A/N:6271 total words in this chapter, minus this of course. God, this took forever. Welcome to remake of Chronicles of Fate, now guaranteed with ten times the action, suspense and story. I promised to remake this story when I requested to rewrite it in Nov. 2009. during this time, I rethought and fleshed out the entire plot. I promise you will not be displeased.
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CHRONICLES OF FATE
Chapter 1: Iunctus in Fortuna
United in Fate
Fate. A crazy thing isn't it? It works in mysterious ways, united or divided. Believe it or not, we're all connected in this jacked up world. From the minute we join forces to the second we turn against friends, we expose ourselves to the different roads of our prophesied destines..but it will all end the same. Your story has been written in stone and blood, never to be changed again. What are you gonna do when you have to face Fate? Who or what will you be fighting for? That answer might be the key to your survival...
Location: Megalo Station
Area: Upper Region: Orgenix Highway
Time: 8:43p.m.
Megalo Station was a vast utopia of futuristic life. What was a standard car in Empire city was a anti gravity craft, free to explore the boundaries of the world. Buildings and skyscrapers stood tall and proud, floating a rotating plates with chains of boosters. Trains traveled mid air, suspended up by airborne grind rails. Most people lived in the upper region. In all, Extreme gear was the only way to go these days. Especially at his moment in time
"Mobians of Megalo Station, are your ready to race!"
The MC received a valid response as the crowd let a roar of cheers erupt. The MC, let out a pleased grin as he gazed at the audience at the side. Today was the completion of the Orgenix Highway and the start of the new generation racers. Extreme gear was great and all, but it stood ill compared the anti crafts or the GX gears as pop culture seemed to call it. Megalo station and it's futuristic resources was the first choice to host the first race, the technology for the races being closely developed within the confines of the city.
"Of course you should be ready, this miraculous race couldn't have been possible without your cooperation." The emcee responded.
This of course, sent the crowd into a frenzy, eager for the races. The emcee himself stood elevated on a central platform, soaring quickly overhead. Below him was the Orgenix highway. The futuristic highway itself was a floating mass of metal, stretching for what seemed ages; loops, corkscrews, and flips, it had it all. Located at the left and right of the roads were stages meant to hold the crowds of Mobians who journeyed far and wide just to see the race. Ring shaped arches hovered around the road, giving way to the starting light as well as Large HD monitors displayed to give the audience a greater vision of the race. Divine lights from the lower section of the city illuminated the highway along with area around the race way.
The race happened to take first priority around here. G.U.N itself was brought in to keep a special watch over all events happening. Soldiers in anti craft cruisers littered the airways, keeping scope on each and every individual event around the stages, royal suites, and the raceway itself. Ground troops also stood around the raceway, safe from the racers of course. The sentries carried assortment of weapons, swords, magnum revolvers, P90s and tasers; whatever would get the job done.
As the crowd continued on, minutes away from the race, the emcee placed his microphone down on a plate to his left before subconsciously reaching his hand into his pocket. He slipped out a communicator and flipped the switch before speaking.
"General, is all going according to plan.?" the emcee said, addressing the military.
Seconds of silence came about before his call was returned. " This is G.U.N general, everything is at a hundred percent, no sign of any criminal activity."
"Good, keep it that way."
"Yes...everything will go on great." the general said, specks of laughter in his voice.
The emcee gazed suspiciously at his communicator before slipping it back into his pocket. He shifted his gaze to a few of the producers and they gave a nod, sending his signal back onto the monitors.
"First, I would like to show my appreciation to Rose Casino Industries." The emcee declared. " Their generous donation was what made this highway possible. Please, let us welcome the generous founder and CEO, a person of grace and depth: Gemini Rose!" the emcee yelled out.
Location: Megalo Station
Area: Upper Region: Empire section
Time: 8:39p.m.
CEO and Rose Casino Founder, Gemini Rose, sat quietly in the empire section of the stands. As his name was uttered around the stage, a sapphire light slowly moved to his position. To seem interested, the CEO lifted off his royal red chair and stood tall and proud. Located around his suite were everything in pop culture history; flash photographers rushing for the best pictures, news journalist ready to interview him, paparazzi ready to ambush him.
The light fell onto the hedgehog and in response he let a small smile along with a few waves as the photographers rushed forwards to take pictures, his images appearing on the monitors for all the view.
