June 11th, 2014
Watchdog 187, Samuel Brock
Threat Level: Beta
Nano Saskai was held in custody for less than two hours, but no formal charges were ever raised, nor was Watchdog 213 able to find any record of the police making a demand for Mann’s jet to land.
Capt. White returned with Mann, and shortly afterward, Sasaki was released, though their plane was not given clearance to take off.
Our research on James Marsh has connected him to the Republican presidential candidate from the last election, Susan Miller’s opponent, Benjamin Morris. Marsh’s company was a major campaign contributor and Marsh himself served as a campaign advisor.
Given Sasaki’s position as public relations to the White House and PR advisor to President Miller, this attempt to attack Sasaki may have political roots. Marsh’s political connections may also explain the leaks in security surrounding this mission. If Marsh was behind this attack then it will be evident when the attacks stop and the leak dries up. If the attacks continue, it may indicate that Marsh was not the driving force, but merely an agent of Morris.
June 12th, 2014
Watchdog 187, Samuel Brock
Threat Level: Beta
Mann’s jet was given clearance to leave Singapore this morning and has resumed its scheduled flight plan. We followed them to India, where they were met with considerably more enthusiasm by the locals. In the city, people, especially children, stared at and followed Henry.
Henry seemed remarkably uncomfortable. Usually he does not allow people to stare at him, but he seemed unable to escape it. The children apparently believed Henry (and perhaps all Extraordinaries) to be one of their many gods.
The team met with Dr Varuna Jarita. Her military files indicate that she is an Extraordinary herself and one with a criminal record. Watchguard files classify her as Threat Level Beta; benign powers, but violent behavior. However, the dossier on Dr Jarita has recently been updated and all charges against her have been pardoned. It is this sort of dangerous sympathy towards Extraordinaries and blindness to their threat that necessitates the Watchguard.
Dr Jarita agreed to accompany the team to the US after making a stop in Southern India.
June 13th, 2014
Watchdog 187, Samuel Brock
Threat Level: Beta
Overland, the Dr Jarita’s errand will take three days. At her insistence, they stopped at a local monument where they participated in honoring locals who had been killed by the recent plague.
June 14th, 2014
Watchdog 187, Samuel Brock
Threat Level: Beta
Most of the countryside is deserted, leaving towns and villages abandoned. We are forced to rely on long range surveillance and remote cameras to continue our vigil. We are proceeding with caution. Dr Jarita warned the team that this area of India is inhabited by bandits she referred to as road pirates.
We were able to jack into the local satellite feeds. No foreign satellites are allowed over India, eliminating our access to long-range communication and our own satellites. Quality was poor, but we were able to identify several armed camps along our route. While we are well armed and equipped to deal with Extraordinaries, we are trying to avoid contact with these bandit groups. As we proceed south, following Henry and the team, they are more likely to come into contact with these road pirates first.
We did not have to wait long. Infrared imaging detected engine signatures and body heat on the road ahead of the team. Henry pulled over and the group left their vehicles. Dr Jarita proposed paying off the bandits, but the team agreed that they would refuse.
Henry has often denied that he is a hero, downplaying his meritous actions during the Gulf War. However, Henry has never stood aside and allowed crimes to be committed in his presence and indeed seems heartened by the opportunity to do some good. I have observed Henry too long to believe that it is merely the chance to exercise his great strength, something he must normally keep under careful control. However, I believe that these skirmishes with enemy Extraordinaries are a distraction from Henry’s social problems, issues that he is unable to deal with and which are his greatest weakness and danger.
The skirmish was short and violent. Motorized bandits circled the team’s vehicles and closed in. Watchdog 213 has increased Sasaki’s Threat Level to Beta. Her ectoplasmic wings are capable of more than flight. Beside’s being resilient enough to stop bullets, the wings themselves can be used as weapons. Sasaki also displayed what appeared to be martial arts training, which she used to devastating effect. It will likely require armor piercing rounds to penetrate her ectoplasmic defenses and I suggest that if she needs to be eliminated that it be carried out sniper-fashion. Close range engagement would be extremely dangerous.
