Restoration's Heroes

Badnik Corps Quarters: Restoration HQ.
Multiple people from across the Badnik Corps walk into the main room for announcements.
Badnik Corps Member 1: Oh boy! Today is the team ranking day!
Badnik Corps Member 2: You're not on a team.
Badnik Corps Member 1: So? I just like seeing who's the best.
Hammer: That would be us, of course.
Silence: Don't count your wins before they occur.
Gust: Shut it, hyena. You can't criticize us when you prefer hiding to actively fighting.
Alan: Oy! Not cool!
Thistle: You shouldn't even be here, this isn't a organization for humans!
Srish: Hey Alan, stop talking.
Alan: (snicker) Yeah, ok.
Katona: What's the matter? You afraid of us?
Dria: Shut it.
Gust: You got a problem with us?
Srish: I don't know, but maybe he does.
The Badnik Corps Commander then walks up to Team Sundown as Team Dragoon move aside.
BCC: Team Sundown, this is the 49th time you've infought with other teams. One more time, and you're going back to Ego Management classes, and forfeiting your perks again. Now apologize.
Hammer: Grr... Ok. We're sorry for causing a disturbance.
Whispering discussion then erupts among everyone.
Alan: So how does he keep track?
Srish: No idea.
Gust: That's the 8th time Team Dragoon got us in trouble! One of these days, i'm gonna show them what happens when you mess with the best!
Hammer: I don't see a way to do that and not get caught. Getting split up or fired won't do us any good.
Badnik Corps Member 2: How do Team Sundown even find time for 49 incidents?
Badnik Corps Member 3: There has to be at least 50% more that weren't caught, right?
Badnik Corps Member 4: I hate Team Sundown. I wish someone would knock them down a peg... or a rank.
Badnik Corps Member 1: Shush now and you might get your chance.
BCC: Alright everyone, quiet down.
Everyone shut up and turned to look at the screen.
BCC: As you know, today is our ranking day. First up, our newcomers, Team Elites, ranks 7th mostly for their relative newness. Next up, Team Fighters has ranked up from 6th to 4th, due to a string of successful missions and their improved attitude and cross-teamwork. Team Crackers are at 6th place due to being overtaken by Team Fighters. Team Egg Breakers are now at 5th place for the same reason. Team Superheroes are still 3rd place. And Team Sundown have ranked down due to a string of ego problems, leaving Team Dragoon in 1st place. Oh, and the unofficial two-person tag team The Dualists are in between 4th and 5th place.
As Team Fighters high-five each other for their rank improvement, and The Dualists celebrate being on the list, everyone else cheers for Team Dragoon.
Badnik Corps Member 1: Congratulations, Team Dragoon.
Badnik Corps Member 4: Woohoo! Finally!
Egg Breakers Member 1: About time those irritants got a loss.
Elites Member 1: I'm not sure what's the deal with Team Sundown, but congratulations, Team Dragoon.
Alan: Finally! We reached the top!
Gust: No! This isn't allowed!
BCC: Don't make this your 50th incident.
Hammer: Dude, no!
Gust: Your stated reason for downranking us was you didn't like us! That's not right! We have the same success rate as we always have!
BCC: Causing disturbances is a listed negative factor in rank calculation. Fighting with other teams is a listed disturbance. 
Gust: Team Dragoon was fighting with us! They only stopped when you arrived!
BCC: Even if that's true, dropping the subject because a superior showed up is still a smart decision.
Gust: I won't let you-!
BCC: Last. Chance.
Hammer: Hehehe, sorry.(Shut up Gust!)
BCC: Alright... So anyways, We have a mission for the new top team. A new major Badnik plant has been created, and we need you to destroy it. You will also bring a team of your choice to assist.
Alan: I think we'll choose
Dria: Team Sundown!
Everyone: WHAT?
Srish: But i wanted to fight beside Team Superheroes!
Alan: I wanted to take Team Elites.
Dria: We need to prevent any resentment from boiling over, we're taking Team Sundown.
Silence: They're also the second best. They will prove effective.
Alan: (If their egos don't hamper both of us.)
Thistle: I don't want to fight beside these losers!
BCC: Their decision is final.
Alan: The decision hasn't been finalized yet.
BCC: Two people agreed to call on Team Sundown, compared to one vote each for Team Superheroes and Team Elites. I'd say that's a pretty final decision. 
