Well I see that the story so far has had some pretty nice feedback. I had some free time lately and decided to break out chapter 2 early. I hope you like it my dear readers. I don't own anything but my OC Red vs Blue is owned by roosterteeth.
Enjoy.
In Kales room
Since Kale had passed out the room had changed quite a bit. On the outside of the room agents Washington and Wyoming were guarding the door making small talk every once in awhile. On the inside of the room Kale was still unconscious on the bed. Almost everyone else was in there with him. North was lecturing South on how you don't shoot anyone that wasn't a threat. Carolina was staring at Kales body waiting for him to wake up. C.T and York had been checking out Kales DVD collection marveling at the movies that they apparently hadn't heard or seen yet. Maine was out and about checking the rest of the ship for anymore unwanted guests.
Suddenly the door slid open and the Director walked into the room. All current soldiers present stopped what they were doing and immediately stood straight and looked at the director. He looked around the room with an unreadable face. He then turned to Carolina. "What is your status report on the intruder and how this situation occurred Carolina."
She stepped forward and looked around the room. "From what we can tell the room itself was constructed into the ship. All the wires and equipment are in perfect sync with the ship making everything in here operational." She looked at Kales body as it slowly breathed in and out. "As for the intruder from what we can get from the stuff he brought with him. His name is Kale Riverwood age 15." She stops and looks at the Director nervously.
"Is that all agent Carolina?" He says his voice monotone as usual. Carolina looks back and sighs. "We did run a scan of him through our servers and checked hospital, school and service records. We...we didn't find anything sir. By all accounts this...person should not exist." She stepped back and left that remaining thought hang in the air.
The Director looked at the boy for a moment. He then turned to agent York by the DVD rack. "Agent York what happened when you entered the room?" York stepped forward placing a DVD back on the rack. "Well sir when we came inside we started to sweep the room for intruders after I finally unlocked the door. Me and South then spotted the intruder and as standard protocol we aimed our pistols at him. then...he started to talk about us putting our guns down and South here decided to shoot him." South then stepped forward to York. "Are you saying it was my fault York?!" York stepped back and put his hands up. The Director looked sharply at South making most of the people in the room flinch.
"Well agent South if you wish to speak than you may do so. Continue where agent York left off." South hesitated then continued to speak. "After I had...fired a warning shot the intruder shut up and passed out. York put the wuss in his bed and grabbed a left over DVD off the floor." York started to tense up after hearing South mention the DVD.
"Thank you for kindly finishing agent Yorks speech agent South we shall speak later about this performance." He said in his normal voice looking away from South. South mumbled a "Yes sir." and hurried back over to North.
"Agent York what is your diagnostic of the door. For some reason our cameras and computer can not get a visual in this room." York laughed a bit nervously at this. "The door was on a timer sir." Everyone was paying attention now. "A timer?" North piped up obviously intrigued. "Apparently when me and South reached the door a timer to open the door started to count down. I tried to speed up the countdown but when I tried it reset the countdown. This was no ordinary hardware either when I took a look at it again the timer had some pretty advanced tech in it even for us."
"Is that all you could gather?" York nodded his head hesitantly. "Yes but sir there was something else I found while going through the room." York actually sounded quite nervous about this. "Yes agent York what was it?" He carefully went into the DVD rack and pulled out the copy of Red vs Blue he found with Kale. It was now quite obvious that he had the attention of the entire room. From what they could tell it had three soldiers they did not recognized and one that looked like agent Washington.
"What pray tell agent York is that." The Director said after composing himself. "Its a DVD case s-sir." He says stuttering a bit. "No shit York whats in the case?" South snaps impatiently. York taps his fingers along the DVD case for a bit before chuckling nervously. "W-well a DVD I...assume."
Carolina stepped up next to York. "You assume? Whats that supposed to mean York?" He stays silent during the question. "York whats in the DVD case man?" North says to York in a bit of a more calming manner. York gulps and sighed to himself. "Well...I haven't looked inside of it yet."
C.T was watching the situation play out up until this point. "What do you mean you haven't looked inside? Is it trapped or something?" York pauses for a moment before rubbing the back of his helmet. "I can't get it open." He says simply as he adds nothing else.
