Operation: KRYPT at Midnight

2012  (8/16/) - Despite a few lingering wounds, Owen is discharged from the hospital and meets up with the rest of the team to pick up the new agent who is coming by train from Cardiff.  There standing at the 9 and 3/4 platform is a powerful Samoan man named Fetu, who gained fame as a competitive swimmer and his expertise in a bio engineer who has been sent to fortify the team as they head back to 14 Opal Street.  Finding no one home, Owen picks the lock and they enter the home which seems to be undergoing  renovations with plastic tarps in the living and dining room covering the furniture.  While Blind keeps an eye on the street, Guido checks the medicine cabinet and finds medicine prescribed to Walter Wainwright (Stevie Bullet identifies as the Assistant Director for the London & Egyptian museums & no criminal record) and realize he was the same  grumpy man who answered the door on their previous visit.  The home has lavish artwork including a painting by Monet, but there are no bugs or security cameras.  Their search turns up a ledger, that a flight number (#447 which flies from London to Jakarta every Tuesday), an airport code and the name Ha Chan-sook. (a wealthy S. Korean real estate dealer who lives in Indonesia)  In the dining room, Guido discovers the floor tarp covers a large hole in the floor with a ladder to gain access to a tunnel that leads to the backyard.  In the tunnel they find paperwork listing Acar, Egypt, Battambang, Cambodian and Den Pasar, Bali is discovered by a sarcophagus which Feto and Guido team to open the sarcophagus and discover a body in a shroud with a small crown.  It turns out the Wainwright family was royalty and this is the body of the Duke of Cheshire so they decide to repackage the body and head out.  As they exit, Owen plants a transmitter bug below the China table to capture any worthwhile conversation.  The midnight meeting looms, so they head down to the dock to scout the area for any ambush.

          Fetu hides himself completely (another roll of .00) and the rest of the team welcomes Amir (they soon find out he works for KRYPT, an international arms dealing company lead by Maccaressh.) and his crew of five thugs arrive.  Suspicious, Amir asks “Tell me, what the deal is again?”  (oops we still didn't know!) so Guido says we will pay 1.5 times the agreed price for twice the payload.   Amir waves in his thugs who reveal a small turreted gun, specially designed to deliver chemical weapons in the battlefield.  They agree to meet Sunday at midnight to drop off the down payment deposit and the weapons will be delivered in two weeks.  While Guido fails at negotiating the price down, Amir agrees to the deal so long as they can deliver $300,000 in gold bullion by midnight Sunday.  Otherwise, the deal is off, but with less than 48 hours until that meeting, where will they find that much gold in London?

Operation: Kennsington Station

2012 (8/15) - Following the shootout in the streets of London, the next night, Owen is still recovering from his many wounds at Bridge Hospital.  During the morning news report, the Nigerian Foreign Minister, Zabeema Imam, announces that four Nigerian nationals were killed in a random act of violence in downtown London today and the embassy disputes any theories that these men were involved in any kind of terrorist acts.  Back at ORION, Stevie Bullet discovers that the bomb the team discovered in Paul Anderson's apartment is a small scale Hydrogen Bomb.  In order to keep suspicion off the ORION team, they place the bomb (that none of the team are qualified to disarm) in the car they stole from the Nigerian nationals and leave it in a parking garage. Following an anonymous tip, the British Government discovers the car, evacuates the area and the Bomb Squad while they disarm the bomb...  After a late lunch, Guido and Blind leave to meet with Maccaressh in Kennsington subway station and as commuters mill about in the lull before rush hour, the Italian's sixth sense alerts him that danger is near.  They notice three men who stand out from the crowd who appear to be of middle eastern origin, which is not abnormal, but their behavior is. Guido realizes that these three were not the ones who took Paul Anderson (“Why else would they show up to meet him?”).  The meeting starts with a man known as Ammar Amir, who claims to be the boss and argues with Guido about the location of Macaressh.  Amir claims that Anderson was supposed to bring one million in gold bouillon for the meet up, when Guido thinks fast and says he wants twice the product. (although he doesn't yet know what the product is.)  After some negotiating, Amir says he needs two weeks to fill the order as it is a lot of firepower when Guido demands to see a sample of the goods that day so Amir tells them to go to an abandoned dock at midnight for a display of the firepower.   After the meeting, Guido and Blind return to the hospital and get word that another agent will be joining their mission.

