Well, it seems I at least have some readers, and that's getting me to continue the story. :) Thanks, Heather-dear. :) You keep making my day, fanfic wise. :)


Where Are We?

After the short meeting in the Principal's office, Stryker led the four out of the school office and through the main doors, where a sleek black Nissan Maxima greeted us. The man with guns (Who after Avril had quietly questioned Wade, found out he was called Zero) bee-lined for the driver's seat, while Stryker went to the front passenger. Wade had practically ran to the car, saying he was getting the middle seat. Which left Zachary and Avril window seats. Zachary went for the left side of the car (Behind the Driver) and Avril went to the right, behind Stryker. Once all five were buckled in, Zero put the car into reverse from its parking space and backed out, then smoothly switched the gear from reverse to drive, bent on getting out of the school zone.

"If you don't mind my asking…" Zachary had started, "But where are we going?"

Stryker answered nonchalantly, "An Airport. Eastern Slopes Regional Airport. There, we will get on flight 146 to Canada, where the base is. There, you will meet the rest of the team."

Avril, not very excited, questioned, "But, why is the base in Canada? For secrecy?"

Stryker nodded from the seat in front of her. She could see his head nodding from the seat behind him through the reflection in the side-view mirror.

"And at the base you can make more friends! I'm sure you'd like James, John, Chris, and Fred. Victor's an ass sometimes." Wade said, looking to Avril, who had a questioning look on her face.

"What can they do?" She asked.

"Well, James has super healing, heightened senses, and bone claws coming from the area between the knuckles," Wade paused, showing the areas he was just talking about on his own fist. "John can teleport, Chris can control electronic things, Fred has super strength and Victor has the ability to be a total ass."

Avril looked at him strange. "I don't think having the ability to be a total ass is really an ability at all."

"It's not. Wade's just angry at Victor because he stabbed him with a fork. Anyway, Victor has super healing, faster than James's healing, heightened senses like James, if only slightly better, and has the ability to make his nails grow and shrink, kinda like when a cat shows and retracts it's claws." Zero chimed in.

"I have another question," Avril said, looking uncertainly at Wade, who was looking slightly pouty. "Why did Victor stab you with a fork?"

Wade looked to her. "Well, let's just say that most kitties don't like it when you try to trim their nails."

Avril looked to him with an incredulous look. Zachary had listened in on the whole conversation. He whipped his head around to the last statement with a look that just said, "Why the fuck were you doing THAT?"

Avril then looked to her feet, closed her eyes, and shook her head. This was going to be a long car ride to the airport.

About 10 minutes before they got to the airport, which came up to about 30 minutes of Wade trying to force Avril and Zach to play "I Spy" with him and only getting Avril in just a little bit, Zachary came up with an excellent question.

"Wait. Don't we have to go back to our house to get our things?" He looked to Stryker.

"You don't need to. You both may go shopping for whatever you want to make yourself comfortable at the base later." Stryker answered.

Avril sighed, making Wade mistake that she was unhappy. "Cheer up, buckaroo! I'm sure you'll like it at the base."

She look to him, looked down, and closed her eyes while shaking her head again.

It seemed more like 10 hours than 10 minutes to get to the airport. Once there, they dropped off the car keys (Turns out it was a rental) and walked through the maze of walls.

"We have our own private plane to take us to the base. So just follow me, not the other civilians. Got it?" He looked to Avril and Zach, who both replied in unison with a "Yes, sir."

It seemed to take another 10 minutes to get through the maze of people and to the plane that was to take them to Canada. Avril had been sure to keep an extra keen eye out for Wade (His red shirt and swords were pretty much the most noticeable things there), just in case. Zachary, it seemed, had absolutely no trouble at all keeping an out and following Stryker. Avril huffed, knowing it was only because he was taller.

When they did get to their plane, it was sleek, gray, and small. Well, at least compared to all the other planes. They quickly boarded the plane, where an aging pilot (And young co-pilot) greeted them with large smiles and names which Avril and Zachary couldn't remember for the life of them.

The plane took off 10 minutes later, with a lurch and surprised Avril squeaking. Zachary sniggered in his seat across from her and Wade nearly laughing his ass off behind her. "I hate you all." She murmured while still listening to Zach's sniggering and Wade's laughing and grabbed the nearby pamphlet on the plane's escape routes and safety procedures when in an emergency.

She had read through it about 20 times when they finally touched down. The unexpected lurch from touching the ground once more nearly brought her another shriek, but didn't, much to Wade's disappointment.

Getting out of the plane, they came to a bland looking building complex, looking as if it was all made of concrete.

"You two may want to follow Wade. He'll give you the grand tour." And with that, Stryker left with Zero following obediently.

"Well, let's head out, team!" Wade said enthusiastically, wrapping his arms around their shoulders and gave them both a squeeze. He then took his arms off, laid them by his side, and walked off. Once again, making the twins look to each other and shrug their shoulders in unison, and follow on.

