Time Crisis The Fall Re
Casts: Various Time Crisis characters
Prologue: The world where they are today
'Oh, Mr. Holmes, I would love to tell you, but then, of course, I'd have to kill you.'
Knowledge is power. To know is to enslave others in this world of espionage. This universe is populated by gritty secrets that one has to pay a dearest price to uncover the darkest truth concerning the life of one and another, sometimes be in a group of people or worse, a nation.
One of the most remarkable war of spies dates back during the Cold War period when information played a life-and-death role in determining the victor of two superpower nations in their foolish race of nuclear weapons. Agents- people who are leading a double life for their selfish contender, living in between the righteous way of plain citizens and cold blooded shady world, were mass produced like hot toys from their own factory.
Cold mechanical hazards, made with devilish intentions from nevertheless of warring sides, were waiting inside anonymous dark rooms to serve singular wicked purpose of extracting information out of the mouth from every apprehended agent in their enemy hands. With every inflicted pain pushing their body and mind into limit, it is just a matter of time until any of them breaks-or both as the captive maintain their captive's demand sealed shut.
So much agents blood spilled like open water tap, many bodies were wasted like food had left unsettling tragic marks of the end of The Cold War hidden in the shadows and unknown by the upstanding citizens. To prevent the tragic history in the covert universe from repeating itself in the same cycle, the world finally came to a secret agreement that unity must exist in all secret agency branches without exception. Thus, it marked the birth of the top secret international Vital Situation Swift Elimination intelligence agency. The agency is so secretive and fictional to the younger espionage generations. Borders and protocols are irrelevant to the agency recruitment. But only some younger spy generations who proved their worth to be deserved to know the so called VSSE's existence are given a top secret security clearance called the Eyes-Only.
Should somebody drunken in their foolish ambition to disturb the balance of the world, as the fictional agency's name suggests, VSSE will eliminate those fools in no time. The first agent to be deployed into the field dates back in 1996 who goes by the codename of 'Angel', real name is Richard Miller. The one-man army agent was tasked to rescue the president of Sercia's daughter from a dictator who was overthrown by the people of Sercia before kidnapping happened. Serudo Garo also hired a private force lead by Wild Dog to help him ensure the success of his demand. The deadline is to force president Mac Pherson to resign from his presidency before the sunset of the next day of the demand. With such crisis situation happened in Sercia, the incident is known as Time Crisis in the agency. There are a total of 79 casualties in Sercia, including a Russian Kasatnov attack helicopter and Sherudo Garo's body was confirmed by the clean up crews.
However, Wild Dog's body was not found.
3 months later after Time Crisis incident, VSSE interrupted a secret message of which was coming from a smuggler. The smuggler is known as Kantaris, who is suspected as Wild Dog's arms supplier. The agency also believed that Wild Dog is still alive and making contact with Kantaris group and once again Richard Miller was deployed in another covert ops to disband Kantaris group in hotel Chataeu De Lux in France. The operation goes by the name of Time Crisis: Project Titan took a total of 77 casualties from Kantaris group and Wild Dog's private army and 4 stolen armored battle units from German by Kantaris group were single handedly disarmed by Richard in combat during the operation. With the escape of Kantaris by air, the mission was deemed as the first failure in VSSE's history.
Again, Wild Dog's body was not found by the clean up crews.
Following Richard Miller's failure in disbanding Kantaris Network group, he was revoked from his position as a field agent and transferred into Human Resource department. There, he is responsible to train more younger and prominent agents for the field division. In addition, Richard Miller authorized the deployment of Christie Ryan, VSSE's first female agent onto the field to investigate Starline Network satellite of Neodyne Industries, the world's leading communication corporation. It turned out that Starline Network satellite is a nuclear satellite capable of firing a laser from the outer space with a huge percentage of accuracy. Before Christie Ryan could pass this information to VSSE, she was held captive by Ernesto Diaz, CEO of Neodyne Industries. Keith Martin and Robert Baxter, the first most prominent pair of agents trained under Richard Miller was sent in response to Christie Ryan's captive as well as destroying Starline Network. The mission was labeled as Time Crisis 2.
