"Sir, someone's here to see you," A medium-height female چھپکلی spoke with an American accent; she appeared to be a young woman, around the age of twenty-one یا so. She stood in a dimly lit office-like room; the evening sunlight from the windows outside caused shadows to dance across her cream-colored scales and dark blue hair with artificial sandy colored streaks; the sunlight provided the only light in the room. The female, dressed in a black t-shirt and black baggy shorts along with black sneakers, kept her dark green eyes locked firmly on the back of the office chair that sat in front of her behind a desk.
"Who's here? Have آپ seen the person around before? یا are they a person from another one of the gangs in the city?" An Irish-accented male voice questioned. The office chair turned around to face the lizard, revealing a very fit and healthy man around the age of twenty-four. The man was a mostly yellow yellow جیکٹ wasp; his yellow arms and legs faded to a black color right around his elbows and his knees; he also had a patch of black فر, سمور on his chin; facial hair. He had thick black hair, though the ends of his hair seemed to be artificially streaked with a light silver color; the hair was shorter in the back except for two spikes of hair hanging down in the back, and it was slightly longer on the sides, going down to his neck; his bangs were just slightly curled to the right, and with spiked ends. He also had a long and thin silver stinger which was long enough to reach the back of his knees and brownish wings. The man wore a long-sleeved black شرٹ, قمیض with a logo on the front of it and baggy black jeans; the logo appeared to be made of many streaks of different color, almost as if someone had made strokes on the front of it with a paintbrush; the logo was made up of silver, red, blue, dark green, sandy brown, gold, lavender, blackish-greyish, and a white color. The man also wore white sneakers and a greyish-greenish newspaper boy-like cap. His black yellow جیکٹ *insect eyes gleamed slightly once the sunlight hit them as he turned to face the female. (*Barry has solid black eyes like an actual yellow جیکٹ instead of traditional Mobian eyes. There's nothing special about them; they're just insect eyes*)
"No, sir. I haven't seen this person around town before. They informed Disc and I that they wanted to speak with the leader of the gang," The female informed the male, moving her cream colored tail to the side. "Shall I bring him into your office, Barry?"
"Him? Oh, so the person is a man," The male named Barry noted. "Very well then, allow him to come in. I will speak with him and see what he wants to speak with me about." The male watched as the female simply nodded her head before turning and walking out of the office. He looked out of the open door out of curiosity, attempting to see if he could see who the female was walking into the office; from where he was sitting, he was able to see a the female walking back with what looked like a skinny black-haired, very pale yellow-scaled shirtless lizard, wearing grey jeans and dark blue sneakers; the چھپکلی also wore what looked like a flat-billed cap, though the ٹوپی was being worn backwards, with the bill of it pointing backwards. The چھپکلی also had what the male thought looked like a metal case with a playing card بیلچہ, کارڈ حکم hanging from his بیلٹ, پٹی as if it was clipped on.
Chapter One: Attack at Main Base
"Excellent shots, Wild Card," A male's voice, Irish in accent, شدہ تبصرہ from inside a wooden tower about as tall as a two-story building; the tower looked a lot like a box-shaped sniper tower with a roof above it to shield whoever was in it away from the sunlight. The male seemed to be commenting to another male standing on the shooting range in front of the tower.
The male who stood on the extremely dusty concrete ground was a zebra-tailed چھپکلی with extremely pale yellow scales and thick black hair; the lizard's tail, however, faded to white, and then faded to black, and then back to white, and then so on. He wore a dark grey لمبی بازو, طویل بانہہ شرٹ, قمیض along with thin dark blue jeans and dark blue sneakers. The male also wore a white bulletproof vest over his long-sleeve, and he wore black protective gloves on his hands; he appeared to be around the age of twenty-one. The چھپکلی male slowly and carefully lowered the silver pistol that he had just fired at the eight practice targets lined up in front of him at a distance, observing where the bullets had landed; three of the bullets had landed on the center, while the other bullets landed extremely close to the center on their targets. "Do I need to shoot up the targets again, یا are we finished here for today?" The چھپکلی spoke with an English accent.
"It depends. Silver Sting told me that I only needed to run آپ through a set of targets five یا so times, یا at least until آپ were able to hit all of the targets fairly close to the center of them. I think you've done well enough for today, plus I feel like I'm starting to freeze out here in this winter weather, so I honestly prefer to just head back to base," The male up in the watch tower commented.
"I would prefer to get out of the cold as well," The male on the field called up. He set the pistol that he was holding on safety before walking out to where the targets where. Upon reaching the targets, he began to gather them up to take them with him. "Thank آپ for the training, Iron Sight. ...You know what, I'm not a big پرستار of the code names یا the nicknames at all, except for my own nickname that I was called before this gang. I've کہا that to some of the others, but of course I've prevented myself from saying it in front of B- ...Silver Sting. Why do we even use these nicknames? Half of the time we aren't even around anyone when we use them," The male added as he carried the targets and the pistol back towards the watch tower.
"I can't say I know why other than saying that it's the rules," The male replied from the tower. From the distance, the male carrying the targets and the gun back towards the tower was able to watch as a male figure began to climb down from the tower using the metal ladder that was located on the back of it. "I believe he's afraid that someone might still overhear us and learn our real names. He tries to keep our real identities as secret as possible to help avoid the police and to help us avoid being tracked down سے طرف کی our names."
"I guess so. I think it's annoying to have to say the nicknames whenever we're in public, but then again someone hasn't tracked us down using our names as far as I know so far, so I suppose that seems to be working," The target-carrying male کہا as he walked up beside the tower. He looked towards the ladder, now able to see the person who was climbing down the ladder on the tower.
The male climbing down the ladder was a hedgehog-fox hybrid with very large, wide and tall ears and a large bushy tail; the male also had quite a few long spines on the back of his head and a few on the front and sides of his head. The male also had what looked like a thick metal plate attached to his forehead, which cover the sides of his head slightly and covered the majority of his eyes; the metal plate appeared as if it was attached to his skin as if it was either put there in a surgery, یا if it had actually grown there. The male also had metal plates on his arms, legs, hands, feet, and torso as well, again appearing as if they had grown there یا as if they had been added سے طرف کی surgery. The male was dressed in a black unzipped hoodie with the ڈاکو, ہڈ over his head, thin black pants, and silver and white combat-like boots; the sleeves of the hoodie seemed to be rolled up to his elbows and tied down to his arms with a black band on the end of each sleeve; the back of the hoodie also had a logo in the center of it; the logo appeared to be made of many streaks of different color, almost as if someone had made strokes on the front of it with a paintbrush; the logo was made up of silver, red, blue, dark green, sandy brown, gold, lavender, black, and a white color. Much like the hoodie sleeves, the سب, سب سے اوپر of the boots up on his legs had a black band each on them as well. The male's eyes appeared rather strange as well; the pupils of his eyes were a silvery-grey instead of black, and the lavender color of his eyes seemed to be glowing and melting into the whites of his eyes; the whites of his eyes were almost completely hidden from view سے طرف کی the metal on his forehead, but one could see a bit of the "whites", which appeared to be a silvery color as well. He appeared to be around the age of twenty-four یا so.
"You know, Iron Sight... I've been wondering this for about the ماہ یا so that I've been here," The target-carrying male started as he began walking alongside the metal-covered "Iron Sight" as they moved away from the tower. "What exactly are those metal plates seemingly growing out of your body? I've wanted to ask آپ that question, but so far I haven't had the chance to ask آپ that question, plus that has been slipping my mind, so that's another reason why I have not asked آپ yet."
