Briefing

01st January 2032

20:31

Academy Building, New Eden

Sohel enters the room and sees Gen. Ahmed leaning in his swivel chair and puffing on a cigar. The wrinkles on the old man's forehead deepened as he thought deeply about something.

"Uncle Rahat?"

Gen. Ahmed sits up straight and looks at Sohel. Sohel comes forward and sits on a chair.

"How are you, boy?"

"If I ignore the tiredness of all the work you're putting on me, yeah. I'm good."

"The data you've collected in the past months would prove key to finishing NWO. I promise after this mission, you'll receive a 15-day holiday."

"Ok. So what was in the data we collected?"

"It contains names and locations. Names of people affiliated with NWO and many NWO hideouts."

"OK. Now, What's the mission?"

The two of them then spend the next hour discussing the mission. After getting all the info Sohel gets up and asks, "When do you want us to leave?"

"When can you leave?"

Sohel smirks turns around, and leaves.

22:11

Bravo Squad House

Sohel enters the house and sees Mitali, Jacob, and Annabelle still gossiping in the living room. Sohel enters the room and says, "You guys are still gossiping? Where's Naomi?"

Mitali looks at him and says, "Of course we are. That idiot aside, Mitali and I are best of friends now. We can talk all night if we want to."

Sohel looks at Jacob and smiles seeing him ignoring Annabelle's words. Jacob says, "Naomi went upstairs. She said she wanted to get some fresh air."

"OK then. I'll talk with her there. The three of you get up and go to bed. We're leaving tomorrow morning. Be ready for the briefing at 0800. Ann, finish up any work you have on the VTOL tonight."

The three of them look at Sohel with a disappointed look. But seeing him stay silent they get up and go to their rooms. Sohel gets up the stairs to the roof and sees Naomi looking towards the sea with a blank look in her eyes while leaning on the railing. Sohel comes and leans beside her and says, "You know it's January right? You're gonna freeze to death if you don't come down."

Naomi says while still looking at the sea, "What did the General say? Another mission?"

"Yep. This one will be hard. We have to be prepared. I'll brief us at 0800 tomorrow. So, you should get a good night's rest tonight. Who knows when we will be able to have a full night's rest again?"

"Yes, Captain.", says Naomi with a smirk.

"Come on now. I told you so many times, don't call me like that when we aren't on a mission."

02nd January 2032

07:45

Hanger-02, SNA Airfield, New Eden

All members of the Bravo squad enter the hangar except Annabelle as she is already there looking at a giant black and red painted VTOL with satisfaction on her face.

They reach Annabelle. Jacob screams while looking at the VTOL, "THIS IS COOOOOOOL. So much cooler than I imagined."

Annabelle says, "I know. Everything I work on turns out cool."

Sohel claps, "OK. We're running out of time. Ann, explain the specs of the aircraft please."

Ann, smiles, "With pleasure.

This model is a hunter class. This means it was already made to travel long distances and came attached with a 25mm Machine Gun. Inside there are Male and female sleeping rooms, a control room, a med-bay, a briefing room, and a garage that can store two SUV-sized cars."

"It already sounds like a full package. What upgrade did you do?" asked Naomi.

Annabelle grins, "I did some small but important upgrades. I attached a 40mm explosive launcher, a 105mm Howitzer cannon, and a 220mm Howitzer cannon."

Mitali gasped, "What are we fighting, a goddamn army or something?"

"Who knows? We might.

I integrated our upgraded version of ARIA with the control module of the aircraft and automated the reload system. That means fewer components needed which I took out which in turn increased the travel distance of the aircraft by a few hundred more miles. That completes my upgrade explanation. Now as a final touch, name it Sohel."

Sohel thinks for a while and says, "A hunter class VTOL huh? Artemis. That will be its name. What do you think?"

Naomi says, "Artemis, The Greek goddess of the hunt. I think it's a fitting name."

Jacob says while excitement overflowing from his face, "Cool. I agree."

Mitali and Annabelle look at each other for a moment and then turn to Sohel. Mitali says, "We agree too."

08:02

Artemis Briefing Room, SNA Airfield, New Eden

All of them were wearing their official uniform and standing in a line. The briefing room was a small room with just a Big screen on one side and a table in front. Sohel stood on one side of the table and the others on the other side. Seeing that all of them were focused, Sohel started talking, "In the past month, 17 high-ranking UN officials were killed all across the states. All of them were killed in different ways. The SNA doubts that the killings might be linked to NWO. And that will be our mission. To investigate these murders link with the NWO and if the doubt turns out to be true take down whoever's behind it. We'll be leaving for the US now. Any questions?"

Naomi asks, "Uh, Isn't the US, an unsigned nation?"

Jacob asks, "What's That?"

Ann nods sideways, "You really didn't pay attention to any of the classes, did you? An unsigned country means a country that didn't sign the Moscow treaty. Any unsigned country is outside SNA jurisdiction. We can't normally operate there."

"Ohh."

Sohel says, "Normally we wouldn't be allowed to operate there. But this time the general's council requested the US government to let us investigate. After a long discussion, we were allowed to operate on two conditions."

Mitali asks, "What are the conditions?"

"One. Only one squad is permitted to operate in the US mainland.

Two. One CIA agent will accompany the squad in the investigation."

Naomi says, "I'm pretty sure they want to investigate something else along the way."

Sohel looks at Annabelle and says, "Annabelle, I want an extra layer of security on all our tech and weapons. I don't want anyone snooping on our stuff. Can you do it?"

"Leave it to me. I'll be done before we even get on top of the US mainland."

"Good. Let's move."