Royal Secret Service

Majesty's Secret Service is an organization from the Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog storyline. They serve as professional counterparts to the Freedom Fighters, and the two are often at odds due to the competition between them.

Fleming
This middle-aged beaver was once head of the Secret Service and a member of the dissmantled Rebel Underground. Upon retiring, he is succeeded by Geoffrey St. John.

His name is a reference to Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series.

Geoffrey St. John
Geoffrey St. John is the leader of the resurrected Secret Service and a former member of the Rebel Underground.

King Max told ST. John and his Underground to reform to the Secret Serivce, with its members being a trio with St. John, Fleming and Smiley. Unfortuantly, the beavers however lacked the energy to continue with the dangerous tasks in the Service and retired to become guards for Max. With both Fleming and Smiley retiments, Max told St. John to recuit new members. St. John first needed a recruit who can blend in with its surrounding where on Angel Island, he founded Valdez, a former member of the Service who left but reluctantly rejoined. He then went to Downunda to find someone who can here long distantis and found Downunda Freedom Fighter Wombat Stu, who Valdez commentated was too young but St. John commentated that his skill matter and Stu joined due to having nothing to do after Crocbot defeat. At Mobotropolis, Both Valdez and Stu rentened a hotel for the night while St. John needed a recruit who can file stuff and thus founded Hershey Cat who St. John invited to the armory and thus recruted her, Finally he needed a weapons specialist originally he wanted to recruit Bomb, who exploded Heavy expland that he and Bomb left the Chaotix to find a place to fit in and found the Service and St. John was impressed by his ability to tap into any database and recruited both him and Bomb.

The Service then went back to Angel Island and resued Queen Alicia Acorn and Elias Acorn, which King Max made them head team of Mobotropolis which cause the Knothole Freedom Fighters to disband. The Service went to west Mobotropolis to rescue Nate Morgan along with Somic and Elias form Snively Robotnik and the escaped convicts though they maneged to capture half of them as several eascaped due to a Mutant octopus attack by Doctor Eggman.

Though St. John and The Service suffered the loss of fellow friend and collegue Valdez, as during Eggman retakoever of Mobotropolis The Service maneged to resue Rosie and her orphans but Valdez stayed behind to cover them, but known at the time he was forgetton in the rest of the chaos and Roboticized. This was not know until Hershy and St. John snucked into Robotropolis to discover his fate. Becuase of this The Service classified him as deceased, and on Angel Island Chaotix member Espio the Chameleon presumbly killed him and freed the chameleons.

Following the loss of Valdez the Service and the Freedom Fighters teamed up often after Sonic was knighted by King Max. St. John then began a respect for Sonic but this came to an end after Sonic lost the Sword of Acorns and King Max was injured while Sonic protected him. The Service team lost the respect to the Freedom Fighters and as a result was captured, even though Sonic dressed as "The Sneak" to secretly help them, St. John, Hershy and Wombat Stu was infected with nanobots, while Heavy and Bomb were reprogrammed as Sleeper Agents. Heavy created more Bomb(s) which invaded and hold the Royal Family hostage while Geoffrey and the rest of the team was being hold back by the nanobots, which Sonic and the rest of the Freedom Fighters destroyed them. St. John and the remaining members of the team had undergo surgery, but even with the removal of the bots Stu reieved word that Duck "Bill" Platypus had coquered Downunda and left the Service, bringing it down to Geoffrey and Hershey.

Geoffrey and Hershy then went to inform a village about a Shadowbot invasion, but not only were they successfull they even brouht home Elias and his wife. Geoffrey and Hershy was again captured but this time relized they had feelings for each other and got marriad on there schedueled execuation but that didn't come as the duo was rescued.

After Knothole Village was destroyed Geoffrey and Hershey was sent to New Mobotropolis with the citizens of Knothole. Although they were safe Hershey had to help with New Mobotropolis, while Geoffrey was assinged with GUN Fortress agent Rouge the Bat in Mammoth Mogul Casino with other Freedom Figthers which there mission was sucdesful. Geoffrey later was one of the survivors against the Iron Dominion invasion which Mobotropolis won.

Ian St.John
Father of modern day Secret Service leader Geoffrey St. John, Ian was the leader of the Secret Service back in the days preceding Robotnik's coup. Like Geoffrey, he was a Mobian skunk, appearing virtually identical to his son except for having a military crew cut of white hair rather than Geoffrey's tuft.

Assigned to be the personal bodyguard of Queen Alicia and Prince Elias Acorn at the time of the coup, Ian and his team were carrying them to an unknown destination (presumably a safehouse of some sort) when their ship was damaged by an Overlander attack and crash landed on Angel Island. Ian and his team, with a single exception, were all killed. Inspired by his father's sacrifice, Geoffrey later followed in his footsteps to become leader of the Secret Service.

Hershey St. John
Hershey St. John, formerly known more simply as Hershey the Cat, is partner and wife to Geoffrey St. John. She is a female, anthropomorphic cat with black fur covering her entire body except her face and chest, which are white. Hershey also has green eyes and short black hair, and her wardrobe commonly includes boots and a vest of some sort. As a Cat, her main weakness is that she can't swim; other than that, she's skilled in numerous forms of combat and other areas.

