It was Jasmine and Taylor that Sindo had escorted to the security centre. "My old pals!", said Sindo. "Hey old man, how's it going?", asked Taylor. "Ah yes yes, all is well today with the world". In no time at all, Jasmine and Taylor were at the front doors of the security centre. "In you guys go and I'll go back to the Miss. Come to back to the main building when you've been checked". In went Jasmine and Taylor but then it wasn't as smooth as they'd hope for security checking. "Ah yeah guys", said the officer. "The name's Officer Brooklyn and I'll be checking you guys out today". Jasmine had wondered, "Weren't we already checked the last time we came here?". Officer Brooklyn shook his head. "Ah nope. I'm just looking in the records and it says nothing about a Jasmine or a Taylor... And say man, you look suspiciously famous, so we'll be giving you the full package!". Taylor shook nervously. "Ugh, full package? What does that involve?". Officer Brooklyn goes, "The full package contains the interview here at this desk... And then we'll be dragging you into one of the police rooms to ask you some more serious questions as well as havin' a frisk search in there where we stick our hands in your clothes. Then last of all, we put all your bags through the x-ray machine and confiscate any toxic substances".

While Officer Brooklyn was going to get the necessary equipment for Taylor's check, Taylor leans nervously into Jasmine with an innocent look of why me? Then in the distance, they hear "Officer Goodman! Can you come and help me? I've got two lousies to check into da fortress today". So now one security centre officer has turned into two of them! "Eh so, I'll be interviewing the girl at the desk here and you Mr. Taylor, will be heading off with Officer Goodman here who will be conducting your private interview". So off Taylor went, being escorted by Officer Goodman, into one of the interview rooms further down the corridor. "So Taylor, take a seat", said Officer Goodman with a slight smirk on his face. "Now for your first question, what is your full name?". Taylor hesitated for a while but eventually gave his answer, "Uh, Taylor Henderson" but that was not good enough for Officer Goodman's standards. "Uh no, I meant your full name". Taylor chuckled, "It's Taylor Henderson". Officer Goodman was still shaking his head. "So you don't have a third name? Everyone should have a third name, just like everyone has a secret third eye on their forehead". Taylor was so confused that he had to ask Officer Goodman for an example of a third name but he refused to give it. "Uh nope, that's called stalking, Taylor. The only third name you should know is yours and no one elses".

Taylor was taking too long to answer his first question, at least Officer Goodman thought so. "Alright Taylor, if you don't give me your full name in one minute, we're kicking you out of here" but then suddenly Taylor's lightbulb went off and he rushed out the name, "Taylor James Henderson". Then there was a sigh of relief from Officer Goodman. "Okay finally, we're done with the first question. If all the others take this long, you could be here all day". Meanwhile at the front desk, Officer Brooklyn had finished with Jasmine and had reassured her that Taylor would be out in no time. That was not true at all as Officer Goodman was asking him some of the most strange questions that no one else had ever been asked in Karla fortress history. Some of the topics included what's your favourite food, what's your pet's name, do you play sport, what's the capital city of Australia and most weirdly of all, what don't you like about yourself?

It took almost forty minutes for Taylor's interview to be over and done with and then there was still the frisk search and the baggage x-ray to go. "Okay, so now the frisk search. Stick your arms out for me and stand as still as you possibly can", instructed officer Goodman. "Uh...", sounded Taylor but Officer Goodman interrupted, "Uh no Taylor, you have to remain completely quiet while we carry out the frisk search". What Taylor was intending to tell Officer Goodman was that he didn't have good balance and that the position he was asked be in was not going to help. Officer Goodman had taken his time with Taylor's frisk search which only made Taylor grunt in pain. "I need to put my arms down!", yelled Taylor, "Uh, no you don't. You only need to put your arms down when I tell you to". You could now see one of Taylor's eyes twitching, he was really getting annoyed with Officer Goodman despite trying to keep his feelings internal. Finally, after a trash pile of objects from Taylor's pockets was placed onto a desk, Officer Goodman had permitted him to put his arms down. "Ok Taylor good job, there's nothing suspicious here and so you can have it all back. I'll put your items into a small carry bag for you".

