I DO NOT OWN ANY SONIC CHARACTERS, THEY ARE PROPERTY OF SEGA AND ARCHIE (I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT LAST TWO CHAPTERS). I ONLY OWN THE OCs. PLEASE ENJOY, AND THIS WILL BE ANOTHER LONG CHAPTER DUE TO ADVETURE AND STUFF. PLEASE, HOLD ON TO YOUR SEATS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AND REVIEW IF YOU'D LIKE. ALSO, I'M GOING TO TAKE A STEP BACK WITH THE AGES A LITTLE ON THIS ONE, SO THE OLDEST CHARACTER IS LIKE, 19. AND THANKS FOR ALL THE REVIEWS. I REALLY APPRECIATE THEM.
Chapter 3: Learning To Juggle Adulthood and Duty
Being a guardian is like having a baby. Fragile and annoying. Jamboree, Daylight, and Blueberries were fed up with thier jobs. Had they known this, they would've smacked their parents in the face. But they were babies then, and there's not much protesting a baby can do.
Why couldn't they be like Skylar or Scar? Scar just had to watch over the Cube of Babylon and Skylar had to watch over the Special Zone, which pretty much guards themselves. Their parents watched them like hawks all the time. When they got older, they had to be abandoned at a young age to toughen them up to be real guardians. Jamboree found this out the hard way.
Why, you say. Because, training starts at 6, and you leave your family at 11. It's not that Knuckles, Blaze, Anne, Nack, and Jet are being cruel, it's just what they had to do to get where they are now. This wasn't a, "I'm dropping you off here son/daughter, and you'll never see me again. Goodbye." kind of thing. No, Knuckles and Blaze could never dream of repeating what their parents did to them.
They knew what it was like to be 11, be seperated by your family, and sealed on/in a island/mountain/garden/zone/middle-of-nowwhere until somebody stole what you were guarding or gave you a black eye. In Nack's case, that was everybody. Why, if it wasn't for everybody having the emeralds and his shitty homelife before he was adopted, he'd never have set foot outside of his zone. Knuckles had to be defeated to break the seal holding him there on the island to be able to leave it. Blaze only left because somebody seems to steal the Sol Emeralds every time she turns around, and once her mission is complete, back onto the mountain until the next thief comes.
Jet cannot be around anybody, but only a select few, until the next Cube Ceremony in which he would have to be there at the Cube's temple for it. Anne was free to leave at any time she wanted, but the Pearls stay within her boundaries until they are stolen.
Which leads us to Daylight, Blueberries, Scar, Skylar, and Jamboree, who are now the Sacrificial Lambs for this lifestyle. They were jerked from their twins and family and basically forced into this. Their parents didn't like it, but it had to be done.
Then we have Skylar, who is initially trapped within the Special Zone, with his father, who is teaching him everything he needed to know too. Nack was also ripped from his family at 11, but because his adopted father, Jack the Kangaroo (For my safety, in case the name is owned, I borrowed it from a movie character (I think)) wouldn't allow that, and because the Chaos Emeralds were in Knuckles's hands for some reason at the time, he did not have to live in the Special Zone, until he got them back, in which he had to leave his mansion, but wisely took his wife, Daria the Weasel, with him into the zone.
Scar was handed the Cube of Babylon at age 6, when Jet recieved it as a child. The Cube of Babylon does not only open up Babylon Garden, but regulates the planet Babylon, and keeps the Babylonian Apocolypts at bay.
For description's sake, the Babylonian Apocolypts are the decsendants of the people who tried to destroy the Cube hundred of years ago (Babylon is a super young planet) and the people were cursed to never be able to get around the Cube ever again, unless they wish to burn to death like a vampire in sunlight.
Because of that, they became warped little hellions that you would label a demon on Earth and Mobius. They are alien demons, hooray! But think twice before approaching one:
They look like normal Babylonians, right down to the blue eyes and fire on their bodies, all except for their language, that is ancient, and the fact that they all but never talk unless spoken to, they cannot be reasoned with, they hate everything to do with the Cube of Babylon, it's not wise to try and tame them, they raid towns for fun, they're hateful, they have insatiable hunger for Babylonian flesh, insatiable sexual appetites, they're actually demons, and they are the last thing you want to piss off.
