The room was dark; there were no lights on. Lina frowned; the room was also empty.
"Now what in the devil is up here? I was ordered to take you guys here as soon as possible to find that there is no one in the damn debriefing room!"
"Well they probably have a good reason Miss Lina."
"They'd better. Now lets turn on a light. Does anybody see a note or something?" Lina said while looking around.
"You mean like this?" Zangulus held up a folded piece of paper with Lina's name clearly written on it.
"I guess that's it. Here give to me so I can read it out loud. Okay it says, 'Lina sorry that no one was there to meet you, but you'll get debriefed later. What I need you to do is to take the LPD officers on a tour of the STF headquarters. Make sure you take them by science labs and trainee classes. Wherever else you'd like to take them is your choice. But make sure you get them to eat lunch and at about 3:00 p.m. come over to the room 32A over in the green section. I'll be expecting you.' Oh for crying out loud! I'm stuck doing tour work?! Do I look like a tour guide?!"
"Miss Lina does it say who is asking to do this?"
"No it doesn't Amelia. It just gives the legitimate command authorization code on it. Whoever is ordering us to do this is definitely a green agent."
"Do you have any ideas which green agent it is?"
"Well there is only a handful of them to start off with but I have my guesses. Oh well I'd better start my 'tour'. Where should we go first?"
"The note did say to take them over to the trainee classes and the science labs..."
"Nah we'll do those latter. We're in no rush; it's only 11:30 p.m. How about we take them over to the shooting range, rec room and then to the cafeteria?"
"What about the other places?"
"We'll do those after we eat. Okay?"
"Yeah but let's start with the rec room first."
"Why do you have a specific reason for wanting to go there first?" Lina said with a smug little smile.
"Um, ah (nervous laughter) ee ah no reason at all. Why would I have a reason to want to go there?" Amelia said with a nervous smile while blushing slightly.
"I don't know, I was just asking you if did. Alright to the rec rooms first then!"
Lina turned around and marched off the others following behind.
The more time the LPD officers spent in the STF the more confused. The STF headquarters looked like a madman had designed the layout of it. It was one big gigantic maze with many different levels. Only Amelia and Lina seemed to have no trouble directing them around.
"Okay we are almost at the rec room."
"How do you know where are going here? This place is so... so..." Zelgadis' voice trailed off.
"Crazy? Yeah the layouts kinda weird. For the most part our new trainees spend their first three months here without having a clue where anything is." Lina said with a chuckle.
"But then how do they find where they are going?"
"Each new trainee is handed a little portable digital map computer. It tells you how to get from one place to another and where some places are. In fact some of our level 2 and up agents still use them."
"What about you? I don't see you with one and you know where you are going."
"First off all I was never given one. I've been through this complex inside and out while growing up. I know where everything and anything are here. I know each hall, the security and I also know where a good place is to take a nap without anyone noticing."
"What Miss Lina you don't sleep when you are supposed to be working, do you?" Amelia said with wide eyes.
"Um, no Amelia why would I do that?" Lina said to reassure the young girl and the whispered to Zel, "I do sleep from time to time, but I can't tell her that. She's a total 'rules and law must be obeyed' type of a person. So if she ever asks you if you do something illegal, play along with her or otherwise you'll get the longest most annoying speech you have ever been forced to hear."
"I'll remember that." Zelgadis whispered back to her with a smile.
Lina and Amelia stopped at an entrance to a double door hallway.
"Right this way." Lina motioned down the hall and everyone proceeded down it.
It led to another double door, this one entering into a large multi roomed gym with lots off different activities going on. In the rooms that they could see there were tennis and squash games going on, people swimming in the pool, playing basketball, soccer, football, volleyball, chess and other board games, people on exercise machines, aerobics classes, people talking, people sparing, and people going through obstacle courses. And there were other things going on in many of the other rooms that they couldn't see.
"This is where people come to relax in the pool, hot tube or sauna, socialize with others, exercise and play sports and train for the physical evaluations for increasing their rank."
"Wow, this is some much more than our tiny little gym we have at the LPD office."
"Yeah well it wasn't always this big. As they do with everything in the STF headquarters they add on things to improve it. Amelia who are you looking for?" Lina said startling Amelia.
Ever since they had came in the rec room Amelia's eyes had been scanning the room looking for someone.
"Um, no one." Amelia blushed again.
"Yeah sure." Lina said still with a smug smile causing Amelia to blush harder.
"Lina why is it called the 'rec room'? It looks more like one room to me." Gourry asked while looking around the place.
"The reason is because it used to be just one room, but as I said they are always expanding things here."
"Why not just call them the 'rec rooms'?"
"Because that sounds dumb? I dunno."
Lina generally showed them around the rec room for a little while before they decided to leave and head over to their next location, the shooting range.
