FREEDOM FORCE<br/><br/>The members of Freedom Force - Athena, Flashcard, and Happy Trails - stood in the midst of a wrecked downtown, reduced to rubble by the powerful earthquake. The 9.0 had struck Chile in the dead of night, and by morning the government was calling upon aid from any corner of the world. The US responded with money, rescue teams, and the Freedom Force. Quakes had been shaking the entire continent, from Argentina through Venezuela, for the better part of a month, but Chile had been hit the hardest.<br/><br/>Over the two months since their formation, the members of Freedom Force had spent most of that time engaged in team training and preparation, though they'd had two field operations. The first was rescuing people from a burning factory in Georgia, where they saved twelve lives. Their second operation was scooping would-be bank robbers out of a stand off situation in Los Angeles. There were no hostages; it was a simple matter of busting into the bank and subduing the three assault gun-toting miscreants.<br/><br/>Both operations had netted some decent media time, though most of it had focused on Athena, since she was already fairly well known around the country thanks to her years as a Marine poster girl. Still, those operations netted a spread in People Magazine, placing the team in a "poised" position, as Major Welles put it.<br/><br/>When the quake rumbled South America, however, Welles said this was the big one, in more ways than one.<br/><br/>The world's attention was focused on the devastated country. With Freedom Force making its presence known, the media attention would be fantastic.<br/><br/>They had four days in which to work. There were survivors to be pulled from beneath tons of rubble, bridges that had been destroyed, water ways disrupted, roads blocked, and people stranded in remote locales. All the while, news crews from networks spanning the globe wandered about, filming nearly every action.<br/><br/>"The potential to make you all household names is tremendous here," Welles said. "Just, please, don't screw up when a camera is rolling."<br/><br/><br/>OOC: This is a prologue to the main adventure, an opportunity for you to show your hero in action. Go ahead and narrate a post showing your character, in a single situation, doing something to help in the public eye. The particulars of the situation are up to you; it can be something simple and routine or something dangerous and heroic. However, I will follow up your post with my own showing the result of your efforts; the more ambitious your attempt, the more fame you will earn should you succeed, and the greater the disaster should you fail. The team is acting together for most of the four days, where they do a lot of good, but for your post make it just your character acting alone. This is meant to be a short prologue, so just make a single post, I'll follow it with a single post, then we'll move on to the meat of the adventure.