Chapter Six: Fighting G.U.N
"What? No!" Kara exclaimed, running in to see the mess of the room that the soldiers who had been at the house had made.
Riku stepped inside, looking around the room. A single casing was lying on the floor, so apparently, there was a single gunshot. That was possibly what had disabled Chaos, or worse, killed her. He picked up the casing, examining it. "This was shot from one of their weaker guns...thirty caliber, I'm guessing. Don't know where they shot her, but I doubt that she's dead, thankfully. But she's in their hands now...we have to find out where they could have taken her."
"If they're here, then they might be lying in wait for us, Riku-Kun!" the midnight blue hedgehog told him, worry clear in her voice.
Riku turned to Kara and then hugged her, saying, "Whatever happens, we can make it through. If they're here, let them show themselves. We'll take them out."
Kara nodded and then she backed away, pulling out her blade and looking around warily. Riku silently drew his blade and walked out of the room, tapping her shoulder to let her know to keep close as he began heading through the halls, his eyes and ears open as he concentrated, waiting for the soldiers to come out wherever they were.
He heard faint footsteps coming down the hall and pulled Kara into a sideroom, now waiting for the footsteps to come closer. They were heavy, meaning that the person was either heavy or carrying a lot of equipment. As they came close, a G.U.N soldier, dressed entirely in black armor, wearing a black mask with red goggles, and carrying a pulse rifle, stepped into view. Riku slipped out and then he stabbed the person in the back, making him give off a pained gasp before he fell over.
"What are these? I've never seen them before..." Kara whispered, coming out and looking at the man as he thudded heavily to the ground.
"Special forces. They must deem you really, really bad if they're sending these out," Riku muttered, turning and looking down the hall.
Suddenly, the radio on the one he just killed activated. "Unit zero-five, what is your status, over?" it said, and Riku gulped. "What is your status, over?" it repeated, but by then, both were gone and moving quickly through the halls of the house.
Riku stumbled upon another one, aiming his gun carefully as he walked out of a room. He happened to turn right to Riku and Kara, but before he could utter anything, his throat was cut and he fell to the ground without any noise besides a loud thud. Suddenly, his ready said, "All units, unit zero-five is not responding on radio. Exercise extra caution. The white cat and Project Kayla might be around."
"They'd be right about that," Riku muttered as he stepped over the fallen corpse. Kara was letting him work at this point, seeing as how skilled he was, though she was planning on helping out if she got the chance.
They moved to the basement now and saw two soldiers watching a person, bound and gagged. It was Chaos! She was mostly fine, besides a few cut and bruises, a large welt on her head, and her leg had a bullet hole that had been bandaged and the bullet had been removed. Riku and Kara got on opposite sides of the wall, staying in the darkness while the soldiers stood guard, watching the doorway. There was a light right at the bottom of the stairs as well as a light on that was flooding the entire basement floor with light, mostly.
Kara whispered, "How are we going to do this, Riku-Kun?"
"Move fast. We're going to have to cause a ruckus, but once we have Chaos, we're outta here," he whispered back, but jumped when one of the soldiers tilted his head to listen for a noise he thought he heard.
That one asked, "You hear something?"
His comrade listened for a moment and then shook his head. "No, why?"
"Nothing, I just thought I heard some muttering by the base of the stairs...then again, there was that extra caution thing..."
"You wanna throw a flash grenade there just to be sure?"
"Why the heck not? We've got a whole load of these, after all..."
No sooner had he went to pull out a flash bang grenade than both rushed in. The one who was holding the flash bang never got to pull the pin, so fast was Kara. She hit his wrist then his throat, and the grenade dropped to the floor, unactivated. The other one had his pulse rifle up but forgot to turn the safety off, luckily for Riku, who managed to stab him through the heart and then kick him off the blade.
Kara went to cut Chaos loose while Riku ungagged her. Chaos groaned as she began slowly waking up, and the first person she saw was Kara. Her immediate response was, "Kara? Why the...why are you..."
"Me and Riku are getting you out, Chaos-San! Just hold on!" Kara replied, while Riku lifted her up and supported her on his shoulders.
The white hedgehog looked the cat in the eyes and smiled weakly. "Thanks for coming back for me," she whispered, not caring that she was actually thankful for getting helped this time around.
"Don't mention it," Riku replied as he began carrying her out of the basement, though now he heard soldiers running to investigate.
"Oh no! They're coming for us!" Kara whined, panicking suddenly as she heard the heavy footfalls of the soldiers.
"Hurry, get behind a wall! Chaos, can you cast your wind?" Riku asked as he and Kara both moved against walls on either side of the staircase.
"I can't...maybe if Ace will wake up, I can..." she muttered, frowning as she waited for the soldiers to come down and investigate.
Five soldiers came dashing into the room, and then stopped when they saw the bloodshed. They didn't turn to look at the walls just yet, though they began looking at other segments of the room. "Find them! They have to be hiding somewhere here!" one said, keeping his gun leveled.
