Fighting For the Sake of the Wisps

Team Dragoon walked down the streets of Wisp City, eating some snacks. Alan was having some ketchup chips, Dria was enjoying a strawberry popsicle, Srish was slurping down a slushie, and Silence casually munched on some popcorn, coated with multiple flavorings. As they walked, they marveled at all the Wisps passing by them.
Alan: This is certainly deserving of the name Wisp City. Just look at all of the Wisps!
Srish: It's so big too! Can barely believe it was built only in a couple months.
Dria: That's the Restoration for you. We only needed a few weeks to restore all the towns torn up by the Zombots and Zeti when i was part of the Security Corps, it makes some form of sense that they could build a city rather quickly.
Silence: No it doesn't. The Zombots and Zeti only did so much damage. Rebuilding is one thing, but plain building is entirely different.
Alan: Yeah, well, i heard that they also hired a building crew comprised entirely of superpowered animilains.
Srish: Eh?
Alan: You don't have a species name, last i checked.
Dria: Yeah, it gets confusing.
Striker then high fives a fellow Lightning Wisp, as Distractor and another Quake Wisp push against each other, seeing who's stronger. Feathers and Waves watch the event, Feathers not exactly approving, but Waves watching to see the winner.
Wolf Citizen: Mets! Come on, you've done this with every Quake Wisp we've met! Sorry about that... Which of you's friends with the Quake Wisp?
Alan: No, no, it's fine. I'm pretty sure Distractor started it.
Wolf Citizen: Distractor?
Alan: Weird name, i know, but fits his role. Plus, he's fine with it.
The wolf person then grabs Mets and heads off, as a Cube Wisp also with the wolf person looked at Mets disappointedly.
Srish: Well. That was a thing.
Team Dragoon then returned to having snacks and wandering Wisp City, for all of half a minute before they noticed people, and especially Wisps running away from something. Dria immediately stopped one of them, a human, and asked them what was happening.
Dria: What's going on? Why are you running?
Citizen: There's shooters, armed with Wispons!
Team Dragoon immediately ran the opposite direction of everybody else, hoping to figure out what was going on. As they ran, Silence threw his half eaten bag of popcorn into a nearby trash can to free his hands, Srish attempted to do the same with his slushie, but missed and had to properly put it in, Dria kept hold of her popsicle, as her Wispon could operate hands free, and Alan, wanting to hold onto his chips, folded the bag so it would fit into a pocket, and stuck it into his back pocket. As Team Dragoon arrived, a police officer stopped them.
Officer: You should keep back. We're dealing with a group of shooters armed with Wispons. 
Alan: We've dealt with worse. We're part of the Badnik Corps, can you at least let us see?
Officer: I suppose. But be careful.
Team Dragoon went through and soon reached the fighting. As they stepped in though, another police officer stopped them.
Communications Officer: How did you get past the police line?
Dria: We're part of the Badnik Corps, we thought we could help.
Communications Officer: What team?
Srish: Team Dragoon of course!
Communications Officer: Oh! Good to know you're professionals. Do you have your Wispons though?
Team Dragoon pull out their Wispons.
Communications Officer: Right. Watch yourselves though. The special team seems to be having problems.
Team Dragoon then finally got past and reached the fight. As they got behind a defensive setup, a special response member noticed them.
Special Response Member: What-
Silence: We're Team Dragoon ok? I see the shooters have shields?
Special Response Member: Yes, and laser resistant vests, somehow. Our pistols have nothing on them, but their Wispons are piercing our own shields and protective vests! 
Alan: They're metal though. I have a idea.
Alan calls Striker into his Wispon, then shoots the metal shield of one of the attackers, electrifying it and electrocuting the holder. As the shooter collapses, the Special Response member next to them fires their laser pistol at the feet of another shooter who was defending from another angle, knocking them down as well. The other shield holders form around one member at the center, and two focus on Team Dragoon and the SR member beside them. As Team Dragoon duck behind cover, the member in the center activates a walkie talkie.
Shooter: Uh, Boss? You said there would be no other Wispon users to worry about here, but we've got THE Team Dragoon right in front of us!
???: So i was wrong, so what?! You have Wispons, use them! I'll send you some backup to defeat those pathetic special forces and chase off Team Dragoon, then you will evacuate the city before G-U-N arrives!
