"I'll go first!"

You give Lexi a big smile and a nod. "I'll go first!" You beam.

Lexi grins, and tugs up the metal grate, setting it down on the vent beside the two of you. Without another second's thought, you drop the short distance down into the dark room below, landing comfortably on your feet with only a slight stumble (which goes unseen, because the room is dark, so technically it didn't happen). Lexi drops down nimbly soon after.

Quickly reaching into the pockets of her black tracksuit, Lexi pulls out a flashlight which she switches on to illuminate the room around you. The two of you, standing beside each other, scan the area and walls with your eyes tracking the beam of light's path. It's not that big of a room, but it's bigger than a walk-in cupboard or something -- maybe about half the size of a classroom?

"Ah!" You cry out and jump back, and wrap both arms around Lexi in sudden fear as the light passes over a person. A person, standing just in front of you, staring expressionlessly at both of you! Even worse, they're totally naked....

You feel Lexi tense and untense as you squeeze up against her, both of your eyes tightly shut. When she doesn't react any further than that for a few seconds, you slowly decide to be brave and **** one eye to open up.

Lexi's moving the light around the entire room now, looking across at the many other naked people standing in the space. Her face is a mixture of intense curiosity and complete "what the heck"ness. She runs the flashlight around the room a few seconds longer, to take it in, then turns to you with the same expression.

Lexi looks down to where your arms are wrapped around her with a little smile, then looks back at you and wiggles her eyebrows at you. Which is embarrassing, so you release her and take a step back again as you regain your breath.

Okay.... there are a lot of these naked people in here, but none of them have said anything yet. Or moved yet. To your dismay, Lexi walks up towards the naked man closest to the two of you and waves her hand in front of his eyes. Not getting any reaction, she brings up the light and shines it right into his eyes. After holding it there for a while she lowers the flashlight and walks back to you.

"Uhhhh....." She says, looking you up and down in case you have any of the answers she doesn't have. You don't. She shrugs.

"A-are they....." You gulp. "Are they hypnotised or something?"

"No clue." She turns and shines the light around the room again. Now that you're a bit less scared, you look at the naked people a bit closer. There are seven of them, and all of them look really fit and strong. Some of the men even have chest hair on their pecs, and the women all look just as tough....

Lexi snaps her fingers as a thought comes to her, and she spins on her heel to face you with the light. There's a spark of excitement in her eye.

"Dude!" She says. "What if this is how they corrupt the people that don't join them to be all evil? Hypnosis!"

{if LexiTruth == False}Oh, yeah. That was one of the things Lexi was talking about in the vents. Apparently she thinks that the Argent Sorority is going around corrupting almost every Warrior to be dirty things, like sex addicts, and abandon their duties. It was one of the things you sort of mostly disregarded, since you're a big fan of Warriors and they're proven to have protected a city a bunch of times already. So you just nod politely.{else}No way.... that couldn't be true, could it?{endif}

Before Lexi can go on theorising, you hear nearby footsteps. Lexi swings the flashlight in the direction of the sound, but luckily, there's nobody in the room except for the naked people. Less luckily, the direction of the sound has the light shining on a door. Somebody's coming, fast!{if Sorority == True} Every part of you really hopes it's not Argent Sorority members, just now....{endif}

"Blend in!" Lexi whispers to you, before quickly flicking off the light and stuffing it back in her pocket. What?? Blend in, did she say?! What does that even mean?

Before you can even finish the warmup phase of freaking out, the door creaks open and light spills into the room as two new bodies enter it. You freeze in a neutral stance and a neutral facial expression when you see Lexi doing the same just across from you, next to one of the fit naked people, just in time before the lights of the room are flicked on.

"Yeah, I had to jerk him off for it, but he went down easy. These are basically the same sort of design as those simulated monsters the university uses."

The two sets of footsteps work their way deeper into the room, and your heart is pounding inside of your chest.

"Ooh, man. And they've all got realistic memories, or no? I really want to actually break one of these chumps in properly..." The second voice responds.

"Yeah, they do, otherwise the seduction training would be a bit out of place."

The two people come into view in your peripheral vision, and a bead of sweat appears on your forehead, but you try your best not to look over to them in any obvious way. You can't make out many details about either of them just yet, but they're definitely both girls. They walk through the room, inspecting each of the naked bodies and occasionally scratching off a pencil against a little notepad.

"Wait, hold up, it looks like we've got two extra." One of the voices says.

Eep!