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Collaborative Fiction ... Phantom And Island Investigate

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Island ID 11504

And there's been plenty of helpful input from Hanzo ID 10950
We took out Aegis1 .... and then the world ended. Guess we should learn from that ...mines a double!

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Day 1

"Flip your arm under your knee... Ok ok... Now roll 180 degrees... Ok now put your other foot up on the top of the bench ... I call this the weasel riding the woodpecker. Hold it .... HOLD IT! Now release. Ok Island, Phantom that's today's ninja training class done."

PhantomAmongPhantoms and The Island carefully disentangled their limbs and tried to sound genuinely thankful to Hanzo.

"Why does nobody else take these classes?" Phantom asked the first burning question.

"They don't see the threats to our safety that we can." Island grabbed a towel and started drying himself off.

"We are definitely identifying issues nobody else seems concerned with."

"Sometimes I just don't think the rest of the guys take us seriously!"

"We should show them! We should prove that we are top investigative inquiring minds!"

"Damn straight Phantom. How?" Island looked at him, clearly interested.

"We'll ... erm ... you're the ideas man Island!"

"So we could find a problem, figure it out, prove our theory correct and maybe,  you know, even fix it."

"Deal!" Phantom went for a high five, and was left hanging.

"Let's go ask Rakly if he has a problem for us." Island ballad the towel up and nearly hit a three point basket.

"That right there is why you're the ideas man!" Phantom just dropped his towel in the basket

"And the good looking one."

"And I'm?" Phantom looked a little hurt.

"You make a first class second rate wingman!"

"Thanks Island, from you that means a lot."

......

"Let me get this straight," Rakly hadn't come across as positive as they'd have liked, "You want me to trust you two to work unsupervised?"

"I'll supervise HIM." Island offered, nodding at Phantom.

"And I'll try not to let HIM get in trouble." Phantom nodded back

Rakly triggered his communicator. "Quark can you find something appropriate for Island and Phantom .... yes ... Island and Phantom ... no ... just the two of them ... how bad could it be? ... I'll make them sign a disclaimer ... Im fairly sure he can spell it ... Thanks."

"Right can you both just sign, print and date these?" Rakly slid a couple of documents over his desk. "And initials on page four. And can you just check the next of kin details on page 8. And another signature on page 10, 12, 19 and one more on page 36." Rakly retrieved the paperwork. "If you go see Fallen he'll pass you the relevant files. Good luck guys."

"Cheers Boss. Don't you worry we got this! You can trust Phantom and Island Investigators!" Phantom tried to snap off a salute.

"Seriously Island and Phantom Investigators won't let you down." Island saluted his boss smartly.

"Island it has to be Phantom first cos then it's PI"

"Pie?"

"P.I.   you know, like Magnum"

"I like Magnum."

"So it's Phantom and Island Investigators."

In agreement the two faced Rakly, Island offered his hand for a shake.

"See Rakly we got this!"

If they had looked back as they left they wouldn't have seen a look of worry, concern or trepidation on Rakly's face. Not that they weren't there, he was just too busy scanning and saving the disclaimers.
.....
We took out Aegis1 .... and then the world ended. Guess we should learn from that ...mines a double!

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Quark and Fallen were waiting for the pair in the briefing room. Fallen had a couple of files ready and Quark fired up a very simplified presentation for them.
"So as you can see there have been some strange activities on the west coast." Quark pointed to the list of police references.
"A break in at a military base, a series of data hacks at some top Californian restaurants, strange glowing lights witnessed off the coast at night and surfers claiming that they have been attacked by sea otters."
"We believe these are all linked." Fallen stepped in.
"We need you to get over there, find the culprits and put a stop to it all."

Island looked at Phantom
"Can you blink us both to Cali?"
"Easy ... I was there a few months back." Phantoms interdimensional travel abilities relied on him having a clear mental picture of the intended point of arrival.
"Then let's go!"
Phantom out his hand on Islands shoulder.
"I always advise keeping your eyes shut when I do this, there's some stuff in the blue light dimension that's pretty messed up."
"There's some stuff in Heretics room that's pretty messed up!" Island retorted.
"And I bet you wish you could unsee it! "
"Good point, blink us Ghostboy!"
*blink*

The pair disappeared leaving Fallen and Quark with the files.
"They won't find anything?" Fallen asked
"I picked four things that have less than a 0.00078% chance of being linked." Quark smiled.
"Well that's close enough to ensure that don't do anything too bad." Fallen looked relieved.
"And we have signed disclaimers." Quark pointed to the scans Rakly had sent him.
"We're good then." Fallen breathed a little easier. "Still think I need a drink."
"I'll join you." Quark materialised a couple of gallons of Fallen's 'shine stash.
We took out Aegis1 .... and then the world ended. Guess we should learn from that ...mines a double!

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"Two questions Phantom ... where are we? And can I open my eyes now?"
"Yes you can, and when you do you'll know the answer to the first question."
Island opened his eyes ... a large castle looked in front of the pair.
"I don't think they have castles in California Phantom"
"They do!"
Island clearly wasn't convinced.
"That's like medieval old timey stuff, Cali is about shiny new stuff and movie stars."
"And giant walking dogs, half naked ducks and talking chipmunks" Phantom turned Island around, and things got a little clearer in a hurry.
"Why Disney Phantom?"
"Where do you think I was two months ago?"
"But there's nothing here linked to any of the cases that we were given."
Phantom tapped on his wrist computer.
"Quark said restaurant databases were hacked, and there are a few restaurants here, so after we've checked out a couple of rides we can check them out."
"And I thought I was the good ideas guy!" Island smiled.
"Everyone gets one Island!"
We took out Aegis1 .... and then the world ended. Guess we should learn from that ...mines a double!

