This is a fictional story based on Sonic X and an original character.
Sonic and other characters are copyrighted by Sonic Team.
Only I own the original character in this story.
This fic is rated PG-13 for small bloody scenes and possible use of profanity.
You have been warned.
Before the story begins, let me illustrate a few details to be understood.
Lines in quotation marks are lines characters say out loud, italic lines in quotation marks are thoughts the characters have.
Example:
"La, la, la!" = Talking
"Now what…" = Thinking
Hopefully, I will try to remember to stick to this. If there is a thought I forget to put in italics, read on and figure it out by what the story says. If it's in italics but not in quotation marks, it's meant to get your attention about something.
And now, on with the fic!
Prologue…
Shaped shadows on a dark wall move, showing what looks like two ninjas cutting up some unknown objects or beings. As quick as it happens, the scene changes to bright flash of light with a booming noise. It is thunder, lightening, and rain from outside--outside a dark room. In this room, a dark figure rests on some bed. The scene focuses only on one eye now of this mysterious person as it opens halfway.
"I will pay you back some how. I promise…"
The scene changes again to show a few scenes of different explosions, and again to a slightly less dark room. Eggman's voice is heard saying "I want you to kill Sonic the Hedgehog! And don't worry about price! I'll pay whatever you want!" The scene focuses now only on the mouth of the mysterious person in the room, presumable the same one from before. "Very well. Consider Sonic as good as gone."
The Dark Deliverant: The Deliverer of Death
Chapter 1: First Attempt and No Identity
It is a fine day in the quiet city of Station Square. All seems fine, that is until we see Sonic zip by with his signature blue blur of speed. He seems to be headed somewhere, and soon stops when he reaches this big robot obviously made by Eggman. It has evil eyes, mostly cylindrical shaped with a weirdly shaped chest cavity, and four robotic arms that have big blades for hands. Upon further inspection, the bottom part of his body is tunneling into the ground.
"This will be easy!" Sonic claims, confident in his abilities. However, the robot was ready for him. With its extendable arms, it begins thrust its many blades at Sonic many times, one after another. Sonic, fortunately, is too fast to be hit by such slow blows. In his signature style, he dodges easily and attempts to get closer. He stops in surprise when the robot's chest begins to open, revealing a cannon that it fires quickly. Before Sonic knows it, he's stuck in a black sphere with a blue glow of energy outlining it. Sonic, mad at this, tries to run out, than uses his spin attacks as well. All of his attempts fail. This sphere seems to be some kind of free space void that keeps Sonic immobile.
All things seem be going against Sonic until the X Tornado flies in and lands behind the machine. The main cockpit opens to reveal Tails. "Sonic! I made it!" Tails then looks to see how Sonic is trapped and wonders what to do. He sees something big sticking out of the backside of the robot. "That looks like a generator of some kind!" Tails aims the X Tornado and fires its main guns at the generator. As it is destroyed, so is Sonic's incarceration. Sonic takes a moment to readjust. "Thanks, Tails!" "Sonic, catch!" Tails throws Sonic a power ring, which he grabs quickly. Energized by its power, Sonic does a number of spin attacks at the robot and lands comfortably in the seat behind Tails. The robot blows up the second after Sonic lands. "I knew that would be easy," Sonic smirks with delight.
Overhead, Eggman is floating in his pod and has seen the entire thing. "No! Not again! This plan was suppose to be perfect! If that Tails had not escaped, I would be controlling the earth's core by now! Curse you, Sonic!!" Eggman flies off in his rage.
Sometime later, Eggman is again seen in his headquarters. He seems to be pondering something, until he gets frustrated. He turns in his seat to his main computer and turns on the monitor to see his two faithful robot aids. "Decoe, Bocoe, I cannot come up with a good plan to beat Sonic today! I've done all the thinking I can and I just can't come up with something. So, the both of you, and Bokkun, are to search the city for SOMETHING that might be of use to me. Even if you find something I could NEVER use, report that! Any inspiration would do at this point!" "Yes, sir!" they both say in unison before Eggman turns the monitor off. In the city, the robots are dressed like humans in coats and hats. They begin their search.