Operation: London Rescue

2012 (8/8) - Having fully recovered from the previous mission, Owen Darkwind and Guido Guiseppe are called into Orion-1's office to discuss the next step in the plan to apprehend Greggor Iradiroff.  While investigating the computer seized in Ivana's home, the Tech Team uncovered an address in London.  Ted told them that Paul Anderson, one of the last surviving members of the ORION teams of the 90s. had gone missing while investigating an arms dealer names Maccaressh.  They are joined by the new agent known as Blind, who has exception skills with a computer, but he is extremely visually impaired without his glasses.
        When the arrive in London, the Olympics hysteria has the city in a tizzy, so they decide to stop by address from Ivana's computer, but only find an old man who refuses to cooperate.  After some bickering, they decide to head to their hotel to pick up their gear before heading to Paul's apartment.  They find his door unlocked, but discover the door rigged with a bomb and being unable to disarm it from that side of the door they decide to go through the back door.  Except, he lives on the second floor, so they go through his neighbor's door but find the neighbor's 3yr old  passed out child alone watching cartoons and the father on the floor in a meth fueled haze.  Owen dismissed the man and made an athletic jump from one balcony to the other where as Guido roughed up the drug addicted father.  Guido handed the child over to neighbors and then motivated the father to get clean, by tossing him off the balcony!  Meanwhile, Blind guided Owen through the wall in disarming the bomb that if detonated would have leveled three-square blocks.  Paul's apartment was turned upside down by whoever took Paul, but they discovered a USB drive in his medicine cabinet that contained a video of Paul informing them that he is likely gone and had a meeting scheduled with Macaressh at the Kensington Station, just two days away, on Friday at 4:15.
        As they walk down the street they noticed they are being followed and to buy time, they exchange words with some local thugs hanging on the street and try to tell them to get off the street because terrorists are close.  After a bribe from Guido's counterfeit money, the leader of the thugs walks toward one of the Nigerian Nationals who open fire and a crazed shootout ensues.  A Machete wielding Terrorist attacks Blind who uses his knife and pistol to fend him off, while Guido opens fire with his machine gun and riddles the car with bullets.  As usual, Owen is soon riddled with bullets himself but manages to kill the driver of the car with a devastating death blow (.00 Lucky Break!).  One terrorist tries to to kill the team, but is soon labeled 'No Hands McGee' since both of his hands are shot/cut to pieces by the team.  They need to take one of them alive, but soon Guido guns down one of the terrorists and then his shot hits a gas tank and a fireball engulfs the last terrorist who, while burning alive, screams a holy word and then shoots himself in the head.  (no interrogations for that guy)
        Worried that the police will soon be on the scene, the team jumps into their car and speed off for the hotel, despite Owen asking to be taken to a hospital for his extensive wounds.  Unable to control the bleeding they bring Owen to a hospital and claim he was caught in the crossfire of the thugs and terrorists.  While Owen heals, Guido and Blind must pick up the trail and find Paul Anderson and Greggor Iradiroff!

