Roleplay:Magnetic Chaos

Roleplay: Magnetic Chaos, it is XxZekeKnightxX's first leading RP, and this is a private RP that is joinable via invitation only.

Users
XxZekeKnightxX

Wolf9400

Gurahk

Rules
 Failure to comply will result in being banned from the RP, so don't screw up 
 * No Godmodding, EVER
 * Follow the story, DON'T MAKE A CRAP ENDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STORY
 * No 17+ material, contact XxZekeKnightxX if unsure about an idea to add if it's suggestive, but most of the time, "when in doubt, leave it out"
 * Only XxZekeKnightxX (or others with his permission), can pause, rewind, and resume the RP

Plot
Surge the Hedgehog's Antiverse counterpart, Blackout the Hedgehog, and his league have travelled from their Antiverse to the Primeverse to do what they had done in the Antiverse: destroy life on Mobius. However, this will be done in a different and crueler way. They have managed to set up hidden pylons all over the surface of the planet designed to cause massive changes within the magnetism of the planet, which will mess with the planet's magnetic field. If they succeed with making the magnetic field essentially nonexistant, and after that point there's no recreating the magnetic field, then the galactic radiation will eventually erode the atomosphere from the planet, killing all life on it. Can the Primeverse heroes stop this?

Heroes

 * Surge the Hedgehog
 * Swoop the Hedgehog
 * Jesse the Echidna
 * Mitchell the Cyberwolf
 * Shine the Hedgehog
 * Fetalia the Dark

Anti-Heroes

 * Drake the Hedgebat
 * Maya the Echidna

Villians

 * Blackout the Hedgehog
 * Typhoon the Hedgehog
 * Ari the Echidna
 * Gregor the Wolchidna
 * Shroud the Echidna
 * Medusa the Succubus

Chapter 1: Anomalies
Swoop: -sprawled out on a chair, bored- What to do today...? -picks up a horseshoe magnet and twirls it in his hand-

Surge: -relaxing in another chair- I have no clue bu-- -his electrokinesis makes him spark uncontrollably- Wha-what!?

Swoop: -the magnet he was holding starts shooting around in different directions- Whoa!

Surge: -calms his electrokinesis down- Ugh... maybe a sunspot cycle is going on...

"Sunspots don't do that," Jesse said, surprised.

Surge: They can screw with electromagnetism, and my powers happen to be electromagnetic, because electrokinesis... the magnet probably went crazy because the high amount of charge I just gave off...

Swoop: I have no idea what he just said, I hate physics.

"Yeah, but... never mind." Jesse didn't get it either.

Surge: Shouldn't be a problem... I think, as longs as it's only sunspots this is the worst that'd occur, that and I might get overcharged or virtually lose my powers, but that's about it.

Jesse sighed. "Yeah okay, can we go do something?"

Swoop: Yeah, I'm bored! I'm ready to ram into something!

Surge: -facepalms- Yeah, sure, since I tortured you with physics, it's your turn.

"Can we at least get a bite to eat?"

Swoop: Yeah! I'm starving!

Surge: Sure.

Jesse gets up and goes out the door in front of them.

-Surge and Swoop follow Jesse-

"So where do you guys want to eat?" he asked.

Swoop: -in a clowning manner- Someplace with chili dogs!?

Surge: -punches Swoop- Be a little more serious a little more often, please? Anyway... I'm up for some meat, so either a steakhouse or fast food.

Swoop: I'm voting for fast food, -sneerring- as Mr. Serious!

Surge: -facepalms- Sometimes I hate living with you.

"Fine, we'll just go to the mall and find a fast food place in there. You okay with that?" Jesse said.

Surge: Yeah, I'm fine with that.

Swoop: Yeah!

After walking for a bit, Jesse picks out a fast food restaraunt and heads over there.

-Surge and Swoop follow Jesse-

Jesse strolls right into the restaraunt and to the line to order.

-Surge and Swoop stand with Jesse to order-

Jesse orders a bacon cheeseburger with extra bacon and onions ("What's your problem with extra bacon?"), fries, and a lemonade.

