[Skit: Jason & Arthur]

Time of recording: August twenty-fifth, 2020. Nearly another year through the seven seas following Red Wolf's trail. He's been observing, learning. If he didn't find anything... neither will we

Another one of your introspective ramblings, is it?

That any way to talk to your superior officer?

You need sleep, LT. I haven't seen you catch a wink in days

I'm fine

You do realize... this might not be all it's lived up to be

Not this again...

I'm serious Jason. Whatever investment you have in this mission is affecting your ability to make the right decision. This is becoming a dеad end

Who are we?

What doеs this have to—

Who are we?

*Sigh* Nexgen

What are we?

The protectors from the unknown, the hands that change history

Anything anomalous or out of the ordinary that gets written off by the public as fiction or conspiracy is handed to us, and we are on the front lines getting to the bottom of it

The likelihood of Red Wolf's survival is extremely low. We might as well be chasing a fucking ghost!

Maybe he is dead! Would his discoveries be? He wouldn't find Atlantis or anything notable along the way without somehow letting us know about it

What if he found nothing, like the many men before him who went on these suicide missions to the uncharted? Our boys back home want results. They wanna harvest whatever resource they can out of this supposed Atlantis. And this Red Wolf kid is clearly out of his fucking depth, LT

It was this, or the war

What?

It was either this, finding discoveries that could help heal our world, or fighting on the front line of the war destroying it

Maybe the war is healing it. We could be out there stopping tyrants and dictators from killing more innocent people

And what are we doing? Those soldiers didn't have a choice. When the nukes fell, it was either join up or fend for yourself, same as us. We're all just fighting someone else's battle. We're merely guppies in the food chain

*static*

What the hell?

It's coming from the comms

[Red Wolf]

I've found power

With this loss I have found pain

Now it's time to heal

[Lt. Jason]

We must be close. Prepare the submarine... we're going under