South immediately burst out laughing at York and points at him. "Are you fricken serious here? York the almighty locksmith of Project Freelancer can't open a DVD case!" York throws his hands up and gives the case to Carolina who was now beside him smirking under her helmet. "Carolina try opening it." She takes the DVD case rolling her eyes. When she tries to pull it open it refuses to do so. This managed to help South practically die of laughter as Carolina tried to constantly open the case going so far as breaking the case only for it to fail.
"Agent South if you think this situation is funny maybe I should place you on door duty and get agent Washington in here." the Director says with a hidden edge in his voice that he didn't use very often. South immediately calms down and stops laughing. "We will discuss this matter at later point in time. For now I need all agents except for Carolina and North Dakota to stay here and watch our intruder." He grabs the DVD from Carolinas hands. "Myself and the councilor will scan this and get it open. Dismissed." All of the agents salute and head out except for Carolina and North.
The Director goes over to the two. "I want one of you two here at all times. If he wakes up call me immediately and make sure he stays here. Understood?" The both salute to him. "Yes sir!"
2 hours Later
The first thing Kale did when he woke up was look around. It looked the same as always minus the metal door. What he didn't notice was Carolina in camouflaged mode hidden in green paint. North was hiding behind the bed silently calling the Director that the intruder was awake. Kale shook his head and rubbed his eyes. "Man that was that was one of my more...failed first encounters." He swung his legs off the bed and jumped off.
He almost fell flat on his face as he trips and steadied himself. Carolina rolls her eyes at the boy. This was the guy that infiltrated the Mother Of Invention? He looks like an idiot that would get himself killed by falling down the stairs. Kale stood up straight and started to look around to see if anyone was here. Before he had the chance to really get a good look around the Director himself came into the room with Maine behind him.
Kale looked at the soldier for a moment before he realized it was Maine. This was because Maine was not using his usual armor but something completely different. He still had his regular paint job on him that was for sure. But his helmet that he had on was more along the lines of what Wyoming would have. In fact in general he looked like a bigger buffed up version of Wyoming.
"Well, well, well it seems our guest has come around." He walks in front of Kale. "Why don't you have a seat . We have much to talk about." He gestures over to his to Maine. "I hope you don't mind if i brought company to this little party." Maine growled in response although it seemed to throw Kale off. "My associate here doesn't speak much I hope that you dont mind."
He nodded a bit shakily and he sat back on his bed. Kale gulped a bit before deciding to look up. "Your...the Director of Project Freelancer...right?" He looked like he was saying his words carefully. Truthfully Kale was trying to limit the information he had so that they didn't get to suspicious to quickly. The Director stands in front of him and adjusts his glasses. "Yes but I don't think that I am the topic of this conversation." Kale nods slowly looking at Maine nervously. "I suppose your right on that account."
The Director sighs and looks at me with a stern face. "Would you like to tell me how you appeared on my ship with this room?" Kale rubs the back of his head and looks down. "Well Director I suppose I don't really know. I mean 1 minute I was in my room ready to...watch one of my movies. Then I blacked out and when I woke up I was here." Kale looks at the Director with a confused glance around the room.
"What movie were you about to watch ?" Kale freezes and can't stop his face from becoming pale. "W-what do you mean Director?" Carolina smirks under her helmet. North still behind the bed was feeling a bit guilty with letting the Director drill a kid for information but it was apart of the job. "What I mean is that you had one of our agents on that DVDs cover. The most notable thing being the fact that the armor he's wearing is a new set that he had gotten a week ago. Care to explain?"
Kale was shock still at this information. Wash had got that new armor a week ago? It blew his mind that he was this far back in the timeline. "Well...if you have the DVD don't you know this already?" Kale says trying to buy some time to come up with an idea. The Director has a confused look on his face but quickly masked it. "You mean you can open them?"
Kale blinks. Once. Twice.
"What do you mean you can't open them-" His eyes quickly widened as a thought occurred to him. The other DVDs. He almost facepalmed in hindsight of his stupid idea. This was Project Freelancer not some friends that try to find my...other DVDs under my bed. "Yes we found the others and we would like to know what you know and tell us this. The Director leaned in so he was on Kales level staring him dead in the eye. "Why are you here?"
It's as if time itself froze. "It's now or never I guess." Kale thought to himself preparing to kiss his ass goodbye if his explanation and guesses didn't work correctly.
