One thing that Zelgadis learned about Lina was that she was stronger then she looks. At first when he started sparing with her he was going easy on her. He was under the impression that he could hurt her really badly if he didn't go easy on her. Of course he quickly change that opinion when he had been knocked to the ground for a forth time. So gave up holding back and went at it with all his abilities. But of course that didn't mean he was winning after that. He was still knocked down the only difference that he was knocking her down as well.
Luna neared her father's office as she turned another corner. She still had that same feeling that there was something wrong and that there was an intruder in STF headquarters somewhere. What type of person can get into STF without being detected? Their security systems were always being improved. They had the top of the line systems that not even a fly could get in without being noticed. This irked her quite a bit. Though Luna had no proof other then her gut instinct she was still bothered that an intruder might have got in. At her father's office she went to open the door and it was locked. She clicked on the door alert and still she got no answer. She used to her little compact computer to check to see if her father was in the room but he wasn't. Luna frowned, she didn't have any idea where her father could be nor did she have the time to go and search for him. So she gave up and headed back to her office.
Ozer smiled at his handy work. He had tapped into the environmental controls for Luna's office. He also had a now empty bottle right next to him.
Vernas whom had already dealt with his pained foot went back to work. Things were still weren't going to work at the way things were, but Vernas had thought of something that might help a bit. He looked over the original plans for the experiment. He wrote out a few extra equations and laughed victoriously.
"So I wont even need some of those materials after all! Looks like I can get the plan into motion after all. All I need now is that shipment of chemicals and for Ozer to get back. Where the hell is he anyway?! Oh well I'm not going to bother with that now." And Vernas limped over to the kitchen to get himself something to eat. The piece of paper that Vernas had his plans for the experiment on fell to he ground. It had numerous equations on it and a quickly done sketch of a monstrous like thing.
Both Zelgadis and Lina were in battle stances breathing very heavily. They were both glaring at each other but soon they could even hold that gaze and they both fell to the ground with a thud.
"Tired?" Zelgadis managed to say huffing and wheezing.
"Hell yeah!" Lina also said just as out of breath as he was. They both started to laugh out loud. When they eventually stopped they just laid there not saying a word. They were both very silent for a few moments as they tried to catch their breaths.
"I think we over did it again Lina."
"Yeah it seems that way. You know Zelgadis from what I've observed of you, you could easily get up to my level." Lina sat up to look at him.
"You really think so?" Zelgadis also got up despite how much his body was screaming at him not to.
"Oh yeah I'm very sure of it. I don't know about Martina, Zangulus and Gourry but you could definitely do it with no problem. But when are you planning on taking your level two read agent exams?" Lina got up and grabbed her bag and threw a couple of her snacks over to Zelgadis. She took a bite out of an apple.
"Tomorrow."
She nearly chocked on what she bit. In fact she was chocking. Luckily Zelgadis gave her a swift and hard pat on her back to get her to get out that chunk of apple. "What do you mean tomorrow?! You just became a level one agent yesterday!"
"Hey I should be able to at least a level two ranking without any trouble. So the same day that I found out I was passed as a level one I signed up for my level two evaluations."
Lina just shock her head smiling. "Well aren't you the over eager one. But what about the other guys? Aren't you going to be a little ahead of them?"
"Oh they signed up the same time I did. So we'll all be taking them tomorrow."
If Lina wasn't so tired she would have hit Zelgadis on the head or something. "And just why the hell didn't any of you tell me?!"
"You never asked."
Lina facefaulted.
Ozer finished with his work went and retreated to a safe spot so that he could watch the fun and games.
Luna came out of the elevator and walked towards her office. She stopped dead in her tracks. Something most definitely did not seem right. She pulled out her computer and tapped into the security system, but everything checked out normally. What in the devil is going on here? Why am I acting like this? Luna glanced around the empty hallway. She was alone and eventually just shock off her paranoid feelings and went to her office door to unlock it. Little did she know that she wasn't alone after all.
Back at the main computer room the green agents in charge there did their routine checks. They were all still a little bit mystified at Luan's suspicions. If Luna was right then somehow someone was able to get into STF headquarters without being noticed.
"Sir you have to look at this!" One of the lower green agents said to highest ranked green agent there. What the lower the green agent pointed out was that the computer detected the same person in two different areas. One at the main entrance who had just been stopped and check for ID by security and the other just outside Luna's office.
"Someone go get Mister Blitz! Also someone warn Miss Luna!"
Luna slid her ID card through the scanner, punched in her pass codes and had her eye scanned. The door clicked and Luna opened it to go inside. The intruder alert warning was blaring everywhere in STF headquarters, except on Luna's floor. Somehow the alarm system had been shut off in her sector. When Luna went in the door shut behind her and locked.
"What the hell is going on?!" Zelgadis yelled to Lina over the noise.
