Black Air Mission 2: Oakington, Cambridgeshire

by **Narrator** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:32 pm

It was quiet, with the only sounds being the movement of the X-Teams.

There were rows of plants, with sophisticated looking monitoring equipment around. A hi-tech farm for the 21st century.

by **Graham Jaeger** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 9:45 am

"Anyone else feeling really paranoid about this?" Graham asked as he scanned the rows.

by **Sara Stanton** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 12:19 pm

"Absolutely." she says, waving her scanner over the plants to figure out why they would want to hide the plants.

by **Narrator** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 12:27 pm

The plants themselves seemed to be fairly normal, all things considered. They weren't radioactive, they weren't cloaked in a hologram--nothing like that.

by **Byrna Cooper** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 4:29 pm

Bear slowly and carefully approached a plant, ready for anything, trying to determine what night cause such a wierd trajectory from the projectiles.

"Telekinetic plants?" She mumbled to herself.

by **Graham Jaeger** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 6:46 pm

"Maybe the machines can tell us something," Graham suggested.

by **Narrator** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 7:16 pm

The radio fizzed on

**You guys alright in there?"** One of the CSI guys said over the radio.

by **Sara Stanton** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 11:42 am

"Just puzzled. Everything's fine for now." Sara answers.

by **Narrator** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 12:45 pm

"Where the hell did you run off to?"

by **Graham Jaeger** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 1:57 pm

"A secret tomato greenhouse laboratory," Graham supplied.

by **Narrator** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 7:19 pm

*"...what."* The CSI guy said, flatly.

by **Graham Jaeger** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 8:31 pm

"I know, right?" he joked uncomfortably, "Who seriously researches tomatoes?"

by **Narrator** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 8:40 pm

With what Graham said, the tomatoes started rustling again, and one dropped down by his feet.

by **Byrna Cooper** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 8:42 pm

Something must have set these plants off, Bear thought.

Looking around with her x-ray vision, she tried to uncover anything else hidden.

by **Narrator** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 8:45 pm

There was plenty of equipment in here, certainly, but it all seemed fairly run-of-the-mill for farming stuff. Not organic, hippie farming like Bear was used to, but big industrial farming.

by **Graham Jaeger** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 8:56 pm

A curious rookie, Graham nudged the tomato with his foot.

by **Sara Stanton** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 8:56 pm

"Are they listening to us somehow?" she wonders, walking over to Graham.

by **Narrator** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 8:58 pm

Graham kicks the tomato, for massive damage!

Or nothing happens.

by **Graham Jaeger** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 9:01 pm

"There's only one way to find out."

by **Byrna Cooper** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 9:36 pm

"If we are going to try to provoke a response, let's be safe first.. Everybody outside, quietly. I'll set off a sonic ball from a good distance."

by **Narrator** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 9:56 pm

"While you guys are messing around with fruit, we'll be over here, solving a murder mystery, you know.

I guess you'd guys better hurry and...ketchup," he laughed.

by **Narrator** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 9:56 pm

ZWING!

A tomato ROCKETED out at high speed, shattering through the glass roof above!

by **Byrna Cooper** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 10:13 pm

shit!

Purely on instinct, bear pulled out a metal sphere from her satchel and threw it as hard as possible at the rocketing tomato, looking to intercept it like a Patriot Missile taking out a SCUD.

by **Laura Weston** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 10:14 pm

"Holy crap!" Laura exclaimed, scrambling out of the way, before rocketing off after the tomato, trying to see where it was headed.

by **Narrator** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 10:15 pm

The tomato swerved in mid-air, attempting to continue towards it's original target--the CSI agent on the radio!

Bear's throw was on pace, though, and it smashed through the tomato, showering Laura in red juice.

by **Laura Weston** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 10:19 pm

"No more tomato puns," Laura said into the radio. "You nearly got yourself killed by tomato." She shook herself, trying to get the tomato juice off of her.

by **Narrator** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 10:23 pm

"Killed by a tomato? Pull the other one, it's got bells on."

by **Byrna Cooper** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 10:27 pm

"Radio silence! Now!"

by **Sara Stanton** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 10:46 pm

"What the hell is the point of engineering tomatoes that home in on terrible ketchup puns?" Sara asks, making sure she's still turned to stone.

by **Graham Jaeger** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 9:46 am

"More like bad jokes, but your point stands," Graham said.

"What now? We burn this place down?"

by **Laura Weston** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 9:47 am

Laura shut off her radio, zipping back towards the greenhouse, trying to get a good look through the roof at where that other tomato had come from.

by **Narrator** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 11:53 am

That tomato had come right from the center of the plants. It appears that Graham was right--the tomatoes, somehow, someway, responded to "bad jokes", and launched themselves at their targets.

That was...odd, to say the least.

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 1:13 pm

"This is like a bad joke in and of itself, except that they managed to kill somebody. Comb the place and see if you can find any records or equipment that isn't just for growing plants, then we burn the place down."

by **Narrator** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 2:07 pm

At Sara's "bad joke" comment, one of the tomatoes launched itself at her!

...At significantly slower speed then the one that had launched itself at the CSI agent. Maybe the "bad joke" comment wasn't as bad?

by **Graham Jaeger** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 2:24 pm

"They're touchy too," he commented as humorlessly as possible as he began searching the area.

by **Narrator** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 2:29 pm

Graham would find a computer, still on and accessible, with what appeared to be logs of experiments.

Apparently, the plants were NOT originally created by Black Air. They WERE, however, attempting to modify them.

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 2:31 pm

Sara just stoically takes the tomato to the face and sighs.

by **Narrator** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 2:36 pm

Splat.

And then...two more launched themselves at her, but faster!

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 3:15 pm

"Still not as bad as Robin on spaghetti day."

by **Graham Jaeger** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 3:40 pm

Graham stared at the information for a moment.

"Yeah... I have no idea what half of this even means. Except I think it says Black Air is modifying someone else's work."

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