A boat floats in the water under the night sky, without any civilization in sight. The boat belongs to the American government, there are many people aboard the ship. A woman in a camo uniform walks on the deck of the boat toward the inside of the ship. On each of her shoulders is a velcro patch with the American flag on it. She opens a door that leads into a hallway inside the ship. She closes the door behind her and walks down the hall. A man with glasses in a similar uniform walks toward her.309Please respect copyright.PENANAUiN6qgYyBd
“How close are we?” The woman asks in a serious tone.
“We’re about a hundred yards from being able to deploy the submarine.” The man responds, now walking next to her.309Please respect copyright.PENANAKHeSyCaHjE
“We’re also still tracking the ship, right?”
“Of course, the Narsian vessel is still being tracked.”
“Great, we can’t let this information get out to the public. Are the field agents ready?”
“They should be, I had someone talk to them ten minutes ago.”
“Good.” The woman finishes. They approach a stairwell and start to climb up the stairs.
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Aboard the Narsian boat’s bridge, a group of people stand around the bridge, all taking care of different tasks. The group wears a uniform of all black with bulletproof vests. The captain of the ship taps the wall in nervousness.
“Please make sure that someone keeps a sharp eye on the sonar.” the captain states with a tough voice, “the last thing that I want is the I.S.P.F. intersecting our information.”
“Yes captain.” one of the other people answers, he turns his eyes over to the sonar and walks closer to it to survey it. The captain steps away from the wall and toward a computer monitor and keyboard that is unsupervised. He sits in the chair by the computer and grabs the computer's mouse. The captain opens the files to the computer that’s hooked up to the main drive of the ship. He skims over each of the files, some files show blueprints of robots, code files, 3D print models, and more documents that are involved with the robots. He looks for each and every file as if it’s a role call. He sees that all of the files are safe and intact. He gets out of the chair and walks away from the computer.
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Meanwhile, back at the American boat, a male figure zips up a dark blue uniform. The uniform has a scaly texture, however there is no other detailing. The figure puts a belt on that has smoke bombs and other types of grenades. The figure is in a dressing room, there is a counter in the corner. On the counter is a black mask with goggles for the eyes. The man grabs the mask and exits the dressing room. Outside of the dressing room is a woman wearing the same uniform and the same mask, leaning on the wall.
“Are you ready, Faye?” The man asks, the woman gets off of the wall.
“Of course I’m ready, I would be more worried about myself if I were you.” Faye chuckles, in a light-hearted tone.
“Come on, that was my first mission, seven years ago.” the man replies, joining in on the light-hearted tone.
“You tripped over my foot, Isaac.” Faye retorts, they start to walk down the hallway. They pass by a man with glasses on, who seems shocked to see them.
“We’re going to be in position in two minutes, what are you doing? Get to the sub!” He demands, sounding annoyed.
“Yeah yeah yeah, we’re on the way now.” Faye replies, feeling little urgency.
“Won’t get there with that pace.” The man states, Faye and Isaac speed up.
“We should actually hurry up.” Isaac whispers to Faye.
“Relax, intercepting important information is the equivalent of a policeman's patrolling.” Faye scoffs at Isaac.
“I think you’re overexaggerating just a bit.” Isaac argues, Faye doesn’t respond. Isaac and Faye reach the end of a hallway, at the end of the hall there is a divot in the wall that forms a big door. Faye puts her hand on the wall and pushes it, the section of the wall moves back into the wall and goes behind it. Inside is a submarine with a group of people with weapons, wearing similar uniforms as Faye and Isaac.
“What took you two so long!?” One of the members yells at the duo. Isaac and Faye walk into the submarine, the wall closes in behind them.
“Listen, we got here as soon as we can.” Isaac tries to explain.
“Yeah, cause my brother still gets his zipper stuck.” Faye whispers with a smile.
“It won’t happen again, I promise.” Isaac swears.
“Pray for your jobs that it won’t.” The member finishes. He grabs a walkie-talkie from his belt, he holds it in his hand and close to his face as if he is waiting for something to be said.
“Lieutenant Alfaro,” Someone on the walkie-talkie starts, “brace for deployment, we’re in position.”