"I don't know! No one's ever managed to break into STF before!" Lina yelled back to him.
"Let's go and find out what's gong on!" Zelgadis yelled to her getting up. She nodded back to him and they headed for the main entrance center to STF.
"What in the blazes is going on?!" Blitz yelled as he got into the main computer room.
"Mister Blitz there is an intruder in STF headquarters!
"I can see that! But how is it possible?!"
"Whoever it was someone tricked it into believing that it was one of our agents who wasn't here. We wouldn't have even known unless that agent whom the intruder was impersonating hadn't came in."
"Do you know where the intruder is now?" Blitz was unnerved, he honestly couldn't believe that STF headquarter security had been breached.
"Outside Miss Luna's office!"
"Where's Luna?!" Blitz's eyes widen in horror.
"She's in her office right now! The intruder alarm system isn't working in her section nor can we get into her section at all!"
"What do you mean?!" Blitz grabbed the lower ranked green agent that he was talking to by the collar.
"All the doors and entrances into that section are closed off and locked. We can't get in!" Blitz let go of the agent in horror. Yes Luna could handle herself in tough situations, but a person who was able to get passed the highest ranked security system was obviously someone to be reckoned with.
Luna turned herself around sharply. She tried the door it was locked and wouldn't budge. "What's going on?!" Luna yelled in the dark room unknowing of a odorless vapor circulating out of the vents.
Blitz ran through the halls pushing people out of the way till someone grabbed him by the arm.
"Dad what's going on?!" Lina yelled at her father over the noise.
"There's a intruder and Luna might be in danger!" Blitz continued running through but with both Lina and Zelgadis following close behind.
Ozer laughed darkly. "By the time you get here it will be too late. She'll would have already been affected." Clicked on his controls to make himself appear to the security systems as if he wasn't there. He opened one of the doors to let him out and set a timer to let the all the doors to the sector open once the vapor would have dissolved and not be deadly to anyone else.
Luna was coughing violently. Her vision was going blurring and dark and she felt like her body had the consistency of jelly. She tried her hardest to get her door open, but she knew that it was a feeble attempt. The security and structure of the rooms made it impossible for the doors to be broken down and into. She was trapped.
"Xellos, De Tanga can't either of you do something?!" Blitz yelled to the two monsters outside the perimeter to Luna's section.
"You know as well as I do that all the rooms are guarded with special energy forces when the high security mode is on. Neither one of us can get in there." Xellos said calmly. He was disturbed by this situation but he saw no use in loosing his head. Unfortunately De Tanga didn't, he was about to scream in frustration. This puzzled Xellos, he had never seen De Tanga so stressed and worried before.
"But how are we supposed to get in there?!" Just as Blitz had yelled that the doors opened. Everyone was shocked but eventually got a hold of themselves and went in. The computer couldn't detect the intruder anymore so the alarms had stopped. All the doors were unlocked except Luna's. Nor could they open it either. The bio controls weren't permitting the door from opening due to the foreign chemical contamination in the room. And it wasn't going to open till the bio controls dealt with the foreign agent. They all waited impatiently until the bio controls were done. When it was done the door finally opened and Luna's body fell down in the doorway. Her whole body was turning a blue color and her body was shaking with seizers.
"Someone quickly get her to the medical labs!" Blitz screamed.
A few hours later various yellow agents were tending to Luna in a special medical room. They had got her body stabilized but she was still in a coma.
"What the hell is wrong with her?!" Blitz screamed Xellos, Filia and Rezo when they finally came out of the room to talk to Blitz, Lina, Zelgadis and the many other people who had been sitting there waiting.
"We have no idea what it was that did it to her, all her know is that it was some sort of toxin that distributed in a vapor form from the air ventilation system. Somehow someone managed to tap into the environmental controls. This is all such a mystery." Rezo sighed with his hands in his pockets.
"But will she be okay?" Faithe asked with teary eyes. She had been just as long as Blitz had and she was extremely worried.
"We really have no idea. Her condition is stable, but we don't even know it that's good or bad. We don't know if it's a temporary thing or if she has a limited amount of time before things turn for the worse. I really wish I could tell you guys more. But we can get the person who did this then maybe we get the information we need from him or her."
Rezo looked over to Blitz who had sunk farther in his chair.
"The intruder who did this... I don't think we will be able to find him so easily." Blitz looked to the ground. He had been hoping that Rezo and the others had been able to find a way to help Luna without needing to find the intruder.
"Why is that? You don't know who it was?" Rezo glanced at him confused. Blitz was usually very positive about everything, no challenge was too difficult for him.
"Oh no we were able to find out who it was. The computer system managed to find a match to whom the aslant was. He even left a clue so that we would know that he did it."
"Well if you know who it is then why in heaven's name can you catch him?"
"Because it was Ozer."