The space time continuum was moving at a faster pace than usual. CW Republic Champions, Brady Vega... the One Man Riot himself is seated across from the large Rex Cassidy. Both men are in black and camo and they have a small fire burning.
ONE MAN RIOT
Why we here again?
REX CASSIDY
We are here to vanquish the beast at the core.
ONE MAN RIOT
So we camping outside?
Vega grabs his republic championship belt, the grey leather straps matching the headband he wore just at his hairline, keeping his dreads out of his hair. Brady was cold in the face, his usual arrogant grin and jok slinging were muted on this evening in the woods. Close to Griffith Park Observatory, Foreign Terrortory has set up a small camp site complete with bagged vegetables in a cooler.
ONE MAN RIOT
How much did you catch today?
REX CASSIDY
I caught what was needed. Keep the fire going, we will cook all the meat first. We have poultry, fish, and I snagged a wild boar the other evening while I was out. It's been cooking under ground all night and day.
ONE MAN RIOT
We fast for two days and then feast like mad men. I like this life. I want to keep this life.
Brady grips the championship belt. He fears a life without it.
ONE MAN RIOT
We must do our best.
REX CASSIDY
Do not worry my boy, you still have a lot to learn. The world is not as tough as you may perceive. We are here to defeat the Team ATARI and vanquish the warehouse of this god awful excuse for a demon. He claims this slasher moniker but you and I both know he can slash if it's a guitar he is holding in his grasps. This silly boy believes he can stand the fight of a man. He has no idea. Neither of them. Not the boy with the face paint nor his damsel. We fear nothing. We are the team to beat. Consider Atari in the same light. They are clowns..
ONE MAN RIOT
Who are we to the circus?
REX CASSIDY
It doesn't matter who we are. What matters is our placement on the card. We ARE the main attraction. We ARE the duo to beat in the CW and seeing how we have taken out the competition we will treat TEAM ATARI in the same way. These two are skilled, but they are jokes.
ONE MAN RIOT
A freaking stand up act.
REX CASSIDY
Exactly.
Rex Cassidy rises from his seated position by the fire and walks deep into the woods. Brady is left to dump the vegetables into a pot of boiling hot water. A feast is bound to happen and the champions will be eating like kings.
Inside the MCC, in the “information room” part of the MCC. 2600 is leaning up against the control panel. A wall of switches, knobs, dials, couple of levers, 9 keyboards, 6 computer screens, a oscilloscope, a hard mounted mouse, fingerprint scanner and one teletypewriter. Oh and a braille embosser, a Classic Romeo RB 40 model for good measure. 7800 steps into the Info room and slides the metal door behind him with a cup of coffee in his hand. 2600 has his legs crossed as he leans on the counter, tapping his finger on the edge of it as he seems to be waiting.
7800 takes a zip of his coffee and savors it, gripping his mug with both hands and holding it near to him, breathing it in. He looks to be in heaven.
2600 sighs. Checks his watch and makes sure his battlesuit is zip up all the way. He dusts off his sleeves.
7800 takes another sip. He takes in a deep breath and slowly lets it out. So relaxed right now he is.
“Dilly.”
2600 look at his partner, his crime fighting partner. He nods.
“It was a good dinner. The rolls were a nice touch and Flashback 2 said she made them from scratch. Very nice. Yes.”
7800 nods and he leans up up against the control panel, holding his coffee mug close to his lips.
“Dilly dilly.”
“Yes! The desert was especially delish. I never had a apple pie like that before.”
“Dilly dilly?” 7800 says with a cheeky little smile on his face, what we can see as both of them are wearing their battle masks.
2600 looks to be blushing. “Perhaps, not the best..” Clears his throat. “Pie I have ever..” Clears his throat again. “Eaten.”
7800 is smirking. Just then, a red blinking light that is mounted up high and dead center of the panel starts to flash. 2600 leaps off of the counter and turns towards the wall. 7800, he’s not moving an inch while he’s breathing in his coffee. After a couple of buzzes, a couple of clicking sounds, another buzzer sounds off and the teletypewriter fires up, comes to life and spits out a message. On it is a code that we can’t see. 2600 reads it, he then starts to type on one of the 9 keyboards, pressing 2 or three keys on each keyboard. He double clicks the mouse and ten seconds later, the IBM 1403 Green Bar printer comes to life, this is under the counter, and it spits forth a sheet of green bar paper. 2600 shreds the first message and tears off the green bar. He reads it.
He hands it to 7800, or more accurately holds it for 7800 to read it. Set his coffee down? NEVER!
