Hello! I present you chapter 9! Have fun!
Beyal rushed forwards, grabbed Jinja into his arms, and quickly returned to the team. They looked at the wound. It was pretty bad. She was lucky enough to be breathing. But not for long. Dax put out a syringe that he had the luck to bring with him, and injected it in Jinja. It was a regeneration medicine, just like that Charlemagne had injected in Chase. Jinja's wound healed in some seconds. They all left a relief sigh.
"Oh shit, that was close. You sure gave us a heart attack then, Princess. Are you alright?" Dax asked.
"Yeah...I think so..." she said, ignoring the nickname Dax gave him. Beyal helped her to get up.
Bren looked at his childhood friend. "I can't believe it...why is he like that?" he asked.
"The only guess is that S.T.O.R.M. made him again a toxic- human. But this time...it's way more dangerous than then." he smiled worried. "This sure brings back memories."
"What should we do? At this rate, he is going to kill us!" Beyal asked.
"I think we should leave." Dax said.
"No..." Jinja said. They all looked at her.
"Jinja..." Bren said.
"Chase….we have to bring him back...back to himself...we are going to bring him back...home with us." she said.
"Don't be stupid. We all want him back, but...look at him. Look what did to you, some minutes ago. He is no longer our friend, Jinja. He is a monster. He isn't the Chase we knew." Dax said.
"No!" Jinja yelled. "Dax...we have to try. We finally know that he is alive...after two years...we can't leave him now, can we? At least, we should try to bring him back to reality!" she said. Dax stared at her.
"I understand." he said. "So, I guess... we have to fight him." he said grabbing Clubber's core. Jinja grabbed Skyfall's too, Bren grabbed Longfang's and Beyal Mysticblade.
"Launch!" they screamed together. The monsuno got out from their cores and stood there, a few meters before Chase, glaring him. Chase chuckled. He stood on his four with his tail ready. Dax tighten his eyes.
"Clubber...attack Chase." he said with difficulty. He wasn't willing to raise a monsuno against his friend. "But I have to do it, I have to do it. He isn't our friend anymore, he is someone else. He is a monster. Yes. But...he was our friend a while ago. I can't let go of him. I will find a way to make him normal. I will save him." Dax thought. Clubber jumped forward. Chase looked up and saw the monsuno coming at him in order to crash him. He jumped back, and avoided the attack. He gasped as he saw Skyfall coming from his right. Skyfall used beamed lance.
Chase covered his body with his tail and took no damage from the monsuno's attack. He smiled evilly. Then Longfang attacked him out from nowhere. Chase cried from the pain, as the monsuno was grabbing him and his tail with his sharp teeth. Suddenly Chase's eyes glowed more green. He clenched his fist and gave a strong hit at Longfang's head. The monsuno let go of him and fall back shouting from the pain. Obviously that was more than a punch that it looked like. Chase stood back on his feet, and in a second, he gave the final strike with his tail. Longfang vanished from the battle. Bren's jaw dropped as the monsuno was entering his core, but this time he felt the despair, the urge to return in it. The monsuno was scared of the new Chase. It wanted to return into it's core as fast as he could. To where safety was.
"Longfang...I am sorry I made you to fight this battle, buddy." Bren said looking his core. Then he looked at Beyal, who had also a hard time. Mysticblade was struggling to hit Chase with his tail, but the teen could avoid the hits with ease.
"If we continue like this, we are not going to succeed anything." Jinja said.
"We need to take out the monsuno essence." Beyal said.
"But how can we do that? Look, he isn't staying chill and he toys with our monsuno! What you are saying is insane!" Bren shouted.
"We have to find a way! It's our only option if we want him back! Unless if you want him killed or get us killed by him. Choose, glasses." Dax said. Bren lowed his face.
"I think there is a way." Jinja said. The boys turned to hear her.
"What?"
"In an ordinary battle, Skyfall uses Conduit Claw in order to weaken his enemies. So, in this state, I think..."
"That Skyfall can extract the monsuno essence from Chase's body, leaving only his human side back! Jinja, you are genius!" Dax said. Jinja blushed.
"Alright, so we finally have a plan! So, we need Skyfall to extract the essence. Now we have to find an opportunity, something that will find Chase with his guard down." Dax said.
"Mysticblade can use Sky Nova to reduce his vision." Beyal said.
"Okay, but we still need something that can make sure that Chase isn't going to try something and blow our plan away." he said. "So here is where I come in. Clubber will try and maintain Chase's movements until Jinja is finished."
"Um, and I what I am going to do?" Bren asked.
"You, man, are going to launch your monsuno if anything goes wrong, and by that I mean if we get killed, and be ready to kill Chase. Then leave. We can't let this thing go out to the world, it will bring the destruction." Dax replied. Bren gulped. That was their biggest and deadliest mission.
