AGENTS - Introduction

It was a perfect day. The sun was out and peeking at all who shared her presence. The children were playing in the park flying their kites and such. Flowers bloomed and some could even catch a glimpse of the buds' awakening from the slumber. The light of such a day would melt even the coldest of hearts. Shadow, who'd usually keep to himself, had paid a visit to Rouge, but nothing more.

That day I was called for an audience with the secretary of defence and the agency's top agent, Rouge. The two stood before me and ready to implicate their problem.

"President Thorndyke, you must understand that this does not seem like the kind of situation Eggman would cook up." The situation was scarce. Apparently, a breakout of some sort of vampiric beings came out during last summer. Though that was their opinion, I did not believe them, of course, but yet that would be a mistake I would sadly regret. "So what you're telling me is that there is an outbreak of vampires?"

The secretary of defence gives a sigh, knowing how ridiculous it may sound but she had always had to say what she believed in, I had always liked that part about her "Yes, sir, it seems to be a possibility for the low blood count on the murdered, the beings being able to fly and the two holes on the victims' necks."

Rouge began to speak up "Now look mister president, if you've got a better explanation for such events I'd love to hear it." Her sarcasm was in plain sight. I thought it over for a while. I started to right down on piece of paper and handed to them. "Come see this man tomorrow. He'll lead you through the information."

The secretary picked it up and seemed rather interested of what kind of man they'll be meeting. "Who is he?"

"Oh, you'll find out. But first, Miss Rouge, would you mind coming with me?" Curious, she followed me down the hall. We ended up in the back of the Whitehouse and entered a chopper, ready to take off. "The secretary will be escorted to the Pentagon but we have other matters to attend to."

"Like what?"

"You'll find out what I mean."

Meanwhile, Shadow had visited Rouge's room in a fancy hotel in Washington. He knocks at the door, but no answer "Rouge? Rouge!? Are you there!?" He pauses for a moment and decides that, since he's there, he might as well take in the sights and check on her later'Guess she's not here. Might as well see what Washington has to offer.'

I had just brought Rouge to the agency to present a problem of my own. "Miss Rouge…"

"Yes Mr. President?"

"Do you know what this is?" I had activated a few monitors, showing Rouge her past performance.

"It's me…" She was puzzled 'Why would he show me this?'

"Rouge, your performance is great but yet we cannot trust you when something valuable is involved."

"And your point is?"

"You need a partner…"

It took her a while to get all the information into her head. She was twitching wildly and seemed to be taking in a lot of breath for some reason. "What!? I've served this agency for five years and all my missions have been successful and you think I need partner just because I'm little greedy!" Impressively, she said that all in one breathe.

Everyone knew she'd rather work alone. The less people around, the less who'd try to stop her from getting anything valuable that isn't hers. "But I'm sure you'll be interested in who we picked out for you." I activated a monitor and certain black hedgehog popped up on screen.

She began to calm down "I guess this won't be so bad after all…"