“I read you,” Alfaro replies, “we’ll be back before you know it.” Alfaro walks over to the end of the submarine and puts his hand on a lever. The team hears mechanical sounds coming from outside the submarine. Isaac and Faye take a seat on the wall benches that everyone else is sitting on. Suddenly, the submarine starts moving under the boat as it is deployed from the vessel. The bottom of the boat opens up as the submarine descends. The boat stops moving and Alfaro pulls down on the lever. The submarine is unlocked from the boat.
Alfaro starts to control the submarine and starts moving it away from the boat. Alfaro presses the talk button down on his walkie-talkie. “We’re detached from the ship, we’ll let you know when to scramble their sonar.” he states.
After a few minutes of undersea travel, the submarine starts to approach the Narsian boat. Alfaro presses the talk button on his walkie-talkie. “Alright,” Alfaro starts, “we’re close enough to the ship, scramble their sonar.”
“Scrambling the Narsian ship’s sonar now.” Someone on the other side of the walkie-talkie replies, “Alright, you’re free to go.” Alfaro speeds the submarine up. They approach the Nasian ship and slow down. Isaac, Faye, and the others stand up. Isaac walks over to the other end of the submarine that has a ladder that leads up to the roof of the submarine. Alfaro gets closer to the Narsian ship and stops the submarine. Isaac climbs the ladder, at the top of the ladder is a hatch with a valve that unlocks it. Isaac turns the valve and opens the hatch.
Isaac climbs onto the roof of the submarine. He waits for the others to join him on the top of the sub. Once the others, excluding Alfaro, reach the roof of the submarine, they all grab grapple guns from their belts. They shoot the grapple guns at the deck of the ship. The I.S.P.F. members repel toward the deck. They land on the deck of the ship.
“Do we all remember the plan?” Faye whispers to everyone, “Me and Isaac will infiltrate the ship and delete the intel while the rest of you stay back just in case.” she states. Everybody nods, Faye and Isaac start to walk on the deck, searching for an entrance into the boat. Suddenly, a door opens and a man in a bulletproof vest emerges from inside the ship. He walks away from Faye and Isaac. Isaac rolls toward the man. Isaac grabs the man’s face with his hands. The man flails his arms and legs around. He also tries to scream for help, but his voice is muffled. Eventually, the man is subdued and passes out, Isaac sets the man down. He turns back to Faye.
“Gotta make this quick.” Isaac whispers to Faye. They walk over to the door that the man walked out of. Faye puts her ear against the door and listens for anyone that may be approaching. Faye sighs when she doesn’t hear anything.
“It’s clear.” she whispers to Isaac and she opens the door. On the other side of the door is a staircase that leads down into a clean, slightly blue, hallway. Faye starts going down the stairs first and Isaac follows. Faye and Isaac walk through the hallway, trying to stay hidden. They see many doors, all with windows that allow them to see the room. The duo looks through the windows, searching for a server room. However, none of the doors host a server room.
Isaac and Faye reach the end of the hallway and an intersection. By one of the corners is a stack of boxes filled with the same uniforms that everyone else on the Narsian ship has been wearing. Isaac hears a conversation between two people, who he assumes are Narsian. Isaac dashes toward the boxes and hides behind them, and Faye follows. They both hear their conversation and footsteps get louder.
“So, do you know what we’re transferring that’s oh-so-important?” One of them asks, sounding confused.
“No, I’m not sure. Though, I did hear that it could give us the upper hand on N.A.T.O. and the I.S.P.F.” The other one answers, though not giving a straight answer. As the two walk past the boxes that hide Isaac and Faye. Isaac crouches and walks out of hiding. Faye looks at Isaac with a confused and concerned expression on her face. Luckily, the two Narsian soldiers don’t notice Isaac. Isaac quickly, yet stealthily, approaches the soldiers. Once he’s close enough, he leaps toward one of the soldiers, who now notice his presence. However, before the soldiers can do anything, Isaac charges into the closest one, sending them toward the wall. They impact the wall hard enough to knock them out. The other one reaches toward the sky with one of their hands, the hand starts to glow. Before the soldier can do anything, Isaac grabs them and forces them into a crouching position. Isaac grabs one of their arms, holds it straight with one hand and keeps it steady with another. Isaac places a foot on the soldier’s back to ensure they don’t get up.