Oh yeah, they have their own sets of villages too, but far away from the other villages as possible. It is rumored that Predator Hawk and Speedy the Bird might actually be one of these because of their mothers, which might explain a lot.
Poor Scar, he has to deal with those, which means deciphering between who's one of those things, who's normal, and who might actually be a monster in the guise of a Babylonian. Which is why on Babylon you never approach the lone old lady wandering through the desert, or the lost little kid crying for his mother. They could literally be anything.
Don't worry though, Scar is not trapped anywhere, but he is bonded to the power of it, meaning he'll die if he's away from it too long, or if it breaks. Tough life, but somebody has to do it. Somebody has to protect Babylonian towns from those hellions that just like to appear out of nowhere and kill, kill, kill. One plus is that the Babylonian Apocolypts will obey him if he wills them to do so from the power of the Cube itself.
What riles up a guardian is envy for their job. You hold the key to salvation and destruction and are confined to it. It is your bane, and when people envy you because of your power, you hate them because this life is actually harder than it looks, and it's pretty scary at times.
But enough with the backstories. Instead, let's hop to our heroes of this chapter.
Today was their first mission, after they botched their guardianship duties by getting the emeralds, Cube, and Pearls (That surround Babylon Garden) stolen by a group of thugs called, Team Lively.
And by thier, I mean Daylight the Bat, Blueberries the Cat, Jamboree the Hawk, and Scar the Hawk. Skylar the Weasel stole is father's guns and decided to join them.
Daylight the Bat was a white bat with purple eyes and most of her father's features, and her mother is especially thankful she didn't inherit her breastsize either. She is the new guardian of the Master Emerald. She speaks several dead languages, is 19, and wears a black and red jogging outfit, a matching headband, and sandals. She is very strong.
Blueberries is a 14 year old purple cat that inheritted Telekinesis from her father. She is the Guardian of the Sol Emeralds and is awfully naieve. She wears a white, knee-length skirt with gold lacing, a black tanktop with a blue flower in her hair, and she wears black ballet flats and white, silver embellished gloves that reaches her elbows. She has yellow eyes and purple fur.
Jamboree is the guardian of Babylon Garden, who is very cynical for an 11 year old, but is very nice. He has metallic blue eyes like his father, and wears a gray, longsleeved, knee-reaching jacket, blue boots, and white gloves that twin Jet's. He is all but a mirror copy of Jet as well.
Scar is the Guardian of the Cube of Babylon. He is dark green with pink eyes. He is a thief (Like Jamboree, Daylight, and Blueberries) with a heart of gold. His attitude is level headed, ironic given the fact that his dad has a hair triggered temper and his mom is a violent maniac. He wears a silver circulet (And no, he is not of royal blood) and a beige scarf with a yellow jacket and red gloves, tennis shoes, and sweatpants.
Skylar Fang was Fang the Sniper's only son. He is a black weasel with red eyes who wears orange pants, orange gardening gloves, brown boots, and orange Stetson hat. He reeks of his father's cologne, which no doubt he probably stole. He can see future events, read people's aura's, heal minor wounds, and make a mean potion, but ironically, all his skills are wasted on his stupidity. It doesn't help that he has two doofuses following him around most of the time either. He is 12 years old, and there are rumors that Nack has a before and after Skylar picture. He has zeal and pep, which is a plus, but you wouldn't call him Skylar the Sniper because he is about as useful as Lake the Lynx at ninjitsu- they both suck horribly at their father's passions. Go figure.
The Assholes of the Week who stole the emeralds, pearls, and Cube are a pink possum with orange eyes named Believe, and a white crocodile with white irises named Blizzard. These two crooks were adopted siblings with a bad name, so it was only "coincidental" that they happen to steal the most powerful gems in the world to make dust out of, which they could use to make to their ultimate design. Which leads us to their reason why: to make the world's largest gem!
There is one catch to this though-lives are hanging in the balance. Not just any regular Joe's life, guardian lives. You see, we'll use the Master Emerald for an example.
Since Daylight is the new guardian of the Master Emerald, she has to protect that thing with her life. Well, so does Knuckles. He may not officially be the guardian anymore, but the emeralds make connections to the guardian. If the Master Emerald would break, it could mean death for Knuckles and Daylight both, then a chain reaction would ensue.