Following orders, the shooter in the middle fires a rocket launcher Wispon, destroying Team Dragoon's cover. In response, some of the pinned SR members fire at the two facing Team Dragoon, distracting one, which the SR member shoots in the back, and as the second ducks behind his shield, Alan shoots it, electrocuting the shooter through it. Silence then fires into the opening, throwing the shooter in the center into one with a shield, knocking both out. With two major openings, the remaining shielded shooters are taken down as they try to regroup. Just as the SR attempts to capture the taken down shooters, five more shooters run in, one with a shotgun Wispon instead of the pistol-shield combo and shoot multiple SR members in the back. Thoroughly irritated, Dria flies up and shoots the shielded shooters from above, taking them down. The remaining one responds with a shotgun blast that glances across Dria, knocking her back to ground, where Srish catches her.
Shooter 2: Blasted shotgun! Fire inwards, not outwards!
As the shooter complains, Alan fires at them, followed by a couple SR members. The shooter dodges, and responds with another shotgun blast that Alan dodges.
Alan: You know, I'm a bit angry you interrupted a perfectly good trip.
Shooter 2: Like i care!
Alan then tries a different attack, throwing his Lightning claws at the shooter. The claws hit and strike the shooter with Wisp lightning, taking them down. With the shooters now down, the police step in, arresting the shooters. As the police make their arrests, Srish picks up one of the Wispon pistols. As he and the rest of Team Dragoon look at it, Srish sees a hatch on the top, which he opens. Out pops a White Wisp, which attempts to float off, but falls, and is caught by Dria. The Wisp quickly floats out of Dria's hand and towards a officer, but some weird white fluid is left behind.
Dria: Eh? Wisps don't usually leave fluids when they're held.
Srish: Perhaps it's something from the weapon itself?
Alan, meanwhile, was looking around, and noticed the police were releasing a bunch of Wisps from weird gun-shaped devices separate from the shooter's weapons.
Alan: Hey, team, i think the shooters were after Wisps!
Officer: That's exactly what they were after.
Srish: Wait, what?
Officer: When we first arrived, the shooters were chasing and capturing Wisps with handheld devices. Oh, and we'll need to take the gun.
Alan: These should be brought to Tails. 
Officer: I assure you, he'll be included in figuring this out. But we need the weapon right now.
Alan:(he hands over the gun.)"You should probably open them all up. The Wisp inside didn't look so hot when we released it."
Officer: I'll inform the others.
Team Dragoon subsequently heads out of Wisp City and back to the Badnik Corps Barracks. Not one second after they had arrived though, Jewel called them to her office, and they headed there immediately, finally sitting down in chairs in the office.
Jewel: Team Dragoon! Glad you were here so quickly. 
Dria: We just got back! Why'd you call for us?
Jewel: G-U-N wishes to speak with you.
Jewel turns on the screen in her office, and the G-U-N Commander appears.
Commander: Team Dragoon. Good to see you're fine after helping fight off those shooters. The Special Response Unit says you were a big help.
Alan: I'm glad we turned out alright as well. But congratulations don't warrant such a summons. 
Commander: Quite right. We've found out that the shooters were actually part of a group, known as the Anti-Ailen Alliance. With all the gear we've seen the group use, we're classifying them as highly dangerous.
Dria: So why are you calling us?
Commander: We've found their leader. 
Srish: That was quick.
Commander: But we hope to capture their leader, and with the kind of firepower reported, it would be best if we sent people with Badnik fighting prowess.
Dria: Why us and not Team Dark, though?
Commander: The fight against the AAA is moving too fast for anything about their leader's behavior to be determined, so we don't know if they'll flee should someone attack. It's best if a entire team sneaks into their base, and Team Dark is currently busy. We hope to end this now, and you're the best team we have on such short notice.
Silence: Got it.
Commander: We'll send you the coordinates of the base momentarily, as well as a picture of the leader.
Silence: Alright.
As G-U-N's Commander logs off to prepare the coordinates, Silence turns to his teammates.
Silence: It appears we're going on a stealth mission. Since i can be sure Alan's gonna be no good leading a stealth mission, I'll be the leader this time.
Alan: Hey, he's right.
Srish: So, "Leader", how will we infiltrate the base?
Silence: We'll take the Dragoon Sigil, and park it somewhere hidden near the base. Once there, we'll figure out how to enter the base, and sneak our way to wherever the leader is, then defeat them and call for backup to properly arrest them.
Jewel: Sounds like a plan. I'll be on standby.
With a plan prepared, Team Dragoon got on the Dragoon Sigil, and zoomed towards the base. A few minutes later, they reach a suitable place to dismount the Dragoon Sigil and proceed on foot, soon reaching the end to the tree line, with the base in a clearing. As they look around, Team Dragoon notices a lack of guards outside the wooden base.
Silence: No guards... They're clearly new to this whole evil group thing.
Team Dragoon open the base's front door unopposed, but quickly hide behind the opened door as a AAA member notices it open.
