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[SuperManwich]

So I'm waiting for for research to finish. I've already 3-starred Mission 1, and I'm waiting for the EMP grenade to finish researching. Will I already have Task 6 complete after the EMP Grenade is done researching (Task 5), or will I have to like four-star it for the task to register?

[Flinx]

So I'm waiting for for research to finish. I've already 3-starred Mission 1, and I'm waiting for the EMP grenade to finish researching. Will I already have Task 6 complete after the EMP Grenade is done researching (Task 5), or will I have to like four-star it for the task to register?

It will automatically complete as soon as you complete the research task.

[Abd-Allah Mohamed Refat]

Well,guys I've a question: My "TOTAL MASTERY STARS" are 210, but I only achieved 195 does that mean they added the 15 stars that I achieved in Spec.Ops. 1 to the "TOTAL MASTERY STARS" or this is a bug ? Please Confirm

Thanks in advance

[Rubep]

I'm unmotivated :/

[kotengo]

for this one can be normal sentinels or need to be the ops ones?

Yeah has to be spec ops. Its easy anyways theres 2+ sents in each battle even 2 in omega sent. So 10 will be easy.

[Mith]

This guide is EXCELLENT. It saved me tons of time and isos.

If you want to farm ISOS, MODOK is always a great option. Got a 6/6 u-iso drop against him. But i dont find this as a big concern, CPs are harder to get (luckily i got all the needed heroes =p).

[Indysysyve]

Description: Mockingbird's debrief mentioned the Hellfire Club and the White Queen. She was investigating near the Brooklyn Bridge before she was abducted. Is Emma Frost attacking S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents?
Location: Brooklyn Bridge

We've finished Mockingbird's debrief, Agent, and we have a problem.

S.H.I.E.L.D. had sent me in to investigate the test subjects who have been forcibly mutated with Iso-8.
I had a lead that AIM was selling similar tech to what we pulled out of their heads, when I was jumped by Hellfire goons.

The Hellfire Club is a centuries-old secret society. Wealthy, powerful, and ruthless.

I'm actually a member, but I can't remember the secret handshake.

After that, I don't remember much - just that I was working for the "White Queen".

Emma Frost. She's one of the good guys. Why would she attack S.H.I.E.L.D.?

I didn't.

Son of a... who let you in here?

Your security team are gentlemen, Fury. They were only too happy to open any door I wanted.
Agent, your reputation precedes you. You will help me learn who is claiming my title and controlling the Hellfire Club.

Deploy 1 - There are times when we need the police, and times when we need everyone out of the way. This is an instance of the second case. Send a polite and telegenic asset to move NYPD foot patrols out of here so we can work.

Deploy 2 - Helicarrier sensors have picked up some kind of explosive device here. Mr. Fantastic is on the ground at the bridge approach. See if he can pull the plug.

Uh oh. Looks like some kind of device...

It looks like a Triethylaluminium reservoir, with a surprisingly sophisticated dispersal mechanism.

Right, I was going to say an air activated incendiary. Don't worry - I can def...

I've already deactivated the timing circuit. I'll transport it to safety, stay back.

...

Deploy 2 Complete

Glad that was taken care of, Agent. You can...

This area is clear, Agent. Good luck out there.

Deploy 3 - The Hellfire Club has friends in high places. Some of them are making noise in diplomatic circles. Black Panther has diplomatic immunity, and he's very persuasive. Maybe he can quiet them down.

T'Challa, I hate to ask you this, but we want to send you on a little political junket.

What is this for?

Some of the Hellfire Club's connections are griping to their political friends. We need S.H.I.E.L.D. to have a voice in that conversation.

Just go talk to them. If you have to scare them a little, that's okay too.

They will not want to cause an international incident.

Deploy 3 Complete

They are not going to give you any more trouble.

What did you do?

I reminded them how much of the U.S. national debt Wakanda owns.

Understood. Glad to have you back in the field.

Deploy 4 - The helipad on the East River just reported some strange comings and goings. They won't say more until we're on scene. Check it out.

