Chapter Thirty-Six "Pushed and Picked On"
Spike was furious he ran over everywhere looking for the members of his team, he found Jewels on the ground weeping.
"What's wrong Jewels?" said Spike still appearing untouchable when it came to emotion.
"Rex is dead because of me…" said Jewels.
Spike looked shocked Rex had every time he was in danger found a way to weasel out of it and now his lucky streak appeared to be over.
Jewels shook Spike.
"It's all my fault you hear! I didn't even get to tell him!" said Jewels.
"ok I know for a fact that there are people wanting us to blame ourselves my father gave me that impression when he tried to dump guilt on us but guilt is not something we can afford." said Spike.
"Spike are you even hearing what I told you? Don't you care in the least about your lost teammate?" said Jewels.
"Yes I care." said Spike simply.
Jewels got up believing him hugging him trying to find comfort in his words although he didn't try to sound sympathetic.
Spike grabbed her hands about to lower them and move them off of him but he could tell Jewels was really upset so he just allowed her to hold him.
he looked down to honor Rex something told him he needed to be gentler in times like this so he struggled to say something to make her feel better.
"He was a great guy Jewels." said Spike sounding kingly in a nice tone from his semi dark voice.
Spike put her back on her feet by holding her shoulders and lifting her back up then gave her a sincere look witch he never gave anyone else on his team before, Jewels wiped her eyes with her hand and followed Spike as he left slowly but brilliantly and in a way that reminded her why she accepted him as her leader in the first place.
Jewels was feeling slightly better now that she could finally understand Spike, he did care but if he let anyone know that he would be putting them and himself in danger so he had to appear emotionless, but it was also his personality he was the independent type and he was very distant and if he didn't happen upon them they might never have joined his team he probably would have found a way to reach his goal on his own and that would have been fine with him he's the type of person who won't stop until he gets what he wants but he is a hedgehog after all he's not completely heartless like his father he hates his enemies but would sooner just run off leaving them then torture them endlessly because that would be too distracting for him, he down deep did care for his teammates but that was about it for him other then how he cared about reaching his goal but that was perfectly fine for Jewels she didn't mind that at all she was just glad that he didn't think she was useless.
as she followed her throat was still sore from all her crying and she couldn't speak very well as well as her having this horrible feeling in the pit of her stomach like she was missing a huge piece or there was a huge chip off her shoulder and all the weight and thoughts were bearing down on her so she couldn't walk without this weight on her shoulders…even though there was nothing there but thoughts.
"Spike…I want to quit the team." Jewels managed to spit out.
Spike turned aware of what she had just said, he gave her another look but this was a more concerned and confused expression.
"Jewels I trust you if you want to leave the team it's your choice I won't stop you." said Spike.
"I just don't think I could face the others…and I don't think I want to be on a team without Rex…he was a goof but he was my goof." said Jewels.
"Jewels it's up to you, I'm going to go see Power and we'll just go find that doctor alone and the foxes alone if you don't want to be a part of it, bye Jewels." said Spike as he left.
Jewels was very shredded both mentally and she felt it fiscally probably because she could hardly believe what she said or what had happened a few minutes ago with the base, the air was still filled with this smoke that just rose up and her eyes were touched by the air making her rub her eyes repeatedly along with the fact that they were already sensitive from her crying, but Leo was just standing there glaring happily at her with this disturbing look while the smoke made no effect on him.
there was Jewels' problem standing there feeling victorious she was never more angry in her life seeing him and she started wanting something she didn't want before…vengeance she wanted to make him pay for what she thought he did to Rex.
The wrecked laptop she had made and was supposedly smashed by Sonic was on the floor from when she was put in that cell for no reason other then what she thought to be his enjoyment…she was a super smart genius with technology and she found none of that mattered when she was in danger…while Tails could build marvelous things like planes and other things all she could do is launch a homing system to find locations over and over again and her hacking systems seemed useless on this new world she was taken to and she left Spike and Rex was gone to her knowledge.
all these things were what had bothered Jewels before that feeling to be needed was just as important to her as it was to Rex and now she was on her own, but that fact was what drove her over her limit she felt that she had absolutely nothing to loose now that she had found the strength to quit Spike's team she knew whatever she wanted to do with her life was her business and she was feeling too angry to think about consequences.
"This is all your fault." she said in a queer voice.
He looked alarmed.
"How could I forget about history? She'll go berserk if I stay here any longer." thought Leo as he tried to discreetly leave.
The lake that seemed to stretch so far and she found it was next to her and a pail of water was next to it turned over from the explosions and without even thinking she saw herself picking up the laptop in anger.
"CATCH!" yelled Jewels as she tossed it in Leo's direction.
Leo's reflexes lead him to catch the shocking with electricity and unusable laptop.
"THIS IS FOR REX!" she scowled tossing a bucket of water Leo's way.
He was caught in the middle and he was shocked and severally damaged it probably would have been fatal if not for the laptop's low power, she had just tried electrocuting him.
Jewels grabbed him by the scruff and looked eye to eye with him while he was only barely able to keep his head up.
A fire seemed to light up in her eyes.
"I'm going to make you pay." she said in a cruel voice.
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