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You are all enjoying the benefits of your new clearance and job. Imagine! Watching a vidscreen that's almost 50cm wide, and with almost enough chairs for everyone in the room! Reruns of Vulture Warriors Are Go! never looked so good. When you were chosen for Troubleshooter Team TTL34, you knew things would change for the better, but this is more than you could have expected. Rejoice!

A shadow fills the room from the doorway behind you. You turn to see a very large ORANGE clone standing just outside the lounge. Large, as in muscled. The clone's ORANGE jumpsuit and shirt barely contain the huge muscles underneath. He's holding a long metal stick and an ORANGE piece of paper. He looks at the paper and says, "Duh, are youse da Team what I was sent for?"
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John-R-BKL was happily watching the latest rerun of Vulture Warriors Are Go! when the big ORANGE appeared to find them. He beamed happily through his slightly less than INFRARED drugged haze and got up, not truly watching his limbs, before saluting the higher rank like any good loyal Citizen would do.
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Mark-R-PEN also got up and immediatly saluted his ORANGE superior like any good citizen. He stared through his drug-induced haze and answered

"If you are looking for Troubleshooter team TTL34 then you are correct Sir!"
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Saluting, Mart-R-SGP shook his head. "Baby, baby, you got it all wrong! You're the pride of Alpha Complex! You gotta come in here, head held high, hands at sides.." The bizzare Troubleshooter waved a hand. "Talk to us. Tell us what wonderful feature Friend Computer wants us to film today. I've got this beautiful script in my head, we could go out, wage war on Commies, and at the end.. Here's the big twist.. Everyone lives! Hugely inspirational. Epic. High drama. Good for morale."
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"Wait, what? People die on these things?" Ralph-R-EEP asked nervously, his hand pointed more-or-less towards his head in what was almost a salute.
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The Orange clone looked from one clone to the other.
"Youse clones are supposedta follow me. And youse," he stated, looking pointedly at Mart.
"I don't knows what youse just said but it sounded sup-susp-suspi-errr strange! I's got my eye on youse."

He indicated as much with emphasizing from the long metal stick he carried. With that he turned around and lumbered out of the room and turned down the hall.
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Git-R-DUN hustles into line with the others, humming nervously. "Ack!" she mumbles, searching through her pockets for her orders, sighing in relief when she finds them. Looking up, she notices that she's fallen behind. Luckily, the large form in the ORANGE jumpsuit is still in sight, so she hurries to catch up.
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Deiress-R-OZK-1 was quietly and very contently watching the rerun. She was sitting next to John-R-BKL who was also enjoying Vulture Warriors Are Go!, when the Large Orange came in and spoke. When John-R-BKL stood to salute like any good citizen, he hit Deiress-R-OZK-1 and knocked her down. She was able to stand and slaute happily, like every good citizen should. Orange was walking away after addressing the group and she got in line and followed willingly.
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Mark-R-PEN quietly whistled/hummed Night On Bald Mountain, the only peice of music he had ever actually heard as he walked along, and his fingers twitched in his pockets.
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John smiled serenly and turned his attention back to the vid-screen, and sat down again as the episode finished.

By the time it was over, the entire team had already left, and John realized he was alone. He jumped out of his chair, walked out the door, and looked up and down the hall.

Uh oh...

It took a few minutes of him pacing the hall, before he decided to try to track them down. He rushed off down the hall, screaming at the top of his lungs for his teammates.
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Tatum-O halted the group and did a quick count of numbers. Coming up with three different numbers he decided he must employ a more accurate measure of counting.

He sat down and removed his boots, and counted the number twice in a row, once on his hands once on his toes and came up with numbers that were close to the number of troubleshooters he was suppose to have, but not quite there. Deciding this was a bad thing he ordered the group to stay put while he went to find the wayward clone.