Watchdogs 213, 199 and myself also made an important observation. While Sasaki, Capt. White and Henry engaged the bandits, Mann assembled what he claimed was a prototype weapon. Ironclad Technologies specialized in aerospace engineering and communications, and to our knowledge has no weapons program or military contract with the US government. The “weapon” that he assembled was nothing more than the PROTOX suit itself.
Images taken at the firefight in Singapore match the suit that Mann assembled and the weapons used. He did not suit up until no one was watching, and he quickly removed it as soon as he was out of personal danger. This suggests that the rest of the team does not know that he is the pilot of the PROTOX suit. Dr Jarita however, did witness his use of the suit. Mann is not an Extraordinary, however we will continue to observe him for the duration of his partnership with Henry and other Extraordinaries.
The road pirates were armed with more than cycle suits, automatic weapons and trucks. One of their number seemed to be an Extraordinary. She charged straight for Henry, which implied that she did not fear his size or strength, engaging him in hand to hand combat, ignoring attacks by Sasaki or Capt. White. She was able to land punches that staggered Henry, or even knocked him down. As they fought, she underwent a physical change. I estimate that her body mass only grew by twenty percent, but her musculature underwent profound changes, and as the fight went on her blows seemed to be even harder. She fought with little technique and indeed seemed to be almost crazed in her attacks.
The woman knocked Henry to his knees and was intent on finishing him off. However, Sasaki was able to land a fatal blow. Henry was well enough that he was able to resume traveling and the team vacated the area, seeking the safety of more populace areas.
We followed, but slowed to inspect the area of the fight. Infrared imaging showed a heat source in the shallow mass grave where they buried the bandits that had been killed. As we approached to investigate, something under the dirt began to move. The female extraordinary dug her way up from the grave, despite the open wound in her stomach. She began to crawl away, and though her wounds looked fatal, Watchdogs 213 and 199 agreed that she was dangerous and this opportunity should be taken to eliminate her.
Armor piercing rounds to the body and head obviously inflicted damage, though she continued to blindly crawl away. Rather than wait for these additional wounds to kill her, I used the RPG intended for Henry. The armor piercing explosive projectile was more effective.
Posthumously this woman was a Threat Level Lamda, and killing her was very instructional. If Henry’s social adjustment issues ever come to a head, or if he ever turns against civilians, he will need to be eliminated and I expect him to be as resilient and resistant to damage as this woman. I am certain that I am carrying enough explosive ammunition to stop Henry Thomas in the event that his violent nature escapes his control.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
Case file 187, 6/6/14 - 6/10/14
June 6th, 2014
Watchdog 187, Samuel Brock
Threat Level: Beta
Henry and the US Extraordinary team remained in Mann’s private jet for some time after landing. They were met on the tarmac by a military vehicle. Since the conversation took place outside the plane, I was able to monitor their discussion. Cassidy Blank was being detained for debriefing and deportation due to security reasons. Watchdog 267 will be continuing his surveillance of his subject.
Watchdog 213 and I have requested a briefing session with Watchdog 199, concerning Captain Percival White, USAF. Apparently, he has been added to this covert team. Capt. White seems to have replaced the Australian Extraordinary on this mission.
June 7th, 2014
Watchdog 187, Samuel Brock
Threat Level: Beta
The team filed flight plans to New Mexico and upon arriving, Mann left the airplane on his own and returned with a large rental truck. Henry remained in the plane with the others, however our equipment is not good enough to eavesdrop on the conversation through the plane’s hull. When Mann returned with the truck, Henry and Dr Cobain climbed into the back, while Capt. White and Sasaki boarded the cab, where Mann tied blindfolds over their eyes.
We followed, observing this unusual behavior. While we knew that they were going to take Dr Cobain to a secure location, it was assumed that all members of the team would be party to its location. Because of the remoteness of the roads, we were only able to arrange to sightings before it became necessary to fall back on satellite images.
