BLACK CONQUEST
Dark Clouds, Part 2
- Rio Salaz -
The scene turns to an old abandoned Western Town that was on the other of Soleanna. Not much was known about this place, except long ago, it was once was a place where people would come and go as they please. Whether it was people who wanted to get away from the city, or people that enjoyed the Old West more than living in a city.
But that was in the past. Very few people know of this place that was abandoned. Others think that such a town didn't even exist in the first place.
Inside the saloon, we see several figures inside. Two were sitting on stools, and the other one was behind the counter, drying off bottles with a towel. One was a dark blue hedgehog, whom was wearing a green necklace, blue sneakers, and white gloves. Sitting next to him was a human girl that long red hair, a black shirt, a black miniskirt that reached her knee length, and black boots.
The other figure was a black swallow with red eye brows. He was wearing an old-fashioned cowboy hat, brown cowboy boots, blue jeans, and currently had a cigar in his mouth. He was currently drying off a bottle with a towel.
Right now, their eyes were focused on a TV monitor. A female news reporter was shown on the screen.
"A few hours ago, this was the scene of an invasion. Downtown Westopolis was over-run by what seemed to be identified as the Black Aliens. The very same black aliens that were defeated by Shadow the Hedgehog and his friends over a year ago."
The news camera turns towards the city.
"As you can see, the city was nearly destroyed by those black aliens. No deaths were occurred, but several citizens were badly injured while they were trying to evacuate the city. They are currently tending medical care at the Station Square Emergency Hospital. It was also reported that Shadow the Hedgehog himself was injured as well. It is reported that he is suffering from severe burns that affected his entire body."
The dark blue hedgehog grunted. "And he's the hero that supposedly got rid of all those aliens?"
"Poor Shadow." The human girl sighed sadly. "I hope he will be okay."
"No need to worry about that, senorita Marisa." The swallow said while puffing some smoke from his cigar. "That hedgehog will be all right. I'm sure of it."
Marisa smiled. "Your right, Samson. Knowing Shadow, he doesn't die that easily." She turned towards the hedgehog. "What do you think, Larcen?"
The hedgehog, now identified as Larcen, said nothing. His attention was to some footsteps that were coming from outside the Saloon. "It sounds like Kera's coming."
"Really?" Marisa asked.
Proving Larcen's point, a figure pushed the side-winder doors open and walked inside. This figure was an adult purple hedgehog. She has golden eyes, wears black gloves, a black Chinese-style dress and a white undershirt, and brown boots that finish her attire.
"Hi, Kera! What's up?" Marisa waved.
Kera walked over to an empty stool and sat down next to Marisa. "Nothing much. I just wrapped up on my sword training and decided to get a drink."
"You want the usual, senorita Kera?" Samson asked.
"Sure thing. A bottle of Pepsi, please." Kera nodded.
"Comin' right up." Samson grinned while taking a puff of smoke from his cigar. Taking a bottle of Pepsi from the refridgerator and taking an empty glass from the glass stand, he set the glass down and poured down the soda from the bottle and into the glass. When it was close to full, Samson set the glass of soda right in front of where Kera sitting.
"Thank you, Samson." Kera nodded at him.
"No problem, amigo." Samson grinned as he put the bottle of soda back in the fridge.
Kera took a sip of her soda to cool her throat. She carefully set the glass down and turned towards Larcen and Marisa. "So, what's up guys?"
"We were just watching the news on TV. It said something about the Black Aliens invading Westopolis again."
Kera's eyes snapped wide opened. "What?!"
"It's true. And to make matters worse, Shadow the Hedgehog was injured by those monsters." Marisa said sadly.
"Oh no." Kera slowly said with a depressed sigh.
"Don't worry about it." Larcen spoke. "Even if they are back, it's not like they will come here and try and take over the place. Besides, no one hardly comes here anymore."
"True. It's a like a Ghost Town, if you ask me." Samson added.
Outside of town, a large shadow from above started to cover the entire Western Town. From above was the familiar sight of the dark red clouds that covered Station Square. The clouds opened up, and black aliens started falling one by one from the sky. Much like in Westopolis, they started to destroy anything in sight.
The group of four heard the noises coming from the outside and decided to see what was going on. Much to their surprise, they were seeing exactly what happened in Westopolis.
"Oh no! It's the Black Aliens!" Marisa shrieked.
"But what are they doing here in this town?" Kera asked suspiciously.
"It doesn't matter." Larcen stepped in. "The important thing is that they are not welcome here."
"Right, amigo." Samson took out his cigar and blew some smoke. "Let's show these guys how we do business here. Everyone ready?"
"I'm ready." Marisa cracked her knuckles with a smirk.
Kera pulled out her Dragon Sword. "Just give the word."
Larcen stared at the sight of the carnage that was going on. He nodded his head once, signaling that he was ready.
Putting the cigar back in his mouth, Samson took out one of his pistols and aimed it at the sky. "Let's give these monsters a good hoedown."
With a loud BANG, everyone went off in a different direction. Larcen charged straight towards the middle, Marisa followed her best friend, Kera ran towards the entrance of town, while Samson ran towards the nearest Black Alien.