A day or so later, a grey zip zooms through the streets and parks, too fast to make out. Most just claim it to be Sonic. He makes his way to the Thorndyke residence, where zips into a near by tree and almost vanishes in its darkness. All that can be seen is the blue of his eyes. He looks on to see a window looking into the household. To his luck, Sonic is there, along with all his close friends; Chris, Amy, Tails, Cream, and Cheese. They seem to be having a good time, having snacks and a good conversation complete with laughter and smiles. The fast being in the trees raises an arm, and the hand seems to transform into what looks like a gun. "This is where you fall, Sonic…," he whispers to himself as he aims the gun.
Meanwhile, inside, Sonic seems to be having a good time with his friends until his mood suddenly changes. He goes into a weird sense of tunnel vision. All the sounds in the room just become silent to him, and their movements seem to slower. His focus is elsewhere. "What is going on?" That is when Sonic hears a click. He slightly turns his head and sees a big laser blast fire and head his way from outside of the window. Acting without giving time to think, his super speed kicks in, and Sonic grabs the table and uses it to shield him and his friends as the blast punctures the window and heads for Sonic. The block with the table is successful, though it busts it into pieces. "Damn… Eggman was right, he is fast." The assassin runs off before anyone can spot him again. Everyone is surprised about what just happened. "Sonic, what was that?" "I don't know, Chris… But I have a feeling it's not over." Sonic looks to where the figure once was. All he can remember is the color of the mysterious person's eyes. Blue. Who is he? What could he want? Why? Before such questions can be answers, the sounds of banging and pain can be heard in the other room. "That sounds like Mr. Tanaka!" Chris declares as he and the others begin to approach the door. However, before he can get far, quick silver slashes cut through the door from many directions. With a punch, the door pieces fly away, showing the assassin on the other side.
It's a hedgehog. Or rather, it looks like a hedgehog. This one is grey with Shadow's fur style, just a bit more hairier looking. He has brown trench coat, a belt over the waist, and a horizontal belt over the chest with metal spikes that holds a ninja sword on his back. The shoes are black and his arms are different. His left arm is normal, the sleeve of the coat goes all the way down, and he wears a black glove on his left hand that has holes for the fingers to go through. The sleeve of the right arm is shorter, showing more of the arm, a robotic arm. That is the reason why the hand was able to transform into a gun. But what seems to be the scariest and unforgettable feature are his eyes. His eyes are mostly black with blue iris.
(Author's Note: The part about his eyes is the hardest to explain. How many of you remember the black eyes of Metal Sonic? Well his eyes are kind of like that, only instead of red iris, his are light blue. And they are not robot eyes, they are real eyes)
The new "hedgehog" steps forward once, only to show Ella is beating his head with a rolling pin, chanting, "Get out of here, you bad person!" After just a bit, the assassin gets tired, grabs the pin, and crushes it with his left hand. This scares Ella, and she immediately backs off. The assassin turns to Sonic again. "Who are you?" asks Sonic. He pulls out his sword and points at Sonic with it. "My name is of no importance to you. You need know only this. I am here to take your life, Sonic the Hedgehog!" Surprised by this but not wanting to be the victim, Sonic gets ready. The assassin begins to approach, but Tails has already started running towards him from the right side of the room to cut him off.
