This is likely be to the last entry for several days, I'm helping my mother do some painting
Part VII: Okay, its Nap Time!
Five Weeks Later:
"Big Daddy, this is Tiny Tot, Big Daddy please respond."
"Tiny Tot, this is Big Daddy, what is your status?"
"Big Daddy, we are standing by and feeling a little sleepy."
The Lieutenant at Mission Control on Thindor II turned to the Minister of Intelligence, an Arcean, and at 3 meters tall of a deficient stature... for an Arcean of course. Intelligence didn't even look away from the monitor that displayed the output of the agent's ocular implants*, he just nodded approval.
"Tiny Tot this is Big Daddy, Nap Time is a go. I repeat, Nap Time is a go."
"Confirmed Big Daddy, we are go." Colonel Richards turned to his teammates; Mr. Orange: a Paulos, Mrs. Green: a half Terran half Drengin (don't ask), and Mrs. Blue: a Terran. Richards himself was Terran whose codename was Colonel Red. "Well team, we are go."
"Great! I was about to have some real Nap Time if it had taken any longer." Mr. Orange complained.
"You know as well as the rest of us that we need to do this simultaneously with Operation Frog Legs to prevent either target from getting any heads-up." Colonel Richards/Red replied.
"Well, thanks to your people's sniveling and sneaky ways we finally have something to do." Mrs. Green teased, showing her usual lack of empathy, and giving Nature a one up against Nurture.
"Watch it Green," Blue cut in, "you should know better than to make a racial slur. We may be on Earth, but daddy is always watching." Blue tapped her temple, indicating the cybernetic implants*
"Bah, you and your political correctness." Green spoke the last two words with no small amount of disgust.
"Don't worry about it Blue, I don't blame her. I'm a little embarrassed to be in my own skin actually." Orange said in a subdued tone.
"You don't have to be, your not a Paulosian, not really." Colonel Red cut in. The next words he said using their encrypted subspace communicator implants*.
You're an Endoran, be proud of it.Orange's face got serious and he straightened his posture,
Thank you sir. I am.Green turned to Red, also getting serious.
We all are sir, and we're ready to start this mission.At that they all exchanged nods and separated, each moving into position. Orange walked into the Paulos Embassy across the street from the bistro they all had met at, posing as a Paulos official. Red and Blue started walking down the street hand-in-hand, pointing at some of the larger structures and generally making like they were tourists, telling those they asked directions from that they came from Gabe IV. Green moved to the Paulos Embassy as well, but several minutes after Orange had already gone inside. She positioned herself at the bottom of the steps and pretended to read a Soldier of Fortune.
Orange moved through the embassy making his way toward the Moisturization Room (basically a sauna) in the west wing. Once inside he discretely slipped a small capsule into the vaporization tank and then swallowed a small pill. For the next five minutes Orange made small talk with the delegates and aides arranged in the room, waiting for his little surprise to take effect.
Meanwhile Green had began drinking what appeared to be Arcean Battle Wine, but was really a mineral water with color additives. Also, Red and Blue had made it over to the Embassy's side of the street and were looking at a map nearby to where Green was sitting.
After the sedative had taken effect Orange proceeded through a maintenance hallway that gave access to the heavily secured room that held the Endoran Core. Orange's large Paulos frame made it difficult to weave between the pipes that lined and crossed the hallway. Eventually he came across his target, the maintenance door to the Secured Storage Area of the embassy.
"Colonel Red, this is Mr. Orange, I am in position. Time for you to make some noise."
"Copy that Mr. Orange, noise it shall be."
Blue and Red turned to Green's general direction and pointed down the street, as if they had just figured out where they were and where they were going, and giving the signal to Green at the same time. Green stood up just as Red and Blue were walking by, the three collided and dropped to the ground.
"Watch where you're going, you stupid pink skins!" Green shouted in the middle of standing up. "Aw damn it, now look what you did!" Green pointed at the broken bottle of 'Battle Wine.'
"Do you have any idea how much Arcean Battle Wine costs? 300 credits! That's how much! I needed that stuff to get my Jackalope riled up for tonight's match!"
"Uh... Look, miss...?" Red started to say.
"None of your business what my name is, just gimme 400 credits, that aughta cover it."
"But you said it cost 300." Blue said meekly.
"What's your point?" Green moved in closer, like she was ready to fight. A crowd started to gather, and the front guards at the embassy started looking nervous, exchanging glances at each other.
"Now wait just a minute, lets just calm down. Its obvious you may have had a little too much of that wine yourself, so lets--"
Green interrupted him. "You callin' me a drunk!"
Red looked like he had just lost his patience with the woman. "Yes, yes I am."
Blue grabbed Red's arm, "Honey, don't aggravate the woman. You know how
they can be..."
"OH! That's the last straw pink skins! You're going home in body bags!" Green lunged at Red in a mad frenzy.
* Cybernetic technologies (along with some Metallurgic and Artificial Intelligence Techs) are part of a small mod I made to add something new to the game. They are not a cheat, they are well balanced and the AI researches them at a fair interval. If some of you are interested I may even put it in the library