Hershey was thought to be nothing more than an amateur, but that theory is crushed in a story of her own, Hershey Solo, in Sonic Super Special #5. Hershey was originally a pawn in a scheme to kill Sally Acorn when her then boyfriend, Drago Wolf, tricked her into wearing a Sonic the Hedgehog disguise. However, the mask contained eyepieces that caused the wearer to see Snively in place of anyone else. This led to Hershey cutting the rope Sally was hanging from, thinking that Snively was dangling from it. She later learned the truth, and vengefully helped put Drago behind bars; thankfully, Sally was not permanently harmed by the incident. She was forgiven, and joined King Acorn's Secret Service at the behest of Geoffrey.

Hershey made several appearances over time, working together with Geoffrey in multiple instances. Unfortunately, Hershey was taken off active duty along with the rest of Geofferey's squad after being infected with nanobots injected into their bloodstreams. Luckily, it wasn't too long before these probes were eliminated and Hershey was able to rejoin Geoffrey on active duty. Among her more prominent assignments were locating Prince Elias Acorn and joining in the battle against the Xorda. She and Geoffrey were also the first Mobians to encounter Sonic after his return from his year-long disappearance, or at least year long to the Mobians, where he saved them from being killed by a SWATbot taskforce. Hershey and Geoffrey's respect for each other eventually blossomed into love, and the two got married, putting an end to Geoffrey's rivalry with Sonic for Sally's hand. Together, she Geoffrey now head up the Secret Service from the top floor of the Kingdom of Acorn army headquarters in New Mobotropolis.


 * Hershey's name is likely a play on the Hershey chocolate industry, especially considering that her mother is named Cocoa.

Heavy and Bomb
Created by Dr. Robotnik, Heavy and Bomb defected and worked briefly with the Chaotix before joining the Secret Service. However, during a mission to retrieve the Sword of Acorns the Service was captured, and as a result was reprogrammed as Sleeper Agents by Dr. Eggman. The duo retuned to Knothole Village but went into action and attacked, Heavy created hundreds of Bomb compies that surrounded the Royal Family, but Sonic came and quickly defeated them. Heavy and Bomb, however, were not deceased as new copies were created to assainate Mina Mongoose but like the oringanal was defeated by Sonic and the Freedom Fighters, this time for good.

Smiley
A palace guard, known for his toothy grin. He does not have many speaking roles in the comic.

Oringanally a member of the now dissmantled Rebel Underground, Smiley was put into the Secret Service, but resinged off panel and, like fellow comrade Fleming is a guard at New Mobotropolis.

Colonel Sommersby
One of the senior members of King Acorn's former secret service roster. During the close of the Great war, the Colonel was assigned along Ian St. John (Father of Geoffrey) to safely escort Queen Alicia Acorn and Prince Elias Acorn to the royal compound on Angel Island in order to protect them from invading overlander forces. Before they could reach the island, Overlander Air forces attacked the royal craft and shot it down on the island's surface. Ian died instantly and the Queen was put in a coma. Disoriented, the Colonel was unable to find the crew or the royal family. Unknown to him, The Brotherhood of Guardians rescued Elias and put the Queen into Cryogenic freezing until recently. Years later after wandering the island, young Elias ran into the Colonel and later wound up at the compound. When new evidence reached King Acorn in Mobotropolis that Alicia and Elias were alive, he sent Geoffrey St. John and the Secret service to Angel Island to investigate. After dealing with the strange weather (Day of Fury), The servicemen broke into the compound where they met The Colonel and his wife, and Elias.

Valdez the Chameleon
A blue Chameleon and friend of Espio, Valdez was a member of the Secret Service who left for unknown reasons but was later rerecruited by Geoffrey St. John during his reorganization of the group.

Valdez, was the navigater of the group which proved handy on Angel Island were he and the rest of the Service resued Queen Alicia Acorn and Elias Acorn, and as a result The Service became head of operations in Mobotropolis, which caused the King Maximillian Acorn to disband the The Freedom Fighters. The Secret Service went to west Mobotropolis with Elias and Sonic the Hedghog to resue Nate Morgan from Snively Robotnik and the other escaped convicts. However, Valdez time with The Secret Service came to and end after the chameleon sacrificed himslef to let the other members of the Service evacuate Rosie and her orphans to Knothole Village, but sadly was shot several times by a Shadowbot which caused him to be taken prisoner. Valdez wounds was proved fatal if not for Doctor Eggman who subsequently Roboticized the chameleon but due to him being evil twisted him memorys and sent him to Angel Island as a Sub-Boss. Though his time as one was cut short as Chaotix member and former friend Espio came, which Valdez threatened to roboticize the other chameleons if Espio din't do what he said. Realizing that Valdez couldn't be talked to his sense Espio pushed him into the water which shorted him out.

Wombat Stu
Formerly a member of the Downunda Freedom Fighters, Stu was recruited into the Secret Service. Stu, however like the rest of the Service was captured on a mission and infected with Nanites. The Nanites were destroyed but after the Roboticization of Valdez and the betrayle of Heavy and Bomb, Stu returned to Downunda and rejoined his oringanal comrades, the Downunda Freedom Fighters while Sonic was in space.