Surge: -orders a bacon cheeseburger with just ketchup added on, fries, and a coke-

Swoop: -orders a mushroom cheeseburger, fries, and water-

Jesse took a booth and immediately started stuffing down his food.

Swoop: -sits accross from Jesse and starts devouring his food-

Surge: -sits next to Swoop and starts eating-

Jesse is done before either of them. He belches loudly, followed by commenting, "Hope something interesting happens today, I'm really freakin bored."

Swoop: -finishes ravonously- I know, right? I'm so bored, I could fall from the moon!

Surge: -while still finishing, punches Swoop-

"That's still a horrible joke," Jesse says, getting up and dumping his trash in the trash can.

Surge: -finishes- It's only funny, when someone other than you makes it. -throws out trash in the garbage-

Swoop: -throws his trash away and shrugs- Whatever guys.

Jesse walks out. "Man I hope we get to do something cool today."

-Surge and Swoop walk after Jesse-

Surge: I know, right? Something other than listening to Swoop going on and on at it.

"Maybe you can shock some sense into him," Jesse laughed.

Surge: Sometimes that just gets him hyper, and hyper plus bored is the worst combo with an annoying dude like Swoop, for us.

"Then what the heck else we gonna do?"

Surge: Our best hope is--

Swoop: -interupting- I'm outta here! Imma fly to find entertainment! Smell ya later! -flies off-

Surge: ...That.

"Freakin finally," Jesse laughed.

Surge: -laughs- Like I said, he's a good friend, though living with him is another story. -sparks a bit- Ugh... you never know when a sunspot cycle will start or stop, I think I'll be doing that for a while.

Jesse seems skeptical. "You're sure that's sunspots?"

Surge: Well, that's the best explanation for my powers going out of wack, as of right now.

"Sure there's not any other possibilities?"

Surge: There's not enough information to make room for any others, yet.

==Meanwhile, with Swoop==

Swoop: -flying by, and notices a large structure with what looks like a huge thunderbolt is crashing into it, acting as a lightning rod- Huh...? What's that...? -flies closer, Gregor and Shroud can be seen-

Shroud: -attempting to fix something- Argh... this dang resistor isn't cooperating...

Gregor, a gray and very violent looking wolf, said rather angrily, "If you'd let me do it, I'd have it fixed in no time."

Shroud: Yeah, by putting your fist through it? Blackout would murder you if you did that...

Swoop: Hmm... what's up? -flies closer-

"Fine, you dick, you do it, just don't take too long. We're on a timetable, man."

Shroud: If Blackout wanted speed he'd send Ari to do this. -finally fixes it, and sighs- There...

"Took ya long enough," Gregor said, annoyed.

Shroud: -glares at Gregor- Like I said, if Blackout wanted this done quickly, Ari would've been sent. Anyway, let's get out of here...

Swoop: -flys closer, within visual distance- Hmm... This looks strange...

Gregor sees Swoop out of the corner of his eye. He mutters quietly, "Possible hostile at your eight o'clock high." He pretends not to notice Swoop visually, however.

Shroud: -looks and sees Swoop out of the corner of his eye also- Hm... what do you suggest we should do? Bring him in?

Gregor whispers as he turns away from Swoop, "We leave. If he tries anything on the pylon, we grab him. Simple as that."

Shroud: -nods-

Swoop: Let's check it out! -zooms to the pylon-

Gregor and Shroud walked off, pretending not to see Swoop.

Swoop: Hmm... -flies around the pylon, inspecting it- Surge would know about this kind of stuff... he's an electrician, so... hmm...

Gregor grabs him from the ground after sneaking back up and pulls him down.

Swoop: -is grabbed- Urk!! Wh-what!?

Gregor holds his claws up to Swoop's throat. "You resist, you die. Let's go."

Swoop: -gulps- ...

"Alright Shroud, lead the way," Gregor said, pushing Swoop along.

Shroud: -walks away, leading Gregor and Swoop-

Chapter 2: Captured, by Antiverse
Shroud enters the "ship's bridge"-like room, with a large viewscreen with an oval that has fluctuating orange and blue on it. In front of the screen, there's several consoles, with Ari at the controls. Swoop looks around with awe, but saying nothing for his own life's sake.

