Chapter 5
(Mystery/Sci-Fi genre)


Turns out that the “base” Steve was referring to, was a small 1 story shed at the back of some person’s yard. Juliet raised her eyebrows.
“Seriously? THIS is your secret base…”
Steve laughed. “Don’t judge us before you get to know us.” he walked into the shed, motioning for her to enter. Juliet sighed and walked in, not expecting much. She didn’t expect for him to grab a shovel and start hitting the ground.
“What are you doing?”
“I’m trying to find it…this thing is always so darn difficult to find…AHA! Here we are.” he reached down and pulled off a piece of the floor, revealing a rope ladder. He motioned for her to go first and Juliet looked at him.
“The inside had better be mais impressive than this.” she mumbled as she started climbing down the ladder. When there was enough room, Steve followed, replacing the floorboard as he went. Several electric torches lit up when he did, filling the small area with light. The two of them climbed down the ladder for a full 5 minutos before reaching the bottom. When they did, Juliet gave a startled gasp. “Whoa!”
Steve just laughed. “So I take it the inside is mais impressive?” Juliet just nodded. It was like they had climbed down into a top-secret government facility. Everything was shiny, there were several monitors that were doing things she could only guess at, and hundreds upon hundreds of buttons! She felt out of place in the midst of all this technology. por her count, she could only recognize one or two of the items in sight. Steve saw her looking around and smirked. “Come on, we got mais to show you.”
“More than this? Seems like overkill.”
Steve laughed and led her through the room, stopping her from pressing a particularly cool looking button, and into another room, this one mais like a dentist’s waiting room. As Juliet looked around, Steve went through another door. Juliet waited over 10 minutos before she started to get irritated. This was taking forever! Did he seriously forget? It wouldn’t surprise her from what she knew of Steve. He was known to say something, then forget about it within an hour. She was about to storm through the door when it swung open and Steve strode through it, smiling.
“Sorry about that, had to guess at your size.” he said, holding up a lab coat.
“What’s that for?” she asked.
“Standard procedure.” he laughed, tossing the casaco to her. She rolled her eyes and put on the coat, which was about 2 sizes too big. She decided she would save that for later and followed him through the door.