The New Recruits

by Gnat1

The Freedom Fighters have recruited an extra team. A team that does all the odd jobs why the original group worries about Robotnick. Unknown to these "new recruits" is that they've become the target of a new, dangerous enemy, and possibly a regrouped Destructix. NO LONGER ACCEPTING OCS! Sorry, but I've reached the limit.

7. Tropical Storm (Part 1)

Gnat1: I'm so sorry for the late update! It took FOREVAH to get this
up! Again, terribly sorry. School is such a pain, and I've been
crazy-busy lately. Anyhow, lets-a begin!

Chapter 7: Tropical Storm, Part 1

Time: 2:04 PM

Location: Alternate HQ

"Everyone ready?" Rotor asked, turning to the group of Mobians behind
him. He was met with various nods.

The walrus grinned. "Right, then hop aboard."

Suddenly, a large ship revealed itself from behind the main building
of Freedom HQ, flying over the Mobians and landing a few yards away.

"This is the Moonflight, a powerful transport vehicle that emits
little to no sound at all." Rotor explained. "Seeing as how Mushroom
Hill is a pretty darn good distance away, I figured I could fly you
all there."

"...Ho man, this thing's AWESOME!" Bangs exclaimed, running into the
Moonflight and examining it's different mechanisms.

"How fast can it move?" Eclipse asked, looking over the metal wings of the ship.

"It can move quick enough to get you guys to Mushroom Hill before
sunset, that's a fact." Rotor answered with a grin.

Eclipse breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness..."

KT heard this and lifted an eyebrow. "You in a rush or something?" she
asked the hedgehog.

Eclipse winced. "No... well, you could say that..."

The tension was interrupted when Aquarion spoke up next.

"Good Lord! What an intriguing machine!"

Bedwyr glanced at the blade and chuckled. "Trust me, Aquarion, there's
a ton of things you still need to see."

"How do you know? You only know as much as me!"

"Not true!"

"Yes it is!"

"...Prove it."

"You've taken me everywhere since we left Camelot, don't you remember?
I was even there when you went to that bar and-"

"I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT!" Bedwyr shouted quickly.

"Well, sheesh. You're the one who did it. I don't see why I simply can't-"

"Aquarion, just... pretend that never happened, okay?"

"...What are you two talking about?" Unova asked Bedwyr and Aquarion.

"NOTHING!" the two shouted in unison.

"They just got high on coffee. Nothin' important." Lexi told Unova with a shrug.

"Oh..." Unova replied, unsure if Lexi was right or not.

Whirl and Scorch followed Bangs into the plane, while Devlin and
Darkness began speaking with Rotor.

"So... are you going to drop us off in that thing?" Devlin asked the walrus.

Rotor nodded. "We aren't sure how many the Destructix have with them,
so I'm going to keep a safe distance. As soon as you all finish the
job, or if there's something important you need to tell me, use this."
he handed Darkness a small communicating device.

"Thanks." Darkness said, taking the communicator. "Is there anything
else we should know?"

Rotor rubbed the back of his head. "Not that I know of, I'm hoping to
keep this as simple as possible."

Darkness nodded, while Devlin turned to the ship. "Let's hope they
don't have that badnick horde again."

Meanwhile, aboard the vessel, Bangs had been examining the controls
when Scorch and Whirl entered the room.

"Wow... this place isn't all that bad..." Scorch said as he scanned
around the room.

"I know, right?" Bangs replied, still facing the controls. "Rotor
installed these controls in a pretty darn simple way... I bet even
Dagger could understand it."

Scorch shrugged. "You know we won't be flying this thing, right?"

"Well, yeah, these just seemed... I dunno... interesting."

Whirl tuned out of their conversation as he took a seat on one of the
chairs inside the cabin room. "As long as it gets us there fast
enough, I'm fine with it."

"...Chaos Control wouldn't be easier for you?" Scorch asked.

Whirl sighed. "I haven't fully gotten the swing of Chaos Energies." he
looked down at his inhibitor rings and sighed. "It still has its...
darker ways with me."

Scorch and Bangs glanced at each other, then shrugged.

"Well, you can't go wrong with a little practice." Bangs told him.

Whirl shut his eyes tight and clenched his fists. "I... couldn't risk it..."

"Why? You got a problem with its negative side?" Scorch asked.

"You could say that..."

"Hey, chill. Chaos energy isn't necessary." Thunder said, swinging
through an open window, and accidently knocking Bangs into the pilot
seat.

"Ugh, THANKS, Thunder..." she said, climbing out of the chair.

"No prob." Thunder replied, not really paying attention. "Anyhow,
we're gonna be boardin' soon, so I suggest you all get comfy."

No sooner had Thunder said that that the others began boarding the
Moonflight, Rotor sitting down at the controls.

Sally waved as the plane flew off, then turned back to the main
building. She gasped when she walked inside, as she took notice of two
barely conscious forms sprawled across two couches.

"...Sonic? Tails? Wha... ugh... what HAPPENED to you guys?"

VvVvVvV

Time: 417 PM

Location: Jungle Outskirts of Mushroom Hill

It had been a good two hours since the team had taken off, and already they were nearing their destination. Inside the ship, they had gotten accustomed to it's various gadgets, one of the more popular being the chairs...

"Hey, the seating they got here ain't all that bad." Thunder observed
as he bounced around in his seat. Lexi rolled her eyes and grabbed the
lion's shoulder in a death-grip, forcing him to sit still.