"Welcome back," said Ari, a dark orange echidna in a labcoat. "Who's the new guy?" Gregor shot back, "A prisoner. Go get Blackout and ask him what we're to do with him." Ari pressed a few buttons, remoetly sending a message to Blackout. "Done."

On an extremely large satallite, that looked like a moon from the far side, the near side having a large spike protruding down to the planet. Inside, Blackout, a blue hedgehog with red streaks on the corners of his eyes stands behind a red-orange hedgehog, Typhoon, who is currently at the controls similar to the previous room, the screen displaying the same oval. "Blackout," Typhoon reported, "It seems Gregar has fetched us a prisoner." Blackout perked up. "A prisoner, you say?" he said with a mix of boredom, irritation, and interest. "Yes sir" Typhoon replied, "Any action you would like to take?" Blackout thought for a moment. "Tell Gregar to hold him, and then report back to the ARK, you will go back down in his place." Blackout said. Typhoon pressed several buttons, sending a message to Gregar. "Done," Typhoon said with finality. "You are dismissed, you may go await Gregar's arrival." Blackout ordered. Typhoon stood, and turned to Blackout. "Thank you, sir," he said respectfully, and left the room.

Gregor grabbed up the prisoner and pushed him in the shuttle. "Send us up, Ari," he said. Ari began the flight sequence, and actually remotely flew it to the satellite so Gregor could watch the prisoner. Twenty minutes later, the ship docked with the satellite.

Typhoon was waiting for the ship to dock about five minutes before it docked. Once it did dock, he looked in the shuttle and saw Gregor. He nodded to him, then stood by the door.

Gregor released the airlock and walked the prisoner out. He nodded silently to Typhoon as he passed him.

Swoop saw Typhoon as he was pushed along by Gregar, amazed at Typhoon's similarities to himself. He suddenly felt very afraid as to where he is. Typhoon, on the other hand, was stunned but angered by the similarities. He shot Swoop a cold look and walked inside the shuttle. He engaged the airlock, and dedocked the ship. Twenty minutes later, the ship redocked with the ground base, and Typhoon went to the bridge.

Gregor brought Swoop to Blackout, and bowed to him. "I've brought the prisoner, sir. We picked him up trying to mess around with the pylons."

Blackout turned to Gregar, and then looked at Swoop. "I see," Blackout responded, "Good work. We cannot allow anyone that even has an idea about our plan. Take him to a holding cell, with the proper restraints. Report back here when you're finished." Swoop looked up at Blackout, and noticed that he looked very similar to Surge, just like how Typhoon looked just like himself earlier. He smartly remained silent. Blackout also noticed the similarities between Typhoon and Swoop.

"Yes sir," Gregor responded, then promptly took Swoop to the cells. He restarined him with a little extra precaution. "Comfortable?" he asked sarcastially.

Swoop didn't answer, knowing the way he talks, that if he seriously annoyed his friends, he'd surely be killed by those that don't like him. He simply laid on the floor, relaxed.

"Good," said Gregor. He stepped out of the cell and locked it shut, activated the electrified bars, and then reported back to Blackout.

Blackout noticed Gregor as he reported back to him. "So, the prisoner has been secured?" he asked.

"Yes, sir. Any other orders for now?" Gregor said loyally.

"None at the moment," Blackout replied. "...Doesn't the prisoner bear striking resemblence to Typhoon?"

"I noticed that..." Gregor responded. "Perhaps he's this world's equivalent to him?"

"Perhaps, Gregor, perhaps," Blackout said, "Which leads me to wonder, if there are others, to some of us..."

"Or to you," Gregor said with a hint of realization. "We may have some trouble with this world..."

Blackout puts a hand on Gregor's shoulder, and shakes it gently. "I've trained you well, Gregor," he said, "If there is an equivalent to me in this world, it'd be a harder battle than taking down Blizzard..."

"Sir, I'm going to be honest," Gregor said. "I doubt I could fight an equivalent to you and get anywhere near winning. You've trained me well, it's true, but I couldn't ever beat you. You and I both know it."

