New Team

After eventually getting back to the TFS Task Force base from his brief talk with Shark, Henki had discovered a newfound want to work as an Agent, not out of a desire of liking to his job, but one of proving himself, even if that took a while. For the first time in a while, Henki was able to get some rest in the sleeping quarters of the base. Most agents didn't bother with getting their own apartment and gladly just lived within the base area, although there had been an apartment complex for agents to reside in if need be. Not wanting to meet his new group just yet, Henki asked Ange on the way back if they had some spare rooms for him to use, but to his surprise and almost upset, the room he used to use hadn't been taken yet. Assuming this was out of respect, once Henki did enter his room, a wave of saddening nostalgia flew in. The barely hanging on posters of these weird ancient like cartoons that you can find from as old as the 1950s till around the 2220s? Lasted quite a while. Memories of his old group after missions having a blast binging through these shows rushed into his mind, as the place looked actually quite neat, usually due to there being constant bets between Henki and Bilbo and the winner would have to clean the others mini apartment. It looks like he won the last one. Dropping the backpack he had been carrying with him from the passport center to now onto the floor, Henki laid on his bed, telling his thoughts slowly translating into dreams. Dreams of him waking up and having breakfast recounting the fun that had occurred the night before with his group. Too bad that wasn't going solidify into fact.

Waking up by the sound of his MEE6 device ringing without even putting an alarm on brought startled and greatly annoyed Henki, as he took a quick shower, found his old Task Force armor in a tiny wardrobe, checking his MME6, as the hologram showed that the alarm was inputted by FM. Mumbling swears at him under his breath, Henki got out of his apartment and headed down to the main building. It was a busy Thursday it seemed, as people were ushering in and out of the building. Soon entering the office for the agents, Henki came across and waved at some of the agents heading out, specifically Iron and WaterGuy. As he got to the front desk, there was a robot behind the counter, named the TFS bot, who usually gave out mini orders of sorts that weren't big enough for a commander to tell. "Bot, do I have any requests/orders?" Henki asked, before clearing his throat.

After a few moments of what seemed to be initializing what Henki had said, the bot finally answered. "Yes, they are waiting for you in a lounge area in room 3B. Ange has sent orders for you to get to know them and their strong suits, before in an hour or so now go to the mission assignment room." Henki nodded in response, before heading down the hallway to ultimately find the room. Opening the door, he was met with 4 new faces, semi-lighting up to see him, whilst the other was Jonas, who sat back with earphones in his ears and music playing. Henki was about to force a smile to get them comfortable, but one quick memory of seeing Apollo...or Ramsay's smile caused him to revert to a scowl. He sat in the chair in the middle of the room and started to introduce himself.

"I'm your leader of sorts, Agent Henki. Jonas over there already knows who I am from a previous mission. Apparently we have to go and get assigned a new mission in an hour, so be prepared for that...uh, what are your specialties?" Henki tried to ask, although coming off as awkward and unbothered. This seemed to have been easily noticed by the 4 rookie agents, but they didn't act on it.

"Agent Roshi sir. I used to live on a potato farm but I've been promoted up from the regular police to Tiger Shark rank here. Despite my lack of custom weapons due to my rank, I do have quite the aim with these nitro infused guns." Roshi stated confidently, even if Henki's expression was still bland.

"Agent Lobbas, sir. Uh, I drive ships. I like cats. I drive ships to places." Lobbas was testing the waters with Henki. Usually, a more strict group leader would've yelled at him, but Henki somewhat nodded and turned to the next agent, which was Rum.

Rum was met with surprise as he didn't expect Henki to be so nonchalant and not caring, Especially not after all the rumors circling his past was that he was a compassionate leader, and although his last group wasn't the strongest in any means, they were certainly the one with the most bond. 'So, he said to Henki, "I'm Rum. My family, the Lovers was known for their musical talent during the 2900s, especially my sister Book Lover, who has you all probably know has become quite the famous artist. Nevertheless, although I do love the art form, I would love to utilise that into serving this faction, sir."

"Maybe use your music skills could help get that fucking idiot at the back of the room to listen to you." The last agent stated, turning around to Jonas, who was now just taking a nap. "To be fair, there isn't much to pay attention to is there? Can you please just liven up? I did all this promoting stuff for a fucking good time, not to just be bored again like I was in the police."

Henki had taken the insults without his expression changing from previously once. Despite the rest of them looking to be in agreement with the last agent, Henki didn't really care, or he didn't want to care. "Ask to resign then, I couldn't care less. Also, you didn't say your name?" Henki replied ending with a question, as the agent slowly muttered, "Katsu." which seemed to be in almost seething anger.

Roshi: No, she has a point! One of your subordinates is sleeping whilst this is happening, and you don't care? At all?

