A/N: What happened to everybody, I only got one loyal reviewer (and thanks again). I would have thought Terrance dying would have been the call for more? Don't fear the story won't get dull purely because he's not in it.
Natasha parked just outside Jonathan's house.
"Jonathan… if you want you could come to my place instead. It would be easier the next day" Natasha suggested.
Jonathan thought about this, it did cross his mind that Natasha would ask this. In his mind he wanted to slow down, then again it was her that asked.
"Sure, just let me get a few things" Jonathan said and Natasha nodded
Jonathan put some of the stuff he carried on the mission in the safe. It looked out of place in his house. His house wasn't in bad condition but it wasn't a huge place, just a 2 bedroom single story house. He also got changed and headed back to the car again.
"That didn't take long" Natasha said
"Nah, I only needed to do a few quick things" Jonathan replied and Natasha drove off.
It took around 20 minutes to get to Natasha's house. More like a mansion when Jonathan looked at it. Jonathan wondered how long she had been working; it could not have been more than 3 years.
"My parents were quite wealthy; they allowed me to get a great education. However they split up, then later divorced, but both agreed to leave this place to me" Natasha said
Jonathan wasn't sure whether he should be happy or sad about this and Natasha saw through it.
"Yes, I was sad at first but I learned to live with it" Natasha said and Jon nodded
They parked in the underground parking and took the lift to the bottom floor of the mansion. Her parents must have been loaded Jonathan thought to himself. The mansion was three stories; Jon could park his house about 20 times into it.
"It's a bit big isn't it?" Jonathan asked
"A little but I get used to it" Natasha said
"Where shall I sleep" Jonathan asked
"Anywhere you want" Natasha laughed as she replied
"How many bedrooms you got?" Jonathan asked
"Twelve" Natasha replied
"Okay I'll have a look" Jonathan said and walked around Natasha's mansion but was too tired to decide. He picked the one nearest to Natasha's.
He walked in and just lay on the bed. He put his finger to where blood was from his fight with Terrance.
"That looks nasty" Natasha said
"Yeah, but its well worth it" Jonathan replied
"True. Anyway you okay?" Natasha asked at the door of the room
"Fine, thanks" Jonathan replied
"See you tomorrow then" Natasha said
"Yeah, got anything planned?" Jonathan asked
"No. Do you?" Natasha asked
"No, but I'm sure we'll think of something" Jonathan said
"Okay, good night" Natasha smiled and walked away
"Good night" Jonathan replied
He sat back and thought about his moments with Terrance during his time at the institute, the good, the bad and the day he betrayed him and now the day he got even, he relieved the final blow he gave to him sending him to his doom. Jonathan was exhausted and fell asleep without even pulling the covers over himself.
The next morning Jonathan woke up. He looked out the window and saw the beautiful view outside the window. His window was overlooking water, and he knew why Natasha had the room next to him. It was something he could get used to waking up to. He heard a few shouts downstairs, it was only one person and it was Natasha. He got up and headed downstairs to where the shouts were coming from. Inside the room was a gym and Natasha was beating the stuffing out of a punching bag using various techniques, she seemed very good. She heard him enter.
"Oh I hope I didn't wake you" Natasha said
"Not at all" Jonathan replied "you fight?" Jonathan asked
"Yes, black belt in…" Natasha started
"Tae Kwon Do, correct?" Jonathan said and Natasha nodded
"Very good… I looked up your file and found you are quite a fighter yourself" Natasha said
"I have to be, otherwise Terrance would have been the one to kill me" Jonathan said, it did feel good having beaten him.
"Yes, anyway I haven't eaten yet, and clearly neither have you" Natasha replied
"No, you finished?" Jon asked
"Yeah I was finishing up now" Natasha said and both of them headed to the kitchen.
Both had basic cereal, nothing fancy, despite the view and the size of the kitchen.
"So what shall we do?" Jonathan asked
"Well…" Natasha started until the phone rang, Natasha walked to it
"Hello?" Natasha answered. A picture came up in front of Natasha
"Hello guys" Carrington said
"Guys? What do you mean guys?" Natasha asked
"Come now Natasha, I know Jon is with you" Carrington laughed
"It wasn't that hard to guess, was it" Natasha replied
"Bring him in" Carrington said
"Jonathan, it's Mr. Carrington" Natasha called out
"Comin'" Jonathan replied and thought his break had been cut short then again he had only been working 2 days and already had a break.
