CHAPTER 3
It was early the next morning and Bunnie had slowly peeked her head into Sarah's office with a white mug full of coffee in her hands.
Sarah was sitting at her desk typing on the keyboard while her eyes remained focused on the computer screen in front of her. When she heard the door shut in the room, she slightly shifted her eyes away from the computer screen and saw the female rabbit approaching her. "Bunnie, there you are."
Once she set the mug of coffee down on the surface of the brown desk, she watched as Sarah continued to type on her computer. "You know last time I checked, I was the chief of police. Not your secretary", she teased while she crossed her arms.
A slight smile formed on her lips, "Come now, Bunnie. I'm going to be needing you staying close to me for awhile."
She uncrossed her arms and perked up her ears, "Why is that, Miss Wish?" Her eyes narrowed to the computer that Sarah was sitting in front of. "What have you been working on anyway?"
She replied without taking her eyes away from the computer screen, "I've been sending out mass emails to the detective teams this morning."
"Really? Is something going on that we have to get all of the detective teams involved?"
Sarah turned away from the computer and turned to her, "Bunnie, you and I will have a busy night tomorrow night."
She gave her a blank look. She wasn't following her at all. What did she have planned anyway?
"We're bringing the teams together for a group meeting at the Tech City Convention Center."
The rabbit's eyes widened in surprise, "Wha-What? Everyone? But there's like..." She quickly began to count on her fingers, "That's like over 30 members, Miss Wish!"
She made a nod, "Well, yes. Considering each team has at least five members."
She placed her hands on her hips, "And Shadow's group...he has to be freakin' unique and have eight members on his team." She sighed, "But what's making you want to suddenly do this? None of the teams besides the leaders and captains have met each other."
She crossed her arms and leaned her back against the black desk chair she was sitting in. "There are matters that must be discussed dealing with The Dark Alliance." She then made a small smile, "Besides, don't you think it's time for everyone to get acquainted with each other?"
She did agree that getting everyone together would be a good way for everyone to meet each other at one time. She made a nod, "Yes, I think it is time."
Meanwhile in Future City, in the Royal Guardians detective agency in the main lobby, a purple male walrus flung the door open that led from the garage.
With him flinging the door open so fast and wildly, he had startled the four other figures that resided in the lobby.
He coughed and hacked while black smoke come from the doorway of the garage. He slammed the door shut behind him and approached the group.
One of the figures was Sally who gave him a worried look. "Rotor? What happened?"
Once he stopped coughing and caught his breath, he figured he could explain himself. He looked on his bare arms and saw them almost covered in black smoke. Just as the rest of his body. He focused back to the group with a sweat drop on the side of his head, "Well you see...uh..."
Sally crossed her arms and formed a small smile towards him as she waited for his excuse for yet another incident he had caused down in the garage.
The walrus wore a yellow cap that was backwards on his head, a green sleeveless vest, blue jeans, white shoes, a blue tool belt was thrown over his shoulder and his eyes were green. He scratched the back of his head in slight embarrassment, "What happened was..."
"Let me guess..." a male voice suddenly spoke out.
Rotor turned to a brown male coyote who had blonde hair and blue eyes. He wore a blue and red army styled jacket with gold buttons, blue pants, and red knee high boots with a sword in its black sheath attached to his brown holster. He couldn't help but to give him an annoyed look.
The coyote continued to speak, "You were working on another one of your crazy inventions?"
Before he could reply to him a feminine voice spoke up.
"I don't think they're crazy at all, Antoine."
The coyote turned to the brown and black female lynx who stood beside Sally.
The lynx had black hair that was shoulder length and dark green eyes. She wore a purple and white sleeveless halter top, black leggings, white and black shoes, white gloves with purple bracelets as the cuffs, a black gun holster was around her right leg, and wore a red armband around her right arm. "I think it's wonderful on what Rotor can do." She then heard chuckling from a male white lemur who stood beside her and placed his hand on her shoulder.