"It's a kind of... ability آپ could say that my entire family bloodline has shared," The male called "Iron Sight" started as he walked towards a large, rocky cave in the mountain دیوار quite a ways behind the tower and the shooting field. "Even my ancestors had these metal places on their bodies. They grow back as well if they're broken off, and they definitely provide quite a bit of protection, though they don't cover every square inch of my body."
"Alright then, care to tell me about those teeth of yours then?" The other male asked as he walked into a dark cave area along with Iron Sight; neither one of the men could see much other than the evening light behind him and the evening light at the end of the cave. "I've heard a lot of people commenting on the fact that they believe you're a type of vampire یا something similar; people in the Color Codex and just people who know آپ یا see آپ around."
"Are my fangs really that strange to all of you?" Iron Sight asked, wearing a smirk on his face rather than seeming confused یا angry; the tip of a white fang poked through his lip when he curled it up in a smirk. "I hear the vampire تبصرے often. However, I've never seen someone try and prove that I am indeed a vampire."
"That didn't exactly answer my question, آپ know. Are they vampire teeth? Hm? Are they?" The male asked with a slight smirk, curious to see if Iron Sight would actually answer the سوال یا dodge it, as he knew that the hedgehog-fox always dodged the سوال when asked سے طرف کی someone else.
"I'd say آپ can find that out yourself یا try to find proof of me being a vampire if آپ want to know if I'm a vampire so badly," Iron Sight replied as they both walked out of the other end of the cave, which opened into a very large and thick forest. "Remember to cover the entrance."
"Yep, exactly what I thought. I knew آپ would dodge the question," The male کہا with a chuckle. He moved to the side of the cave entrance towards a large rock before pushing the surprisingly rather light rock in front of the entrance with his foot, since his hands were taken up سے طرف کی the targets and the pistol. Once the rock was in place, one would notice that the rock made the area look like a simple mountain face, concealing the entrance from view.
"So, anything else that آپ want to ask me, detective?" Iron Sight asked as he began walking again with the other male; both boys were walking on an extremely over grown area marked سے طرف کی rocks beside the trees; this area was an unmarked path that the gang had made themselves to lead each other to the secret shooting range that they had set up.
"I suppose that's it for now. Are we heading back to Main Base now?" The male asked, continuing to walk down the path will Iron Sight; the hedgehog-fox hybrid nodded his head to what the male had asked.
Both of the males continued walking until they were out of the thick of the woods, talking about simple things to pass the time as they made their way out. They continued across the smaller portion of the woods until they went down مزید unmarked paths on their way to a very large, old and abandoned warehouse; this was Main Base: The ہوم base of the gang known as the Color Codex; this base had started off as an abandoned warehouse but once it had been found سے طرف کی the Color Codex it was turned into basically a place to live complete with bedroom-like areas, a kitchen-like area, and other rooms that were useful to the gang as well. Now, the woods and the mountains were stationed behind a very large city known as TechSlate; TechSlate was simply one city in the country known as Slaticnal, in the world known as Solarrise.
As they began to come closer to where the Main Base was, the male and Iron Sight began to hear what sounded like a lot of gunshots going off in the distance, which caused the ears on Iron Sight to stand up in alert. Both of the boys squinted into the distance, seeing flashes of light coming from behind the large Main Base in the distance; guns were being fired behind the Base.
"Are we under attack?" The male questioned as he and Iron Sight quickly began to اقدام towards the base, watching as the flashes of مزید guns began to become visible; the gunshots also began getting louder as well the closer that they got to the Base.
"It would certainly seem like it. Keep your eyes sharp, Wild Card," Iron Sight said, keeping a calm tone of voice while he wore a serious and focused look on his face. He began picking up the pace he was walking with until he began to run towards the back of the Base, followed سے طرف کی the male called "Wild Card".
As both of the men came to the front of the Base, they were able to hear the sounds of yelling mixed in with the sound of gunshots; some of these voices they could recognize as members from their gang. They quickly but carefully came around the corner of the building, and quickly ducked down behind some nearby empty crates to try to avoid being seen when they saw that there were quite a few gang members from a rival gang running around behind the building; they had seen this gang before.
From behind cover, Iron Sight glanced up over the crates to تلاش for members of his own gang, and مزید specifically, their gang leader. Wild Card started to look over the کریٹ, کھوکھا as well, but Iron Sight pushed his head down out of fear that he might get seen; Wild Card growled in anger. Iron Sight scanned the battle field, searching for the gang leader, and stopped his eyes on the sight of a yellow جیکٹ تتییا, بھڑ in the distance; he knew this تتییا, بھڑ was the leader because he wore a greenish-greyish newspaper boy cap; the leader almost never took that hat off as it was his favorite.
Watching for bullets and any of the rival gang members, Iron Sight began moving from cover to cover as quickly as possible, attempting to get over to his gang leader; Wild Card saw what Iron Sight was doing and decided to follow him behind cover as well to try to get over to the yellow جیکٹ wasp. Iron Sight heard a bullet whiz past his ear on the way over to the wasp, but thankfully he was not shot on his way over, and Wild Card avoided being shot as well. Both of the boys came up behind the wasp, who was standing behind a دیوار for cover; he held a black machine gun in his hands.
The تتییا, بھڑ quickly whipped around upon hearing Iron Sight and Wild Card walking up behind him, pointing the machine gun; he quickly pointed the machine gun up in the air as he accidentally pressed the trigger on it, firing a bullet یا two. "Spadeic! Fade! I almost near blew the heads off of both of you! Do not sneak up upon me like that again!" He کہا angrily in an Irish accent to both Wild Card and Iron Sight; Spadeic and Fade, respectively.
"You didn't use our code names, yet we're out here in public," Spadeic noted, causing the تتییا, بھڑ to just frown at what the Zebra-Tailed چھپکلی had just said.
"Just let it go," The تتییا, بھڑ grumbled, turning back to observe what was going on in the battlefield. "As آپ can see, the Blue آگ کے, آگ gang showed up not too long ago, starting this massive turf war here. We're not trying to kill them all, but at least push them back. Now, why did آپ have to scare me like that?"
"We weren't exactly trying to scare you, Silver Sting. I was trying to come over to ask what آپ needed me to do in this battle, and I believe that's why Wild Card here came as well, but then I'm not entirely sure," Fade replied. "What do آپ need me to do, boss?"
Silver Sting started to speak to Fade and Spadeic to tell them their orders, but the sound of bullets whizzing سے طرف کی the دیوار that they were using as cover caused him to focus his attention back on the battle momentarily. He quickly aimed his machine gun and began firing at the visible rival gang members that he could see, making sure to only aim at the ones that the machine gun could reach; after the wild spray, he quickly turned back to Spadeic and Fade. "I can see that Spadeic brought back the pistol that I told آپ to take out to the shooting range. Fade, I want آپ to take that pistol and try to push back the other gang. Spadeic, first of all I want آپ to put those targets down, and then I want آپ to try to sneak behind them along with some of the other members of our gang who are already on their way around. Once they retreat, let them go, but make sure that every single one of them retreats and doesn't hide in anything."
"Understood," Fade کہا with a nod as he took the pistol that Spadeic had been carrying along with the targets. He looked out from behind the دیوار and observed the battlefield, waiting for an opening, and then he rushed آگے away from the wall, quickly ducking behind a large dumpster کی, ڈمپسٹر as cover.
