Hero-Quest Adventures: Jump Start

by KHXhero

After saving a young girl, Gumball and his family find themselves on the run from a sinister organization. Meanwhile, Jamiko CJ Miyamoto recruits Sonic the Hedgehog, and various other heroes into the SPD to save the world from the Dark Phoenix, an evil organization who are using Shadow-Kaijin to take over the world.

20. Chapter 20: Shugyo

Ok, we're here at the next chapter, which will focus on the morning with some nice breakfast and some training towards the end.

Sorry for the longer wait. New stuff and ideas (for future stories) kept rolling in my head, so progress has been a bit slow. But don't worry. I want to keep working on this story, and I will get it done whatever it takes.

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Chapter 20: Shugyo

The Next Morning

A few minutes before 7 AM

A whole night of peace and quiet... followed by a morning of peace and quiet. Wait... Peace and Quiet? That didn't feel right. Opening his eyes, Lincoln looked down to see that he wasn't in his bed, despite that he had Bon Bon in his arms. Turning his head, he found himself in a dark room, with a couple of bunk beds around in the room. There was some quiet breathing in the room, with a couple of snores here and there. Looking to his left, he saw Ben on the lower bonk bed, sleeping on his side and snuggling his pillow.

"Twilight..." he spoke as he nuzzled the pillow. Lincoln rose an eyebrow in confusion. But he then turned his attention to the other lower bunk, seeing Jak sleeping upwards, his hands behind his head. Daxter was on the top bunk, snoring a bit, and drooling on the sheets. Turning his head back at Ben's bunk, on the top was Sonic snoozing. He then looked forward and saw CJ, sleeping face upwards on the other side of the room.

That's right. He wasn't at home. He was at the SPD Forest Base. It was a bit quiet. He was a bit surprised that he actually got a whole nine hours of sleep. Back home with his heroing stuff and what not, he would get a bit less than that. Plus, at his house, every morning he would be hearing some commotion going on that would wake him up from his beauty sleep, like Lori talking to Bobby on the phone, Leni screaming when she would mess up her hair, Luna's guitar playing, even the twins yelling at each other. But he didn't now, because he wasn't at home. This would be great, but yet it felt weird. It felt really weird not to hear the sound of his sisters' voices. Perhaps he gotten so used to it that it made him feel sane.

But he was then taken out of his thoughts by a sound of movement. Looking at the bed across to his right, he saw a yellow figure sitting on the side of the bed, giving a bit of a stretch and waking up. It was Ratchet.

"Morning." Lincoln said, getting his attention.

"Oh, morning." Ratchet said. "Lincoln, right?"

"Yeah." Lincoln answered.

"What time is it?" Ratchet asked. Lincoln glanced at his phone, checking the clock.

"Only a couple minutes til seven." He said.

"You look like you've slept well." Ratchet said. "I'm surprised that you're up. From what I've heard, humans usually have trouble getting up in the morning."

"It's an advantage you get when you have twelve more people in the house." Lincoln said.

"Oh, yeah." Ratchet said. "You mentioned that you had ten sisters, right?" The boy smiled.

"Yeah." Lincoln said.

"What's it like?" Ratchet asked. "Having that many sisters?" Lincoln began to think about it. Everyone at his school always asked that question.

"It's... interesting." Lincoln said.

"Interesting?" Ratchet asked. "Does it get a little chaotic?"

"Oh, it gets really chaotic." Lincoln said. "There's been a lot of improvement in the past couple years, though it's pretty much the same. Lori's bossy, Leni's ditzy, Luna's musical, Luan's funny, Lynn's sporty, Lucy's emo, Lana's dirty, Lola's bratty, Lisa's smart, and Lily's Lily. My sisters may be a lot different than me, but they do love me, even if they have to meddle sometimes."

"How so?" Ratchet asked.

"This one time, I was having issues with a bully at school, and she was actually a girl." Lincoln said, referring to a certain tough mexican girl. "My sisters found out and offered to beat the bully up. Lynn actually ran out and go grab a pending bully. But when I told them it was a girl, they believed that she was only bullying me because she liked me a lot. They actually told me that I should just tell her I liked her too. I mean, I never had a girl who wasn't a sister who liked me. So I let them help me out."

"How did that turn out?" Ratchet asked.

"I got punched in the face and got a black eye as a result." Lincoln said.

"Ouch." Ratchet said.

"Yeah, I wasn't really happy either." Lincoln said. "But then I got a love letter and an ice pack from the bully and she gave me her number. So, my sisters were right on the spot. And surprisingly, she was my sister Lori's bodyfriend's little sister. What a coincidence, am I right?" Ratchet couldn't help but laugh with the boy at how something funny ended up getting bad, than really food afterwards.

"Sounds like you don't get much space, huh." Ratchet said.

"Actually, to be honest, it's kinda nice." Lincoln said. "My siblings would always have my back when I needed them. They would offer to help out, even if they do meddle. Sure we sometimes don't get along, but we never let each other down. That, and I learned a lot about girls, too." Hearing that made Ratchet chuckle.

"What about you?" Lincoln asked. "You got family back home?"

"Well, I do have a mentor named Grimm, and we worked in a garage together." Ratchet said. "But family like a father, mother, or sister, no, I don't have any of that."

"Oh." Lincoln said a bit surprised. "I'm sorry."

"It's alright." Ratchet said. "Grimm's pretty much family, and Clank's family too, since we both crashed landed on a planet. But... sometimes I wonder if there is anyone else like me out there."

"I think I can already tell." Lincoln said. The lombax glanced back at the boy.

"You're really lucky to have a big family, Lincoln." Ratchet said.

"Yeah, everyone tells me that." Lincoln said. "And they're right. I wouldn't trade them for the world." The boy then glanced back at his phone, and clicked on it, seeing the clock. It was now 7:00 AM.

"It's seven-o-clock now." Lincoln said. Then suddenly, there were trumpet sounds in the background. The lombax gave a smile.

"Yep, this is definitely a military compound." Ratchet said as he got up. Clank soon opened his eyes up, and shifted from his backpack form to robot form. It seems his internal clock has woken him up. As the trumpet continued in the background, a bunch of groans came from Daxter, and Ben, who was starting to get grouchy from the sudden wake up call. CJ was the first to lift himself up, stretching to get ready for the day.

"Alright boys, it's time to get up." CJ said as he got up from the bed.

"I'm already up." Lincoln said.

"Same here." Ratchet said. Jak did a stretch before lifting himself out of bed, not even bothered by the trumpet sounds. He turned his head to look at Daxter, who was groaning with irritation from the sound.

"Time to wake up Dax." Jak said. The orange ottsel slowly opened his eyes, but gave a grunt.

"Ok..." He said as he lifted himself up and got out of bed. Suddenly, his feet didn't touch the floor, and he tumbled onto the ground, most likely because he was on the top bunk. "Owie..." Jak couldn't help but chuckle, and then turned back to Ben's bunk.

"Hey, time to get up." He said.

"Just five more minutes." Ben said as he covered his head with the blanket. Jak rolled his eyes and lifted part of the mattress Ben was sleeping on. He lifted it up a bit, causing Ben to slide down and hit his face on the floor.

"Ow!" Ben shouted.

"You're welcome." Jak said with a grin. Sonic was the last to awaken, as he opened one eye. With it, he looked around before opening his other eye, realizing he wasn't at home... wherever that could be.

"Right... SPD." He said as he gave a stretch. Curling into a ball, he hopped off the bunk bed, and shook himself to get the sleep jitters out.

"So... what's our first mission?" He asked.

"Breakfast." CJ said.

"Sweet." Sonic said as Ben got up from the ground and stretched, getting the pain from the impact out of his body.

"Wasn't the first time I got thrown out of bed." Ben said.

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In the other sleeping quarters...

A few minutes before the trumpet sound, the rest of the group, minus Skips, who's already up going for a jog, were inside the other sleeping quarters. Richard was face up on one bed, leaving behind some drool and he continued to sleep in and out. Mordecai and Rigby were sleeping in their own bunks, Mordecai on the bottom, Rigby on top. Darwin, who was given a nice bowl to sleep in, was sleeping soundly, much more happier since the bowl he was sleeping in was much bigger than the one he was sleeping in back at home, which was destroyed.

And Gumball and Aelita were actually snuggling. The girl was facing to the right, still asleep, while the blue cat was laying against her back, his right arm over her belly, and he was nuzzling a bit against her neck.

"Pssst... Aelita..." A voice whispered to her. The girl slowly moved her head, hearing the voice, but sleep still had it's hold on her.

"Aelita..." The voice said again. The girl slowly began to open her eyes. The blurriness was still there. Looking upwards a bit, she saw a light skinned girl with black hair, almost covering the right side of her face, while the left side was back a bit.

"Aelita... time to wake up." She said. The girl squinted her eyes a bit, thinking that she saw...

"Yumi?" The girl asked. Her vision finally cleared up, only to see Nicole looking down over her.

"No, sweetie, it's just me." Nicole said. The girl realized it. She wasn't back at her dorm... or at Kadic... or at the Wattersons. Everything that happened yesterday came back to her mind. Looking around, she realized she was at a new place, so everything that happened wasn't a dream.

"Oh, right." Aelita said.

"Did you sleep well?" The mama cat asked.

"Yes." Aelita said, lifting her head up a bit. "What's going on? And what time is it?"

"It's time to get up, honey." Nicole said. "We have a big day ahead of us."

"Ok..." The girl said as she began to lift herself up a bit, until suddenly, Gumball, still in his sleep, wrapped both arms around her upper chest, pulling her back a bit and snuggling against her.

"Um... Gumball?" The girl asked, as the cat continued to purr and nuzzle.

"Oh great." Nicole said, rolling her eyes. "Gumball, let Aelita go, ok? Gumball." She then tried to pull Gumball from Aelita, but he didn't let go. After a couple more attempts, the mama cat only sighed. No matter how many times she would try, her son wouldn't let go of Aelita. Probably because he was in protector mode or something. The girl then turned her head to glance at him.

"Gumball... can you let me go please?" She whispered into the cat's ear.

"Oookaaay..." He spoke sleepily, planting a kiss on the girl's cheek. And then, as if on command, Gumball released her and turned around, snuggling against the pillow he was sleeping on. Nicole was actually impressed Gumball listened to Aelita. Now if only he would listen to his own mom next time.

"Well, that's taken care of." Nicole said. "C'mon, let me help you up." The girl lifted herself up with her arms and her feet then met the floor. She had a little trouble getting up because of her round tummy, but the mama cat helped pull her up, allowing her to stand on her feet.

"Thank you." Aelita said.

"No problem." Nicole said. "Now you go wait outside while I wake the boys up."

"Do you want me to help you?" Aelita asked.

"Oh no, thank you, I'll take care of it." Nicole said. "Besides, you don't want to be in here when I wake the boys."

"Why's that?" Aelita asked.

"Because, let's just say I was... a different kind of person when I was working here at the SPD, and you really don't want to see me when that happens." Nicole said.

"You mean cat?" Aelita asked, pointing out that Nicole was actually a cat, not a person.

"Technically speaking, yes." Nicole said. "But trust me, you don't want to see this."

"Is it like how you took out that monster?" Aelita asked.

"No, nothing like that... well, except the shouting part." Nicole said. "Now you go wait outside, ok?"

"Ok." Aelita said as she made her way out of the room, which closed behind her, leaving Nicole to turn around and see the boys, and of course Richard, sleeping on the beds. She let out a sigh, and flicked on the lights. She then cleared her voice.

"ATTENTION!" Nicole shouted roll-call style. She pulled out a whistle and blew.

-FEEEEEEEEEEEEE!-

The sudden loud whistle made Gumball, Darwin, and Richard open up their eyes. The blue cat and fish with legs suddenly let out a shout of surprise, and Richard quickly tumbled over the bed, giving a funny shout before he hit the floor. Then the three boys quickly got up and lined up, standing together in unison.

"We're up, we're up, we're up, we're up!" All three of the said, though they started to feel a bit tired again. She then approached the right side where Mordecai and Rigby were sleeping.

"WAKE UUUUPPP!" Nicole screamed, with Rigby benig the first.

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" The raccoon screamed as he opened his eyes from the sudden shout, which scared the living hell out of him.

"UUUUUGGGH!" Mordecai shouted in annoyance, hearing Rigby screaming waking him up. He lifted himself up and noticed Nicole staring at him with a serious look. He yelped and covered himself with his sheet.

"What the hell, Mrs. W?!" Mordecai asked.