Tails shouts, "Leave Sonic alone!" before attempting a punch. The assassin merely grabs his arm and tosses him to the left side of the room, where he crashes upside down into the wall. As soon as this move is done, Sonic is really close and also attempting a punch. Sonic is faster than Tails, so to adjust, the assassin bends back to avoid the punch then counters with a kick that makes Sonic crash into the wall behind the assassin head first. The assassin swerves to a stand only to see Amy yelling and charging at him, her hammer raised high above her head. The assassin makes no attempt to dodge. Amy gets close and throws her hammer down, but the assassin grabs the head of the hammer, and stops it before it gets half way down. Surprised, but not wanting to give up, Amy puts more muscle into it, trying to force the hammer down. The assassin stays firm, as if it is nothing, then kicks Amy in the stomach and sends her flying back to where she came. At that moment, Cream chooses that time to rise from behind the sofa to yell, "Hey, you stop that fighting right now!" Unfortunately, before she can do anything about it, the kicked Amy collides into her. "This is taking too long… I must destroy Sonic NOW." Just then, Sonic and Tails both recover and charge. "The hedgehog will get to me first, but I have to prove I mean business. If I don't stop his friends, the job might never get done…" Just as predicted, Sonic gets to him first. So, he does this leap-turn combo move to get behind Sonic and kick him to the other side of the room. Now Tails is close. He avoids, and tails tries to turn and stay on him, but just as he does, the assassin swings his sword. Tails is cut across the chest. He stumbles back a bit and falls.
(Author's Note: Yes, this is a bloody scene. I bet if this was a real episode, there would be no blood…)
Sonic recovers just in time to see what has happened. "Tails!" He runs over to check on his comrade. He bends over, holds Tails' head up, and begins to look over how bad he is hurt. "Tails, hang on, I'll get you some help…" Tails reaches up for Sonic, saying, "Sonic, be careful… He's… just as fast as you… Don't let him get you, Sonic!" "Sonic, look out!" Chris yells from the other side of the room. Sonic looks behind him and leaps away when the assassin attempts to cut him with his sword. After some failed quick attacks, Sonic looks around a bit. "I can't fight him here…. Too crowded… If he wants me, then no one else should be at risk!" Sonic leaps back. "Hey, you killer hedgehog! If you want me, you'll have to catch me!" With that, Sonic runs out of the room, house, and down the street at sonic speed. The assassin easily follows at just the same amount of speed. There is a good distance between them, a distance that will SLOWLY begin to shorten. Aware of this, Sonic tries to lure the hedgehog away from the crowded areas. Within a matter of moment, they are running atop very high elevated overpasses. However, the overpasses are crowded with many cars today. "Great! I can weave between these cars easily! That should make it harder on him!" However, Sonic's theory will not last long. For a moment, it does slow him down. But soon, he jumps REALLY high, and starts doing BIG leaps from one car to the other, rapidly catching up to Sonic. When he lands, it leaves a huge imprint on the cars, weather he lands on the trunks, on the hoods, or wherever. Not only that, but after leaping, most cars spin out of control. This is causing major accidents in traffic and putting more people in danger. "Oh great! That plan is doing more damage than I thought it would. I have to bring him to an area where there aren't innocent people at all!" With that, Sonic soon leaps off the over pass and runs down the street below. The assassin soon follows.
Meanwhile, Chris and the others are tending to Tails, putting bandages on him. "I must go help Sonic. He needs some kind of help." "Not in that condition! You can't do it!" Chris won't let Tails put too much strain on his wound. Elsewhere, Sonic keeps running until the tops of sky scrapers catch his eyes. "Oh! That is perfect!" Sonic then precedes ahead, runs up the side of a building, and lands on top of it. Meanwhile, Knuckles is walking by with a chaos emerald in his hand. "Hmm… Well, I've found one, where can I find more?" As Knuckles gets to the intersection that the assassin is headed towards, the hedgehog jumps, steps on Knuckles head, and runs off. He gets to building Sonic is at the top of and does a number of jumps between it and the one across the street from it, getting higher and higher with each diagonal leap until he lands atop the opposite building that face's Sonic. Knuckles just stands there for a bit then grabs his head in pain. "Ouch! That hurt! Who did that?" He looks to see Sonic and the assassin. "Oh…Who is that?" Soon, the assassin leaps for Sonic, and they begin to leap from the top of one building to another, engaged in high speed fighting. "Wow… He must REALLY have it out for Sonic!" Knuckles begins to run down the streets to follow them. At the Thorndyke residence, Chris and the others are loading a missile into the X Tornado. Knuckles watches as the assassin fires at Sonic MANY times with his transformable right arm. "I wish there was some way I could help! But with a fight at that speed, I don't… wait! I've got it!" Sonic and the assassin soon come to a stop. Sonic is on top of one building, the assassin on top of another facing it. Knuckles runs in close. "Sonic, CATCH!" Knuckles throws his Chaos Emerald up toward Sonic. "Thanks, Knuckles!" Sonic goes to obtain it. The assassin instantly recognizes the emerald.
