“Negotiating”

As Kevin walks towards the shape shifting ball like metal, Sophie only to say was stunned by what she saw. They could feel the air around them vibrates in humming sound. It burst, it compressed, it contracts as it defiles the law of gravity, it shines in bright red color the more they get closer the more heat it radians.

Kevin without hesitation brought out something, a vile of Arishoks blood is what he brought, preserved, fresh. For Sophie she was hook in lustiness of the technology, she wanted this, she wanted all to her research.

A small drop of Arishoks blood already reacts the shaping shifting metal. Quickly it turns into something, from a broken baseball like to something, a gauntlet like but not just any gauntlet, what they didn't know was it holds more… more than just a weapon.

With just a second in time, it returns to its original form, levitating again.

They could see different weapons stack through the wall, but Sophie was more into the weapon that Kevin recently dabbles.

"what is that?" ask Sophie

"Beats me… I don't know either" Kevin says

"What are you planning in doing that thing" Sophie said somehow seriously jealous.

Kevin smirks, "what do you think I'm doing, fixing your Athena suit"

Sophie was hurt, her pride, her image as a genius, clenching her teeth, "You know what!!! You sure do like doing this kind of things!"

Kevin ignores her babbling, walk to somewhere inserting different types of a chip as it illuminates in greenish color. Upon inserting the chips with just a second of encrypting, a hologram appears, but it was very different the symbols were different from ours. Even Kevin himself could not even decipher what it means. But he wasn't out of options yet, he smiles, "looks like processing his paper works would prove useful".

"Who?" Sophie said.

"Nothing were going"

"Wait! … aren't you forgetting something!" exclaimed Sophie.

Kevin stops and only says a word, "To be consumed in thirst for too much knowledge would soon stab you back"

Sophie ignores his warning and maliciously fire him with every contract they agreed from the past.

"Do you know what our contract was… or are you merely hiding this, you should have not taken me to this place. It says that all of your secret should belong to ours isn't that right Kevin?" Sophie says bossy and intimidating him.

As for Kevin he already came prepared for this situation, how he asks Sophie to come with him might have something he had in mind. He faces opposites of her again started to pop out a stick of cigar, a light lit the end of the smoke sipping, inhaling and exhaling even tho Sophie barking nonstop.

They walkout from the craft Sophie secretly brought out her phone and sends a message to the Athena HQ, an hour passed dozens of Athena military equipment's quickly taken over the spaceship.

Sophie was now in command she wanted to be the one to unlock all the secrets behind this powerful and advance technology. Kevin could only do was but calmly smoking another cigar.

Upon discovering this secret, Kevin received a message to come at the Athena HQ for some meeting to this newly discovered craft.

"good grief…" Kevin let out a shrug and just calmly walks.

---Inside the Athena meeting room---

A hand slams the table in furious and in anger while saying to Kevin, "Is this part of your scheming plan!! Answer me!!" a man says furious, it was the same fat guy who once debated with Kevin.

Like always Kevin stiff himself like nothing,

"Did you hear me!!..."

"Oww sorry I didn't hear ya" Kevin says mocking again the chubby man.

Enrage by Kevins provocation, the man stood and walk towards Kevin ready to pummel his face. Grabbing his shirt, the man shout, "I'm going to smug that thing on your face"

Kevin smirks, "oi,yoy-yoy… now that's scary, just because your some shit who rise from the rank doesn't mean you'll be a raging bull".

Before the man could punch Kevin in the eye, "ENOUGH OF THIS!!" Said Arisha. The other members didn't want to interfere since they are only in the lower class rank they are more to the negotiation and dealings.

"pwehh… I'm saved" says Kevin jerking off the man who nearly gave him a black-eyed.

"Tsss… you'll wait for this I'll soon make you regret saying those words"

"Now then!!..." Arisha says holding some documents.

Kevin once again make the first crack he was targeted by bunch of syndicates he was once an underground Athena experimentation so to say. "You can all crack what is in that ship but I tell you something ya all be careful maybe some of you here are spies… no there is something that should never be touched"

Sophie could not only say a word since she was hyped in extracting what is inside of the ship.

They were inside of the Athena HQ in a large like laboratory. Therein lies the alien ship.

Kevin again pop out a cigarette but was hold off by Arisha, Kevin could only laugh as bunch of people tries to enter the craft.

They were trying to find a hatch door but nothing, how he enters the craft baffles Sophie. You could see them grind the craft but still a force field repels them slamming them back. Next was now using the Athena suit to make their way but somehow it was all futile, it was even the latest generation that they were using the 7th generation.

As three Athena user trying to slice the shell of the craft suddenly they were hold of by its magnetic force field. Turns out they are just using it as a practice dummy rather than trying to open the craft.

"good grief…"

Arisha holds them off and face towards Kevin again ready to secretly smoke.

"What?" Kevin says popping out a cigar.

Arisha frowns at him,

Kevin shrug, "fine but let's make a deal first"

"What is it" Arisha said

"the thing is" looking at the other people, "We can enter the ship but there is only a catch"

"There will only be three people that will enter the craft"