Aya clocked in and headed for firearms to visit Jodie. "Hi girlfriend," Jodie greeted her.

"What's news?" Aya asked.

"The same old boring stuff. Avoid Pierce, his Japanese friend is here again."

"Not Maeda again," Aya moaned.

"Yeppers. He's been walking around showing everyone his first book."

"Pierce wrote a book?" Aya said in disbelief. "Bet that'll be a top seller," she said sarcastically. They both had a good laugh.

Her day was incredibly boring. Pierce had found her while she was sorting through false creature sighting reports. He did not shut up for three hours. He left after Aya got pissed at him for writing about her in a few sections of his book without her permission.

Her shift finally ended. Logan was already in the lobby when she got there. He was wearing old khaki shorts and a navy blue t-shirt. He still had his saber in its sheath around his left leg. Aya wondered how security didn't notice it.

They greeted each other with a kiss. After some small talk they headed down the hall to the party.

The party couldn't be lamer. The food was lousy, the music just sucked, and there were mostly nerds in the area(Pierce was having a great time). Rupert, the head of MIST, sat with Aya and Logan.

"Do you know who started this boring waste of time?" Rupert asked Aya.

"No, I thought you did," she replied. Just then a woman ran through the door screaming. Before anyone could ask "What's wrong," a stream of steam entered through the door, landed with an explosion. Rupert pulled out his magnum, Aya her pistol and Logan, his saber.

As the smoke cleared, a large and lean man stood in the hallway. He had a tight, green, and rubber suit with a mask. The most intimidating part of him was the incredibly large sword and the many others just like him that were still in the hallway. All the men had a single mechanical arm except for the leader. They were the Golem Soldiers.