Silence: It's the smart decision.
Alan: Fine.
Hammer: We may not like you, but a mission's a mission. 
Srish: Same.
BCC: The copter's waiting for you. Now go.
Team Dragoon and Team Sundown head to the dual-team chopper, getting strapped in as it heads off to the Badnik factory.
Thistle: I can't believe we got forced to fight beside these weaklings.
Gust: Tell me about it.
Dria: I don't recall you being mad you had to fight alongside other teams when you could choose. 
Srish: That was obviously because they could choose.
Thistle: As we should be. After all, we have superpowers, like all the REAL heroes do.
Silence: Whisper, Big and Charmy say otherwise.
As that starts a heated debate, Alan, for once, elects to follow Hammer's example and stay out of it.
Hammer: So, do you even have a plan?
Alan: The winning strategy of course. I'll head for the factory power station, Dria will back everyone up, Srish will attack from another angle to create a distraction, and Silence will sneak in while we do all that. You can fit yourselves in whatever way best suits your skillset.
Silence immediately turns to face Alan at this.
Silence: This again? Why not go all in on stealth?
Gust: Because that's a stupid plan, and so is yours! We should attack, while you just sit down and watch!
Katona: What happened, did the topic change?
Thistle: Yes, idiot!
Srish: Your plan has flaws. First off, you cannot expect us to just watch. Second off, you will need the support. Third off, we can't handle concentrated Eggman Empire might, we need to spread it thin.
Hammer: Here's my idea, a eight-way attack. We each attack from a different angle and fight our way to the core. 
Dria: Once again, brute force won't work. Could we try fighting from the exterior wall?
Thistle: You don't actually think that's feasible, do you? Only you can fly!
Katona: Maybe the human's right for once.
Gust: You are not allowed to-
Hammer: He did say we could work ourselves into his strategy as we liked. We can decide in what way we want to fight.
Gust: You're right...
Hammer: I always am.
Katona: Except when you suggested-
Hammer then pointed his Wispon at Katona.
Hammer: Don't finish that sentence.
Pilot: Alright you violent gerbils, here we are.
Thistle: Did this-
Hammer: Don't start with our ride outta here.
The two teams then get out and look on at the larger-than-normal Eggman base.
Hammer: A bit larger than our standard faire.
Alan: Certainly never got missions this big before.
Srish: Alright, now, Team Sundown, which of us are you gonna follow?
Katona: What does that entail?
Hammer: Following the human is fighting, following the bug is fighting but in a different direction, following the dog is hiding then fighting, and following the bird may mean switching between any of them. Me, i'm going to be a distraction.
Katona: I'm following the human.
Thistle: Stealth is dumb, i'm following the bug.
Gust: You're right Thistle, but the bug is also dumb, i'm following the human.
Srish: Oy!
Alan: Well, with that settled, let's go!
The teams then head for the wall, and as they get close, Gust starts arguing with Silence
Gust: Why do you even like stealth anyways? You afraid to fight? Or are you just terrible at it?
Silence: Shh.
Gust: Why? Did i hurt your feelings?
Silence: No, because-
A Egg Pawn on a turret then catches notice and fires at the two, with the blast being blocked by one of Hammer's electric barriers. Dria then attacks the Egg Pawn.
Silence: That happens.
Hammer: Alright, who drew their attention?
The two then point at each other.
Hammer:(Bah, i'm pretty sure i know who)"Alan, does the hyena normally draw attention?"
Alan: If any of us would have done it, it would have been me.
Hammer: Dang it Gust! Why can you never keep your mouth shut!
Dria: Ok, turrets are down, no thanks to you. It's now or never people.
Katona punches the main door, shattering a hole into it with his power. He then jumps in, supported with a electric barrier from Hammer, and pulls out his dual shot grenade-launcher Wispon, empowered with his Bomb Wisp, and fires at the initial defense squad of Badniks, quickly crushing them. Balkirys then emerge and jet towards him.
Katona: I need a Bird Zapper stat!
Dria: You calling for me?
Dria then flies in and fires her Eagle Wispon, destroying the Balkirys.
Katona: Actually, no, Bird Zapper is a strategy name of ours-
Gust: Hurry up Katona!
The rest of Team Dragoon and Team Sundown then rush in, heading for a open area right in front of them.
Silence and Hammer: That appears to be the main foundry straight ahead.
Alan: My team, follow me!