"Okay but we do this on my conditions okay? First I want us to talk in private. Second I want you to know that what I could tell you and show you is going to affect what you do. Finally for my third condition I want one of the armor prototypes." Maine growled and most of the agents in the room were fully prepared to shoot Kale if needed. Carolina had her hand on her side arm and was prepared for hostile action. Maine already had his combat rifle out raised to shoot. Even North was getting very suspicious about this kid and now did not trust him at all. Even the Director had a glare on his face when Kale announced his conditions.
"...I can not guarantee the third condition. Nor can I guarantee full privacy on this ship. But if you require a more private area to...talk of course my office is the most secured room on this ship." It was at this point Carolina decided to barge into the conversation scaring the hell out of Kale in the process. "Sir you can't be serious letting this intru-" The director held his hand in front of her. "If I wanted your opinion agent Carolina I would have asked for it. Dismissed." She stepped forward again. "But Director-" He steps forward making the agent take a step back. "Dismissed" He says in a tone that was ice cold. She glared at Kale before stepping out of the room.
Kale stares at her as she walks out. The Director puts a firm hand on Kales shoulder squeezing it painfully. "Lets talk business ."
The Directors office
Once they were inside the on board computer F.I.L.S.S. booted up. "Ah Director I see you have brought a guest. Would you like me to record his visit?" The Director nods. He then invites me to sit down in a chair in front of him. "Please take a seat ." Kale complied with his request and sat down. He noticed the DVDs on his desk were for the most part intact which surprised him. He had heard about the attempts to open the cases only for them to fail but he didn't see the full scope if it until now. They didn't have a scratch on them.
"Alpha if you may come here for a moment." The A.I materialized and looked at Kale. "So this is the kid that made a room appear out of thin air. Whats your next trick Houdini? pull a rabbit out of your helmet? Oh or maybe you want to saw me in half." Kale actually managed to chuckle at his outburst. "My apologies. Alpha here has been trying to figure out why those cases wont open for anyone." Alpha groaned as he heard this. "I don't know what you did but those DVDs are just not opening. Everything I try I get more confused on why the hell these things can't open." Alpha turns to the Director. "I for one think he's a witch."
Kale narrows his eyes at Alpha. "Well I think you're an asshole that's to stupid to open a DVD case." I grab season 6 and pop the lid open. "Ta-dah look at that amazing witchcraft Alpha its called real hands." Alpha then starts fuming about this trying to punch Kale in the head...but just phasing through him. "Screw this! I'm logging off so I don't have to deal with this bullshit." He disappears and leaves us alone with the DVD case. Its contents now open it seemed to be a regular case. The Director grabbed it and Kale did nothing to stop him.
"I assume that you already knew about Alpha before coming here, and that this...disk helped you with that?" He says looking at it with a fair amount of curiosity. "Yes but before we watch this I want to do this on my terms or else no dice." The Director smirked at Kale and nodded his head prompting him to continue. "If they are within reason than we shall see." Kale breathes in and out deeply. If he played this right...big things will happen.
"Number 1 the agents on the leaderboard will be watching this with us. If I want them to step out or not see the disk they will leave." The Director narrowed his eyes at Kale for a moment. He had planned on this only concerning Washington and Alpha. But he nodded and prompted Kale to continue.
"Number 2 no weapons of any kind while we watch. This is a...safety precaution I assure you." The Director yet again nodded and prompted him to continue.
"Finally 3...well 3 is kind of a personal favor really." He admitted putting his hands up. The Director obviously surprised by his low number in terms decided to hear him out. "What is the favor ?" Kale laughs nervously at the Director. "Well I always wanted the opportunity to do this but never had the chance. Do you know a pelican driver by the name of 479er?" He nods slowly as Kale has a full-blown grin on his face. "Good...now can you..." He whispers the idea in the Directors ear. For the first time since seeing the Director Kale actually saw a very faint smile cross his lips. "Thank you for this meeting and don't worry we will make sure that your...odd request is carried out."
He stands up and walks with Kale back to his room. Before he leaves Kale he says this. "The only reason why I consider you an asset more than a hostile is because you seem to have the best intentions in mind. But then again a wise man once said the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Well that's the end of chapter 2 folks I hope you enjoyed it and thank you for the good reviews so far. I promise you this though the next chapter will have them watching an episode of Red vs Blue. Please review and give me your feedback. See ya round Amigos.