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Eighteen rides and four Princess selfies later both the investigative duo were feeling hungry.
"Can we get something to eat?" Phantom asked passing Island a pair of mouse ears.
"I could go for a seafood platter." Island forced the ears onto his head.
"There was something we had to do as well ... something about ... cracking?"
"Crabs ... let's get crabs."
"Isn't that what Heretic got last time he was in New Orleans?"
"Yeah but they weren't freshly boiled ."
"You meant hacking dintcha ghostboy!"
"Yeah that's it ... databases"
"So what we do is order a couple of seafood platters and some sides and then see if you can't find something with your wrist computer thing."
"We got this Island ... we'll soon have this case solved!"
The first three restaurants had a decent selection of steak, burgers, hotdogs and suspicious looking vegan options, all were vetoed without much argument.
"This one looks good Phantom"
They were stood outside the Cove Bar and the board advertising lobster nachos had grabbed Islands attention.
"We getting these nachos then?" Phantom asked, knowing the answer.
"And some other stuff, think they do oysters?"
"You want us to go in here, get a table for two and order oysters?" Phantom looked unsure.
"I'll tell the guy its no homo!"
We took out Aegis1 .... and then the world ended. Guess we should learn from that ...mines a double!

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"Yo garkon me and my amigo want a table for duo, silver plates"
"I didn't know you had language skills Island." Phantom looked unduly impressed.
"I'm a modern man Phantom, ladies love it when you can talk the talk."
"I just use Google translate on my wrist computer."
"That might be too modern!"

The confused looking waiter sat the pair of heroes and handed them menus.

"We're having lobster nachos!" Island didn't open the menu.
"Can we have starters?" Phantom interjected.
"Yeah ok, we'll have oysters as well, and two pitchers of your finest domestic draught."
"Can I get two pitchers as well?" Phantom looked uneasy with the formality of the situation.
"I'm sorry but we don't have any fresh oysters today." The waiter almost looked like he cared.
"That's ok we'll have whatever was left from yesterday, that'll be ok, right Phantom?"
"Fine with me."
"But I'm afraid we didn't have any oysters yesterday." Now the waiter looked like he might be slightly flustered.
"When did you last have any oysters?" Island queries.
"Oh it's been about two weeks since we were last able to get any oysters."
"They won't be fresh Phantom!" Island stated knowingly. "We'll just have the nachos."
"And the pitchers!" Phantom hurriedly added.

The waiter hurried away, relieved it hadn't gone too badly.

"No oysters for two weeks!" Phantom sounded puzzled.
"What kind of seafood place is this?" Island asked in disgust. Phantom tapped into his wrist panel, remembering for once the goal that they were after.
"And according to my computer the database here was hacked a week ago, and all that was looked into was the inventory."
"There might not be any oysters here, but there is something very fishy going on."
Phantom nearly laughed, thankfully the waiter came back with the beer and diffused what was nearly an awkward situation.
We took out Aegis1 .... and then the world ended. Guess we should learn from that ...mines a double!

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Island wiped himself clean of nacho debris and drained his beer.
"So what we've found out so far is that there's a shortage of oysters and the restaurant hacks have been looking at stock inventories."
Phantom nodded and drained his beer.
"I think we need to investigate one of the other phenomena next, the more we look at the more obvious the link will be."
Again this got a nod from Phantom.
"So surfers, strange lights or military base?"
Phantom thought for a few seconds.
"I'm going for military base, cos we might have to sit up all night for a few nights to spot this glow thats reported, and surfers are generally annoying to talk to. At least we know exactly where the base is and it's just a case of asking what went missing."
"Impeccable logic ghostboy." Island smiled.
"Can you blink us there?"
"I've never been, so no. We'll have to hire a car."
"Shotgun!" Island shouted.
Phantom briefly dematerialised.
"Can you book us something on your wrist doodad?"
"Yeah sure."
"I'll pay, Rakly gave me an Avengers credit card." Island pulled it from his wallet.
"How come I didn't get one?" Phantom queried.
"He only left one in his locked desk draw."
We took out Aegis1 .... and then the world ended. Guess we should learn from that ...mines a double!

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Island flashed his Avenger ID at the gate house and within seconds the car was waved through.
"Who's in charge here?" He asked the gate detail commander.
"We've alerted the Colonel your coming, he'll meet you at the command centre, go straight, then bear left, straight on again and you'll see the large white building."
"Did you get that Phantom?" Phantom nodded and for once didn't just do it for show.

"So is this Avenger business or BADGE?" The colonel asked.
"Does it make a difference?" Phantom queried.
"Well we in the US Army have a lot of respect for the Avengers, but the official line is that Nova is a bit of a d..."
"Rakly sent us" Island interrupted.
"And what is it you want?"
"Well we understand there was a break in recently. We just want to know what was taken."
"Well ... " The colonel thought briefly. "We had 3 barrels taken."
"Barrels of what?" Phantom asked. "Please don't be beer."
"Well ..." Another brief pause. "We had one barrel of napalm, one of 2,4-D and the third was 2,4,5-T"
"Is that some continental stuff?" Island asked.
Phantom meanwhile was quickly tapping on his wrist computer.
"That's Agent Orange, right? Isn't that some kind of illegal?"
"It was just surplus that was waiting to be safely disposed of." The colonel blistered.
"Waiting for 40 years?"
"There's a lot of red tape."
"Were not here to judge Phantom." Island stepped in. "We have the info we needed, now let's go and see if we can find a link."
"And maybe some of that continental stuff you mentioned."
"Maybe."
The colonel looked relieved at the change of subject.
"Anything else I can help you guys with?"
"Yeah. Do you know somewhere near here that does continental beer?" Phantom fixated.

We took out Aegis1 .... and then the world ended. Guess we should learn from that ...mines a double!

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