Chapter 4

At the dead center of Central City, is the G.U.N building. This building consists of a hundred floors above and below the ground. The top halve of the building is for all of the desk and paper work that G.U.N is responsible for doing. But the underground portion is where the action happens. Hangers, testing room, VR rooms, battle rooms, briefing rooms, and the all important Command Room. In this room is a map of the whole world. From the North Continent, where most of the world lives, to the south area, which is known for its island chains, the map showed it all. Even Angel Island, the island that floats in the sky and holds the Master Emerald, is on the map thanks to Knuckles for giving G.U.N the coordinates of the island. In this rooms all the danger zones are lit up with a bright red light, and the zones that are under control are white. It is in the Command Room that Commander Hollender works. He sits behind a glass screen that is in the center of the room. His chair has a panel on both arms. These are used for the map, calling personnel, and issuing alerts to the base and to the citizens of Central City. Cid and Sef walked into this room, both of them knew the room well. Sef walked up to the door of the glass screen, and he used the retinal scan. The scan recognized him and opened up.

"Well Cid, he's waiting."

"Ya and I'm dying."

When Cid and Sef entered the room, Sef gave Hollender a salute of some kind, while Cid just shrugged his shoulders.

"What's the matter, have no national pride?" Hollender asked Cid with a tone of crude reasoning.

"I guess that pride is when someone lies to you before injecting shit into your body?"

"What? Is the all important project Sigma still have a grudge aginst his country?'
"You mean the country that let The Organization start all of this shit in the first place?!"

Cid was ready to attack Hollender, and Hollender had his hand above his pistol as if he was ready to take on Cid. Sef just let his tail wonder around his perimeter, trying to figure out the grudge between Hollender and Cid. When Cid and Sef first worked together, Sef mentioned that he had to make a quick call to his commander to tell him that he found a partner for the time being. You see G.U.N was having a small battle against The Organization forces. Cid ran into Sef when he was fighting off a few solders, however, his gun was jammed, and there were too many solders to take out with his sword. That's when Sef took fire from behind with a sniper rifel. Anyway, Cid asked who was in charge, to which Sef replied Hollender. Cid froze, and a look of pain and hatred was on his face.

Cid soon relaxed his grip, and just turned his back.

"Am I done here? This wonderful trip down memory lane is starting to lose its joy."

"No Cid, you're not." Hollender responded," in fact the trips about to get a bit bumpy. Sef you know about the Chemical Plant Zone?"

"Yes sir," Sef began," that plant opened back when Central City was first built. I was built under Robotnic industries if I'm wrong."

"Yes Gerald Robotnic was the one who found that the chemical waste could be used for power."

Sef nodded his head," Anyway, about fifty years later Gerald's grandson, Ivo Robotnic aka Egman, took over the plant in hopes of fueling his robot factories. When he was fighting Sonic, he used this area for total controle, and tried to beat Sonic with some sort of chemical dumper. After Eggman was out of the area, the plant was dismantled, and the energy plant Eggman destroyed was built back up. Then about a year ago, three years after the Death Egg incident, the plant had a spill which forced it to close down."

Cid laughed as he leaned against the glass wall.

"Sef you sound like M from the Bond movies. Watch out Hollender, Sef might replace you soon!"

"Smart ass! Anyway, it turns out that some underground Organization members have taken over the plant. We don't know anything except the members of the small group."

Hollender then pressed a button on his chair, and the map screen changed into a screen with pictures. When the pictures all loaded, Cid gasped and took a few steeps back.

"I knew that would happen. Cid if you would take over?"

Cid took a deep breath and tried to gain his mind. There were four pictures on the screen; all four were male.

From left to right, Cid named the individuals and their talents.

"Arucard Srtife, the Organization's most talented sniper. One incident happened in a small town in the east, and Chrono, the leader of the Organization, sent only him in. Two days latter, the town was wiped out. He killed every last resistance member in two days. Next is James Zoren, he's the Organizations main gunman. He knows every gun ever made, and is known for creating new weapons every month. He's the reason I have my revolver."

Cid looked at the third picture. He took a deep breath and looked like he was hurt inside.

"Number three, Hellsung. That's the name he was given as a child. His parents abandoned him during the war with Zanakand.

"Zanakand," Hollender started," that was that small radical country on the southern tip of the continent."

"Yes it was. Soon after the war ended, The Organization took him in and trained him as one of their own. He was horrible at using guns, but his skills with a blade surpassed anyone in The Organization. When I was taken from my home, he saw my potential. After they locked my memories away, he took me on as his apprentice. He was the one who gave me Crimson."

"Wow Cid, that's tough," Sef replied as his tail sunk to the ground. Hollender looked up and read the final name.

"Oh and one more Cid, Julius Ine, the creator of the Super Solder program, and the one responsible for your kidnapping Cid. Sef I want you dispatch in a day, you will enter the plant and take it out in a bang. If you meet any one of these four, kill them on sight."

Cid took a step between Sef and Hollender and threw his hand down.

"Hold it, I'm helping Sef!"

"No can do Cid," Hollender replyed," you're a Mercenary. G.U.N doesn't need the likes of you. However, if you can take on one of my best men in a 'friendly' fight. I might reconsider."

"Damn you Hollender! You know this is my fight as much as your own!"

"Take my offer and I'll let you help."

"Damn! I'll do it. Let me tell you one thing. I'm not taking orders from you, Sef will be my contractor."

Hollender thought it over.

"Fine, but let me tell you who you are fighting."

"Let me guess, Rouge the Bat or Shadow the Hedgehog."

Hollender grew a smirk on his face.

"Nope, even better: Sef Highwind."