So, any of my followers on Deviant Art, and those who check out my page when I update, have already read this story. The reasoning for my late display of this is because I had placed it on the other website in curiosity for whether or not I would receive positive responses. So far, I have had quite a few people who like this, so I figured I might as well put it on here as well.
The beginning might be sort of confusing, but as the story goes on, some things will become more clear.
Also, Spy code names. I thought they would be rather obvious, but I'll relay them for you anyway...
Team Dark:
Chaos Lead- Shadow
Jewels Two- Rouge
Omega Three- E-123 Omega
Team Rose:
Pink One- Amy
Emerald Two- Tikal
Princess Three- Sally
Team Heroes:
Speed One- Sonic
Guardian Two- Knuckles
Brains Three- Tails
Another thing, if the rivals on Agency AIM are someone you like, don't nag me about making your favorite character evil Because they're not! They are just the rivals of GUN agents, not evil. In fact, I have some of my characters playing the 'rival roles' in this story. Oh, and the character Grey is just some random OC I made. If you don't like OC's, don't fret, because I don't either. He's someone I just made up out of the blue so I can have a near balance amount of agents on the rivaling agencies. His character won't make much appearance.
Last thing! If you are thinking that I made Blaze way too powerful, well here is why. For one, she is obviously my fave character and that's bound to happen. But I do not plan on making her a Mary Sue who has no weakness and can do everything. The reason she is more powerful now than she was in the past is because for one, she contains Iblis now, making her pyrokinesis increase. Now that she is a little over eighteen, she has learned to control her Sol emerald powers. So that's why she was able to cause a huge explosion that knocked everyone unconscious.
Thanks for reading! Hope you like!
I don't own Sega characters
~Chapter One: Rivals Return~
"Chaos Lead, checkpoint reached. Team Dark in position?"
"Jewels two, ready to roll."
"Omega three, destination placed."
Shadow gave a curt nod from his hidden position in pleasure, content with how smooth the mission was going so far. Bringing his watch transmitter near his lips again, he spoke flatly "Team Dark is stationed. Team Rose report."
"Pink one, all's clear!"
"Emerald two, everything looks good!"
"Princess three, check."
The ebony hedgehog let out a huff. He still despised working with teams, only taking slight pleasure from being in charge of most operations. "Team Rose is stationed. Team Heroes, report." he ordered, his deep voice cold across the communicator.
"Speed one here, ready to go!"
"Guardian two, can we get this show on the road?"
"Brains three. I got it!"
"Good," came the curt reply, feeling no time for foolishness. Something that most everyone he knew absolutely reeked of. "This is Chaos Lead, Brains three, make sure to watch the energy radar readings so we know if any security spikes up again. Jewels two, you're our eyes in the sky, make sure everyone is out of the danger zone before bomb detonates. Speed one, get ready to move in to place bomb, take Guardian two with you to help break down any security set up doors they've placed. Omega three, have you finished shutting down cameras?"
"Affirmitave."
"Alright. I'll be in there to distract any remaining guards. Team Rose, standby."
With everything and everyone in a place, destroying the facility would go smoothly. The large construction building that the agents were ordered to annihilate was one of the many factories placed by the evil scientist, Dr. Eggman Robotnik, simply going as Eggman for short, created to continually make robots that will do his bidding. In placing scattered facilities that could continue to recreate more minions for him, it made a challenge to find, destroy, and repeat the series of robot factories the teams have had to rid of.
Overall, four factories had been found and demolished by GUN agents, but more continued to appear in radar findings. The Commander sent in the team of Mobian agents to overturn the menace, and stop Eggman from another one of his greater plots.
Robotnik had a brilliant mind, being able to create miraculous inventions and machinery with his three-hundred point IQ. But despite the panache of the doctors attempts, he was fairly predictable, creating him out to be an elementary opponent.
However, he had found a new power energy source that helped fuel his metal monsters, giving them more dangerous fighting techniques, a more formidable nemesis. In the center of every factory is the energy core. This battery like substance powered the entire factory, being the weakness of the metal structure buildings.
GUN had been curious about this new found energy, and orders were given that with every factory they found, the job was to destroy the sight, but retrieve the power core so Tails could study it in his private labs to get a reading on the curious substance.
Eggman had named the blue energy Diciorum, a combination of the Latin meanings power: weapons and authority.