Spadeic set down the targets that he was carrying behind the دیوار before glancing past it to try to see where everyone else was; he was able to see members of his own gang and members of the rival gang scattered about everywhere, all in battle with each other with guns, knives, and anything else they could get their hands on such as rocks. Spadeic waited until he seemed to have an opening, and then he started to اقدام back towards the front of the Base where he had first arrived with Fade; he was going to try to sneak around the front of the Base and then go around the other side to try to get behind the enemy gang, as most of them seemed to have their backs facing towards the other side of the Base where Spadeic was going to sneak around to.
"Hey, chief, where's Silent Wind at? I can't see her anywhere in the area," Fade said, staying behind the cover that he was using. He glanced back towards the دیوار behind him, noticing that Silver Sting was currently firing his machine gun at enemy gang members that were in sight.
"I sent her behind the enemy lines like how I told Wild Card to go behind!" Silver Sting replied in between concentration as he tried to focus and hit his targets. "She should be fine, I saw her sneaking around behind them right before آپ and he arrived! I've seen quite a few of these members trying to hide, so they must be running out of power and ammo. I'm not looking to kill any of these people, I just want to force them to retreat. If آپ haven't already noticed, I'm trying to aim مزید for arms and legs than I am their heads یا other fatal locations."
"Alright, understood," Fade کہا with a nod. He moved out of cover just slightly to aim the pistol at one of the enemy gang members who was closest to him; he fired at the gang member, striking him in the leg and causing him to fall down in pain from the bullet that was now in his leg. Fade glanced up towards the large group of enemy gang members who seemed to be staying near each other, noticing that a female dressed in a Color Codex uniform seemed to be sneaking around behind the members; he instantly recognized this female as "Silent Wind", her codename.
The female was an arctic بھیڑیا with light silvery-grey فر, سمور and long grey hair that went down past her shoulders; she had her hair pulled up at the moment, however, to prevent her long hair from getting grabbed سے طرف کی one of the enemy gang members if she got into a hand-to-hand fight with them; her hair also seemed to have small black artificial streaks in it, along with one very light silver artificial streak on one of her bangs. She wore a long-sleeved black شرٹ, قمیض with the same logo that Silver Sting and Fade had on their clothes; the logo was located on the front of the shirt. Also on the shirt, on the left shoulder sleeve, there was a large zipper, which connected a long black cape that dangled over her left side; the cape was long enough to reach down to her waist. She also wore thin dark grey pants and black sneakers. If she didn't look so worn out from battle and didn't have the bruises and scratches that she had on her from the last few days' work and the current battle, some men might have thought that she looked a bit attractive. The female was attempting to sneak up on the enemy gang members and knock them in the head, attempting to knock out as many of them as she could and as quietly as she could.
On the other side of the Main Base building, Spadeic sneaked around the side, coming out behind the majority of the enemy gang members in the same area as Silent Wind. He looked around for the nearest enemy gang member, who he discovered was only a few feet in front of him, and then he slowly and quietly started to step out to try to sneak up behind the gang member.
Despite the fact that Spadeic was trying to be as quiet as absolutely possible, the enemy gang member's ears twitched at the sound of the lizard's footsteps, causing the enemy male to turn around and see Spadeic. "Hey, where did you-?!" The enemy male started to speak in shock at the surprise of Spadeic suddenly being near him, but a hit to the back of the head from behind caused the male to fall down, knocked out from the hit.
Silent Went frowned slightly at Spadeic once the man that she hit fell down, looking at Spadeic's still surprised face. She silently mouthed to Spadeic, attempting to tell him that he needed to try to be مزید quiet. Spadeic had to squint his eyes and watch her lips closely to figure out what she had said, but he did understand what she mouthed to him. He simply nodded his head when he had understood what she کہا in an attempt to دکھائیں her that he had understood; she simply nodded her head back to him before focusing back on staying quiet and taking out the enemies from behind.
The fight between the two different gangs carried on for about fifteen منٹ longer until a young woman appearing to be the leader of the gang started yelling it to the rest of her gang, trying to tell them that it was time to retreat before any serious injuries were taken. The enemy members who could still walk began picking up the knocked out members and the members that were too injured to walk and began retreating away from the Color Codex Main Base, all following the retreating female leader. A few of the Color Codex members started to follow the retreating enemy gang, but Silver Sting spoke up and simply told the Codex members to just let the enemy gang retreat as all he had wanted to do was get them away from the Main Base.
"Excellent job, Color Codex. We managed to keep Main Base and I can tell that we haven't suffered any serious injuries," Silver Sting noted as he lowered his gun and looked around at all of the various Color Codex members; they all had their attention now firmly locked on Silver Sting. "Thank آپ all for your hard work. Like stated before, آپ all did an excellent job. Now, I would like for any of آپ who aren't too cold to pick up anything useful that Blue آگ کے, آگ might have dropped in their retreat. Then, everyone is free to come inside and relax; I don't have any مزید jobs for anyone at this current moment." All of the Color Codex members responded with "yes" and nods before all scattering out around the area to look around for anything that the enemy gang might have dropped in their retreat.
"Is there anything else that آپ need for us to do?" Fade asked as he turned his head towards Silver Sting, who was taking a deep breath as he started to relax from the battle that had just been going on.
"You can either help some of the others تلاش and pick up anything that they left in their flee, یا آپ can come inside," Silver Sting replied, turning his head to face Fade. "No, wait, on سیکنڈ thought, perhaps آپ یا someone should look around to make sure that none of those Blue آگ کے, آگ members tried to hide around here somewhere."
"Shouldn't آپ tell that to the rest of the gang?" Fade asked, already turning his head from side to side to try to observe the area for any signs of the enemy gang.
"I'm sure they'll listen to آپ if آپ tell them what I said. They listen to آپ almost as well as they do Silent Wind and I," Silver Sting said. "Now, I'm going to be heading inside right now. I'm getting quite cold out here in this weather; I honestly considered making some hot کوکو, نارجیل for everyone."
"I'm sure everyone would enjoy that," Fade said. "Anyway, I'll start searching around now. I'll stay out here and make sure everyone's back inside and then I'll head back inside and lock the doors for the night. Assuming that آپ aren't sending anyone out on a night job of some kind."
"No, I'm not sending anyone out on a night mission. Well, at least I don't plan to," Silver Sting replied as he started walking back towards the Main Base's entrance. "I'll see all of آپ inside shortly." Fade simply nodded as he watched Silver Sting go back inside; he then proceeded to begin searching around the area and around the Main Base to make sure none of the enemy gang members had tried to hide around in the area.
Meanwhile, half of the Color Codex members began going back into the Main Base while the remaining half تقسیم, الگ کریں into two groups; one group began to help look around with Fade, and the other group began searching around for any items that the enemy had dropped while retreating. Spadeic and Silent Wind were in the latter group.
"So, Wind..." Spadeic began as he looked towards Silent Wind; they were both now searching around for anything that the enemy gang had dropped in their quick retreat. "It looks like the enemy is gone for now."
"Remember Silver Sting's rules; we're not supposed to say our names out in public," Silent Wind reminded as she frowned slightly at Spadeic. "You've been here long enough that آپ should certainly be able to remember that rule."
"Your special name isn't really any different than your normal name," Spadeic شدہ تبصرہ with a slight eye roll. "All آپ do is add the word 'Silent' to the front of it. Your regular name is Wind, so it's not that much different."