"Yes... which is why if we do happen to come accross an equivalent, I and only I am able to take him on. And give him the same fate as Blizzard," Blackout said, "Which, I will admit, defeating Blizzard was no easy task. Defeating an equivalent to me will only be harder than that."

"I have confidence in you, sir," he said. "You're the best fighter there ever was."

"And since that is true," Blackout replied, "It's only natrual that the opponents would become stronger, to challenge my power, only for me to throw them down."

"We've never failed before," Gregor said, a smile spreading across his face, "and we won't now."

"Also true," Blackout agreed, "however, the reason why we never fail is because we always ensure that victory is assured. Retake your post, and tell Ari to have the team be on heightened awareness for equivalents."

"I assume you'd like me to call Typhoon and have him come back up?" Gregor asked.

Blackout processed Gregor's question for a moment, making a decision. "Yes, call him back up. I have a feeling our prisoner is smart. And this is a great excuse to keep him preoccupied anyways."

"Yes sir," Gregor said, and he promptly left. He contacted the ground base with the computer terminal. "Ari, we may have a problem." "What do you mean, sir?" Ari responded. Gregor sighed, "We believe our prisoner to be a physical equivalent to Typhoon--" Ari cut him off, "And that means, there might be ones of us. Even Blackout. I'll raise the security and inform the team to keep their eyes open for equivalents. Anything else, sir?" Gregor laughed. "You're a smart man, Ari. Just send Typhoon back up on the shuttle, and I'm coming back down." "Yes sir," Ari responded. "Shroud and I will be awaiting your arrival." Gregor severed the connection.

Blackout crossed his arms and looked back up at the orange and blue oval, still having two distinct sides of orange and blue. Meanwhile, Typhoon used the shuttle to get back to the space station. He arrived twenty minutes later.

Gregor brushed by Typhoon on his way into the shuttle, with only the words, "Report to Blackout." He didn't have near the same kind of respect for him as he did for Blackout -- after all, he was Typhoon's superior. He closed up the doors to the shuttle and took off. Approximately twenty minutes later, he landed back in at the ground level base.

Typhoon respectfully obeyed and went to the bridge, where Blackout stood in his usual spot, transfixed on the oval. "I assume that Ari has filled you in." Blackout said. "Yes sir," Typhoon replied, "He did." "Good," Blackout said, "Then you know why I need you here. Take your post." "Yes sir," Typhoon obeyed loyally. "What's the ETA to align with the next pylon?" Blackout asked. "In about two hours, sir" Typhoon replied. "Good," Blackout said, with some assurance.

Ari filled Gregor in. "The air station is going to be aligning with the next pylon in approximately two hours. We need to be there to make sure it stays in working order." Gregor responded, "I'll take Shroud and make sure it's still good to go. You keep in contact... and while I'm thinking about it, look into our other equivalents while you're at it." Ari nodded. "I'll get on it, sir."

Shroud was moving some heavy equipment to a storage facility, his shadow arms wrapping around the entire package, and struggling with great difficulty.

"Need some help?" came Gregor's sarcastic voice from behind him.

Startled by Gregor's voice, his arms snap back to normal, dropping the equipment. "Wah!" Also due to being startled, he falls back on his back by his own strength he was using on the equipment. "Ow..."

"Nice one," Gregor said with a snarl. "You'd better hope none of that is damaged, or Blackout might just have your head."

Shroud growled at the statement. He slowly got up. "So... we're gonna check out another pylon I assume?"

"Yeah," Gregor said. "We've gotta make sure it stays in working order until the aerial station lines up with it. That's about an hour and 45 minutes from now, so we've got an hour 15 to get there."

"Got it," Shroud said, with distainful respect, and faced Gregor, ready to move out with him.

Gregor brought Shroud along with him back to Ari. "Alright, Ari, what's the fastest way to get there?" Ari pointed to the shuttle. "It should take no more than ten minutes to get there with the shuttle. I'll fly it remotely for you two." "Good," Gregor said back, stepping back into the shuttle.

