Flip Card 2: (I do not own Sonic X, Sonic, etc.)
Name: Captain Koji Okida
Age: 23
Sex: Male
Species: Vampire Bat
Job description: Mobile walker pilot for the military organisation, G.U.N
"How can could we possibly loose a battleship that size?" The President, Michael Corvo, asked as Air force one (the presidents private plane, for those of you who don't know.) soured towards the new G.U.N headquarters, a large base hidden in the Arizona desert, it's location and security above top secret.
"We don't know sir. It seems Eggman's technological advances have been keeping pace with our own." Christina replied, adjusting her glasses as she looked over the reports in front of her. "He may have developed some radar evasion device is order to elude us."
"Well at least the report that he's collecting Chaos Emeralds has been confirmed. Thanks to Bean and Bark, we have one of them safely locked in the vault at Area 99."
Now that they'd cleared a ridge, the base came within visual distance. A large compound, circular in shape and surrounded completely by turrets and anti-aircraft guns. A large collection of runways to the west of the base's interior and a power plant to the east, making the base completely independent from the nation grid.
"I certainly hope this new Mobile Walker they'd been able to design can keep up with those Dreadnaughts of his." presently, the President was on his way to expect the results of project Dead shot. An effort to produce a faster, stronger and more versatile mobile walker for front line combat.
With Giant Wing presently under going repairs after it's brief exchange with Dr. Eggman's Egg Carrier 3, presently the Michael reasoned that they could use all the help they could get.
What they didn't know however, was that Eggman had learnt were exactly the base was, by gaining access to the satellite surveillance system to spy on his enemy. As the plane flew across the mountain range, a lens focused in on the craft, trapping the plane in it's crosshairs. A large bulk reared itself up and two, eclipsing the half moon as two large doors to concealed compartments on it's body opened up. There was a sudden flare of orange light and a loud boom.
"Weapons fire inbound!"
The G.U.N headquarters was the militaries largest base, a near impenetrable fortress. At least, they'd thought, so isolated in the wildness, the wasteland it was submerged inwas nearly completely surrounded on all sides by mountains. So image their surprise when they came under attack by a significant Eggman Empire attack force.
By the time the pilots had scrambled into their Walker mobile suits prepared for battle, the flying Dreadnaught attack robots had already breeched the base perimeter. Destroying anything that got in their way.
Thick streams of bullets took down two Big-Foot walkers, giving their pilots just enough time to eject. As the large bulky robots touched down on the runways that allowed the bases stealth planes room to land and take off, G.U.N was calling for help on all channels, trying to bring in backup from any nearby bases. The Anti aircraft guns, which had tried to bring down the flying robots, had been taken out by the Dreadnaughts air support, a swarm of Dreadnaughts that remained in the air.
Tanks with the G.U.N (G) symbol on their sides rolled out of their hiding places, their large turrets already rotating towards the large robots. As the bullets were replaced with missile fire and with no anti-aircraft guns to hinder them, more support for Dr. Eggman's own forces arrived in the form of two large flying ships, the Empire's symbol; the large sneering face of the Doctor himself painted on the underside. One each flying vehicle a pair of cargo bay doors flew open and at two dozen Dreadnaughts joined the fray.
Now that the seriousness of the attack was realized, G.U.N's biggest fighting asset arrived on the battlefield. His eyes glowing a blood red, Omega ascended to the surface of the base by the use of an elevator that was used to bring various forms of weapons from the base's interior underground. As soon as he arrived, his arms swung upwards and two concealed missile compartments opened up, at least five from each open flung into the air.
Several Dreadnaughts crashed to the ground, explosions having torn their bodies in half. Converting to mobile mode, Omega flew across the landing strips, bullets tearing away from the two machine guns he could retract back behind the red metal chest plate. While the mass majority of them carried on assaulting the base, showing it was their primary mission, a good deal of them served and charged at the smaller robot head on.
"Obliterate." Sliding backwards, thick streams of bullets escaped Omega's hands, riddling the leader of the ground with holes and as it crashed to the ground, E123 swerved to the side, keeping his body mobile as he fire missile after missile as soon as he got get a lock on. As a missile struck the ground, a thick combination of fragmented concrete and smoke flew up into the air, spreading like a fine mist. The base itself lost visual of their best attack unit but Omega simply switched his optics settings from normal mode to night vision. Just in time to see a Dreadnaught turn towards him and fire a missile.
