Archaeological espionage
Hooray! I have finally gotten round to typing up my first full story. I hope I can type something half decent. Before I begin I wish to say that none of what I write here has anything owned by me, except of course the narrative and what it does to the characters owned by SEGA, which I also don't own. Also please don't find it applicable to leave a horrendous review, rage on me or hunt me down and kill me, whichever is at your convenience. Please note that I am writing a full story for the first time in my life as I prefer to make it up as I go along in true actors fashion so please forgive plot holes, typing errors and the characters... OOC-ness. This is more to get the idea out of my head than craft 'amazing!' fan-fiction.
Are you sitting comfortably? ...Too bad the story's beginning...
Chapter 1- Make the call sir... I insist
G.U.N commander Tower, not in the best of moods at the very best of times; what a grouchy man many think, these people are of course, right. Today was no exception to his rule on life: 'There is a huge responsibility on my shoulders, there is no time for relaxation.' To make his mood worse Robotnik had reared his balding bespectacled head with a base located by drone in the desert of Shamar. Great another 'take over the world' attempt only for it to be stopped by a bright blue hedgehog while at the same time making G.U.N look completely incompetent!
G.U.N (pronounced GUN) was particularly interested in some of the research done on the area. This wasn't a simple base build. There was a dig site in place before the Eggman placement which had discovered an artefact of great historical importance; a diadem with various markings of the echidna tribe from the age of old. The commander wasn't fazed; the doctor had gotten his hands on relics before, and every time his plan was foiled by releasing a power bigger than him. Soldiers then found the relic and gave it to proper archaeologists around Mobius.
This time the relic was far more... interesting. This seemed to be part of a great weapon. After Chaos had destroyed the planet with the chaos emeralds power, various survivors made a pledge to prepare for another God blows up the world style disaster. The would build a weapon made of ten pieces which when con-joined made a super weapon which could destroy the power of the chaos emeralds while leaving the emeralds themselves intact, in case the energy was required to rebuild. Imagine Eggman with such a weapon. No rogue deity would defy him and not even a super powered hedgehog could defeat his scheme. The empire of Robotnik would begin. G.U.N wanted it also a weapon like that could be very useful in their anti-Eggman campaign and as insurance to guard against Sonic and his little band of freedom fighters.
But back to Tower; why was he so angry? The answer was well the answer. In one name Team Dark. How the commander was in 'disliking' of them. First off there was E-123 Omega or as every other agent called him "death machine." A robot with dual chainguns and rocket launchers plus who knows what else; in an espionage squad? Yes he is the best distracting factor in the force and his memory units are twice that of G.U.N's main database. But he presents an un-wieldy problem which is his method of action. He always decided that if the target was presumably hostile he decided to annihilate it. Be it a giant EGG Tortoise or an agent getting to the water cooler first. For a robot with seemingly no emotions he is a sociopath.
Agent Jewel, or Rouge the bat as a legal, and birth (seemingly), name. No one can blend into a crowd or pass of as someone else like she can. Other agents say that put her in a room with an unsuspecting suspect she can get every bit of information out of them with the suspect coming out either very pleased or cut and bruised. These same people say that she always say that as interrogator "It doesn't matter whether the person is a man, woman amphibian or similar I'll get the words needed out of them, as long as it's Mobian I'm not a weird."(What she means by this statement I have no idea) She even has a favourite type of suspect; a female fox for reasons that should be saved for the mature audiences (apparently). Her stealth skills are un-matched by almost all, unfortunately they appeared from thievery. These skills should make her perfect if her 'all for one' mentality wasn't so prevalent. Her blending in skills makes her almost impossible to trace, her interrogation skills are trained on agents, nurses, doctors soldiers, commanding officers etcetera which have caused several scandals with the press with 'affairs' and 'internal rebellions'. Her stealth and thievery skill have had her pickpocket the commander for 25 rings for a drink with her mates and has recently stolen the prime minister of Spagonias 20 carat engagement ring for her fiancé.
Finally there was Shadow the hedgehog; the ultimate life form. He was the reason the commander's friend Maria had died. Of course Shadow had lost his best and in his words 'only' friend. The commander had accepted the irony of it all. The organisation he runs had its soldiers board the base and kill everyone there including his friend. This same organisation he now controls completely. He remains adamant on this fact though if Shadow hadn't been created G.U.N wouldn't have attacked the ark. Shadow is the services best agent. His proficiency with almost all fire-arms makes him strong in a fight. Give him a chaos emerald which, he has at all times, of course, times his prowess in any form of combat by 100. The science experiment is also by the book, which he has re-written to sound less connected, more threatening and less violent, for some reason. He can sneak in metal shoes as he is the best of them. But finally he is a scientists dream, maybe because he is a creation of aliens and science (mostly science), every gadget and weapon under the sun gets its field test done by him. They are even thinking of upgrading his hover skates.