The Chaos Emeralds would shut down, destroying the Special Zone, killing Skylar and Nack in the process, and when you destroy the Special Zone, everything will be destroyed. Plus the death isn't an easy one either. As the Master Emerald breaks, Daylight and Knuckles begins to crack like porcelain dolls. Nack and Skylar would turn grey and be erased out of existance, Jet and Scar would turn to dust (Which means that their insides would melt and then they'd disentigrate to ash), and Blaze and Blueberries would shrivel up into mummies. Ouch. So this is definitely a very high stakes mission, especially for Jamboree, who is new to this, and the fact that Jet and Scar are slowly dying as well. Separation from the Cube has taken more of a toll on Jet than anything, so he couldn't go. The fact that Scar looked pale didn't relieve any stress either.
Nack and Knuckles were frantically trying to keep Jet awake, Blaze had to run her kingdom, and Anne had to guard what was left of the crumbling Babylon Gardens, so she gathered the youngsters there to prepare them and see them off.
Anne was Jet the Hawk's little sister, who married Tippey the Frog, Flying Frog's baby brother, who was very powerful for a guardian. She was also resourceful from growing up with Rose, and a young Lightning the Lynx in the woods as a couple of lost kids with checkered pasts would. Anne was very sweet, but remember, sugar's an acid, salt's a base. She could turn into the sour bitch from hell if she needed to. "Children, ready yourselves," she warned sweetly. "And move swiftly, you do not have much time. Now go and make haste, and when you return, I'll make you a pie."
Anne kissed Jamboree's head, embarassing him, as his identical twin brother, Fillet the Hawk, and his father, hugged him and wished him well. "Goodbye darlings," she waved. "When you get back, there will be a fresh pie baked for you." And so the young guardians left, under the leadership of Daylight of course. She had seen many things on her travels and had been around the mill enough to compensate for Skylar and Jamboree's lack of experience.
The worse part about going on Guardian Missions is Skylar Fang the Weasel, the son of Fang the Sniper. His idiocracy would no doubt cost them greatly on this mission, and it was something they couldn't afford. And the fact that 30 seconds into the mission, he and Scar were already getting into it was something nobody wanted to put up with.
Skylar had every reason to hate Scar. Scar flaunted his relation with Treetrunks around him every chance he got, he shoved up the fact that everybody likes Jet more than Nack, that his father was a despicable traitor, that his mom was hotter than Skylar's mom, that Daria was 5 years younger than Nack, and the big one:
Daria used to be a prostitute. A backstory though: In Russia, some men kidnapped her from her family, killing her father and several of her brothers while her mother and sister ran to protect the elders. Daria, needless to say, went down fighting and was forced into prostitution.
Years later, Nack found her, promising to free her while masquerading as her trick. Nack kept his word, and he brought her back to the remainder of her family, after killing her pimp.
Those two fell in love, and she saved his life when she helped heal him after he had been shot by the assistant pimp, who she killed. Skylar always hits Scar after hearing that. Also, Scar's mother, Rose, was a wildperson, or a character too intact with their animal instincts (They act like the animals of the real world), so Scar had no room to talk.
"Shut up you two!" Daylight exploded. Everybody froze in their tracks. "You're suppossed to be dying," Daylight announced, pointing at Scar, then at Skylar. "And you, up here, because we're going to Ireland to kick some ass, and with your shooting skills, I'll be needing you greatly. Oh, and Jamboree," Jamboree became very uncomfortable. "Just watch and learn. And hey, loosen up, you're not in any danger right now."
Jamboree clicked his index fingers together and sweated a little before just going uneasily with the flow. And so, they were off to Ireland. And as soon as they stepped foot into the country, they were greeted by a couple of no-goods.
"I always knew that all that beer'd come back to bite me in the ass." Believe stated as she took a double take on the children before her. "Why do you say that?" Blizzard asked, blinking. "Cause the guardians sent their little bastards after us that's why." Believe replied. "And we already beat their asses, and we'll do it again." Blizzard replied. Then he turned his attention to them, "Go home you little bastards, or else we'll send your ass home in a bodybag."