“The server room, where is it!?” Isaac asks in a demanding voice, trying to sound intimidating and still be quiet enough to not make other people aware of their presence.
“I wish that I knew, but I don’t!” The soldier replies, being purposely loud to attract attention. Faye reveals herself as well.
“You should be quiet if you know what’s good for you,” Faye advises, “unless you want to scream over a broken arm.”
“You don’t scare me.” the soldier whispers.
“Fine,” Isaac replies, “suit yourself.” Isaac breaks the soldier’s arm, and Isaac covers the soldier’s mouth as they scream from the pain. Isaac slams the soldier’s head onto the floor, knocking the soldier out. Isaac stands up.
“Huh,” Faye chuckles, “here I thought that I was the rash one.” she states.
“Yeah, well, we all can have our moments.” Isaac responds. Faye stares down the hallway that the soldiers were heading toward as something caught her eye. “What is it?” Isaac asks, looking down the same hallway.
“I think I see a map of the ship.” Faye states and she starts to walk down the hallway toward the map, Isaac follows. Faye approaches the map and searches it to see their current location. She finds a yellow star at the top of the inside of the ship that has You are here written on the inside of it. “Well it looks like we’re here.” Faye states, concentrating.
“As if the text wasn’t enough.” Isaac jokes, whispering. Faye turns to Isaac.
“Shut up.” she chuckles and turns her attention back to the map. She and Isaac start searching for the server room. Isaac eventually finds a room that has the text Server Room written on it. Isaac points at the server room on the map.
“I’ve got it.” He states, Faye looks at where Isaac is pointing.
“Nice.” Faye compliments, she starts building a mental map in her head to path the server room, “Alright, let’s go.” Faye and Isaac walk away from the map and toward the server room. As they travel toward the server room, they make sure that they keep themselves hidden from any cameras and soldiers.
As they approach the server room, they see a camera that is moving from left to right. Isaac and Faye hide behind a corner to stay out of sight from the camera as they think about how to get past it. Faye peeks around the corner to see if there’s any way they can sneak past it.
“I hate to say it, but I don’t think we can avoid this one.” Faye states, she grabs a small throwing knife from her belt and prepares to throw it. She waits until the camera is looking straight at her and then hurls the knife toward the camera. It enters the lens, breaking the camera. The pieces fall to the ground.
“Good shot.” Isaac says, giving Faye a thumbs up.
“Thanks, come on, let’s keep going.” Faye and Isaac start walking toward the server room, once more.
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Meanwhile, at the ship’s bridge, a soldier watches many monitors that host live camera footage from around the seacraft. Suddenly, he sees one camera recording cut entirely, only leaving static. The soldier walks away from his post and toward the captain. The captain, who is just making sure everybody is doing their job, turns his attention to the soldier.
“Sir, there’s a broken camera in hallway eleven.” the soldier states to the captain.
“Oh?” The captain responds, trying to sound confident. The captain grabs his walkie-talkie and presses down on the talk button, “Attention all available soldiers,” he calls out into the walkie-talkie, “I have reason to believe that there are intruders on the ship heading toward the server room, find them and bring them in, alive.” He takes his finger off of the talk button.
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Isaac and Faye approach the server room. Faye looks through the door’s window to see if the room is guarded or not. Luckily, she doesn’t see anybody in the room. Faye twists the doorknob and tries to push the door open. However, the door doesn’t budge, and Faye groans from the inconvenience.
“It’s locked.” Faye complains, backing away from the door.
“So, are you thinking what I’m thinking?” Isaac asks, in a snarky tone. Faye locks eyes with Isaac and smirks.
“I believe I am.” Faye answers.
“Alright, cover me.” Isaac states, walking up to the door. Faye stands behind Isaac and checks to the left and right, making sure that there aren’t any soldiers around.
