Legacies and Lead

1 Ryan_Callahan Everyone within V.I.L.E. had known about the disappearance of one of their newest recruits, it had been on the minds of the members there at some point or other. Ryan Callahan had been a character but after suddenly vanishing during a trip back to California to supervise a couple of transfers of his favorate vehicles to the base as discreetly as possible. Maybe he had gone on the lamb, was hiding out till ACME or some other police force calmed down. But he wasn't on the radar of any ACME agent... yet. However, the old saying still stands for theft as it does for most things, "It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt." 2 months had passed since the dissappearance when an anonymous e-mail had found itself in Ken Belevitt's private inbox, with only a single video/audio file on it, a file that should have been seen by everyone now. The video quality was bad, jittery and with occationally bad frame-rate from a cheap computer camera, the thumping of the microphone fumbling in someone's hand. "Ha... god, please let this work, please..." Could be heard as the framerate came to a crawl from being moved, the room it was in difficult to make out but looking more like a bunker. The camera finally stopped on a familar face though very distraught. Ryan's eyes were dark, possibly from lack of sleep with a busted lower lip and a dark bruise over his right temple. "Ken, VILE, anyone who picks this up..." He whispered, his voice paniced as he gulped heavily, glancing away for a second, "I'm in trouble, big time trouble. I... I think we ALL are in trouble actually. T-Two months ago I had a bit of a... a chance meeting with a couple of old aqiantances. And by aquatances, I mean two brothers I really, REALLY pissed off by stealing from them, Heckler & Koch Seidel. They're-" He looks up once more, sounds of footsteps being heard as the brunette curses underneath his breath, the camera jumping until he seemed to be in a matenance closet. "Th-They kidnapped me because they want something I got, something big. The Seidel's are arms dealers, have their hands in the pockets of a few private milltary companies too. I think... I think they're trying to make a WMD." "I didn't tell any of you this for obvious reasons. I know... I know where some Uranium is, its well hidden in plain sight." He panted, licking his lips and whincing at the pain in his lip, "Its hidden on the Enola Gay, in the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Fairfax County, Virgina. They're going to hit it soon and they're forcing me to go with them. I haven't told them yet where it is... yet." He takes a peak out of the closet for a moment before continuing, "Listen to me, go into my room and find my cellphone hidden in that replica of a Mercades-Benz SSK on my desk. Find the number for the Man In Black and tell him, "The Enola Gay may fly once more." He'll know what it means but you should plan out how to stop them too in case-" The video feed suddenly cuts out with only haunting static that held in the air for a couple minutes more...

2 Ken_U_Belevitt "Oh crud, oh crud, oh cruuuud......!" Instead of immediately taking to Ryan's directions. Ken U. Belevitt panicked. That was to be expected. "Help, someone help! Emergency! Emergency!" He rambled as he skitted about VILE headquarters looking for someone, anyone who could better handle this situation. Hopefully, someone would atually take heed. For Ken, an 'emergency' could be anything from a missing hot-pocket to an unidentified piece of crumpled up paper on his desk.

3 Eartha-Brute Eartha was reading a new book she got from her monthly romance novel club when Ken's rambling was heard in the hall way. "Shut up, Runt, or I'll make you into a throw pillow!" She opened her door to yell louder.

4 Patty-Larceny In her personal little space of VILE Headquarters,Patty was priming her nails for a full manicure. Ken's panic interrupted her track of Katy Perry's Waking Up in Vegas. Kenny must have found a piece of crumpled paper or something and was ignored by the blonde. It took Eartha's thundering to make the fashionista drag herself up to the door. "What's with the craziness?" Patty popped her head out of her room, "Ooh, Eartha, new book?"

5 Ken_U_Belevitt "Patty! Patty! You've got to believe me!" Ken came up running from the opposite end of the warehouse-sized hallway, panting heavily. "Ryan....Arms Dealers....Fairfax....Man in black...Nuclear pile....Nyoryn~..." Ken was flummoxed beyond words, but both Patty and Eartha could see at a distance that his desktop was still on. Ken never left his desktop on, always opting to lock up his computer so much as he saw someone look over his shoulder.

6 Emmesey-Squire El Capitan walked right up to Ken from behind, forcefully turned him around. "Ken. Is there really a need to shout? We're inside a building so we use "indoor" voices." El Capitan said causually to the hyperventalating kid. "Sheesh. Screaming our heads off never solved anything. First thing we need to do is inform the Boss Lady of the situation while at the same time we follow the transmissions instructions." El Capitan turned to go but then as an after thought he answered the question he knew Ken was going to ask him. "You are wondering how I know of the problem. Simple, I hacked your computer. I was bored." El Capitan continued on toward Ryan's room.

7 Eartha-Brute "Alright Runt, what is Magic Man talking about?" Eartha put away her book and came out into the hall, "Carmen she said she's 'got things to do', and that means we can't disturb her about tiny things like you and imaginary people."

8 Ken_U_Belevitt "Look, just follow me and I'll have everything explained." Ken led everyone into Ryan's room. He lifted off the top of the model car on his desk, and sure enough, there was a cell phone. He scrolled down to the list of numbers until he found a listing for MinB. He hit 'send,' putting the phone on speaker for all to hear. "Hello? Man in Black? This is VILE Headquarters. The Enola Gay may fly once more."

