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December 20, 2045.
Dear Anastasius Foch,
Gypsy held back on opening up the cranium of Marcus at Shark's request and instead woke him up. Spydr set about finding all of his secrets. Shark pitched in to help the interrogation by making a few wise ass remarks like 'This will put a whole new face on things' but apart from that, only throws in a few worthwhile comments. Mr. Jiovonazo had also come down to the Farmington Steak House with Spydr and had been introduced to the Ops of Team 202. After the short interrogation, Gypsy went back to doing tests on Marcus, but Spydr started to ask him about the bugs in her head. Gypsy maked a freeze-frame camera. When Deacon redirected Gypsy's actions back to the Ash Winters autopsy, Spydr became agitated. She nearly spazzed on him, cussing him out without profanity, about holding back on her about the nature of the robots. She was convinced he knew and was infuriated that he does not just tell her.
Deacon then told her everything he knew, which is not as much as she had hoped. The robots are some highly advanced nano that can think alone, which accounted for her flashes of insight. They can act in groups, basically all the ones in her head can make her smarter. The bugs can also work as a whole, all the bugs in the world. These bugs can interface with cybernetics and control them or stop them. He says that is all he knows and it is.
Much of the day had passed, and it was just after a steak dinner that Melissa prepared, that Mo called and gave Shark a message. Mr. Georgino, his landlord, called and said that Shark's favorite bottle of wine had been stollen and that he should stop by and see him. It was also at this time that a man in a black suit and tabi broke into the Row House and stole the former body of Kazure. Zig and Zag chased him but were unable to recover the body. I was pissed off. After the call from Mo, and the disappearance of Kazure's body, Shark and everyone at the Steak House decided to return to the Row House. Shark started a check-in/check-out procedure because of the increasingly odd happenings going on. This would allow him or anyone to be aware of everyone's location, and activities and give a way to know if something might have happened to anyone.
Shark and Kid Stealth left to check up on Shark's landlord, while everyone but them went back to the Row House. They parked several blocks away and proceeded to close in by rooftop and alleyway. When on the roof one block to the south, Kid spoted a sniper watching the front of the Georgino's, on the same roof as him. Kid moved to subdue and did so by breaking the sniper's arm and chest. A sniper on the next roof over took pot shots at him, though Kid ducked behind the cheap stone edgework of the building. Kid returned fire as Shark moved up the alley to support. Kid killed the other sniper with a burst from his autopistol, before Shark got a chance though. This gave Kid a few seconds to perform a quick drug-assisted interrogation while Shark got into position infront of the Georgino's. The sniper said his boss, Moriese, was inside, with another guy named Davis, and that the two of them are holding Mr. Georgino hostage. Oh, and by the way he said, the building is rigged to detonate, so don't try anything funny. Georgino's wife was let go, but they had a tail on her. If she goes to the cops, she dies. Shark called the bar at the Georgino's to talk to Davis, while Kid finished the interrogation. At this point he dropped the sniper to his death off the side of the building. Shark told Kid to go around back and they would have to try and shoot them after he gots Mr. Georgino out.
As David answered the phone, Shark quickly convinced him that they should let Mr. Georgino go. Shark tossed his weapons aside, his carbine and the Predator, while leaving the .22 Beretta Light in the back of his belt, and the stunner in the front. The goons inside did not notice either of his light weapons and were convinced he was unarmed. They must have really wanted him dead-dead, because they do not open fire; most Solo's aren't that easy to kill. Instead they instructed Shark to get in the car that was rolling around the corner. Shark was dubious and said no. The looks of tension and fear are plain on both the passanger and driver's faces. Shark then said that they had him and that Mr. Georgino should be let go. Davis inside let him go and then Shark waited for Georgino to get well down the block.
Kid has moved around the building to the west of the Georgino's, while shark was standing out in the street just south of it. The car had come to a stop, and was waiting for Shark to get in. Kid Stealth heard voices from inside the building he was next to with his amped up hearing and checked it out. Inside was a man talking on the radio, the conversation on Kid's end seemed to coincide with what Shark said he was hearing at the other. So that made this guy Moriese. Kid decided to foloow Shark's advice and subdue him, which left the goons in the car with nothing to do. They decided to rush Shark with their carload of explosives. Luckily Shark was able to put more distance between himself and the car than they anticipated before they detonated. Not to say it left him in good shape, because when Kid finally got over to him he looked like Hell. Kid had taken a moment to send a few well placed rifle bullets through the organs of Davis before moving off to Shark's aid. Bear also was on his way there to pick up the limp body of Moriese, whom Kid had left in the building where he shot him.