"Don't worry guys; I'm not calling you in. Natasha and Jonathan, the Maians have told us when the war between them and the Skedar is over they will return the favour of letting Elvis come to our planet by letting two of our people go to their planet. Jonathan and Natasha, you are our natural choices" Carrington said
"What about yourself?" Jonathan asked
"I can't, I need to stay here, if I'm gone it's likely somebody is going to catch on" Carrington frowned "Thanks a lot sir" Natasha smiled
"That's alright, but it's a while off yet and things may happen that will prevent it happening" Carrington said "So don't get your hopes up just yet, anyway see you later have a great day" Carrington finished and hung the line up.
"Wow, I wonder what its like on the Maian planet" Natasha thought out loud.
"Too bad we won't be able to show anyone not in the high ranks of the Institute" Jonathan laughed
"True, ah well" Natasha said
"Let's just take one step at a time, like decide what we are going to do today" Jonathan said
"Okay… let's go up to the mountains, it should take us about an hour and a half to get there" Natasha suggested
"Sounds good, I'll just my stuff from my place again" Jonathan said
Natasha packed her stuff into her car and drove over to Jonathan's who quickly got out some clothes and stuffed them into a bag as well as his snowboard. As Natasha had predicted it took about an hour and a half to get to there. Snow had fallen last night. Jonathan and Natasha got out there stuff.
"I'm glad you board as well" Jonathan said as Natasha flicked her board up into her hand with her foot.
"Yeah me too" Natasha laughed as they headed to the mountains.
Seeing it was a working day normally, it was fairly quiet up there. They spent most of the day boarding and sometimes skiing but Jonathan wasn't as good at skiing as he was boarding, but he could still do it. Most of the time they spent boarding, Jonathan enjoyed Natasha's company; it was nice to have her around. She didn't seem a person who knew how to have fun when Jonathan first knew her but he grew to like her and quickly learned how to make her laugh. He found it hard to take in that this was the same person who was famous for testing her new devices on people who failed to return the older ones. Just as Jonathan was thinking about it all, Natasha came and shoved him down to the ground.
"What was that for?" Jonathan asked
"Because I felt like it" Natasha replied
"Well I guess I feel like this too" Jonathan pulled her leg in a sudden movement tripping her over
"Ouch…" Natasha said sarcastically and sat herself next to Jonathan overlooking the sunset.
Jonathan sighed "I wonder how Joanna will fare in the training"
"What made you say that?" Natasha asked
"I don't know really. She just seemed so uptight" Jonathan said
"So did you. When I saw her it was like looking at you as a woman" Natasha laughed
"Surely you must be kidding" Jonathan replied
"Well as far as your behaviour goes, no" Natasha replied
"Was I really that bad?" Jonathan asked
"Took us a while to crack you, but yeah everybody will crack eventually, the sooner the better" Natasha said
"I guess so, let's eat and head back" Jonathan suggested and Natasha got up and agreed
They got up to the restaurant there and ate dinner with a fire and a great view. They had to head back so they could get some sleep and be at the Institute on time.
"See you tomorrow then" Natasha said after dropping Jonathan off at his place
"Yeah, thanks again for today it was great" Jonathan replied
"Bye then" Natasha said
"See you" Jonathan replied and gave her a quick kiss.
After they broke away from each other, Jonathan waved and Natasha drove off. Jonathan went inside and got changed and put his stuff away. He headed to bed and this time pulled the sheets up and got in. He went to sleep fairly early knowing he had to be at the Institute the next day.
When he woke up had a shower, changed and ate breakfast and got to the Institute and reported to Carrington's office, Joanna was already there.