Satelite tracking located the moving truck parked at a concrete bunker in the desert, the former location of nuclear miss silo USA1171011c.
June 8th, 2014
Watchdog 187, Samuel Brock
Threat Level: Beta
The truck was sighted leaving the silo base. Infrared imaging confirmed that the entire team was leaving, and that Dr Cobain was not with them. Upon returning to the airfield, flight plans were immediately filed for an overseas flight.
June 9th, 2014
Watchdog 187, Samuel Brock
Threat level: Beta
Mann’s jet touched down in Tokyo for refueling and layover. Following his flight plan, I have arrived and set up for observation. Aside from refueling, the team seems to have had no purpose in stopping in Tokyo, but Mann left the plane with Henry not long after touchdown.
I followed the pair to a clothier’s. Henry seemed quite nervous and the two of them were talking on and off about formal dinners, Japanese cuisine, and sumo wrestling. Henry left the store wearing a tailored suit. Haven stolen clothing receipts from Henry’s garbage on those occasions where he has special ordered clothes, I estimate that a suit of that quality and size cost upwards of ten thousand dollars, US.
Henry seemed very uncomfortable in his new clothes, and throughout the dinner. Henry seemed to be disturbed by his size more than usual. I believe that his discomfort was caused by being surrounded by people even smaller than he is used to, and thus reminded of his own abnormal size. The formal and expensive setting no doubt contributed to his awkwardness. It is if note that Henry glanced often at Nano Sasaki, perhaps seeking approval of his attire or behavior.
The entire social occasion was more dangerous than his comrades knew. Two decades ago, similar pressure caused me to rank Henry as a threat level Gamma. I fear a repeat of history in this case, and with the danger that the team seems to be in and the violence they have already seen, this may escalate beyond what I have seen from Henry before.
June 10th, 2014
Watchdog 187, Samuel Brock
Threat Level: Beta
We were waiting for Mann’s plane of the ground in Singapore. When they did not arrive on time, we began monitoring radio channels and that is when we overheard the order to land and prepare to be boarded. We are unable to determine why the Singapore police made this demand, and there seemed to be no legal reason for it from our research.
When the plane landed, we observed a motorcade of limousines circle the plane. We counted thirteen men surrounding the plane, one of whom we identified as James Marsh, the Extraordinary who confronted the team in Ecuador.
Henry was the only member of the team to exit the plane. His exchange with Marsh was short, but I have attached a recording of the conversation to this report. He followed the exchange by punching Marsh with crippling force.
The men, obviously not Singapore police, attacked and Henry was surrounded. Henry limped back onto the plane after a short fight, but none of his wounds seemed to be serious. No broken bones and no deep tissue damage, despite the use of armor-piercing rounds. This leads me to my request for more powerful explosive armaments. If Henry Thomas needs to be stopped, it will take significant weaponry to do the job.
During the fight, Sasaki and Capt. White flew onto the scene and participated. While I focused my observing to Henry, it did not escape our attention that a fourth figure arrived on the scene. An armored person that we have identified as PROTOX.
Little is known about who PROTOX is, however, my infrared equipment did confirm a human heat signature inside, eliminating the possibility of a android. Who PROTX is, and why they would intervene in this matter is entirely unknown, especially since PROTOX has never been seen outside of the US until now. However, PROTOX is not an Extraordinary. The suit is a weapon system, and we’ll leave the policing of that to the federal government. Since they seem unable or unwilling to accept the dangers represented by Extraordinaries, the Watchguard will do what must be done.
The fight ended after most of Marsh’s men were killed or injured. Marsh himself began to glow with intense electricity. After a few moments, he seemed to detonate. There were no remains. Marsh was at least a Lamda level Extraordinary.
PROTOX left the scene as soon as the firefight was over, leaving the others. There was no sign of Mann during or after the fight, however tapped cell phone calls between Mann and Henry explained that he had run away during the fight. However, while Capt. White went to retrieve him, Sasaki was taken into custody by the real Singapore police.
We will attempt to make further inquiries and find out why she is being held. The situation will be monitored closely, as an international incident involving Extraordinaries may finally bring to public attention the true threat of super-powered individuals.