Over in the shooting range, Zangulus, Gourry, Martina and Zelgadis were surprised. When Lina said 'shooting range' they were expecting this little shooting room with a few people practicing with conventional guns. First the shooting range wasn't just one room and it was both indoor and outdoor. Second there were tones of people practicing and on things such as moving targets, stationary targets and even other people. (Combat training, so that they would know what to do in a shoot out. But don't worry the ones they use doing that don't hurt people they just record how many hits you give and receive. Kinda like laser tag.) Third they weren't conventional guns. Most of them were bio guns and heavy duty ones too. Lina was going to ask them if they had any questions when she saw the stunned looks on all of their faces.
"What were expecting teeny weenie hand guns? Come on this is the STF here! Even trainees have to learn how to use the high powered bio guns."
They all dumbly nodded their heads in agreement.
Being very careful not to get hit with anything, they snaked their way around the shooting range visiting each area to get a view of what everything is like and what guns the STF standardly use.
"So Miss Lina do you think it's about time we went and took them for lunch?" Amelia said looking at her watch. It was about 12:20 p.m.
Lina's ears perked up.
"Food? Yeah lets go eat!"
Instead of going at the normal pace they had been going before Lina dragged them back to the cafeteria at high speed. Much to Lina's dismay due to a recent accidental explosion the cafeteria line had closed. (Relm: Why would there be an explosion in the cafeteria? Well let's just say never let Xellos and Dr. Evil Relm have a cook off, that's bound to cause trouble.)
"No way are we going to have to wait at a table for someone to come and take our orders?! That takes too long!" Lina groaned as she slumped into her chair.
"I wonder who they have acting as a waiter..."
No sooner than Amelia said that that a tall woman with shoulder length purple hair with darker purple streaks came by to their table.
"What do you want?" She said with an icy voice.
Lina turned her head sharply to see their waitress and started to get a panicky expression on her face.
"Um hi, Luna. So you are doing this job huh. Um (nervous laughter)..." Lina was very pale which caused some confusion among the LPD officers.
Zangulus whispered over to Amelia, "Hey what's up this Luna person? Why does Lina looked freaked out of her mind?"
"It's her older sister. Believe me, if you knew Luna then you would understand."
LPD officers just exchanged glances back and forth from each other then turned their attention back to Lina and Luna.
"I said what do you want?"
"Um, everything on the menu except the surprise soup."
Everyone facefaulted.
"You can't possibly eat that much can you Lina?" Zelgadis asked Lina.
"Oh my little sister definitely can. But she's not going to today."
"You're not going to force me to take on of those stupid nutrition supplement pills again are you?"
"With the way you each you have to. Anyway with the way our family's genetics are you can't go without eating large amounts of food or you'd die. But eating so much isn't good either. So you're going to be having the supplement pill with your food."
"Aww - "
"Just shut up. What do you guys want?"
After everyone gave their orders to Luna, she was off the kitchen to go get their food. From what Lina and Amelia found out Gourry has an insanely large appetite too. In fact it seemed that his was even larger than Lina (if that's actually possible) from what he ordered. Both Amelia and Lina doubted that he would be able to eat it all, but Zangulus, Martina and Zelgadis knew better than to doubt the size of Gourry's stomach.
"So why are you afraid of your older sister Lina? She doesn't seem that bad." Zangulus asked Lina.
"How did you know that she was my sister?"
"Amelia told us while you were talking to her."
"Hmm..."
"Well?"
"Well what?"
"Why are you afraid of her?"
"Why don't you ask her why? I'm pretty sure she'd show you." Lina said while rolling her eyes.
"Somehow I don't think that would be a good idea."
"You're right it isn't. But it's beyond me on why Luna is stuck working as a waitress. She hates people."
"What is she normally?"
"A very scary green agent. One time we left her with a very tough criminal to interrogate and then after just ten minutes that guy told us everything just as long as we promised to keep Luna away from him."
"Heh, heh, sounds like you Martina." Zangulus said while nudging Martina on the side. She just hit him over the head with a nearby tray.
"What did Luna do to the guy?" Zelgadis said while ignoring Zangulus and Martina.
"That's the funny thing. When the guy came out he had no scratches, no cuts, no bruises, no nothing. Luna hadn't even touched him. And they were the only ones in the room and the conversation wasn't being recorded, so we have no idea."
"Hasn't anyone tried to ask Luna what she did?"
"Yeah my dad did. She would say though."
"Say what?" A familiar icy voice from the side. Luna had returned with their food.
"Ah, nothing Luna. Thanks for the food!"
As soon as the food reached the table Lina, Amelia, Zangulus, Martina and Gourry attacked it with a feeding frenzy. Everyone was staring and Zel just sighed while blushing slightly out of embarrassment and snatched a bit of food. Luckily his arm wasn't torn off in the process. With an exception of Zelgadis they all eat like as if they had been starved for days. You'd think that Zel would be used to this sort of thing, having Gourry as a partner, but five of them? Yeah sure like you wouldn't find this odd. Luna just shook her head and walked off to serve another table.