<div class="floatright">(http://foomandoonian.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/colonel-badass.jpeg)<br/></div><br/><div align="center">::Present Day::<br/></div>Eric woke up. Suddenly, as always. Having been a trained soldier all his life, he had learned to doze on the spot and wake up full operational in no time, his brain didn't need any warm up time.<br/>He didn't open his eyes. Something was wrong. Many things. For a start he wasn't in his bedroom, the smell wasn't right. Then, judging from the music he could hear, unless he had hooked up with the prime minister wife the night before, he wasn't even in Caracas anymore.<br/>Moreover his brain wasn't up to full speed, a strong headache was making his temple pulse.<br/>What had happened? He was having breakfast at Pablo, slacking down for a few days, a woman approached, but the memory was too dazed to focus the face.<br/><em>"Damn, they got me. Whoever 'they' is."</em><br/>People were talking on his side, so he slowly rolled over, as he was still asleep, and peeked from a little slid in his eyelid.<br/>He was in a well lit room. An Asian guy was standing few meters away.<em>"Koreans? Haven't been there in 8 years, are they still holding a grudge?"</em>In front of the guy there was a punk girl weaving a fake light-saber.<em>"She wears standard ordinance Albanian combat boots. W'the hell is happening?"</em><br/>He just managed to see a man being followed by a girl with blue hair when another teenager girl, that looked halfway between a mad scientist and a cheerleader stepped in.<br/><em>"Yeah, I'm still in Caracas, they just exaggerated with the mescaline when they doped me."</em><br/><br/>Had he been younger he would have jumped on his feet, snapped the punk neck and ran for the door ready to spread havoc. Time had taught him that information gathering goes a great deal further than just a wall of lead.<br/>He opened his eyes and raised to his feet in a smooth movement, feeling his head still light from the drug. "So what's going on here" he asked to the three people there, still unsure if they where real or just an hallucination.