Author's Note: Hope i did good on this, it's getting hard trying incorporate other characters that I don't know that well. Enjoy.
Chapter 4: Downtime Part 1
Hunter laid awake in bed as he stroked his sleeping wife's hair. It has been a long night for the both of them, since this was the first time they spent a night away from their son. With no way to contact the Master, or HQ there was no way to check on how he was doing, or relay their situation. Plus they couldn't be located by their collars since the communication dish was also linked to the tracking devices.
He spent some time holding Colleen in his arms as his sang some soft music in her ear, trying to calm her down. Once she was asleep he relaxed as he focused on his own thoughts. He too missed his son and wanted to see him badly, but they still have a mission to complete. Plus as long as the Sonic Rover was grounded they were stuck here. After a putting his thoughts aside he too was able to fall asleep.
But sometime later he woke up again, but just lay there, thinking. The Mighty Ducks have been so kind to them since they arrived, they were still a mystery to them but they knew that they could trust the group. Looking over at the nearby clock he saw that was sometime after five, deciding that he couldn't sleep anymore he carefully slip out of bed. As he started to throw on some clothes he took a look around the guest bedroom his wife and him were in. It was a decent size, with a large bed, nightstand, couch, and TV. He smiled at this, their generosity was great. After changing he left the room and started to explore more of the Pond.
After wandering around for a while Hunter found himself in the stadium stands. To his surprised out on ice there were the Ducks, all uniform, practicing from what he could see. He stayed where he was and watched as they continued playing.
He never really watched hockey that much but what he saw they were really good. He watched as Nosedive raced down the ice, at a fast speed and did a slap shot at the goalie, which was Wildwing. He watched in amazement as he easily deflected the shot. Hunter could see them say something but was too far away to hear them.
Hunter then decided to walk closer to the rink and to his surprise he found Axel leaning fence, watching the Ducks play. As he neared he turned and saw Hunter, "Good morning," Axel said.
"Moring," Hunter responded as he leaned on the fence also. "Couldn't sleep?"
"Yeah, a lot on my mind," He responded. "Same thing?"
He nodded also, "I just miss my son."
"I can understand that."
After saying that the two continued watching the team play. After a few minutes Hunter asked, "Why are they out here so early?"
"From what Wildwing told me he likes to hold practice very early in the morning. I had nothing to do so they invited me to watch them." Just then they heard a loud slap followed by a yelp.
They both turned to see that Wildwing was lying on the ice; apparently he was knocked into the net by the puck. They watched as the team skated towards them. "How many time do I have to tell you guys," Wildwing started as he stood back up. "I said to get the puck past me not through me."
"Sorry bro," Nosedive responded.
"Does that happen often?" They all heard Axel ask.
They turned and were a bit surprised to see Hunter up early also. "Once in a while," Duke responded.
"If it wasn't for the padding I could have really been hurt," Wildwing added.
"Either way you guys are amazing on the ice," Hunter said.
"Couldn't sleep either?" Mallory asked.
Hunter nodded, "A lot of things on my mind . . . mostly my son."
They all raised an eye, "You have a kid?" Duke asked.
"Yeah, he's only a few months old, and this is the first time my wife and I spend a night away from him." Hunter explained.
"That has to be hard."
Hunter shook his head, "It's alright we'll be fine for the time being."
"You're sure?"
"Yes I am."
"Only if you're sure," He responded as he turned to the rest of his team. "Ok practice is over."
All the Ducks seemed to be relieved by this and started walking off the ice and back to their locker room. It was then that Axel felt a hand rest upon his shoulder; he looked back and saw Grin. "Something troubles you my friend."
"What do you mean?" Axel responded confused.
"Your aura is clouded, and I can see that it is troubling you."
"I still don't get it."
"Your life is clouded by something . . ." Grin continued to look at Axel, as if he was trying to read him. "Fear."
Axel's eyes widen at what he said, "How did you-"
"Come find me later friend, and I will tell more." With that Grin walked to join his team, leaving a surprised Axel behind him.
'There's no way he can . . . or could he?' He thought. Either way he was hooked and was going to see Grin later on.
A few hours later the rest of the Rovers were up and about and were looking around, taking in what the city of Anaheim had to offer. Inside the hanger Tanya was at her workbench, working on some of the components for the Sonic Rover's engine. She'd been at it for a while but it was proving to be more complicated as she thought. "Need help comrade?"
She turned to find Exile right next to her, "Oh I didn't see you there."
Exile moved closer as he looked over at what she was working on, "Looks complicated but simple."
Tanya raised an eye as she looked at him, "You know how to uh . . . work this?"
"Dah, I'm tech specialist for team. Let me help comrade."
"Sure I can use the help."
