Hello, readers, G2BattleConvoy here, just wanted to say a couple of things before we got underway.
This chapter is the actual start of the story, as the prologue I did before was only meant to give an idea on how the Federation came to be, in terms of power and technology, and not meant to give an idea about the rest of Earth, sadly.
Now I must confess that this is the only story I have written that has actually gone online. I should probably mention that there may be a few things wrong with characterization, but hopefully I'll improve this as this is meant to be an AU/pseudo-EU project. Hopefully you guys can help me out on that side of things.
Character favouritism may take effect. I am so trying hard to ensure that doesn't happen.
Chapter 1: Knight of the Federation
It was a pretty normal day in San Fransokyo, as the sun was shining brightly with nary a cloud in sight. Most people would get on with their lives, by doing their jobs or studying at your normal school or college or whatever else normal people would actually do. But not Big Hero 6.
Indeed, these five young students (and robot) are actually at the moment fighting a man in what seemed to be a heavy-duty labour suit, who decided it was a good idea to start wrecking the local pier. Of course, as many news reports have been quick to comment, Big Hero 6 had a tendency to respond fairly quickly and get straight to the problem at hand.
The members of this new super-team were Hiro Hamada, the inventive genius and leader of the group; GoGo Tomago, the caring and daring speedster (yes, a bad pun, I know); Honey Lemon, the enthusiastic chemical expert; Wasabi, the neat-freak swordsman; Fred, the comic-book savvy brawler; and finally Baymax, the gentle giant, combat medic and heart and soul of the team.
These six made themselves known to the world after foiling a scheme made by Professor Callaghan to avenge his daughter after she supposedly 'died' in an accident involving a trans-dimensional gate. After Big Hero 6 retrieved her from another dimension, they became known to the city and the entire world as a result, and so decided to protect the city from any and all threats to the people living in the city.
"You think a bunch of kids like you can stop me?! I'm practically a freight train in this suit! You can't even get past the armour!" bellowed the, quite-frankly, dim-witted nutcase wearing the HULC-C34 powered loading suit. "You know what they're gonna call me? I'll be the HEAVY LOADER, BI—"
The guy had an explosive dust ball in the face for his trouble. Fred being, well, Fred was quick to call out, "Only the Juggernaut's allowed to say that, man! This isn't X-Men!"
"What does that even mean?" GoGo asked.
"Well, the X-Men are basically super-powered people that are being prejudiced for-"
"Fred, that was a rhetorical question," answered GoGo.
"Are you seriously going to say that when we're fighting right now?" Wasabi asked with reasonable sense. After all, they're superheroes. They couldn't exactly stand there bickering all day.
"Green's right! Are we gonna do this or what?!" yelled 'Heavy Loader' (let's be honest, that's a dumb name for a supervillain) as loud as he thought was intimidating. He then proceeded to start charging and take a swing at Baymax, who countered and pushed him away, following with an impressive punch to the armoured helm of the suit, which had seemed to daze the so-called Heavy Loader.
"I suggest you refrain from causing more damage. You may eventually cause damage to yourself," Baymax advised with a surely-not-sarcastic tone.
"Seriously, Baymax?" Hiro wondered aloud. He didn't notice Baymax was becoming a snarker. Maybe he should check his personality coding when they've taken care of this guy.
"He's got a point. Who knows how much damage we would owe the city?" Wasabi was then met with bewildered glances from everyone. Even Heavy Loader. "If we could pay, I mean."
"You think way too much, little man. LET ME HELP YOU WITH THAT!" yelled the armoured buffoon, yet again. Thankfully, Baymax had noticed something falling from the sky at a decreasing velocity rate. And it was getting awfully close.
"Hiro, there is an unknown object descending to our position. Estimated time of impact: 10 seconds." Heavy Loader then realized what the informative medical bot had just said.
"Wait, what?" the Juggernaut copycat said, before he received a massive impact which thankfully only knocked him unconscious due to his helmet. The impact managed to kick up some dust, which only blinded the human team members; Baymax had his sensors scanning the object, which turned out to be a person covered in full armour of some sort.
When the dust cleared, Hiro got a glimpse of the fully armoured figure and asked: "Who are you?"
Roundtable Corps Infiltration Shuttle/Mobile Base 7567-501
Above San Fransokyo
1 minute earlier
"Anything else I need to know about, Anderson?"
"Well, apart from the fact the 'Krei Incident' has sparked an increased SWAT presence in the city itself, that's pretty much all we've been told by Camelot. You do have a project sorted for the school, right?"
"It's not a school, it's an institute," an armoured young man spoke as he put on his helmet. The armour gave him the appearance of a hi-tech knight, with boxy armour and air intakes as well as several sensors. Placed on strategic points on the armour were circular pads that glowed with a majestic blue. The idea was that the suit was a third-generation combat armour designed exclusively for the Knights who, being the vanguard of the European Federation of Great Britain, were exceptional at taking out large threats to the Federation itself and therefore required some form of armour to enhance their already impressive combat prowess.
Guardian Angel's particular set of armour had white and red armour with golden detailing. His optical sensors had a blue tint as well. His armour had integrated beam sabres in his gauntlets, as well as built-in sub-machine cannons built into the helmet.
Anderson, on the other hand, was dressed in a black business suit, with a red tie and a white shirt, with his breast pocket being emblazoned with a red curved cross within a red ring, while he himself had dark brown hair and professional glasses. He wasn't exactly a Knight like Guardian Angel, but he could easily hold himself in a fight when pushed.
Of course, this time he was merely making sure Guardian Angel made the journey to San Fransokyo without any hitches. The plan was that the Knight would use the shuttle as a base of sorts while he investigated the 'Krei Incident' along with the 'superheroes' that supposedly stopped the incident. This was given to him by the Supreme Commander of the Roundtable Corps, codenamed Percival, and His Majesty & Royal Highness King Alfred IV, as his first solo mission. This one shouldn't have any complications, or at least not get as complicated as the last mission.
