Kyle double checked that his bags were in his SUV before taking the stairs up to the meeting. He figured that they would be safe in the underground lot and that he could retrieve them later. It was a couple stories to the meeting room, but with all the people still in the building, it was faster than the elevators. That and it helped burn off some excess energy.

He'd timed it so that he arrived with a good 10 minutes to spare, but he wasn't the first one there. He idly listened to some orchestral on his smartphone until the Director was ready to make her speech. As he sat there, he looked at the others in the room and noted how young the group seemed to be. Granted he wasn't an old coot himself, but a good number of the recruits seemed to be college aged. He found it a little todd that there seemed to be no veteran Guardians so far. [color=DodgerBlue] "Geez," [/color] he thought, [color=DodgerBlue] "I hope that isn't a sign of how dire the situation is. I knew that the missing Guardian problem was getting out of hand when I was working with the MCU, but I'm getting intimidated at this rate."[/color]

After the speech a brown haired girl stood up. [color=f7976a][b]"Ma'am, you said 'specialists' but as far as I was aware we were the most 'special' forces around.  How are our team leaders different to ourselves?"[/b][/color]

Kyle smirked. [color=DodgerBlue] "Of course, they would make the Old Guard squad leaders wouldn't they? Just waiting for a good time to have them walk in I guess."[/color] he thought. The doors to the room opened and Kyle turned to look at the new arrival. [color=DodgerBlue]"Speak of the devil."[/color]

A red headed man about Kyle's age burst in panting. "Hello everyone" he paused a moment to take a breath "I apologize for my tardiness". The man quickly sat down. 

Kyle silently hoped that this man wasn't a squad leader. He hadn't made the best of impressions.