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CHRONICLES OF FATE

Chapter 2: Key for your thoughts?

Location: Megalo Station

Area: Upper Region: Hanging Gardens

Time: 11:45 P.M.

"Great, we not only lost the tin can, but we stranded ourselves in the middle of nowhere." the ivory hedgehog mumbled, stomping the ground in frustration

Heterochromia eyes, one a stagnant sapphire and the other a sullen gold cats eye, gazed curiously around the mechanical fortress they had been forced to occupy. Sliding his maroon, gloved hand into a small pocket on his cargo pants, Edge Nighthart calmly lifted a electronic plate from his pocket.

Gazing at it's sleek and slender frame, he gently nudged a sapphire button on it's square sides with his fingerless glove, a emerald colored 3-D scale of Megalo station quickly beamed into the air. Watching the map rotate slowly in the night sky, Edge hardly heard his friend, Raine Farron, approach the Terran.

"No doubt about it." He sighed, slightly annoyed in tone,"We've found ourselves in the Hanging Gardens." he finished, Raine nodded.

The team of crusaders found themselves in the region below the futuristic raceway, the Hanging Gardens. These runways were particularly identical to hanging gardens, a stream of slippery, chrome metal walkways aligned in a maze that seemed to stretch forth onto the horizons. Suspended by transforming blocks of matter and floating, glossy platforms, these thin walkways surrounded every inch of the entire city, untouchable by anyone but G.U.N soldiers themselves. Occasionally, gated and protected fields were opened to the all seeing public. These hanging walkways were the only way to get most beautiful view of the next generation skyscrapers, the crystal lined tubes holding the traffic of oncoming civilians, and the grand mesoplex: Megalo Station itself.

Megalo station, the actual station, was the main center piece of the city. It's giant, chrome, silver dome floated gently, several feet above the city itself. Illuminated with every sort of light-bulb possible, almost all electricity this city produced was centered in that one building. The main transportation of trains tracks, gear tubes, and G.U.N units were located there; in fact, every train and carrier, every vehicle, and every gear went through that dome just to be transported to where they needed to go. The station itself took you to the correct road and soon you'd be on your way down a clear road tube to your destination.

Edge himself had taken the time to observe possible routes for escape and even reconnaissance on G.U.N operatives but even the ivory thief was surprised by the gargantuan city. He pressed against the button on the navigator to switch it off before simply chucking it towards Raine who easily grasped it.

"This didn't turn out how I wanted it..." Edge muttered in irritation. "...We could have kept up with him." he said fiercely, stomping his right foot to the metal platform, a vibrating clank erupting into his ears.

Raine delivered a small yet quick jab to the thief's left shoulder and though it was weak hit, the hedgehog found himself wincing in pain.

"If we hadn't stopped, we wouldn't have bandaged up that left shoulder from your bullet wound." Raine explained, a fixed look upon his shoulder, bloodied gauze fastened tightly to the bone.

He huffed loudly in response,"I could have done okay without it."

He winced as the tip of Raine's blade poked against his gauze; the blade pierced lightly beneath the remnant of skin, drawing more blood. " Keep telling yourself that." she taunted.

Making sure to keep steady steps, the ivory hedgehog walked to an edge and gazed into the twinkling night sky. The wind silently brushed through his clothes, he shivered at that. Despite their unintended destination, he was surprised at how 'quiet' the area was minutes after they made a special landing.

Quiet was the wrong word to say.

Suddenly, the wavering sound of engine bursts screeched through the air, halting the two hedgehog's movement along the walk paths. Raine consciously sheathed her blade and her hazel eyes curiously gazed beneath the glossy platform and down to the city below where the target of the engine burst could faintly be seen.

Rising from the luminescence of the city were several G.U.N soldiers, adorned in a new and rather intimidating armor. Their armors were standard silver with multiple golden strips and cybernetic runes. Equipped with several guns, grenade gloves, and launchers, this armor came equipped with a prized ability, metal winged boosters, allowing the sentries to soar in the air without a care in the world.

Several of the flying crusaders soared straight into the air, right above the duo. Raine leaped back several feet before stretching her right hand. Within the weaving of her glove was a fuchsia orb of compact energy, slowly emerging into existence. She swirled the orb playfully in her hand before swiped her whole arm to the left, launching the orb towards the night sky and into one of the armored sentries.

