Hobbies

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As I stepped out of the elevator I was overwhelmed. To my Right was a wall covered in guns, knives, grenades and any other kind of weapon I could think of. To my left was a huge (I'm not kidding it covered the entire wall which was the length of a large warehouse) screen that was a map of the world. On the screen there were little blue lights covered in almost every country along with oceans and other bodies of water. To the back (which was quite a bit away from me since it was a large building) was what appeared to be a training center. It had difficult obstacle courses, tough punching bags, targets and something that looked like a fighting simulation of some kind (rather like the one from Catching Fire). In the center of the room there were hundreds of desks that each had an advanced computer. Half of which were unoccupied. Kai must have been very proud once seeing my astounded face because he had a childish grin on his face as if it were Christmas for him. Then he and the others led me towards a door between the large armory (how they managed to fit a door among all the weapons I don't know I'll ever figure out) and as we approached some not-so-lovely thoughts entered my mind: 'oh my god that's probably some room devoted to torture dear lord I'm dead'. But as it turned out it was an office with white polished shelving covering the walls to my right and left, marble floors, a glass desk with an iPad attached and to the back of the room was a wall covered with portraits of previous leaders of the organization. In the chair behind the desk was a man who quite frankly reminded me of Nick Fury from S.H.E.I.L.D. He had a scar from the bottom of his lip to his neck which looked very painful. He seemed extremely strong with his jaw in a very solum, concentrated way that made him seem rather intimidating. Once his eyes met mine it felt as if he was looking into my heart and flipping through my secrets as if they were papers in a file cabinet. Then I decided to speak up (silence is far too awkward for me to handle) "Hiya I'm-"
"I know who you are" The man behind the desk said. "I believe I know more about you than you could imagine." He continued further with the same expression as before "I am Director Macarra, or as they call me here. Unfortunately since I haven't even recruited you yet my real name can't be known to you at this time."
Then Nico leaned over and whispered "Only a few people even know his name here anyway" as I nodded. Then Director Macarra began speaking again "Kai, Nico, Axel, I want you three to show Ms. Quinn around the vicinity and show her how things work here. Logan you stay, I need to discus something with-"
"I haven't agreed to join yet, so isn't it rather rash to show me everything?" I interrupted stepping forward. Then the Director looked at me as if he had never been interrupted in his life.
"Well I had assumed you had made a decision to join, Quinn" he said in a low voice that clearly stated: 'K kiddo if you don't straiten up and learn some respect then I will snap your neck'. This I have to admit was very intimidating.
"So what is your decision?" He said his tone still low and rather menacing.
"My decision" I stood up strait making sure I didn't look the least bit intimidated "Is to join. Whatever skill set I have that your organization doesn't have I'll try to provide." Director M just nodded and gestured for Logan to sit down which showed that the topic was over. Then Kai, Nico and Axel walked out of the room and I followed.
"This all must be a bit hard to comprehend" Kai spoke up "With the whole 'thrown out a window and taken to a spy organization' thing I mean.
"Well it is a little disorienting, but I'll cope" I replied.
"So how much have you noticed about this area? We don't want to go over information that you already know." Axel said.
"Well" I began "The wall behind us is all your weapons. Then in front of us is probably all of the agents you have out in the field. And to our right is the training center."
"That's all pretty close, except for the map. The little lights on it, those are possible threats" I stared in awe at the screen. There were a lot of lights on that screen.
"But you haven't seen the best part!" Nico said excitedly and went to the elevated in which we followed. Once we got in he hit the down button which I didn't expect to be there (we were already around 70 stories underground I'd expect). Once we started descending Axel's phone rang.
"Holy crap on a catapult you get service down here?" I said shocked. He simply nodded as if it should have been obvious and then the doors opened and he stepped out quicker than the rest of us to take his call. When I had stepped out and looked around my mouth dropped. Inside were probably hundreds of people in lab coats. They were testing out things that I didn't even know existed. There was a pocket knife that had a gun, flamethrower and a tiny blade that expanded into a machete. I saw a scientist working on a license plate that changed so you couldn't be tracked. I even saw a pair of heels where you could take open up part of it where a gun was hidden on the inside.
"What is all this?" I asked excitedly.
"This is where all our wonderful toys are made" Kai answered grinning. We began to walk around a bit in which I saw many other astounding objects. Then a women in a lab coat walked over greeted Kai, Nico and Axel. Then with a very friendly smile she turned to me and reached her hand out.
"Hi I'm Kathy Malstrom. I heard they were bringing a new recruit in today, would that be you?" She asked perkily.
"Yep that's me" I shook her hand "I'm Sia Quinn"
"Nice to meet you Sia! And I'm terribly sorry to interrupt this conversation so soon but it appears my partner is about to cause something to explode or worse, see you around hopefully" she smiled and then quickly walked away and began telling her parter to carefully stop what he was doing.

After Nico and Kai had finished giving a very thorough tour of the area we began to head back up.
"So I'm guessing that at some point tomorrow you'll get a call in which Director M will tell you exactly what your job is" Nico said.
"We'll probably go and get you, but we'll make sure to use the door this time" Kai said in an amused tone. Just then a car pulled up with the driver from before in it.
"This is your ride home, we'll see you around" Nico said as I hopped in and waved goodbye as my exciting day was coming to an end.

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