UNATCO Policies


		UNATCO Resignation Policies It was going to be a long night. Jaime Reyes leaned back on his chair in his office, a bead of perspiration glistening across his forehead. A lot of things had occurred in the past few days and Jaime simply couldn’t believe most of it. He didn’t trust many people left at UNATCO now and he knew that his friends JC and Paul really didn’t have much time left now that their kill switches had been activated. There was no doubt in his mind that he had to take JC up on his offer and head to Hong Kong, not only to assist the brothers in their mission, but for his own safety. Hell, Alex had already left and he knew time was running out. Jaime glanced back at his system screen at the email that he had sent to Hong Kong. He quickly pressed the delete message key and watched the text fade away on the digital display. JC must have got the message that he was on the way now, and hopefully no once had intercepted the mail. That was the easy part. A sudden bleeping sound startled Jaime and he quickly pinpointed the sound to his wristwatch. 22.00 flashed before him in light neon green. He had fifteen minutes before Jock would touch down at the pad and then he would have around thirty seconds to reach it. He felt another drop of perspiration run down his forehead. ‘They know, I know it’, he thought to himself and closed his eyes. ‘But in a few minutes, this is going to be over, one way or another’. The doctor pulled himself slowly from his chair and walked across the laboratory to the door. A small glowing blue canister suddenly caught his eye in a nearby cabinet and he quickly slipped it underneath his white coat. ‘I think JC might appreciate this’ he thought, quickly taking a final glance at his office before closing the door behind him. ‘Hello there doc, taking a break from the all-nighter?’ The night duty trooper smiled back at him from the sofa in the downstairs lounge. ‘Does everyone know when I have my shifts or something?’ thought Jaime to himself. ‘Just stretching my legs’ he replied back to the trooper with a grin. Walking as calmly as he could, he walked into the nearby men’s restroom and took a long look at himself in the mirror. ‘Come on Jaime, calm yourself’ he said to the reflection in the mirror. He quickly took a glance to the items under his coat. Two electromagnetic pulse grenades and multi tools looked back at him. ‘I hope I remember how to use these damn things from the academy’. Closing his coat again, Jaime proceeded to leave the restroom and walk past the troopers up the stairs. And promptly slammed right into the seven-foot walking wall of metal. ‘You should really watch where you are walking doctor. You might really hurt yourself, yes?’ ‘Hello there Gunthar’ Jaime replied back, staring at the big German in alarm. Surely he hadn’t been sent down here to stop him? He can’t possible know? ‘Where were you going doctor, I need your help’ the big man said. ‘My right leg is locking up, could be der right cervomembrane down my knee…’ ‘I’m just stretching my legs my big friend, why don’t you go rest around ten minutes with Anna in the lounge upstairs while I relax and then Ill be with you?’ replied Jaime. ‘This really is the last thing I need’ he thought to himself. ‘Hrmph, okay doctor’ replied Gunthar, staring back at him with his glimmering red eyes. ‘You rest too much, never in office when I need’. Jaime smiled back at him, twiddling with the grenade in his pocket. ‘Just go damn it’ he thought. Gunthar glared at him some more, then turned and disappeared up the stairs. Jaime slowly walked up the stairs to the second level and looked down the corridor. He could see that the lights to the secretary office outside Manderley’s office were off. He slowly walked across the window and glanced in alarm at Manderley’s office. The light was on. ‘No, there is no way, if he had intercepted my email to Jock, I’d be dead by now. Just keep going Jaime’. He started rubbing the grenade more vigorously now, almost like a Chinese worryball. Reassurance, relaxation, that’s it. * CLICK * ‘Click?’ Jaime’s eyes widened in alarm and dropped the EMP grenade from his pocket which exploded in a surge of blue light at his feet. ----- Joseph Manderley stared back at the blank camera screen. He stood up and proceeded to tap the monitor but no response. The digital screen in front of him seemed to be informing him that the camera had been disabled but he couldn’t understand why that was so. ‘What in the darn blazes is happening at this hour?’ Quickly tapping the rewind key, Manderley watched the monitor screen as the display skipped back to an image of Jaime dropped the grenade on the floor. ‘Anna, quickly get to Level 1’ he screamed into the infolink. ‘Stop Jaime, I think he is going to doublecross us’. ‘What the hell is this anyway’ he thought to himself, ‘everyone is walking out on me. Its that damn Simons, he’s got everyone on edge’. ‘Will this machine ever give me orange?’ The big metal man stared back at the drinks machine with his glimmering eyes. ‘Its that drinks man, he is out to get me’. ‘Gunthar, no one is out to get you, are you sure you pressed the right button?’