Spider bear: Yeah I changed the names now though. Just so you know 3 to 4 chapters left.
Cristalina: I needed some kind of cover up to let Trent and Cassandra get away and I figured Canary and Mary were the ideal diversion (if you didn't know a character in Banjo-Tooie is called Canary Mary). The previous names as shown in Spider bear's review were more clever though and funny.
*Bit of story backtracking and other stuff here.
A clear up on what the Skedar/Datadyne purpose in London since I probably thought this in my head but never actually put it in understandable words. Trent and Cassandra's reasons for being in London is no secret, the Skedar were not directly involved in the London attack, just dataDyne (I never said this since our heroes never had the chance).
They make a plan to capture the British PM at that meeting Jonathan recorded just before being captured by Terrance. The Skedar seem to think the British PM knows the whereabouts of "their ship" but he keeps it secret from everybody else to keep the peace.
At this point all the CI the Maians and even dataDyne/Trent know at this point is that the Skedar are trying to find their own ship. Little did any of them know was that what the Skedar were truly looking for was the location of the Cetan Megaweapon. When Trent and Cass were told to release the PM it was because the Skedar had found the location of the Cetan Megaweapon or as dataDyne knew it "their ship" and the Skedar didn't want any unwanted attention, from world governments putting them and their temporary allies in danger. Obviously they could not get the Megaweapon themselves due to it being buried deep under the Pacific Ocean, and the rest of this part of the story is explained in Perfect Dark.
The PM himself was blindfolded and never saw Cass and Trent, this is side story and can't be told from the point of view of either Jonathan or Sean. That needed to be said, and now it has been.
If this were an actual Perfect Dark game (yeah right) this would be explained in a story summary. Try to imagine this as the prequel to Perfect Dark, AKA Perfect Dark Zero, the game that will probably never come out for various reasons (and it's not on Gamecube, although I'd be grateful for its release on any system). In reality that is what I should have named the story, but if Perfect Dark Zero were to be made by the same team as Perfect Dark, I think the storyline would follow something like this, Jonathan as the main character and various events related to Perfect Dark happening. It is clear that Jonathan knows Elvis before Perfect Dark as Elvis says in Area 51 Escape "You're from the institute aren't you, I recognise you from before" this clearly stats Elvis has met Jonathan previously.
There are two reasons why I think the game was/is called Perfect Dark Zero, 1) It takes place before Perfect Dark One and 2) Jonathan IS Perfect Dark Zero, the agent who held the records before Joanna broke them with perfect score getting her code name. Of course Jon wouldn't be codenamed Perfect Dark Zero, but it's a clever way of saying Jonathan came before Joanna, almost getting perfect but falling just short.
Now all that chatter is done with on with the story…
Jonathan was right, the Institute was indeed under attack.
"Both of you, rush to Foster's weapons lab" Carrington said "Try to get as many out as possible, lead them to the Hangar, come back for me when it's all clear I'll be safe in here" He added before the pair left and drew their pistols and fired and various dataDyne troops who had bust down the front door.
"Wouldn't knocking do?" Sean said sarcastically as he jumped over the first floor railing
"What are you doing?" Jonathan said as Sean made a clean landing on the ground firing a bit more.
"You take care of what's on the first floor to the lift, we'll meet at Foster's" Sean said as he ran off
Jonathan didn't like taking orders from Sean, but he knew there was no time to argue and the fact he was also right. Jonathan cleaned out the guards that had crowded around the elevator as Sean tried to deal with some of them himself but even after they were all dead gunshots were still begin fired.
"Sean is the lift clear?" Jonathan asked
"Yeah, just don't do what I did before" Sean said
Jonathan didn't know what Sean had meant by that but took the lift and learned why, he saw about 3 guards firing as he went down the lift. Sean had managed to take cover behind the wall and pick them off and Jonathan took care of the last one. They ran into Foster's weapons lab and encountered a few dead bodies of enemy men. They called out before taking another step.
"Foster its Jonathan and Sean" Jonathan called out
"Oh good, hurry" Foster replied
They walked in and Foster showed them his two latest projects.
