Comment on My Scar, and Die...(Manic)Part Two
Havoc's/My POV
Well,
considering that Ankoku is the fastest of the group, she had to pull
Songan and I along. For being a hedgehog, I'm pretty damn slow...
Of all the things SWAT did to me, don't you think they could have
at LEAST made me faster!?!?!?! sigh oh well...nothing I can do
about it now... It only took Ankoku a few seconds to pull us to a
hill that overlooked the City of Westopolis. It was odd, the cloud
hung over nothing BUT the city, strange... Where we were, the sun was
still visible. "Okaaay, well this is really screwed
up...Songan pointed out. I nodded in agreement. "Hey!"
Ankoku shouted "There...things falling out of that
cloud!" "That's definitely not rain!" I shouted
"C'mon, this should be interesting!" Ankoku grabbed both
our hands, then took off for the city.
We
arrived at the city limits within seconds and saw that what was
precipitating out of the cloud was no ordinary precipitation: they
were monsters. Horrific creatures with strange weapons and even
stranger bodily figures and colorations. "Aliens!" Songan
shouted "I always knew there was extraterrestrial life!"
Ankoku playfully whacked him in the head, "Songan, hate to break
it to ya, but to these humans...we are extraterrestrial life!"
"Riiiiight..." he grunted while rubbing the back of his
head. "They're destroying the city..." I said in a
monotone, then shouted, "What is the point?!" "Eh,
power, money...world domination..." Songan sighed.
"Pfft...typical..." Ankoku spat. (not literally) "Man,
and I thought humans were selfish..." I said slightly
irritated. "DUCK!" Ankoku shouted while pulling Songan and
I to the ground with her, the three of us on our stomachs, hands over
our heads. I opened my eyes to see that we had avoided, just in time
to see a car fly just overtop of our heads and roll off behind us.
"Damn," I muttered "that was a nice car..."
"What car was it?" Songan asked, thinking I wouldn't know.
"2006 silver Mustang Convertible, black leather interior, 6
cylinder engine, and MP3 adapter..." I said in a smartass tone.
"How could you possible know about the MP3 adapter!?"
he shouted. "I didn't," I retorted "I just like to
confuse you..." He grunted in frustration, then Ankoku shouted,
"Not important right now you guys!" "True," I
said getting up onto my feet, "We still need to figure out what
the hell is going on here." I pointed out. "Right,"
Ankoku responded, "Westopolis is way too big to search together,
so...as original as it may sound...we're gonna need to split up."
"eh, classic..." I sighed. "Then it's settled,"
Songan concluded, "Ankoku, you go that way, Havoc you go
straight, and Ill go that way!" "Got it!" Ankoku and I
confirmed simultaneously. Then the three of us split up in our
assigned directions...
Ankoku's POV
Not terribly long after I split up with Songan and Havoc, the road took an unnaturally steep slope downward. I almost lost my balance running down it, but not quite. There were aliens and GUN soldiers everywhere. Then, One of the aliens spotted me, although I had been maneuvering behind objects stealthily. Aw, shit... I thought just as he shot at me, and a pink plasma ray grazed my arm, causing blood to trickle down. I recoiled slightly and grabbed the wound, then muttered, "Crap, I just got injured by something pink...bad for my rep-bad..." As the creep ran over to me to attack once more, I turned myself invisible. It looked around, utterly confused, then stupidly forgot about me and started to attack a random GUN agent. What and IDIOT! I thought amusedly. He may be another form of life, but not another form of intelligent life like these humans supposed. Without another moment to waste, I kicked the alien in the head, maybe three times, and then he became nothing more than anti-matter. I regained my visible status, then said, "Man, these guys are just pa-the-tic..." My work being done here, I ran off further down the road. Just avoiding the battles, since fighting these guys just wasn't worth my time and skill. As I was running along a (level) straightaway, a golden beam suddenly shot down in front of me, I stopped in my tracks. "Look out!" someone shouted over to my side. Then, I felt that 'someone' pumble me and the two of us rolled to the side just as that golden beam created an impressive explosion that just barely missed us. I looked over to see who my rescuer/attacker was: I saw a blue male hedgehog with green eyes and red sneakers, just as he was standing up. He apologized and extended a hand to me. I told him it was no problem, but helped myself up; I had to keep whatever dignity I had left after that. He appeared slightly confused, but blew it aside and introduced himself, "Hi there, I'm Sonic the Hedgehog! Fastest hedgehog around, not to brag." "Ankoku," I replied "fastest wolf around." I wasn't going to mention that I was part echidna and hedgehog as well, that was none of his business. "Is that so," he questioned, intrigued, "maybe we should race sometime then, Ankoku." "Not right now," I declined "I'm busy." "Doing what? Not to be nosy or anything." he asked curiously. "Trying to figure out what the hell is going on here." I said with slight frustration. "Well, I'm glad to see your not trying to get yourself blown up!" he teased, "If you don't mind, id like to help you out. I'm curious as to who, or what, these creatures are up to as well..."
