"There is a world among us that we do not know. A world where those who shine brightest in the spotlight do so under a guise that distracts us with their glow. We call them celebrities."
Celebrity Team Six is the most awesome super-cool, amazingest story ever of an elite team of celebrity superheros including Lady Gaga, Matthew McConaughey, Sylvester Stallone, Nikki Minaj, Stephen Colbert, Tom Hanks, Justin Beiber, Brad Pitt, Reese Witherspoon, Matt Damon, Danny Glover and a few others.
Celebrity Team Six 1.2 Excerpt
It was a somber day when they memorialized Lady Gaga and Lincoln Hoppe. They had been strong warriors: dedicated, steadfast, passionate. As the Sun hung high over the Beretta Memorial Garden where so many good men and women had been laid to rest, or, at least honored before finding their final resting place, those on active duty along with many who had retired were assembled to pay their respects.
There with them were many of the Pentagon’s employees, but no family members. It was another lonely aspect of the job. No one who was supposedly very close to them knew what was really going on in their lives. They were double agents to the ones who mattered most, and in the wake the wreckage was often broken homes with a relationship sacrificed for every wound incurred in battle. As their lives went on one could easily see the toll it had taken as these “actors’” and “entertainers’” children fell victim to their fame with a night or two in jail, months in rehab, and the occasional suicide attempt. Their depression and various other disorders were the symptoms of a disease for which there was no cure, only amputation, which is exactly what leaving the team felt like for those had.
Dan Nigro sang “Amazing Grace” with no music accompaniment and it made the affair one shade darker as it reminded them of past heroes who had fallen. Bill Pullman stood, but was in a daze as his protégé, Reese Witherspoon, put her arm into his and leaned on him just a little. He recalled the days when he would morph into Bill Paxton, allowing him to fashion any object into a blade that he could acquire targets with at up to one-hundred meters. Many enemies had shed their blood upon his stones, glass, and even rusted metal. As time went on, though, his hands became more and more useless, and one mission too many could have cost someone their life, including himself. Despite his sadness, he did know one thing, if only one: life is worth living.
The song finished and everyone formed a line to drop a rose before their plaques. Sylvester Stallone paused as he did.
“Is it even worth it?” he said.
“What?” a voice behind him asked, causing him to realize he’d spoken out loud.
He turned and saw that it was a Pentagon employee he didn’t recognize, and said nothing in reply.
The group exited the Beretta Memorial Garden’s arched gate that was covered with floral vines in full bloom with white bulbs. Bill Pullman and Reese Witherspoon were still linked by her hand and his elbow.
“It hasn’t been so hard, but now this,” she said.
“It doesn’t get harder than this,” he replied.
They went on saying nothing, just walking with short easy steps across the paved walkway. Their time together would be short as there was a brief going to take place for the active duty members. It was for a mission. It may have felt wrong to engage in an overseas operation while the Sergeant Major was out there, but this was the job and the assignments were still important. It was just another sign of how expendable they were.
The team made their way to the conference room where they were briefed on their next target, a boarding school in Chad. It was previously untapped territory for CT6, but not unwelcome given the circumstances.
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