"GET UP!" She shouted, with the blue jay giving another yelp.

"Ok, ok, ok, we're getting up!" He said as he got out and lined up with the others, with Rigby still screaming by his side. Thankfully the blue jay closed the raccoon's snout to stop him from screaming.

"Alright, everybody accounted for?!" Nicole asked as she marched towards the boys, with Gumball looking at her with a bit of confusion.

"Mom, what's going on?" Gumball asked, before lettnig out a yawn.

"It's morning time and we got a big day ahead of us!" Nicole said, but then she looked at Mordecai and Rigby's left, seeing that someone wasn't awake. The mama cat scanned the end of the room, seeing a bed with sheets covered over someone. Nicole marched towards the bed and blew the whistle once more.

-FEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!-

She blew a couple of times, making the figure lift himself from the bed, revealing a certain blonde boy, drowsingly opening his eyes. He glanced at Nicole with a confused look.

"What are you doing?" Tommy asked.

"You're burning daylight!" Nicole said. "Now get up!"

"But it's Summer..." Tommy said, before glancing at his watch, seeing that it was 7:01AM.

"And It's seven in the morning?!" Tommy asked. "What is this, school?!"

"No, it's the Space Police Delta!" Nicole said. "Now get out of that bed!"

"Make me, you crazy bitch..." Tommy said as he laid back down on the bed, muttering a two word. Gumball and Richard's ears perked up in fear, while Darwin gasped.

"Uh oh..." Mordecai said, showing that he and Rigby also heard what Tommy had said, and no doubt Nicole did too. The mama cat marched to the side of the bed, and lifted the whole mattress up, toppling a yelping Tommy off and onto the ground.

"Ow..." He said.

"Watch the language." Nicole said as she dropped the mattress back down and made her way towards the door. "Alright, time for breakfast, let's move!" Gumball, Darwin, and Richard watched with a bit of confusion, while Tommy got up and rubbed his sore head.

"What's her deal?" Tommy asked.

"Oh, she's just getting back into her old military routine." Richard said.

"Huh?" The boys asked.

"I'll explain later." Richard said as he and the boys left the room, with Tommy taking his backpack, which contained Robotboy inside. The door opened and Nicole marched out, as Aelita took a peek to see Gumball and the others coming out a little drowsy.

"Are you all ok?" She asked.

"Yeah..." Gumball said as he rubbed his eyes. "Mom woke us up..."

"Wow, she sure was loud." Carrie's voice spoke from behind the blue cat, making him yelp and hug Aelita tightly.

"Oh, it's just you." Gumball said. "Where have you been?"

"I sometimes seep deep into the ground whenever I sleep." Carrie said. "It's actually more comfy."

"Well, can you please not sneak up behind me like that?" Gumball asked. "It's so annoying."

"You know I can't promise that." Carrie said. "Seeing you squeal brings me a bit of joy." She then flew past them. The pink haired girl glanced back at Gumball.

"Um... Gumball, you can let me go now." Aelita said. The blue cat realized that he was still hugging the girl. He released her.

"Sorry." He said with a nervous smile. "Anyway, let's go get something eat. I'm starving after yesterday." The blue cat and rest made their way down the hall. Just as Gumball and Darwin headed down, Aelita turned her head, and noticed a certain two-tailed fox sitting on the floor, his back against the wall, and his head hung low. From his expression, he's deeply sad. Wondering what was wrong, the girl approached him.

"Hi Tails." She said. The two tailed fox glanced up to look at her.

"Oh, hey..." Tails said.

"Are you ok?" Aelita asked.

"I didn't sleep well last night." Tails said. "Sonic told me what happened..."

"Oh..." The girl responded, knowing what he was referring to. She sat down next to him.

"I'm sorry for what happened to the others." Tails said.

"It's ok." Aelita said. "I miss them very much too." Suddenly, the two tailed fox gave her an warm embrace, trying his best not to weep. The girl stroked his fur, giving him comfort.

"How could this happen?" Tails asked. "Why did it have to be them? They didn't hurt anybody."

"I asked myself that question over and over too." The girl said, showing a sad face as well.

"How do you deal with it?" Tails asked. The girl began to think on that. Truth be told, she didn't have an answer for that. The images of her friends being slaughtered still lingered in her mind, and were not going to go away.

"I still dealing with it." She said as she gave the fox a warm nuzzle. As the two departed, he gave a deep sigh.

"They're serving breakfast." Aelita said. "Maybe that will cheer you up."

"I dunno." Tails said. "I'm not feeling hungry right now." That was surprising. He would usually be hungry. But the news of Jeremie and the others passing away was making him less motivated.

"Well, you should at least eat something." Aelita said as she helped him up. "They wouldn't want you to starve yourself."

"Ok." Tails said. "But I don't think that-" Suddenly, a speaker began to ran the room.

"All Personal Report to the Mess Hall!" The speaker said. "Today's special... Waffles!" Tails' ears perked up hearing that.

"Waffles?!" Tails asked, a sudden smile formed on his face, all trace of sadness was washed away from his body. "They're serving waffles?! Yahoo!" Spinning his tails with excitement, he flew off down the hall, surprising Aelita. He leaned back to look at her.

"C'mon, Aelita!" Tails said. "Let's Go Eat!" He flew down towards the mess hall. The girl couldn't help but smile. Seeing Tails' spirits lift up brought some joy to her. It was sad that Jeremie and the others were gone. But she too knew that they wouldn't want her to feel miserable. She had to keep her chin up high, no matter what.

Sudden, she felt a growl in her stomach, and a little teeny kick. Looking down at her tummy, she rubbed it's round surface.

"You feeling hungry, don't ya?" Aelita asked, talking to the unborn child within her. She felt a kick, making her smile.

"Me too." She said as she followed Tails down to the mess hall.

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For those who aren't in the military and plan on joining, keep in mind that during basic training, they wake up early in the morning, about 4:30 AM at the least. Good news for the SPD, they usually wake up during either 6:00 AM or 7:00 AM, and here it is the latter. Luckily for Sonic, Jak, Lincoln and Clank, they had experience waking up that early in the morning. For Sonic, he likes to get up in the morning and jog, while Jak likes to do some workout early in the day, Lincoln has his sisters and their antics wake him up, and Clank, well, he's a robot. Ben, however, doesn't like waking up early during the summer, Daxter would rather sleep in, and as for Ratchet, well, not sure about him. But he was lucky to get up early at all because of the timezone.

Good news was that they were going to get some breakfast, the most important meal of the day. Our heroes can't begin training or go on a mission on an empty stomach. Of course, the only question is, what is there to eat. As they entered the cafeteria, they saw some of the SPD soldiers inside chatting and eating. As they saw what they had, they had the usual MRE, which is short for Meals Ready-To-Eat in Army Slang. Which usually consists of Entree such as spaghetti and beef, side dishes of rice, corn, fruit, mashed potatoes, some cracker or bread, peanut butter, jelly or cheese spread, you know, the usual things those would eat.

Of course in the morning, here at the SPD, they serve waffles, whic are actually pretty good. The sight of the waffles on his plate surprised Ratchet. He has never seen anything like this.

"Uhhh... what is this?" Ratchet asked.

"Waffles." Jak said.

"Grain Waffles." Sonic said. "Not much but I'll take it." The three looked over the table and saw loads of waffles in the back. Ben couldn't help but snicker.

"Evil beware..." Lincoln spoke, imitating Raven from Teen Titans. "We have waffles..." That reference made the group chuckle, except for Ratchet and Clank, who weren't familiar with it.

"Do villains here on Earth hate waffles?" Clank asked.

"No, it's just a joke." Daxter said.

"How do you make them?" Ratchet asked.

"It's just leavened batter or dough you cook between two plates and such." Sonic said "Made all the way in France and Belgium." Ratchet only nodded, and then his eyes were met at a strange red colored round shaped piece of food with a small twig on top sticking out of it. He picked it up and examined it.

"What's this?" Ratchet asked.

"An apple." Sonic spoke. "It's fruit."

"Fruit?" Ratchet asked.

"Just Eat it." Sonic said. The lombax looked at the fruit, and with a wide mouth, he took a bite out of the apple. His eyes opened wide, as the taste was delight. A little crunchy and soft at the same time. Sour and bitter, but very sweet and juicy.

"Wow, this is good." Ratchet said.

"They come from trees." Sonic said.

"From Apple trees." Ben said. "They're also used to make cider."

"And how do you know that?" CJ asked.

"I know a friend who's friends with a farmgirl, and her entire family plant apple trees manually." Ben said, taking a bite from his waffles. "They know how to make good quality apple food."

"Don't eat with your mouth full, please." CJ said. Sonic couldn't help but chuckle.

"Still the same Ben Tennyson that I remember." He said.

"And you're still the same Sonic I remember." Ben said. Sonic only smiled.

"Yeah, but I wouldn't say I'm completely the same." Sonic said.

"Let me guess, the Black Arms invasion did a change in you?" Ben said. Sonic only looked at his plate for a minute, before turning his head back, seeing Sally and Alyx chatting.

"No, but it did change some people around me." He said, his eyes were focused on Sally, who was oblivious to the blue blur looking at her. While the fight with the Black Arms hardly changed him, it did affect Sally greatly. The memory of her on the floor with his wrists sliced up after her breakdown lingered a bit in his mind, and that horrific scene. While he had seen scary things, but seeing her broken like that, that was probably the most terrifying thing he had seen. And it did terrify him.

"Hey guys!" A chirpy voice said, drawing the blue hedgehog from his thoughts. He turned to see Gumball, Darwin, and Aelita. Seeing the blue cat's happy face gave Sonic peace of mind, allowing him to smile.

"Oh, hey Gumball." Sonic said. "Heard your mom woke you guys up before we did."

"Yeah, we're still a bit tired from it." Darwin said, giving a little yawn.

"Can we sit here for a while?" Gumball asked.

"Sure, I don't see why not." Sonic said, seeing that the table they were all at had seats available.

"Great!" Gumball said as he sat closely to the blue blur, and Darwin on the other side. As Darwin sat down, he then noticed Daxter staring at him with a bit of confusion.

"Uhhh... are you suppose to be a fish or something?" Daxter asked.

"Why yes." Darwin said. "What are you suppose to be?"

"An Ottsel." Daxter said. "But I'm also a Precursor."

"What's that?" Darwin asked.

"They're the most powerful beings in the universe." Daxter whispered.

"So does that mean you have magical powers?" Darwin asked. The ottsel was about to speak, but then he remembered that he didn't.

"No, but I used to be human." Daxter said. "Until somebody pushed me into a pool of Dark Eco years ago."

"I heard that." Jak said.

"Well, it's true." Daxter said.

"You used to be human?" Darwin asked. "I'm sorry to hear that."

"Nah, it's actually ok." Daxter said. "Because the ladies love the Orange Lightning." The fish was a bit confused when the ottsel referred himself as Orange Lightning, but he shrugged it off as he ate a bite of his waffles.

"So, what's been going on Sonic?" Gumball asked. "Have you been on any adventures recently?"

"Yeah, a lot of adventures." Sonic said. "I just got back from New York City."

"New York City?" Gumball and Darwin asked.

"No way!" Gumball said. "Did you meet those four guys who mess with each other on TV?"

"No, I was helping a friend with some stuff." Sonic said. "He and I were caught in a pickle and I got pulled into his fight with some guys who were trying to kill him, so I helped him take them down."

"What kind of a pickle?" Darwin asked.

"It involved us getting tied up and almost executed." Sonic said. The two boys gasped.

"Please, tell us!" Gumball said.

"Tell us the story!" Darwin said. The two teens gave sparkle eyes, wanting to hear the tale. At first, he didn't want to because of the order for the Magical Realm, but these two were friends with a giant, and they know the giant's mother is a witch, so perhaps it wouldn't hurt. The blue hedgehog couldn't help but smile.

"Alright, I'll tell you." Sonic said. "Only if you promise to keep it a secret."

"We promise!" The two boys said with a salute. The blue hedgehog gave a chuckle as he laid back a bit and began telling the story.

