RagingWolf2124- I'm back, it's been awhile, but I wanted to take a small break, I hope you weren't so impatient for the next chap.
Wolf and Blaze had returned back to base, Wolf holding Infinite's... Zero's mask... he held it close to him, only to be met by Knuckles.
"That mask... it's Infinite's mask... does this mean you've killed him?" Asked Knuckles.
"No... I did not... I could not bring myself to do so..." Wolf answered, Knuckles was soon infuriated.
"You idiot! You had one job and you let him live!? You allowed a murderous scumbag like him live!" Knuckles shouted in Wolf's face, before Wolf pushed the Resistance Leader himself against a wall, growling and baring his sharp teeth.
"THAT MAN IS MY CHILDHOOD FRIEND! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH I WANTED TO KILL HIM FOR WHAT HE DID TO ME!? BUT I COULDN'T DO IT! YOU WANNA KNOW WHY!? IT'S BECAUSE I PROMISED I WOULD NEVER GIVE UP ON HIM!" Wolf shouted angrily towards the Echidna before punching him across the face, "I AM NOT YOUR SOLDIER OR ANYONE ELSE'S! BUT I WOULDN'T EXPECT MUCH FROM A MAN WHO CALLED HIS OWN GIRLFRIEND A BITCH!"
Knuckles was infuriated as he threw a punch, only for Wolf to dodge it and kick him across the room.
"You son of a bitch..." Knuckles said, lying there on the ground in pain.
"I don't have time to waste on you... I'm not in the mood for you... so leave me alone..." Wolf said, walking past Blaze who saw everything unfold.
"You should be ashamed of yourself..." Blaze told Knuckles, who followed after Wolf, leaving the Echidna there, feeling like a huge jerk.
Later at night...
Wolf was alone... in his room with Blaze, both lying in bed together, he had placed Zero's mask on the small table next to him, he had his arm over his mate's waist, kissing her forehead.
"I know I should hate him Blaze... but I can't... it was so easy when I didn't know it was him, but now I just can't..." Wolf told her, "No matter what he did to hurt me... or my friends... I can beat him down as much as I want... but I could never take his life."
"I understand that it's hard... someone who means so much to you... but you can't do it... no matter how horrible they're crimes were... but that's not wrong for you to feel that way..." She reassured him.
"I know something's wrong with him... I just can't believe it..." Wolf said, before remembering back to how he nearly killed his bully, he had seemed to know exactly what he was doing, "No... he was always like this... since he snapped..."
He remembered how Zero had killed his abusive Father with his deceased Mother's red blade, how Wolf's family took him in after the whole incident, how things went wrong after the incident at High School and so on.
"I won't blame you if you capture him instead of killing him Wolf... it shows that your not an animal who will kill everyone." She said, bringing her lips in for a kiss, one that Wolf passionately returned, before releasing each others lips, "I support your decision... whatever it may be in the end..."
"Thank you Blaze..." He told her, holding her close, "Without you... I would have lost my mind long ago..."
"If you did... I'd bring you back to me..." She told him, "I would never give up on you..."
"I wouldn't either..." He told her, "I will never... ever... turn my back on you..."
With that... they soon fell asleep... however that didn't last as Wolf woke up again a few hours later from a nightmare, however this time he didn't shout out in fear, he simply shot up from the bed, sweating.
"Fuck..." Wolf said to himself, breathing heavily, luckily he did not wake Blaze who purred peacefully in her sleep, Wolf looked next to him, looking at Zero's mask with tired eyes, curiously, he picked up the mask and looked closely at it, the left side had a red color where the eye was supposed to be, and right having a black color where the eye was also supposed to be, just how does Zero see out of this mask? Is it technology based? After thinking about it for awhile, he decided to try it on himself, carefully putting it over his head, his ears going into the sockets, opening his eyes in the mask, it seems the left eye is meant to be seen, while he could still see out the right, no one looking from outside could see it, "Such a strange design."
Before he could take it off, his hands were shocked by the mask.