Songan's POV
I ran in my assigned direction, trying my best to avoid the multiple aliens and GUN soldiers; all went well...Well, until I came to this huge break in the road. No, literally, the road had a piece missing!" before I could brake, I slid off the edge of the asphalt; I tried to grab the ledge, but couldn't catch it. I closed my eyes, expecting to hit the ground with incredible force in a while, then feel nothing ever again: but I made impact WAY sooner than I expected. I opened one eye to see what had happened; I was laying on the missing piece of the road. I wasn't injured, it didn't seem like I fell far, I looked up to see that I had fallen, what? Fifteen feet? Yeah, about that, and I'm almost four, so that wasn't a lethal fall at all. I jumped to my feet and shouted, "Woohoo! I'm alive!" just then, a pink laser whizzed past my face. I jumped backward, caught off guard and let out a small noise of surprise. I quickly turned around to see two aliens with laser guns pointed right at me. Without further hesitation, I pulled my retractable metal pikestaff from my belt and it folded itself in a microsecond. I then charged at the creatures, "Wanna piece a me, do ya?!" I then powerfully swung the staff at the aliens, and in one double-swipe with precise aim and skill, they both disintegrated on contact. I refolded my pikestaff and reattached it to my belt. "Don't mess with the tiger..." I said to myself with a grin while brushing my hands together. Now, getting onto the higher part of the road on the other side would be a bit more challenging. I thought for a moment, "AHA!" I had an idea, obviously... I ran back to the other end of the piece of road I was on , then removed the staff from my belt; it took its shape and locked into place. I braced myself: I had only done this a few times, but only on a horizontal gap, never a vertical one: but right now it was my only option, other than calling for help, which would be just plain pathetic. I ran forward, then shoved the end of the pole to the concrete when I had almost reached the end. The staff was maybe five feet in length, so I was trying to travel upward at a distance 3x bigger. I pushed off the ground incredibly hard, and just to add to the drama shouted, "Pole-vault!" I went up maybe 12 feet in the air, did an upward flip and grabbed the ledge with my free hand. I was actually a little surprised that I made it. I heaved myself upward, then climbed to my feet. I gave a snicker of success as I refolded my staff. "Who's good? I'm good..." I said confidently. I turned around to see a black and red hedgehog male walking toward the other end of the road strip I was on, back turned to me. I hid behind a wooden box and watched him, he looked somewhat suspicious. Hmm...maybe that's because he was glowing red. He approached 3 aliens and 2 GUN soldiers; slowly, bravely, menacingly. Suddenly, he seemed to hover above the ground, then he shouted, "CHAOS BLAST!" creating a massive explosion! I ducked down and covered my head, but the blast didn't reach to me. I gave a silent sigh of relief and looked over to see what had happened. Major destruction, no aliens and two downed GUN soldiers. What in the bloody hell was THAT!? I thought. Just then, a black box at the end of the strip opened to reveal a light blue glowing gem; a Chaos Emerald! The black hedgehog, who had now stopped glowing, reached down and grabbed the jewel. He seemed to study it for a moment, then raised it into the air and shouted something that sounded like "Chaos Control" or "Chaos Patrol"...Yeah, I think it was "Chaos Patrol"...
Havoc's/My POV
I
went straight, just as Songan had directed, and eliminated all
obstacles in my way. I passed many aliens and GUN soldiers, all huge
pushovers. It took a lot outta me not to march over to a GUN agent
and demand to know why they had liberated me and the other SWAT
experiments; but I restrained myself, they probably didn't know
anyways. I ran for maybe 3 minutes with no success; just stupid
humans and even stupider aliens: they couldn't even talk, let alone
understand what the heck I was saying. I turned around a corner and
ran smack into the stomach of an alien, just trying something I had
seen in a movie, knowing it wouldn't work, I said in a creepy
voice, "Take me to your leader..." trying to sound like an
alien. Hey, it was worth a shot, right? he just stared at me blankly,
then aimed his gun at me. But since his reflexes were so slow and
mine were very fast, I whipped out my laser pistol from my
pocket and fired at his gun, then his head. He was obliterated
instantly. I then continued on in the direction I was trying to go
before he blocked me. I hope the other two are having more luck
than I am... I thought. Just as I passed an alley, I heard a
scream from within. I stopped and backtracked. As I peered through
the gap between the destroyed buildings, I saw that it wasn't a
dead end alley, it lead to another section of the city. I quietly
snuck through and looked to see what was going on the other side.
