WWLAOS: It'll make some sense later on in the story. As for the vaccuum, the negative pressure maintains the seals on the doors to contain the room. It also has a neon flush system to keep it from exploding when it's opened. There's no need for an airlock, as it can be rapidly recompressed in twenty-six seconds. And it's my job to keep you wondering.
"It's very nice to meet you miss Kellare. I look forward to providing security for this conference." Kim nodded, lying through her teeth.
"I hope you can do the job." The tall dark haired woman answered with a calm, almost dead voice. Kim forced herself to remain calm.
"I assure you that I can." She answered politely.
"Greetings miss Giaharoje." Shego nodded, face betraying nothing of the nerves or suspiscion she felt. The shorter, lighter haired woman gave her a piercing stare.
"Are you to take my bags?" The other woman asked, without attempting to be polite about it.
"No ma'am. We're security." Shego answered. "You're bags are being handled already." She nodded towards Gwen, who was gingerly loading the bags onto a trolley.
"Then if you are no use to me, get out of my way." She grunted, and pushed past Shego. Watching them go, Kim moved over to stand beside Shego.
"I don't trust them." She confided.
"I'd hate to meet whoever taught them manners." Shego replied. "But that's no reason not to trust them. There are several hundred thousand other reason's that could take that prize." She snorted.
"Are you sure about this?" Shego asked, as they crawled through the ventilation system over Sandra's office.
"Of course I am. We have to hear the conversations that take place in there, and since they keep finding the ones in the office itself, the vents are the only place to hide them." Kim whispered back. It was the first time they'd had a chance to get into the vents, since they'd been completely wiped out the past two days, making sure the security was perfect.
"Alright. I'll move onto the conference rooms then." Shego replied with a slight sigh of surrender. She backed out of the vent tunnel, and went around a corner. Kim turned back to the vent, and began to crawl farther forwards, when she heard voices in the office.
"So, is all in preparation?" Came a voice Kim did not recognize.
"Yes, the room is clean and clear, and being kept under positive pressure now. The few days at vacuum will have cleared out any contaminents. Now the neon will keep them from returning." Sandra replied smoothly, and without any trace of emotion. Kim shuddered involuntarily.
"And have the sacrifices arrived?" It was Giaharoje. Kim was further startled, though what the woman meant about sacrifices, she could only guess. Sandra gave her part of the answer.
"Two of the five. The others will come in the morning. Then we can begin." Sandra spoke calmly.
"Excellent." Came the voice Kim didn't know. She placed the bug, and slid backwards out of the vent, and into the main tunnel. She met Shego coming the other way.
"We've got problems." They spoke at the same instant.
"Jinx, you owe me a soda." Kim found herself unable to resist the jibe. Shego rolled her eyes.
"Fun later Kim, now we've got a serious problem. I heard a number of the so called 'delegates' talking. They're going to try and kill Sandra." Shego snorted.
"And Sandra, Giaharoje, and some one I've never heard before, were talking in Sandra's office. Something about sacrifices. She said two of the five were here, and that the other three come in the morning." Kim shook her head. "Do you think she could mean us?"
"It's possible, but I'm betting they've discovered Ilene and Gwen. We need to warn them." Shego replied. "Come on." She slipped past Kim, and led the way through the passages, until they reached the vent over looking Ilene and Gwen's room. Neither was there. Kim turned away instantly, and led the way to their room, where Gwen and Ilene were waiting. Kim dropped from the ceiling, followed right away by Shego, who lit her hands, wary still of any traps.
"What's the matter?" Kim asked.
"We came to warn you, that Sandra is on the warpath. She seems to keep finding listening devices in her office. She thinks you two are doing it." Ilene answered. "How in hell did you two get up there?" She asked, pointing to the vent, on the ceiling, a good ten feet above them.
"Boosters?" Shego grinned. Kim found herself resisting the urge to knock the air out of the other woman's lungs, and decided she'd definitely been around Shego and Adam too long.
"Shego gave me a hand up, and I pulled her after me. We wanted to warn you, that we think that Sandra has discovered your identities, and she..." Kim stopped there, as everything went black.
