Alright this is the introduction/character bios/part 1 of this fic. It's kinda long, sorry about that. ^_^;
Introduction to 'STF', Slayers Task Force
Okay you know how when you go on the net searching for slayers fanfics, and you find stories that take place in different time periods? Well I've decided to make one of those. I got the idea for this story after watching the very interesting cartoon "Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century." "STF" is a story that takes on a similar view of life like cartoons such as "Dirty Pair", "New Dominion Tank Police", "Patlabor", "Ghost in the Shell", "Dirty Pair Flash", "Burn Up W", and "Plastic Little." If you have never watched any of those cartoons (shame on you!) then another explanation is that my series is a police force story that takes place on earth in oh let's say 1000 or 2000 years into the future from our present time. If anything this story is more like Dirty Pair Flash or Burn Up W, in the fact that I'm going to try to make it comical (I'm not promising anything.). It's going to have the entire slayers cast give or take a few. Like I don't have Naga in the series, which I'm sorry about, but there was no real way I could fit her in. Her personality wouldn't work well with the story. Plus it includes some of my own creations. Suggestion: Make sure you have read all the character bios before reading the story. I might make reference to some things that will probably make little sense otherwise.
Okay now I'm going to get into some details of the story without giving away too much (I hope!). Like for instants in this world there is no such thing as magic and stuff. Instead I have made equivalents to normal 'Slayers' variety items, professions and stuff. For instants instead of swords I have made sonic blades. They are swords in every respect expect that they a special charge to it. For really special swords (i.e. Gourry's sword of light.) then the sonic blades have even more special attributes to it involving controlling energy and stuff. Now for stuff such as attack magic I have replaced them with special bio guns. They are called bio guns because their own power amount comes from who is using it. In this case the bullets are not metal, but laser shots. The more powerful the shooters internal energy the more powerful they can make the blast. For curing magic I have medical scanners that take special training to learn to use. Also like the bio guns a medical scanner can heal better depending on the handler's own internal power. But just as some people cannot use magic or fight with swords, I have more basic models, like an almost equivalent gun to what we use today and what not.
Now for the people, I haven't changed too much. Monsters, Dragons, Humans, Elves, Chimeras, etc, are here and have no difference in status in the population. They are all considered people so there is no discrimination in this society. For people like kings, queens and evil lords that are in the Slayers dimension, they are people in charge. They can be anywhere from politicians to world leaders. The higher people in charge in my creation happen to be some Golden Dragons, Ancient Dragons, Elves, Humans, The Monster Lords (yes like Fibrizo and Deep Sea) and whatever elected officials are elected. For people who are mayors I have guys like Phil (Yes Phil is in this story!) and other kings taking those positions. (Like Martina's dad. He's mentioned in the story, but he's not in though, so I'm not going to give him a character bio.)
Besides the wacky government what we have is an interesting law enforcement system. We first have your local PD's (Just your average every day ordinary police) and then we have the STF. STF stands for 'Slayers Task Force' and that's exactly what they are. The STF are given the tough and most of the time potentially dangerous cases that are too demanding for the regular police. (Thus like Burn Up W or our FBI or CIA, depending on how you look at it.)
The STF has its' agents divided into color divisions.
Yellow: They are the research and aide. What theses people do is work in the labs of the STF buildings to research various things from viruses to heavy machinery. They are the scientists, engineers, doctors, and inventors of the STF.
Gray: The office crew. These are the temps, secretaries, janitors, cooks and other various helping staff that keep the STF clean and orderly.
Green: These people have the high authority of the STF. They make the big and important decisions that affect the STF. (Green agents start off as red agents.)
Red: The field agents. These are the people who do the most dangerous and dirty work. Depending on your rank level, it determines on how good and experienced you are. The higher level you are the more you have done and the more dangerous assignments you are given. (Most high-leveled red agents are considered crazy and wild because they take on such high risked assignments without even caring about their lives. These people are thrill seekers with little respect for death and danger.)
Orange: The trainees. These are people training to become red agents. (There are no trainees for yellow and gray because those agents' positions do not require training.)
Blue: The instructors. These people were once red agents (and still are if they want to be) who evaluate and train new recruits to the STF.