There, I saw a purple cat (the one used in the background of this
quiz) and a large, floating alien guy without feet. I hid behind the
wall and spied on the two. The girl had obviously just been startled
by the alien man, and he must have just appeared to her, which
explained why she had fallen on her ass. Then the alien creature
spoke up in a deep, dark tone. "Blaze, I am Black Doom; leader
of the Black Arms Aliens, and you are a vital piece to our plan for
world domination..." The cat, obviously Blaze protested, "What!?
What do you need me for?!" again, the alien spoke, "You
possess a power that you were not born with, a power that was given
to you, yes?" Blaze, "Well, yes, in a way..." Black
Doom, "Come, join the Black arms, we are guaranteed victory, and
we shall spare your life, if you assist us..." The cat became
angry, "No way! I would never do something so evil and
heartless, go find someone else, or just go away! You'll never get
away with it!" Well, that was a convenient conversation...
I thought to myself. Black Doom appeared angry at Blaze's response.
But before he could shout, something seemed to stop him. He had
somewhat of a suspicious expression, though it was hard to tell since
he hardly even had a face. He made some sort of hand gesture to what
seemed like no one. This caused the Cat-girl to react by getting into
a defensive fighting position, but he did nothing else. Blaze was
confused, "What are you doing?" He seemed to be scanning
the area, "Silence..." he said, "I sense the presence
of another powerful being..." Suddenly, I felt as if I was being
stared at from behind. I whipped around to see a large red-orange eye
staring at me face to face. Startled, I let out a small shout and
jumped backward into plain sight of Blaze and Black Doom. I tripped
over rubble and fell right on my ass. The thing that had been staring
at me hovered around me in circles. I swatted at it annoyed with my
hand, "Get away from me...stupid ugly floating one-eyed
starfish...thing..." "I am not a starfish!" it shouted
angrily in a dark, raspy voice. "Yeah, whatever...starfish..."
"I am Doom's eye!"
"Is that really all that
important? The guy's got two already!" I sassed motioning to
Black Doom. Then the large, alien leader interrupted, "Hedgehog
female,"
"Female ain' necessary," I interrupted,
"I'm the only hedgehog here! But please, do continue..."
I back sassed with a smirk. He ignored my interruption, "I sense
great power within you...who are you?" "Ya know..." I
said in a smart-ass tone, "I think those little air
quotes'power-sensing' satellites in your brain are screwed up, cos
the only thing I can sense within me is anger. I don't have any
powers, dumbass..." He became enraged, "You will join me in
my quest..." "For world domination," I interrupted,
"yadda yadda...I got the concept...Nope, I don't think so,
sorry 'Doom' but I'm gonna hafta decline, cos ya see...I've got a
life, thank you..." Black Doom was now furious, "You will
pay for your defiance, hedgehog and Blaze!" He then summoned
about 20 what I now know are called "black arms" aliens. I
yawned and pulled out my pistol. I aimed and maybe shot about 5 of
'em down, then decided to conserve my remaining ammo for a more
difficult battle. I replaced the gun into its holster, then bent over
and lifted up the hems of my pants. I pulled my two tantos out of
their straps on my shins, then stood up again. "Hey cat woman!
Wanna give me a hand here?" I shouted to Blaze. She snapped back
into focus and nodded, then stood up once more and ran at the aliens,
slashing at them with her claws. I as well charged at our opponents,
slicing at them with my blades. The task was all too easy, for within
minutes, Blaze and I had defeated them all. (Don't worry fellow
reader, more important battle scenes will be described in detail, but
this episode is long enough as it is) Black Doom was now outraged (as
if he wasn't mad enough before). "I will return! You have yet
to see the last of me!" he bellowed, then he and his 'Eye' faded
away before completely disappearing. I turned around and began to
walk away, most of my questions been answered, I was satisfied. Now
all I wanted to know was why Black Doom thought that I had any
power within me, let alone great power. Suddenly, I heard a
girl shout after me, "Hey! Wait up!" I turned around to see
the purple cat running after me. I stopped, tantos still in hand; She
caught up to me shortly and said, "Hey, thanks for the help back
there!" "No problem," I answered, raising an eyebrow.
I had never been a huge fan of the cat species, something about them
bothered me. "I'm Blaze the Cat, princess of Felonia."
She introduced while doing a small curtsy. "Don't..." I
said, I hated curtsies, I was never the mannered, formal type,
as you may have guessed. She immediately shot back up into standing
position. The fact that she was a princess didn't exactly bring out
my good side either...I hate princesses. "Well, formerly
anyways..." she admitted "my home planet was destroyed a
while ago." Oh, good, at least she's not still a
princess, maybe now I can tolerate her... Well at least she wasnt
pink or I might have had to strangle her...Gah, I hate pink... Then I
reluctantly replied, "I'm...Havoc..."