Too Loose.



Friday. June 6th 2070.
It is in the early morning hours that the inhabitants of mobile unit one find themselves perusing the deserted warehouse district in search of the street contact that will give them the lowdown on what has been happening here in the past week or so. Long standing Team Alpha member Ethan John Klinger, knows the street contact all too well and he trusts his information to be accurate. Samantha bliss however is waiting to be convinced, Lifeguards voice crackles to life in her earpiece. Through the dark, damp cold night he has picked up a human heat signature one half of a mile ahead.
“Tell your driver to slow down Sam, the signature is moving side to side and back and forth. It kind of tells me that your boy is a little nervous. You might want to approach him on foot.”
She quickly relates the message to Klinger and he instructs the driver to pull over mobile unit one. Ajax and J’Mac stay in the van to offer protection to the driver and the rest of the team deploy to rendezvous with their street contact. They find him, one half of a mile up in a darkened abandoned warehouse. He is a thin frail looking young man who appears to be in his mid to late twenties. He has jet black hair and deep voice and carries a nervous twitch with him. Klinger approaches him alone at first to reassure him that he could trust the members of Team Alpha. Klinger approaches Samantha Bliss.
“Too Loose.”
“What?”
“They call him Too Loose. Its his street name Sammy. He’s a might nervous but he’ll talk to us. Just take it slow with him ok?”
She smiles and puts her hand on Klinger’s shoulder.
Don’t worry Kling, We’ll be gentle.”
He sits in front of them on a plastic paint bucket smoking a cigarette. His eyes nervously scanning the members of Team Alpha that are present, stopping to take in the forms of Priss and Sil, before moving on to Samantha Bliss and the other members of the team. His nervous glances finally stopping on the form of the only person present that he knows, which would be Klinger.
He is a street urchin named Too Loose, and he has been an information source of Klinger’s for number of years, nothing happens here in the warehouse district without him knowing about it. He tells them that there has been a significant amount of Reds activity down near the waterfront and the word is that they have been courting some mercenaries trying to buy a large quantity of military grade explosives, he also tells them that there is another small group that have been waiting for the attempted transaction to be made, another group of Mercs led by a man he knows only as “Tombstone.”
He draws in another deep cold breath through the cigarette and casts a shaky glance in the direction of Sil.
“What’s with them?” he asks, nodding in the direction of Sil and Priss. “I ain’t never seen no female Red before.”
Samantha Bliss steps forward.
“They are members of this team.” she tells him. “Look. Too Loose is it?”
He nods.
“We just need to know that we aren’t walking into something like this unprepared, now can you tell us exactly where this is going to go down?”
“Pier 36.” he nods again “Four miles. That way, tomorrow night is what I hear.”
He draws the cigarette to his lips eying Samantha Bliss.
“But there is one more thing, that you may need to be aware of.” He tells her.

Target Revealed.



Samantha Bliss and Klinger are both leaning forward now.
“There’s a bounty hunter, she’s been snooping around here too, there’s a price been put on the head of one of the Reds, she’s a real nasty bitch too.
Got some serious hardware that she carries with her, you might want to keep an eye out for her.”
Samantha Bliss studies him.
“Well.. We do need to know everything. So what’s the story there?” she asks.
He stubs the cigarette butt into the dirt at his feet.
“Well see. Them Reds. They ain’t got no money, or they didn’t anyway. Least not until they came across a drug deal going down up in the central district, they took out both parties and ended up with the money and the drugs both. Sold the drugs to get even more money to finance the deal with the mercs. A pretty major drug deal to say the least. Well the word got out that it was the Reds that was hitting the drug dealers, so the dealers in turn got together and hired Scorpion-”
Samantha Bliss holds up her palm stopping him in mid sentence.
“Scorpion? There’s a bounty hunter named Scorpion after them?”
Too Loose nods.
“Yeah. Tito and his mates hired her to find out who has been organizing the attacks on the street dealers, and to take them out . Turns out it was a Red named Gordo or something like that.”
“Do you mean Guido Garfoni?” Sil asks slowly standing.
“Yeah that’s it .”
Sil looks at Samantha.
“ He was one of General Krotas’s body guards at the palace in Mordes Keep. He got the name from a gangster movie that he used to watch on human television. He even tries to dress like a gangster. He is very strange, Strange but smart. He would be capable of organizing something like this Samantha.”
Samantha Bliss returns her attention to Too Loose.
“So do you have any ideas as to what this Guido character plans on doing with the explosives once he gets them?”
The young man they know as Too loose, thinks about the question asked by Samantha Bliss.
“See that’s where it gets fuzzy, some people on the street are hearing that they’ve been snooping around a couple of places, checking out security. There’s talk that they plan to blow something up. Some talk has them targeting the old Empire state building. Myself, I think they are after something bigger.”
Samantha rises.
“Bigger?.. Bigger like what?”
He lights another cigarette.
“The Statue Of Liberty.”
Now it is Klinger’s turn to stand.
“Oh this we gotta stop for sure boss lady.”
She nods her head in agreement, all while addressing Lifeguard in her earpiece. They will need him to scan any comings and goings at the isle of Lady Liberty.
“Oh, and Lifeguard?”
“Yes Samantha?”
“See what you can dig up on this Scorpion character. The last thing we need is some loose cannon running around shooting up our leads.”
They are walking back to mobile unit one with Too Loose in tow. Klinger talks to Samantha Bliss as they walk.
“Ok Sammy. Its not like I don’t believe my ol buddy Too loose or anything, but what do they hope to accomplish by blowin up Lady Liberty?”
She stops to face Klinger and the rest of the team.
“Because Kling, Too Loose is right, but they’re not going to blow her up. They are going to try to take over the island to use her as a bargaining chip, we give them the stones or they blow up The Statue Of Liberty. But there is one small thing that they haven’t figured into the equation.”
“And that would Beeee?”
She turns to face Too Loose.
“Team Alpha.”

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