I've been having a great night, so why not upload?
StarTheDragon: I appreciate your short reviews, and you may or may not get Sonic's reaction to what's happening. Btw, what does "030" mean?
Infinite's POV
I looked down at what Gadget was surveying, rubbing my cheek. For a wolf, that guy really had quite the punch. Probably enough punch that won the war I was in, apparently.
We were looking at a GUN helicopter on top of a small base.
"So, we're flying that?" I asked.
"Oh yeah. A really fun way of taking out enemies from the air. Definitely not like an airship, but it'll do, and I've really wanted to fly one of those again. It's really fun, even in serious war, believe me." Gadget told me.
"You've flown one of those?" I asked once more.
"Only twice. I'm more used to flying transports and doing search-and-rescue instead of directly attacking the enemy by bombing them." He explained.
To be honest, I was looking forward to flying a gunship helicopter too. I remember the flights that Nova took me on during certain missions that required an air vehicle. It is fun being up there in the sky, but it'll be even more fun absolutely destroying these trigger-happy morons that started this war.
"Okay, what's our plan then?" I asked, kneeling down.
"Simple." My friend said to me and looked at me. "We get disguises and take the place of whoever's supposed to be flying that thing. Take out some Shamarians with it, and head back. I'm thinking we should reveal ourselves afterward, maybe get the local forces' trust earned. After all, you're not the monster you were made out to be." He said, giving me a smirk.
"Well, let's do it, then." I said enthusiastically, but Gadget got up and looked at me with a confused expression on his face.
"Aren't you gonna complain? You don't seem to be one that likes acting." He said, scratching the side of his head.
"Hey, you're right; I don't like acting, but I'm used to doing it a lot of the time, so I'm fine with it. Most of my missions require it." I explained. He simply nodded back.
"Alright, then. Let's head down and sneak into the building." With no time to waste, we slid down the tall building on the other side away from the base so we'd have less chances of being seen.
Once on the ground, my eyes looked down both ways of the street, looking for any soldiers. Once there were none, I signaled Gadget to follow me. I darted for the nearest alleyway that went towards the firebase. There was a wooden fence that blocked off the alleyway at the end, giving us cover from anyone at the base.
We scurried along and stopped at the wooden fence. I peeked through the slits in the wood and saw several guards out front.
"No go." I whispered. We had to wait for the opportunity to arrive. In my experience of being an assassin and a mercenary, patience was everything.
We waited a few minutes, and eventually a convoy came along. Most of the soldiers entered inside the vehicles, and they left. Now there were only two soldiers talking outside.
The soldiers got bored and began walking the other way down the street. I gave the nod and we jumped over the fence and dashed across the street to the wall of the base.
We made our way around back, and I peeked around the corner. I saw two anthro soldiers in pilot outfits, a fox and cat.
"There's two pilots there, they our guys?" I whispered in question. He nodded. I got my knife out, but Gadget stopped me.
"They're good guys, don't kill them."
"I'm not," I replied. "this is just in case something goes wrong. Let's knock them out." I silently made my way around the corner, neither of the two noticing my presence.
"...but then again, those Eastern fools are crazy, locking up all those people for no reason." I heard him say to his colleague, sucking back his cigarette.
"If only Infinite didn't escape." The other replied. I snuck up on one and hit him hard on the back of his helmet, Gadget quickly doing the same before the other could react.
The hits knocked both of them out. We had to move before someone sees us back here. If we're seen, especially me, I probably won't survive the next pursuit. That couldn't happen now.
"Let's get changed." Gadget said.
Later
I looked at my arms in the pilot outfit. It fit me perfectly and was surprisingly cozy. The only issue was the helmet because I like to keep my hair long, and it is quite uncomfortable when I put it on, and I'm not about to cut it all off.
I looked at Gadget, who was locking up the dumpster we put the pilots in. "You look fitting." I complimented him.
"You sure they'll be okay in there?" The wolf asked me. I nodded.
"Someone will find them eventually if they scream loud enough. Don't worry, you act like I don't know what I'm doing."
"Sorry." He apologized. The radio on our helmets kicked on.
"Vulcan Six-One, report to the helipad and get airborne. Our units need you out there." The commander ordered us from the other end.
Gadget cleared his throat and made a fake voice. "We're on it." He replied.