“Okay, you’re clear.” Faye announces. Isaac punches the glass, shattering the window. Isaac reaches into the room through the broken window and grabs the door knob on the inside. Isaac twists the lock on the knob and unlocks the door, opening it. Isaac and Faye walk into the server room, and Faye closes the door behind her. At the back wall of the server room is a computer monitor mounted onto the wall. Underneath the monitor is a desk that contains a keyboard and mouse that is hooked up to the computer. Lining on the rest of the walls are servers that could contain a ridiculous amount of data files. Isaac walks up to the computer monitor and turns it on. The monitor shows a file browser with so many files on robotics and artificial intelligence.
“I’m glad we caught this now,” Isaac states, with relief in his voice, “this could be really bad in the wrong hands.”
“Let’s not celebrate early,” Faye responds, “we still have to delete the files.”
“Right.” Isaac selects all of the files and hits delete on the keyboard. Unfortunately, the file system asks for an administrator's password. “Oh come on,” Isaac sighs, he turns back to Faye, “now what?”
“We could just destroy the files, physically.” Faye gestures to one of the servers.
“In any other scenario, sure,” Isaac replies, “but, we can’t bring too much attention to ourselves.” Suddenly, they hear footsteps approaching the server room.
“You were saying?” Faye jokes, turning toward the door. Suddenly, the door swings open. A dozen Narsian soldiers walk through the door. They each have a pistol in their hands. They point their weapons at Faye and Isaac.
“Put your hands up and come over here, slowly.” One of the soldiers demands. Faye and Isaac look at each other, thinking the same thing. The duo raise their hands to the sky and approach the soldiers. They stop right in front of them. The soldier in front of Faye reaches for her mask. Before the soldier can even touch her mask, Faye backflips, kicking the soldier in the chin. Isaac, seeing his sister make a move, attacks another soldier. He grabs a soldier’s pistol and rips it out of their hands. Isaac hits the soldier in the face with his elbow.
Faye lands on her feet. She approaches the guard she kicked, still dazed from the attack, and throws them across the room, destroying a server. Isaac walks up to another Narsian soldier. The soldier puts their pistol in their holster and raises their fists.
“Let’s settle this, like men.” The soldier states.
“I’ll take you up on that.” Isaac responds, the soldier’s fist begins to glow a dark purple. Suddenly, a purple, sporadic, fireball sparks to life in the soldier’s hand. The soldier throws the fireball at Isaac. Isaac makes a circle with his hands that makes a translucent blue shield that absorbs the fireball. Isaac moves the shield to face a couple of the servers. The shield releases the energy from the fireball onto the servers, destroying a few and starting a fire on the servers.
The shield disappears and Isaac gets back into a fighting stance. Isaac’s hands start to glow a light blue and yellow. Isaac approaches another soldier, who begins to shoot at Isaac. Isaac raises his fists toward the bullets. His glowing hands completely soak up the bullet's force, and the bullets fall to the floor. The soldier throws their pistol to the ground and raises their fists. Their hands glow a dark purple. They throw a punch at Isaac. Before the soldier can land the punch, Isaac grabs their elbow, pushes it away from himself, and punches the soldier hard. The glowing fists seemed to have doubled Isaac’s strength as the soldier is knocked out instantly.
Meanwhile, Faye’s hand starts to glow, having the same color as Isaac’s. A fireball sparks in each of Faye's hands. They’re blue and yellow and act much like a regular fire. Two soldiers approach Faye, their weapons drawn.
“This is your last chance, give up now.” One of the soldiers orders, sounding serious. Faye walks backward, slowly approaching the servers. She turns her arms toward the servers and extends them. Faye opens her palms and swiftly closes them. The fire transfers from her hands to the servers, catching them in the blaze. Before the soldiers can react, Faye rolls toward them. Faye quickly gets back on her feet, gets behind one of the soldiers, and grabs their arm.
Faye redirects the soldier’s pistol toward the other soldier. The soldier opens fire and hits their comrade in the bulletproof vest, sending them to the floor. Faye slides one of her feet through one of the soldier's legs, tripping them. The soldier falls to the floor. Faye lightly kicks the soldier, checking to see if they're knocked out, but the soldier doesn’t move. Faye and Isaac look around to see that all of the soldiers have been dealt with. Isaac turns toward Faye.
