LORD OF DARKNESS
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Note: This takes place three months after the World Tennis Tournament.
Chapter One: Darkness Rises, Part One
Three months had passed since the World Tennis Tournament had ended. Zed Goodwin had used Kyla Vonstar in order to get the Chaos Emeralds and tried to to take over the world as Zythris, but with the combination of Sonic, Shadow, Silver, and Metal Sonic, they defeated Zed Goodwin and was now locked up behind bars, and Kyla had a change of heart as she became friends with our heroes.
- Dusty Desert -
The scene shifts towards the Dusty Desert. It was nighttime at the desert where everything seemed at peace. The wind blew calmly, the moon shined brightly, and everything was silent. No creatures were around and it looked like it was going to remain that way.
But the silence was soon broken. Up in the sky, there was a large bright figure coming into the distance. At first it looked like a large meteorite, but it soon came closer into view and from the looks of it, this was no meteor. It was something bigger than that. It was coming in at fast speed, and it was going faster by the second. And then, it crashed down on the sand. The impact caused a lot of sand to blow away from where the figure had crashed at.
Soon, the sand and smoke cleared itself, and we could see this figure at close range. It was a black cyber-robot like dragon of some sorts. It's tail was spineful and had a sharp end, it's body had some sort of orange and black center of it's chest, it's large wings were yellow and orange. The neck looked very mechanical and bent, and it's head had orange eyes as were it's teeth that looked very sharp.
The cyber-robot dragon looked around at it's surroundings, trying to figure out where it was and what this place is. The dragon was puzzled at it's new surroundings. It seemed similar to a place that it had seen before, but something about it seemed different to the dragon's eyes.
After a moment of exploring it's surroundings, the figure let out a roar towards the sky before flapping it's large wings. The figure took flight in the air as it went higher and higher until it stopped in mid-air. Then, the dragon flew across the desert, trying to get a clear idea of what this place had in store.
- GUN Headquarters -
The scene shifts towards the inside of GUN Headquarters. Everything looked normal here, too. The lights were out, but there were signs of GUN soldiers patrolling the place, just in case. It seemed very secure and it looked like no one was going to try and invade this place anytime soon.
We scan over here to see a couple of GUN soldiers talking to each other about something.
"So do you think there will be another invasion happening again like that Black Arms attack?" GUN soldier # 1 asked.
"Nah, not a chance." The second one replied. "Those black aliens were wiped out clean since their leader, Black Doom, was killed."
"Hmm..." The first one rubbed his chin. "You might be right. No one has tried to enter here ever since those invasions took over some months ago."
"And I bet you that no one has dared try to break in here, since. Besides we have a Chaos Emerald that we discovered a month ago. And there's no way anyone is getting in." The second pointed out.
Then suddenly, a new figure busted it's way from the vent door on the ceiling. The shadowy figure landed on the style hard on it's feet and this took the GUN soldiers by surprise.
"What was that?" The first one asked.
"I don't know. I can't see anything!" The second soldier replied as he looked around.
Then out of nowhere, a slice was made at the first GUN soldier, causing him to drop his gun and fall to the ground, dead. Blood was poured from his back while he laid there, dead.
"Huh?!" The second pointed his gun to see that the first soldier was already on the ground. He gasped in shock. "Man down! Man down! Call for reinforce-"
But before he could finish his sentence, the shadowy figure appeared in front of the soldier and sliced it's chest with a katana. Blood poured out from the soldier's chest as he fell on his back, where he laid there, dead as the other soldier.
The lights went on as more GUN soldiers came into view. Six of them appeared from the hallway as they had their weapons pointed at the figure.
"Freeze! Put down your weapon and get on the ground!" The GUN soldier ordered.
The figure turned it's masked head, which was designed with green and red spray paint on each side. On it's body, we could see it was equipped with a green mechanical-like suit. The masked figure only stared at the GUN soldier that called it out. We could not tell what it looked like from the inside, or what kind of creature it was. It didn't seemed frightened, so it walked towards the GUN soldier with it's katana in hand.
"I'm warning you! Do not move, or we will have to shoot you!" The GUN soldier shouted.
The masked figure didn't seem to listen. It just continued walking towards the GUN soldiers.
The GUN soldier had already lost it's patience. "All right, men! Fire!"
At the sounds of his command, the GUN soldiers fired a ray of bullets at the masked figure. The bullets connected with the figure. But to their surprise, it was simply bouncing off the mechanical figure. Each bullet turned out to be wasted until they stopped firing their guns.
"What the?! I-it's not working!" One of the soldiers cried out.
Before the GUN soldiers could fire another bullet, the figure jumped in mid-air and disappeared in a flash, electronic wise.
