fireficUnNamed

Hello allow me to introduce myself. I'm Max, that's short for Maxine,
and I'm not exactly normal, at least, most people wouldn't consider me
average. So I'm going to tell you my story. The story of.... The Angels
    I walked down the street looking at the newspaper article.(the newspaper was specifically for people in the military and national security agencies It had been four weeks since I had first posted the want ad and there were still only three people that fit for the job, I needed ten. The ad read: "Ten people needed for a dangerous job with very good job must be athletic, well-talented, and no close family. �It wasn't very descriptive but it got the point past, and I couldn't say much anyway.
     I remembered before when I didn't have to worry about things like
this. It seemed like so long ago when I was only 16 and had decided that
I wanted to make an actual team of heroes. At first I hadn't know what to
do or how to do it, but then Sydney had contacted me. Sydney was a person that was hard to explain everything about him was secret. He had told me he could help me if I helped him, he said I needed training and that would probably take years so I would have to become as secret as he was. That meant that I would have to die, so to speak. So we set up a car wreck and got to work. It's now ten years later and I have got all the training I needed, now I was finally ready to make my team.
     I walked up to the front door of my house, or mansion as most people would call it. Inside I could hear people filling out there application for the job. People had to go through a rigorous test to see if they would be suitable for the job. As I walked into the house Jack walked up to me. Before I explain what happened next I want to explain Jack. Jack is my best friend and when I was meeting Sydney for the first time the little scamp was there hiding listening in, and when I decided that I had to act like I had died well he said that he had to go to. As you can imagine this didn't make me too happy, but what was I suppose to do he's my best friend. So suffice to say to he's now my assistant, at least, I guess that's what you would call him. He can't fight worth anything and he tells really bad jokes, but I'm glad he's around I just wish he would get a life. (He still isn't over his girlfriend that left him after dating six months about two years ago.)
     OK now back to what was happening. "Where have you been?" Jack asked "Ten people came in just today for jobs and most of them are looking like they could get it."
    "I'm sorry Jack. For once I just wish I could get a day off around here." I said "Can you wait for me to get my uniform on so I can talk to them?"
    "OK, I still have to run them through the last test. Oh and you might want to know, your sister is one of them."
     My heart jumped as I made my way to my room. My sister? Here? Could I actually be seeing my sister after all this time? I guess I was being kind of selfish, I mean this is a dangerous job, but I missed all my old friends and just hanging out. I reached my room and hurried to put my uniform on. My uniform is something that a lot of people would call a costume, it isn't a costume. It is patterned after a lynx because that's what I go by. I put it on because I don't want people that are not going to be own my team to know who I am and I might not want the team to know who I am at all.
     Two minutes later I appear in the exercise room. The "candidates" were all busy working on weight lifting while Jack supervised them. Jack walked over after he noticed I was there.
    "Here is the list of people" Jack said as he handed me the information sheet.
     I took a breath then looked at the list. Jack hadn't been kidding about my sister. What was more were at least six more people on it that I knew.
    "Jack, do you have any idea who these people are?" I asked, he had to be kidding there was no way these people were here.
    "More then I want to. Which by the way call me Carmichel, they seem to remember me, I had to tell them I had never heard of Jack, so I told them that was my name. To tell you the truth I don't think they believe me, maybe you can convince them." Jack informed me.
    "Of all the names to choose. You know I think I have an uncle named that and I don't like him."
    "No one asked you for your opinion, and I happen to like it thank you very much."
    I shrugged and looked back down at the list. Beside the people names were their scoring, and Jack was right they were really good.
    "OK, Carmichel, I think it's time I talked to these people." I said, as I started toward them.
    "Hello, you can call me Lynx. I am the person in charge of this operation. �I informed them" I would like to thank you for coming today. I'm afraid not all of you were able to get the job, but some of you were. the following people please come forward: Eric Charter, Tiffany Halaway, Heather Wotring, Kristen Lilly, Vinnie Beck, Edward Light, and Gillian Brown. Congratulations you got the job. Every one else thank you for your time."
    As the other people left the people that had got the job started talking among themselves. I decided that they needed to know the whole point of the job because they were probably wondering. I didn't know what exactly to say though, I mean, these were actually people I knew before. Fortunately Jack was standing right beside me and knew just what to say.
   "Now that you have the job I'm going to tell you what it's all about." Jack started as I heaved a sigh of relief. "I am sure the person that informed you of this job told you that if you got in it would be a great honor. I would have to agree with that statement. Those of you who have been chosen for this job are not only the best of your personal branch you are the best of all the branches put together, you will have a lot to live up to.
   "I am sure that all of you had some kind of dream of heroes at one time or other. Most of you are actual heroes already. That said I would like to welcome you to The Angels, the first group of government run heroes. Any questions?"
   The questions were answered, and I informed them that it was there choice as to whether they kept the job or not. I told them they each had there own room in the mansion, and suggested that they get some sleep because tomorrow was going to be a big day. Jack walked up to me.
   "I thought you might want to know a little bit about the people you're going to be living with from now on, so I took the liberty of putting together a information sheet for you.� said Jack (obviously)
   "Thanks Jack," I said "I'll make sure I look at it. Good night."
