Guess what Everyone I'm back, and with the long awaited sequel Watchdogs, a parody based off the hit video game Overwatch.
And boy has their been some more lore added to Overwatch since the first story ended, the biggest one revealing that Soldier 76 is actually gay. What does that mean for Branch though? Absolutely nothing. too late to change that now nor would I. But it does kill one of my favorite ships in the actual video game. I had been shipping Soldier 76 with Ana since I bought that game over a year ago and now they release a short story that reveals that he is actually gay? I don't have a problem with the LGBT at all but when the writers start killing my ships I get a little bummed. If they ruin my Lucio ship in the future I'm mailing a hand written complaint to Geoff Goodman myself.
Anyway you don't care about any of this you just care about the story, so enjoy
Far off in Manhattan there was a old abandoned building closed off from the public. Eight years ago this building housed some of the greatest heroes known to men, now it was all but abandoned. These heroes was known as the Watchdogs. A group of special government agents that was tasked to end the war between robots and men. They did their job well but as a result a knew enemy arose, the Raptors. The head of the Raptors Chef went undercover as a Watchdog agent, earned the trust of heads of the Watchdog Commander Branch and Headmaster Peppy, only to end up destroying them. Setting them up and making them look like criminals Chef personally killed Peppy and had former Watchdog agent turned Raptor recruit destroy the rest, the once powerful task force was disbanded, the surviving members fleeing and becoming fugitives of the law, and all their headquarters shut down from the public.
That didn't stop all the former agents however from still working in secret inside one of the old bases. Mr. Peabody, a genetically advanced dog scientist and a former agent stationed at the Manhattan headquarters still resided at the old base, making sure to make his presence unknown to everyone. Many years ago Peabody was the scientist responsible for the Chronal Accelerator that kept former pilot turned Watchdog agent Suki into the speedster that she was today. Though they never were stationed together the two kept in touch through phone calls and Skype messaging, though they had not talked since the disbandment.
Now hidden away in his old lab, Peabody worked alone on a type shield generator, one that could shield the entire body and withstand damage up to a tank missal, his only company being his Artificially intelligent computer Athena.
"Shield Generator test activated," Athena spoke in a feminine voice. Peabody hummed to himself and placed the small device on the table. This was only a prototype, hoping if successful to work on a much bigger version able to protect an entire being. He pressed a button on the generator and watched a force field pop up from the generator and shield about a three foot radius around the table. It looked like a success at first until it suddenly short circuited and blew up in Peabody's face knocking him off his chair and onto the floor.
Frustrated Peabody picked himself up from the floor grabbed the generator and threw it across the lab.
"Now, now," Athena spoke "No need for a temper, your heart rate is through the roof."
"I told you to stop monitoring my vitals Athena," Peabody snapped back.
"If you insist." Athena replied as Peabody went to the fridge and took out a hotdog and a some mustard, pouring the mustard over the wiener as he sat in front of his wall sized TV."It has been forty three days since your last cardio workout. Remember, a healthy body..."
"Equals a healthy mind, I know that Athena." Peabody groaned taking a bite from his hot dog.
Turning on his TV Peabody watched as the news anchor spoke about the ongoing tension between the humans and Robots.
"Tension continue to grow between robot and humans relations as several riots broke out during robot rights rallies across the globe," The female anchor reported. "Swat teams were called in to break up the riots as dozens of both humans and robots were arrested and dozens more injured." Behind the anchor there was angry humans chanting offensive language towards the robots and saying they were only machines and a bunch of bolts. One human held up a sign that suggested robots were only good as slaves. "So far the nations of the world refuse to intervene fearing picking a side could cause retaliation from the other side."
"Ugh, things are worse then ever." Peabody sighed turning off his TV and pulling up his computer. Peabody instantly pulled up the Watchdog Recall initiative and the options yes or no pulled up on the screen. Peabody was about to press yes when Athena spoke up.
"Every time you hear news of this we go through this. Let me remind you recalling Watchdog agents to active duty comes with a great risk. The Petras act clearly states any form of Watchdog activity is deemed illegal and punishable by prosecution."
Peabody sighed "I know Athena." Peabody reluctantly shut off his computer as he sulked in his chair. "Your right, that's the way the world is."
