Yay. Updating. Woot.
Wait? This isn't the Scarlet Rose anymore! What am I saying?
This is Gem's gang!
Well, since everybody loved the first one, here I am making a sequil. YAYS!!!!
Good to have you back.
"Amy! Amy, I need you!" Tails cried, running towards Amy's house. It was probably 3 in the morning. "Ow!"
"Tails." Amy said groggily, poking out of her bedroom window. "What's wrong?"
"Oh, I stubbed my toe..." Tails called, hopping on one foot.
"Is that all?" Amy asked.
"NO!" Tails called back. "I need you... Somebody broke in!"
"A burgler? I'll be right down!!" Amy cried. In about 5 to 10 minutes she was downstairs.
"Let's go."
Amy and Tails began to run the block to the lab, and Amy asked "When is Tyler expected back?"
"About another 3 days." Tails replied. "Sonic is there now."
Tails wrentched the door to the lab open, but nothing was going on.
"Sonic?" Tails asked, stepping in.
"Over here."
Sonic was behind the couch, kneeling next to a red kitsune.
"She's out? Wow." Tails exclaimed, running around the couch, followed by Amy.
"Yeah. She tripped and hit the coffee table." Sonic replied. "Look at this. Her arm... it isn't normal."
Sonic pulled up the right sleeve on the jacket that the kit had on, and reveiled her arm below the elbow to be completly made of metal.
"Holy...." Tails trailed off, kneeling down to get a better look.
"What is it exactly?" Amy asked, looking over Tails.
"It appears to be...." Tails replied, running his finger's over the metal.
"It's a mechanical curcuit in the form of an arm, connected to the host's nervous system."
"Who said that?" Tails asked.
"I did, brains."
They all looked down at the red kit, who was now awake and speaking.
"What? I can talk, you know." And she stood up and lept across the room.
"Let's not go there again, little miss." Sonic said, stepping infront of the three.
"Oh?" She asked smugly. "You wanna go again?"
"If you ain't gonna trip this time." Sonic replied, also smug.
"I'll trip my foot into your face." She threatened.
"We'll see who laughes last!" Sonic replied, and he was gone, and they resumes their fight.
"Excuse me but... what exactly is going on?" Amy asked. "This is like walking into the middle of a movie."
"Ok, lemmie 'splain." Tails replied, then pointed to them as he spoke about them. "Sonic was up and saw her trying to break in, so he followed her. I was fixing something on the Tornado, so I wasn't asleep. They started to brawl... I went to get you... thats about it."
Amy clicked her toung. "Ok."
"Funny thing though..." Tails whispered. "If it wasm't for his speed she probably would have whupped him."
Amy laughed, and then clamped her hands over her mouth.
"What?" Sonic asked.
"Fail!" The red kit called and kicked him arcoss the from with her right leg.
Sonic took the hit and flew from the kitchen, leaving a dent in the wall.
But she didn't take his speed into account and he was out of the wall and grabbed her arm... which disconnected and he pulled off.
"WHAT THE CRAP?!?" Sonic cried, holding a metal arm.
"Give, me, my, arm, back, NOW!" She growled stepping towards Sonic.
She tried to grab for it, but Sonic pulled it out of her grip. "GIVE!"
"No." Sonic replied.
"Common hon, calm down." Amy cautioned, aproaching from behind.
"I, want, my, ARM!!" She cried, lunging towards Sonic.
Sonic jumped back again out of her reach, just as Amy grabbed the girl from behind, gripping her tightly around the waist.
All of a sudden something sparked ad the right pant leg of the theif burst into flame.
"Oh, SHIT!" The girl cried, and used her left foot to hopefully smother the fire.
Sonic stayed his distance but Tails helped her get the fire out, and Amy still had a grip on her.
"I gotta see if I can walk! Lemmie go!" She exclaimed, trying to pull at Amy's hands.
Amy just let her go and took a step back. The girl tried to put her weigt on her right leg, but it gave out and she toppled over.
"Oh, bloody hell. This is just perfect...." She cursed.
"Are you alright?" Tails asked, helping her up.
"Oh yeah, I'm just dandy. I just can't walk." She replied sarcasticly, grabbing the kitchen counter to put her weight on.
"Don't be mean to him." Sonic said.
"Give me my arm back and I'll co-operate." She replied.
"Can it re-attach to easily?" Tails asked, taking the arm from Sonic.
"Tails! Don't." Sonic said.
"Oh, let him be." Amy said.
"Butt out!" Sonic said to Amy.
There was a glint in Amy's eyes, and she weilded her hammer. "Care to run that by me again?"
"Humph." Sonic replied, crossing his arms.
"Listne, if you two wanna fight, take it outside." Tails said. "Can you take off your jacket please?"
The girl gave him a look and leaned away. "Can I trust you?"
"Sure." Tails replied with a grin.
Sonic rolled his eyes.
"Okay." The girl said, and shrugged off her brwon leather jacket.
"That easy?" Sonic asked. "Wow."
"Buzz off, Saphire." She snapped.
"Saphire? Thats a new one." Amy commented.
"Oops... I forgot." She said. "Ok, just hand me my arm and I'll show you how."
"Erm.... ok." Tails replied, and handed the girl her arm.
"Tails!"
"Oh, shut up, Sonic!"
Putting most of her weight on her left foot, the girl put her arm down on the counter behind her. She turned her head to her right shoulder and unscrewed four bolts around the metal connection.
Everybody else just watched.
Now she grabbed her arm, and held it by the open hole in her shoulder. She closed her eyes and sighed, then quickly and strongly shoved the arm into the shoulder socket.