This Diciorum was precarious to dapple with, for no one knew how it yet formed, nor the precise amount of conduction Diciorum could generate when tampered with.
"Moving in, Jewels two, on the ready. Speed one and Guardian two, advance towards the energy core. Once you find it, place the bomb, nab the power source and get out of there. Everyone assigned, proceed."
The dark night fit the mood of the atmosphere, their attack plotted and playing out at dawn. Agents moved into their placement, an ivory bat soaring in the eerie fog above, her form unseen as she pumped her wings with air agility. A blue blur, followed by a red figure entered the back gates, just as a black hedgehog centered himself outside in clear view of the only working security cameras, prepped and ready for the oncoming flow of robots that began pouring in his direction.
Bringing forth a green emerald, Shadow smirked as he saw the glowing spheres of robot eyes widen at the sight of the radiating gem he withheld, their robotic movements hesitating to advance on the intimidating enemy. Shadow didn't wait for the automatons to gain courage, and instead charged towards the metal horde.
Inside the metal hull of the factory, where lava was welding and scraps rolling by on rotation belts, Sonic and Knuckles had made it to the center of the factory. The blue power core was centered between four tall pillars each adjacent and parallel with one another in the square formation around the Diciorum.
"Chaos Lead, this is Speed one, we have the target in sight." Sonic spoke into his transmitter, multitasking as he handed Knuckles the bomb to plant.
"Then hurry up and get it all done. Don't waste time dawdling Sonic." Shadow growled from the receiver.
"Sheesh, just chill. We're on it." Sonic drawled.
No other answer came, only a click from the transmitter that meant Shadow had cut off connection with his link .
"Well someones Mr. Grumpy." Sonic huffed, crossing his arms in a childlike manner.
"Sonic, would you move those supposedly fast feet of yours and just get the dang power core? I just finished setting the bomb and this place is going to blow in five minutes." Knuckles grumbled, nodding with is head towards the blue power generator.
The blue hero gave a shrug, not bothering to heed any silent threats as he rushed up to the Diciorum. Illuminating energy stung his emerald irises, creasing his lids into a squint as he plucked the core from its socket between the two conductors that connected to the top and bottom of the energy containment. Setting it gently in the pouch that he held, quenching the light in the shaded satchel as he tied the top off to seal the bag.
"This is Speed one. Guardian two and myself are heading out." he spoke, before both members ran off to withdraw from the battle zone.
Before taking a step out of the main factory room, a sudden blur of green brushed past Sonic and Knuckles, snatching the pouch containing the energy core with it. Sonic let out a protestant 'Hey!' and turned to face the thief.
"Now that these GUN chumps have done all the hard work, I say we snatch the prize ourselves, ai team?" a green hedgehog stood with a sneer, a row of pointy teeth showing clearly in the humid and musky room.
Sonic clenched his fists, his frown deepening into a 'V' as he placed his feet in a steady stance.
"Scourge." he growled.
The green copy chuckled harshly, "are you really surprised? My team and I wouldn't miss this brawl for anything, there is such pleasure in kicking you GUN brats to the corner where you deserve."
Knuckles flared beside Sonic, his fist shaking as he began running brashly toward the green hedgehog, "you green devil's spawn! Give that back!" he yelled, but his quick sprints were cut off as a magenta colored chameleon materialized in his path, causing need for a quick halt.
"I don't believe that is wise, my friend." the figure spoke, throwing star in hand threateningly as he fingered the sharp edge of his weapon.
"Espio's right Knuckle-head. It would be better if you just left us to our job and run back to your little Commander and tell him you failed." Scourge taunted, still dangling the pouch in a teasing manner.
Sonic made a swift step forward, but was halted as he found his body incapable of moving.
"What...?" he yelped, looking down at his body to see a cyan blue aura encircling his from, its power holding him firmly in place.
This only caused Scourge's grin to stretch, "Silver here may not be quick as us Sonic, but his mind is very capable of many things."
Ivory quills bouncing, another hedgehog flew down to the scene, landing just off to the right of where Sonic stood captured in the psychokinetic force, his blue ringed gloved glowing as he held his palm towards the blue hero with a triumphant grin.
A scowl formed and Sonic mustered up a steely glare, "Silver." he greeted coldly.
Silver only smirked in response, nodding his head. The two had met on several occasions before present time, not always on pleasant terms. After having joined opposing Agencies, the rivalry only grew.
"So whatya say Sonic? Ready to let us walk away?" the green hedgehog provoked.