Peabody looked at a picture of his old team. A framed picture on his desk taken at Suki's inauguration on the team. Everybody was there, Branch, Poppy, Gobber, Hiccup, Tooth, Shifu even headmaster Peppy and Pitch. They all seemed so happy for their newest recruit, and Peabody longed to see their faces again. Even though he knew even being in contact with them came at great risks. He hadn't felt this lonely since he first arrived onto Earth.
Peabody was born in a lab located on the moon. He was a test subject for super intelligent animals led by head Scientist Herold Peabody. Herold was always so nice to the young dog that when Peabody escaped to Earth he took his former handler's name.
A Young Peabody was looking out at the moon rocks through one of the many windows at the lab. The young puppy had snatched Herold's glasses and was staring through the lenses as he looked outside, curious to see how the world looked through his human handler's eyes.
The noise of the door opening caught Peabody's attention and he quickly hid the glasses behind his back.
"I think you have something that belongs to me?" The scientist chuckled holding out his hand. "Hand them over."
Peabody was scared at first, fearing he was in trouble but the scientist spoke to him in a gentle voice. "It's okay, your not in trouble." Herold took out his other hand and offered him a hot dog. "Here's it's leftover from the group lunch. I'll trade you." Peabody barked with joy and instantly traded the glasses for the hot dog. Digging into the wiener Peabody turned his attention back to the window.
"There's not much to see out hear kiddo." Herold replied. "But you know there's more out there, don't you?" Peabody just turned to Herold and panted happily.
Herold smiled and offered Peabody his hand. "Come on I want to show you something." Taking his hand Peabody walked on his hind feet as Herold led the young Puppy to the main hanger."
Peabody's reminiscence of his past suddenly paused when he heard the intruder alarm set off. Somebody was inside the building.
"I'm sensing intruders." Athena spoke up.
Peabody knew exactly who they where too. Putting on his glasses he growled "Raptors, Athena kill the lights."
Right outside the lab door six Raptor agents carrying heavy assault rifles paused in confusion when they witnessed the lights go off. Slowly opening the door they searched the lab for their target, only to find the darkness and silence sending a nervous chill down their spines.
Suddenly a squeaky bone fell from the ceiling causing the Raptors to look up. That is when Peabody dropped down, attacking the Raptors like the mad dog he was. Growling like a pit bull Peabody grabbed one of the rifles in his jaws and crushed it with his teeth. He then grabbed one of the agents by the ankles and sent him crashing through a window. He then dug his teeth into the neck of another agent and smashed the guys face into the floor. One Raptor soldier started shooting at him but Peabody grabbed that rifle in his teeth and bit it in two as well. He then tackled another agent onto the ground and started mauling his face before turning to the last two agents, digging into their chest with his claws before smashing their faces onto the hard floor.
He thought the danger was averted that is when a black mist started floating past him. The mist landed on the top balcony and let out a wicked chuckle. The mist then took it's human form and that is when Peabody realized who the mist was.
"Hello Peabody, remember me?"
"Pitch?"
"No, it's not Pitch anymore," Pitch put on his skull mask and put the hoodie of his cloak over his face. "Call me, the Boogeyman!"
Peabody let out a growl and leaped towards Pitch, but the agent whose face he mauled got up and shot Peabody with a giant taser. Peabody fell and let out a painful roar as three other agents got up and shot taser after taser at Peabody. Pinning him down as electric currents ran throughout his entire body.
With Peabody contained Pitch hacked into Peabody's computer and shut off the security protocol. He then put in a flash drive as he started extracting the locations of the remaining Watchdog agents.
"Security protocols failing." Athena spoke "Peabody, Boogeyman is extracting the Watchdog agent database."
"No," Peabody growled. He couldn't let that traitor get his hands on the locations of the Watchdog agents, it would be a slaughter if he did. He had to stop him. Finding his strength he grabbed the cords, and despite the electricity shooting through his veins he sent the Raptor agents flying through the lab, ripping the taser cords right off him.
"Extraction level at..." One of the agents came crashing through the window where the main computer was at. "Thirty two percent."
Sighing Pitch took out his guns, "Guess I will have to deal with this myself."
Floating down to Peabody's level he fired round after round at Peabody, hitting Peabody's armor each time, knocking the mad dog scientist backwards with each bullet he took. Finally with the last bullet Peabody fell to the ground exhausted and wounded.
