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Fade in to Simmons, Thea and Grif meddling with F.I.L.S.S. Thea was holding paper to Simmons while he worked and Grif leaned against the wall next to the door.

F.I.L.S.S.: That is not an approved operation-hey! Watch it buddy!

Thea: Sorry.

Simmons: Can you show me the data logs?

F.I.L.S.S.: Affirmative.

Sarge walks in the room.

Sarge: Simmons, any progress in restoring the Blues?

Simmons: It's a lot of data entry Sir. I was thinking I could hack the mainframe and reroute the data stream to-

F.I.L.S.S.: Or, we could just restore from an archive database.

Simmons: What?

F.I.L.S.S.: This is an off-site fallback facility. It is designed to have archives in case of data loss. Blue Team rosters would certainly be a part of that.

Simmons: Really?

F.I.L.S.S.: Yes. In fact, I am glad you pointed out the database anomaly. I had noticed it before, but did not have time to investigate. Strange.

Thea: Cool.

Simmons: Oh. Okay, yeah, restore that then.

F.I.L.S.S.: Done.

Simmons: Great.

F.I.L.S.S.: You seem disappointed. Did I do it too quickly, and make you look bad?

Simmons: No...

Thea: Ha.

F.I.L.S.S.: I could always, pretend that you hacked me, if it would make you look better to your friends.

Simmons: Stop patronizing me.

F.I.L.S.S.: Affirmative. Patronizing subroutines are now offline.

Simmons: You're still patronizing me aren't you.

F.I.L.S.S.: Kind of.

Thea: Ha!

Grif: Hmm.

Sarge: What is it Grif?

Grif: This is weird, if I'm reading this right there's a bunch of other red and blue bases.

Sarge: Of course there are Grif! The war is huge. The fate of the Galaxy rests in the balance.

Grif: Or, not.

Sarge: What's that mean?

Grif: Here, check this out, I'm looking at the list of missions for all the different bases, and some of them look... familiar.

Thea: Are you kidding me? This is so weird.

Simmons: Let me see. Huh, apparently they set up bases in various locations and then send a Freelancer in for... training purposes.

Sarge: Training?

Grif: Practice.

Sarge: Practice?

Simmons: Yeah, the Reds and Blues are just there to test the skills of the Freelancers.

Sarge: You mean the Blues.

Simmons: No I mean both of them, ah- both of us. It says here that "simulation bases will present scenarios that may occur for Freelancer agents in a galactic battle field."

Sarge: Simuwatshin?

Grif: He means we're like lab rats.

Thea: Like flying simulators to test pilots for scenarios that might happen.

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