I have based the political stuff on British politics and British intelligence. So below is a list incase you don't know:
Prime Minister: First Minister for the monarch (king or queen) and has all their powers.
Deputy Prime Minister: Second in command but only has power when the PM is away.
Chancellor of the Exchequer: In control of the country's economy and tax. Very Powerful..
Foreign Secretary: Focuses on Foreign Affairs, control Foreign policy and the Foreign Office (State Department).
Home Secretary: In control of Law and Order, in control of the Police and Prisons.
Defence Secretary: Controls the military (pretty obvious).
Lord Chancellor: The head judge in the country.
Transport Secretary: Controls transport e.g. trains, roads, public transport.
Health Secretary: Controls hospitals and health policy.
Party Chairman: Controls media relations, party policies and admirations.
Chief Whip: Tells MPs how to vote in Parliament and can kick MPs out of the party.
MI5: Domestic intelligence e.g. counter intelligent and terrorism.
Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)/MI6: Foreign intelligence.
GCHQ: Government Commutations Headquarters. Spies on foreign commutations like radio and computer traffic.
Chapter 5: Cabinet Meeting
"The government seemed to have reacted quickly to incident in Diamond," the journalist (a 42-year-old male black Labrador) said. "Already the Chancellor, Deputy PM, Health Secretary, Foreign Secretary and the Defence Secretary have already arrived and it is believe that the Home Secretary, Transport Secretary, Chief Whip, Party Chairman and the Lord Chancellor are coming."
"Howcome it's such a small meeting?" Charlotte Banks asked.
"The protocol for this kind of situation is to only use an emergency Cabinet that has the permanent members of the Cabinet like the Chancellor and Foreign Secretary, ministers that our effected like the Transport Secretary and anyone the Prime Minister see fit to be in place like the Chief Whip and Party Chairman."
"Will the heads of the security services be attending?"
"If they are coming we'll not see them," the journalist relied. "They will either come via helicopter or through an underground tunnel under Downing Street."
Behind him and the other journalists a black minister's car and male Golden Retriever in a suit stepped out the car.
Many of the journalists shouted things like "Mr. Johnson, do you have any comment?" or "What information can you tell us?"
The minister quickly went into the home of the Prime Minister.
At 18 Poland Street the residents did not know of the incident at St. John Square. Nor did they know that Amy was at hospital fighting for her life and Sonic was on the verge of tears.
Knuckles woke up. He was hangover. He had little memory of the night before.
He then turned and saw Lizzie was asleep next to him. She was completely nude and only had a sheet over her.
Knuckles now remember what happened. It was great. Then he remembered that her dad was a policeman and they were famous for being strict and protective over their children, especially daughters.
Knuckles got up slowly and put on a pair of pants and jeans. He then grabbed a black sweatshirt. He then left the room and went to the lounge.
Sitting on the sofa was Ninja and Jessica. Ninja was wearing jeans and a black shirt with the top two buttons undone. Jessica had on a black skirt and a tight T-Shirt which said 'I don't give a fcuk'.
"Are you alright?" Ninja asked.
"I think I've done something stupid," Knuckles said.
"What did you do?" Jessica asked.
"Remember Lizzie from last night?"
"Yeah," both said.
"I slept with her," Knuckles said.
"Get in!" Ninja said; a typical bloke's reaction.
"No, it's not good."
"Why's that?" Jessica asked.
"She's a copper's daughter."
"Not so good then," Ninja commented.
"No it isn't."
Knuckles went into the kitchen and put on the kettle. Whiles he was waiting he put on the radio.
"Unconfirmed reports believe the explosion happened underneath the platform…"
"Turn on the TV!" Knuckles shouted. "It seems that something has happened."
Ninja grabbed the TV remote and turned it on to ITV. Both were shocked. On the screen it said 'Explosion at St. John Square, Diamond.' A journalist was interviewing a policeman at the sense.
"I better call Stars and Sonic," Jessica said and picked up the phone. She first tried Sonic but she got a message that his phone was switched off. She then tried Stars but she got the same message.
At the golf club Stars and Jack were enjoying themselves. Stars was surprised how much he enjoyed golf and did not know how good he could be.
Stars and Jack were getting along, joking and chatting.
Both didn't know about the explosion. They had their phones off and so was the small radio on Jack's golf bag.
"How long have you got before you can play again?" Stars asked.
"I'm already playing in the reserves," Jack answered. "The gaffer wants to give me another week before playing me in a full match."
Jack took a swing and hit the ball 259 yards. He then put the club back in his golf bag and putted out a golf ball. He put it on the ground then put his left foot under it and kicked it up and continued to keep it up.
Stars put a tee in the ground and put a ball on top of it. Stars talked as he was lining up his shot.
"As an Emerald fan I should hate you but I have to admit that I thought your debut was brilliant," Stars said. When Jack first played his scored a hatrick (three goals in one match) and was just outstanding. He was only 18 when he did it.
"Best match I ever played," Jack answered.
Stars took a swing and hit the ball about 270 yards but it landed in a bucker.
"Tight break," Jack said.
"Like what happened to your knee," Stars joked.
Both went in towards their balls.
