WOLF

Written by: Nick Kish

2006-04-12

The Project

01. New Cadets   David Singue meets with his supervisor Jack Williams after coming back from leave. David's and his wife just had their first baby, Daniel, and David took some time off to help out. Jack has a new assignment for David. David needs to train two new cadets, Mike Andrews and Liz Citrel, in the Project. David hasn't been a trainer for a few years but Jack says that David is the best trainer the Project has ever had and that these new cadets are special. David will be bringing Mike in and someone else will be bringing Liz in. There have never been a male and female cadets paired before. Then, David asks what the status is on Calus. Jack updates him, saying that everything is about the same. Jack goes on to say that Mike and Liz are going to be important, as they will be the last cadets brought in before the visitors from Calus arrive. After their training, they will be put on a team with David and will be working with the visitors closely.

02. Mike   After a few days of reviewing Mike's file, David leaves to see Mike. Jill doesn't want David to go so soon after their son was born, but David reminds that she knew that this was part of his job. Mike shows a number of 'signs' for being right for the Project. Mike, 21, has lived by himself for three years since his parents divorced. Never being that close to either of them, he moved to New York City and works as a programmer. After a few days, David approaches Mike about the Project. Mike is reluctant at first but, after some thought, agrees to join the Project.

03. Intro to the Project   David brings Mike into Head Quarters for The Captain Hero Project (CHP). He explains a brief history of the Project. The Project was secretly started by the U.S. Government in the Early 1980s for the purpose of seeking out and making contact with extra-terrestrials. The Project original intentions were to protect the US but it quickly became apparent to the members that the true idea was to protect Earth. So, the Project is currently funded by all governments but does not fall under any political jurisdiction.

04. Competition   The next day, Mike is introduced to his competing cadet, Liz, who was brought in by Angela Wing. David explains to Mike and Liz how the system of competing cadets works and that there has never been a male/female competition. The idea of competing cadets is to bring out the best in the cadets by giving them competition in each of the six missions/tests in the Project. David leaves them to themselves to let them get to know each other while he prepares the initial training exercises. David tells them about his own experiences in Training and how he is the highest scoring cadet ever in the Project. Mike and Liz are given a few days and they explore the complex together.

05. Computer Games   The first training exercise involves some computer games. Mike and Liz team up against other enemies and play against each other. There is strategy, fighting, and first-person shooter games that test hand-eye coordination, reflexes, strategy, and thinking on one’s feet.

06. Taking a Punch   They then get into some physical training; exercising, sparring, and endurance are all tested. Mike and Liz fight against others, working as a team, and fight against each other like in the computer games.

07. Learning to Fly   They also learn how to fly several aircraft, including the CHP Fighters. Starting out just flying and avoiding obstacles, they then get into the fighters and compete against each other and others. Mike notes to David that the training sessions seem awkward, but Mike dismisses it as just getting used to the whole Project. David knows what’s really going on though.

08. The Rookie Scenario   The fourth training operation is the Rookie Scenario. Each of the cadets is placed on opposing sides during a battle. One side has more soldiers, but the other side has better, more trained soldiers. Mike is assigned the role of the Rookie and Liz is the Pursuer. Mike wins the match by getting Liz. David tells the pair of his experience in the Rookie Scenario, saying it was the only test he failed and his opponent, Kurt, is still the highest scorer for the operation, having killed the entire company.

09. Demolitions   The next lesson is that of demolitions. David presents Mike and Liz with knowledge on different types of explosives and various ways of destroying buildings, vehicles, etc. The test is that Mike and Liz have to destroy a very large building faster and more effectively than the other. Liz uses a ventilation shaft, controlling her drop with a grapple line while planting the charges at predetermined floors and exists through the service entrance. Mike, planting a grapple line, jumps out the window and shoots the charges back in, he comes in 1/4 up from the bottom the building and runs to an atrium where a train comes through the building, leaving a charge or two in the atrium, and runs out the front entrance. David watches both and awards points accordingly.

10. Watchtower Outpost   A day or two later, very early in the morning, an unknown force attacks the Watchtower 53 outpost in space. Alarms all over the CHP complex wake everyone up. David watches in the command room as all communications were knocked out. And the security cameras surrounding the outpost are knocked out one by one. David switches from camera to camera, as they each go out in turn, following the crew as they are killed one by one. After everyone is kill, David switches to a docking bay camera and finds that it was a massive blob of some kind and its heading for Earth. David calls for the fighters to gear up as the blob is tracked with satellites. Mike and Liz head for their fighters with everyone else but are recalled by David, as they haven't finished training yet.

11. First Wave   The CHP fighters leave the base as the blob approaches. Mike and Liz can do nothing except watch helplessly. The fighters engage and the blob puts up a really good fight. It manages to knock down two fighters right away. The remaining fighters circle around as the blob heads off toward a large city. The fighters keep shooting it but it regenerates and knocks out the fighters one by one. The fight is quick and the blob is victorious. A single tear drops down Liz's face as Mike comforts her. David shows no reaction at all.

12. Only Hope   Mike and Liz volunteer to fight the evil blob. At first, David is reluctant to let them go but then he says if they can figure out a way to destroy the blob before going to face it, then they can go. Mike and Liz frantically analyze the data sent back from the fighters before they were all destroyed. After proposing a few ideas, Mike and Liz are stuck. Then Liz thinks of freezing it some how and then Mike suggests using the icy waters of one of the poles. David agrees and lets Mike and Liz go out to face the blob. They find the blob in a baseball park killing all the fleeing spectators but it ignores their flybys. They decide to use one of their solar rays to get its attention. The solar ray is a system that uses special solar cells to absorb the suns heat and focus it into a super hot ray beam. After regenerating itself, the blob goes after Mike and Liz in their fighters.

13. Icey Waters   David watches anxiously as Mike and Liz lure the blob to the South Pole. The blob chases them all over the South Pole area and the glaciers surrounding it. They try several maneuvers but nothing seems to shake it. Mike and Liz both comment how well the fighters seem to react to them and their desired maneuvers. Mike then thinks of baiting it some how, but they can't figure out how to do it. Liz analyzes the blob and discovers a weak spot. As Mike goes for it, the blob smashes his fighter and starts to go down with his engines out. On his way down, he somehow manages to fire his solar ray at the blob, taunting it. The blob attacks Mike's damaged craft and Liz follows Mike's lead and attacks the distracted blob at the weak spot, injuring it so it falls into the water and freezes. Liz picks up Mike and they head back to base. David calls for a crew to go a get the evil blob so it can’t escape. When they get back, there is much celebration.

14. Waking Up   Mike quickly notices that David isn't out in the hanger with everybody celebrating and mentions it to Liz. The two walk further in the base, followed by the roaring crowd, and find David in his office. With the sound of the crowd still cheering outside, Mike and Liz asks why David wasn't out celebrating with everyone else and he merely replies 'congratulations.' Then Mike and Liz wake up in a room they've never seen before but clearly still on the CHP complex. They are connected to a large computer in between them. David is there and congratulates them much more enthusiastically then before. The two think about it a few moments and David answers their realization. David fills them in that this computer and the others it connects to make up a system which creates an extremely life like, artificial world where their training missions have been held. While they were sleeping they have been hooked up to the machine and would wake up on mission day not even realizing they were hooked in.

Once it all settles in, after they graduate, David gives Mike and Liz their first assignment. Mike and Liz need to make contact with a particular person in the National Mall in Washington D.C.