Book Two, Chapter One: Unfinished Mission

[albatross]

When the plane nears the airport, Tiger stirs from her sleep and stands easily while the plane lands.

"It means a lot to me that all of you went through with the mission. That all of you knew there was no real chance to fulfill our original mission and the nature of what I asked you to do makes your efforts much more significant in my eyes."

"Few people in Century Station have any real idea of who the Minotaur is and you should be proud to have found out and escaped the Labyrinth intact. Good work."


When the team arrives back at Omega Shield, Tiger is summoned to Mr. Alexander's office immediately, where muffled shouting can be heard until Tiger stalks out of the office looking calm and disinterested.

The word is that there has been a call from the mayor congratulating the team, promising payment, and a even a new mission in Century Station. Everyone who returned gets their $50,000.

Patriot is ushered off into a conference room to begin preparations for his mission and everyone else receives a message that the debriefing has been canceled and that the briefing for the next mission will be ready in eight hours.

Eight hours later, Tiger is met in a briefing room by a fat man who smiles too much for this line of work. For the first few minutes, before everyone arrives, the fat guy merely stands there while Tiger reviews her briefing materials.

When all arrive, including an athletic and good looking woman in a grey dress and a man with long white hair and white eyes, the man in charge of the briefing - whose name is Bill- says, "Welcome, welcome. We just received this mission today and we are scrambling to get everything prepared. Some anonymous corporation would like a prototype technology recoverd and delivered in working order. They have a team standing by, I'm told and they will contact you once you have the item."

Tiger stands up and the guy falls silent, letting her take over the briefing. "The item is on a small island off the coast of China," Tiger says. "Currently the heart of a Chinese armored brigade is on the island. We will go in undercover: I will assume the role of a Captain familiar to the soldiers and pass all of you off as mercenaries working with me on a secret mission."

"We will find and recover the item." Tiger looks to the two newcomers and asks the woman, "Your file says you are a contract worker and not an Omega Shield agent."

The woman stands politely, "Strongbow, though you can call me Bel. I work for a company called Harrier. We received a notice for a combat medic who could fly airplanes, not jets."

"Your file says you can shoot a bow from horseback and heal by touch." Tiger looks at the woman who responds, "I can."

"And can you fly a seaplane? A flying boat, not some float plane."

Strongbow says easily, "Sure, we use a ShinMaywa all the time."

"Since the rest of us are from Omega Shield, why don't we introduce ourselves. Once we all know each other we can discuss the briefing. I'll begin. You may call me Tiger, and my specialties are kung fu and firearms."

Tiger looks round the room, she really wants to question the other new guy, but she doesn't feel the need to give him the third degree yet.

[Tag: Shroud, Jeckle, Dante, Ionic - If I missed anyone else please submit a character ASAP, thanks]

[shiivster]

*unsure of what is in her file or in a dossier about her elsewhere, she simply answers about as honestly as she can

'I'm Jeckle. I build things. Here's what you asked for boss .. ' she holds up a small ear piece with a faint smile that drops as she sets it down in front of her now and waits for the others. she will refuse to answer anything else just now unless the rest are introduced. she grins because of one small thing, her mind is in 'Record' mode

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[dakota]

Khris sighed," Canna we just make up a form letter to hand out?" He looked at the new arrival. " Fine, I'm called Shroud. I'm the resident sniper, infiltrator and smartass. Jeckle here can attest to the last part."

[shiivster]

'don't offer him any Lucky Charms ... he'ld most likely spit them at you instead of insulting you ... ' *she gives a faint smile and then shakes the head and she looks away to observe the others

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[Dome]

Dante makes his way to his room, and drops his gear off. Opening the duffel bag and removing his sword he says out loud, "I'll be sure to take this with me next time."

He leaves his gear together, as he is sure he will need it for the next mission. He pulls his cell phone out of his pocket and dials Roga. Getting his machine he says, "Hey buddy, its me. We did what we had to do, and they moved us out of town pretty quick. I'm sorry we didn't get a chance to get together. Maybe you can fly out here sometime. I'll buzz you when I get back from my next mission."

Dante then makes his way to the meeting room.

As Tiger begins the round robin introduction Dante sighs. Before it is even his turn he says, "this sh*t is so ridiculous, do we really have to do this every time we get someone new," his voice is laced with venom and disgust, over what exactly, only the members of the team from the Labrynth mission would fully understand. "Fine, if that is the way it has to be, my codename is Cerebrum because I can do things with my mind tough to figure out huh?"

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[shiivster]

*Jeckle smirks at a random thought. 'HELLO, My Name Is' tags and how they would be filled in.*

*her snicker about the thought nearly ruins her control over her talent but makes a note to pick some up and fill them in for next time*

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[[ ohdear .. hope no one picks up on that thought it is kinda finny
SHROUD - sniper, drinker and potty mouth
TIGER - kick yer butt and feed it to you for breakfast leader
CEREBRUM - head trickster and soul of group
JECKLE - toy maker and sugar dependancy on kid cereal ]]

[albatross]

"Good to see we are all in high spirits," Tiger deadpans. She looks to Strongbow and Ionic to see if they would like to introduce themselves.

[tag: Ionic]

[Robotech Elder]

"Hello everyone, I am assuming you have all read my profile but in case not. You can call me Ionic." As he pans the room. "My particular talent involves electricity." As he lets a some current flow throw him head to toe to emphasize. "It will be my pleasure to help out during this next next mission. Can you tell us what this particular item might be or do?"


