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Author's Note: Oh my frigging god! I'm updating! And it's only been… -checks- two days! Just two! See what miracles getting reviews can do? (As long as my muses are cooperating anyway.) Also, side note- I wrote ?.! so I wouldn't lose the question mark. I like that combo! I don't care if it isn't grammatically correct, so just ignore the periods if you would. So without further ado- onto the reviews!
Manichedgehogobsession- Ye need not wait for too long (this time around) for here it is! Chapter 25! Hope you enjoy!
Crystalstorm- I'm agreed with you about True Blue picking up bad habits from our chaos… Last thing we need is him charging around with a flame-thrower. I have enough problems with that when it comes to Malice.
Malice: -waves with a big evil grin on his face-
Fira: Ano… o.O; Riiiight… Anyway, as for Knux… Well he can say it for himself. -shoves Knuckles forward-
Knuckles: Alright, I'll come over, but no chaos emeralds! I've got enough problems keeping them out of a certain hedgehog's hands.
Sonic: -grins in the background, holding up the green emerald- Hey Knu-ux! -waves-
Knuckles: -twitches- Damn you! -chases after him-
Sonic: -laughs and takes off-
Fira: …Yeah, anyway-
Anthony Bault- I don't doubt that True Blue probably got his ass kicked for saying that. In fact I think he's still sporting a few bruises…
True Blue: XP!
Fira: And yes, coffee is a good thing for him bright and early in the morning. Otherwise he's a zombie. n.n; I don't think he has to go to the extreme of drinking a full pot of it though.
Moonlight the Hedgehog-
Shadow: O.O What the hell?.!
Fira: n.n;;; Ano… Thanks for the luff, always appreciated. I'm agreed with you about the mood-swings, and even True Blue notices it! So it can't be denied! -laughs- In any case at least you two share the morning zombie thing in common. Guess it could make him easier to relate to. As for omochao... -hisses- Keep the damn evil thing away from me!
Shadow: …o.o; She glomped me…
Fira: -pokes Shadow- Moonlight, I think you sent him into shock. -poke poke poke-
Shadow: Would you knock it the yiff off?.!
Fira: Why?
Shadow: -growls- Alright, that's it! As ever and always with this damn pathetic caushog he/she/it greatly appreciates C&C, so review so those of us who are trapped 'er damned psychotic head can get some peace and quiet!
Fira: Hey!
True Blue: Enjoy and review while we take over the fic!
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September 2 3224 A.W.
I… am so…. Goddess-be-damned… BORED. It's pouring out, I'm freezing (because I got a little drenched due to being on the roof when the downpour started), and it doesn't look like it plans on letting up. I feel like a hedgehog-cicle! Right now I'm wrapped up in ten quilts I think. It's about- six in the morning right now. Surprising that some of my family is up this early I guess. Hell, who am I kidding? Almost half of the group is awake. There's just something about a storm that gets us all to take notice when we hear the rain. Maybe it's due to so many days or years spent on the streets before we banded together, without much shelter. -sighs- In any case not only am I bored, I'm tired. Tired and I need to stay awake for at least just a little longer. I promised Spy I'd try to help fix something for him yesterday, only now I have to wait to get at it until he wakes up. Go fig.
So, as usual, it has been proven that my luck holds out and (to be sarcastic) the world hates me. -.- I just freaking yawned. I nodded off for about five minutes at least! I'm cold, I'm tired, and I just want to go to BED! -sighs- Damn promises… Okay, you know what? Forget this. I have at least six hours to go, I'm going to sleep. I'm going the yiff to bed and nothing; I repeat nothing is going to prevent me from getting some sleep! So good night!
September 2 3224 A.W. (noon)
Well, it's noon, it's still yiffing pouring, and the thing Spy wanted me to help fix exploded in my face. --; Goddess I hate old machinery. …I think I'm gonna go see if I can flood Majdrin's basement... Screw the headache, screw the rain! If I get freaking sick it's my own damn fault and everyone else can laugh at me if they want!
September 2 3224 A.W.
It's about five now. I can not believe I did what I just did. I just… The tick was going after another orf while I was out running around (in the rain -shudders-), and I just lost it. I actually charged into the alley and decked that son of an aut through a wall. Did that kill him or really hurt him? No, of course not! 'Cause just guess what I recently found out?.! The bastard is one of the yiffing Dark Legion! The Dark Legion! Can you freaking believe it?.! To top it all off they used my unc's technology to "enhance" themselves so they can freaking kill people! How did I find this out? I found out from Shadow of all peeps, after I blew a giant freaking hole in one of Majdrin's (many) homes. Apparently he no longer felt safe at the old place after I blew up his porch.
I set up one of his cars after hot-wiring it and driving it all the way back to his house (he was at work at the time, his kids were at school, so I stole his car and stranded him), and turned it into one gigantic freaking bomb. I exploded the damn thing practically in his living-room. If Julian and his groupies didn't want me dead before, they sure as hell are going to have a manhunt for me now. When it exploded the entire house went up in flames, it was like one gigantic fireball exploding from the ground. We are talking a miniature mushroom cloud. …I don't know what it is about his houses, but they seem to like having the roofs going straight up into the air. It was one of the coolest damned things I've ever seen. Then again, supposedly because I'm an orf I'm "vermin" and a "terrorist", so it shouldn't be surprising that I'd find something like that amusing. Who wouldn't be having a good time watching a tick's house go up in flames when they knew some of the sick things that tick did to people?.! Then again norms are yiffing crazy, but that's beside the point.
