Some of you might be wondering why, I decided to make Tails a girl. I don’t much care if you don’t like it; I find it makes sense because Tails is voiced by a girl in every game and television show and I prefer Tails as a girl anyways. Sorry If I drove you away from this fanfic because of that minor detail. Anyways please enjoy. 

Chapter 10:


It had been a few weeks since Jacob Voltix had been rescued from the base, and during that time it was made official that Commander Braxtonn of G.U.N was retiring. His replacement was to set a new record for youngest ever G.U.N Commander. His name was Richard C. Maximus, and during his swearing in ceremony, he vowed that G.U.N was going to redeem the honor and respect of the peoples they had lost due to Braxtonn’s vendettas against anyone that slightly ticked him off. Bounties would no longer be offered, and cases were to be reviewed, to determine who, of those escaped were guilty or not. 

Jacob sat down next to Blitscreet watching the inauguration.

“They mention anything about why Braxtonn was forced into retirement?” Jacob asked.
“Yeah all they said was that he was physically and mentally unfit to lead G.U.N anymore.” Blitscreet replied.
“Yeah I heard the fall from the balcony paralyzed him.”
“Fuck…” Blitscreet said getting up.
“Where are you going?” Jacob asked.
“Well to be honest I am the one to blame for that, and I can’t have that on my conscience. I’m going to apologise.”
“Don’t expect to be greeted with a warm welcome.” Jacob called out as Blitscreet left to ease his guilt.

 Jacob sat alone for a few minutes before he heard a knock at the door. When he answered the door Tails was standing there.

“Oh I’m sorry I didn’t know Jolteia had someone staying over, besides her brother.” Tails blushed
“I’m her father, and this is only temporary. How can I help you miss…?”
“You can call me Tails.” Then what Jacob had said kicked in. “Wait…did you call me miss?”
“Yes, I did, because I can tell right away even though your dressed like a guy, you can’t completely hide those curves.” Jacob pointed out. “Sorry if I blew your cover so easily, it’s just I have had years of experience, and I prefer not to talk to someone as if they were someone else.”
“Oh…” Tails’ mood has switched from happy and cheerful to glum and sad in almost an instant.

It took a few moments but Tails was on the verge of tears again. “I’m sorry it’s just twice in a couple of weeks I’m not sure how much longer before everyone knows.”
“Again I apologize for pointing it out but, to be honest, you aren’t going to be able to hide it much longer, and your body has started to curve, as well as that Teflon is going to start restricting you’re breathing as well.”
“It already has to be honest.” Tails stopped crying and blushed
“Well if you’re going to pretend to be a boy for a bit longer it’s only going to get harder. Besides you don’t have to be shy with me, I have been around for a lot longer than you, and I know that you are afraid of what your friends will say.” Jacob allowed his curiosity to pique. “So I take it you made prosthesis to hide your womanly parts.” Jacob said calmly.
“Yeah, I was tempted to just get a sex change at first but as much as I wanted to I couldn’t bring myself to do it.”
“I see.” Jacob thought for a moment. “You know as much as I like talking and getting to know people I think we should change topics before Jolteia wakes up and comes downstairs and hears something you might not want her to hear.”
“I didn’t know she was home, usually she is awake much earlier than this.”
“She and a few other girls got a wee bit hammered last night. Unfortunately I happened to wake up because they came over here. Turns out it was the worst time possible to wake up as they kinda thought I was some creepy pervert and attacked me. Only Jolteia barely managed to stop her, and I say that with truth as a pink hedgehog already had a nasty looking hammer out and holding it mere inches away from my face. After that they calmed down a little had a few more drinks and Blitscreet and I had to drag their butts upstairs to Jolteia’s room because they could barely stand let alone walk.”
“Well the pink hedgehog is Amy, so who else was there?” Tails had let her curiosity grow listening to this tale.
“Ok, Jolteia of course, a bat, Amy, a purple cat, whom for some reason started hitting on Blitscreet before Arius started yelling out that was her boyfriend, and I think a couple of echidna’s too.”
“Wow, I think Rouge must have decided to have one of her girls night outs and invited everyone. I knew Shade had come for a visit but I had no clue Blaze was here.” Tails laughed “Tikal must’ve been hard to convince to get drunk.”
“If you would be so kind as place those names with faces.” Jacob asked.
“Of course. Rouge is the bat, Blaze is he purple cat with a crush on Blitz, Shade is the one with the fancy wristbands and Tikal is the other echidna with the more ancient style to them.”
“Ok.” Jacob paused for a moment to think. “I think it’s safe to assume Shade is a Nocturnus echidna. And yes I know about the Nocturnus, I know more about ancient civilizations than anyone. Besides an ancient painting that I’ve seen of her doesn’t do her justice.”
“You really do know your stuff. So how long do you think before they wake up?”
“Oh not long, considering the fact that Blitscreet decided to get revenge on all of them for waking him up at three in the morning. So expect to hear a loud pop before you hear screams.”
“Why, what did he do?”
“Well that would be ruining the fun.” Jacob smiled as he waited quietly turning off the TV.