"Nice to see you again" Joanna smiled at him
"Yes, thanks" Jonathan replied
"Ah, nice to see you've got to know each other a bit" Carrington entered and greeted Joanna and Jonathan. "Anyway, now Jonathan, you'll take Jo to the mission simulator" Carrington said
"Already?" Jonathan said slightly surprised
"Why not, she's been in the firing range earlier today, did very well in Foster's tests. I'd personally like to see how she would do" Carrington replied "Don't worry, this won't count since we haven't trained you at all, it's just a quick test" Carrington assured Joanna and she nodded
Jonathan, Joanna and Carrington walked to the mission simulator. A city building mission, similar to the one Jonathan did a few days ago at dataDyne.
"Now during a mission you'll get advice, information from me usually, however in this exercise it will Jonathan and neither have you seen this before" Carrington instructed and Joanna nodded and accepted a Falcon 2 silenced from Jonathan.
Jonathan sat behind a computer desk with radio in hand while Joanna was taken to another part of the Institute where the simulation would take place.
"You here me Jo?" Jonathan asked
"Yes" Joanna replied
"Ready to begin?" Jonathan asked
"Yes I am" Joanna replied
"Good luck then" Jonathan said and the simulation started.
Joanna looked around on top of a tall city building, she had collect documents from a safe, disable the security and get out. Jonathan couldn't help but be impressed by Carrington's simulation. Just then Jo shot down a simulate guard taking his weapon. She entered the next room and took out a camera but this drew attention from another guard which Jo also shot. She dropped into the room and looked around and found a strange computer, she went to see what it would do.
"I wouldn't touch it Jo, it may set off alarms" Jonathan suggested and Jo drew her weapon to blast it
"Don't do that either, that will definitely set them off" Jonathan said
"What do you suggest then" Jo said
"Try an ECM. It's a security computer, an ECM will jam it" Jonathan suggested
"Understood" Joanna replied throwing her ECM mine onto it
"Excellent Jonathan" Carrington said
Joanna then went down one flight of stairs and looked around the corner, about 5 guards were there.
"Don't go that way Jo, find a distraction and pick off the reminders" Jonathan said but it was too late, Joanna drew her pistol and fired it at the guards in the room taking out 3 before the remaining 2 turned to fire at her. Joanna ducked behind the wall, as one reloaded she jumped out and killed him while the other tried to shoot at her. She ducked behind a desk and shot him in the foot, then took advantage of his moment of weakness and finished him off. Carrington shook his head.
"Well that's one way of doing it" Jonathan said outside his communication with Joanna
"Too aggressive, we'll need to work on that. Normally she'd be dead, but she has a bit of a skill on her to get herself out of that one" Carrington said
"I agree, but I guess it's her approach to go in and blast everything" Jonathan laughed a bit
"That's how I lose agents more often then any other cause, however like we said we haven't trained her and she will probably changed her style when we are finished with her" Carrington said "You on the other hand were too passive, although this is more useful it can be difficult to train them to be aggressive when given the opportunity, but you worked out great" Carrington said
"Thanks sir" Jonathan said as Joanna was at the computer coded safe and was thinking
"Try the Uplink" Jonathan suggested and Jo used the Uplink and it opened. Jo was about to put her hand in
"Wait Jo, look for tripwires inside the safe" Jonathan suggested and Jo did that but none where to be found and she took the documents out and closed the safe.
"Okay Joanna, you are on your own from here, let's see if you can finish the mission" Carrington said
"Received" Joanna replied slightly nervous, but regained herself quickly.
Joanna used the lift to get to the bottom of the simulation building and ran down the nearby stairs on her way to the front door but it was blocked by 6 guards. It was a donut like room. Jo couldn't blast her way out of this one, she needed to think up a strategy. One held a DY357 Magnum the others CMP50s.
"Got the solution Jon?" Carrington asked
"Hmm… I think so… let's see what she does" Jonathan replied
Joanna blasted 2 of the guards holding CMP50s with her own CMP50. The one with the Magnum raised it and fire it, and ordered 2 to chase her, as she ducked behind the wall and retreated as the two behind chased her and she fired as she retreated.
"Freeze" The guy with the Magnum and the other guard with the CMP50 came around the other way trapping her. She had no choice but to surrender.
"Hmm… she did very well I have to admit" Carrington commented "It takes months of training to get as far as she did"
"Yes" Jonathan replied "But it seems to be her nature to blast everything, rather than think when given an opportunity"
Joanna joined them slightly disappointed.