And now all that was left for Taylor to anticipate was the baggage x-ray. "Right! So now we're going to grab your suitcase and load it through the x-ray machine but before we do. Let's see if we can see some suspicious items right now by hand". Without Taylor's permission, Officer Goodman grabbed his suitcase, placed it on the tray beside the door and began a search with his hands. "Uh oh, what is this?". Taylor replied in frustration, "hand sanitizer?". Officer Goodman nodded in agreement with Taylor's answer but he wasn't satisfied in the way that he wanted to see what ingredients made up this seemingly suspicious hand sanitizer. "Right, we're going to have to do a swab test on this sanitizer". Taylor was helpless at this point in time. He was all checked out and so he just needed to wait for all his external gear to be approved. Out of one of the draws of a portable desk, Officer Goodman pulled out a narrow, rectangular piece of paper which was the swab to test for suspicious substances. He then approached the bottle of hand sanitizer and dipped the swab into it. "Okay Taylor, what we're gonna do now is dip the swab into some indicator solution. If the liquid stays clear, all is good but if the liquid turns blue, then I can tell that you've been trying to smuggle something in here".

There was a small laboratory near the back end of the security centre that Officer Goodman took the small sample of sanitizer to. He then took some of the indicator solution and poured it into a small clear bowl. The swab followed, Officer Goodman being careful not to get any bacteria from his finger into the solution as that may have an effect on the end result of the indicator. "Half a minute should be enough", he said to himself. Officer Goodman only alloted half a minute for the solution to turn colour but in that time, it didn't, rather it stayed clear with absolutely no trace of blue. "Well, that's good news for Taylor", muttered Officer Goodman as he walked back to the interview room to tell Taylor. "So Taylor, it looks like you can have your hand sanitizer back as there seems to be nothing harmful in there. But now you've got one final test to go through and that's your baggage x-ray". As if poor Taylor hadn't already been put through so much. You could tell that Officer Goodman wasn't going to let him in easily. So off the suitcase went, to the back laboratory to be checked. The bag x-ray was the shortest test of all and even better was that there was nothing faulty detected inside Taylor's suitcase.

It took nearly two whole hours for all of Taylor's tests to be done in the security centre and by then, the congregation inside the fortress had diverged to do their own thing. I did say to everyone that we weren't going to make any strategic plans until the five newcomers had joined us. As for Jasmine who was still in the security centre waiting room... She had fallen asleep on the arm chair in one of the corners, literally! You could hear her snoring and muttering random phrases about guinea pigs and rabbits. Taylor was relieved to finally be escorted out of the interview room by Officer Goodman but did not thank him because of the terribly long wait which had exhausted Taylor. "So Taylor, you're free to go into the fortress. Grab your female friend and report to Officer Brooklyn at the front desk when you go". After that, there was no more sign of Officer Goodman and Taylor proceeded to the front by himself. Now Taylor didn't see Jasmine on the chair and so just headed straight to Officer Brooklyn behind the counter. "Oh, you're done? Well that took a while". Taylor rolled his eyes, "Yeah, you can thank your fellow Officer Goodman for that". Officer Brooklyn gave his shoulders a slight shrug, "Well, as a famous person, we did have to check you out but yeah, it shouldn't have taken anywhere near dat long! By the way, I think you should go and wake your friend up on the chair over there". He pointed Taylor to Jasmine who didn't even wake to the sound of Taylor talking. So then Taylor quietly approached Jasmine but tapped her on the shoulder which all of a sudden alarmed her. "Finally Jazz, we can get out of here and go to see Karla". They farewelled Officer Brooklyn and then made the path to Unit A.