"Wait, who's this?"
"We're replacements, the other pilots ended up with some sort of lung condition that hit them a few minute ago." I made an excuse with a fake voice of my own.
"Ehm, roger that. Get airborne ASAP." We opened up the back door of the base, we flipped our tinted helmet visors down so we hopefully couldn't be made out.
"You ready?" Gadget asked me in excitement.
"As long as your piloting skills are promising, definitely." I replied, walking past the soldiers who, to our luck, didn't recognize us. We made our way upstairs and to the roof. As we approached the gunship, Gadget stopped me once more. I turned and looked at him as he thrust a fist out at me.
"Before we go, fist bump!" He exclaimed.
"Uh, sure." I gave him a fist bump and we made on our way. Looking at the machine we would be flying, it seemed intimidating. Maybe that was because I'm an enemy to GUN at the moment.
I climbed in the front seat, and Gadget in the back. He started up the engines. I looked around, honestly this was really cool.
I looked at the roof of the building as we began to rise up. "Takin' us up." Gadget told me. We gained more altitude and he carefully maneuvered the chopper forward and we went ahead. "We're in the air. Tell us where to go."
"Coordinates have been sent, you are to assist ground forces heading into the enemy invasion force." The female dispatcher told us.
"Roger that!" I exclaimed. We picked up speed and headed east to where that long strip of destroyed land was. I couldn't help but survey the damage that already had been done to the city. Thick smoke from burning debris rose up everywhere.
"Know how to use the gun?" I heard my friend on the headphones. "You use the stick and aim it around looking through the camera."
"Simple enough, let's have some fun." I replied and got used to controlling the gun. We went lower and I saw yet another GUN convoy. We hovered above them. "Are we protecting them?" I asked just for clarification.
"Yeah, I think so. The coords lead to here." Gadget replied to me. Our radios kicked on once more and we received orders from the dispatcher.
"Vulcan Six-One, you are to protect the convoy to extract a commander believed to be under attack by enemy forces." She explained. It bothered me that I was being told what to do like this, usually I'm not put in that position. The most amount of orders I'd get normally is an explanation on an assassination mission by one of our 'employers'.
"We're entering primary combat zone, command. No hostiles in site yet, but I know they're creeping out there. Vulcan, scout the way, would ya'?" One of the tank commanders asked us.
"No problem." I replied back. "Let's do this."
The amount of smoke coming from all the blown up buildings and vehicles was obstructing my vision, and I couldn't see much as we moved forward. Gadget noticed my dilemma.
"There's some way to turn thermal on that thing. That might help a bit." He told me. I searched around for the switch that let me do that, and found it. The camera changed to black-white thermal.
"That's handy, even for outdated equipment." I murmured to myself. I looked around for anything that was alive and an enemy. To my surprise, there was nothing in the dead area luckily, so the convoy could move along. "Nothing there, Gadget."
"Up ahead's good." I said and they moved along. We were cut off guard by another of GUN's gunships that flew right by us. They must've been called to help defend, too. Whatever, more help is appreciated.
We were about halfway through the strip, and that's when we saw below the convoy beginning to see shots let out at them. "Gadget, move forward a bit. They're being shot at." I told him, and he carefully flew the helicopter towards the enemy. That's when I saw several enemies hiding in buildings and on rooftops.
Without hesitation, I began shooting at them. The gun was apparently fitted with explosive rounds, which made this even better for me. One by one I took them down, along with the other helicopter.
"Not so fun when your target has some hardware, isn't it!?" I growled and continued taking them out. I perked up when an alarm went off and we jerked to the right. "What the Hell?"
"They shot a missile at us, but good thing flares exist!" I heard Gadget say, relieved. I wiped sweat off my head and continued what I was doing.
Eventually, they began running away, but I was distracted by one of the vehicles from the convoy suddenly gunning it to them. It was one of their smaller APCs eager to take a few kills. I watched intently at it, it turned the corner and began firing. The streak wasn't long, though because Shamar brought along their own tanks too.
The APC was annihilated from one shot, the turret coming off completely as the vehicle exploded. "Damn." I cursed and shook my head in disappointment.
"A tank? No problem for this thing." Gadget said, and he let off a homing missile at the tank, which blew it up completely.
