I'm here for you - Ch. 4

Victor and Eliza walked out of the Briefing Room. Victor had no idea what to do with this new agent. He decided to ask her if she knew every place of the U.Z.Z. base.

Eliza shook her head. “I don’t. They didn’t give me a tour yet. I just arrived here today.”

“Then I’ll give you a tour. If you are going to be my partner for now, you should at least know where everything is.”

Victor and Eliza walked through the hallways of U.Z.Z. Mostly in silence. He quickly passed through the Storage Rooms, the Landing Area’s and the gym.

“Next to the gym is the Training Room. If you want some training, you can do it here.”

In the Training Room was a group of agents, together with their fitness instructor; Lucy Woo. The class was about to end and Lucy Woo gave some last instructions to her class before she walked up to Victor and Eliza.

“Victor Volt! I haven’t seen you for a while now. How are you?” asked Lucy when she approached Victor and Eliza.

“I’m alright… This is Agent Eliza Fox. She will be my partner for some time. Eliza, this is Lucy Woo. She does the fitness classes here, together with the fitness and basic trainings for new agents.”

“Nice to meet you.” said Lucy with a smile to Eliza. She turned back to Victor. “How is Anita?”

Victor shook his head. “She’s still the same. We really should be going, it’s almost lunch time.”

Eliza and Victor said goodbye to Lucy and walked towards the canteen. Even though it was almost lunch time, it was quiet in the canteen. Most agents had a training outside, so it would take some time before they would be back. Which gave Victor the opportunity to get to know Eliza better.

“You don’t actually sound like you’re from around here.” he said once they sat down with their lunch.

Eliza nodded. “That’s true. I was an agent in Belgium, but because of my boyfriend, I let myself transfer to the UK. That’s why I still have the accent, but I can adapt quite easily. How about you? You don’t sound like you came from around here.”

Victor gave her a little smile. “You’re quite observant. I was born in London, but my mother moved to America for some years for her job. It was all during my younger years, so the accent never faded.”

“How did U.Z.Z. recruit you?” asked Eliza.

“During a comic convention in San Diego. It all sounded really cool and my mom didn’t mind it. She came back to England with me, so I could work here. She gives some karate classes in the weekends now. You?”

“Belgium comic convention. I love comics to bits, but also love to game. Especially race games. I was looking for a job and they offered me a chance to save Belgium from the bad guys and occasionally save the world when we need to.”

Victor smiled for a moment. “You really should meet agent Kent. He’s a star in race games.”

More agents started to walk into the canteen. Most of them arrived from the outdoors training and wanted to have some lunch after such a hard training. A few agents walked towards the table where Victor and Eliza were eating their lunch.

A blond agent with round sunglasses sat down next to Victor. “So, how’s Anita doing?” he asked.

“She’s still the same.” Victor answered once again. Even though he didn’t really mind they were asking about Anita, he got tired of saying the same answer every day again. “By the way, Kent, this is agent Eliza. She will be my partner for the time being.”

“Howdy, nice to meet you.”

Eliza smiled and shook Kent’s hand. “Nice to meet you too. I heard from Victor you are amazing with race games.”

Kent nodded. “That’s the reason I got into U.Z.Z., because of my hand-eye coordination. I get that you would like to play a race game with me one of these days.”

Eliza nodded while agent Kowalski sat down next to her.

“Don’t trust Kent with these games. Somehow, he always know a cheating code and he will use it to win the game.” she said with a big smile.

“That only happened once, Kowalski.” said Kent

Kowalski shook her head. “I don’t think so, Kent. I heard the same thing from Scott and Todd.” She turned to Eliza. “I am Kowalski, the only woman in Ray’s team.”

“Eliza Fox, nice to meet you. Why are you the only woman in his team?”

“Because she’s practically a man from time to time.” said Kent before Kowalski could say a thing. “So she fits right in with the rest of us…. Ouch! Don’t kick me under the table!”

“It’s your own fault.” said Kowalski with a big smile. “Ray’s team is one of the highest ranks you can get around here. Besides being a Secret Agent of the Chief. I have proven myself through the years.”

“Cool… There is actually one thing I want to ask all of you… Who is Anita…?”