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WONK: the Chaos Reigns Players

Last thing I remember is me offering Clive a choice of "regular or Extra Crispy" and Patton drawing down on me... and speaking of, I believe there's someone who needs to justify his continued life... shall we? I believe the General's been setting the mood, and PFY has prepared the environment sufficiently...
 
Well, I thought you might like a piece of the action, and since we're using the "Good Cop/Bad Cop" approach and it's hard to get much more "Bad Cop" than me...

(camera: Bourne and Samantha walk into an unused machine-shop. Patton is pacing impatiently, and Clive is hanging from the ceiling by some chains, shirt off.)

Patton: (to Clive) You had your chance to do this the easy way, now you're going to find out what "the hard way" really means, you poor ba***rd! Bourne, your turn...

(somewhere out of Clive's sight but within easy reach of his back, we see three things on the counter: a hunk of meat, a soldering iron and a popsicle)
*playing with blowtorch* You know what happens with a really serious burn, Clive? All you feel is... cold, as the nerves die. Then you smell your flesh burning...
Clive: I ain't gonna tell you nothing! I got rights, you know!
*walks behind Clive, stabs meat with soldering iron and Clive with Popsicle*
Clive: Aaaagh!
So, Clive, tell me what you and your Hitlerite clowns have to do with the Zebras, Samantha and Kilroy, or me?
Clive: Okay, okay! Just don't hurt me! You know that most Zebras except team-leaders are prison lifers, right? Well, somehow the TL had the bad luck to draw mainly members of WAR for his team... I'm about the only outsider except the TL who they didn't arrange to have "disappeared" shortly after we arrived. If you can protect me from them, I'll help you.
 
(whispering to Sam, we notice soldering iron was removed from steak at the same time as Popsicle left Clive's back) I'd gladly throw him to the sharks myself, but I think he may be useful. Besides, PFY tells me *tapping tinted lens, we can just see some thin green lines scrolling across it* that he ran a tox screening, and he was being drugged with something, exactly what still under investigation. The steak's just to make him believe it's real... Besides, I know the group he referred to: White Aryan Resistance, neoNazis--I saw their tattoos on some of our kills. A former friend from my college days was Jewish and she had somehow attracted their attention, so I've had to stare this particular evil in the eye before. They all have a kind of "hate incarnate" look when you stare deep enough into their eyes, and this clown doesn't have that... also, they're all hardened, violent types, while this guy... *sniffs air, notices faint urine smell* well, we know he doesn't have even the bladder-control for that.

(voice raised, so all can hear) Of course, there's nothing to stop you from getting a little slap-happy with him, if you deem it appropriate! *wandering around in front of Clive*

Clive, first off, tell us, why should we believe you, especially after what you tried to do to the lady? Hmmm? *casually contemplating soldering-iron*
 
Clive: As I said, miss, most of this particular Zebra team are neo-Nazis, I still can't figure out why the team-leader hasn't seen it already! Anyway, they want to try to change history so the Third Reich prevails, and your father will play a key role in preventing it from happening. (looks to Patton) As will you, General--you have a date with history, and you're on their target-list too!
Clive, who's the TL?
Clive: Guy named Jameson.
Hmmm... Jameson's weakness, he's too naive. Used to be my PFY... As I recall, I specifically recommended that he be paired with only the most seasoned operatives available for missions.
Clive: From what I've heard, he was the most seasoned operative available, and now he's lost control of his team. He's gone into hiding in London, I went "deep-cover" to bird-dog the rest of 'em for him. Miss, I apologize for things earlier, but I had to do something to make the others believe I was becoming one of them.
 
PFY, would you please help her?
PFY: Sure thing, boss.*PFY picks Samantha up and carries her back to her quarters*

Patton: Like the man said, why should we believe you? How do we know you won't turn on us?
Clive: Because if you let me defect, I'll be completely unarmed, totally at your mercy, just as I am now. I may be a felon and a lifer, but I'm 100% red-white-and-blue American, and these guys are out to destroy everything I hold dear! I am a thief, General, Mr. Bourne, and I have much to answer for, but the kind of mass-murder these WAR thugs want to see as an everyday event is enough to turn even my stomach!

To be continued...
 

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Announcer: WONK comes live for you tonight from the Evon Gumby Theatre near Guildford. R.J. Gumby, R.S. Gumby and R.M. Gumby star in "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Checkov. The action takes place near Moscow in the 1870s...
R.J. Gumby: *Knocks on door*
R.M. Gumby: "Come in!"

R.J. Gumby: *Breaks down door and stomps in*
R.M. Gumby: "No! Open the door and come in!"
R.J. Gumby: "Sorry!"
R.S. Gumby: "What ho!"
R.M. Gumby: "My brain hurts!"
R.J. Gumby: "Sorry!"
R.S. Gumby: "What ho!"

Announcer: Oops, I seem to have stumbled across a Monty Python sketch. My apologies. Now for tonights episode of WONK!
 

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I have no idea who you are, Miss. Have we met before?

*Just then, an apparent twin of Kilroy enters the room*


2nd Kilroy: "Ello 'ello! Sam, what are you doing here? *Sees 1st Kilroy in the bed* Wait! Who is that man? Why...he's me! What the bloody he** is going on here?
 
Meanwhile, over at Hangar 18:
*camera over Bourne's shoulder, we see him writing in a well-worn notebook*
Voiceover, from Jason Bourne's War Journal: General Patton has returned to his headquarters, consulting his own staff about the next phase of operations. Clive has weathered a Bourne interrogation, not much worse for the wear other than being mentally broken and wetting himself every time he sees a soldering-iron...

PFY is off somewhere doing some errands of his own, Arnold is recharging his batteries and Blackout is in depot-maintenance. Samantha's off checking in on the hospitalized Kilroy I need to see about reaching Jameson and getting him back in the fight--ironic that now a man who's been assigned to kill me appears to need my help controlling his own hit-team! And there's still the matter of my mission...

Personal log, supplemental: that redhead has been getting too close for comfort, but now she appears to have a false impression of me as something I'm trying not to be... I hope not, going back to Hell is something I'd rather avoid! I just hope this doesn't turn into a repeat of the McAuliffe incident in crosstime relations... perhaps I need to sever ties with this group, move on and hunt alone once more.
 

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1st Kilroy: What is going on here? Who are you, sir? I'm Kilroy. Nurse, who is that man? He must be an imposter!

2nd Kilroy: Wait, I'm Kilroy! You're the imposter. Who are you?!?
 

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