Chapters: Prologue 1 2 3 4 5 Epilogue
Chapter 1: Rookie
G.U.N Base Osiris, Emerald Ocean - November 3rd 2013, 8:25 AM
The SUV traveled along two mile long tunnel that led them outside of Soleanna's borders and into the Emerald Ocean. The tunnel was an almost shiny silver, with both normal lighting to let the driver see and blue neon lights to guide the way. Although there was technically no speed limit in this tunnel, the driver had the car at a comfortable seventy miles-per-hour. Eventually, they vehicle came up to another blast door, although this one seemed to operate differently. Driver pressed a button near the handbrake and a voice spoke through the speakers in the SUV.
"You've been identified as G.U.N. State your details and intent," it said.
Jacob leaned forward, "This is Agent Jacob Lawson of G.U.N Science and Intel with a VIP. We're here for a mission briefing."
There was a short pause before the voice answered, "Understood. For security reasons, your VIP will need to be properly identified when you arrive. Other than that, welcome to Osiris Base, Agent Lawson."
The speakers went dead and Astrid seemed slightly panicked. Lawson looked around at her.
"Agent. G.U.N know what I have done in the past. If they find out who I am-" she said, before Lawson cut her off.
"No need to worry. I outrank them, and besides, I have authorisation from the Commander back at HQ saying that I'm allowed to bring you in the base, no strings attached," the wolf assured.
The blast door finally opened, although a bit slowly. Once it was open, the SUV drove into a massive vehicle depot. Most of them vehicles were for use in the sea, but there were still quite a few land vehicles, even a few tanks. The young vixen sighed as they pulled up to a security checkpoint, where two guards stood.
"This is our stop, Astrid," Lawson said, leaving the vehicle. Astrid got out and began thinking of an escape plan, should anything go wrong. A guard waved at her, signalling that she wanted her to go there. She followed the unspoken order. Next to the guard was a machine that looked like a metal detector.
"Step inside here, ma'am," the guard ordered.
Astrid did as the woman said and stepped in. The guard let go of her SMG's grip and begin pressing a short series of buttons on the machine.
"Don't move, please," the guard said.
The machine then projected lights all over Astrid's body, scanning everything from her limbs to the individual strands of hair on her head. After a short while, the lights ceased to shine and the guard walked back to the console on the machine. Her facial expression then changed immediately.
"Alright, stay right where you are, ma'am," the guard said, point the SMG at Astrid.
Lawson walked up, "Hey, hey, hey! She's with me."
"On whose authority, sir?" she asked, still pointing her weapon. Astrid had both of her hands up, still thinking of an escape plan.
"Commander Tower's," he replied simply, showing a declaration document to the guard via his tablet.
The guard backed down upon seeing it. "Apologies, sir. You and your... guest, can move on through. The lieutenant is waiting for you on the other side," the guard said, scowling at the assassin.
"Thank you, soldier," Lawson replied.
The two moved through the checkpoint as the guard scowled at Astrid. The fox gave no response, simply walking past with her arms swaying naturally by her side. On the other side, a tiger, dressed in navy blue military dress and tie and a white shirt, which was almost blinding. The left side of his jacket was covered with various pins and medals. He seemed to be talking to someone a lot younger than he was. She was dressed in a similar outfit to the tiger, though she was wearing a navy blue skirt and black tights instead of the trousers he wore. There was also the absence of a vast amount of awards on her left side, wearing just four. She was also shorter than than the tiger, though compared to most people, he is fairly tall, even taller than Jacob, who stood at five feet and two inches.
The tiger turned and saw two people walking towards him. "Sergeant Lawson, good to see you made it here safely."
The wolf saluted, "A pleasure to see you as well, Lieutenant Kim."
Astrid looked over at Lawson. He took no notice, concentrating more the formalities required of a soldier towards his superior.
"At ease, Lawson," the Lieutenant said.
As he lowered his arm, he noticed Astrid staring at him with a slightly puzzled look.
"What?" he asked, also confused.
"You said you were an agent," she answered.
"As a part of S.I.D, yeah. I'm still a soldier with a normal military ranking though."
The Lieutenant Kim could be seen examining Astrid. Her clothing was not at all modern and very suspicious to him.
"Who's this?" Kim asked, referring to Astrid.
"This is-"
Astrid stopped Jacob short. "I can introduce myself, Agent," she said sourly, "I am Astrid Alessia."
"Lieutenant Jameson Kim," he said holding out his hand to Astrid. She didn't move. This resulted in an awkward silence quickly surrounding the group.
A few moments later, Jacob asked, "And who's this, sir?"
The person in question was the cat, who still stood by the Lieutenant's side. She stepped forward and salute Jacob.
"Private Katherine Treske, sir," she said, holding an almost immaculate posture.
"You can drop the formalities around me, Private. Never really liked 'em," Jacob responded, folding his arms and smirking.
The private lowered her hand and relaxed a bit after what Jacob said. The Lieutenant then took out a datapad and showed it to the agent.
"Here, everything you need to know about her," he said.
"Need to know? What do you mean?" Jacob asked, confused at why he was being given this information.
The Lieutenant sighed, bracing himself for the next response he would receive.
"Private Treske is going to be your new recruit," he stated, with eyes closed.
Jacob squinted at the Lieutenant, "I'm sorry, sir, but, what?"
"The Private is your recruit, or partner, if you want to look at it that way."