Guido Glendale

I'll be back! :matte-motes-evil-invert:

Wouldn't wanna miss it for the world! Count me in! )) GG

I made my way through.. What a place this is! *dusts off her clothes* Typical! This is exactly the kind of place M would choose. I'd prefer the concrete and glass of TOS HQ anytime over this. I hope G picks me up an bring me to his secure place real soon, or he's gonna get it! I swear, if that smug twit messes up again this time, I'll retire him personally! *taps her foot*.... c'mon G!! I hate to be out in the open like this!

I made my way back to the Forgotten City. As always, it just seems deserted. I know better. I can almost feel the tension rising. Soon.. It will be very soon now. I found a secure place off the coast which will do just fine for whatever Big O has planned. She said she would arrive shortly after I confirmed to have found a good hideout. As ordered, I await her arrival. No use getting my head blown off before the end stage.

I have made my way back to the new TOS HQ.. Although it's a high tech place beyond belief, I always get a feeling of cold running down my back when I pass the secured gates. I'm NOT going to enjoy the meeting I'm about to have... I try to calm myself when I step into Big O's office. Automatically notified of my arrival, she is awaiting me... Her eyes are piercing me. This woman can make a field hardened man shrink on the spot. Well? Report, Agent G! I went to the coordinates you have provided by the fix you got from calling Lillie. They never showed. WHAT!? And you have wasted two whole days traveling here to tell me that!!? You incompetent fool! No Sir, I roamed the stated coordinates' surroundings for two days, not a hint of either of them back there! Yes, well.. If you would have been smart enough to contact TOS, you would have learned that by now they have made their way to Berlin! But, that is NOT where you are going. You will make your way back to the Forgotten City and find safe refuge there. I will join you soon. I am personally leading the next phase of this debacle you call an operation and try to salvage what can be. I am starting to doubt your resolve in this matter. You need not know more at this time. Go and prepare my arrival. That is all, Agent. Cold as ice, this woman, she turns her back on me staring through the window as if I never was there. I don't mind being sent away, I can't get as far from Big O as I can soon enough. The fact that she has taken over is worse. She probably suspects me from warning off Lill and Dillon, which I did. Leaving my cig and a bullet was ample warning for Lill. I wonder why Big O didn't decommission me on the spot. Whatever is going to happen in Forgotten City, I am almost sure I will be the canon fodder....

I make my way to the coordinates that Big O provided by calling Lill and getting a fix on her. I can't help but smile thinking she must have immediately deactivated it so as not to allow us to trace her any longer. While roaming the area of the fix, I think back on my meeting with Big O. I still have a hard time thinking of Big O as a she. But it's Big O alright. Although she is a beautiful woman, the offensive contemptuous and patronizing way she spoke is typical. The fact that she felt it necessary to take the initiative will not look good on my service record. I had better get back to her with some results or there will be hell to pay. Night falls.. still nothing. I keep high ground to have a clear overview. I don't want to get ambushed and become a target myself. I have never retired anyone directly, back in those days my bombs would go off long after I'm gone. I'm not looking forward to completing this mission. Suddenly, a familiar silhouette appears out of the shadows... It's Lill alright, but she's alone. She cautiously moves about, unaware... I'll follow her and see if she is on her way to Dillon. After a while, it becomes clear that Lill apparently is alone here. I wonder where Dillon is. I draw a bead on Lill once I get a clear line of fire... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I Can't. This is not what I signed up for! Not for killing friends. Years of operations together makes people grow on ya... I don't care if Big O will decommission me.. or maybe retire me personally. I'm not doing this, period.

