Four Seven Niner is seen ordering a trooper pushing a crate around.

Four Seven Niner: No, no! This one goes here, that one goes there.

The trooper grunts in annoyance. Carolina, York, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota walk into the hangar, conversating.

MOTHER OF INVENTION HANGAR A1. MANY YEARS AGO...

Carolina: We ready?

Four Seven Niner: Just about. Running final checks now.

Carolina: Alright, you heard her! Everyone onboard!

Washington: Great.

North Dakota: Alright.

York: C'mon D. Let's go. It's about time. Let's get this mission goin'.

Four Seven Niner: Woah, woah, woah. Hang on a minute, what is that thing?

York: This is Delta. Our new addition.

Four Seven Niner: Your new addition is pretty small.

Washington: I said the same thing.

York: Delta is a computer program. He helps us figure stuff out. He's an A.I.

Four Seven Niner: Oh A.I. huh? What's the A stand for?

York: Artificial.

Four Seven Niner: I know what the fuck it stands for. What's it doing here?! Isn't it like one of those robots who takes people's jobs and puts them out of work?

York: I don't think so.

The trooper stops to watch the Freelancers and Four Seven Niner.

Four Seven Niner: What are you looking at?! I said put it over there, pay attention!

The trooper resumes moving the crate around.

"You think I should tell her about Xi?" Minne asks Wash.

"Probably not." Wash replies.

Carolina: Hey guys, get a move on.

Four Seven Niner: Hang on a minute. You. Green guy. Do you know how to fly a plane?

Delta: No, I do not.

Four Seven Niner: Huh, right. We're cool then. Everybody on board!

The trooper continues to grunt in annoyance as he's moving around the crate.

Four Seven Niner: Not over there, over there! Just quit screwin' around and put that thing back where you found it.

Exhausted, the trooper slams his head onto the crate.

Four Seven Niner: This is Four Seven Niner. We are wheels up and engines hot. Leave a light on for us, command.

Command: Roger that, Four Seven Niner. Good luck.

Four Seven Niner: Thanks, command. Four Seven Niner out. Man, I would hate to have that guy's job.

Four Seven Niner starts the Pelican.

ANCIENT ALIEN TEMPLES. PRESENT DAY...

The Reds, Blues, and Carolina arrive at the desert. Carolina gets off her mongoose. Ash stops his Warthog near Carolina.

Carolina: This where you found the body?

Washington: Yep, she's right up there.

Carolina: We'll see. Take me there. Sync.

Washington: Sync.

Caboose: Automatic dishwasher.

"My shoulder hurts." Ash says.

"Let's go, Minne." Carolina orders.

"Ok."

Washington, Ash, and Carolina run off to find the body

Tucker: Man, where was this chick when we had that awesome tank? Bitches love tanks!

Epsilon: I don't get it. What is she looking for?

Tucker: You tell me! I don't know half of what's happening these days. You found me here remember?

Epsilon: Oh yeah! You were actually kind of a badass that time.

Tucker: Dude, I'm kind of a badass, all the time! You guys just happened to notice it then.

Caboose walks over

Caboose: Ah, that's not true. I never noticed it.

Epsilon: Look, the point is she's not telling us everything. I just don't understand why.

Tucker: Who knows man? I tried everything I can to get some info out of her. I tried hitting on her, I tried sleeping with her, I tried making out with her-

Epsilon: (sarcastically) Sounds like a complete effort.

Tucker: Dude, no kidding! I used the whole playbook! I even used my best pick-up line: "hey baby, did you fall from heaven, cause I've always wanted to bone an angel!"

Epsilon: Tucker, be honest. Have you ever had sex with anything besides an alien?

Tucker: Church, the more important question here is: do you know any girls who aren't complete bitches, that won't sleep with me?

Epsilon: Sorry, dude. That seems to be all I have in my life.

Tucker: You're like the worst wingman ever.

Caboose: Of all time.

The Pelican is seen flying through the sky.

EN ROUTE TO ENEMY BASE. MANY YEARS AGO...

Washington, York, North, Minne, and South are shown in the Pelican's rear bay. The pelican rumbles slightly.

Minne tenses up and takes few deep breaths.

"We parking?!" York yells.

"Indeed we are." 479 informs. "The enemy base is right below us."

"How far below?" Wash asks.

"Do you really want to know?" 

"Probably not." Wash says. "Do I wanna know?"

Four Seven Niner: Seventy-five thousand feet.

Washington: Uhh, that's high.

Four Seven Niner: (mumbling) No wonder you guys need computer programs, (raises voice) yes, that's very high.

"That's really, incredibly high." Minne says.

Delta: That is approximately fourteen-point-two miles.

York: Thanks, D. You do not need to do that anymore.

Delta: Automatic conversion routines, offline.

Carolina dismounts from the co-pilot seat.

Carolina: What's the plan?

Four Seven Niner: Well, we know they're ready for us, so I figure they have defenses pointed in every direction. Except...

Carolina: Except they're probably not looking straight up.

Four Seven Niner: They're probably not looking straight up.

Washington walks up behind Carolina

Carolina: You thinking about a dive-bomb?

Washington: Oh no.

Washington returns to the rear bay

Four Seven Niner: Sort of, but if we did a dive bomb, our engines would register on their thermals. Let them know that we're coming. I'm thinking... something else.

Carolina slowly backs up into the pelican's rear bay

Carolina: Probably wanna tighten that harness.

Washington: Ohh no.

"I don't like this!" Minne says.

Carolina sits next to Washington as the Freelancers put their harnesses on.

Four Seven Niner: Express elevator, goin' down!

Four Seven Niner stops the engines throwing the pelican into free-fall.

Washington: I think I'm gonna be sick!

