"Welcome to Subway, please may i take your order!" Madison said with a forced smile.
"Hmmm," said the customer ,"I haven't decided yet."
Her mind immediately began to fizz with rude quips, like: "well what were you doing while waiting in the line," or "just pick one". She didn't have enough sleep for this.
"Do you have any recommendations?" they asked
"Umm, what about the roast beef one," she said listing the first item that came to mind
"Yea, that sounds good."
Madison quickly prepared the sandwich and gave it to the customer who walked away happily.
The next Customer stepped forward and Maddison began the routine again
"Welcome to Subway, please may I take your ord..."
Maddison looked up at the customer and immediately did a double take. Before here was a chinese woman with short cut hair, a smart black dress and a pair of sunglasses. She stuck out like a sore thumb in the middle of a fast food restaurant.
"Maddison, we need to talk," the woman said, "it's about the Mothra plan."
The woman took off her glasses and held up Her ID Lanyard which was held loosely in her hand.
"Ilene?" Madison questioned ,"you work at Monarch with my dad right? Why are you here?"
"We need to talk somewhere less public," Ilene said, looking uncomfortably at the various people all eating lunch.
"I've got to finish my shift first," Madison objected, "if i don't they'll fire me or something."
"I'll work that out after" Ilene dismissed ,"now come."
With that, the scientist turned on her heels and walked out of the restaurant. After a second of contemplation Madison took off her company cap and jogged out from behind the counter. The people waiting in line all complained loudly as she ran past, muttering apologies to them all
She burst out the door and ran up to the scientist who was briskly walking away, falling into step next to her.
"How did you come up with the Mothra plan," she asked, cutting right to the point.
"Me and Bernie, the guy that helped me get into the APEX facility, were looking through some public access files and..."
"We already know you broke into your father's laptop,"
"Fine, we got some info from there too." Madison admitted ," but the most important thing is that the titans have clearly been let loose and you saw for yourself how Mothra helped Godzilla keep his crown so if we bring her back then it may just fix this mess."
"I'm with you," Ilene said.
"Wait, really!?"
"Yes," she replied ,"Monarch is doing nothing. They're too scared to think outside the box so we're gonna conspire against them."
Madison stared at her for a few seconds, making sure she heard correctly.
"Mothra's egg is being held in a frozen vault in Monarch's archives." Ilene explained, "if we can break in and turn off the cooling, then it should be possible to hatch the egg."
Maddizon was so flabbergasted that she began to fall behind Ilene who was still walking briskly along the pavement. Maddison staggered back forward and did a weird walk/jog to stay next to her.
"Why did you call me then?" she asked ,"i'm assuming it's so i can help and if that is why you came then the answer is yes."
"I'm glad we're on the same page." she replied, smiling. "Meet me here tomorrow, i'll figure out a way to explain your absence, my sister should be able to fake some documents to say you're on holiday or a training course or something. And bring that podcast friend of yours, i heard he likes conspiracies."
Madison nodded, "thanks Ilene."
Ilene nodded back in a your welcome kind of way