Gemini was a rosy red hedgehog with black stripes marks randomly flying across his body. The hedgehog had bright amber eyes which he had covered with tinted golden sunglasses. He had jet black boots with golden rimming along top as well as emerald green lines heading down them. He also had white gloves with golden lines going down and golden cuffs, as well as two bracelets, one which was a rose made of ruby and another which is a golden marigold which he wore on his opposing wrist. His outfit was completed with a black vest with green around the edges.
As the light died down, a single frown returned to his muzzle and he slumped back down into his seat. He waved away the journalist and the photographers and paparazzi soon died down after several pictures. Honestly, he didn't care about this event, let alone enough to attend it. He was only interested in the revelation of one object; this certain Exilon key the race was stated to have. He had heard certain folk tales of their existence but finding one has been as hard as finding a needle in every haystack in the entire world of Mobius.
The rosy hedgehog slipped his hand into his pocket and brought out a bright pink charm, star shaped and glinting in the nightlight. He had this race to look for after all. He might as well enjoy whatever this place has offer. He gazed softly at the rosy charm and grasped it heavily in his arms before returning his gaze to the race.
Location: Megalo Station
Area: Upper Region: Megalo Station
Time: 8:50p.m.
"Alrighty, ladies and gents. Lets begin this fabulous race, shall we?" the emcee said.
As the crowd's uproar grew louder, their patience wearing thin, the emcee decided to give them what they wanted. He reached his hand into the sky as several flashes of fireworks skyrocketed into the air. Their glowing might expanded in the air, causing the audience to gaze in awe. Behind the bewildering fireworks was a large ruby anti craft carrier which slowly opened their pod doors.
Like a waterfall, the dozens of participants came streaming out in their GX gears. They slowly lowered their speed and came to a nice halt at the start of the line, ready to race. Fireworks flew, people cheered on, and the emcee flipped a switch to his right, turning on the countdown. His hovering plate began to lower, coming close in contact with the futuristic road.
"Racers! Are you ready?" the emcee yelled proudly.
His answer came in the form of multiple revs of plasma engines-he smiled widely.
"Here's the rules." the emcee explained slowly. " There are fifty of you. In order to qualify to future races, you must capture the Exilon key. Whoever catches the Exilon key and returns to activate it will win. Others will have to try again until the Exilon key has been caught ten times. Those ten will go on."
The racers revved their engines in agreement and the emcee found himself being brought back to the sky by his hovering plate. His smile grew wide and he raised his right hand into the air.
"Ladies and gents, behold the Exilon key." the emcee said.
Reaching behind him, the emcee revealed the key and source of Gemini's curiosity. The key revealed itself to be a four foot ink black skeleton key. The teeth of this peculiar key were shaped in the form of claws with a ruby outline coursing through it. The ruby red hilt ran around the goldenrod handle like a upside down heart. Golden lines aligned themselves around the key; three around the shaft, two around the handle. The key was a sight to see, gathering everyone's undivided attention as well as sending an eerie silence among the racers.
The emcee reached into his left pocket and brought out two cerulean plates. They began to lift off his palm, rotating fiercely as they levitated. The two plates started to spread out in opposing directions and the emcee responded by placing the key in between. The cerulean plates instantly froze in place, expelling a bubble like shield around the key. The shield, containing the precious artifact fell into the emcee's arms and in response, he flung the orb into the air. The minute he threw the artifact, the bottom cerulean plate expelled a thick blast of fuchsia energy, launching forward and away from the racers.
The emcee turned his attention to the racers and began the countdown. " Racers, on your mark."
"3"
Crowds began to cheer.
"2"
Engines roared to life.
"1"
"Fireworks blazed out into the sky.
"Go"
Just as the word rang out of the emcee's mouth, engines blazed and gears bolted out, soaring past the starting line and onto the static conducted road. Crowds erupted, sparks flew and the party started.
One certain racer triumphed over all the rest, opting to go through several arches. A grin stood plastered over the Mobian's face as his momentum increased. His grin grew wider as he spotted the key down the raceway, floating stationary. The mobian jammed his foot against the pedal and the mahogany racing gear shot forward in a wave of sapphire energy. As he closed in, he pressed a button, opening his cockpit. His hand reached out and in a quick lunge, snatched the orb holding the key. At that moment, everything went to hell.
