(Infinite's View)
(One Week Later; 11:45 P.M)
(Eggman's Headquarters; Living Area)
Defeated. I was defeated yet again by the scrawny, annoying and impulsive hedgehog. Sure his speed is good, but my speed is identical to his and yet I was beaten down. I don't understand what could have done this, what he has and I lack, but I will figure it out, and I will slaughter him so nothing will stand in my way.
At the moment, I am pondering on my defeat in the middle of the night, searching for any clues, any tactic that he used that is still present in my memory that I can use against him. That pondering, after 15 minutes, is interrupted by Luna as she walks in.
"You're still up?" She asks in a curious tone. I scoff, leaning off the back of the red couch I'm sitting on. "What does it look like, Luna?" I snarl back. She frowns. "Don't snap at me like that, Infinite."
"You do it to me all the time." I snarl in a quiet manner. Luna smirks. "Touché. Now, why are you still up? And don't tell me it's about your defeat a whole week ago." She scowls. I look to her, narrowing my eyes. Luna, after a couple of seconds, shakes her head. "You're an idiot."
"Excuse me?!"
"You heard me, Infinite!" She booms back, taking a step towards me. I stand to my feet, unsheathing my sword before swinging it towards the bottom of her neck. She, instead of dodging, activates her blue, defensive aura, causing my sword to bounce off. She shakes her head again. "You never learn, do you?" She snarls, unsheathing her sword. I make the first attack onto her sword. She, to my surprise, doesn't shield it with her blue aura. Instead, she goes her more uncomfortable route (she told me she's more of a defensive fighter). She goes offensive. She pushes her sword towards me, making me stumble back one step. With that, she swings for my chest, but I corkscrew in the air, chuckling my sword onto hers when my vision is locked onto her. Both swords slam against the metal wall, clattering onto the floor soon after. I land on my feet and leap to her. She dives onto the floor, quickly turning onto her back as I run to her. She flips to her feet and karate kicks me on the side. I howl when my body dents the metal wall. I somehow land to my feet, and somehow manage to dodge her fist. She winces as her punch dents the metal wall (not as much as my impact did though), leaving me the chance, which I took eagerly, to kick her on the head. She screams out, back colliding onto the metal wall. She crumbles to the ground at the same time I begin to run to her. She, when I reach her, is on her feet. I grab her shirt collar, slam her onto the wall, slug her chest before chucking her across the room. She slides to a stop at the end of the living area, not without a large nightstand toppling over her as her body hits the leg of it. She wheezes for air as I kick her onto her back and place my foot onto her chest.
"Dude…You didn't have to…do that…" She groans out. "I only called you an idiot. It's not that bad of a word. I can totally call you somethin' worse." She scoffs with her voice slightly stronger. "But if you don't want that, take your boot off of my chest. In return, I'll reveal the reason why I called you an idiot." She snarls. After a quick hesitation, I step off of her. She, with shaky arms, pushes herself into a sitting position. "Look. The reason why I called you an idiot is because you're still stuck in the past. You're still too hooked up on your defeats to become stronger."
"You're wrong. I was reexamining Sonic's tactics and determining what I could do to use those tactics to my advantage." I snarl. She exhales a quick breath out of her nose. "Really. Well, that's odd of you." She sneers. "But there's another thing."
"And what's that?"
"You cannot accept defeat. Your past defeats still linger in your mind. Yes you might be reexamining them, but you're still too weak to accept that you lost. You just have to let them go. That's the way to become stronger." She replies, standing to her feet. She turns and takes a step towards me. "And you better learn to let go of your past. I don't know if you can, but I know that I can. Because I did. Now, if you excuse me, I'm heading outside."
"And why's that?"
"Because of two things. First off, I need to train, something that you don't like to do and secondly, I feel calmer under the moonlight, and you better not change that after I wake up tomorrow morning." She scowls. After that, she winks. "See you."
With that said, she walks to her sword, snatches it off the ground and walks out of the living area. I shake my head. "Being stuck in the past, huh? Wonder why she believes that of all things."