"You there!" said the tall dark stranger wearing a full length black coat. He pulled out an FBI badge and flashed it quickly. "I'm Agent Mulder, FBI... and this is my partner Agent Scully."
"We are investigating a missing person report" added the saucy redhead also holding out an FBI badge. "Apparently a man named Taskmaster has been missing for a few months."
"Has anyone here seen any strange lights in the sky recently?" asked Agent Mulder between sunflower seeds. "Say around the time that stranger 'left?'"
"What my partner means," interrupted Scully, "is does anyone have any information concerning this fellow, Taskmaster?"
"Well, he had recently obtained God-like status, before he left!" chimed in Morety.
"So you were JEALOUS weren't you!" accused Fox Mulder, "and that's why you killed him! Isn't it?!" He moved meancingly toward the speaker.
"Uh, yes, thank you" replied Dana as she held back Mulder. "Anyone else have any thing to say?"
"You sure are attractive! Want to go out?" asked a drooling CHRYSt.
"I meant any information about Taskmaster!" stressed Scully as she rolled her eyes.
"He was pretty much a klutz and a moron. He was always injuring himself, blowing himself up, falling into lava and the like."
"So you think he may have killed himself?" asked Dana.
"Or is that a convenient cover up for what's really going on around here?" questioned Mulder, focusing his stare on CHRYSt.
"Isn't it true that one of you was envious of his 48,409 ranking in CTF and in a fit of rage you killed him!" shouted Mulder.
***********
"Hahaha" laughed the man hiding in the shadows of some thick trees. He watched Mulder and Scully from the darkness with his infrared binocculars and listened using a high powered microphone. He dropped a cigarette to the ground and snuffed it out with his heavy black shoe.
With a sinister sneer he unfolded his cell phone and dialed. "You may proceed with project 'Voice of Reason'!" he said sharply before hangin up.
***********
"Hey wasn't there a full moon about the time he disappeared?" Tykeal asked Mulder.
"Hmmn, full moon..." muttered Agent Mulder as he lapsed into deep though and began talking to himself, "...lunar madness, tidal forces, strange magnetic interferences..."
"What's your name?" inguired Scully to the lone figure standing quietly behind the others.
"GunnerX," managed the young man, "but I'm new here."
"Precisely!" exclaimed Mulder, snapping back to the current topic. "Mighty coincidental that you appeared so quickly after Taskmaster disappeared!"
"Well I - uh," stuttered GunnerX, "I'm new to PUF... I um, I just, um"
"And what's that you're holding?" barked Mulder.
"Um, ur, it's a, um, r-r-rocket launcher."
"I can't hear you!"
"A ROCKET LAUNCHER!"
"You did it, didn't you!"
"Yes, I admit it! I killed him!" blurted GunnerX. "He was running around killing me all the time, so when he was hurting from a flag run, bleeding from his heroic charge through 10 heavily armed players, I shot him in the back with a cluster of rockets!"
Suddenly, GunnerX's figure began to shimmer. His face changed into that of a square-jawed alien bounty hunter. "However, I was only able to kill the Taskmaster clone. The real Taskmaster is still alive... but not for longer!"
The man that had been GunnerX only moments before shoved the group of people in front of him into the two agents and bolted away.
Mulder scrambled to his feet, drew his gun and squeezed off several rounds. "Oh yea, Freeze or I'll shoot!" he shouted.
Mulder turned to help Dana to her feet, but was unable to get to her for all the clamouring, testosterone-laden UT players carefully helping her up. /~unreal/ubb/html/smile.gif
The single point of a red glowing cigarette and a small wisp of white smoke was all that was visible from the dark shadowy forest along the edge of the road, as a pair of cold eyes followed the departing FBI agents' car with a steely glare.
I declare myself to be the self-annointed voice of reason for PuF! Opinions expressed by Taskmaster are not necessarily those of Planet Unreal! /~unreal/ubb/html/smile.gif
[This message has been edited by Taskmaster (edited 04-04-2000).]