It wasn’t long before the pop followed by the sound of electricity then yelling and cursing. Jacob sat there with a stupid grin on his face that shared an all too familiar resemblance to Blitscreet. Jolteia was the first to come down stair soaked from head to toe with only her white panties on showing exactly what was underneath.

“Where is he?!” Jolteia was generating a few sparks but not much as she glared at Jacob oblivious to Tails and her current appearance.
“I don’t know who you are talking about.” Jacob smiled coyly.
“Don’t play dumb with me, I know you helped him with this.”
“Now what reason would I have for assisting my son in pranking his sister and her friends for waking us up at three in the morning and nearly attacking us.”
“You die after I find him.” Jolteia stormed towards the door.
“Ahem.” Jacob said clearing his throat. “I don’t think it would be wise to go out looking like that.

Jolteia was about to protest when she noticed her current predicament, followed by seeing Tails sitting in the chair blushing. She ran back upstairs cursing and swearing much to the delight of Jacob.

“I swear I don’t know who’s idea that was, but all I know is that you too are definitely related.” Tails laughed.
“Nor will she find out. I know how to deal with telepathic mind readers, not even the most skilled telepath could read my thoughts.” He chuckled. “Plus Blitscreet’s powers render her telepathy on him useless as well.”
“You two are evil.” Tails kept giggling.

After another fifteen minutes Rouge stumbled still mildly asleep making it to the kitchen. She had put on some of Jolteia’s clothes since they were roughly about the same measurements.

“I’m gonna shove my boot up his ass…” Rouge mumbled much to Jacobs delight.
“You know that you would have to catch him to do that.” Tails said smugly.
“Oh I don’t care about the water, I needed that. It’s the fact the fucker put it over Jolteia so she would short circuit and get us all. I was right next to her.” Rouge growled pouring herself some coffee.
“You might want to make a new pot; I made that a couple hours ago.” Jacob spoke up just before Rouge took a sip. “Coffee grounds are in the cupboard above the coffee maker.”
“Thanks…” Rouge said as she began to make up a fresh batch.

After the new pot was brewed then the rest of the girls came stumbling down. They had all borrowed some of Jolteia’s clothes, Rouge was the only one who had gotten a bra, due to their about equal bust size. Jolteia was last one down making sure everyone was out of her room. Blaze grabbed a coke from the fridge and mumbled something inaudible before cracking it open taking two sips then sitting down at the table and laying her head on the table.

“Ugh, how did you people manage to convince me to drink that much.” She moaned.
“Don’t ask me I never drink…” Tikal sighed rubbing her head. “Honestly who remembers what happens before we came here.”
“I remember bits and pieces of it…” Arius spoke after making a cup of French Vanilla. “I remember we started off just having fun and talking, but after the karaoke contest it’s all blank.”
“Who won that anyways?” Rouge asked pouring her second cup.
“I think Vector asked us to leave after Rouge started to do a strip tease for everyone.” Shade said laughing a little bit.
“Oh god, what did we drink?” Rouge said. “I don’t think I can show my face to those guys ever again.”
“Don’t worry Rouge you only got down to your underwear before Vector came out of the back, and asked you to either put on your clothes or to please leave. You chose to leave and we went out after Jolteia paid for the bill, after that, I have no clue.” Shade laughed a little bit before running to the bathroom. Sound of her vomiting was the only thing heard before the toilet flushed and she slowly staggered back.

They sat in silence until Amy took notice of Jacob and Tails sitting in the living room. They eventually migrated to the living room and turned on the TV once more.

“Hey Tails, when did you get here anyways?” Arius asked politely.
“Well I came over to see Blitscreet as well as ask Jolteia a few things too. But that can wait, what’s this about G.U.N getting a new Commander?”
“Let’s just say a certain trio of someone’s forced him into early retirement when they planned a little visit to their main base.” Jolteia spoke her annoyance clearly showing.
“I take it we know these people…” Rouge spoke up afraid she knew who they were.
“Yeah we know them.” Jolteia sighed rubbing her forehead.
“I think I have a pretty good idea who they are.” Rouge spoke somewhat ticked. “This is gonna bite me in the ass real soon isn’t it?”
“I would imagine so.”
“Wait who are you talking about?” Amy sat on the couch next to Tails.
“Blitscreet, Sonic, and Shadow took a fun filled trip to the base and relieved it of all its prisoners. Normally this would be a bad thing but about two thirds were innocents G.U.N imprisoned based on the flimsiest of evidence. What Blitscreet really wanted was to find the one person whom Braxtonn had taken from me and Blitscreet before we even knew him. Our father…”

All heads turned towards Jacob, but before they could hit him with questions he spoke with authority that would even make a crying child shut up and listen and not make a sound.

