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07-03-2009, 06:50 PM | #1 |
Iron Grenadier
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Not sure where this should go. It has customs and dioramas, but if a mod find a better place then pleae move...
3rd July, 2009 - The Ministry of Defence, London, UK Sir Paul Thaddick, the Defence Minister, was furious. The 24 hour news channels were playing images of the failed Spearhead anti-terrorist assault over and over again, much to the huge embarrassment of Her Majesty’s Government. The Prime Minister himself had just phoned Thaddick to demand an immediate and satisfactory conclusion to the incident, without any further loss of life. It was clear that Thaddick’s job was on the line. Thaddick had felt the humiliation personally – he had set up the UK Special Forces group ‘Spearhead’ after Action Force had been disbanded 12 months earlier. Their failure to rescue the hostages onboard the cruise ship Neptuno had placed the hostages, and his career, in immediate jeopardy, and time was running out for both. Thaddick needed an answer - he needed a team of specialists that could bring the siege to an immediate and 'clean' end. There was only one name on Thaddick's list - David R. Faireborn - Codename: Flint. Flint looked with horror at the images being shown on a huge screen Thaddick’s room. He could see the video of the Spearhead assault team attacking the Neptuno. Flint had counted three major errors in the operation so far, and they hadn’t even mounted the ship yet. He listened as Thaddick started his briefing… "At 2200 hours yesterday the Neptuno was stormed by what was thought to be a five man terrorist team. They quickly subdued the crew and took them and the passengers hostage. At 0340 hours today we sent in the Spearhead team to retake the ship. Four Spearhead operatives and three hostages were killed in the operation and the whole disaster was played out on national TV via the media. Spearhead's intelligence was wrong - there were ten terrorists. They are from the Lionhearts, a far right group whose motto is 'Britain for the British'. They haven't mounted a terror attack at this level before, and frankly we are surprised by the level of skill and planning involved. Things have been quiet in Europe since Action Force was disbanded last year, but now we need a temporary reinstatement of Action Force to bring this situation to an immediate end." Flint’s face was grim – he realized that Spearhead had been out of their depth. He had been vocal about the British Government’s decision to request a disbandment of Action Force last year. Whilst it was true that the threat from Cobra had been very much reduced, in Europe at least, he was always aware that some crackpot organization would be looking to fill the vacuum. He picked up his briefing papers and files and was about to leave to go to the old Action Force base in Whitehall. He turned to Thaddick… ‘You should have got me involved earlier,’ snapped Flint. ‘We didn’t think we needed you,’ explained Thaddick, his voice heavy with regret. ‘Or Action Force. We were wrong.’ Recruiting Action Force operatives for the Neptuno operation was tricky, especially given the very tight timescale Flint was forced to work to, but he had managed to gather Action Force operatives who were working in the UK and Western Europe. Lady Jaye had been assigned to debriefing the three Spearhead operatives who had managed to escape the Neptuno alive, whilst Boffin and Mainframe had been examining the Neptuno schematics in full. Flint then gathered his team in the main briefing area and started to discuss the assault plan. It had been over a year since Flint had briefed his team, but it felt like yesterday. Everyone was ready and in place, aware of the pressure to get this right, but confident in their ability to get the job done. Life had been difficult for Arthur Banks. His father was alcoholic, and the only contact he ever seemed to have with his father ended up with him getting knocked about. He had hated school and left without any qualifications. Alcohol and drugs were soon destroying his life, but one day someone showed interest in Arthur, and as far as he could recall it was the first time anyone had done so. The man introduced Arthur to the Lionhearts. They taught him to turn his hurt to fight injustice and promote ‘the cause’. They promised him that life would improve for everyone in Britain if they cleared out the people they thought shouldn’t even be there. The gun in Arthur’s hands weighed heavy as he guarded the crying hostages. He’d been told that this was the path to a better future, but as he looked at the frightened people in front of him, scared to even look him in the eyes, he couldn’t see how he was any different from his own father… Within an hour of the briefing a small Action Force team were speeding towards the Neptuno in an assault boat. Flint had arranged for a 15 minute delay on the live feeds the media helicopters were broadcasting. Shipwreck was leading the team, alongside Lowlight, Quick Kick, Torpedo and Mainframe. It was planned that Shipwreck would infiltrate the engine room of the cruise ship whilst Lowlight, Quick Kick and Torpedo would make a direct assault on the terrorists holding the hostages. As they approached the Neptuno, Mainframe triggered the 