Now for some of the laws in this world…
Okay like the Slayers series I've made the creations of chimera's and immortality research against the law, but there are some exceptions. The immortality research is totally banned but the chimera research isn't. If you want to be a chimera scientist you have to go through this whole thing with the government and science advisory board in order to clear your experiment. Now the chances of them clearing it are very slim (usually it's only ones that involve life or death situations, i.e. Leviathan's case) so most ones aren't cleared. That doesn't stop some people though and instead they break the law in order to continue their research. Otherwise the basic rules of society are what are followed (with some little changes from time to time) and what the LPD and STF try to uphold.
STF Character Bios
The Local Police Department:
Zelgadis: A high ranked police officer of the local police department despite his young age. Zel is a very organized efficient person who prefers order to chaos and always gets his job done. He is easily irritated, especially by his partner Gourry. Description: tall with light violet hair and blue eyes. (Yes he's human in this world.)
Gourry: Zel's partner in the police force. Gourry is a dense and dumb person who lives for food. He thinks a lot of Sylphiel just because she is a good cook. Description: tall with long blond hair and blue eyes.
Sylphiel: Office worker in the police department. Sylphiel does the filing and other odd jobs of the station. She's sweet tempered, kind, and shy. She also has a crush on Gourry who doesn't seem to notice. Description: tall with long blue-black hair and green eyes.
Zangulus: Police officer. He and Gourry have been best friends ever since they were little and always competed with each other in things. Zangulus likes to tease people especially his partner Martina. Description: tall with long curly gray blue hair and green eyes.
Martina: Zangulus' partner. Martina is clumsy and a weak individual. If it had not been for her extremely good interrogation skills and her father then she wouldn't be in the police in the first place. Martina hates getting teased by Zangulus, but no one really knows what their personal relationship is, whether or not they are friends, enemies or something else. Description: tall with shoulder length curly aqua hair and blue eyes.
Rotamis: The elder and wise police chief. Rotamis always remains calm in the most stressful situations and was a pretty good cop in his day. Description: balding white hair and beard with brown eyes.
Zolf: Second in command to Rotamis. Zolf has a bad temper and a strong objection to working with anyone in the STF. Description: tall with dark blue hair, mustache and green-blue eyes.
Other:
Phil: The city mayor and Amelia's father. Phil looks like he could pass off as an evil criminal boss but he's really an anti-violent peaceful man. A perfect person to govern a place since he's such a born leader. Description: tall and burly with black hair and mustache with blue eyes.
Monster Lords: Some of the Governmental officials. How they got to be in power in a good question…
STF Agents:
Lina: One of the 2 youngest Lv. 9 red agents in the STF. Daring and courageous Lina tackles any assignment passed her way. She's slightly reckless, likes to flirt, and she doesn't like seeing anyone unhappy. Description: short, slim build, long red hair with blond streaks, red eyes and has 2 small scars on her face.
Leviathan: The other youngest Lv. 9 red agent. Lev is Lina's twin brother who was genetically altered with water serpent dragon DNA when he was a baby to save his life. Calm and thinks rationally, Lev can keep his head in stressful situations and is a very good judge on what people are thinking. Lev has this Zen thing going for him. Description: tall with blue hair and eyes and a matching blue dragon tail.
Gavin: Lv. 2 red agent. Gavin is Lina and Lev's little 13-year-old brother. He's a sweet kid who is smart, careful and thinks of others before himself. Gavin is like Lina in the respect that he doesn't like seeing anyone unhappy. Description: shorter than Lina, short dark blue-green hair with blue-green eyes.
Luna: Scary STF green agent and Lina, Lev and Gavin's older sister. Bad tempered and extremely strong, Luna has the ability to make even the toughest people cry for their mommy's. Description: tall with shoulder length purple hair and darker purple streaks, and purple eyes.
Blitz: STF green agent and Lina and the rest's father. One of the people in charge, Blitz is a very strong and tough guy with the ability to be scarier than Luna. Otherwise Blitz is generally a good-natured happy guy with a sometimes-bad temper. Description: tall, muscular build, brown hair with gray eyes.
Faithe: STF blue agent and Blitz's wife and the mother of Lina, Luna…etc. Faithe can either be a sweet caring person or a tough bad tempered lady with the ability to be stronger than her husband. Description: tall with long blond hair and green eyes.