Watchdog 187, Samuel Brock
Threat Level: Beta
Henry and the US Extraordinary team remained in Mann’s private jet for some time after landing. They were met on the tarmac by a military vehicle. Since the conversation took place outside the plane, I was able to monitor their discussion. Cassidy Blank was being detained for debriefing and deportation due to security reasons. Watchdog 267 will be continuing his surveillance of his subject.
Watchdog 213 and I have requested a briefing session with Watchdog 199, concerning Captain Percival White, USAF. Apparently, he has been added to this covert team. Capt. White seems to have replaced the Australian Extraordinary on this mission.
June 7th, 2014
Watchdog 187, Samuel Brock
Threat Level: Beta
The team filed flight plans to New Mexico and upon arriving, Mann left the airplane on his own and returned with a large rental truck. Henry remained in the plane with the others, however our equipment is not good enough to eavesdrop on the conversation through the plane’s hull. When Mann returned with the truck, Henry and Dr Cobain climbed into the back, while Capt. White and Sasaki boarded the cab, where Mann tied blindfolds over their eyes.
We followed, observing this unusual behavior. While we knew that they were going to take Dr Cobain to a secure location, it was assumed that all members of the team would be party to its location. Because of the remoteness of the roads, we were only able to arrange to sightings before it became necessary to fall back on satellite images.
Satelite tracking located the moving truck parked at a concrete bunker in the desert, the former location of nuclear miss silo USA1171011c.
June 8th, 2014
Watchdog 187, Samuel Brock
Threat Level: Beta
The truck was sighted leaving the silo base. Infrared imaging confirmed that the entire team was leaving, and that Dr Cobain was not with them. Upon returning to the airfield, flight plans were immediately filed for an overseas flight.
June 9th, 2014
Watchdog 187, Samuel Brock
Threat level: Beta
Mann’s jet touched down in Tokyo for refueling and layover. Following his flight plan, I have arrived and set up for observation. Aside from refueling, the team seems to have had no purpose in stopping in Tokyo, but Mann left the plane with Henry not long after touchdown.
I followed the pair to a clothier’s. Henry seemed quite nervous and the two of them were talking on and off about formal dinners, Japanese cuisine, and sumo wrestling. Henry left the store wearing a tailored suit. Haven stolen clothing receipts from Henry’s garbage on those occasions where he has special ordered clothes, I estimate that a suit of that quality and size cost upwards of ten thousand dollars, US.
Henry seemed very uncomfortable in his new clothes, and throughout the dinner. Henry seemed to be disturbed by his size more than usual. I believe that his discomfort was caused by being surrounded by people even smaller than he is used to, and thus reminded of his own abnormal size. The formal and expensive setting no doubt contributed to his awkwardness. It is if note that Henry glanced often at Nano Sasaki, perhaps seeking approval of his attire or behavior.
The entire social occasion was more dangerous than his comrades knew. Two decades ago, similar pressure caused me to rank Henry as a threat level Gamma. I fear a repeat of history in this case, and with the danger that the team seems to be in and the violence they have already seen, this may escalate beyond what I have seen from Henry before.
June 10th, 2014
Watchdog 187, Samuel Brock
Threat Level: Beta
We were waiting for Mann’s plane of the ground in Singapore. When they did not arrive on time, we began monitoring radio channels and that is when we overheard the order to land and prepare to be boarded. We are unable to determine why the Singapore police made this demand, and there seemed to be no legal reason for it from our research.
When the plane landed, we observed a motorcade of limousines circle the plane. We counted thirteen men surrounding the plane, one of whom we identified as James Marsh, the Extraordinary who confronted the team in Ecuador.
Henry was the only member of the team to exit the plane. His exchange with Marsh was short, but I have attached a recording of the conversation to this report. He followed the exchange by punching Marsh with crippling force.
