Again, I don't own anything in Sonic, blah blah blah. Blah.

BEGIN SAGA 1: CESARE

2. Ain't That a Kick in the Head?

Cesare hated school.

He walked down the stark white hallways of Acorn High School. He shouldn't even be in High School, but due to his high intelligence he was already a junior along with Kyren and Rio. He smirked a little at the thought but quickly frowned again. He thought he knew everything already and his teachers (minus the history teachers) always pronounced his name wrong. He cruised into his first period and sat down.

"Okay, class, get your textbooks and turn to page 195."

Cesare looked at the page and groaned. It was the Borgia's, and he knew quite about that considering he named after one of them.

"Problem, Cesare?" the teacher asked him, pronouncing it "See-zar"

"It's "Chez-array" and I already know all about this, considering my dad named me after Cesare Borgia."

"Your dad named you after one of the most evil people to walk the planet?"

"He loved history. So do I."

"Then you should have kept your mouth shut. I'm giving you a detention for speaking against-"

At that moment, the door to the class opened. Two cloaked figures, one in green and one in red, slowly entered the room. They seemed to search around until they fixed their eyes on Cesare. The one in green took out a throwing knife and began to bring it up.

Cesare's eyes went wide as he ducked and flipped his desk over. The knife went partly through the desk and barely entered the side of his face. He yanked himself away from the desk, got his hands under it, and launched it where the figures were.

He took no time charging. The desk flew into the one in red, knocking him unconscious for a good while. The one in green gave a smirk.

Cesere went for a punch to the figure in green's face. The figure quickly deflected his punch and jammed a knee into Cesare, making stumble by the window. The wound on his face was hurting now.

As the figure came up to him, he grabbed its arm and pulled it to the window. The figure quickly grabbed hold of Cesaare's head and smashed it through the glass, leaving cuts all over his already bleeding face, and threw him back towards the door. Cesare looked up and saw a large shard from the broken window on the ground. He rushed towards it.

Picking the shard up, he ran towards the figure, giving the impression of a charge, but stopped before he got to it. He ducked down and, with all his might, launched himself, and the glass shard, into the figure.

The figure flew out the window, and Cesare almost went with him. He managed to catch himself on the window edges and pull himself into the classroom again. By now his face was a mess of red and the whole classroom was looking at him.

"I'll sign that later" he said, while flipping a G.U.N badge and sprinting out the door.

They obviously only want me, Kyren and Rio. My class is the closest so there must still be time before the other units of these dudes come. I can get there in time…

His principal agreed that they could carry two weapons on campus. Cesare had his Blackjack, a lifelong partner of his, and a black and silver Glock 18, a fully automatic pistol. He switched it to semi and ran to Rio's classroom.

As he entered the door, he saw Rio pushed against a wall with two figures, this time both in red, were advancing towards her. He shot one in the back and the other in the head, knocking them both down. The blood was beginning to drip into his field of vision so he wiped it away.

Rio ran up to him.

"What the hell happened to you?" she asked.

"MY guys gave a little more resistance. Come on, we can still get to Kyren." He flashed his G.U.N badge and ran out with Rio.

"I don't have any weapons-" began Rio until Cesare tossed her the Glock. She nodded and they continued sprinting.

They burst into the classroom to see Kyren a few feet away from them, punching one of the figures. He must have sensed them both because he whipped around and kicked them both in the face.

"KYREN!" they both screamed, Cesare holding his already bloodied face and Rio holding her right eye.

"Oh. Sorry guys. Gotta be careful, you know." He said, before flashing the badge and walking out with the rest of them.

"Who's got blood all over them?" asked Kyren, smelling it in the area.

"That would be me." Cesare explained before some of it poured into his mouth. He spit it out and coughed a bit.

Hurts like nothing I've ever felt before, either. They don't need to know that.

"Dude, you should totally get to a hospital and get some stiches. You're getting blood all over my Sonic Youth shirt." They all started laughing, but shut up near the principal's office.

As soon as they walked in, the Principal glanced up a Cesare and screamed, falling out of his seat.

"Wha-" he began.

"We were attack by figures in red robes." Rio stated. Kyren nodded.

"I got a green one. He almost killed me." Cesare remarked.

"Green? That would mean he was the leader of the group…" Kyren said.

"Are they all gone and do I need to call your father?" the Principal asked.

"Yes and yes." Cesare said before walking out and searching for the green robed figure.

It was a black hedgehog with a silver stripe running vertically across his body, much like Kyren. He carried a vast array of knives in a utility belt, but no firearms. That wasn't what Cesare wanted. Cesare wanted the robe.

It was hard to see with the blood in his face again so he wiped it off and searched the robe. The inside was a dark grey with a gold symbol.

It was a skull and crossbones, except the bone here were knives and the skull's skin wasn't completely off. It was rotting, with one eyeball completely gone.

"Find anything, Cesare?" Ryko the Hedgehog asked before sitting down next to him.

"Yea. Just this symbol." He said, showing it to his dad.

Ryko looked at it and his eyes immediately widened as he dropped the cape. His head whipped towards Cesare.

"Where there other with red robes too?" he quickly asked. Cesare cocked his head to the side.

"They didn't tell you? Yea, this was the only guy in green. Do you know what-" Ryko had tuned him out now. He stared at the symbol for a moment and turned back to Cesare.

"Get the others and take them to our house. Tell mom to get 5 tickets to Downunda by plane. I'll sort the rest out."

"But-"

"Just go."

"WHO ARE THESE GUYS!?" Cesare yelled. The blood dripped to his eyes again and he couldn't see, but that wasn't a problem now. Ryko sighed.

"The Rigor Mortis. The cult that toppled an empire."