In Keith Martin's After Action Report, it was stated that there are a total of 56 confirmed kills from the duo, 3 destroyed armored vehicles, 2 destroyed Starline Network military satellites and Ernesto Diaz was included in the kill count. The report also mentioned that the pair engaged in combat with Wild Dog, with Wild Dog eventually detonated himself.
Yet there was no trace of Wild Dog's remains.
In 1999, one year after Time Crisis 2's mission, Garland Corporation set up a grand living properties in London. The properties were seized one day before it's grand opening by United Resistance Defence Army terrorist group lead by a defecting General Derrick Lynch. General Derrick Lynch was plotting to launch a nuke 5km beneath Garland Square, where is England's nuclear black site unknown to Garland Corporation nor many of the British. In response to the dire situation, the Scotland Yard collaborates with VSSE to establish VSSE's first covert strike force consist of special trained soldiers from all military branches in the world and Special Tactic Force was born. Lead by a SAS operative, Claude Mc Garren lead S.T.F to liberate Garland Square. The operation was later known as Crisis Zone in which took a total of 138 hostile lives, 10 armored vehicles, 2 URDA generals and Derrick Lynch.
Despite the liberation was a success, S.T.F lost 23 men from 50 men.
Zero contact with Wild Dog occurred during Crisis Zone operation.
Keith Martin and Robert Baxter were promoted as senior field agents in 2000. They assist Richard Miller in his duty in training as well as recruiting more agents and soldiers into the agency.
Following after the events of Time Crisis 2 and Crisis Zone, under Richard Miller's order, VSSE set up a new SOP where at least a pair of field agents working as a team in a mission. A new policy coming from the director was also added to have all field agents to carry at least an additional weapon beside their assigned covert pistol to ensure the success of an op. The new SOPs were soon approved in no time before 2002 when Zagorias Army lead by Giorgio Zott attempted a coup in Lukano island in Mediterranian. The army soon occupied 80% of the territory and slaughtered every citizen they found. Alicia Winston and Daniel Winston, natives of Lukano island were tasked to gather intel for the Lukano island's resistance group. Upon a report of Daniel Winston was captured by Zagorias Army during the operation and his execution time reached VSSE's HQ, VSSE sent 2 backup agents by the name of Alan Dunaway and Wesley Lambert to assist Lukano resistance group and rescue Daniel Winston from his execution. The event was labeled as Time Crisis 3 which took 145 lives of Zagorian Army, 213 Lukano island residences, 77 Lukano island resistance and Giorgio Zott was found dead with gunshot wounds from Alan and Wesley's final showdown in that island.
In Alicia Winston's After Action Report, she stated that the trio encountered Wild Dog and his associate who goes by the name of Wild Fang during their rescue mission. Alan and Wesley engaged in combat with Wild Dog and Wild Fang and the Wild pair eventually detonated themselves in their loss.
Again, no sign of Wild pair's bodies found by the clean-up crews.
Under Richard Miller's command, VSSE's set up a new RnD teams specializing in uncovering the mystery of Wild Dog and Wild Fang's disappearance.
VSSE's network keeps on expanding throughout the entire world. In 2006, it has more than 53 branches set up globally. More than 100 agents and soldiers from various branches across the world were recruited and trained under Keith Martin, Robert Baxter, Richard Miller and Claude Mc Garren's supervisors. At the middle of the year of 2006, William Rush from the U.S Army division reported a bio weapon code named as Terror Bite was on the loose in California. The bio weapon which utilized insect as a medium of attack is capable to spread various diseases with an effective controlling range of 800 meters while the pandemonium range is 1-2 kilometers. With William Rush's Intel, the weapon's exchange place took in California Airport, the agency deployed Giorgio Bruno and Evan Bernard to intercept the deal.