The sudden sound of lightning forced the racer to gaze up into the sky- his eyes widened greatly. The G.U.N Sentry carriers, about twenty are so littered the sky while providing reconnaissance around the race. A surge of fuchsia energy started to rapidly transfer to each and everyone of the carriers. In seconds, several chain explosions came into reality, sending a array of scrap metal falling down to the raceway.
The raceway became a frenzy as the racers struggled to dodge the falling debris; the falling metal debris continued on their way down, crashing into the monitors and lights and disrupting the crowd. The sentry carriers started their untimely descent to the raceway, throwing the gear racers into panic. The main disturbance became an orb of fuchsia energy, located just a few feet above the descending cruisers.
The orb of fuchsia light stood unwavering before beginning a fast descent to the ground. Velocity began take effect as the incoming bomb began to distort in size. With no options left the racers slammed their brakes to lower as much speed as possible. In the end it was too late as the violet ball of energy struck the raceway, sending a massive shockwave of violet energy around the entire area. The GX gears immediately began to break down as surges of violet electricity began to tear down the controls of the gears, sending them into chaos.
The gears caught in the massive expansion of energy were thrown of course, flying straight into the air. Others crashed into standing columns and lights, theirs lives tragically shortened. One vehicle was sent soaring forward, spinning rapidly until it crashed into another racer, emerald in color. The compacted gears, slowed down from impact, were a perfect target for a certain Mobian to land on. From the sky, a hedgehog, ivory in color, landed safely on the compacted gears.
"Now this is a production!" the hedgehog proclaimed happily, thrusting his fist into the air.
The cameras, aligned to show the viewers the results, suddenly focused on the hedgehog.
The mysterious intruder was shown to be a snow white hedgehog and from his looks, was to be seventeen years of age. The hedgehog had spiky snow white hair which drooped down to his shoulders. Under his hair was a thin ponytail traveling down to the middle of his back. His muzzle was a light ivory coupled with a pleasant and mischievous grin. He carried the mysterious ancestry of being Heterochromia of the eyes; sapphire blue in his left eye while his right eye was a stagnant gold cats eye, evidence of a Mobian branch off. His large pointed ears dropped out at the side of his head as opposed to the top. His arms were peach and his two back spines protruded down rather than up. Attached to him was a weirdly prehensile wolf like tail which was held in a zig zag and seemed sway back and forth in excitement.
The hedgehog's outfit consisted of a skin tight, sleeveless, black undershirt which was strapped to his body with thin silver belts. Over his undershirt was a sleek metal wiring forming a thick coated long sleeve shirt, actually light in weight and see through at times. He wore dark blue cargo pants with a brown dagger shaped holsters, seemingly for his weaponry. Along his hips were black, diamond encrusted belts, loosely attached to his body. From the end of his knee were silver boots; the boots had a dark black sole and brown belt strapped around the tip of the boots. He wore black fingerless gloves with large royal blue cuffs and a white ring attached his wrist. Attached from his elbows to his gloves were arm warmers, black on the right arm and white on the left arm. To complete his look was a large emerald necklace encased in a metal collar adorned to his neckline.
Noticing the silence spreading among the area, the hedgehog decided to remove two arm length daggers from his holster sides. " Jeez, though crowd." he murmured.
"The emcee's eyes grew wide and in a few sentences, described a course of action. " People, immediately and quietly return to the shuttles."
Quietly was the only word that didn't stick.
The entire area erupted into a frenzy of fear and distraught. Mobians tore through the area in rage, quickly filling up the shuttles. Decency was lost and manners, none existent. The racers immediately turned tail and ran while G.U.N quickly sprang into action. The emcee raised his hover plate well above the entire raceway before proclaiming his entire message to G.U.N.
"G.U.N an intruder has been spotted!" the emcee bellowed in anger. " Apprehend at all cost."
While the G.U.N air sentries began their downward spiral, the ground soldiers began to arrive on scene. Armies of G.U.N soldiers, armed with guns and anti craft gears, raced through the track, slowly closing in on the recent explosion and the revealed hedgehog.
The invader shifted his gaze behind him were dozens of gears shot past him before circling around for a U turn. Only inches behind him, they released their cockpit windows and cocked their guns at the hedgehog.
The hedgehog smiled politely to them before letting his eyes focus on the start of the race, opposite of where he was currently heading. " Hey, you strong fellas wouldn't happen to know where the real Exilon Key is?" he questioned.