Devon: STF blue agent and is Lina and the rests cousin. Devon is a mischievous, part elf, smooth talking, talented casanova who can get any girl that he wants but desires the one woman that he loves and doesn't dare go after, Whynn. Description: tall with dark green hair and lighter green eyes. (He normally is a chimera in my other stories, but since I'm making Zelgadis a human I've decided to make both Whynn and Devon human or part human in Devon's case.)
Whynn: STF blue agent as well as yellow, Whynn trains new recruits as well as acts as STF's resident councilor. Found by the STF with amnesia when she was young, Whynn is a very sweet, caring, self-sacrificing woman who cares about everyone. She is in love with Devon who is in love with her, but neither one knows how the other feels. Description: tall with long blond hair and gray blue eyes.
Amelia: STF orange agent. Amelia is a trainee that is assigned to follow Lina around so that she can learn from the experience. Justice loving, and a klutz, Amelia is the daughter of the city's mayor. Amelia wanted to join the STF so she could 'defeat evil in the name of justice' and plus she has a crush on Gavin who in turn likes her back. Description: she's Gavin's height with shoulder length black hair and blue eyes.
Rezo: STF yellow agent. A little eccentric, Rezo is the head scientist that works in every section of science to do with the STF that he can get his hands into. Rezo works on anything scientific including medical and machinery. Description: tall with shoulder length purple hair and cybernetic eye implants. (Since he's normally blind I decided to let technology allow him to see.)
Xellos: STF yellow agent who is a bit nuttier than his co-worker Rezo. Xellos loves to bug people especially Filia and plays practical jokes on people. Though he's an STF agent he seems to have a hidden agenda dealing and specially answers to Zellas. Description: tall with shoulder length purple hair, purple eyes and is practically always smiling.
Filia: STF yellow agent, the highest ranking doctor in the medical staff that is also a Golden Dragon. A generally kind and levelheaded person, Filia throws that all out the window when Xellos is around. She can't stand him in the fact that he's so annoying and that she's forced to work with him. Description: tall blond hair, blue eyes and has a Golden Dragon's tail.
The Bad Guys:
Elbor Vernas: One the people whom the police and the STF are trying to catch. Vernas is a crafty individual who is an expert in biology and genetics. His crimes are unclear but he is a wanted man. Description: medium height, a little stocky, brown hair and orange eyes.
Ozer: Considered to be one of the most dangerous criminals known to man. He seems to have some hidden agenda that involves Vernas' work. No on is quite sure what he is, but if anything if he's human he's only part. Description: Tall with shoulder length blue hair and one red eye and the other green.
STF, Slayers Task Force
Part One, Argh! Not in the Morning!
A very loud and noisy alarm goes off in Zelgadis Greywers' apartment suite for the 3rd time. Only this time instead of pressing the snooze button, Zel actually gets up.
"I really do not want to go to work today… but it's not like I can just call in sick if I do that then they will send over that nursebot to check on me again…" Zelgadis cringed at the thought of that machine. Every time a police officer is sick and cannot report in for duty the government sends in a 'nursebot' to check on them and to verify that they are really sick.
Police were a demanding commodity in this day and age and the city can't afford to have their officers stay home unless they had a good reason. The demand was partly the only reason why Zelgadis was a police officer in the first place, he definitely not old enough to be one.
"Oh well time to hit the pressure showers," Zelgadis said as he casually strolled to his bathroom.
Taking some time to look at himself he examined his face in the mirror. His soft light violet hair despite his rough sleeping habits had fallen back into it's set position falling across one side of his face. He sighed, stripped down and got into the shower. Turning the pressure up high he let the sonic waves massaged out the tensions of waking up.
Feeling refreshed Zel got into his uniform and prepared his breakfast. Deciding on toasted bagel with cream cheese and half a grapefruit he munched in down in a fast yet neat manner.
His frame of mind was good and he felt very relaxed, but he didn't want to do much work, so he hoped for a slow day at the LPD as he hopped on his jet bike. With his helmet in place Zel starts up the engine and zooms by at a fast speed to work.
He reaches the police station with time to spare and was surprised to see that practically everyone was there. The one person he hoped that wouldn't be there was nowhere in sight. 'Maybe Gourry's home sick… heh heh that would be nice…'
Gourry was Zelgadis' jellyfish brained partner whom he didn't like that much. It wasn't that Gourry was a bad guy or anything it's just that he gets on Zelgadis' nerves quite too often.