Deploy 5 - We're hearing about an experimental prototype weapon called a Neurowipe. Is the Hellfire Club developing one? Kitty Pryde can get inside this lab and find out.

Anybody heard of an item called a Neurowipe?
It's supposedly in development here. Kitty, slip through the building security and see what's going on.

You got it.

Deploy 5 Complete

Well, there's a lab, but no Neurowipe... unless it is really that effective.

Keep looking. We'll come back and take out the lab later. If we don't forget.

Mini-Boss Revealed

Hellfire Elite Guards. These guys are professionals, be cautious Agent.

With all the resources S.H.I.E.L.D. can deploy? Please, Nick. Clear them out and let's move on.

Frost, I didn't ask you to join us. These are your resources we are deploying against.

Mini-Boss Start

Let's educate these chumps on the difference between chess pieces and real royalty.

I'm on it.

Mini-Boss Start Repeat

This is the emergency alert system. There is a high chance of lightning storms in the forecast. Stay indoors.

If Lose to Mini-Boss

Don't hold back, Ororo. Time for a show of force.

Mini-Boss Defeated

Did you see that Emma? Storm humbled your Elite Guard. Maybe she should join the Club...

Not a chance, Tony.

Mini-Boss 2 Revealed

We've spotted Avalanche. He is confirmed as working with Hellfire Club soldiers.

Frost, if you insist on being a part of this operation, get down there and find out what is going on.

Funny, you read my mind.

Mini-Boss 2 Start

I'm not going to answer your questions. Just because I joined your club doesn't mean you're my boss.

You've already answered them. I can read your mind, remember? Although I am curious why you are so confident.

Diamond is just a rock. I am really good at shattering rocks. I'm gonna shatter you.

Mini-Boss 2 Start Repeat

I've got my eye on you, Frost. You better not be sabotaging this operation.

If Lose to Mini-Boss 2

Pawn takes Queen. I like this game.

Mini-Boss 2 Defeated

Interesting. He was completely convinced that I was the one who recruited him.

Well, did you?

Please, Nicholas. I have better taste than that.

Main Boss Revealed

The Blob is clearing the area around that building.

Another mutant working with the Hellfire Club. I don't want Emma Frost down there, I don't trust her.

I can hear you, you know.

Agent, take Phoenix and investigate. Emma, you stay where I can see you.

Main Boss Start

You know Hellfire Club membership is invitation-only, don't you, Blob?

Oh, they rolled out the red carpet for little ol' me.

Why would they do that?

I was told I have "A certain gravitas."

Main Boss Start Repeat

What, you think you can levitate me?

No. I don't have to. Watch.

If Lose to Main Boss

I'm not goin' anywhere!

Main Boss Defeated

Blob is down for the count, Nick. At least until he can dig himself out.

We'll get him out of there before he wakes up and does his immovable-object trick again.

His memories are of the White Queen as well, but recently. Emma was already here at the time he remembers talking to her at the club.

Do you trust me now, Fury?

No. Now it sounds like there are two of you I don't trust.

[Indysysyve]

Description: The Hellfire Club is using Sentinels to cause trouble near Pier 94, but who is using the Hellfire Club?
Location: Pier 94

I don't say this often: Tony, I'm impressed.

It is a good haircut, I know.

Never mind. The Hellfire Club's mercenaries have been spotted working with Sentinels. Your hunch was right.

Mutants and Sentinels working together. That doesn't happen often, and usually it means Magneto.

Director Fury. If Magneto and the Brotherhood are influencing the Hellfire Club, Mystique is probably involved. I want in.

We can use your help, Nightcrawler. But we haven't seen Mystique yet.

How can you be sure?

Agent, figure out what the Hellfire Club is doing with those Sentinels.

Deploy 1 - We haven't squared up our understanding of the Hellfire Club's "minor pieces": knights, bishops, and so forth. Xavier is in town. Send an emissary to him and see what he's willing to share.

Deploy 2 - These locations are too tight and too populated for a brute-force assault. It's infiltrator time, and Nightcrawler is perfect. We need him in and out with a blueprint for a surgical strike team.

