Hello everyone, or to at least people are reading this. The basic plot of this story that Sonic and his team are sent to capture Nack, a major weapon's dealer and he attempts a vendetta against Sonic. I admit that I was influenced by Mission Impossible III, including this opening chapter. Enjoy.

Xerxes

Prologue: Torture

Sonic felt a hard upper-cut punch to his chin and fell to the floor. Two men picked him up from his biceps and placed him on his knees. His hands were tried behind his back with a thick piece plastic cord.

"Try that again and I will kill you," the purple weasel said in an American accent. He was wearing a fedora hat, khaki trousers and shirt and a leather jacket.

Sonic was weakened: he was unable to stand or fight back.

"I do have to admit this though: I admire your guts," he continued. "I whole all the cards and you still try to resist. That's why I going to focus on her." He pointed with his pistol at a fourteen-year-old green cat with turquoise hair. She was in her school uniform, had a silver collar around her neck and she was tried to a chair and gagged. On a table next to her was a taser and a two a wires attracted to it and the girl.

Nack walked to the girl and removed the taser from the table and threw it to one of his men. He nodded and the man pressed it against Sonic's back and he felt a powerful, burning pain as screamed and fell to the ground. The men picked him up once again and placed him on his knee.

The man with the taser threw it back to Nack. Nack started to play around with the buttons.

"Because I charged this up with your niece's powers," Nack sadistically said, "I am able to reserve the current and," he placed the taser against the young girl and she gave out a muffled scream, "give her an electric shock for the first time in her life."

"YOU SICK BASTARD!" Sonic shouted. "HOW ARE YOU ABLE TO TORTURE A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL?"

"VERY EASILY!" Nack snapped back. "This happens every day and your government is perfectly willing and able to do this across the globe. SO DON'T YOU DARE TAKE THE MORAL HIGH GROUND WITH ME!!"

"And you are just doing this out of sadism," Sonic said.

"No! This is for the plane," Nack said. "Remember what I said."

Sonic knew exactly what he said, but he just thought that it was a mind game. He didn't think at the time that he was serious or capable of doing it.
Nack pointed the gun at Dazzla's head and was going to raise the strakes even more.

"Now you are going to tell me everything I want to know. I'll give you to the court of ten or I'll blow her brains out! ONE!"

"What are you talking about?"

"You know exactly what I'm talking about. Two!"

"Just put the gun down and we can negotiate," Sonic pleaded.

"Three," Nack continued.

"Is it the Xerxes virus?" Sonic asked. "Because I can find it and bring it to you. I'm very good."

"I know you're good, but I'm better," Nack said. "Four."

"Look, if the MI6 and the government had any sense they would have destroyed it as soon as they got it."

"I don't think so," Nack said. "Five."

"You haven't got the guts to do it," Sonic said, trying to call Nack's bluff. "You wouldn't be careless enough to kill an innocent girl."

Nack pointed the gun at Dazzla's knee and shot her. She screamed several times and tried to breath through the gag.

"DO YOU THINK I'M SCREWING AROUND?" Nack yelled. "DO YOU THINK THIS IS A GAME? You are responsible for that," he pointed to her knee before pointing the gun back at her head. "Six!"

"YOU FUCKING BASTARD!" Sonic shouted in anger.

"Seven."

"Dazz. Dazzla, look at me," Sonic said. She lowered her head and looked into Sonic's eyes. "I promise I will get you out of this."

"Eight."

"Nack, just tell me what you want and I'll get it for you."

"You know what I want," Nack said. "Something that no-one else has. This is your last chance."

"Don't you dare!" Sonic shouted. "DON'T YOU GOD-DAMN DARE!!"

"Ten," Nack said and he was about to squeeze the trigger.