The unfortunate soldier, who received the attack from the violet orb, began to radiate in fuchsia energy. The magnificent light began to change the armor from a rather light metallic mix to something too heavy for the mobian soldier to take. His thrusters quickly silenced and he began a series of bloody screams as he descended down to the city below.

"Go on ahead." Edge muttered, Raine responded instantly.

The sapphire hedgehog took careful, quick steps past the flying sentries while Edge ran forward along the path till he came at a direct standstill with the other soldiers. The thief brought both hands together, pressing the hilts of his sapphires blades together,where a zap of golden electricity snapped them together.

Bringing the swallow blade above his head, the thief began a steady clockwise rotation with arms, the blades revolution become faster and faster. As he swung faster, the hilts of the two reverse blades began to disconnect, a golden chain of energy responded from both the blades. The blades started to rotate in greater ranges than before and soon, enveloped the soldiers in a furry of slices.

Edge decided to cease the rotation and upon it's end, the soldiers merely fell, covered in the discarded metals of their own armor. He smiled, slightly amused, before entering a jogging spree in an attempt to catch up with his friend.

"Any idea's?" Raine yelled at her partner as he ran up.

The two found themselves skidding to a stop in column overlooking the city itself. Edge paced himself slowly, his boots clanking across the metal walkway. Raine cupped her right hand on her cheek, her elbow resting on her crossed left arm. She paced lightly across the metal walkway before curiously glancing down to the city below.

Above the hustle and bustle of the civilians were the gear tubes and roadways that lead way to Megalo station itself. Without warning, she pressed forward and leaped off the stadium, much to Edge's dismay. Watching what seemed like his comrades supposed suicide, the ivory hedgehog scrambled to the edge, as fast as lighting, and jumped off along with her.

Location: Megalo Station

Area: Lower Region: Cyvix Center, road links

Time: 11:56p.m.

"What are G.U.N after?" the rosy hedgehog known as Gemini wondered.

The CEO had managed to avoid the onslaught of the thieves and work his way after them, preferring to the lower region route over the upper region. The rosy hedgehog also had no trouble tracking G.U.N, they left bigger tracks then an Elephant. Figuring them to be following the thieves, he silently shadowed behind them, scanning any and all things he could use to his advantage should he be attacked.

The military operatives had led the rosy pink hedgehog to the cylinder of Megalo Station; Cyvix roads. This particular area was string of every road imaginable, gear tubes, gear roads, anti craft roads, low plate roads, and railroads. These roads, which ran straight through the Megalo Station, started a rapid corkscrew around the entire station that they were normally known as a free amusement ride. Here, many civilians would ride around before entering the station to be automatically sent off to their location.

To the rose sibling, it was a maze of roads and if he wasn't careful, he could be easy roadkill. Silent in footsteps, he made his way on the far side of the low plate roads, roads with small anti grav units for cars to easily glide across them. The hedgehog gave a slight grin at the setting of this city. It was his kind of city, comforting and willing to take a gamble with their money.

The entire road the rosy hedgehog was located on was rather glossy and painted gold. Running down the middle of entire stream of roads were glass units holding rods with negative electrical charges. Inside gears were negative electrical charges which in the end helped repel the gears from the ground and allow them to glide smoothly down the lanes. However, at this moment, no civilian extreme gears were located on this entire area. Side rails peered all around the road, shielding gears from getting in any accidents that might throw them off.

Gemini gently peered his head around a strict right turn to see several G.U.N sentries located around this entire strip of road. The soldiers seemed to be quickly setting up posts and blockades, determined to keep civilians safe and certain intruders from escaping the city. Several soldiers knelled down to the ground, their backs to Gemini, holding several assault rifles and sub machine guns.

"Easy takeout." the CEO muttered softly.

He casually stepped out of hiding and began walking his way towards unsuspecting sentries, two in number. As he walked forth, a spiral of cloudy dark energy began to warp it's way around him. What started as dark series of static became a wall of darkness as another person began to form. The darkness began to carefully mold together, forming a copy likened to Gemini himself.

The two twin hedgehogs calmly raised their hands up as small insignificant bolts of dark energy began to sprinkle around their finger tips. Once sparks, now dark flames, the duo lunged forth and took hold of both soldiers by their leather collars before pulling them away into the darkness of the city. A single Gemini soon resurfaced, a smug grin plastered over his face.

