A/N : I immediately write this after the third chapter (although not immediately finished…). I hope you enjoy! This is A-Team's first mission.

Disclaimer : I don't own Sonic The Hedgehog or Unreal Tournament. Grass/Levinski belongs to me, and Starlight belongs to Shadow's Party Girl 96/SPG96.

Chapter 4 : Suspicious Shipments

Levinski took the chance to contact Starlight before his first mission began. The frequency was set to their private frequency. The image from the computer wasn't a good quality, but he could clearly see the worried look of Starlight from there.

"Grass? Are you okay? How did it go?" asked Starlight.

"Don't worry. I got in." replied Levinski, "And today they're assigning the A-Team. I also come along."

"Be careful then. The Axon Corporation is becoming more of a threat every day."

"No worries. You know me."

"Of course. Alright, safe journey, and don't die."

"I won't die. I promise you"

Levinski made it in time to the briefing room. Or at least, no one told him he was late or what, since their attention was directed to Malcolm. The African-American veteran gave them every single detail of the mission.

"The Axon Iron Guards are spotted nearby one of our outpost in Kimpu Market District. We don't know their intention, nor do we know how much their firepower currently is. Since NEG has banned the usage of respawner, you will have to make your own bet."

"So, you want us to remove the threat?" asked Rusher.

"If I was to order you to do so, I might've as well called the entire Ghost Warriors. However, there is a strange movement in Axon body. We just need you to investigate what this is all about. When you are finished extracting all the info, return back, and report."

"Obviously we're going to report…" muttered Arashi.

Although the Japanese soldier's voice was loud enough to be heard by everyone, Malcolm just dismissed it, and went to loadout, "We're going to supply you with several recon weapons. That includes silenced Enforcer MP, silenced Interdiction Sniper Rifle, and silenced M32A2 Duster CAR. You're leaving in several minutes. Dismissed."

The A-Team exited the briefing room. Accel was the first to speak out, "So, how do you think about our mission, Commander?"

"Awkward. We have often heard our intel talking about mysterious movement from Axon these days, but we never got any mission about probing it, until now."

"I guess Malcolm is just getting suspicious," said Connor, "After all, Axon always poses threat, especially against us."

"Well, whatever it is, all we gotta do now is doing our job" said Janice.

Kimpu Market District wasn't that far from the outpost the A-Team resided on. That was one of the reasons why they didn't bring any vehicle to get there. And the other one was just to avoid unnecessary attention.

Their plan was simple, enter the nearest empty building they could find, then wait for the Axon soldiers to show up and do their business. A simple, yet well-thought plan. The Axon forces arrived sooner than the group thought. They were just a small group of soldier with no heavy weapon whatsoever, only some sidearms and assault rifles. A simple surprise strike could break them all, but their goal was not to kill the group, but rather extract any info they could eavesdrop.

A microphone was already placed on the spot where the Axon Iron Guard soldiers were standing on. Everyone was trying to make out what the soldiers were talking about.

"So ** will arrive at ** ** soon?"

"Apparently ** have ** under**"

"By whom? Is it ** ** **"

"** be ridiculous. Helli- **** never bother us. I believe it was either **i or the t**"

The microphone couldn't pick up lots of sounds. It was so cheap the sound quality was so poor. Rusher cursed his luck. He gestured his group to take a closer look.

The next thing happened was several gunshots coming from the buildings. "Ambush!" exclaimed Accel. Everyone quickly ducked as the bullets whizzed above their heads.

"They already knew we're here!" exclaimed Janice.

"Quit it, Lieutenant!" snapped Rusher, "This is a trap everyone, new rules"

Everyone nodded by pulling out their assault rifles. Arashi quickly mowed the soldiers on the streets. But more soldiers were coming. The same applies to other directions. "Commander! We can't take on all of them!"

"Alright, plan B! Move it!"

Everyone ran to the eastern side of the market district. The bulletstorm followed them until they were out of sight. The Axon soldiers ran to their direction, with all their weapons locked and loaded. But it seemed like the entire Tokaido was the A-Team's playground. Well, no surprise, after all Tokaido is Izanagi controlled, so no wonder if the entire Ghost Warriors already memorized every single labyrinth in the city.

Levinski just followed the others, joining whatever game they played as they lured Axon soldiers in circle. Out of nowhere, several red-suited troopers came out from every side, attacking the blue-suited Iron Guards. Reinforcement, well that was unexpected, considering this is just a spy mission. But then again, Tokaido is their hometown…

"Surprised, kid?" asked Rusher, as if reading Levinski's mind, "Well, every good commander needs to form a good back-up plan. You might do it yourself one day."

Something to tell Captain Carter and Lieutenant Kane, but actually… forget about it. Gordon 'Streak' Kane was the best strategist TCA ever recruited. He might've already mastered such knowledge.

Well, at least he can tell Sonic or Shadow, probably the latest since Sonic will most likely rush commando-style without any plan, or at least, a totally complex plan.

"So what's next?" asked Levinski, "Other than the sneaking up, eavesdropping and forging the backup plan, I don't really learn anything."

"Relax… we're going to get another mission soon, I just have to count from three." Said Accel, "Three, two, one…"

And as if the cue, Rusher's wrist comm. hummed. The hedgehog pressed the communicator "The words spread fast around here, don't they?"