The sound of wings pumping air came from above, followed shortly by a ball of light flitting into the room, and loud clopping footsteps joined the quarrel.
"I don't know about anyone else, but there is a lack of the female species in this fight." Rouge spoke from the rafters above, jesting lightly as she sauntered down a raft and to the ground below, heels clicking in pace. "Don't you think so girls?" she asked, gesturing towards the pink hedgehog whom had entered the room, hammer in tow, and the light brown colored echidna that reformed from the ball of light.
"Let Sonic go!" Amy squealed, her face steaming with anger as she clenched her fists tightly around the handle of her weapon.
Tikal seemed much less straight forward than the other girls, as she was far less used to and supporting violence, but her will to protect friends pushed her to help as she stood by her pink friend.
Scourge seemed undeterred by the new arrivals, only grinning wider. "Lack of girls you say? I can fix that." Lifting his hand, he snapped his fingers in signal to his other teammate.
In immediate response, a chestnut furred vixen swayed into the scene, swinging her hips similar to Rouge's display, and smiled deviously. She wore a white body suit, an orange belt at her waist filled with various gadgets.
"Hello Ladies." she jeered, and in once quick motion, flung a gadget hurtling towards Tikal, wrapping the cultural echidna in white net.
"Hey!" Tikal cried out, but was unable to reach the knife that was hidden in her stitched pocket.
Amy stormed forward, ready to take the female fox head on when a sudden cold long claw was at her neck.
A chuckle reverberated behind her as she was held by strong arms that easily resisted her futile attempts to escape. "You must be that annoying pink brat I've heard about." a voice purred behind her.
"Glad you could join us Grey." Silver smiled, nodding to his friend. Grey was a smoky shaded wolf with long claws and golden bronze eyes that glowed.
Grey smiled mischievously. "Wouldn't miss it."
Sonic, feeling helpless, began searching for a way out of his cyan blue cage. Seeing that Silver was momentarily paying him no attention, he wondered if it was possible to gain enough speed to break through the mental barrier.
'Worth a shot.' he figured, and began slowly fighting his way out of the psychokinetic field, moving his legs at unnatural speeds. He noticed out of the corner of his eyes, Silver began struggling to hold him in place, eyes pinched tight and grunting in mental effort.
As soon as he was freed, all chaos started.
Rouge and Fiona attacked one another, locking in intense hand-to-hand combat.
Sonic charged Scourge, who met him full force in a colliding spin dash that sent both members sprawling momentarily before starting at one another again.
Knuckles caught Espio off guard with a right upper cut to the jaw, sending the chameleon into the air. Ninja agility payed off as the magenta reptile twisted midair and landed on his feet, shaking off the daze before beginning his own battle with the strong guardian.
Amy had stomped her foot on Grey's, then proceeded to swing her hammer around in a wide arc into his side, as the smoky furred canine let out a painful howl before steadying himself and dodging her angry attacks.
Tikal untangled herself from the nets she had been ensnared in and stood to see who was left. A wary looking white hedgehog narrowed golden eyes at. Lucky for her, she noted that he looked worn from his mental battle against Sonic's force. She prepared herself for the battle, as they began skirting around each other, predicting the other to move in first.
Things began looking for the better. Scourge had dropped the pouch containing the Diciorum power core, and was in mid-wrestle with Sonic over the tan satchel. Fiona was becoming wary, her power and speed decreasing quickly with each attack Rouge delivered. Amy had dazed Grey with a hard hit to the head, and left him staggering against a wall as she moved to help Tikal with Silver. Knuckles was gaining the upper hand against the quick chameleon.
The GUN agents were slowly pushing AIM members into the center, herding their rivals towards one another until finally they had surrounded them and overwhelmed the team.
Sonic stood proudly, stepping forward and dangling the power core pouch tauntingly, just as Scourge had done a minute previous. "Well AIM brats, looks like we win this one. You still need some practice." he cockily stated.
Scourge scowled at his blue copy, but retained a sly smirk on his muzzle that left many onlookers puzzled. "You haven't won yet Sonic."
Sonic rolled his eyes, sighing exasperatedly as he spoke, tossing the power core up and down in his palm. "Whatever Scourge. You just don't know when to admit defeat."
