"We've arrived, General." A voice over came over Gwen's shoulder that prompted her to turn towards the speaker. Gwen looked over and saw the grunt that found her inside the cave. Glancing at the name tag which read PFC. Kylier Adrich, Gwen nodded to the young recruit.
"Tell Serina to take us down." Gwen replied. PFC. Adrich saluted and left to convey the message. Gwen turned back to the window and watched as her aircraft began descending towards the hanger at the outskirts of Saffron. As the plane was swallowed up into the ground, the hangar doors closed above them and they made their way towards Gwen's personal docking bay. A soft rumble shook the plane for a second before it became immobile and that told Gwen that Serina had finished docking the aircraft. The crew members rushed about gathering items and lots of documents of all kinds the moment they landed. Serina walked out of the cockpit and stretched her legs and limbs while Leanne was working on the plane's extendable bridge to lock with the platform they had docked on. After a few moments of silent contemplation, Gwen stood up and brushed herself off a bit before walking towards Leanne, who could be seen fiddling with a mechanical control panel near the exit hatch.
"Just a biiit more...." A small noise could be heard from the extended bridge before Leanne gave a small outburst. "Alright! Bridge has connected to the main platform. We are ready when you are, General!" Leanne saluted to show her accomplishment. Gwen grabbed onto the cold metal latch and turned it as she pushed against the metallic door. A cloud of dust swept up and brushed across Gwen's face causing her to sneeze, and she muttered something under her breath. Gwen never liked the hangar much and would always make haste to leave it behind her.
As Gwen took a step out, she saw that a member of Noble Team was waiting outside her plane and that could only mean one thing, Commander Raymond was back. Gwen ordered her crew members to finish up and be dismissed afterwards. Gwen, followed closely by Lt. Serina and Lt. Leanne upon orders, walked towards the Noble Team messenger whom greeted Gwen with a salute.
"Welcome back, General Gwen! I have urgent orders for you to report to Commander Raymond's Office! That is all!" The messenger shouted and saluted once more before he made his way towards the hanger exit. With her hands on her hips, Gwen sighed and shook her head.
"Man... Demanding for you right as we returned... I still need to take a shower..." Leanne said with puffed cheeks. "So what are you gonna do, Gwen?" Leanne looked at Gwen who wore a blank look as always.
"...Not much to do. We report to the Commander as he wishes..." Gwen said with a look of discontent this time. She knew he would be plotting something, but what, even Gwen doesn't have a clue. "Come. As much as I hate seeing him... better to get things over with." Gwen started walking towards the hangar exit with her two officers following behind her. In seconds, their silhouettes disappeared into the underground corridors.
As Gwen and her two officers made their way towards the Central Elevator, Gwen can see that many of the grunts were running about, some were still in a state of shock from losing their leader, while some were able to keep themselves composed as they worked. Some saw General Gwen and saluted quickly and Gwen returned the salute before the grunts ran off again. Things haven't been this chaotic in a long while and this disturbed the young general but she decided to brush it off. Leanne was pointing ahead at the elevator that connected to a shaft leading upwards towards the upper ground level which was where their destination would be. Gwen pressed the up button to the side of the elevator and within seconds the door opened to welcome them in. Leanne quickly entered followed by Serina with Gwen entering last, who reached for the side panel button within the elevator labeled 17 and pressed it. The doors closed before them and the lift made it's ascent up.
The elevator door opened with a ping upon reading 17 on it's visual counter. Gwen, Serina, and Leanne stepped out and walked about that floor. After seeing the general return, many of the grunts on that floor were talking quietly amongst themselves while trying to avoid eye contact with Gwen, but she ignored the lot of them and continued on. Gwen turned a few corners as she walked past the other commanders' offices until she found a young lady at a desk whom she recognized immediately. It was Commander Raymond's personal secretary called Rachel, whom Gwen had met on a few occasions when having to report to said Commander. As Gwen and her party approached the desk, Rachel brought her head up from looking at documents to find the young general. With a quick push of her glasses that sat loosely on her nose, Rachel greeted Gwen.
With a salute, Gwen spoke, "General Gwen, reporting." Gwen saw Rachel picking up her phone and muttering some words into it before motioning with her hand to enter the room. Gwen nodded to the red-haired woman and opened the door to Commander Raymond's office. Gwen slowly entered as did her two officers with Serina closing the door behind them. All three saluted before Gwen spoke out once more.
"...General Gwen, reporting in, Sir." Gwen twinged as she heard herself say Sir, something that would probably make Raymond chuckle deep inside. Gwen noticed Raymond's two trusted officers were with him as well. Things are pretty serious if they were with him.
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(OOC: lol... why are the bad guys writing much more than the good guys? XD )