'Ghost-Jammer' program he had developed. The Ghost-Jammer was an experimental program that would scan and record the vocal patterns of the terrorist communications and then jam the real communications and synthesise false ones, thus ensuring that no alarm was raised. On Lowlight’s signal, Mainframe would then trigger a sonic pulse through the terrorist comms network to immediately disorientate them. The patrol boat reached the side of the Neptuno and the assault team started to scale the side of the ship. Shipwreck vaulted over the top of the ship's hull and found cover immediately. He saw two Lionheart terrorists patrolling the bow edging closer to his position, unaware that he was hiding. Shipwreck stepped out of cover and fired two silenced rounds into the terrorist's chests. He dragged their bodies behind cover and moved towards the engine room. Low light, Quick Kick and Torpedo climbed onto the main deck and surveyed the ship. A three-man Lionheart patrol was making their way along the port walkway, looking for signs of any trouble. Night had managed to keep the assault boat’s location hidden so far, but if its silhouette was seen against the glistening water, then the whole mission could end up compromised. Quick Kick swung down towards two of the terrorists knocking them out cold. Lowlight pulled his trigger sending two rounds into the third terrorist who then dropped to the floor. The Action Force team split up to make their way towards the hostage locations. The terrorists had moved the hostages into two areas – the ship’s ballroom and the ship’s restaurant. There were two terrorists in the main ballroom and Quick Kick had positioned himself outside of it. He had worked out the terrorist locations in the room and was ready to launch his attack. Outside the restaurant Lowlight and Torpedo were in location. The Ghost-Jammer had been keeping reassuring ‘communications’ going from the dead terrorists to the men guarding the hostages. Lowlight signalled to Mainframe that they were ready. Mainframe triggered the sonic pulse causing the terrorists to writhe around in pain. Quick Kick launched himself into the ballroom, smacking the first terrorist with his nunchucks, knocking him down, then throwing the second terrorist violently against a wall, knocking him unconscious. The hostages appeared unharmed. Shipwreck had made it to the engine room as the sonic pulse was triggered. He had managed to subdue one terrorist, but the second had grappled him to the ground. The terrorist was strong as was squeezing Shipwreck’s windpipe. Shipwreck grabbed a knife from the man’s belt and stabbed him between the shoulder blades. The man arched back in pain allowing Shipwreck to silence him. He was about to release a sigh of relief when he realized that the operation had become a lot more complicated… Arthur Banks was holding a gun in his hands and he was looking at the hostages gathered in the restaurant. The weapon was getting heavier with each minute that passed as Arthur doubted what he was doing here at all. A loud scream pierced his eardrums and he dropped to the floor. When he looked up he could see a man standing above him, dressed in black with red goggles, before the butt of the man’s gun made everything turn black. Life had been unfair to Arthur Banks and he had fallen in with a bad crowd. It didn’t matter to Lowlight – all he wanted was the terrorist threat to be nullified cleanly. Shipwreck told the Action Force team to come immediately to the engine room – the operation was much more complicated than they thought – there was a bomb wired into the ship’s navigation systems. Flint listened to the live feed from the Neptuno. Shipwreck reported that four terrorists had been killed and six had been subdued. There were no hostage casualties, but there had been another set back. The Neptuno engine room had been wired up to a bomb with the controls locked on a path towards the docks at Liverpool. It was at most an hour away, but Shipwreck feared the bomb would explode if the ship altered course. Mainframe had examined it and had become even more concerned. Intel found on the terrorists suggested that this was a conventional bomb, but Mainframe was sure it contained some nuclear material. It was a dirty bomb and it was locked on course to Liverpool… Mainframe examined the bomb closely. The bomb had been wired into the GPS navigation of the cruise ship, and he had 53 minutes to find a way of defusing the bomb. He detected that the bomb was transmitting short burst communications to a location in the UK mainland. He managed to triangulate the location of the transmissions. |
07-03-2009, 06:50 PM | #2 |
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Flint was following events closely. He knew that his suspicions of a far more completed terrorist plan had proven to be correct. It had become all too clear that the Lionhearts had been supported logistically for this operation to allow them to mount an operation at this level, but that the third party behind the hijacking had not shared with the Lionhearts any details about the bomb being a dirty nuclear bomb. He was absolutely sure that Cobra weren’t behind this attack – they had all but abandoned Europe for the moment and this wasn’t their usual M.O. He needed to follow the trail Mainframe had found before it went cold.
