by I'm Not Mister Mxypltk
Danny Hearn, Tobias Christopher, M'xy, Edulcore Cicciotto and Marv Velo sat at the meeting table, silent, while Naecken showed Nowhereman the headquarters. Despite the team's curiosity, Velo had managed to evade all probing questions.
"So..." said Danny, trying to break the ice, "...where are you from, Velo?"
Velo replied, "Oh, you know... here and there..."
"Oh," said Danny. "Cool." The awkward silence once again filled the room for about a minute. "I'm from the future, you know."
"You are?" asked Velo.
"Yes, yes."
"That's cool."
Danny replied, "Yes."
The awkward silence came back once again, in spite of Danny's attempts to prevent that from happening. M'xy, bored, started playing with a pencil. It made an annoying noise. Edulcore took it away from him. These were men of action. They couldn't be kept in a room without doing anything.
"So," said Tobias, "who wants to go to the training room?"
Danny, Edulcore and Velo all said, simultaneously, "Training room?"
"Yes," said Tobias.
"Training room?" asked M'xy.
"Yes," said Tobias. "I was saying, I saw a room with a 'training room' sign on the door earlier."
Danny got up from his seat. "Let's see what it's about!"
"Yes!" said Velo. "Please!"
The five men went to the room, almost running. When they got there, they saw a huge, empty room, and something that looked like a control panel in the entrance.
Edulcore said, "Hmmm... it looks like Naecken made this room so we could train, like the name of the room suggests. I guess these 'mode' buttons are here to select which enviroment we want to train in, so the room can imitate it."
"Oh yeah?" said Velo, impressed. "What kinds of environments are there?"
"There are plenty," said Edulcore, looking at a list, "so let the games begin!"
"I'll catch up with you guys later," said Danny, who stayed at the door as the others ran into the room. "I've, uh... got to get a change of clothes."