I do not own Sonic the Hedgehog, Archie Comics or any respective (I'm so gonna spam that word from now on) characters. I only own my OC Revenge.

First Kill

3:00 pm, New Mobotropolis.

A yellow female cat was walking home after shopping. The streets were unusually quiet.

"Hmmm, I wonder where everyone is?" she pondered. "Oh well, I can't wait to get home and see Bob! I wonder if he's-" She started before hearing something. "Hello? Is someone there?"

"Help me." A soft whisper, full of pain, came from a dark alleyway.

"Hello? Are you okay?" She asked loudly, not wanting to go into the dark.

"No. Please…help me. I can't…feel my…legs."

"Hold on! I'm coming!" She shouted, before running down the alley.

As she got further into the darkness she muttered, "Damn my stupid fear. Damn this darkness." Then shouted, "Where are you?"

"Over…here. You're close…so close…please…help me." The voice sounded weaker than before, but closer. She could tell it was male. Probably no older than 17.

"Hold on!" She yelled again, before running in the direction of the voice, and into the darkest part of the alley.

"I…I can hear y…you…please h…help…me."

She reached the end of the alley. "Where are you!" She shouted.

"Right here." The voice said, but it wasn't weak or in pain, it was evil.

She turned and saw a pair of blood red eyes with black irises. She opened her mouth to scream but a black gloved hand with black claws torn from the end shot out of the darkness and wrapped itself around her throat, preventing her from making a sound.

"What's your name?" The voice asked, the hand loosening its grip so she could speak.

"M-Marie." She squeaked, tears running down her face.

"Well Marie, how old are you?"

"I-I'm twenty."

The voice chuckled lowly and darkly. "Twenty years old. Have you ever been bullied in those twenty years?" She shook her head. "How about beaten? Attacked because you're different?" She shook her head again, the tears now a steady stream. "Well I have. I've lived every day being beaten up. And does anyone care? NO! Of course they don't care! I tell people, they say it's not their problem. I tell the so called 'Freedom Fighters' that I need help and have no one to turn to, and they say it's not important enough for them! All because I'm an orphan!" It paused. "Maybe I shouldn't have told you that. But it doesn't matter. You're not going to tell anyone. The dead can't speak."

Marie saw a mouth full of white fangs appear out of the darkness and slowly edge towards her.

"P-Please, don't kill me." She whimpered.

The fangs stopped so close to her skin she could feel the breath on her face.

"Oh I'm not going to kill you." The voice said. "Yet. I'm going to have some fun first. Then I'm going to kill you."

She tried to squirm free, but she was helpless as the fangs tore through her body. And the screaming began.

10 minutes later.

Blood splattered the walls of the alley and flooded the ground. On one of the walls was a body with an arm missing, the arm was found quite close, it was stripped on flesh and was impaling the body to the wall.

Those who knew the corpse would have recognised her. But just barely. Marie's fur was cut open, her intestines spilt on the ground, her heart had been torn out, her ribs had been cracked and several had been torn out and used to impale the rest of her limbs to the wall, one of her eyes had been torn out, her teeth smashed and her face was covered in blood. But on the walls was the most disturbing thing. In Marie's blood words had been wrote, 'Difference shall have its revenge! And in blood it was created, so in blood the price will be paid.

Yours murderously,

Revenge.'

A black figure emerged from the alley covered a hooded black cloak.

"You never forget your first kill. Goodbye Marie. Goodbye past." He said, walking away. "The revenge begins now."

The next day, 10:00 am, The alley.

"W-What happened here?" Sally Acorn gasped, seeing several of the other Freedom Fighters in the alley with Marie's body.

"Sally. Please, you don't want to see this." Sonic the Hedgehog told her taking her out of the alley.

"What happened to her?" Sally asked, scared.

"We don't know. I-I've never seen anything like it. I don't know of anything that could do something like that." Sonic said, shaken by what he'd seen.

"Do you know anything?" She asked softly.

"Only what was wrote on the wall. 'Difference shall have its revenge! And in blood it was created, so in blood the price shall be paid. Yours murderously, Revenge.' That's all it said. I don't know who did this, Sal. But I'll find out."

Suddenly an arrow embedded itself in the wall just above Sonic's head.

"Whoa!" Sonic yelled as a scroll detached from the arrow. He picked up the scroll and read out loud, "That was a warning shot Hedgehog. And even if I did get a clean view of you, I wouldn't take the shot. A person of your skill and talent must be defeated face-to-face. Consider this a little warning, its more than you did for me. I will kill you all. Every one of those that has disrespected or bullied me. That includes some of you Freedom Fighters as well. I'm not stupid, but I'm not a genius either, I'm just smart. I won't strike when you're all together in the same place. I'm not being overconfident by sending you this. I'm just giving you a fair warning. One last thing. Sally Acorn, fear the night. For your days are numbered. And to make sure you won't come after me, I've hired an old 'friend' of yours, Acorn. I believe he still wants revenge for you kicking him that time. He's going to try to kill you the moment Sonic finishes reading this letter out loud."

