Chapter 1 – Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It
A / N – Welcome to my third fan fiction overall and my first M: I Fan Fiction. Hope you like it! Please read and review! And please give CONSTRUCTIVE criticism only. This story introduces a new main character; Ethan Hunt is retired.
Sweat dripped from the cheeks of Jack Washington's face. Defusing a bomb was a delicate art – one that needed to be handled with care. Jack used his hands carefully while rewiring the device. He couldn't let it blow. Only a minute left; the clock was ticking. The red wires to the blue wire…or was it the red to the yellow? Jack threw the wires down, impatiently. His communications were being blocked, so he had no help whatsoever. Wait – he'd just thought of something. He reached down and searched through the wires. Thirty seconds to go. There it was – a green wire! He reached over and grabbed the red wire. He connected the two wires, and at twenty seconds, the timer stopped. Finally. He flipped the bomb over and looked at the model name – Tannenbaum 3000. How could he have missed that the first time? Oh well, it was done now. He stood up and removed the visor from his face.
There he was, back in the combat training room. He exited and headed for the showers.
After hitting the showers and changing, Jack exited the showers. Now he was wearing a grey T-shirt and black dress pants; along with black shoes. His head was bald. Jack walked over to the mission briefing room.
"Ah, Jack, I see you've decided to join me," Commander Raoul commented as Jack entered the room.
"Yep," Jack replied, "Just got out of the training room. I'm ready for anything."
"Are you now?" Raoul asked, eyeing Jack.
"Of course I am."
"Alright. I want you to take that PDA. Exit the facility, then turn it on. You know what happens next," Raoul said.
"Of course I do," Jack replied, grabbing the PDA and exiting. Outside, he turned to make sure no one was watching. He turned on the PDA he'd been given; an automated mission message – exactly what he'd expected.
"Hello, Jack Washington," said a woman's voice from the PDA, "Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to go to Washington D.C. and investigate the rumors of a secret government file that has information on one of the top criminal organizations in the country. This information is vital in the next step of our plan; you don't have long to retrieve it, either; three days, to be exact. That is when we believe this organization – called ZERO – will strike. We need this information to find out who – or what – they plan to attack. Please hurry. Your team is already assembled and will meet you at Los Angeles City Airport. The team consists of Brandon Walsh, computer specialist; Terra Yang, espionage specialist; and, Buddy Rickter, driver. This recording will explode in five seconds." Jack tossed the PDA up into the air right before it exploded. Time for his first real mission.
