2.
Now that I know what I'm without
you can't just leave me
breathe into me and make me real
bring me to life
He was dieing… His heart was ceasing his beat…
Beep… Beep… Beep… Went the machine.
They were trying to save him, the doctors and the nurses did their best.
Beep… Beep… Beep…
"We're losing him!" Yelled one of them.
Beep… Beep… Beep…
From afar, professor Pickle could see the whole scene… Including the sudden fountain of green blood that came out from the Seedrian's mouth.
Beep… Beep…
He felt shocked… And, overall, utter guilty.
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!
"We've lost him." The doctor said.
Naaaaah… Too easy, that way. Let's start Phase 2: Retaliation!
Void awoke. A sudden, unpredictable, awakening… Instinctively, he grabbed one of the surprised nurses by the neck.
A snap could be heard.
He was panicking… He was scared… He was short-breathed… And he was surrounded by strangers who looked utter terrified at him.
Why did they seemed so frightened, he asked to himself, then he saw it… The dead body… And he was holding it… With his huge three-fingered clawed hand.
Before he could do or think anything, everybody began screaming like possessed while already running around like crazy cows.
He was frozen on his spot, still in bed, staring at the young girl he just murdered… When you live all your life as a warrior, little things like conservative instincts tend to become stronger than normal… He was an alien creature in an alien world, with a bunch of frightened (therefore dangerous) humans around him and worst of all, he didn't remember his own name or past.
Except for an image… The ever lasting image of a lavender cat girl… The only thing he had left in his memory.
And he needed to find her again.
He descended from his bed… He was wearing nothing more than the usual hospital gown, which, being designed for Overlanders, was too big for him.
After little time, he realized someone was still gazing at him. He slowly turned his rotund head to fix his own gaze at the stranger…
Pickle stood still in his place, he has remained in the room for all this time, not daring to move a single muscle, probably because of fear or shock… His huge eyebrows seemed so thin now that his eyes were so widen.
Speaking of eyes, for the first time, the old professor could very well see his former victim's ones… The boy's eyes were deep black and empty…
Just like… Like… A void.
They both stared at each other for quite a time, until the hospital security broke in.
"FREEZE!!!" Yelled the guard while pointing his gun towards the small being in front of him.
Void hissed at the man like the feral animal he'd became.
The aforementioned policeman was a notorious racist with a peculiar hate against non-human beings… Plus, he just had a very bad day since he couldn't take his prized cup of coffee due to the blasted malfunctioning coffee machine…
These and a few other theories (involving the whole argument of Chaos and its endless possibilities) were the main reason of why he did what he did and, instead of trying a perfectly logical and rational approach in order to calm down the obviously panicked little boy…
He just shot him… Hitting the wrong target too.
Chaos is indeed something that we would never understand, the reason of why certain people is pushed to do certain things in certain times, will probably remain a mystery for ages and ages… Then again, as Fang the Sniper has taught us, sometimes the best explanations are the simplest… Perhaps, just perhaps, this was one of those cases.
An unnerved copper with an easy trigger…
A frightened seemingly feral kid, lost in new and foreign world, who just survived a bloody death…
And an old professor who happened to love kids, never had one of his own and, deep down, felt very bad for this one…
It just had to happen, somehow and someway.
The bullet was shot in the exact same moment in which the old pickles lover, in the unlucky attempt to resolve this gruesome situation, put himself between the guard and the black eyed kid.
The utterly shocked Seedrian's gown was covered with blood… Not his own green blood but a new, fresh, red one. The old human was on the ground, with a hole on his left hip. The unnerved copper was eyes widen.
It was Void's time to attack… His now ungloved claw found its way inside the policeman who just coughed out some vital fluid before falling on the ground… Dead.
He killed again.
Too agitated for thinking straight, the young murderer decided to exit the building… Through the closest window…
The broken glass did manage to scratch his soft skin while, amazingly enough, the three stories fall that came immediately after, didn't even faze him… Now he knew he wasn't a common mortal being…
The terrifying darkness of the night reflected his own emptiness… And the merciless rain that followed could be easily accosted to his desperate need to fill this void he had, of knowing his place, identity, past… United with the inevitable sorrow that was already embracing his own soul… Devouring him from the inside.
He ran with all his might while cars stopped in front of him, just in the nick of time.
He ran with all his might while sirens could be already hear… They were chasing him.
He ran with all his might away from this foreign madness and, hopefully, towards the only one person that could possibly save him… The one who could bring him back to life…
His blazing love.
When Tails first arrived in the hospital, he was greeted with a different scenario from the one he had imagined to find…
He was expecting to see an alien creature of some kind, asleep in some hospital bed… He wasn't expecting to find such a mess… He wasn't expecting to find the building surrounded by cops and reporters… Most of all, he wasn't expecting to find his employer and friend in a comatose state due to a bullet wound.
When he asked for informations, all he received was a few incoherent tearful evidences… And all of them had one reference in common:
The Black Eyed Monster.
Mortals do make mistakes, it's just normal, it's just inevitable. No one is flawless, the simple idea is idiotic… Miles Prower, despite being a genius, was no different. He'd just seen his friend… No, one of the most important persons in his life… In that condition and he had someone to blame for it…
In the kit's mind, this creature who apparently came out of nowhere was the responsible for what happened to him and now it was free to hurt even more people…
Sonic was on the other side of the planet and Shadow has been un-findable lately… It was all up to the vulpine to save the situation, this time.
His big blue eyes were flaming with passionate hate while his fists clenched tightly, almost bleeding… Determination became his second (or should I say third) name. He would have destroyed this new menace or die trying.
Revenge was almost an unknown feeling for the usually carefree Tails. Even when he got bullied and beaten up by other kids in his early years, he never truly desired to hurt anybody… This time, however, it was deadly different, because the one who's been hurt had a very special place in the Kitsune's heart…
Professor Pickle has been the closest thing to a father he ever had… He was the only person intelligent enough to comprehend his otherwise "geeky talking" as Sonic would often put it… And he's been the one who practically granted the kid with a real scholastic background, not to mention his kindness and fatherly worries towards the kid's health when he would work too much on his projects.
This was definitely a personal business… And a certain someone would have paid for this.
With the familiar confidence of a man on a mission, Tails left the hospital and retrieved his prized Tornado (which it has been parked outside), once in its cockpit, the two-tailed pilot activated his own portable computer device, a thing he liked to call, the Mileselectric. This peculiar little jewel of technology was linked with all the satellites around the globe, therefore it definitely came in handy when he had to find someone… For obvious reasons, G.U.N. didn't know about it.
It didn't take very long for the machine to individuate its target.
"Score!" The fox muttered to himself right before activating the battle mode of his plane.
He smirked in a very Sonic way.
Then he was gone.
And by the way… It was still raining hard.
How ironic things can be… Isn't it? The Tails from Void's dimension used to be the plant boy's father… The Tails from this dimension wants to kill him for a crime he didn't voluntarily cause… And what's even more marvelous, the Seedrian doesn't remember anything except the face of his beloved one… Who's still frozen somewhere in another universe!
Bringing Sorrow to others… It is so amusing.
Laugh with me!
Eheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheh!!!
(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I can't wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
bid my blood to run
(I can't wake up)
before I come undone
(Save me)
save me from the nothing I've become