Deploy 3 - Heavy Iso-8 readings at this location but it's behind a lot of reinforced concrete. It's a job for a bruiser. Somebody crack knuckles and get over there.

Iso-8 sensors are picking up a large signature here. Looks like it's secured behind blast doors.

Let's get a bruiser out there to beat down the doors and bring it in.

Deploy 3 Complete

All right, that's more goodies for the good guys. Any clue who put it there?

Not yet. Still combing the site.

Deploy 4 - Oh, the weather outside is frightening, and the Hellfire Club needs lightning. Maybe Storm can cloud things up a little.

We need to hit this location but our team will be sitting ducks on the approach, even in the snow.

Storm, you mind coming up with a little 'fog of war'?

Not at all.

Perfect. Move out.

Deploy 4 Complete

We are in and conducting the operation. Much appreciated, Storm.

Oh, look the fog is heading out again. Who would have expected that?

Deploy 5 - Rumor has it that Daimon Hellstrom, the Son of Satan, was, or is, White King. Emma Frost isn't talking about it, but Hellstrom might... if we can find him. Let's start by putting the word out in occult circles that S.H.I.E.L.D. wants to talk to him.

Mini-Boss Revealed

There's a group of Sentinels on the docks keeping our reinforcements at bay.

They will never see me coming.

Mini-Boss Start

TARGET ACQUIRED

If Lose to Mini-Boss

TARGET ELIMINATED

Mini-Boss Defeated

These Sentinels are useless! Just a distraction.

I don't think the Hellfire Club is buying Sentinels just to lead us on a chase. These are heavily modified - we need to figure out who's making them.

You know as well as I do that it is Magneto.

Let's not make assumptions yet. Keep looking Agent.

Mini-Boss 2 Revealed

Aha! There's your explanation for the customized Sentinels.

The Crimson Dynamo? Why would he be building Sentinels?

Kitty, you're the closest of our field assets. How about you jump in on this one?

Frost, you aren't even supposed to be here, much less giving my people orders.
Kitty, Agent, shut him down.

You two have fun while I'm gone!

Mini-Boss 2 Start

In Soviet Russia, Sentinel modifies you!

That joke, it is older than you, and not funny.
Real joke is I am going to beat up little girl for capitalist swine Hellfire Club.

Mini-Boss 2 Start Repeat

I will take you apart, and see how you work.

If Lose to Mini-Boss 2

Run away puny heroes. I have work to do.

Mini-Boss 2 Defeated

You're a relic of the past. Start talking now, or you'll never have a future.

I am good with tech, da? So the mutant oboroten lady hires me to take apart Sentinel and convert systems to work with organic tissue.
I get paid, I get to upgrade my armor. Easy job 'til you show up.

Bring him in, if he's going to talk, we'll listen.

You can get your answers faster if you just let me at him.

They won't be my answers then, they will be yours. Right now, I think I'll trust the bad guy.

Sir, the word he used "Oboroten" roughly translates to "Shape-Shifter" in Russian.

Sounds like Mystique. That would explain why there are two White Queens running around.

Main Boss Revealed

A recon team accidentally activated what appears to be a very high tech cyborg.

We have it on file as an "Omega" Sentinel, but no clue where it comes from.

That's a Sentinel? Why can't they all look like that.

When they do, you can say "Goodbye Mutants." She is packing some serious hardware.

Hardware that Crimson Dynamo wanted to reverse engineer and sell to the Hellfire Club.

Were you buying, Emma?

If I were giving them orders, you wouldn't even have Mockingbird back. Whoever is in charge, it's amateur night.

Main Boss Start

Mutants, you have entered my killing range.

Must be quite a dilemma for a Sentinel, having mutants tell you to kill other mutants. I wonder... how did they program you?

Main Boss Start Repeat

You've already had an unlucky life. Why make it worse?

Purification imperative is in effect. Commence.

If Lose to Main Boss

Flee, mutants. I will hunt you down.

