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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calinon" data-source="post: 1423897" data-attributes="member: 13737">X12You don't see Kevin as you leave the institute.  Thunder notices you looking. "Relax," he says.  "I know exactly where he is."  He turns on a flatscreen display in the dashboard and it displays a map of part of the city.  A yellow dot moves slowly along the streets.  "And before you ask, no.  We aren't going to get him right now," he says, emphasizing 'right now.' You listen to the radio as you drive the route back to HQ.  It's a sunny day and 28 degrees Celsius.  The markets are up.  The Rangers lost to the Senators in hockey 5-4 and the Jets got hammered by the Rams 58-9, last night.  Oh, and a lot of talk about the heroics of a certain group of teenagers. It takes just under 45 minutes and you are pulling up to the front of the EPIC facility.  You get out of the van.  Breakfast is definitely still on.  You can smell the pancakes and eggs from here.  While you can go without food, your stomach rumbles.  Curses on you Super Sense! "Come on, X.  Let's hit the War Room.  Mendez is likely waiting already." MichelleThe flight back to headquarters is longer than you expected, easily an hour.  It's nearing noon when you arrive and you are ravenously hungry.  As you fly in, you see a lot of activity near the workshop as a good number of students are there.  Many others are on the soccer pitch.  You see a lone figure walking towards the workshop from the dorm area and the van is already parked outside, so Thunder and X12 must have beat you here. VincentYou are doing laps when Jackal comes in.  He has something in his hand that looks like an extension cord.  He's wearing rubber boots. RaisaYou make it to the workshop.  There are a lot of students here, working on robots.  You see Anna, Jackson, Johan, Johan, Johan at a huge worktable, and Sanchez nearby going over design schematics with some roboteers. KevinThe phone rings about an hour later.  It's Kendall Bachman, an private investigator and part time reporter that managed to get the exclusive interview with you when you were in trouble in the past.  It made his career. "Ok kid, I got your information.  No need to pay me for it, but we're even after this.  Mia Toan is the daughter of Han Sung Toan.  He's a businessman with strong ties to the Chinese underworld.  From rumors, he heads a clan known as the Red Rose Syndicate.  They are hugely into the drug trade and racketeering.  Bad folks all around.  They just started moving into other countries, both in the EU and NAA.  They like to flood the streets with low priced drugs when they move in, and bite huge chunks out of other crime syndicate's protection rackets.  He's supposedly in NAA now, in New York in fact, but damned if I could find out where. "This Murphy fellow is probably Paul Murphy.  He's Mia's bodyguard and a really nasty fellow.  Ex-Marine, Ex-Merc.  He has a pention for violence and murder and has more connections than you.  And now he's with the Red Rose... well, you do the math on that. "It may not be good for business for me to tell you this kid, but stay the hell away from these people unless you have an army with you.  From what I saw on the news channel last night, you'll be high on their hit list, along with your other pals from EPIC. "You better get me a damn good story out of this; I had to call in a few favors to get you the information this fast."</blockquote>

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