"This is the completed AR34 assault rifle, no doubt it's useful right now" Foster said
"…and the other weapon?" Jonathan asked
"Laptop gun, 30 rounds not as powerful as the AR34 but of course it folds into a computer and can be thrown away for a grenade effect" Foster explained handing Jonathan the Laptop gun.
"Fantastic. Let's move" Jonathan said as Sean took the AR34. "Go to the Hangar, we'll cover you" Jonathan said
"Very well" Foster replied as the trio moved down into the Hangar but on the way they heard screams. Sean immediately ran towards the room he heard them from.
"Okay, you get them out, I'll escort them alright?" Jonathan said
"Cool" Sean replied as he went into the room carefully
Jonathan encountered small amounts of resistance but not very much as he escorted Foster to the Hangar where a jumpship was waiting.
"Excellent" Carrington said from inside
"Wha? How'd you get here?" Jonathan asked
"Secret passages in the Institute that only I know about. I use them for times like this" Carrington replied "Keep going"
Jonathan knew this wasn't the time to ask about the issue, he returned to the room where Sean had heard the screams from and he was escorting Jenny out.
"Is she alright?" Jonathan asked
"Yes, what about Carrington though, I don't trust his office protection" Sean said
"He's in the Hangar, don't ask I don't know how he got there" Jonathan replied
"Whatever, I'm working on this floor first" Sean said
"Alright, I've got a better idea. Why don't we both escort them and rescue them" Jonathan said
"Yeah, okay" Sean replied
The two of them worked on the bottom floor and released the Institute staff without much trouble. They repeated the process on the first floor and got everybody in the jumpship.
"That does it" Sean said
Just then a loud roar was heard… a very familiar roar.
"Or not…" Jonathan said
"Listen I'll call another jumpship for you two, fight off what ever is left here. I can advise you if need be" Carrington said
"Alright, good luck" Jonathan watched the jumpship depart and another came in.
They looked around trying to work out where the roar had come from and when they looked in the courtyard in the very centre of the Institute their question was answered. 5 Skedar surrounding a mysterious Skedar ship. They started firing and Sean and Jonathan fought back and their new weapons caught the Skedar off guard killing 3 of them very quickly. They reloaded and combined their fire to kill the remaining two.
"I wonder what's in the ship" Jonathan said "It hasn't attacked us"
"That's because…" He paused and thought for a moment "it's a bomb!" Sean shouted alarmed
"What how do you know?" Jonathan asked
"Because of the markings here, the Maians told me about these, I'll see if I can defuse it. Cover me if need be" Sean said dropping his rifle and looking around the ship. About 2 dataDyne guards showed which Jonathan dealt with easily, followed by a single Skedar who was also outgunned. Five more guards came that were also dealt with due to Jonathan's expertise.
"Uh oh… there is no way we can stop this going off now" Sean said
"We've got to run for it then?" Jonathan asked
"Yes. There is nothing I can do, unless I could hack with the piloting systems, but Grimshaw is the only person who could have any idea where to start with that" Sean said
"How long?" Jonathan asked
"1 minute, we've got to start running now" Sean said as he ran away from the ship.
Just as they were exiting a dataDyne guard drew their attention and fired, Jonathan tried to deal with him and he killed him. Sean urged Jonathan to hurry as they went out the front door. The explosion happened as soon as Sean was outside the Institute he dived and the explosion was a good distance away from him. He looked around, he couldn't see Jonathan. He walked closer to the burning building and saw Jonathan unconscious, his legs looked like they didn't quite get out of the explosion range.
"Jonathan!" Sean called out
"What was that?" Carrington said through the radio
"A Skedar bomb, I couldn't stop it…." Sean said
"And Jonathan?" Carrington said
"I think he's alive but he's unconscious and his legs look liked they have been burned badly by the explosion…" Sean replied. People began to come running to the scene of the explosion. "People are here so I can't talk about certain things now" Sean said
"Hmm… don't worry, we got everybody out the building is replaceable but the people are not. I'll be landing in a minute, although I think Jonathan's career might very well be over" Carrington said
Sean looked over at his unconscious friend, wondering if what Carrington had said was true. Whether Jonathan would even survive, but Carrington landed and got Sean's help got Jonathan's body onto the jumpship and left again just before the media, fire and ambulance services arrived.
