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Warning: Mild Language, Mild sexual Themes
Ep.6: MBO: Ghost attracted to the light part 1
"Sir, We found it. We calculated its flight pattern from a few weeks ago and deduced that it was and is currently inhabiting the woodland area of Siliconus City from Ambus Valley. Sir, how should we proceed?"
A snake's hiss appeared suddenly next to a young female sheep secretary's ear, making her jump just as she finished her report displaying the globe with red, blue and purple lines connecting to different areas around the world. The man who made the hiss presented himself in front of a 10 ft giant sitting comfortably in his custom made seat. He clacked his heels together.
"Commander if I may, I would mossst gladly volunteer for thisss latest execution missssion. We've been hunting down the creature for a total of seven monthsss ever sssince it'sss firssst appearance twelve yearsss ago."
The giant tapped his finger on the arm rest and his leg crossed over the other, looking down on his subordinate.
"Thisss will be our final chance to nab it. Unlesss you want all of usss to wait another 12 yearsss with all due ressspect sssir?"
"...Can you guarantee that the mission will go smoothly and with great discretion maggot? If the public, specifically G.U.N caught wind of our operations once again it'll be all out war...and I hate to cause more casualties than necessary."
The hissing man smirked.
"Sssir my forte isss great dissscretion. In and out with the captured target. It'll be more than a ssssimple morning breeze...sssir."
"Then I leave this operation in your care Agent Snake Eyes. Gather some units from the Siliconus area, capture the target and await further orders. Dismissed."
The hissing man known as Snake Eyes saluted his superior and left through the automatic door. The sheep secretary caught up to him slightly out of breath.
"Snada?"
"Agent Sssnowball, remember that we're on duty ssso call me by my codename."
"M-my apologies Agent Snake Eyes, but your little sneaking up on me routine is becoming annoying. Can you just tone down the ahem teasing?"
"Well would you rather be sssurprised and teasssed when we "retire" for the night Rachel?"
Agent Snowball AKA Rachel blushed pink, she hid her face with her notepad. Snada was always a sneak no pun intended just because he is a snake.
"There's cameras everywhere. No one needs to know about what we do afterward."
"Heh then remember where you are? Anyway, from your report you're posssitive that it is still in Sssiliconusss City?"
Agent Snowball looked through her notes.
"O-o-oh yes uh Agent Will-o confirmed the patterns."
"...Buuuut?"
"Well um the thing is we can't use our high powered tech. The woodland area is too close to the neighborhood and...two of G.U.N's agents are currently stationed there."
Snake Eyes groaned while rolling his emerald slitted eyes.
"Ssso that'sss why Commander ordered me to gather sssome unitsss? What a pain in the assss but it'sss Commander'sss order. Agent Sssnowball?"
Agent Snowball stood straight and tall. She almost dropped her notepad.
"Yes?"
Snake Eyes dug into his pocket and took out his state of the art GPS device, tapping and swiping on it.
"Ssset up our bassse at thisss location."
He tossed his device backward without looking. Agent Snowball almost dropped it. Thank goodness to cause that s*t costs a fortune. She scanned the contents of it while pushing up her glasses to her face.
"On the corner of Trailey street? Hmm there is an empty lot so it makes sense. but Snad- Agent Snake Eyes don't you remember that your MBO account is still deactivated due to your last mission."
"Ugh don't remind me. It wasssn't my fault that the Chupacabra died ssso easssily. Ssso damn fragile it'sss neck wasss."
"Sigh doesn't matter now so why not wait a day until your funds come back?"
Snake Eyes stopped in his tracks.
"Snake Ey- Woah hey what's the rush?!"
Snake Eyes took Agent Snow ball by the hand and brought her to a dark area of the facility where the cameras wouldn't monitor, the Janitor's closet. He locked the door behind him and planted a couple of gentle kisses to Rachel's lips.
"Babe, if I were to wait a day then I would miss the opportunity and it would've ran away. I got some connectionsss in Sssiliconusss City ssso we can get the fundsss neccessssary for the bassse. Trussst me on thisss hm? I have to take every opportunity I can get. Every sssecond that goesss by, every ssstep and misssteps that are presented. Is that underssstood?"
Rachel pressed her head into Snada's gold suited chest, nuzzling lovingly.
"I understand...just promise me one thing Agent Sna-"
"Here, you can call me by my real name."
"R-right...so can you promise me one thing Snada?"
Snada ran his clawed fingers down Rachel's very poofy white wool of a hair and stroked it softly.
"Just stay safe...okay?"