Omega simply wasn't fast enough to swerve the missile collided with his chest plate, sending him flying across the air and through a wall straight into one of the storage warehouse.
As he lay across the floor, a quick damage report told him his armour rating had been deceased from 100 to 65. Also his missile weapons systems had been knocked offline. A new strategy devise and system repairs done as quickly as possible during the time available, Omega pushed himself off the ground with one large arm and was ready for combat again.
Bursting out through the doors, the combat robot shut down his projectile combat mode, his fingers converting from a machine gun back into talons. Head to hand combat might prove more effective.Omega could not have known that the intelligence of the Dreadnaughts AI had been greatly improved. This was a divisionary attack to keep him busy while the rest dealt with the G.U.N defenders, reducing everything higher than a few meters to the ground.
"Captain, get back here now!" Of course, the pilot inside the experimental Mobile Walker wasn't listening. Flicking a few switches in front of him before taking hold of the two steering controls, the pilot leaned back as waited to the large shutter doors in front of his walker ascended, revealing the battlefield before him. "Captain, this is a direct or…" A smile crossed his face, before he switched the radio off.
Two large laser guns, the latest attachment to the Walker, rotated themselves forward of the bulk of the machine as is strode out into the night air and fired a blast across the bulk of the attacking forward, taking down several of their numb in one shot. In the aftermath, they all paused for a single moment and stared at the point of origin of the blast. The flames of battle produced a lot of smoke, nearly blanketing the entire base and as they stared, their optics picked up a large shape as a large metal foot stamped down on a fire, extinguishing it.
Althoguh not as large as the other G.U.N walkers, this new model had its main bulk built on the pivot on the top of it bipedal legs. Instead of two, four missile bays had been added to the back of the mobile machine. Two just beyond the cockpit and another two concealed behind a pair of shutters on the underside. The (G) for G.U.N was printed each side underneath the pilots cockpit window, this was the latest piece of G.U.N weaponry. Their latest combat walker, adapted with technology collected when they studied Omega.
The pilot himself was a mobian bat with chestnut brown fur and flaxen yellow eyes, his mouth and shoulders concealed by a thick red drape that he'd wrapped around his neck. Two large, black, leathery wings pressed flat against the seat. Before anyone of his targets could react to his sudden appearance, he'd already targeted ten of them and pressed the missile fire button.
Fire exploded through the air, providing the new walker perfect concealment, revealing another of its traits, superior speed. It had longer, thinner legs than the other mobile walkers which enabled the machine to run across the battlefield, crossing the distance between him and the enemy in moments. By the time any of them had cleared the smoke screen; the Captain had sneaked around their flank and was giving them hell.
"Pilot, identify yourself." Omegas signal was able to reach him even with the radio off. The bat looked doubt the pilot window towards the robot who was still fighting with his bare talons, spreading and tearing huge chucks of metal out of any Dreadnaught that got too close.
"What's in the name?" He asked, before making sure all com signals to his Mobile walker had been disabled.
"Who is that pilot?" General Saddler demanded, staring angrily out of the window of his office on the far side of the base as the new mobile walker, which was still supposed to be in testing stages tear in through masses of Dreadnaughts. General Saddler was the current G.U.N commander. "I what to know who he is, now!"
"Captain Okida sir." One of the soldiers told him. "He's from the Freelance division. He's the pilot who was scheduled to test the Dead Shot." General Saddler. Like most high ranking G.U.N generals was a human. Dressed in a shark blue military uniform, his eyes staring out from under the rim of his hat.
"Sir, incoming from Air force one." Someone shouted up. The control room of the base was currently in chaos as personnel struggled to maintain the defence. "They want to be informed of the situation."
"Is the President unharmed?"
"Yes sir. The plane turned away from the base as soon as the alarm was raised."
"Good. Get a security team over there to protect the President. In the mean time, give the Captain and Omega some cover fire."
Shadow's punch was deflected and Emerl countered with an attack of his own, a flying metal fist that missed the black hedgehog at first, curved through the air like a boomerang and hit him in the back of the head.