For the past day, I have been roaming the Islands in search of any clues as to the whereabouts of the renegades. Nothing. It's like searching for a needle in a haystack. I have not heard anything from the MISL insider either. I am sure its just silence before the storm... [incoming secure TOS transmission] G, meet me at the following coordinates. Now. Big O 4651198454154 [secure channel closed] I quickly decrypt the given code into coordinates... What!? He's here?? When Big O himself is getting involved, something is coming down. I'm actually nervous meerting him, because we never had face to face contact. I make haste to get on my way. Big O does not like to be kept waiting. The coordinates indicate that he is at the next Island. What the hell!?.. Are you!?.. OOOOOOooooh!? Yes, agent, it IS me.. Now you know why they call me Big O.. That's usually the kind of reaction I get.. And close your mouth please. Let's get down to business shall we? Because of your apparent lack of progress I took it upon myself to contact Lillie. I knew she would still have the TOS encryptor app on her cell. Threatening her didn't work and I don't think she'll use my bait for contacting me when she needs help. However, I got a fix on her location. The fix immeadiately died after the call, so I presume she has destroyed her cell or killed the TOS encryptor app. You have little time. I don't think they will remain in the same spot for long. Get over there. Now. Retire both of them at sight. I hope you are better at taking aim then you are at thinking about placing a simple call.

I have been able to find the lost city, La Citta’ Perduta, and it didn’t take me long to track down the Station’s Chief. Luckily, that intel provided by our MISL insider was correct. However, she must keep a low profile she said to me because the entire MISL is buzzing with plans for a counter attack and everyone is being carefully watched. I was not able to extract much information from the Station Chief before I had to “retire” that measly. The only thing I learned was that Dillon and Lillie boarded a ship that soon thereafter returned here because it was attacked by pirates. I dispose of the body and plant some false traces carefully. When MISL agents come to investigate the disappearance of the Station Chief they’ll be led to believe he was leaking intel to TOS and hopefully that will divert the attention away from the real infiltrator. I search for higher grounds to recon the ship at the docks, and soon enough the captain of the vessel appears, apparently inspecting the hull of his rusty old barge. I don’t care very much for putting a gun to outsider’s heads, but in this particular case I will have to be very persuasive'. Just to make sure I was being absolutely clear that I was seriously interested in the true story, I put a bullet through his foot. Choosing for dear life he spilled it all, about them two boarding the bucket of bolts he calls his ship, the attack of the pirates and how Dillon and Lillie disposed of them before they knew what hit them –which, I admit, put a grin to my face, then took their ship and made course for the Islands. Damnit! I’m a day behind and of course they won’t just sit still on the main island. I have no choice but to contact our insider and have her find me some answers quick, at the risk of exposing her and putting her in considerable danger.

These past few days I have been roaming the streets of the Forgotten City in stealth.. Nothing.. I am absolutely positive that atop in that tower things are buzzing with activity though.. But so far I have been unable to gather any significant intel on the whereabouts of my two former agents.. I have only heard some rumours about a placec called the Lost City.. or something in that nature.. I have yet to find that place.. It's a long shot, but that's all I have to go on. I will see if I can extract any information there tonight. Here, I am outnumbered and outgunned. There is nothing I can do on my own. For now, M has played her cards well. AAargh! Damn you Lillie! OK, I was a little bit smug dragging her into this, but I still do not understand why she turned her back on me completely. Well.. Maybe time will tell..

[secured TOS channel outbound] Sir, I am sorry to inform you that Operation Decapitate has completely failed. A series of events which happened yesterday has compromised my security at this time. As a result of said events, I had to abort the mission. Since the advantage has now turned completely to the MISL, I have no choice but to terminate, when discovered, both Dillon and Lillie. Here is a summary of the events whcih led to this disasterous failure. As Chief Strike Ops I had summoned both Dillon and Lillie to meet me at a secure location, known as the "Bubble" in the Forgotten City. They never showed. What had happened is not clear, but an attack was all over the public news later that day. Wether or not M was eliminated during that attack is not certain. I do not even know who performed it. When I returned to investigate, the Bubble had been destroyed. Since only Dillon and Lillie were aware of this location by secure transmission, I deduct that Dillon has changed team dragging Lillie along. Rest assured that I will spare no effort to track down both of them and bring them before you. [secured TOS channel closing]