"Well, not that this is good in anyway at all, but we had build a smaller building in a more deserted location" Carrington said
"I see… will Jonathan be alright?" He looked up and saw Elvis looking over his body "How'd you get here?" Sean asked
"They picked me up from the villa. Jonathan's legs can be repaired but I do not think human technology is able to do this" Elvis said
They arrived at the new building which as Carrington said was in a far more deserted location. It was considerably smaller but they landed and everybody inside the jumpship seemed to move to certain rooms.
"Can you heal Jonathan now?" Sean asked
"Now I can since we've stopped" Elvis pulled out a typical blue Maian device and applied to Jonathan's legs, he twitched a little bit but the burn marks and damage done seem to fade immediately. Jonathan began to wake up.
"Ah you are awake again" Carrington said
"What's happened… I thought I'd wake up dead" Jonathan moaned
"Almost, you had a close call. However your legs weren't as fortunate" Carrington said
"What? I don't understand they are still there" Jonathan replied
"But they wouldn't be if Elvis didn't use something" Carrington said
"Take a walk around, I'm not sure if your movement will be as good as it used to be" Elvis said.
Jonathan took a walk around, and broke into a run. He knew what Elvis meant, he could still move at good speed but not as fast as he used to.
"Yeah I definitely feel slower…" Jonathan said "Not a big difference though"
"Hmm… as such Elvis suggested you start undercover work, this is after all what you wanted to start with… I know you are used to your more active role and you are welcome to keep it since you don't seem too badly effected" Carrington said
Jonathan thought for a moment, it was what he wanted but he did like the role he had just been placed into. However undercover work did have its appeal it was more of Jonathan's style…
"I guess I agree…" Jonathan said finally
"Excellent. However let's keep this to ourselves, only we know of the damage done to you. Thankfully everybody else was on the other side of the ship" Carrington said
"Okay, but there won't be much use in me doing undercover against dataDyne since I've become well known there" Jonathan said
"I wouldn't bet on that, Cassandra has over 3000 guards, and a lot of them die as soon as they meet you" Carrington said with a slight grin on his face
"Thanks I think" Jonathan said
"Yes it was a compliment, anyway are you feeling okay aside the slight slowness in quick movement?" Carrington asked
"Yeah I'm fine" Jonathan replied
"Good. Now it is obvious that Cassandra with her Skedar allies planned this attack. What we want you Jonathan to do is to go into Lucerne tower again and take a guard's uniform. Sean you will knock out the cameras with an ECM mine so Jonathan won't be detected. After this, Jonathan will attempt to work out whether Cassandra is in the building or not. If so you Sean go in and capture Cassandra even though it may be politically risky, and we may have to release her quickly but just as long as we have her for long enough to get it out of her what the Skedar plans are" Carrington said in a quick briefing
"But Cassandra probably won't talk" Jonathan said
"And I would bet this is going to get us into hot water" Sean added
"That's a chance we are going to have to take… you will leave at 8 pm tomorrow" Carrington said and the two agents nodded.
Neither understood why Carrington wanted to capture Cassandra right now and capturing her wouldn't exactly be a cakewalk, and knowing dataDyne and their links with the NSA, at most Carrington is only going to get a day to talk it out of her what the Skedar plans are, and Cassandra would be very unlikely to cooperate with Carrington. It just seemed like a fruitless exercise, however Carrington seemed to know what he was doing and they had no choice but to trust his judgement.
On looking at the new Institute it was considerably smaller, with 2 rooms on the main floor and 4 rooms at the top, and the hangar on the bottom floor. However it did have all it really needed, a firing range, a hologram training room, device lab and of course Hacker Central. However it was a good distance away from anything, it was about an hour from Jonathan's place to the new Institute. Of course the advantage of this was that you wouldn't have to worry about people peering inside.
