Due to an overwhelming public demand following last week’s tale, Team Extreme Versus The Nazis, I’m now proud to present the first episode in an ongoing series of Team Extreme Stories. It’s important that these stories are fully interactive with the fans, and with the various members of Team Extreme, so if you have any suggestions on where the stories should go, then please leave a comment. Enjoy:
It was a quiet morning in Team Extreme HQ. This was an “extremely” rare event for our plucky heroes, so they chose to make the most of it by lounging around and drinking tea. After all, they’re only human, no matter what the newspaper reports may say.
Goot had decided to upgrade the firmware in the team’s microwave, as he had read on a forum that it would give it a 3-watt power boost. He was almost giddy with excitement and everybody else stayed out of his way. POB was hard at working preparing a proposal to have an emergency generator attached to the HQ to ensure that the team always had electricity for their arsenal of kettles. Having a brew was essential to running a successful black-ops military unit. It seemed that POB was always planning for additional generators or air conditioning. Indeed, Cozzy claimed that he’d never heard him talk about anything else. Speaking of Cozzy, he was busy reading the manual for the Extremobile – the team’s hi-tech vehicle – as he had recently been accused of driving it incorrectly. The Extremobile’s temporal drive had burnt out and they cost a fortune to replace – time machines don’t come cheap.
Big Poppa P saw Eed sitting alone at the dining table, gingerly nibbling on a carrot stick. He decided that he needed to intervene.
‘Eed, me old china,’ said the Popster, bumping fists with his old compadre. ’I can’t help but notice that you’ve only had two carrot sticks for your dinner for the last two days. Is there something wrong?’
‘No, no,’ protested Eed, somewhat unconvincingly. ’Two carrots sticks is plenty of food for me, they’ve really filled me up.’ Big Poppa P couldn’t hide the disbelief from his eyes.
‘That surely can’t be enough food for a growing lad,’ he said. ’There’s something going on here that I need to get to the bottom of.’
Before the interrogation could continue, young JLS came running into the room.
‘Guys, guys,’ said the young whipper-snapper. ’We all need to gather in the meeting room, quickly. We’re about to receive an important message.’ Big Poppa P could see that the inexperienced recruit almost had tears in his eyes at the enormity of the message. He didn’t want to upset the lad any more than necessary, so he decided that his questions for Eed could wait and they all hurried to the meeting room.
The rest of the team were already there when the trio arrived and they all sat impatiently in front of the Extrematron – the team’s futuristic communication device. In a flash, the screen began to pulsate and they started to receive a transmission from The Elder, the team’s mysterious overlord. Two of the team’s members, Hitchers and Theo, had recently been assigned to a top secret mission that the rest of Team Extreme weren’t privy to. Some of the chaps suspected that Hitchers was finally planning that BBQ he had been promising them for months, but nothing was confirmed. They all anticipated further information from The Elder, and they weren’t disappointed.
‘Team Extreme,’ began the shadowy puppetmaster. ‘Your ranks have recently been depleted, as two of your members have been moved onto a special…project. Well, the world needs Team Extreme for protection and so I’m sending you a replacement. You should expect McNulty within the hour.’ And with that, the transmission abruptly ended.
There were gasps of bewilderment around the room. Who was this enigmatic McNulty and what would his presence mean for Team Extreme?
To be continued…
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Are you new to Team Extreme and are unsure of all the different characters? You can check out the fact files for the gang, here:
POB, Hitchers, JLS and Goot: here
Eed, Webbo, Theo, Cozzy and Big Poppa P (avec beard): here
Hot Toddy, Mr Norris and Andre: here
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