Chapter 2: Recon
The full moon lit up the abandoned warehouse like a spotlight. A few dark clouds in the midnight sky caused shadows to drift across the aged concrete structure, its darkened windows looking like portals to the abyss.
"Sure looks deserted"
"…Hmm…"
Rouge the Bat, intenational jewel thief, member of Team Dark and currently GUN agent RGE01 took the binoculars down from her eyes and glanced towards her partner. Half hidden by a passing cloud was a familiar ebony hedgehog with red streaks. His ruby eyes, focused on the warehouse at the bottom of the hill, seemed to illuminate the darkness.
He turned from the warehouse to Rouge, whose sapphire eyes twinkled in the moonlight. Shadow's heart skipped a beat. If they weren't on a GUN mission, this would have been rather romantic. Instead, they were investigating the actions of a certain egg-shaped villain. The communication they had received was still fresh in Shadow's mind.
"Agents RGE01 and SDW01, we have received intel regarding this warehouse." The GUN commander pointed to a large concrete building up on the projector. "Apparently, Eggman has been using this building as a storage depot for his robotic army. We need this confirmed asap" Shadow raised one eyebrow.
"And what are we supposed to do if the intel is correct?" he asked, already half knowing what the answer would be. He said the words in his mind as they came out of the commander's mouth.
"You destroy it, leaving no trace of it or yourselves" The same as always. Shadow let out a quiet sigh, which went undetected by the commander, but not by his 'partner in crime', Rouge. The bat, sat next to Shadow watching the same presentation, glanced over, just in time to see Shadow roll his eyes behind the commander's back. A small grin of amusement crept across her face. Shadow noticed, his own glance causing Rouge to turn back to the projector with a slight hint of pink on her snow-white cheeks.
That small blush made Shadow mentally smile, although he kept his 'cool-as-ice' demeanour on his face. He and Rouge had been working together for GUN for a couple of years now, and the black anti-hero found himself becoming increasingly attracted to his partner. She was an excellent sparring partner, absolutely lethal as a GUN agent, and had stunning looks to top it all off. Shadow realised that his body temperature was beginning to rise slightly, and struggled to prevent himself blushing at the thought of Rouge's beauty.
Her voice snapped him out of his daydream. Turning to her, he shook his head.
"Sorry. What was that? I was miles away."
"I noticed" smirked Rouge. "I said are you ready to go check this bad boy out?"
Shadow looked down at the warehouse one more time, before nodding, a small grin appearing at the corner of his mouth.
"Let's do this."
Silently, the two agents crept down the hill to the warehouse. Rouge, now wearing a black balaclava to hid her white face, stayed close to Shadow, whose black fur acted as night camo anyway.
As they approached the warehouse, Shadow noticed two things. One, there was absolute silence. Two, there were no security droids. If this really was a store for Eggamn, ther should have been some form of protection.
"I don't like the look of this", he grumbled to himself as they reached the main door to the warehouse, still without meeting another sould, flesh or machine.
Hmm, very strange, me thinks. Eggman leaving a warehouse, supposedly full of ammunitions and fuel for his weapons, without any sort of protection? Sounds ominous doesn't it? Tune in next time to see what happens. -Theos