Cristalina: I needed some kind of cover up to let Trent and Cassandra get away and I figured Canary and Mary were the ideal diversion (if you didn't know a character in Banjo-Tooie is called Canary Mary). The previous names as shown in Spider bear's review were more clever though and funny.
*Bit of story backtracking and other stuff here.
A clear up on what the Skedar/Datadyne purpose in London since I probably thought this in my head but never actually put it in understandable words. Trent and Cassandra's reasons for being in London is no secret, the Skedar were not directly involved in the London attack, just dataDyne (I never said this since our heroes never had the chance).
They make a plan to capture the British PM at that meeting Jonathan recorded just before being captured by Terrance. The Skedar seem to think the British PM knows the whereabouts of "their ship" but he keeps it secret from everybody else to keep the peace.
At this point all the CI the Maians and even dataDyne/Trent know at this point is that the Skedar are trying to find their own ship. Little did any of them know was that what the Skedar were truly looking for was the location of the Cetan Megaweapon. When Trent and Cass were told to release the PM it was because the Skedar had found the location of the Cetan Megaweapon or as dataDyne knew it "their ship" and the Skedar didn't want any unwanted attention, from world governments putting them and their temporary allies in danger. Obviously they could not get the Megaweapon themselves due to it being buried deep under the Pacific Ocean, and the rest of this part of the story is explained in Perfect Dark.
The PM himself was blindfolded and never saw Cass and Trent, this is side story and can't be told from the point of view of either Jonathan or Sean. That needed to be said, and now it has been.
If this were an actual Perfect Dark game (yeah right) this would be explained in a story summary. Try to imagine this as the prequel to Perfect Dark, AKA Perfect Dark Zero, the game that will probably never come out for various reasons (and it's not on Gamecube, although I'd be grateful for its release on any system). In reality that is what I should have named the story, but if Perfect Dark Zero were to be made by the same team as Perfect Dark, I think the storyline would follow something like this, Jonathan as the main character and various events related to Perfect Dark happening. It is clear that Jonathan knows Elvis before Perfect Dark as Elvis says in Area 51 Escape "You're from the institute aren't you, I recognise you from before" this clearly stats Elvis has met Jonathan previously.
There are two reasons why I think the game was/is called Perfect Dark Zero, 1) It takes place before Perfect Dark One and 2) Jonathan IS Perfect Dark Zero, the agent who held the records before Joanna broke them with perfect score getting her code name. Of course Jon wouldn't be codenamed Perfect Dark Zero, but it's a clever way of saying Jonathan came before Joanna, almost getting perfect but falling just short.
Now all that chatter is done with on with the story…
Jonathan was right, the Institute was indeed under attack.
"Both of you, rush to Foster's weapons lab" Carrington said "Try to get as many out as possible, lead them to the Hangar, come back for me when it's all clear I'll be safe in here" He added before the pair left and drew their pistols and fired and various dataDyne troops who had bust down the front door.
"Wouldn't knocking do?" Sean said sarcastically as he jumped over the first floor railing
"What are you doing?" Jonathan said as Sean made a clean landing on the ground firing a bit more.
"You take care of what's on the first floor to the lift, we'll meet at Foster's" Sean said as he ran off
Jonathan didn't like taking orders from Sean, but he knew there was no time to argue and the fact he was also right. Jonathan cleaned out the guards that had crowded around the elevator as Sean tried to deal with some of them himself but even after they were all dead gunshots were still begin fired.
"Sean is the lift clear?" Jonathan asked
"Yeah, just don't do what I did before" Sean said
Jonathan didn't know what Sean had meant by that but took the lift and learned why, he saw about 3 guards firing as he went down the lift. Sean had managed to take cover behind the wall and pick them off and Jonathan took care of the last one. They ran into Foster's weapons lab and encountered a few dead bodies of enemy men. They called out before taking another step.
"Foster its Jonathan and Sean" Jonathan called out
"Oh good, hurry" Foster replied
They walked in and Foster showed them his two latest projects.
