Operation: Viper (Heroes Adv)

Operation: Viper

Quick note: Our G.M.'s have switched momentarily for this adventure, Ihsan is now the G.M. which will explain Dark Rider's quick exit. And Ash (the normal G.M.), picked up a guy you'll come to know as Lukewarm, Enjoy!

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(Next Update)- From the journals of the Metal Juggernaut) Dark Rider and Shroud returned a few days later, telling me that Tsunami had decided to stay in Tibet to train in the Dragon Temple with Amos, to become a martial arts master. My feelings are mixed on this; Gats highered us to protect N.Y.C. and the surrounding areas from crime, but then Tsunami just takes off on him without even thanking Gats for all he has done, yet Tsunami is also going back into training, which I admire in the man. Maybe the next time we see him, he'll be an even stronger weapon of justice. Who Knows....

Also Dark Rider is telling me how he has to go to some guys funeral and won't be able to be around for the next couple of days, so I said farewell to him, and he took off. (Probably loaded to the teeth, if I know him :)

So now that just leaves me (Metal Juggernaut) and Shroud to cover an entire city. How fun, I hope nothing really big happens while two of the guys are away.

What's with the Guns?

Well, as always, I went to work at the auto shop by day and out on my patrols by night in my groove'n hippy-mobile, and things didn't seem to bad. I was watching the news one night, and a report came on telling about how gangs are getting more into guns (big ones too) then they used to, and that the old fashioned switchblade is on the way out.

The next few nights out, I saw more and more gangs hanging around with guns, just driving around, trying to pick my mark. I finally say them, the ones who would talk. Me and Shroud got out of the Hippy-mobile and went and beat 3 little gangsters around for awhile until they were ready to talk. I took the Auto Mag from the leader, cocked it and shoved in his face, and man, that boy broke faster then an eggshell in a blender. Here's what I got from the lad.

-There's a new organization in town, known as Viper

-They distribute guns to gangs or whoever for rock bottom prices

-They move around constantly, and their current location is spread by word of mouth

If I would have been thinking, I could have gotten more, but that was good enough for now, we'd get more on them tomorrow.

What a "Time"

I went to bed and the next morning was up bright and early, and then I hear the doorbell ring. I walked on over to answer it, and saw Shroud coming also, and opened the door. If front of us stood a 3' 5" tall, hairy, strong human in class 4 armour. (I personally think he looks like a rat, or maybe a mole :) He introduced himself as John Ross, a "time traveler from the 79th Null Dimension" (a little crazy I think) and told us that he had been sent back into the past by Lord Simultaneous to stop Jack Kinderson. Jack Kinderson, according to him, had brown hair and eyes, was 6ft, weighed roughly 200 lbs, and would later grow up to be a great super villain. He was said to have recently formed a new organization around here. Me and Shroud automatically suspected that the organization was Viper.

After a brief conference with Shroud, we decided we'd listen to the little man, because there was that 1% chance that the guy was totally wacko. Jon told us that we then have to go to the morgue and find a man by the name of Lukewarm who would help us, yet why him was not told to us.

We first asked Larold to look up on the net to see if he could find anything on the Viper Organization, and then we left for the morgue. We greeted Lukewarm at the morgue, as he was busily attending one of the dead with the mortician. Lukewarm was easily 7 ft tall, and just towered over us. We pulled into the hallway, and tried to convince him to join up with me, Shroud, and the John. It was kind of difficult to convince him of something I wasn't even convinced of yet, and only ended up doing a half-assed job getting him to join us. He gave us his phone number and told us if we needed him that we could give him a call. We left, and for the next few days searched the entire city in and out while still going to our jobs, and found very little info of interest.

About mid-day on Saturday, my phone rang and it was Larold, he told me he found something, and he sounded quite excited by it. I told him we'd be right up. I gave Lukewarm a call to tell him to come over, and moments later we were all staring at the Viper Headquarters, inside, outside, and below, on Larold's computer screen. We ran off a few copies, and formed a plan of what we'd do. It seems as though the sewer system leads right under the base, so we'd enter from there. From there we'd hope to get lucky. Our prime target was killing Jack Kinderson, secondary target was bringing down the Viper Organization.

