"Are you taking all of us out for lunch?"

OOC: *shoves Tenjin out of time/space vortex* there, you should be good now. Just follow along with the story from this point.

"My car's only got 4 seats."

"Fine. Are you taking /me/ for lunch?" Shad said from her position on the ground.

"No. Well...maybe. Depends what you've found."

"I'll tell you what i've found once you've fed me."

"I feed you if you tell me. You need me to get food. I can just have Hack give me the stuff I need. It's a very win-win situation for me here."

"Not necessarily. See, I don't trust you to feed me should i give you the information. However, i have nothing to gain by holding back the information after i've eaten. And Hack is working on something else, so he'd take time to get the information that i have right now."

She said cajolingly, "Besides, you don't even have to let me in your car. I'll follow you on my bike. You just have to buy me lunch."

Kalland sticks his head in the door of the computer room "I'm buying chow. Whatdya want?"

He glared at Shad and finally said, "Okay. You win. Nothing for me Kalland. We're going out."

Shad set her laptop carefully on the ground, and then bounded to her feet, arms in the air.

"YES! I win!"

She gave Shade a big hug, tucked a couple printouts in her back pocket, and went off to find her motorcycle helmet.

"I....hate her." He started walking to the garage, and hit the intercom. "Brad, meet me at my car. If you don't know, it's the 87 firebird."

Brad had just climbed 20 floors in 4 minutes when he heard Shade tell him to meet him in the car.

Grrr... Will you make up your bloody mind, dammit?

He flicked open his phone and rang Shade up again.

"I'm almost there, I'l meet you in the office afetr I put my stuff down."

"They're called elevators Brad. We installed them for a reason. In fact, we bought a giant business building for a reason. Or our predecessors did. I wish I knew that reason."

Kalland shrugged "ok. More for me" He wanders into the garage and gets into his car, A modified Pergeot 206 and drives away

Brad waited until he was inside the office before answering Shade.

"Well, I don't like elevators. There was one op I was on where we had to kill a crimelord in a guarded building. A large part of our plotting revolved around ingenious ways to kill him while he was taking the elevator down. In the end, we decided to wait for him to come down, kill the goons at the front door in the space of time it took the elevator to descend 20 stories, then point a 30mm aircraft gun out the back of a converted SUV and annihilate him before he even knew he was dead. When I saw the photos in the paper the next day... well, let's just say that it made an abattoir look like your living room. Since then, I've always taken the stairs. Good exercise, too."

"Anyway, here's the stuff I got from the log people."

Brad opened his box and shoed Shade the packets of NAPS tablets and auto-injectors.

"Nerve Agent Pre-Treatment Supplements. Increases your resistance to nerve gases of all kinds. Invaluabel if we're doing shit like this. And the auto-injectors here are for in case some idiot actually gets hit by the gas, in which case I will take care to administer the atropine in the needles to his balls, that the world may be spared further morons like him."

He opened up the team vault and placed the box inside.

"Oh, and I forgot. Coffee for Shad. My doctor-sense tells me that you're going to give me more work if you don't get some."

Shad reappeared magically, motorcycle helmet in hand. "Coffee? For me? You shouldn't have." She grinned and stuffed the thermos into her backpack. "So, ya ready to go, Shade?"

Henna stood up and brushed herself off,
"Food sounds good" She bounded after Shade hoping to claim one of the four seats in his car, since she did not own one.

"I shouldn't have? Well, If I didn't, you'd have bashed in another intern's head for being a second too late obeying your edicts. And speaking of bashing heads in, while I have nothing against that, please don't do it in front of me. The Hippo oath compels me to administer first aid to all of your victims, and when there's no coffee, there's a lot of them. You'd think a Navy captain could get by without doing grunt work, but nooo, I had to be the genius to transfer here... " His voice trailed off as the glass door closed behind them.

Just sitting down in his litle WVGolf he called up.
-Where are we going to eat then?

[OOC]Wa with my girlfriend all weekend so haven't been to much on the internet

Shade saw Henna coming, and said, "Nope. Sorry but you're going to china to check out that other place. Take anybody you want with you."

Shade got into his car, and turned on the engine. "So, do we want to eat first? Or forcefully extract information first?"

Wolf overheard Shade and Henna talking about a mission to China, so he decided to find out more. He walked up to Henna

"I hear Shade's sending you on an assignment to China. Need a pilot or a driver?" he asked.

-I would go for the information first, then we would have something to celebrate when we go out to get some food...*and beer*...
He started his litle car and suddenly remembered
-Where are we going?

Brad hopped into his Diablo and gunned the engine, but just as he was about to leave he saw Tor's Bug on the side of the road. He motored up to the car and leaned over.

"Not having lunch?"

"Not having lunch?" Brad said

-Yeah but I'm going to get some info first so that we have something to drink to
He chucled -and if you dare to make fun of my car I'll beat your ass into a pulp

"Oh damn, there go the 101 Bug jokes I printed out this morning." He chuckled to himself, then continued.

"You go get the info, I'll talk to my SFCs and see what they can dig up for us."

-Yeah, we need to know where the gas came from, it could get us some leads. See ya
He started to drive towards the university

Henna watched as Shade drove off, she dropped her hands to her side and sighed.
"Well, I guess I am not having lunch then."

She turned to Wolf, yeah I guess a little company could not hurt. You got a ride, or do we have to take one of those shaggy commercial outfits?

OOC: Where is the HQ building located? I'll assume NYC for now.

"Not to worry Henna," Wolf said "I have a plane. It's concealed in a nondescript hangar at JFK. We'll take my car."

Wolf indicated his black 1984 Pontiac Trans-Am. The car looked suspicously like KITT (the Knight Rider car), right down to the oscillating red light on the front of the car. Wolf jumped in, started the engine, and left as soon as Henna had buckled up in the passenger seat.

After 30 minutes of driving, they arrived in front of a large grey hangar near the edge of the JFK Airport property line. Wolf hit a switch, and the doors opened up to reveal a black F-14D Tomcat.

"I bet you're wondering how I got my hands on this." Wolf said.

OOC: New chapter comin' up people.