"I have a question," the Brit asked, "What's firing those lasers, and why do they have such terrible aim?"
"Weatherman didn't tell me about no lasers in the sky," Amanda complained while looking through her scope.
"Amanda you made that joke already-
"Johnny shush! I've got Shadow in my sights," she aimed her rifle at the black blur."
"Ok, Amanda. Now I want you to do something important," Gareth whispered in her ear, "Take, the shot."
"What?"
"DO YOU NEED ME TO ANNUNCIATE?!" Gareth demanded.
"Yeah I kinda need you to!"
"Take the shot," he whispered quietly before he started shouting, "TAKE THE SHOT!"
"OK!" Amanda fired her sniper rifle, missing Shadow by five feet.
"DOH YOU MISSED!" Ryan mocked the part-time artist.
Ted, using his binoculars followed Shadow running through Westopolis, "So how are we gonna shoot him down?"
"We shoot him with our guns," Lewis replied.
"Or if we're real men, we punch him," Ryan bragged.
"Who would use their fists when we have guns?" Johnny demanded.
"Uh, Shadow. I'm watching him right now and he's punching an alien. And he's kicking it," Ted explained what he was watching Shadow doing.
"Why would he want to punch anything when he can just use the homing attack?" Lewis asked.
"He wanted to bring out his inner Chris Redfield," Ryan explained, "Now men, let's go and shoot a hedgehog."
Ted looked up at the sky as lasers shot down at the ground, failing completely to hit Shadow, "Why is the moon there?"
"What? What are you talking about?" Lewis asked before looking up and being blinded, "Oh god that moon is fucking huge!"
"Yeah but why is it there? Wasn't it destroyed during the Eggman Incident two years ago?" Ted asked.
"The side of the moon that we can't see, I think that's what the reports said," Ryan answered, "And that's your biggest question about this whole thing?" Ryan pulled a seatbelt as he turned the ignition to their Humvee.
"Well you can't blame him, the moon is twelve hundred times its normal size," Lewis remarked.
"Ok, I just saw Shadow grabbing a Chaos Emerald after he killed a Black Alien. Is he on our side now?" Johnny asked looking through a pair of binoculars.
"No. We gotta go kill him, put a bullet through his brain," Gareth sang.
"If he even has a brain," Amanda remarked quietly, resulting in a short laugh from everyone.
The ride following after the Black Blur was quiet with Lewis tinkering with the group's firearms, "Ryan, what kinda gun are you using, I don't see it back here," he asked his lieutenant.
"Colt 45," he answered.
"Really? You're gonna pack a gun with six shots, against a supersonic hedgehog?" Johnny questioned him.
"Well best case scenario is, we don't get anywhere near him. And I like the power behind a revolver," Ryan explained.
"Personally I like the kick of a shotgun, though it makes my arm sore after a while," Lewis admitted.
"I'm gonna admit I like explosions, so call me the British Michael Bay," Gareth winked at the camera, "So I like using grenades and stuff, but if I'm gonna shoot a gun it's probably gonna be a Glock, so I'm with Ryan, I like pistols, fuck the rest of you."
"But wait, aren't you a guerilla warfare expert?" Ted asked innocently.
"Yes, I fire a rocket launcher at you, run away, and then I come back and fire another grenade," Gareth explained guerilla warfare.
"So newbie Ted, what kinda guns you like?" Ryan asked.
"Uhhhhh, rifles?" Ted had no idea what he was doing, "I'd like to remind everyone that I was dragged here against my will!"
"To be fair, Ted you did sign a contract that you would take up arms in the call of duty," Ryan drove through the remains of Westopolis, "So we have every right to drag you wherever we go."
"Oh, but I wanted to go home and play Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door," Ted complained.
"And I didn't want to kill Shadow the Fucking Hedgehog. Wait," Johnny removed his cap and rubbed his head, "Yeah I did."
Amanda loaded her rifle, "Ok, Ryan. Park the car so I can shoot this fucker."
"Erm, what?" Ryan said in disbelief at what he was hearing.
"STOP THE CAR!" Amanda shouted and Ryan slammed the breaks, everyone except Amanda going forward.
She opened the hatch and aimed her rifle at the Hedgehog. She squinted at Shadow who was homing attack chaining several G.U.N. bots. After the third one, Shadow was spinning in the air. To to others this seemed to last a few seconds, but to a sniper this was hours.
Amanda released her breath and fired a round at the Black Blur. The shot missed him, but he noticed their team and fired an energy blast at them.
"RUN AWAY!" Ryan, Johnny, and Gareth shouted in unison.
Ryan put the Humvee in drive and stomped on the gas pedal. He drove over radioactive plants and Black Aliens, "YEAH! FUCK YOU LEVEL!" Johnny shouted in excitement.
The Humvee drove over a ledge that Shadow had been able to easily cross by parkour. Instead, they were hardcore and drove over the ledge making it across. There in front of them, was Shadow the Hedgehog. Holding a gun.
"Guys, be very quiet. We're hunting wedgehogs," Gareth put up his best Elmer Fudd impersonation.
Quietly Ryan did the Elmer Fudd laugh while his team stepped out of their Humvee and aimed their guns at Shadow. Lewis let out a soft breath before drawing his aim at the Black Blur.
Shadow glanced back at the group, "Puny humans."
"Is he going to kill us?" Ted asked as he was hiding in the car with Amanda.
"God I hope not," she was not helping Ted.
Shadow's fur began glowing blue, "Chaos, CONTROL!"
"FIRE!" Ryan ordered as his squadron unloaded their rounds on Shadow before he took off through the streets, "BACK INTO THE BOAT!"
"Boat?! What boat?!" Johnny shot a question at his superior.
Ryan closed the door and buckled up, "No time to explain!" he put the car in drive and drove across the speed panel, launching the squadron across the streets.
Ted held onto the back of Johnny's chair, screaming not because of his death but realizing he didn't save in Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door. Lewis and Johnny held onto each other as Ryan laughed like a madman. Amanda had not noticed they were in the air, and Gareth meanwhile was singing Free Falling by Tom Petty.
The Humvee landed on the ground and revved across the streets. Ryan smiled at his squadron, making them realize he had trolled the hell out of them.
"So... are we gonna call this thing Boat?" Johnny asked.
"Yes. Our vehicle will be Boat. And we will ride into battle on it!" Ryan laughed as he plowed through the destruction of Westopolis, running over black aliens.
"Um, lieutenant, you alright?" Ted asked.
"Oh god, I know that look," Lewis leaned against the chair, "It's the same look he got when we blew open the door to Eggman's."
"Hold onto your seat, Ted. Because things are about to get bumpy," Johnny covered his face with his cap.
"Wait what's going on?" Ted asked.
"Yeah I'm with the new guy, what exactly is going on?" Gareth asked, rubbing his forehead underneath his beanie.
"ANARCHY!" Ryan shouted and fired his gun in the air in celebration, turning on Guile's theme on their radio, "Ladies and gentlemen, screw bullets! We have boat!"
Ryan drove towards Shadow the Hedgehog as an alien was about to pimp slap him. Before Ryan and his squadron were able to run over their targets, the alien teleported them away in a flash of light.