At this point it was still raining. According to Tech it's like a monsoon. …I think I spelled that right. Anyway I was headed off when I ran into Shadow. The fire was still going like a volcano from hell and suddenly out of the shadows and not even the slightest bit soaked (because the smartass had an umbrella and was wearing more than me) steps Shadow. I think our convo amounted to something along these lines:
"So this is what you've been doing."
"…"
"You know True Blue; this kind of work is going to get you more attention. Your profile is high enough with the incident last month. They want to kill you for that as is. For something like this… Those people will be screaming for your public execution."
Bad enough as was for the convo, don't you think? It got worse.
"They won't catch me. These norms can't. Besides, this bastard, this one needs to pay."
"Why this one Blue?"
"He's a tick Shadow! That's reason enough! You know what ticks do to kids! To orfs!"
"Most, not all. After all, didn't you yourself once tell me that the definition of a tick is someone who does practically nothing and yet is rich all the same?"
"You don't know what this one has done Shadow! I do! I've seen him work! I've seen what he does! Majdrin Vedankre is one of the worst of them. He doesn't deserve to live damn it!"
I think at this point Shadow was debating whether he should tell me what he eventually did. I've always believed that Shadow's one of the smartest peeps I know; smarter than me, smarter than Ol' Julian, smarter than Tech or T2. He may not be a techno-geek, but there's definitely something old about him. Something I don't think I'll ever understand. So he surprised me, though I probably should have seen it coming.
"…He's also a member of the Dark Legion."
"What?"
"Look it up."
After that he just walked off. Didn't tell me anything else, didn't ask to know anything; just left me with that bit of info and a giant bonfire "blazing merrily", as Sal put it, behind me. Since I didn't have anything else to go on, and since my curiosity was bugging me, I did what Shadow suggested. I looked it up on the city mainframe after hacking in. That's when I learned what I know now about the Dark Legion. Why Rad Red never even mentioned any of the spraint he had to put up with from them on the Floating Island, I don't think I'll ever know. He hasn't given any sign, any hint! Yeah he'll be gone for a day or two here or there, maybe a month, but I never knew why. He always just said it was "family/Guardian business" and left it at that. Never thought I'd be tempted to bitch him out.
He knew what Majdrin was like because of all the times he's had run-ins with the Dark Legion. Hell, he's had more run-ins with them than I have years of life! But he's never even once mentioned the DL. He left us out of the loop. We would have helped him damn it! But maybe Rad Red's just trying to prevent something like what happened on August 10th. I don't know, I don't feel like I know much of anything anymore really. In any case I found out what all the DL was responsible for, what they did, and the fact that Majdrin is a member. What startled the hell out of me was that Kragok used to be one. I don't know what happened to make the old guy change his mind about people, but I do know that by the time I met him if I had known about the DL I never would have pegged him for one of them.
So after finding out that stuff I decided that wandering was a good idea. That it might help me cool off some. It was still pouring. Hell, it still is pouring! I was going down Maple Avenue, one of the places I used to haunt when I was seven or so. That's when I heard the crying in the alley. It brought back memories, I can tell you that. I think I even heard a cat yowling even though it wasn't spring or anywhere near there. I figged it was probably an orf having a nightmare in a crate. I should've known better. It was when I heard his voice that it clicked. One moment I was on the street, the next I was charging down the alley and I punched the bastard through a wall. I think I startled the kid, but I was probably more than welcome at that moment. I think I yelled something about how Majdrin should have his hands cut off. I, like most, assumed that after going through a solid brick wall he wasn't going to get up. Yeah right.
I think when I saw him pull himself out of the pile of bricks was when I freaked. I scooped up the kid and ran for it. I didn't stop until I got home. I didn't tell anyone what happened, other than I was out tick hunting and I saved the kid, and I left it at that. Shadow didn't even say anything about our encounter to anyone else. … -.- I've got to stop letting myself get brainwashed by Sal and Red! Me sounding like a norm is freaking me out! So anyway, now we've got another peep in the med-room… because of me. -.-; Rabbot's been teasing me and calling me 'The Pied Piper' for about an hour now. …You know, come to think of it I have no idea how the hell Majdrin made his way from his office all the way to that alley; unless he got a ride or had more than one of his cars in the damn parking lot anyway. As for the orf, I don't know what their name is yet. No, I didn't even stop long enough to figure out what race the kid was or whether said kid was a boy or a girl (or otherwise). I just ran.
If you saw someone of your nightmares go through a brick wall and get back up with hardly a scratch, wouldn't you?.! So now I'm here, up in my bunk, soaking wet, freezing (again), and pretty damn sure I'm going to get sick if I don't get warm soon. So if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go take a damned long warm shower. I need it.
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II True Blue: Review, it keeps Fira happy and out of our hair.
II Shadow: Yes, please, by all means. We might just be able to finally have that damn party we were
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V Fira: -tied up and gagged, glaring at both of them- Fmph yumf affo! No partief!