However things were not rosy for Amy. She was laying on the gurney with two doctors and three nurses checking her. They knew her spine was damaged, but they would not know how badly until they took her up for X-Rays. They also thought her organs were damaged and crushed when the rumble landed on her. She had inhaled smoke and dust after the explosion.
The rock that hit her on the head did knock her unconscious but could not have any lasting damage. It was actually a good thing because she couldn't feel the pain that the organs and spine.
A nurse gave the doctors her medical notes. She never suffered any major illness, just a broken toe when she was 11. But she was allergy to some drugs and they had to be careful.
Suddenly her breathing and heart rate dropped almost to a stop.
"CRASH TEAM!" a doctor (a 54-year-old grey cat) yelled and the doctors and nurses putted down the sides and got her to lie down on her back.
A nurse put a breathing mask around her mouth and two other nurses were cutting her clothes off her.
A doctor had to shock her; she was allergic to the main ingredient in the drug they used.
"CLEAR!" the doctor shouted and shocked Amy. Her body went up into the air.
"Nothing doctor," a nurse said looking at the heart monitor.
"Increase the voltage," the doctor ordered.
The doctor waited for the electricity to build up before shocking Amy. Her heart beat went up a little but it wasn't strong enough.
"One more time," the doctor said, building up electricity before shocking her.
Her heart beat went back to normal.
"Okay, lets take her up to X-Ray," the doctor said.
"I'll tell her fiancé," a nurse said went to out into the waiting room towards Sonic.
The Cabinet meeting was ready to start. At the table was the Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of States for Foreign Affairs, Home Affairs, Defence, Health and Transport. There was also the Chief Whip and Party Chairman. Non-political members of this emergency Cabinet were the heads of MI5, MI6 and Deputy head of GCHQ because the current leader was ill and at hospital and the Chief of Staff of the Military.
Edward Bear was chairing the meeting.
"Thank you for coming so quickly," Edward said as everyone got to their seats. "I'm sure you know why you are here.
"We will confirm the information we know first: Yes; there was an explosion at St. John's Square and the police said that it happened underneath the platform. It was likely to be a terrorist attack because the police have discovered a device that was the cause of the explosion.
"Now we need to debate our opinions."
The minister murmured but the intelligent and military heads did not show much reaction.
"Daniel, what kind of group do you think did this?" Edward asked the head of MI5.
Sir Daniel Lord, also a grizzly bear answered: "It had to be a well trained paramilitary group, either home or aboard. I'll have to call my head of counter terrorism but I believe it could be something like FFCI, FNF or many other fascist groups."
"Couldn't it be a hardline Communist group or religious hardliners?" David Johnson (the Home Secretary) asked.
"It's a possibly, but they don't have the resources," Daniel said. "I believe that the fascist groups are funded by…" he stopped in mid-sentence.
"Funded by whom?" Edward asked.
Daniel took a deep breath and said: "Funded by Robotnik."
"Oh that bastard," the Foreign Secretary, a 50-year-old male dolphin said in Irish accent.
"I think the same," the GCHQ deputy, a 49-year-old female panther said. "From computer and radio traffic we know that Robotnik supports foreign fascist, he has close links with the Eye. Anyway if he supports the foreign groups then he must support groups here as well."
"What about a foreign group?" the Foreign Secretary asked the head of MI6.
The lioness Caroline Walters answered: "I know there has to be a foreign connection."
"How do you know that?" the Foreign Secretary asked.
"From intelligence I received an hour and half ago," she answered. She had a brown envelope and showed a picture of a male brown monkey with a bright pink face. "This is Shijio Ajiu, a terrorist that is expert in explosives and bomb making. His view is that the world will fall into anarchy unless a strong leader is found. We believe, along the CIA and Koatian intelligence that he has worked with Robotnik" She then showed a picture of Ajiu, with a fox, a dingo a mole and a rat sitting outside a café. "This is Danio Pullson," she said pointing to the fox, "a member of the FFCI. He also thinks violence is the only way to topple your government and the democratic system. MI5 were able to stop him assassination Steve Kitson," Kitson was the Prime Minister before Bear.
"Who are the other two?" Edward asked.
"The dingo is Dr. Pierre Torre," Caroline answered. "He works for Lemeséfense, the arms company. We have been looking at his financial records and they are not good for him; so if he has an opportune to make money he'll take it."
"What about the mole?" the Deputy PM, a 61-year-old lion asked.
"We don't have any information on him," Caroline added.
"And the rat?"
"He's an agent, I can't tell you anymore because it can compromise his mission."
"If you get me a copy of the mole alone I can send it to the Police intelligence," David Johnson said. "Useless Daniel knows him?"
"I'll ask if any of my agents know him," Daniel said.
"I just want to be sure that this was a terrorist attack," Edward said, "I obviously don't want to say the thing to the media and be proven wrong."
Everyone looked at Dr. Peter Weatherson, the Transport Secretary. He was 59-year-old black Labrador and an economic historian who got a PhD on the railway and underground systems and its importants on the economy.
Weatherson put his briefcase on the table and pulled out blueprints of station at St. John's Square.
