Stepping through the portal, we entered the lobby of my base. Qrow looked around and gave a short whistle. This must"ve caught a lot of peoples attentions as a bunch of them rushed over and surrounded us."New people, new people!" Said one person excitedly
"Welcome to your new home!" Said another one
There was a lot more things said and they were all nice. It continued on for a while until a singular guy pushed through everyone else to get to us. The guy pushing through was someone I gave the job of fully greeting the people and showing them around.
"I think his name was Greg if I remember correctly..."
"Greeting there new people, my name is Gabe and I"ll be the one showing you around. First off, lets get away from this crowd so that we can talk in a quieter area."
"Eh, I was close enough."
He grabbed both of our wrists and started pulling us in the direction of a room. Opening the door and bringing us into the room, we could see that it simply held a couple chairs, a table, food and drinks, and a TV.
Gabe pointed to two of the seats and asked us to grab some food and drinks, sit down, and rest for a bit. Qrow didn"t even question it as he headed to where all the drinks were and started looking around for alcohol. Searching around for a minute left him with nothing but disappointment.
"Hey greeter guy, where"s all of your alcohol?"
"We usually save that for the after party but if you want some I can go get it for you!" Gabe said excitedly
"These guys are way to nice, I need to update the AI to teach them to be somewhat suspicious of new people -_-"
"Yeah, get me the best you"ve got. If you can, give me one that can make me black out drunk."
This time, instead of being really nice and doing that automatically, Gabe"s eyes showed a bit of worry.
"are you sure you want to do that? Our best and strongest alcohol could make a elephant fall over drunk with even a half of a fluid ounce."
Hearing this, Qrow had the exact opposite reaction of Gabe. His eyes lit up and actually had a bit of greed in them upon hearing this.
"Bring me the entire bottle!" Qrow asked very excitedly
However, I decided it was time for me to cut in.
"Excuse me Gabe, please don"t bring my friend here any of that. We"re currently trying to stop him from drinking." I gave Qrow a quick death stare, "So please don"t listen to his requests."
Gabe calmed down upon hearing that this madman of a guy wasn"t going to drink something that was almost akin to elephant tranquilizer.
"If that"s true, then let us sit down and start discussing some things before we start showing you around."
We all sat down and Gabe made a folder appear out from nowhere.
"Bought the small inventory upgrade. Good choice."
"How did you do that?" Asked Qrow as he pulled out his flask
With a small chuckle, Gabe simply responded by saying, "You"ll see."
"Now let"s start off by asking you some simple questions, what"re your names?" Gabe asked
"Our names are Asta and Yuno, we have no last names." I said
He wrote that down on a couple pieces of paper.
"Ok, next question. What were you doing previously before deciding to join us?"
"Trying to find some jobs. After getting fired from my job as a butler, this drunkard said that I had to find another one so I could, and I quote, "Get your best friend some free alcohol" "
He wrote this down again as well while also laughing at it. Qrow just gave me a death stare this time.
"Ok, final question. What would you like to do here? We allow you to slack off, train to get stronger and help our cause of helping people, get a greater education to help research new things for the benefit of people, and almost anything else if you can tell us what you want."
"Well, I think that both of us wou-" I was saying before Qrow cut me off
"Asta here would like to be a bartender and I would like to just slack off if possible."
This time I gave Qrow a death stare as he just smiled.
"That can be arranged. Now that this interview is done, how about I show you around?"
"That would be great." Said Qrow as he started getting out of his chair.
"Just let me text my G.o.d Vernal and we"ll be on our way."
He then got out of his chair and started texting as he headed towards the door. Just as he reached it, he sent whatever text he was working on and opened the door.
"Come on! Lets go!"
At that time, my phone also went off as I just got a text from someone.
"s.h.i.t s.h.i.t s.h.i.t s.h.i.t"
However, none of them appeared to be phased.
"Come on Asta, arn"t you coming?" Asked Qrow
"Whew, seems like my magic from earlier is working perfectly."
"Yeah yeah, I"m coming."
Gabe then went around and showed us where our rooms where. They where a bit of a distance away from the main lobby but he showed that if you type the room numbers on the touch pad and put your hand on it for it to scan, it would actually open up in your room instead of needing you to walk all the way there if you were lazy.
After the rooms he took us to the elevator and brought us down to the training floor. Here he showed us the dungeon, regular weapons, custom weapon making area, training dummies, martial arts cla.s.s, and the weight room. It"s been updated by the AI and me since we first started making it even greater.
Next, Gabe brought us down to the third floor and said that as a congratulations for joining we will be able to get a free small gift from the trade store. We walked up to a random area in this floor and Gabe started talking to the robot who was at the register.
"Hey there bot, I got some new people here for their joining gifts."
"CONFIRMED. PLEASE SELECT WHICH POWER YOU WOULD LIKE FROM THE ONES LISTED BELOW." Said the robot as his pointed over to two touch screens
One these screens showed 5 options of very basic powers.
[ Basic Extrdimensional Storage- 1 Square Foot to store anything in
Basic Learning Enhancement- Reduce the time it takes to learn things by 15%
Basic Weaponry- Increased use of all weapons by 15%
Basic Sharpshooting- Increased accuracy by 15%
Basic Pledge- Sign a contract with Vernal to gain a bit of his powers. Powers may vary. ]
Qrow looked over them and after a bit of time picked the Storage. I picked the Weaponry but honestly, it wouldn"t make a difference for me.
After Qrow picked his option, his eyes lit up as he automatically learned how to use his storage. He took out his flask and stuffed it in there. Pulling it in and out rapidly, he had genuine fun just messing around with it.
Finally after a bit of time, Gabe did a fake throat clearing to gather our attentions.
"Glad to see that you are having fun with your new power Yuno but we have two more floors that I would like to show you."
Qrow just nodded and followed Gabe as he walked up to the elevator.
Going down to the fourth floor, we were introduced with the research area and shown the resources that we had available to learn and study. We were then brought up to one worker who was currently working on a gray dust crystal that I made.
Qrow distracted them as he moved a small piece that was lying around into his pocket. After that, Qrow showed his interest in going to the last floor.
This floor was the main food area. There was a couple of restaurants, kitchens, and stores that were all free and giving stuff away. While the first floor and lobby may have some food and drinks, this could be cla.s.sified as food heaven. Anything you want was here and Qrow showed some obvious greed as he looked into some areas and saw what they had.
As this was the last floor, Gabe took us all the way back up and said that for the rest of the day we should just rest and relax as there was nothing to do. He then pointed to me and said that I had to wait for a bit as they didn"t have a bar yet so they had to ask their G.o.d for it. And with that, he left us to our whims.
Qrow looked over to me and said, "They"ve got some pretty good stuff here."
"They sure do. They sure do..."