However, they were too late. The weapon's transaction was done. As soon as the pair arrived, they were ambushed by European terrorist group known as WOLF. Those agents were saved by William Rush, who was also on site and the three of them retreated from the airport via a battle chopper sent by Elizabeth Conway, an operator who was responsible for the trio's intel from air.
The trio learnt the person who was responsible for the whole chaos is a former Delta Force known as Gregory Barrows, who are diagnosed with mental breakdown during his service in Iraq and attempted to use Terror Bite to attack America due to personal hatred reasons.
The 4th incident of Time Crisis is the mission with the biggest collateral damage happened all over in Florida. The total loss is estimated more than 89 million US Dollar, more than 368 civilians were injured while 143 were dead from the bio attack. Even with S.T.F combined with Florida response teams, there were 17 loss from S.T.F units, 28 police officers and 15 paramedics were reported K.I.A. Nevertheless, Giorgio Bruno, Evan Bernard and William Rush with the help of S.T.F and Florida response teams, together they took down the whole WOLF units from air and land.
Gregory Barrows were confirmed K.I.A. Cause of death by multiple gunshots of 9mm.
The last page of Time Crisis 4 report written by Elizabeth Conway also stated that the trio fought the Wild pair during their mission. The three of them confirmed that the Wild pair blew themselves in their loss just like the past Time Crisis missions.
Yet no trace of Wild pair's remnants were found on site.
5 years later, following Time Crisis 4's incident, the director of VSSE instructed Claude Mc Garren to form another strike force apart from S.T.F with an overwhelming firepower equipments. Albeit there was a disagreement from Claude and Richard upon the idea due to the various reasons, one of them regarding to the number of collateral damage, the new strike force was formed in no time. The new strike force is later to be referred as S.C.A.R (Special Combat And Rescue) units. The unit was put into test in operation Razing Storm in South America when Paulo Guerra lead a group of renegade soldiers and militias in a revolution to attack the United States.
One of the VSSE agents who were sent during operation Razing Storm to gather intel reported that Paulo Guerra purchased weapons from Kantaris Network. The group supplied him with 8 Mac Battle Power Suits, 10 Raptor Unmanned Vehicle Robots, 3 Kraken Walker of which armed with 8 Plasma Cutters and 8 machine guns each on it's tentacles, 1 Tarantula unmanned robot (Of which the upgraded version of Tarantula that Richard Miller disarmed during operation Time Crisis: Project Titan) and a F200 Morning Hawk, of which a newly version of F117 Night Hawk.
Armed with state of the art F3000 Battle Rifle, Hellfire Quadzooka, Spaz Cluster Shotgun, AWM sniper rifle and 2 laser guns, the mayhem in Operation Razing Storm cost a total of 17 billion US Dollar loss of collateral damage in which pushed the economy of U.S down to the red line. To make matter worse, despite there were a total of 236 lives were claimed by the S.C.A.R units including Paulo Guerro himself, 8 civilians were added into the death tolls.
After Mac Windham together with Alpha units, refused their order to return to base in order to rescue Bravo units who were in a pinch fighting the remaining Paulo Guerra's armies, despite their success in rescuing 7 remaining of Bravo Units, the Alpha units were disbanded from S.C.A.R. Below are the lists of the disbanded Alpha units:
1. Mac Windham, leader of Alpha units, US Army sergeant
2. Shin Tozawa, Sniper of Alpha units, US Marine
3. Kirk Dirkson, Field Tech, US Navy SEALs
4. Alpha One, All rounder of Alpha units, (UNKNOWN)
5. Alpha Two, All rounder of Alpha units, (UNKNOWN)
6. Jack Mc Gyvern, Field Medic, British SAS
7. Tommy Russell, Comm Tech, GIGN
8. Wong Fei Hong, Rescue Specialist, Taiwan Officer SWATs
9. Kurt Tarantino, Driver, GIGN
10. David Hayter Jr., Demolition, US Delta Force
Operation Razing Storm reported that negative contact with Wild Dog nor Wild Fang occurred during operation.
