I stood here on top of this tower staring down at the planet I unfortunately called "home". Oh the irony. This place could barely pass as a decent shelter, much less a home. Let me explain. My name is Summer, Summer the hedgehog. I was born on this dark planet as a monster, a true killing machine. In fact my creator once believed that I would be the greatest warrior of my generation, but about 6 months ago that all changed. I guess you could say I had a change of heart. I decided I didn't want to fight anymore, I decided I wanted to be more than the monster I was. For some reason the change of my mental features changed my physical features as well. My black quills turned a light grey, leaving just a few black highlights lying along them, and my bright ruby eyes morphed to a light, crystal blue. I honestly preferred myself this way but I knew my creator would not be pleased. He would know something was up and he would kill me at the first chance he got. That's why I wore a black cloak when I ran around during the day. If someone saw me they would know I was different and report me to the police.
I sighed and shook my head. I won't let that happen. I swear on my life that I will one day get out of this hell hole and escape to a far away planet where I will no longer be the monster, and I can live in peace.
Looking up at the red sky I tried to analyze what time of day it was. I furrowed my eyebrows but quickly gave up. I grabbed the emerald I had gotten after succeeding in a mission and I teleported to the ground where I started running. The emerald had special properties to it that made it extremely powerful, and I had a gift that helped me use the emerald to teleport. I had found this out about a year or so ago. It was a pretty cool talent and I often used it to my advantage.
I ran through town, my cloak hiding my head so no one would be able to see the changes that had taken place to my body. I got many angry looks but I always got those, the people here were hot-heads, so to get my mind off of it I started thinking about the great things I had heard about other planets from this one.
I had heard that the sun actually was visible during the day time. I had heard that there was a lot of water and grass on these different planets. I heard about beautiful colors that surrounded you in the spring when flowers began to bloom and trees began to sprout. It all sounded wonderful and grand. I wanted to be able to live somewhere like that, and I wanted to be able to call a beautiful planet like that my home. Instead of this dump. It was dark day in and day out. The sky was always cloudy with tints of red and black all throughout it. There was no grass, just metal and dirt. No flowers or trees.
I stopped running once I got into town. I was thirsty so I stopped at one of the bars to get a drink. I walked in slowly, keeping my head down. The place was empty, almost abandoned. The only creature in here was Klein, the bartender. I knew him, I knew pretty much everyone around here. Or rather, they all knew me. I walked up to the bar and sat down still looking at the floor. Klein looked up at me his black eyes filled with disbelief.
"You're not with him?" he asked me.
I looked up confused.
"What are you talking about?" I asked roughly.
He shook his head still eyeing me.
"The creator has been looking for you for a good day or so now, have you not heard?" He asked surprised.
Ah so he was looking for me. Klein then pulled out a slip of paper slapping it down on the counter. It had all my information on it, including a picture of me.
"Some of his guards came by yesterday looking for you. You should probably obey orders and go see him now." He said as I picked up the warrant and looked at it. I immediately tore it up.
"I don't plan on going to see him." I said leaning back in the chair.
"But, but you need to...it...its orders! You must obey orders!" he said as he looked at me obviously shocked.
I shook my head obviously not caring.
"If he wants to see me so badly he can do it on my terms and my time." I said as I got up and started to walk out. I had no interest in staying there anymore
Klein was just like the rest of them. He lived to serve the great creator. Yah well I had my own plans and they didn't involve my stupid creator.
I walked out of the bar slamming the door on my way out. I didn't have time for this non since. I walked down the streets slowly trying to blend in with the crowd. I was now the rebel that everyone wanted to kill. I had a warrant against me and I was planning an escape. This world was now a dangerous place for me to live in.
"Hey you!" I heard a voice call out to me. I stopped dead in my tracks never looking behind me.
"What?" I asked coldly as I still looked ahead. I turned my head to the side so I could look over my shoulder. It was two guards, probably here to arrest me.
"We have specific orders to capture you and take you to the creator." One of the guards said.
"Huh well I hope the creator deals with disappointment well." I said as I continued to walk away from the two idiots that stood behind me.
Suddenly I was being pushed into a wall while two staff like weapons were shoved in front of me making and X across the front of my body. They were glowing from some sort of energy. I was now face to face with the guards.
They quickly threw my hood off of my head revealing my grey fur and blue eyes. They gasped but quickly regained their composure.
"You're coming with us." One of the guards said in his low voice.
I looked at them with hatred in my eyes. I quickly tried to escape their grasp, flipping the guard to my right over as I ducked under the left. I thought I was home free when suddenly a shock of pain hit me in between my shoulder blades. I fell to the ground stunned as I was picked up roughly by the guards. The one I flipped over walked and waved his staff in my face.