"It had to be a terrorist attack," Weatherson said. "As you can see on the blueprints the only thing under the platform is wires and they couldn't cause an explosion."
"But how would they have got the bomb there?" the Deputy PM said. "I'm sure a terrorist didn't just drop it down the platform when getting on a train."
"No," Weatherson answered. He put out another blueprint that showed the side on the platform. They was an opening just below the level people stood on to go on the train. "The bomb must have been placed here to cause damage to the train and platform."
"Where was that photo taken?" David Johnson asked the MI6 chairman when a thought clicked in his head.
"Diamond," Caroline said.
"That is not in your jurisdiction," Daniel said.
"I have to let my agents run operatives and sometimes it lead to them here," Caroline said.
"So the mole could be a tube worker," the Foreign Secretary suggested.
"Yeah," Caroline said.
"Okay, I'm going to order a check on all tune workers in Diamond," David Johnson said. He got up and made a phone call to the Chief Constable of Diamond's police force. "Hello, Thomas?"
"Yeah," a voice on the other end of the phone said.
"It's Johnson. I sure you know about the incident in Diamond," David said. "Anyway I need you to do a background check on all workers for Diamond Underground."
"I organise something," Chief Constable Thomas answered.
"Also I want to know who is running the investigation," David said.
"DI Jeffery Blake of Diamond Central Police. But I'll get a terrorist expert to run the investigation as soon as possible."
"Ring me when you get any information."
David went back to the table sat between the Foreign Secretary and Defence Secretary (a 43-year-old male Siberian Tiger).
"I asked for it to be done, but I found out a DI is running investigation," David said. "I know it's normally done but we need to get someone they NOW!" He turned towards Sir Daniel Lord. "Can you send a man to run thing?"
"Okay, but we need full co-operation with MI6 and GCHQ," Daniel answered.
"But isn't this a police matter?" the Defence Secretary asked.
"Normally it is, but I got a feeling this is going to be a big attack," Caroline said. "One bomb wouldn't be Ajiu or Pullson style."
"What do you propose?" Edward asked.
"What I think we should do is confirm the fact that this is going to be a massive attack," David said. "If so then I think we should clear the city, get people back into their homes and the police and Army to find all terrorists and bombs or whatever they are using."
"BUT THAT WOULD BE ILLEGAL!!" the Chief Whip, a 49-year-old male elephant shouted.
"Not if we use the Emergency Act of 1938," David answered.
"But still; a state-of-emergency will have to be declared and only Edward and the King can do that."
"I'll declare it then," Edward said. "We need to find the men and women that planted this bomb and if there are more then we must do all we can to save as many lives as possible and bring the terrorists that did this to justice!
"David is former policeman for God sake! He should know this!"
"But we cannot break the law," the Lord Chancellor, a 63-year-old male killer whale said.
"Call the Attorney General then!" Edward ordered. "He is the law expert."
The Cabinet looked at eachother. Edward Bear was a patronage man and had strong convictions. It was difficult to get Edward to change his mind, but that was why the people loved him.
"I suggested we have a vote," the Chancellor of the Exchequer, a 56-year-old male fox said.
"Okay," Edward said, the Chancellor of the Exchequer was close ally of his and he respected his opinion. "If intelligence comes in that there are more bombs in Diamond or other cities then we will set a curfew in the cities affected.
"Only Cabinet members can vote.
"A show of hands for," Edward said and all of the Cabinet voted with him. "That's settled then."
"Now we need to discuss what we do in Diamond," The Deputy PM said. He meant the situation in the underground, healthcare, policing, the social and media impact, etc…
Sonic was still in the waiting room. He had claimed down a bit and was just waiting for a doctor or a nurse to tell him about Amy. He knew she was sent to X-Ray and thought it was normal procedure.
The grey cat doctor was coming up to Sonic.
"Hello," the cat said to Sonic. "I'm Dr. Pallos. I was treating Amy in the A&E room. She has been stabilized and sent to X-Ray as you know. We will be analyzing them as soon as possible.
"Now I'm going to have to tell you some bad news."
Sonic didn't want to hear it but knew he had to.
"Go ahead then," Sonic said and then swallowed.
"Okay," Dr. Pallos said. "Amy has been moved into intensive care. She is being well monitored and we won't let her go but she has a lot of injuries; namely to her spine and lungs. Also she is unconscious but I believe it's a good thing because she cannot feel any of the pain she could have suffered."
"What can you tell me about her injuries?" Sonic asked.
"Not a lot at the moment," the doctor said. "But we know she hasn't got brain damage."
Sonic said: "that's good to hear."
"Do you want to see her?"
"Please."
Sonic got up and picked up his guitar and Dr. Pallos lead him to the lift. They went up to the 5th floor. Dr. Pallos then took Sonic down a corridor and showed him to Amy's room.
Sonic stood in shock. Amy was lying down with a breathing mask and neckblace. She had a dressing over her head wound and her chest was linked to a heart monitor.
"I'll leave you two alone," Dr. Pallos said, walked out and closed the door.
Sonic just broke down in tears and fell to the floor.
"Amy," he cried. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I could let this happen?"
That was a question he should never have asked.
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