“Yes, I was in that prison. I was Braxtonn’s prize trophy. The infamous Jacob Voltix, master assassin. But due to his paranoid streak, Braxtonn had my name eliminated from all books, papers; every last place he could find that carried some information. The only things he couldn’t get to where my contacts with whom I kept secret outside of the military. Yeah I was a hit man for G.U.N. Back when it was nothing more than a small military operation designed to keep world peace. Unfortunately when I got too good at my job, they became a little cautious. When I said I wanted out they declared me a rogue, and I was hunted. Fortunately I was even better at disappearing than killing. I almost got away with it, until I messed up.”
“Whoa, even I didn’t think you were anything more than their father who had come back after all these years just for some shelter until you got back up on your feet.” Shade spoke at last.
“Never judge a book by its cover. Anyways I let my emotions get the better of me when I killed my fiancé’s father for beating her when she went to visit them. I didn’t think that my unique killing style would be recognized so easily. I gave him a five second head start before I crippled his legs then I slit his throat. It wasn’t the slit throat that they picked up on, it was the fact I left no trace of evidence behind. They had some pretty good forensics people for them to realize that I simply moved to make him run into the knife effectively slashing his own throat with his momentum.”

By now the girls were thoroughly spooked, even Jolteia didn’t know what to say. They stat their quietly until yet another few knocks were heard at the door. Tikal opened the door a crack, before Jacob flicked a throwing knife between the crack into the door frame on the outside. The door finished swinging open and Knuckles was left standing jaw wide open.

“Hey Knuckles.” Jolteia laughed nervously. “Come on in.”
“What the hell just happened?” Knuckles said plucking the knife out of the frame. “This was almost in my head.”
“Sorry, just a little paranoid.” Jacob said walking over and taking the knife from Knuckles.
“A little?! A little would paranoia would be to question me. This is more than a little paranoia.”
“Okay I said I’m sorry, I knew it wasn’t going to hit you.”
“And how did you know that?”
“One does not simply walk into someone else’s house before the door is fully open.”
“Okay, I get it. If I did I let myself in It would have made me out to be a threat. I take it your Jacob Voltix, nice to meet you.”
“Yeah. It’s nice to meet you too.” 

They shook hands and Knuckles squeezed Jacobs hand really tight almost breaking the bones. Jacob didn’t even flinch.

“I deserved that. Guess I need to relax more.”
“Yeah take a cue from Sonic when he isn’t running away from Amy.”
“Hey!” Amy put her arms on her hips in defence.
“Come on Amy, everyone here knows that he isn’t interested in you.” Knuckles retorted back.
“What did you say?” Amy glared back.
“I honestly think you’re going to be a virgin forever if you keep going after Sonic.” Knuckles chuckled at his own joke.

He looked around to see why no one else was laughing. Amy greeting his sights with a hammer was all he seen.

“Too far Knuckles, too far…” Tails spoke from behind the counter as she poured herself a cup of coffee.

Knuckles sweat dropped once before Amy lunged at him smashing him straight out the door and sent him head over heels along the road. Amy calmed down after he stopped rolling.

“I better go make sure he is alright.” Jolteia sighed.
“You sure you want to try and get past Amy?” Rouge laughed, pointing at Amy with her thumb.
“I can handle Amy.”

Jolteia walked past Amy who stood there waiting for Knuckles to come back and say more. She didn’t notice Jolteia until she propped Knuckles up against a tree.

“You think I would have learned by now.” Knuckles laughed before wincing.
“Nothing broken, just some bruises. You should be fine in a couple days.” Jolteia was about to stand up before she had a light bulb moment.

She placed her hand above one of the bruises on Knuckles’ chest before shocking his chest with a small amount of constant electricity. Within a few seconds it was completely healed.

“Whoa, now that’s handy.” Knuckles said rubbing his chest. No pain or anything.”
“Yeah I figured since I healed so quickly after my accident I guessed that it might be linked to my powers.”
“Yeah no noticeable scar either.”
“Yeah, so you plan on apologizing to Amy?”
“Not at all.”
“Good, she needs to learn. So why did you come over anyways?” Jolteia finished healing Knuckles.
“Oh shit.” He got up and rushed back to the house. “Turn on the TV, Channel four!” He yelled at Amy snapping her out of her stupor.

Amy relayed the message to Blaze who had turned in the TV and was flipping through the channels looking for something interesting.

“Channel four, that’s the G.U.N news channel. Why do we even watch that anyways?” Blaze said reluctantly switching the channel.
“Please don’t let it be what I think it is.” Jacob said face palming.

And yet despite Jacob’s hopes, it was indeed what he expected to see. Blitscreet was down on his knees with his hands behind his head. Almost every soldier within his vicinity had their gun trained on him.

