The A-Team Plot it Yourself II: The Danger Maze
by William Rotsler
Ten years ago, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime its members didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground.
Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem and no one else can help . . . and if you can find them . . . maybe you can hire . . . The A-Team.
The bell over the door jingled as a middle-aged couple stepped cautiously into the Chinese laundry. They looked around at the empty counter and the racks of plastic-covered clothing.
“Oh!” the woman said as the heavyset figure of a white-haired Chinese man appeared.
“What you want?” the proprietor snapped in irritation.
“We . . . uh . . . dear, you tell him,” the woman said, clutching the arm of her husband.
“Yes, well.” The man cleared his throat. “We, ah, we’re looking for some men . . . um . . .”
“Men? We have no men!” the Chinese man growled. “Clothes, we have clothes!”
“Yes, um, well . . . these are particular men. We were told to come here . . .”
The Chinese man slammed open the gate in the counter and the couple stepped back as he stepped quickly to the door, turned the sign to Closed, and pulled down the curtain.
“No, wait,” the husband said, but the Chinese man was smiling at them.
“You are the Ellersons?” he asked
"Your accent—" the woman said.
"Ellerson? Frank and Marjorie?"
"Yes," the husband said, "but we're looking for these, um, veterans, I guess you'd call them."
"The A-Team," Marjorie said.
The Chinese laundryman grabbed his hair and pulled off his wig. A few tugs at his wispy beard and a grinning "Hannibal" Smith was looking at them.
Marjorie gave another start as a large muscular black man emerged from behind the racks. "Everything okay, B.A.?" Hannibal asked him.
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Well, that's it for today, folks. Sorry there's no decision to make yet, but all these interactive books start this way: a relatively long stretch of prose setting up the sitch'. I promise we'll have our first poll up tomorrow. In the meantime, how 'bout that completely racist disguise Hannibal was wearing? Ah, the '80s!
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