WHAT'S UP PEOPLE BEYOND CYBERSPACE! Welcome back to the Infinte Chaos Series, where we're now beginning Book 3. Now readers, I am being honest when I say this: I wish to see more reviews or at least some PMs for this series. Not because I don't appreciate what you are guys are saying, but sometimes I think I'm not reaching out to you guys, not knowing if I didn't entertained anyone. Not to sound desperate, but please, more reviews and PMs. With that done, LET'S GET DOWN TO IT!
Chapter 13: It's Payback Time!
After taking control of the Teleporter at the Freddom HQ, Tails and Espio can now infiltrate the orbital station; the Space Colony ARK. It took a few seconds for the two Insurgents to arrive at the station. When they rematerialized, Cyberfox leapt to a security console, fluently typing code after code.
"Alright, I have full control of the ARK's Teleporter," Tails said in a proud tone.
"It can't be that easy..." Espio responded with suspicion.
"When you're Cyberfox tried to hack into my systems, he exposed his security protocols," Tails explained.
"So you stole his password. I'm actually beginning to like you," the reptile stated before walking to the exit of the room.
"Hey, where are you going? The plan was to-"
"I won't be long," the assassin interrupted as he continue to walk away.
Elsewhere in the station, Quick Slash and Thunder-Hornet were in the computer room, with Jet updating files. As he was doing so, we was having a conversation with the magic powered bee.
"...I don't know...if he said it was okay, it was good enough for me," Charmy said.
"Yeah...sometimes I asked myself 'If this can happened to him, then what could happen to any of us?'" Jet stated.
"I mean, it made sense at first. The bad guys got what was coming to them, but now?" Charmy pointed out with worry. Unknown to them, Stealth Strike had snuck inside the room while concealing himself with his invisibility. He planted a proximity mine on the floor.
"Supersonic is not really going to kill Shadow Knight, he just bait. To catch the real Shadow Knight," Jet explained. With the conversation continuing, Espio planted a few more mines. And then his trap is set.
"And then what? I mean remember what he did to Archer?" Charmy asked. The question struck Jet with sadness, The Archer was one of his best friends. The memory of the teal hedgehog's death came to his mind...
The memory was interrupted when a small message popped on the screen. This brought the red armor green hawk to suspicion. "Whoa, wait a minute...this can't be right; the teleporter's offline," he told the bee.
"Somewhere you need to go?" a voice asked, taking the hawk and bee by complete surprise. They turned their heads towards the room's entrance, where they heard the voice. Appearing out of thin air was the reptilian assassin, arms crossed, and a smirk on his face.
"How did..." wielding his blades, Jet rushed to the intruder, when all of the sudden...
BOOM! A mine was detonated below the hawk sending him flying forward, and then...
BOOM! Another mine, set on a nearby console, was blown, now sending the airborne bird to his, towards the floor...
BOOM! A mine set on the ground now created a hole, where Jet had fallen in it. After seeing this happened, Charmy took flight, and charged at his former comrade. But guess what...
BOOM! A mine, setted on the ceiling, was detonated. The force of the blast sent the powered bee to the hole the hawk fell. However, he landed in a kneeling position. Espio follow suit and leapted down the hole. He landed in front of Thunder Hornet.
"It's has been a long time, Charmy. Let's see if you finally manned up," Stealth Strike challenged the powered bee. With that said, the former friends began a fight. Thunder Hornet maybe powerful, but his way of fighting was predicable by Espio's standards. Stealth Strike won the fight with no problem. "Still just a kid," the assassin stated with disappointment in his tone.
Leaving the room, Stealth Strike moved to his next and main objective: The ARK's Main Reactor. In front of the reactor was a computer, something that Espio needed for his plan. "It's payback time," he claimed with pride.
Back at the other room, Quick Slash began to gain concinousness, rubbing his head from the headache he felt. As he opened his eyes, he saw Charmy lying next him, but completely knocked out. "Stealth Strike," he growled as he summoned his X-tremendous gear, flying to find the intruder.