On a side note, Spydr, instead of returning to the Row House, went to Jack-O's lantern to talk to Charles the Red, leader of the Halloweeners. She informed him that Moriese was looking for Shark just minutes before the explosion occured. Charles was also told that the hunting down of his gang, which Chet had been to the Vila the other day about, was because they all potentially had type AB blood, which is exceedingly rare. This got his attention, and he asked what he should do. Spydr put forward testing at The Clinic and then perhaps a 'tactics powwow' with Shark or Kid Stealth. But as the explosion happened about this time, she left and raced to the GenTech Archology.
Shark's clothes were tattered, he was riddled with glass, and one fragment most likely from the car door was portruding out his gut. There was blood everywhere on him, and Kid could not find a pulse. Kid in no doctor, but he is good at telling when people are alive and dead. He promptly called me to tell me this and I immeadietly decided to call in a favor from Doctor Payne. Kid and Bear rushed to the GenTech Archology, where I met them with Zona, Halfpint, Zig, and Zag. Spydr was also called and she raced there as fast as she could with her motorcycle. Before leaving the Row House, I instructed everyone to lock down and protect Kenna, who had been in my care since before the meeting with Team 202.
An EMT crew met Kid and Bear with Shark's body and they began immeadiate recesisitation. Zona was watching, but could not bear being a bystander, or their incompitence because she jumped in and started giving orders which everyone there promptly followed. During the elevator ride in the turbo lift she was pounding on his chest to keep his heart going. CPR takes a bit more work when the person has reinforced ribs, sternum, diagphram and armored skin. But once his main heart restarted (he had recently gotten several HARD-TO-KILL(tm) implants, one of which was a backup heart pump) she calmed down and started to shake a bit. As the lift doors opened Shark was wheeled into a large operating room, with one tall distinguished Germanic looking gentleman standing in the center of the purely white room, dressed in utter blackness. He looked at the gaggle of persons enter from the lift door and said one word, 'Leave.'
Everyone did except Zona, Spydr, Kid Stealth, and Myself. Bear and the others returned to watch the cars and await word on Shark. Then, from another side door, a tall gorgous blonde, who you will know as Michelle enterd and began to assist Dr. Payne in lifting Shark's broken, blasted body into the regeneration tank. Shark's clothes disolved off and everyone watched in amazement and horror as it filled his mouth and he breathed it in. Spydr rested her hands on Zona's shoulders compasionately as Z began shaking more and wrung her hands while they both stood there nervously.
With Shark in the tank, Doctor Payne turned around and said that it would require at least two hours of work. Michelle then ushered everyone into Doctor Payne's personal lounge which is adorned with the sculptures and carvings of many of the worlds religions dieties. After nearly half an hour of silence, I offer him my thanks and then normal conversation nesued.
At just after twenty hundred, Shark was ready to be taken out of the tank. The green slimey, almost luinescent goo streamed off of his body and out of his mouth. Purging it out, by the lungful, he coughed and spit powerfully until his interal cavities were free of it. Michelle helped him to his feet as everyone else stood back. He took a moment to empty out his flesh pocket before he looked around the room, standing in the middle of it bucknaked. The goo is very slimey and despite the no-stick, anti-static covering of his visors, it stuck to them, so it was difficult for him to see, if not impossible. But he said he could smeel, feel, or just sense the presense of Zona, and not one of us doubted it because we could see reaction his body gave her. She blushed as Spydr hit her on the shoulder playfully, while Shark was being led over towards a shower in the next room. A moment later, Michelle came over and said Shark would be out in a second. Zona promptly walked over to the shower room door and hovered, waiting for Shark to come out.
Inside, in the shower, Shark marveled at the tank he had woken up in, as the water, which seemed to have a soft chemical in it to disolve the goo, flowed over his body. There was no major scarring, and all his old scars remained. The dragon tattoo was still on his arm, and he was ALIVE!! He hooted once in the shower he said, then went back to washing up. He stepped out and put on clothes just like the ones he had been blown up in, except these were brand new. Whoever ran this show, knew their stuff, he thought. After toweling down and dressing, he walked out to the waiting arms of Zona who promptly jumped into his. Spydr was also right there and he embraced her too, but without the tounge-down-throat kiss that Zona got. Michelle arrived again, after a minute of hellos and such as we marvelled at Shark's condition. She bade us return to the lounge of Doctor Payne, though she never used his name around the others.