“…This is why I worry about G.U.N’s stability. This Mobian in question, has so far, destroyed two of our bases in question, and has been determined to be a national threat. I will not deny during the last attack on our main base in the area, he was assisted, but due to the minimal involvement of Sonic and Shadow the hedgehog, as well as their past deeds, they are acquitted of all charges.” Maximus spoke with authority. “But this will not happen again. For far too long the military has let these so called heroes fight our battles for us, and it has made us soft. Dr. Eggman, will now be handled by G.U.N forces alone. Any vigilante attempts made by Sonic and friends will not be tolerated and will be punished. But now back to the matter at hand. If you are just tuning in to this broadcast, this Mobian forced his way into the hospital where former Commander Braxtonn was resting from his injuries, without any regard from both doctor and military personal stating otherwise. He even so far as to incapacitate a few of my good men, luckily they were not permanently harmed or you could be facing a more serious punishment.”
“Oh yeah what’s more serious than death. You seem to have left that detail out, and don’t lie, I can see it in your eyes, you plan on executing me and making some big cover up story behind it, like I went hostile killing many soldiers or some other bullshit. And for your information, I didn’t incapacitate any of your men; I simply went in and asked to see Braxtonn, to apologize for what I had done to him.”
“Braxtonn had already handed in his resignation. It was your apparent disregard for life, be it human or mobian that forced him out of his position early.”
“I couldn’t care less about his position; I wanted to apologize for crippling him. As for your claims to have no cares for life, I beg to differ. In the prison I escaped from, I was the last one out, and I escaped because the experiments your scientists were doing almost killed me. No one was injured from the blast except for me.”
“Well my records show another mobian, a female, was rushed to the hospital with a large piece of shrapnel that had pierced her through and through. It’s a miracle she survived, now would you call her no one else?”
“I already know about her. I’ve already apologized to her and she has forgiven me.”
“Oh and how did you convince her to forgive you? I suppose you laid your charms on her and wooed her to convince her that it wasn’t your fault. Maybe you then got lucky afterwards.”
“Maybe if you fucking looked at your charts you would realize how fucking disgusting that last remark was.”
“Oh yes, it was kind of hard to tell since a report from he now retired Commander Braxtonn stated and I quote, ‘Upon entering the room the smell of semen and other bodily fluids was present. I can only imagine what went on in that room. Despite her current injuries the targets sibling did hold remarkable healing prowess. Request for council to take her into custody and study these remarkable changes.’”
“Okay for one, that sick fuck has it out for me, but accusing me of committing incest is too far. And what the fucking hell do you mean bringing her into custody for study?” Blitscreet became genuinely pissed and began sparking.
“Watch your temper. And we only wanted to study to make sure it wasn’t harmful to her body.”
“Bull shit.” Blitscreet stood up and instantly all guns in the area were poised and at the ready.

Back at Jolteia’s house she was afraid now that everyone knew about her and Blitscreet, afraid her brother would do something stupid and afraid of what might happen if he were killed. But above all that fear was anger. She felt anger towards G.U.N for making her life hell, and tearing her family apart. She may have been adopted by a rich and wealthy family but she was miserable from the day they picked her up. She was not going to let that happen again.

“Dad, I know you have a self-contained teleporter, now where is it.” Jolteia stood up. “Someone needs to shut that guy up and since they won’t be looking at me now would be the perfect time.”
“Yeah but stealth isn’t your forte. Now just sit down and learn from the master.”

As Jacob zipped up the Jacket to the neck, small lines of red light began pulsating along the sleeves along with the rest of the jacket.
“I only have two coats like this, and Blitscreet is wearing the other one.” He spoke before pulling up the hood.

After his hood was pulled up, his face became darkened and the only thing visible was his eyes which now glowed red. Tails literally started drooling. She caught herself before anyone noticed.

“So much tech in a single coat. You HAVE to let me take a look at it after.” Tails tugged on the sleeve gently.
“I’m sorry, but these coats come with a lifetime warranty. Tampering with any of the electronics within it not only voids the warranty, it also activates the self-destruct sequence dissolving itself in a pool of sulfuric acid.” Jacob spoke as he brushed off her hand. “Now if you don’t mind I’m going to see just if I still have game.”

Jacob cracked his fingers followed by his neck. He spoke softly.

“Initiate neural interface. Password Voltix.”

Several things happened after those words. The neural interface ran a diagnostic on his voice confirming it was him. The coat seemingly shrank and became formfitting apart from the hood and below the waist. The password enabled the coats stimulus to take effect, relaxing muscles easing sores and initiating self-contained healing on a few injuries including a broken collar bone that hadn’t healed right. Right before the girls eyes they seen his body become toned, and buff. Years seemingly shed from his body as excess weight was dissolved by minute doses of fat dissolving nano-bots which then dissolved themselves. His back straightened up and a few vertebrae audibly cracked as they were re-aligned and massaged to increase the healing process to restore his body. Minor doses of epinephrine were injected to stimulate heart rate and speed up blood flow. After all this was done, he stood three inches taller, lost the fifteen pounds he put on after quitting his squad, and the other twenty five he put on in prison. He felt alive as all of his aches and pain were now gone and his system no longer felt tired. He pulled down the hood and the difference in facial features shocked the girls. Eventually Rouge figured out some words to say.

