Wayne followed behind Duggar, who was walking towards an elevator.
"So would it matter if they liked me or not?" Wayne asked, he was inwardly nervous since he had never been on a team before.
"Don't worry too much about it. If I like you, you should fit right in," Duggar said with a confident smile.
Wayne then looked behind him to see Rocky staring at him with lustful eyes. He turned forward with a nervous smile and caught up to Duggar, whispering to him.
"Is she always like this?"
"No, not to this extent, she usually just does playful gestures, but it seems you really caught her attention," Duggar said with a chuckle, then he continued while looking at Rocky.
"Hey Rock, do you mind taking it down a notch? You're making him nervous."
"Oh, that's fine, I think it's cute he's so nervous and innocent, " as her gaze was still intently on Wayne.
Wayne didn't mind the jest from Rocky, but he had never had time to court a girl, so when Rocky basically threw herself at Wayne, he was at a loss with what to do.
The three of them got in the elevator and went up a few floors before getting offand walking a few minutes, making turns, and going through security doors, they finally appeared in a room that looked like a break room, with arcade games, a television, and some tables to eat at.
When Wayne entered the room, there were five people who all turned their heads to look at him with curious gazes.
"Alright, if you guys can stand up a sec, I'll introduce the newcomer, NightFall," Duggar said while moving out of the way, ushering Wayne to walk ahead of him and introduce himself.
Wayne walked in front of Duggar and gave a nervous wave.
"Pft, is he actually strong enough?" one of the members said, he was a blue-haired man sitting on the couch wearing a white shirt and jeans.
"Don't mind him, that's Mystic, he's always grumpy. No woman has ever touched him," Rocky said mockingly.
"You bitch! I told you that in confidence!" Mystic yelled out with an embarrassed look on his face.
"Sheesh, can you two go a day without butting heads? Hello, my name is Nina," she said as she closed the fridge to walk up to Wayne and give him a handshake.
"Hey Nina, nice to meet you," Wayne said while shaking her hand. Wayne noticed she was a strong-looking woman with caramel-colored skin, her dark hair was up in a bun to match her military-styled clothing.
"I'm not the problem, it's her and her fucking mouth!" Mystic said while pointing at Rocky. Rocky just stood there with a content smile as if she was amused to get a rise out of Mystic.
"Well, I guess we're up next, hi, my name is Moon, and this is my brother Sun," she said as she and her brother came to greet Wayne. To his surprise, they were twins. Twins weren't a phenomenon by any means, it was just Wayne had never seen a pair before besides Rue, but he didn't think that would count since he thought she was using an ability. The two of them looked exactly alike with their pale skin, the only difference to identify them was their white hair versus orange hair.
Wayne greeted both of them as they came up to him, he then looked at the last person in the room who had yet to greet him, at the same time, he looked at Wayne and got off the wall he was leaning on. He was a tall man with long black hair that stopped at his waist, he wore a white kimono with an oversized katana on his side.
As he got up to a greeting distance to Wayne, he then bowed, "My name is Akuma."
Wayne then clasped his hands in front of him and bowed as well.
"Well, now that everyone knows each other, let's get to talking about the missions," Duggar said as he walked towards one of the dining tables and placed a hemisphere projector displaying maps of regions in different colors and alerts.
"Well, we have different options here, and all of them come with their own set of risks, we have a horde of the little ones around the bay area, it seems a crew came to exterminate them already, but they've seemed to come back, so there might a source we would have to look for," Duggar took a second to see if anybody had any questions and then continued.
"We have the gulf being terrorized by a sea beast, every time they send one of us to kill it, it swims away, we would have to find them and make sure they won't be a problem anymore."
"This other one here is a report from a group of kids who said they've seen the beast communicate with each other and are coordinating, if that's the case, we may have a bigger problem on our hands."
Duggar then looked at everyone and then continued, "Which one should we do?"
"Well, we just came off a raid where we had to deal with those little shits, so I don't want to see those things for a while," Mystic said with his arms folded.
"I agree, maybe we should look at the gulf, I do need to work on my tan," Rocky said, showing off her paleness.
"We're going to work, not going on a vacation Rock," Duggar said with a chuckle.
"Well, the other one seems to be more of an observation report mission, so that should be easy," Moon said, chiming in.
"Yeah, but if there is some weight to these claims, we will have to handle it immediately," Duggar said.
After a moment of silence, he continued, " Well, why don't we have the new member decide then?"
Wayne instantly felt pressure to pick the right one for everyone, but as he stared at the projections1, he pointed to a region highlighted in black stripes.
"What's this area?"
"Oh, we don't have to worry about that area, that's being handled by the heroes," Duggar responded.
"If that's the case, does that mean the beasts are too strong there?"
"We'll strong is an understatement, get to level 11 in the VR, and you can be the judge of that for yourself," Duggar said with a chuckle.
"Alright, if that's the case, let's do the investigation, if it turns out to be true, I'm sure we'll have our hands full."
"Alright, you heard the guy, everybody download the location, and we'll head out," Duggar said, moving towards the exit.
As everyone reached outside, Wayne figured they would just walk, but a moment later, he started levitating quickly, noticing everybody else was as well, but no one was panicking.
"Oh! Sorry, kid, I forgot to tell you...this is how we travel as a unit!" Duggar said with a thumbs up and a smile. A second later, everyone took off in the direction of the mission.