Thanks for the good reviews, I wrote it on a whim, and people like it?
Chapter 2: The Briefing
As a green half-pint walked through the white gateway, the crew was complete. Before them was a table with 6 chairs, astoundingly custom made for the person to sit in them. Optimus, being the size of a truck of course, had been given a comparatively large chair, around 20 feet high. Thor had brought his own, being in need of back support only provided by the crushed bones of his foes in the form of a bean-bag chair. Snake and Ash both relaxed in padded egg shaped seats. Yoda, however, was given a slightly dignified high-chair. The heroes each starred at the bearded man in the orange suit. He obviously, knew what was going on, for he was the one with the cream soda in his hand.
"Good morning…you people." The blue-suited man said as he casually strolled in, not once noticing the extreme oddity of his company.
"Uhh, hey. First off, what the hell is going on!" The shotgun-wielding scarred soldier known as Ash announced. "And second, why does he get a soda?" Ash frowned, folding his arms awkwardly as he did have a chainsaw attached to one. The robot, Optimus Prime, curled his had into a fist and hit it lightly on the table, nearly breaking it.
"The violent madman is correct, about the first part. This is highly unusual, as I was unaware of these "Xenos" Are they a scheme of Megatrons?" He asked inquisitively. The group was getting restless, so the G-Man had to get some order going. He slammed his briefcase down and unlocked it, pulling out 5 folders. Handing them out, each looked intently at the package.
"These, gentlemen, are our foe. The Xenos, which in irony means "Alien" in Latin, are a deadly organism hell-bent on consuming the universe. They are around 16 yards long, 40 feet high, able to spread a contagion able to "Influence" anyone infected. After a week after the infection, the subject dies, giving birth to a larvae form of Xeno. The beasts themselves are to be feared as well, lizard like in structure, coated in black ooze, spiky bits everywhere. These, are things to be feared and.." The G-Man stopped to see one had his hand raised: Snake. He pointed at the bandana-wearing super-soldier.
"Excuse me, sir, but where to a Norse God, a robot-"
"Autobot" Optimus cut in.
"An Autobot, and that short guy over there come into this?"
Yoda looked up at the sneaky commando, stood up, and curled his brow.
"Take offence to this, I do." He said, giving the man a good scowl before sitting down again.
"It's quite simple," The Government Man explained. "You defeat the Xeno threat, and you save your world. Good enough?"
The gang had been escorted to a room down the bright white halls that make up the G-man's existence. Awkward at first, not knowing where walls, doors, holes in space-time, etc were, they got used to feeling around until they were lead into a room much similar to the briefing chamber. Except without a table, it just had same chairs and a massive screen. Thor had been lugging his massive chair for a while and gave a sigh of relief when G-man said they could sit down. Gordon casually walked in after the others and threw out his cream soda can in some sort of rubbish disposal wormhole. Once everyone was seated, the man of G turned on the screen with a remote and grabbed his pointy stick. The first picture was a weird spire-like structure, jutting abruptly from an otherwise flat landscape. To the left was a logo of a spinning hexagon with the words "HexOptimum" at the bottom.
"This, gentlemen, gods and auto bots, is your battleground: Metropolis Station. This is where the initial Xeno presence was confirmed, and this is where we will send you. Made by a very powerful corporation in the Andromeda galaxy, this was initially a testing ground for medical treatments by HexOptimum, but the place has gone black after the scans featured in your reports were sent out. This is where the infection started, and this is where it will end. The Xenos are all controlled by a central brain stem. Smash that, and they should all die. Of course, you will get the help from Gordon's, the man in the orange, team of rag-taggers."
After finishing his speech, G flicked through maybe 50 soldiers, along with Alyx, Barney, and strangely enough, Lamarr, the lovable Headcrab. He then proceeded to turn off the screen to continue.
"But, before we kill the greatest threat to all of the universe, we got get you in training to work together and-"
"And before that, how about you let us get a burger, I'm freaking hungry!" Ash cut in. A large amount of nods to that idea we recieved. Somehow, Gordon thought, this was going to work.