The thud of Soldiers marching was audible as they approached the Nudist beach trucks and lining up in rows.

Mikisugi stood by the trucks shouting commands to the nearby soldiers, "Now! Life fibers ain't your average run of the mill targets."
This announcement provoking a few chuckles from some of the soldiers as Mikisugi continued, "Although you probably know that given they're aliens, and so you gotta use the right tools for the job."

A DTR piloted by a Nudist beach agent approached Mikisugi, drawing the attention of the soldiers as it's tracks rumbled across the ground.

Mikisugi announced as it entered "This, is a DTR, one of our specialised mechanised units specially built to fight life fibers."

His announcement causing an inquisitive soldier to raise their hand, "What does DTR stand for sir?"

Mikisugi seemed embarrassed at this question, "we... we don't talk about that." But his answer only served to confuse the soldier.

seemingly attached to the side of the DTR was a cuboid shaped box, painted black of course and bared the Nudist beach insignia on it's front which displayed at the side of the DTR. The DTR turned to the soldiers before a robotic arm extended from the top, the arm then grabbed the crate before placing it beside Mikisugi.

"And these will be what you will be using." Mikisugi placed his hand on the Nudist beach logo, the insignia seemed to glow for a moment.

A robotic female voice emanated from the crate, "NUDIST BEACH AUTHENTICATION VERIFIED."

Two panels atop the crate then slid open from the front and back separating from one another from on top the box, the two panels then laid flat on the back and front of the box as another panel from inside the crate extended out from the box before stopping above the back of the box displaying diagonally for all to see. On the panel above the box laid one of the black FAMAS style sewing machine rifles.

Mikisugi picked up the rifle holding it up by it's handle. "This is a standard issue Nudist needle rifle."

Mikisugi then placed his hand at the for-end of the rifle as he placed the stock against his armpit just below his shoulder, pointing the rifle to the side as he stared down the sights, his finger off the trigger to maintain trigger discipline.

He turned his head to the soldiers as he now pointed the rifle at the ground, "As the name suggests it fires needles, that may seem unconventional, however where normal ammo fails, plant enough of these bad boys in the target and their life fibers will freeze up like a shitty Christmas dinner."

It wasn't long after this that the soldiers had now lined up in front of the crate and each of them taking one rifle, while nudist beach agents who had joined Mikisugi handed out a multitude of mags to each soldier. The soldiers then lined up in rows again before checking their weapons such as the sights, safety function, reload time etc.

After Mikisugi had finished lecturing the soldiers on the proper use of the rifles, the general approached Mikisugi to grab his attention. "Sir Mikisugi I'm afraid we need to discuss who will be keep hold of the specimen."

Mikisugi sighed in his reply, "I knew it would come to that eventually, but shouldn't we wait till we actually got the specimen?"

The general scratched his head awkwardly as the short doctor stood next to him, smiling smugly, "I agree, but the good doctor here insists that we sort this out now..."

Mikisugi looked irritated at the doctor before looking back at the general "I see..."
There was a moment of silence as tension filled the air.

Suddenly, the general saluted towards Mikisugi, "Sir, on the behalf of the united states government we propose turning over the specimen upon capture to nudist beach."

An audible "what!?" jumped out of the doctors mouth as he turned from smugness to utter surprise.

Mikisugi stood taken aback, his shock filling his face, "Are you sure about that sir? isn't this a massive asset on the line?"

The general replied calmly with a smile on his face, "I already cleared it with the president, Nudist beach Is a force for humanity, not for a single nation, and if this entity is the fore-barer for a greater threat, I can think of no one who has more knowledge and experience with such a threat than Nudist beach."

Mikisugi's surprised turned to modest joy in his response, "well that's a great honour sir, flying that thing out of the country is gonna be quite troublesome though."

The general waved his hand out to gesture a negative response, "Now now, I said we would be turning other the specimen, not that it would leave the country."

Mikisugi's face turned to surprise once again, "oh, then how do you want to handle this?"

The general again smiled as he replied, "I have another proposal; an American Nudist beach branch that cooperates directly with the American government."

Mikisugi's look of surprise refused to fade, "you're serious?"

Mikisugi's question caused the general to answer with genuine friendliness, "of course, if you require more agents I can draw up a list of worthy candidates, or perhaps even the agents from this mission. The president agreed that if another life fiber threat appeared in our great nation we want the best men on the job to ensure the safety of America."
Mikisugi tried to respond but the words couldn't come out in his shock as the general continued to talk, "We would provide you what ever you need to set everything up and you will be able to communicate between your branch in Japan and here in America whenever you wish, our conditions is that nudist beach cooperates fully with our government and our scientists will continue to have access to the specimen, for purely research purposes only."

Upon the last remark of the general the doctor looked significantly less frustrated and merely held his chin as he pondered on the agreement.

The general held his hand out to shake Mikisugi's as he states one last proclamation oh his proposal, "So, what do you say?"

Mikisugi looked deep in contemplation for a moment before clasping his hand in the generals and shaking it, proclaiming, "Its a deal."

