It’s a sunny day in Los Angeles, temperatures are high as usual and the people are walking around the beach to enjoy the summer vacation.
Dan, Ricky, Carl and Tom have been cruising along the coast with their brand-new car that Ricky’s dad bought him after coming back from 8 months deployment in the enemy lines.
As usual Dan was driving while Carl was the DJ, Ricky and tom sat in the back studying and analyzing their previous work.
The AUX cable broke so they had to depend on the radio until they reached the next gas station to buy a replacement cable. After scribbling through the different channels, Carl found a station that was playing his favorite song: “Frank Sinatra – My way”,
Carl could not hold back and begins to sing horribly the song with a crackly voice from his cigars, “I faced it all and stood it my way” he says, Dan begins to tease him and says “we did it our way”, Carl chuckles and bursts into aloud solo “But through it all, when where was doubt I ate it up and spit it out, I faced it all and I stood tall and did it my way all alonnnne”.
Few songs later;
The squad arrived to the closest gas station, Carl went with Tom to go buy some snacks, drinks and a new AUX cable for the road.
Dan and Ricky were refueling the car, Ricky asks Dan “ain’t it a hot day?”, he responds “yeah it reminds me when we were in the desert driving the DPV and wearing shemagh like we were big ass heroes”, Ricky half cracks a smile “that was the one of our most disastrous missions we ever did”, Dan laughs “Well we are still alive so let’s enjoy it”.
The Gas machine ticks and Dan pays for the fuel, suddenly he gets a phone call from xxx-000-xxx, he knew something was wrong since that was the emergency line, few seconds passes by and Dan have yet to answer the phone. Ricky takes the phone and slides his finger to answer the call,
“Hello”
“Identify yourself”
“Agent R, location LA, HQ what is going on?”
“This is Commander Shepperd, please come to the Magikarp club, I will be waiting for you there”
“Roger that”
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Ricky looks at Dan with a confused face for a few seconds “that was Shepperd, I thought he was dead” there was a slight pause before Dan saw Carl and Tom coming out the shop, he waved his hand counter clock wise with 2 fingers half raised meaning bad news.
All four got into the car, Dan started to drive towards the secret Magikarp club near the ocean line up coast. There was a weird silence going through the whole ride, no one knew what was going on and tried to figure out what’s up.
4 Hours later and 300 miles down the road, Tom spots the old shack ”there it is” which he points with his finger at, Ricky cracks a smile “the old ugly shack, ain’t I missed it”, Carl was sleeping in the back, getting some energy reserved.
Dan parks the car, everyone got out and started walking towards what to be looking like a tin foiled house, they go in and see 2 guys sitting and eating food, one of the guys says “finally you’ve arrived, I haven’t seen you fellas in few years now”, Dan was speechless at the man that was standing in front of him “how?..how are you still alive… I saw you getting shot infront of my eyes” The man replied “Well that is a long story, I will sure tell you when time is right, for now let’s go to the briefing room we have no time to waste”, Carl raises his voice “cough cough, who is that other guy Shep, I don’t remember his face”, the man with a suit stands up “Nice to meet you Delta Team, call me H for now, I will be briefing you about this mission I need your help with”, All four said alright with a slight hesitation.
1. plugs his phone to the monitor and hands out files to every individual in the briefing room.
“Alrighty boys, this is the deal! Take a look at the files with the information about the location I am about to show you, as you know the past year the weather has been a little off, changes were unusual and caused many people to lose their life compared to the last decade, we managed to pin down a location that we believe is in charge in some sort of way in manipulating what we call ‘Mother Earth’, and we want you to go there and get some more intel, before you ask why I’ve come to you, I talked to General Shepard whose an old friend of mine, he said you guys are the best team out there for the job since that place is heavily fortified with security and a magnetized force field that does not allow us to send drones nearby but from out satellite footage we can see that clearly something is not right there”
Carl grinds his chin, “with all due disrespect sir, H, whatever you want to call yourself, if this is such a big deal why won’t you send the navy there, I am sure they won’t say no..”
1. “I will ignore what you just said and add that if this whole story will be a success you guys will receive a big amount of credit..”
Dan was still scratching his head trying to understand the whole situation, something was out of place, but he couldn’t lay his finger there yet, Ricky was talking to General Shepperd to try and get some more info about this H. dude.
After an hour of going through all the intel, and a lot of talk between the 6 guys, the team decided to take the job and head out to the island, but before that they went to the kitchen to cook some food.
“You got all the armory we carry?” Dan asks H. “Indeed, I do, I already put it in the back, go take a look after you guys eat”,
The team ate the famous scrambled eggs that Carl cooked, “Still tastes like burnt chicken” Dan said with a smile.
After finishing to eat the meal they went into the room to begin the unknown hunt...