Main Boss Defeated

I've known machines with more soul than this thing. She seems to have been purged of her humanity.

The Sentinel hardware should control her, but as far as I can tell, she should still maintain her memories.
Maybe there's a way to tap into her memory. Bring her in, lock her up, and let's see what we can do.

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Mindbreaker Unlocked Convo

Agent, that Hellfire Club weapon you found is top-tier tech. S.H.I.E.L.D. can do better though.
Let's take it into the lab, and see how we can improve it.

Mindbreaker Research Completed

I added some cool lights and glowing bits, this gun is totally badass now. I also re-engineered the firing chamber for higher accuracy and greater damage.
Take her out for a spin, Agent, and let me know how she feels.

[Indysysyve]

Description: Labs hidden in the Meat Packing district are being used to create weaponized Test Subjects. If this continues, the Hellfire Club will have a private army.
Location: Meatpacking District

We are starting to connect the dots. We know the Brotherhood has been behind the forcibly mutated Iso-8 test subjects we've been fighting.

The lab Kitty raided was being used to prepare some memory wiping tech. We think it was used on Mockingbird, as well as the Omega Sentinel.

The Hellfire Club has been providing reverse-engineered Sentinel tech to control the test subjects, and use them as an army.

And finally, Mystique has been posing as me to control the Hellfire Club, making it all happen.

For your sake, I hope you are right.

We've identified a laboratory where they are creating this army. It's in the Meatpacking District.

Creating an army in the Meatpacking District? Really? That's not even funny.

Agent, get your team together and hit them hard. If Mystique has the keys to the Hellfire Club, we can't let her slip away.

Oh, don't worry. I won't let that happen.

She won't even know what hit her.

I'm guessing it'll be a diamond.

Deploy 1 - This building is about to collapse with a lot of people inside. Get Colossus over there to hold it up for just... one... minute...

Test subjects are unstable to begin with. When they blow, they can take a whole building with them.
Especially if they're infused with Iso-8. The Hellfire Club is putting the whole city at risk.
That building's about to go down. Colossus, can you put your shoulder into this? There are a lot of people still inside.

On my way.

Deploy 1 Complete

Evacuation is done and first responders are clear. Should I stay until heavy equipment is in place to stabilize the building?

The building looks stable. We'll take it from here, Colossus.

Deploy 2 - The Scarlet Witch has alerted SHIELD to a large amount of Iso-8... and there's a twist that only she could have detected by her chaos sensitivity.

We've found another stockpile of Iso-8, but this one was cooked together with Mutant Growth Hormone.

There's a team in place, but let's add some extra manpower in case Magneto stops by to get his goodies back. Wanda?

Deploy 2 Complete

Iso-8 on its way to you, Director Fury. But I have a question. Have you ever heard of the Circle of 8?

Reed, you ready to receive the Iso-8?

Can't wait to see it.

Okay. Now, Wanda, if you want to talk Circle of 8 we're going to have to take it to a secure channel.

Deploy 3 - It's been a while since we heard of any large new Iso-8 sources on Manhattan Island. Sweep the boroughs and see what we've missed out there.

Deploy 4 - If this Circle of 8 is real (and that's far from certain) then we need to run down its origins. There are some archives we saved from the UN a while back. Send someone to start digging.

Deploy 5 - This is another of the Crimson Dynamo's labs, and it's full of incomplete Sentinels. Send Phoenix to take care of any that spark up while we clear the facility.

Well, what do you know? Looks like we've found another one of the Crimson Dynamo's labs.

Field teams are reporting a number of partial Sentinel constructs at this location.
Could be dangerous to move them. Let's get Phoenix there to fry them if they act up.

Deploy 5 Complete

Transfer's done. No problems.

Excellent. Now I have a lab full of Sentinel pieces staring at me.

Take 'em apart. Maybe we can figure out what the Dynamo did to that Omega Sentinel.

Aye aye, captain!

Mini-Boss Revealed

This whole area is target-rich with enhanced test subjects. If the Iso-8 readings are any indication, they're a cut above what you've seen so far.