“I’ll move the soldiers out of the room, you destroy the rest of the servers.” Isaac orders, picking up the unconscious body of one of the soldiers. Faye moves toward the center of the room. Her fists start to light up blue and yellow, as before, and fireballs spark from them. Faye readies herself to throw one of the fireballs at a server. She throws the fireball and it hits the server, causing it to combust in flame. She continues to do this to a variety of servers throughout the room while Isaac continues to carry the bodies out of the server room so they don’t catch ablaze. Isaac carries the last body out of the server room, he looks back to see all of the servers on fire.
“Nice job,” Isaac compliments, “alright, let's go.” Isaac gestures down the hall. Faye walks out of the server room.
“I’m so ready to get out of here, I’m so close to getting seasick.” Faye vents, putting one of her hands on her forehead. Faye closes the server room door behind her to try and keep the fire from spreading. Isaac and Faye sprint down the hall they came from.
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Elsewhere, The Narsian Captain is pacing around the bridge with his hands behind his back.
“Has anyone heard back from the soldiers I sent to the server room?” The captain asks, sounding impatient.
“No, we haven’t heard anything, Captain Brimswald.” One of the ship operators answers. Captain Brimswald shows a much more nervous expression. He grabs the walkie-talkie from his belt and presses down on the talk button.
“Sergeant Marston, what’s the situation in the server room?” Brimswald releases the talk button and waits for a response, however he only gets static. The captain pushes the talk button again, “Sergeant?” Brimswald only gets more static, “Marston!?” Still, no response. Captain Brimswald turns toward another ship operator. “Send a medical team toward the server room, something tells me they might need it.”
“Yes, Captain.” The operator responds, Brimswald walks toward the front of the ship and sighs.
“If you want something done,” Brimswald grabs a holster that has a pistol in it, “you have to do it yourself.” He clasps the holster onto his belt and walks toward the other side of the bridge. A squad of soldiers follows the captain. Captain Brimswald presses down the talk button of the walkie-talkie. “I need every single soldier on this ship to be on patrol for I.S.P.F. agents.” The captain puts his walkie-talkie back on his belt.
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Isaac and Faye continue tracing back their steps to exit the ship. Isaac and Faye slow down when they hear a conversation taking place somewhere nearby. The duo approach the end of the hallway as well as an intersection, the voices coming from the right. Faye and Isaac stop at the corner closest to the voices. The conversation starts becoming a lot more clear.
“We’re dropping like flies, what does he expect us to do!?” One of the voices yells, venting their frustrations. Isaac peeks around the corner and sees four Narsian soldiers in the hallway. Two of them are knocked out on the ground, being the ones Faye and Isaac interrogated earlier. The other two haven't encountered them before.
“Yeah, well, it’s not our job to ask questions, it’s our job to take orders. So, I say we just do what we’re told and pray we don’t run into these guys, alright Miles?” The other conscious soldier responds. Isaac turns the corner, sneaking toward the soldiers. One of the conscious soldiers is standing, facing away from Isaac. The other soldier, Miles, is bent over, inspecting the two unconscious soldiers. Isaac reaches the soldier facing away from him. Isaac swiftly stands up, wraps his left arm around the soldier, and grabs the soldier’s right arm. Miles notices the chaos and stands up, drawing his pistol and holding it with both of his hands. Isaac extends his right arm at Miles, his hand illuminates blue and yellow.
“Put the gun down.” Isaac demands, trying to sound intimidating while being quiet.
“Yeah right, I’m going to put it down and then get shot with that blast of energy, no, not happening.” Miles retorts, he takes one of his hands off of the pistol and balls it up into a fist, it starts glowing dark purple. Isaac shoots a blue and yellow ball of energy at Miles from his right hand.
Miles blocks the ball of energy with his glowing hand. Miles drops the gun and balls his other hand into a fist, it glows the same purple. Isaac throws the other soldier out of his grasp and shoots a ball of energy at them, knocking them unconscious. Isaac makes his other hand glow and turns his attention back to the conscious soldier. Isaac throws a punch at Miles. Miles grabs Isaac’s fist mid-punch. His blue and yellow hand starts to get taken over by the purple.
