Hey guys! Okay, I've got this idea that's revolving around in my head at the moment and I think it fits slightly well with Chaos Riders. So thanks to the music I've been listening to for two hours straight I think I gained a good idea. I hope you guys like the chapter and please tell me what you guys think.
Disclaimer: Dark-Illusion-Detective does not own any of the Sonic Characters nor does she own Sega. She does own her usual OCs: Aerial the Hawk, Beacon/Pride the Sparrow, Flame the Swallow, and Jack the Crow/Sparrow Hybrid. Dusk the Hedgehog belongs to Mariko-ai-chan and always will.
Here's the chapter!
Chapter Eight: More News
"Storm!"
"Ace!"
Those two names were being called by the group of avions and by the one hedgehog that wandered through the woods. Beacon and Jet were the two that first saw the duo falling without an extreme gear, but it was Wave that realized that they crash landed through a few trees. Their footsteps were clearly heard as they stepped on the orange and brown dried up leaves that made their new residence on the floor of the woods.
"STORM! IF YOU CAN HEAR US, YELL SOMETHING!" Jack called out as he followed behind Flame.
Flame was walking toward the front and beside her was Dusk the hedgehog... who was holding her hand as though it was a life line. After a few minutes of this, Flame had enough.
"Okay Dusk, not to be rude or anything but... WHY THE HELL ARE YOU HOLDING MY HAND?!"
Dusk blinked; he figured that was pretty rude, but eh, he wasn't the one to judge.
"It's what people do when they're lost duh," Dusk replied as though he knew everything there was to know.
Flame ripped her hand out of Dusk's grip, "We are not lost. Now shut up so we can find our way out."
"We are lost aren't we?"
Fire started to crackle from her hands and she questioned, "anyone object if we have roasted hedgehog for breakfast?"
It was still dark out, but according to Wave it was almost three in the morning. No one said a word but stared at Flame, wondering if she really would hurt him. Flame was about to lunge at Dusk until a voice said, "I take that as a personal offense."
"Isn't that-"
"Why is he here?" Jet asked as he watched as a blue blur passed by them and stopped in front of Flame. Sonic the Hedgehog.
"Because I want to be here Jet, that and I take it you're missing Storm?"
"What's it matter to you?"
"Well Knuckles just went looking for him..."
Dusk then poked his head between Sonic and Jet, "should we be concerned about that?"
"YES!" they both replied with a shout.
"Knuckles and Storm can't stand each other."
Dusk just blinked, obviously not getting the major problem here. Sonic stared at Dusk and so did Jet.
"... I don't get it."
Sonic rubbed his temples and started to explain all that happened in the Sonic Riders game and waited for Dusk's wise reply of "oh I get it". But Dusk still gave them a blank stare.
"... I still don't get it."
"If you guys want roasted hedgehog, feel free to eat him," Sonic said calmly.
"NEVERMINDIGETIT!" Dusk shouted out.
Sonic chuckled and Jet rolled his eyes.
"Anyways, I need to find Knuckles."
"What for?"
"Rouge the bat stole a chaos emerald so we need to find her and get it back," the blue hedgehog explained.
"Wait... you mean that sexy bat?"
Everyone stared at Beacon who just blinked with fear.
"Ahem, I meant-"
"No you meant what you said."
Beacon stared at Flame whose hands were still on fire.
"Please don't kill me?"
"Oh you better start running if you don't want to join Dusk in the roasted catergory."
Beacon swore as he ran away, half dragging, half carrying Dusk away into the distance. Flame smirked, "see? I tell them to be quiet, they don't, so they wind up putting themselves in situations that would get us out of the woods."
"Ooookay, that was smart-"
"And creepy."
Flame just smiled kindly at the remarks, "well all we can do is hope Knucklehead finds Aerial and Storm."
"Wait! They hate each other!"
"You don't know what Aerial can do between two feuding people."
As Flame started to follow the trail of Dusk and Beacon, Sonic and Jet blinked and slowly started to follow her along side Wave and Jack.
--- Meanwhile in another section of the woods ---
Aerial groaned as she woke up; it was dark out and she wondered why the ground felt so soft... and why it was a light grey color. She sat up and saw that she had falled right on Storm.
"ALBA!"
Storm woke up and covered his eyes with his arm, "too early."
Aerial rolled her eyes and she gasped as she remembered that she had taken a huge fall and there was still a baby inside of her. She put a hand on her stomach as though that was going to tell her if the baby was okay.
Storm moved his arm away from his eyes as he sat up and saw Aerial.
"U-Um... we'll check when we get out of here if... the baby's okay."
The green hawk nodded as she sighed, "'kay... Lets try and-"
Aerial yelped as a red echidna walked out of the darkness of the woods. Storm blinked in surprise and stood up.
"Alba? What a weird nickname," Knuckles remarked as he smirked. Storm cursed under his breath that he heard Aerial yell "Alba". He sighed, he'd knock it out of his memory in a few minutes anyways.
"Whatever, why are you here Knuckles?"
"Heard your friends were looking for you so I decid... why isn't Wave with you Jet?"
Aerial blinked, "N-no! I'm Aerial Ace, I'm Jet's sister."
