The alpine stronghold was well defended. Being built into the side of the mountain and being near the summit offered icy cold winds, perilous drops and a constant blizzard as natural defences. The facility itself had walls of concrete reinforced with various alloys.
Several Scorpia agents were tasked with defending it and commanding several combat robots. There was only one entrance, and a whole battalion of robots could be there in less than a minute. The facility was almost impenetrable.
In one of many weapon testing facilities, a top ranking assassin known only by his codename Deathwing, was testing several prototype sniper rifles. He picked up one of the prototypes, holding it so his eye was looking down the scope, the crosshairs centred on the target. His finger was but a millimetre from the trigger, pulling it as he inhaled. As he exhaled, he held the rifle by his side.
"Interesting. Light enough for a child to carry yet accurate enough to hit its target. A rare combination for such a weapon," he said to one of his colleges. He was about to hand it to him when an alarm sounded. The room was bathed in red light as a pre-recorded message echoed around the walls.
"All personnel report to stations. All combat robots move to main entrance. Shoot on sight," echoed around the facility. As Deathwing rushed through corridors, clutching one of the prototypes, he began to run down a mental list of people he thought might try an attack the base. MI6 was always top of that list.
As he reached the guard tower, he could already see the large battalion of battle robots standing there, guns loaded and raised. He too had his gun aimed and ready. He focused it to the trees in front of the base, knowing that if an assault on the base was to happen, the forest was the most likely direction.
Seconds went by, the alarm still blaring. As seconds turned to minutes, everyone began to think it was a false alarm. As robots began to lower weapons and personnel began to head inside, that was when the intruder made his presence known.
As sudden as a gust of wind, something human sized and fast burst from the trees. Robots opened fire, their bullets hitting nothing but air. The intruder smirked, pulling something from a jacket pocket. They were marble sized explosives, and as he ran through the middle of the robot forces, he dropped them, the wind generated in his wake dispersing them. As the intruder came to the main entrance, a single robot stood in his way, ready open fire. Just as it did, he jumped onto the robot's head, then leapt over the wall with ease.
As he made it over the wall, a mighty explosion rocked the base, various robot limbs flying over the wall. The intruder simply smirked before saying "Well that was just too easy," before diving behind supply crates as a searchlight threatened to reveal him.
As it passed, the light revealed his long sky blue hair, spiked in a Sonic the Hedgehog fashion and with a fringe over his right eye, his ocean blue eyes, his light blue shirt, his dark blue jacket, jeans and white trainers all making him look like a boy built for speed.
As he watched the searchlight, a watch-style communicator started vibrating. Sighing, the boy pushed a button, bringing up a small screen. Filling the screen was a girl with long brown hair with purple streaks, green eyes, a dark purple jacket, light grey jeans and dark purple striped trainers, with a fairly peeved look.
"Highspeed, we asked for a distraction, not fireworks!" the girl all but yelled.
"Come on Nightbird, it still got everyone out of the room and dealt with most, if not all the battle mechs. I think I did a pretty good job," Highspeed replied, adding a fake yawn.
"Look, just get here quickly. Nightshade's keeping watch and Shadowspeed's away doing Blunt knows what," Nightbird finished before cutting the transmission. Highspeed sighed before going back to watching the searchlight before sprinting across the courtyard, dodging guard towers and searchlights until he reached a hidden side of a building.
Before Highspeed could sprint around the corner, he saw someone standing in the middle of the courtyard. Before he could figure out who it was, they disappeared just as guards ran past him, ignoring Highspeed for the intruder who'd disappeared.
As soon as the guards stopped walking, the figure appeared behind one of them, striking him in the back of the neck. As he fell, the second guard turned just as the figure disappeared. This meant the guard saw Highspeed, bringing his assault rifle into a firing position.
Just before the gun fired, the figure appeared behind the guard, tapping him on the shoulder before landing a powerful punch to the guard's jaw. The moment the guard crumpled to the snowy ground, the figure stepped into the light.
He was slightly taller than Highspeed, his long hair spiked in a Shadow the Hedgehog fashion and with a fringe over his left eye. He even had highlights that were an unnatural purple colour, as were his eyes. He wore a black jacket over a dark red shirt, black jeans and shoes that channelled jets of air for hover-skating.
"Nice timing. For a moment I thought I was going to have a bullet through me," Highspeed said.