"Quit it. You can last a few seconds without moving." she instructed.

"Weird... its like it has bedsprings beneath the cushions..." Darkness
said, as he to was bouncing on his seat.

Lexi's eye twitched. "Wow. And here I thought Zone Cops had a sense of
maturity."

Darkness didn't hear her as he continued bouncing in his seat.

"Uh... these probably fold out into beds." Unova pointed out. "Hence
the reason your seats are so... bouncy."

"Gotta admit, they didn't go low class with this machine!" Bedwyr said
after hearing Unova.

"Well, with Nicole's nanite systems, building this thing was a walk in
the park." Rotor called from the pilot seat.

"Seriously? Nanites?" Bangs asked, awestruck.

"Hm? Yeah, they use it all the time here." Devlin told her. "In fact,
we've used a bit of it back in the Dragon Kingdom."

"Wowee, I rarely see this kind of tech, it really is interesting."
Bangs replied.

"Well, interesting or not, it doesn't really matter." Whirl informed
her. "Right now, we should focus on getting to Mushroom Hill and-"

Unova suddenly jerked her head up, Devlin, doing the same. The others
gave them quizzical looks, unsure of what had jolted them.

"...You feel something?" Devlin asked nobody specifically.

Unova nodded. "Yeah, something hit the ship." She quickly ran over to
where Rotor was piloting the plane.

"Rotor! I think something's on the plane!" she exclaimed.

VvVvVvV

[Music Playing: "The Revolution", by BT]

The Moonflight wasn't an overly small ship, but it was large enough
for several dark figures to land on it with a thud. They quickly
detatched the small fly-suits from their backs and set to work. One of
them pulled out a small computer and set it to the ship's top. The
figure typed in a few words before the device reached into the ship's
controls. The figure sighed as he watched the sun set over the
tropical horizon of the Mushroom Hill suberbs. Another figure clamped
a lock-on grabber onto the top of the vehicle's cold metal. Hooking a
rope into this new handle, he quickly began repelling down the side of
the ship.

"And what are you doing, exactly?"

The figure jerked his head to the right, only to face Devlin's
hard-hitting fist. The lynx had easily clamped onto the side of the
ship with his claws, but his sneaky attack did not go unnoticed.

A third figure leaped over the side of the plane and attempted to kick
Devlin off. Just before making contact, a burst of fire knocked him
offguard, and Scorch grabbed him. The red hedgehog handed the
struggling enemy to Darkness, who was hovering over the group on his
airboard. He looked around to see that at least ten shadowed mobians
had gotten on top of the ship.

"Oh... well this is good." Darkness said, a sarcastic twang to his
voice. Unova and Lexi both suddenly climbed out of the windows and
knocked two of the figures off.

"How'd they get up here?" Lexi growled.

"What I want to know is how they found us," Unova replied. They didn't
have time to think as the rest of the dark group rushed at them with
strange-looking weapons drawn.

"Think fast!" Scorch shouted, launching a fireball at the oncoming group.

Of course, seeing as how no one ever seems to think fast, the figures
yelped in pain as they felt the burning blasts of heat overtake them.

"Not bad." Darkness said, grinning at Scorch.

"Grr... don't get ahead of yourselves..." one of the figures hissed,
pulling the computer device out and hitting a button.

VvVvVvV

"WHOA!" Rotor shouted as the plane began falling out of the skies. The
inside of the plane began shaking like it was in a hurricane.

"What's happening?" Bedwyr asked as he and the others looked around in a panic,

"Someone tampered with the controls! Quick, bail out!" Rotor replied
as he pulled at the doors. These however, weren't opening. Whoever
hacked into the ship was playing dirty.

Rotor gulped and turned to the others. "Hang onto something."

"Oh, boy..." KT said as she glanced out the windows. She could easily
spot Unova, Lexi, Devlin, and Scorch all pile onto Darkness' airboard
in an attempt to avoid the fatal crash.

Eclipse wasn't exactly paying attention, as he was gazing at the
inhibitor ring on his left wrist. The shaking of the ship had thrown
him around, and the ring, much to his horror, had crashed. Already he
was starting to feel some feral motives surface in his body. This
wasn't going to end well.

"HANG ON!" Bangs shouted as the plane entered a tailspin, rocketing
down into the jungle below.

[Music Stops]

VvVvVvV

A female mobian watched from atop a search tower hidden behind several
trees. She smiled evilly as she watched the Moonflight spin down
behind the cluster of the jungle. The sky lit up in a brief flurry of
bright red and yellow flashes as a satisfying explosion echoed over
the land.

"Yes... let them burn..."

Gnat1: Uh oh, things aren't looking too bright...

I hope many found this cliffhanger not to be TOO lame, I'm horrible at
describing intense stuff. Anyway, Werehog20 had a question about Nazo,
and since Thunder ran off somewhere, I better explain things. I myself don't
know much about Nazo, except that there was a picture of him on the
4Kids website, supposedly for a future episode of Sonic X, which never
happened. Anywayz, the photo was titled " ", and since then,
he's become pretty popular on fanfiction :)

Anyhow, I hope this wasn't all too bad, and be sure to leave a reveiw!

P.S: The music I chose in this chapter mayy not have "fit the moment" very well. The reason is because I kinda did this in the style of the Dreamcast-era Sonic games, where it plays unfitting "theme music" whenever new characters are introduced. I'll let y'all take a guess at who the mysterious female was (hint: She loves using a rather painful whip)