Operation: Chasing Gregor

2012 (7/29) - After the ORION mainframe is hacked, Orion-1 (Ted Tyler) sends Owen and Guido on a mission to apprehend one of the man believed to be responsible for the break in, Greggor Iradiroff.  First stop is the Chisolms Motel on Rt 1 in Saugus, MA, but as they arrive, Owen and Guido see two men jump into a black SUV and the body of an officer face down on the ground.  After deciding they wouldn't be able to apprehend the suspects on the busy highway, they asked the women at the hotel office for information on the man they were looking for.  After discovering the room was signed out to a Rebecca Smith, they discovered the SUV was stolen, so they went to Andover, MA to the home of the owner and posing as Customer Service reps from the woman's car insurance company, convinced the owner of the stolen SUV to turn on the GPS.  They followed the SUV to the Atrium Mall on rt 9 and while waiting in the garage, witnessed the car thieves exchange papers with a woman.
      Owen decided to follow her on foot while Guido followed in the car.  When the woman boarded the Green Line train she caught on that Owen was following her, she pulled a gun and opened fire.  Owen took cover behind the seat panel and waited for a chance to tackle her when a paniced elderly passenger pulled a pistol of her own and opened fire randomly, striking several people.  Owen yanked the emergency brake and everyone on the train fell down.  Owen was hit in the hand, arm and chest as he fought his way to the woman just as Guido tore open the train doors and managed to knock out the woman with his Italian Sleeperhold.  The old woman gunfighter was also subdued by passengers and in the mayhem, Owen and Guido managed to get their target into the car and back to headquarters.
      The interrogation team learned that she was actually Ivana Sameth posing as Rebecca Smith while Owen got some much needed medical attention.  Later Owen and Guido to her apartment to look for clues and found a picture of her with Greggor at cabin.  Turning to ORION's top computer wiz, Stevie Bullet (son of the late wheelchair bound Jimmy Bullet) who used his skills to figure out that the cabin was part of a remote resort village popular for hunting.  Owen and Guido went to a local travel agent, who thought they were a cute couple, and booked a trip arriving the next day.
      Guido went into town looking for clues and picking up supplies while Owen went cabin to cabin posing as a novice hunter looking for advice meeting an elderly couple, a group of college kids and the grumpy owner of the resort.  Later that night, their cabin was assaulted by a group of masked men, but Guido and Owen managed to get the upper hand despite Owen's numerous wounds and take out 4 of the assailants.  Owen recognized them from the cabin with the group of college kids and they went to that cabin to confront them.  As they arrived the grumpy owner showed up ans blasted at they with his shotgun.  After taking move hits, Owen and Guido rigged a gas can as a Molitov cocktail and dropped it when he was tackled by a bad leading it to exploded inside the house!  As the flames spread, they managed to take out the last of their redneck assassins and discovered an unconscious tortured women in the dungeon below the cabin.  They rescued her and contacted Merl Zee, the nearest ORION contact as Owen needed serious medical attention for his multiple wounds.  After visiting a Mexican Doctor of questionable skills, they decided to return to ORION's headquarters in Boston and figure out their next step to find Gregor.

Top Secret: The continuing adventures of Ted Tyler & Owen Darkwind

1990 - Ted Tyler and Owen Darkwind were to 1-2 punch that the secret organization known as ORION use to saved the day and thwart numerous destructive plans by the terrorist organization of WEB.

1994 - Ted, Owen along with agents Sammi Blackstone, Paul Anderson, Cindy Anderson and the reformed skinhead Von Furer completed an operation that finally took down WEB for good.  Sadly, many agents, friends and family died along the way, but a world free of WEB was a better place.

1997 After years of silence from WEB and convinced it was finished for good, global funding for ORION was cut.  After decades of service, ORION was no more.

2003 - A begrudging reunion of Ted and Owen to investigate an outbreak of the Z-Virus on Block Island which was visited by several prominent government officials and their families.  While the results of this mission are still classified, following the completion of the mission, Ted returned to retirement and Owen went off the grid, vowing to never work together again.

2006 - Following the events of September 11, 2001, the United Nations agrees to fund a new ORION in order to combat the growing global threat of terrorism.  After years of inept management, Orion-1 was discovered to be extremely corrupt and was forced to resign amid reports of embezzlement.  ORION was in need of leadership, but who to turn to?

2010 - ORION coaxes Ted Tyler, the most decorated agent ever, out of retirement to become the new Orion-1.  Tyler agreed to return after he discovered his old arch nemesis, Jeff Conway (better known as the serial mass murderer, Bloodbath) had escaped from the maximum security mental hospital he was being held in.  Ted was given the power to personally select each of ORION's agents himself.  In a surprise to many, especially considering what happened on Block Island, Ted selected Owen Darkwind to be ORION's lead field agent.  Despite numerous attempts, Von Furer refused to leave his mountain estate in Greece.

2012 - ORION commissions a new field team to after Bloodbath is spotted in Brazil.