Chaos' eyes flashed pink for a moment as Ace came into play, not wanting them to be found and killed. Suddenly, a miniature tornado formed in the room, sucking the soldiers in. They began shouting and screaming while flailing as they tried to get out. "Now! Run!" Chaos said.
Riku and Kara, burst into a run, Riku carrying Chaos as he ran. Footsteps were heard trying to get to the commotion, but all three were out through a window by the time they got to the scene. Riku made a break into the forest with Chaos, Kara right beside him. "Hurry, Riku-Kun! I can hear them all around us!"
"I don't have a way out like I did last time!" Riku shouted as he ran, panting hard already. His fear of losing Kara was kicking in now, adrenaline pumping through his body as he ran desperately to try and get away from the G.U.N soldiers. But soon, there was nowhere to run. He stopped right in front of a tank that was in front of their path, and then he found that they were surrounded by G.U.N soldiers.
"Crap..." he muttered, looking around.
"Well, well, well...it seems that my work with the portal proved quite useful!" they heard a dark voice say. A pure black fox stepped into view, wearing dark robes. He had glowing red eyes as well.
"Who the heck are you?" Riku asked, glaring at the fox while holding onto Chaos, with Kara clinging to him.
"Me? Don't you remember me, Riku? The one who put the demon into your body? I am Tiral, current leader of G.U.N," the black fox explained. His voice sounded strange, almost like it was disembodied and not a part of the fox.
The white cat's eyes went wide and then he narrowed them, this time into a hateful glare. "You..."
Tiral gave off an eerie laugh, which made Kara cringe and hide even more behind Riku, at least try to. "Yes, me. What, did someone replace me as your most important goal of late or something like that? Have a new arch nemesis?"
There was silence, as none of the three answered. Finally, Tiral shrugged and said, "Well, whatever. We'll be taking Projects Ace and Kayla. You don't need to hold onto them anymore. As for you, you are hereby sentenced to death for treason and opposing the military."
Suddenly, a new voice rang out, "I would figure that you'd have stayed in your spot, Tiral!" Chaos immediately recognized the voice, and immediately loathed it. She knew it to be Shadow's...
Suddenly, all of the soldiers fell, and the black and red hedgehog appeared behind Tiral before kicking him in the back and knocking him onto his face. Tiral let out a pained grunt as he landed on his face before going to stand up, growling, "Shadow..."
He kicked in the face and sent rolling. Shadow turned to Chaos and said, "Sorry I'm late in making up for my mistakes last time."
"Sorry, my butt!" Chaos snapped, though she was thankful that he had shown up when he did.
"Shadow, get us out of here!" Riku said, but he had no need to. Shadow was already in the process of using another Chaos Control to warp them away from that area and to somewhere even safer than before.
"Wait!" Tiral shouted, standing up before having to cover his eyes as all four of the people vanished from sight. The G.U.N soldiers began standing up, recovering from the daze they received from Shadow's blows. Tiral stood there, speechless. "Why...I had them in my grasp! What happened?"
"Did we fail? Oh no...now we're in for it," one muttered as Tiral stood there, speechless. They were all afraid of the fox's wrath now, as he always got mad when they failed him. However, this time was different for them.
"I take the blame for that. I will personally report our loss to Aku Yasha's father, the demon lord, and shall take full responsibility for losing them. In the meanwhile, keep this area under guard for a few days, in case they decide to come back for any reason at all," Tiral told them before floating upward and vanishing in black smoke. All of the soldiers took turns looking at each other before they all breathed out in relief.
"Let's not have that happen again. I have a feeling that if something like that happens a second time, we won't be so lucky," one commented, and everyone just nodded in agreement, too shocked to really say anything.
Meanwhile, Shadow, Chaos, Kara, and Riku all reappeared inside of the space colony ARK, in the observation and primary research lab on ARK. It was a room that was mostly all glass, except for the control panels, a screen that was meant for playing videos, and the back wall with the door leading into the rest of the colony.
"There, we're safe. They won't think of coming back here, and even if they try, we'll see them first and be able to escape or use ARK's security systems against them," Shadow said, walking to the door.
"Just remember that you are to stay the heck away from me," Chaos said, glaring at the black and red hedgehog as he began leaving the room. "I don't care if you helped us out just now, you're still on my bad list ever since-"
"Ever since Mizuki died, I know! Shut up!" Shadow retorted as he walked out of the room. Chaos frowned and then muttered about something under her breath, probably how she'd beat Shadow up if she weren't so weakened and beat up.
"I'm going to get you to a room here. Kara, you should make yourself at home as well. I get the feeling we're going to be staying here for a while," Riku said, carrying Chaos out of the room and to the bedrooms, with Kara right behind him.
And there's another action chapter done! There won't be more action for a while, mostly it'll be more bond forming, maybe another couple between Shadow and Chaos, if people want it. Also, I've noticed that I've been getting a lack of reviews, the only person reviewing this story is Demon. C'mon, guys! I need your input! Please?