“Whoa…Jolteia, your dad just got hot…”Rouge spoke loud enough for everyone to hear, while only some of them nodded in compliance.

Jacob’s fur lost all grey to it. He no longer had any bags under his eyes as well as his face looked ten years younger. It was clear how much Blitscreet and he shared a resemblance. Same narrowed eyes, jaw line, even their mouths made the same distinct smirk. It was clear that Jacob was older, and the look in his eyes spoke of experience. He knew exactly what he was doing.

“I haven’t felt this good in years.” Jacob stretched as his body was now more flexible, before scratching his back. “Ohh, that feels good, haven’t been able to reach that for some time now.”
“Yeah, that’s my dad.” Jolteia face palmed at how even when scratching an itch him and Blitscreet made remarkable similar facial expressions.
“These are real.” Arius squeezed his arm, I’m actually proud to say that your son is banging me.

The other girls looked at Arius shockingly.

“You actually said that out loud. I’m impressed” Rouge spoke before looking back at Jacob. “It’s amazing how, looks like three inches, can make a big difference. So tell me is it just your height that got bigger?”
“ROUGE!” Jolteia shocking yelled. “Doesn’t matter if he just got sexier, that’s still my dad.”
“Come on Jolt, it’s just a harmless question.” Arius spoke. “Besides, I wanna know if the same thing will happen to Blitscreet.”
“Oh, gods, everyone is perving over my dad. I can’t watch this.” Jolteia turned around to watch the TV again.
Tails walked around Jacob getting a feel of the coat’s material. “The wires are in the fabric; those that don’t have wires don’t glow but seem stronger, almost like a spider’s web.” The wires within the fabric glow because they don’t carry electricity, it seems like it’s powered by body heat, which makes in reasonable that the circuits are only able to complete when the coat is worn and done up. The fabric is woven so tightly it looks like leather but it’s so light and breathable. The craftsmanship that went into this is truly amazing.”

No one was paying attention to Tails’ rambling, until she got up on her toes to look into the hood and slightly pulled down causing Jacob to take notice.

“There what seems like interlay connectors that keep the opening of the hood wide open to allow a holographic projection over the wearer’s face to protect his or her identity as well as hidden sensors to project images of the peripherals inside the hood thus eliminating the blinder effect. I would assume it projects a display to show behind the wearer so no one can sneak up on him or her.”
“Well it appears you’re a helluva lot better than most people. I didn’t really care how it works, all I know is it improves my physical condition so I can outlast any normal being, makes me bullet proof. It still hurts but the pain is quickly subdued and the wound is healed. All I’ve noticed is the hood seems to be more rigid when worn to altogether negate the effects of bullets of any calibre. The shots coming from straight in front of me I can avoid. Nothing short of an EMP would be able to disable it.”
“It seems kinda sad if it isn’t protected from EMP’s.” Tails replied letting go.
“Hey you can only cram so much tech into one coat. But true, once these things get fried they need a completely new motherboard. And I doubt the original creator even makes them anymore.” Jacob sighed.
“Hey if you people are done perving out with the exception of Tails who is teching out you might want to look at the TV.” Jolteia shouted over everyone.

Back on the TV The new commander had quite literally put Blitscreet under his boot stepping on his upper torso with what looked to be a standard G.U.N issue nine mil aimed at the back of his head.

“Try sparking again, I dare you. I see one more and its good bye to that oh so precious brain.” Maximus spoke very clearly pissed off.
“Oh you’re gonna kill me on national television. First we see that you not only have a short fuse but a strong tendency to violence, surely not befitting G.U.N’s newly assigned commander.” Blitscreet smirked.

It took a lot of self-control for Maximus to not pull the trigger then and there. After a lot of deep breathing he calmed down and stepped off of Blitscreet.

“I’m not going to turn you into a martyr. As for my anger, it’s only natural because I have had much to clean up behind Braxtonn. So much stress, I’m sure you know how it feels being pressured to do things that you don’t want to do.”
“Actually I wouldn’t. The only time I actually did something I didn’t want to do would have to be when I listened to Jolteia to stay hidden when I wanted to explain what Braxtonn was really doing.” Blitscreet sighed standing up. Now if you are completely calm I’m going to explain this one more time. I went to the former commander’s hospital room to apologize for paralyzing him. If I could go back in time to change it I would.”
“You claim to feel guilty about what you have done. But did you give a second thought to what happens when you disobey the laws. They aren’t there for decoration. No one is above them, that is why I am moving to put the Anti-vigilante law in place, any vigilante acts will be considered a threat to society and the perpetrator will face a fine up to serious jail time for any damage caused to the surrounding area. Acts of heroics will only be tolerated by local law enforcement as well as any emergency personnel.” Maximus spoke as he made his way back up to the podium
“Hey, Maximus, what if the cause of the problem is more than law enforcement to handle? I doubt G.U.N could respond fast enough to deal with the situation before someone gets hurt.” Blitscreet remarked snidely.
“I’m glad you asked.” Maximus pulled a remote out from his pocket tapping a few buttons.

