"What!?" An enraged crocodile slammed his hands on the table. "H-how did they.."
"Sir, they left a note as usual. We still have no idea how they stole the Mona Lisa.." A purple chameleon replied quickly. His suit was worn from the night shift.
"Ggggrrr.. They have gotten past us three times now, Espio. THREE TIMES!" The croc held up three fingers, spit flying from his mouth.
"Yes, I know this sir, I've been on this case for-" The angry man quickly interrupted. "Six months, everyone knows. Maybe it's time to call in the top dogs, since you can't seem to do your Job right, Espio." His boss hissed.
"Vector no, I have a lead on their next target. I'm so close to booking these rookies!" The agent threw his hands in the air.
"Rookies!? They stole the Mona Lisa right under your nose.. Err... Horn-thingy. You are off the case, Espio." The purple male's face dropped. "I'm sorry old friend, but I cannot jeopardize anything else they plan On stealing. It's time to stop these theifs in their tracks." Vector slammed his fist into his palm. With a press of a button, a sweet voice came across the line.
"Yes, Vector.~"
"Ahm.. Yes, Vanilla, it's time to recruit the U.S.S.U." His voice lightened up immensely, causing Espio to raise a brow.
"The what..?"
"Vanilla, I told you to look over the acronym sheets." Vector planted a palm on his forehead.
"I'm so sorry, Vector. I'll be sure to look it over tonight." Her voice was sympathetic.
"It's fine. It's the undercover special skills unit, by the way." He said.
"Oooh, right away, sir." She quickly hung the phone up, making urgent phone calls left and right.
"Right, well, you're dismissed, Espio. You'll be on the desk for awhile. Take a break from all this madness." Vector focused his attention back on the chameleon.
Espio sighed, turning to walk out. "You know how I feel about desk work, sir." With that he walked out.
A short female rabbit soon walked in, papers in hand. "Vector, here are the files of the U.S.S.U. team. Each agency has selected their best agents. They'll be here tomorrow morning, bright and early to be briefed on the case they were assigned to." Vector took the files, opening one up that red. 'E.D.' "Extremely Dangerous, huh?" His eyes flicked back up to vanilla. "I want to take my newly acquired agents for a spin. Have them Meet Ronny on the training field at 08:00. We'll see how 'dangerous' they really are." His eyes went back to the file, reading a few lines.
"What if they don't meet you executions, sir?" She tilted her head slightly.
"Then we'll be over ran by these hoodlums. Because these people-" He tossed the files on the table. "-are the best of the best. If they can't stop them, no one will."
"I'm sure they'll be able to." She brightly smiled, before rushing out of the room to answer the ringing phone.
"I sure hope so..." Vector plopped down in his chair. He slouched, opening the files, reading them one by one.
Heels stabbed the soft dirt, as a petite pink female made her way across a field, with all sorts of obstacles. 'What, do they plan on training us?' A frown replaced her relaxed lips. Her eyes scanned the field once more. She spotted five figures in the distance. The young women made her way towards them. They were all stretching. 'Must be officers training.' She finally reached the stretching hedgehog's, fox, bat and echidna. "Excuse me." She noticed a giant rhinoceros who was defiantly high ranked walk up. "Where are the new U.S.S.U. recruits suppose to be meeting. You see, I think I got the wrong e-mail. It said to come to the training field at 08:00. I've already been trained." She looked up at the male who just blankly stared at her.
"No, you got the right email. These are the new U.S.S.U. recruits." He motioned to the others. "Are you sure? They aren't dressed like ones." She received several glares.
"That's because they came ready. You were suppose to wear running attire." He looked down at her business suit. "We are going to test you, to see what your strengths and weaknesses are."
She frowned. "Well.. I guess I can do it bare foot." Taking off her heels and jacket, the pink hedgehog began to stretch. Her hair was tightly in a bun. 'AT least I did one thing right..'
"Alright. We are going to test your running, gun skills, hand to hand combat, stealth, and intelligence. If you do not pass, you'll be asked to leave. Got it?" Five recruits nodded. "You, do you understand?" He asked the yellow fox who had his hand up. "No, it's just. I'm a techie, not a field agent."
"Ah, so you must be Tails. You're excuse from the running, hand to hand combat, gun skills, and stealth. We have a bomb you must defuse, and the intelligence exam." Tails nodded.
"Alight, head to the track." They all walked a few steps before their feet met rubber. "Take a line." The Rhino command. The five recruits lined up as told.
"Let's take roll. Knuckles."
"Here, sir." A buff red echidna said. He had long dreads that past his shoulders. His purple eyes looked determined.
"Good, Sonic." The Rhino checked a box on the clip board he had.
"Right here." A tall blue hedgehog raised a hand, smirking. His eyes were a pretty green. He also was very muscular.
"Okay, Rouge?" The rhino once again checked a box.
"Here, sugar.~" She flirtatiously said. She was a very curvy bat. Her short hair was in a small pony tail. her crystal blue eyes stood out due to the black eye liner and mascara.
"Right, Tails is already here I see and you must be Amy." He checked two more boxes after pointing at the pink hedgehog.
Amy nodded slightly in embarrassment as everyone looked at her.
"Okay, everyone is here. Take your places, when I blow my whistle you must run a mile without stopping. Your time has to be under 8:00 minutes. Good luck. Oh and one more thing, my name is Ronny. I'll be your 'coach' for the day." Ronny took the whistle in his mouth and blew it loud. Everyone except Tails took off sprinting.
APOV
Everyone finished their time under 8 minutes. But what surprised me was his fast Shadow and Sonic were. Their time was 4 minutes and 20 seconded give or take. They were fast! I, along with Knuckles and Rouge finished around 7 minutes and 30 seconded. The next test was gun skills. I rolled my shoulders as we entered the gun range. Tails had walked to another building to take his tests.