"Aah!" Wolf shouted out, before his head started to hurt, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Blaze shot up from bed and saw Wolf with Zero's mask on, holding his head in pain and falling to his knees, smacking his face into the wall, but the mask was not coming off no matter how hard Wolf tried to pull it off, before his hands stopped trying to remove it, his arms falling to the side.
"Wolf?" She asked, "Are you okay?"
"Yes... I'm fine... amazing actually..." Wolf said, rising from his knees, "I feel that everything I fought for..."
He turned his head around, revealing his glowing eye from under the mask, obscuring the other.
"Was nothing, but lies..." Wolf said, "Lies that blinded me..."
"Oh no..." Blaze said, noticing Wolf's drastic change in personality.
"Blaze... don't you see? We're both so strong... and yet we associate ourselves with weaklings..." He said, holding her hands in his, "Zero was right about me... and he could think the same of you... so come on... we'll rid the world of such weaknesses..."
Blaze could not believe what she was hearing from him, this was not Wolf. it was not her loving and caring mate that she fell for.
"Wolf, take off the mask." Blaze told him, attempting to remove it, only for the mask to shock her hands, "Ow!"
"I'm afraid I cannot allow you to do that... this mask is apart of me now..." Wolf spoke in a similar speech pattern to Zero, "Come with me my love... I do not wish for you to involve yourself with these lesser beings any longer..."
"No! Your not the same person! That mask is affecting how you think! You need to take it off!" Blaze told him, forcing her hands to stay on the mask and slowly removing it as it shocked her.
"NO!" Wolf shouted, pushing her away into the wall, the mask sliding right back into place, "This is who I am now! The resistance will fall!"
Wolf immediately left the room, before being struck by a homing attack, looking up, he saw a now recovered Sonic The Hedgehog stand there with a serious expression.
"So you've finally recovered from all that torture... didn't you?" Wolf spoke, "This is perfect... it will make it even more satisfying to destroy you..."
"Wolf? Is that you?" Sonic said in shock, "Why are you wearing Infinite's mask?"
"I do not have time for such nonsense... die... hope of the resistance..." Wolf coldly said before he shot energy blasts at Sonic who dodged them all and used another homing attack but was kicked away by Wolf, who shortly crossed his arms... not impressed in the slightest, "Come on, you can do better than that... can't you?"
Sonic grew annoyed and sped towards Wolf, avoiding a punch and uppercutting Wolf who was sent flying but landed on his feet.
"Able to fight I see..." Wolf rubbed his chin, "This will be interesting."
"Sonic... the mask is controlling him!" Blaze shouted as she exited the room.
"Then we're just gonna have to shatter it!" Sonic said, before punching Wolf, hitting the mask, Blaze kicking Wolf across his face as well, sending him flying back down the hallway, before he ran right towards Blaze, grabbing her by her nightgown and pushing her back into the wall, looking in the corner of his eye to see Sonic speeding towards him, shooting an energy blast into him, causing him to be sent crashing into a wall.
"How sad... you chose this weak resistance trash over me... I guess it's time make the breakup official..." Wolf said, raising his hand up, caressing her face with the back of his hand, his claws dangerously scratching across her cheek, "Oh well... I'll move on..."
He then raised his claws... getting ready to slash her throat open...
"You don't mean what you say..." Blaze told him calmly with a loving smile, "After all... I know you best... I'm your mate after all."
"..." Wolf was silent, his claws still in position to cleanly slice across her neck, but it began to lower, "A mate who betrayed me..."
His hand was raised again, but lower than before.
"No matter what happens... I'll still love you... because I know it's not you talking right now..." She said, looking at him, "So please stop... your better than this..."
Wolf then released her, before his visible left eye had a serious look to it, the mask shocking him as he tried to remove it.
"AAAAAAAAGH! I have to... get it... off!" Wolf shouted, "Get off! AAAAAAGH!" Wolf shouted as energy built up inside the mask, before it started to crack down the middle, in between the eyes, Wolf grabbing the open crack with his two hands and forcefully ripping it apart, "AAAAAAAAGH!"