Marisa jumped to the side as a black alien used it's alien gun to try and shoot at the human girl. Marisa shot a lightning bolt at the aliens hand, which made it drop it's weapon. Marisa then created a fireball and shot it at the black alien and burned it to a crisp. Marisa smiled at her work as she saw her best friend, Larcen in action.
Two black aliens were in front of the dark blue hedgehog. It seemed like the odds were against him, but he had this one in the bag. Pulling out his dagger, Larcen leaped towards the first alien and cut the alien's left leg, injuring it. The other alien tried shooting at him, but Larcen glanced at the alien just as it shot at Larcen. The alien thought the shot his the hedgehog, but a green shield was covering Larcen as it negated the attack. Larcen charged towards the alien and cut it's firearm off the alien. He then finished the alien off by slicing him into pieces with his dagger. The other alien was about to get back up from it's injured leg, but Marisa shot another lightning bolt at the alien, killing it instantly. Larcen glanced at his friend.
"Are you all right, Marisa?" He asked.
"Of course I am!" Marisa smiled cheekily. "Why wouldn't I be?"
"Nothing. Just making sure, that's all." Larcen blushed a bit.
"Oh. Well, don't worry about me. I'll be fine." Marisa nodded before turning towards more aliens that were approaching them. "Here comes more!"
"Right." Larcen noted as he wasted no time in charging head-on towards them.
Kera clashed swords with a large black alien. Even though she was a height disadvantage, she had the speed and skill to out-class the black alien. The huge alien swung his huge purple sword down, but Kera easily side-stepped out of the way and started to slash at the lower body of the black alien. It groaned in pain as Kera's sword turned yellow. It shot yellow electricity at the black alien who was electrocuted from the attack. After it was electrocuted long enough, the large alien fell backwards, not moving.
Samson was staring straight at three black aliens whom were staring at the black swallow. All of them were holding guns and it seemed like time stood still, like an old traditional duel between two Cowboys.
With a grin on his face, Samson pulled out his two pistols and twirled them in his hand before locking on to the them. With a laugh, Samson fired his pistols at each of the aliens. Since the aliens were distracted by this, they didn't have enough time to fire their weapons. The bullets hit each of their targets and the aliens fell over on their backs, not moving.
Samson puffed some smoke from his cigar while twirling his guns into his hands before putting them perfectly back into his holsters. "It looks like I win."
But little did he know that another alien was coming up from behind him with a purple sword that was raised into the air, but a shot of fire from Kera's sword made the alien drop it's weapon. Samson turned around and saw the alien trying to recover his weapon, but Kera came from out of nowhere and sliced the alien into pieces.
"You could have warned me, you know." Samson said to her.
Kera looked at the swallow. "You were too busy celebrating."
"It's not exactly celebrating, senorita Kera." Samson said as he took his cigar out of his mouth and blew some smoke. "I call it the winning cigar."
"Whatever." Kera shook her head and saw that the last of the aliens were destroyed by Larcen and Marisa. "It looks like this is the last of them."
And she was right. The last of the aliens were defeated and the red clouds started to disappear from the sky and started to move to a new location. Marisa and Larcen walked towards them.
"Well THAT was a close one!" Marisa sighed in relief.
"Not really." Larcen said. "They were hardly a challenge."
"Well, you can never over estimate our enemies, Larcen." Marisa noted. "Right, Samson?"
"Your right, Marisa." Samson nodded while taking another puff of smoke his cigar.
Kera looked down at the sandy ground. "I wonder..."
"Wonder what?" Larcen asked.
"Those black aliens invaded this town, right?" Kera reminded the group. "But why?"
"What do you mean?" Marisa asked.
"Why did they try and invade this old Western town?" Kera asked the group. "It doesn't make any sense."
Samson pondered on that thought. "I'm not entirely sure...but maybe there is more to this place than meets the eye."
"Really?" Marisa asked.
"Hey, I could be wrong. But who knows? Maybe there is something that they wanted." Samson thought.
"But what did they want from this old Western town?" Marisa wondered. "It's not like they are going to find anything here."
"You sure about that, senorita Marisa?" Samson asked. "Maybe there is something here that we don't know about."
"Like what?" Marisa asked.
"Maybe...a Chaos Emerald?" Kera spoke up.
"A Chaos Emerald?" Larcen raised an eyebrow.
"Maybe it's just me talking, but what if there is a Chaos Emerald somewhere in this town?" Kera thought.
"Hmm...a possibility indeed." Larcen rubbed his chin.
Samson slowly looked around the town with his head. "This town could use some fixing up, though. Let's clean the place up a bit, first. Afterwards, we will search the town and see if a Chaos Emerald is indeed somewhere in Rio Salaz."
Everyone nodded their heads. Larcen, Marisa, and Samson went back towards the Saloon to get some wood, while Kera stood there in the middle of the road. She looked upwards at the sky.
"I wonder what those black creatures are really up too." Kera thought to herself.
A new mystery occurs. Is this old Western town holding a Chaos Emerald? What is Black Doom really up to? And where will the Black Arms strike next? Find out on the next Black Conquest!
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