Home is where the heart is.

I landed the Quinjet on the roof of the SHIELD building and the roof shut over my head and then I disengaged the cloaking and went out to of the plane, down to the Admin office. After a few hours of flying with Agent May, she had signed me off for a solo flight so I dropped her off back at the Academy and then flew here to the Office building near my home. At the admin office, I completed the process of registering this as my home base location. Since it was the middle of June, it meant that Nebula would have already graduated from High School and be ready for The Academy. I let the admin office send out a message to Nebula that an Agent wanted to meet her in conference room 9 in the office.

I went down to the science labs and let them know I was there and gave them the equipment and the files I had. They wanted to know when I wanted to start with the tests and see how the new equipment would work out with my energy tests. I let them know that 2 locals were going to be joining the Academy in Science and Technology division so if they could find out if either of them could join the tests and experiments to start learning while I interview them.

I then went down to the conference room to wait for Nebula to arrive. I wanted to spook her so I switched off a light bulb on one end of the room and turned a swivel chair around and sat on it facing away from the door while I looked at the file with the proposed tests that the Lab wanted to run with me.

Sometime later I felt the passive scan pick up someone walking towards the door with the 2 Guards that showed me where this room was. When they reached the door the 2 of the guards turned back and started walking away and the third person was still in front of the door and was waiting there for some time and then they walked in.

She walked into the room and without turning I said in a hoarse voice: "Welcome Ms. Nebula to the local SHIELD Facility with the Energy Interaction Labs."

"Uh Thank you, It's a pleasure to be here."

"Hey, Nebula! Why so serious."

"What? Excuse me."

I turned my chair and got up and stepped into the light and said: "Hey Nebula, Long time no see. How are you?"

She was shocked and walked towards me and tried to slap me, fortunately, I dodged it reflexively and said: "I am sorry, that was too mean. Let's get back to it then."

"What are you doing here? I am supposed to be meeting a SHIELD Agent who is going to allow me access to this Lab and take part in an Experiment and testing team till I join the Academy in September. Also, why are you here and not at the Academy?"

"OK, Let's start from the beginning, well technically the answer to all your questions now and before is me. You are here because I am the experiment and test subject and so I was the one that had the office call you. I am also being upgraded to Level 5 and while I am waiting for my arm to get healed up, I am here off missions on vacation to get help and somewhat help this team with some experiments. I am also the agent who is providing you access to this facility. I have a few questions for you though."

"Uhh, Level 5 really, that's something, Congratulations!! Thank you for this. So whats the questions that you have?"

"Thank You, a lot of things happened for me to show my qualifications to be able to do this. But yes it's good that I am now going to be level 5. My questions are pretty simple. What are your fields of study? Are you comfortable working on experiments with me as the test subject? How comfortable are you with work on exotic particles and their effects on Human beings?"

"To put it simply I have studied microbiology and nervous systems in living beings. I am actually also studying some stuff on exotic particles also and I am fine with experimenting on you." She smirked at the last part.

"Hey I am the lead Agent on this, you aren't doing some crazy experiments on me unless I agree with it. Anyways there is another set of questions. Who is the other one from our class going to the Academy and what will be their responses about these same questions."

"That is a difficult question to answer since I don't know who this other person is. I haven't been told about any other academy going students from our class."

"That's fine and you are welcome to go down to the admin office and get a pass for the Labs access Ill call them up and approve it."

"Is that it, after such a long time you aren't going to tell me anything else?"

"The team will give you the rest of the details, I have a lot of work to be finished before we start with the experiments. There is a lot that we have to talk about but the thing is like I said lots to do not a lot of time. I will talk to you later."

I left after that and went down to the admin office to let them know to get the other Academy Candidate to meet me in the conference room as well as approve the Lab pass for Nebula till the end of the month of August. Then I went back to the conference room to wait for the next candidate in the darkened area on the chair. This was really going to be fun.

I again sensed someone being escorted with the 2 guards who left the person at the door again and this time the person at the door knocked at the door and then walked right into the room without waiting for me actually giving them permission to do so.

As they walked in I said: "Yes Please do come in and have a seat without waiting for permission from your superior officer."

They stood still at the door with their handle still on the door and quickly replied: "I am sorry."

"It's fine please have a seat and let's get on with it," I replied.