Erika were also impressed. Erika even gave me a look that said something to the effect of “you have some competition”. I just shrugged and smiled.
At that point the target had returned and Danny went up to grab it. He spun excitedly towards Hunter and myself.
“Can I keep this?” he asked.
I shrugged and Hunter nodded. Freddy’s face looked a bit sad and Hunter noticed.
“Would you like one too?” he asked.
“To trouble you with such a trivial thing seems completely unprofessional Mr. Richardson,” Freddy said, a sigh at the end.
“Tell you what. If you promise to stop calling me Mr. Richardson, I’d be happy to shot a few more targets. Besides, BD here might still need some convincing of my skill,” Hunter smiled.
He walked down the next three lanes, hitting a button and sending a target moving backwards on each one. Then he made his way back to the first, drew a single pistol and fired eight shots in rapid succession. Again the gun was very quiet and again there were no shells. He then stepped over to the next lane and fired eight more shots. In the course of firing on that second target, the bullet drum closest to the trigger dropped and the second one slid back into its place. Without having to even slow his shots, Hunter pulled another drum from of his coat pocket and slid it into the weapon, continuing to fire as he did so. Eight more shots on the final target and he spun his gun and re-holstered it. Walking back over to us he pressed the return button on each lane.
“There, one for each of you,” Hunter smiled.
“I am honored. Thank you sir,” Freddy bowed in return.
“Seriously? How come you don’t act this way when I do cool stuff?”
Erika gave a slow walk over to retrieve her target gift. She was putting a bit more sway into her hips than normal. She grabbed the target and turned a pair of suggestive eyes my way.
“I guess guns are just sexy. This is going in my locker,” she said.
“Ha, ha.”
“Erika is right. These are pretty sexy,” Kara said.
She also did the sexy walk over to her target, although with Kara that is pretty much her normal walk. She isn’t very good at hiding her sensuality. Both her and Erika held their targets in the hands, slowly looking from each other to the targets and making sounds as if things tasted yummy.
“Enough. I get it.”
Like a pair of schoolgirls, they both started giggling and pointing at me.
“You should see your face,” Kara laughed.
I sighed through a fake smile and turned back towards Hunter. His expression was part smiley and part curious.
“That was fun, what’s next?” he said.
I waved him on and we all walked out of the range. After removing our protective gear, we would be able to talk to each other without shouting. Although every one stayed pretty quiet as I think they knew where we were heading. I waved “thanks” to the range master on duty and we all walked out and down the hall. Further down on sub-level six, past the armory and the range, was one of my favorite rooms, the gym. Unlike the weight room upstairs, this was mostly a large open space. While various pieces of gymnastic equipment sat around the room’s edges, the center was covered in mats and great for training. This was where I worked out with Erika.
We walked into a mostly empty room. There was a guy and girl sparring on the far side of the mat and another guy doing pull-ups on one of the bars. They all glanced our way as we entered, but didn’t seem to pay us much mind past that. The guy and girl were wearing full sparring gear and really going at it. There wasn’t much to see because of their helmets and chest pads, except her blond ponytail whipping around as she caught the guy in a chokehold. He tapped out fairly quickly and they reset. She moved pretty good and I made a mental note to find out who she was the next time I saw her. For now, there was work to do.
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