"Okay. Here it goes." Dax sighed. He looked at Beyal. The boy nodded.
"Mysticblade! Sky Nova!" Beyal shouted. Mysticblade let a loud howl and opened his wings. Immediately strong light came out. Chase growled from the pain in his eyes and covered his eyes.
"Now! Clubber, go and restrain him! Be careful of the tail!" Dax said. Clubber ran towards Chase, who was still blind by the light. Suddenly the teen mutant felt a weight on top of him, and it only took 3 seconds to understand that the monsuno had pined his down to the ground. He growled loudly, as he tried to attack with the tail, but then he understood that that had been restrained too on the ground.
"Skyfall! Go! Suck the monsuno essence out from his body!" Jinja yelled. Skyfall, who was observing the fight from the sky, launched down targeting Chase. Then, the monsuno put it's claws at Chase's tail, as it couldn't find space to pin his at his body. Suddenly, blue energy glowed around Skyfall's claws. The monsuno essence was coming out.
"Yes!" Dax shouted. But Chase on the other hand was struggling to brake free. Clubber was shaking from the hybrid's strength.
"Come on Clubber! We are almost finished! Hang in there!" Dax yelled to his monsuno. Chase let some struggling and painful howls escape his mouth. His power was leaving him. Then, the centipede tail was getting smaller and smaller, as it disappeared. Chase's weak, half-opened eyes turned for black-green to his normal. Then the two monsuno, let him free. Skyfall was really exhausted, the teen's body had a lot wild essence.
"Good job guys. Return." Dax said. The three monsuno glowed blue and went in their cores. Bren let a sigh of relief. Gosh, good, because he wasn't prepared to watch his friends getting killed, and kill his best friend. The teens looked at the weak teen lying at the metal base ground. He didn't move an inch.
"Umm...are you sure that you extracted the only essence?" Bren asked.
"Yeah, I mean...Skyfall can't absorb human lives, now….can he?" Jinja said, a little worried now.
Then Beyal saw something. Chase's fingers were moving lightly in shock.
"Look. He is awake!" Beyal pointed at Chase's body. They all ran at him. Dax lifted his body and put him on his lap. Chase was half-unconscious. His skin was a little pale, and he had some rotten blood on his mouth. Some of his skin was burned, it seemed that the essence had done it's ''work''. They all waited for a sign of life, a breath, a cough, even a word. Chase's mouth trembled. The team stood silent to hear. Chase had trouble at speaking. But then the words were clearly heard.
"What..the hell?" he murmured. He looked at the faces on top of him. His eyes widened.
"Wait...Dax? Is that you?" he asked. Dax managed to smile.
"Welcome back, lil' Suno." he said. Chase was left speechless. He looked Bren. Beyal. Jinja.
"What..what are you doing here? Wait..maybe I am dreaming? Oh yeah...everything is a dream then..I am still in that room, and she extracts my limbs.." he said, somehow lost.
"Well...no, you are not dreaming. This is reality. As for the first question, you could call it fate or something.." Dax said. He helped him get up. Chase saw around him. He gasped at the sight of the corpses. He recognized Charlemagne's too. The smell of blood was making his stomach swirl. Then he dropped on his knees and puked. He opened his eyes. The vomit was a mix with blood and flesh. A lot of flesh. He let a gasp escape.
"What...Did..I do that?" he looked at Dax. He wanted to avoid that question. "Dax, answer me. Did I do that? Did I kill those people and ate them? Answer me!" Chase yelled. Dax looked at him in the eyes. "Yes. You did.".Silence. Chase's mouth dropped. He hadn't have the slightest idea of what happened from that time to the room. And now here he was, told that he killed and ate, no joke, these people.
"I..I...what the heck happened to me?" he looked at his friends. They were lost too. They didn't know if they had to be happy or sad.
"Chase...when we arrived here...we saw this mess. Then we encountered you, who...wasn't human. You had monsuno essence in your body again. You acted like a monster. Well, a centipede- monster. You were harvesting on these people. We had to battle you to return you to normal...and here we are now." Jinja said. Chase looked at his hand.
"I don't remember attacking or eating anyone, but...I remember putting myself the essence. Yes...I was being tortured by that bitch, then I saw mom, and then...I don't know." he said. The teens were surprised when they heard their ex-leader talk with that language.
"Listen, let's say it's not your fault, alright? The essence was the reason again. Now, can we stop talking about that and let us hug you, because you were though for dead these two years, huh, what do you say?" Dax said. Chase smiled. They hugged.
"Chase...don't you ever think leaving your cores behind, okay?" Jinja said.
"I promise." Chase said.