Srish: My team, follow me!
Katona: Hang on, oh yeah.
The two teams then split up as Badniks rush in from all sides. Hammer granting Srish a electric shield as he busts through the Badniks with his Rhythm Wispon, as Gust sends his team upwards with his wind powers, before he and Katona Spin Attack some Badniks. Dria grabs Alan by the shirt as he gets disoriented by the sudden jump, and Silence grabs Alan's arm, before using his other arm to fire Silencer, blowing up more Badniks. Dria then lands Silence, who fires at the Badniks coming up from behind, before carefully placing Alan down and landing next to him, and then pulling him up. Alan then throws Laser claws from his Lightcutter Claws, slicing apart the Badniks and creating a weaponized wall for the others. Srish then opens a door to a sub foundry as he and his team rush through, before closing it, with Hammer then putting up a electric barrier around it. Katona, meanwhile, shatters a hole into the wall of the main foundry, opening a way through to a hallway for his team. They rush through, before Silence blows a hole in a second floor's floor, raining rubble around their entrance, blocking it.
Team 1
Alan: Phew, we made it. Now what the heck was that, Gust?
Gust: My wind powers. It's not my fault you weren't prepared.
Dria: Warn us next time!
Silence: Hey, there's a door to deeper into the facility! I'll go that way!
Katona: See you later!
As Silence splits off, the rest of the team runs down the hallways, destroying conveyer belts as they find them as well as Badniks guarding the foundry until Badniks from outside enter. 
Gust: Incoming!
The team jumps behind a metal box as the Badniks open fire, but the Badniks normally inside the facility rally and rush towards the team. Katona grabs another metal crate and places it at their undefended back to defend against the pincer, before jumping out of cover and blasting both approaching Badnik squads. Dria joins him to defend his flank, while Alan fires the Lightcutter Claws from cover at the entering Badniks. Gust then rolls out of cover and draws a assault-rifle style Wispon, firing Lightning shots at the remaining interior Badniks, using his wind powers as a pseudo homing. With their back covered, the team focus fire on the entering Badniks, destroying them quickly, but they just kept coming, until their attention was diverted by a explosion.
Dria: I'll go see if the distraction team needs any help.
Katona: Err, what was that?
Alan: The reason we have a distraction team. Come on, let's keep going!
The team then continues running down the hallway, until Silence dives out of a door, and shuts it.
Gust: Stealth not working out for you?
Silence: Shut up and help me!
The door is then blown open by a E-2000, who is then promptly decimated by fire from the entire team. Egg Pawns then rush through the opening, prompting the team to dive for cover.
Alan: What was that thing?
Silence: I don't know! Thing nearly scorched me!
Gust: We usually have to leave those things to Katona.
Silence then blows up the group of Egg Pawns, and the team continues heading down the hallway before finally finding a room marked with a electrical hazard label, as well as a ominously shadowy continuation of the hallway. 
Katona: Hey! We found the power core!
A Elite Egg Hammer then steps out of the shadows, as Egg Pawns light the darkness with their energy weapons. Silence gets struck, and Alan quickly grabs him and pulls him to a metal box for cover. Gust fires into the darkness in a attempt to hit the Egg Pawns, but Katona grabs him and carries him to cover.
Gust: Why was there conveniently a dark patch there?
Silence: Maybe i knocked out the lighting somewhere?
Alan: Egg Hammer right in front of us!
Just as the Elite Egg Hammer was about to attack the team, a Eagle shot distracts it.
Hammer: Coming through!
Srish: To the side, idiot Badniks!
The Badniks focus fire on Dria as she flies around, firing at Badniks. At the same time, Hammer and Srish charged at the Elite Egg Hammer, Srish sliding under it, causing it's initial attack to miss. Hammer then activates his sword-like Wispon and slices it's left leg off with Frenzy energy, causing it to fall over and knocking it's helmet off. Srish then shoots the thing in the button on it's head, destroying it. The rest of the team then turns around and fires in the direction of the Egg Pawns, destroying them all despite the darkness. Alan's team then steps out from behind the metal box.
Alan: So, Srish, where were you?
Srish: Oh you know...
Team 2
Srish: Ok, ok... How long do we have until the barrier falls?
Hammer: I doubt they'll attack it. 
Srish: Oh? Why's that?
Hammer: Badniks aren't programmed to recognize sudden electric oddities.
