The C.O.P.S

Episode 2: Mutiny or Destiny?

Lance was confused. He had made a mistake with his typing, but thought that there would be some form of auto-correct. "Hello? Is anyone there?" He asked the darkness. "Welcome, Lance. I know this is not where you're supposed to be, but you don't have much time. Don't ask questions. My name is Phoh, and I'm a friend. Lead your team into battle cautiously, because a great force will threaten to bring about the extinction of the strongest race in Aresia. The human. Good. Now that I got that out of the way, I need to say this. YOU GUYS NEED TO CLEAN YOUR DAMN BATHROOMS! This place is filthy!" A voice said. A dark figure whooshed past, and turned on the lights. It then vanished, but Lance could catch a flash of orange and blue. The unknown being left behind a handle and a note. The note said "Have fun with this!". Lance picked up the handle. "What just happened?!" he said. He started to walk out, and ran right into a girl holding a hammer. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THE GIRL'S ROOM?!" She exclaimed. "I didn't realize that's where this is! I swear! I was teleporting to the west wing entrance, and somehow ended up here!" Lance explained. He didn't really want to mention the strange... thing that he was talking to just a moment ago. "Oh really. So you think that a teleportation to the WEST WING would bring you here? Wow. That's SO believable." The girl said, gripping the handle of her hammer tightly. "What are you doing with that?" Lance asked nervously. "I'm giving you a little... 'punishment'." the girl replied , rushing at Lance.

He panicked, and held the handle out defensively. Before the hammer came into contact with him, a red circle of energy formed from his handle.The girl's hammer flew back, and threw her into the wall. "Now that was cool. But as much as I would love to stay and fight, I have a place to be..." Lance said, running out of the bathroom. When he got out, he was exposed to a large room, filled with creatures of all shapes and sizes. Beings that he had never seen in his life. A large sign was perched at the top of an archway in the room. It said "WEST WING". The girl that attacked Lance before emerged from the bathroom. Lance quickly ran into the large crowd. He wandered around,until he ran into Stone. "Lance! Good for you! You managed to be competent, unlike some OTHER people on my team." She said,patting Lance on the back. "Now stay and listen for the daily report. Captain Denfuis told me there was something urgent.".Before Lance could protest Stone's rude threats, a loud static noise drowned out the noise of the crowd. A slightly inaudible female voice blasted out of speakers located in the corners of both sides of the archway. "Hello everyone! West Captain Denfuis here!" The voice began. "Today on the report I don't actually have much of anything different to say. Team Omicron, as always, is at the top of the rankings, and Team Tau is right behind." Stone rolls her eyes at this. "But the one thing that I do have to say is that we have ascended to code Zero. The problem with the faceless killer is getting worse, and the government is right up my tail on making it the focus of our teams. That is all, and I would like to see Team Tau in my office at dusk.".

When the crowd cleared, Stone looked around. The rest of her team (Who Lance was introduced to when he woke up) walked up to them. "You ready Lance? You've been chosen as one of us, so you're coming with us to meet Captain Denfuis. Please don't freak out." Jgynn said. "Oh boy, am I excited." Lance said sarcastically, walking forward."That's not where we're going." Stone said, walking towards a door. There wasn't anything peculiar or special about it, aside from the fact that it had a little metal sign that said "Denfuis".Chompi opened the door, and Lance saw a human-demon. "Hello Lance,I've been expecting you." The demon said, extending a scaled hand.Lance froze. Well, at least she's not really ugly, I would've run in that situation. "I'm Captain Denfuis, leader of the West Wing. You've been brought to this time because we need your help with a mission that is of utmost importance. A faceless killer has been murdering random people. It's elusiveness makes it a very dangerous opponent to us. And now it has gotten worse. It now calls itself "The Dark One", and has formed a cult. Normal people see him as a human terrorist, but he is truly not. He is a Wisp. I assume you know what that is?". Lance, not paying attention to most of this, looks up suddenly and nods. "Good. I have have assigned you to team Tau, and a room has been prepared for you. Stone, the central AI has some news for you. Take Lance with you to see it.

"Hello Stone. Hello Lance. I have some news." The central AI said. Lance and Stone were standing in the middle of a small brown room. It was pretty empty, aside from a charging station, obviously for the AI."What is the news this time? Are we getting another raise?" Stone asked, nervously shifting from paw to paw. "I'm going to cut to the chase. Denfuis decided for some reason that Lance should be the new leader of team Tau. I'm so sorry Stone." The AI replied. Stone looked at Lance with murderous violet eyes. "YOU?! LEAD ME?! WHAT KIND IS NIGHTMARE IS THIS?!" Stone exclaimed, storming out of the room. "Wait! Stone! I don't know where the team quarters are!"Lance yelled. All of a sudden, Denfuis's voice came onto the loudspeaker. "Lights out West Wing! We need to stay as the best, so we need our rest!" she said, as all of the lights went out. Lance sighed.

"That's just great."