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Tachi: Swift's been playing Solatorobo and failing to update her stories…¬_¬
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WARNING: The following chapter was written on a Writer's Block, therefore it does not have Swift's usually good writing. If you are affected by the quality, consult Tachi the Jackal.
Chapter 10: The truth about Radar
Back at Rouge's club, Tachi was sitting at a table snacking on something that looked suspiciously like a box of dog treats, while the ferret was tied up in a chair, struggling to reach for a plate of cookies in front of him. Shadow and Rouge were trying to work out what to do next.
"Tachi…you can't do Ghost Tricks, right?" Shadow asked the jackal, who looked puzzled.
"Ghost Tricks? Erm, no. At least, I think I can't…" she paused, crunching on a treat.
"Maybe the meteorite's affecting her." Rouge suggested.
"Yeah, but we still haven't worked out-" Shadow growled as his vision went red, and Samuel's soul appeared.
"What now?" he growled. Ever since the team had returned to the club, Samuel kept on annoying Shadow by switching to the Ghost World and asking him constantly why he had Ghost Tricks.
"I just realized. I'm not supposed to have Ghost Tricks, since…well, you did your turning back time thing, so...I think that crazy jackal has something to do with it." Samuel explained.
"Can't you just please, go back to your base and stop following me?" Shadow pleaded.
"No! But I have to sort out some stuff in my office. I'll be back!" Samuel possessed a phone line, and vanished.
"…How did he do that?" Shadow wondered to himself.
"He has the power to travel thorough telephone lines. It's the most common Ghost Trick you can get, but it comes in handy. If you were really dead, you wouldn't get far without that power." the voice said.
"You again? Just who are you?"
"You'll find out…"
Shadow switched back to the normal world, and saw Rouge looking at him strangely.
"What?"
"You spoke to Samuel, right?"
"Yeah, what about it?"
"I think I figured out what Tachi did." Rouge pointed at Tachi, who tilted her head in confusion.
"What did I do?" Tachi wondered.
"You gave Sammy Ghost Tricks by biting him." Rouge paused as she heard a distant voice shout "DAMN IT, STOP CALLING ME SAMMY!"
"I guess that does make sense…Tachi swallowed the meteorite shard, so maybe she can pass on Ghost Tricks now. How did you know, Rouge?"
"It's part of the plot. Work with it." Rouge whispered.
"What are we going to do about Mr. Evil Lackey?" Tachi glared at the ferret sitting opposite her, who had managed to get a cookie in his mouth. He quickly swallowed it, and replied back,
"I'm not evil."
"Sure you aren't…trying to shoot an innocent fox…" Tachi mumbled.
"Pft. If you really want to know who's evil around here…why don't you go and talk to that old dude?" the ferret blinked as he somehow heard Samuel shout back from a far distance, "I'M NOT OLD EITHER!"
"Does he have super hearing or something? That's just weird…" Tachi just shrugged, and went back to her treats.
"What are you talking about?" Shadow growled.
"He really didn't tell you what happened to Radar? I'll tell you the truth then…I was there at the time."
The ferret's flashback (hmm…he doesn't have a name…erm...I'll sort that out later)
The ferret was walking down a corridor, seemly looking for someone. He sighed to himself, as he took out a map out of nowhere.
"They really should have maps here in this place…I've been here for four months, yet I can't find my way around this GUN base yet…" he complained. Another ferret with white fur and black patches on him rushed past.
"Hey! What's going on, Fang!" the first ferret called to Fang.
"I heard from another clan member that Radar went missing, so I'm going to find him. Want to come, Kai?" Fang asked.
"Sure…I hope he's fine, you know."
"Well, it's not like he got dragged into an experiment or something." Fang was interrupted by some yelping.
"Me and my big mouth…come on, we better go see what's happening." the two ferrets headed down the corridor, to find Paul guarding a door.
"Hey, what's going on?" Kai asked him.
"…Radar stole a Chaos emerald, got arrested and now some scientist guys are…well, experimenting on him." Paul muttered.
"What?"
"That sounds weird…" Fang said to himself. He flattened down his ears as Kai turned around.
"We have to help our leader!"
"But…won't you become the leader of the whole Clan if he dies…?" Fang remembered. Kai shook his head furiously.
"I don't play like that…Radar's done a lot for me."
"You know I can't let you guys in, right?" Paul asked, bracing himself for a fight.
"Yeah. Fang, distract him!" Kai ran into the room as the two agents started fighting. He stared with shock at the scene unfolding in front of him.
A black ferret with a white muzzle and a few streaks on his fur, was crying out and thrashing around in pain as a few scientists watched. One was holding some kind of glowing purple scepter over the ferret.
"For Chaos' sake, man! Put the ferret out of his misery! He can't handle the supernatural force!" One of the scientists watching shouted.
"I know what I'm doing." His friend replied back. Tei rushed up.
"What do you think you're doing?" he yelled.
"Giving your friend here supernatural powers. Isn't it obvious?" The scientist grinned. Tei growled, and took out a gun.
"Drop that…thing, or I'll shoot you." he threatened. Radar groaned weakly, and passed out. The scientist dropped the scepter, and grinned.
"It looks like he survived after all…huh?" He shouted as Radar woke up, snarling, with his fur glowing red.