"Right, we're above target. Get ready." Anderson opened the hatch that lowered into a platform-like position, which his armoured friend had stepped out onto. They were currently at 5,000 feet above, and there was hardly any air traffic today which was good: they were intending to have their 'Angel' sky-dive 'from the heavens,' so to speak.
"Targets are engaging a grunt in a heavy working suit, possibly Class 3. Local SWAT teams are holding back so that they can arrest the bloke when he's down. Remember, I won't be around to help you much after this, so be prepared for anything. Oh, and I'll be leaving the shuttle with you. Got it?"
"Co-ordinates locked; Ready to engage. See you around, Derek."
"Not before I see you, mate. Happy hunting."
And with that, the red and white Knight of the Roundtable Corps jumped from the platform and descended to where he would meet a new destiny.
San Fransokyo Loading Docks
23/02/2035 12:26
"Who are you?" Hiro asked. Aside from being heavily armoured and looking damn intimidating, the Knight had not given a sense of identification to the super-nerds. He then stepped down from the immobilized form of Heavy Loader, who was embedded in wrecked tarmac. And he answered in a somewhat stoic voice.
"You can call me Guardian Angel. I assume you are Big Hero 6?"
"You bet we are!" Fred in his Kaiju-esque lizard suit answered enthusiastically.
"Ahem, what our loud friend is trying to say is that yes, yes we are Big Hero 6," Hiro explained in the calmest tone he could manage. It wasn't easy since he was fifteen years old at most plus the fact that the guy that was standing in front of him managed to knock out an armoured opponent by simply dropping on the guy. "What brings you here?"
At that precise moment, Officer Bob Gerson of the San Fransokyo Police Department had arrived along with 4 other officers in full riot gear wielding law-enforcement issue rifles. He quickly looked over the area and deduced that the crisis was averted. He then asked: "Who's this guy?"
"Uh, don't mind me, officer, I just happened to be passing by and decided to help out."
"Uh-huh, and I assume you are an unregistered vigilante?"
"Well—"
"I'm messing with you, pal. Besides, when someone like you manages to take out a guy like this idiot, then I'll know they're on the same side."
"…Thank you, officer."
"Don't mention it. Now if you don't mind, we're gonna take this fella down to a mechanic to disassemble this suit, and then get him into a proper cell. "
"Of course, officer. Have a good day. So," the armoured Knight said while turning back to Big Hero 6, "I suppose I was a bit imposing, huh?" Behind them, a crane crew was moving the immobilized Heavy Loader into a commandeered dump truck.
"Are you kidding me? That was the most awesome entrance ever! Like how Batman or, even Iron Man would enter the arena if they wanted to scare the bad guys!"
"…Actually, it's more like the Jesta Cannon landing on a Z Plus during the neutralization of Cheyenne Mountain Complex's security forces by Bright Noa's Londo Bell regiment in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn Episode 7, but I get what you mean." (AN: Totally not proof of my Gundam knowledge or anything, I swear.)
"…Huh. That's actually really specific. Do you have any—"
"Actually, I should go before I give away too much information about myself. An 'unregistered vigilante' can't be too careful nowadays. I'm sure you guys understand, right?" Guardian Angel interrupted Hiro's question with.
"Well, maybe we'll see you again?" Honey Lemon asked, with a somewhat optimistic tone.
"Depends what the future holds. See you later."
The white and crimson Knight then activated thruster engines in his backpack and took to the sky. After seeing him speed off in a south-easterly direction, Wasabi had one question to ask.
"Please tell me that this isn't going to end badly, Hiro?"
"Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with Wasabi here. I mean, we've only seen the guy for 5 minutes and Honey Lemon, no offence, but you seriously think we can trust him?"
"Trust him with what, GoGo? We haven't exactly told him anything," countered Fred, who was surprisingly calm. He was thinking that he should maybe look into this 'Guardian Angel' and see whether anyone was operating under that codename.
"He seems to be a perfectly normal human being wearing a form of exo-skeletal armour. My scans also indicate sophisticated energy delivering systems throughout the suit," Baymax stated in an informative, yet polite tone. His scanners were powerful enough to make detailed scans of the operator's current medical condition.
"Maybe we should wait and see how this plays out. Besides, what's the worst that can happen?" Hiro suggested. Actions spoke louder than words, and if anything, they would have to be careful. If one person could knock out a rogue construction worker with nothing but a landing on his head, how powerful was he, really?
San Fransokyo Junkyard
12:32
Guardian Angel descended into the collection of abandoned and scrapped vehicles and found the smartly-dressed Agent Anderson leaning on the hull, wearing a smug-like expression on his face. He approached the Agent and said, "Landing in a Junkyard, Anderson? I thought you Templars were better than that. I mean, junkyards have security like any other place, don't they?"
"Sure, make fun of my esteemed career as a covert operative, why don't you? Yes, there is security, but this shuttle has cloaking tech, remember? You'll be fine. It's yours now, so don't go crazy. Command doesn't like getting their toys broken."
"Are you going to tell me exactly how you're going to get back to Camelot?" the irritated Knight asked.
"I have my ways, Guardian," Anderson replied confidently. After raising his left wrist to activate a wrist-com, he said, "Anderson to Richards, one to send to Camelot." He then gave a salute, saying, "See you around, Mr. Knight."
After a response in the form of a small bleep, bright beams of energy started to appear around him before he was engulfed by this energy and seemingly disappeared. Guardian Angel was surprised at the sight, but retained his composure with a sigh of reservation.
"God damn Templar Group."