"Alright, story time." Sonic said as he tossed his apple into the air like a baseball. "It all started a long while ago, while I was minding my own business in New York City. Just chillin', and relaxing, until I hear some commotion coming from above the rooftops. I see a red fire breathing dragon fighting this young huntress. These two actually had history, but I won't go into detail about that. So, I helped the dragon escape the huntress, only for her master and his Huntsclan forces to capture us. They imprisoned me and dragon boy along side other magical creatures, and they prepared to slaughter us, but the red dragon, used his smooth talking skills to distract the huntress while I got the key. We escaped, but the Hunters followed to capture us, but me and the dragon boy trained the magical creatures to fight, helping them overcome their fears, and using their luck against the enemy. We won the battle, the Huntsclan retreated, and the Huntsman got his butt torched by the boy dragon. And ever since then, I've been helping the dragon tackle the Huntsclan ever since, stopping them from retrieving the magical Skulls that would allow them to wipe out the magical realm, and half of the human race. It all led to a climatic battle to end them once and for all, where the huntress, who defected to our side, betrayed her master and helped us defeat him. It was tough, it was rough, he was stronger than us, but we had help from unlikely heroes who joined the battle. In the end, we triumphed, and the Huntsman was no more. His army collapsed, and the magical realm was safe and sound."

"Ooooooooo..." Gumball and Darwin said in unison. "Cool..."

"Yeah, too cool." Sonic said as he drank his drink.

"If you guys are wondering, I was the unlikely hero who saved him from getting killed." CJ said to the boys, with Sonic almost choking on his drink.

"Dude, don't ruin the moment." Sonic said.

"Well, you didn't mention me." CJ said.

"Wow..." Aelita said, a bit amazed. "You must've been busy."

"Yeah, I was." Sonic said.

"So you're friends with a dragon?" Lincoln asked astonished. "That is so cool."

"Yeah, totally." Ratchet said. "But I need to ask, what's a dragon?"

"Fire breathing creature with wings." Lincoln added. Ben, Jak, and Daxter were actually showing faces of surprise at the hedgehog.

"Wait, wait, you went up against the Huntsclan?" Ben asked.

"The dragon slayers?" Daxter asked.

"Yeah." Sonic said.

"Since when did you get involved in the fight between the dragons and slayers?" Jak asked.

"I told you, they kidnapped me so I decided to take them down." Sonic said. "Plus, my dad had a run in with them a long, long time ago-" The blue hedgehog stopped himself for a minute, a bit surprised that Ben, Jak, and Daxter know about the Huntsclan. How did they know?

"Wait, how do you guys know about the Huntsclan?" He asked.

"We dealt with them a few times back in the Wasteland." Jak said.

"And they were shooting green energy bullets from their sticks." Daxter said. "I almost got my ears burnt off from all that."

"Gwen's magical herself." Ben said. "We had a little detour in the Magical Realm to learn more about her magical heritage, and learned a lot about it. Plus, the Forever Knights used to be friends with the Huntsclan."

"Huntsclan?" Tommy asked, with everyone realizing that he was listening in on the conversation and the story. "You're talking about those dragon killing psychos?"

"Yeah, and this guy took them out." Ratchet said.

"Wicked." Tommy said.

"Wow." Sonic said amazed, surprised that Tommy was aware of all this too. "Everybody just knows everything."

"Knows what?" The group turned to see Mordecai and Rigby approaching the table.

"Sonic had a run in with some dragon slayers." Ben said.

"Dude, I said to keep it a secret." Sonic said.

"You told them to keep it a secret, not me." Ben said, with the blue hedgehog rolling his eyes.

"You took down dragon murderers?" Rigby asked as he and Mordecai leaned in with the group. "Sweeeeet...!"

"So, how did you get aquainted with Sonic the Hedgehog?" Mordecai asked Ben.

"It's a long story." Ben said. "It happened a few years ago. Dr. Animo was working with, what was his name again? Robuttnik?"

"Eggman, but yes." Sonic said.

"Right." Ben said as he continued the story. "Animo and Eggman were turning animals into robots. Animo supplied Eggman the animals, and the latter turned them into robots. I ran into Sonic, and I saved him from drowning in a lake."

"Correction." Sonic said. "I saved him first when the giant robot squirrels had him stuck in one of the tree holes."

"But I still saved you from drowning." Ben said.

"I could've gotten out of there." Sonic said in defense.

"No, you wouldn't have had." Ben said. "But you did manage to blow up Animo's giant Gorilla Armor, so I'll give you credit for that."

"Yeah, I sure did." Sonic said. "And I saved you again after your watch powered down and you were dropping high in the sky." Ben only rolled his eyes too.

"And that is why you're the X-treme." Ben said, crossing his arms forming an X.

"No I'm not." Sonic said.

"You battled a giant robot Gorilla?" Lincoln asked.

"Actually it was a psycho animal controller wearing a Gorilla Mech, but yes." Sonic said.

"Really?" Gumball asked. "You fought a lunatic wearing a Gorilla Mech?"

"Please tell us!" Darwin said. Sonic only gave a smile, and glanced at Ben.

"Ok, you're turn." Sonic said, with Ben giving a nod.

"Ok, it all happened like a few years ago." Ben began with the story. "Me, my cousin Gwen, and my Grandpa traveled the world during the summer, and wewere dealing with Dr. Animo, a scientist who can control animals. He was actually working with Dr. Ivo Robotnik to build an army of robot animals. I ran into Sonic in the forest, and I saved him from drowning in the lake nearby. After hearing about his battle with the mustached man, we agreed to help him. We managed to follow Animo back to Eggman's old Flying Battery Battleship. Me and Sonic were making our way through the base while the crazy round guy try to vaporize us with his lazer ceiling machine. The whole fortress was beginning to break apart because of that, so we quickly made our way all the way to the top. Then, Dr. Animo jumped down to smash us with his Gorilla Mech, but I went Fourarms and managed to bash him to the ground, while Sonic ripped Eggman's flying Hawk to pieces. We escaped the Flying Battery just as it was crashing down into the desert below us."

"And I saved his life." Sonic finished.

"Wow!" Gumball and Darwin said in unison. "So cool."

"And Tails managed to steal a kiss from Gwen." Sonic said, still chuckling remembering that moment. It was only a few years ago, but it was still funny to this day.

"But more importantly, that is how Sonic became the X-treme." Ben said.

"Oh, so that's where that name X-Treme came from." Ratchet said, knowing the name as well.

"The X-treme." Jak and Daxter said playfully.

"Guys, don't, you're embarrassing me." Sonic said.

"If you don't mind me asking." Aelita said to Ben. "Why do you call Sonic the... X-treme?"

"Because, there's a good reason for that." Ben said. "Sonic... is the X-treme."

"Ooooooo..." Gumball and Darwin said in unison.

"Wait, what does that mean?" the latter asked.

"In short, Sonic's the most craziest son of a bitch in the whole planet." Jak said.

"Nah, I came in second." Sonic said.

"Yeah, right." Ratchet said. "I've seen the blue blur in full profile. You guys should've seen him helping us in Grelbin."

"Grelbin?" Gumball and Darwin asked.

"It's one of the planets me and Clank visited." Ratchet said.

"Oh yes, I do remember that." Clank said. "It is actually one of the coldest planets in the Bogon Galaxy. We should tell them about it."

"No, don't tell them about that one." Sonic said, though nobody could hear him.

"You guys are talking about our time on Greblin?" Tails asked as he popped in. "Tell the story! It's the best!" With everyone wanting to hear the story, Sonic could only shake his head as Ratchet started to tell them that story.

"So we were on Grelbin to find a way to get to our friend's home there, and we had to collect moonstones to do so." Ratchet began with the story.

"Moonstones?" Darwin asked. "Are those stones found from the moon?"

"No, actually." Clank said. "They are rare rock crystals found in the Tundor Wastes, and they are worth a lot of bolts."

"Bolts?" Gumball asked.

"Yeah, in our galaxy, bolts are used for currancy." Ratchet said. Gumball and Darwin hung their mouths open wide.

"Wow..." They both said.

"So, what happened on this Grelbin?" Aelita asked.

"Trust me, you don't want to know." Sonic said, not wanting anyone to know that story.

"But we wanna know." Gumball said.

"Me too!" Darwin said.

"I want to know." Lincoln said, leaning in to listen. Sonic only sighed as Ratchet continued the story.

"Well, me, Clank, Sonic, and Tails were searching for Moonstones to give to the Mystic Guru so we can get these 'Forces' to move a massive rock out of the way, but the whole Wastes was full of YETIs that popped out of the ground and scare you." Ratchet said.

"And let us not forget the Arctic Leviathans." Clank said, remembering the snake-like monsters that burst from frozen patches of the water below.

"Oh yeah, those too." Ratchet said. "So a huge pack of YETIs start chasing us after we found a moonstone just north of the campsite and we were just running and running. We ran out of ammo because they kept coming out of the ground. Tails informed us that we were on a huge lake covered with snow, so Sonic here used his cool spinning ability to saw through the ground and caused the area to break off a bit, making the YETIs fall right into the water and freeze solid. Then out of nowhere, an Arctic Leviathan shows up and gobbles Sonic up, only for the blue devil to spin dash and slice through the Leviathan's neck, killing it. He came out alive, holding a Moonstone, unharmed."

"Really?" Lincoln asked as he looked at the blue hedgehog. "You killed a serpent alien from inside it?" Sonic looked away a bit embarrassed and sighed.

"Yes, yes I did." Sonic said. Lincoln was a bit shocked. He has heard legends of the blue hedgehog defeating monsters and enemies and such, but he had no idea the blue blur sliced up a monster from the inside.

"Awesome..." Gumball and Darwin said, while Aelita was a bit surprised. Sonic, however, didn't feel too proud of that, since he had to kill the monster that nearly ate him.

"Oh, oh, oh!" Daxter said. "Let's tell them about our adventures with Sonic in the Wasteland."

"Guys, no, please." Sonic said, his hand on his forehead, giving a nervous shake.

"Oh, tell us about the rabbits george." Ben joked.

"Rabbits?" Ratchet asked.

"It's from the book Of Mice and Men." Ben said.

"Huh?" Ratchet asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I'll explain later." Ben said. "Anyway, please tell us."

"No, don't tell him." Sonic said anxiously.

"Well, you're the storyteller Dax." Jak said with a nod, ignoring Sonic's pleas, with Daxter giving a bright smile.

"Alright, it goes like this." Daxter said as Sonic sighed in defeat. "It all happened several months ago. Me and Jak were traveling with Sonic during our time in the Wasteland, just minding our own business and looking for lost artifacts. Suddenly, not one, not three, but two Metal Head Beasts, almost the size of a city wall door came out of nowhere, and while Jak was driving the Gila Stomper and Sonic eating a chili-dog he brought along, I was in the back shooting at the Metal Beasts."

"No you weren't, Dax." Sonic said. "You were screaming in agony."

"And you were butt-naked." Jak said, pointing at the hedgehog.

"No, I wasn't!" Sonic said. "I was not naked!"

"Yeah you were." Daxter said. "So, anyway, we kept trying everything, but we're getting nowhere with these beasts. Then, a pair MetalBats started circling under us, causing the wind to blow, and it blew the chili-dog right out of Sonic's hand, causing it to fly up in the air. But then, the mighty Blue Blur jumps out of the vehicle, rushes his way to get his delicious chili-dog, But before all that, he rushed towards one of the beasts and hopped on it's back. He tangled with one of the Metal Heads on top of it and stabbed it with it's own lance. He then pushed the cannon on the back of the beast and aimed it at the other one, blasting it's head, blasting it right off! He then stabbed the beast he was just on in the head, making it pop out it's skull gem from it's socket. He then jumped up as the beasts fell, started spin-dashing into the MetalBats, bashing their skullgems right out of their sockets, and managed to grab his lunch without it ever dropping to the ground. He made a perfect landing and took a bite of his chili-dog, while the corpses of the Metal Heads laid behind him."

"And that was one of the many stories of Sonic the Hedgehog." Daxter concluded.

"Whooooaaaa..." Gumball and Darwin said as they glanced back at Sonic, who was shaking his head and giving a blush.

"Really?" Tommy asked. "Didn't know you had a dark side."

"I don't." Sonic said.

"You took down those monsters because they blew away your lunch?" Aelita asked.

"Yes, he did." Daxter said.

"No, that was not true." Sonic said. "Aelita, boys, this is all a web of lies." Everyone was looking at him, knowing that what he just said wasn't true.

"Seriously?" Jak asked.

"Okay, okay, most of that is true, actually it was all true." Sonic said. "But I was not in my right mind back then. I was young and stupid."

"This happened months ago." Ratchet said. He was right, Sonic knew this was a losing battle for him.

"Ok, strong point." Sonic admitted. "But that's not me now. During those times I was a different Sonic, a brasher, twisted Sonic. But I killed him." CJ turned his head towards the blue hedgehog.