Following the failure of S.C.A.R, Claude Mc Garren attempted to disband the strike unit. Instead, he was disbanded from S.T.F and VSSE and returned to SAS.
In 2015, the agency made a new policy where agents must be trained both in close quarter and long range combat to minimize the potential loss. When Keith Martin and Robert Baxter engaged in a friendly match in front of their recruits with real swords, an incident happened where Keith lost one of his eye by Robert and was in grave danger due to the wound.
Since then, the two agents' relationship went south. Upon Keith's discharge from the hospital, he went AWOL. Despite the agency had searched for him, there was no trace of Keith Martin until he surfaced in 2016 when an incident happened in the agency. An internal auditor successfully trailed a traitor amongst VSSE who sold VSSE's intels to terrorist groups was found murdered in her apartment.
The electronic briefcase contained the traitor's identity was set to auto-format in 60 hours after her death as a fail-safe which somehow ended in Wild Dog's hands who demanded a ransom of 1 billion US Dollar for the briefcase.
The news caused an uproar amongst the agency and Robert Baxter, Luke O'Neil and Marc Godart were tasked to retrieve the electronic briefcase under the operation of Time Crisis 5. Prior of the operation, Luke O'Nei and Marc Godart were injected with a serum by the agency in which granted them superhuman speed and heightened senses for a period of 24 hours.
The negotiation did not go well. Wild Dog escaped from the negotiation site with the briefcase. Luke and Marc attempted a pursuit of Wild Dog. They managed to defeat Wild Dog in no time but the briefcase was ejected from Wild Dog in his loss into a jungle 18 kilometers from his position before he detonated himself for the fifth time.
VSSE sent Catherine Ricci to arrange transport for the trio agents. They cut through the freeway into the forest in no time and discovered a hidden military base in the deep jungle. They snuck their way in, only to find Keith Martin was attempting to crack the briefcase. Robert, aided by Luke and Marc engaged Keith in combat. In his desperate final moment, Keith's attempt of cracking the briefcase finally bear fruit as it somehow automatically unlocked to expose the true traitor in the agency's ranks at the same time saving his life from Luke and Marc's bullets.
The electronic briefcase exposed that Robert Baxter is the mole in VSSE. Not only that he sold VSSE's intel to the various terrorist groups, but also weapons and the nano machines injected to Luke and Marc's body in exchange for a group of Private Forces working under him with their base set up exactly the trio combat Keith. Upon the exposure, Robert fled to the deeper section of the base while triggering an alarm which alerted all of his troops.
Fighting their way to Robert, the trio encountered Wild Fang engaged in combat. Before Luke and Marc could make a confirmed kill, Wild Fang once again detonated himself in his loss.
It was reported in Luke O'Neil's AAR, that Robert was possessing a military nuclear satellite, in which shared the similarities with Ernesto Diaz's military nuclear satellite that Robert utilized to aid him in combat with Luke and Marc. The satellite was totally destroyed when Catherine Ricci collided a chopper onto the satellite.
In Time Crisis 5's incident, there were a total of 92 confirmed kills including Robert Baxter and 1 nuclear military satelite. Cause of death: 2 gunshots on chest. His body along with the remnants of nuclear military satellite were successfully retrieved together in the bottom of the ocean. Zero casualties coming from the agency.
Like Wild Dog, Wild Fang's body was never been found until this day.
Keith Martin was discharged upon his return to the agency to carry out his sentence despite his aid for Luke and Mark during their mission. He returned to his cover life as a stunt double. Following Keith's discharge, Alan Dunaway, Wesley Lambert, William Rush and Evan Bernard were promoted as senior agents and responsible to train more VSSE's recruits whilst William Rush is tasked to drill VSSE's strike force.
Two years later, Richard Miller was dishonorably discharged from the agency. Cause of discharge is unknown.
In case if you are wondering what kind of stupid writer who forgot to write a prologue, then you are reading the correct writer. Bravo. Anyway, there's a slight change of plan. One last chapter (Of which is Chapter 2) from this fic, I consider this fic is over.