Shroud followed Gregor into the shuttle. "Let's hope there isn't a resistor problem, again..." he commented.

"Or anyone else we'll have to put up with," Gregor said, somewhere between a laugh and annoyance. Ari started up the shuttle, and it took off.

==Meanwhile==

Surge and Jesse were walking down a street, obviously bored. "Dang, Swoop's been gone for a while..." Surge said with a slight inflection of worry.

"What, are you worried?" Jesse laughed. He obviously wasn't concerned. "That's just better for us."

"Better for us, sure, but if it's at his expense that just makes me feel bad, personally, y'know?" Surge replied with a somewhat serious tone, "He may be annoying, but it's worse if he gets himself into something deep, like needing help deep."

Chapter 3: Dimension and Time, Collide
Suddenly, a mysterious time portal appeared in front of them. The gang stood, ready for anything that would come their way. What dashed through was a white hedgehog with blue futuristic clothing and strange markings on his gloves. Beside him was an attractive black hedgehog-like being, with dark and sexy clothing.

"Who the heck is this?" Jesse said.

"Who are you?" Surge demanded assertively, "And, where did you come from?"

"I'm Shine...Shine the Hedgehog." said the white hedgehog. "And this is my friend, Fetalia."

"We came to the past to stop a catastrophe from happening!" said Fetalia

"Right, sounds boring," Jesse said uncaringly.

"Well then, the name's Surge, Surge the Hedgehog," Surge introduced himself, "And my uninterested friend here is Jesse. What kind of catastrophe, may I ask?"

"In the future, this planet has become inhabitable." said Shine. "Because the Antiverse is trying to destroy the Magnetic field. When this happens, all life on this planet will cease to exist and many of this planets inhabitants will have to migrate to another planet."

Jesse thought these guys were idiots. "Well obviously, if you came back in time to try and stop it, you'd know about the 'time paradox' theory first."

"That's the point, idiot!" said Fetalia. "We came here to stop the antiverse and save this planet."

"Huh? Magnetic field destruction!?" Surge said, rather surprised, "That's probably why my electrokinesis has been going out of wack!" At that moment, Surge started to spark again for a few seconds.

"I was going to say something to be a dick, but what you guys just said actually makes sense now," Jesse noted, understanding via Surge's predicament.

"So are you gonna help or just sit here and let the world die?" asked Fetalia.

"I don't know about you Jesse, but I'm going," Surge said.

"What, do you think I'm honestly gonna say no?" Jesse laughed. "I'm comin."

"That's what I thought." said Fetalia

"No, I thought you'd do just that," Surge shot back at Jesse, and laughed. Then turned his attention to Shine and Fetalia. "So how do we stop these Antiverse guys?"

"We gotta raid the antiverse, find a portal to their realm!" said Shine.

"Find a portal? It's just that simple?" Jesse laughs. "Well I'll get back to you when cross dimensional portals are actually possible."

Surge seemed skeptical about Shine's plan, and said, "Raid them? When they're attacking our universe's Mobius's magnetic field? Seems like to me they're already here and trying to make a mess of the magnetic field, my electrokinesis going crazy proves that."

"These guys are able to absorb electric charges, and water only makes them stronger." Shine said. "So....we gotta think of some other way to knock 'em down!"

"It also sounds like these guys know what they're doing," Surge commented, "How do you know if they haven't done something similar to their own world?"

"They did." said Fetalia. "So they want to recreate their own world....at the price of ours."

"Or they just like destroying crap. If they destroyed their own they probably want to keep it that way," Jesse said.

Surge still seemed skeptical, "It doesn't make sense though, two destroyed worlds, taking the same place in two different universes doesn't accomplish 'recreating' thier world, if I'm interpreting 'recreating' correctly."

"They're gonna try to merge all this world's dimensions together into theirs, destroying each one individually." explained Fetalia. "Some of ours have even been either enslaved or turned on their own realms to join the Antiverse."

"Like I'm surprised," said Jesse. "Power is power, lots of people want it."

"True, but it still doesn't make sense, you have slaves and power, but with a bunch of dead planets, there's no empire, I don't see the point, unless they built buildings to have remedies to that," Surge pointed out.