" Intruder, you have ten seconds to drop your weapon and release control of these gears." a soldier replied, his sights aimed down at the ivory hedgehog's skull.
This only made the hedgehog nod down in disappointment before lifting his weapon. " You obviously ignored what I said." the hedgehog growled out.
In a sharp second, the hedgehog swung his right twinblade at the soldiers gear. He released the blade and watched as the blade flew forward, a golden chain of energy attached to it's hilt. The soldier stood unprepared for the attack and watched in horror as the blade pierced through his standard clothing along with his brittle rib cage. The hedgehog swiftly tugged the golden chain imbedded in his wrist and brought the screaming body out of the cockpit. The hedgehog grinned and detached the body from his bloodied blade before turning his attention to the other bewildered soldiers.
"Anyone else like to answer my question?" he asked, spinning his blade around with the chain.
"Who are you?" another soldier questioned gruffly.
"Names Edge Nighthart, but I would like you to.." he started.
"Men, this guy is an assassin and thief. Lock on and fire." a soldier cried out, interrupting the hedgehogs speech.
The soldiers complied instantly and let out a stream of hot led fly towards the ivory thief. The hedgehog, known as Edge, released his other blade before swing both blades, side by side, in circles. He gradually let the blade slip out of his hand along with inches of his chains to increase the radius coverage. This seemed to take effect as the bullets merely collided with the spinning blades, sending them flying in every direction.
Some soldiers were forced to duck from the ricocheted bullets while others met their ends as the hot bullets pierced their bodies. While the soldiers tried to recuperate, Edge reached into a backpack he had carried and brought out a compact suitcase. He threw it below him where it expanded to form a standard board gear, stolen from an innocent bystander.
"If you guys want to play a game, how about cat and mouse?" the ivory thief proposed.
He thrusted his left hand forward where a small golden knife ejected itself from his arm warmer. He smiled as a thick stream of smog flew out in front of the G.U.N solders, leaving them confused and shocked. With his job finished, the hedgehog located his board, slowly keeping up with moving anti craft he stood on. He back flipped off the crushed extreme gears and landed on the board before blasting off in a shell of ivory energy.
However, the phantom thief wasn't out of the woods yet. From the smog of the soldiers appeared a small armada G.U.N Vulcan fighters, jet planes spiked with weaponry. The jets wasted no time locating the hedgehog before unleashing a barrage of bullets upon the new raceway. Edge gave a small gulp before leaning his board to the left, avoiding the stream of bullet penetrations appearing along the ground. G.U.N wasn't playing tea party today and he knew that. They were good, he just had to be better.
He switched his feet around, causing him to face the jet planes. With a stead aim, he propelled his right twinblades straight into the torso of a fighter jet. He gave a small tug and his body started to absorb the energy chains, pulling himself towards the jet plane. He crashed into the jet and held on firmly to the underside of the jet, sticking his left blade into the torso before firing his right blade into the jets left wing. He swung to the side and brought himself up to the top of the jet before throwing his right blade into the air. He quickly tugged it down where it crashed into wing, severing it from the jet.
As the plane began to spiral out of control, he attached himself to it's side before throwing both blades backwards, at a risk to his balance. Once they stretched to their maximum feet, he tugged them forward, delivering a crushing blow into the side of the jet, ultimately sending the jet plane spiraling into it's other fellow jets. Knowing the jets couldn't stand much of chance now, the hedgehog decided to fall back down to the raceway. Like luck would have it, the thief ended up on his own gear, riding off towards the starting line.
However, before he could find the key, he needed to pick someone up. Continuing along the path, Edge came along the recent explosion of violet energy awhile back. The violet shockwave seemed to be the only reason G.U.N couldn't continue along the path; they waited cautiously, hoping the force-field would lower. He decided to take a chance and ram into the startling force field, disappearing entirely. The G.U.N sentries looked in sheer confusion at the force field but decided to buff up their army. To their command, dozens of sentries traveled forth along with robotic wheel gears and two G.U.N carriers on their way.
Seconds finally became minutes and no sign of the intruder was sighted. A lone soldier promptly aimed a launcher, a javelin to be exact, and fired upon the force field. The speeding missile crashed into the force field and like a mirror, the orb of violet shattered into several pieces of ivory. The sparkling shards, their beauty emanating through the area, crashed blandly into the ground, picking up a trail of snow white dust, a cover.