Knuckles slapped his forehead and groaned.
"Great... there's another one."
"What's that suppose to mean?!" Storm growled with anger.
Knuckles and Storm glared at each other and clenched their hands into fists. Aerial blinked, not liking where this was going to go. She walked in between them and pushed them away.
"No fighting! You can fight when we get out of here. Listen Knuckles, we're lost. We need help getting out of here. Afterwards you two can fight. Until then though, help."
Storm's mind was laughing, what were the chances that this echidna was going to listen to Aerial? The albatross' face was painted with shock as Knuckles nodded, "okay, I guess I can do that."
"Thank you. Lead the way Knuckles."
And that's exactly what Knuckles did for the next fifteen minutes. Silence lingered between the trio as Storm insisted that he carry Aerial until he knew the baby was okay, which resulted in Knuckles making gagging noises, Storm almost dropping Aerial to punch the side of his head, and almost resulted in a full blown war against the albatross and echidna. Aerial easily quieted the arguments and silence made it's way back into the trio's minds.
The woods came to an end after a while longer and it wasn't until Storm grinned that Aerial cheered that they were free from the woods. Knuckles smirked and took out a strange brown hat, that somewhat resembled Nack the Weasel's and put it on as the sun began to rise.
"And we're out."
"Now to find a hospital," Storm said as he started to walk toward a town.
"Hospital?"
"Yea, she fell from the sky so we wanted to make sure the baby was still okay."
Knuckles stared at Storm then down to Aerial and this repeated for five minutes straight as they all made their way toward South Island. Finally the echidna had enough guts to ask the question that has been screaming in his head for the past five minutes.
"... Are you the... um..."
"NO!" Storm quickly said, "n-n-no! I-I'm just her fr-friend. N-not a d-d-d-dad!"
Aerial giggled at Storm's reaction and she saw the hospital coming into view.
"If you're not the father... who... is?"
Aerial's face was crestfallen as she looked down. Storm looked awkward as Knuckles waited for an explanation.
"I... was raped."
If the awkward silence wasn't awkward before, it definately was now as they entered the South Island Hospital. Aerial got out of Storm's hold and walked over to the reception area.
"Excuse me, I was hoping to get an ultrasound."
"Ultrasound? Alright... you can wait in the waiting room and we'll call you when we're ready to see you."
Aerial smiled, "now you can do what you guys want while I get my ultrasound done."
Knuckles and Storm nodded as they walked outside and sat on the cracked pavement.
"Raped?"
"Yes."
"How do you know her?"
"She was my best friend a long time ago," Storm explained, "but she sort of disappeared. Then we were trying to steal this rare gem called the Disaster Diamond but her group stole it away from-"
"Wait... did you just say Disaster Diamond?"
Storm nodded.
Knuckles then face palmed himself and got up.
"What's up?"
"Come on!"
"Huh?"
Knuckles lifted Storm up and started to drag him away from the hospital, "W-wait! What a-about-"
"We'll be back before she's done. You need to hear this."
"... Hear what?"
Knuckles stopped in front of a store that had two flat screen TVs in the display case that was playing the news.
"It was a sad tragedy for Westopolis as they lost one of the rarest gems on Mobius, the Disaster Diamond. Police suspect that the Babylon Rogues commited this but people also believe it was a new band of thieves. But it was an even greater loss for South Island as their museum was under the attack of a strange group of people. As a result the Disaster Diamond of South Island was taken. Nothing else was taken. What are these Disaster Diamonds and why are they being stolen?"
"... Shoot."
"What?" Storm asked.
"I knew you guys were up to something with the Disaster Diamond in Westopolis, but... did you steal from here?!"
"NO!"
Knuckles stared at the picture of a group of thieves that all resembled shadows of some sort and he sighed, "what's going on? The Disaster Diamonds aren't even suppose to exist now."
"Exist now? What does that mean?"
"Silver the hedgehog, a friend of Sonic's, came back from the future for a visit... but... I think his visit set something in motion that wasn't suppose to happen."
"What makes you think this isn't suppose to happen now?"
The echidna was going to respond until he saw Aerial walk out and walk toward them, "listen, we've got a Disaster Diamond and according to what Tails found out, these things are part of a weird mystery that really was never solved."
"Why are you telling me this? Why not tell the Chaotix?"
Knuckles watched as Aerial joined them.
"Hey Alba! Hey Knux! Do you happen to know where Jet and the rest are? I've decided to tell them I'm pregnant. The baby's completely safe, probably because I landed on you Alba... Knux? What's wrong?"
Knuckles smiled calmly, "I don't know where Jet and the others are, but we need to go back to Westopolis."
"How come?"
"We're getting the Chaotix to help us..."
Storm sighed.
"I'll explain what happened on our way there."
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Okay guys here's the chapter! Wow, now there's three Disaster Diamonds that are known about, and time for the Three Greatest Detectives On The Face Of Mobius!! THE CHAOTIX!! Alright, so what can happen now that the Chaotix might get involved, where are Jet and the others... Did Dusk and Beacon become Flame and the others breakfast? The last question was silly, of course not, but read next time to see what happens and what this "mystery" is all about. I hope you guys liked it, tell me what you guys think!
