Chapter 5 - Chapter 5 - Arctic Zone Mission

We flew in the Black hawk to the arctic zone. I was worried but Sally said that there were allies in the Arctic zone. “We have a team of polar animals that are freedom fighters that stay in the arctic zone, I am sure they will help us.” Sally Said before, and I knew I had to trust her she was the princess anyway. Then the pilot's voice crackled on the radio. “Alright boys, we are nearing the Arctic zone. The weather is hell so we can't get you very close to the crash, we can only get you at least 3 miles away from it, you will then have to proceed on foot, oh and by the way be careful, sky eye just said that there is a group of unknown contacts out there and they can't get a fix on what they are so good luck.” “Man this is going to be tough,” I said. After a while the pilot spoke again. “Alright boys, ETA 5 second good luck and good hunting.” “Roger we will see you at the extraction point over.” And with that we leapt from the Black hawk into the cold.
We all landed with a thud, the snow was a lot thicker then we anticipated. “I got up and said “Hey is everyone okay?” “Yeh except for Bunnie she landed in a thick snow drift.” I ran to where she had landed and they were right, when I looked Bunnie was under like 5 feet of snow, with her ears poking out. I yelled, “Bunnie are you okay?” “Yeh, just cold, now get me out of here!!” she replied, so I lowered my grappling hook, she grabbed on and I pulled her out. She was very cold so I had to wrap a blanket around her and carry her for the rest of the trip till she heated up again. The walk was long and hard but soon we came across a ledge, we sat down to rest, I put Bunnie down and activated my radio, “Specter 1 do you copy over.” I said into the radio, it was silent I repeated, but this time there was an answer. “This is Specter 1 who am I speaking to?” “This is General Mitch, we are a mile or so away from you, but the snow is so dense we can't see, shoot a flare so we can locate you over.” I said “roger” was the reply. Soon in the sky a little ball of red light busted like a firework. “You see that?” was the answer on the radio. “Roger Specter 1 we are heading toward you from the south over.” I replied. After an hour walking we found the gunship. “Thank Gods you guys got here, it's been Sh**T for the last few hours, constant attacks by Eggman robots, we thought we wouldn't survive, until you got here.” “How is everyone?” I asked, “We're Okay but the Gunner is trapped in the Gunning Sphere he can't get out, and there is debris blocking both sides.” He said. “Alright take me there.” Soon I was inside the ship, the pilot took me to a door near the middle of the craft. “Alright behind this door is the Gunning Sphere, unfortunately it is jammed by a pipe on the other side, and the opening mechanism is busted, we can't get it.” “Don't worry, I can.” I said, and then I activated my arm blades and sliced right through the door. I ran inside and in the middle of the sphere, was a chair where the gunner sat. “Dude! Are you okay?” I asked “DO I LOOK OKAY TO YOU!” he said, “This Gods damn chair has me pined into the seat, the arm and leg locks are squeezing so hard I think I am going to burst, and to add to that, the joystick control is jammed into my crotch!” “Ouch” I said. I ran to the chair, and quickly deactivated the locks, and the gunner with a big sigh of relief stepped out. “Thank Gods it's good to be out of that chair.” I went back outside, and radioed the battle ship to send a tug to pick up the crew and the gunship. In around 1 hour the tug came, it was huge about the size of two specters, with an open part in the middle to pick up large stuff, and room in the front for up to 12 passengers. It was lightly armed with 8 light turrets in various places and was strong enough to pull a carrier. Before the crew left, the pilot said something to me. “General, I almost forgot, we saw a strange facility a few miles west of this position, we think it's an Eggman facility, it was heavily guarded, so it must be important, I suggest you take it out, what ever it is.” “Thanks for the info, see you later.” I replied.

