Chapter 3: Brothers in arms

GUN Naval Special Warfare Task Force, Carrier Liberator, Mediterranean Sea

Grid: 0985761254201

August 7th, 9AM

Weather: Sunny, windy

Situation: R and R

Force Estimation:

none

Commander Tower's briefing: We made quite a show gentlemen, that little firework display won't be missed by the Udaloyan, they'll search and find out as much as they can from ground zero of the prison. We have to make a dash back to the Mediterranean Sea, our AO to avoid being caught by the naval patrols. Metal Sonic will stay with our Knothole Force allies and they'll find away to get high priority intel out of that robot, as soon as we know what the Red Ghost are upto, especially Uri Vastizov's plan we'll move in to stop Uri.


Under the warm sunshine of the Mediterranean sea, the GUN fleet moars just off the gulf of Spadonia with standby order to guard the United Federation's Mediterranean territory from terrorist attack. The wind blew by with a soft breeze, giving the crew and servicemen a perfect moment for some R&R. Some of the men decided to take a break and play football on the flight deck of the carrier, while others tend to their businesses, fishing and sunbathing and listening to music are also favorite activities. The Knothole Force took this rare moment of calm to rest and rready themselves for the battles to come, with Shard and sir Charles are working hard on Metal Sonic's CPU, trying to reprogram the robot to be free minded like Shard the Hedgehog. Silver on the other hand was keeping himself in shape by doing some push ups in his cabin, he was pushing hard, into the maximum level, over 40 times, his face was sweating, his fur were wet with his sweat, as he continues to push himself. Until someone opens the door to his cabin, at first he thought it was either Shard or Larry coming back from their works but no, it was a female Mobian wolf wearring green summer leotard with blue eyes and brown hair and pink fur. It was Leeta Wolf coming in through the door to see him, Silver jaw dropped at the sight of her and drop completely to the floor.

The thud sounded off was follow by Leeta ran to pick up Silver and lifted him back up to his feet. "You're alright Silver?" she kindly asked him as she helps him back up, they stares into each other eyes in a moment, the world was revolving around them, time seems to froze as the two would be lover couldn't resist each other gazes. "Hey, Leeta, you know i always have something i really want to...i mean...i need to...t...to tell you." Silver nervously stuttered in front of Leeta a bad move for someone who took all kinds of punishment from the enemies but still live to tell the tale, only to stuttered in front of a girl. "What is it Silver? Is it about...the thing i did for you back in that prison?" Leeta teases Silver as she lean closer, forcing Silver to shunned, he back away a little as she come closer and closer to him and finally poke his grape like nose.

"Ouch! Wait, you're saying, you knew what i wanna say?" He was confused at Leeta's knowledge on what was in his mind as she push him down on his bunk bed. "That's right pretty boy. Why hide, when you can get it on full swing?" She gave him a sly grin as she kneel on top of him, her hands rub his furry chest and care his cheek as she lay down and gave him a passionate kiss on his lips. He closed his eyes and thinks, "Hey, this isn't so bad after all." he just lay there letting her kiss his lips and ran her hand around his sides. He cursed the air whenever their lips parted, then she traced her tongue down to his neck and kissing his chests causing him to jolt in joy and pleasure.

"Yes yes! Let's go for it Leeta! You're the queen of this game!" Silver excited as she took off her clothings slowly letting him to see her treasures and the rest of her pink furry body, then they go harder and harder letting each other's emotion flows freely like eagles soars through the endless sky. But while lust and pleasure were flowing in this cabin, a completely different set of emotion was flowing in another, in Harvey Who's quarter of the ship, he was working through the paper and documents of intel gathered by Geoffrey St John, sent to him via secured channel of communication. He was frustrated, looking carefully at every single pages at the one particular name, Uri Vastizov, it was name that haunts for nearly his whole life. For 30 years it still haunts him.