The lemur wore a black labcoat, a green sleeveless turtleneck underneath, blue jeans, and black and white sneakers. "I think the guy breaks more than what he fixes, Nicole."
"I agree with Dax", a male yellow mongoose spoke while he sat in a black desk chair behind the desk that was in the lobby. The mongoose had black hair and blue eyes. He wore red lensed sunglasses, a white short sleeve collared shirt that he had unbuttoned exposing a black t shirt underneath, blue jeans, and black boots. He crossed his arms and made a sly smirk, "Rotor is a complete clutz."
Rotor gritted his teeth in aggravation and pointed at the mongoose. "Shut the hell up, Ash! Like you know anything about dealing with any type of mechanical mechanisms!"
He leaned his back against the chair and placed his hands behind his head, "Hey I'm no mech specialist but I am a weapons expert. Which is so much more useful than what you can do."
Rotor clenched his fists, "Why you..." his words trailed off when Nicole tried to calm the group down.
She made an uneasy look when she noticed everyone getting rowdy. "Now, now settle down, boys."
Sally placed her hand on her shoulder, "Don't waste your breath, Nicole. They're boys after all. They need to get their aggression out of their system."
Nicole gave her an unsure look, "But...but Sally..." She was startled when a slamming sound was heard near the desk Ash was sitting at.
Antoine had slammed his hands down on the surface of the desk and glared at Ash. "And you, gunsboy! What have I told you about sitting at my desk!"
Ash tapped his finger on and off a key on the keyboard until he came across something interesting on the screen. "Oh look! An email from Detective Council Director, Sarah Wish!"
Antoine leaned closed over the desk and gave the mongoose an irritated look. "Are you evening listening to me!" He spun around and threw his hands in the air in aggravation, "Why do I even bother?"
Dax was already interested in the random email that was sent from Sarah. "What does the email say?"
Ash glanced through the email, "She's hosting a meeting tomorrow night in Tech City." He looked away from the screen and back at the group. "And she wants all teams to attend."
Nicole's mouth hung open in surprise at the news, "All?"
An irritated look had formed on Sally's face, "Tech City? That means Shadow and his group of circus clowns will be there. Great..."
Nicole gently nudged on Sally's arm and smiled towards her, "Come on, Sal. Be nice."
Rotor turned to Sally with an excited look. He had to admit he was pretty excited to be meeting with the other teams. "That means there's going to be more mech specialists there! How awesome! But I do wonder what's going on?"
Sally sighed heavily, "If it's mandatory then there's no doubt it's some kind of emergency. And I bet money it's something demon related..."
Meanwhile in Mercury City at the Crimson Blade detective agency, a green male hedgehog was sitting at the desk that was in the far corner of the main lobby. He was tapping a drumstick on and off the surface of the desk while he was reading through some papers. He had spiky green hair and orange eyes. He wore an orange sleeveless vest, a black sleeveless shirt underneath, blue denim shorts, white and red shoes, and white gloves with spiked wristbands on the cuffs. He was startled when a male voice yelled at him from across the lobby.
"Manic! Quit it with the tapping!" A dark blue male raccoon yelled out while he held a black book in his hand with him leaning against another desk that set in the center of the lobby. He had dark green hair, brown eyes, and wore a dark green t shirt, gray pants, blue and black shoes, and white gloves. "I'm trying to read over here!"
The green hedgehog gave him an irritated look, "Well why don't you read in your office, Glenn!"
Glenn slammed his book shut, "Don't tell me where I should read!" He then felt a gentle tug on his arm. He turned to the brown female deer who sat behind the desk he was leaning on.
"Now now, Glenn..." she spoke in a calm voice. She had blonde hair that slightly past her shoulders and pink eyes. She wore a white blazer with a black sleeveless halter top underneath, a white skirt that stopped at her knees, and black high heeled shoes.
Manic spun his chair around towards the both of them while he played with the brown drumstick he had held in his hand. "No no, Lily! Let him go! I'll blow him away!"