There was a slight skip to his step as he waltzed over to his desk only to be greeted by an all too familiar voice.
"Hello Zelgados!"
Zelgadis cringed and dared to turn his head slightly to have Gourry's dumb smiling expression staring at his back. 'Can't he ever get my name right?! For crying out loud we have been partners for over two years now!'
"Gourry, I'm not even going to bother…"
"What's wrong?"
"Nevermind… have we had any new assignments yet?"
"Assignments?"
"Just forget it I'll go ask Zangulus."
Zangulus was over by the water machine and was currently annoying his partner Martina.
"…what do you mean by that?!"
"Well I just think you could stand to get some vocal adjustments. That way you wouldn't need to be stuck in a job were you have to annoy people with your shrilly voice!"
"Why you! You are seriously going to regret insulting the great Martina!"
"Why are you going to sick your dad on me?"
"AHHHHH!!! Why am I cursed with you?!"
"Because I'm the only one who can stand your annoying voice for long periods of time."
"WILL YOU JUST SHUT UP!?!?!"
In any other place this might have seemed strange but not in the station. Zangulus liked to annoy and tease people but not as much as he loved to bug Martina. Those two fought so often that it almost looked like they were a married couple. Some people at the station thought that they were a couple while others was certain that they aren't. No one is quite sure, but everyone makes sure to stay clear of the war zone. Martina wasn't very strong but she could make your ears explode with her yelling. In fact that was the only reason she was in the police force. Martina was excellent at interrogating criminals and still no one knows why. If you ask Zangulus, his theory is that her voice and annoying personality was enough to make any criminal confess to any crime.
"Um, excuse me… I'm sorry to interrupt but has there been any new assignments yet?"
"Ah yeah, you, me, Martina, and Gourry were supposed to go see Rotamis when you got here. Since you're here lets go see him."
Rotamis was the high commanding chief of the police station with age and respect was a very good commanding chief too. In his younger days Rotamis had been a damn good cop who could deal with any situation, and now with his age catching up with him was in a desk job assuming command of the station. The one good thing about Rotamis was that he always kept his cool in even the tensest situations.
"Ah good you are all here, please come into my office."
"So Chief what do you have for us today?"
"Well we have been given an assignment to go arrest someone."
"Who and what is his crime?"
"Name, Elbor Vernas age 32, 5'7" 140 lbs stocky build, brown hair and orange eyes," Rotamis said reading his report, "His crime is another story. Apparently he has done some sort of extreme crime but it's confidential information. So we don't know why we have to arrest him, but we still have to and fast. People high up really want this guy bad you guys are going to have to be as efficient as possible."
"Argh! Do we really have to do this in the morning?! I just got here!"
"You didn't want to come today did you Greywers?"
"He probably didn't want to face the ever so annoying Martina! I know I didn't!"
"FOR THE LAST TIME SHUT UP ZANGULUS! Sir could I please request for a partner change?"
"Um… well the truth is that no one else is willing to work with you…"
"Have you asked Gourry? I know we could switch partners! I can be Zangulus' partner while Martina can have Gourry!"
"Greywers we have gone over this before…"
"Damnit…"
"Anyway quit you're complaining all of you and go get Vernas! Here is what we have been able to dig up. From what our sources say there is supposed to be a meeting with Vernas and his suppliers. I want all of you to go there and apprehend him. But be careful though, Vernas has lots of hired help to guard him so watch out! Okay you guys got that?"
"Yes sir!" All four said in unison.
"Are you sure that was wise sir? We don't even know if that lead was a solid one." Zolf said entering the office after Zelgadis, Gourry, Martina, and Zangulus left.
"Well it has to be checked out and I might as well send out my most 'energetic' group of officers."
"Do you think they will get the job done?"
"I don't know, but if they don't someone else will."
"Sure whatever you say Chief." Zolf said while leaving Rotamis' office.
Rotamis just looked at his second in commanding officer with a quizzical look. Then shrugged it off. 'I wonder what you would say Zolf if I told you who that 'someone else' is? You probably wouldn't be very happy now would you?' Rotamis just chuckled to himself quietly.
Outside the station the foursome got out their jet bikes and followed Rotamis'
instructions. They ended up at what appears to be an abandoned warehouse.