Pulling back on his boots and tieing them up he picked up his stick and turned back down the hall. A minute or two back he encounted the screaming form of John-R-BKL. Deciding that he must encourage the proper obediance skills in this clone Tatum-O grasped his long stick and jabbed it into the stomach of John-R. When the end of the stick contacted the clothing of John electricity arced through his body, standing his hair straight up on end and causing tendrils of black acrid smoke to rise off his body. A second later it stopped and John slumped to the ground.

Tatum-O being the loyal clone that he was picked John-R up and slung him over his shoulder. He turned and went to find the rest of the troubleshooters, stating loudly for John to hear, "Youse shouldna have dun that. Now youse see what youse made me do?"
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Git_R turned to the other citizens, "I propose that while we wait for our illustrious leader to return we enjoy a few rounds of '100 Mutant Commie Traitors on the Wall'. ~hmmmmm~ All together now...

~100 Mutant Commie Traitors on the Wall,
100 Traitors on the Wall;
Shoot One Down, Stomp Him Into the Ground,
99 Mutant Commie Traitors on the Wall!

99 Mutant Commie Traitors on the Wall,
99 Traitors on the Wall;
Shoot One Down, Stomp Him Into the Ground,
98 Mutant Commie Traitors on the Wall!

98 Mutant Commie Traitors on the Wall,
98 Traitors on the Wall;
Shoot One Down, Stomp Him Into the Ground,
97 Mutant Commie Traitors on the Wall! ~"

She continues on singing, offering verbal and non-verbal encouragement to all the other clones until the HUGE ORANGE clone returns....
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Tatum-O came back into view with an unconcious John-R slung over his shoulder. He walked right past the group and stopped, turning.
"Youse needs to follow me. Troubleshooters keep up or else they get the stick again."

He began walking again taking the team up three escalators before arriving at a RED hallway. Lining the hallway were staggered doors on each side, the last one on the right. Tatum-O lead the team to the first door and opened it. The RED door was marked in INFRARED paint as 413N. Tatum-O let John-R slide off his shoulder and fall to the ground. He would wake up a minute later with a pounding headache and a painful burn on his torso.
"Youse guys are s'posta be in here."

Tatum-O walked back out of the room, slamming the door shut after everyone had entered. Room 413N is huge. Really huge. It's like a cafeteria designed for 10,000 clones, with long tables and hard metal folding chairs. A row of confession booths line the wall nearest to the door. You can just make out three people at the far end of the room. One looks BLUE and the other two could be GREEN. Hard to tell from this distance, but there could be a lectern and some RED chairs down there too.
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"So, is there anywhere specific we should sit?" Ralph-R asked noone in particular. "I mean, I wouldn't wanna sit where a higher-class citzen wanted to sit or something." He scanned the giant hall with even more slack-jawed amazement than usual. "Wow. This must be the biggest room I've ever been in."
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Get-R smiles charmingly, "Why don't we all stay together, hm? I can see some Red chairs down at the other end; let's go see if that's where we need to be."
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"Oooh, colour coded seats!" Ralph-R exclaimed happily. "Friend Computer thinks of everything!" He stood there beaming like a searchlight as the first few people filed past him, then seemed to snap out of it and quickly interjected himself into the line.
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Slowly, with a headache the size of Alpha Complex, John-R-BKL got off the floor. The faint odor of burnt flesh still fresh in his nostrils.

He thought nothing of it, even as he felt the pain of the electrical burn through his shirt.

Standing up correctly took a few minutes, and not a few tries. When he finally managed it, John looked about the cafeteria, oohh'ed and ahhh'd and headed right for the RED colored chairs. Unlike his fellow troubleshooters, he had no intention of being without a comfy chair.
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Everyone began to congregate towards the chairs and take seats. When they get closer, the team can see it is indeed a BLUE citizen standing behind a lectern with a GREEN guard on either side of him. One guard carries a GREEN laser rifle and the other holds a neurowhip.