"I've never broken a promissse in regardsss to my sssafety...you know that."
Meanwhile at the Siliconus Super store, a couple of weeks after the whole Death incident.
"I'm being laid off?!"
Tails never thought he would ever hear those words from the 4 years he has worked there. He was in Molly's office in shock from what his boss just told him.
"I don't know what to tell you. Due to this year's budget we can't afford to pay some of the worker so you are just of the selected."
"But that doesn't make any sense? We are doing so damn well, I saw the numbers confirming so. If a layoff was implimented then by logic's stance the worst performing should go. Don't you have the power to do that?
Molly nodded in agreement with Tail's statement.
"Yes, I do so I have all the power necessary but our system is alot more different. You see I may have the power to fire someone but it's not me who makes the choice of who to lay off someone."
"...Then who makes that choice?"
"The Mayor himself."
That's the most ridiculous thing anyone can do. "The Mayor" decides who to lay off? If that was the case then why not lay off the brothers that smokes weed everyday? Like he said, get rid of the worst performers...that and Tails always had to pick up the slack for them.
"If that was the case then why aren't the Bol-D Brothers getting laid off? They smoke weed everyday causing me to pick up the slack for them."
"I wish I had an answer for that...In all seriousness, I'm very distraut that this had to happen to you Mr.Prower."
Even now Tails can barely tell if she's being serious or not.
"Uh I can barely tell if you ar-"
Tails saw that Molly's body was shaking slightly. Her cheeks turned red and a single tear rolled down her face, all with the same expression she always had.
"Okay okay I believe you! Don't hurt yourself trying to convince me!...Goddamnit now what?"
Molly flicked the tear from her eye and rested her head on her hands.
"There's not much that I can do at this point. I could possibly do a repeal report to the Mayor but that could take months since he has alot more responsibilities at hand."
All Tails could do was sigh in defeat.
"Sigh I get it. Hopefully things can't get any worse?"
Literally an hour later back at home.
"TAILSDOLL!!"
Tailsdoll poked his head at the entrance of the kitchen.
"Sup homefry?"
"YOU ATE ALL MY SNACKS?!...EVEN THE PEPPERMINT CANDIES?!"
There were empty boxes and wrappers littered from his snack cabinets.
"What did you expect? I'm a growing boy."
After the incident Tails was able to thoroughly exam the Tailsdoll's body at his free time and made some modifications in which he was able to make the Tailsdoll's eyes blink and have a fully functioning mouth without having to rip through the fabric. Surprisingly for his good deed Tailsdoll was able to fix everything that he broke in the house. For an idiot he was unnaturally efficient.
"THE BREAD, THE BUNS, THE CEREAL BOXES...THE RED MEAT MY DUDE?!"
"It didn't taste so good since it was frozen."
"NOOOOO S*T SHERLOCK! I swear if you did what I think you d-"
Tail's jaw hit the floor with one of the most important assets to his day.
"THREE F*KING CARTONS OF MILK GONE!!"
Tailsdoll went back into the living room, watching two famous pastry chefs beat the tar out of eachother, all caught live. The amount of censors made it hard to hear the rest of the people but it was still funny a hell.
"Hey don't pin this on me, Death did that crap."
Also after the incident the Grim Reaper Death started appearing more often in Tail's home. The reason was unknown to Tails but to Death he knew why...for the free, fresh deliciousness of white milk.
"Sup?"
"DON'T 'SUP' ME DEATH! Wait I've been wondering why you are showing up here? I won remember?"
"Yeah, but you never told me to never take a step in your home ever again. Besides I'm over killing the Tailsdoll now, he's chill."
"My man!"
Tailsdoll and Death knuckle bumped eachother. The amount of stress Tails was recieving was beyond what he expected to come home to. He lost his job, his food's been eaten by a freeloader and the Personification of death who's also a freeloader.
Before any more confusion arose immediately when he went through that portal Tailsdoll had to explain to him that no mortal can see him unless someone's close to death, special mortals or a special kind of salt was rubbed in the eyes. When asked where Tailsdoll got the salt he just shrugged his shoulders.
"I don't have a job anymore just so you know."
The moment Tailsdoll heard that he and Death quickly carried Tail's tired body to the couch.
"You lost your job? But how?"
"Thanks for caring now Tailsdoll. Sigh I was laid off."
"Ooooo that s*t stings. I remember when I was laid of...no wait I was fired...no no I was laid off from bartending."
"You bartended?"