It all started back in the Cold War, when the Kingdom of Acorn was busy fighting with the Overlanders a deadly, silent threat to both was preparing itself to proclaim the position of superpower on Mobius, the USSR, a run of the mill Communist state with everything you could expect from previous Communist states in the world. They were preparing a massive army, training its troops in warfare beyond the compensation of the Mobians. The threat was even closer to home as rumors of sleepers and double agents have infiltrated the society of the Kingdom. Harvey was just a young lad hired by the newly founded Royal Intelligent Agency for one purpose, infiltrate the USSR's KGB headquarter and obtained the list of all the enemy agents operating in homeland. And he did what he was told to do, Harvey managed to obtained the list but at the price of his first and only love one, his new found love, Natasha Ludovka, her name sent a chill up his spine as he still remembers how did she die at Vastizov's hand. It makes him shed tears from his eyes despite his best effort to hold it in. "Vastizov, i will make you pay. Our feud will be settle, once and for all." Harvey growled in his room, as he squeeze the his first photo of Vastizov in anger.

Fate would soon give Harvey the chance for payback, just soon enough, but until then, he would have to wait, but while Harvey waits, the answer to what was Vastizov plan is being revealed. Down in the technical hanger, sir Charles and Shard were working hard at Metal Sonic's processor to squeeze intel out of him. The blue robotic hedgehog was standing on a small mech pad while the plate that covers his primary access port in the back of his head was being removed by Shard, Metal Sonic was still online but he was willingly stand still to let the friendly hedgehog scientist to do his job and his organic "Brother" was tending to wiring and connection into his CPU. "There you go uncle Chuck, USB wire is connected." Shard said just as he was done with connecting with the USB wire with sir Charles's laptop. "Thanks son, now to tend to your brother's processor. Don't worry it's not going to overload him or something. Now then Metal Sonic, what do you know about Uri Vastizov's plan?" Sir Charles asked as he works on his laptop to gather intel on Uri Vastizov from Metal Sonic's CPU. "Subject Vastizov is planning for an uprising. The details on how he would execute his plan is in my coded data number: 43265191." The robotic hedgehog simply replied in a monotone voice, sir Charles find it was easy to get the intel from Metal Sonic's CPU since the robot hedgehog is being rather cooperative at the moment.

"What exactly is his plan to revolt brother?" Shard asked his metallic brother who turns his red eyes to see Shard's own green eyes. "He and his Red Ghost are planning to manipulate the Udaloyan Federation to invade and annex regions of the former USSR, then discredit the goverment in a disastrous occupation, thus weakening Moskarv's ability to hold on to the public opinion and give him the chance for launching a coup." Metal Sonic's monotone voice reveals the full grim scope of Uri Vastizov's plan they now know that time is short and Uri has already made his moves. As sir Charles founds details of Uri's accomplishments so far, he had already manipulated the current goverment of the Udaloyan Federation to annex regions in Central Yurashia, the Ukraine and Belarus. His next target is the Cascarus mountains, namely a small country named Zagoria. "What about Eggman? What is have to do in all of this?"

Shard asked another question, which, also received a cold and detailed answer from Metal Sonic, "Dr Eggman was in conflict with the Consortium some months ago as they threatens his territories and his Eggman Empire. Now the doctor Eggman is considered to be out of the game. Eggman has no forces to fight neither the Consortium nor the Red Ghost in his eastern Eurish territories." Realizing how bad the situation has deteriorated, Sir Charles and Shard quickly download as many important files from Metal Sonic as possible while avoid overloading his processor. "All files downloaded, you know what brother, you're not so bad like some people think you are." Shard commented while giving Metal Sonic a pat on his shoulder, "One act of good will can't erase my guilty past, it would take more than this one time to set me free from Eggman's shadow." Metal Sonic turns his head over to Shard with a stern look, Shard was thinking something that might help Metal Sonic. "Perhaps you can join us. Give your service to a true breed of warriors would change your life bro."; "Offer accepted, brother." Metal Sonic and Shard gave each other a headbutt in a brotherly style as Shard welcomes the new blood or in this case new metal into the Knothole Force.