Rebounding off a rock, Shadow somersaulted into the air, arched his back before firing a chaos spear directly at the robot. Who's imply twisted every movable part of his body around, repealing the attack before retaliating.
Shadow was quick to realize that this robot was not like the other Eggman had in command. He was stronger, faster and annoyingly persistent. Emerl shot around and fired another hand from his arm that latched onto Shadow's ankle and tossed him up into the air. Colliding with a few thick branches, the black hedgehog got the wind knocked out of him. But Emerl wasn't finished there, with his grip still on him; he brought him back down and dunked him several times in the water before smashing his head against a hard rock.
Shadow groaned, rubbing the back of his quills as Emerl retracted his hand. A definite change in strategy was going to have to be utilised if he was going up beat this one. Pushing himself back onto his feet, his fur matted, clinging to his skin. A sudden burst from the soles of his shoes propelled him forward at lighting fast speed, allowing him to get inside the robot's defence's and deal him a crushing knee to the chest, then to follow up a kick across the head, causing him to spiral sideways.
Emerl's sensors had read that blow at level 7, strength exceeding any expectations the data within his data banks would allow. Simply overpowering was not going to work; this hedgehog's strength rivalled his own. Righting himself, Emerl fired both hands at Shadow, who batted them both aside with a lightning fast kick before sliding across the water's face, trying to get in close to take advantage of the moment. Emerl however was ready, leaping backward at the last moment as his hands returned to him. Now in the air, the robot activated a technique that the original Emerl had downloaded from Sonic himself. His body curved itself over, forming a tight ball and he began spinning, the momentum keeping him in place for a second before rocketing at full speed straight at Shadow.
Not expecting the attack, Shadow was caught completely off guard. The blow sent him flying through the air, leaving him entangled in some overhanging in vines like some abandoned puppet.
"Emerl stop it!" Cream screamed at him as the robot went in for the kill while Shadow was weakened. To both her and Emerl's surprise, he did stop. He found himself obeying her orders without question. He actually turned away from Shadow and dropped back down to the ground, staring at her. Again the original Emerl's memories came into play and it took everything the robot had to shake them off.
A loud scream echoed across the swamp as Shadow's body was suddenly surrounded by a ball of golden yellow pulsating energy, shattering the vines and powering up his Chaos Spear attack. Emerl only looked up in time to see the arrow of chaos energy come screaming at him, although that did not leave the robot with enough time to avoid it. The blast collided with him head on, sending him flying into the canopy of the trees, disappearing from view.
"Ok, that is it!" Shadow said between clenched teeth. This robot had really, really pissed him off, which was probably not a smart thing to do. Cream wanted to tell him Shadow to stop, but before she could say anything, the black hedgehog launched him into the trees after Emerl.
Tails had been watching from behind the damaged Cyclone and from his position, he could hear the two of them fighting just beyond their sights. Occasionally the leaves here and there would shake as some form of punch or kick occurred. Suddenly, there was silence and Cream held her breath. Tails climbed to the top of the rock they had crashed nearby, trying to see if he could see anything else. Just as he did so, a pair of black objects came hurtling down, splashing down in the water. The fox managed to make out a blur of kicks and punches as the two vanished again into the water, the splash soaking his fur.
A second later, the black Emerl was sent flying out the water spiralling through the air before colliding with a tree, knocking it over. Shadow surface, trying to shake as much water as he could out of his black fur. Emerl was lying at the base of a shattered tree trunk, struggling to get up, before the backup power supply kicked in and he pushed himself to his feet.
"Emerl stop, haven't you done enough?" Cram asked, putting herself in between the robot and Shadow.
"CHAO CHAO!" Cheese said in agreement.
"Cream, what the heck are you doing?" Tails began. Shadow simply blinked in surprise.
"You know this robot?" Cream nodded in reply. Emerl stood here, staring right at her. Why did this rabbit hold such significance for the original Emerl that his very memories had distracted him during the fight? The black Emerl did not understand. There was a sudden click as Eggman's control program came back on line, overriding any self though process' the black Emerl had. His eyes glowed bright red and without a single moments hesitation he charged forward, knocking the rabbit girl over and dived straight at Shadow.
