Berto, of course, had no clue who these men were-- but it only took one glance at his young comrades for him to understand the nature of the situation.[color=8dc73f][b]"Cristina, is it? The Chinese sent [i]that man[/i] here for one reason. Well, two reasons; one, to rattle our people at the negotiating table, and two, to provoke us into firing the first shot. Our primary objective hasn't changed. We still have to make sure [i]nobody[/i] fires the first shot."[/b][/color]

He tried to catch Cristina, and Callie, and Koichi's attention.[color=8dc73f][b]"But now we've got a secondary objective. We've gotta find something [i]soft[/i] on their side, as close to this 'Avatar' is possible, and we've gotta stick something in it and break it off. The bean counters and the pretty little liars are gonna thank us for it, because if the Chinese are slapping us in the face out here-- fishing for an incident-- then you can bet they're trying to screw us a lot worse [i]in there[/i]."[/b][/color]

[color=8dc73f][b]"So what do we know about this asshat that the PRC wishes we didn't?"[/b][/color]