Both of you manage to arrive at the meet up point which is Hilon Industries’ South Branch in time(Astra followed the man’s direction and Ted was led by little Vetra).
“Good luck to both you and your girlfriend mister!” shouted Vetra gleefully and he scattered away.
Ted face was filled with a bit of annoyance, while Astra can’t stop giggling.
Then you both look around at the building. It’s true what your previous encounters had mentioned, that the office building is quite new and relatively small. It’s a few stories tall. But it has a very sleek and futuristic design. The building is covered with black tiles to give it a more edgy look. It’s surrounded by a couple relatively new buildings as well and some are still under construction. But unlike Hilon Industries’ South Branch Office, most of these new buildings are unoccupied.
As this part of town is still under development, not many people are seen going through here. There are some sights of construction workers, but the ally is very empty.
Objective: Enter the building together and meet your client!
I turned to look at Ted, who seemed to be making no move to enter the building.
“Ready?” I asked him.
I know that entering this building signifies a new beginning, and that familiar fear I felt before, when I decided to leave home, creeped back up again.
“There is no turning back.” I told myself.
Then, with a renewed conviction, I took the first step and beckoned for Ted to do the same.
“Come on, let’s go.”
“Yeah man, let’s go,” I replied her while following her to the building.
“Need to get my hot bubble rainbow cappuccino to wash off all my bad luck once I’m done with business here,” I thought to myself. “Totally not my day today.”
As both of you entered a robot greeted you
“Good Morning. How may I help you?”
You both don’t know how to answer since you both aren’t familiar with your client.
Suddenly a familiar voice came from a distance.
“It’s okay darling they’re with me” said Yoen, a man in his thirties wearing dark sleek jacket and an eye patch.
“Since this is your first assignment, I’ll be overseeing it. Well only the beginning part of it”
All of you went to the elevator. And Yoen pressed at the highest floor, 73rd floor.
[Mini Mission] You can ask Yoen during this time in the elevator. Perhaps remind you about your jobscope?
The atmosphere inside the elevator was thick and quiet. I decided that someone has to break the silence.
“So Yoen,” I said, “how about giving us a little prep talk? Things that we should do, or things that we should not do?”
“Yup. That will be great,” I joined in. “I think it will be good for us to know what we are getting into. Haha.”
@Ted:”I’s prefer you’d be more serious about your job”
@Astra: “Well as I told you before. You are basically a moving save box delivering highly guarded secrets. Well, one that is considered highly by the marketing business I might add.” rolling his eyes while saying that.
“Both of you are to quickly arrive at the designated place on time.
Both of you are not to speak in detail about your job.
Try to defend yourself if necessary”
Both of you are a bit surprise at that last remark
“I’m sorry? Defend ourselves? From what?”
I do not have a good feeling about this.
“Huh? Defending ourselves? Wow wow wow…I am just here to earn some quick cash bro,” I was taking aback by the defending yourself statement by Yoen. “I’m sure I do not want bad aliens chasing me around the universe.”
” Well, as i said to you, you are carrying trade secrets. Some companies might come and try to grab a hold of you and steal those secrets. However that rarely happens. Because nowadays that would be a waste of time.”
Both of you are a bit confused, then Yoen continued.
“But don’t worry too much. When you receive the information, your CERE won’t be able to read it, since it is guard with a code. That information will be access after you arrived at the designated place. If however you are captured and they try to extract information, the system that guard the information will prompt your CERE to be formatted.”
“You know what happens if your CERE is formatted right?”
“You lose all your memory. That is why your pay is high. High risk high pay”
This statement stuns you. But you have no time to make a remark as the elevator opens up showing an office with glass windows where you can see a beautiful scenery of the market place.
A well dressed woman standing awaiting both of you while reading her tablet.
“Ms Astra and Mr Zackery Walberg”
“Just call me Ted” said Ted interupting her.
“My name is Karkova. The Director of Hilon Industries South Branch Office. I see both of you have high recommendations even for beginners. Now let’s get on to business. Please be seated”
Both of you take your seats in front of her desk. And one by one she came and inserted a tiny USB into your CERE and removing it.
“That didn’t hurt right?” said karkova with a calm voice.
Well, that’s not true since both of your heads are very dizzy.
“Now..” then a sudden robotic voice interupted her coming from her desk “Director, someone is here to see you”
“Oh he’s here early, I’ll be right back”
she rushes off to the elevator
The three of you are left alone
[OOC] I’ll be ending this soon after your reply. Any last remark before we end this chapter?
After the director left, my mind was still in a state of shock.
I may lose my memories? Although life back home was difficult, there were still things and people I didn’t want to forget. I shook my head in a bid to get rid of the last minute cold feet, I walked into this knowing what could possibly happen.
Memories? I’ll just have to find my own way to retain them.
“What have I got myself into?” I though to myself. “Some quick cash job turn into some Tom Cruise Mission Impossible scary ass shit. Oh man, I definitely need to find some ways to get myself out of this hell hole. High risk high pay my ass “
As both of you wait in silence.
A sudden alarm triggered. And a sound of gun fire came from the monitor on the desk.
Both of you immediately stood up. And Yoen went straight to the laptop.
He saw a dying Karkova lying on the reception floor.
A figure stood in front of her, all dress in a black suit of armor and wearing an odd shape mask.
The figure pulls the last bullet that killed your new client in the head.
Before she died. Karkova looked at the monitor, as if she knew Yoen was watching.
Then they were sounds of footsteps in the background running towards the elevator.
Yoen knew that it was time to leave.