"Where did it go?!" Another soldier asked.
"Search the area!" The GUN soldier in charge ordered.
Doing what he said, the five GUN soldiers splitted up in different directions, trying to figure out where the the mysterious masked person disappeared too.
The one in charge didn't move from his position. He only watched to see if any of the other soldiers had found anything. While this happened, he heard something from behind him. He turned around to see what it was.
"Who's there?" The soldier demanded. Then his eyes widened.
The masked figure impaled the GUN soldier with it's katana, and shockingly, lifted him in the air with it's weapon. The soldier's eyes stared at the masked figure in horror.
"T-this thing...what...is it?" The solider asked very slowly.
The masked figure used it's legs to push the GUN soldier away from it's katana. The male human was thrown into the air, and while it was in mid-air, the figure jumped and kicked the man's stomach with full force, sending it flying across the room. The soldier crashed head-first against a wall, before falling to the ground, dead. Blood was splattered all over the floor and on the wall in where the soldier had crashed his head.
The other soldiers turned to see what had happened. Their eyes widened in shock at what they just saw.
"Oh no! He's dead, too!" One of them shouted.
"Come on, men! Let's kill this thing!" Another soldier shouted.
The GUN soldiers wasted no time in firing their bullets at the masked figure. Meanwhile, the figure ran to the nearest GUN soldiers and sliced at it's body. Blood had already started to pour out of the soldier's body as it already fell to the ground dead.
Another soldier that was the nearest to the masked figure widened it's eyes at what he was seeing. Just what was thing anyway? It definitely wasn't human, for sure, but what could this thing have been? Before it could get any answers, the masked figure gripped it's katana and jumped in the air again. Before the GUN soldier could retaliate, the figure sliced at it's neck. After that happened, the figure immediately fell to the ground, dead like the other soldiers. The blood had poured out of the already dead soldier's neck.
The masked figure turned to see the next two GUN soldiers standing next to each other as they hesitantly fired at the masked figure. However, the thing was, their aiming was way off, so they tried to fend themselves as hard as they could. But unfortunately, their efforts weren't enough. The masked figure camouflaged itself, which caused the two GUN soldiers to stop firing their guns.
"Where did it go now?" The first soldier asked.
"I don't know." The second one replied, looking around. "It couldn't have gone far."
And he was right, but he didn't notice it. A slicing sound was already made as it cut off the second soldier's right arm. The soldier screamed in pain until another slice was made at his back. The GUN soldier, then, slowly fell to the ground, dead, with blood pouring all out of his body. The first soldier turned to see this, and the only thing he got out of it was another slice made to his stomach. Then it was kicked in the damaged stomach. The soldier was sent flying against a wall before he made one last moan before dying, with more blood staining his clothes and covered more of the hard floor.
The masked figured looked around to see if there were any more GUN soldiers left. That's when it noticed one more soldier still in the presence. Locking onto it's target, the masked figure walked towards the soldier.
The one remaining GUN soldier was on his back as he quickly tried to move backwards with it's legs while keeping it's GUN locked on to the masked figure. Letting out a battle cry, he fired his gun at the figure with everything that he got. Bullets were impacting all over the place as the masked figure was getting closer to it's target.
Then suddenly, the GUN soldier heard a loud click from within his gun. It was out of bullets. He panicked as he tried to find more ammunition, but was too late when something kicked the gun out of his hands. He looked up to see what was in front of him. He gasped again.
The masked figure stood there with it's katana pointed at him. The soldier didn't make any move to resist except using his words to help him out of this situation.
"Please...don't kill me..." The GUN soldier pleaded with mercy.
The masked figure just stood there for a moment until it lowered it's weapon. And for the first time since breaking into GUN Headquarters, it spoke.
"You are nothing more than a pitiful weakling." The figure spoke with a cybernetic voice coming from it's mask. "Killing you or not would make no difference to me."
With that said, the masked figure walked in a different position down towards the hallway. The GUN soldier stood there for a moment as he watched the figure go away. In the GUN soldier's mind, he figured the masked figure was after something important. Determined not to let this go, the figure jumped up to his feet and charged after it with his fists at the ready.
The masked figure stopped and turned around to see the GUN soldier running towards it. As soon as the GUN soldier got within range of his fist, he swinged it at the masked figure's face. But before it could hit him, the masked figure grabbed the soldier's arm and twisted it, causing the GUN soldier to cry out in pain.
"You humans don't learn anything, do you?" The masked figure asked rhetorically before slicing the soldier's broken arm clean off. The soldier cried out in pain until the masked figure impaled the GUN soldier's stomach with it's katana. The figure, then, pulled it out causing the soldier to stumble backwards before falling on it's back, dead. And like with the other soldier's, blood poured out of his arm and stomach.