A soldier suddenly began to move in cautiously before firing warning shots into the sudden mist. Upon firing, a single blade flew out piercing into his armored chest. Before any action could be taken, a second blade flew, stabbing another soldier in the thigh. Golden chains revealed themselves at the hilts of the blades and the soldiers were quickly dragged to their deaths, their pleas of help falling on deaf ears. Their innocent plea for help soon ended, and sprinting out of the mist was the ivory thief himself, rushing straight into the crowd of soldiers.
Along with that, the mist was suddenly cast aside showing a new figure, the creator of the force field. She immediately drew her weapon before rushing into the crowd as well.
The mysterious new figure was a light blue hedgehog and from her slender looks, was about nineteen years of age. She had long light blue hair, flowing down to just inches below her shoulders. Attached to her ears, which poked a little above her hair, were amber teardrop earrings. Her eyes were a fierce hazel, enough to scare any person who gazed at her. Her muzzle was a peach color coupled with a standard almost scowling frown.
The hedgehog's outfit consisted of a brown turtle neck sweater, zipped fully up. Wrapped around her voluptuous figure was a thin, sleeveless white jacket which flew down to her waist, unbuttoned. The jacket was only held together by a brown belt wrapped tightly around her midriff, her stomach could barely be seen from where her jacket arched out. She wore a light brown denim miniskirt with a dark brown belt woven through the belt hoops. Wrapped around her miniskirt and lowered to her left leg was a mahogany holster pack, holding an assortment of many items, almost like a mini purse on her leg. From below her knees to the ends of her feet were dark black boots, no heel, with a brown cover slenderly wrapped around. She had on a pair of sapphire blue fingerless gloves with golden panels attached to the knuckles. On her left arm was a black, plastic arm warmer, ending inches above her elbow. Completing her look was a horizontal holster attached to her back, which held her signature weapon.
She quickly dashed forth and leveled a soldier with a thin slice against his torso, blood spewing as a result. Her hazel eyes darted to the left as an incoming soldier ran up, spraying forth bullets from a standard P90. She quickly ducked before tapping the front of her sword against the ground, sending the part of the blade rotating away to reveal of sub machine gun within the thin sword. She dodged rolled to her left before firing one bullet into the soldier's helmet. Just as the bullet penetrated the helmet, she appeared, fast as lightning, and delivered a thin slash against his torso.
Two soldier ran at her right, causing her to thrust her palm out. Centered at the palm was a spark violet energy which grew every second until it was comparable to a baseball. With a wave of her hand, she shot the orb straight at the two G.U.N sentries. They responded with tactical fire but each and every bullet fell like an iron, penetrating the metal road below. They ultimately couldn't stop the orb as it rammed into one of the soldiers, quickly expanding into a violet explosion. As the force field dissipated, the soldiers suddenly became as heavy as a rock before falling into the ground, their bodies slowly denting into the raceway.
Meanwhile, Edge raced through the entire area, whipping his blades around by their chains. The soldiers quickly responded with streams of bullets, though it was all in vain. The ivory thief merely spun the blades in front of his body, deflecting the bullets away. As a lone soldier approached the mess, Edge dashed forward and stabbed the thin point of his small blade into the sentry's chest. He continued in rapid succession, running to the left where he delivered a horizontal slice against three soldiers with a whip of his blade. Unfortunately, the hedgehog became rather careless in approach, receiving a bullet straight through the left shoulder.
This caused the thief to back down to ground before dodge rolling away to evade the oncoming spray of hot lead. There was no way he could fight with a damaged left arm so the ivory thief put his left blade away before tucking in his left arm, ignoring the burning pain in his joint. He took the right blade and ran forth, ready to fight. He belted a single soldier into the metal road before twirling around, severing several soldiers to the ground. He shot the small blade forward, stabbing into a robotic sentry behind them before pulling backwards to drag it through the ground, running over several careless soldiers.
Before the thief could act anymore, a wave of fuchsia energy swept over the soldiers like a breeze, forcing them into the ground. Color mixed eyes gazed behind to see the female hedgehog dashing towards him. His gaze swiftly turned back to the situation, seeing five G.U.N soldiers, riding wheel gears, approaching with fast momentum.
The ivory thief jerked his head back before yelling " Raine, Catapult!"
"Alright." she responded.
The female hedgehog known as Raine quickly closed in the distance between them. Edge swung his blade out by it's chain to which she took a hold of. Edge then responded by flinging her forward with all his energy, which in retrospect, wasn't much anymore. She went zooming forward, causing her to uncurl to which she delivered a shot from her gun sword mix.
