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right, and this is his way of celebrating success.” Seo-yun answered in the same deadpan voice which only served to throw Tomas in another fit of laughter where he needed to reach out and grab the nearby wall for support or risk falling down.
    Elias watched his boss for a few seconds before returning to his conversation with Seo-yun
    “I’m guessing that means you accepted the job?”
    “Yes, though now I wonder what exactly did I let myself be drawn into?”
    “Don’t worry you will learn to ignore th ese kind of moments, welcome aboard by the way.” He said shaking her hand.
    “Thanks, and you mean this kind of thing is a regular occurrence?”
    “It has been known to happen from time to time.”
    While they were chatting as if they were lifetime colleagues Tomas managed to get himself under control, he quickly righted himse lf straightened his clothing and turned his eyes to Elias and Seo-yun.
    “I haven’t had such a good laugh in decades; it seems that your employment has already paid off.” Tomas looked around to the other employees in the hangar, all of which turned their heads away when they saw him looking their way, he knew that word would spread about his outburst, and that a new rumor about him would start circulating, Tomas didn’t care about them and let them go wild, usually the rumors died down on their own, if only his employees knew how close most of them were to the truth.

Chapter Four
    “Is your team ready?” Tomas asked.
    “Yes, this is Laura our computer expert, Greg who is studying dead languages, Mel our demolition expert , and Johan engineering expert.” Elias said indicating each person in turn, all of them had their helmets on so their faces were hidden. They looked impressive and menacing in their dark blue-black light armor, combat suit which was covered in light alloy plates on critical areas, chest, thighs, back, shins and forearms. Helmet was a full faceplate, made of unbreakable tinted glass.
    “Alright, how are we doing this?” Tomas asked.
    “Laura and I will take point, Greg and Mel will be in the rear, with Johan, you and the Professor in the center. You don’t touch anything until we secure the room we are in. Any sign of trouble Greg and Mel will escort you out while we cover your retreat.” Elias said. He and Elias had spoken briefly about the operation before; the explanation was mostly for Seo-yun’s benefit.
    “Very well, let’s go.”
    “Wait.” Seo-yun said “We aren’t going to put armor like them?” She asked.
    Elias look at her “There is no point, light armor won’t save you if you run into trouble when you don’t know how to move in it, and you aren’t trained in the use of heavy armor, we will cover you, and if we run into something that we can’t deal with then we are all already dead. But there is no need for worry, if there was someone inside they would have already gotten out, at most we will need to deal with automated defenses but even that is unlikely, and armor is only a precaution.” Elias finished and then put his helmet on.
    Tomas saw that Seo-yun wasn’t all that much reassured with Elias’s words, he took her by the shoulders and turned her around to face him.
    “It will be fine; Elias and his team know what they are doing.” He tried to make his words as convincing as he could .
    Seo-yun look him in the eyes, he could see something there but wasn’t able to identify it before she shook herself and her usual confident self-reappeared, she nodded gravely and they turned and went down the stairs to the level of the ships entrance.
    Elias and Laura entered first disappearing inside the ship, a few seconds’ later lights inside turned on, eerie blue light shone on the two figures inside, Elias and Laura who had lowered to their knees and were scanning the interior with their scopes, The rest of the team moved quickly to the entrance and took positions a moment later Elias turned his helms speakers on and yelled.