure. So we decided that you'd make a great sort of 'recruit', that is if you'd be interested."
"So it would have killed you guys to maybe pay me a visit instead of taking me from my apartment and breaking the window?"
"That's not how we do things" the boy with the red hair said simply.
"Well it's not how I prefer to have job interviews to go. Anyway what even qualifies me for the job, and how do I know your not the bad guys?" I asked.
"Well to the enemy we are the 'bad guys'" the one with the piercing blue eyes said in a matter-of-fact way.
"True I guess..." I trailed off "So what are your names? I need something to call you." I was trying to act as if everything was all right when really I was planning how to escape and possibly harm a few of them.
"Oh yeah" the one with the curly brown hair said "I'm Kai, this here is Logan" he pointed to the man with the blue eyes "The fellow with the red hair is Nico. And the one that hasn't spoken is Axel" I hadn't even noticed Axel. I mean I new that there were 4 people in the back of the van with me but I didn't really think of him much since there was everything else going on. Axel had bleach blond hair that was neatly trimmed and appeared to be a medium height, he had observant looking grey eyes and as the rest of the young men he was clean shaven. Each man had their own sort of "aura" about them. Kai had a boyish amusing look to him, it showed in his eyes. Logan had a rather mature look about him, he seemed sophisticated. Nico seemed to be a person who was generally light going, but could be serious when needed. And then their was Axel, he had something about him that seemed cold, as if he thought of himself as a mature adult while everyone else was a mere child. They also dressed very differently. Kai wore jeans that were fairly skinny with a tee shirt that had Yoda wearing colorful sunglasses and Converse All Stars. Logan wore a business suit that was a navy color and a black tie with a white dress shirt and dress shoes. Nico wore a simple red tee shirt with black jeans and grey J's. Then there was Axel, he wore a grey blazer with a plain white v-neck tee shirt under it and dark blue jeans with grey Converse.

As we continued driving they explained to me about what they did in their agency and why they wanted me as a recruit. I found out that Kai and Nico were also recently recruited and were to be field agents. Logan was an analyst of sorts, he could get any level hacker out of their system and hack almost anything, or so I am told. Then there was Axel, he's been with the agency for quite some time (he looked about 30 when the others appeared closer to 20) and was a field agent. Apparently a few men from the "opposing agency" had found a way to access the files and get the information of every agent, so the old went into hiding and the new came in. Except Axel, who stayed with the agency and had plastic surgery performed.

"So where is it that we are driving to?" I asked after a while.
"Headquarters, it shouldn't be long before we arrive" Nico answered for me. And he was right we only drove for 10 minutes after that before reaching an old, rather beaten up warehouse. It was obvious it wasn't in use, and it appeared it hadn't been for a while. This was where the van stopped and everyone started getting out, I was hesitant at first.
"This doesn't look very operational" I said wondering if this were even partially safe, maybe I had trusted them to quickly. Axel gave a sarcastic laugh as if I were an idiot for thinking something.
"This isn't it" Logan said "we'll show you, c'mon". Cautiously I followed behind them as they walking into the old warehouse. Inside it was just as grimy as was the outward appearance. But the 5 of them (one was the driver who I couldn't see on the trip here) kept walking through the building towards the back. When we reached the end of the building there was surprising a very new, advanced looking elevator. Axel hit the down button and then had to do a finger scan (this one worked, unlike the one on the iPhone) before the doors would open. Inside it was about 3 times the size of an average elevator and seemed to be made of steel. It also seemed to take longer going down than the average elevator. When the elevator doors opened it was absolutely astounding.