The bullet crashed into an oncoming gear, disrupting the driver when Raine crashed onto the top of the extreme gear. She reached down and tugged on the soldier, causing him to fall out of the gear. She reformed her sword before jumping onto an adjacent wheel gear, stabbing her sword into the controls. She then leaped forward and crashed her foot into another gear, kicking the soldier out of the anti craft. She nestled into the cockpit of the gear before ducking incoming bullets from an oncoming wheel gear. The light blue hedgehog reformed her gun before firing a single shot into the beak of the gear, ultimately forcing the gear out of control and into a column ahead.
What troubled the female crusader was the two G.U.N cruisers. In any second they could land and deliver more troops, and they weren't ready for that. While she gazed at Edge coming up in a board gear, she turned her attention back to the two emerald cruisers, gargantuan in appearance. An orb of dark fuchsia energy came into existence, bigger than the former. She grinned before chucking the orb, which shot forward at lightning speeds towards the cruisers.
In seconds, the cruisers were caught in a rather large torrent of violet chaos energy. The ships began to lose function and power while their haul began to radiate in a violet hue. It was only seconds before the ships began to begin a rapid descent towards the road itself. Eventually the uneven gravity began to tear the cruisers apart into large, but less avoidable material.
" Umm Raine?" Edge questioned, closing on the female hedgehog. " It would have been a good idea to use that gravity field thing after we clear the road. How do we get past now?" he exclaimed, slightly irritated.
She gazed back at the hedgehog before increasing speed in her rogue wheel gear. " We jump over it. Easy as cake." she declared.
"Damn it, she always goes the long road. I like that in a women." he smirked confidently.
The broken carriers came crashing down onto the road, spreading slowly around. Raine let go of her gear before leaping greatly into the air. Edge shot his twinblade onto the start of the wreckage before propelling himself into the capsized carrier. Once attached to the carrier, he swiped his right blade at Raine who proceeded to grab the blade. Edge propelled her forward where she landed comfortably at the deck of a broken carrier.
Seeing that these incoming materials took strong forces to cut through, she flipped a switch on her blade, sending a blast of searing heat into the edge of the blade. While Edge followed in suit, Raine sprinted forth, delivering a heated slash towards an incoming haul piece. The two warriors jumped forward to the next branch of the falling cruiser, slicing through any undesirable mess. Coming to the final stop, they gazed upward to see a falling piece of the ships haul, threatening to end their lives in seconds.
Raine looked to Edge who nodded. " I got your back."
She nodded confidently and ran forward followed by the ivory thief. The female crusader slashed through a discarded metal. She slid down while Edge whipped his right twinblade through several discarded drones and belted his blade back into the air, knocking the piece of haul metal away. With a final leap, the two exited the wreckage and crashed into the ground below, their destination finally reached.
The ivory thief rose from the ground and rubbed the underside of his head. The two had finally made it to the beginning of the raceway and the empty stands. As Raine began to lift up from the ground, Edge decided to take a look around. Only seconds after the idea popped into his head did he realize a certain person still here.
"I'm glad you enjoyed the massacre of fellow G.U.N agents." a voice sounded.
Edge and Raine both gazed up to see a familiar person, the emcee the be precise, located in his hover plate. " Your the emcee." Edge exclaimed.
"Correction." Raine interrupted, forming her sword into the previous gun. " Your the one who threw the key we're looking for." she explained.
"Your very correct." the emcee spat.
"Why don't you hand it over then?" Edge explained. " I sorta locked the door to my house and I left the water running." he joked.
"I don't have it." the emcee explained. " I threw it to start the race..some racer has it now." he lied.
"Bullshit!" Edge spat out. " Something that rare would never be used for that event. Why don't ya show me the real key so I can get on with my life."
"I guess your not as dumb as you look." the emcee declared.
"Your right, I try to spike my appearance just for the people." he responded. " Now, the key fine gentlemen."
"Flattery will get you nowhere, thieves." he hissed out, lowering down from the hover plate.
However, Raine chose not to wait for any other idle chatter and shot a single bullet, straight into the head of the emcee. He doubled over and fell to the ground, not another word escaping the lips of the master of ceremonies.
"Raine, he didn't tell us where the key is." Edge said exhausted.