Once the tug left I turned my attention to the facility. “Okay team, here is the plan, there is an Eggman facility, and we need to take it out. We will go see how heavily guarded it is so we can get a battle plan to destroy it, so get ready to move out.” Soon we found ourselves walking west to the target, unfortunately after an hour or so of walking a huge storm hit, we had to find cover. “This storm is crazy sir, but I am detecting a cave 2 kilometers north of here we should head there.” “Good job solider.” I replied. Soon we found the cave and stepped in. It was dark and we couldn't see. “Everyone, activate you lights.” Soon everyone had their flashlights activated and we continued walking.” “This place gives me the creeps.” Said Bunnie “Don't worry, I will protect you.” I replied. Suddenly my radar started beeping, “what the-” I said, I looked at my radar, “He guys, we got a very weak contact just up ahead, it's not robotic, but it's fait, stay alert though.” We proceeded slowly, we then came stop, my radar told me it was right in front of us, but nothing was there, I looked around, still nothing. “Hum” I thought, “where could it b-” suddenly one of my men shouted “Ah get it off me get it off me!” I turned to see a gray female fox, right onto of the guys' helmet; I stared for a moment then got my act together. “Hold tight, and don't move, just give me a clear shot.” I pulled out my pistol, with tranquilization darts ready; I aimed and fired one shot into the back of the fox, she screamed, and fell to the floor. “What did you do did you kill her?” Sally asked, “No I tranqed her.” I replied. “Hey, put her up against the wall, I want to see who this girl is. And start setting up a small camp; we will stay here for a while.” Soon we were all settled, with a roaring fire. I turned my attention to the fox; she was tied up in one of the tents. I walked and sat down. “Alright start talking, whom do you work for, who are you and why are you here?” she didn't answer. “Ah playing hard to get are we hmm, maybe someone else knows about her.” I walked out and got Sally, and brought her back. I untied the fox, and immediately kneeled down to Sally, “Princess I was trying to contact you for so I could warn you about the Eggman presence, but I was to later, Eggman had captured the rest of the Arctic Fighters and they are being held in a facility near here, I was able to escape, and made it here, I was alone until these guys came.” She said. “These guys work for us, this man here is General Mitchell of the CGDA he is on our side.” Sally said. “Yeh and why did you attack us anyway, it's a good thing I had tranq darts or you would have been shot on sight.” I said. “I thought you were Eggman units, what else could I do?” She replied. Sally said, “What's your name?” She turned to her. “My name is Sheila Fox.” She said. “Well that's good to know, and now I want to know something to, did you see the facility?” She turned to me and nodded. “Did you see its defense, how strong are they?” “I saw 4 missile batteries around the facility but that is it.” She said. “Thanks” I replied. Sally stayed in the tent to give Sheila company, while I went outside. “Sonic, Tails, Bunnie, come here. All right here is the plan I want to rescue the Arctic fighters from that facility then blow it up, so here is what we will do, first we have to rescue the hostages, Tails, and Bunnie, you are with me, we will move in a rescue them and then get out as fast as we can, while we do this, Sonic it's your job to plant explosives charges on each of the batteries, once done, meet us at the rally point where I will then paint the target for air strike, then we sit back and watch the fire works.” “Got it Mitch.” Said everyone, “Alright lets move.”