"And that was on a low setting, try that again and you won't be as lucky." He threatened.
From there on out I kept my mouth shut. It was just better that way. It was hard to walk with both of those idiots dragging me along at different paces. I didn't pay attention to what we were doing or where we were going. I basically already knew all the details from the warrant that I read at Klein's bar.
We finally arrived at my creator's fortress. The guards opened the large iron doors and roughly walked me closer to him.
"We got her boss." The guard with the higher voice said.
"Yah, she tried to escape but we taught her a lesson." The deeper voiced guard added.
They pushed me to the ground roughly as I landed on my hands and knees. This was just great. I was obviously in a hostile situation and no one around here was going to bother to help. They all just stared at me as I passed by, and now because they were all to afraid to help I was either A, going to be tortured, or B, get myself killed.
"Excellent, please leave me and my child alone while we, talk." He said pausing slightly.
Ugh "my child". Those words made me sick. I in no way saw him as a father figure. Even when I was following under his command I never had that sort of relationship with him. None of us did. I knew there was one reason he said "my child" and it was because he knew it would bother me. Usually he referred to us as his creations but I was even starting to doubt that he even did that. I didn't know the process of creation here and honestly I didn't want to know for that matter.
The guards nodded as they left the room and shut the doors I was alone with him now.
"What happened to you? You were once my greatest warrior, my greatest invader. What happened?" He asked in his haunting deep voice. He was a ghost like creature with no bottom half what so ever. He had three red eyes but no mouth. You just knew he was talking, his voice was un forget ably haunting.
I shrugged as I now stood in front of him.
"I got tired of your lies. Your empty promises. Maybe I'm tired of your bull shit excuses." I said now looking at him angrily.
"Hm well you will regret disobeying me." He said as he held a hand out. Suddenly I was thrown onto a chair as leather straps bound me there. I growled defensively. I sat there for a good hour as he interrogated me. Asking me useless questions, those were basically pointless. It wasn't until the last ten minutes that he started to get to me. I tried to tell myself to not listen, but by now he was just playing mind games, and he was winning.
"You can't hide your true self for much longer Summer." He said as he walked closer to me.
"What are you talking about?" I asked, my eyes filled with suspicion.
He looked at me hauntingly. I knew that if he had a true face he would be smirking.
"This, form, that you have created for yourself. It's not permanent." He said shaking his head.
I didn't say anything, I just stayed quiet. I wanted to know every detail about this.
"You see you'll get mad, maybe upset at something, or someone. You will set off your dark side and eventually, you will be just as evil as everyone else around here." He said as he swiped his ghostly hand across my cheek gently. I flinched away as I balled my hands into to fists. I let them go and grabbed onto the arms of the chair, digging my fingertips into the metal. He chuckled silently
"See you're already losing it. Just imagine you losing it in front of someone who actually cared about you." He said as he leaned down next to my ear.
"You're a monster, and that's all you ever will be." He whispered in my ear.
By then I had had it. I felt a shudder of anger go through out my body as I pulled at the leather straps, easily breaking free of them. I gave my creator one more angry look before I bolted off. I ran through hallways searching for the escape room, taking out dozens of guards on my way. They gave me strange looks as if something had changed about me, but I quickly ignored it and continued my search. I could feel pain in my right arm as I was being shot at with bullet like darts, they most were most likely rigged with some drug of some sort, which would soon enough knock me out. I had to hurry before that happened.
I finally found the room that contained the escape pods. They were held here in case an invasion took place here and the creator had to make an urgent escape, but today they were going to be used for my own personal use.
I reached the pod and started entering the pass code. 3, 6, 7, 4, 9, 5. It opened quickly. I smirked to myself. I suppose being my creator's best weapon had its advantages. The room started spinning as the drugs from the bullet entered my blood stream. I entered the pod and quickly shut the door. I heard my creator enter the room with one of his guards, but it was too late. There was no way he could stop me now.
"Sir we won't be able to track the pod's destination, and with the drugs already starting to take effect in her blood I'm afraid the impact of the landing will kill her." I heard one of the guards say.
"Hmph, let it be. If death shall come upon her she will end up getting exactly what she deserves." I heard my creator say, and that was the last thing I heard as the pod took off to approach a destination I had never heard of, Mobius. All I knew is I had never heard of it, which meant it was far away. Perfect.
As far as the thought of dying went honestly I didn't care. Dead or alive I had finally done it. I was free, and with that the drugs took full affect and I fell into a deep sleep.