"I still respect the rules that our gang leader has laid out," Wind replied while bending down to pick up pistol magazine that had been dropped سے طرف کی one of the enemy gang members. She looked in the magazine soon afterwards, seeing that some bullets were still in it, so she decided to take it and continue looking around for anything else. "You should respect them as well if آپ plan to stay in this gang. Also, keep in mind that I can enforce quite a few of the rules just like Silver Sting can."
"Yes, yes, I know that you're basically the co-leader of the gang and can enforce some of the rules as if آپ were the leader of the gang," Spadeic said. "Anyway, do آپ see anything else around here? I feel like I'm starting to freeze my scales off out here," He added as he shivered slightly at a cold wind that blew through the area.
"I'm not going to go in before I'm sure I've searched the area carefully," Silver Wind کہا as she started to walk away slightly to تلاش another nearby area. Even though she had walked off into the distance slightly, Spadeic could still tell that she seemed to be shivering just slightly.
"But you're shivering," Spadeic کہا as he started to approach Silver Wind to help her look around for any مزید dropped items. "I can continue looking around if آپ need to go in because you're freezing."
"I already told آپ I'm not going in," The female بھیڑیا replied simply as she continued looking around.
"Whatever آپ say," Spadeic simply replied as he turned to walk back in; he figured that the other Color Codex members were doing well enough in their search, so he thought that he could head inside himself without getting in trouble.
After their تلاش was over, all of the Color Codex members who were still outside began to اقدام outside; a few items had been found such as gun magazines. No one was able to find any of the enemy gang members, however, meaning that most likely none of the Blue آگ کے, آگ members had hidden themselves nearby. Some of the Color Codex members congratulated each other on a job well done for defending the Main Base while some of the other members stayed quiet یا talked amongst themselves about the day's events. Upon moving inside, quite a few of the members began searching around for their leader to see if he wanted them to do anything else around the Main Base. The members who went searching for their leader were able to find him in the kitchen; the تتییا, بھڑ was currently making the hot کوکو, نارجیل that he had mentioned.
"Does anyone want hot cocoa? I thought everyone might want a little something to warm up with considering it's very cool outside," Silver Sting کہا as he turned his head to look at his gang members. "That and I think everyone needs at least something small for pushing back the Blue آگ کے, آگ like آپ all did."
"Do آپ need any help, Barry?" Wind asked as she walked out of the crowd of Color Codex members and walked over to her gang leader. "Or do آپ think آپ have everything taken care of on your own? I know you're going to have to make a LOT of hot chocolate for everyone to be able to have some."
"I think I can handle it, Wind. Everything is almost already finished anyway," Barry replied. "First of all, I would like for everyone who collected something to go put it away; I'll look at it later. After that, everyone's free to spread out wherever they want, though I would appreciate it if everyone stayed near the میز, جدول as I would like to gather reports from everyone."
"Yes, sir," The Color Codex members all seemed to respond together to their leader. Some of the members proceeded to walk away to go put what they had found in Barry's office so he could look at it later while the other members stayed in the باورچی خانے, باورچی خانہ area; these members who stayed in the باورچی خانے, باورچی خانہ spread out a bit, with some of them standing around the room and leaning against the دیوار while the others took a نشست at the very large and long باورچی خانے, باورچی خانہ table.
"Barry, I couldn't find anyone hanging around the area and as far as I know none of the others who looked around with me saw any of the Blue آگ کے, آگ hanging around either," Fade spoke up as he walked over to his gang leader. "I was sure آپ would want me to رپورٹ that to you."
"Yes, I wanted to hear the رپورٹ on that," Barry replied as he continued making hot chocolate for everyone. "Thank آپ for looking around and making sure no one hid from us. I know we've never had that happen to us before, but I've had one of our allies tell me that they didn't pay attention to their area and got ambushed سے طرف کی people who hid around."
"I believe we've heard that story before as well," Fade کہا as he went to sit down at the very large میز, جدول in the room. He put a hand under his chin before leaning his head down. "Would آپ like the rest of the day's رپورٹ right this moment یا are آپ wanting to wait until everyone sits down?"
"You can wait," Barry replied. "I don't mind waiting for آپ to tell the daily reports. It would probably be a bit easier for me to just collect all the information at once at the میز, جدول and then sort everything later. If آپ told me something now, I might forget it once everyone else piles all of the other reports on سب, سب سے اوپر of it."
"Alright then, I'll wait," Fade replied as he leaned back in the chair he was sitting in and released a slight sigh as he began attempting to relax. He looked out of a window covered with a shutter. "You know, I heard that the weather was supposed to rain tomorrow."
"Yes, I heard that as well," Barry said. "I just hope it doesn't turn into a storm. Rain is hard enough to work in, so I don't really like the idea of it storming and making it that much مزید difficult to work in. Now, I'm not trying to offend, but it's hard for me to pay attention to what I'm doing while I'm trying to listen and talk to آپ at the exact same time. We can talk later, alright?"
"Whatever آپ say," Fade replied as he turned his head back and watched as some of the other Color Codex members began coming into the room and taking seats یا at least standing around in the room. All of the Color Codex members continued to flood into the room until the room was filled with the members who were all waiting for their leader to finish making the hot chocolate.
"So, who wants to start with their reports? Is there anything going on at this current moment that needs my immediate attention?" Barry asked as he sat at the very large میز, جدول with most of the gang members who were present in the Main Base. He took a sip of his hot chocolate and looked around the میز, جدول at all of the various male and female faces in front of him. He waited for an answer from any of the Color Codex member in front of him, but none of the members spoke up after a bit of waiting. "Alright, so nothing of important note has happened? Let's اقدام on then. Research team, آپ can start first."
The اگلے thirty منٹ یا so, each of the Color Codex members one سے طرف کی one gave their reports on what had happened during the دن to Barry, who simply sat and listened to each of his gang members while sipping on his hot chocolate. Nothing of particular interest was spoken except for the plans that Barry had been wanting for the last few days; these plans were for the building that they planned to strike the اگلے day. He had wanted a map drawn and he had waited research drawn up on the building, which had been done for him سے طرف کی his Mapping team and his Research team in the Color Codex. He was very happy with the maps and research they had made and he made sure to tell them he was indeed satisfied سے طرف کی their work. All of the Color Codex members simply continued talking to their boss and amongst each other until they finished drinking their hot cocoa; Barry then کہا everyone could be dismissed and watched as the Color Codex members began to leave the table, though Fade continued to stay at the table.
"Do آپ want the رپورٹ from me now?" Fade asked as he looked at Barry, who was currently cleaning up the mess that had been left.
"Yes, go ahead and give me your report," Barry replied. "Did آپ train Spadeic in مزید gun training as I asked آپ to do earlier today?"
"Yes, I did that. He's coming along quite nicely with that. He told me before that he's never used guns yet he's learning quite quickly," Fade replied. "Which is most likely a good thing as it means he learns faster."
"Alright then, I'm going to trust that آپ can continue to train him and teach him all that آپ know," Barry said.
"Do آپ plan on bringing Spadeic out on the mission tomorrow? I know that آپ haven't brought him out on a big mission yet."
"Yes, I do plan for that actually. I think he's been taught enough that he should be able to handle himself in the middle of a battle یا in the middle of escape. Now, thank آپ for your رپورٹ on Spadeic's progress. I appreciate it."
"You're welcome, sir. Will آپ be needing me at all in the اگلے few hours?"
"I doubt it. I want everyone to go ahead and get rested up for everything tomorrow. I don't want the whole plan to start going downhill just because some people are tired and can't perform their jobs correctly."
