La Pincha Mission

Car meet from La Pincha mission.

**La Pincha** is the second mission in the Hidden Order Saga and the first mission after the new knighting of Monochrome Team. The team is tasked with completing a transaction between a cartel and an insurgency group from Europe, but are perplexed upon learning their cargo had been stolen by a rival gang.

## Synopsis

### Background

After crashing Bazarov’s party, dismantling his organization, and exfiltrating from Russia, the team were officially inducted as Knights of the Syndicate, but their tests were not yet complete. The team was tasked with a far more lucrative operation: conducting a transaction between a Caribbean cartel and an Eastern European insurgency group.

Years after the cold war ended, much of the former Soviet Union’s stockpiles ended up in deep storage in Punta Castillo—a micronation island in the Caribbean. Newly developed WMDs were created but never used and thus ended up scrapped or lost in the aftermath. A notorious Cuban gang (and contract holder with the Hidden Order) called the Cabán cartel had uncovered a large stash of these weapons and decided to sell them to the highest bidder globally.

One of the deals involved an experimental WMD which fell under the “special cargo” code of the agreement with the Hidden Order, and the Cabán had requested intervention directly. As such, Monochrome team was dispatched to ensure the transaction was completed faithfully on both sides.

### Arrival on the Island

Upon arriving at the island's airport, the team met with Dante, their Aegis Operator for the mission. Dante was an old friend of many of the Monochrome agents as many of them had operated on Punta Castillo with him years prior. He informed the knights of where their lodging would be and set them up with the contact from the Cabán.

The agents met with Marvin Cazares, the leader of the Cabán cartel, in order to receive information as to where they could find the cargo to be transported. Cazares informed the agents that the cargo had been stolen by a rival gang during a turf war where multiple mines owned by the Cabán had been seized, including the cargo within them.

Although this was clearly outside the terms of the agreement, Marshal Fischer authorized the Monochrome to complete the transaction however possible in order to uphold the guarantee put forth by the Syndicate to its contract holders. With clearance, the team moved to locate the stolen cargo.

### Tracking the Cargo

Cazares informed the agents that the rival gang leader had a son, Neyén Espinosa, who was far easier prey to capture than the leader himself. He told them that Espinosa regularly drove a priceless luxury vehicle, and that they could find information on the car through a police computer. Armed with this knowledge, the Monochrome agents infiltrated a local police station parking lot and stole a cruiser and two Skyliners that would be used to disguise themselves as street racers.

The team used the onboard police computer to track Espinosa's plates, and Dante located him at a car meet happening that same evening. The team armed themselves at Sally Verduzco's (their former comrade's armory) and made their way to the car meet to capture Espinosa. Upon investigating the area, they located and captured Espinosa by luring him into a street race and interrogated him into giving them the location of the Soviet WMD cargo.

Upon receiving the location, the team killed Espinosa and proceeded to the facility storing the WMD. They raided the storage site and took back the cargo, driving it back to the city where the Insurgents were awaiting the transaction. After shaking off a handful of phony cops, the team successfully delivered the cargo at the docks and completed the contract.