The hunter gains an apprentice

"Agent Arganough, come in Agent Arganough."

Agent Arganough answered with a sigh. "By the book aren't we Kay, how many times so I have to ask you to call me Alex?"

"Are you flirting with me Agent Arganough?"

"Maybe," she said in a playful tone. "You're a handsome man Kay." That was the good thing about being twenty five, despite what the sues seemed to think, there just wasn't anything sexy about a sixteen year old.

"Careful Alex, or you're going to get me in trouble. What is your status?"

"The Sue's dead Kay, I pushed her into Mount Doom. Once the Prince got out of the trance he was very grateful."

"Nice work, his highness could be a useful contact if we ever need to come back."

"If?" Alex asked. "You know they'll be back."

"True, you should return to base the boss has another assignment for you."

"I did a quick scan and I found a few more targets in the area."

"We can send other agents after them, the boss is asking for you specifically."

"Great," she closed her laptop. "That means it must be demons or something."

"Well the Winchester brothers have had a hard time with Sues lately but that's not what this is about."

"Okay, now I'm curious. Beam me up Scotty."

A glowing portal stepped appeared and she stepped through.

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She arrived back at headquarters. The Mary Sue Slayer headquarters was located in its own dimension, and therefore wasn't in any particular world. She found Kay sitting in a room full of computer screen.

"Alright Agent Jenson, good luck," he spoke into his headset then hung up.

"Agent Jenson?" Alex asked. "Are you sure he's ready?"

"He might be a rookie but he knows his stuff," Agent Kay was a tall African-British man with a shaved head. He didn't have to turn his chair to know who it was, the good thing about his job was that he spent so much time talking to people over the phone he knew everyone's voices better than he knew their faces.

"What have you got for me Kay?"

"I have a special assignment for you," this time the voice was coming from behind her. She turned to face her boss, Agent Macintyre, a man she simply called "Mac". He was a balding man in his fifties with a long grey moustache that reminded her of a walrus's tusks.

"Protocol has changed Arganough."

"So what have the powers-that-be decided now?"

"No hunter is allowed to go into a world alone, we usually send people in pairs but now they've made it official. So we're going to be assigning you a partner and don't argue with me Arganough."

"Okay, so who are you sending me with?"

"Toby!" he called and a small blond boy appeared at his side. He couldn't have been older than fifteen. What does he think he's doing sending a teenage boy after those things?

"You're giving me a rookie?" she asked outraged.

"Yes, you are getting an apprentice. Usually a trainee is assigned to a pair to teach him the ropes but we're over loaded this year and you've never been given one before so it's about time."

Son of a bitch. The last thing she needed was a kid that was going to get in the way or slow her down.

"And there's more. They've decided that we have to do something about the animal companions the Sues have. Too many good hunters have been killed because they forgot about the pet tiger or the unicorn."

"So we're being given animals of our own?" Alex asked reluctantly. She'd never liked animals, she was never any good with them.

"Yes, but animals that are pretty commonplace like dogs, cats and birds. Animals that can stay with you no matter what world you're in. You know we can't introduce a species into a universe if it doesn't exist."

"Yes, that's why you keep turning me into a human even though I was born a vampire," Alex said bored. Thank god for the transformation technology or she would even be able to go into half the worlds she was assigned to. Toby looked at her nervously, humans always reacted like that.

Mac nodded. "Follow me."

He led her to the kennels. "Choose carefully, you won't be able to change your mind later." Then Mac looked at Toby. "Watch carefully boy, it'll be your turn to choose soon enough."

Alex inspected them carefully and chose a black hound.

"He'll do."

"Good choice Arganough."

Mac took Alex through the armoury and gave her various gadgets, clothes and weaponry.

"So, what's my next assignment?"

A/N So where should I send Alex next? Suggestions of any particular sue or fandom would be welcome (etc 'Jack Sparrow's daughter' in Pirates or "harry potter's sister" at Hogwarts