Lore/The Crew - Part One

***5:00***
***Mountain Office***
*Oliver stayed awake the past night, constantly thinking about where his life was headed. Just as he is going over his plan for the grand party, Oliver’s phone rings. He picks it up and hears his secretary’s voice.* “I got some of your intel. The area on your map is a small city in Russia, and the X marked on the map is a large estate within that city.” says Julia. Oliver responds, “Alright, thank you Julia, I appreciate it.” “Oliver wait, there’s more. The country is in the middle of a civil war, so there will be lots of military personnel and chaos. I don’t know what you have planned, but I doubt you would have called me if it was something safe. Be careful, ok? You still have a company to run here.” says Julia. Oliver hesitates but says, “I know, I haven’t forgotten. I’ll be home soon, don’t worry.”

*After hanging up the phone, Oliver begins making a planning board. He checks the live camera feed from the Elite Hall and waits until it’s empty.*

***6:00***
***Reaper Elite Hall***
*Oliver inserts a USB drive into Commander Jane’s computer and begins downloading various files on active and deactivated Reapers. Just as he is finishing up, Oliver hears a familiar voice.* “If it isn’t former Head Avenger McQueen… *former*. Do you need something McQueen, or are you just keeping that chair warm for me?” questions Commander Natalya, Paul Rambo’s crazy aunt. Oliver gulps, takes some paperwork and puts it over the USB drive to hide it, then responds, “Ah, aunty! Oh have I missed you! How are you? How have you been? Where is Paul, did he leave again without saying goodbye? It’s ok, you know I’m the better nephew anyways. So, what’s new? You back as Commander again?”

*As Commander Natalya and Oliver have a brief chat, Oliver sneaks the USB drive into his pocket once the files are downloaded. Although not paying much attention to what the Commander was saying, Oliver did catch her saying that Paul had taken a long vacation out of the country. After making an excuse to leave, Oliver gets into a Pell flies to his office in the mountains.*

***8:00***
***Mountain Office***
*As Oliver walks up to his front porch, he notices large, muddied foot-marks and a cracked-open door. After taking out his pistol and immediately breaching his own office, a beret-wearing figure standing in the shadow greets him.* “Hello McQueen, you wanted me, so here I am.” states the figure. Oliver sighs after the person walks into the light and says, “Heh, if it isn’t David Cage. You know, I wasn’t sure if you were going to make it.” David sneers at Oliver and says, “Yeah it took me a while, so what, did the world explode?” Oliver says under his breath, “Wouldn’t have taken so long if you flew in a plane instead of that old K24... “ David catches it immediately and asks, “Oh what now? Look here punk-” but Oliver cuts him off, “AHEM, anyways, let’s just get started alright?” David grunts and says, “Fine fine, go on. What you got?” Oliver states, “Let’s get your stuff out of the heli, this might take a while.”

*After gathering all of David’s belonging in his office, Oliver goes to his table and lays out the map of the city. He hands David the sat-phone and a picture of Billie West as David checks out the map.* David looks at the picture and questions, “Why you handing me this? You expect me to magically gain morale by seeing our old Commander’s picture or some shit?” Oliver smirks and states, “She’s the target.” David takes a few steps back and asks in a whisper, “Wh-what did you get me into, McQueen?” Oliver explains, “No no, you’ve got it wrong Cage. We’re not going to assassinate her. We’re going to extract her.” “Ohh, then why the hell didn’t you start off with that? Shit McQueen, prioritize your information man, geez.” says David as he breaths a sigh of relief.

“Look, the objective is simple: extract our target, Billie West. We go in, grab her and anything else worth getting, then bring her back. No questions asked.” explains Oliver. “Right well, that’s all well and good but, your intel said this city is in the middle of a civil war. We can’t go in there with ‘no questions asked’, people gonna ask questions dammit. It’s not that simple, plus looking at that large area, she could be anywhere. We’ll need a team, McQueen.” objects David. Oliver responds, “Dammit, you're right. It'll be a small crew then, people we know and trust.”

*David nods and both of them get on their computers to begin the recruitment process.*