OOC: Whats a tag exactly?

[albatross]

"An excellent question, Ionic. According to my notes, it takes on different forms at different times." She says without looking at her notes. The guy nominally in charge of the briefing doesn't look to see if the same information is in his notes.

"So I'm going to guess it is adaptable. But they assure me we'll know it when we see it. It is on an island, how many interesting things can there be?"

"More importantly, how are we going to find it? The island doesn't seem too big, and it has a lot of troops for its size. Even if we are undercover we are going to want to search and recover the item privately. We will need several distractions, or re-usable ones and they will need to be things that ensure we can ditch anyone assigned to assist us as well as concentrate the off-duty troops out of our way. You can take your time thinking about how to do that. It will be a long flight." There is a small smile tugging at the corner of Tiger's mouth as if she is already thinking of her own idea for a diversion.

Tiger walks over to stand in front of an envelope and a box over by the man who was supposed to be running the briefing. "Any other questions?"


[tag: any]

O.O.C.: A tag is optional designation of who a post is addressed to. You can signal who are talking too and also who else might join into the post. For example, in the current environment, anyone on the team could respond: Tiger, Jeckle, Shroud, Dante, Ionic, Strongbow. But if someone was outside, or everyone was spread out comm devices could enable contacting some or all of them. Also, if the conversation is a private one, then others wouldn't be tagged and they would know they would need to knock or approach before jumping into the conversation.

[shiivster]

*Jeckle studies Ionic for a couple of moments while Tiger deals with the 'suit'. after a couple of seconds, she simply nods and then studies Strongbow and is a little curious with that one but doesn't really say much.

*she looks at her fingers briefly to make surethey're clean and then pays attention to the suit. looking more like a juvenile delinquant with how she's dressed and the 'whatever man' attitude she seems to have just now.

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[Robotech Elder]

"So your telling us this "item" can be is a shapeshifter? Do we have exact numbers on who or what we are up against? Do we have any contacts on the inside? Whats our time frame for this objective? Two days? A week or as long as we need?" Ionic replys back.

[albatross]

"As for what the thing is, we really don't have more then the description provided. I'd rather not speculate." Which was true enough, she had no idea what the thing was.

Tiger doesn't need to look at the briefing file to answer the other questions, "This part of the brigade would normally have three tank companies with 91 tanks, but since the island is so small they only have 31 tanks. They do have the rest of the brigade other than the tanks, including a mechanized infantry battalion with 40 APCs, they will have an artillery battalion with 18 guns, and one anti-aircraft battalion with 18 guns."

"Fortunately, we shouldn't need to fight the Chinese. I served in the Chinese military and I have led at the battalion level in this particular unit before - which is the cover I will use. I hope my friends who are still in the service will provide us with some inside information - and I hope we will be able to conduct our search and recover the item without them becoming suspicious."

"There isn't a timetable, however, the longer we take the more likely we are to wear out our welcome. How long the search will take is anyone's guess. As for what we are up against - I would say that I don't anticipate heavy resistance. We are far more likely to face espionage or competition from other searchers - as well as the potential for interference from the Chinese."

"Good questions." Tiger smiles.

Strongbow asks, "What kind of seaplane?"

"She is a Catalina - rebuilt of course." Tiger replies. Strongbow just nods.

[shiivster]

*Jeckle shifts in her chair as she takes out a baggie with Sugar Pops ceral inside it, and opens it to start nibbling on it. she continues to watch the various reactions, but studies the man that 'was in control', to judge HIS reaction to Tiger taking control.

*her mind drifts briefly to make amendments to the 'HELLO My Name Is' group.
IONIC - Sparkling straight man.
STRONGBOW - Medic you don't annoy or yer left behind.

*her grin builds as she continues to nibble on the little compact balls. then she watches the envelope and then back to the man doing the 'debriefing'.

*she does wonder briefly how far Ionic's range could be, and if it would be enough to cause an explosion and then she refocuses on the meeting, not wanting to miss any of it

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[albatross]

Tiger smiles, "If there aren't any more questions, I guess it is time to see what these are." She opens the envelope and extracts a small, silver necklace.

When she puts it on, her hair and eyes turn black and her skin changes. "My disguise." She says, "Chinese Tiger." She looks nearly identical to her normal appearance, as if she had a twin who happened to be Chinese. The package is her Chinese military uniform.

"It will be a long flight, so we had better start packing. I'm sure there will be plenty of time to discuss our plans on the way over. I'll be flying the plane, so clear your equipment with me so I can be sure it will be loaded properly. Just bring whatever you need to the hanger and I'll look it over."

She ignores the ineffective briefing supervisor, and he nods and smiles as if grateful to be included in the meeting.

"Be ready to fly in two hours." Tiger says.


O.O.C.:

If everyone could message me with their equipment list for this mission that would be great.

You can use the Omega Shield organization description under the OOC The Team section if you need guidelines on what is available or just post OOC.

Feel free to ask any questions regarding the mission OOC if they are necessary to select equipment.

[dakota]

" Jeckle, how many of those little band aid bombs have you got?" Khris said with a nod that counted to as close to a welcome that Ionic would get for now " those little beauts might come in handy if we need to do any infiltration, especially if we can keep them them quiet. And I got another idea," he smirked," Have you got anything to cause electromagnetic disruptions? Be alot less obvious than spray painting video cameras."

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