AAA Member: These blasted doors never stay shut!
The AAA member just shuts the door, not noticing Team Dragoon, and then walks off. Silence sends in Specter 2 to check if they're clear, and they come back a couple seconds later with assurance they are. Team Dragoon then enter properly, and look around for a bit, before they hide in a doorless room as another member passes, before stopping to talk to himself.
AAA Member 2: Why are we still using this base? It's got no computers, nothing electric, not even a Wisp experimentation and storage room! We should have burned this base by now, and yet the boss himself is here, apparently to test something here of all places. It's like he's trying to be found... Maybe he is.
The member then walks back the way he came, and Team Dragoon start discussing what they just heard.
Alan(whispering): You heard that too right? They've got more bases, and this one's apparently pretty old among them.
Silence(whispering): Yep. It might be like they said, the leader might be luring us in for some reason.
Srish(whispering): So? We'll just use their bravado against them. We'll find and defeat their leader before capturing all the others here.
Dria(whispering): But what could they be testing?
Team Dragoon subsequently return to looking for where the leader is, before having to stop again for two members this time, diving into another empty room until they passed by. After the members left, Team Dragoon finally found the leader, a lion person, when a strong wind blew open a door that led outside, where the leader was shooting targets with one of the AAA's pistol Wispons while wearing two tanks of something or other connected to something he was standing on. Team Dragoon snuck in, but as they approached the leader, without turning, he addressed them.
Leader: Ah yes, you're finally here, Team Dragoon.
When Team Dragoon refused to respond, he turned to face them.
Leader: You're not as stealthy as you think, you know.
Silence: When did you realize?
Leader: Pretty early on. The benefit of a wooden base is they can have a lot of peepholes without people really realizing.
Silence: Dang it! Why didn't I think of that?
Alan: Yes, yes, so what? You haven't raised the alarm or anything, you clearly wanted us here, what kind of trap even is this?
Leader: Not a trap. A test. A test of our latest Wispon design.
Srish: So, Mr Leader person, is that all we call you? And what's with the tanks on your back?
Leader: You can dub me Commander Genocide.
Dria: Not subtle at all, are you?
Genocide: Subtlety is for my generals to figure out, I started this to destroy Wisps as a species, and that's just what i'm gonna do!
Team Dragoon: You sick-
Genocide: Oh shut it with any speeches.
Genocide jumps off what he was standing on, and picked it up before immediately shooting it, firing a massive laser at Team Dragoon. Team Dragoon jumped aside, and so Genocide fired again, focusing on Alan. As Alan was forced to dodge, the rest of Team Dragoon fired their Wispons at Genocide, but he dodged and jumped the attacks, before firing twice, sweeping his beams to maximize area covered per shot, which almost caught Alan head on and tore through his base. The other members noticed the fight, but instead of joining it, they fled to escape the wild laser shots. Alan attempted to close the gap alongside Srish, but were pushed back by two sweeping blasts from the massive laser cannon. In one final attempt to hit someone, Genocide fired along the ground, vaporizing the ground Alan was standing on and causing him to fall. Before Genocide could fire again and fry Alan, his tanks were hit by the Silencer, having forgotten to keep track of Silence. The tanks were unharmed, but the force caused him to be forced forwards and misfire into the sky. Genocide attempted to fire again, but nothing was fired.
Alan: No ammo?
Genocide: Blast it, out of Wisps.
Dria: The heck kinda gun are you firing?!
Genocide: The kind that accomplishes my goals!
Genocide drops the huge gun and Wisp tanks, then pulls out his pistol, but instead of firing it, he flipped a switch on the side, releasing a needle filled with a cyan fluid. As Team Dragoon watched in pure confusion, Genocide injected the fluid into himself, somehow allowing him use of Cyan Laser. With the power, he ricocheted off of Team Dragoon before flying through the walls of the base, and through the forest.
Srish: Can we chase him? 
Silence: We stand no chance of catching him in these woods
With the leader gone, Alan calls in to report their failure.
Jewel: Team Dragoon, good to hear you. I presume you caught the leader?
Alan: Yeah, sorry, but no. He slipped into the woods with the Laser Wisp power.
Jewel: Regrettable, but nothing we can do much about. What about any other members?
Alan: They saw our battle and had enough sense to retreat.
Jewel: Well, win or not, you should probably return. 
In Jewel’s office, Tails enters, and informs Jewel of something that makes her go white.
Jewel: You’re kidding…
Alan: Jewel?
Jewel: When you get back, head to my office. Tails discovered something awful.
As Alan cuts the call, Team Dragoon gather.
Dria: Alan? What was with Jewel?