We stepped out into the cold, and headed toward the facility, after an hour of walking, we saw the facility only a few meters away. “Hit the dirt!” I said softly, everyone got on their stomachs and I quickly pulled out my binoculars. “She was right,” I said “4 missile batteries, with minimal guards, this should be easy, but don't get cocky, who knows what is inside. Alright Tails, Bunnie your with me, Sonic stay here with these two men, when we give the signal, plant the charges, then on my word blow them.” “Got it.” Sonic said. “Alright lets go.” We were able to pass by the guards since it was snowing really hard, and that gave us the advantage, once we were inside, I quickly stopped and activated my EVA unit. “What are you doing?” Bunnie Asked, “I am trying to located the hostages along with trying to locate traps and guards so it will make it so much easier for us.” I replied. Soon I had the entire base lined out on my wrist, it was huge I immediately started searching for the prison cells and found them. “Come on guys, its just one floor above us.” I said. We ran up, with very little resistance. Once we got outside the cell chambers I said, “Alright, be ready to take on anything, I am guessing there are a lot of guards in here. On 3 we bust in 1…2…3!” we smashed the door down, I jumped in with my rifle poised, but after the dust cleared there were no guards, as Bunnie and Tails realest the prisoners “Strange.” I though, “why was it so easy, something's not right I just know it.” Then one of the prisoners came up to me, it was a polar bear no doubt part of the Arctic fighters, he asked, “Who are you?” I looked at him “My name is General Mitch of the CGDA, and this is Bunnie, and Tails of the Freedom fighters of Knothole, were here to rescue you.” I replied, “Who are you?” I then said. “My name is Bark the polar bear, with the Arctic fighters, anyway thanks for the rescue, how did you find us?” “A friend of yours name Shelia Fox told us, you do know her right?” he just stared at me “No there is no one named Shelia in our group.” I just stood their for a few moment stunned, suddenly alarms went off like crazy and the chamber door began to close and from behind the back wall, two robots crawled out, “What are those?” Bunnie asked, “those” I said while shooting them “are what I call Senta-bots, they are the same ones Sonic and I saw in the power plant on our last mission, there really tough, anyway, get out of here before the door closes, I'll hold them off, now go!” As soon as I said that everyone ran to the door and got out, but I wasn't so fortunate the door closed before I could get out, I was trapped. From the other side, I hear Bunnie yelling, “Mitch are you okay?” Bunnie yells. I yelled back “I'm fine, now get out of here, I will meet you there, and don't worry I will be okay.” “Okay Mitch be careful” she said then left. I then turned my attention to the two monstrosities heading toward me, immediately one swung it's huge tentacle at me and I dodged, then the second one did the same, again I dodged, then they both swung at me, I dodged the first but the second one slashed my armor, “Ahhh” I yelled, I was okay, but it went deep into my armor. “You call that a blade?” I said, I took out my laser sword, and activated it, “This is a blade!” I said, and then I immediately sliced through both of them like a hot knife through butter. They fell apart and blew up. “Piece of cake” I said “But they sure left a mark” I said as I looked at my wound, which was already healing. Suddenly the whole place started to shake a PA said “warning self -destruct in 30 seconds Evacuate immediate!” “f*ck!” I said and started running. I slashed opened the door and was on the second floor. Realizing I had little time to waist I immediately blasted a hole in the wall and flew out right before the place went boom!
The blast shot me a few meters; I crashed into the ground and slid right in front of Bunnie. “Hey what's up?” with my face still in the snow. “Oh Mitch thank gods you are okay!” Said Bunnie. “Yeah it's a good thing my Armour held, now let's head back to base.” Suddenly my radio crackles “sir we have a huge problem here! Hostage situation is seems Shelia works for Eggman as an assassin! She is holding sally hostage inside the cave over.” I stood there holding the radio; my grip was so intense I nearly broke it. I thee spoke back into it. “Roger I am on my way, Bunnie I want you to walk back to base, I have to hurry and get there, Solider! I want you to pain the target for the silver wings okay?” the solider nodded and I tossed him the laser designator. “Okay guys see you later” I flew off back to the cave, my anger raged. Once I arrived I landed on a hill overlooking the whole thing, there in the entrance was Shelia holding a pistol to Sally's head. “Time to bring out the sniper” I pulled out my rifle, pushed a button and a scope appeared and the barrel lengthen and bipods came out from under the barrel. I then position myself in a sniper stance and prepare to fire. “The one thing I hate more than Eggman is a dirty….”fires off the hand holding the gun and Sal is tossed back to the ground. In an instant a marine picks her up and escorts her away “…lousy….” Firing off the other hand d she falls to her knees, both hands gone “Traitor!” one shot is fires, whizzing through the air it hits Sheila right between the eyes! Her head exploding on impact, her lifeless body falls to the ground, the wind blows silently as Mitch gets up. “I did it.” Slings rifle on his back, and turns to see Bunnie. “I saw what you did…. i didn't think you could do that!” she says, I reply, “everyone has the ability to do harm I just control mine better but sometimes it can be shown.” I tell her, she looks back at me. “I see…anyway mission complete.” She says saluting.

Later a drop ship arrives and picks up the team, as they fly back they pass the bombers who have finished bombing the facility. We head back to knothole and are met by Sally who congratulates us. But the celebration is cut short by a transmission I receive, the bombers had to make a detour over the Mobian Jungle, Sally says that the area is owned by the Dark Legion, a group of echidnas who are against the freedom fighters and are against Knuckles as well, they have bee fighting them for a while but they have not attacked them for a long time. Anyway the transmission was an SOS saying they were under heavy attack, bomber 3 was under heavy fire while the other 2 were holding them off. I look at Sal then Bunnie. “I am going in alone!” With that said I deploy my car and activate its ship mode, the wheels went in and two wings came out from the side. Twin thruster engines along with tail fins come out from the back, I hope in and fly off.

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