Re: Chapter 01: New Friends
Katy goes to the party and when everyone is ready for it, she makes the announcement. Of course, this means Emmy quiets down and Katy has the floor. "Fellow Freedom Fighters, I'm sure many of you are wondering why we are partying other than the fact that it's been a while and that the go-team just came back with another mission accomplished. Many of you know we had some guests. Those guests left because they are not going to join Channelwood as citizens. However, that is because they are already citizens to a neigboring village. Emerald talked with one of them (Pierson) while we were doing our mission and found out the reason we had never met these people: The normally did under-water missions in Lake Urser! There's been an underwater Robotnik settlement all this time and we never knew! But in the same breathe, there have been Freedom Fighters living very nearby all this time. THIS is the reason for the party: We now have an entire village worth of new allies that we can coordinate with and both our and their chances at getting a victory on any given mission have been increased 2-fold. Today, we had a victory while teamed up with another town's freedom fighters. And not just any victory, either... Middletown's power is OUT and will stay out for some time. Coordination between the freedom fighters of the world will be the key to ultimate victory in the future. Here's to the future!" Katy raises her glass and steps down.
Needless to say, many people raise their glasses and cheer. It's a party, after all. Sure, some people got a little ruffled that Katy mentioned "an underwater Robotnik settlement", but the good news seemed to outweigh the bad. Katy goes back to sitting next to Michael. She leans over and says, "It's funny how Samuel was trying to be negative earlier and wound up only complimenting us. Without meaning to, he made the point of just how invaluable coordination is."