9 Ryan_Callahan Ken led everyone into Ryan's room. He lifted off the top of the model car on his desk, and sure enough, there was a cell phone. He scrolled down to the list of numbers until he found a listing for MinB. He hit 'send,' putting the phone on speaker for all to hear. "Hello? Man in Black? This is VILE Headquarters. The Enola Gay may fly once more." The phone rang... and rang some more. It was about 15 seconds until whoever this Man in Black picked up the phone. At first, all that was on the other end was groaning, the kind you get coming out of deep sleep or a heavy hangover. "Rion... this better be damn well good to call me at 3 in the mornin'..." The voice on the other end grumbled, vocals sounding like gravel, the pronunciation of Ryan's name seemingly in another accent on purpose before returning to an American one, "Would it kill ya to think about, I don't know, timezones or some shi-..." However, he stopped midsentence as Ken relayed the message, that sound of familiarity in the Man in Black's voice now turned all business. "... Who is this? VILE huh... heard about you. Good things about its leader, ups and downs with the rest of the association which is pretty rare in this business. That where Ryan is taking his "training" now? And where is the smartass?"

10 Patty-Larceny To understand this whole situation better, Pats made a decision not to bother with her manicure right now and just follow everybody to Ryan's room. She was the last to arrive, listening half heartedly to the code thing Kenny was saying to the phone. Obviously, Patty still doesn't get what the big deal is today.

11 Emmesey-Squire El Capitan grew impatiant and snatched the phone from Ken. "listen to me you gloryfied geekwad! This is El Capitan speaking! My associate Ryan is in trouble and he said you can help us help him out. Start talking or you won't live to regret it!

12 Ryan_Callahan The man on the other end was silent for a moment after that sudden outburst, missing a beat before suddenly bursting out in condescending laughter. "GAHAHAH! Well, obviously he's in trouble or he would have smacked the crap out of you for saying that! Geekwad! Am supposed to be scaried of playground taunts?" His voice went low now, serious once more as he seemed to be ignore El Capitan now, "Then again... I think we all are in trouble... Hey, who was that guy before?" He was of course referring to Ken, "You seem to be the one in the know here. Fill us in. How does the kid look? Who's taken him? What kind of group are we dealing with here that wants Uranium?"

13 Emmesey-Squire El Capitan was furious. He was silent for a moment, he passed the phone to Ken while he made a mental note that once Ryan was rescued he'd have this Man in Black guy killed in the most brutal and gruesome of ways.

14 Ken_U_Belevitt Ken stalled for a minute. Then he stammered himself back into awareness. "U-uhm-mm...Ryan looked fine. He's not hurt for now, but he's been captured. He mentioned the name of a couple arms dealers: Heckler and Koch Seidel. I think you know the place..." "So, what can we do? We want our associate back, and we certainly don't want our organization to be involved in an international incident. Should we go there?"

15 Ryan_Callahan A small tapping could be heard, fingers drumming on the phone itself. Must have been an actual land phone and not a cell. "Heh, good, the kid has the know-how to stay alive... for now. My guess is he's been stalling with a direct answer to its location on the Enola Gay so he'll still be worth something to them. And yeah, I know these arms dealers." He said, a click of something metallic before a heavy breath out, a smoker it would seem, "Heckler and Koch Seidel, twin sons of an arms dealer and a business woman with both boys forced to live their lives on either side of the Berlin Wall back when the Soviets were still in power. Heckler lived with daddy and learned his way around weapons, intimidation, and pretty much how to be the biggest, baddest man in the Soviet bloc. Koch took to his mom's shady business deals, had his nose in books but knows his way around a gun or two. After "The Wall" fell, the two reunited with one another and started to take over daddy's "business" as it was, though the two of them might look similar, their personalities are like night and day. Heckler's the hot-headed, macho bull-crap who'll wave around a weapon whenever he doesn't get his way while Koch is levelheaded, the brains of the operation but absolute cold blooded. When he pulls out his pistol, you're as good as dead. "And as for causing international incidents, I thought people like us do that everyday!" He said with a harsh chuckle, "We have a plan of attack already in check but I don't have all the details, my friend and partner is the one for that. But he'll start our next move to stop these maniacs. In the meantime, start preparing a way to snatch someone away from an aircraft museum, by air if possible. Get to Fairfax County, Virgina in about two days, we'll wire you the address to a nearby hotel. Don't expect anything amazing, Best Western or a Comfort Inn but its something. We'll tell you more from there." Suddenly, a different voice could be heard on the other end. "Jiggy! Sheesh, I wasn't aware you had a new girlfriend, what cheap hotel are you trying to get too!?" Said a male but very playful voice, followed by this "Jiggy" grunting in annoyance, "Gah, this concerns you too! Anyways, chao." A click and the phone was dead. [I suggest everyone do one last reactionary post as the next scene will be directed at all ACME agents. If you're playing an additional character there, be ready!]

16 Ken_U_Belevitt Ken beeped off the phone and replaced it in the model. Those ACME mole-men would hopefully be be unable to trace the call anywhere except the inside of the headquarters. "Well, I never would of thought that someone like Ryan would be involved in something like international arms dealing. Wait. Hold on." Ken pulled out a tiny notebook from his back pocket and flipped through several pages. "Ah here we are." The page read like this: RYAN CALLAHAN Esper Being of pure energy Automaton Werewolf CIA Frontman Lindbergh Baby Yakuza??? Ken put the list into his back pocket, shrugged and said. "No, I never would have thought it." Then he took the list out again and scribbled on it with a black pencil.

17 Patty-Larceny Patty sighed after the phone conversation was over. She didn't hear much of that, naturally, she played it blond. "So what did the guy say, is this worth it? If this isn't some huge problem, like, I got a manicure to get back to."

18 Eartha-Brute "I think we stay, Pats," Eartha suggested, "this doesn't sound tiny. We should get Carmen." The bodybuilder walked to the emergency phone and dialed a number. "You runts figure this out so I have something to say to her."

19 Ken_U_Belevitt "I'll get right on that." Ken said as he moved through the assembled crowd to the doorway. "We need to put some transportation together. Hopefully we can get on the trail of these guys before they start making unreasonable demands. I hate unreasonable demands. Unless they're my own."