"Are you sure that this is the right place?"
"Well according to Rotamis, this is it."
Upon entering the structure they realized that it was empty.
"We must have got here early."
"That or we missed the meeting altogether."
"I don't think it's happened yet. Let's go hide and wait."
"Over here, over by these boxes, we can hide here."
The other guys followed Martina's directions and waited.
A long time goes by and nothing happens. When they were just about to leave they heard a noise. Zelgadis motioned at them to be quiet and listen.
"Are you sure that no one knows about this trade?"
"Yeah sure boss, it's about as secret as secret can be. Besides if anyone did find out and decide to meddle with us then me and my boys can take care of it."
"What about if 'she' decides to interfere?"
"Then I'll deal with her myself. No little kid is going to make a monkey out of me!"
Vernas and about six hard faced men come into view caring a bunch of boxes with them. Zangulus, Martina, Zelgadis and Gourry were straining very hard to hear what the new voices were saying, that is till Martina sneezed.
"ACHOO! Oh shit."
"Secret as secret can be huh?!"
"Don't worry I'll deal with them boss!"
"Way to go Martina! When it's not your voice it's your sneezing that gets us into trouble! We are so dead."
"Shut up Zangulus and start shooting!"
And now we have the classic shoot out. Since it was long range Gourry and Zangulus were forced to use their normal guns instead of their sonic blades, not like it was very effective anyway. The bad guys were using power-enhanced bio guns (Black market items, it's illegal to add amplifiers), more powerful then Gourry and Zangulus' little pee shooters, so that left the fight up to Zelgadis and Martina to deal with. Like Zangulus and Gourry, Martina proved to not be very helpful (she was a poor spell caster in the Slayers NEXT series and she's a poor bio gun shooter here too.) so Zelgadis was stuck doing most of the work. One versus six weren't that good of odds, especially when the six had amplified bio guns, so the fight wasn't in Zel's favor.
"Damnit! Can't you guys help just a little?!" Zelgadis yelled in between gun blasts.
"We would if we could Zel!"
"Argh! It couldn't have just been an easy day at work could it? No I have to deal with six trigger happy criminals with the help of the most hapless bunch of LPD officers!" At this point you could see that Zelgadis wasn't in the greatest frames of mind.
"Hey Zel calm down!"
"Calm down?! How can I calm down?! Here we are getting our asses wiped and we will probably most certainly die and you are asking me to calm down?!" Now he was even screaming at his own friends.
"Give up and we might make your death quick and painless."
"I wouldn't say that if I was you."
Vernas turns a pale white and looks frantically around the room.
"Now how did you find out about this?!"
"Well if the LPD can find about this little meeting then why can't I?" A female voice said mockingly from somewhere in the room.
Whoever it was, she was making Vernas very nervous.
"Why do you keep interfering with my plans?!"
"I don't know, I'm just doing my job. What are you doing that so illegal?"
"Just shut up!"
"Ooh temper, temper! You know you should try to control that. It's not nice to blow up at people like that."
Vernas just kept swinging his body around pointing his gun blindly around the room.
The mystery woman just laughed at the display, her voice echoing in the abandoned building. Then she stopped and regained the serious and commanding tone in her voice.
"Leave the LPD officers alone and no one gets hurt."
"No way. I don't care if you are damned 'superwoman'! I'm not going to let you or anyone else ruin my plains! So I'm going to kill them and you as well!"
"Bad choice in words Vernas…"
All of a sudden the owner of the voice comes crashing down from the ceiling. It was a blur of red and blond hair as the woman whom Vernas had previously referred to came at him with her own bio guns. She shot all six of the hired goons before they had time to react and ran after Vernas with stealthy speed. Vernas shot at her widely missing her completely.
Frustrated and very angry Vernas gave up and shot at the wall behind him to make a big enough hole for him to escape.
"Hey don't you dare run you spineless coward!"
Ignoring her, Vernas ran out the hole with the mysterious red and blond haired woman following him hot in pursuit.
"What the hell just happened?"
"Well we aren't dead that's for sure."
"Who was that girl?"
"I don't know but she just chased out the man we were trying to get."
"I don't think we could follow them, they could be very far from here by now."
"Just great. I wonder what Rotamis is going to say about this…"
The four just looked around at he pile of beat up men unsure on what to do.