Despite Lily who was tugging on his arm, he didn't know how she would hold him back if the situation escalated any further. "You trying to fight me?"
He gave him a threatning look while he still played with the drumstick that was in his hand. "If that's what you want."
A male voice had suddenly spoke out to them. "There will be no fighting here."
They all turned to a male black bison who had came into the lobby with his arms crossed.
He had brown hair and gray eyes. He wore a blue sleeveless shirt, blue jeans, silver bands around his wrists, green shoes, and a silver chain necklace around his neck.
Glenn flashed his eyes over to the bison, "Stay out of this, Gareth!"
Lily continued to hold his arm as she feared he would actually lunge out at Manic. "No, Gareth! Get in this!"
The bison flashed his eyes back and forth between Manic and Glenn. "Don't make me get Rick in here", he threatened.
Manic stood from his chair, "Screw, Rick! What's he going to do?"
"You might want to watch your mouth, Manic", a voice spoke.
Everyone turned to Rick who came into the lobby with an older male brown lion by his side.
The hyena glared at the group of detectives. "You all might want to settle down before I fucking lose it."
Lily sighed as she let go of Glenn's arm and sat back in her chair. "Rick and Leon...thank God."
The lion rested his hand on Rick's shoulder making him turn to him. "Now now Rick, violence will only make matters worse and you know this."
Rick crossed his arms angrily, "Well sometimes they need to learn the hard way, Leon."
The lion kept a calm expression on his face. He had messy orange hair and gray eyes. He was a lot older than the rest of the group. He appeared to be in his late fifties. He wore a gray long sleeve collared shirt, black dress pants, brown dress shoes, and a gold armband was pinned to the right arm of his shirt. "You're always so quick to resolve everything in fighting, Rick. Being a captain isn't always about being the toughest."
He turned away from him and stepped away from him in annoyance. "Apparently not", he murmured.
Leon turned to the rest of the group, "Come on, guys. This isn't how we run things around here and you know that."
Manic huffed and turned away from them, "He started it..." He murmured.
Glenn didn't quite understand what he said when he mumbled under his breath but he knew it was another rude comment towards him. "What'd you say?"
Lily sighed heavily as she braced herself for another yelling match between the two. She then heard her computer inform her about an email. "Oh hey, we got an email...from Sarah Wish!"
Leon turned to her in interest, "What's going on?"
Lily began to glance through the email, "She's holding a meeting in Tech City tomorrow night and wants all detective teams to attend."
"Sounds like fun", Gareth spoke. "I kinda want to meet the other weapon specialists."
"Yeah", Manic agreed. "If the other teams will be there then my sister, Sonia will be there too!"
While everyone else seemed excited about attending the meeting, Rick didn't look the least bit excited.
Leon made a nod, "Then we can look forward to a very interesting evening..."
Meanwhile in Crystal City at the Radiant Guard detective agency, Amethyst was in the large indoor greenhouse watching a female white rabbit watering a purple flower with a watering can. She made a warm smile as she watched her water the flower. "Yes just like that", she spoke in a calm voice. "Many people don't realize it but there is an art to watering flowers." She crossed her arms, "You're so gentle with the flowers, Lydia."
"Well I have to", she spoke as she stopped watering the flower. She turned to her with a smile, "I'm pretty sure I wouldn't hear the end of it if I killed your precious garden." She had long black hair with dark blue bangs. Her hair came down to her waist and she had purple eyes. She wore a black sleeveless halter top, blue skinny jeans, green knee high boots, black gloves, a black gun holster was around her right leg, and wore a red armband around her right arm.
Amethyst still had a warm look on her face, "Even if you did, you know I'd forgive you."
The two were startled when the door was flung open and a white male jackal bursted into the greenhouse with a furious red female fox following behind him.
"Stay away from me, Fiona!" He shouted as he ran beside Amethyst and Lydia for protection it seemed.
Fiona stood at the doorway with her fists clenched and shaking, "Silas, you bastard! You give back my welder now! I need that to finish a new weapon I'm working on!"