As soon as Sonic finished reading a gunshot went off and a bullet hit Sally in the left arm.

"Ahhh!" She screamed, clutching her arm.

"Sal!" Sonic yelled, running over to her and picking her up bridal style and running down a few streets before putting her down. "Get to safety, I'll find the shooter." He said as he rushed off.

When Sonic got back to the place Sally was shot he ran up a building and looked for the shooter.

After looking for a few seconds he saw something speeding through the city.

"That's gotta be it." Sonic muttered, running down the building and after the object.

As Sonic got closer to it, he recognised what it was. The Marvellous Queen airbike and its rider, Nack the Weasel.

Sonic ran alongside Nack and grabbed him, causing the airbike to lose control and crash into a building.

"MY BIKE!" Nack screamed as Sonic slowed down.

"Yeah, yeah. Now who sent you?" Sonic asked.

"Do you really think I'm going to tell you?"

"Listen to me Nack. I'm having a really bad day. A young woman has been killed, there's a psychotic murderer on the loose and now you show up and start shooting Sally. So don't push it." Sonic growled.

Nack gulped. "Y-You won't do anything to me." But it sounded more like a question.

"No, not to you. But your bike on the other hand…"

"DON'T TOUCH MY BIKE!"

"Then tell me what I want to know."

"I-I don't know who hired me. It was some kid with blood red eyes with black irises and a mouth full of fangs. That's all I know! He was wearing a black hooded cloak. He said to tell you that he's sixteen and that he'll strike fast and hard."

"Sixteen?" Sonic muttered. "He's only sixteen?"

"Yeah! I swear! I couldn't see anything else."

"How much is he paying you for this?" Sonic asked, trying to get an idea of his resources.

"Uh, well, ya see…He's kind of not. He said once he's got his vengeance he'll give all the treasure I'll ever want! He said that he'd make me rich!"

"What was the full job?"

"To arrive at this city at a certain time and go to a certain place and shoot Sally Acorn after a precise length of time."

"How did he find you?"

"I-I don't want to think about it." Nack said, looking away.

"How? Did? He? Find? You?"

"He-He came out of the night. One moment there was nothing there, the next, he was there." Nack shuddered. "The way he looked at me. It was like I wasn't a person to him. It was like I was nothing! Just empty space."

"How were you meant to contact him?"

"I was meant to meet him on the west side of the city in about ten minutes."

"I'm dropping you off in jail and then I'm going to go talk to your employer."

"If you want to go straight there I can drop myself off at jail."

"How stupid do you think I am?" Sonic asked before zooming off to jail, dropping Nack in a cell and speeding to the edge of the city.

The west side of the city, 10:20 am.

As Sonic ran around he looked for anyone matching Nack's description.

"This is hopeless! He's probably already out of the city." Sonic sighed before spotting someone in a black hooded cloak. "No way. It can't be that easy."

Sonic snuck up behind the cloaked figure and was only a few feet away.

"Well, well, well, look who it is." An evil and very slightly demonic said from the cloak.

The figure tuned around revealing its demonic eyes. "Sonic the Hedgehog. It's about time you got here, I was about to leave. You're getting slow."

"You. You're the one who killed that woman." Sonic growled.

"Her name was Marie. She was my first kill."

"I won't let you hurt any more people!"

"Your too late." It said pointing to its right. Sonic looked and saw a large pile of bloody bodies.

"No." Sonic whispered.

"Oh, don't worry, they were gang members. Or at least wannabe terrorists. They have a stash of weapons and enough explosives to blow up half the city. I'm telling you this because while I may kill people, I will do what I can to protect those that are innocent. At least when I feel like it. Plus those guys used to beat me and my friends up every day. I just returned the pain. All at once. Their blood was delicious."

"B-Blood?"

"I thought you knew? I drink the blood from my victims' bodies. Each drop of blood I taste makes me stronger, faster, deadlier. Now, let's get to the main point of this little get together: my revenge. I don't want innocents caught in the crossfire. So get Miles Prower and Amy Rose out of the way when we fight. That way they don't get injured. Now we've got that sorted I'm out of here. So hasta la vista." It said before falling to the ground unconscious. And Zonic the Zone Cop stood sideways behind it.

"Zonic!" Sonic yelled. "What are you doing here?"

"Sorry Sonic, I can't tell you. It's a need-to-know basis. But thanks for stalling him." Zonic said, pulling the cloak off the figure to reveal a pitch black hedgehog with pale skin around the muzzle and chest and black gloves with claws tearing through and black trainers.

"He really is just a kid." Sonic muttered.

"Yes, but that doesn't make him any less dangerous. Goodbye Sonic." Zonic said grabbing the unconscious body and warping out.

A.N. End of chap 1. So how is it? Please review. When I finally put this up. The rest of the chapters from here on out will be in Revenge's (The murderer) 1st person view. Stalling, Stalling, Done.