In the lounge, the Doctor asked that the events of the evening be forgotten, to which Shark promptly answered, 'What events?' The Doctor just smiled. He then excused everyone except me. I stayed around for a few hours more and talked with him about goings on.
On the way out, with everyone in good spirits, and Shark walking arm in arm with Spydr and Zona, Half-pint suddenly stoped outside the door of one Dr. Arthumis. He stood there for a full two minutes despite everyones questions and prodding. Spydr and Shark decided to look into the name Arthumis when they got back to the Row House.
The entire party returned to the Row House some time just after twenty-one thirty, and were met by everyone else. Kenna had a good time reading all of their minds and the Solo's are amazed that Shark could recover so quickly. Shark dished out a few white lies to keep his promise to Doctor Payne. Mo rushed in to give Shark a semi-manly hug sans a stiffy; then turned and gave Spydr a large hug, for she still owed him a trip to Paris and a moon-lit candle dinner, with a stiffy.
After a little drinking and talking, everyone set about Plan: Spydr. This involved beating the hell out of Moriese, and then throwing him into a cell, where Spydr would be made up to look beaten as hell. Her plan was to win his trust to find out who he worked for. Gator played the part of the 'dumb' interrogator, and Kid Stealth the part of the 'smart' interrogator. Shark had no part in it, as they would use the fact of his death to twist Moriese's sense of reality. After a first meeting with him was broken up by Kid Stealth beating her unconscious, and Moriese sat in the cell listening to her screams, she was thrown back in like a sac of potatoes. Kid loudly proclaimed that Moriese would be next and that he should make peace with whatever god he believed in, if he weren't going to come clean. Kid then left and Moriese moved over to arrange Spydr more comfortably. While arranging her limbs so they would not be in a tangled heap, he could not resist fondling her, along with a few cheap gropes through her clothes. Spydr bit her tounge at the violation, but he stopped there. After that, Kid came back and beat Moriese with a passion. Unable to get anything out of him and not wanting to get into drugs, he tossed him back in the cell where Spydr was conscious again.
Moriese, now trusting her, told her it was a job from an Arasaka guy in Chicago. The job was to hurt Raven by killing one of his associates. Moriese explained what a diabolical fuck I am, and Spydr agreed to stay in role. Spydr explained that she was stealing from me, actually one of my associates, speciffically Mr. Sharkman. This encourages Moriese to deficate all over my cell, but he now fully trusted Spydr. He gave her a number to call if she managed to get out, which was one of her lines earlier. Hearing this, Kid bust in to Spydr's screams saying it was her turn again. Moriese scuttles to his corner as Kid kicked him hard, then dragged Spydr out.
Not being part of the interrogation, Shark went with Zona to the Clinic, where she performed over one hundred blood tests on the Halloweeners. Of the one hundred, only six did not have the AB- blood type. That is almost impossible, but Zona is sure of her test results. Shark began to get nervous and called his old friend Takashi to ask his blood type. Ares has him on file as type AB-.
With things rapidly spiraling down hill, Charles the Red tried to rally his gang, which was apparently minutes from cracking up. They had been hunted all week by an elusive force and had lost over twenty members. Shark stepped up and delivered a firey message about perseverence, survival, and how they would find, corner, and destory the perpatrator of the attack on the gang. Shark extoled the toughness and badassness of me and my associates. Going so far as to say that in their posession were half-tracks, helicopters, heavy machineguns, mortars, missiles, bombs, rifles, knives, rocks, and pointy sticks. This got the Weeners on their feet and they paraded out of their ready to fight the evil force killing their gang brothers and sisters to the last man/woman.
Shark smiled, puts his arm around Zona, and makes a joke about weak wills before heading back to the Row House.
When they arrived back, Spydr was waiting to make the call to the number she got off of Moriese. She put it on speaker so everyone can hear. Ring. Ring. Ring. A voice on the other end says, "Hello. Agent Winters."
Sincerely,
Richard Raven
Also, S2-SJ-ZH-J7-IM-6G
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