“What are you doing!?” Isaac asks, sounding confused and worried. He throws a punch using his other hand. However, Miles catches that punch, as well. The purple starts to invade Isaac’s other fist as well. Faye peeks around the corner and sees that Miles has the upper hand. She runs around the corner and makes blue and yellow fireballs in her hands. She throws one of them with all of her might and Miles. Miles gets hit by the fireball, letting Isaac go, and falls to the floor. Isaac gasps for air and gets on one knee, his hands stop glowing.
“Isaac, are you okay!?” Faye asks, sounding concerned, the other fireball disappears from her hand.
“Yeah, I’ll live,” Isaac coughs and starts to stand up, “what even was that?”
“I’m not sure.” Faye responds, “Can you walk?” Isaac tries to walk, which he can still do without problem.
“Yeah, I’ll make it.” Isaac’s voice is more raspy than before. He starts to run, continuing to trace their steps, “Come on, let’s go,” Faye follows Isaac. Eventually, the duo reach the door that they entered from. Isaac opens the door and enters the deck, Faye follows and closes the door behind her. They see one of their fellow I.S.P.F. Agents peek their head around a corner. The agent sighs with relief at the sight of them. Faye and Isaac approach the agent. They round the corner and see all of their colleagues who joined on the mission, minus Alfaro, who is still in the submarine. As well as their peers, Isaac and Faye see multiple unconscious Narsian soldiers on the deck.
“Well, I can see that you’ve been busy.” Isaac states.
“Yeah, it’s not our fault they kept showing up.” One of the agents replies, they notice that Isaac seems fatigued, “Everything alright? You weren’t using too much Narisa, were you?”
“Yeah I’m fine, and no, I didn’t,” Isaac answers, “we ran into some trouble and a Narsian soldier had me trapped, and it felt like they were sucking out my very life force.”
“I see, we should get outta here, then.” Another agent says, starting to walk toward where the submarine is. The others walk toward the submarine, as well. Faye looks down the deck as they approach the end of the ship and sees Captain Brimswald and a squad of higher-ranking Narsian soldiers approaching them. The captain holds a pistol in one hand and has a glowing purple fireball in the other, moving sporadically.
“We’ve got trouble.” Faye observes, announcing Brimswald’s presence to the group.
“Everyone in the sub, now!” An agent orders. Most of the soldiers follow their comrades' command. Faye starts walking toward Brimswald with a serious expression on her face. Brimswald lifts the hand with the fireball up and throws the fireball toward Faye and the other I.S.P.F. soldiers. Faye swiftly and frantically makes fireballs with her fists and throws one of them at Brimswald's fireball. The two fireballs collide.
"Nice reflexes," Brimswald compliments, he aims his pistol at Faye, "let's test them again, shall we?" Brimswald fires at Faye. Faye opens her fist with the remaining fireball, extinguishing it. Her other hand starts to glow, Faye holds it in front of her and blocks the bullet. Brimswald continues firing at Faye. She rolls to her left, gaining cover.
Meanwhile, Isaac climbs down a ladder into the submarine. He sees only Alfaro in the seacraft. Alfaro notices Isaac looking weak and fatigued.
"You alright?" Alfaro asks, sounding concerned.
"Yeah, a soldier grabbed me with some form of the Bailys, luckily Faye saved me in time." Isaac explains.
"Good, and where is she?" Alfaro notices that Faye didn't seem to follow Isaac. Isaac looks around for Faye.
"That's odd, I thought that she was right behind me." Suddenly, I.S.P.F. agents start going down the ladder.
"Have any of you seen Agent Ramos?" Alfaro asks the soldiers.
"She's holding back the captain of the ship while the rest of us make it to the sub." one of the soldier's answers.
"What, and you just let her do it? They're gonna kill her!" Alfaro sounds aggravated. All of the soldiers are off of the ladder when Alfaro starts to climb it.
"I'm coming with you." Isaac states, starting to follow Alfaro up the ladder.
"No, you need to rest, but make sure everyone else makes it." Alfaro orders, Isaac steps off of the ladder.
"Good luck, lieutenant." Isaac backs away from the ladder.
"Thanks, but I won't need it." Alfaro stands on top of the submarine. He grabs a grappling gun from his belt and shoots it at the boat. The gun pulls Alfaro toward the ship at great speed. Captain Brimswald notices Alfaro flying through the sky.