What got Commander Tower miffed however were their tactical suggestions... (Tower hated their opinions any way, like he hates most things) "You intend the best course of action for a possible super-weapon threat. Is to temporarily hire the echidna?"The commander inquired in a curious, but no less annoyed tone. "His possible knowledge of his own cultures language plus the fact that as a treasure hunter his skills are..." He looked across to the bat next to him who was sternly eying him to say 'If you finish that sentence I'll deck you.' "...Rarely matched, he would be invaluable in this operation to stop the doctor, if that is what you are intending." Shadow wasn't living up to his ego this time, if something caused Shadow to think that he needed HELP than he really must be worried. Or Rouge persuaded him, the latter is more likely. "Shadow that last line indicates un-trustworthiness to your superiors" Commander Tower was in no mood to take this rubbish from his agents. "Of course not Tower" The ebony and red hedgehog said sarcastically, bowing in much the same manner. "The name you're looking for is sir!" The commander barked. "I also don't see why we have to rely on one of Sonic's friends! Agent Jewel's more than capable at finding these artefacts and Robotnik is probably on his way to find the rest! I will not sit by and see you make these tactically unwise decisions!" "Now you listen here mister high and mighty!" great, now Rouge had snapped, her screaming was one of the things highest up on the 'occupational hazards' sheet for new agents I am talking in literal terms. Usually her fuse was longer, but some wire clippers always come round when potential bad-mouthing of a certain red guardian came round. "This type of mission is not something I am... used to" (deal 20 damage to Rouge's pride) "I think the echidna will be very useful in a situation like this." Rouge had recently been to relationship counselling if you couldn't tell. "And if you call me 'Agent Jewel' or, heck, even utter a single syllable of it I will kick you down onto the metal gutter!" My, my someone was filled with angst today. "Young lady I can have you down for threats against the safety of others!" The Commander had had it! "Enough of this! If someone cannot give me a good reason or going along with this 'plan' then would you kindly get the hell out of my office!" "PERSON DESIGNATED AS [SIR] I HAVE YET TO HAVE GIVEN MY OPINION ON THE LIFEFORM IDENTIFIED AS [THE ULTIMATE LIFE FORM; SHADOW]'S PLAN." What the heck? Omega the killing machine, trying to reason with an already infuriated Tower? This should be interesting. "THIS UNIT CAN IDENTIFY THE AGENT IDENTIFIED AS [ROUGE] HAS HAD A SUDDEN REALEASE OF THE EMOTION IDENTIFIED AS [ANGER] BY YOUR NEGATIVE REACTION OF THE ECHIDNA ON RECORD AS BEING CALLED [KNUCKLES] THIS IS UNDERSTANDABLE AS THE AGENT IDENTIFIED AS [ROUGE] HAS QUITE OBVIOUSLY HAD A ROMANTIC INTERESTFOR THE ECHIDNA ON RECORD AS BEING CALLED [KNUCKLES] SINCE THE FIRST TIME THESE TWO LIFEFORMS OCCUPIED THE SAME SPACE. "I DO NOT!" (Nice job calming her down E-123) "AND, EVEN IF I LIKED HIM, IT WOULDN'T AFFECT MY OPINION ON THIS PLAN WHAT-SO-EVER!"
