>>5513617<span class="mu-b">Location: Site-21, Conference Room 28, [REDACTED]</span>
<span class="mu-b">0200 Hours, January 15th</span>
<span class="mu-b">S-21 Assessments Team 7</span>
<span class="mu-b">Team Leader: UNAVAILABLE
Operatives: Isaac Roussos, Jennifer “Jenny” O’Brian
Field Agents: Jack Doggart, Kei Shima
<span class="mu-g">D-Class: Daniel Cruz</span>
You try to suppress a yawn. You have no idea what time it is, but based on how tired you feel it must be the middle of the night. Everyone else is here, so you guess there must be some kind of mission for you, but why you’re being sent out now is a mystery to you. You guess it’s not that urgent since everyone’s waiting around, but then why did you get woken up and brought here?
There’s not much to the room you notice, the projection with that mothball thing on it, a podium to the side, some chairs in front of it, and a bunch of desks pushed up against the walls. You see the clock on the wall reads 2 o’clock. Jesus, they woke you up early.
A man walks into the room, an official looking guy you haven’t seen before. He walks up to the podium and waits, which the rest of the team takes as their queue to sit down. You follow their lead.
Once everyone has sat down he begins to speak.
“Good morning everyone. I’m Agent Simon, and I’ll be taking temporary command of this team until a new team leader can be selected for you. I’ll be clear up front. There will be no repeats of your last mission, is that clear? There will be no “heroics” or avoidable casualties under my watch, under any circumstances. Now, onto the subject at hand.”
He presses a button in the podium and the mothball slide is replaced with black and white pictures of what you think are World War II. There’s a lot of soldiers in them, mostly American but some German, and they seem to be transporting weapons or simply walking about. There are black bars over several objects being handled in them, and you think you even see one covering a house sized object, though you can’t be sure. The rest of the team is looking at them with interest, though you notice that Isaac is glaring directly at Agent Simon. Your new team lead continues.
“Project Mothball. A US government project rounding up all the anomalous goodies they took from Europe in WWII, and bringing it back here. Mostly taken from the Nazis, but a few from other places. All of them were deemed too dangerous to leave in Europe. The thought was that Uncle Sam would put them in storage, just in case, since the commies probably grabbed some too. Whole facilities were planned out across the entire continent, and a good chunk of the defence budget was set aside for the task. That didn’t last long. It was thought that around half got destroyed, and the other half was remanded into our custody.”</span>
