Martin Mystery: New Allies

By: Ominae

Rating: PG-13

NOTE:

All characters of Martin Mystery are under the copyright of Marathon; Yu Ominae is a copyright of Striker/Spriggan; John Vattic is a copyright of Codemasters and Free Radical. The character Mark Sy is under my jurisdiction and some parts of his life are based from my experience. The character Patrick Chan is also under my jurisdiction.

I've decided to make a twist with this fanfic and add some gun-slinging action and martial arts (I was hooked with Spriggan and the character John Vattic from Second Sight). A crossover story with Second Sight and Striker/Spriggan. Please review! Remember, no critics to my work.

Summary:

The Center has dispatched Martin, Diana and Java to the Philippines, with a little stop to Vancouver, in order to check on local reports of a strange being that is trying to wreck havoc. Joining them are newly recruited allies including former MIT researcher John Vattic, ARCAM agents Patrick Chan and Yu Ominae alongside a Filipino Center agent. But as they investigate, the gang finds out that someone else is pulling the strings behind the said incident. Will they be able to resolve it before it's too late?

Chapter 1: New Alliances

2004

Torrington Academy, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada - 4:20 P.M.

It was Friday. School was officially out. Diana Lombard, a 17 year old Torrington Academy student with a purple shirt, blue jeans with auburn colored hair and hairclips placed on her head with her purse placed on the left side of her neck, ended her World History class and was walking down the corridor when she thought of meeting with Martin.

"Oh yeah, wonder if Martin still has that book that I lent him for his Math class?" Diana was then in front of Martin's dorm room and knocked twice on his door.

KNOCK KNOCK!

Java, the prehistoric caveman recruited by the Center with the courtesy of Martin and Diana of course, opened Martin's door. He was wearing an orange polo shirt and black pants on for the day. He saw Diana stading the corridor, who happened to have three World History books in her right hand.

"Diana see Martin?"

"Yes, Java. Is he inside?"

"Martin eating snacks right now."

"Okay, thanks Java." Diana then went inside and saw Martin, also a 17 year old student of the said institution and her stepbrother, was on the floor with the nacho chips pack in his left hand while his right hand tried to dive inside the pack as the bits of the eaten nachos fell down on his red-yellow short sleeved shirt with a white undershirt and brown pants, when he heard a shrieking noise:

"MARTIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!"

Martin then jumped up and slipped on the floor out of fear. Martin then got up and saw Diana tapping her left foot on the ground. He felt pain on his head and he tried to keep the pain down by supporting the back of his head with his right hand.

"Can I help you, Di?" asked Martin.

"First things first, where's my Geometry book? I need it for next semester!" yelled Diana.

"It's on top of my desk. You can get it." said Martin as he scratched the rear of his head.

"Thanks, Martin. You should have returned it back to me yesterday when your class was finished." Diana said coolly as she grabbed the book and placed it inside her bag that was on top of Martin's table.

Suddenly, Martin's U-Watch started to beep. Martin then pointed to his closet after listening to the U-Watch's beeping sound. He used his watch as an X-ray machine to check where the portal was.

"There, in the closet. Let's go."

Java opened the closet door, which showed a portal. Diana went inside the portal, followed by Java. Martin was the last one to get in, but not before he closed the closet door behind him.

The Center, unknown location, somewhere in Canada - 4:25 P.M.

Diana, Martin and Java landed in a moving walkway. Their bodies were first subjected to a red laser scan on their bodies. Afterwards, they placed their hands on the handprint system and placed their hands on the LCD screen while an green laser beam inside the machine scanned their handprints.

"Martin Mystery, clear"

"Diana Lombard, clear"

"Java the caveman, clear"

"Wonder what M.O.M. wants right now." asked Diana as she scratched her hair with her fingers.

"I'm sure she has a good reason for calling us today." replied Martin as he tried to smile to her in order to assure Diana that everything was all right.

The gang went inside the transparent elevator and the lift took them to M.O.M.'s office.

When they entered the office, M.O.M. was seen in her chair while she sipped coffee from her coffee mug.

"Hi, M.O.M! Where's Billy?" exclaimed Martin.

"Have a seat, agents. I'll explain later about Billy" replied M.O.M. as she pointed to them their seats.

"So what's on the agenda?" asked Diana as she took her seat. Martin and Java also went to their seats.

"There seems to be a problem in the Philippines. Apparently, a Berserker machine was accidentally revived by historians from the University of the Philippines while searching for ancient remains in central Luzon."

"WOW!" Martin exclaimed at he raised his fists in the air.

"Martin!" yelled Diana. She usually gets mad when Martin starts to get unruly in M.O.M.'s presence. "Anyway, what else can you tell us?" Diana asked.

"Apparently, this thing also got the attention of ARCAM's Japanese and Philippine branches with a former MIT academic named John Vattic. Anyway, John will be coming with Billy in a few minutes. I've spoken with Chairmans Yamamoto and Rodriguez. They've told me that their agents will also accompany John too."