"He obviously didn't want to tell us." She replied harshly. " I'm not here for idle banter."
"Then we should skip the talking."
The two turned to the dead corpse of the emcee where a sudden explosion of fog overtook the area. They could nothing but shield their eyes as the fog overtook the area. To blow away the pest of a cloud, the ivory thief swung the chained blade in his right hand in circles, creating a good enough gust to fan most of it away. What was left of the emcee had been gone, what had replaced it was something different.
The being wore an form-fitting, all-body, leather, combat suit. His armor started with a pair of black and light-gray armored boots; These boots sported an iridescent sapphire strip running down the thigh and toe, which served as the fuel for a hover-boot skill. His black gloves lifted all the way to his elbow and appeared to be part of his one-piece combat uniform as opposed to separate pieces of apparel. Around each wrist, the mobian sported a gray circlet, which looked a bit like squat, four-spiked cogs, featuring a number of purple buttons. On the top of each glove was a sapphire orb, surrounded by silver plates, with a chaos emerald insignia inside. On the center of his leather armor was a giant iridescent blue oval, with a chaos emerald neatly placed within the carrier. Sapphire lines departed from the oval carrier and worked it's way down to his boots. His shoulders were protected by outward branching metal pads, lit by the chaos emerald energy. The Mobian's dual uniform was then completed by a fancy looking helmet that served to disguise his head entirely.
The helmet looked much more formidable and armor-plated than the rest of his suit. The faceplate displays a prominent Chaos Emerald vigil in iridescent blue (like the strips on his boots) on the forehead. His line of vision came out of the helmet through glowing blueish-white eye visors; these 'eye sockets' are set in somewhat extravagant, outward-sweeping pieces of the light-gray material seen on his boots. His quills fit inside six branching, backwards horns that curl downwards from the back of the helmet. These horns seemed to be the most heavily-armored part of the Dual machines entire ensemble, the outer curve being composed of large, segmented plating. The inner surface of the curves is the same light-gray stuff as features on his boots and visor-trim.
The new enemy seemed to hover just inches above the ground and though his eyes were not seen, they could feel malice emanating from the cybernetic creature.
"Wow, so you like leather. What that's suppose to do, emcee?" Edge questioned, thoroughly displeased.
"I am not an emcee." the cybernetic mobian responded, his voice filtered through echoes. " I am Guardian Vega, central commander of the mobile Sentry squadron."
He reached into the hover plate and brought out a specific item – Edge's mixed eyes widened at the revelation. " I believe this is want you want." Vega said, holding the Exilon key within his grasps.
Vega began to slowly back away from the two hedgehog, eventually hovering feet over them. " Try and get it." he said viciously.
With that, the cyborg sentry began to slowly back away before blasting off in a burst of sapphire streaks.
"Well?" Raine questioned. " What do you plan to do?"
Edge rethought his plans. He need to the key, badly. Wasn't it even worth it though. For him? Eventually, the hedgehog grinned before walking forward. He reached into his pocket and brought out a snow white star shaped charm, it's presence radiating heavily of energy. He brought the charm to his forehead and began to relax, relatively in deep thought. In what became minutes, his eyes opened and he put away the charm.
"Vega..." the hedgehog murmured, his grin growing wider, more devilish. " today's victim...is you!"
Location: Megalo Station
Area: Upper Region: Empire section
Time: 10:39p.m.
While these events transpired, a certain person remained throughout the mess. Thoroughly examining the events ahead, Gemini Rose began to take his leave.
"This Exilon key." Gemini murmured. " why do these thieves want it?" he questioned to himself.
His gaze shifted to the sapphire streak in the air followed by two thieves, casually entering the lower region of the destroyed race track
"I guess I find out for myself" he said.
As he walked by, a startling silhouette appeared beside him. He merely brushed it off and continued out of the suit, paying no attention at all.
"Not today." He whispered. " I won't be haunted by you today." he said regretfully.
AN: This is just a starting chapter.
Changes: I decided to return to the Sonic universe rather than the other renaissance like cities I created. Even though I'm using sonic stages and such, I'm going to flesh them out more, making them more futuristic appearances like Zero Gravity. Hence, G.U.N prison will be spiked up in appearance and such.. I also have the medallions appearing once again, each OC gets one which is primarily based of their main color. Etc= Edge- snow white, Gemini- Rose pink. They all play pivotal roles in the story like last the time.
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