So for the next few minutes they started working together on the parts and were making some good progress. It was then that Exile saw the strange looking weapon, lying on the bench, which the Ducks used during the battle yesterday. "Say comrade what weapon is that you and other comrades used?"
"Oh this?" She responded as she lifted the weapon. "This is a puck launcher, it's made to launch various types of pucks at are enemies."
She handed him the weapon and Exile started to inspect it, "This very interesting . . . This is most impressive weapon."
"Glad you like it. Oh by the way I found this inside your ship," She responded as she moved to the side and picked up a large case.
She set it down as Exile moved to and opened it. Inside were pistol like weapons and several energy like cells. "Oh I forget about these," He said as he picked one up. "Our Professor designed these after last mission."
Tanya picked up one of them as she inspected it. "These seem to fire a small high concentrated EMP shell . . . but yet it was modified to affect living things."
"Dah comrade made this to take out robots and knock out other bad men without causing flesh damage."
"Wow I didn't think that was uh . . . possible."
"Comrade Hubert really smart can practically do anything scientific. These are latest invention and will help in next battle."
She continued to look at it as she thought of something, "I may just be able to do something with this."
"What do you mean?"
"I can modify this and make attachments to add to accuracy and possibly capacity."
"Wow you really can?'
She nodded, "If it's ok." He gave her the ok as she started to work on it. As she did Exile watched her and out of curiosity picked up a random puck, tossed it in the air and caught it. "I'd be carefully with that."
"Why," he responded as he caught it.
"That's an explosive puck, a certain amount of force hits that and I'll explode."
Exile looked it over after she said that and got an idea. "How do you make these?"
"Basically we take a regular hockey puck and fill it with whatever is required, why."
"I have idea, I can make special puck for you but not for launcher."
"What do you mean?"
"I can modify to make puck produce electric charge, taking out any electrical device. Plus other explosive triggered by detonators."
As she heard that she began to like the idea. "That sounds really good, Show me more." The two continued to talk and swap ideas for weapons and other equipment. They were getting along really well as they worked.
Mall Strip
Outside Duke and Nosedive were both showing Blitz, Krystal, and Jenna around the city and this is where their first stop was. "This place is one of the best hangouts ever!" Nosedive said to the group as they walked.
"Is he serious?" Jenna asked.
"It's just his opinion," Duke responded.
Nosedive just gave him a look, "You just don't have good taste like I do."
As they walked Krystal looked at Duke and noticed something, "Hey Duke what's that thing on your shoulder.
They all stopped as he looked at her, "Oh this," He responded as he pulled the item off. "This is my special sword."
Out of nowhere a blade miraculously appeared on the hilt. The three were surprised at what they saw. "Wow, ist fantastisch!" Blitz said.
The two were lost as he said that. "What did he say?" Nosedive asked as he scratched his head..
"He said it was amazing," Krystal translated.
They both understood as Duke put the saber away, "Never leave home without it."
"You want to see something else cool?" Blitz asked.
They agreed and were amazed as Blitz unsheathed his claws, amazed as how big they were."
"Whoa those are so cool!" Nosedive said.
"I wouldn't want to be on the other side of those," Duke said.
"I get that a lot," Blitz responded as he retracted them.
They all continued walking until they reached at building called. 'Captain Comics'. "This one of the best place out of this whole entire place," Nosedive announced as he walked in.
Duke shook his head as he followed the teenager, "Here we go again."
The Rovers were confused as they followed their friends.
Nosedive walked in and saw two teens behind the counter, one male and one female. The male had brown hair, and the female had purplish hair. They both looked over and saw as he walked in, "Yo Divester!" the male called out.
"Hey Thrash, Hey Mookie," he responded as he leaned on the counter.
"What's up?" Asked Mookie.
Just then Duke and the other Rovers walked into the store and the two teens went wide eyed at the sight of them. "Whoa, these friends of yours?" Thrash asked.
"You bet it," Dive responded.
"Wow first walking, talking ducks, now dogs, what next?" he said as he moved and started poking at Blitz.
Blitz, once again, was getting annoyed at this and swatted the hand away, "Will you all stop doing that!"
Nosedive laughed a bit, "Sorry, guys this Thrash and Mookie, they're good friends of mine."
"Any friend of Dive is a friend of ours," Mookie said.
"Dive?" Krystal asked.
"It's short for my name," Nosedive responded.
They all understood what he said. "Come on there's more to see," Duke said.
"Man you're such a downer," Dive responded. "Come on lets hang here for a while."
"No and remember we have guest who want to see more then this place."
"Oh come on!" The other watched in amusement as Duke and Nosedive argued over what to do next. Today was turning out to be interesting for the Rovers as did the Ducks, New friends, new city. Today was proving to be one interesting day.
A/N: Hope you like, like i said i'm trying and doing other characters i don't know well is hard. Things will get better soon. Next chapter will be out soon.