His full name was Koji Naoko Okida; only recently delivered onto Earth when the two worlds merged into one. He had been one of the few mobians, apart from Sonic and his friends, who had ever stood up to the Eggman Empire. When he arrived here, he had hoped to escape the Empire once and for all, only to find Eggman had arrived before he had. But this world it seemed had a much greater force with which to resist him and his robotic kingdom.
It hadn't taken the vampire bat long to master the controls of the formidable weapons their military had. True they were a little too much like Eggman's roots for his liking, but after receiving a taste of the speed and firepower this Dead Shot could produce, he quickly grew accustomed to it.
A large smile spread over his face as Dreadnaught after Dreadnaught fell before his walker. His fangs glistening in the moonlight. He'd seen the report on Omega and was well aware that Eggman was the one who designed and built him. He found it hard to believe that anything built by that mad man would ever fight for them, however since the merger of the worlds he'd seen stranger things.
"Radar's clear of enemies." The com chatter told him once he'd switched the radio back one, the last remaining Dreadnaughts retreating as fast as they could to the two flying Eggman Empire ships that had remaining stationary above the base, a dozen Hot Shot Walkers on their tail. "Back up arriving in five minutes from the north, they'll chase them for us." All Koji had wanted to here was, all clear. He sighed and deactivated combat mode. The walker paused, before it's long legs lowered and it reduced it's height down to near ground level. There was a short and sharp click and the glass separating the bat from the outside world slid upwards. The fresh, night air flood in, Koji unbuckled his seatbelt and stood up, stretching out his wings.
As he slid down to the ground, Omega came to a halt next to him.
"They're all talking about you, you know." The robot asked as the bat simply walked past him. Now out of the walker, the bat revealed his clothes. A pair of black leather pants and a white shirt, over which was a brown jacket. His red scarf covering his shoulders and back, his wings stretching out from under it. "All the other pilots on the base I mean."
"Let 'um." The bat replied, shrugging his shoulders as he walked. "Oh, tell the General that the test of the new walker went swimmingly." He added, before stretching out his wings. With a few beats, he was in the air, souring through the air with ease. As if summoned a large chopper with G.U.N markings passed over head. The loud blur of the blades resonating in the air. A sliding door opened on one side and the bat disappeared inside.
"Show off." A voice stated as someone smacked him on the back. Koji looked down to see another of the President's latest Freelancer force. Bean the Dynamite Duck. Freelance was a group put together under the direct supervision of the President, seeing how successful mobian skill and intelligence had been in confronting the Eggman Empire. "I saw that little display Captain, you made those other pilots look like toddlers." A large grin passed over the bat's face, his fangs glinting the red light that filled the interior of the transport chopper.
"That's why I'm in charge." He stated, before joining the pilots at the front of the chopper. Bark, another member of Freelance was sitting in the co-pilots seat. Topaz, a member of the Government's elitle agents and part time Freelance member was in the pilots seat, a pair of headphones over her ears. "Where's Rouge?" The vampire bat asked the Polar bear as Topaz was busy talking into a mouth piece that curved around from her headphones.
"She went on ahead to make visual confirmation of the President's safety." He replied, sitting her with his eyes closed and his arms crossed.
"So were on route to Air force one's emergency landing site?" Bark nodded.
"It was forced to make a belly landing in the mountains. The security team from the base should be there by now, our job is to simply pick up the President at then let the boys do the rest." He paused, finally opening his eyes. "I just can't understand how Eggman found the G.U.N headquarters." Koji narrowed his flaxen yellow eyes.
"I've a fair idea." He began. "But if I'm right, it may place us all in great danger."
Shadow caught the punch and brought his leg up in a sharp kick, knocking Emerl into the air again with a blow to his chest. The robot accessed his data banks again and employed another move the original copied. His left leg began completely horizon and he began spinning, his body twisting faster then the wings of a tornado. Shadow recognized it as one of Rouge's attacks. A grim smiled crossed his face as he stayed put as Emerl tore towards him, expecting his spinning kick to tear through his body with ease.
Instead, as soon as he reached Shadow, the black hedgehog simply reached out and grabbed the robot by the ankle, stopping him dead in his tracks. Now at his mercy, Shadow, still with Emerl in his grip, leapt high into the air, through the canopy and out into the sky and at one precise moment, tossed Emerl as high as he could towards the clouds.