"I honestly don't think they care about that...." said Shine.

Surge seemed extremely puzzled, but shrugged it off after a moment, "At any rate, they need to be stopped, and then we won't have to worry about what would have happened."

"Yeah! Let's kick their tails in!" said Shine.

Surge looked at Fetalia and blushed faintly before responding to Shine, "Yeah! Where to go first?"

"No idea...." said Fetalia.

"Hmm..." Surge said, "Sounds like a problem... but they have to have some sort of way to be effecting the magnetic field, maybe an electric current, as electric currents do generate magnetism..."

"Yeah, but who could be helping?" asked Fetalia.

"I don't know, but then again, I don't think they need help, especially if they got a scientist who knows this kind of stuff," Surge replied, and scratched his head, in an almost unoticeble nervousness to it.

"What's up with you?" asked Fetalia

Surge, while somehow being able to hide it, was startled by Fetalia asking the question. He quickly regained his composure. He replied coolly, "Nothing, just attempting to process the whole Antiverse thing, because I heard that there are counterparts for some realities... and maybe there's one of me... thought of that is creepy."

Most girls would probably fall for this, but Fetalia knew better than that. She noticed how nervous he was around her and how he was constantly looked at her. Fetalia got up to his face, mad as a bull. "You were looking at my breasts, weren't you?!"

Surge jumped back, scared out of his skin, stripped of his cool and composure, as is his biggest weakness was women, and jumped onto the second-story window sill of a building like a scared cat, "N-No!" he stammered, "I-It's just y-y-you just look a-awesome... i-in general..." He blushed furiously, embarressed by the situation, and hid his face.

"So you were looking at them!" she snapped.

"N-no..." he stammered again, realizing he could be killed by this, "I-I'm just awkward around women, o-okay...?" he clinged to the ledge for dear life. "I've never had a decent girlfriend in my life so I don't really know what it meant to be loved..." he said, in a raised and sobbing voice, genuinely speaking this time. "I...I'm sorry... I-I'll go my own way..." he said as he jumped down and ran away, crying.

Fetalia looked at the fleeing and cowering Surge. Suddenly, she felt bad for him; it was some misunderstanding she had. She now felt ashamed and began chasing him.

Surge ran and found a lone tree along the sidewalk and jumped into its branches and climbed up it to hide. Tears started streaming down his face, as his memories of the women he's been with flooded his mind, the things some did to him, the things some made him do, and the pain came back from being with Rouge the Bat, who played him to steal the Chaos Emerald that he still held with him. He continued to cry as he felt his heart disintergrate once more, another woman that acted out in a rage to him, the last notable one being his first, Amy Rose.

His sorrow was short lived when he heard Fetalia shout down to him. "Hey!"

Surge perked up, tears still streaming down his face, even though in the back of his mind he could still be killed, he responded, weepingly, "Y...Y...Y-Yeah...?"

Fetalia looked very sympathetically to him. "Sorry about the misunderstanding...." she said.

"It...It's fine..." Surge said, still somewhat weepingly, though not much for her to know he forgives her, rather for himself to mend his heart for the upteenth time. He wiped his tears on his glove, and breathing expasperating after his depression episode.

"I didn't know you were like that around girls..." she continued.

"I really... don't know how to be around girls..." he replied solemnly, "Either I get screamed at, beat up, used or played..." There was a melancholy tone to his voice now, as if it was something he'd rather forget. "I want love... but I don't know how to get it... because I just keep getting what I just mentioned..."

"Maybe I can help you prepare for getting a girlfriend...." Fetalia suggested.

"Maybe..." Surge replied, "though... the good girls that I do find, are always taken by some other guy... like I might be fast at running, but I'm too slow to get the good girls..."

"Don't tell Shine I did this....cuz then it'd blow my chance of getting with him..." she said as she kissed him right on the lips.

Surge blushed, though his instincts told him to kiss her back, he didn't because he thought it'd be a very bad idea to do at that moment, and stared into her eyes. "O-Okay..." he said, very willing to keep it a secret.

