Hello there! I'm sorry for disappearing for months. I was very busy. I hope you all doing well. First of all, I'm not going to lie. I was a bit disappointed that I haven't got much review, especially for the fifth and sixth chapter. But, I'm not going to let it get the better of me. Also, I'm want to thank you these following users for reviewing so far. You have my thanks.
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Chapter 7: Things Get Complicated
It was almost 10 o'clock at night and many Mobians and Overlanders already went home in order to be with their loved ones at home. Many shops, cafe and restaurants were closed for the day, but some are still opened for those who decided it's still early to go home. There weren't many people or Mobians on the streets and sidewalks either. The only remaining were some policemen doing their night patrol and few couples who decided to have some personal times together.
In small café, named 'The Twelve Zodiacs', sitting at one of the tables were none other than Shadow the Hedgehog. It wasn't like him at all to sit down somewhere in public, ordering a cup of steaming hot coffee and act like a normal Mobian. With an exception for tonight, that's what he did. The cup of coffee that he asked fifteen minutes ago and the waiter brought him ten minutes ago was still sitting in front of him, still as hot as ever. Shadow for once, don't really feel like himself and he was glad that none of his 'friends' were there to witness such a miserable form of his. 'They will make fun of me if they find out. Such immature brats.' Shadow thought bitterly, and he haven't drink any of the coffee yet. Shadow continue to slump on the table and even the sound of the bell, signaling a customer just entered the cafe did not peek his interest.
"One hot chocolate please" a loud and friendly voice boomed from a table beside him. 'Great. A loud mouth sat next to me.' Shadow once again thought to himself. "Thank you sir. Your order will arrived shortly." The waiter noted to the new customer. "That's okay. Take your time" was the guy's answer. A few minutes past and the silence was obvious than ever. There weren't much people in the café to begin with and most of them was either on their phones or reading a book. Some even made a choice to just sit and the window and look onto the streets.
"Here's your drink sir. Please enjoy." The waiter put the hot chocolate on the table.
"Thank you. Nice café by the way." The voice keep spewing out compliments.
"Thank you sir." The waiter took his leave.
"This guy is too friendly for his own good" Shadow muttered slowly.
To make things worse, the chair in front of Shadow was taken by the guy. The next thing he knew, he came face to face with a teenage wolf, with a big smile on his face. "Can I help you, kid?"
The wolf just shook his head and smiled at Shadow. "Nothing, it's just you look so troubled for some reason and you could use someone to talk to." "Did your parents ever teach you not to talk to strangers? For all you know, I could be a serial killer."
Once again, the wolf shook his head, "Nope. I think my grandpa taught me that. He's dead now. Where are my manners? My name's Derek. Derek Star the wolf. Nice to meet you. What's your name?" Derek introduced himself and stretched out his right hand.
Shadow look at the wolf and to the wolf's hand. He hesitated for a minute and reluctantly accept it. "Shadow the Hedgehog." Shadow plainly replied. Derek's eyes widen and almost jumped out of his seat. "Shadow the hedgehog? THE Shadow? The friend of the Freedom Fighters that lead by Princess Sally Acorn?"
Shadow face-palmed himself and returned to focus on Derek. "First of all, I wouldn't say 'friends'. I helped them from time to time because they could help me get what I need. That's it." Shadow explained to the young wolf. 'Although I did except Tails' invitation to his breakfast gathering' Shadow thought to himself for the third time that night.
"Well. That sucks. You guys kick ass when working together. Especially you and Sonic. You two are awesome."
Shadow couldn't help but to smile at this statement. Even though a part of himself just wish he could rip the wolf's face off for putting him in the same league as his blue counter-part, but Shadow decided to it slide. For now.
Derek on the other hand wouldn't stop talking, "My dad always says that if you have a problem or something of some sort. Try to find a friend or someone trustworthy person to talk your feelings to. I thought he was joking. Until I met a friend at my old school. We talk about our problems quite a lot and eventually, we felt good about ourselves."
Shadow listen to the whole story and came to a conclusion. "Could you hear me out about something?" Shadow finally give in. Derek smiled at this and made himself comfortable and lean in towards Shadow (at the same time, giving Shadow the creeps). "Let's hear it".
"Well, it's started when I accompany Rouge and Omega to get Omega monthly repairs."
"Rouge the bat and Omega!? Rouge is HOT, and Omega is super cool with all of his arsenal…." Derek screamed as a high school girl and stop immediately when he noticed Shadow was glaring at him. He calmed down, clear his throat and made a hand gesture for Shadow continue with his story. "Continue"
Flashback
At the G.U.N base, there a huge lab where all of the agency's arsenal were send to be repaired by its top mechanics. Omega was included. The trio walk silently (Shadow and Rouge were quiet, except for Omega whose footsteps echo throughout the hall) towards the specific lab where Omega will be examined and repaired if necessary.
Omega looked around and see many robots (some of them used to be Badniks) been disabled and been taken apart. Some were still waiting for their turn. There are also the ones who already finished with the repairs and seem like it could function better than before. Omega knows he's one of the best arsenal G.U.N owned. But, he's been fighting since Gamma took control of him, which was a long time ago.
'Hmm. Shadow and Rouge haven't fought ever since they got here'. Omega thought to himself. He looked at his two friends/teammate who was silently walking in front of him with occasionally the bat made some comments that made the hedgehog turned his head away. Before he could say anything to the two, they arrived at the lab. The lab's metal door opened and a girl overlander, wearing a lab coat came to greet them.
"Hello. You three must be Team Dark. Omega, you're have to wait a while. The Doctor is quite busy. One of the machine is malfunctioning."
"That's okay. Will it take long?" Rouge decided to clarify. "Oh no. Just a few minutes. I hope that wouldn't be a problem. I know how busy you guys are."