The general smiled with relief, "great! Oh by the way... I heard you are going on this mission personally?"

Mikisugi nodded proudly, " Yup, I always see through a mission myself."

The general chuckled slightly, "Heh I like that, beats the hell out of a desk job, I practically had to beg the others back at the pentagon to let me come out here personally."

The two shared a proper laugh before Mikisugi stepped his way towards one of the trucks to see Tsumugu sitting on his bike by the truck smoking a cigarette, "so we're working with the Americans permanently now?"

But Mikisugi ignored this as he knew that Tsumugu already had his answer as he stepped into the passenger side door to the front of the truck before shouting to the other trucks, "Alright boys and girls, lets go catch ourselves a monster! Nudist beach roll out!"

As he said this Tsumugu and the Nudist beach trucks began driving as several military trucks followed them.

The many vehicle's tires rumbled across the sandy plains while DTRs sped beside them kicking up dust as they made their away through the desert. A soldier sat within a machine gun turret on one of the military vehicles, she peered through a pair binoculars as she clutched the handle of her needle rifle. She squinted for a moment trying not to catch the ray of the sun within her view before noticing strange markings on a hill to their west.

"Possible signs of target 8 o'clock!" The soldier shouted causing the soldiers in the front seats relaying the directions to the other trucks.

Upon hearing the directions Mikisugi in his truck spoke into his radio, "hey Doctor Natrium, does our current position correspond to the origin of the return signal?"

The doctor back in the camp peered into a continuous feed of a radio spectrum on a laptop, he then tapped a few keys before the screen changed to a map of the area with a pinging signal represented by a growing circle displayed on part of the map with a dot to represent the convoy, "Not quite, but you're on the right track."

The trucks continued driving across the desert when suddenly the front truck screeched to a halt, the trucks behind almost crashing into one another.

Mikisugi quickly spoke into the radio, "Front truck, report"

The agents in the front truck replied through their own radio, "Er sir, we've run into two people wearing weird white hazmat suits."

The two people in the hazmat suits clutched onto each other shaking where they stood at the sudden arrival of the vehicles. Back in the camp the Doctor sweated profusely after hearing this over the radio.

The general approached him, looming over the intimidated professor, "Xavier..."

The doctor almost jumped at hearing these words, "Er... y-yes g-general Steele?" He stuttered in fear comically.

The general continued his words cold and foreboding "Aren't those your men?"

The doctor gave no reply in his fear.

Back with the convoy the one of the agents got out of the vehicle pointing his needle rifle at the two individuals "hands in the air now!"

One of the people in the hazmat suit stuck their hands up still shaking where they stood, "Don't shoot! I'm with the government!"

Mikisugi stepped out two trucks behind, walking up to the front, "yeah they're friendlies..."
The agent lowered his weapon, as Mikisugi approached the two hazmat wearing individuals. "What are you guys doing here?"

The person he faced seem to emanate a man's voice, "T-that's classified!"

Mikisugi seemed fed up immediately after they said this.
He then turned to one of the agents, "...Alright shoot them."

Both the hazmat individuals managed to throw out a "wait what?" before the agent fired a few needles into both of them.

The two people's bodies went stiff, and fell onto the ground in the same position before they were shot with the needles.

Mikisugi started walking back towards the trucks ordering a few other agents got out of the trucks, "Alright put them in the back."

One of the agents pointed at a two person sized buggy parked near by as they dragged the people towards the trucks, "what do we do with that?"

Mikisugi shrugged, "Eh just leave it, I'm sure we can write it off on the good doctor's pay check."

Mikisugi got back into the truck, to hear the general's voice chime through the radio, "Seems our Doctor here forgot to tell us that he sent out groups of his personal assistants to attempt to do his own capture plan."

Mikisugi soon replied, "How many are we looking for?"

The general turned to the doctor who eked out a nervous "T-ten"

Mikisugi scoffed in frustration before replying, "Well we better find them before they are successful in their own hunt, if they haven't been already..."

The trucks continued driving while back in the camp the general mutes the mic on the radio before turning to doctor Xavier, "What the hell were you thinking?!"

The Doctor grit his teeth in frustration before replying, "I was thinking of this nation! That if we could get our hands on that entity it could push America into a new golden age of Science!"

The general's anger brimmed when he heard these words, "you arrogant dumb ass! you've sent those assistants out there to die!"

The Doctor shouted back, his words akin to excuses, "I personally trained each of them my self to take on life fibers!"

The general's gaze intensified "and how much experience do you have fighting life fibers?"

This seemed to break the doctor's anger as he seemed to not have a response.

Xavier then turned nervously to the laptop un-muting the radio's mic, "Mikisugi? you're approaching the signal's origin."

The general stood over the doctor who nervously looked at the general every now and then as his presence was crushing down on him.

"Copy that" Mikisugi spoke in the radio as the trucks slowed to a halt.

They had approached a large cliff with what seemed to a sizeable cave, the entrance surrounded by markings similar to the marks they saw before.