He quickly barreled behind sentry weapons as the shriek of fear filled the air. Amber eyes gazed into the air to see two figures plummeting down to the ground below; Gemini saw it to be the two previous intruders who brought G.U.N into this sense of aggravation.

Falling from the deep dark magenta sky were two hedgehogs, ivory and sapphire respectively. The two entities revealed themselves as the thieves before. As Raine descended towards the metal road, her figure began to radiate in a veil of fuchsia energy. Her descent startlingly decreased and her boots made a small clunk as she landed. Edge, however, wasn't as lucky.

Screaming from the get go, the ivory hedgehog flipped around and landed feet first against the road. Flesh against metal wasn't the best sound in the world but the ivory thief merely tried to walk it off, to no avail.

"Damn, Woman!" Edge said viciously," Why jump off the gardens?"

"We got closer to G.U.N didn't we?" she questioned.

"No." the thief muttered.

She merely grinned at his misery but he was interested in something else. The two had landed within a closed off section secured by G.U.N...but there are no soldiers around. Considering the scare that the thieves had managed, G.U.N would have been all over the place. This reeked of suspicion, in other words, someone got here first.

Edge brought out his right twin blade and immediately stabbed the tip into the road. A slight crack of light began to unravel itself, creeping towards the area where Gemini lay. Gemini's amber eyes watched as the crack descended down to his location. Eyes widening, Gemini leaped out of the way as golden vigil raised itself from the air.

As Gemini rocketed into the night sky, Edge leaped up to join the rose hedgehog. Instinctively, the rose adversary raised his arm and let Edge's blade slide into his grasp before clenching his fist, taking hold of the blade. Following the momentum of the swing, Gemini spun horizontally before chucking the ivory thief straight down to the ground.

Edge quickly spun around and made a ruff landing, skidding across the ground with his daggers dragging through the metal.

"Your reaction time isn't as good as I thought." the rose hedgehog mocked, landing gently from the air.

Edge hopped up from the ground and returned the rose CEO's amber stare with his own stagnant glare.

"Gemini Rose." Edge stated, " CEO and founder of Rose industries. I've heard many things about you, none of them too flattering." the thief muttered, hints of disgust throughout his voice.

"Edge Nighthart, phantom thief of the Nightlight Requiem." Gemini recited slowly. " Your reputation proceeds you, everything about you seems to be correct. Brawn but no brain" he responded, keeping a nice, cool demeanor.

"Is that supposed to hurt?" Edge questioned, keeping an eye on the roses moves.

"I don't know. Is it too much for your brain to comprehend?" Gemini asked sympathetically.

"Ouch..okay, tell me why your here, Rose?" Edge questioned in a threatening tone.

Gemini's overall mood seemed to mellow down and a serious tone washed over the CEO, causing Edge to eye him suspiciously.

"The Exilon key." Gemini spoke, Edge's eyes rose in curiosity, " What is it?"

"Wait..that's what you came here for?" Raine interrupted, stepping into the conversation.

"I saw the damage you did when you arrived her in Megalo Station, you talked about the Exilon Key." Gemini explained, " What is it?"

"You must have heard some rumors about it since your interested." Edge muttered quietly.

"And seeing that you two are after it, you must be whizzes at it's secrets." Gemini continued.

"And that makes you think that we'll tell all about it." Edge finished, turning away from the CEO.

"A generous donation can be given to you if you let me know exactly what the artifact." Gemini bribed, a grin on his face.

"You've got be out of your.."

"Fine, we'll let you know." Edge interrupted.

"What!" Raine said, surprisingly shocked. " Your gonna tell him?"

"He can't do anything with it if he wanted to." Edge retorted adamantly.

"You don't know what your getting yourself into." Raine said in regret.

The thief closed his eyes. When they reopened, they gazed up into the starry sky.

"The Exilon keys can be considered cheat codes to surpass fate" he said simply.

"Keys?" Gemini asked.

"Yep, that key that we're after is only part of the puzzle." Edge explained," There are six keys which represent the following terms: Mind, Body, Heart, Soul, Material possession, and unification. The first five correspond to the meaning."

"In other words. Material possession is a physical key, the one located here." Raine continued. " The other four: mind, body, heart, and soul are..unique."

"Unique?"

"Those four are keys that bind themselves to mobians through special means. For example, the mind key is bonded to one mobians mind, and the body key is tattooed to some mobian in the world. I think you can piece together what the other keys go to. How they bond to mobians is one of the great mysteries of the world." Raine said, partially awed.