The short burst communications were being directed to an old disused Worthington’s factory just outside of Hull, England. The factory itself was five miles out of the city and Flint realized it would be an ideal location for a temporary base. There remained a nagging doubt at the back of his mind; he felt that someone somewhere was pulling his strings. Wild Bill checked to make sure that the team were ready. The Black Hawk helicopter lifted into the air and made its way towards Yorkshire. Wild Bill could see the look of concentration on Flint’s face, and Wild Bill knew Flint was already plotting move and countermove in his head. Schematics of the factory were being transmitted to the helicopter and the team started to memorise them. The helicopter arrived within two miles of the Worthington’s factory and the assault team, Flint, Footloose and Roadblock, abseiled into the cover of some woods. They made their way towards the factory and observed it for a few minutes. Infra red scans showed three people inside and some electrical equipment had been working. Footloose scrambled towards a small door and examined it closely. It was booby trapped, but it only took him less than a minute to disarm. Flint and Roadblock joined him and they moved inside. They could hear the voices of the Lionhearts arguing as to whether they should remotely detonate the bomb early. A fourth voice – that of a well spoken aristocratic man – spoke to them via a monitor screen. He informed the terrorists that the plan must not be deviated from at any cost. The monitor went blank and the three terrorists were silent. Flint signalled for the assault to begin. Flint’s team charged the terrorists, killing one of the three instantly. The two remaining terrorists crouched behind some machinery. Footloose threw a grenade behind the machinery as Roadblock laid down a trail of suppressing fire. One terrorist was killed in the blast, but the second terrorist made a run for it, firing a shot towards Footloose and Roadblock, hitting Roadblock in the shoulder. The terrorist grabbed Flint and grappled him to the ground. He pulled out a knife but before he could use it Footloose grabbed him off Flint. The terrorist pulled a cord on his jacket just as Flint, Footloose and Roadblock took cover. He exploded, but his suicide attack hadn’t managed to kill anyone else. Mainframe was making some progress. The Royal Navy had arrived and were helping to evacuate the hostages from the Neptuno. Navy ships were tracking the cruise ship and Shipwreck had an uneasy feeling that the ship would be sunk before it got much further towards the UK mainland. Mainframe triggered a program from his computer to override the controls of the detonator. It reset the electronic countdown and allowed him to clip away at the wires inside the bomb. It was defused and Mainframe sat back, sweat dripping from his brow and his arms aching. But he smiled the broadest smile he could as he started to nervously chuckle. Flint examined the laptops and files in the factory. There was a further phase of the terrorist attack, and the target’s photograph was embedded in an encrypted file – it was Sir Paul Thaddick… Sir Paul Thaddick was relieved to hear that the operation had been a huge success. It was a shame, he thought to himself, that all the terrorists hadn’t been killed, but that was not a thought that he could share openly, he told himself. Thaddick felt cold steel pressed against his forehead as the limo he was in suddenly sped off down the road. Thaddick’s limo was speeding through London, tailed by several police cars. The terrorists weren’t talking, but it was obvious to Thaddick that they were just waiting for media helicopters to catch up to them so this could be played out in front of the world. The roar of a loud turbo engine was followed by two loud cracks. A green shape swung in front of the limo and Thaddick recognised it as an Action Force VAMP. Lady Jaye was driving the VAMP, holding the steering wheel with one hand and a gun in the other. The VAMP slowed down, bringing the limo to a halt. The terrorist beside Thaddick was dead, and the driver slumped over the wheel. Jaye saluted Thaddick before driving off before the media helicopters arrived. Flint entered the Prime Minister’s office to find the PM and General Hawk were waiting. Both men congratulated Flint and Action Force on a job well done. Sir Paul Thaddick was recuperating in hospital, the Neptuno incident had resulted in no father loss of hostage lives, and the information discovered in the factory had led the UK police to make further arrests of the Lionheart terrorists. Flint lacked the celebratory mood of the others – he said that the whole incident was actually stage managed by a group called ‘SS-13’. They provided financial and logistical support, and they had two objectives. They abducted a scientist from the Neptuno – Professor Juno Mendes – long before the Spearhead assault. Their second aim was to kill Thaddick, but this had at least been foiled. The PM announced that in conjunction with NATO and the US branch of Action Force that the European branch of Action Force would be reinstated with immediate effect. Flint was standing inside the Operations Room in the Tower – Action Force’s new base located underneath the Tower of London. Lady Jaye entered and passed her report on the recent operation to him. She could see that Flint was distracted and asked him what was on his mind. Flint said that he had a nasty suspicion about SS-13. He was sure that it wasn’t a Cobra-supported organisation, and also that the Lionheart incident was a small part of a much bigger scheme. He felt that someone was playing a grand game of chess on the international stage, and he was already making moves to achieve checkmate. Action Force were back and it looked like the world would need them. |
07-03-2009, 06:51 PM | #3 |
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07-03-2009, 06:53 PM | #4 |
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Action Force takes me back to my childhood. Thank you .