In a few short seconds, the center of the stage opened up and a platform rose revealing a pyramid of discs.

“I commissioned these just for this occasion. I knew Braxtonn wouldn’t last much longer so I had the R and D department whip these up about a week ago. Just came off the assembly line today.” He turned his attention back to the populous. “These remote control sweeper units will monitor city streets looking for any kind of trouble and will inform G.U.N headquarters which will in turn transfer the problem to the appropriate department.”
“Too bad that when it comes to events of global security, the Guardian Unit of Nations fails miserably when it comes actually doing anything useful.” Shadow spoke up from on top of the pyramid of discs. “Now tell me Commander Maximus, how many times has the G-U-N actually saved the world?”
“Agent Shadow you are to remove yourself from my presence until this press conference is over. Do I make myself clear?” Maximus started to clench his fists again.
“It seems that someone forgot to inform the council of your psychological profile.” Shadow waved a file folder. “It says her that Richard Maximus has been classified as violence prone, harming not one, but two psychiatrists. Has a seemingly unquenchable desire to be in control, as well as a massive hatred for all Mobians alike. The hatred seems to span from an incident in his teens when his brother was killed in a fight. It just so happened that his brother’s murderer was a mobian who felt no remorse, and almost died himself if not for G.U.N.”
“Shadow you are hereby expelled from the G-U-N, any previous statements are withdrawn, you shall take full responsibility for part in the prison break out two weeks ago.” Maximus had turned beet red from yelling at Shadow, and was about to give the order to capture him dead or alive if it wasn’t for the fact he felt a cold blade pressed against his throat. 

Silence ensued as members of the press and G.U.N stared at the new intruder in the black coat. He stood behind the new Commander with the broad side of the blade against his jugular. It took the soldiers a few seconds to realize that this was a new threat and switch their sights to him.

“Your bullets are pointless. I could easily use Dick here as a shield. Do you really want to be responsible for shooting your own commanding officer?” Jacob waited till they began to lower their guns before switching his attention back to his hostage. “Oh don’t think for one second that I won’t slit your throat. I have half a mind to after what you did to my son.”
Maximus’ eyes went wide as his pupils constricted, before whispering. “Altaeus Voltix…”
“Shh shh shh, No one needs to know that name, now since you know exactly who I am, I suggest you think about what I can do to you if you don’t stop acting like you own the world.” Jacob whispered audible only to the Commander. “Now I didn’t want to but I had to get Shadow to send me a copy of your psych evaluation as well as the fake copy you made. Someone like you is just too dangerous to have this much power. So when I pull the knife away you are going to end this conference, release my son from custody and apologize to Shadow for your outburst. Maybe then I might feel kind enough not to drop you where you stand.”
“Okay…” Maximus shuddered.

Jacob withdrew the blade into his sleeve slowly, as soon as he released the commander another voice echoed over the chatter of the crowd that made everyone including Jacob flinch and look at the source.

“Silence!” The uniformed soldier boomed without the help of a mike. “Children, this is what this entire situation looks to me. Children squabbling.”

The soldier wore a solid black uniform. The G.U.N logo on the back of the trench coat with five star epaulettes as well as many number of awards decorated on the chest. Once Jacob good a good look at the source of the voice he dropped to one knee and bowed his head. Richard Maximus reacted very differently.

“General Psycus, what are you doing here? You are retired.” Richard attempted to assert his diminishing authority. 
“Well after watching this pathetic excuse for a publicity stunt I figured it was in everyone’s best interest that I come out of retirement.” Psycus spoke loudly making sure that everyone could hear what he was saying. “And don’t try to keep our conversation quiet. I didn’t come here because I damned well felt like it. I came here for three reasons. First of all I was asked to rejoin the G.U.N and come out of retirement, second after I arrived and re-instated I was informed of the situation and told to do something about it.”
“I have the situation under control.” Maximus attempted to bluff.
“Well that doesn’t matter seeing as how you have now made two records today.” Psycus grabbed the commander badge and ripped it off. “You are hereby stripped of your rank and title and dishonourably discharged from the G.U.N. Your Office and locker have been cleaned out and you have two days to pick up your stuff.”

Maximus almost broke down but managed to retain his composure to walk off stage. After he was no longer visible to the crown Psycus turned his attention to the crowd.

“I hereby apologize for Former Commander Maximus’s actions on behalf of G.U.N. I will be taking his place as acting Commander. My first order of business is to dismiss all this damn conference. You have fifteen minutes to leave these premises or you will be considered trespassing.”

Psycus waited until the crowd started moving before he turned on his lapel mike. 