"They sure do, Commander" answered Malcolm's voice, which had a small hint of humor in it, "As soon as they told me about the false info, I rushed to the console and contacted you immediately. I guess this is all just a useless…"

"Not really. I heard something about shipment. It's hard to make out, but the word 'arrive' emphasized it." Said Rusher, "I believe our next stop would be the Kargo dock"

"Really? Or was it just a trap?"

"I doubt that. After all, it's our only bet for now. Axon's keep moving, and we can't stay still. You remember well what'll happen when you stay still in a deathmatch."

"Hey, I'm the Tournament veteran, not you. But you got a point. Very well, Kargo dock is not far, so you might as well get there immediately, seeing that you're already packed up."

"That's what I had in mind. Flint out." Rusher ended the communication. He then turned to his teammates, "You heard the man, we're going out of town."

"Ooooh, yeah. Finally out of this boring place." Arashi spoke.

"Somehow, I doubt that you're actually a Japanese…" said Connor.

"Oh, come on. Again with the stereotypes? I thought we already had enough of it."

"Commander, I got a question." Everyone turned to Levinski, "How will we get to the dock?"

"Oh right." said Rusher, "I forgot that we have FNG."

He didn't answer, until they arrived in front of a building. "We're gonna borrow a truck."

"A truck…" Levinski spoke.

"Yes, a truck."

Levinski was about to speak again, but he decided to keep quiet. The A-Team was now inside a garage. Several red-suited Izanagi troopers and workers were inside. Rusher approached a pair of girls on a sofa, a brown haired human, and a teal hedgehog, both were wearing the Izanagi standard Ghost Warrior suits, complete with helmets. "Yo, Cassidy, Glacier."

"Well, if it isn't our superior…" said the human, "I figured that you want us to get back."

"Not yet, Cassidy. You and Glacier can still have your rest. I mean, I understand if you're tired after fighting off that Titan back in Na Pali."

Levinski stared at the two girls. Titan? Only crazy people approaches that stone-skinned gigantic alien, let alone fighting it… Compared to it, Levinski would rather face 10 Araknid, wait… no… that's not right.

"So, what's your business here, Commander?" asked Glacier, taking a sip on her drink.

"I want to borrow your key to the Bender." said Rusher.

Cassidy searched for it on her pocket, and quickly threw the key to Rusher, "Bring it back in one piece. It's a prize I won last year."

"Yes, yes. I'm aware of that. Don't worry, if it's broken, we'll hijack a new one and it'll be all yours" said Rusher.

Cassidy scoffed. Clearly she gave the key half-heartedly. Levinski just followed the others as they went to the other side of the garage. There his eyes landed on… wait a minute?

His eyes landed on a vehicle, a truck with a turret on the top of the driver's seat. It resembled a Hellbender, only the small turret looked more like a link-laser turret instead of the Sky-mine shock turret, and instead of a turret, the back side was occupied by a generator structure, accompanied with a trap-deployer.

"Is that…?"

"A Stealthbender. Surprised to see Axon's Nightshade adaption on our garage?"

Nightshade was a Necris design, a stealth vehicle with a trap deployer, with a link-laser turret as its deadly weapon. It's known of its ability to create havoc in the battlefield. Long ago, Axon has uncovered the vehicle, and researched on its abilities, structures and whatnot. It produces a new vehicle of their own design. Merging their Hellbender truck and the Phayder's Nightshade hovercraft, Stealthbender was born.

And Izanagi was never able to create or even gain access to it. Cassidy must be a lucky Ghost Warrior to get such expensive and deadly vehicle.

"What is that prize she was talking about?" asked Levinski.

"Oh, just some random thing the Axon Corporation held to the colonist on Oxida Nova city. She used to live there before joining the Izanagi. Suffice to say the Axon was pretty surprised to see their own weapon used against themselves."

"So they knew?"

"Nope. Nobody lives long enough to tell the tale. They ate lasers, got X-Ray-ed by the trap, whatever. Thing is, the info hasn't reached the core."

"Good, then we can drive this and pretend we're Axon Iron Guards."

"To do that, we're gonna need their suits"

"So why didn't you take their suits? We got plenty of them on the street."

Rusher chuckled, "We would, but sometimes our own people got so paranoid. Last time we tried to pull it off, we were swarmed by the other Izanagi Ghost Warriors, trying to gun us down. We fortunately survived, but we ended up at the hospital after that Redeemer explosion."

"Ouch."

"Well, anyway. All aboard! Janice and I will be on the front. You guys climb up on the top and make yourself comfortable."

Without any complains, everyone obeyed. Rusher then started up the vehicle. The generator glowed for awhile, and suddenly, everything nearby the Bender was invisible. Levinski couldn't even see himself, except for a bit distortion on where he was supposed to be.

"Let's go!" Rusher then stepped on the pedal. The Bender moved slowly, just to keep the stealth device working. Levinski was glad he was not Sonic, or as impatient as Sonic.

A/N : Alright, next we'll have the Kargo mission!

I know this is not much of an action. First time I wrote this I was kinda sleepy, but I promise the action will be in next chapter!

Review please!