Carolina: You know these suits are supposed to eliminate all wastes! You could probably throw up in your helmet and it would take care of it for you!

York: Yeah! You should test that, Wash!

Washington: You two are assholes!

"I think I'm gonna barf." Minne says and he groans.

Delta: Actually York, we were never able to get the vomit disposal patch beyond beta. Agent Washington would likely drown.

York: Yikes. Way to kill the mood, D.

Four Seven Niner: Hey York, send that little green guy up here.

York: D, you heard her! Front and center!

Delta appears in front of Four Seven Niner

Delta: May I be of assistance?

Four Seven Niner: Hey buddy, I need you to tell me when I can fire the jets at the last possible second. You know, to avoid crashing.

Washington: Please don't say crashing!

Delta: I understand. To prepare, I will need to calibrate for your reaction time.

Four Seven Niner: Fine, go ahead.

Delta: When I say "mark", you say "sync". Mark.

Four Seven Niner: Sync.

Delta: Mark.

Four Seven Niner: Sync!

Delta: Calibration complete.

Four Seven Niner: So, we're good?

Delta: I have high degree of confidence we will be able to complete this maneuver.

Delta flashes.

Four Seven Niner: Wait a second, why did you just blink like that?

Delta: That was just a standard maintenance routine.

Xi appears in front of Minne. "Prepared?" She asks.

"I hope so." Minne says.

Xi flashes.

"Don't tell me."

"Just a precaution." The A.I. says. 

Delta: Prepare to fire engines on my mark. Five, Four, Three-

Cut to two Insurrection soldiers standing next to each other

Insurrection Soldier #1: Hey.

Insurrection Soldier #2: Yeah?

Insurrection Soldier #1: You ever wonder why-

The pelican fires its engines, landing right behind the two soldiers

Four Seven Niner: First floor! Everybody out!

Everyone jumps out of the Pelican.

York: Okay, go, go, go!

Washington: Why are we always jumping out of this thing?

North Dakota: Let's move people!

Minne jumps past everyone and onto the ground. "Sweet ground!"

Carolins readies herself to jump.

Carolina: Yeah, let's move.

Carolina jumps off the back of the pelican, landing in-between some Insurrection soldiers and leading the Freelancers into battle. Soon, two warthogs drive up and fire at the group. The Freelancers dodge the blast, with Carolina using the attacking warthog to jump onto a higher platform. North and South take cover behind a container.

"I'm going to go check ahead!" Minne yells.

"Roger!" Carolina yells.

Minne begins to run and rolls under a rocket and through a warehouse. Minne makes it out of the warehouse and suddenly he's surrounded by soldiers. 

"Drop the weapon!" A soldier yells.

Minne starts to lower his Plasma Repeater, but he slams his right fist into the ground and is covered in a blue energy.

"What the hell?" A soldier yells.

"Xi?" Minne says. "A little help here."

Xi appears next to him. "On it."

Xi closes her eyes and after a few seconds she reopens them and snaps her fingers.

Time has slown down for her and a timer appear before her.

"Right, now to get to work." Xi says.

Xi begins to walk around and study all the soldiers and their weapons. Many different screens appear around here about the armor of the soldiers and their weapons.

A beep alerts Xi and she looks to her timer and it's almost down to zero.

"Ok, then."

Many different screens of many different scenarios of how Minne could fight them appear. Many end up with him dying, many end up with him winning. A few are just plain odd.

Xi begins to swipe away the ones she doesn't like.

"No, no, no."

A beep goes off again and Xi looks to see she's at her last seconds.

Xi calmly looks at her options and she stops at one and smirks. "Perfect."

She taps on the screen and swipes it over to Minne's helmet.

"Go." Xi snaps her fingers.

Time resumes and Minne deactivates his armor lock and he grabs his knife and stabs a soldier in the shines and kicks the guy in the face.

"Open fire!" A soldier yells.

Minne grabs his knife and throws it into the gun of a soldier, jamming it.

Minne backflips into the air and avoids gunfire, while in the air he fires off his Plasma Repeater. A plasma round strikes a soldier in the head.

Minne lands on the ground and a soldier tries to grab him from behind. Minne ducks and grabs the soldiers arms and Minne throws him over his shoulders. But not before sticking a live grenade to the guys belt.

Minne drops to the ground as bullets fly over him. He pulls out his pistol and shoots another soldier in the face. Minne rolls to the side as a soldier tries to stab him.

Minne jumps up near a soldier trying to take the knife out of his gun. 

Minne grabs his knife and yanks it out.

"Oh, thanks." The soldier says and he looks up to see Minne. "Aww, crap."

Minne stabs his knife into the guy's head and moves him to the side and uses his body as a shield.

The Minne throws his body forward, while ripping his knife out, and it crashes into another soldier.

Minne quickly pulls up his repeater and shoots a soldier in the head.

Everything goes silent except the grunts of the final soldier pulling the body of his friend off him.

Minne walks over to him and puts his foot on his chest and lowers his Plasma Repeater to the soldiers face.

"No, no, no, WAIT!" Minne shoots him in the face with his Plasma Repeater.

Minne steps off the corpse and puts his repeater on his back and wipes the blood off his knife.

"Great job, Xi." Minne says

Xi appears on Minne's shoulder. "Thank you, s- MOVE!" She disappears. 

Minne rolls to the side as a katana slams into the ground where he was.

Minne gets into a CQC position with his knife ready.

"Well, well, well." It's the female soldier that stabbed Minne in the shoulder. "If it isn't the man that almost killed me."

"Xi?" Minne quietly says.

"Survival rate is at 67%" Xi says in Minne's helmet.

"I like those odds." Minne says.

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07-18-2022