"My bag better say Happy Birthday on it!" Skylar shouted. Everybody gave him an odd look before staring down the enemies before them "So what are ya gonna do now kiddies, throw a tantrum?" Believe taunted. Blueberries, using her telekinesis, lifted up a car and- KaSlam! There went Believe the Possum. Blizzard rushed over to his partner, checking her pulse. He saw that there was no vital signs, turned to the children and declared, "You've killed her! You whore!"
Blueberries bent the streetlamp in protest. "Somebody call the police!" a woman shouted as she ran for her life. "Oh no! You're a serial killer now!" Jamboree commented. "No child," Blizzard explained. "Serial killers kill people wantonly. As I'm about to do now."
A few seconds passed before Skylar screamed, "He's causing an earthquake!" And by damned he did. "Son of a bitch!" Scar shouted as he and the gang tried to escape the total carnage. Suddenly, they were hit with a shockwave of energy, sending them flying in scattered directions.
"We're not gonna make it!" Jamboree cried. But Blueberries had something to do about it. "Wait, stop!" Skylar shouted, reaching out for her and grabbing her briskly. He had already had a premonition of her going with bad results. He could feel the power emanating from her glowing hands, and shouted as the heat from them seared into his flesh from under his gloves.
Then suddenly, help arrived. Marine showed up to save them, throwing beams of light in Blizzard's direction, distracting him as the children scattered out of the town and hid at a hotel. Blueberries had not calmed down yet.
Her eyes glew white, and Skylar touched her saying, "You have to control yourself! Think of what your mother would say!" Blueberries looked at him hatefully and spat, "I don't care!" She started to bend and throw and lift everything around her till she was stopped by a random explosion. "Oof." she cried as three characters took the center stage. Everybody readied themselves to fight.
"Easy now," said a male voice. The man who spoke was a green duck who was blindfolded for a pretty damn good reason, who wore light blue pants, and wore a long, red scarf-like cape in place of his red bandana.
The other man was a lumbering polar bear wearing his scarf around his waistline. He wore no headgear, and tan pants. He and the other male were wearing sandals and no gloves, which is kinda scary when you think about a polar bear's webbed, front paws with his claws out. The third was a raccon dressed in pirate attire with a swollen belly. She was a villain yes, but awefully damn good one too. Her pirate attire consisted of a hot pink see-through skirt that flowed in the back and was a long v-shape in the front. She wore a brown corset with white sleeves, a red badana, and her hair was beaded and braided up. Her occupation was piracy, and she had an Australian accent.
The teenagers looked upon the three figures in awe. "We won't hurt ya." finished the blindfolded man. "What a hypocritical statement." Jamboree muttered to himself. "Wot's goin' on 'ere mate?" asked the raccoon in her Aussie accent. "We're on a mission!" Skylar rejoiced as he jumped up and hugged the men, but not the woman.
"A mission you say," Bean stated before he surveyed the group. "Oh right, I remember, Nack sent us here to help you for a little bit, but we got to return soon back to Australia." "Why?" Skylar asked. "Because, this is guardian work, not ours, we just overheard you guys were in trouble from Nack. He sees a lot ya know." Skylar flattened his ears in sadness, "Of course he does." Bean patted his head as Marine asked, "Wot's a maittah Blueberries?" The purple cat looked up, tears flowing from her eyes. "I killed someone!" she wailed. "Don't feel that bad," Skylar patted. "Uncle Bark here killed someone with a paper airplane once." "Damn." Daylight cursed. "Dammit Skylar, that's not important!" Bean spat as he bitch slapped the boy.
"Of course you should feel bad! You just took a life!" Bean screamed. Blueberries wailed louder as Bark signed, "None of you are helping!" Then he tapped Bean and Skylar's mouth shut. "Yew did wot yew 'ad to do," Marine started. "Ahnd yew did what yew werah suppossed to. That bitch was goin' to bloody kill ya if yew 'adn't. Ahnd think about it, she's one less proiblem for the wahld and yew." Marine hugged Blueberries as she looked up and asked innocently, "Really?" Marine smiled at her.
When Blueberries had calmed down, Marine, Bean, and Bark took the kids out for dinner. When they had ordered, Daylight asked Jamboree, "How are you liking your first mission?" Jamboree looked at her like she had slapped him. "Scary." he announced at last. And then the even scarier part comes in. Scar starts vomitting blood. Just thick pools of it, nonstop for several minutes. Chaos ensued.