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| ? | D | D = Delivery and drop off for trucks

| |_____| ? = Portion still unknown to us

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Dissection of a Viper

We left for the target right away, and entered through the sewers. Surprisingly, it looked as though they were waiting for us to enter that way, or that was the way that all of their agents entered. When we entered the cellar from the sewers, there were a whole lot of crates there, waiting for us, I opened one, and here was this entire outfit, just waiting to be put on, it included a key card and everything. I put it on, and the others eventually did, and we headed up the stairs to security, and security they let us pass. We entered the main building, some guards asked us if we were new here, and we said yes, so he told us our only job was to walk around as patrollers, and back up any of the guards if need be. I headed straight for the main door, while the others took different directions. I was checking everything out when eventually Lukewarm and Jon Ross caught up with me, and Jon said that security was on the second level, so we went around looking for the stairs. I quick popped into a room to check it out, and it was this huge computer lab, I pretended like was taking out the garbage, and shoved a whole bunch of papers (computer printouts) into my jacket and left the garbage basket outside the door. We eventually found the stairs and headed up. I noticed cameras all over the place, covering every square inch of the place.

The 2nd level had a couple of different ways to go. Left, which Lukewarm said was security, Straight forward, and right. We tried to get to security first but they told us that it was restricted area, so we decided we'd try and find another way into room, maybe from one of the other rooms. Next we tried the right hallway. We walked down the long corridor, and found this huge metal door, guarded by two guards, and there were camera's all over the place.

I asked one of the guard's what was behind there, and he told me it was were the boss was, and we asked if we could see him, and the guard asked if I was new here. I said yes, and he told me to get the hell outta here, because he didn't want to put up with little peons such as myself. (Ah, if he only knew :) I was this close to unloading my auto mag on him (standard issue for patrollers), but then decided against it, and we returned this time, to try the middle door. In the middle door there were a ton of guards drinking coffee, and just basically sitting around doing nothing. They were acting kinda strangely, so we decided it best to leave quickly.

Suddenly the ground of the building shook, and I tumbled to my knees, as a huge explosion happened outside (No doubt, Shroud's doing). I also heard a gun shot, and a guard yelping in pain. It was coming from the right corridor, and we ran over there to see that one of the guards had shot himself in the foot. I laughed at him so hard, that bastard got what he deserved. Before I knew it, the other guard was telling me to radio in the boss (wall mic) to tell him what happened. I did, and the boss tells me to come in the room. The guard tells me to be careful, as the boss often gets pissed off and blows away the first person he decides is causing any trouble.

The metal door slides open, and the I walk in with Lukewarm and John following right behind me. The door slides closed and a man comes before us, fitting perfectly the description of Jack Kinderson (target one) holding a Automatic Rifle / grenade launcher. Then a feel a slight tug on my arm to bring it around my back from the only bodyguard in the room. I turned around, pulled my Auto Mag, and pumped half a clip into the body guards head (He wasn't in very good condition after that) The guard also had a Auto Rifle / Grenade launcher. Right after I do that Lukewarm takes out his Auto Mag, and shoots a bullet right into Jack, knocking him unconscious. John, finished off Jack. (Target one accomplished)

We start hearing pounding on the door, but the saps can't get in. We quickly check out the rest of the place to find a closet with some souped up class 4 armour in it, which none of us needed / could fit into. And we also found a stairway leading up to the roof, in which a guard was just sitting there sleeping. I quickly closed the door to the stairway, so we could contemplate what to do.

We grabbed the rifles, and Lukewarm's telling me how he can make the room get darker or something like that, so he's going to do that, and John will open the metal door. Me and Lukewarm will just unload the rifles into the hallway, to clear a path to the security room where we could grab some tapes and get out of here. Just then, that guard that was sleeping comes into the room, shouting "Boss, trouble on the ro...(see's what's happened)...who the heck are you." He quick pulled off a shot hitting John, I turned and put half a clip from my Auto mag into him, and he died fairly quickly. John seemed to be alright however, nothing major hurt. We went back, got into position.......

(Next Update) We went back, got into position, and just then the side door from the roof opened again, I whipped my rifle around, and was about to fill the person full of lead, when I saw that it was Shroud. He came over, and then we opened the door and between a grenade, a fireball, an auto mag, and the fact that they couldn't see anything, we blew them away. (What Heroe's eh :)

We ran for the security room, having to go through a few people. When we got there, there was 3 people. Two were programmers, the other was loaded with weapons from head to toe. I stuck the head of the rifle (which was empty actually :) up to the guy, and he decided he didn't want to fight and went running. The other two left fairly fast also. We all grabbed some security tapes, and then Lukewarm wasted the room so no one would know of our presence.

We ran back to the sewers, and headed back to the base.

Back at the base, Gatz introduced us to one of his friends, Pancho Via, he called himself. I guess he was a merc. or something that occasionally did jobs for Gatz, and we were offered his help if we ever needed it. Lukewarm left back for his place, but John stayed with us for the night. We watched the news that night and got to see how an organization known as Viper mysteriously went up in flames, and police confiscated literally crates of guns from the building :)

The stories of our adventures are far from finished.... Please continue to read our next adventure: Travels with Gomer South of the Border.

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