My name is Skylar but people call me Fuego, I live in the underground and I have for about 2 years now. I lost both my parents when I was 4 and my brother Sonic was murdered when I was 10, after that for about a year I lived on that streets until someone told me of the underground, they called themselves Ladro and since we met he's always looked out for me. Now I'm going to go clean now and be honest the way people make money down in the underground, including myself, most people would consider illegal, now no I don't sell drugs or alcohol unlike most people...I sell weapons, weapons to people who use them for who knows what and I honestly don't care as long as they don't rat me out. Now lots of parties happen in the underground personally I've never gone to one mostly because I know they'll be full teens who will either be high, drunk or hell even both and I'm not into that kind of stuff, I mostly keep to myself and I like it that way. But now onto the story a story where my live turns from bad to hell in a matter of a few weeks and this is how it all began.
(6 weeks earlier)
"So you're Fuego?" A man looking like he was in his 30's asked me.
"Yeah that's me." I answer.
"And it is said you can make anything?" He asked as his eyebrow raised.
"Anything you can think of." I tell him.
"We'll see about that."
The man walks over to a table sits in a char across from my work char where I'm sitting and specks.
"You see, I'm planning a big heist and I need a drill that can cut any metal I have the weapons, the getaway car and everything else, I need all I need is the drill." he explains.
"What's in for me?" I ask, now suspicious of what he is saying.
"50% of whatever money we get." He answers.
"And also I heard you like tools."
He stands up and places a suitcase on my work desk and opens, inside were the newest tools currently for sale and a bunch of money about $3,000 in cash.
"The money is for any supplies you may need." he tells me.
I stand up and look at him in the eye.
"Alright I'll do it when do you need it done?"
"By next week here's my contact."
He hands me his card and is about to walk out, but he stops and looks at me one last time.
"Once the drill is done call me and I'll tell you where to drop it off."
He leaves and closes the door, leaving just me and my thoughts I walk back over to my work desk and look at the tools I pick one up and look at it's shiny new glare but while looking at the tool I remember a old friend of mine, Tails who always loved building and making new inventions and he was the one who got me into building too but the sad thing is that I lost contact with him soon after Sonic died, man do I miss him but as I was reminiscing my past life I hear a knock at the door.
"Who is it?" I yell
"Relax it's just me." the person said.
Right away I knew who it was it was Ladro so I tell him he can come in. Ladro I think is about 20 years old and that's pretty much all I know about him but I know Ladro is not his birth name like how my is not Fuego mostly because it is because when you join the underground the council AKA the people who keep the peace give you your underground name and for some reason they named me Fuego probably because of my fire powers.
"So, I saw a guy walk a new client?" he asked.
"Yep you got it."
"What does he want you to make?"
"A drill that can cut any metal."
"And you think you can make that?"
"Oh my friend, I don't think I can, I know I can."
"Aright, just don't get cocky now."
"What? Just being confident in my skills."
We both have a good laugh something we both didn't have in awhile, and it felt great Lagro stayed for about a hour and a haft and we both just watched crappy old TV and talked, but then he had to leave saying he was meeting a guy he was selling to and remember how I said that some people sell drugs? Well that's Lagro, what kind? I don't know. I never bother asking. After he left I get to work on this drill I get started on the blue prints when I realized that I need a lot of materials that I didn't have luckily that guy gave me money because I used my last $20 days ago buying food and ummmm other stuff.
(In town)
I'm in town getting all the stuff I need, plus some more food so I don't run out I have my hood on so no one can see my face or recognize me all was fine until Silver almost got me arrested.
"Fuego!" he called out.
Everyone around me stopped what they were doing and looked around, and I forgot to mention earlier that I'm probably the most wanted person on the island and no one knows my real name and if someone calls me by my underground name in pubic, I could go to jail for the rest of my life. I look over at Silver and give him a death stare I then run over to him when no one is looking and give him a piece of my mind.
"Argento what the hell." I whisper yell.
"I'm sorry! I just wanted to say hi."he tells me.
"I understand, but you don't go off calling me by my underground name in pubic when you know I'm a wanted criminal." I explain.
"Correction, Fuego is a wanted criminal but Skylar the hedgehog is just another face in the crowd." Silver says.
"Then why did you try to get my attention by yelling Fuego instead of Skylar?!"
"Ummmmmm."
I grab his hand and start pulling him in the direction of the underground, which is just a old underground army base used a long time ago, we enter and I forced him in my room I sit him down and speck.
"Look Argento, I'll let it slide cause you're still new but next time I'm reporting you to the council understood?" I ask him
"Alright I understand I'm sorry."
"It's okay just...try not to let it happen again."
Silence then fills the room, I sit on the couch and try to think of something to say but then Silver asks me something.
"Hey want to watch TV?" he asked.
I look over at him and nod, we then start watching Steffen Universe and talk for the whole day.
A/N: So this a concept I had back in April for a story idea for Wattpad but scraped because I thought it was too dark but after a little thinking I decided to posts my 'no-kid friendly' stories to here and this is one of them so I hoped you liked it and I will post more when I have time later peeps
Izzy