Back with Espio, he was already on the reactor's control console. As he finished typing, a red armor appeared out of nowhere, grasping the assassin's wrist. "Stop what you're doing!" Jet ordered. But the reptile just smirked.
"It's not what I'm doing..." he punched the hawk in the beak with his free hand, following witha solid kick to his gut. "...It's what I've done." The two fighters, as we should all know by now, began an all out brawl. Both combatants were truly skilled when it comes to blades, but it did not slowed down Espio. With the over, Jet was once again out cold. "Finale's coming, and you have a front row seat," Espio claimed with evil grin across his face. With his objective finally done, he turned back to the security room, where Tails was stilled behind the console.
"We have get out of here," Stealth Strike told the fox.
"Espio, what did you do!? The reactor's going crazy!" Cyberfox exclaimed with worry.
"First rule of War Fare: Take out the enimy's center of comand. This whole station the key to Supersonic's Regime," the assassin casually explained.
"Damn it, you jeaperdized the entire mission!" Tails responded.
"Supersonic's my priority, not your Shadow Knight," Espio responded. Tails groaned in frustration while typing more commands on the computer. He then called Shadow Knight through the console.
"Shadow, this is Tails. We have the ARK, but there's a problem; the reactor's going to explode," he explained the situation.
"Can you stop it?" Shadow Knight responded. Tails looked at Espio, who shook his head as the answer.
"It's a runaway, we have at least 90 minutes," Tails answered.
"We're almost in position, Shadow Knight out."
"I'm going to have to teleport everyone out of here," Tails muttered as he continues to type.
"Nice work gentlemen," a holographic imaging of Kintobor appeared on the console.
"I'm really busy at the moment, Kintobor. What do you want?" Cyberfox responded, still working on the computer.
"I need Stealth Strike," Kintobor answered.
"What for?" the assassin asked.
"I found out that scientist at the Soleanna Aquatic Laboratory has made a prototype that could allow me to re-weaponized Shadow's M.E. power cell. I need you bring it to me," Kintobor explained.
"Wait, does Shadow know about this," Tails asked in suspicion.
"No, he would insist on using the weapon himself. I need to do it," Kintobor stated. "Shadow Knight is the face of the Insurgency; if he dies, it dies with him."
"Julien Kintobor risking his life to save Shadow Knight," Tails muttered in suspicion. "I want to believe it..."
"Send over the coordinates," Stealth Strike demanded.
Back at the surface
"Rosy, get your clan into position. Try to distract as many officers you can," Shadow ordered the pink hedgehog via com. link.
At the Institute
"Yessir Shads! I'm on it," Rosy responded through her cell phone. After she hung up, she began to unlock a gate, with Scorcher being the resident of the cage.
"Yessir Shads! Can I pick up your dry-cleaning, too? Wax the Dark Rider," he mocked Rosy in annoyance. He probably hates the idea of Shadow being the boss. After the gate was unlocked, Scourge stepped out with satisfaction. "Aaah, freedom!"
"He's going to kill me for this," Rosy muttered with worry.
"I would worry less about him," Scourge 'reassured' the hedgehog, lifting her face by her chin. "...Sweetums. Let's go." He turned and walked towards a nearby exit. Rosy eyed with worry, and suspicion.
Meanwhile, back the other universe
In the ARK, where the Teleporter incident has comed to past, Supersonic, Quick Slash, and Air Pain were examining the damaged device.
"I could probably fix this, but I don't know how long it can take," Wave told the other two. "But most of the controls for this is designed to work with Tails neural-computers only."
"Well that's not good," Jet muttered.
"We have to keep trying, guys. This maybe their only way to get them back home," Sonic reminded them, nodding as a response to his statement.
AND CUT! Alright everyone, there is the first chapter for book 3. What do you guys think? Good, bad, m'eh? Tell me in the reviews. Also, don't forget to leave suggestions for the Arkham Origins crossover, as well PM me with ideas. But remember, I will not be accepting OCs for that story sorry. Well, I'll see you guys next time.