Henki: Uh...no? If he's tired he's tired.

Lobbas: What if he's tired during an important time?

Henki: Why would he? He's taking a nap at the moment so he doesn't have to when that time occurs.

Rum: It's not even about that! You're just gonna make the situation more awkward if you don't at least try and be more communicative!

Henki: I am. Hence the reason why I'm talking right now.

Katsu: Well, don't care about all of this then. We didn't ask to be put on your group, the commanders did. So if you want to act all dull and cry that your back in the job you put a fucking contract on, then do that.

What Katsu said instantly reminded Henki of Shark. The luscious look of his hair and beard which combined with the way that he looked down on Henki the day before, angered him. They weren't Gods. Only Lord Chad and Obama were worthy of such. It was definitely noticeable once Henki was infuriated. However, after one inhale and exhale, Henki stood up and slowly walked to the door. "Do whatever you want," He said, his face slowly reverting back to the same bland expression he had come into the room with. "We have like 40 minutes before the assignment? So spend your time wisely." Closing the door behind him, a huge uproar blew up between the other 4 of what had just happened, before they heard Jonas sit upright on the sofa.

Roshi: Wait, you really weren't sleeping this whole time?

Jonas: Are you fucking kidding me? Of course, I was. It takes a lot out of a guy to take down a cat girl gang you know. I did listen to the tiny bit of what Henki said before he left, though. It seems like he's too fixed on the past, by the tone of regret in his voice.

Rum: Regret? All we fucking heard was boredom.

Jonas: Hmm...maybe it was boredom. I don't really know his situation. It seems like no one really knows where he even went in the two years. He says to be a waiter, but why? Why did we see him at the passport station? What was he fleeing from? Oh, shit never mind, I really good song just came on.

Jonas sank back into the couch, leaving the other 4 bewildered on what to do. The 40minutes passed, as Henki spent most of it playing some futuristic variation of Candy Crush, Jonas listening to some classical artist called Joji, and the other 4 got to know each other pretty well. Once Henki got to the assignment room, Guts was the commander who was running this one it seemed. Additionally, with Adiffs, Protegy, Omega, and Mago all strolling in, Henki knew it was going to be a joint-group mission. When everyone got there, the mission brief began.

Guts: So before I start, I'd like to inform Agent Henki and Jonas that Charlie is now on trial, and is probably facing life or a death sentence. Admiral is starting physical rehab for his injury so he can get back into shape again, and Kaboss is still in the hospital, resting from his injury, as he was more severe the Admirals. Ignoring that now, I have brought you, groups, together firstly because the two Generals are well...struggling to send assignments out at the moment, and because this mission is quite the lengthy one. By Shark's orders himself, he wants to infiltrate and inspect Kappa Land, in particular their monarch, Subaru. From the very little faction meetings that have occurred over the years, Shark has gathered that Subaru may not be as nice as a monarch he portrayed from the ways he treated his underlings and said things about his faction. Now, in the age of factions representing planets, and the myths and tales about a 'Solar System' a millennia ago,  infiltrating one is quite the task. So, we have your cover for you. As much as Shark suspects him, Subaru definitely allows travel in and out of his faction. Henki's group will be acting as merchants from here, selling all our 'Souvenir' type goods. Adiffs' group will be acting as students, attending Kappa University. Both are in the capital, so you may run into each other, but hopefully, in both worlds, you'll be able to find out stuff. We've loaded guides and stuff to assimilate you guys into that world easier into the ships of Lobbas and Ershy who's right now...not in the best of moods. We've also had some language translators downloaded into your MEE6. So once you enter you'll be able to understand and speak the language, as it'll all be heard as English to you. You have 20 minutes before you must board your ships. You all may leave.

With that, Adiffs and Henki's groups both left the assignment room and headed for the departure area. On the way, Jonas asked Omega if he was ok with leaving Admiral to recover, and Omega replied with "Pfft, Admiral doesn't care. We wanna be Core Grey Sharks like Henki and Adiffs, we can't let something as insignificant as injury stop the other from achieving that." As they got to the area, Ershy came to them, with tears striking down his wide face, on a custom-built wheelchair for his size and weight, which was able to hover. You may be wondering how someone could build such a machine for someone as huge as Ershy. Well, don't worry, the person who made it was promoted three whole ranks for it in a factory. But, to everyone's displeasure, he was wailing.

Ershy: THEY TOOK MY FOOOD! EVERYTHING IN MY SHIP IS GONE! ALL BECAUSE OF SOME FUCKING STUPID MISSION- FAAAAAATHER! HELP ME!

Ershy was crying at Protegy, who instantly looked like a parental figure.

Protegy: It's okay Ershy. We'll go and get some ice cream before we go. Let's go, ok?

Ershy: S-sure father...