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07-03-2009, 06:54 PM | #5 |
Iron Grenadier
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NOTE: Action Force just predates GI Joe as the UK toyline equivalent of the 12" figure (GI Joe 12" was called Action Man in the UK). Over time the original Action Force figures were replaced with Joes until eventually Hasbro released GI Joe figures under Action Force. When they did, the first Hasbro wave was the Flint wave, and hence he was the UK leader and originated from England. Marvel UK did a weekly then monthly comic. The monthly comic was released in the US as 'European Missions'.
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07-03-2009, 06:55 PM | #6 |
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07-03-2009, 07:01 PM | #7 |
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That is very nice. Good work.
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07-03-2009, 10:18 PM | #8 |
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Not sure where this should go. It has customs and dioramas, but if a mod find a better place then pleae move...
3rd July, 2009 - The Ministry of Defence, London, UK Sir Paul Thaddick, the Defence Minister, was furious. The 24 hour news channels were playing images of the failed Spearhead anti-terrorist assault over and over again, much to the huge embarrassment of Her Majesty’s Government. The Prime Minister himself had just phoned Thaddick to demand an immediate and satisfactory conclusion to the incident, without any further loss of life. It was clear that Thaddick’s job was on the line. Thaddick had felt the humiliation personally – he had set up the UK Special Forces group ‘Spearhead’ after Action Force had been disbanded 12 months earlier. Their failure to rescue the hostages onboard the cruise ship Neptuno had placed the hostages, and his career, in immediate jeopardy, and time was running out for both. Thaddick needed an answer - he needed a team of specialists that could bring the siege to an immediate and 'clean' end. There was only one name on Thaddick's list - David R. Faireborn - Codename: Flint. Flint looked with horror at the images being shown on a huge screen Thaddick’s room. He could see the video of the Spearhead assault team attacking the Neptuno. Flint had counted three major errors in the operation so far, and they hadn’t even mounted the ship yet. He listened as Thaddick started his briefing… "At 2200 hours yesterday the Neptuno was stormed by what was thought to be a five man terrorist team. They quickly subdued the crew and took them and the passengers hostage. At 0340 hours today we sent in the Spearhead team to retake the ship. Four Spearhead operatives and three hostages were killed in the operation and the whole disaster was played out on national TV via the media. Spearhead's intelligence was wrong - there were ten terrorists. They are from the Lionhearts, a far right group whose motto is 'Britain for the British'. They haven't mounted a terror attack at this level before, and frankly we are surprised by the level of skill and planning involved. Things have been quiet in Europe since Action Force was disbanded last year, but now we need a temporary reinstatement of Action Force to bring this situation to an immediate end." Flint’s face was grim – he realized that Spearhead had been out of their depth. He had been vocal about the British Government’s decision to request a disbandment of Action Force last year. Whilst it was true that the threat from Cobra had been very much reduced, in Europe at least, he was always aware that some crackpot organization would be looking to fill the vacuum. He picked up his briefing papers and files and was about to leave to go to the old Action Force base in Whitehall. He turned to Thaddick… ‘You should have got me involved earlier,’ snapped Flint. ‘We didn’t think we needed you,’ explained Thaddick, his voice heavy with regret. ‘Or Action Force. We were wrong.’ Recruiting Action Force operatives for the Neptuno operation was tricky, especially given the very tight timescale Flint was forced to work to, but he had managed to gather Action Force operatives who were working in the UK and Western Europe. Lady Jaye had been assigned to debriefing the three Spearhead operatives who had managed to escape the Neptuno alive, whilst Boffin and Mainframe had been examining the Neptuno schematics in full. Flint then gathered his team in the main briefing area and started to discuss the assault plan. It had been over a year since Flint had briefed his team, but it felt like yesterday. Everyone was ready and in place, aware of the pressure to get this right, but confident in their ability to get the job done. Life had been difficult for Arthur Banks. His father was alcoholic, and the only contact he ever seemed to have with his father ended up with him getting knocked about. He had hated school and left without any qualifications. Alcohol and drugs were soon destroying his life, but one day someone showed interest in Arthur, and as far as he could recall it was the first time anyone had done so. The man introduced Arthur to the Lionhearts. They taught him to turn his hurt to fight injustice and promote ‘the cause’. They promised him that life would improve for everyone in Britain if they cleared out the people they thought shouldn’t even be there. The gun in Arthur’s hands weighed heavy as he guarded the crying hostages. He’d been told that this was the path to a better future, but as he looked at the frightened people in front of him, scared to even look him in the eyes, he couldn’t see how he was any different from his own