The jackal had black hair and gray eyes. He wore a black jacket, an orange t shirt underneath, blue pants, brown boots, and silver goggles on his head. "But you said I could borrow it!"
Lydia looked back and forth at the two in confusion, "Wha-what's going on?"
Fiona only got more and more angry. She had red hair that barely past her shoulders and blue eyes. She wore a black sleeveless crop top, black skinny pants, two black belts with silver studs covering them, black knee high boots, a black gun holster was around her right leg, and she wore black fingerless gloves. "Bullshit!" Before she could lunge at him, a black male crow came behind her and held her by her waist to hold her back.
"Whoa! Hold on, Fiona!" He had black hair and green eyes. He wore a green sleeveless vest, a blue t shirt underneath, dark green pants, and gray and black shoes.
Fiona struggled to get out of the crow's grip around her. "Damn it, Kevin! Get your hands off of me!"
While he struggled to keep her in his grip, he saw Amethyst approach them.
She placed her hands on her hips, "Fiona! Stop yelling! You're stressing my garden out!"
"Oh shut the hell up, Amethyst! Damn you and this useless garden!" She yelled angrily.
Lydia slowly shook her head and placed her hands on her hips, "So much negativity..."
Amethyst sighed heavily, "She was always the wild one out of us all..."
Lydia made an uneasy look, "It's a good thing she's a damn good weapon specialist."
When Kevin couldn't hold her struggling body anymore, she had broke out of his grip.
Fiona felt herself calm down slightly and confronted the pink lynx. "I don't know why you waste your time in here! You should have never built this garden here."
Amethyst clasped her hands together, "This place isn't useless, Fi. I go here whenever I feel upset or angry." She glanced around the room full of flowers, "Looking at this beautiful place calms me and I forget all about my troubles." She turned back to her, "You should consider coming in here a little more often."
Fiona arched an eyebrow towards her, "Seriously?"
Silas gave her a teasing look, "Maybe you should lock her in here for a day and see what happens."
Fiona narrowed her eyes towards him, "You lock me in this hole and I'll fucking break your arms off."
With hearing that threat, Kevin couldn't help but to gently rub his arms. "Wow okay violent much?"
Amethyst gave her a sympathetic look, "Oh Fiona, when will you learn?"
Before anyone said anything else, a green female porcupine came into the room with a few papers in her hands. She wore a black short sleeve vest, a green sleeveless crop top underneath, black skinny jeans, yellow and black knee high boots, and black fingerless gloves. "I'm sorry to interrupt but we just received an email from Sarah Wish."
Silas arched an eyebrow, "Miss Wish? What does she want?"
She glanced at the papers she held in her hands, "Apparently she's hosting a meeting in Tech City tomorrow night. It's mandatory all detective team members show up."
"I wonder what's up?" Lydia thought right off the bat that it was some kind of emergency.
Fiona approached the female porcupine and wrapped her arms around her. "Sounds like a party eh, Riley? About time! Some excitement!" She turned to the group, "Maybe some demons are going fucking nuts over there and she needs us all to bust cap in their asses!"
Amethyst made an uneasy look towards her, "That can't be the only reason. After all, demons are all around us. We even see them roaming around our city sometimes."
"Well yeah", Riley spoke. "But apparently Tech City is like demon haven."
Kevin nodded and looked over to Silas, "Can you imagine how many demons are crawling in that city?"
Silas couldn't help but to feel really nervous. "Aw shit...do we really have to go over there?"
Lydia looked back over to Amethyst, "Well if Miss Wish requests it..."
Amethyst had made a serious look as she thought nothing but the worse of the situation, "Then we don't really have a choice..."
Meanwhile in Industrial City at the Black Shield detective agency, the yelling of a purple female hedgehog had been heard throughout the main lobby of the agency. "Scourge!"