The men, obviously not Singapore police, attacked and Henry was surrounded. Henry limped back onto the plane after a short fight, but none of his wounds seemed to be serious. No broken bones and no deep tissue damage, despite the use of armor-piercing rounds. This leads me to my request for more powerful explosive armaments. If Henry Thomas needs to be stopped, it will take significant weaponry to do the job.
During the fight, Sasaki and Capt. White flew onto the scene and participated. While I focused my observing to Henry, it did not escape our attention that a fourth figure arrived on the scene. An armored person that we have identified as PROTOX.
Little is known about who PROTOX is, however, my infrared equipment did confirm a human heat signature inside, eliminating the possibility of a android. Who PROTX is, and why they would intervene in this matter is entirely unknown, especially since PROTOX has never been seen outside of the US until now. However, PROTOX is not an Extraordinary. The suit is a weapon system, and we’ll leave the policing of that to the federal government. Since they seem unable or unwilling to accept the dangers represented by Extraordinaries, the Watchguard will do what must be done.
The fight ended after most of Marsh’s men were killed or injured. Marsh himself began to glow with intense electricity. After a few moments, he seemed to detonate. There were no remains. Marsh was at least a Lamda level Extraordinary.
PROTOX left the scene as soon as the firefight was over, leaving the others. There was no sign of Mann during or after the fight, however tapped cell phone calls between Mann and Henry explained that he had run away during the fight. However, while Capt. White went to retrieve him, Sasaki was taken into custody by the real Singapore police.
We will attempt to make further inquiries and find out why she is being held. The situation will be monitored closely, as an international incident involving Extraordinaries may finally bring to public attention the true threat of super-powered individuals.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Case file 187, 6/4/14 - 6/5/14
June 3rd, 2014
Watchdog 187, Samuel Brock
Threat Level: Beta
Continued satellite observation showed the arrival of three new figures at the observatory. Infrared and Electromagnetic imaging showed a high-energy corona surrounding one of the figures. Obviously an Extraordinary.
The next series of images clearly show that an altercation took place, although the reasons for this are currently unknown. Images of the Extraordinary with the electrical corona were captured of him leaving the observatory (alone, one of his associates was taken prisoner, the other never emerged), however, the satellite cannot track two targets and was focused on Henry and the US team so this new player escaped into the jungle. Our observation of the observatory did reveal another new figure.
He has been identified as a Doctor Cobain, registered as an Extraordinary. However, a background check has tracked him to his early youth and birth, where there were no signs of his radical mutation. Typically, physical changes such as this form of mutation occur at birth, as with Henry, and persist throughout life. I recommend that his background be investigated more thoroughly by an analyst, to ascertain if records have been falsified or if there is a unique event in Doctor Cobain’s childhood.
The US team escorted Cobain into the city and to Mann’s private jet. At this point we were able to achieve detailed surveillance with telescopic equipment and listening devices.
Henry and the others discussed where Cobain was to be taken; apparently he is under protective custody, however the US Government does not seem to have set up a safe house, leaving such arrangements to the team. This may indicate that Congressman Markov and the people behind this mission suspect a security leak. Given the infiltration of the Congressman’s own car pool, this seems high probability.
Doctor Cobain requested he be taken to his home town in Texas, where he has friends and where his presence will not be remarked upon.
That evening Mann and Sasaki left the jet at Cobain’s insistence to meet with a friend of his. Watchdog 213 followed them to maintain his surveillance of Sasaki, while myself and Watchdog 267 remained to observe our assignments.
Of note, I recorded a conversation between Henry and Doctor Cobain. The Astrologer had invited Sasaki to dinner and had been flirting with her. Her reactions seemed positive. Henry asked the doctor if his relationships had been successful. When the Doctor replied that though rare, he had had successful relationships, Henry grew quiet. I have come to recognize this reaction as a sign of deep disturbance. A solitary man, Henry does not interact with many people, especially women. His close and continued proximity to Nano Sasaki serves as a reminder of what he has never had, and what he possibly cannot have. That Doctor Cobain, an Extraordinary, and someone suffering from a mutation equally severe, if different, has been able to form successful relationships must only be insult upon injury. Henry is in a precarious psychological state currently.
