While the plane prepares to land Timothy looks down on the city that will be his new home.<br/>Looking from above one can truly appreciate the beautiful architecture of New Sorea, though the styles are manifold, often with a modern or futuristic touch the way it is built seemingly swimming on the surface of the lake its predecessor has left behind it reminds him somehow of reconstructions of the atzecian capital Tenochtitlan. It occurrs to him how strange it must be for the fishes living in the lake with the shadow of the city looming above them, a territory of lightlessness, of darkness corresponding to the less substantial but nevertheless perceptible dark side of this city that has brought him to this place.<br/>Though if he is honest it were his personal problems that ultimately led to this choice, the city only has given him the right opportunity at the right time.<br/>The airplane touches down and decelerates now, Timothy breaks the spell of wandering thoughts that has befallen him and waits for the OK of the security people that accompany him.<br/>Somehow it feels strange for Timothy to have bodyguards when he is supposed to be the one to protect other people, but he will not question the experience of the UH in this.<br/>Though he wonders how having people that could be replaced by shifters or brainwashed or tracked or who might be made to leak information about the flight plan are reducing the risk instead of increasing it.<br/>A minute or two later Timothy is informed he can leave the plane and doing so he leaves behind his old babysitters only to be welcomed by a new escort of men that seemingly share the same tailor with his previous flight buddies.<br/>The following minutes give him a first close up impression of the town he will call home, his responsibility, his dwelling place and domain of validation in the time to come.<br/>He does not dare to speculate how long that will be, after all hero business is not the most safe occupation and the future far from secured.<br/>After some thought he however decides to be slightly optimistic and at least give himself some months before live might make some cruel joke on his expense.<br/>New Sorea is a thriving, vibrating and buzzing place of business and peoples daily lives, if one did not know about the high crime rates one would just think it to be a lovely city and Timothy tries to absorb this impression in case he might ever get cynical about this line of work.<br/>Finally the limousine he is in seems to reach its destination.<br/>Nervousness starts to rise in Timothy, he is about to meet his superior, a hero called Severance,he had looked him up the guy had experience, he felt like a baby chick in comparison.<br/>It was funny his brother had also done a lot of the same and did not make him nervous, but its hard to be awe inspired if you know someones baby photos and heard your mother say how cute he had looked in his tiny pyjamas.<br/>He checks his costume for creases, even though it is skintight and adjusts his mask several times only to return it into almost the exact position he started with, is his posture straight? Maybe to straight?<br/>Sigh, he knows he is behaving stupid.<br/><em>[changing to present tense in work]</em><br/>If Timothy had harbored any fantasy of being directly greeted by the big boss they surely would have been disappointed, fortunately he<br/>knew better though a slight sting in his guts told him some part had hoped for it.<br/>The First Persons he met in HQ was a Mrs Killian a professional dressed woman that impressed more with her resolute eyes then attractive looks and<br/>introduced herself as head of Mission Control.<br/>The second person he met was a brown haired guy with greens eyes half a head taller than him, concluding from his outfit and the same curious glances<br/>taking in a new surroundings as he did himself, this guy was the other new Recruit of HU.<br/>"Hi I am D-Synchro." "Moldpatch, glad to meet you." We did not have time to talk any more however as Mrs Killian urged us on to follow her.<br/>Taking an elevator we arrived in a room which dimensions seemed to have been designed for a race of bipedal elephants.<br/>Well the furniture was humansized maybe they elephants had moved and the little elephant child had forgotten the dollhouse furniture.<br/>"This is your meeting room for your off duty time..." well he supposed it made sense with shapeshanging, size altering and flying people<br/>to make things spacious " .. for now you will be introduced to your remaining team mate and be welcomed by Severance."<br/>Mrs Killian left them alone and he had finally some time to exchange some words with Moldpatch.<br/>"Sooo will we have to argue about who put what in the refrigerator or whose going to do the dishes from now on?" Moldpatch asked him with a<br/>wink.<br/>Timothy blinked confused and then smiled tentatively, he had been to taut and moldpatchs joke took some of the tension from him.<br/>"Ah, well don't worry I am allready housetrained might even fetch the newspaper on good days."<br/>moldpatch grinned. "good to hear that." After that both seemed to return to their own thoughts and waited in relative silence<br/>for any other people to arrive.<br/>The silence was finally broken when a young woman entered the room,green eyes smiled in their direction surrounded<br/>by black slightly curly hair that reached down to her shoulders and while the girl approached both of them he could<br/>not fail to notice that the heavens had been gracious enough to grant her a body that at least was not totally outdone<br/>by any adonistype she might have to stand next to in this field of work.<br/>"You must be 'Moldpatch' and 'D-Synchro', I take it? Nice to meet you. I'm Apex, Hennessy when out of costume and I'll be your point man."<br/>Charmed by the friendliness of the girl he shook her outstretched hand."<br/>"Nice to meet you to", he returned the smile. "D-synchro as you said, Timothy when I am dressed less flashy than this."<br/>He waited until Moldpatch had also shaken her hand revealing his name to be Mike and then asked:" So you are or senior?<br/>How long have you been here in New Sorea already?<br/>