“Okay I want all ground personal to help escort the media off the premises, as well as to watch for any stragglers. Do not worry about the assassin, I will deal with him as well as Shadow and the one Maximus used as a footstool. Get Price to go fetch Sonic, and the other Mobians that he seems to spend his free time with. I left files on his desk where they all live; I want them in the conference room by thirteen hundred hours. No I do not care about the council complaining about myself appointment; I will deal with them later.” Psycus breathed a sigh of relief turning to Shadow who had hung around to watch. “Agent Shadow, I would like to thank you personally for allowing me the time to get here in time. I would like to see initiative like that more often in my soldiers.”
“Thank you Sir.” Shadow jumped down from the top of the sentry pile. “So what are we going to do with these?”
“Get down to the R and D department and tell them to reprogram them for added security for all our bases.” Psycus had pulled a cigar out of his jacket and tossed it to Shadow. “Consider that a small gift. Smoke it, give it away doesn’t matter to me, just don’t throw it out. That’s Cuban right there.”
“Of course, anything else.” Shadow asked grudgingly.
“Yeah when you’re done that make your way to the conference room, I will be there shortly.” Psycus allowed Shadow to take his leave before turning to Blitscreet who was resting on the ground bruised and bleeding. “You need any medical attention son?”
“Nah, I’m good, I think I may have a concussion, but I will just get my sister to make sure.” Blitscreet attempted to get up. “Ahh, never mind, feels like a few broken ribs, better not move.”
“You have a high pain tolerance, even for a mobian.” Psycus bent down.
“I had a good combat teacher, taught me how to endure even a severed limb.” Blitscreet raised his robotic arm. “Never thought I would use that one.”
“We usually never do.” Psycus looked over at the mobian still down on one knee. “Altaeus get your ass over here; you look like a damned fool.”
“Altaeus?” Blitscreet coughed once before wincing in pain.
“Yeah guess your father never told you his real name. Not surprised since he always did have a knack for remaining under cover.” Psycus sighed. “Get the mobian medics here a.s.a.p. and tell them to wear insulated items. Also get Jolteia Voltix here, immediately as well, she will be the most help in this surgery.”
“Surgery? I’m fine.” Blitscreet went to get up before Psycus pointed his gun at him. 
“This isn’t negotiable; most of your ribs are broken as well as a fractured wrist and a couple damaged vertebrae.”
“How did you…”
“I see people’s auras. With that I can tell exactly how much damage is done to someone, and what needs attention. If you aren’t moved properly you could cause even more damage.”

Blitscreet grudgingly lay down breathing lightly as Altaeus walked over before sighing.

“Well you certainly know how to make your father proud.” Altaeus spoke before leaning down knocking him out with a nerve jab. “He wouldn’t have stayed put; I could see it in his motions.”
“Just like you if I remember correctly. We can catch up later; I have to deal with the council. I will be down when your son is out of surgery.” Psycus waved the medics to bring Blitscreet to the emergency ward just as Shadow teleported back with Jolteia.

Jolteia immediately got to work utilizing her knowledge of her brother’s anatomy and powers’ advising where it was safe to touch. Altaeus watched how calm his daughter was as she followed the medics to the emergency room. He followed behind taking a seat in the viewer gallery. Jolteia removed the chaos emerald from his mechanical arm after informing them cutting of his jacket was impossible before putting on scrubs fully prepared to get involved. A little while into the surgery after strapping an oxygen mask to his face while mixing it with anaesthesia to keep him knocked out. Sonic and the others were allowed into the gallery when they arrived. During the entire procedure Jolteia was involved doing most of the work, healing broken bones properly so plates were not required. Fixing his cracked vertebrae was difficult but with the team of surgeons both mobian and human combined with Jolteia doing all the work around his nerves it ended very well. After the surgery was over and Blitscreet was stable she finally got to relax and get cleaned up.

“First surgery?” A woman sat down beside her on a chair in the hallway outside Blitscreet’s room.
“Yeah, I have my doctorate but the only thing I have ever done that came close to an official surgery was when I had to save two people at once. All I did was remove major pieces of shrapnel from both of them and stop the bleeding before calling an ambulance.” Jolteia sighed “But this was more intense, the damage was all internal and more importantly I had to do all the nerve work, one wrong move and I could’ve severely hurt my brother.”
“Well you did a good job, you were more confidant that a lot of people I’ve seen.” The woman spoke again re-assuring her.
“Thanks.” Jolteia looked over to get a good look at the woman who she was speaking too. “Omigosh, you’re the G.U.N Surgeon General, Soki Kuro.
“Well it’s always nice to meet someone who knows who I am.” The middle aged woman spoke smiling. “But who I am is not important. How well you did during that surgery was remarkable and I came here to offer you a position on my team.”
“I, uh, wow, I don’t know what to say.” Jolteia was awestruck. “How can I say no to that offer.”
“Well you know that means you will be working for G.U.N and seeing as how everything happened between them and your family are you sure?”
“Yes I’m sure. I have a feeling G.U.N will be going through some big changes here soon.”
“Indeed, I’m just glad Psycus is a close friend or I might be out of a job.” She smiled before looking at her watch. “Well I have a meeting to attend to. Psycus is removing a lot or people from the council and replacing them. I hear your father is getting a position.”
“Really, that’s great.” Jolteia smiled still thinking about her job offer. “Well I hope all these changes are for the better.”
“We will see now wont we.” General Kuro got up and walked away leaving Jolteia to think.