The convoy made it to the other side just as we were cleaning up the rest of the enemies. I watched as a team of GUN soldiers came out of a building and entered one of their APCs in the convoy. They turned around and headed the other way back.
"Appreciated, Vulcans." One of the commanders of the convoy thanked us, but another alarm went off. I looked in front and saw a weird looking helicopter, one I did not recognize, but knew enough it wasn't a friend.
We evaded the missile. "What the heck? He just came out of nowhere. He's not appearing on the radar!" I heard him shout in confusion.
The enemy chopper had quad miniguns and missile launchers on it. Definitely different from the Hinds I was used to seeing in the movies. "Don't let that slow you down, just kill him!" I shouted. Gadget, in response fired a homing missile at it, but the helicopter had flares of its own.
We saw the other helicopter on our side get completely shredded by the miniguns, and it plunged down into the ground with the pilots on the radio screaming for their lives, but that didn't stop me.
"Get us high, maybe I can kill it with the gun on this." I said.
"I have a better idea." He told me, and shot a rocket burst at the Shamarian heli before it could fire at us. The rockets hit dead on and completely destroyed it. "Take that!"
"Woo, this really is fun." I exclaimed when our radios kicked on again.
"Vulcan Six-One, this is command. Your new objective is to suppress a large aircraft coming in." She explained. Gadget acknowledged the order and we moved to wherever the 'large aircraft' was.
We headed north, where there must've been a push going on. "Have you noticed that they haven't being trying too push since the invasion started, they've only been hanging out in the eastern part of the city." I said.
"I noticed, too. Maybe they didn't come prepared enough." He estimated.
"Something tells me that isn't the case." I thought out loud. We made our way until a large silvery object appeared ahead, and it was an aircraft of some sort. "What is that?" I asked.
"That must be a captured Resistance ship or one of Eggman's ships left after the war. This ain't good!" He explained worriedly. We charged right at the airship and began firing on it.
The gun was barely doing anything, and the barrage missiles were slightly effective against the beast, so Gadget was spamming homing missiles, which surprisingly was doing a number on the thing.
He was targeting the engines, which were badly damaged and were beginning to die. Gadget suddenly stopped firing after six or so missiles. I looked back at him confused.
"Why aren't you shooting?" I asked.
"We're out of missiles, but we still got shots left in the-" He was cut off when the helicopter suddenly violently jerked to the side and an alarm went off. We were spinning in circles when I realized we were going down. "Gadget, jump onto that airship!" I shouted and opened the window. I jumped out at the perfect time and grabbed onto the side of the airship.
Gadget landed next to me, albeit confused. I made my way towards the roof as the ship went down with my friend right behind me. I made it onto the roof, still clutching for my life as the ship hit the ground and the part in front of us exploded.
I woke up moments after, dazed and confused. I noticed Gadget laying next to me, and I got up to try and wake him up. I took off the helmet, and then Gadget's to see if he was alive.
When I did, he began to stir and put his glasses on. "What... happened..." He grumbled in pain.
I heard footsteps next to me, and a Shamarian soldier kicked me in the face, knocking me down. I didn't have the strength to fight now, and they began to drag us away by our wrists. I saw the destroyed street I was being dragged away from, and that's when I finally fainted.
Later
"Wake up!" I heard and water was dumped in my face, waking me up immediately. I opened my eyes to see several soldiers there, and I went to attack them, but my wrists and legs were restrained because of handcuffs.
I looked over at Gadget, who was next to me wide awake and also his face drenched in water, his glasses almost falling off.
"Get them up and put them in the plane already." I heard another voice say. I felt a hand grab the back of my uniform and haul me up. Gadget was also manhandled up as well.
"Where are we?" My wolf friend asked, but he got hit in the back of the head with a rifle.
"Shut up and keep moving!" The guard shouted at him. I looked ahead and saw the back of a large plane with its cargo door open. We were lead inside where there was a large steel room with a cage door at the back wall. They led us up in the plane and they uncuffed us completely, but immediately threw us in the cage, with the door being slammed and locked it tight.
I got up and grabbed the bars of the door, looking at the humans with cruel looks on their faces. They turned around and exited the plane, with the cargo door closing.
I collapsed to my knees. "Fuck, not again!" I pleaded without hope.
And there's your mega chapter. Hope you all enjoyed, and your reviews are appreciated.