"Yeah, I understand." Gemini complied.

"The unification key is special, no one knows where to get it." Edge started. "The other keys are easy to find because once you get one key, it automatically programs itself to seek out the other keys."

"But if someone does find the unification key, they don't need the others." Raine added in, " If not, the other keys will make a unification key."

"The keys are magnificent. Sometimes, a person, bonded with a key, can alter fate like save a dying animal or ending a mobian's life just by touch though they probably don't know how to control it."

"This is all interesting, but what exactly is the point of gathering all the keys?" Gemini asked impatiently.

"Ah, that's the best part." Edge said, slightly excited, " When all keys are gathered, you get special entrance to the Sin of Mobius. There, the keys open up Minivera's Graveyard!"

"Minivera's Graveyard?" Gemini questioned.

"C'mon Gemini, stay with me here..I'll make it short since we don't have time. Minivera is the mobian goddess of fate. She governs when all our lives end." Edge said simply.

"Yes, Mobian history, I know that already." Gemini said, slightly pestered, " I mean, what about the graveyard?"

"The keys give you access to her graveyard where you can change the very essence of fate itself." Edge said, " Whenever a mobian dies, their soul return to the gods and are held inside the graveyard, almost like a purgatory of sorts." the thief explained.

"With the key, if there's a person who you want back, you can bring him/her back. If you want to extend your fate, go right on ahead. It's literally the place that can grant you eternal damnation or eternal life." Edge continued to explain.

"It isn't without it's consequences, though." Raine interrupted, " Even if you bring back your beloved one, that doesn't mean they'll live a life full of rainbows and lollypops. There's a catch. Yeah, you can bring them back, but their destiny, their fate, is determined by how much of their soul you can maintain as you leave the graveyard."

"In other words, you must bond them to your soul. Lose your train of thought and there gone for good, probably you too." Edge finished.

"That's it?" Gemini questioned, somewhat pleased by the subject.

"Yeah, pretty much." Edge said, " Now answer me this...why do you want to know about it?"

Gemini smirked. " I could ask you the same thing."

Edge merely shook his head in compliance. " I'm not after the keys to resurrect someone close to me. If anyone close to me died, then they probably deserved it." the ivory thief spoke, no hints of emotion in his voice.

"Even for a thief, you sound like a heartless bastard." Gemini spoke, distaste in the thief's words.

"It takes one to know one." the thief responded casually.

"Well played." Gemini said, smirking somewhat.

"Now answer me." Edge said gruffly, slowly reeling his twinblades by his side.

"There is someone that I want to see." Gemini spoke, his voice soft and clear,"...and maybe you can help."

"Your joking, right?"

Raine felt the necessity to pull Edge over, abet roughly. She glared at the thief as he began to smile, ideas forming in his mind.

"Don't even think about!" She yelled, pointing a finger towards the rose hedgehog.

"Why not?" He said, slightly aggravated at his partner, " He's a multi millionaire with extensions everywhere... you must be crazy to reject that." he whispered.

"We're going after the keys, located around this planet." Raine explained, trying to sound sincere,"No amount of fame, power, or secrecy will protect us from that."

He rolled his eyes at her comment, "I know...but." he started, staring at the rose hedgehog, " He wouldn't have asked if there wasn't a person he wanted to see... I don't know, I feel we have similar things in common." He finished, eyes on the ground.

"What happened to, if anyone close to me died, then they probably deserved it." She imitated, putting on a tough guy voice.

"Look I say a lot of things." Edge said, angrily.

"Because you don't want to seem sensitive." She finished for him, " You would seem like a better person if you admitted your feelings. You sound like Audi." she teased.

"I'm not like Audi!" he groaned, slightly embarrassed.

"Like teacher, like student." she responded, ruffling his spiky white hair.

Ignoring her, he turned towards Gemini, a serious frown adorned on his muzzle, " If you give us the resources, alliance, and control...we'll let you use the keys for your own gain." the ivory thief spoke, his voice low and concrete.

Gemini snickered, " You have yourself a deal, Edge."

"Hope you know what your doing?" Raine shrugged, walking away from the other hedgehog's.

"When haven't I?" the ivory hedgehog asked.

"So,do you have any leads to where the key might be?" Gemini asked the two hedgehogs.

"We know some robot called Vega has it but we don't know where he is." Edge responded.