"ONE OF THE STAGES OF THE PHSYCOLOGY OF RELATIONSHIP IS DENIAL SO THOSE LOUDLY VOLUMED STATEMENTS ARE IRRELAVENT TO THE ARGUEMENT PRESENT BY THIS UNIT[such comments have now been deleted from record]. PERSON DESIGNATED AS [SIR] THIS UNIT REQUESTS PERMISSION TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT ON THIS PLAN TO AGENT IDENTIFIED AS ROUGE... (Before you get incredibly annoyed, I shall tell you that normally Omega talks quite casually in an evil robot kind of way, He also without anyone knowing had go a new memory bank with a complete psychologists' guide so he can now judge the emotional levels of his subject or to see how insane they, medically, are (G.U.N scientists are weird). He is probably talking in 'Robot speak' just to poke fun at Commander Tower and insult his intelligence. Anyway back to what Omega was saying.) ..."THIS UNIT WOULD SUGGEST A SHORT VACATION TO RELAX AND EMPTY THE AGENT IDENTIFIED AS [ROUGE]'S HEAD OF EMOTIONS WHICH GET IN THE WAY OF HER DUTIES. STATION SQAURE OR SOLEANNA WOULD BE THE MOST SUITABLE ARRANGMENTS." Everyone, both man and mobian simply stood and stared at the suddenly mindful computer operated well mind. Rouge broke the awkward silence before anyone else could retaliate. "Well if I ever need as psychiatrist I'll know who to call!" finally some joy returned to her. "You and me both." Whispered Shadow, apparently for the first time in his long existence, dumbstruck (I know a shocking revelation ). "Agent Jewel's... (Shadow had to restrain Rouge before she roundhouse-kicked the commander in the head)... state of working is, while something to put on record is not what we came to talk about. I want to know why you devils think that knuckles would help you in this mission, what would keep him in line and what will be done about that damn rock of his!" "He'll help 'cause he owes me, and he seems to have a (she put on an extremely sarcastic and mocking tone) 'purty little luvy duvy place in his heart for dear old me!' and who can really blame him?" Rouge's mind then went away probably thinking about the red echidna that was in every one of her dreams. "THESE FEELINGS THE ECHIDNA ON RECORD BEING CALLED [KNUCKLES] MOST PROBABLY HAS FOR THE AGENT IDENTIFIED AS [ROUGE] IS MOST CERTAINLY RECIPORATED FROM SAID SUBJECT; ANALYSIS DIFFICULT; REQUIRE MORE EVIDENCE FROM THE ECHIDNA ON RECORD AS BEING CALLED KNUCKLES." "Oh, shut, up, Omega!" Poor Rouge, everyone was on her case today. "Rouge thank you for solving part of my problem" Tower then turned to Shadow "And what can you do to help?" adding extra venom to his voice. "Simple, I'm the one keeping him in line I'll make sure he cooperates." At this shadow flashed his holstered fifty calibre revolver, short and chunky in a classic gun-metal grey. Shadow still referred to it as 'scrap' but at least he had affectionately called it something, even if it was a bit weird to name a gun. "And my various acquaintances will give us a good hand as well." 'DAMN' thought Tower they had thought this through. "I see; finally who will keep the master emerald protected, he won't leave it un-guarded and GUN soldiers are thin on the ground when it comes to spares." (Spares, he thought of his men in that sought of way?) "PERSON DESIGNATED AS [SIR] THIS UNIT WILL DO THE DUTY OF THE PROTECTION OF THE [MASTER EMERALD] THIS UNIT WILL ELIMINATE ANY OF ENEMY HOSTILE UNDER THE NAME OF [DR IVO ROBOTNIK]'S FORCES THAT TRY TO STEAL IT"
This conversation was over and team dark had won. Commander Tower could no longer think of any good arguments against this plan so he regrettably and reluctantly conceded. "Alright I'll let you do this 'plan' of yours, mark my words if you fail in this mission. I will have you court-marshalled for failure to keep up to standards you were hired for!" "Yes sir!" replied Shadow obviously thinking that the commander wouldn't remember his threat. "You got it chief!" Rouge announced in her usual cheeky tone. "THIS UNIT HAS UNDERSTOOD PERSON DESGNATE AS [SIR]'S THREATENING SATEMENT, THIS UNIT WOULD ALSO REQUEST THAT THE PERSON DESIGNATED AS [SIR] SHOULD GO TO ANGER MANAGEMENT CLASSES AND POSSIBLE THERAPY TREATMENTS" "Just get going before I have you dismantled!. Before you leave however I must order you this. You shall not let Sonic and his rag-tag 'freedom fighters' knowing about this. I want this to be a strictly GUN affair." "Looking for some good publicity, are we hun'?" said Rouge who smirked as the team left the office to the hanger which they had already prepared a helicopter in before even getting permission from command.
AND SO OUR HEROES ADVENTURE BEGINS! STARTING WITH TEAM DARK LOOKING TO SWELL THEIR RANKS WITH A GREAT TREASURE HUNTER TO... WAIT THIS I THE WRONG SHOW! RIGHT I'M OFF! UNTIL NEXT TIME! BE SEEING YOU SOON! (IF THE EPISODE GETS MADE!) Well that was weird, anyway, as the super smash brothers battlefield theme ebbs of into the distance prepare for next time fan fiction readers! If you would please review and in those reviews try and guess as to what I was referencing just then (hint; big loud narrator and smash brothers?) see you soon with a shout out to all those who got it right!
Until next time farewell and for great villainy!