"Time to put this dog down," Pitch laughed. He lifted his gun towards a crate hanging over Peabody's head. Reaper shot the cord and all Peabody could do was watch as the crate collapsed on top of him.
Herold took Peabody to the main hanger, pressing the red button Herold handed Peabody the glasses the puppy took from him earlier.
"You took these because you wanted to see if their was more out there." Herold put the glasses over Peabody's nose. "Well see for yourself."
The hanger opened and Peabody gasped in awe as he saw the Earth for the first time in all it's glory.
"Wow," The young pup said.
"Always Remember," Herold spoke. "Never accept the world for what it appears to be. Dare to see it for what it could be."
"Peabody!"The voice of Athena woke Peabody up, "He's going to have all agent's location."
Pitch walked up to the trapped dog, tossing his empty guns to the ground and pulling out two more, ready to bury then into the dogs skull. "I'll make sure to send them your regards mutt!"
Peabody was injured, but no way was he going to let down his friends. "I'm not a mutt!" The generator that failed Peabody earlier was laying right next to him, he suddenly had a idea. He pushed it over to Pitch's location. Pitch stared confused for a second as the shield pupped up then suddenly disappeared causing Pitch to laugh
"I'm a scientist!" The generator blew up knocking Pitch across the lab giving Peabody the opportunity he needed to push the crate off him and grab his weapon. A blaster that shot out electricity.
As Pitch got up Peabody set the blaster to maximum and shot a huge current of electricity at Pitch. Pitch found his whole body being electrocuted and soon he disappeard into a mist of smoke and floated away. Peabody figured that wasn't the end of him, but at least he wouldn't get the locations of his friends. But one thing was certain now. The Raptors was getting stronger and if the world was going to survive it needed Watchdogs, rather the world wanted them or not.
"Warning extraction ninety percent."
"Athena?" Peabody ran over to his computer, grabbing the flash drive he crushed it.
"Warning extraction ninety eight percent."
"Hang on Athena!" Peabody typed away on the computer, having no choice he flushed the whole system, shutting off the computer and rebooting it.
"Athena?"
"Virus quarantined," Athena spoke once she turned back on "Running diagnosis on the core database restoring systems."
Peabody let out a sigh of relief, threat averted.
The Recall initiative popped up on the screen again. Picking up the glasses that once belonged to his handler Peabody remembered what he told him years ago as a puppy.
"Never accept the world as it appears to be. Dare to accept it for what it could be."
He knew what he had to do. Illegal or not there was only one option, putting on the glasses he pressed yes suddenly a signal was sent out to all the past agents of the Watchdogs.
"Establishing agent locations."
Now it was just time to send out the message. Tapping the camera on his computer Peabody started speaking hoping that his former agents would get the viral message and respond.
"Is this on?" Peabody chuckled as he tapped the camera. "I made a Chronal accelerator I'm sure I can handle this. Okay let's get started, to all agents of Watchdogs. No that's not right. To the former agents of Watchdogs, this is Peabody, obviously. Thirty years ago the robots declared war, the nations of the world had no answer until they called upon a small group of heroes, the Watchdogs were created to rescue the people from the robot crises. Our team was the greatest champions mankind had ever seen. You were chosen because you had powers and abilities that made you... you joined because..."
Peabody paused and lowered his head as he sighed. "But you already know this. Look I know the people decided they were better off without us, they even called us criminals." Peabody pulled up some viral videos on his computer and showed it to the agents. The videos featured clashes between robots and humans, a couple of children crying over a dead robot's body, and several other horrifying videos.
"Someone has to do something, we have to do something. We can make a difference again, the world needs us now more than ever." Peabody took off his glasses and stared at the camera giving them a motivated look. "Are you with me?"
Peabody sent the message to every former agent. Now he waited.
Ten minutes later he got a response on his radio, from Suki no less.
"Peabody? Is that you love? Oh gosh it's been to long."
"Yes," Peabody answered "it has been to long."
The Watchdogs were back.
I know there was a lack of actual Trolls in this first chapter but like the first story this is more of a Dreamworks crossover than actual Trolls story. But don't worry the Trolls will appear as early as next chapter.
Happy St. Patrick's day and see you next chapter.