Part 2: Enter Athena

Athena held the Desert Eagle in her hands tightly. Perhaps too much so. The room was extremely dark, as was the rest of the house. She opened a pair of doors before her and found herself in a cantankerous diner room. Candles lit on both ends of the massive table did little to illuminate the gigantic room. Something in the room was wrong, it was.different. She could hear breathing.then a clicking. Her purple eyes widened when she heard something running in the darkness at her. It's footsteps echoed loudly off the linoleum floor. She fired into the darkness, praying her life would not end.

Garrett stood next to the Umbrella Official. Garrett was dressed causally in a pair of jeans and a white T-shirt; the Umbrella official preferred a suit. The wall before them was covered in monitors, likely for video surveillance, however only one was on. A nightvision adapter on the camera allowed them to see the entire diner room quite well. "She's completed all the mental and most of the physical tests. Her scores approach even yours. She lacks experience though. You can see her last test.couple hunters in the dark," said the official monotonously. Garrett merely nodded; he never did talk much. He could see the women enter. She seemed to freeze at the edge of the table. The mid-sized, but mean tempered Hunters immediately noticed her. Garrett figured she was half way to becoming headless, as she had not yet done anything and one hunter was already moving in for the kill. Suddenly the women snapped off three heavy .50 AE Desert Eagle rounds. The first flew off into the darkness, the second blew a hole the size of a fist through the table and the third took the hunter off its feet and brought it to the floor with a bone-jarring halt. The other two moved in from behind. The women must have known because she fired twice more. One round blew apart a picture frame on one of the walls and the other clipped the Hunter's muscular shoulder. The final Hunter had a perfect angle on her. Garrett doubted she would survive this final assault. As the hunters claws came down the women fell.under them and placed the barrel of the gun under the Hunters chin and pulled the trigger. She slowly got up and emptied the remaining bullets into the Hunter she had shot in the shoulder. Garrett nodded. "She'll do," he said in his deep emotionless voice.

Athena shut her eyes as the lights exploded on, illuminated the large room. A door to her right opened and she exited the room. The door lead to a long hallway and she was soon seated in a single, fold-up chair before a simple table in a plain white room. She wiped her face with the sleeve of her blue jacket. Her short red hair was a lump of rapidly drying hunter blood and small bone-fragments. Desert Eagle rounds were incredibly destructive, even to the metallically enhanced Hunter's skeletal frame. Before long a man in a suit entered, he didn't stay more then a moment. The only information he gave her was the location of a diner in town were she would meet her new boss and that she had passed, then he was gone.