It's December 20th and the team is at work, ready, but secretly waiting for their time off in the holiday season. The weather outside is frightful, but however delightful the thought may be, warming yourself with the kitchen stove is against company regulations. Instead, there is the fancy television in the employee lounge. Someone's set it to the BluCo Broadcasting Station and playing today is...
The Tragic Story of Santabot(Based on a true story. All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Sponsered by BlueDonut Group, a subsidiary of BluCo. BlueDonut: It Tastes Like Freedom.)
It all began many years ago, when the world was young and Christmas was innocent, commercialized and free. But a great evil plotted in the darkness of the north, a terrible monster created by the evil scientists of RedCo: A twisted fusion of Soviet-era commubot technology and the brain of an ancient malevolence known only as "Santa Claws" that dwells beneath the Arctic vastness. Awakened once more by the dangerous cybernetic meddling of RedCo along with his army of elfdroids, the newly christened "SantaBot" now stalks the night in his Rocket-Powered RoboSleigh.
Seeking to tempt the world with communist promises of free presents, high-fructose socialism and "the spirit of giving", that evil being works industriously in the dark of his polar fortress of solitude year round, so that in the dead of night he could sneak into the houses of good families everywhere and ply them with his evil wares. In order to protect the world from this evil, the NORth Economic Defense, or N.O.R.E.D. SantaBot Tracking Centre was established on a secluded island in the North Sea and provided with enough radar tracking equipment and ICBMs to maintain a permanent no-fly zone over the North Pole. One that-
*crackle*
"That's where you come in." Your boss has cut in on the TV. It's mission time.
"One of the N.O.R.E.D. employees has ordered a Samurai Chicken Sandwich to be delivered on site. Unfortunately, you are the closest team available. It will be difficult to get the order there on time, but your team has an excellent record so far and I've authorized the use of our experimental Burger-Launch Delivery System for this delivery. The system should be arriving shortly, and the coordinates are being transmitted as we speak. You have your mission. You have 30 minutes. Go!"