The masked figure lowered it's katana, which was also covered with blood. It then turned towards the hallway and made it's way down the hall. The walking continued until it reached a door. However, the door was locked with a security system that only had to been used by a scanner. The masked figure stared at the security system for moment before gripping it's katana. It then sliced the security system in half, destroying it in the process. The door immediately opened as them as the masked figure walked inside. In front of it, was what it was looking for.
There was a dark blue Chaos Emerald being protected by bulletproof glass, but there was more than one way to get past something like that. The masked figure jumped in the air and sliced the glass in two. The glass made a crack before dropping towards the ground, where it made a loud shatter. The figure walked towards the Chaos Emerald and grabbed it from it's pedestal.
"Mission Accomplished." The masked figure said, looking pleased. "The Chaos Emerald has been retrieved."
With that, the figure jumped in the air and disappeared into thin air.
- Chaotix Detective Agency -
The scene shifts towards the Chaotix Detective Agency. It was the next day, and everything here seemed to be the same. Espio was hanging next to a wall, Vector was chewing more bubble-gum while relaxing back in his recliner, and Charmy was switching through TV channels on the remote.
"Oh man, how come there's nothing good on?" Charmy whined as he kept switching channels.
"Exactly what are you trying to find, Charmy?" Espio asked.
"Something with lots of action and excitement!" Charmy exclaimed.
"I noticed that you've been doing this for over an hour now." Espio explained. "Don't you think you should just give up?"
"No way!" Charmy shook his head. "I know something good will be on. I just now it!"
"Hmm...I doubt that." Espio replied. "Vector, would you mind getting that remote off of Charmy?"
Vector had his eyes on the TV as well. Even he thought there had to have been something good on. "Relax, Espio. I'm sure something good will turn up. Right, Charmy?"
"Yeah!" Charmy replied with a laugh.
Espio sighed in hopelessness. "Kids and their toys."
Charmy continued to change channels until it revealed the news channel. This seemed to catch Charmy's eyes. "Guy, take look at this!"
Espio and Vector fixed their eyes on the TV screen as a female news reporter had a microphone in her hands.
"This is Joanna Garcia reporting live at GUN Headquarters. A massacre was made here late last night when someone broke into GUN Headquarters and killed eight soldiers that were on duty. The figure wore a red and green mask and had some sort of strange suit on it's body that enabled the figure to appear and disappear very mysteriously. There was also a report by the GUN Commander that whoever broke into their headquarters also took the Chaos Emerald as well."
Espio raised an eyebrow. "A Chaos Emerald?"
"So far, no one has any clue as to who this masked figure was, but GUN is doing everything that it can to figure out this situation. We will have more updates for you later on if anything else comes up. Reporting live at GUN Headquarters, I'm Joanna Garcia. Back to you, Wayne."
The screen switches to a male news reporter.
"Thanks, Joanna. In other news, there was a large crater discovered at the Dusty Desert last night. We will show the images right now."
The screen switches to the large crater that was made by that cybernetic dragon, even though the news reporter had no idea it was that.
"Sources say that it was made by large meteorite, but it turned out to be false once you get a closer look at this."
The screen goes into close range as we could see large feet marks and a few claw marks on the sides of the crater.
"No one has any idea who or what made this but are giving out a huge reward to the first person that discovers it first. Can anyone figure out what made this? Until then, let's go over to the weather channel."
Back with the Chaotix, they stayed in silence after listening to the news.
"Hmm...so someone broke into GUN Headquarters and took a Chaos Emerald." Espio said out loud. "I wonder who it could be?"
Vector, on the other hand, had a huge grin on his face and money signs in his eyes. "Boys, I think we have ourselves a new case."
"What do you mean, Vector?" Charmy asked.
"Didn't you hear, Charmy? They say that there's a huge reward out of all this, and if we can find the thing that caused the impact...then we'll be rich!" Vector said excitedly.
"Yeah! Rich!" Charmy said excitedly.
Espio wasn't sure about this. On one hand, he wasn't sure if trying to find something that made that crater was a good idea. On the other hand, getting that huge reward was something to look forward too. Before he could think of anything else, Vector got up from his seat.
"Boys! Let's head for the Dusty Desert!" Vector said with anticipation. "The Chaotix are back on the case!"
A new strange turn of events have unfolded. What was that thing that caused the impact at the Dusty Desert? Who was that figure who broke into GUN Headquarters and took the Chaos Emerald? And what will the Chaotix discover in this new case? Find out on the next Lord of Darkness!
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Note: This story will be put on hiatus until after I finish the World Tennis Tournament.