"We were very impressed, Joanna, especially with no training" Carrington commented
"But I failed" Joanna replied
"You were actually supposed to fail, it's made for people with 6 months training" Carrington said
"Oh I see, but was there a way out?" Joanna asked
"Yes, Jonathan you said you knew?" Carrington said
"Okay, you noticed the guy holding the Magnum?" Jonathan asked
"Yes" Joanna replied
"You weren't to know this, but high ranking people at dataDyne almost always carry a DY357 Magnum. You go for him first" Jonathan said
"Ah I see, I didn't shoot him because he had a pistol to their automatic weapons" Joanna asked
"He would be better trained and also if you killed him they would not be able to organise themselves without their leader. You would have got away with the tactic you attempted" Jonathan said
"Full marks Jonathan, but of course you were at a slight disadvantage and I do understand you didn't know that high ranking dataDyne guards carry DY357's. You would be taught this in 6 months training and before you went on that mission, any information that I thought was a requirement for you to have, you would get it" Carrington said
"So I did well?" Joanna asked
"Exceptionally well, when you finish school up we will gladly train you" Carrington replied
"Great. Thank you so much sir" Joanna said overjoyed
"Our pleasure, anyway you can leave now or go have some lunch here" Carrington said
"I might have lunch as well" Jonathan said
"Alright, I'll come with you" Joanna replied
The two went up to the cafeteria again, and pressed the buttons on Natasha's computer set up and what they asked for was ready within 5 minutes.
"She's brilliant" Jonathan said
"Who?" Joanna asked
"Natasha, our lab technician, she made this" Jonathan replied
"Oh, yes then she must be very intelligent, what else did she build?" Joanna asked
"Basically everything you used on your mission and she assisted creating the simulator" Jonathan said
"Wow" Joanna replied
"Yeah wow indeed" Jonathan said
They finished and Joanna headed back home, and Jonathan was called into Carrington's office for a briefing. He knew this would be the briefing he would get for his next mission, so was ready for it. When he walked in, Carrington's expression and what he said surprised Jonathan beyond belief.
Natasha parked just outside Jonathan's house.
"Jonathan… if you want you could come to my place instead. It would be easier the next day" Natasha suggested.
Jonathan thought about this, it did cross his mind that Natasha would ask this. In his mind he wanted to slow down, then again it was her that asked.
"Sure, just let me get a few things" Jonathan said and Natasha nodded
Jonathan put some of the stuff he carried on the mission in the safe. It looked out of place in his house. His house wasn't in bad condition but it wasn't a huge place, just a 2 bedroom single story house. He also got changed and headed back to the car again.
"That didn't take long" Natasha said
"Nah, I only needed to do a few quick things" Jonathan replied and Natasha drove off.
It took around 20 minutes to get to Natasha's house. More like a mansion when Jonathan looked at it. Jonathan wondered how long she had been working; it could not have been more than 3 years.
"My parents were quite wealthy; they allowed me to get a great education. However they split up, then later divorced, but both agreed to leave this place to me" Natasha said
Jonathan wasn't sure whether he should be happy or sad about this and Natasha saw through it.
"Yes, I was sad at first but I learned to live with it" Natasha said and Jon nodded
They parked in the underground parking and took the lift to the bottom floor of the mansion. Her parents must have been loaded Jonathan thought to himself. The mansion was three stories; Jon could park his house about 20 times into it.
"It's a bit big isn't it?" Jonathan asked
"A little but I get used to it" Natasha said
"Where shall I sleep" Jonathan asked
"Anywhere you want" Natasha laughed as she replied
"How many bedrooms you got?" Jonathan asked
"Twelve" Natasha replied
"Okay I'll have a look" Jonathan said and walked around Natasha's mansion but was too tired to decide. He picked the one nearest to Natasha's.
He walked in and just lay on the bed. He put his finger to where blood was from his fight with Terrance.