A few hours later after Psycus had committed his coup d’état of sorts. Altaeus moved himself to the roof of the complex. He stood on the edge relaxing. 

“I do so hope you don’t plan to jump.” Psycus spoke from behind him.
“Not at all, just it feels like a great weight has been lifted from my shoulders. But now, I don’t know what to do. Eighteen years in that box. Everything is changed, all except you and Burner. I lost everything and now it seems I am picking up the pieces.”
“Well from what I have seen here today, you do know what to do. And even though you didn’t raise him I can still tell that is your son. Seems that your traits are genetic, but enough about that. I came up here to ask you something.”
“And I answered you. Not gonna jump.” Altaeus laughed slightly.
“Smart-ass.” Psycus responded. “I was going to offer you a job on the council.
“Well that is actually surprising. Who am I going to be replacing?”
“Well you would be filling the vacant elite forces General position.”
“I thought that was disbanded long ago.”
“It was but it was the only place I could think of putting you, seeing as how Burner refused to take up his position as the Heavy Battalion General.”
“You offered him a job as well?”
“No choice, seeing as how no one else is competent to handle that job.”
Altaeus nodded. “Alright I will take it. But no taking young Mobians unwillingly. And I don’t care if human’s want in. It’s a proven fact that Mobians are tougher, and have more adaptive capabilities.”
“Alright I will have some men working on researching some useful candidates. Human’s included.” Psycus spoke as he headed back towards the door. “Also when your son wakes up I plan on having a meeting. Involving everyone. I just want to make things clear about how things at G.U.N will work from now on.”

He headed back downstairs. Altaeus followed him when he received word of Blitscreet waking up.

Once everyone was gathered in the G.U.N’s main conference room. As ordered everyone Blitscreet had spent his time with was there, even Burner. 

He leaned back in the tiny chair only Tails and Jolteia knowing who he was.

“Burner when did you get a Scottish accent.” Jolteia asked.
“Always had it lass.” He spoke his accent thick and very noticeable now. “I had to hide it. I had to blend in as much as possible. Though it seems they never lost me.”

Jolteia nodded as Altaeus wheeled Blitscreet in.

“I’m fine.”
“No you’re not.”
“You knocked me out.”
“You’re stating the obvious.”
“You’re stating the obvious.” Blitscreet spoke in a mocking tone before he was wheeled over.

Sonic couldn’t help but ask. “So how many painkillers did they give you?”
“All of them.” Blitscreet spoke looking very serious.
“No seriously.”
“I dunno, but apparently this IV is filled with some. One of the dudes in white said I was pumped full of enough painkillers to kill a horse.” He smiled before laughing.
“Hey Shadow maybe if we gave you some you would lighten up a little.” Sonic laughed.

Shadow rolled his eyes and before he could reply Psycus walked in. Followed by the only two other members of the original five council. The other member of the council was a Mobian, younger than Psycus and Kuro, but still older than Altaeus and Burner. He was a blue shelled turtle with a stocky build. But one could tell he was no slouch when it came to brains.

“I am Commander Psycus. I called you all here to straighten up anything that has happened over the past two months. Long story short you will all be reimbursed. For any physical trauma as well as emotional trauma.” He looked at Vector. “I wish we could return all the alcohol that we confiscated form your store but it seems that all of it had already been opened during a celebration the dimwit before me threw when he was elected Commander. I can however divert any seizures of alcohol to your establishment. I will have a squad clean the bottles and send them in a truck to your building at a time of your choosing.” He spoke.
“Your generosity is much appreciated.” Vector said unable to come up with any better words of gratitude. “I hope to see you there.”
“And you shall. I shall donate some of my personal funds to pay for an extra level built for V.I.P. I do prefer to drink with company but I prefer people who aren’t complete idiots.”

Vector nodded as he already began planning out the designs and such for the new floor.

“G.U.N will not impede upon any of your actions further against Dr. Eggman. We will assist when necessary if required. Are there any questions?”

“Yeah, can I still keep working my craft. I have this idea for a hammer I would like to try but seeing as how I just got promoted, I wasn’t sure if I would have time.” Burner asked.

“Of course. You are simply in charge of the battalion responsible to assist in taking down Eggman. You are free to do whatever you please during the time between attacks. Any and all free time is up to your choosing. But do us a favor and whip these pathetic excuses for soldiers into shape. This compound isn’t limited to humans anymore. I prefer everyone working together. Strength in numbers.” He sighs before lighting cigar. “If there are no further question’s you may leave. This base is open to you so you may explore. Just make sure to pick up a pass on your way out. You will need it to explore anywhere else you want to go.”

After he finished explaining. No one had any real questions so they left. Blitscreet was wheeled back to the hospital wing still hyped up on painkillers and Altaeus went back to the roof.

“Oh how things have changed Alexa.” Altaeus spoke into the wind.