"It looks like it's your lucky day then."

The newly formed trio quickly turned around to find a voice but found nothing else but miles of road and abandoned G.U.N vehicles. The team was too distracted to notice the distant noise of rotating blades that lay above several G.U.N choppers as they dashed toward the scene. One of the helicopters seemed to be more prestigious, being the only silver copter out of all 8 coal colored helicopters. The trio finally fell into the situation as the air came rushing towards them, compliments of the helicopters.

Eight beams of light fell open the heroes as the helicopters lowered closer to the road. Raine redrew her sword and fired off several rounds of bullets as the sword edge flipped over to reveals its gun mix. The bullets whizzed towards the silver helicopter only to rebound off it's glistening, metal shell. The remaining helicopters stood in the air while the silver one finally touched down on the metal road. Like opening gates, the doors of the helicopter shimmered open and the being that Edge had been looking for finally emerged.

"Vega." Edge said viciously

"Ah, thieves." Vega said, no hint of emotion in his voice, " Are you having fun destroying this city?"

"Actually, I'm a little disappointed." Edge joked about.

"I'm sure you all enjoy jokes but this isn't a laughing matter." Vega said, " You violated rules, destroyed this city, and ended many of the lives that went into G.U.N all in the name of a folk legend key."

"Pretty much."

The robot reached into the helicopter behind, taking an item folded in linen. After that, he waved to the helicopters causing them to retreat away from the area, prompting looks of confusion from all three hedgehog's. He removed the linen to show the Exilon Key, as bright as ever.

"Your willingly sending away your backup?" Gemini said, slightly shocked, "You must have a death wish."

"Don't under estimate him." Raine said silently, lowering her sword to her hip but still retaining her fighting position.

"You should listen to that girl," Vega explained, " I'm not as helpless as you think."

"No amount of fire power could even stop us." Edge smirked, obliviously confident.

"I guess I should give you and explanation of my abilities." Vega suggested.

"Yeah, enlighten us." Edge responded.

"You see, my current upgrade allows me to transform the metals around to create machinery monsters, weapons, and works of all kind." Vega began, pacing slowly around the heroes.

At that moment, Edge's body began to drain of blood as he figured out exactly what Vega was getting to.

"We happen to be in a city of metal, even the road is metal." Vega continued, gazing all around the city. "This means..I have all the reinforcement I need to take you thieves down."

Vega immediately pressed his hands into the road, cybernetic sapphire lines traveling erratically around the entire area. Caught off by the rush of energy, the trio could only watch as the lines began to cover every piece of metal around the immediate area.

"Everyone, on your toes." Raine warned.

As if on cue, pieces of metal, covered in the sapphire lines, began to rip and tear from their original places. Pieces of sheet metal, lamp post, plating, and other various pieces began to twirl around the mechanical enemy almost like a tornado enveloping the area.

They began to converge on Vega, crashing against the ground he stood on. However, instead of impaling the robot, they began to stop at odd places along his bodu, forming metal armor. The odds and ends of these imperfect metals began to create the likes of a monster only seen in fairy tales. The mechanical monster resembled a human like figure, though shrouded with uneven pieces of metal scattered around it's body.

"Dear Lord." Edge breathed out, unable to find any other words to describe the beast.

"I'd like to see you take the key now!" Vega yelled.

The newly formed behemoth slammed it's claw like hands down onto the road and let out a roar, it's sound waves vibrating across the area. It's arms were broken pieces of metal assembled to look like grizzly bear paws. It's head was something of human, red LED eyes and a mouth full of rotating blades and burst of fire. It's torso was fine tuned and held in orb in which Vega was located in. The legs were that of a dog on it's hind legs, bent and muscular. The beast let out on more roar before raising it's gigantic arm into the air.

"Now begins your true test!"

TO BE CONTINUED

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TRIVIA

This chapter was rewritten twice. Once because of writers block, the second to match with chapter 3 which was written before this

There are 5 scenarios in this story, each depicting characters as they fulfill their quest. ( This is one scenario) Once all 5 are done, there is a sixth last one which will be the epic finale to the plot beneath each scenario

This scenario might be the longest

Each of them might meet with each other which shall be abbreviated as sort of a chapter special

Edge was never meant to be in this sequel because he sorta screwed up the first story. I added him in only because I thought of this scenario

I threw away all the other scenario's from the first story but incorporated some of the events into the new ones.