"That looks nasty" Natasha said
"Yeah, but its well worth it" Jonathan replied
"True. Anyway you okay?" Natasha asked at the door of the room
"Fine, thanks" Jonathan replied
"See you tomorrow then" Natasha said
"Yeah, got anything planned?" Jonathan asked
"No. Do you?" Natasha asked
"No, but I'm sure we'll think of something" Jonathan said
"Okay, good night" Natasha smiled and walked away
"Good night" Jonathan replied
He sat back and thought about his moments with Terrance during his time at the institute, the good, the bad and the day he betrayed him and now the day he got even, he relieved the final blow he gave to him sending him to his doom. Jonathan was exhausted and fell asleep without even pulling the covers over himself.
The next morning Jonathan woke up. He looked out the window and saw the beautiful view outside the window. His window was overlooking water, and he knew why Natasha had the room next to him. It was something he could get used to waking up to. He heard a few shouts downstairs, it was only one person and it was Natasha. He got up and headed downstairs to where the shouts were coming from. Inside the room was a gym and Natasha was beating the stuffing out of a punching bag using various techniques, she seemed very good. She heard him enter.
"Oh I hope I didn't wake you" Natasha said
"Not at all" Jonathan replied "you fight?" Jonathan asked
"Yes, black belt in…" Natasha started
"Tae Kwon Do, correct?" Jonathan said and Natasha nodded
"Very good… I looked up your file and found you are quite a fighter yourself" Natasha said
"I have to be, otherwise Terrance would have been the one to kill me" Jonathan said, it did feel good having beaten him.
"Yes, anyway I haven't eaten yet, and clearly neither have you" Natasha replied
"No, you finished?" Jon asked
"Yeah I was finishing up now" Natasha said and both of them headed to the kitchen.
Both had basic cereal, nothing fancy, despite the view and the size of the kitchen.
"So what shall we do?" Jonathan asked
"Well…" Natasha started until the phone rang, Natasha walked to it
"Hello?" Natasha answered. A picture came up in front of Natasha
"Hello guys" Carrington said
"Guys? What do you mean guys?" Natasha asked
"Come now Natasha, I know Jon is with you" Carrington laughed
"It wasn't that hard to guess, was it" Natasha replied
"Bring him in" Carrington said
"Jonathan, it's Mr. Carrington" Natasha called out
"Comin'" Jonathan replied and thought his break had been cut short then again he had only been working 2 days and already had a break.
"Don't worry guys; I'm not calling you in. Natasha and Jonathan, the Maians have told us when the war between them and the Skedar is over they will return the favour of letting Elvis come to our planet by letting two of our people go to their planet. Jonathan and Natasha, you are our natural choices" Carrington said
"What about yourself?" Jonathan asked
"I can't, I need to stay here, if I'm gone it's likely somebody is going to catch on" Carrington frowned "Thanks a lot sir" Natasha smiled
"That's alright, but it's a while off yet and things may happen that will prevent it happening" Carrington said "So don't get your hopes up just yet, anyway see you later have a great day" Carrington finished and hung the line up.
"Wow, I wonder what its like on the Maian planet" Natasha thought out loud.
"Too bad we won't be able to show anyone not in the high ranks of the Institute" Jonathan laughed
"True, ah well" Natasha said
"Let's just take one step at a time, like decide what we are going to do today" Jonathan said
"Okay… let's go up to the mountains, it should take us about an hour and a half to get there" Natasha suggested
"Sounds good, I'll just my stuff from my place again" Jonathan said
Natasha packed her stuff into her car and drove over to Jonathan's who quickly got out some clothes and stuffed them into a bag as well as his snowboard. As Natasha had predicted it took about an hour and a half to get to there. Snow had fallen last night. Jonathan and Natasha got out there stuff.
"I'm glad you board as well" Jonathan said as Natasha flicked her board up into her hand with her foot.
"Yeah me too" Natasha laughed as they headed to the mountains.
Seeing it was a working day normally, it was fairly quiet up there. They spent most of the day boarding and sometimes skiing but Jonathan wasn't as good at skiing as he was boarding, but he could still do it. Most of the time they spent boarding, Jonathan enjoyed Natasha's company; it was nice to have her around. She didn't seem a person who knew how to have fun when Jonathan first knew her but he grew to like her and quickly learned how to make her laugh. He found it hard to take in that this was the same person who was famous for testing her new devices on people who failed to return the older ones. Just as Jonathan was thinking about it all, Natasha came and shoved him down to the ground.