To punctuate that, a Badnik is destroyed trying to enter the electric field.
Hammer: Now then, let's destroy this badnik plant, starting with that conveyer belt!
Srish: Hang on.
Thistle: You can't tell us what to do, you don't have powers!
Srish: I SAID WAIT!
Hammer: What?
Srish: As the distraction team, it's not our job to be efficient, but rather distracting. We should find something explosive to detonate.
Hammer: Alright. 
Badniks patrolling the small foundry then find the team, and open fire. Hammer puts up multiple electric barriers, but then Thistle grabs his staff-like Wispon and fires Burst blasts out of it's bottom like a Burst Wispon, destroying the Badniks.
Thistle: You're slow AND powerless, aren't you?
Srish: Shut up and move.
The team then run through the small base, busting the patrolling Badniks as they're found, before they find a room of explosive chemicals.
Hammer: Alright. Now let's set this bomb i brought and-
Thistle: No, let's do this!
Thistle then fires Burst flames at the boxes, but in a fashion more reminiscent of a actual flamethrower.
Srish: Dangit! We gotta go!
The team then dash away from the room, and dive behind metal boxes, then cover their ears, hearing the ear-splitting sound of the explosion even through their plugged ears. The roof around them then starts collapsing, causing the team to dash back to the entrance they came through. They blast through the Badniks that followed them in after the barrier vanished, and then run back out into the open area. Thistle and Srish then notice a assortment of Egg Pawns crowding around a entrance into the main facility, as well as more heading in the direction of the explosion. Thistle then shoots a couple with orbs of Burst energy summoned by his staff, causing the entire group to turn and chase after the team. 
Hammer: Thistle! Why'd you do that?!
Thistle: The powerless, yet still above us in rank bug told us we were to distract the Badniks, that's what i just did.
Srish: He has a point.
Hammer was about to rebuttal that claim, but noticed more Balkiries flying in, and shot them down with Frenzy shots from his sword-like Wispon.
Hammer: 100% accuracy, as always.
Srish then shot down some Flappers that were coming up behind them with a Rhythm blast, before Hammer slashed a entrance into being into another smaller foundry. Thistle then dived for cover as Hammer ignited his sword Wispon. As the Badniks ran in through the hole, Thistle and Srish shot them down, while Hammer ran back towards them, until a Egg Hammer smashed through the wall, getting in and widening the gap. Hammer dodged it's attack, then retaliated by slashing it's legs off, but Egg Pawns switched to their arm cannons and started firing. Hammer ran for a metal box, but was shot in the back, conveniently sliding over to where Thistle was. Thistle then stopped firing, and pulled Hammer to cover, before using his healing touch power to heal Hammer. Just as he was fully healed, Srish got shot by a Egg Pawn in the leg. Hammer returned to firing at the Badniks, but so did Thistle, ignoring the downed Srish.
Hammer: Thistle, go heal him.
Thistle: We don't need his help, and he doesn't deserve mine!
Hammer: Heal him, or we're all in trouble!
Thistle then growls and runs over to Srish, quickly healing his injured leg, before getting back behind cover and continuing to attack. Srish then dives behind the metal box as well before firing again. Seeing that they weren't doing anything, many of the Egg Pawns ran for the metal box the team was behind, before their support fire was destroyed by Eagle blasts. Hammer immediately capitalized on this, charging into the Egg Pawns and destroying them in seconds. 
Dria: Howdy boys! Looks like you needed some saving.
Thistle: No. We didn't.
Srish: Did you see any more Badniks?
Dria: Anything left, i think would be inside.
Hammer: Then let's do this!
The team then went to catch up with Team 1, reaching them just in time to destroy the Elite Egg Hammer that was threatening them.
Srish: -Destroying Badniks.
Alan: Great! Now does anyone have any bombs to fry this power core?
Hammer: I have one.
Hammer then plants the bomb right up against the power core and sets it to one minute.
Hammer: Alright, we have one minute. Let's go people!
The two teams then dash out of what remains of the factory, and as they reach the helicopter, the bomb goes off, and the power core gloriously detonates, releasing a electric explosion.
Gust and Thistle: Don't think this is over.
Alan: I never expected that.
Dria: Did we at least learn to be a bit more respectful?
Gust: Bah.
The two teams then get on the helicopter and go back to base. 
The End.
Category:Fanfiction
Category:Sonic Postgame(Hero of Team Dragoon's AU)