Chapter 3. Order of OPP ISLAND part 2

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" Captain! I think we've found something; it seems to be a campground with several dozen tents, and none of them seem to be occupied." A chatty staticky sounds come from a walkie talkie sitting on the table by a small trash can fire where the one they call Captain sits. A woman sitting holding her forehead as she stares at a big map across the table thinking of battle plans and going through several possible scenarios in her head while the small fire reflects off her bronze skin towards the map drowning out the sounds of a screaming walkie talkie.

" Captain, do you read? " The woman breaks out of an intense focus while looking over the map and analyzing mission details on a level 7 Supernova threat that they're currently there to take care of. " Yes, I'm here! Sorry I got sidetracked looking at something, but did you say you found campgrounds? " She looks over at the map with concern while waiting on an answer from the Officer on the other line. " Officer, can you hear me!!! "

A soft looping buzz sound can be heard coming from the walkie talkie, and it seems like the signal has been lost. The woman stands up from the table visually frustrated, and storms out of her tent. " Men! at Attention!" all the troops outside instantly stop, drop what they're doing and quickly got at attention with their arms straight down to the side while their heads perfectly pointed to the sky.

" It seems one of our squads have might've came across something, but I haven't been able to hear anything from them yet, and It's been about twenty minutes. "The Woman moves more towards the center of everyone so that they might better see and hear her. "I need the fastest, strongest, and smartest right now to set out with me." A few soldiers step forward. "Thank you, you all will be rewarded for your bravery today, and this will too be noted towards your potential opportunities as Agents in the future." The 3 Officers look amongst each other with optimistic hope. "Get some rest guys, we leave at daybreak. " The captain walks back into her ten to gets things together, while still listening to the radio's static for any type of response from her officer.

January 30th, 2110. " Aqugi!! Don't you dare jump, you'll hurt yourself! " A young girl is seen playing at the top of Giant mango tree wearing an old ripped up cloak, as she runs across the trunks wrapped in leaves carrying these nice big plumped yellow and ruby red mangos. "If you're not careful you'll literally fall out of that tree and I'm gonna receive hell from your parents ONCE AGAIN. For the love of God could you please get down here Aqugi? " Aqugi grabs a branch and pulls on it as she slowly uses it to leverage herself from the tree as she's seen dangling from it.

"Urgh You're gonna give an old man a heart attack, just hang on a bit I'll get you. " The older gentleman around the age of 70 is standing under the tree as he watches his unhinged granddaughter attempt to jump out of a 50 ft tree. He crotches down places his fist on the ground, and as the ground starts to rumble the old man launches from the ground like a catapult with immense speed grabbing his granddaughter seconds before landing at the top of the tree.

"WOW, this view is amazing grandpa. I can almost see the other continents from up here." Young Aqugi gazes in awe of the view she now has from the top of the tree. " Well, I'm glad you love it. Getting up here was one of the final challenges of The Gather before I, your good ole grandad earned his title as the Aquarius Constellation Agent of the Top 5." Aqugi then turns her attention towards her grandfather. "Seriously they just had you climb this giant tree and that's it?"

Gramps lets off a blaring laugh so loud that the birds nesting in the surrounding trees all abruptly flew away. " Oh, no kiddo, climbing the tree was only necessary in order for us, me and the folks I contested with to be able to see exactly what they needed us to in order to truly understand the purpose of the position we were fighting to obtain." Aqugi's face is painted with pure curiosity, Interest, and confusion as she realizes just how important her grandfather might be.

Aqugi turns back to look at the view and then looks down towards her feet. "Gramps, do you think I could ever become an agent like you? or maybe even like my parents were?" Aquaren looks at his granddaughter, and he lifts her head up towards him with his hand. " You have the potential to become greater than we could've ever hoped to be, and I mean that. Now, shall we get out of this tree?"

"CAPTAIN GET UP"

We press back forward to 2120 where a Young Adult Aqugi who's now a Master Agent in charge of a Fleet of Petty Officers. They'd just been surprised from an unexpected explosion in their time of rest coming from what seems to be the campground that one of her the agents said to have stumbled upon over the radio. Captain Aqugi is helped up by her subordinates, The area is filled and surrounded by a thick smoke along some burning trees and equipment.

"There was an explosion over at the campground Ma'am, but somehow the blast radius reached here before we could even react. " Captain walks over to a pile of debris where the table holding the map was and grabs the walkie talkie from under it. She looks towards the campgrounds that now has a clear path leading directly towards it, crotches down places her fist on the ground until the ground itself starts to rumble. " Hey Capt., um you're not about to jump over there by yourself, are you? don't you have any instructions for us or anything? Can I at least accompany you? "

Aqugi subtly says "NO!" and immediately darts over towards the campground like a missile soaring over an evening ocean.

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