Then we need to match their advances, nicht wahr?

Mini-Boss Start

The sooner we establish control over this area, the sooner we can put the lab out of commission.
Until then, they're just going to keep pumping out test subjects.

Mini-Boss Start Repeat

Once more unto the breach, Agent.

If Lose to Mini-Boss

They've made some improvements to the test subjects. We need to step up our game.

Mini-Boss Defeated

They're out of the way. Poor souls.

We'll get them to the lab and see what we can do for them.

The Iso-8 they are using is bad news. Try to avoid getting any in your eyes, and please don't eat it.

Mini-Boss 2 Revealed

It's Toad. If he's creeping around here, Mystique won't be far.

We'll have to see if she decides to show herself.

Let's get Toad out of the way to distract her.

Mini-Boss 2 Start

Oh, it's the so-called White Queen. I think that all of your pawns have been captured.

Helicarriers don't fit well on chess boards, but I think we are close to checkmate.

Oh? So do I get to be your king then?

Tsk. I was hoping you'd leave quietly.

Mini-Boss 2 Start Repeat

This insistence is unbecoming, Toad. Can't you see when you're not wanted?

If Lose to Mini-Boss 2

The Hellfire Club's my game now, girl.

Mini-Boss 2 Defeated

So needy. All he wants is love, and unfortunately he's repulsive.
Oh, and an item of possible interest: this lab is full of records of Sebastian Shaw investigating something called the Circle of 8.

We've heard rumbles about them in other places, too. Let's bring those records in and see what Shaw's after.

Main Boss Revealed

We've found the main lab. It looks like Juggernaut is running security.

I have a plan - we drop the Blob on him and see what happens.

I have a better idea, team. We're gonna take a piece out of the Brotherhood and the Hellfire Club at the same time.
We're gonna drop Emma Frost on him instead.

Hey!

I like it.

Main Boss Start

When are you going to learn, Cain? The Hellfire Club doesn't play cat's-paw for the Brotherhood or anyone else.
And these Sentinels and test subjects... distasteful. Not Hellfire style.

No point getting all worked up about it, babe. This here's the new Hellfire Club. You can still be my White Queen if it'll keep you happy.

Oh, I'm the White Queen whether you want me to be or not.
Whereas you are just another of Magneto's pawns. How does it feel to be so expendable?

Main Boss Start Repeat

Let's go, your 'highness'...

If Lose to Main Boss

Emma, babe, you're slipping.

Main Boss Defeated

Ah, yes. The pleasures of victory.
Fewer things are finer.

Let's get the team back to the Helicarrier. Juggernaut can head for the Raft.

Emma, it's good to have you on board. You've earned my trust, and I'm glad you came to help.

I could have convinced you at any time, you know.

Epic Boss Revealed

Iron Man, I have located Mystique. She is rallying the last of the test subjects here.

Good work, Nightcrawler. Stay on call. We're sending Emma in on this one.

Sit tight, Kurt.

Epic Boss Start

How's it feel to be on the wrong end of a coup?

Is that what you're calling this? I'm surprised you showed yourself.

Oh, that won't be your last surprise.

Epic Boss Start Repeat

They say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. Consider this my way of saying "Thank you."

If Lose to Epic Boss

The Queen is dead. Long live the Queen.

Epic Boss Defeated

Get Mystique to the Raft, Agent.

You should really let me hold on to her. I'll make sure she never troubles you again.
The lab is out of commission, the Omega Sentinel is in Tony's expert hands, and your S.H.I.E.L.D. flunkies are squirreling away the rest of the Iso-8.
You won, Nicholas. Enjoy it for a minute.

I'll enjoy it a lot more when Mystique is locked up, and helping us with our inquiries.

[Baladain]

Completed 5 tasks, completed researching EMP, tasks 6 not showing up. What now Playdom? I'm losing time and ISO8 here. Any aid is greatly appreciated, thanks!

I'm fairly certain you have to "complete" the research before you can move on to the next task...

Um... nevermind...