Just as the pouch flew into the air from the momentum of his palm once more, this time it didn't come back down. Surrounded by a cyan blue aura, Silver flicked his wrist in a discreet gesture. The satchel flew off in a blur and landed in the palm of another figure who stood on a construction box, looking down upon her captured teammates.
All heads flew to the new arrival, and GUN agents faces fell in despair. She was just as they remembered, her developed features, prominent golden eyes, white powder muzzle, adorning a deep amethyst tight body suit striped with lilac.
"It looks as though I was a little late. Though I was deactivating the bomb..." she spoke neutrally, arms crossed and tail swinging. Her face was void of any emotion, just as she had always been even before the incident.
"Don't do this." Sonic pleaded.
The lavender feline narrowed her eyes at the blue hero. "Unless you are forgetful Sonic, I am no longer apart of your agency. I will do as I please, and as my orders are." she stated bluntly, her fists clenching to refrain the memories.
Scourge turned back to the blue hedgehog with a dominate sneer, and with a signature snap of his fingers, the surrounded members of AIM began backing up, bringing themselves into a clustered middle, back to back.
"My final question before our departure. Have any of you brought anything fireproof?" the green hedgehog questioned mysteriously.
In a moment of pure confusion for the GUN agents, Scourge yelled a loud, 'Now!' and all of their rivals pulled out black cloaks, draping themselves in the dark shade of clothing.
"No!" Sonic screamed just as a huge wall of flame absorbed the room, and everything went black.
"Faker. Wake up."
A distant demanding voice was prodding Sonic awake, pulling him from his pit of sleep.
"Faker. Hurry up. Everyone else is awake." the voice ordered once again, the deepness ringing through the hero's head.
In a splurge of panic, Sonic jerked up with a wet face, feeling the sense of water having been splashed on his face. "Agh! Water! Get it off me!" he screamed, whipping his head around to rid of the liquid in his rush.
A harsh slap that stung his cheek snapped him out of his reverie as he looked around at his surroundings, finding that he was still in the factory, only it now was in ruins. Conveyor belts had malfunctioned from the explosion and halted completely, one of the four pillars that had bordered where the core was kept had toppled over, ripped wires were sparking, and the whole metal exterior seemed to be covered in a thick layer of ash, as well as his fur, and many others.
Shadow stood towering above him, arms crossed and ruby eyes narrowed. Everyone else seemed to be moving about, even Sally had rejoined with the team, looking suspiciously 'preoccupied' with random items that lay about the room, as if avoiding confrontation.
Sonic pulled his gaze back up to meet Shadow's, and slowly stood, his muscle spiking in pain with the small movement as he dusted himself off. "What? What's going on?" he wondered aloud.
The ebony hedgehog huffed, "that's what I would like to know. I had planned to only fight robots till the bomb was set and let everything else play out, but instead had to defeat the entire army."
The blue hero blinked questioningly.
Shadow peered forward, "Faker. You tell me and tell me now. Everyone else refuses to spill. What. Happened?" he spoke, articulating his words to get his strict point across.
Sonic gulped, glancing sideways at his friends who merely looked down and wouldn't meet his gaze.
'No one has told him? ...Oh..."
With a hard swallow, Sonic began slowly. "Shadow, we ran into some trouble as soon as we had gotten the power core. Scourge and the rest of AIM agents showed up and took it. After a long fight, we had finally retrieved the Diciorum, and had the AIM agents surrounded."
Shadow frowned, displeased with the entire outcome of his flawless plan, and not happy to hear that their rival agency had somehow over whelmed his team and left with the power core. "If you were winning, how did they overcome you in the end?" he questioned, raising an eyebrow.
Sonic seemed to become very interested in the floor, the ceiling, anything but meeting the hard ruby gaze of Shadow. It became quiet, all small chatter ceasing as they listened in to hear if he would tell him.
His mouth felt like chalk, but he knew his rival/friend needed to know the truth.
"Shadow...we were winning, but...she showed up and...we lost. She caused the explosion."
Shadow frowned even deeper. "Who's she?"
"...Blaze."
Tension ran thick, and everyone watched as Shadow halted in all movement, no blinking, no breathing. His eyes glazed over for a moment.
Blinking it off, Shadow turned on his heel swiftly. Somehow, his shoulders looked as though an invisible weight had just been pressed down on their stoic friend.
"Lets get to the debriefing. We're already late." he spoke, his usually cold voice now taking on an edge, like glass sharpened to a point.
Everyone nodded numbly.
No one took the situation harder than Shadow.