father… Within an hour of the briefing a small Action Force team were speeding towards the Neptuno in an assault boat. Flint had arranged for a 15 minute delay on the live feeds the media helicopters were broadcasting. Shipwreck was leading the team, alongside Lowlight, Quick Kick, Torpedo and Mainframe. It was planned that Shipwreck would infiltrate the engine room of the cruise ship whilst Lowlight, Quick Kick and Torpedo would make a direct assault on the terrorists holding the hostages. As they approached the Neptuno, Mainframe triggered the 'Ghost-Jammer' program he had developed. The Ghost-Jammer was an experimental program that would scan and record the vocal patterns of the terrorist communications and then jam the real communications and synthesise false ones, thus ensuring that no alarm was raised. On Lowlight’s signal, Mainframe would then trigger a sonic pulse through the terrorist comms network to immediately disorientate them. The patrol boat reached the side of the Neptuno and the assault team started to scale the side of the ship. Shipwreck vaulted over the top of the ship's hull and found cover immediately. He saw two Lionheart terrorists patrolling the bow edging closer to his position, unaware that he was hiding. Shipwreck stepped out of cover and fired two silenced rounds into the terrorist's chests. He dragged their bodies behind cover and moved towards the engine room. Low light, Quick Kick and Torpedo climbed onto the main deck and surveyed the ship. A three-man Lionheart patrol was making their way along the port walkway, looking for signs of any trouble. Night had managed to keep the assault boat’s location hidden so far, but if its silhouette was seen against the glistening water, then the whole mission could end up compromised. Quick Kick swung down towards two of the terrorists knocking them out cold. Lowlight pulled his trigger sending two rounds into the third terrorist who then dropped to the floor. The Action Force team split up to make their way towards the hostage locations. The terrorists had moved the hostages into two areas – the ship’s ballroom and the ship’s restaurant. There were two terrorists in the main ballroom and Quick Kick had positioned himself outside of it. He had worked out the terrorist locations in the room and was ready to launch his attack. Outside the restaurant Lowlight and Torpedo were in location. The Ghost-Jammer had been keeping reassuring ‘communications’ going from the dead terrorists to the men guarding the hostages. Lowlight signalled to Mainframe that they were ready. Mainframe triggered the sonic pulse causing the terrorists to writhe around in pain. Quick Kick launched himself into the ballroom, smacking the first terrorist with his nunchucks, knocking him down, then throwing the second terrorist violently against a wall, knocking him unconscious. The hostages appeared unharmed. Shipwreck had made it to the engine room as the sonic pulse was triggered. He had managed to subdue one terrorist, but the second had grappled him to the ground. The terrorist was strong as was squeezing Shipwreck’s windpipe. Shipwreck grabbed a knife from the man’s belt and stabbed him between the shoulder blades. The man arched back in pain allowing Shipwreck to silence him. He was about to release a sigh of relief when he realized that the operation had become a lot more complicated… Arthur Banks was holding a gun in his hands and he was looking at the hostages gathered in the restaurant. The weapon was getting heavier with each minute that passed as Arthur doubted what he was doing here at all. A loud scream pierced his eardrums and he dropped to the floor. When he looked up he could see a man standing above him, dressed in black with red goggles, before the butt of the man’s gun made everything turn black. Life had been unfair to Arthur Banks and he had fallen in with a bad crowd. It didn’t matter to Lowlight – all he wanted was the terrorist threat to be nullified cleanly. Shipwreck told the Action Force team to come immediately to the engine room – the operation was much more complicated than they thought – there was a bomb wired into the ship’s navigation systems. Flint listened to the live feed from the Neptuno. Shipwreck reported that four terrorists had been killed and six had been subdued. There were no hostage casualties, but there had been another set back. The Neptuno engine room had been wired up to a bomb with the controls locked on a path towards the docks at Liverpool. It was at most an hour away, but Shipwreck feared the bomb would explode if the ship altered course. Mainframe had examined it and had become even more concerned. Intel found on the terrorists suggested that this was a conventional bomb, but Mainframe was sure it contained some nuclear material. It was a dirty bomb and it was locked on course to Liverpool… Mainframe examined the bomb closely. The bomb had been wired into the GPS navigation of the cruise ship, and he had 53 minutes to find a way of defusing the bomb. He detected that the bomb was transmitting short burst communications to a location in the UK mainland. He managed to triangulate the location of the transmissions.
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07-03-2009, 11:01 PM | #9 |
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thats awsome great dios and man that takes me back.
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07-04-2009, 03:38 AM | #10 |
Iron Grenadier
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Thanks, they are a combination of model set and photoshopped pictures, and there's more to come
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