It was obvious that she was in pain. Amy was the first to act.
"Are you ok, hon?" Amy asked.
She nodded, then replied. "It just tingles when the nerves re-attach and adjust. I'll be fine-"
She cut off mid sentace and fell face first onto the floor, out cold.
"Ah, jeez. Not again." Tails sighed. "Come on, let's get her to the couch."
"You're gonna let her stay here tonight?" Sonic asked, helping Tails pick her up and carry her.
"Might as well. I want to learn more about these metal limbs and she looks pretty imobile." Tails replied and they set her on the couch. "Why not?"
Amy grabbed an extra blanket and placed it over the girl. "Tails, do you want me to stay?"
"No, it should be fine. You should get home, Ames." Tails replied, yawning. "Tyler'll be home in a few days."
"I'll stay, just in case." Sonic announced. "If she gets rowdy again I'm not sure you could handle her alone, Tails."
"Ok, whatever." Tails replied. "Make yourself at home. What me to walk with you, Amy?"
"No, I'll be fine. Thanks for the offer." Amy replied, and then walked out the door.
"Just watching her makes me tired." Sonic announced.
Tails yawned. "Sonic, I'm going to bed. Be carful, al'ight?"
"Always!" Sonic replied.
A small red kitsune, laying on a couch in a lab, strechted and opened her eyes. She looked around, but didn't recognize her surroundings.
"What?" She asked, proping herself up on her left arm. "Where am I?"
There was an eary silence in the room.
"Fynn? Mark? Saf?" She asked, leaning over the back of the couch.
"Ahh!" She winced, dropping back down. Pain drived all through her shoulder socket. "Now I remember. I must have passed out."
She looked over across the coffee table and saw a blue headgehog asleep on the couc across from her. "Hehehehehe."
She shifted herself into a sitting postition, and began to think about what to do. She flexed her right leg, and bent it. She pulled back her pant leg and found that there was some debrees stuck in her knee joint. "So thats why it malfunctioned..."
"Hey, you're awake." The girl looked up first to the hedgehog, only to see that he was still asleep. Then she craned her head around and looked over the back of the couch and saw the two tailed yellow kitsune from the night before.
"Oh... it's you." She commented, and tried to stand up, now able to support her weight.
"Your leg is better?" He asked.
"Just some debrees. Nothing serious." She replied, stretching her arms. "Hey, where is my jacket?"
"It's over here." The fox replied, picking it up off the kitchen floor and tossing it to her. "You dropped it. Hungry?"
"Always." She replied, grinning as she put on her jacket, then walked over to the boy who was now at the fridge.
"By the way..." He said, pulling out an egg carton and some milk. "What's your name?"
"My name? Ruby. Odessa Ruby." Odessa replied. "What about you and sleeping beauty, there?"
"I'm Miles Prower. Most just call me Tails, though." Tails answered. "That blue hedgehog is Sonic."
"Sonic? I think I know some of his kin." Odessa muttered.
"What? Not possible. He doesn't have kin 'cept for his brother and sister, who don't live here." Tails replied, grabbing a frying pan out of a cubbord. He put the pan on the stove and turned it on, and began cracking eggs into it.
"I'll watch that." Odessa offered.
"Ok." Tails replied, stepping away from the stove and digging into a different cubbord and pulled out two glasses. Then filled then both with milk.
They stood in silence for a bit, drinking milk. Tails looked at Odessa, noticing some things he hadn't the night before.
Odessa, A red kitsune with only one ear, her left ear. That ear had three black diamond studs in each side. She had blue eyes, and ever though her muzzle was off white the end of her single tail was black. She wore faded blue jeans with with a black tank top and a brown leather jacket.
"You and I are the same height." Tails said randomly.
"Pardon?" Odesaa asked, flipping the eggs.
"Everybiyd is taller than me, but you and I are the same height." Tails repeated.
"Oh." Odessa said. "Yeah, I've always been quite small."
"Me too." Tails added.
"Hey Tails."
Both Tails and Odessa's heads turned towards Sonic, who had just woken up. "Eggs?" He asked.
"Food." Odessa replied.
Sonic jumped up and walked over to them, streching as he did. "Tails? Can I talk to you for a moment in the next room?"
"Sure." Tails replied as Odessa turned off th stove and got a plate and began to eat.
"Don't mind me. I just want food." Odessa said between bites.
Sonic and Tails walked off down the hallway, and Sonic asked "Whats going on?"
"Breakfast. You know, eating..." Tails replied.
"Tails, thats not what I mean. Whats up with her? Last night she wanted to kill me, now she's cooking eggs. What's with that?" Sonic asked.
"She just was nice when she woke up, Sonic." Tails replied. "I'm not saying she's gonna stay like that but, I like her."
Sonic's jaw dropped. "Tails..."
"As a friend, Sonic. Jeez." Tails said, walking back to the kitchen.
"I know that!" Sonic exclaimed, following him.
They stepped back into the kitchen and Odessa was gone. But there was a note left on the counter.
"A note." Tails said, picking it up and reading it out loud. "Sorry Tails... But this Gem has to report! Signed, Odessa. What the heck does that mean?"
"Do you want to go look for her?" Sonic sighed.
"Yes. Among other things, we never found out why she broke in!" Tails exclaimed, heading out the door.
ooh, ooh, ooh! More cliffhangers!! Heheheheheehs! Well, I hope you liked my first chapter. Lots of confusion, but answers answered in the next chapter of The Scarlet Rose 2: Gem's gang! I know it's really close after the first.... but I don't care.