"No you didn't." He said.

"Yes, I did." Sonic said.

"Well if you weren't that Sonic, then you wouldn't have had thrown that gernade at the Huntsman." CJ said.

"And let's not forget how you blew that creepy guy with the metal arm yesterday." Lincoln said. Hearing that made Sonic lower his head on the table.

"Ok, maybe I am still a bit crazy." Sonic said, admitting it, while Ben, Ratchet, Clank, Jak, and Daxter laughed, but applauded.

"Hey Kids!" Richard called out, with the blue cat and the fish with legs turning to see their father at the food stand. "They're serving seconds!"

"Awesome!" Gumball and Darwin cheered as they got up.

"Yes!" Mordecai and Rigby said as they rushed towards the food stand, while pulling Tommy along with them.

"C'mon Aelita, let's get some more food!" The blue cat said as he took Aelita's hand and the two went to follow Darwin, Mordecai, and Rigby.

"They're serving seconds?" Tails asked as he got up. "Wait for me!" As the two tailed fox flew after them, Sonic lifted his head up from the table.

"Why did you guys tell them those stories?" Sonic asked.

"Because they're the best!" Daxter said.

"But you guys made me sound like a psychopath." Sonic said.

"Dude, they were just monsters." Jak said. "You weren't killing real people."

"Yeah, dude." Ratchet said. "Just lighten up. We all know you're not a complete lunatic."

"I would prefer the word, sociopath, actually." Clank said.

"Yeah, well I'm suppose to be a positive influence." Sonic said. "I'm suppose to be a symbol of hope. But the only recent thing I've done was shoot that Drex creep with the Peace Maker and made him get torched by his truck explosion."

"And the Huntsman, you took him down too, right?" Ben asked.

"Well I didn't take him down..." Sonic said. "I blew him up after swatting his own energy staff back at him."

"Still wicked." Ben said with a smile.

"How is that wicked?" Sonic asked.

"Well most of his body were gears and cybernetics." CJ said.

"That doesn't matter." Sonic said.

"Well, was he giving up?" Ben asked.

"No, he wasn't giving up." Sonic said. "He even shouted in my face before I beat him down that he wasn't gonna stop until he destroys everything in his path."

"Then you did the necessary thing." Jak said. "He didn't want to stop, so you put him down."

"Yeah, and that Drex guy wasn't gonna stop until he killed you, so you kicked him to the curve." Ratchet said.

"I think we all had a good part to play in that." Lincoln said.

"That doesn't make me feel any better." Sonic said, glancing at his food. "Sure what I did was necessary, but it didn't make it the right thing... morally to speak."

"Hey, don't be so ideal." CJ said. "Taking a life is never easy for all of us, but under circumstances, there's no other way. Sometimes people, bad people usually, do need to die for things to change."

"Yeah, I suppose your right." Sonic said.

"But don't worry, it's not like you don't have a choice in the matter." Ben said. "But even heroes have to make tough choices."

"That too." Sonic said. They were right on the spot. What Sonic did was necessary. If he hadn't blown Drex and or the Huntsman to smitherines, they would've killed him and all of them. Sonic saved two worlds, and all of his friends doing so. And now those baddies aren't gonna hurt anyone ever again.

Getting out of his thoughts, Sonic took a look around the room, seeing everyone eating. But someone was absent in the room. A certain mama cat was actually leaving the mess hall.

"Where's Mrs. W going?" The blue blur thought. It was probably not important.

---

Making her way towards the side of the hall, Nicole went into her quarters to get ready for the big day. To be honest, this felt more weirder than ever before. Fourteen years it has been since she left the SPD to live a normal life with her family, and more importantly, to be a mother to her children. She never thought that she would have to get back into her old life as the SPD's top agent.

A little known fact is that when Nicole was fifteen, her parents had shipped her to a boarding school after she and Richard accidently crashed their car while they were on a date. Actually, they stole the car. To punish her and prevent her from seeing Richard again, her parents had her shipped to a board school so she could get a higher education to succeed, only to be thrown in the middle of a battle between the SPD and a giant Kaijin that killed everyone on the bus, except for her.

When they found her, she was recruited into the SPD, and within almost a couple years, she became the best leading lieutenent of the SPD's A-Squad, the organization's top expert Kaijin Hunters. It seems that all those years of taking so many extracurricular activities growing up actually paid off. Even after being married to Richard and carrying Gumball in her tummy, she still worked with them. But after losing most of her close friends, getting scratched and almost losing her little boy, she called it quits so she could be a mother to her son, and her daughter... well, now she doesn't have a daughter anymore since Anais betrayed them and left them for dead.

Even after all that, she was still glad that the SPD were able to answer her distress call, and that she kept what was left of her old life back at the house... which was all gone now, except for the equipment she brought with her. And now that she and her family was here, she knew what she had to do. She had to get back into the game and fight. She'll do whatever it takes to protect her family, her husband, her sons, and Aelita, the girl who saved her son in his most desparate time of need. She'll do anything to protect her too, the girl she's willing to accept as her daughter.

The mama cat reached into her bag and lifted out a combat suit, the same one she wore in her days of the SPD. The suit was white with the front part, the under part of her arms and the inner part of her legs were black. A red letter A was on the front, and a bet was wrapped around her waist, with pistol slots in the back. Think of it like a combination of Black Widow's suit and Kim Possible's battle suit.

She placed it on. Nicole was quite impressed that the suit still fit after fourteen years. Well, she had trouble to get the back zipped up, which was the hardest to do. She tried glancing at the mirror to get a better angle to see the zipper, but for a moment, she looked down at her own hips and backside. Her hand slid from her but to the side of her hip. While her legs were skinny like Gumball's, her hips were a bit bigger than his, and so was her buttocks. Of course, she did have two children. She let out a sigh.

"God, I look big." She said, unaware of the door opening.

"Oh, hi honey." Richard said, making the mama cat yelp in surprise.

"Richard!" Nicole said, with the rabbit realizing that she was changing.

"Oh, sorry!" Richard said as he covered his eyes and tried to walk out, only to hit his head on the side of the doorway and fell flat on his back. "Ow."

"Richard, are you ok?" Nicole asked.

"Yeah, I'm good." Richard said with a smile, showing no injury whatsoever. Perhaps his chubby features make it impossible for him to bruise up. Nicole couldn't help but chuckle as she helped her husband back on his feet. Taking the moment, Richard gasped with awe as he saw his wife in her combat suit.

"Whoa..." Richard said. "Look at you... so fiesty!" Nicole couldn't help but smile at Richard's flirting.

"Thanks honey." Nicole said. "Though I got a little problem in the back."

"Oh, I'll help you." Richard said as the mama cat turned around, showing her exposed back. The rabbit zipped up the zipper on the back, covering Nicole's back and completely zipped up the suit for her.

"Thanks, Richard." Nicole said, before examining herself in the mirror, and her hands were on her hips and buttom. "But I can't help but think that I've grown in the wrong places."

"Oh, don't think that honey." Richard said. "I think you look great. And come to think of it, your build gives you a more dominant, sexy look." Feeling Richard's hand playfully pat her butt made Nicole blush and smile even more. Most women don't usually like that, but the mama cat did.

"Oh, Richard, stop." She said as she pinched Richard's cheek playfully, making the big rabbit chuckle. However, the mama cat couldn't help but look down at the ground, showing a face of guilt.

"What's wrong?" Richard asked, taking notice.

"I'm sorry I have to get back in the game, honey." Nicole said. "I promised myself that I wouldn't go through this again, but with everything that's happened..." She couldn't help but sigh.

"Awww, it's only been fourteen years, honey." Richard said.

"I know, but I wasn't expecting things to get to where they are now." Nicole said. "I mean, I did a little bit, but just not this soon."

"Don't worry, Nicole." Richard said. "Besides, I know you do it for us, and I know you're capable of taking care of yourself." Nicole looked at her husband. A reassured smile formed on her face. Despite Richard's lack of responsibility, common sense, and of course his childlike behavior and uncouth mannerism, he is just so understanding, loyal, and is always willing to cheer her up.

"Oh Richard." Nicole said. "You have such a good soul." She embraced him with a loving hug, while he gave an affectionate lick on the cheek.

"What are you doing?" She asked.

"You know you love it." Richard said as her proceeded to lick her cheek. It was gross, but he was right. Nicole really loved it.

---

An Hour Later...

"And here is our weapons room." Kleiner said as he, Barney, and Alyx lead the rest of the group into the Weapons Room. After breakfast, the group were given a tour around the base, since it's going to serve as a Hub Home during their work with the SPD. They were just getting back from the Communications Room, where Mordecai and Gumball made sure Darwin and Rigby didn't push any buttons, especially big red buttons. Word of advice, don't ever push the red ones. Now they were touring the weapons room, which is where the Space Police Delta stores their weapons. Many weapons, ranging from blades, axes, guns, snipers, even vehicles like bikes, trucks, and even tanks were stored here, and the group was quite impressed.

"Wow, nice guns." Ratchet said.

"And nice rides." Jak said.

"Thank you, they are all SPD property, by the way." Kleiner said. "We have used these during various missions around the globe against terrorist groups and Kaijin species."

"Is this where you get your cool weapons and such?" Lincoln asked CJ.

"More or less." CJ answered. "But my armor comes with all the battle cards and equipment needed to access my arsenal." Marshall took a look a round, and spotted a vehicle that looked like Chase's Police Car, but it was more blue, with green lining, silver plates, and tires with spikes on the rims.

"Hey Chase, that vehicle looks like yours." Marshall said.

"It is mine." Chase said. "This is where I got my own equipment, and my new Plasma Ball Launcher."

"Plasma Ball Launcher?" Marshall asked.

"Yeah." Chase said. "I was surprised by it too."

"You guys use all kinds of weapons?" Gumball asked.

"Yep, we range from energy swords, axes, blasters, guns." Barney said. "And of course Eli's favorite, the Gravity Gun."

"Gravity Gun?" Ratchet asked.

"We'll show you." Alyx said as she led the group towards one the weapon racks, which showed several Gravity Guns.

"This is the Gravity Gun." Alyx said, taking one of them off the wall.

"Gravity Gun?" Lincoln asked.

"Actually it's the Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator." Dr. Kleiner said. "Or known as ZPEFM." ZPEFM? Who came up with a name like that?

"That's a long name." Ben said.

"And that's why we call it the Gravity Gun." Alyx said. "It's designed to handle dangerous hazards, but we mainly use it for heavy lifting."

"Heavy lifting?" Lincoln asked. "You mean lift stuff off the ground with it, despite how much it weighs?"

"You catch on pretty quick, kid." Alyx said with a nod. "It's quite handy for clearing mine fields."

"Hey, can I see that?" Ratchet asked, with the girl handing him the device. The lombax examined the gun from top to bottom.

"What's he doing?" Jak asked.

"He does this from time to time, whenever he gets a new weapon or gadget." Clank said.

"So he's like a gun inspector or something?" Daxter asked.

"If you wanna call him that, yes." Sonic said, with Jak and Ben givnig a chuckle. Clank also examined the device.

"Hmmmm... it seems that it is powered by a Xen crystal, a crystaline structure of exotic matter." Clank said. "Do you have blueprints for this device?"

"Right here." Alyx said as she gave the blueprints to the two, and the lombax began to read them silently.

"It looks like it's custom made from... Blargian tech." Ratchet said. Seeing those words, and examining the prints put a smile on his face. "Clank, you got those mods we bought from Slim Cognito?"

"Yes, I do." Clank said as he opened his air vent, and pulled out various different parts and mods.

"Wow." CJ said. "How does that little robot fit all those in there?"

"No one knows." Sonic said. Back with Ratchet he picked up the necessary parts that he thinks would work and began working.

"Alright then." Ratchet said as he tossed the blueprints aside, took the Gravity Gun and the mods he needed and began... tinkering with the gun. "Ok, all I have to do is invert the energy coil, then add a couple of wires here and there, re-adjust the Xen crystal-" The sounds of tinkering, wires, and other working noises were made as the lombax began re-arranging the gun, as the others watched.

"What is he doing now?" Lincoln asked.

"He's upgrading it." Clank said.

"Upgrading it?" Mordecai and Rigby asked.

"...and Done!" Ratchet said, lifting the weapon up, showing the device which was now glowing blue, with a larger xen crystal chamber, and a sharper nozzle.

"What just happened?" Kleiner asked.

"I think he enhanced one of our Gravity Guns." Alyx said with a smile.

"What a tinker." Barney said.

