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Mission:Melvin and the Mysterious Malta Group - Rescue Melvin Langley from the Malta Group

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Rescue Melvin Langley from the Malta Group

Briefing

Well, we've found him. With all of your work and my own resources, Crimson was able to pin down where our 'Friends' in the Malta Group have been holding Melvin Langley. All that's left now is for you to go in there and get him out.

  • Rescue Melvin Langley from the Malta Group

Crimson wanted to brief you first, before he sent you in. He wouldn't tell me why; he told me I didn't need to know. Turn about is fair play, I guess. So the first thing to do is go and see him. He'll give you the exact location, and you can proceed from there.

Meet with Crimson

Unnecessary Solicitation

Crimson waiting to meet with you in person. He wants to brief you about the situation before he'll send you in to rescue Melvin Langley.

Mission Objective(s)

  • Meet with Crimson

Briefing

All right, Character, I'm glad to see you came. Indigo's information has checked out, as does yours. Melvin Langley is still being held in the city, they were too worried about you catching them in mid-transfer to try and smuggle him out. They're holding him in an old Council base. I scoped the place out myself earlier, but the guard was too heavy for me to get our boy out. That's going to be your job. Melvin himself is in as good a shape as can be expected. He's resisted their torture, and is still in pretty good health. They haven't done any brainwashing or mind control on him yet, because they didn't want to hurt any information he may have had, so that's one less worry. All you'll have to do is focus on taking out the guards and getting our boy to safety. Oh, and I almost forgot. You're gonna have to take out the base's leader, too. A hardcase called Paradox Black Omega. But that shouldn't be tough for you. As Indigo would say: Easy!

After you've rescued Melvin, come back and talk with me again. There's an explanation I owe you about something. I don't give many explanations, so you better just think of this as a special occasion.


Defeat Paradox Black & his men

Unnecessary Solicitation

Crimson gave you the details. You need to rescue Melvin, and you also need to defeat the Malta Group operative in charge of the operation, Paradox Black Omega.

Easy!

Mission Objective(s)

This old Council base seems to suit the Malta Group's needs perfectly.

  • Defeat Paradox Black & his men
    • Rescue Melvin Langley

You were able to free Melvin Langley and defeat his captors.

Enemies

Badge villain malta.png Malta Operatives

Notable NPCs

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Freedom for Melvin Langley
After you rescued him, Melvin Langley told you:

'They told me that I'd been abandoned, that I'd been betrayed. But I knew they were lying. I knew that Indigo wouldn't leave me to rot. I never expected they'd get someone of your stature to help, but, I've learned not to complain!

Listen, Character, I don't know how much you've learned, but these Malta guys, they're worse than I ever feared. They think that they know what's right and what's wrong without question, so anybody who crosses them is in the wrong and deserves whatever they get. I stumbled onto it all bit by bit, but even after being their prisoner, the enormity of the conspiracy is overwhelming. These are the people who kill presidents, Character. Presidents and heroes and whoever else gets in their way of what they think is best.

Malta are going to be concentrating on you for a while, so I can make it out on my own now, Character. I'm not as helpless as I used to be. Indigo and Crimson have some safe locations I can use. Once I'm set up, I should be able to continue to help the fight. I'm not giving up now, Character. Not after all I've been through. Malta will learn to dread the name of Melvin Langley!'

Get debriefed by Crimson

Unnecessary Solicitation

Crimson told me to make sure you went to talk with him in person. I don't know what about, exactly.

Mission Objective(s)

  • Get debriefed by Crimson

Debriefing

So Melvin's free, and more dedicated to the cause then ever. Now that is a best possible outcome. Good work. And as a reward of sorts for such work, I promised you a bit of an explanation. Now, I don't give these that often, so you better listen, because I am not in the habit of explaining myself, and I am definitely not in the habit of repeating myself.

If you've been paying attention, you might have learned a good deal about who the Malta Group are and why they were formed. Just in case, I'll give you a quick wrap-up. After World War II ended, a lot of super-humans who'd fought for the US left the service, leaving us weakened against the paranormal assets of our new enemies in the Soviet bloc. To counter this, a CIA spook named Roger Vrabel pulled enough strings to get the Might for Right act passed, which let him draft meta-humans into his own special strike force. When the Might for Right act was overturned in '67, the Soviets proceeded to kick our asses in all the Cold War spy games and it started to look grim.

So Vrabel, McIntosh, and a bunch of others got together at a little conference organized by Neil McIntosh on the island of Malta, and there the 17 of them formed an illegal intelligence conspiracy called the Malta Group. They acted outside of their own governments, recruiting meta-humans by any means fair or foul to fight their invisible war.

These days, communism's gone, the cold war is over, and the Malta Group's had to change. Now they've dedicated themselves to the spread of their version of democracy and capitalism, which really is more like a dictatorship wrapped in an American flag.

Now, I wanted you to learn all of this, and if you paid attention, you probably have, but there were other reasons for all this as well. I knew where Melvin Langley was for quite some time. Normally, at this point, I'd say that I don't need to explain myself to you, but you've earned some closure on all of this, so I'll explain why the hell I let this go on so long. When Melvin was targeted and abducted by Malta, it was right before I had planned a little test to make sure he wasn't a sleeper or a double agent. I was suspicious, but that's not unusual for me. I was wrong, as it turned out, but I decided to use this whole situation to make sure that he was the real deal, and more importantly, to make sure that if he had been a sleeper agent, Indigo hadn't been compromised. I spun this whole thing out and waited for someone to blow their cover. But no matter how many opportunities I left open for Melvin or Indigo, they were legit the whole way.

And that's why I owed you an explanation. No one likes to be used, and I can't really tell you that I'm sorry for using you to make sure of everyone's allegiances. I did what I had to do. I just felt you deserved to understand why.

If you're upset, think about all the good you've done and the defeats you've handed to the Malta Group. If you're still sore, then think about it this way: I love Indigo like a daughter and would trust that girl with the lives of my children, but I knew I could trust you to do the right thing the whole time I was testing her.


Debriefing

Oh. Hi, Character.

Crimson told me everything.

I really can't be mad at him, though. I can understand why he went through all of this to make sure I hadn't been subverted. After I left the Knives, I never figured anyone would ever trust me again. You did, though, and so did Melvin. Because of you, Melvin's safe now, and more determined to fight the Malta Group than ever. You came through for Melvin, and for me, better than I could have hoped. So, thanks. Thanks for working with me, thanks for trusting me, and thanks for, well, everything.

The fight against Malta's not over yet, Character, but even if it never ends, I know we can never lose with heroes like you on our side.