Incident at Hogwarts
I woke to a blaring sound in my ear as I shot out of my bunk to confront whatever or whoever had intruded my quarters, I paused and looked around, noticing that my Comlink had gone off. I walked over and inserted the device into my ear and accepting the call.
A prerecorded message began to play,
"Hello, and sorry for the inconvenience," said the smooth animatronic voice of the prerecording. "An alarm has been triggered at headquarters; you and your team are to report immediately."
I sighed as I hit the off button for the Comlink and looked at my watch, 3:07am…
I zipped up my new jumpsuit and started down the hall to the elevator, careful not to disturb the decorators work.
See, FOIT had recently been bought out by a larger corporation who had decided that the whole building needed to be redecorated and given a new name, so now instead of FOIT, we are ISIS, The Internet Security and Integration Squadron. Catchy name…
The elevator door opened to the main control deck and the rest of my team standing near the briefing room. I walked forward to investigate. "Morning team, anyone know why I was dragged out of the tender love and care of my bunk to chatter with the damned techies?" I asked in a very sarcastic tone. "Not a clue, sir." were the majority of the replies I got back. As with any situation where we don't know what to, I looked for a British guy in glasses, I found one near the coffee maker. "You, know anything about the alarm?" He perked up and said "Ah, yes, I'm the one who is supposed to brief you on that. Follow me, please." As he walked towards the briefing room, I smirked and thought "Always the Brit in glasses."
We all sat down in the briefing room as the aforementioned British stood up at the front. "Right, let's get started then. At o-one-hundred hours this morning, we discovered a Sue pop up in Sector B-HP aka JK Rowling's Harry Potter Universe." One of the private's hands popped up. "Excuse me, sir, but it's just a Sue, it's not really a problem." "Ah, but that's just it, she's not just a Sue. She is nearly fully integrated into the universe." A comical and overdramatic gasp is made by my team before someone else pops up. "But how is this possible?" "She must have entered quite a while ago, because we detect her at around eighty percent done with her integration process, so she has been doing it slowly so as to not draw attention to herself. So gentlemen, your mission is as follows; you are to stealthily infiltrate Hogwarts, find the Sue and kill her, resetting the damage she's caused. Dismissed." The team erupted in a hoorah before heading out of the door and towards the armory.
We landed with a pop in the Harry Potter Universe, we'd landed just outside of the protection spell field that was in place around Hogwarts and began to study the Sue we were going to face. I brought up the Identification Page:
Name: Minerva Sirius Albus Potter
Affiliation: Harry Potter (Twin Brother)
Draco Malfoy (Boyfriend)
House: Super Speshul House, consisting of all four houses, yet being its own elite house.
APPROACH WITH CAUTION
END PAGE
I stood up and started towards the castle, about halfway across the main bridge, Professor McGonagall came running towards us. "I demand to know who you are!" She ordered, brandishing her wand at us. I flashed my ISIS badge at her and she lowered her wand. "My apologies, sir, I did not know. Please, enter."
As we walked through the halls towards McGonagall's classroom, I had to admire the craftsmanship that went into making Hogwarts, from the large almost towering statues standing by the doors of the school, to the grandeur of the moving staircases. Magic must be a wonderful muse for creativity.
We entered the Transfiguration classroom and crowded around Minerva's desk; she sat down and began to speak. "I can only assume you are here because of the girl?" she inquired "That's correct." I confirmed. "We have been sent to find and terminate her before she fully integrates herself here." "Then I should be thankful I haven't fallen under her spell yet, else you may have never found her in time. She's changed everything, you know. She waltzed in out of nowhere claiming to be the long lost twin sister of Mr. Potter's, gets Mr. Malfoy to fall head over heels for her, and beats Ms. Granger in every exam! Poor girl hasn't left her room in a week. She even got Severus to like her, Snape likes her!"
She put her head in her hands and sat still for a moment before I spoke up. "Don't worry about them; we can turn them back to normal once we get rid of the Sue." She smiled and looked back up "Then I wish you god speed, sir. She's over by the entrance to the grounds, but not for long." I stood up and bowed. "Thank you, Professor. We are very thankful for your help." The team quickly exited the room.
We made our way to the covered bridge leading to the castle grounds, but around half-way across we found Harry and Draco…Oh how do I put this? They were being friendly with each other… with lots of tongue. I shouted "What in the name of Doctor Who are you two doing!?" They looked at us and Harry said "Minerva said if we did it, it'd make her happy!" I rolled my eyes and facepalmed "Will one of you please Anti-Sue them quickly, we have to keep moving." They were grabbed and a handheld plunger-like device was affixed to their heads for a few seconds. When they were removed, they were still for a moment before they slowly started looking at each other, and when they made eye contact, they got disgusted looks on their faces before running to the side of the bridge to vomit. As we left the bridge I heard a few; you git's, and some Oh God Why's before we made our down the hill.
When we reached the bottom we saw a figure at the edge of the Forbidden Forest. She was tall, skinny, and wearing an outfit that didn't fit dress code by a long shot. She stepped out of the shade of the trees and started walking towards us, she was spinning her wand in her hand and had her other hand on her hip, yet she had long blond hair and blue eyes, despite being related to Harry. She stopped at around 20 feet from us and pocketed her wand and looked right at me, and only said three words. "Make it quick." I nodded, raised my pistol, and pulled the trigger.
I had never met a Sue that hadn't fought her fate or even accept it. I never may meet one again. Yet I don't know why she had given up, maybe she thought she couldn't win, maybe she thought that I wouldn't pull the trigger, or maybe she had lived her life as much as she wanted. I'll never know, and that Sue, as crazy as she was, I'll remember her. I'll remember her as
The Sue that Stood Her Ground
I own nothing other than the hastily made Sue and the military task force… I don't own their name either.