"I love Shine with all my heart." said Fetalia. "If he found out, I'd be devastated...because he would find out I'm a slut...and we'd never be together...."

"Ah..." said Surge in an understanding, yet resigned way, "I see... I hope it all works out, I guess..." He rubbed his head, knowing that the same thing occured yet again, that a good girl already likes some other guy, in this case Shine. Though a friendship was seemingly formed with Fetalia, the damage to Surge's heart had already been done. He did stop crying, but his heart continued to cry, screaming for something that he never had. Being raised by himself and with a well-fated meeting with Sonic the Hedgehog, he never knew what love was. He was beginning to think he may never know what love is.

"C'mon, let's get back." said Fetalia.

Surge nodded. "Okay..." he said. He became uncertain as to if he'd be mentally be able to take on the Antiverse at this point. Though, he did consider that he had friends to help him. Especially Shine, somehow now going over their meeting, he felt different, and actually felt better with Fetalia going along with Shine, than he had about other girls liking other men. As if he knew Shine, or should know him.

Shine was waiting very impatiently for them to return. There was not a second to spare. The world was in danger and they couldn't waste much time!

Surge and Fetalia met back up with Shine shortly after. Surge cleared his throat and said, "Hmm... wonder what can we do..?" Just then, very dark grey clouds seemed to erupt in the distance, which displayed a vast amount of intercloud lightning instantly afterward. "That, doesn't look normal," Surge commented.

"It's begun..." said Fetalia, solumly.

Surge thought for a moment, then noticed an old television in a nearby abandoned building. "Hmm..." he said as he went in the already broken down door, went to the television, wiped the dust of its screen, and turned it so Fetalia and Shine could see it. He shocked it with his electrokinesis. The television turned on to the news. "Special report, today," the anchor reported, "scientists have been studying the recent electromagnetic anomalies that have been occurring all over the globe during the past week, and this is what they have found... The anomalies seem to be following a certain pattern, and the satalites above those areas are temporarely knocked out, overly powerful thunderstorms erupt in these areas, and what's even more disturbing, these anomalies follow the orbit of abandoned Space Colony ARK, we will bring you more details as they come..." Surge stopped shocking it, thus turning off the television.

"Damn!" said Shine. "We gotta hurry!"

Jesse was surprised too. "That ain't good..."

"Got a rocket, Shine?" inquired Surge, sarcastically serious, "Because it seems to me that we gotta go to the ARK, which is in space. From what I heard, they're using a very strong electric current, and it seems that the ARK is part of this, somebody's gotta be up there in control of it to power up the electric charge. I'd love to hurry as much as you do, but I think our fight lies with going to the ARK, I think I can see it as the source, or "battery", of the electric current, and if we cut the power from the source, they're out of business."

"I'm afraid not...." said Shine.

"You're really pathetic, Shine..." said a voice from above.

Shine looked above them, there he saw his long-time rival from the future: Drake the Hedgebat, and his partner, the ancient and lovely Maya the Echidna. "Drake!"

Meanwhile, within the extremely strong thunderstorm, a pylon laid, with an extremely large and powerful bolt of electricity poured into it. Shroud was seen making final rounds. "Looks good," he reported.

"Keep it covered until the station makes final contact. Should take place in about four minutes," Gregor commented, keeping a lookout.

"Roger," Shroud complied.

Unluckily for him, a certain cyborg wolf by the name of Mitchell caught a glimpse of the pylon. He was going to ignore it, but he didn't have anything better to do, so he went in to check it out. He didn't see Shroud or Gregor.

Lurking the shadows was a red and attractive sex demon: a succubus. Her name was Medusa and she was very powerful. With mastery of fire, darkness, ice, and illusions, she was in the mood for sexual actions...and was awaiting the proper victims....

Shroud noticed Mitchell, but didn't know it was him, walking toward the pylon. "Bogie, at your two o'clock!" Shroud reported to Gregor.

"Oh, yeah, I see him," Gregor said. He let Mitchell get closer in to examine the pylon. He wanted to see what he did. Gregor signaled to Shroud. "Prepare to engage..." Mitchell examined it. "On my mark..." Mitchell had been watching the news reports, and he had this thing figured out in no time. He reared back with his cybernetic fist to put a hole through it. "Now."