Shadow just scoffed at this, "Today's our day off anyway. It's not we have better things to do." Rouge glared at Shadow as she realized that the comment was directed solely at her.
Omega look at his teammates. 'This is bad. They are fighting again. At this rate they won't be friendly to each other anymore and our team might be disbanded. I have to choose sides and we'll never celebrate birthdays together ever again!'
At that very moment, a mechanic walk out of the lab and asked Omega to come in. Rouge smiled at the gigantic robot. "Let's go in sweetie." "The sooner we get this over with. The sooner I can get away from her and enjoy my day off." Shadow muttered but Omega caught every word and derived a brilliant plan.
"NO!"
Shadow's and Rouge's eyes widen to their friend's outburst. "I WILL NOT GO IN THERE UNTIL YOU TWO MAKE UP!"
"Omega? What the matter…" Rouge didn't get to finish her sentence when Omega gave out a loud roar like a mad-man or in this case a mad-robot, and effortlessly smash through a wall to his left and keep doing the same thing for every wall that tried to stop him.
"What did you do!?" Shadow yelled at the bat. "Nothing! I just told him to go inside!"
Shadow gripped both of Rouge shoulders and shook them hard. "I told this was a bad idea!"
Before Rouge could protest, the girl separate the two, "You two could have a lover's quarrel later. Please try to stop your friend before he destroy the entire facility. The two stop fighting at once and rushed off to find their friend. Actually, it wasn't that hard. Just follow the destruction that made the rampaging walking arsenal. Shadow and Rouge caught glimpse of many people lying on the ground shaking which caused by Omega when he smash through the walls.
Omega finally made it out of the facility and slumped at a nearby tree. He sighed a couple of times before hearing footsteps approaching him. He did not dared to lift his head.
"There you are! What on Mobius were you thinking?"
Omega flinched at Shadow's voice and guess Rouge held him back. "Back off Shadow! I'll handle this."
Rouge hover at Omega's left and the former gently put her hand on the latter's arm. "Omega. Care to tell us what the matter is?"
Omega lifted his head, "Promise you won't laugh?" The two just gave a small and firm nod. "Please don't get a divorce."
Right after Omega said the 'D' word. A huge blush appeared on their faces. "W…WH…what…are you talking about?" Rouge tried to get an explanation.
"I saw a movie and the hero's parents get a divorce after fighting for so long. Please don't get a divorce." Omega beg again.
"Sweetie how could we get a divorce when we're not even married! It's not like Shadow and I can't get married…." Rouge began to trail off.
"He means that the team might disbanded if we're no longer be friendly to each other."
"Oh. I know that." Rouge replied and laughed nervously.
Shadow walked to Omega's right side. "Listen Omega. We always will be a team. There's no other agent in G.U.N that I trust more than you and Rouge." Omega looked atthe two and sighed once more. "I'm sorry for running away like that."
"That's okay." Shadow replied and looked at Rouge. "Rouge. I'm sorry for the things I said. Forgive me?" Shadow stretch out his hand for Rouge to shake, only to be wrap in one on Rouge's hugs. "Apology accepted. I'm sorry to Shadow."
The three of them walked back to the lab through the hole Omega create. "I love you mommy and daddy!" Omega boomed out for everyone to hear.
"OMEGA!"
Flashback ends
"That's basically what happened." Shadow finished his story and gulped down the rest of his coffee. Derek stayed silent for a while before, "So, you and Rouge? Together?" Shadow continue to slam his face into the table repeatedly.
Sonic knocked on Tails' door and the two-tailed fox let his brother in. "What brings you here this hour?" Tails asked as he sat on the couch while Sonic was rumbling through the fridge. Sonic pulled out two cans of soda and tossed one to Tails. They took a few gulped each before Sonic opened his mouth. "How's your tongue?" Tails looked confused before realize what Sonic was talking about.
"Hahahaha. It's okay now. Let's get forget about it. "Tails brushed it off. He picked up the remote control and start browsing through the channels. Sonic observe his brother's behavior with a worried look before decided to let it slide. "Ok. I need your help Tails." "With what?"
Sonic looked around to see whether there's no one else in the room and make sure all windows and door are shut and locked tightly. Tails rolled his eyes, "Quit it! There's nobody into the house but us." Sonic finally stopped the weird act before took a deep breath. "Tails. There's a stalker on the loose."
Silver walked through the corridor of Blaze's house and arrived at a black door. He didn't really pay attention when the door turn out to be locked from the inside. Silver's mind still filled with images of Blaze wearing various cute aprons as he used his telekinetic abilities to turn the doorknob on the inside.
Downstairs, a small figure managed to open the window in the kitchen and sneakily walked across the house and up the stairs. Silver walked to the bed and somehow failed to notice a sleeping Blaze. He lifted the covers and before he could lay down, a small figure managed to slam into him and crashed into a book shelf.
The loud impact obviously caused the cat to wake up and conjure a fireball to set an example why people should never break into her room. "WHO'S THERE?" Blaze turned on the light and saw a sight that would cause her to scream out of frustration. "MARINE! STOP STRANGLING SILVER! SILVER! WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY ROOM? THE GUEST ROOM IS THE ONE WITH THE RED DOOR!"
Marine let go of the hedgehog, "He was tryin' to steal ya treasure, Blaze!" Marine explained.
"Steal…Treasure?" Blaze gave it a thought before realizing what her best friend was trying to say. "Marine! I told you not to say that!" Silver continue to gasp for air. "Oh okay. Let me try again. He was tryin' to claim the two island you owned!" Marine happily yelled out once more, feeling very happy with herself.
"MARINE!"
There you have it. I'm sorry for making you guys wait for so long. Please review. I really hope to hear any form of opinion from you guys. Until next time.