"Sweet, some help for a change!" Martin exclaimed.

"By the way, do you still remember Mark Sy?" M.O.M. asked Martin.

"Yea. Last time I met him was with a few missions before his retirement and after. How's he?" Martin replied as he was a bit confused.

"You'll see. Apparently, the Center's branch in Manila has also informed me that he'll be here after the other agents have arrived".

"Who is he?" asked Diana.

"He happens to be an agent of the Shadows, a bunch of Center operatives like us who received basic military training." implied Martin.

"Good thing you asked. I'll give you guys a rundown on his background while we wait for him." M.O.M. pressed a button on a remote controller and a projector screen went down from the ceiling. She then pushed the red button, which operated the projector above the office. After that, she clicked on her computer mouse, which showed the photo of a young Mark, who had a black beret, an MP (Military Police) armband and a black duty belt with a tonfa.

"Mark Sy..." MOM was about to debrief the trio when she noted that they were familiar with him.

"I remember him now! It's been a while since I've last seen him." exclaimed Diana as she kept on starring at Mark's photo in the projection screen with a smile on her face and big eyes.

"Java will be glad to see him." Java said, grinning.

"I didn't even know that he joined the military squad!" thought Martin angrily. He then asked, "Anyway M.O.M., I heard rumors that he joined a paramilitary-style unit while he was in Xavier. Is that true?"

"Of course not." refuted M.O.M. "You were probably thinking about the ARCAM Private Army." Diana just listened in on the conversation, a bit confused.

"Mark will explain that later when he gets here." M.O.M. replied. "As I was saying, he moved to Vancouver and went to Douglas College after he graduated from Xavier in 2003 and went to the Ateneo for one year before leaving for Canada this year. Last February, Mark just went back to Manila to see his parents. He just arrived in Vancouver last March." She coughed. "But since you guys already know him, it'll save time from me debriefing on him."

A portal opened up near the office entrance and Billy hovered out. A man with eyeglasses followed him. Martin noticed that he had a sort of scar near his eye, but he couldn't tell. Soon then, two Asian-looking teenagers came out of the portal. Martin also thought that they were probably from the ARCAM branches, but he couldn't tell which branch did they come from, based on their looks.

"Agents, meet John Vattic, Yu Ominae from ARCAM Japan and Patrick Chan from ARCAM Philippines. These gentlemen here have agreed to help us get to the bottom of the Berserker problem that you have been assigned to. Billy, please fetch Mark right away." answered M.O.M. as the agents saw Billy leaving through the same portal a while ago.

"Hi guys. I'm John Vattic. Just call me John. The only reason why I agreed with M.O.M.'s request to help is because I remembered my former professor telling me something about this. I want to study more about this so-called Berserker machine and I believe that this thing is a threat to this world." said John as he adjusted his glasses.

M.O.M. then made a hand gesture that Yu should speak next after John finished introducing himself.

"We represent ARCAM's interest in resolving the case of the Berserker problem. We'll give you guys a hand for this problem. By the way, I'm Yu and here's Patrick" said Yu as he proceeded to give Patrick a wrestling headlock under his arm.

"Hey, Yu. Quit that headlock! That hurts!" screamed Patrick, he tried to struggle out of his grip but fails.

"Of course, John had the liberty of informing me about the situation a few days ago when the event unfolded back in the Philippines." said M.O.M.

Martin made a mental note to himself that he still remembered the two ARCAM agents, who assisted Mark and himself during some of their missions, though most of their help came from unofficial sidelines during their Center deployments that Mark was with the Center, both after his military training and when he was reindoctrinated by the Center.

The portal then reappeared near the office entrance. Billy hovered out of the portal.

"Hey Martin!" exclaimed Billy as he tried to give a high five to Martin.

"Gimme five, Billy!" replied Martin as he extended his arm to Billy to do a high five.

"Ah Mark! Welcome back to the Center! It's good to see you again." said M.O.M. with a big smile on her face.

An Asian-looking teenager stepped out of the portal. He was wearing an Oakley Blade Jacket with a brown color separated by a horizontal line with a black color underneath the line. and underneath it was an Oakley Outline red shirt. He had brown Reverse Pleat Hammond Chino pants and Oakley S.I. Assault boots in Desert Color. He was wearing a Philippine Navy SWAG (Special Warfare Group) cap, showing a frog's skeleton with a trident in the middle. He had an Oakley Juan Pablo Montoya Splice Frame for his shades. On his left wrist was a modified U-Watch, which only included a digital clock option as a default. He took off his shades, placed it in his jacket's inner pocket and he took off his cap.

"Hi Martin, M.O.M.! You guys need help?" stated Mark as he looked at everyone inside the office. He had a grin on his face as he stood with his arms folded on his chest.

Chapter 1 END