Chapter 8
They sit in silence for a while, just gazing out of the window, when suddenly the door opens and the woman is standing in the doorway.
"I thought I might find you both here", she laughs.
Luna quickly gets up of the bed and nearly loses her footage, but manages to stand upright just in time.
"We, we were just...", Luna stammers, but Chad saves her by changing the subject quickly.
"What is it boss?" he asks.
Luna lets out a quiet sigh of relief. 'Thank god he just saved me. I can't believe I had to open my stupid mouth. I bet she didn't realise anything anyway.' Luna thinks, but quickly focusses her attention on what the woman has to say.
"You are needed... both of you. We have finally found the secret hideout of 'The Criminal Agency'. Now it is your job to stop the agency from taking over New York and to destroy them."
"And how do we do that?" Chad asks her.
"Follow me please!" And the woman leaves the room.
Chad and Luna follow her. At the door Luna turns around to Chad.
"Thank you for saving me like that. I don't know what is going on with me at the minute, but I don't feel like myself right now."
"Yeah, sure. Don't worry about it. I don't feel like myself either really, so it's fine", he touches her shoulder gently and smiles at her, then walks past her through the door into the corridor.
'What did he mean with he doesn't feel like himself either? I don't understand... And the way he looks at me...' But Luna quickly drops that thought and rushes after Chad, who has caught up with the woman already and is talking to her.
The woman stops in front of a lift that opens but a second later, as if it knew that she was waiting. She steps inside and beckons Chad and Luna to step inside too.
When the lift closes a voice appears. "Ground floor." The woman presses a button on her right. "Going down", the voice echoes and the lift starts roaring.
Moments later the lift is falling through the ground with the numbers going lower and lower with every second. Suddenly the lift comes to a screeching halt.
"Floor number -20", the voice calls out. The doors swing open and the woman steps out, with Luna and Chad following.
Before the lift disappears again, Luna hears the voice of the lift as the doors close. "Floor number -20. Going up."
"How can a lift have a floor number -20?" Luna asks shocked.
The woman smiles. "If you're going down instead of up, then you can land on floor number -20. It's like a multi-storey building, just that it goes downwards instead of upwards."
The woman then turns around and asks them to follow her. Luna looks at the corridor in front of them. It looks just like the corridor on the ground floor, except that the walls on the ground floor are painted completely white, while these walls have different kind of marks, including the Pentagram, painted all over the white background.
While they are walking down the long corridor, Luna looks at the different kind of marks. From the corner of her eye she sees Chad doing the same and has to smile to herself.
'This must be as weird for him as it is for me', she assumes.
The woman then leads them into a room with a table and some chairs in it. She sits down and points at the chairs opposite of her for them to sit down too. They do as she asks and sit down.
The door swings open and a man comes in and hands the woman a folder, without even looking at Chad and Luna. Then he leaves, without saying anything.
The woman opens the folder and turns her gaze to Luna and Chad. "Before we can get started, I must warn you that this mission can be dangerous. We don't know if TCA has somehow been informed that we are planning a surprise attack, so it could be that the surprise is on our side, when they jump out from somewhere and attack us. So now with this information, we need to know, if you are up for the mission or not."
"Yeah, of course we are up for it, right L... Silverlight?" Chad misspeaks himself.
At first Luna just sits there in silence. The woman's words are still echoing through her head.
'This mission can be dangerous, this mission can be dangerous...'
'They are not seriously expecting me to do something dangerous, are they?' Luna thinks angrily.
But instead Luna nods and manages to get out something that sounds like "Absolutely!"
So, the woman gets up and leads them to the back of the room and opens a door that Luna also had not noticed beforehand, just like the door in her room.
Behind the door is another corridor. She takes them down this corridor, all the way to the end. At the end there is a single door. The woman gets out a key from somewhere in her jacket pocket and opens up the three locks that are in front of the door.
When the door swings open, Luna and Chad's mouths drop open. There, in front of them is a room full of weapons and gadgets they have never seen before.
"This is the biggest room of weapons and gadgets you will ever see."
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