"It's now known as the Physics Gun." Ratchet said.

"Physics Gun?" Rigby asked, then gave a snirkle and laugh. "That's the stupidest name for a gun that I've ever heard." As the raccoon laughed, the blue jay next to him rolled his eyes in annoyance. Ratchet on the other hand, looked at the laughing raccoon, then at the physics gun.

"May I test it on him?" He asked.

"Go for it." Mordecai said, getting Rigby's attention.

"Wait, what?" He asked. Before he could react, the lombax aimed the physics gun and shot a beam right at rigby. To everyone's surprise, the raccoon was lifted off the ground.

"Hey, What are you doing?!" Rigby asked. "Put Me Down! Put Me Down!"

"Whoa..." Ben and Mordecai said.

"The Physics Gun acts like the Gravity Gun, only now it's range of what it can lift is upgraded." Ratchet said. "Not only does it lift and manipulate objects, but organic life-forms as well." He held Rigby into place, and then shot at the Raccoon's arm, making it move by how the ray wants it to go, and it made Rigby slap himself in the face.

"Cool..." Mordecai said.

"Put me down!" Rigby shouted. "Put me down!" Despite acting like he wasn't listening, Ratchet clicked the trigger again, the beam disappeared and Rigby fell head first on the floor.

"Ow." The raccoon said, with the Watterson boys laughing.

"If you guys liked the Gravity Gun, allow me to show you some of our own equipment." Kleiner said as he showed the a wall of various gadgets, such as their own Grapple Hook Launcher, which was a gun which shoots out a grappling hook.

"This here is our custom Grapple Hook launcher." Kleiner said. "They're made with an unbreakable tethers that are hard as steel. You all will need them if you're going to reach high places."

"Oh that won't be necessary." Sonic said, revealing a metal device around his wrist. "I got my own Grappling hook right here."

"I can just use my Swingshot." Ratchet said.

"And my Chain Grapple Claw can let me swing from one place to another too." Lincoln said. "The chains themselves are made with titanium aloe and-"

"Oh yes, I'm sure they're adorable." Kleiner said with annoyance as he rolled his eyes, with the boy tilted his head in confusion.

"Ok, someone's too proud of their work." Lincoln said.

"We also have combative fighting suits to deal with the bigger kaijin." Kleiner said. "Especially this baby." He then took the sheet from one of the covered up suits, revealing a tall mech-suit, tall and thick, with the right hand looking like a pincher, with the left hand holding a large pistol, with rocket launchers on the upper body, and four massive guns on it's back. One being a plasma rifle, a laser cannon, a gattling gun, and a six hole blaster too.

"I give you the Exo-Battle Mech Mk X, the ultimate in military hardware." Kleiner said. "Complete with a laser cannon, RPG rocket launchers, indestructible titanium exo-skeleton, and motion activated plasma pulse rifles."

"Whoa..." Gumball, Darwin, Aelita, and Carrie said with a bit of surprise.

"I hope that isn't plugged in." Sonic said.

"No, it's only powered from inside the suit." Alyx said.

"What the heck was he thinking making this." Ben said.

"Fudge." Daxter said, with Jak looking at him.

"That's not the word for F-bomb." He asked.

"No, I was answering his question." Daxter said. "The doctor was thinking about fudge when making this."

"That's nice and all, but I don't think we'll need an exo-suit or something like that." Tommy said unimpresesed. "We got Robotboy with us. He can handle the bigger ones."

"Yes, but he is battery operated." Kleiner said. "This one doesn't need a battery. You got something more impressive?"

"Yeah." Ben said. "I have an alien watch that lets me turn into several different aliens."

"I got Super Sonic Speed." Sonic said.

"A magical belt that gives me Tiger Powers." Lincoln said.

"And I can harness Eco, and I have a Morph Gun that can turn into twelve different mods, and my MaceStaff." Jak said, pulling out his Macestaff.

"Damn straight!" Daxter said. "Bet you don't have one of those, do ya?"

"An ancient weapon powered by the Percursors?" Kleiner asked. "Impressive, but nothing is compare to what our technology can do."

"Yes, but Earth is still Level 2, and they won't hit Level 3 until a hundred years or so." Ben said.

"Are we just gonna let them argue about this?" Lincoln asked.

"Yeah." CJ said. "It's entertaining."

"It doesn't matter what level our technology is." Kleiner said. "It's how we use it. So far the only thing we've seen of any technology higher than ours is the little robot that walks around with the furry alien." Clank felt insulted, and Ratchet stepped forward.

"Hey, that little robot is my friend." Ratchet said. "And I'd be careful if I were you. His propellers can be used as melee weapons and I installed machine guns in his finger tips."

"Machine guns?" Kleiner asked. "Is that really all?"

"Yes, but Ratchet possesses a large arsenal of weapons, such as the Visibomb Gun, the Plasma Coil, the Suck Cannon-" Clank said as he went on with the list.

"Oh, and they're probably good looking too, I believe." Kleiner said, even more annoyed.

"Ok, sir?" Ratchet asked, summoning a green rocket launcher with a short handle and eight revolving barrels that contained yellow rockets. It's name? The Warmonger. The sight of the rocket launcher surprised Kleiner greatly.

"You really wanna test me?" Ratchet asked, with everyone else, except for Clank and Sonic, surprised and astonished by the lombax holding a rocket launcher out of nowhere.

"Uhhh..." Kleiner said, unable to find the words.

"Yes? Ok." Ratchet said as he pointed the rocket launcher forward at the battle robot, pulled the trigger, and fired four rockets at the mech, causing it to explode into smitherines, leaving nothing but the legs of the Exo-Skeleton, and the Pincers.

"Oooooooo..." Sonic, CJ, Lincoln, Ben, Jak, Gumball, Aelita, Carrie, Clank, Tommy, Chase, Mordecai, and Rigby said in unison.

"Nice." Daxter, Marshall and Darwin said together. Issac Kleiner, however, dropped his pencil and watched with shock.

"That... that was three months of hard work on that... that beautiful creation." Kleiner said, before he rushed towards it and started weeping.

"He's gonna be ok, is he?" Sonic asked.

"Yeah, he'll be ok." Alyx said. "It was an ugly mech anyway."

"At least it's out of its misery, right?" Barney said. Lincoln glanced at the Lombax and his Warmonger.

"Whoa... how many weapons do you have?" Lincoln asked.

"About... more than a hundred." Ratchet said. The white haired boy's mouth hung open a bit.

"Dang son..." Lincoln said.

"I know." Ratchet said.

"You just have all those on you?" Chase asked surprised. "You have a permit to carry that, right?"

"Of course he does." Clank said. "We are Galactic Rangers."

"Protectors of the Galaxy." Ratchet said. "But I also love fixing ships."

"But how do you carry them all?" Marshall asked.

"You really don't wanna know." Clank said.

"I see somebody torched that ugly mech." A raspy voice said. Turning around, the group saw Skips coming into the room. Surprisingly, he was actually wearing his suit, which looked like Nicole's, but this one had body armor on the chest, shoulders, knees, and arms. The Red A was on the chest area.

"Whoa, Skips." Mordecai said. "Nice duds."

"You're seriously gonna wear that?" Rigby asked.

"Yeah." Skips said. "Get used to it for a while."

"Ok guys, it's almost time for training." Alyx said.

"Training?" Sonic asked as he began to stretch. "About time. I've been wanting to go warm up."

"So, what are we gonna be doing?" Lincoln asked. "Are we gonna do some running exercises, target practice, Capture the Flag, or Multi-Combat Training?"

"Actually, you boys are doing all the above." Alyx said.

"Great." Ben said. Gumball began to look around, noticing that he hasn't seen his mom since breakfast.

"Hey, where's mom?" He asked.

"Alright boys, play time's over." Gumball's mom spoke. The group turned around and to their surprise, they saw Nicole Watterson approaching them, wearing her combat gear, with Richard following behind. Gumball and Darwin's mouths dropped open. They have never seen their mom in combat gear. Though they did see their mom in combat gear during her company paint ball fight, but nothing like this.

"Mom?" Gumball asked as Darwin was still speechless, and having a bit of a nose bleed.

"Mrs. W." Sonic said. "That's a nice get-up you got there." The sudden whistle blow from Nicole caused Sonic to jump back a bit with surprise, and startling Ben, Mordecai, and Rigby.

"All Stand in Attention!" Nicole shouted loudly. A little surprised, everyone stood in attention, even Gumball, Darwin, Aelita, and Carrie.

"Ready for Action!" Chase said as he stood in attention, nudging Marshall to stand in attention as well.

"Me too!" The dalmation responded quickly.

"Ok, listen up, gentlemen." Nicole said. "You are with the SPD now, and we expect you to give it your all. I don't wanna hear any crying, I don't wanna hear any whining, and definitely no cocka-doodle-dooing!" As she spoke, the boys were a bit surprised. Like Gumball and Darwin, Sonic had his own share of dealing with Nicole's aggressiveness, but the others didn't.

"Sounds like someone didn't eat breakfast today." Ben said, which was met with a stare from Nicole.

"Say that again..." She spoke with a lower tone.

"Nothing." Ben said as he stood tall, knowing that he should be quiet.

"You know I gotta admit, I do love a woman in uniform." Daxter said.

"Dax, don't even-" Jak said, but it was too late as Daxter approached the mama cat for some smooth talking.

"Excuse me miss, but I couldn't help but notice that you have a ... dominant attitude-" Daxter began, but suddenly two energy blades almost touched his nose, making him yelp. Looking up, Nicole had her battle gauntlets on, and her blades were active.

"Keep talking and I'll raise your voice a couple of more octaves." She said.

"Uhhh, point taken." Daxter said as he backed away and lined up with the others, as Jak only shook his head. As Nicole continued talking, Gumball and the others were a bit surprised. Aelita glanced at the blue cat wondering what's going on, but Gumball only shrugged, showing that he didn't know, and neither did Darwin.

"As I was saying." Nicole continued as she walked down the line. "The SPD has three goals only. To Serve, To Protect, and to Take Down Kaijin monsters! We will not rest until the enemy is defeated and our planet is safe." Nicole then stopped at CJ and Lincoln, and glanced at the latter with a serious look.

"Can I trust you boys to give it your all?!" Nicole asked sternly but firmly, with Lincoln doing his best to keep his cool.

"Yes Sir!" Lincoln said with a salute. "I mean, Yes Ma'am! I mean... uhh..." The boy stumbled a bit, trying not to show disrespect.

"Don't worry, Mrs. Watterson." CJ said. "He'll give it his all." A wink from CJ made the boy nod with a smile.

"Excellent!" Nicole said as she patted both their heads affectionately before turning back to the others. "All right boys, it's time for training. We need all of you outside to the training grounds immediately! Is that understood?!"

"Yes Ma'am!" Sonic and the boys said in unison.

"Good!" Nicole said. "Now let's get going!" Despite looking confused, the boys gave a nod and made their way towards the door to the traiing grounds.

"C'mon, you three." Skips said to Mordecai, Rigby, and Tommy. "That means you all too."

"Oh, great." Rigby said disappointed.

"Dude, don't pout about it." Mordecai said.

"This should be fun." Tommy said as the three followed suit, while Gumball, Darwin, Aelita, and Carrie were a bit surprise.

"Mom, what's going on?" Gumball asked.

"Training." Nicole said as she tightened up her battle gauntlets. "Boys, Mommy is going outside to do some exercises, I'll be back soon." She then made her way towards the doors. Confused, Gumball was about to approach her.

"Uh, Mom, can I just ask you something for on-" Gumball said, wanting to know what's up.

"STAY PUT!" Nicole spoke loudly, making the younger blue cat stand still and more surprised. The mama cat took a deep breath and turned to her son, not looking aggressive, but showing a more kinder face.

"I'm just going outside to train, honey." Nicole said. "You all just stay inside, ok?" The younger blue cat only tilted his head, still wanting to know what was going on. But not wanting to risk angrying his mom, he gave a nod.

"Ok." Gumball said.

"Thank you, sweetie." Nicole said as she patted her son's head and kissed his forehead. With that said, she took her leave and ran towards the door. Richard came alongside Gumball and placed his hand on his son's shoulder.

"Don't worry son, she knows what she's doing." Richard said as the group saw Nicole run out the doors to the outside. Gumball took a deep breathe, gathering all of his thoughts, while trying to figure out what was going on.

"Ok, first off, Mom was so awesome doing that speech, and secondly, why is mom wearing that cool suit, and having those razor blades?" Gumball asked.

