While out on a routine mission, a group of UIU agents find an anomalous human that has just escaped from the GOC and soon find themselves in over their heads.
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Hello!
I'm a first-time writer for this site, so I'm seeking to have this idea greenlighted and get some feedback.
Recently I had an idea for a tale covering a the UIU on a mission that gets interrupted by the GOC. I've talked a tiny bit about it on #thecritters and found there's actually not a lot of tales already done about specifically an UIU and GOC interaction so I figured I would take a stab at it.
Essentially, the plotline I have so far is:
It's a normal day out in the field for a group of agents of the UIU. They're tracking down something boring - a lamp that lights up via thought or something, nothing major - when they get interrupted by someone pleading for them to help them. Through some interrogation the UIU agents figure out the person - for ease of reference let's say he's called Frank - was captured by the GOC and being transported somewhere (to be terminated, though they don't necessarily know that) but managed to escape along with a few other anomalous people he was with and somehow stumbled into the UIU. Despite not really wanting to deal with the GOC, the UIU agents agree to take Frank and bring him back to their base and call up one of the SCP front companies while they're at it for some help. The GOC soon deploys a team which promptly find the van of UIU agents and start shooting at Frank (who is anomalously durable). A whole bunch of UIU agents get hit in the crossfire but Frank has nary a scratch. The GOC swoop in to capture Frank again, but the Foundation shows up last minute (having been requested by the call earlier) with a MTF to back up what's left of the UIU. The GOC is already spread thin in area trying to recapture all the people that escaped with Frank, and they decide to switch over to backing up another group tracking down an escaped type green rather than fight their way through the mess to get to Frank. The tale ends with a high-level meeting in the UIU headquarters where they are forced to re-evaluate how they sit in the landscape and power hierarchy in the anomalous world.
I'm thinking in this interpretation that the UIU isn't really well equipped and are in over their heads, but still try their best with what they've got - basically not exactly incompetent, but still out of their depth. Additionally, here the UIU doesn't really know what exactly the GOC is capable of, other than they're more powerful than them and have a lot of fancy gear (they have a much better picture at the end of the tale).
Writing-wise, I'm planning the story being in limited third-person, with the first section told from the UIU side, then the middle section focusing on the GOC team, and finally the end being told from the UIU side again.
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That's just the rough idea, hoping that I could get it greenlighted and see what everyone thinks of it and whether it's overdone/too cliche. Thanks!
