8
The War Room
8:20 AM
Orbi-Sec Remnants, Under Celestin Park
The shooting went on for a while longer. Derek showed off the ‘skills’
he had learnt from playing video games the whole time he wasn’t busy
or working. He got too caught up in putting holes in targets that
everything else seemed to fade out. That reminded him. Work.
‘
My boss must be so pissed right now’ he thought. Derek was just about to
move on from using the handgun when Carter walked in.
“
I hope I’m not interrup ng but this is urgent.
Weapons and combat
training will be put on hold for now. Derek, come with me. Marcus, you
too. The rest are already there.
Marcus asked “Wait boss, what’s this for? You’ve never dragged me
out of the armoury before. What on Earth could be so important?”
Carter replied cleverly “It’s what’s not on Earth, mate. You’ll see.”
Another walk, another hallway. They seem to stretch on forever now.
At the end of it was a moderately lit but large room with several
monitors surrounding a centre table. “Alright. Sit down. We have a
situation.” Said Carter.
“
We’ve had a ‘situa on’ for two fuckin’ decades! And nothing has
happened since” replied Marcus.
Tom Samp was at the back, probably
checking paperwork while Carter led the others around the table. “We’ve
had these mee ngs twice a week for the past four years – and we’ve done
nothing to stop the situa ons you bring up!” said an annoyed Marcus while
Carter responded by saying “Just quieten down and listen up. We have
made our next great step in our journey. Derek Ragston is finally with us.
A er all those years searching and planning, now we have the key.”
“
Wait, sorry to interrupt”
said Derek, “But why did you ‘kidnap’ me the
me that you did? Why then? Why not earlier?
“
Good ques on, Derek. We had to wait because we… all of us are tagged as
associates or members of Orbi-Sec. Except those who arrived a er and
weren’t tagged. Okay, so the situa on is
what we need to retrieve are
documents. I know because Tom here has seen it first-hand and it’s got all
the evidence we need to prove that the USOC was bribed to hit the ship
and that they intend to overthrow the current government on Earth a er
taking down all other major private security/ military corpora ons. Now
those files are behind a locked door on the Icarus which only Derek can
unlock with his DNA. The Icarus was never
destroyed as the mess would
take too long to clean up so they have guards sta oned all across it in
shi s. Both inside and outside the ship. The Icarus is currently floa ng at a
USOC operated ship graveyard just outside the orbit of Uranus. To get to
the Icarus in the first place, we need to use
our rocket which is nearly
finished. The rocket won’t fit many of us inside and it is most definitely a
one-way trip to our abandoned moon outpost. That outpost contains
several light vessels which we can use to reach the Icarus. Now I know this
sounds like a long shot… and kind of a suicide mission, but it’s our only
chance to well ‘save the solar system from
an evil corpora on bent on
taking over the galaxy’ any ques ons?”
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