Luke was sitting at a desk that was centering within the lobby. He was sitting next to a female yellow mongoose while they worked on something that was on the computer in front of them. His ears twitched when he heard her yell, "Hey can you kill the volume a bit, Sonia?"
The purple hedgehog spun around to the black jackal. She had pink spiky hair and green eyes. She wore a red sleeveless halter top, a blue mini skirt, two black studded belts that were around the waist of her skirt, black leggings, blue knee high boots, and blue gloves that came up to her elbows. "I have such a bone to pick with that hedgehog!"
The female mongoose turned away from the computer screen that she and Luke were looking at and turned to Sonia. She had long purple wavy hair that came down to her waist and green eyes. Both of her ears were pierced with multiple silver small hoops. She wore a black and purple sleeveless top, a black and purple mini skirt, a black belt that she wore around her skirt, green and purple knee high boosts, a black headband, and white gloves with green bracelets on the ends as cuffs. "What did he do now, Sonia?"
Sonia clenched her fists tightly, "Mina, I hate that hedgehog so much! That fucker went into my garage and stole another tool of mine!"
"I'm sure he didn't intentionally take whatever he took, Sonia", a male white rat spoke as he stepped into the lobby with a male blue skunk standing beside him.
The rat had dark blue hair and purple eyes. He wore a red long sleeve shirt, gray pants, and yellow and black shoes.
Sonia pointed towards him, "Aaron, I don't know why but you're always sticking up for him!"
He shrugged his shoulders, "I don't know why you think that. That fucker is mean as shit to me. Well...everyone really..."
When the blue skunk saw Luke sigh heavily and placed his black and silver boot up on the surface of the desk, his eyes flashed in aggravation. He stormed his way over to him and lightly smacked his foot off from the desk. "How many times do I have to tell you? Keep your feet off the furniture!"
In annoyance, Luke looked up at him, "What are you? My mother?"
The skunk narrowed his eyes at him and crossed his arms. He had dark purple hair and blue eyes. He wore a white and black coat that was zipped up, gray pants, brown dress shoes,a black holster belt around his waist that has a sword in a black sheath, and he had a red armband that was pinned to the right arm of his coat. "Funny. I thought I was your captain. Not your mother."
Luke gave him the same irritated look back, "You're killing me, Dave."
Everyone turned when a male green hedgehog flung the door open that had led from the basement. The hedgehog had spiky green quills and blue eyes. His clothes had consisted of a punk rocker look. He wore a black leather jacket with flames on the arms of the jacket, a red t shirt was worn underneath, green, silver, and black shoes, black skinny jeans with a silver wallet chain hanging on the right side of his leg, and he wore two black belts with silver studs on them around the waist of his pants, a black gun holster was around his right leg, and red sunglasses was worn on his head. He lazily stretched his arms and body while he walked into the lobby. "Who the fuck called me? I was busy ya know?" Before he knew it, he was tackled to the floor by the furious purple hedgehog. When he fell to the floor, he caught sight of Sonia on top of him trying to reach for his neck.
"Scourge! You jerk! You've stolen something from me for the last time!"
He grabbed her wrists so she couldn't reach out to his neck to choke him. "Damn it, Sonia! Get off me you crazy chick!"
Dave turned to Luke awaiting for him to say something about the two fighting hedgehogs. "Well? Wanna do something about this? Fearless leader?"
Luke sighed heavily, "Break em up."
Dave looked over to Aaron and made a nod signaling him to do what they usually do when Sonia and Scourge got like this.
Before Sonia knew it, she was ripped off of Scourge's body and held back by Aaron while Scourge was being held back by Dave. Sonia snatched her wrist away from Aaron and pointed at Scourge. "I don't have time for you today! Give it back, asshole!"
Scourge made a sly look when he took out a screwdriver from the inside of his coat pocket. He held it up in front of her. "Oh? You mean this?"
Sonia gritted her teeth as he taunted her with it. "My screwdriver!"
Mina rose an eyebrow, "Really?" She couldn't believe the two were fighting over a simple screwdriver. Then again, she didn't seem that surprised.