"Okay, you have to hit at least 7 targets out of 10. If you fail you'll be asked to leave." Ronny held out a basket with paintball guns in them.
"Tch, paintball guns are waaay easier to shoot than a real gun." Sonic rolled his eyes.
"Don't be fooled, Sonic. These generate the same amount of power and speed as a 12 gauge shot-gun." The rhino retorted.
"Whoa sweet!" The cobalt hedgehog replied while aiming his gun. "You can go first, hot-shot." Ronny smirked.
Sonic stepped up to the plate, aiming once again. "Go!" Ronny yelled and Sonic began shooting targets left and right. He soon ended with an impressive 8 out of 10.
Rouge and Knuckles took their turns ending with both 7 out of 10. 'Not bad.' "Shadow, you're next." Ronny looked up from his clip board.
Shadow nodded, stepping up to the plate. "Go!" He once again yelled. The ebony hedgehog quickly shot the on coming targets. Everyone's jaws dropped at his perfect score. I was astonished at his accuracy, even with a pitiful paintball gun he was.. Amazing! "Amy, let's go."
I wiped the stupid look off my face and took Shadow's spot. "Go!" Rang in my ears and my finger squeezed the trigger. Left, right, left, went paint balls. I lowered my 'weapon' to see if I had passed. 9 out of 10 was my score. "Well done. I was expecting a lower score, honestly." Ronny scribbled something and walked towards the gym whack was next door. 'What was that suppose to mean!?' I frowned and followed ready to get these last three test out of my way.
NPOV
"Well, I will have to say, I am impressed. All of you did exceedingly well. But there are adversities in every field. Which means some weaknesses are others strengths." A loud crocodile said proudly. "I would like to be the first to welcome you, our first ever Undercover Special Crims Unit. I, Vector, am your boss. You all are going to be briefed in the morning. So tonight, celebrate, for you are the best of the best. But in the morning be ready to work. This case is a hard one, and you all start on it tomorrow at 07:00. Ronny you can take it from here. I have a lot of work to do." Vector, excitedly walked out of the room.
"Okay, I would like to go over who exceeded in each class. Take note, there are more than one categories people exceeded in. If you didn't do so well, work on it. I will be your training officer. I'm available from 06:00 to 19:00 hours." Ronny looked down at his clip board.
"Knuckles. Your strengths are stealth, strength, and hand to hand combat. Good job on your ending score of 89. You have some power behind that punch." Knuckles smiled, nodding his head.
"Tails. Your strengths are bomb defusing, and academics. You made a perfect score on the intelligence test. Ending with a score of 85. Due to you not testing in any ability courses, your score is lower than the others. But impressively high for just taking two tests." Tails smiled.
"Knuckles. Your strengths are stealth, and hand to hand combat. Good job on your ending score of 89." Knuckles smiled, nodding his head.
"Rouge. Your strengths are stealth, flying stamina, and gun control. Though you hit the least amount of targets you were allow. Every shot was in the head. Your score is a 93. Good job." Rouge winked, with a grin.
"Sonic. Your strengths are speed, stealth, and stamina. We should start calling you Mr Speed with an ending score of 95." Sonic slight frowned, know a girl had beat his score.
"Amy. Your strengths are hand to hand combat, stealth, flexibility, and gun accuracy. Perfect for up close fighting with criminals. Your ending score is 97." Amy's grinned. She didn't get the highest score like she wanted. But it was still an A+.
"Shadow. Your strengths are speed, hand to hand combat, perfect gun accuracy, stealth, stamina, and finally academics. You have impressed some of the highest ranked generals in our precinct. So much that we have all agreed upon you as the commander of the U.S.S.U. We are excited to see what you have in store. Don't let us down." Shadow smirked, as he nodded. "I won't sir."
"Good, your ending sore is an incredible 99.5. A new high ending score has been set." Ronny proudly said. "You are all dismissed. Be careful tonight, and remember the U.S.S.U. is top-secret. Keep it that way." He left the room, getting back to work like Vector.
"Well, look who's Mr 007 over here." Knuckles joked, pointing at Shadow.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Shadow leaned back in his chair closing his eyes. "I'm going to sleep well tonight."
"Sleep!? Yeah right. We're going to tear this town up! I know exactly what clubs to hit up. As our first night in town its tradition to party." Rouge sat on a table, and crossed her legs.
"I'm down, it's been awhile since I've actually had fun. Well this is my first night off!" Sonic sat up, as Rouge grinned. "C'mon Knuckles, you know you want to." She pinched his cheek. The echidna swatted her hand away playfully. "Alright, yeah I do. Let's throw down to the floor down."
Tails shrugged. "Why not, I haven't had a night off in forever either." Rouge smiled wider, looking at the last two. "Okay, high scores, you in?"
Amy and Shadow glanced at each other. The two both nodded. Rouge flew over to Amy hooking an arm through hers. "Great! I have a girlfriend to get ready with. We'll meet you boys at club strobe at 21:00 hours! Don't be late.~" Rouge practically drug Amy out the door.
"You guys know it's only 17:00 right?" Sonic asked looking at his watch, confused.
"Yeah, agents or not they are women. And all women take forever to get ready. We can have a few beers at my house after we get ready." Knuckles shrugged.
The rest of the guys nodded, and followed knuckles out the door. "Tonight is going to be radical!" Sonic screamed out loud, causing other agents to stare in confusion.
"Do us a favor and never do that again." Shadow rolled his eyes.
I know another story. Yikes. I just had a great idea and couldn't wait. In fact I'm probably going to post the next chapter today as well! This chapter is boring, but no worries the next one will be more fun I promise. Read and review please! But most of all enjoy!