[incoming TOS secured channel communication].... OK, Lill.. I have authorisation to give you some intel. Mind you, it's limited and on a need-to-know basis only. Even I do not know the full picture.. Since you left the organization, much has happened. Our succesfull strike on the MISL base on the Islands did not go unnoticed. You left, I got promoted to Chief Strike Team. Dillon has taken my place as Strike Agent on site, and for this operation we absolutely needed your.. erhm.. deadly talents. You, my friend, are now standing in the middle of MISL's HQ site! Yes ma'am! TOS Intelligence has finally found them! We sent in Dillon first, but she was captured and now she is playing for both teams. This presents a once chance only opportunity to hit them from within. TOS Ops has conjured up a Plan of a magnitude you cannot fathom. We have drone TOS missions going on over all of SL keeping MISL agents busy, so the place is virtually empty. The Man himself, Big O, is leading this operation and he spares no resource to finally decapitate MISL. We have intel that both M ànd Q are in the Forgotten City! Do NOT underestimate them! We will have to move cautiously. I will be joining both you and Dillon to brief details. I should be getting strike mission details approved by Big O soon. Join me in the city's Bubble: I'm sure you will find it. Enter through the underwater entrance. Now all that scooba training pays off, eh? If her measly tasks permit, Dillon will be joining us too. [TOS secured channel communication closing]....

Intriguing.. I will have to be more careful sending my reports.. It has been brought to my attention that the renowned Q might have intercepted my last transmission. The game of who gets which intel first has always been a silent and hidden one between MISL and TOS.. *leans back in his office chair and starts to ponder*.. Those were the days. Me and Lillie were a great team.. heck, we were the best team of The Overlord Syndicate. Damn Measlies don't even have the courtesy to use their opposing organization with it's true name. Big O, as we call our leader, is passionately dedicated trying to outmanoeuver his once best friend M and his despicable organization. Me and Lillie were Big O's strike team back then. I remember us plotting the strike against a new MISL stronghold on the Islands.. *stares at the picture on his desk*..The Operation was executed flawlessly, swift and deadly. Lillie took out the guards so I could plant the explosives. We were long gone when the base blew up. *smiles* Lillie had retired and even though I tried to convince her to take part in the Forgotten City Operation, she refused. I heard she is involved with a gypsy and wants to build a normal life. But because I absolutely needed her deadly skills in the heart of MISL territory I decided to lure her in there. Lillie has always been too curious for anything mysterious. I knew she could not resist the lucky streak of winning a trip to the Forgotten City. Her TOS instincts not forgotten, she would quickly realize what she gotten herself into and contact me. I just hope she brought her sniper gun. There will be hell to pay when we meet again in the city, because she hates being manipulated into something. But she will also realise MISL's eyes are trained on her allready and she will have to play the game and get me the intel I need... I wonder who this weapons packed kitty is. She is foolish to show up like that. Organizations like TOS and Measlies don't take the fight into the open. Our battles are fought in silence and stealth. Whoever she is, she's not one of either.

Finally, after having spent months of time and countless resources The Other Side has found the Measlies HQ! Dillon, our top TOS agent, took great risk upon herself to go in first, but was wise enough to befriend Q first. Unknowingly, Q has helped us to infiltrate into MISL and now we can start to slowly weaken them from the inside out. M will be watching Dillon closely, so we have decided to send in some gun power. Lillie, posing as an innocent talented live singer, is our best sniper. No doubt she will draw the attention away from Dillon and at the same time allow Dillon to gain trust in the Measlies organisation by giving them the information we want them to have about Lillie. Lillie has reported to have roamed the forgotten city and has found the best possible line of fire into M's office. When the time is right, and if needed, she will behead the MISL with one swift stroke and they won't know what hit them. The Measlies are at their weakest now, most of their agents are focussing on the distractions we have created elsewhere. This will allow us to send in another... me. I do not know what my role in this plan is yet. Everything about this operation has been kept on a need to know basis. I expect the "Go!" from TOS Ops soon which will hopefully unravell some of the details of this plot, shrouded in mystery even for each of us...