Jamboree and Blueberries screamed in terror as Scar collapsed on them, blood dripping from every hole in his beak. Then his clothes took this as a notion to set themselves on fire, rendering him naked when they finally put out the blaze. "You guys need to move now! He's dying!" screamed Bean.
"Nah, he just vomitted up pools of blood and lit himself on fire for the best prank ever." Skylar smarted. Bean bitch slapped him again. Marine grabbed ahold of Scar and laid him on the table. "Why did you lay him in all that blood?" Skylar asked. Bean, once again, slapped him, this time, leaving a bruise. "Shut up," Marine screamed. "I need to 'ear wot this bloke is sayin'."
By now, Blueberries and Jamboree were in tears, and Daylight was shaking on the spot. Skylar was just aloof and staring when he decided to hug Jamboree, who bitch slapped him harder than Bean did. The restaurant had been cleared as everybody listened in to the sick gags and whispers of Scar. "Go east," he murmmered. "Factory in Spain. My Cube...My Cube...My Cube." "You guys are gonna have to leave now." stated Bean. "What about Scar?" Daylight asked. "Carry him," Marine demanded hastily. "You're strong. We have to get back to Nack and check on Jet. Go now! Hurry!"
And so they did go to Spain, and as they stepped off that plane, Scar started to immediately feel better. By now he was coherant enough to tell everybody where the factory was, until he ran into a busty girl and decided to salivate for 10 minutes over her.
Daylight had to drag him, Skylar, and Jamboree, who had now discovered his big boy parts, back to the group. Blueberries sighed and shot a glare at the woman who just hastily replied, "Que?" Blueberries flattened her ears and grumbled something incoherant.
Daylight sprang into planning mode when our heroes arrived at the factory. She surveyed the area, and was floored at what she saw. First things first, the factory was a glass factory, second, Blizzard was perched perfectly near the window with the jewels, drinking coffee, and three, she was not expecting Blizzard to have an army waiting for them. But, this sounds like a job for a sniper.
They'd kill the man and be on their merry way to collect the jewels. If anything was that easy. "Oh my fuck!" Blueberries exclaimed. "Oh my fuck indeed." Scar nodded.
"Well, Skylar, that's your cue." Daylight stated. Skylar yipped as loud as possible, making it echo throughout the valley that they were in. Everybody smacked their faces with their hands as Jamboree squeaked in fear. Luckily, for them though, nobody noticed but themselves.
Skylar ripped out a sniper rifle out of hammerspace, proudly exclaiming, "This was my fathers!" He grabbed his position, ready to snipe Blizzard the Crocodile while he still had the priceless jewels in his bag. Blizzard picked up a green Sol Emerald, surveyed it, licked it, then tossed it back into the bag, which he missed, and it clattered to the floor with a noticable bang. Blueberries winced a little, and then went back to studying him with her curious, yellow eyes.
Skylar cocked the rifle, ready to aim, and pulled the trigger. Four things went wrong:
1) The sniper rifle was so loud it echoed and alerted all of Blizzard's goons, and startled the team.
2) Skylar completely missed his target.
3) Skylar had been injured from the kick of the rifle.
4) Skylar screamed so loud that he might as well have turned into a marching band and airhorn combination and paraded around everybody till their ears bled. Other than that, he kept a pretty straight face, even when he was in pain.
Daylight smacks Skylar on the back of his head, and yowls, "You call yourself the son of Fang the Sniper! You just gave away our position!" "And destroyed a priceless mug." Skylar smiled. Daylight was fuming with anger, but could she take it out on Skylar? No, she had a mess to clean up now. She would've rather of had Lake, the worst ninja to ever live, and his samurai brother, Cookie, who doesn't play well with others, or listens for that matter, on her team than him. Blueberries grabbed Jamboree, as if she was afraid that the flaming 19 year old would take it out on an inncocent kid instead of the marching goons making a beeline for them.
Daylight now had another mess to clean up because of Skylar, so she picked up a boulder in anguish and slung it at the building, thinking of all the characters that decided to threaten her that if their precious little babies didn't come back in one piece, they would make her rue the day she was born.