Shroud reared back an arm and threw a punch, stretching with shadow energy, right at Mitchell's face.

Mitchell didn't see it coming and was knocked to the ground. He would've gotten up to fight back if Gregor hadn't been there to curb-stomp him in the head. Mitchell was out cold.

"What do you want to do with him?" Shroud asked, awaiting further orders.

Gregor was intrigued by the cybernetic implants, and was knelt down to Mitchell when he noticed something. "Hey, check this out," he said pointing to a thin slot just next to his eye. "This looks like an AI slot."

Shroud knelt down on the other side of Mitchell, and noticed the AI slot as well. "Do you think Ari can make something out of this?" he asked.

"He's Ari," Gregor laughed. "What can't he do with technology?"

"True that," Shroud replied, and stretches his shadow arms to wrap them around Mitchell's legs and shoulders, and lifts him up with moderate difficulty. "Let's take him to see the Tech Doc then," he joked.

Gregor checked the time. The station was to align in a matter of seconds. "Alright," he said as the alignment occured, "Load him up."

"Roger," Shroud said as he put Mitchell into the shuttle.

Gregor got on the comms with Ari. "Returning to base, and we're bringing a present for you," he laughed as they took off.

Chapter 4: Reprogrammed
Shroud and Gregor entered the bridge about fifteen minutes later, Shroud delivering Mitchell to Ari, "Happy birthday," he laughed, "have fun!"

Ari noticed the different added parts on Mitchell; the cybernetic arm and eye were what he noticed first, followed by the AI slot. "It should take no more than an hour of coding to put this cyborg on our side." Gregor laughed. He was glad Ari was on their side since the beginning -- if he hadn't, all the work they'd done would've been next to impossible.

Shroud laughed also, glad because if Ari wasn't on thier side, everyone's workload, including Blackout's, would have been nearly tripled. He left Mitchell in Ari's care and reported back to Gregor. "Anything else, sir?" he asked, awaiting further instruction.

"We're good for now, Shroud," Gregor said. "Just kick back and relax."

"Alright," Shroud said, deeply relieved to be told to relax. He wasn't able to do that for much of anything due to his job as the "grunt" of the group. He returned to his corner of the storage facility, and relaxed on his air mattress.

Gregor had a priority of his own to complete. He inflated another air mattress, wishing he was doing something else. But, if they were going to have a new team member, he figured he'd best prepare for him.

Shroud quickly fell asleep, getting rest that he desperately needed from the days where he'd barely be able to sleep.

Ari was programming. This was his element. Normally it would've taken someone days to program such a complex AI mechanism, but it only took him an hour. He reported in to Blackout himself over the comms link when he was done.

Typhoon patched in Ari to Blackout. "It's Ari," Typhoon said as he put the comms on speaker. "Yes?" Blackout asked, awaiting Ari's report.

"The pylon alignment was successful, as expected, and we picked up another prisoner," Ari replied, aiming the camera at the unconscious Mitchell. His cyborg parts were easily visible from the camera.

"Another one eh?" Blackout mused, "I see, do as you please, whatever you do I'm certain it'd only bolster our efforts."

"Hold on," Ari said proudly, holdng up a small chip. "This is an artificial intelligence chip, and this," he said, pointing out the AI slot on Mitchell, "is an artificial intelligence slot."

"Hm?" Blackout became interested, "Yes, go on."

"I have programmed our instructions into this chip, and when I put this in his head, it should quite literally overwrite his own will, with ours." Ari smiled a little, proud of his work.

Blackout smiled and said, "Excellent, insert it."

"My pleasure," Ari said, inserting it carefully into the slot. Mitchell woke up as his brain accepted the programmed orders, and he sat up. "I would like you to meet the sixth member of our team," Ari said to Blackout.

Blackout smiled sinisterly as Mitchell awoke with his reprogrammed orders. "Hello," he said to Mitchell, "I am Blackout, I run the show here, state your name."