Monk looked Andy right in the eye, fear making it quiver. I thought he hated me. Last I checked, he had a death wish against me. He pondered his words carefully.

"Going... somewhere? Yeah... I'm going to the gym. I need to make sure my skills are still up to par. It's been a while since I last moved these bones."

Wolf watched as Coyote's screen blanked out. Well, I guess that's the end of that...for now. He activated his PDAP again, and contacted Beowulf. "Beowulf, is there any chance that you could disable a bomb Coyote designed to wipe out cyberspace?"

"If it were anyone else, I'd say yes. But unfortunately, this Coyote virus is unpredictable, so I highly doubt I could disarm, disable, or delay the detonation of, any bomb the virus created. I'm afraid brute force is out of the question, and my cyber-bomb disposal skills aren't exactly the greatest."

"I was afraid of that." Wolf said "In that case, I need you to keep tabs on any information regarding Coyote and the Doomsday Device. Relay it to the PDAP, and let me sort it out. Try to tag anything looking suspicous. Don't worry about trying to exclusively search for anything regarding Monopoly, Coyote will have changed metaphors already."

Last time he spoke about the device, he used a Zero Wing quote. I responded in kind. Now he changed to Monopoly. God knows what he'll do next...Clue? Something from Metal Gear 1? Who can tell?

"Got it. I'll let you know what I come up with." The AI vanished from the screen.

Wolf thought about contacting Jade, let her know his thoughts on the situation, but he thought better of it. She's not stupid. She'll have an idea. If she needs your help she'll ask for it.

"The nerve of these people. Oh well my pizza is almost done." The egg timer dinged. "Ahh pepperoni, onion, olive, sardine, green pepper, ricotta, spinach, goat, monkey, crab, tuna, lobster, shrimp, octopus, sausage, tomato, pickles, chocolate, feta, zucchini, pineapple, ham, chicken, champagne, and cherry pizza. my favourite." He took the newyork style pie out of the oven. and put it on the counter to cool. "House when the guests get here, activate Escher."

OOC: Batmantis!!!

BIC: "The nerve of that virus....show him....not gonna push me around like that..." Jade had been muttering to herself while furiously tapping at her keypad. J2 popped onto the screen. "He's gone for now, but he has the upper hand." "I know, I know that's why we need to get started asap." "And about..." "I know about that too, patch me through to him." The screen before her lit up. "You know Wolf, it's not polite to go snooping around other people's conversations, especially when you're going to get caught. I'm a hacker remember? Anyways, you can see the seriousness of the situation so if you could gather the teams I want to get this mission going before something else blows up."

But something else did blow up.

Smoke fills the hallways next to the reception area and people scramble all over. At the center of all the commotion are Wraith and a receptionist, who moments earlier had a little argument about all the ordnance he's carrying. A short struggle'd ensued, and she'd gotten hold of one of his grenades and accidentally set it off.

Smoke alarms go off all over the building while Wraith holds his head in one hand, shaking his head while she scolds him.

OOC: Glaser Safety Slugs. Very lethal APERS rounds, pistol only.

OOC: Thanks Dante, guess we need to go pistols only inside the buiding.

BIC: "Normally I'd explain, but since your AI acted of its own accord and alerted me to the conversation, and I decided to monitor it...then I guess you could call it snooping. Sorry about that. As for your request, I'll have everybody at the conference hall within 5 minutes. Wolf out"

Wolf shut down his communicator. I have a strong suspicion Jade is trying to test my loyalty...or maybe I'm just paranoid...well...it doesn't matter now anyway. Of course...I should've known an AI can't beat a professional hacker.

He sent priority 1 emails to every single person on both teams alerting them that Jade wanted them all to meet in the conference room within 5 minutes...and that's when the smoke alarms went off.

What the hell happened now? He wondered as he ran to the source of the alarms, the reception area. He saw an unidentified man scolding the receptionist...something about setting off grenades. Wolf decided that since the man wasn't trying to kill everyone in sight, he probably wasn't a threat......probably.

If he's anything, he probably is a new recruit. We've had a few of them today. I wouldn't be surprised. Wolf thought.

He walked up to the man. "Hope I'm not interrupting anything. My name is Wolf, XO of the Cyber Force. Two questions. Are you another new recruit? And, uh...why is the area filled with smoke?"

Wolf was sure to keep his hands away from his firearms.

OOC: Actually, when I said pistol only, I meant pistol calibre rounds only. This maans you can still go to town with SMGs, though unless you use Advanced Glaser rounds there isn't much chance of you piercing body armor.

ooc: maybe not but I will try :-D

Wraith looks between her and him, then wags his finger at her and says, "Just a moment..."

He faces Wolf and answers, "Not really a new recruit; I was transferred here by Colonel Robinson last week."

He then points his finger at her. "And the smoke's all her fault."

She looks at him indignantly and exclaims, "Me!?"

"Yes, you. You're the one that pulled the pin out."

"After you took out the grenade!"

"AFTER you told me to take out all my weapons!"

"It looked like a real one!"