"Son, I think it's time that you learned some things about your mother." Richard said.

---

"So, let me get this straight!" Gumball said. "You're telling us that our mom was one of the most high ranking members of this whole Space Patrol Delta squad?!" The sound of the blue cat's surprised and shocked voice echoed a bit in the hallway. He, his father, Aelita, Darwin, Carrie, Alyx, Barney, Eli, Magnusson, and of course Tails, Sally, Chase, and Marshall were walking a bit down the hall. Gumball's shocked expression showed that Richard, and most likely Alyx had explained that Nicole was a member of the SPD. That was a shocker for the blue cat and his fish brother.

"It's Space Police Delta." Alyx said. "And to answer your question, yes, yes she was."

"Nicole Watterson was one of the most elite, highly skilled, and brutal members of the SPD." Eli said. "Amazing on the field, deadly to her enemies, and a legend in her own time. Your mother was one of the greatest ones we've ever worked with."

"Really?" Gumball asked. "You guys worked with her?"

"We sure did." Magnusson said. "She was the commanding leader of the A-Squad."

"The A-Squad?" Aelita asked. "What's that?"

"The A-Squad is one of the best of the SPD Teams that took down various terrorists around the world." Chase said. "They specialize in taking down hostile Kaijin from different worlds."

"And you know this because you were with the A-Squad?" Darwin asked.

"No, I wasn't even born yet." Chase said. "I read it up on the SPD's History Files."

"It's true, kids." Richard said. "Your mom is everything they just described."

"Your mom is a Monster Hunter?" Tails asked. "That's so cool!"

"Yeah, cooler than Everest when she saved Jake from falling over a cliff." Marshall said.

"But how come she never told us." Gumball said.

"Well, that's a long story." Richard said. "Some of her old friends died in an accident, and Nicole popped you out, and everything else you know. Come to think of it, your mother was actually in action when you were still in her tummy, son. She looked so hot back then, and she still is to this day." Darwin's eyes widened with amazement, while Gumball looked more confused.

"WHOA!" Darwin said, then glanced back at Gumball. "That is so awesome! And you got the front row seat!" The blue cat only stood there more surprised, not the fact that his mom was doing all this while he was growing inside her, but over the fact that she used to be a member of a huge multiverse protection agency.

"But... but... that's not possible!" Gumball said. "Our Mom isn't a monster killing multiverse protector!" Gumball said. "She's not cool enough!... wait, strike that, she is totally cool, but she's not... monster-killing multiverse protector badass cool, though she did slice those monsters up yesterday."

"You might wanna scratch that." Carrie said as she glanced out the window.

"Why?" Gumball asked.

"Look." She said pointing forward. The group made their way towards the window and saw what was outside. Gumball's mouth dropped open, and so did Darwin's. Outside in the Training Grounds, their mom, Nicole, was running across the field, doing amazing acrobatic jumps, spins, and twirling as she made her way across the obstacle course. Seeing several training drones making their way, ready to attack. Nicole let out a shout and activated her Razor Gauntlets. She then stabbed forward one drone, then twirled behind it while striking another drone, followed by a somersault that allowed her slam onto the next one from the air, followed by stabbing two drones that approached her from the sides, and then she jumped into the air and slammed her fists into the ground, blasting away the other drones around.

"YAAAAHH!" Nicole shouted with a battle cry, unaware that everyone behind the glass wall was watching.

"Whooaaa..." Marshall, Chase, Sally and Tails said. Aelita glanced back at Gumball's who still had his mouth hung open.

"Gumball, are you ok?" Aelita asked.

"Holy... shitacki mushrooms..." Gumball said.

"Ok, that's cool." Darwin said, with the blue cat giving a nod.

Back on the training field, Nicole spotted several flying training drones hovering and flying away. The mama cat began to sprint towards them, giving chase. She continued to pursuit them, almost not breaking a sweat. Well... almost. She started to feel a bit dizzy all of a sudden, feeling her stamina was going down. She shook her head however and her vision was more clear. She continued to give pursuit, slicing one of the drones, completely unaware of a speedly blue hedgehog catching up to her.

"On your left!" A voice said from behind. Nicole turned her head, seeing Sonic running up beside her.

"Huh?" Nicole spoke.

"Haha!" Sonic said with a wave, before zipping past Nicole, spin dashing towards the drones and bashing them with his homing attacks, sending them falling to the ground.

"Hey, no fair!" She shouted.

"Gotta keep up!" Sonic said with a wave. He then dashed towards the pole neary by and began to swing on it, and then he leapt up onto the tall structure and continued to run up, while Nicole stopped and looked on. She then noticed something. She noticed Sonic was giving a spark across his body as he ran up the wall.

"Incredible..." She said. "He seems to give off some electric energy." The blue hedgehog kept running upwards, seeing more training drones making their way behind him. He gave a chuckle as he readied his sword, but then, Ratchet, with Clank on his back, began to ride along the wall with his hoverboots, catching up with Sonic from the side.

"Hey, blue blur!" Ratchet called out, getting his attention. "Heads up!" He then tossed a metallic glove to Sonic. It was a black glove with red fingers, a green triangular mark on the back of the hand, and a green motion screen with buttons on the wrist. It was the Mine Glove!

"Hey, My Mine Glove!" Sonic said as he placed it on. He then turned around, and threw several spiked orb-like mines across the wall, which began to zoom in onto the training drones, and exploded on impact.

"Bull's eye!" Sonic cheered as he continued to run up the wall.

"You really love to show off, don't ya." Ratchet said.

"What can I say?" Sonic asked.

"Ha, watch this." Ratchet said as he clicked his hoverboots and flew up the side of the wall. At the top, Mordecai and Rigby were shooting with their staff and Shock Blaster, but they were struggling at the least, while trying to jump out of the way of the shots. Suddenly, Ratchet leaped from the side of the building and pulled out his Dual Vipers, small rapid machine guns with small nozzles, but large magazines full of energy bullets. Ratchet then aimed at the training bots, and fired, shooting multiple bullets at each bot, causing them to drop, while two more emerged behind Ratchet, which Clank was able to catch eye of.

"Ratchet, we got bots behind us." He said.

"Got it!" Ratchet said as he flipped backwards and shot more bullets at the two bots, causing them to power down.

"On your left." Clank said.

"On it!" Ratchet said as he turned left and fired up at more drones.

"Right." Clank said.

"Yep!" Ratchet said as he turned right and shot the drones on the right.

"Up above." Clank said.

"Hitting high!" Ratchet said as he fired upwards, shooting the droids above. Mordecai and Rigby were surprised.

"Whoa..." Mordecai said. "How did you do that?"

"We act as each other's eyes." Ratchet said. "And we work together." Clank gave a nod as he and Ratchet headed off to continue the training, while Mordecai and Rigby looked at each other.

"Huh, we just need to look out for each other and work together." Mordecai said.

"Just like we do with video games!" Rigby said.

"Speaking of which, heads up!" Mordecai called out as he aimed high and shot his Shock Blaster at one of the drones above Rigby.

"Look Alive!" Rigby said as he aimed his staff low and shot another one.

With Skips, he was also aiming high and low at the training drones with his Cannon Gun. Around his hands were big golden gauntlets with several designs and bolts in it, known as the Fists of Justice. He threw a massive punch at the drone, sending it into multiple drones behind it. But then he was shot in the back by one of the drones. The shots were not threatening, but they do leave a bit of burn. He turned around and fired his Cannon Gun, but he almost tripped from the shot. Coming to his side, Jak was on his Jetboard, Daxter on his shoulder. Arriving to the scene, Jak pulled out his Morph Gun and fired with the Scatter Gun Mod, while it shot at close range, it spread out like a shotgun, shooting the three drones away.

"Been a while since you've seen some action, huh?" Jak asked as he swung his Macestaff at another drone as the Yeti got back up.

"It never gets easy." Skips said as he aimed his cannon and fired, shooting down the training bots, while a dozen more surrounded the pair.

"You know what you need to do." Jak said as he inserted an additional purple mod on the Morph Gun, making the build at an elongated barrela and red charger on top. He then held the trigger down and aimed at the ground.

"You gotta mix things up a bit!" Jak finished as he released the trigger, causing a large circular blast of magenta eco to be released, with the radius enough to blast the training bots away, with Jak then switching the mods with a yellow mod, transforming it back into the blaster. He then leapt into the air and spun around, shooting out multiple bullets, hitting each training bot.

"Mix it up, huh?" Skips asked as he glanced at his Cannon Gun, with a long line between the middle.

"Alright, let's do that!" He said as he pulled his Cannon Gun apart, showing that it can split into two guns. With them, he fired shots all around him, while also whacking the training drones away.

Back with Tommy, he was moving left and right as he dodged multiple bullets, using his energy sword to bounce them back. Robotboy, in his Super-Active mode, was firing different rockets at the drones, until one drone shot an energy, hitting the robot and sending him to the ground.

"Robotboy!" Tommy said as he rushed to his robot friend. Turning around, he saw more drones approaching. Tommy stood his ground, ready to fight. Suddenly, Ben emerged to the scene between him and the training drones.

"Ok then, let's give them some lightning." Ben said as he selected the alien on his watch, then clicked it. With a green flash, there in Ben's place was a Cerebrocrustacean, which is an alien crab from the planet Encephalonus IV. Like a crab, he had pincers for hands, six legs, and has spikes all over it's face. The Omnitrix was wrapped around a white and green neck brace.

"BRAINSTORM!" He called out.

"Brainstorm?" Tommy asked. "Why that name?"

"It's simple." Brainstorm spoke, with a british accent. "Because I possess a higher form of intelligence ranged at 10^30 / one nonillion, solve very difficult equations, and more importantly, I can shoot electromatic energy shots from my brain!" He then opened skull plates, revealing a huge pink brain inside it, and it began to charge up with electricity. He then shot out multiple lightning bolts at the training drones, sending them across the floor.

"Whoa..." Tommy said.

"Yes, quite impressive." Brainstorm said. Suddenly, the drones got back up, and their colors switched to yellow with a thunderbolt symbol. They began to charge up, with electrical energy.

"Wait, they do electricity?" Tommy asked.

"It seems that they're imitating my own abilities." Brainstorm said. The drones then fired back, but Brainstorm then summoned an electric force field around him, Tommy, and Robotboy, which was allowing him to block the attacks, though the drones were immuned now that they're programmed to lightning attacks.

"Are they really going to keep using bolts of lightning?" Tommy said.

"Yes, they're going to keep blasting us with bullets of electrical discharges." Brainstorm said.

"You mean lightning bullets?" Tommy asked.

"Yes." Brainstorm said. "Forgive me if I speak in a form of advanced literature."

"So, we just shoot lightning back?" Tommy asked.

"No, that will certainly not do at all." Brainstorm said. "They will keep absorbing it with their electrical outlets. Instead..." He then clicked his Omnitrix, and with a green flash, transformed into Overflow, a red metallic alien, with two containers filled with water on his head and has black mask-like markings around his eyes. Two tubs of water reached from a respirator where his mouth should be to his back, and his forearms also had water, with three fingered hands and two black toes on each foot. This one is new.

"We just need to give them a splash with Overflow!" Overflow answered as he shot out pressurized water blasts from the tanks on his forearms, spraying water all over the training lightning bots. As they got wet, the electricity they were charging began to electricute themselves and caused them to burst and explode, and they laid dead on the ground.

"Wow..." Tommy said. "Of course, water's an excellent conductor of electricity."

"Yep." Overflow said. "Something you learn when hanging out with the unicorn."

"Yeah... wait what?" Tommy asked.

As for Lincoln, now as the NEX El Tigre, he was running forward after the battle drones as they turned around to shoot at him. The boy was able to jump left, slide right, and making a mighty leap onto one of them. Using his claws to dig into the machine, causing it to malfunction and collapse. He then jumped on the next one and spun it around, making it crash into one of the other ones while he finished the last one off. He then shot his grapple hook onto the pole to swing across the field, making a perfect landing. He gave a sigh of confidence, until a harmless bolt shot him in the shoulder. Turning around, he saw more drones surrounding him. He did his best to stand his ground. One drone quickly moved in to strike, until CJ, now as Captain Japan, made a quick slash with his Samuraizer Sword.

"Thanks." Lincoln said.

"No problem." CJ said as they both stood back to back. "Getting tired?"

"Don't feel tired yet." Lincoln said. Pretty soon, One drone from each side charged in.

"Your move!" He said as he and CJ swapped places, letting the masked rider slice the drone, and Lincoln took out the other.