   Then I decided to take my own advice and headed toward my room to go to sleep. I changed into my gown, and laid down. An hour later I still hadn't gotten any sleep, and didn't think I would. I decided to go ahead and read Jack's information sheet, which is just another way to say "this is a list of things I want you to know so you won't do anything you wouldn't want to do sheet." Hey I couldn't scold him for trying. Anyway he was right it was things I would want to know; it was basically a list of the peoples jobs and other information. Here's what it basically said:
Eric Charter: CIA, computer expert, well mannered.
Tiffany Hallaway: Secret Service, expert in disguise, talkative.
Heather Wotring: FBI, electronics, nerdy.
Kristen Lilly (Kris): CIA, can control any kind of transportation, nice.
Vinnie Beck: Marine, weapons expert, egomaniac.
Edward Light: Navy, expert mechanic, shy.
Gillian Brown: Air Force, bomb expert, serious.
Then there were the ones he had given me before:
Alexander Lee: FBI, profiler, quiet.                                                                                  James Cassidy: Army, strongest person in the Army, protective.
Jennifer Cassidy: Army, fastest person in the Army, obnoxious.
   So this was going to be the team; ten people, two of which were twins. Not much now, but after I was done with them - they would be more then something - they would be The Angels.
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   The next morning I woke up to the sound of voices arguing. Great the first day and they were already fighting. Did I really need this? Oh well I guess I had to get dressed.
   "Excuse me, move." I heard Eric say (or more like yell above the arguing) it seemed like the whole team was out there. From what I could gather they were arguing about codenames, a thing I had informed them that they were going to need.
   A knock at the door and then: "Hey it's Eric I thought you might want to know that if you are going to be the fearless leader of this team then you should be getting out here as soon as you can. Considering that Jennifer is about to knock Vinnie on his butt."
   Personally I didn't mind the thought that anyone was going to knock Vinnie on his butt. The way I remember he was the one that always thought that he deserved the full attention of everyone. Of course I had to give him the benefit of the doubt maybe he had changed - nah, even if Jack hadn't said so himself there's no way that Vinnie would just up and go normal he's not like that. Despite my natural feelings to abandon I decided that Eric was right that I was the leader and I needed to be responsible, so I decided to do the responsible thing.
   "O.K. you two break it up. What's this all about?" I said as Kristen grabbed Jennifer and Eric grabbed Vinnie.
   "You know how you told us that we needed codenames and we could choose are own if we wanted to?" Jennifer spurted" Well Mr. I'm Better Then Everyone over here decided that he could take my name and get away with it."
   "I did not. How was I suppose to know that you had chosen the same name that I did? Besides it suits be better then it does you."
   "Enough! I don't need this you guys" I shouted over them (Of all the things to happen to me this had to be the most ridiculous.) "Now Vinnie tell me what name you two were planning to use."
   "Hey chill. No prob. OK."
   "Just tell me!"
   "OK! OK! Raw Force."
   "All right now was that so bad." then to Eric and Kris "OK, guys, you can Let them go now. Jennifer, you mind telling me what you were doing fighting it out in front of my room. Was it because you just happened to pass by or were you planning to ask me about who should get the name?"
   "He was coming to your room to tell you that he had found a name, while I was going to the weight room. We saw each other so we started talking. Then I found out that he was going to use my name, and I told him that it was the same name I was planning to use and that he couldn't use it. He said 'there is no way I'm going to just let some two bit looser from the army take my name.' That's when I decided that this jerk deserved a major beating."
    "Hey, I think jerk is a little bit crude, besides, you aren�t exactly an angel yourself."
    "Since you guys are fighting over it so much neither one of you can have that name, and if anyone else decides to have a fight like this I'm going to have to choice everyone�s names myself. Now I have to take a shower. Heather can you wake Jack up. I don't want anyone waking up this early tomorrow-no one gets up this early it's only 5:00 in the morning."
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    A half hour later I headed to the kitchen where everyone had gathered. What was I thinking when I thought this would be a good idea? They seemed to be getting along though.
   �Hi guys, okay I�ve decided that if James wants use Raw Force as a name then he can, and I�d suggest Primal Force for Jennifer. Jack worked with a group of people last night to get your suits ready and I think you�ll like the results. So if you all are done with breakfast then you can check them out.�
    They entered the room that would hold all the electronics and other things they would need to use in the team. It was a circular room and had 11 doors, each of the doors had a name on it. I had them stand in a semicircle so I could see them all and looked them over. This was the most important part, this was when they became what they had most possible dreamed about for as long as they could remember, I know I had.
    �Well are we going to get this on with?� Tiffany said �This fills like Christmas or something.� She grinned
     �Okay your wish is my command, each of the closets have your codenames on them I�m going to tell you the codenames and you can inspect your gear. Okay Edward your Robo, Vinnie your Grizzly, Jennifer your Raw Force, James your Primal Force, Eric your Cyper, Kris your Griffin, Tiffany your Copycat, Heather your Gadget, Gillian your Fuse, and Alexander your .� I knew them all well enough to give them names they would like and they seemed pleased about them. I watched as they looked at their uniforms and grinned remembering how I had felt when I had got mine. Hopefully they felt the same way.