"Alright then, I will go inform everyone of that and go rest myself," Fade کہا as he stood up to leave the room. "I'm sure we'll be ready for tomorrow when the time comes," He added as he walked out of the room to inform the others in the gang that they needed to rest for the events that were to come tomorrow.
"Who's here? Have آپ seen the person around before? یا are they a person from another one of the gangs in the city?" An Irish-accented male voice questioned. The office chair turned around to face the lizard, revealing a very fit and healthy man around the age of twenty-four. The man was a mostly yellow yellow جیکٹ wasp; his yellow arms and legs faded to a black color right around his elbows and his knees; he also had a patch of black فر, سمور on his chin; facial hair. He had thick black hair, though the ends of his hair seemed to be artificially streaked with a light silver color; the hair was shorter in the back except for two spikes of hair hanging down in the back, and it was slightly longer on the sides, going down to his neck; his bangs were just slightly curled to the right, and with spiked ends. He also had a long and thin silver stinger which was long enough to reach the back of his knees and brownish wings. The man wore a long-sleeved black شرٹ, قمیض with a logo on the front of it and baggy black jeans; the logo appeared to be made of many streaks of different color, almost as if someone had made strokes on the front of it with a paintbrush; the logo was made up of silver, red, blue, dark green, sandy brown, gold, lavender, blackish-greyish, and a white color. The man also wore white sneakers and a greyish-greenish newspaper boy-like cap. His black yellow جیکٹ *insect eyes gleamed slightly once the sunlight hit them as he turned to face the female. (*Barry has solid black eyes like an actual yellow جیکٹ instead of traditional Mobian eyes. There's nothing special about them; they're just insect eyes*)
"No, sir. I haven't seen this person around town before. They informed Disc and I that they wanted to speak with the leader of the gang," The female informed the male, moving her cream colored tail to the side. "Shall I bring him into your office, Barry?"
"Him? Oh, so the person is a man," The male named Barry noted. "Very well then, allow him to come in. I will speak with him and see what he wants to speak with me about." The male watched as the female simply nodded her head before turning and walking out of the office. He looked out of the open door out of curiosity, attempting to see if he could see who the female was walking into the office; from where he was sitting, he was able to see a the female walking back with what looked like a skinny black-haired, very pale yellow-scaled shirtless lizard, wearing grey jeans and dark blue sneakers; the چھپکلی also wore what looked like a flat-billed cap, though the ٹوپی was being worn backwards, with the bill of it pointing backwards. The چھپکلی also had what the male thought looked like a metal case with a playing card بیلچہ, کارڈ حکم hanging from his بیلٹ, پٹی as if it was clipped on.
Chapter One: Attack at Main Base
"Excellent shots, Wild Card," A male's voice, Irish in accent, شدہ تبصرہ from inside a wooden tower about as tall as a two-story building; the tower looked a lot like a box-shaped sniper tower with a roof above it to shield whoever was in it away from the sunlight. The male seemed to be commenting to another male standing on the shooting range in front of the tower.
The male who stood on the extremely dusty concrete ground was a zebra-tailed چھپکلی with extremely pale yellow scales and thick black hair; the lizard's tail, however, faded to white, and then faded to black, and then back to white, and then so on. He wore a dark grey لمبی بازو, طویل بانہہ شرٹ, قمیض along with thin dark blue jeans and dark blue sneakers. The male also wore a white bulletproof vest over his long-sleeve, and he wore black protective gloves on his hands; he appeared to be around the age of twenty-one. The چھپکلی male slowly and carefully lowered the silver pistol that he had just fired at the eight practice targets lined up in front of him at a distance, observing where the bullets had landed; three of the bullets had landed on the center, while the other bullets landed extremely close to the center on their targets. "Do I need to shoot up the targets again, یا are we finished here for today?" The چھپکلی spoke with an English accent.
"It depends. Silver Sting told me that I only needed to run آپ through a set of targets five یا so times, یا at least until آپ were able to hit all of the targets fairly close to the center of them. I think you've done well enough for today, plus I feel like I'm starting to freeze out here in this winter weather, so I honestly prefer to just head back to base," The male up in the watch tower commented.
"I would prefer to get out of the cold as well," The male on the field called up. He set the pistol that he was holding on safety before walking out to where the targets where. Upon reaching the targets, he began to gather them up to take them with him. "Thank آپ for the training, Iron Sight. ...You know what, I'm not a big پرستار of the code names یا the nicknames at all, except for my own nickname that I was called before this gang. I've کہا that to some of the others, but of course I've prevented myself from saying it in front of B- ...Silver Sting. Why do we even use these nicknames? Half of the time we aren't even around anyone when we use them," The male added as he carried the targets and the pistol back towards the watch tower.
"I can't say I know why other than saying that it's the rules," The male replied from the tower. From the distance, the male carrying the targets and the gun back towards the tower was able to watch as a male figure began to climb down from the tower using the metal ladder that was located on the back of it. "I believe he's afraid that someone might still overhear us and learn our real names. He tries to keep our real identities as secret as possible to help avoid the police and to help us avoid being tracked down سے طرف کی our names."
"I guess so. I think it's annoying to have to say the nicknames whenever we're in public, but then again someone hasn't tracked us down using our names as far as I know so far, so I suppose that seems to be working," The target-carrying male کہا as he walked up beside the tower. He looked towards the ladder, now able to see the person who was climbing down the ladder on the tower.
The male climbing down the ladder was a hedgehog-fox hybrid with very large, wide and tall ears and a large bushy tail; the male also had quite a few long spines on the back of his head and a few on the front and sides of his head. The male also had what looked like a thick metal plate attached to his forehead, which cover the sides of his head slightly and covered the majority of his eyes; the metal plate appeared as if it was attached to his skin as if it was either put there in a surgery, یا if it had actually grown there. The male also had metal plates on his arms, legs, hands, feet, and torso as well, again appearing as if they had grown there یا as if they had been added سے طرف کی surgery. The male was dressed in a black unzipped hoodie with the ڈاکو, ہڈ over his head, thin black pants, and silver and white combat-like boots; the sleeves of the hoodie seemed to be rolled up to his elbows and tied down to his arms with a black band on the end of each sleeve; the back of the hoodie also had a logo in the center of it; the logo appeared to be made of many streaks of different color, almost as if someone had made strokes on the front of it with a paintbrush; the logo was made up of silver, red, blue, dark green, sandy brown, gold, lavender, black, and a white color. Much like the hoodie sleeves, the سب, سب سے اوپر of the boots up on his legs had a black band each on them as well. The male's eyes appeared rather strange as well; the pupils of his eyes were a silvery-grey instead of black, and the lavender color of his eyes seemed to be glowing and melting into the whites of his eyes; the whites of his eyes were almost completely hidden from view سے طرف کی the metal on his forehead, but one could see a bit of the "whites", which appeared to be a silvery color as well. He appeared to be around the age of twenty-four یا so.
"You know, Iron Sight... I've been wondering this for about the ماہ یا so that I've been here," The target-carrying male started as he began walking alongside the metal-covered "Iron Sight" as they moved away from the tower. "What exactly are those metal plates seemingly growing out of your body? I've wanted to ask آپ that question, but so far I haven't had the chance to ask آپ that question, plus that has been slipping my mind, so that's another reason why I have not asked آپ yet."
"It's a kind of... ability آپ could say that my entire family bloodline has shared," The male called "Iron Sight" started as he walked towards a large, rocky cave in the mountain دیوار quite a ways behind the tower and the shooting field. "Even my ancestors had these metal places on their bodies. They grow back as well if they're broken off, and they definitely provide quite a bit of protection, though they don't cover every square inch of my body."