They both walked off, whilst Adiffs looked unsurprised, but Mago and Gabby both looked sick of it.

Katsu: Why is he pretending to be his father? I swear Pro is only a couple of years older...

Mago: That's just something they do...consider yourself lucky you don't have to deal with it much.

Gabby: Agreed.

Whilst these situations happened, Henki was drifting in his thoughts. Never had he missed working at the cafeteria more than now. It was like he wasn't Henki anymore. Just an upstanding citizen doing his honest work. That's what she told him anyways. Perhaps the life he lived as Henki Tyrone was better than Agent Henki with his old group. He could never figure it out. It certainly wasn't right now though. Adiffs walked up to him, knocking on Henki's head to wake him up from his daydream.

Adiffs: Stop thinking and fucking look at the present. Or you'll probably end up dying in Kappa Land.

As everyone prepared to take off, Adiffs was yelling and cursing at Ershy to stop bitching about and drive the ship, but as Henki looked at his group, walking to the ship, talking about how good this classical musician Joji was, Henki skilled for the first time meeting them all. It's just like before. Just that this time he has to do a better job.

Meanwhile, in General City, a city known for its slums and insanely low crime rates, so most of the regular police stations there,  the crimes aren't usually big, but there are a lot of them- Felicia and Tony were tracking down Ringo Roadagain, a malicious bounty hunter with great deceptive skills. The reason why was because of an anonymous client asking them to, dumping them twenty thousand SB (Server Boosts) and saying if they were to fail, he'd send that amount of mercenaries after them. On their hovering quadbike, they were flying through the air, trying to gun down Ringo's ship Star Wars style. Ringo was skilled at driving the ship considering he'd just took it from some random person in NSFW and been driving it since. Avoiding all the attacks Felicia was firing at him, Ringo tried to swerve and swerve, attempting to get Felicia and Tony to crash into one of the few taller buildings. "Shit. We got police tailing us. We might have to pick up the pace..." Tony murmured, glancing out the window to see police ships chasing them, although the had a shield of sorts over the bike, so it wasn't that easy to pick them off.

"Well, guess we gotta go faster to catch this son of a bitch," Felicia replied, making even quicker and harsher turns whilst the turrets at the side of the bike fired at Ringo's ship. Felicia kept this up as long as she could until she couldn't react to a police ship intercepting their chase, hitting hers and Ringo's ship as they crashed into a tall building. Luckily for them, they both entered a mini office of sorts near the top, their quadbike was completely destroyed, but it kind of broke their fall, instead just getting cuts and bruises. Ringo's ship was finished also, but he was able to get out quickly and before Felicia or Tony had a chance to aim or shoot, Ringo had got to the elevator ahead of them both and the door had practically finished closing when they fired. Ringo smirked menacingly at both of them and said "Sayonara, ladies." As the elevator went upwards, Felicia and Tony both ran upstairs, with Tony mumbling, "What I'd do for this to be over already..." As they got to the top, they pulled out their rifles at the elevator, ready to blast him to smithereens. Whilst they were doing that, Ringo used his off the grid Rhythm bot, which was also installed into his hand to call slanted, a "ally" of sorts who was supposed to help him out with the chase and kill the girls. "Slant, where the hell are you? Actually that doesn't matter, can you pick me up by that building near the slum cluster? Prepare yourself for a quick getaway as well. You're close? Good." Ringo ended the call right as the elevator was starting to open, and leaped into the vent before Felica and Tony could try and kill him. "Tricky bastard went through the vent, turn-" Ringo was already behind them, as he had climbed out of the vent outside of the room they were in. Firing his grenade, it looked like all was lost for them. Well, it looked that way. As the grenade was fired, with seconds left before it explodes, an eight armed man finally got to the top of the stairs spider style, using one of his hands to throw the grenade behind all of them, completely destroying the stairs and sending him into the wall due to the force of the explosion. As the floor in the little room collapsed, this man used two of his arms to save Felicia and Tony from falling to their death, two more to hang on himself, and the last two to try and get a gun out, unload the nitro energy, load a tracking device, as Ringo was trying to run, the police ships encircled him, but they quickly all were exploded, as Slant's ship, or well his getaway ship had arrived. Ringo quickly got on and zoomed away, but not without the man firing and landing the tracking device on the ship.

After helping them up, Felicia and Tony both aimed guns right at him, as the police were starting to close in on the three. "Who the fuck are you?" Felicia demanded, before Tony gasped and shouted, "WHO THE FUCK IS HE? WHY DO YOU HAVE FOUR ARMS- AND EYES! AND EYES TOO?" The man of many arms and eyes smiled, before saying. "Gotta appreciate the guy who's about to save you from a long time in prison. And it's Shelly. Agent Shelly to you."