"What was that for?" Jonathan asked
"Because I felt like it" Natasha replied
"Well I guess I feel like this too" Jonathan pulled her leg in a sudden movement tripping her over
"Ouch…" Natasha said sarcastically and sat herself next to Jonathan overlooking the sunset.
Jonathan sighed "I wonder how Joanna will fare in the training"
"What made you say that?" Natasha asked
"I don't know really. She just seemed so uptight" Jonathan said
"So did you. When I saw her it was like looking at you as a woman" Natasha laughed
"Surely you must be kidding" Jonathan replied
"Well as far as your behaviour goes, no" Natasha replied
"Was I really that bad?" Jonathan asked
"Took us a while to crack you, but yeah everybody will crack eventually, the sooner the better" Natasha said
"I guess so, let's eat and head back" Jonathan suggested and Natasha got up and agreed
They got up to the restaurant there and ate dinner with a fire and a great view. They had to head back so they could get some sleep and be at the Institute on time.
"See you tomorrow then" Natasha said after dropping Jonathan off at his place
"Yeah, thanks again for today it was great" Jonathan replied
"Bye then" Natasha said
"See you" Jonathan replied and gave her a quick kiss.
After they broke away from each other, Jonathan waved and Natasha drove off. Jonathan went inside and got changed and put his stuff away. He headed to bed and this time pulled the sheets up and got in. He went to sleep fairly early knowing he had to be at the Institute the next day.
When he woke up had a shower, changed and ate breakfast and got to the Institute and reported to Carrington's office, Joanna was already there.
"Nice to see you again" Joanna smiled at him
"Yes, thanks" Jonathan replied
"Ah, nice to see you've got to know each other a bit" Carrington entered and greeted Joanna and Jonathan. "Anyway, now Jonathan, you'll take Jo to the mission simulator" Carrington said
"Already?" Jonathan said slightly surprised
"Why not, she's been in the firing range earlier today, did very well in Foster's tests. I'd personally like to see how she would do" Carrington replied "Don't worry, this won't count since we haven't trained you at all, it's just a quick test" Carrington assured Joanna and she nodded
Jonathan, Joanna and Carrington walked to the mission simulator. A city building mission, similar to the one Jonathan did a few days ago at dataDyne.
"Now during a mission you'll get advice, information from me usually, however in this exercise it will Jonathan and neither have you seen this before" Carrington instructed and Joanna nodded and accepted a Falcon 2 silenced from Jonathan.
Jonathan sat behind a computer desk with radio in hand while Joanna was taken to another part of the Institute where the simulation would take place.
"You here me Jo?" Jonathan asked
"Yes" Joanna replied
"Ready to begin?" Jonathan asked
"Yes I am" Joanna replied
"Good luck then" Jonathan said and the simulation started.
Joanna looked around on top of a tall city building, she had collect documents from a safe, disable the security and get out. Jonathan couldn't help but be impressed by Carrington's simulation. Just then Jo shot down a simulate guard taking his weapon. She entered the next room and took out a camera but this drew attention from another guard which Jo also shot. She dropped into the room and looked around and found a strange computer, she went to see what it would do.
"I wouldn't touch it Jo, it may set off alarms" Jonathan suggested and Jo drew her weapon to blast it
"Don't do that either, that will definitely set them off" Jonathan said
"What do you suggest then" Jo said
"Try an ECM. It's a security computer, an ECM will jam it" Jonathan suggested
"Understood" Joanna replied throwing her ECM mine onto it
"Excellent Jonathan" Carrington said
Joanna then went down one flight of stairs and looked around the corner, about 5 guards were there.
"Don't go that way Jo, find a distraction and pick off the reminders" Jonathan said but it was too late, Joanna drew her pistol and fired it at the guards in the room taking out 3 before the remaining 2 turned to fire at her. Joanna ducked behind the wall, as one reloaded she jumped out and killed him while the other tried to shoot at her. She ducked behind a desk and shot him in the foot, then took advantage of his moment of weakness and finished him off. Carrington shook his head.