"Alright then, care to tell me about those teeth of yours then?" The other male asked as he walked into a dark cave area along with Iron Sight; neither one of the men could see much other than the evening light behind him and the evening light at the end of the cave. "I've heard a lot of people commenting on the fact that they believe you're a type of vampire یا something similar; people in the Color Codex and just people who know آپ یا see آپ around."
"Are my fangs really that strange to all of you?" Iron Sight asked, wearing a smirk on his face rather than seeming confused یا angry; the tip of a white fang poked through his lip when he curled it up in a smirk. "I hear the vampire تبصرے often. However, I've never seen someone try and prove that I am indeed a vampire."
"That didn't exactly answer my question, آپ know. Are they vampire teeth? Hm? Are they?" The male asked with a slight smirk, curious to see if Iron Sight would actually answer the سوال یا dodge it, as he knew that the hedgehog-fox always dodged the سوال when asked سے طرف کی someone else.
"I'd say آپ can find that out yourself یا try to find proof of me being a vampire if آپ want to know if I'm a vampire so badly," Iron Sight replied as they both walked out of the other end of the cave, which opened into a very large and thick forest. "Remember to cover the entrance."
"Yep, exactly what I thought. I knew آپ would dodge the question," The male کہا with a chuckle. He moved to the side of the cave entrance towards a large rock before pushing the surprisingly rather light rock in front of the entrance with his foot, since his hands were taken up سے طرف کی the targets and the pistol. Once the rock was in place, one would notice that the rock made the area look like a simple mountain face, concealing the entrance from view.
"So, anything else that آپ want to ask me, detective?" Iron Sight asked as he began walking again with the other male; both boys were walking on an extremely over grown area marked سے طرف کی rocks beside the trees; this area was an unmarked path that the gang had made themselves to lead each other to the secret shooting range that they had set up.
"I suppose that's it for now. Are we heading back to Main Base now?" The male asked, continuing to walk down the path will Iron Sight; the hedgehog-fox hybrid nodded his head to what the male had asked.
Both of the males continued walking until they were out of the thick of the woods, talking about simple things to pass the time as they made their way out. They continued across the smaller portion of the woods until they went down مزید unmarked paths on their way to a very large, old and abandoned warehouse; this was Main Base: The ہوم base of the gang known as the Color Codex; this base had started off as an abandoned warehouse but once it had been found سے طرف کی the Color Codex it was turned into basically a place to live complete with bedroom-like areas, a kitchen-like area, and other rooms that were useful to the gang as well. Now, the woods and the mountains were stationed behind a very large city known as TechSlate; TechSlate was simply one city in the country known as Slaticnal, in the world known as Solarrise.
As they began to come closer to where the Main Base was, the male and Iron Sight began to hear what sounded like a lot of gunshots going off in the distance, which caused the ears on Iron Sight to stand up in alert. Both of the boys squinted into the distance, seeing flashes of light coming from behind the large Main Base in the distance; guns were being fired behind the Base.
"Are we under attack?" The male questioned as he and Iron Sight quickly began to اقدام towards the base, watching as the flashes of مزید guns began to become visible; the gunshots also began getting louder as well the closer that they got to the Base.
"It would certainly seem like it. Keep your eyes sharp, Wild Card," Iron Sight said, keeping a calm tone of voice while he wore a serious and focused look on his face. He began picking up the pace he was walking with until he began to run towards the back of the Base, followed سے طرف کی the male called "Wild Card".
As both of the men came to the front of the Base, they were able to hear the sounds of yelling mixed in with the sound of gunshots; some of these voices they could recognize as members from their gang. They quickly but carefully came around the corner of the building, and quickly ducked down behind some nearby empty crates to try to avoid being seen when they saw that there were quite a few gang members from a rival gang running around behind the building; they had seen this gang before.
From behind cover, Iron Sight glanced up over the crates to تلاش for members of his own gang, and مزید specifically, their gang leader. Wild Card started to look over the کریٹ, کھوکھا as well, but Iron Sight pushed his head down out of fear that he might get seen; Wild Card growled in anger. Iron Sight scanned the battle field, searching for the gang leader, and stopped his eyes on the sight of a yellow جیکٹ تتییا, بھڑ in the distance; he knew this تتییا, بھڑ was the leader because he wore a greenish-greyish newspaper boy cap; the leader almost never took that hat off as it was his favorite.
Watching for bullets and any of the rival gang members, Iron Sight began moving from cover to cover as quickly as possible, attempting to get over to his gang leader; Wild Card saw what Iron Sight was doing and decided to follow him behind cover as well to try to get over to the yellow جیکٹ wasp. Iron Sight heard a bullet whiz past his ear on the way over to the wasp, but thankfully he was not shot on his way over, and Wild Card avoided being shot as well. Both of the boys came up behind the wasp, who was standing behind a دیوار for cover; he held a black machine gun in his hands.
The تتییا, بھڑ quickly whipped around upon hearing Iron Sight and Wild Card walking up behind him, pointing the machine gun; he quickly pointed the machine gun up in the air as he accidentally pressed the trigger on it, firing a bullet یا two. "Spadeic! Fade! I almost near blew the heads off of both of you! Do not sneak up upon me like that again!" He کہا angrily in an Irish accent to both Wild Card and Iron Sight; Spadeic and Fade, respectively.
"You didn't use our code names, yet we're out here in public," Spadeic noted, causing the تتییا, بھڑ to just frown at what the Zebra-Tailed چھپکلی had just said.
"Just let it go," The تتییا, بھڑ grumbled, turning back to observe what was going on in the battlefield. "As آپ can see, the Blue آگ کے, آگ gang showed up not too long ago, starting this massive turf war here. We're not trying to kill them all, but at least push them back. Now, why did آپ have to scare me like that?"
"We weren't exactly trying to scare you, Silver Sting. I was trying to come over to ask what آپ needed me to do in this battle, and I believe that's why Wild Card here came as well, but then I'm not entirely sure," Fade replied. "What do آپ need me to do, boss?"
Silver Sting started to speak to Fade and Spadeic to tell them their orders, but the sound of bullets whizzing سے طرف کی the دیوار that they were using as cover caused him to focus his attention back on the battle momentarily. He quickly aimed his machine gun and began firing at the visible rival gang members that he could see, making sure to only aim at the ones that the machine gun could reach; after the wild spray, he quickly turned back to Spadeic and Fade. "I can see that Spadeic brought back the pistol that I told آپ to take out to the shooting range. Fade, I want آپ to take that pistol and try to push back the other gang. Spadeic, first of all I want آپ to put those targets down, and then I want آپ to try to sneak behind them along with some of the other members of our gang who are already on their way around. Once they retreat, let them go, but make sure that every single one of them retreats and doesn't hide in anything."
"Understood," Fade کہا with a nod as he took the pistol that Spadeic had been carrying along with the targets. He looked out from behind the دیوار and observed the battlefield, waiting for an opening, and then he rushed آگے away from the wall, quickly ducking behind a large dumpster کی, ڈمپسٹر as cover.
Spadeic set down the targets that he was carrying behind the دیوار before glancing past it to try to see where everyone else was; he was able to see members of his own gang and members of the rival gang scattered about everywhere, all in battle with each other with guns, knives, and anything else they could get their hands on such as rocks. Spadeic waited until he seemed to have an opening, and then he started to اقدام back towards the front of the Base where he had first arrived with Fade; he was going to try to sneak around the front of the Base and then go around the other side to try to get behind the enemy gang, as most of them seemed to have their backs facing towards the other side of the Base where Spadeic was going to sneak around to.