Once everyone was sitting paitently the BLUE spoke.
"My name is Joshua-B-GTD-3, and I'll be your briefing officer today. By my PDC you are all three minutes late, and as such, you will each be fined 30 credits."

Your PDCs beep as the deduction is made electronically.
"This mission is specially designed for your team, since you are all relatively new to Troubleshooting. We promise it will be fun, safe and glamorous. Any questions before I go into your mission description?"
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Ralph peered left and right at his new comrades- Er, wrong term, wrong term, make that teammates- wondering if anybody'd say anything and if they did say anything what it'd be that they, if anybody, would say, if anything.
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"No questions? Good. Here's your duty. You are to take a small package and deliver it to a high-ranking citizen in Central Processing. I will give you the package shortly and the room is easily found in the CPU Recreation Center located in FAR Sector. In other words, this is a B3 Run. Understood?

"Good. Now, one last thing before I send you on your way. I'll need everybody's Troubleshooter Certification Number for our records. We'll start with you. Number," he asked, pointing at Git-R.
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Git-R's eye go blank for a second as she tries to remember what she's done with her number. She begins pulling things out of her pockets..."This.... no....this one.... no..."

It's amazing how many things one can stuff in their pockets...and amazing how many pockets there are in a Red jumpsuit. This looks like it could take a while....
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"This is simply ridiculous! I am so tired of dealing with incompetent
Troubleshooters and their flimsy excuses! You are all fined 100 credits for
not following Mandate TMTS 554-point-83-stroke-e, the Troubleshooter
Certification Exam. Wait here until I can sort out this mess!"

Joshua-B stormed out of the room, leaving the pair of GREEN guards leering at the team. They knew that when a BLUE clearance citizen was angry at REDs they got to shoot them. That made them extremely happy. Though they didn't really show it other then the widening smile. They remained silent for the moment, not wanting to lose any more credits for 'speaking out of turn' or 'giving uncleared information to lower-clearance citizens.'
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Joshua-B stormed back into the room a few minutes later, face visably reddened. He marched over to where the team was seated and moved in front of the podium once more.
"You all were scheduled to take the TCE five weekcycles ago! Why in the name of The Computer were you *NOT* there to take a simple test like this? What is so difficult that you couldn't make it to the test?!"

He continued along in this vein before the troubleshooters could respond with bootlicking or otherwise sucking up to the higher clearance citizen in exchage for their clones life extending its length by another five minutes.
"I'll tell you why! Communists! Yes, Communists! Communists somehow intercepted the message that was suppose to tell this team to take the TCE. So, since this was obviously the fault of treasonous commies, you all will not be executed.

"Instead, before you can complete your mission, you will have to take the TCE. Now. Here. Immediatly."

He stepped out from behind the podium and walked out of the room without any further warning or words. The two GREEN guards looked at each other, shrugged and followed him out.

A few moments later a citizen wearing GREEN Reflec walked in the door. She walks slowly and with perfect posture, weaving her way through the tables towards the Troubleshooters. Her eyes remain focused ahead and her face calm and serene. Once she reaches the podium, she stands behind it and stares out over the Troubleshooters. She continued to stare till all the clones were silent. Once she had their attention she continued.

"My name is Rachel-G-LGR-2. I am your Troubleshooter Certification Exam proctor. It will help your TCE scores if you follow my directions. I will be happy to repeat myself whenever you don't hear or understand the directions. Cheating on the TCE may be punishable by termination. Do I need to repeat myself?"
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John blinked, and nodded, and a loud "Yesma'am" came out of his mouth, before he returned to being a good lil quiet clone.
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Rachel-G turned calmly to face John-R. She repeated her exact words without a hint of anger or annoyance.
"My name is Rachel-G-LGR-2. I am your Troubleshooter Certification Exam proctor. It will help your TCE scores if you follow my directions. I will be happy to repeat myself whenever you don't hear or understand the directions. Cheating on the TCE may be punishable by termination. Do I need to repeat myself?"
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