Mann and Sasaki returned, having been given unspecified technological information by Cobain’s friend, Doctor Abrams. Recorded conversations hint that they discovered some information having to do with global transmissions, but at this time our information is unclear.
June 5th, 2014
Watchdog 187, Samuel Brock
Threat Level: Beta
It is of note that the paparazzi follow Mann wherever he goes, providing us with useful cover for much closer observation than is usually safe.
We will continue to monitor Henry and the other Extraordinaries and attempt to find the location of the safe house they use. Given that Henry was coerced into joining this mission and the return of his depression, I will monitor him closely. In the event that, in his instability, he becomes violent, I have briefed the other Watchdogs on Henry’s capabilities and we will move to eliminate him before he can injure or kill Mr. Mann or other innocent civilians.
Watchdog 187, Samuel Brock
Threat Level: Beta
Continued satellite observation showed the arrival of three new figures at the observatory. Infrared and Electromagnetic imaging showed a high-energy corona surrounding one of the figures. Obviously an Extraordinary.
The next series of images clearly show that an altercation took place, although the reasons for this are currently unknown. Images of the Extraordinary with the electrical corona were captured of him leaving the observatory (alone, one of his associates was taken prisoner, the other never emerged), however, the satellite cannot track two targets and was focused on Henry and the US team so this new player escaped into the jungle. Our observation of the observatory did reveal another new figure.
He has been identified as a Doctor Cobain, registered as an Extraordinary. However, a background check has tracked him to his early youth and birth, where there were no signs of his radical mutation. Typically, physical changes such as this form of mutation occur at birth, as with Henry, and persist throughout life. I recommend that his background be investigated more thoroughly by an analyst, to ascertain if records have been falsified or if there is a unique event in Doctor Cobain’s childhood.
The US team escorted Cobain into the city and to Mann’s private jet. At this point we were able to achieve detailed surveillance with telescopic equipment and listening devices.
Henry and the others discussed where Cobain was to be taken; apparently he is under protective custody, however the US Government does not seem to have set up a safe house, leaving such arrangements to the team. This may indicate that Congressman Markov and the people behind this mission suspect a security leak. Given the infiltration of the Congressman’s own car pool, this seems high probability.
Doctor Cobain requested he be taken to his home town in Texas, where he has friends and where his presence will not be remarked upon.
That evening Mann and Sasaki left the jet at Cobain’s insistence to meet with a friend of his. Watchdog 213 followed them to maintain his surveillance of Sasaki, while myself and Watchdog 267 remained to observe our assignments.
Of note, I recorded a conversation between Henry and Doctor Cobain. The Astrologer had invited Sasaki to dinner and had been flirting with her. Her reactions seemed positive. Henry asked the doctor if his relationships had been successful. When the Doctor replied that though rare, he had had successful relationships, Henry grew quiet. I have come to recognize this reaction as a sign of deep disturbance. A solitary man, Henry does not interact with many people, especially women. His close and continued proximity to Nano Sasaki serves as a reminder of what he has never had, and what he possibly cannot have. That Doctor Cobain, an Extraordinary, and someone suffering from a mutation equally severe, if different, has been able to form successful relationships must only be insult upon injury. Henry is in a precarious psychological state currently.
Mann and Sasaki returned, having been given unspecified technological information by Cobain’s friend, Doctor Abrams. Recorded conversations hint that they discovered some information having to do with global transmissions, but at this time our information is unclear.
June 5th, 2014
Watchdog 187, Samuel Brock
Threat Level: Beta
It is of note that the paparazzi follow Mann wherever he goes, providing us with useful cover for much closer observation than is usually safe.
We will continue to monitor Henry and the other Extraordinaries and attempt to find the location of the safe house they use. Given that Henry was coerced into joining this mission and the return of his depression, I will monitor him closely. In the event that, in his instability, he becomes violent, I have briefed the other Watchdogs on Henry’s capabilities and we will move to eliminate him before he can injure or kill Mr. Mann or other innocent civilians.
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