"Well that's one way of doing it" Jonathan said outside his communication with Joanna
"Too aggressive, we'll need to work on that. Normally she'd be dead, but she has a bit of a skill on her to get herself out of that one" Carrington said
"I agree, but I guess it's her approach to go in and blast everything" Jonathan laughed a bit
"That's how I lose agents more often then any other cause, however like we said we haven't trained her and she will probably changed her style when we are finished with her" Carrington said "You on the other hand were too passive, although this is more useful it can be difficult to train them to be aggressive when given the opportunity, but you worked out great" Carrington said
"Thanks sir" Jonathan said as Joanna was at the computer coded safe and was thinking
"Try the Uplink" Jonathan suggested and Jo used the Uplink and it opened. Jo was about to put her hand in
"Wait Jo, look for tripwires inside the safe" Jonathan suggested and Jo did that but none where to be found and she took the documents out and closed the safe.
"Okay Joanna, you are on your own from here, let's see if you can finish the mission" Carrington said
"Received" Joanna replied slightly nervous, but regained herself quickly.
Joanna used the lift to get to the bottom of the simulation building and ran down the nearby stairs on her way to the front door but it was blocked by 6 guards. It was a donut like room. Jo couldn't blast her way out of this one, she needed to think up a strategy. One held a DY357 Magnum the others CMP50s.
"Got the solution Jon?" Carrington asked
"Hmm… I think so… let's see what she does" Jonathan replied
Joanna blasted 2 of the guards holding CMP50s with her own CMP50. The one with the Magnum raised it and fire it, and ordered 2 to chase her, as she ducked behind the wall and retreated as the two behind chased her and she fired as she retreated.
"Freeze" The guy with the Magnum and the other guard with the CMP50 came around the other way trapping her. She had no choice but to surrender.
"Hmm… she did very well I have to admit" Carrington commented "It takes months of training to get as far as she did"
"Yes" Jonathan replied "But it seems to be her nature to blast everything, rather than think when given an opportunity"
Joanna joined them slightly disappointed.
"We were very impressed, Joanna, especially with no training" Carrington commented
"But I failed" Joanna replied
"You were actually supposed to fail, it's made for people with 6 months training" Carrington said
"Oh I see, but was there a way out?" Joanna asked
"Yes, Jonathan you said you knew?" Carrington said
"Okay, you noticed the guy holding the Magnum?" Jonathan asked
"Yes" Joanna replied
"You weren't to know this, but high ranking people at dataDyne almost always carry a DY357 Magnum. You go for him first" Jonathan said
"Ah I see, I didn't shoot him because he had a pistol to their automatic weapons" Joanna asked
"He would be better trained and also if you killed him they would not be able to organise themselves without their leader. You would have got away with the tactic you attempted" Jonathan said
"Full marks Jonathan, but of course you were at a slight disadvantage and I do understand you didn't know that high ranking dataDyne guards carry DY357's. You would be taught this in 6 months training and before you went on that mission, any information that I thought was a requirement for you to have, you would get it" Carrington said
"So I did well?" Joanna asked
"Exceptionally well, when you finish school up we will gladly train you" Carrington replied
"Great. Thank you so much sir" Joanna said overjoyed
"Our pleasure, anyway you can leave now or go have some lunch here" Carrington said
"I might have lunch as well" Jonathan said
"Alright, I'll come with you" Joanna replied
The two went up to the cafeteria again, and pressed the buttons on Natasha's computer set up and what they asked for was ready within 5 minutes.
"She's brilliant" Jonathan said
"Who?" Joanna asked
"Natasha, our lab technician, she made this" Jonathan replied
"Oh, yes then she must be very intelligent, what else did she build?" Joanna asked
"Basically everything you used on your mission and she assisted creating the simulator" Jonathan said
"Wow" Joanna replied
"Yeah wow indeed" Jonathan said
They finished and Joanna headed back home, and Jonathan was called into Carrington's office for a briefing. He knew this would be the briefing he would get for his next mission, so was ready for it. When he walked in, Carrington's expression and what he said surprised Jonathan beyond belief.
