Chapter 12: Wanted

The duo of Damien the Dog and Lia the Jackal walked perilously through the streets of Megalone City, their eyes set on finding the person known as Vortex the Rabbit. Automobiles and Extreme Gear passed by at moderate speeds while advertisements and news stories played on electronic billboards.

Lia shook her head the unimpressive technology that practically littered the entire city, it was useless and an excuse to not do everything by hand like she and her Redclaw Tribe had done. Damien thought otherwise as he came walking back with two cold helpings of vanilla ice cream, handing one to his comrade and keeping the other for himself. He motioned for them to keep moving and as told, Lia followed the dog without any hesitation.

"So how exactly are we going to find this Vortex character anyway Angels?" Lia asked, taking a lick of her ice cream, her eyes opening wide as her taste buds were washed with a sweet sensation.

"Hold up with the ice cream miss, you might hurt yourself with the deadly brain freeze. Anyway, I have no idea, I guess we just keep walking until we find him and then we tell him what's wrong with me, moving on from there." Damien explained, shrugging his shoulders.

"Well we might as well start searching for him right now or we'll be here until maybe even tomorrow still searching for him." Lia proposed as Damien nodded, about to take a lick of his ice cream until it splattered right in his face.

The goldenrod colored dog glanced to the right, spotting two G.U.N officers with standardized pistols in their hands and above them were at least ten G.U.N sentries. Damien picked up Lia and zipped away from the officers at impressive speeds.

"Welcome to the Damien Angels express. While riding, keep all hands and feet tucked neatly and orderly to prevent any mishaps and also, there are no bathrooms or snack bars so enjoy the crappy thrill ride and have a nice day. Thank you and come again." Damien joked as he dashed forward, his feet looking like mere blurs as they slammed against the pavement.

Damien with Lia in his arms bridal style leaped onward as bullets flew over their heads and lasers came left and right from the sentries. Stupidly on Damien's part, he ran onto a highway with moving vehicles and ran along with the cars before jumping on them. Sirens blared from behind the duo who turned back to spot G.U.N motorcyclists and G.U.N soldiers in cars, guns in hand.

Volleys of ammunition zoomed towards the two canines as Damien summoned blades of fuchsia energy from his arms to parry the projectiles from hitting either of them. With a mighty leap, the golden demon leaped onto a truck and placed Lia down on the roof of the eight wheeled vehicle. No words escaped his lips, Damien running back and jumping onto one of the G.U.N cars.

"There he is!" one G.U.N soldier exclaimed.

"Shoot the dog down then." another commanded.

Damien gulped and grabbed the hood of the car, bullets beginning to rain upon him. With a giant heave, he lifted the hood of the automobile using it as a form of protection. The Angel jumped and slammed his feet into the engine of the vehicle before flipping onto the back of a motorcycle. He kicked the driver off the motorbike and took control of it himself, revving the engine and increasing his speed.

He lined the vehicle next to the truck where he placed Lia, the jackal looking down and meeting him below. She smirked and hopped on the back with him, Damien popping a wheelie and whizzing away. The forces of G.U.N rocketed their automobiles forward, trailing Damien and Lia by a slim margin. Onyx pools glanced back, Damien growling and shaking his head trying his best to gain more speed.

"What the hell are we going to do now?" Lia asked to Damien who smirked.

"Time to use an old trick I learned off of the television." Damien spoke confusing his partner very much.

Lining his motorcycle behind one of the cars ahead of him, the duo began to pick up momentum and zip past cars. The turbulence produced by the speeding cars provided Damien a way to create a bigger gap between himself and the police. Unfortunately for Damien, the police had picked up on what he was doing and began to copy the process to stay consistent to the duo.

With the last gear shift of his motor bike, the duo hit top speed and zoomed into a straightaway. One of the G.U.N cars lined up next to their motorcycle and aimed their weapons at the tires of his vehicle. Lia noticed this first and withdrew her Tri-Claw gauntlet before embedding it in the car's door. She tugged her arm and within a few seconds, she ripped the door from its hinges, the vehicle's accessory bouncing off the driveway and smacking into some of the drivers behind them.

"Damn, now that is what I call cool. It may have been kind of harsh but cool none the less to me." Damien said to his comrade who nodded.

"Thanks for the little compliment but we got a car full of soldiers next to us and no sort of cover to hold them off so keep driving!" Lia screamed to Damien as shots hailed down on them, Damien using mauve flames to repel them away.

Damien leaned his motorcycle to the right so he could be ahead of the car that was previously lined up next to them. Aiming his arm towards the automobile, he ejected dark embers at the hood of the car, heating it up before it erupted into a torrent of smoke and cinders.

The force of the explosion sent the duo thrashing away through the air until the Angel grabbed the Redclaw leader, the pair landing safely on the ground next to one another. They gazed at the motorcycle they had been escaping on, the vehicle was trashed and completely burnt so it had basically become useless to them at this point. Lia sighed and looked back at the incoming drivers before spotting one.