"Hey, chief, where's Silent Wind at? I can't see her anywhere in the area," Fade said, staying behind the cover that he was using. He glanced back towards the دیوار behind him, noticing that Silver Sting was currently firing his machine gun at enemy gang members that were in sight.
"I sent her behind the enemy lines like how I told Wild Card to go behind!" Silver Sting replied in between concentration as he tried to focus and hit his targets. "She should be fine, I saw her sneaking around behind them right before آپ and he arrived! I've seen quite a few of these members trying to hide, so they must be running out of power and ammo. I'm not looking to kill any of these people, I just want to force them to retreat. If آپ haven't already noticed, I'm trying to aim مزید for arms and legs than I am their heads یا other fatal locations."
"Alright, understood," Fade کہا with a nod. He moved out of cover just slightly to aim the pistol at one of the enemy gang members who was closest to him; he fired at the gang member, striking him in the leg and causing him to fall down in pain from the bullet that was now in his leg. Fade glanced up towards the large group of enemy gang members who seemed to be staying near each other, noticing that a female dressed in a Color Codex uniform seemed to be sneaking around behind the members; he instantly recognized this female as "Silent Wind", her codename.
The female was an arctic بھیڑیا with light silvery-grey فر, سمور and long grey hair that went down past her shoulders; she had her hair pulled up at the moment, however, to prevent her long hair from getting grabbed سے طرف کی one of the enemy gang members if she got into a hand-to-hand fight with them; her hair also seemed to have small black artificial streaks in it, along with one very light silver artificial streak on one of her bangs. She wore a long-sleeved black شرٹ, قمیض with the same logo that Silver Sting and Fade had on their clothes; the logo was located on the front of the shirt. Also on the shirt, on the left shoulder sleeve, there was a large zipper, which connected a long black cape that dangled over her left side; the cape was long enough to reach down to her waist. She also wore thin dark grey pants and black sneakers. If she didn't look so worn out from battle and didn't have the bruises and scratches that she had on her from the last few days' work and the current battle, some men might have thought that she looked a bit attractive. The female was attempting to sneak up on the enemy gang members and knock them in the head, attempting to knock out as many of them as she could and as quietly as she could.
On the other side of the Main Base building, Spadeic sneaked around the side, coming out behind the majority of the enemy gang members in the same area as Silent Wind. He looked around for the nearest enemy gang member, who he discovered was only a few feet in front of him, and then he slowly and quietly started to step out to try to sneak up behind the gang member.
Despite the fact that Spadeic was trying to be as quiet as absolutely possible, the enemy gang member's ears twitched at the sound of the lizard's footsteps, causing the enemy male to turn around and see Spadeic. "Hey, where did you-?!" The enemy male started to speak in shock at the surprise of Spadeic suddenly being near him, but a hit to the back of the head from behind caused the male to fall down, knocked out from the hit.
Silent Went frowned slightly at Spadeic once the man that she hit fell down, looking at Spadeic's still surprised face. She silently mouthed to Spadeic, attempting to tell him that he needed to try to be مزید quiet. Spadeic had to squint his eyes and watch her lips closely to figure out what she had said, but he did understand what she mouthed to him. He simply nodded his head when he had understood what she کہا in an attempt to دکھائیں her that he had understood; she simply nodded her head back to him before focusing back on staying quiet and taking out the enemies from behind.
The fight between the two different gangs carried on for about fifteen منٹ longer until a young woman appearing to be the leader of the gang started yelling it to the rest of her gang, trying to tell them that it was time to retreat before any serious injuries were taken. The enemy members who could still walk began picking up the knocked out members and the members that were too injured to walk and began retreating away from the Color Codex Main Base, all following the retreating female leader. A few of the Color Codex members started to follow the retreating enemy gang, but Silver Sting spoke up and simply told the Codex members to just let the enemy gang retreat as all he had wanted to do was get them away from the Main Base.
"Excellent job, Color Codex. We managed to keep Main Base and I can tell that we haven't suffered any serious injuries," Silver Sting noted as he lowered his gun and looked around at all of the various Color Codex members; they all had their attention now firmly locked on Silver Sting. "Thank آپ all for your hard work. Like stated before, آپ all did an excellent job. Now, I would like for any of آپ who aren't too cold to pick up anything useful that Blue آگ کے, آگ might have dropped in their retreat. Then, everyone is free to come inside and relax; I don't have any مزید jobs for anyone at this current moment." All of the Color Codex members responded with "yes" and nods before all scattering out around the area to look around for anything that the enemy gang might have dropped in their retreat.
"Is there anything else that آپ need for us to do?" Fade asked as he turned his head towards Silver Sting, who was taking a deep breath as he started to relax from the battle that had just been going on.
"You can either help some of the others تلاش and pick up anything that they left in their flee, یا آپ can come inside," Silver Sting replied, turning his head to face Fade. "No, wait, on سیکنڈ thought, perhaps آپ یا someone should look around to make sure that none of those Blue آگ کے, آگ members tried to hide around here somewhere."
"Shouldn't آپ tell that to the rest of the gang?" Fade asked, already turning his head from side to side to try to observe the area for any signs of the enemy gang.
"I'm sure they'll listen to آپ if آپ tell them what I said. They listen to آپ almost as well as they do Silent Wind and I," Silver Sting said. "Now, I'm going to be heading inside right now. I'm getting quite cold out here in this weather; I honestly considered making some hot کوکو, نارجیل for everyone."
"I'm sure everyone would enjoy that," Fade said. "Anyway, I'll start searching around now. I'll stay out here and make sure everyone's back inside and then I'll head back inside and lock the doors for the night. Assuming that آپ aren't sending anyone out on a night job of some kind."
"No, I'm not sending anyone out on a night mission. Well, at least I don't plan to," Silver Sting replied as he started walking back towards the Main Base's entrance. "I'll see all of آپ inside shortly." Fade simply nodded as he watched Silver Sting go back inside; he then proceeded to begin searching around the area and around the Main Base to make sure none of the enemy gang members had tried to hide around in the area.
Meanwhile, half of the Color Codex members began going back into the Main Base while the remaining half تقسیم, الگ کریں into two groups; one group began to help look around with Fade, and the other group began searching around for any items that the enemy had dropped while retreating. Spadeic and Silent Wind were in the latter group.
"So, Wind..." Spadeic began as he looked towards Silent Wind; they were both now searching around for anything that the enemy gang had dropped in their quick retreat. "It looks like the enemy is gone for now."
"Remember Silver Sting's rules; we're not supposed to say our names out in public," Silent Wind reminded as she frowned slightly at Spadeic. "You've been here long enough that آپ should certainly be able to remember that rule."
"Your special name isn't really any different than your normal name," Spadeic شدہ تبصرہ with a slight eye roll. "All آپ do is add the word 'Silent' to the front of it. Your regular name is Wind, so it's not that much different."
"I still respect the rules that our gang leader has laid out," Wind replied while bending down to pick up pistol magazine that had been dropped سے طرف کی one of the enemy gang members. She looked in the magazine soon afterwards, seeing that some bullets were still in it, so she decided to take it and continue looking around for anything else. "You should respect them as well if آپ plan to stay in this gang. Also, keep in mind that I can enforce quite a few of the rules just like Silver Sting can."
