BlackHeart Biohazards

If anyone is curious how we do outlines, I organized the outline for the first half of the third book of Chronocide (extremely AU time travel based spy-thriller vaguely based on MGS starring my self insert OC) this morning.

• opening image: Sunny going into hiding, locking herself up in a small lab into the facility as it goes on alert mode due to the possibility of intrusion. There’s talk of destroying evidence.
• Set up: Simon and Heron are in a truck, winding up a dirt road into the jungle and talking about the mission briefing
• Ana on the radio, annoyed to be left behind but they needed someone to stay and monitor Major Knight’s movements
• catalyst:    Flashback to Heron asking for some time off in the wake of her last mission
• debate:    continuing flashback:‘if you do this, there’s no turning back. Either you’ll succeed, or they’ll do what they did to viper.
• break into two:    The truck stops just in view of the facility, and Heron follows the river the rest of the way up, slipping inside through a wastewater sluice
•     Heron enters through the storage and mess area, and is surprised to find the base already on alert for another intruder.
•     The Facility Leader is giving the Four new orders, and we see each of the bosses in their element. Horrible Healing in the medbay, Resetti in the training field, chronobubble in the halls, and Duplicator in a dark lab.
•     Heron runs into a few guards as she makes her way up from the lower levels. She’s stopped at the gate for the elevator and needs a keycard, forcing her to backtrack.
•     Heron notices the sound of someone else crawling around in the vents, and hears horrible healing giving orders to ‘track her down’.
•     Heron corners Horrible Healing in the medbay and they fight. There are x-rays and medical documents about the chrono-soldiers here
• B Plot:   after the fight, Heron gets his ID card and has Simon look him up but there’s no data. While that’s happening, someone comes through the vents, and she meets Sunny.
•     Sunny explains some of what’s going on with the experiments, and also that she’s not the intruder that they’re after. Heron helps her find a secure hiding place, and gives her a comp, and then goes up to the next level.
• Fun and games: The next level up is the barracks and training area.
•     skirmishes with guards, a blacked out hallway that’s messing with comms due to an electrical, apparently.
•     Hear some guards talking about the armored titan here and what it’s going to be used for.
•     Drawn into the training area by encroaching enemies and encounter Mr. Resetti
•     Cornered and die, cornered and die
•     Finally Heron manages to stay alive for long enough for Ocelot to show up and explain Mr. Resetti’s weakness.
• Midpoint: Ocelot explains that Knight’s group is planning to use the armored titan along with some other secret weapon being developed in the lab to finally take control of the country
•     The information she’s looking for is on the third floor
•     They head up together, only to be cornered by Chronobubble on the stairway
•     During the fight, Sunny calls for help and Ocelot goes to assist her, leaving Chronbubble to Heron
• Bad Guys close in:  Heron is wounded, and has to find medical supplies once she makes her way up to the lab.
•     Downstairs there’s a conversation between Ocelot and Sunny that Heron can hear as she dresses her wounds
•     Heron picks her way through the labs, and mugs a guard for info on which one is the right one, since they’re all labeled the same.
•     She makes her way to the lab, but is too late as Duplicator has already deleted the data right as she got there. Duplicator can’t believe there’s “another intruder” stealing data.
•     Heron resets, and hopes that she can get there faster, it doesn’t work
•     Heron fights with Duplicator and finds out that one of his duplicates has a backup up the data, but she doesn’t have time to go after ever one.
•     A call from Ocelot and Sunny lets her know that she just has to kill the original and all of the others will poof and drop their stuff,.
•     the original of course had the data and Heron transmits it to Simon and Cal. Cal says there’s a formula for something called chrono lock serum, and there;s supposed to be a prototype in the lab somewhere, Heron should grab it.
• All is lost :  Heron finds that the chrono lock sample is gone,  just as an alert goes up that the armored titan is going into active mode– they’re going to use it to destroy the facility entirely once it’s fully active.
•     Heron has to fight her way back down to the basement area to where the titan is
•     She asks Ocelot to get Sunny out just in case, and Ocelot says that he’s already on it.
• break into three:   Heron confronts the Facility Leader in the armored titan in warm-up mode
•     It looks like she’s going to lose, but receives covering sniper fire from Lynx, and Heron finally remembers that the guards were looking for a female infiltrator to begin with,
•     Heron and Lynx take down the armored titan without damaging it heavily, because Lynx claims that it will self-destruct as they do.
•     Just as they’ve one, Lynx switches to another gun, and shoots Heron.
•     While Heron is grappling with what happened, Ocelot knocks her out from behind, “Sorry about this. I’ll tell you a secret. the boss wanted me to kill you.”
• End Part One:  Lynx and Ocelot drive away in the armored titan while Simon, Cal and Sunny can do nothing but watch.