"Your it!" CJ said said as they swapped again, taking out the other drones coming in. CJ summoned his Cypermaru-blade to take out two more drones while Lincoln grapped one with his grapple claw and flung it at a pair of other drones, unaware of a blue speed demon coming in to take out the last drone with a homing attack.

"Ya missed me?" Sonic asked.

"Hardly." CJ said, while three more drones came in to attack, one being shot down by a viper bullet, another taken out by Jak with his Macestaff, and the last one blasted by a jet torrent of water by Overflow.

"Ha, they call this training?" Daxter asked as he brushed his hands.

"Hey, any chance we can get an amp up the difficulty?" Overflow asked, unaware of Eli Vance and Arne Magnusson watching from the balcony.

"Ok, give them the big one." Magnusson said.

"I'd figured you'd say that." Eli said as he pressed the button. Then, before the trainees, from the ground, a larger training drone appeared, with massive arms, and some cannons on it's arms.

"Look alive, boys!" Nicole called out as she pointed forward, with the gigantic battle drone ready and armed with it's mighty fists. The drone aimed at the group and fired shots from all over. Quickly, the boys took cover as it continued to fire.

"So, how we take this bad boy out?" Jak asked. Clank looked from Ratchet's shoulder, scanning the drone from afar.

"It seems that it's weak spot is the head." Clank said. "If we damage it a few times, that should put an end to it."

"It'll target us the moment we get near it." CJ said. "It's not gonna be easy."

"It will be if we're fast enough." Sonic said. "Use me as the bullet." The guys looked at each other with surprise, but knowing him, they smiled.

"Alright then." Overflow said.

"Alright, scatter!" CJ said as he moved in, with Sonic, Lincoln, Overflow, Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter moved in, all of them scattering about.

"Who wants the first throw?" Sonic asked.

"I'll do it if you don't mind getting wet." Overflow said.

"Not at all." Sonic said.

"Ok, go fast!" Overflow said as Sonic jumped on his arm. Overflow then shot out a jet torrent of water, shooting Sonic with high pressure, making him go fast as he spun around in a ball, hitting the drone in the head. As he bounced off, Ratchet caught him with his Suck Cannon.

"Time to Blow out!" Ratchet said as he fired the Suck Cannon, shooting Sonic as he spun in a ball rapidly, hitting the drone again. Then he was caught by Jak, who's hand was glowing blue, charging Sonic up with Blue Eco.

"Hit 'em hard!" He called out as he threw Sonic forward as the blue hedgehog, now sparking with electricity, bashed the drone's head once more, making it spark. Lincoln shot out his grapple claw, as Sonic grapped on, with Lincoln flinging him in a circle.

"As Luna would say it, Play it Loud!" Lincoln said as he tossed Sonic forward, allowing the blue hedgehog to whack the drone's head again. Then he was caught by CJ high in the air.

"Finish it Off!" CJ said as he threw Sonic downward, and the blue hedgehog spun rapidly, bashing into, no, bashing right through the drone's head down it's body, making it spark up and explode into smitherines! Nicole, Skips, Mordecai, Rigby, and even Tommy watched with amazement. Pretty soon, Sonic stood tall while CJ, Lincoln, Ratchet and Clank, Ben, Jak and Daxter jumped beside him, forming their victory poses, while Sonic twirled his sword forward and then placed it over his back and shoulder.

"興味ないね / Kyōmi nai ne." Sonic spoke as the drone gave one last explosion behind the group, none of them flinching or anything. Just standing in their victory poses.

"Whoooaaa..." Mordecai and Rigby said. The boys then glanced back at what was left of the drone.

"Well, that went pretty well." Ratchet said, just as Overflow transformed back into Ben. Recognizing that victory pose Sonic made, Lincoln glanced at the hedgehog.

"Did you literally just quote Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII?" He asked.

"Hey, he's got style too." Sonic said, making the white haired boy smile. At that moment, part of the drone's eye dropped and rolled to Sonic's feet. He glanced back at Nicole.

"Hey Mrs. W!" Sonic called out. "Heads up!" He kicked the robot eye in to the air and whacked it with his sword towards Nicole, who activated her energy blades and sliced it in half, making the pieces tumble away and explode again.

"Showoff." Nicole said.

"Look who's talking." Sonic said. "You did great too." Regardless, the mama cat gave a smile.

"YEAH!" Mordecai and Rigby said as they rushed forward to congratulate the boys, while Tommy joined in as well. Nicole only gave a sigh and a smile. Looking around herself, seeing the training field around her, she couldn't help but remember some familiar and happy moments from her time here.

"Brings back memories, doesn't it." Skips said.

"Yeah... wonderful memories." Nicole said. From the sidelines, everyone was taken back at the performance the heroes have done. Gumball and Darwin had their mouths dropped open the whole time. Suddenly, smiles formed on their faces.

"WOOOHOOOO!" The two cheered.

"Hey Mom!" Gumball called out, getting her attention. "That was totally awesome!" Hearing her son cheer for her out there made her feel proud. She gave a nod and a thumbs up.

"That was cool!" Darwin said as he clapped.

"Hey Aelita, wasn't Mom and Sonic amazing out there?" Gumball asked the pink haired girl, who was quite amazed by the action Sonic and his friends displayed out there. She gave a smile.

"Yeah." She said. "They did pretty great out there."

"Well, of course they did!" Marshall said between Aelita and Gumball. "Sonic still has it, doesn't he."

"Yeah, he sure does Marshall." Chase said. Back from the balcony, Magnusson and Eli were quite impressed with the boys' performance out there. Magnusson couldn't help but give a grin of relief.

"Guess bringing them in wasn't a bad idea after all." Magnusson said.

"Told ya." Eli said with a confident smile.

---

Later... in the Missions Room...

"Alright gentlemen." Magnusson said, with Kleiner and Eli on the side. "You all completed the training course, but now it's time for the real action to begin."

In the chairs of the long table were Sonic, Ratchet, Clank, Jak, Daxter, Ben, CJ, Lincoln, Mordecai, and Rigby. Nicole, Skips, Alyx, Barney, and Chase were standing on the side, though Tommy was leaning back against the wall. They were ready to listen in on what and who they were up against.

"The Dark Phoenix are who we're up against." Magnusson said. "They are a notorious terrorist organization consisted of rogue government agents, defective soldiers, and dangerous foes. They are led by former scientist of Black Mesa Wallace Breen, Dr. Otomo Kamikazi II, and a man named Hannibal Mago, otherwise known as The Magician." The photos revealed several pictures of the leaders of the Dark Phoenix, one that Sonic had recognize was Wallace Breen, the man in the dark green suit, dark slate eyes, with the white hair and short beard.

"Wallace Breen." Ben said. "Wasn't he originally part of the Black Mesa guys?"

"Used to be until he was exposed for hoping to control forces beyond human control." Alyx said. "He even paired up with the Black Arms to get his revenge."

"And used their technology to help Eggman power his own devices." Sonic said.

"So this is a recap of what you told me?" Lincoln asked CJ.

"Pretty much, but with more detail." CJ said, as Lincoln gave a nod.

"Their goal is, as you all can guess, World Domination." Magnusson continued. "They have been collecting old kaiju and tokusatsu artifacts to weaponize their forces, and use monsters to do their bidding, something will be eventually beyond their control. They seem to be working with the Shadowkan, strange evil mutants from another world, pretty much what is left of their SHADOW Empire, once led by Lord Destruction." Images appeared showing several types of Shadowkan, ranging from bat types, insect types, robotic ones, all kinds. The ones that the group was a bit surprised to see was of Lord Destruction, which CJ looked with a bit of tension.

"You alright?" Jak asked.

"Yeah... it's been years since I last fought against Destruction." CJ said. "I won the fight and his body was destroyed. Kinda feels like my fight is starting up again."

"Don't worry CJ." Ben said. "Whatever those Shadowkan will be planning next, we'll be ready. They have no idea who they're actually dealing with."

"Don't get too cocky, Benjamin." CJ said. "This isn't the same as facing against aliens, evil sorcerers, or those crazy Forever Knights that you faced. These Shadow-Mutants, they're dead serious."

"Right." Ben said, and looked at Sonic. "I'm not that cocky, am I?"

"If it makes you feel better, we're all pretty much cocky." Sonic said with a smirk.

"I don't get it." Ratchet said. "These guys are using these Shadow monsters, and bring him here into this world. CJ, you fought these guys before. How'd they keep spawning before?"

"The Shadowkan came here using some form of ancient magic." CJ said. "With Destruction gone, the stronger ones are either on the run or somewhere else."

"But more and more are showing up." Jak said. "How is that possible?"

"It would only be possible if the Dark Phoenix had advance research on the quantum physics." Clank said.

"And right you are." Magnusson said. "The Dark Phoenix are planning to pull more of these monsters into our world using the fields of computing and quantum mechanics, through the use of Project Carthage."

"Carthage..." Ben said. "Grandpa Max told me about that once, that it was originally said to be used to disrupt enemy communications."

"Was it?" Jak asked.

"No, it was for some kind of teleportation or something." Ben said. "Into other worlds."

"Dimensional Travel?" Ratchet asked.

"That is impossible." Clank said.

"Was impossible." Kleiner said as he showed the next slide. "Project Carthage was originally constructed nearly 30 years ago, consisting of many scientists, including Franz Hopper, who was known as Waldo Schaeffer." Another image was shown of the team of scientists and researchers on the Carthage Project. The boys noticed the man in the middle, one Sonic, Lincoln and CJ recognized, the man with the dark hair and the black sunglasses.

"Franz Hopper..." Sonic said.

"So that creepy guy is the dad of Gumball's girlfriend?" Rigby asked. Everyone glanced back at him. "What?"

"Dude, don't say that." Mordecai said. "That's rude."

"Hey, he just looks creepy, that's all." Rigby said.

"Ahem." Kleiner said, getting their attention. "We're talking here."

"Sorry..." The blue jay and raccoon said.

"Now, back to the point." Magnusson said. "Franz Hopper was the first one to discover of Black Mesa's true intentions, and tried to dispose of it's information. Unfortunately, the Dark Phoenix were able to construct their own, but now all they need is the power source, which is the final piece." Sonic looked back at the photo with Franz and the other scientists, then someone in the right of the photo caught his eye. He saw a Japanese man in a white lab coat, with orange hair sticking up a bit with old style glasses. He remembered seeing that face before.

"Wait, that guy on the far right..." Sonic said. "That's Professor Moshimo."

"Yes, Professor Akira Moshimo." Magnusson said.

"You know him?" Kleiner asked.

"Yeah, he helped me and Tails fix the Tornado." Sonic said. "He's friends with Tommy and he's Robo-dude's creator."

"He was part of the Carthage Project too." Tommy said, getting the hedgehog's attention. "And now he's missing."

"Does the Dark Phoenix have him?" Sonic asked.

"We're not sure." Eli said. "There hasn't been any contact with him ever since his place was raided. It's most likely that he's been abducted."

"Then we have to save him." Tommy said.

"Don't worry, we will when the time comes." Eli said.

"As I was saying..." Kleiner continued. "Project Carthage was actually designed as a teleportation device, a massive warp gate that would allow matter to transport from one place to another, pretty much anywhere."

"A wormhole device?" Clank asked.

"Anyway you want to call it." Kleiner said. "The original design was made by the group years ago, where some believed it would be used to allow us to live on should our world come to an end. However, it was later discovered by Franz Hopper that the group who hired the scientists were planning to use it for world domination."

"Global Conspiracy." Daxter said. "Called it!"

"And now the Dark Phoenix are planning to use theirs for their benefitial gain, and with it, they will take over the world." Magnusson said. "Now our main objective is to stop them, whatever it takes. With Hydra Force out of commission, we can focus our attacks on the Phoenix."

"And I guess we'll be that team." Sonic said.

"Exactly." Kleiner said.

"Our first objective is to attack their Rail Outpost in the Chihuahuan Desert." Magnusson said. "Rumor has it that that's where their weapons and vehicles are made, so we need to blow it up. There is also a train stationed there that is said to be containing the power source needed to charge their wormhole. The train must be stopped at all cost. Then we will strike their Lab Institution in Chemical Plant. We infiltrate the base and we hack into their database there to find out whatever else they have up their sleeve, and hopefully the location to their stronghold. Then, with the power source safe in our possession, we will strike their operations with everything we have."

"And we blow them up, wipe 'em out, and be back in time for more waffles!" Daxter said.