Shadow wasn't finished. As he fell, he let his arms trail out by his sides, fingers arched as a ball of chaos energy gathered between them. This was a new technique he had just made up, the double Chaos Spear.
Clapping his hands together, merging the two attacks into one, he forced them away from his body and straight towards the falling robot. The deadly projectile collided with Emerl and the ensuing explosion that shook the trees and ground below, knocked him out of a steady fall into a plummet. Shadow had just enough time to sneer at him as his burning remains disappeared from view, before the black hedgehog re-entered the canopy.
"Shadow, you ok?" Tails asked as the hedgehog landed back down in the water with a loud splash, crouching before standing backup. Shadow was about to answer before a metal fist came flying out of nowhere, hitting him in the back of the head and knocking him down. Emerl charged back through the trees, all three of his eyes glowing bright red.
"I will be once I render that robot a useless robotic scrap heap." The hedgehog snarled inn reply, leaping up and firing another chaos spear attack directly at him. Emerl batted the energy blast aside with a swing of his arm.
The two opponents lunged at each other, exchanging punches before tackling each other's arms, a power struggling occurring as each tried to topple the other.
"That's enough!" Cream cried. Eggman's control program held up and Emerl kept his concentration on the fight. "Stop it, STOP IT NOW!" Something from deep within the robot was yelling out, trying to tell him something, but again the control Eggman had on him held up, keeping him fighting. Shadow tried to push forward, hoping his legs would buckle, but experienced no such luck. "You were my friend Emerl, even if you turned out to be a bad guy, I don't want to see you get hurt!" There was that word again, 'Friend.' In that spilt second, Emerl's concentration lapsed and Shadow forced his way forward, taking hold of the robot's body and throwing him backwards. Emerl slid across the water, only to have the black hedgehog rush at him, dart behind him a land the strongest punch he could muster against the back of his neck.
The blow had done far much more than physical damage. The data banks that held all the accumulative information gathered during any fight came on line by itself, overriding Eggman's command program and the memory files belonging to the original Emerl flashed up on the robots internal server screen. Flashing images that vanished and came within moments, images showing happiness, contentment and a peaceful existence, all involving the rabbit designate: Cream.
Memories of emotions, which he had never known since coming online. It seemed so alien at first, but as the images continued he began to understand that these images were not destroying him, rather elevating. He could nearly feel Dr. Eggman's control over him beginning to erode slowly. Suddenly, the ultimate truth was revealed to him. There had never been, at any point, two Emerl's. Only one, recovered by Eggman after being defeated by Sonic, Knuckles and Rouge then being rebuilt to fight again for the mad man. Finally now the black Emerl understood, he was the original.
Cream watched in a mixture of amazement and horror as Emerl twitched in the air for a single second, before falling to the swamp floor, sinking into the thick stagnant water.
"EMERL!" She yelled, running over with her Chao following. The robot was lying on his back in the water like some inanimate corpse. Shadow paused to stetched his muscle before striding through the water, just to make sure that this time the robot would not get back up. "Emerl, come on. Don't go away again." Tails flew over, his unique ability keeping him from getting his feet wet.
Emerl's eyes clarifying from red to blue, the robot blinked and looked up at her. There was a sudden silence and it seemed not even the swamp around them was making a noise. Cream could feel her heart thumping hard in her chest as the robot straightened up, looking around confused. Suddenly, it noticed her presence and turned to face her.
Shadow was more than ready to resume a fight, his fists clenched by his sides. But there wasn't any need anymore. Emerl made his way to his feet unsteadily, his eyes on Cream all the time. Gently, he offered her his hand and Cream recognised the gesture.
When she had first found the robot hidden behind a group of bushes on the Thorndyke estate, she had offered him her hand before taking him to meet the others. Whatever hold Eggman had had on him had shattered. A single tear ran down her cheek. She had her friend back.
(In Chris' voice)
So Cream's got her old friend back. Or has she. Eggman's not about to give up his strongest robot without a fight! See what happens next time on Sonic X, A Test of Faith! Don't miss it!
(Hope people didn't mind the self insertion. Koji will be important to the plot, but not for a while yet. Hope you liked him. How many people have noticed that Chris hasn't appeared in this whole saga yet?)
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