We entered a room, more like an office with people on every computer.
"Thank you Cover Girl", Hawk said as a blond chick handed him a clip board. He turned to face us. "Kimiko Yang. Born in Japan. Finished school at age 12. Abducted at age 15 by unknown. Parents brutally murdered a year after the abduction. Murderer unknown." He said as he tapped the clipboard on his hand.
I looked away how did he know that? How did he even got his hands on that kind of information? You should not be here Kim..go...leave. Run. I looked at Hawk,and he raised an eyebrow at me. Was he going to turn me in? Was he going to keep me cause of what I was trained for? Did he know I killed my own parents? All these questions ran through my mind.
"What exactly do you want?" I asked a couple of minutes later. He smiled, which made me nervous. Behind every smile there's always something dark.
"Oh I don't want anything. But you do have two choices. Go back, run away from all your fears..all your...regrets..." He said coming closer to me
"Or become an official G.I. Joe, we'll give you shelter...everything you can ask for. Train to perfection. Train to become over your fears, and to face your regrets."
I looked at him. Did I want this? Did I wanted to save and help people? All I knew was to kill. To be an assassin. But my regrets and fears were eating me up. I can't do this. They'll do the same thing.
"Where's the exit?" I said as I looked at Hawk. He raised an eyebrow.
"Let me get one thing straight Kimiko. You leave and then come back asking to get in...it's going to be a NO. You don't ask to be part of G.I. Joe. You get asked. And right now I am giving you full advantage to get in. People will kill to get in the Joe's. You are given this opportunity. Take it." He raised his voice with a glare on his face.
I rolled my eyes, "Well may those people rest in peace General." I walked towards the elevator but stopped when Hawk spoke.
"Once you're out that door, you're on your own. And for the looks of it you need all the help you can get. If it weren't for us you'll be bleeding to death right now. You'll be dead. You should be thanking us and take this opportunity." He said in a stern voice
"If it weren't for all of you I would've made it. I would've left all of that behind." I snapped.
"Oh you know you can't leave it behind Kimiko, it eats you from the inside out. And it will always come back and haunt you. All those years taken away from you, don't you want revenge? We'll help you get revenge. We'll help you with everything. We'll become your new family." He gestured to everybody in the room.
I looked away, family was a word I haven't used in a long time. "I already have a family." I said trying to fight the tears.
Hawk put his hands on my shoulders making sure I was looking at him. "Who is dead. Do you want to get revenge on who ever killed them? Do you want to get revenge on who ever abducted you?"
"How do you know if I haven't already" I replied trying to look away.
"Because you were running. Running away from them. We'll help you. We'll be everything that was taken away from you, a family, friends, a shoulder you can cry on whenever you want to. But we won't do it until you take this opportunity. You know how powerful you are. You just need to know how to control yourself, the Joes will help you." He took a long breath "So what do you say?"
I sighed and looked at him, "I'm not sharing anything with the red-head." The room erupted with laughter.
"Welcome to the Joe's" Hawk said and saluted. "You'll begin training tomorrow,but first Lady Jaye", a brunet came into view, "You'll show her around then take her to training."
"Tomorrow sir?" Lady Jaye asked. Hawk nodded and looked at the blond who's name I believe is Cover Girl.
"Already got it." The blond came forward and gave me some room card. "You'll need to put a code in. Snake Eyes will take you since his room is across from yours." She smiled and looked past me. I felt a hand on my back lightly pushing me towards the elevator.
What just happen? That's all I could think about. Did I really just agreed to become a Joe? What if they find me? But that was impossible right? Hawk did said that the G.I Joe's are top-secret. Was it really? Even if it wasn't, Breaker did removed that so called "tracking device" from me. What if I had more and they're tracking me right now!?
There was a snap in front of my face breaking me away from my thoughts. I looked and it was Snake Eyes motioning me to get out of the elevator.
"Sorry..." I said looking down. I followed him keeping my distance. We came to a room with the numbers 900A. He put his hand out I gave him a weird look. What did he want? Does the mask make it impossible for him to talk? Then I remembered..the card!
"Oh! Here." I handed it to him and he swiped it putting some numbers in. He grabbed my arm and pulled me towards the numbers. A code. 2-2-5. The door opened then closed. I looked at Snake, he bowed giving me the card. He looked down and reached for something...my hand? I backed away but he grabbed my arm and pointed at his katana. I felt my cheeks heat up. Stupid Kimiko.
"My bad...sorry. I forgot..." I heard a light chuckle from him, he bowed once again with me doing the same thing. He turned around and went into his room. I sighed and I went into mine. I took my shoes off and blackness took over me.