"How about 1 million dollars up front for you too?" Shirley said to Winston, "as well as insurance, legal protections, a Government Car, and a Mansion? And yes, we want you to pump anyone endangering the kids full of lead, unless we want them alive."
 
"Also," she then turned towards Conner, "that's where our intelligence on the D'Nava comes in. You see, the alien iniltrators on Earth have three Psychic Devices, used to help them weaken Earth's defences, but which can tip the tide in our favor if taken."
 
"And," Shirley sighed, "Kimberly, it might take at least six months, or possibly even less, depending on how much time it takes to get the Psychic Devices. H'mina," the woman continued, "would you kindly give the exposition?" The drider-like being nodded, then said:
 
"The L'mina have three Psychic Devices which are the cornerstones of their operations on Earth. The first one is the Staff of Power," Shirley, from a smartphone-like device, then showed a hologram of a straight oak-like branch with a crystal on the end. "This staff not only amplifies one's powers, but allows you to use the abilities of other psychics."
 
"The second Psychic Device is the Archive Orb, also known as the Akhasic Orb," H'mina continued, "this orb has the ability to collect information from the fabric of space-time itself, but has the limit that it cannot gather information from the present and the future; it can only gather information from a decade and a half in the past," fifteen years, "and upward. That means that all projects more than 15 years old, unless they've been changed, are not secure."
 
"To go on a tangent; L'mina, and L'mina technology, are extremely squishy. While we have tanks and personnel carriers, once their psychic shields are overwhelmed, three of our war vehicles can be taken out by one projectile from one of your 'Abrams Tanks'. That is why the Archive - slash - Akhasic Orb is of interest; the L'mina want stronger military tech as well."
 
"And now, the third Psychic Device," H'mina watched as Shirley sent out a hologram showing what seemed to be a green, crystalized brain. The Brain of the World, a bio-crystal that allows communications to be sent through space-time much faster than one can with ordinary psychics - the D'Nava have plenty of those, but the Brain of the World makes things easier for them." A pause, to allow the kids to take it all in.
 
"And now," Shirley said, "it's time for you kids to begin your training."
 
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The children will be brought to the gym, which would contain several chambers containing showers with individual stalls, as well as spare gym clothes, a swimming pool, weights and treadmills, as well as a room with meditation mats and floating crystals that they can use to exercise their powers. Not merely that, but each kid would be given a waterproof communicator, just in case they want to chat with one another.
 
Cedric would be at the swimming pool with Stefan, both kids having changed to their swimming trunks. Cedric was looking at the older readhead's body, 'admiring the view' (yes, he lied about being straight; he and Stefan were both Bi).
 
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