Adventures Of S.E.W.L

Part 13

I woke up with thoughts running through my head. Thankfully I woke up in the barrack of S.E.W.L. first I was still frusterated that Ethan forbided me to go anywhere near this case, can't he see I could help. He wanted me to be an agent then forbade me to be involved couldn't even be in the mission control room to help.

I started walking to the mission control room, not for mission information but to find Lacey, Tharks told me I could talk to her about being an agent. I opened the door to find lacey and some other intel agents sitting around a computer screen. A small girl with short choppy black hair turned, I think her name was Victoria "hey Kai, Rae and Kota are doing some investigating on the super humans from the other side, what are you here for?" at her voice lacey looks up and grins at me.

" I think shes here for me" when I nod lacey stands and walks out of the room as I follow in her wake. "are you here about Ethan not letting you be involved with the super humans case?" so that's what they were calling this assignment now.

I shook my head "no Ethan said to talk to you for more information on becoming an agent" I fingered my necklace as I usually do when im anticipating an answer. Lacey nodded and told me to follow her. I followed her to the mission report room and we both sat down at the table.

"yeah he told me about that so there is a little bit of paperwork you need to fill out but mostly we just need to get you equipped with everything"

"wait so this is actually happening? Im going to be able to go on missions?" she nodded. "that is so cool so equip me with what?" im almost bouncing in my seat I'm so excited.

Lacey pulls out a written list "so we need to get you weapons balanced and fit to you, also you need a uniform and a code name for out in the field." she couldn't have rembered three things? Why the list? "also here is a form you need to fill out" she handed me the paper, so that's what the paper was. I looked down at it and it was basically a liability form and swearing myself to the USA government, I quickly scanned through it and signed it.

"okay so when do I get my stuff?" I asked her. She stood and we walked to the weapons room. Inside was walls full of every weapon you can think of, of every size to fit anybody. "pick one out" Lacey told me. I walked up and imedantly grabbed to sai's. I looked back at her and raised an eyebrow "will these work?" asked.

"I guess but they're not really offensive weapons and if you need to kill someone I doubt those would help much" she bit her lip and she looked over the racks of weapons. I ran my hand over the blade of an axe and picked it up. It was double sided and extremely heavy, if I wanted a battleaxe I was going to need a smaller one. I spotted an axe with a long handle and a short blade, I picked it up and it had really good weight, I liked axes, you could throw them or do one on one battle with them, they were a good weapon. I turned and before I even asked Lacey spoke up.

"that's a good choice, okay you can bring it with you we need to go to the fitters so they can make you a uniform that fits and we need it to come with a sheath for your axe" she eyed my axe with narrow eyes, when I caught her looking she dropped her gaze and looked away. " we don't have a fitters in the building but we work with a shop across the way, we can go their today if you want."

"yes today's good" we walked out of the main entrence of S.E.W.L and stepped out onto the California streets. Walked in silence past an ice cream shop and my stomach growled, I was going to have to make a visit after the fitting. We turned a corner and stopped in from of a small shop with a sign that read "Minnosota outfitting" that seemed strange for a minnasota store to be in California but I shrugged and walked in with lacey. "So since the rest of the girls on the team have body suits im guessing you will be fine with that also. We just need to find a color that would fit her, we also need it to have a back sheath for her axe" while Lacey explained to the fabricater what we wanted I looked at all the clothes they had on display, since Q and Scarlet were kind of famous they had a replica of their uniforms made for display. Quinn's was silver and black with a golden belt and knee high golden boots. Scarlets was gold with a silver belt and boots. They liked people to know they were twins but didn't like matching so they basically got opposite colors for everything it was kind of hilarious. "Kai come on lets get you measured" Lacey calling to me brought me out of my thoughts. I followed her and a small fat man to the back of the store where he had me take off my clothes. Thankfully I got to keep my undergarments on, he held up a masureing tape to my body and began taking my measurements. "okay I can make this I will need to keep your axe to make the sheath for it but it should be done in an hour. I just need the color you would like your suit." He had a thick Romanian accent as he spoke. It shocked me to hear it was only going to take an hour but I guess if he had nothing else to do today t could work.

I thought about the colors the others in the team had. I wanted something that would stand out, but not original. "white" I decided the color. He nodded and ushered us out of his shop so he could work without any distractions, us being the distraction. Lacey and I walked down the street thinking of things to pass the time when I remembered the ice cream parlor. "I saw an ice cream shop we can go there and wait" she nodded and we walked to the store. Lacey had an erie silence to her for some reason but I didn't question it, we never did anything together outside of work she was probably just wondering about what to say. I bought our ice creams, I got vanilla and caramel and lacey got rocky road.

As we ate Lacey pulled out her phone totally ignoring me. "so what should I do for my code name?" I asked trying to break the silence.

She glanced up from her phone, said "the organization will choose that for you" and looked back down at her phone. I frowned I know we were only friends on a work level but this was technically work why was she being like this? She licked her ice cream once in a while but mostly she just looked at her phone, I saw a single tear slide down her cheek and I furrowed my brow.

"Lacey? Are you okay?" I reached up and wiped the tear from her eye, she looked at me shocked.

"It's nothing, I can't talk about it, its family stuff" she sniffled and looked back down at her phone. I wondered what family matters it was, maybe a grandparent, or maybe, "hey lacey? Does this have anything to do with willow?" without looking up she nodded.

"I can't talk about it with you, you aren't part of the case"

I hated this I couldn't be involved with anything. I sighed and focused on my ice cream. I heard her phone buzz to notify us an hour was up. Without saying anything we dupped our trash in the trash can and walked out, as we walked back to the tailors, I heard Lacey sniffling every once in a while. We walked in the door and I was ushered into the changing room by the tailor, he handed me my uniform, it was all white and skintight with the SEWL emblem on the right breast. In the back was a sheath for my axe perfectly sewn in. I undressed and pulled on my body suit, it fit perfectly. I moved around and did a few kicks to test the flexibility. This thing fit like an extra skin. I walked out to show Lacey and the tailor when I heard a loud thud. "everyone okay?" I called. When I heard nothing back I slowly walked out of the dressing room, spying my axe I picked it up and sheathed it. "hello??" I called. Still no response. I walked out to the front room and stopped in my tracks, right here in front of me was Willow, Robin, Dr. Black, and a boy I didn't recognize.