Alan: Jewel wants us in her office when we get back. Says she’s found out something awful.
Silence: I’m gonna check his gun. He said it worked off Wisps.
Silence finds the hatch for the massive gun and opens it, but aside from some leftover energy, there was nothing in the gun. Silence breaks a Wisp container open, but finds no Wisps or anything.
Silence: Odd…
Dria: You don’t think perhaps he meant it treats Wisps as ammo, do you?
Srish: We can only hope.
Team Dragoon grab Genocide’s left behind mega gun and empty tanks, then take the Dragoon Sigil back to Restoration HQ. After dropping the Dragoon Sigil off, they head to Jewel’s office, where they find pretty much everyone. Sonic, Tails, Amy, Tangle, Whisper, Lanolin and of course Jewel are directly there, while G-U-N, Cream and family, the Chaotix and others were on video call. 
Jewel: Good, you’re all here.
Alan: Jewel? What did you discover?
Jewel: It was actually Tails who discovered it. He’s been reverse engineering the Wispons taken from the AAA people, so he should probably brief us.
Tails: I’ll cut to the chase. The guns aren’t normal Wispons. They’re torture devices for Wisps as well as Wispons.
Everyone else, except Jewel, Team Dark and the G-U-N Commander gasp.
Commander: G-U-N engineers discovered this as well. First off, these Wispons operate on a higher power level than the normal Wispon, but are also specifically tuned to organic matter. Or in other words, they’re made for fighting people, not Badniks. As well, they’re designed to injure Wisps thanks to a specialized energy chamber, and use modified Badnik tech to keep them there.
Srish: So that fluid the White Wisp left was-
Tails: As well, reports have shown multiple varieties of Wisps have been used in these pistols, with the same effects every time, making them a modified class of Variable Wispon. They also have a syringe built into them, but the purpose hasn’t yet been discovered. 
Alan: I know what those syringes do.
Commander: Tell us.
Alan: While we were fighting the leader, when we were about to beat them, he pulled the syringe out, and it was filled with a cyan fluid. He then used it on himself, and used the power of Cyan Laser to escape. By context clues, I believe the syringe may have extracted the fluid from a Cyan Wisp, which was probably powering the pistol.
Commander: Good to know, even if it came at the cost of not having the AAA’s leader. Did you find anything else?
Silence plonks the mega gun down on the desk
Silence: The leader attacked us with this gun. It fired massive laser beams, and the leader said it used Wisps as ammunition.
Tails: So? That’s normal for Wispons.
Silence: There’s a difference between a Wispon being powered by Wisps, and using Wisps as ammo. If I’m right, it consumed a Wisp’s entire Hyper Go On supply and killed them every shot.
Tails: That… that would require a supply of Wisps. It doesn’t look big enough to store them internally and-
Srish: The leader was wearing two canisters on his back, and they connected to the gun. They probably held the Wisps… before…
Everyone processes the possibility that a gun that kills Wisps to fire exists right in front of them, until Whisper stands up.
Whisper: Where is he?
Dria: We don’t know where the leader is. 
Whisper: Then I’ll find him myself.
As Whisper attempts to leave, Sonic stops her.
Sonic: Look, I want to catch him just as much as you do, But we don’t have enough info yet. I have no doubt they’ll be back.
Commander: Back on the subject at hand, another weapon of theirs is a Wisp-capturing gun. It catches them with energy tendrils, and stores them in mini capsules. The Anti Ailen Alliance has a lot of other gear as well, from shields to other Wispon classes. Now that we have a understanding of their gear, did you discover anything else, Team Dragoon?
Alan: They did say they have more bases, and that the base their leader was at was old. The base in question was made of wood, so it checks out
Commander: So it was a trap then?
Alan: The leader guy, he called himself Genocide, said it was a test, presumably of the mega beam Wispon here.
Sonic: Couldn’t be less subtle if he tried… Grr…
Dria: What do we do now?
Commander: We must prepare for future attacks. 
Vector: We’ll begin searching for their base.
Espio: These monsters must be stopped.
Shadow: I concur. They must be eliminated for the safety of the Wisps.
Omega: I WILL DESTROY THEM!
Sonic: I agree. Eggman’s done awful things, but even he doesn’t go to genocide.
Knuckles: But didn’t he do just that to the Wisps when he made that Interstellar Amusement Park thing?
Tails: Actually, all the Wisps who were drained of their Hyper Go On were turned into Nega-Wisps. Nega Wisps are prone to health issues, but are still living Wisps.
Sonic: Exactly. Now then. Those AAA people better count their days, cause we’re coming for them!
Everyone: Yeah!
The End.
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