"As much as it all seems simple, we will have to keep our guard up." Clank said. "No doubt the Dark Phoenix already have information about us as well, so they could be expecting us."

"You're overreacting tin-can." Daxter said. "We're the big boys here, we totally got this." Hearing Daxter sound overconfident made Jak roll his eyes and shake his head.

"Still, we should take Clank's word into consideration." Ratchet said. "He makes a good point. There is a possibility they'll be expecting us." Hearing Ratchet's support placed a smile on Clank's face.

"And that's why we must all stay vigilant, and most importantly patient." Magnusson said, and then turned his attention towards Nicole. "Nicole, you be there with them every step of the way. Skips, you back them up. And Turnbull..."

"Tommy's just fine." The blonde said.

"Right." Magnusson said. "Tommy, you ride along too. Moshimo's Creation listens to you, so that'll help us greatly.

"Ok." Tommy said. "Oh, and his name is Robotboy."

"Whatever you wanna call him." Magnusson said.

"Alright then... Let's do it to it." Sonic said as he and the rest got up from their seats, ready for action.

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"C'mon Chase, Lemme come with you." Marshall said, as the two pups were making their way towards the hanger, where everybody was getting ready to take off for their mission. After hearing that Sonic and the others were off on their first mission, the Dalmatian pup was very eager to come along. But Chase had a different response.

"No can do, Marshall." Chase said. "This is for SPD operatives only."

"But Chase, I can totally help." Marshall said.

"Nope." Chase said. "This is nothing like what we do back in Adventure Bay. This is real life combat with terrorists and monsters."

"But you guys might need me." Marshall said. "I am a Medicpup. I can help check if you guys need any medical assistance. Plus, I helped Sonic take down the Huntsclan."

"We all were there, Marshall." Chase said.

"But if you guys get seriously hurt, who's gonna patch up your wounds and give you medicine?" Marshall asked.

"Marshall." Chase said sternly.

"What's going on?" Sonic asked as he approached the two.

"Oh, well... I was wondering if I could go with you guys." Marshall said. "I mean, if that's ok with you." Sonic tilted his head.

"Is that why you guys are fighting?" Sonic asked.

"Yes." Marshall said, with Chase giving a sigh. "I can be loads of help. If you guys get injured, who's gonna help you guys get medical assistance?" Sonic then started to think.

"Well, we do need a medic for our team." Sonic said.

"So, does that mean I can come along?" Marshall asked. "Please?"

"Well, this is nothing like saving lives and dealing with greedy Foggy Mayors." Sonic said. "And this is like... ten times more serious than dealing with the Huntsclan. Are you sure you wanna come along with us?"

"Of course." Marshall said. "I'm ready for a Ruff Ruff Rescue! ...or Ruff Ruff Mission in this case." Chase only gave a sigh in defeat. He really didn't want Marshall to be out there up against whatever is going on. But... Marshall is also the Paw Patrol's Medicpup, and they might need a medic on the field, and nobody does a good job as a medic than Marshall, despite him being only thirteen in dog years.

"It's up to you, Sonic." Chase said. That made Sonic give a chuckle and smile.

"Alright then." Sonic said. "Sounds good to me."

"Yes!" Marshall said.

"Ok, as long as Sonic is cool with it." Chase said. "But you have to take orders, ok?"

"Aye Aye, sir!" the Dalmation pup said, as Kleiner and Alyx approached the two.

"So, you're going along with them, aren't ya?" The latter asked.

"Sure am." Marshall said.

"You might as well take this with you." Kleiner said, placing a strange looking, but very advanced device on Marshall's back. It looks just like a puppack, but it's decorated with white, with red colored components attached to it.

"What's this?" Marshall asked.

"It's a special pack that will help you." Kleiner said, with the pack emitting a strange gun-like device with a barrel that had glowing lights around it. "The gun is known as the Kritzkrieg. It will allow you to heal allies around you, and give them a boost for a limited time. The pack also comes with a Energy Crossbow, and a limited edition Prinny Machete too." The pack also emitted an white crossbow with energy bullets, and it sprouted an arm holding a machete.

"Whoa..." Marshall said. "Thank you, Dr. Kleiner."

"We also added some modifications to your pup pack as well, Chase." Alyx said as she placed the pack back on Chase. "We added some tweaks to your Plasma Ball Launcher, which can fire sticky bombs. Your combat knife now has electric-energy for additional damage. And we've added a homing rocket launcher as well." The pack also revealed the Plasma Ball Launcher, and the new combat knife, and a rocket launcher on the top.

"Awesome!" Chase said. "Thanks again, guys."

"Well, you guys ready?" Sonic asked.

"Ready for action!" Chase and Marshall said. Pretty soon, everyone made it to the Hanger, where the Carrier Copter was waiting. Of course, Ratchet and Clank are gonna ride in their Starship while Jak and Daxter will be riding in the Hellcat VI.

"So, our first mission begins." Lincoln said.

"You ready for this?" CJ asked.

"Yep." Lincoln said with a smile. "I'm ready."

"Then let's go." CJ said. Having everything they need, the two made their towards the ship. Pretty soon, Nicole went into the Hanger, with Richard following her.

"When I'm away honey, make sure the boys don't do anything drastic, ok?" She asked her husband.

"Don't worry, honey." Richard said with a strong salute. "I got it all taken care of. You just look after yourself, ok?"

"Ok." Nicole said as she gave the big rabbit a kiss on the cheek. She then made her way towards the Carrier Copter.

"Mom!" Nicole turned her head, hearing her son's voice. The younger blue cat came rushing into the hanger and towards her.

"Gumball?" Nicole asked. "Is everything alright?"

"I just wanted to see you off... and..." Gumball said, and he looked at the ground, trying to find the words to speak.

"Yes, honey?" Nicole asked. The younger cat took a deep breath.

"Mom, let me come with you, please?" Gumball said. Nicole was surprised to hear that, but she shook her head, already having her answer.

"No, Gumball." Nicole said. "You need to stay here where it's safe. It's too dangerous."

"But... but what if you don't come back?" Gumball said. Nicole only sighed as she face palmed her head. The younger blue cat only lowered his head in defeat, his ears dropping down.

"Listen, honey, I know you want to help, but this is very dangerous." Nicole said. "You may have survived a bullet to the head, but if anything were to happen to you, I could never forgive myself."

"But I really wanna help, mom." Gumball said. Nicole only gave a smile.

"Gumball, you are helping." Nicole said.

"By staying out of the way?" Gumball said.

"Of course not, honey." Nicole said. "You need to look after the others, ok? Besides, Aelita needs you. She's your priority right now." Gumball realized that his mother was right. This was dangerous. He may have survived death twice, but next time he probably won't be lucky. Besides, Aelita needs him. He wasn't going to leave her side. No way, no how. He gave a nod.

"Ok." He said. "Just promise me you'll be back?"

"I promise, honey." Nicole said. "Listen to your father, alright?"

"Ok." Gumball said with another nod. He hugged her tightly, and she did so as well. Giving him a kiss on the cheek, they broke the hug and went to the ship. She glanced back at her son.

"I'll be back." She said, imitating the Terminator. Hearing that made Gumball smile and chuckle. He gave a wave, and she did so as well. Then she turned and headed for the ship. Gumball then let out a sigh of sorrow, just as Aelita approached him, with Darwin and Carrie following suit.

"Are you ok?" She asked.

"I don't know." Gumball said.

"She's really going out there, isn't she." Carrie said.

"Well, at least we don't have to go fighting, right?" Darwin asked.

"Dude, that doesn't make me feel any better." Gumball said.

"Sorry." Darwin said, just as Sonic came to his side.

"Not used to seeing your mom as a Space Police-woman, huh?" Sonic asked.

"No." Gumball said. "This is still a lot to take in."

"I know." Sonic said as he patted the cat's head. "This is quite a lot for me to take in too."

"How do you handle it?" Gumball asked.

"Just keepin' my chin up." Sonic said. Hearing allowed Gumball to smile a teeny bit, but worry was still getting to him.

"Don't worry, kid." Sonic said. "I'll look after your mom. You look after the others, ok?" Hearing that made the blue cat give a smile, and he stood firmly with a salute.

"You got it." Gumball said. Sonic gave the blue cat a thumbs up.

"Sonic!" A pair of voices called out. Looking forward, he saw Tails flying towards him, and Sally following behind.

"You be careful out there, ok?" Tails asked.

"Don't worry, guys." Sonic said. "I will."

"Look after Chase too, alright?" Sally asked.

"Sal, you know that pup can look after himself." Sonic said.

"I know, but do so, alright?" Sally asked.

"No problemo." Sonic said.

"Sonic?" Aelita asked, getting his attention. "Good luck." The blue hedgehog gave a thumbs up and a wink, making her smile. With a salute, he made his way towards the ship to get ready to fly. Sally glanced at Gumball and noticed that he looked pretty sad, and worried.

"You ok?" Sally asked.

"Yeah." The blue cat responded, his head hung low. "I'm just worried I might not see my mom again."

"Well, knowing your mom, I'm sure that she'll be fine." Tails said. "I mean, she did jump into a flooding city to save you from drowning."

"Yeah, but all this stuff that's been happening." Gumball said. "Being chased by crazy killers, creepy monsters. Sure, mom was able to take some of them on, but this..." He lowered his head, his hands covering his forehead, feeling a bit distraught. Aelita gave him a hug for comfort, while Darwin petted him on the cheek.

"Don't worry." Sally said. "She'll be alright."

"How do you know?" Gumball asked.

"I won't lie to you." Sally said. "Whenever Sonic would run off in the face of danger, I'd always worry about him. Eventually those worries made me selfish, and it nearly tore us apart. But I know whenever he runs off to save the world, he does so for us. He really cares about the planet. He cares about life. He cares about those around him. That's why he goes off on adventures, not just for the thrill or joy of it, but to help those who need it." She glanced back at the blue cat.

"Your mom's doing the same thing." Sally said. "She's throwing herself into the face of danger to protect you."

"But how do you know they'll be ok." Gumball asked.

"Just know that they'll come back safe." Sally said. "Your mom will be alright, just as Sonic will be alright. And besides, he's not alone this time." Looking forward, the two saw Sonic jumping onto the ship, talking with CJ, Lincoln and the others. Gumball gave a warm smile. Sally was right. His mom will be ok. Sonic's gonna look after her, and he's got loads of help.

"So, we're gonna go blow up a Outpost and raid a train." Jak said. "That's gonna be fun."

"Yeah." Daxter said. "Those freaks ain't gonna know what hit 'em."

"Ok, you guys ready to roll?" Sonic asked.

"You bet." Ben said. "It's Hero Time!"

"Does he always have to say that?" Clank asked.

"C'mon, pal." Ratchet said. "It's his shtick."

"Let's move out." CJ said as he, Lincoln, and Sonic jumped aboard the Carrier Copter, where Nicole, Skips, Tommy, and of course Robotboy were waiting. Jak and Daxter hopped into the Hellcat VI, getting everything ready for take off, while Ben, Mordecai, and Rigby, joined Ratchet and Clank in the Starship. Sonic gave one last look to see everyone watching.

"Good luck, Mister Sonic!" Darwin called out. "Have fun!" Gumball glanced back at Sonic and smiled.

"Hey Blue Blur!" He called out. "You be back soon, ok? Show them what you're made of!" The blue hedgehog smiled.

"You got it, little blue dude!" Sonic called back with a wave, and the ship doors closed up. Pretty soon, the Carrier Copter, the Starship, and the Hellcat VI lifted themselves off the ground and flew past the open doors, ready to take on their first mission. Everything was just practice. Now the real adventure begins!

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Well, this chapter has come to an end. Next chapter, our heroes will be on their way for their fist mission. So, we're gonna get some action next chapter!

The mech Kleiner showed off is loosely based on the robot bodysuit from Aqua Teen Hunger Force in the episode Total Re-Carl. It acts just like the robotsuit, but it doesn't need plugging in.

It's already been almost more than a week since Final Fantasy VII Remake came out, so I had Sonic do a pose as a little nod to the series in the chapter.

The Kritzkrieg and the Prinny Machete are weapons used by the Medic from Team Fortress 2. I'd figured I'd give Marshall some items of his own as he goes with Chase and the others on the missions that are coming soon.

Anyway, see you guys next time soon! I'm gonna try and deliver the next chapter to you guys as soon as possible. Stay home, and stay safe too!

Japanese Translation:

興味ないね / Kyōmi nai ne - I'm not interested

興味がない / Kyōmi ga nai - Not interested