-1CHAPTER 2: The Purpose…
"Well, now that we are all here, we can begin…" the brunette says curtly. "Now we will start off by having our recruits introduce themselves"
Looking to my left, my friend casually stands up. He casually introduces himself on a first name basis, which I was sure would piss off the brunette. However, surprisingly, it didn't. Then the attention of the room shifted to me. I have already made such a great impression, I thought to myself. Better make this one count…
"Hello. My name is Kevin," I said, attempting to show some bearing about myself. Looking around the room, I noticed that I was getting some rather odd looks. "…should I be saluting…or something…?" I asked, sheepishly.
For the first time since I made my dramatic and stellar appearance, I could actually feel the tension in the large room drop. Suddenly, after a brief pause, there was laughter in the room.
After what felt like an eternity of mockery, the brunette, wiping tears from her face looks up, saying, "You can relax…This isn't the military…"
A few moments later, the room quieted down to the state it was before, without the tension from earlier. Everyone was back to paying attention to the brunette, who from my perception, was in charge. Maybe she was the one who summoned me…I thought to myself.
"Now that we have that out of the way, let me explain why you are here," the brunette continues. "This is the base for Vector Industries and the Galaxy Federation. You two were summoned here after several months of research and evaluation were done. Simply put, we were looking for the best, and we believe we got it."
"The best?" I asked. "Sorry to interrupt… but the best for what? That letter I got wasn't exactly informative!"
"Very well," the brunette said. "I understand your concern. Perhaps I will start by introducing myself. I am Shion Uzuki, of Vector Industries."
From that point, she motioned that everyone else do the same. One by one they stood up and followed suit.
The blue hair woman stood up and identified herself as 'KOS-MOS'.
Then the boy introduced himself as 'Jr.'
There was a short red haired girl. Noticing her for the first time, I pegged her at 12. What is she doing here? She only looks like she's 12! She stood up and identified herself as MOMO.
Last to introduce himself was a silver haired young boy. His name was Chaos.
After all introductions were made, the attention shifted back to Shion. She then informed Sean and me that there were two more to the party that we would meet later. Then she went on with answering my question.
"Now to answer your question, Kevin…" she starts to explain. "Vector Industries is part of the Galaxy Federation. We recruited you and Sean because after careful surveillance and research, we believe that you two might be of great help to our mission."
She paused to look at Sean, who seemed to be further in space that the base was. Slightly annoyed, Shion moved over to Sean casually. She then pulls out what appeared to be an expanding yard stick. Smacking the space beside Sean, she looks at him, saying, "Care to join us?"
After b few moments of rapid blinking, Sean looks at Shion and says, "What? Did I miss anything? Last I heard was Galaxy Federation and something about a mission…"
Confused, Shion stares at Sean…He seemed to be day-dreaming, yet he was paying full attention… Wow, maybe we were right about them…She then glances at me. Him, I'm not quite sure about yet…she thinks to herself, eyebrow twitching… Shortly, she regained her composure, and continued where she left off.
"We are in the middle of a war…" she says, matter-of-factly. "Our goal is to protect the Zohar, a rare and mysterious artifact. Our enemy is the Gnosis, a breed of aliens who want the Zohar. Not much is known at this point, but we can ascertain that their purpose for possessing the Zohar can't be for good."
She looks at me, and then cracks a slight smile. "You two are gonna go through some training… Nothing difficult. Just some shooting…and Mecha-pilot training." She keeps her eyes on me the entire time, noticing that I perked up slightly when she mentioned the Mecha-piloting. I knew that would get his attention, she smiled to herself.