Bundles of Joy (chapter 12)
As they entered the new dimension, they stopped. It was almost like a more immense, more powerful version of the inside of Black Comet. Shadow ran ahead of the group, his red eyes blazed furiously.
"What is this place?!" Miyura exclaimed as they struggled to keep up with Shadow.
"No idea!!" Sonic exclaimed in return as they ran faster. They noticed the black aliens that began to chase them.
"What the hell are those?!!" Kanako exclaimed as she began to run out of breath.
Yue threw Miyura on his back and picked Kanako up and continued to run, knowing his endurance was far greater than theirs. Sonic had Amy on his back, and all continued to run after Shadow while evading shots from the aliens.
In a farther area of the dark world, baby Lycoris was held in a playpen turned cage. Her older future counterpart watched over her silently.
"Why you hurting mommy and daddy?!!" the child cried as she held onto the bars of her cage with tear-stained eyes.
"….because if I do, you'll be much better off here." The older Lycoris replied with cold red eyes.
"Why are you doing this anyway?! To your own family and friends?!" a voice cried from farther behind them.
It was Tails, who had been confined to an ordinary cell. He had been slightly beaten for his resistance, a bit of blood oozed from a gash in his right cheek.
"I love Shurei more than anyone. If I had to choose between him and the world, I would still choose him. No matter what. He did everything for me, and now I will repay him." Lycoris replied.
"But that guy isn't Shurei!! It's Mephilis of the Dark! He and black Doom want to use you and-…."
Lycoris' eyes glared with intensity, she walked to him in his tiny prison cell. Sticking a finger at him, she spoke angrily.
"Shurei is Shurei. He would never use me. Never. And Black Doom has helped me so much. Thanks to him, I wouldn't be where I am now. As for you….if you want to remark badly about Shurei…"
Lycoris' upheld right hand now burned with red chaos energy. She brought it closer to him.
"….you won't make it to see your friends." She finished.
Tails looked to her uneasily as she smiled cruelly. She looked back at the younger version on herself, huddled in fear, shivering.
"Don't worry…We'll raise you correctly, and you'll be happy. Just you wait." Lycoris said as she walked over to poke the child lightly, her smile now more natural. Tails was slightly shocked, but he remembered Lycoris was still herself, even if she was now extremely deranged and murderous. An idea suddenly hit Tails. It was a good plan, but he knew he'd need Shadow there. Shadow and his chaos emerald.
Meanwhile, Shadow ran forward blindly. Knowing the others behind him were getting weary, he felt a bit ashamed for just bounding away from them. He could even now be running them into the enemy's hands. Who knows? All there was to do in this place was run, what with aliens in every place around, and everyone being weaponless. Suddenly, they reached a clearing, and within the darkness, stood Shurei. On guard, Shadow jumped back.
"Damn you Mephilis, where is my daughter and Tails?!!" Shadow exclaimed angrily as he and the others behind him caught their breath.
"Your daughter is fine; we have no intension of hurting her. As for my lover, Lycoris, very soon we won't be needing her after we train your infant! She'll become the pride of Black Comet, a living weapon to use at our disposal! We will soon get rid of the emotional fool of a girl that fights for us!! It's the greatest way to achieve power greater than Solaris, and retaliate at you!" Mephilis exclaimed madly.
"You bastard!!!" Kanako exclaimed as Yue put her down.
"How dare you use Shurei to toy with Lycoris, and then dump her to the side like a useless piece of trash!!? I'll kill you!!" Kanako exclaimed as she ran toward Mephilis at a full speed.
"No, stop Kanako!!" Sonic exclaimed as Kanako was suddenly slammed into the opposite side of the open space by an invisible force. She crashed into the wall, falling into Yue's arms as he caught her. The hit had knocked her out, but being the daughter of the ultimate life form, her injuries weren't so bad.
Black Doom stood near them, and Mephilis smiled cruelly.
"Your daughter would never believe you now anyway. She believes in her foolish love, resorting to anything. She's such a selfish person if you ask me." Mephilis said mockingly.
"YOU!! You made her like this damn you!!" Yue exclaimed as he held on to Kanako tightly.
"Where are they?!" Shadow exclaimed angrily.
"Why do you need to know? I'll send them to you. Why should we dirty our hands when we can just have her kill you instead?" Black Doom said cruelly.
Lycoris suddenly appeared through the darkness before them, baby Lycoris in her arms and Tails chained at her feet.
"You called?" she asked with a cruel smile.
"Destroy them Lycoris. And get the chaos emerald for me. See you latter." Mephilis said as he had Black Doom faded away into darkness.
Lycoris shoved Tails and the baby into a chaos energy cage, and looked to Shadow menacingly.
"…Looks like I have to kill you all over again father, mother. What a shame." She said as her hands began to radiate chaos energy.
Shadow pulled out his own green chaos emerald, ready to fight. Amy suddenly stood.
"But Shadow, she may be evil now but she's-…" Amy was suddenly cut off.
"She's a part of the future, and if I defeat her, we can change the past, and none of this will have ever happened. Each step we take only ruins the future more. It's time to end it." Shadow said as he began to gather the chaos energy around himself, ready to fight his own daughter.
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I'M SO SORRY PEOPLE!! I'VE JUST BEEN DRAGGING MY BUTT ON THIS STORY!! PLEASE REVIEW!! SORRY FOR THE WAIT!!