She extended her arm and caught a male wolf on an Extreme Gear board. The board was a sleek jet black with metallic grey streaks on the sides and top of the board with a cobalt slipstream.

"HEY! What're you doing?" the wolf asked.

"I'm going to borrow that board of yours if you don't mind. If you do mind, I think I can come up with something to change your mind." the jackal replied, shaking her fist in front of the canine's face which just expressed fear.

"Take it! Just don't hurt me." the wolf responded as Lia dropped him and kicked the board to Damien who placed it in front of himself.

The pair hopped on the board and jetted onward, allowing the wind to breeze their hair and until an Extreme Gear rider rode up to the side of them. The rider's board was red with swirling purple patterns on it with a crimson slipstream.

"Who are you?" Damien asked as the rider shook their head.

"None of your concern, just killing you to make my money dog. So stop the Extreme Gear and stop in the--" the rider demanded.

"Not a chance in hell!" Damien said cutting the newcomer off.

Damien had noticed the rider clearly. The rider was a female cat, her fur a mixture of pale amber and deep yellow, the pale amber more dominant. The deep yellow fur highlighted the tips of her ears, hair and surrounded her eyes. Her eyes were a bright green and her muzzle was a snow white color. Her hair took on a tussled emo look as her bangs just reached above her muzzle, covering her left eye completely. Perched on her head were a pair of red bug eye shades.

She wore a tight black t-shirt with pink and red stripes all around it reaching just above her stomach, the left arm having a full sleeve while the other arm didn't. The collar of the shirt was cut off to show a bit of cleavage. She wore a pair of tighter fitting tattered shorts, the right leg of the shorts being longer than the left. Around her waist was a black studded leather belt with a large buckle.

Over all of that, she wore an open long black coat that reached down to her knees. The coat was littered with zippers and it also came with a hood along with drawstrings. To finish off her look, she wore a pair of black fingerless gloves and a pair of white canvas shoes.

"Damn did you know that you were really freaking hot?" Damien asked.

"And did you know that you were really freaking stupid?" the feline responded, withdrawing a weapon from her coat.

She took out a halo shaped boomerang with three sharp metal blades protruding from three separate areas of the weapon. It was a deep crimson color. Damien gulped at the sight of the weapon and watched as the cat threw the weapon at Damien's head, the golden hound ducking to dodge. He looked back and saw no sign of it before sticking his tongue out.

"And I'm stupid? If I'm stupid, then you need to go back to preschool and I don't even think that'll be enough." Damien mocked as the cat just smiled and shook her head.

"You are stupid and I probably can say that you're the stupidest out of all four of us." the cat replied.

"Four of us? I could've sworn that there were only three of us." Damien exclaimed.

"Nope, you forgot about my buddy Azure. Get him off with the Crimson Strike Azure." the cat commanded above them all.

The trio looked up into the sky and spotted a small creature above them all with the weapon in its hand. The creature was a small neutral stamina/run/strength blitz chao. Its colors were a mix of jade, cerulean and violet. It's head tip came up in the shape of a volcano and two dreadlocks came out the sides. The final touch was the orb above his head which was crimson with blue blotches.

The chao known as Azure threw the Crimson Strike downwards at the back of the Extreme Gear and landed a direct hit. With that, the Extreme Gear began to shift out of control as the twosome of Damien and Lia tried their hardest to maintain control of the board with no avail. Unfortunately for them, the duo could only watch as the board threw them overboard from the highway and to the streets below.

"Oh damn this is so not good at all!!!" Damien screamed at the tops of his lungs.

"Shut up Angels!" Lia demanded as the duo collided with the ground with a thud noise as the board somehow was able to land safely onto the pavement.

Two sighs of relied emitted from their mouths however their ride wasn't over yet as they hit the corner of the street and crashed into somebody. The two canines stumbled onto the floor as the gazed up at the character they had knocked over.

"Can someone tell me what is going on here?" a sophisticated male voice asked.

The question came from a light green rabbit with light pink colored eyes. His ears stuck out like light poles, the tips of them being blanketed with puffy snow white fur. His muzzle was a dark tan color while his face was covered with sleek white fur in the shape of a goatee. Running along his left arm was a red snake like track pattern that reached to the back of his hand.

The rabbit wore a pair of large black goggles perched on his head. Around his neck was a necklace with an hourglass on it. He wore a crimson colored button up shirt with the left sleeve completely torn off. His pants were khaki colored and he wore a pair of green and white sneakers. The newcomer grabbed his hourglass necklace and checked the time before snapping his fingers.

"Darn it, I should have returned home a few minutes ago. Come on you two. You're coming with me." the rabbit said, dragging the two away to a new location as the duo did nothing to stop him.

To be continued…


A/N: Oh yeah, highway madness or what?! I liked writing this chapter a lot. And not only have we inched the plot up a bit, we introduced a few new characters to boot. I hope you guys can guess who these people are though it would be hard to forget these guys. Anyway, check out my other update of Smoking Aces if you haven't done so already. Review! Thanks, bye!