"You may want to dye and cut your hair when we arrive home. You look like a creep, if you ask me." Dax said. He looked at Beyal. "You make an exception."
"Oh, really? I haven't noticed when they turned like this." Chase said, grabbing his hair.
"Nah, I think they are cute." Jinja said cuddling his hair.
"Badass..." Bren said with a smirk.
"Alright, I will dye them, okay?" Chase laughed.
"Shall we get home now, what are you saying?" Dax said. They all smiled and left the base.
Home. Chase had to get used in that word. For him, these two years meant something that he didn't belong to. Or else, ''home'' was a ''prison'', a ''cell''. These two years hadn't experience windows, soft bed, clothes, proper food, warmth. He thought that even if he liked it or not, that was his ''home''. Nothing more. Staying in a ''home'' with no family. Only some ''animals''. These ''animals'' made him see the truth about life, about death. They made him see it with the meanest ways possible. Chase had to accept,, the fact that his life was inside that ''home'', with the ''animals''. But now, he was returning to his real home. To the place he belonged to. To the place he was meant to be.
After some hours, the team returned to Jeredy's submarine. Jeredy couldn't believe that his son was alive. He was refusing it. But very soon, he broke into tears. Chase did too. They had to see each other for two years. Chase was shocked to see John too. He had forgotten his face. That day, they all spent it with a party for Chase's return. They were all happy.
A week had passed, and they all returned to their daily lives. Team Core- tech was going on missions, and Jeredy with John was doing the research from the beginning. They had a lot of work to do, and they had little time. The planet destruction was coming closer. They found out that Charlemagne and other 80 soldiers had survived and escaped Chase's rampage, althought with serious injuries. So S.T.O.R.M. wasn't erased. But Chase was worried. He didn't return to himself 100%. His friends saw him to not eat very well, to get locked at his room, sometimes even sleep talking at night. Some other times he didn't sleep at all.
Chase was lying in his bed, gazing the wall. He still wasn't satisfied. He was very happy about his return to his family, but...something was off. He felt something bugging him inside his soul. Sometimes, he was hearing voices at his sleep, telling him "kill" and "bring". He didn't understand anything. But every night, he kept hearing this voice, talking nonsense. He didn't want to say it at his friends or dad, because he didn't want them to worry anymore. He had to find a way out by himself.
He sighed. He hoped that everything was going to be okay from now on. He really hoped that.
"What is wrong with me?" he murmured. "Ever since I got back, that voice continues talking to me"
"You mean me?" a voice echoed inside his head. Chase gasped. No. And in his awake too?
"What… what do you want?...Leave me alone!" Chase said, grabbing his head.
"Why should I do that Chase? I only want to help you." the voice replied.
"Who...just who are you? Why are you messing with my mind?" Chase asked."Oh, Chase." the voice said.
"I am you."
Chase gasped. He wasn't in his room anymore, he was in a dark, metal room. In front of him, he saw a human figure, siting on a wooden chair. The figure had white hair, and it was attached to that chair with chains.
"What...the hell.." Chase tried to talk, but then he realized that he was back in his room. He looked around panicked. He breathed heavily. Then he heard Jinja's voice.
"Chase! It 's time for dinner!" she yelled.
"Um, I' ll pass." he said.
"...You have to eat, you know. You haven't-" Jinja said.
"Thank you, but I 'm not hungry right now." Chase said. "Especially now." he thought.
"*sigh* Alright then..." Jinja said. Silence.
Chase sat on his bed. He put his palms on his face.
"Why? Why? Why?..." he cried. Why he had to suffer more?
The hallucinations were still there. That voice didn't want to leave him alone. Chase was starting to think that after that S.T.O.R.M. stay-over he had started to get crazy. Maybe he needed some sleep or something. Maybe he needed to eat, because he had skipped food two days now. Or maybe he needed a doctor.
He sighed in despair. It seemed that fate didn't want him in peace. Didn't want him to have a normal life again. It could do something to make his life harder and with more despair. He took of his clothes and entered the shower. His wounds were healed, so it didn't hurt to be under water. He closed his eyes as hundred water drops landed to his face.
"So that's how it is." he said to himself.
"I will never be in peace again."
"So, let's say, if someone could think it that way"
"that if my life was described in a book or something,"
"It would certainly be.."
"A tragedy."
Poor Chase, you are right, your life is indeed a tragedy. so I will leave it that way. Nah, im kidding. Some of you may be angry about Charl. Who is still alive, but I don't want character deaths, if needed to, only fake ones. Pls sent me reviews, if you feel like to, and stay alert for other updates. Adio!(Bye!)
Caught 2_Centipede EDITED by gear26 on DeviantArt this is my drawing of hybrid Chase. Enjoy!
