Settling In

"Alright, lets go." he said. They searched for the garage and found a luxury sedan parked in it, better than driving the bulky truck. Henry opened the door for Sarah, before getting in and setting them on course for some food. After a while they began driving through the more red light sections of the city, when Henry asked a question.

"If I may Miss, when I inquired about my employers asking me to monitor you, you mentioned passing out once. Is there some medical condition I should know about?" Henry asked as he drove.

"Well, nice to know you have an astounding work ethic. If I may say, however, that doesn't sound very good for your health." he said. Eventually they exited the red light district and parked in a quaint looking diner that took up a small two-story brick building.

"They have tables on both the first and second floor, just go ahead and pick a spot, a waitress will be by shortly." he said as he removed his helmut and mask. Once Sarah picked a seat, they would find the menus were filled with modest dishes from home-made soup recipes and salad mixes, steaks, burgers, sausages, even some seafood options like shrimp and trout. They even had fried kalamari as an appetizer. When the waitress arrived Henry would order two bratwurst sausages, fried kalamari, some baked fries, and a soda.

Henry sipped at his soda as they waited for their food to arrive. He decided he may as well try to learn more about his charge while he had the time.

"So what did you do before joining our clients? Assuming you're able to talk about that. You got any family?" he asked.

Henry could tell he must have struck a nerve, his experience in police interrogations made it easy, he decided he wouldn't push further than what she wanted to explain.

"Well, you already know i'm from a different timeline, when I left it was the year, oh, 1966. My timeline apparently diverged around 1943, when an alien collective invaded the planet, conquered it in a matter of weeks. When they did they blasted to hell anywhere we had troops stationed, and around that time that meant Germany got turned into a crater. The aliens, being a bunch of smart scheisse, rounded up every remaining German speaker on the planet and told us that we could either serve as their enforcers, or die. Me and and my family were mostly German Americans, we chose life. I joined when I was old enough, and thats how I got the gear you see me with today." he said.

"A few times, they hadn't really shown themselves much after the war. Occasionally you'd see one of their gunships when we raided a resistance safe house, or a war machine when the rebels pushed an objective, every once in a while we'd be inspected by a delegate. But they weren't all one race, we'd see a few different species. I don't know how many different species there are but they were a collective of them, my guess was they were mostly other conquered species, don't know if I've ever met the master species or not. They likely didn't show themselves much because they wanted us to pacify the planet first before they show up in bulk. That's why they had us enforcers, took technology the Germans used during the world war, and supplemented it with alien tech to remove some of the drawbacks. Not too much so that we could turn on them, but enough so that any resistance is gonna be severely outmatched."