After reading the message, this highly classified message that is in code incase it was to fall into the wrong hands, 7800 nods. 2600 places the message in the Fellow PS-79CI shredder and just like that, the message is gone.
“It’s time 7800.”
“Dilly.”
“I shall inform Flashback 2 of our mission.”
“Dilly dilly.” 7800 says with a hint of a smirk on his face.
As the door slides open, 2600 stops.
“This is official business 7800. There will be no, sharing of pie right now.” 2600 says before exiting the room. 7800 shrugs.
“Dilly dilly.”
“I HEARD THAT!” 2600 says from the other room.
7800 smiles as he sips his coffee.
On the top level of the parking garage that over looks the CW warehouse is the MCC. Expertly piloted by Flashback 2. The side hatch is open and Team ATARI has exited the vehicle and is standing by the ledge overlooking the warehouse.
“Just look at it 7800. The warehouse! Where we have had many battle with the Yamauchi. A battle zone in which we won some of those battles, lost some of those battles.”
“Dilly dilly.”
“That is true. This is also a crime scene, one of the most heinous crimes that we have witnessed. Well that was until we returned back to California and witnessed what the Yamauchi did to a huge chunk of the state. We should have knew 7800, that setting the warehouse on fire was just a trial run. A message sent to warn us. Why didn’t the PTB listen to us when we filed out findings in our report, I’ll never know! It felt like I typed it yesterday, that we felt that the Yamauchi set the fire that gutted the warehouse to burn evidence that they were getting closer to the Energon Device!”
“Socal is nothing more than Yamauchi covering up their tracks! For far too long now, they have been active, more than active! They have flourished here! All the while, right under our noses!”
“Dilly dilly dilly.”
“Bubsy.” 2600 says with much disdain in his voice. (Bubsy is the code name for Kendrick Kross within Team ATARI.) “Bubsy is more than meets the eye.” (and 2600 really really really really doesn’t like him) “The wild goose chase we have been on for the past 6-7 months 7800! Chasing one lead after another, trying to piece together the whereabouts of the Yamauchi and get our hands on the Energon Device! I swear 7800, I think you’re right when you said that Willy Mackey is behind all of this. How else can you explain why we’ve been taken off any trail that leads to the Russians?”
“The good news is, finally the PTB has sent us back to ground zero. They have sent us back to finish the mission! Back to end the battle of all battles! Back to finish Pong 2!”
“Dilly dilly!”
“We’re jumping right into the flames of death 7800! Directly right into the hot seat! Leaping into the frying pan and we wouldn’t have it any other way! The Yamauchi, why they have set forth their best two hench man they have on the payroll! They have sent them into battle to face us! Team ATARI! The OG’s of CRD! The two who built this Republic from the ground up!”
“Make no bones about it! You can’t sugar coat it! Inside that warehouse, it’s not foreign to us! That is our home! We were the first on the scene when the fire broke out! We collected the evidence! Bagged it and tagged it! We wrote the reports and do you know what we found?”
“Dilly dilly.”
“That’s correct 7800! This, One Man Riot. This Rex Cassidy.”
“Dilly!”
“Yup. We knew it all long!”
“Dilly.”
“Guilty as charged!”
“Dilly.”
“The first step towards collecting all of the pieces to build the Energon Device, why it’s been hiding in this, what the Yamauchi has dubbed foreign territory all long!”
“Dilly dilly!”
“You think you’re so clever Yamauchi! Breaking it up into several pieces and parts, but you knew we would figure it out and we will find all of the parts and make it whole again! What you have failed to realize is that this is ATARI TERRITORY! Always was! Always will be!”
“Dilly dilly!”
“We’ll meet you on all fronts!”
“Dilly!”
“We’ll battle you till the end!”
“Dilly!”
“For you are no longer unknown to us!”
“Dilly!”
“We’ve cut through the propaganda!”
“Dilly!”
“No longer misinformed!”
“Dilly!”
“We’ve come to take what you possess!”
“Dilly!”
“And make it ours!”
“Dilly!”
“You can’t stop Team ATARI!”
“Dilly!”
“You can only hope to reign it in.”
“Dilly!”
“And that’s a mission, you will fail at!”
“Dilly!”
“This is a war, you won’t win!”
“Dilly dilly!”
“7800!”
“Dilly?”
“I believe come December 21st.”
“Dilly!”
“We’ll be enjoying some fine tasting MsH07Cs!”
7800 closes his eyes, tilts his head back, pats his tummy.
Oct 27, 2019 2:37:33 GMT -8
