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Electritech Power Station 32A, Hereford, United Kingdom
Problems were rare at Electritech stations, corporate ensured that they had the best quality parts and crew in their locations throughout Europe. Which was why the flickering lights were strange to engineer Thomas, who had been sent to investigate their own generators. The lights started doing a stereotypical flicker from horror movies around 5:32, the occurrence was dismissed when they stopped, only to start again at 5:40. He entered the generator room and flicked the light switch. The first thing he checked was the breakers and immediately he saw something was wrong. “Fucking hell,” he began as he pulled out his walkie-talkie into which he practically screamed “WHAT BRAINLET SPILT COFFEE ON THE BREAKERS!” This startled the boss back in control who shouted back, “Calm your tits Thomas, no one here would’ve done that.” Thomas said back, “If it wasn’t one of us, then who did?” At that moment, the lights turned off. The generator stopped humming. The boss said “Corporate's gonna have my hide for this.”
Rainbow Six HQ, Undisclosed location, United Kingdom
Thatcher and Sledge were watching a rugby game on TV when the screen went black, a event that Sledge took personal and started cussing at the TV but was then silenced when the lights went off too. “Christ, what could this be? A raid, cyber attack? Computers run too many things now...” Thatcher ran down as many scenarios as he could that involved a blackout as he searched the barracks with a flashlight. Sledge was gathering his “Blackout Kit” a collection of items when this sort of thing occured and was meant to prepare, calm and entertain any R6 operative caught in a outage. The first room the Brit entered was where Grace, Monika, María and Emmanuelle were playing some video game. Opening the door slowly he called “C'mon you lot, we need to get the cafeteria.” in what Mute (currently in Portugal) labeled his “Dad voice”. A red dot then appeared on his chest as a french-accented voice said “Don't move, we'll shoot if you come any closer!” Thatcher sighed and replied “I'm not a terrorist, and put that damn airsoft gun away!” His flashlight then illuminated the faces of Mira, Dokkaebi, IQ and Twitch, the latter was holding a airsoft gun and looked extremely embarrassed. “Get a move on, Seamus is setting up the cafeteria, mustn’t keep him waiting.”