Wolf fell to his knees... breathing heavily... exhausted from the strain of the mask that once controlled him.
"I'm here... it's over now..." Blaze told him, kneeling down next to him, with Sonic shaking his head from being knocked into a wall.
"You okay buddy?" Sonic asked Wolf.
"Yeah... I'm fine now..." Wolf said, grabbing the two pieces of the broken mask, before Knuckles came around the corner with troops.
"What the hell is going on here!?" He shouted.
"Mind control... that's what..." Wolf said, "My fucking curiosity did this to me... I never knew the mask would do that... but it seems Zero intentionally left it behind for me to wear... that bastard... he tried to turn me against everyone."
"Well... at least it didn't get any worse... give me the mask... I'll have the science team research what it was that caused it..." Knuckles asked Wolf, who simply gave it to him, not wanting it anywhere near him at the moment as Knuckles soon left, looking at Wolf for a second with regret.
"Sonic... you've recovered pretty fast..." Wolf said to him.
"Just how did you heal that fast?" Blaze asked him.
"I was so sleepy from all the torture I had to endure... I could have sworn I saw a giant white gloved hand... it gave me a green bean... it said it came from another dimension... he said it could heal all injuries, no matter how bad..." Sonic explained, "I know it sounds ridiculous... but he called it... what was it again, a senzu bean?"
"Your talking about Master Hand..." Wolf told him.
"Master Hand... sounds like you know who he is." Sonic said with his trademark grin.
"I do... he's the reason I finally came back..." Wolf told him.
"He also mentioned some other mumbo jumbo stuff, but I couldn't exactly hear what it was." Sonic said, scratching his head in confusion, "He did say something about you having two brothers, I thought you were an only child?"
"I don't know... I don't think he'll appear again unless the situation is grim, or answer questions until the world is saved... these two 'brothers' of mine are something he brought up to me, but never elaborated on... but that's not a priority at the moment." Wolf told him, rubbing his head which throbbed, "Fuck..."
"It's fine Sonic, I'll take care of him, just go back to sleep." Blaze told the blue Hedgehog who sighed and walked off, she helped sit him down on the bed, before noticing he had some blood dripping from his forehead, a small cut made from how tight the mask held onto him, "Your bleeding... let me deal with that for you..."
She grabbed an alcohol bottle that was close to her and poured a bit onto a cotton ball, before she dabbed it onto his cut.
"God..." Wolf growled, baring his fangs in agitation from the burning sensation, before she soon stopped, simply placing a band aid since it wasn't so big of a cut to begin with.
"Here... I got you this..." Blaze told him, wanting to cheer him up before going back to sleep, her hand out to his, it was a Red Bandana, "I made it for you... because I know your a brave warrior..."
"Blaze... I'm no warrior..." Wolf said.
"Oh come on silly, you'll love it..." She told him, smiling, before wrapping it around his forehead for him.
"But Blaze..." Wolf attempted to stop her, but she had used her adorable cat eyes on him, he couldn't tell her no, sighing, he allowed her to continue, she soon finished, two strands of the bandanna tied together and falling down below his neck, looking into the mirror in front of them.
"See?" She smiled lovingly at him, "It fits who you are so well."
Looking at himself more, he grew a smile on his face.
"You know what's best for me in the end..." Wolf said, lying down onto his bed, breathing peacefully, Blaze doing the same, "You make me fall more and more in love with you each passing day."
She soon lied her head down close to his, "We keep having this affect on each other..."
He smiled, before he started kissing her, it was definitely deep and full of passion like every other kiss they shared together, the canine and feline both growled and purred respectively, laughing a bit as they continued more, before they stopped.
"I love you..." Blaze told him.
"I love you more..." Wolf told her.
"We are not starting this again, Wolf." Blaze warned him with a chuckle, the fun argument that every couple tended to have about who loved the other more.
"Alright... but I still love you more..." He told her with a smirk.
"You moron!" She chuckled, before she began to grow tired alongside Wolf, both drifting off to sleep soon after.