Brimswald reloads his pistol and aims at Alfaro. Alfaro lets go of the grappling gun as he approaches the deck of the ship and draws his weapon. Brimswald continues aiming at Alfaro, trying to get a good shot. Alfaro lands on the deck and rolls on toward cover. Brimswald shoots at Alfaro and barely misses. Alfaro arrives at cover and sees Faye.
“Welcome to the chaos, lieutenant.” Faye greets.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah,” Alfaro responds, “let’s just get you out of here.” he detaches the magazine from his weapon and examines it to see if it’s loaded. Alfaro puts the magazine back in his weapon. Brimswald rounds the corner, his guards follow. Alfaro, without a second of hesitation, shoots at Brimswald. The captain flies backward, smoke emits from the wound. The squad of guards open fire on Faye and Alfaro. They make their fists glow, however they open their palms up and a blue shield forms in front of them. The ammo from the guards have their energy absorbed by the shield. Faye and Alfaro slowly walk backward towards the other end of the ship. Alfaro grabs his walkie-talkie and presses the talk button.
“We can’t make it over there, round-a-bout the sub!” Alfaro orders in the walkie-talkie. In the submarine, the message plays over speakers in the submarine. Isaac, taking initiative, approaches the controls to the submarine. Isaac pulls a lever and the rotor starts spinning, moving the seacraft. Isaac moves the submarine under the Narsian ship. Meanwhile, Alfaro and Faye run out of room to back up.
“Time for a trust fall!” Alfaro shouts, trying to be louder than the gunfire.
“Seems so!” Faye responds. Faye and Alfaro get on top of the railing of the boat. Faye and Alfaro hop off of the railing toward the water. They crash into the water, causing a splash. They float back to the top, with a small gasp for air.
The submarine approaches the other side of the Narisan ship. Isaac reaches for two bars near the ceiling he pulls down, revealing a periscope. Isaac looks through the periscope. He can barely see through the foggy water but he can vaguely make-out two figures near the surface of the water. Isaac passes under the figures and rotates the sub to the left. Isaac pulls on the steering wheel, lifting the submarine to the surface. Faye and Alfaro notice the submarine appearing up from the sea.
“About time!” Faye yells, celebrating. Alfaro and Faye swim toward the submarine. One of the I.S.P.F. agents in the submarine walks over to the ladder in the seacraft and climbs up it. They twist the valve to unlock the hatch and open it. Faye and Alfaro reach the submarine. They climb down the ladder one at a time into the submarine. Alfaro closes the hatch on his way in and locks it.
“Faye, thank God!” Isaac states, walking away from the sub controls and toward Faye, “Good to see you’re alright.”
“Good to be alright.” Faye responds.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, fun family reunion.” Alfaro interrupts, walking toward the submarine controls, “Calm down and let's get a move on.” Alfaro pushes down on the steering wheel and the submarine submerges itself into the ocean. Alfaro pulls a lever and the submarine starts accelerating. Alfaro grabs his soaked walkie-talkie and presses down on the talk button, praying it still works.
“The job is done,” Alfaro states into the walkie-talking, “we’re on our way back.”
“Und-tood,” Someone on the other side of the walkie-talkie, the message cuts out a bit but Alfaro understands it well enough. Faye and Isaac take a seat in the submarine.
Meanwhile, on the Narsian ship. Captain Brimswald gets up from the deck, dazed.
“Bastard,” Brimswald mumbles to himself, “if you have aim like that, why use non-lethal rounds?” Brimswald looks around and sees his squad of guards and a medical team around him. “Don’t overreact, I’m fine.”
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Suddenly, Brimswald and the others hear a helicopter sound. A helicopter approaches the boat, flown by other Narsian soldiers. The helicopter lands right in front of Brimswald. A blonde cyborg with half of his face covered by metal and an robotic eye that glows purple rides in the back of the helicopter. The helicopter begins to power down and the cyborg gets out. The cyborg starts walking toward Captain Brimswald.
“They deleted the intel, didn’t they?” The cyborg asks in a sort of monotone voice.
“They did,” Brimswald answers, “I apologize, I-”
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