. Anna Navarre stared back at him with an icy cold stare. ‘You have big hands, you might have pressed another one’. ‘I did not press another one, I pressed orange’ Gunthar replied back. He stared back at the yellow coloured drink in his hand. ‘Anna, quickly get to Level 1’ Manderley screamed into Anna’s infolink. ‘Stop Jaime, I think is he going to doublecross us’. ‘Quick Gunthar we have to move’. Anna’s deep voice was commanding and serious. Gunthar was used to commands being barked at him and he could never understand why he was so scared to ever talk back to her. This rare moment of thought however, was going to cost him. ‘What are you doing, we have to go’ she said back to him and shoved him aside roughly, heading towards the door. The lemon drink tipped from Gunthar’s large hands spilled all over his right leg and his knee. ‘I speeeled my drink!’ he roared. His knee started making a mechanised wirring sound. The cervomembrane. A thought slowly formed in Gunthar’s mind… if Jaime was leaving, who would repair his right leg? He was in enough pain already. ‘You are so clumsy, just hurry’ commanded Anna in her emotionless voice and with lightning speed bolted out of the room into the corridor. ‘He is at the main exit now Anna, he is trying to use a multi tool to hack the last door’. Manderley’s voice seemed shaky and Anna realised that if Jaime got away, it would mean severe implications on Manderley’s postion. Striding quickly up the stairs she managed to get to the front doors in a second and there she was face to face with the infamous doctor himself. He had given himself enough time to break the door lock though and it stood ajar. ‘Where are you going doctor?’. Anna’s emotionless voice startled Jaime but he knew that he would face Anna rather than Gunthar anyday. If Gunthar had made it up here first, he was guessing he would be dead by now. ‘I.. I .. just wanted to take some night air.. was feeling a bit claustrophobic’ he stuttered back. ‘Thought I’d just use this multi tool instead of disturbing anybody’ ‘You are lying’. Anna’s sparkling eyes stared deep into his and for once, he felt the fear that so many NSF troopers must have felt when she had been charging through their ranks slaughtering them. ‘Thank you for all your medical help doctor, I appreciated it’. Anna raised her stealth pistol in the air aiming at Jaime’s head. This would be quick and wouldn’t cause a mess she thought to herself. Less trouble for cleaners tommorow. ‘He’s mine!’ roared the big man from behind Anna. ‘I have had enough of traitors, I am going to take pleasure in ridding us of this one! Step out of the way Anna!’ Anna knew. At that moment she knew quite a few things, but the most obvious and clear thing that was in her mind was that Gunthar was an idiot. A 7 foot metallic idiot. She also knew that Jaime had an EMP grenade in his pocket. And she had also heard it bleep. And last of all, she knew that that final little distraction by Gunthar had given Jaime enough time to drop the grenade. Anna was consumed in a flash of blue light temporarily paralysing some of her sensors and she couldn’t see. She head Jaime run down the corridor and she head a huge metallic clanking go after him. ‘Idiot’ she said to herself. ----- Manderley looked into Anna’s blank infolink view screen. He tapped it a few times from the side and then gave up and sat back down in his chair. Blank camera screen. Blank infolink screen. ‘Gunthar’. One word, that’s all he could manage into Gunthar’s info link. He was far too furious to manage anything else. ‘Hello there doctor, I’m surprised to see you out here?’ The trooper was sitting at the computer screen in the main entranceway. He seemed startled, almost as if he had just been woken up. ‘As you were troopedr’ replied back Jaime in one breath as he continued his run for the exit. Multitool in hand, he began work on the final door and 15 seconds later it was open. The loud metallic clanking was almost upon him… for a huge piece of metal, damn he could run fast. Running outside he could see that Jock had just landed on the pad and was engaged in a firefight with the few troopers that had been on patrol. The troopers seemed to be losing. Running as fast as he could, Jaime made a break for the coptor. ‘You’re almost there Jaime, come on just a little more’. He felt a warm sensation along the base of his back and along his left leg and then the pain hit him and he fell into the door of the coptor which Jock closed behind him. He felt sticky liquid down the back of his left leg and the base of is back. And then there was blackness. He stared down at the female. The female stared back up at him. Her icy eyes cut into him like a knife through butter. Her teeth were clenched and she for once was speechless. ‘It all began when I speeled by drink!’ said Gunthar slowly looking down at the floor. ‘I just wanted to take him out Anna, traitors, they need to learn’. ‘Shut up’ barked Anna. Her eyes were fixed on Gunthar who was now staring at the floor. ‘You couldn’t even kill him when you had a clear shot of him from behind. You are pathetic’. She walked up closer to him and Gunthar could feel her warm breath on his skin as she stood one centimetre away. ‘Next time you pull something like that, you will be spilling more than your drink’. She stepped back and for a moment she looked like she was amused at seeing Gunthar in such a state. ‘And I think you better get moving, Manderley wants to see you’. It was going to be a long night. -----