"This is the completed AR34 assault rifle, no doubt it's useful right now" Foster said
"…and the other weapon?" Jonathan asked
"Laptop gun, 30 rounds not as powerful as the AR34 but of course it folds into a computer and can be thrown away for a grenade effect" Foster explained handing Jonathan the Laptop gun.
"Fantastic. Let's move" Jonathan said as Sean took the AR34. "Go to the Hangar, we'll cover you" Jonathan said
"Very well" Foster replied as the trio moved down into the Hangar but on the way they heard screams. Sean immediately ran towards the room he heard them from.
"Okay, you get them out, I'll escort them alright?" Jonathan said
"Cool" Sean replied as he went into the room carefully
Jonathan encountered small amounts of resistance but not very much as he escorted Foster to the Hangar where a jumpship was waiting.
"Excellent" Carrington said from inside
"Wha? How'd you get here?" Jonathan asked
"Secret passages in the Institute that only I know about. I use them for times like this" Carrington replied "Keep going"
Jonathan knew this wasn't the time to ask about the issue, he returned to the room where Sean had heard the screams from and he was escorting Jenny out.
"Is she alright?" Jonathan asked
"Yes, what about Carrington though, I don't trust his office protection" Sean said
"He's in the Hangar, don't ask I don't know how he got there" Jonathan replied
"Whatever, I'm working on this floor first" Sean said
"Alright, I've got a better idea. Why don't we both escort them and rescue them" Jonathan said
"Yeah, okay" Sean replied
The two of them worked on the bottom floor and released the Institute staff without much trouble. They repeated the process on the first floor and got everybody in the jumpship.
"That does it" Sean said
Just then a loud roar was heard… a very familiar roar.
"Or not…" Jonathan said
"Listen I'll call another jumpship for you two, fight off what ever is left here. I can advise you if need be" Carrington said
"Alright, good luck" Jonathan watched the jumpship depart and another came in.
They looked around trying to work out where the roar had come from and when they looked in the courtyard in the very centre of the Institute their question was answered. 5 Skedar surrounding a mysterious Skedar ship. They started firing and Sean and Jonathan fought back and their new weapons caught the Skedar off guard killing 3 of them very quickly. They reloaded and combined their fire to kill the remaining two.
"I wonder what's in the ship" Jonathan said "It hasn't attacked us"
"That's because…" He paused and thought for a moment "it's a bomb!" Sean shouted alarmed
"What how do you know?" Jonathan asked
"Because of the markings here, the Maians told me about these, I'll see if I can defuse it. Cover me if need be" Sean said dropping his rifle and looking around the ship. About 2 dataDyne guards showed which Jonathan dealt with easily, followed by a single Skedar who was also outgunned. Five more guards came that were also dealt with due to Jonathan's expertise.
"Uh oh… there is no way we can stop this going off now" Sean said
"We've got to run for it then?" Jonathan asked
"Yes. There is nothing I can do, unless I could hack with the piloting systems, but Grimshaw is the only person who could have any idea where to start with that" Sean said
"How long?" Jonathan asked
"1 minute, we've got to start running now" Sean said as he ran away from the ship.
Just as they were exiting a dataDyne guard drew their attention and fired, Jonathan tried to deal with him and he killed him. Sean urged Jonathan to hurry as they went out the front door. The explosion happened as soon as Sean was outside the Institute he dived and the explosion was a good distance away from him. He looked around, he couldn't see Jonathan. He walked closer to the burning building and saw Jonathan unconscious, his legs looked like they didn't quite get out of the explosion range.
"Jonathan!" Sean called out
"What was that?" Carrington said through the radio
"A Skedar bomb, I couldn't stop it…." Sean said
"And Jonathan?" Carrington said
"I think he's alive but he's unconscious and his legs look liked they have been burned badly by the explosion…" Sean replied. People began to come running to the scene of the explosion. "People are here so I can't talk about certain things now" Sean said
"Hmm… don't worry, we got everybody out the building is replaceable but the people are not. I'll be landing in a minute, although I think Jonathan's career might very well be over" Carrington said
Sean looked over at his unconscious friend, wondering if what Carrington had said was true. Whether Jonathan would even survive, but Carrington landed and got Sean's help got Jonathan's body onto the jumpship and left again just before the media, fire and ambulance services arrived.