The base was pretty much a maze, at least it was to the siblings, while Wade seemed to know it like the back of his hand. He was taking lefts and rights at random (At least is seemed random for the younger of the twins).

And finally Wade stopped in front of a doorway, where Avril could see slightly behind him a living room…sort of.

"And this is the main hang out room. Here," He looked behind him for a second, "is where everyone is at the moment. Well, except Stryker and his little lapdog." Avril could see someone leaning forward slightly, trying to see in front of Wade to get a good look at the new guys.

Wade herded the twins into the main room, where he then proceeded to put his hands on both of their shoulders. And with the cheeriest of voices, Wade called out, "We're back!"

There was a couch, which sat with its side facing the three, where its front was facing a large TV. Behind the couch was what looked like a poker table (Avril gave the table in question a strange look). In front of the couch, though on either side of it and facing each other were recliners. The couch and recliners all seemed to be made of the same material, brown leather. In front of the couch was a small but long coffee table, made of a wood that matched the couch and recliner material color.

And then there were the people.

The first person Avril noticed was a huge man, blonde hair and dark eyebrows, who was sitting on the couch playing what looked like Halo 3 with a smaller man who had blonde hair as well. Both men had short military buzz cuts, and seemed to be smiling and laughing at one another. Then there was another huge man sitting in another recliner, the one that was facing them. He had short dark hair with blue eyes, and was watching the boys play, completely ignoring Wade's call, just like the two men had. At the Poker Table were two men, the one facing them was a dark skinned man with sun glasses on and cowboy attire, complete with a cowboy hat. He looked to the three standing at the doorway, said something to the last man who had his back to them, and disappeared away from him for a second. He suddenly reappeared in front of the forgotten trio with a large grin. He took both Zachary's hand, shook it, and shook Avril's, introducing himself as John (Which Zachary and Avril introduced themselves to him quietly). The other man who was at the poker table turned to look at his friend introducing himself and got up to follow John's example.

Then the Domino Theory went into effect. By John introducing himself, he got James to introducing himself, when James got up to introduce himself, the man known as Victor got up to show himself after his brother (Avril and Zach could easily sense some tension between Wade and Victor), and by Victor getting up, he walked past the TV, which made the two blonde men pause and look to the new comers. The smaller man got up first and then the much larger man. It turned out that the smaller man's name was Chris and the larger man was Fred.

After many handshakes and greeting smiles (And with a few whispered warnings to the twins from Chris, John, and James), all sat down around the room. James and John went back to their poker game (Which Avril found out James was losing), Victor sat down in the recliner he was previously seated in watching the game, Fred sat at one end of the couch, Chris sat at the other, and Avril sat between them, while Zach sat in the recliner facing Victor, watching the game as well. Avril was busy egging the two gamers on, mocking the deep voice from the game whenever one got a kill. She constantly gave hints to the two men as well, saying to Fred that he should lay a bit off of the rocket launchers and more on evading, since it was pretty damn obvious he needed a bit more work at it, while she told Chris to work more with weapons that shot bullets or rocket launchers, since the giant hammer wasn't exactly helping him catch Fred's character. She also told the two where the Sword could be found, since neither could exactly find it before (The team had only recently gotten the game). Wade was nowhere to be found.

And that's when it happened.

A loud gurgling sound rang out, everyone but the twins looked to Fred, who was looking down, feeling slightly ashamed. After realizing that everyone else was looking at Fred, the twins turned to him. After a minute, Avril burst out into giggles, saying that maybe he was hungry. She got up and started walking to the door across the other side of the room to her right (The door to the hallways was to her left), when she turned around and asked the question.

"Who's up for what?" She said, hands on hips and looking around the room. She was standing slightly behind Victor's chair, who had turn around in his chair to look at her. There was dead silence for a moment when the missing man came to the rescue.

Wade burst through the door that led to the hallways with a phone in hand and a huge smile plastered onto his face, and said, "Let's get pizza!"

It seemed to her that Zachary was almost always in the mood for pizza or pasta, so he readily agreed, Fred apparently didn't really care what he ate, as long as it tasted good, Chris apparently didn't mind either, mumbling something about not having eaten pizza in a while, Victor just shrugged his shoulders, mumbling "Why not?", James and John just grunted their approval, and after seeing the survey, she shrugged her shoulders, repeating Victor with a "Why not?".

Wade's smile seemed to grow bigger. "Great! Now, who wants what on their pizza?" James wanted pepperoni, John wanted cheese, Fred also wanted cheese while Chris also wanted pepperoni, Zachary murmured something to Wade who was behind him and said out loud that he wanted sausage, Victor agreed, and then all eyes turned on the girl.

Wade pointed out loud, "Zach just told me you're a sausage and mushroom person. Gotta be so difficult." And with that, he dialed the phone and walked away, earning a stuck up middle finger from Avril to his back. Chris looked to her. "You like mushroom?"