Mama Rouge and Papa Knuckles, that was a rule in her house that she had to legit call them that, were probably worried about her by now. That just made her mad enough to pick up a bigger boulder and hurl it at the goons everybody was fighting, smashing several into pulp.
Skylar was using his pistol, and missing everyone but the team. Blueberries would've landed a good hit on a goon had she not had to step out of the way of an oncoming bullet. Or Scar, who's inner thigh had been grazed and bleeding thanks to Skylar. Jamboree shrieked as he heard the bullets zip by him. It didn't help that the bad guys had guns too. "I'm so glad you almost killed our team." Scar steamed sarcastically. "Not my fault you guys were in the way." Skylar retorted. Nobody replied, but Scar and Blueberries wanted to hit him. Nack would hear about this when they got back.
"Mission Sabatoger!" Jamboree spat. "Am not!" Skylar retorted back hastily. Daylight jumped in and stated, "I'm not listening to that silly game I used to play with my brother when Blizzard is standing right over there."
She pointed towards the tall figure just standing a few legstrides away. Several goons surrounded him like spilled water.
"I see you little bastards are persistant," Blizzard sighed as if he was reading a boring book. "Very well then, the jewels you want are in the factory, but be warned I won't go easy on you little bitches."
Skylar blinked at him and yelled, "I'm nobody's bitch yet. I'm a virgin!" "Oh how wonderful. You decided to be irrelevant." Jamboree stated snidely. Blizzard blink at him for a minute before he stated, "Well Mr. Virgin, you'll never get to experience sexual pleasure if you lose this fight. Don't be a man, be a boy and take your friends home before I do something we'll all regret." Blizzard yawned. He sent a small magnituded earthquake as a warning.
"We need the jewels," Blueberries cried. "You'll never get to enjoy anything if you destroy them and destroy the world!" "Explain yourself child." Blizzard demanded. "No, you explain first why you stole the jewels in the first place!" Daylight demanded.
Blizzard nodded at them and sent them a nasty bargain, "Kill my goons and I'll tell you." Then he sent the goons ahead withought warning. "Challenge accepted." Daylight smiled.
Daylight got in the first hit. She puched a goon in the face, grabbed him by his arms and slammed his back onto her kneecap, breaking it in half. Blueberries made some guy's head explode with her telekinesis.
Scar and Skylar dodged a few bullets before beating the goon's brains out with the but of the guns. Jamboree flew up and ripped the throats out of a couple with his beak.
Blizzard cringed a little, but not before opening up a fault in the ground, swallowing up his random goons, slamming the fault on said goons, allowing a sick crack to be heard. "Eugh." remarked the children.
"Well done." Blizzard stated as he started to clap his hands. "Now will you tell us why you stole the jewels?" Daylight asked with narrowed eyes. Blizzard laughed hardily before stating, "I stole them to make the world's largest gem."
"Uh, is that all?" Daylight asked,confused. "Of course not," the crocodile giggled. "I wanted to sell the gem too, so that way Believe and I had nothing to worry about in terms of money."
"Oh my Sun Gods! What have we done?" Scar exclaimed. "A lot," Blizzard replied. "Now tell me why you guardians want your little trinkets so bad."
And so they did. They explained to him that he would never get to honor Believe's memory if he destroyed the world by destroying the gems. And Blizzard's eyes widened at the truth and he told them, "Take your gems. My sister is worth more than that. Take me in to your police if you want."
He bowed his head, and the guardians took pity upon him. "Run." Daylight almost whispered. Blizzard looked up and blinked. "Run," she shouted again. "And never come back!" "Thank you." Blizzard smiled before he took off into the woods, never to be seen or heard from ever again by the young guardians.
And so, they collected their jewels and returned them to their very ecstatic parents before going to Jamboree's house for some plum and cherry pie. As they ate their pie, they came to a realization. That this was their path and it was frought with danger, but looking around the table, they knew that they had somebody to count on if they needed it. Anne smiled as she cut another piece of pie, for herself, and for the heroes of this tale.
Whoo, that was a lot of work. I am so sorry that it was an extra long chapter. I can't promise anything, but next chapter should be shorter. Also, I am sorry my story sucks, but the the next one I submit should be laughtacular. Guaranteed. Anyways, thanks for reading, and review if you'd like.