Subject: Nah, it doesn't have to.
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Posted on: 2015-08-08 09:20:00 UTC
Things can get pretty hairy out in the field, and if the Sue wins, then a backup team would get sent in... that's not going to mess up anybody else's storyline.
One 'Sue winning, in one fic, probably happens a lot. Agents aren't perfect, they make mistakes, and bad luck and the Ironic Overpower catch up with them. Then they have to run for it.
An Emergency would be an army of Sues invading HQ. A pair of agents overcome by a single particularly bad fic is nowhere near that. Even one Sue briefly in HQ isn't an emergency, provided she gets dealt with in short order. (I recommend luring her into a Reality Room. Unfortunately, the cafeteria meatloaf as an assassination technique still counts as torture.)
Emergency is not the same thing as "agents in trouble" or "complicated mission" or "needing backup". It's what happens when a big thing forces everybody to participate whether they like it or not.
If our agents waltz happily through all their missions, never encountering any real obstacles or opposition, then they're not much better than the Sues they kill. There's got to be some challenge to the story, whether that's an argument with your partner, flying commas to dodge, or a desperate race to outthink a Warrior!Sue. Without challenge, it's just an MST.