"What? Did you think a Grim Reaper was just handed to you at birth? A small percentage of demons can actually absorb souls and it's an extremely difficult profession...I am the many few exceptions to that."
Tail's eyebrow cocked up.
"There's a profession for th- Anyway what did you get laid off for?"
Death rubbed the back of his neck.
"I slept with the boss's daughter."
"...Seriously? Wait a minute you weren't laid off, you were fired!"
"Same whoop. Besides can he blame me though? She had a slimy rack and d*k su-"
"OKAY TMI...Jeez this day just blew all over me with the highest category winds."
Tailsdoll settled himself on Tail's lap.
"What are you gonna do now? I'm gonna starve at this rate."
"And eating everything in the house wasn't enough? Asshole...I need some time to think."
Tails got himself off the couch.
"(Now that I think about it Mipple street is a great place for booming businesses.) I'm going out."
Tails ran out the front door leaving Tailsdoll on the floor. He's very sure that if he can go and find a job there might be a chance.
"...Sooo...you wanna watch Dora and see how stupid she can get?
Death shrugged his shoulders.
"I got time to spare. Why not?"
About 5 minutes into it.
"F*KING THERE!!"
Mipple Street, a corner of Siliconus City where good business can thrive. The Siliconus City supermarket is just 5 miles down the road. Tails just arrived on foot without much trouble and found the right sign that indicates that he was at the right place.
"Welp this is the place...damn it's busy as heck."
No kidding, everyone looked like they were having a blast at the different restaurants, shops, ect and it was just a Monday...NO ONE LIKES MONDAYS!
"Oh Tails hi!"
Sweet merciful goddess.
"Ah Cr-Cream! Hey uh what brings you here?"
Cream giggled from Tail's blushing face. She was wearing a sunflower printed apron with a garden patterned dress underneath.
"Silly, you're in front of my flower shop. Why wouldn't I be here?"
"Yeah you're right hahahahahaha! (smooth move dumbass!)"
"Actually I was gonna ask you the same question? What brings you down here?"
Tails gulped. He didn't wanna tell Cream that he was just laid off she might think that he's a bum, a loser and most likely go out with someone of her own species who has more muscles than he does. But...he couldn't bring himself to lie. Not with Cream's face looking all smiley and friendly.
"I-I-I'm looking for work."
"Hmm? What happened? Were you laid off?"
"How do you know that?"
"Well a nice girl named Molly came to my shop earlier and ordered violets. While I was doing that we were talking about our day. You know, the normal conversation we all get. She told me that her day became gloomy and dreadful since she had no choice but to lay off one of her best employees."
"Wow...She must be taking this harder than I thought?"
"Yeah she spoke very higly about this ahem 'employee with two tails' so I deduced that it had to do with you...For some reason she was also talking about your what did she call it 'gluteus maximus'? It was like she enjoys excercising alot."
"(Why am I not surprised?) Sorry Cream I gotta go. Hopefully the job hunt ends up okay with me."
"Wait Tai-"
Tails already ran off before Cream could let out her sentence. It kinda made her feel down until a hand touched her shoulder. It was a black male rabbit three feet taller than her with a white mouth and has pink iris's in his eyes. He was wearing a sunflower printed apron and blue overalls underneath. Both of his arms were exposed showing off his slightly muscular figure. His right shoulder had a green four leaf clover tattoo on it.
"Oi what seems ta be th problem boss? You lookin down like that doesn't suit ya."
The guy rabbit with the irish accent surprised Cream a bit.
"Was that goy botherin ya?"
"What? Nonono Basil, he wan't bothering me. He's an old friend of mine. It seems like he just lost his job...I was gonna offer him some help."
Basil smirked a bit.
"Well if he's your frien then that's fine by me. Shame that he didn't take your offa."
"Yeah...that is kind of a shame."
"Hey hey hey turn that frown upside down boss, it'll ruin your sun-shinery appearance. Anywae, I got to go, a couple of delivery orders came in while you were gone. Wish meh luck boss! Shinnnnny Bolt!"
Basil blitzed off like a bolt of lightning, kicking up dust from behind him.
"Sigh Basil was always the back bone if this shop...I should be working harder on my side as well...Wait a minute?"
Cream looked inside her flower shope and saw a pile of flower bouquets just sitting on the counter.
"WAIT BASIL! YOU FORGOT THE FLOWERS!"
As Tail's job hunt began he went passed Trailey street to start at the beginning, passing a metallic building that fitted itself in between two others like a puzzle piece.
End of part 1
I was actually very reluctant to put this as an arc. But in the end I decided to wing it. Stay tuned.