"Yes, yes, I know that you're basically the co-leader of the gang and can enforce some of the rules as if آپ were the leader of the gang," Spadeic said. "Anyway, do آپ see anything else around here? I feel like I'm starting to freeze my scales off out here," He added as he shivered slightly at a cold wind that blew through the area.
"I'm not going to go in before I'm sure I've searched the area carefully," Silver Wind کہا as she started to walk away slightly to تلاش another nearby area. Even though she had walked off into the distance slightly, Spadeic could still tell that she seemed to be shivering just slightly.
"But you're shivering," Spadeic کہا as he started to approach Silver Wind to help her look around for any مزید dropped items. "I can continue looking around if آپ need to go in because you're freezing."
"I already told آپ I'm not going in," The female بھیڑیا replied simply as she continued looking around.
"Whatever آپ say," Spadeic simply replied as he turned to walk back in; he figured that the other Color Codex members were doing well enough in their search, so he thought that he could head inside himself without getting in trouble.
After their تلاش was over, all of the Color Codex members who were still outside began to اقدام outside; a few items had been found such as gun magazines. No one was able to find any of the enemy gang members, however, meaning that most likely none of the Blue آگ کے, آگ members had hidden themselves nearby. Some of the Color Codex members congratulated each other on a job well done for defending the Main Base while some of the other members stayed quiet یا talked amongst themselves about the day's events. Upon moving inside, quite a few of the members began searching around for their leader to see if he wanted them to do anything else around the Main Base. The members who went searching for their leader were able to find him in the kitchen; the تتییا, بھڑ was currently making the hot کوکو, نارجیل that he had mentioned.
"Does anyone want hot cocoa? I thought everyone might want a little something to warm up with considering it's very cool outside," Silver Sting کہا as he turned his head to look at his gang members. "That and I think everyone needs at least something small for pushing back the Blue آگ کے, آگ like آپ all did."
"Do آپ need any help, Barry?" Wind asked as she walked out of the crowd of Color Codex members and walked over to her gang leader. "Or do آپ think آپ have everything taken care of on your own? I know you're going to have to make a LOT of hot chocolate for everyone to be able to have some."
"I think I can handle it, Wind. Everything is almost already finished anyway," Barry replied. "First of all, I would like for everyone who collected something to go put it away; I'll look at it later. After that, everyone's free to spread out wherever they want, though I would appreciate it if everyone stayed near the میز, جدول as I would like to gather reports from everyone."
"Yes, sir," The Color Codex members all seemed to respond together to their leader. Some of the members proceeded to walk away to go put what they had found in Barry's office so he could look at it later while the other members stayed in the باورچی خانے, باورچی خانہ area; these members who stayed in the باورچی خانے, باورچی خانہ spread out a bit, with some of them standing around the room and leaning against the دیوار while the others took a نشست at the very large and long باورچی خانے, باورچی خانہ table.
"Barry, I couldn't find anyone hanging around the area and as far as I know none of the others who looked around with me saw any of the Blue آگ کے, آگ hanging around either," Fade spoke up as he walked over to his gang leader. "I was sure آپ would want me to رپورٹ that to you."
"Yes, I wanted to hear the رپورٹ on that," Barry replied as he continued making hot chocolate for everyone. "Thank آپ for looking around and making sure no one hid from us. I know we've never had that happen to us before, but I've had one of our allies tell me that they didn't pay attention to their area and got ambushed سے طرف کی people who hid around."
"I believe we've heard that story before as well," Fade کہا as he went to sit down at the very large میز, جدول in the room. He put a hand under his chin before leaning his head down. "Would آپ like the rest of the day's رپورٹ right this moment یا are آپ wanting to wait until everyone sits down?"
"You can wait," Barry replied. "I don't mind waiting for آپ to tell the daily reports. It would probably be a bit easier for me to just collect all the information at once at the میز, جدول and then sort everything later. If آپ told me something now, I might forget it once everyone else piles all of the other reports on سب, سب سے اوپر of it."
"Alright then, I'll wait," Fade replied as he leaned back in the chair he was sitting in and released a slight sigh as he began attempting to relax. He looked out of a window covered with a shutter. "You know, I heard that the weather was supposed to rain tomorrow."
"Yes, I heard that as well," Barry said. "I just hope it doesn't turn into a storm. Rain is hard enough to work in, so I don't really like the idea of it storming and making it that much مزید difficult to work in. Now, I'm not trying to offend, but it's hard for me to pay attention to what I'm doing while I'm trying to listen and talk to آپ at the exact same time. We can talk later, alright?"
"Whatever آپ say," Fade replied as he turned his head back and watched as some of the other Color Codex members began coming into the room and taking seats یا at least standing around in the room. All of the Color Codex members continued to flood into the room until the room was filled with the members who were all waiting for their leader to finish making the hot chocolate.
"So, who wants to start with their reports? Is there anything going on at this current moment that needs my immediate attention?" Barry asked as he sat at the very large میز, جدول with most of the gang members who were present in the Main Base. He took a sip of his hot chocolate and looked around the میز, جدول at all of the various male and female faces in front of him. He waited for an answer from any of the Color Codex member in front of him, but none of the members spoke up after a bit of waiting. "Alright, so nothing of important note has happened? Let's اقدام on then. Research team, آپ can start first."
The اگلے thirty منٹ یا so, each of the Color Codex members one سے طرف کی one gave their reports on what had happened during the دن to Barry, who simply sat and listened to each of his gang members while sipping on his hot chocolate. Nothing of particular interest was spoken except for the plans that Barry had been wanting for the last few days; these plans were for the building that they planned to strike the اگلے day. He had wanted a map drawn and he had waited research drawn up on the building, which had been done for him سے طرف کی his Mapping team and his Research team in the Color Codex. He was very happy with the maps and research they had made and he made sure to tell them he was indeed satisfied سے طرف کی their work. All of the Color Codex members simply continued talking to their boss and amongst each other until they finished drinking their hot cocoa; Barry then کہا everyone could be dismissed and watched as the Color Codex members began to leave the table, though Fade continued to stay at the table.
"Do آپ want the رپورٹ from me now?" Fade asked as he looked at Barry, who was currently cleaning up the mess that had been left.
"Yes, go ahead and give me your report," Barry replied. "Did آپ train Spadeic in مزید gun training as I asked آپ to do earlier today?"
"Yes, I did that. He's coming along quite nicely with that. He told me before that he's never used guns yet he's learning quite quickly," Fade replied. "Which is most likely a good thing as it means he learns faster."
"Alright then, I'm going to trust that آپ can continue to train him and teach him all that آپ know," Barry said.
"Do آپ plan on bringing Spadeic out on the mission tomorrow? I know that آپ haven't brought him out on a big mission yet."
"Yes, I do plan for that actually. I think he's been taught enough that he should be able to handle himself in the middle of a battle یا in the middle of escape. Now, thank آپ for your رپورٹ on Spadeic's progress. I appreciate it."
"You're welcome, sir. Will آپ be needing me at all in the اگلے few hours?"
"I doubt it. I want everyone to go ahead and get rested up for everything tomorrow. I don't want the whole plan to start going downhill just because some people are tired and can't perform their jobs correctly."
"Alright then, I will go inform everyone of that and go rest myself," Fade کہا as he stood up to leave the room. "I'm sure we'll be ready for tomorrow when the time comes," He added as he walked out of the room to inform the others in the gang that they needed to rest for the events that were to come tomorrow.