"Oh, crap…it looks like a-"
"CHAOS BLAST!" Radar yelled. Kai was knocked out as the explosion destroyed the room. When he woke up, Radar was standing over him, looking slightly concerned.
"Looks like the blast didn't hurt you much…that's good." he mumbled. Kai struggled to stand up, and saw Radar looked different. The ferret's normal orange eyes (if orange eyes were considered normal) were now a light green color, with cat like pupils.
"Leader…what happened to you?" Kai gasped, backing away.
"My soul was awakened…awakened to this worthless place…" Radar hissed, thrashing his long tail around. Kai noticed that Radar's tail had gotten slightly mangy, with fur dropping off it and a few bleeding cuts on the skin.
"Your tail…" he muttered.
"That's not important now…I have to get out of this place, and start my plans…when the time is right, come and find me at the Mystic Ruins. Don't die." Radar walked out, leaving Kai to faint.
*end of flashback*
"After that, Radar started trying to find the meteorite fragments…he killed anyone who got in his way. He wants the meteorite so he can be immortal…because he can't survive for long without taking the life force from others." Kai muttered.
"And you expect us to do what?" Shadow asked.
"Well…you could try and make him snap out of it. Usually he's kind, brave and slightly stubborn…not sadistic and evil." The ferret sighed sadly. Tachi growled at him angrily.
"Oh, so he's being magically controlled by someone? Yeah, right…" She snarled. Kai just shrugged.
"Fine then. Don't believe me. I could tell you guys where the secret base is, though…"
"How do we know it's not a trap? You could have your friends waiting around a corner!" Tachi yelled.
"Tachi…chill out." Shadow said, trying to calm down the enraged jackal. Tachi shook her head.
"No! He was going to kill my brother!"
"That fox was your brother?" Kai wondered.
"Yes, adopted brother…LET ME AT HIM!" Tachi yowled, turning into her feral jackal form and rushing at Kai. Shadow tackled her, and managed to pin her to the ground.
"GET OFF ME, YOU SPIKY RAT!"
"Sorry Tachi, but you can't rip his face off now. We still need the location of the base!" Shadow snapped, trying to keep Tachi from biting him.
BANG!
Everyone stopped to stare at Samuel, who had randomly kicked down the door. He sweatdropped, and shrugged.
"Don't you know how long I was knocking at that door?" He asked.
"Yeah. Now you're going to have to pay for it. I liked that door…" Rouge sighed, looking at the remains of the broken door.
"Fine…"
"To stop this chapter from going any further, I'll tell you the location of the secret base. It's in the Mystic forest, in an abandoned building. Radar should be there…" Kai said.
"Great, you can lead us there then."
"Don't you know what Radar does to people who've been captured?"
"I couldn't care less…" Tachi muttered from the floor.
"To put it simply, concrete, and thrown into the sea off a bridge. I'd rather not end up like that."
"I'll do worse to you…"
So, after Rouge got Samuel to pay her for breaking down her door, the small group soon came up with a plan, to break into the base.
"Why does he have to come?" Shadow complained, pointing at Samuel.
"Why can't you shut up?" He hissed back. They ended up death glaring at each other, while Rouge facepalmed.
"This is going to be one long mission…"
Meanwhile, in a random location, two ferrets, one grey and the other white, were waiting outside a room, looking nervous.
"You go in. He won't flip out at you." One muttered quietly.
"I don't wanna…" The younger white ferret whimpered.
"We just have to tell him the bad news…"
"Yeah, and bad things have happened to people who go into Radar's room!"
Suddenly, they heard a sinister laugh, and the door slowly opened.
"Why don't you come in? I don't mind…" A voice hissed. The younger ferret gulped as his so called 'friend' shoved him into the dark room. The door slammed shut, and he found himself in a pitch black room.
"Leader…are you there…?" He asked, looking around. He sniffed the air, and gagged in disgust as a smell of rotting meat wafted over to him.
"Oh, I'm here all right…Sorry about this…" Radar snarled in the ferret's ear.
Meanwhile, the grey ferret was waiting outside when he heard screams. The door opened, and the young ferret was thrown out.
"Hey! Are you okay?"
"…"
The grey ferret saw that his partner had passed out. There were claw marks bleeding slightly on his skin.
"…Radar really does scare me sometimes…"
I told you it was a chapter on Writer's Block. Oh well.
In the next chapter, of Four Minutes Before Death-
Shadow dodged out of the way as a gang of ferrets charged at him.
"SHADOW!" Tachi yelled from a safe distance.
"WHAT?"
"What do you call a group of ferrets? Is it a mob or a pack? Or a flock?" Tachi questioned. Shadow facepalmed, and was buried under a dog pile of ferrets. Tachi watched, and sighed, before turning to Samuel, who was staring at some coffee on the floor.
"What do you call a group of ferrets?"
"…Coffee…COFFEE!" Samuel yelled, seeing his precious coffee spilt on the floor. He glared up at Radar, who was laughing.
"You'll pay for that…"
Needless to say, Radar didn't stand a chance against the angry man. DarkClan hath no fury like a guy who's missing his coffee.
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Question: Does anyone know what you call a group of ferrets? A cookie to whoever finds the answer!