"As annoying as you can be, I don't want you shot," Shadowspeed replied with amusement before running towards the centre building. Highspeed caught up easily, just as two girls ran out. One was Nightbird while the other had short hair as white as snow, violet hue eyes, and a black leather bodysuit with sharp metal nails on the fingers of her gloves. On her feet were black combat boots. This was Nightshade.
"We ready to go yet?" Highspeed asked, unable to hold still. When Nightbird produced a flash disk, Highspeed smirked just as a bullet whizzed past his shoulder. As they turned around, symbols on the back of their hands started glowing as they saw more guards, each with an assault rifle.
Highspeed's symbol, a pale blue gem, glowed a ghostly blue, many of the bullets stopped in midair before flying back towards the weapons they were fired from.
Nightbird's symbol, a dark orange sun, glowed a deep fiery orange, flames danced around her body before being fired at the guards, melting their weapons.
Shadowspeed's symbol, a star the same colour as his eyes, glowed a pale purple, his hands glowed with strange energy before he threw the energy like a spear.
At the same time, Nightshade's symbol, a black crescent moon, glowed a bright white, barrels filled with explosive chemicals glowed a similar colour before being flung at the guards. As the barrels and energy spears collided, an explosion cleared the courtyard as guards ran to cover. This meant the explosion blew the gates apart.
"Alright, now we make our exit!" Highspeed yelled, already sprinting away with the speed of the wind. Nightbird was close behind, a fiery aura in front of her as she ran. Shadowspeed was hover-skating behind her while Nightshade levitated behind them. As they disappeared into the trees, Deathwing watched from his tower. "MI6 send kids to infiltrate us. They will regret this. Oh how they will regret it."
In the midst of the trees, the team of four were slowing down and rejoining into a group, after having gone different ways to negotiate the slalom run that the trees provided.
"That was cut way too close. We could have been killed that time if we didn't have powers," Nightshade said, breathing deeply to catch her breath.
"If we didn't have powers, we would be stuck at home doing homework and watching nothing but soaps and documentaries on where food comes from," Shadowspeed muttered, getting everyone's attention.
"Shad-speed's right. You two don't strike me as girls who spend time texting everyone," Highspeed joked, a small smirk of agreement on the two girl's faces.
"Speaking of which, I need to text Gale about any homework we have tomorrow," Nightbird said, absentmindedly twirling the flash disk in her hand.
"Yeah, we sure missed a lot of school today," Nightshade replied, much to the two boys' annoyance.
"And you say that's a bad thing?" Highspeed asked.
"The only teaching I really needed was ninja teaching," Shadowspeed muttered.
"Hey Highspeed, Gale told me that Scarlett's been asking for you," Nightbird said, her brother turning a bright red before rushing off, yelling "What are ya waiting for!? Let's get this thing to MI6 immediately! The sooner we.....aaaahhhh!!!! Ouch! I'm okay!"
"He really never learns does he?" Nightshade sighed.
"Look on the bright side, at least his voice hasn't gone up in pitch," Shadowspeed muttered, chocking back laughter at a previous mission.
That night, when most of London was asleep, the four super teens were up, sitting in their computer room bored. They lived in an abandoned black of apartments that had been modified for their use. It included numerous training rooms, the main computer room, a living room, a fully functional kitchen and a games room for the two boys.
"Adam Young is going to kill you for embarrassing him last week. Face it, you're screwed," Nightshade said as Highspeed let out a yawn.
"You said that last time and nothing happened. If he actually backed up his threats I might actually be scared of him," Highspeed muttered. Shadowspeed and Nightbird face palmed, already half asleep. They were trying to sleep, but each time they face palmed on instinct, they only woke themselves up again.
"Guys, can we just get to sleep? It's after eleven and we have school tomorrow," Nightbird sighed, hoping the two of them would stop bickering.
"Fine, that last yawn was a real one anyway," Highspeed said, jumping to his feet and leaving the room.
"How can he just get up and go like that if the rest of us are exhausted?" Nightbird asked randomly.
"Fudging speedster," Shadowspeed grumbled, getting stunned looks from his comrades. "I said fudging, as in that chocolate bar I'm probably going to have tomorrow to keep me awake." Nightbird and Nightshade nodded in understanding, the three of them lazily getting out of their seats and making their way to their rooms.