Dave once again looked at Luke and waited for him to give an order. "...Well?"
Luke carelessly looked over to Scourge. "Scourge!"
The green hedgehog's eyes flashed over to an irritated Luke.
"Stop being a dick and give Sonia her shit back so she can shut the fuck up!"
A sweat drop appeared on the side of Dave's head, "Not the exact response I was hoping for..."
"I just needed it to finish a new weapon I was working on but what the fuck ever..." Scourge flung the screwdriver on the floor in front of Sonia.
Sonia saw the screwdriver rolling to the front of her feet. "Finally!" She bent down and picked the screwdriver up from the floor. She held it tightly in her grip as she glared at the hedgehog. "And stay the hell out of my garage you fucking thief!"
The irritated green hedgehog took a step forward to her. "Stupid cunt! Why don't you take that screwdriver and fuck yourself with it!"
"I'm so sick of hearing your shit you fucking dickbag!"
Luke had then stood from his chair and angrily glared at the two. "You know what? I'm fucking sick of both of you! If you two are gonna fuck each other, then do it already!"
Sonia made a disgusted look, "Oh God! Luke, that's sick! Why would you even think I'm attracted to that asshole?"
The jackal placed his finger to the side of his head, "Oh gee let me think...you're always screaming at each other every fucking day! And I have to get Dave and Aaron to constantly pull you guys away because you're always fighting!"
Mina made a small giggle, "I don't know, Sonia. It kinda does sound like a crush."
Aaron had to join in on the teasing as well, "Total lovebirds."
With an embarrassed look on her face, Sonia yelled at the group of detectives. "Disgusting! To hell with you all!"
Scourge shrugged his shoulders and made a sly look towards Sonia, "No wonder you're always on my case. You can't get enough of me."
Sonia gave the hedgehog a disgusted look, "Oh get a clue! I wouldn't fuck you even if you were the last man on Mobius!"
Scourge made a deep chuckle, "Hey you're not hurting my feelings, cupcake. You're not exactly my type either."
Mina slightly shook her head as she continued to use the computer until she came across an email. She turned to Luke who was still sitting beside her, "Oh, Luke! An email from Miss Wish!"
He turned and looked over to the computer screen in interest. "What? Let me see." He glanced through the email and then looked back at the group. "Okay guys, listen up! Sarah Wish wants us all to get together tomorrow night for a meeting over in Tech City."
Aaron gave him a blank look. "Tech City? Why there?"
Luke continued, "She wants all detective teams to be present and accounted for."
Mina glanced back at the email on the computer screen and thought about how many members would actually be there. "My...that's going to be a little crowded..."
Scourge formed a sly look, "I hope it won't be a sausage fest. I need to be surrounded by hot bitches. Not nagging purple hedgehog bitches."
Sonia gripped the screwdriver tighter in her grip and held it in the air. "I'm seconds away from knocking you into a coma!"
Dave pointed around to the group within the lobby. "All? Like all of us?"
Luke made a nod, "Yup." He then saw the negative expression on Dave's face instantly.
Dave took his hand and rubbed the side of his head in stress it appeared, "Holy Hell..."
Luke gave him the same look in return, "I know. With a bunch of rowdy fucks like us there God help em all."
Author's Note: I should've said this in the last chapter. In case you guys haven't figured out that I try to update in 4's or 5's. I call them chapter bombs! I like to post chapters in a row than just one at a time. But yes that's the reason why it takes a few weeks or so that you don't hear anything from me. However, the past couple of chapters took me forever to write because of how lengthy they were. lol! Anyway, I hope you guys will enjoy! And your reviews and comments are appreciated! Thanks for your patience guys!
In The Next Chapter...
Risa: Wow! I can't believe it! A real demon!
Ker: Um...
Shadow: Why did you have to tell your annoying friend about us?
Freya: Come on, boss! She's not that bad!
Risa: That black hedgehog is so rude!
Sky: What is this place? And why does it feel like I'm being followed...