Uncovering Evil (Private)

Fury sat at his desk in the colony of New Bodhum. Everything had been pretty quiet for some weeks. In fact, they hadn’t even been attacked by fiends for over a month. Everything was nice and peaceful, it made Fury nervous. Things did not stay that way long around him. The only thing Fury new was that it was always calm before the storm. It had been calm for some time, so the storm must be coming.

Fury turned off the computer in front of him and rubbed his eyes. He needed to cut back on all the things he was running, or he would run himself into the ground. Maybe because things were running so smoothly, Fury would take a few days off to spend time with the girls. He hadn’t gotten to take them down to the beach for a long time. That would be nice, just him, his girls, and the crashing waves. No marauding monsters, no threatening terrorists, no death. He was tiring of death.

Fury stood up to move towards the window when his door opened and his secretary walked in. She walked in and placed a file on his desk and said, ”Sir, I’m sorry, but there is an issue you must see now.” Fury nodded to her before picking up the folder and listened as she continued. ”The North Pulsian Communications Relay went off line a few days ago. We sent in an engineering squad in to get it back on line, but they disappeared. So we sent in a platoon of PSICOM units… they disappeared too. That was two days ago.”

Fury looked over the file, which contained a more detailed version of what his secretary had told him. He placed the file back on his desk and pinched the bridge of his nose. He sighed and asked, ”Do we have any ArcAngel Units ready to go?”

The secretary winced and said, ”Sorry, Sir, but the last unit was just deployed to Eden to investigate a spike in magical energies.” She began to shuffle towards the door, expecting Fury’s next words.

”Alright, notify Task Force 3 that we have an op to run and get them up to speed. I will meet them on the airstrip in an hour.” Fury got up and walked through the door. Over the course of the next hour, Fury made preparations for his daughters to stay with Jayda longer and for someone else to watch over New Bodhum while he was away. He then made his way to the sectored off piece of the airstrip and walked up to the Kestrel.

Fury walked up the ramp to the cargo hold and sat down in one of the many seats. Dusty came over and sat down next to him. ”Hey, Boss, ready to get some field work done? What are we doing today? Fighting thousands of rebels? Defeating a mighty dictator?

Fury glanced at Dusty and said, ”We’re investigating missing troops…”

Dusty’s eyes went wide and he asked, ”Are you kidding me? That’s it?

Fury went to say something but was cut off by a voice over the intercom. ”Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. This is flight seven=two=niner, non stop to Gawdforsakennowhere. If you need anything, please feel free to ask our lovely stewardess, Angel.”

Fury leaned back and closed his eyes as he heard a huff from the general direction of Angel. He was gonna leave the killing up to the rest of them until they got there. Until then, he was going to get caught up on some needed sleep.