Flashback… In the assassin's office, the robots Decoe and Bocoe are standing around Bokkun, who is holding a TV/monitor with Eggman's face on it. "Before you go on the case, there is something you need to see!" Eggman reaches down then pulls up some pictures. "Behold! This is a Chaos Emerald! There are 7 of them." Eggman switches to the next picture. "And this is a power ring. Don't let Sonic get ANY one of them! These things power up Sonic. If he gets one, his skills will raise far beyond yours. And above all else, DO NOT let him get all 7 emeralds! If that happens, it will be YOU who has to worry about living! So remember, DON'T LET HIM GET HIS HANDS ON THEM!!!"
Back to reality… Sonic is running to the emerald. Not wasting any time, the assassin aims and fires his gun hand. Sonic gets so close to the emerald that is almost a centimeter from grabbing it when the laser blast makes it rocket launch out of the facility. "No!" Knuckles yells, seeing his attempt to help Sonic fail. "You! You ruined everything!" yells an angry Sonic. "No, I just made sure you don't gain any unfair advantages." say the assassin. The assassin leaps to the building Sonic is on, and the fast pace fighting restarts. Sonic tries to get away, leaping to other buildings. But then, Sonic suddenly stops. "No… I have to finish this now!" Sonic turns to see the assassin on another building and headed his way. The assassin stops and aims his gun hand at Sonic and tries to fire, but nothing. "What?" He pulls out a chip from the gun and looks it over. "Damn! It's cracked… Faulty chip…" He disposes and gets ready to fight Sonic without being able to blast him when, near by, the X Tornado lands. "Sonic!" Tails yells out before launching a missile between the two said buildings. The missile breaks apart to reveal a power ring. Everything slows down now as Sonic and the assassin see the ring then stare at each other with the same thought in their heads. "The true test of speed…" At that moment, both of them leap towards the power ring. Closer and closer they get, both determined to get to it first. Closer and closer they get, they are both reaching out and almost there, and…
Thump! Thump! They both land of the opposite building they were standing on, backs to each other, kneeling. They both rise at the same time and face each other, a hard stare between them. And finally… Sonic smiles, leans back a bit, and raises a hand to show he is holding the power ring! The assassin is angry as he watches the ring energizes in Sonic's hand. Then, Sonic jumps and begins to spin fast. This leaves the assassin in awe. Sonic then spin-dashes toward the assassin. His eyes open wide at the speed of this attack, and he pulls out his sword, and tires to duck yet hit Sonic at the same time. The end result, the assassin only manages to deliver a minor cut to Sonic's shoulder, but not before Sonic hits the assassin's side first. But the cut does manage to make Sonic stumble out of the spin attack. He looks up then sees the assassin has already started running away. "Hey! Get back here!" Sonic starts to give chase until the assassin falls between buildings and runs on the ground again. Sonic follows the same path the searches the ground, but cannot find him. "Where did he go?" The scene focuses on a manhole, and then fades to a different one somewhere else. The manhole pops off and the assassin rises from the sewer. He then walks up to a near by house and types in a code on the security device on the door. He opens the door, walks in, closes the door, and walks to the desk. It's his office.
He takes a seat at his desk. "This is not over, hedgehog…" He remembers what Eggman said. "As long as he is willing to pay any price, it's not over… And soon, I'll be able to pay off the debt I owe." He sits and narrows his eyes as he remembers something. "…Just as I promised."
Flashback… Eggman is talking to the assassin through Bokkun's TV device. "But I cannot trust anyone whose name I don't even know. There must be SOMETHING I can call you…" The assassin looks over at Eggman hard. "You already know my policy. NO ONE is to know my name. But if you must call me something… call me Dark."
End Chapter 1
Coming Soon: Chapter 2