"Well, not that this is good in anyway at all, but we had build a smaller building in a more deserted location" Carrington said
"I see… will Jonathan be alright?" He looked up and saw Elvis looking over his body "How'd you get here?" Sean asked
"They picked me up from the villa. Jonathan's legs can be repaired but I do not think human technology is able to do this" Elvis said
They arrived at the new building which as Carrington said was in a far more deserted location. It was considerably smaller but they landed and everybody inside the jumpship seemed to move to certain rooms.
"Can you heal Jonathan now?" Sean asked
"Now I can since we've stopped" Elvis pulled out a typical blue Maian device and applied to Jonathan's legs, he twitched a little bit but the burn marks and damage done seem to fade immediately. Jonathan began to wake up.
"Ah you are awake again" Carrington said
"What's happened… I thought I'd wake up dead" Jonathan moaned
"Almost, you had a close call. However your legs weren't as fortunate" Carrington said
"What? I don't understand they are still there" Jonathan replied
"But they wouldn't be if Elvis didn't use something" Carrington said
"Take a walk around, I'm not sure if your movement will be as good as it used to be" Elvis said.
Jonathan took a walk around, and broke into a run. He knew what Elvis meant, he could still move at good speed but not as fast as he used to.
"Yeah I definitely feel slower…" Jonathan said "Not a big difference though"
"Hmm… as such Elvis suggested you start undercover work, this is after all what you wanted to start with… I know you are used to your more active role and you are welcome to keep it since you don't seem too badly effected" Carrington said
Jonathan thought for a moment, it was what he wanted but he did like the role he had just been placed into. However undercover work did have its appeal it was more of Jonathan's style…
"I guess I agree…" Jonathan said finally
"Excellent. However let's keep this to ourselves, only we know of the damage done to you. Thankfully everybody else was on the other side of the ship" Carrington said
"Okay, but there won't be much use in me doing undercover against dataDyne since I've become well known there" Jonathan said
"I wouldn't bet on that, Cassandra has over 3000 guards, and a lot of them die as soon as they meet you" Carrington said with a slight grin on his face
"Thanks I think" Jonathan said
"Yes it was a compliment, anyway are you feeling okay aside the slight slowness in quick movement?" Carrington asked
"Yeah I'm fine" Jonathan replied
"Good. Now it is obvious that Cassandra with her Skedar allies planned this attack. What we want you Jonathan to do is to go into Lucerne tower again and take a guard's uniform. Sean you will knock out the cameras with an ECM mine so Jonathan won't be detected. After this, Jonathan will attempt to work out whether Cassandra is in the building or not. If so you Sean go in and capture Cassandra even though it may be politically risky, and we may have to release her quickly but just as long as we have her for long enough to get it out of her what the Skedar plans are" Carrington said in a quick briefing
"But Cassandra probably won't talk" Jonathan said
"And I would bet this is going to get us into hot water" Sean added
"That's a chance we are going to have to take… you will leave at 8 pm tomorrow" Carrington said and the two agents nodded.
Neither understood why Carrington wanted to capture Cassandra right now and capturing her wouldn't exactly be a cakewalk, and knowing dataDyne and their links with the NSA, at most Carrington is only going to get a day to talk it out of her what the Skedar plans are, and Cassandra would be very unlikely to cooperate with Carrington. It just seemed like a fruitless exercise, however Carrington seemed to know what he was doing and they had no choice but to trust his judgement.
On looking at the new Institute it was considerably smaller, with 2 rooms on the main floor and 4 rooms at the top, and the hangar on the bottom floor. However it did have all it really needed, a firing range, a hologram training room, device lab and of course Hacker Central. However it was a good distance away from anything, it was about an hour from Jonathan's place to the new Institute. Of course the advantage of this was that you wouldn't have to worry about people peering inside.
