Hi everyone! It's me again wishing everyone had a Merry Christmas with your families, couples, pets, classmates, friends, neighbors, the ghosts in the attic, monsters under the bed or with whatever who stayed with you. Merry Christmas.
Just as I said, I´m taking advantage for my vacations for write more chapters, and now I got another one for you, hope I made this good and principally, hope you like this chapter, well, let´s go!
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Espio was able to fight with the jackals for a long time, his abilities were enough for keep them away from the vehicle until Zero and Rookie appeared for help him. The battle in the forest was a big advantage to the resistance; they could fight against the enough robots for give a better chance to escape to the people in the prison base.
Leven and Silver guided a fierce battle against the robotic guards, reducing them to pieces; they reached the west side of the base at the same time than Vector stopped the vehicle, ready for the scape.
‒ "Everybody on the vehicle, Go! Go! Go!" ‒ screamed Silver. The people ran like if their lives depended of that, somehow, it was true.
‒ "Charmy! Tails!" ‒ screamed Vector from the vehicle's cabin‒ "Jump in!" ‒ The crocodile called at his friend for go with him.
‒ "The people is almost saved, we have to scape" ‒ said Leven, communicating with all the people by the handset.
‒ "Well done guys, take the people away of that place and we can retire" ‒ said the echidna.
‒ "Got it" ‒ reply Leven.
When the prisoners where finally inside the vehicle, Vector began to drive, hedgehog and cat climbed to the roof of the vehicle, ready for defend at the people.
‒ "Guys, we are leaving right now" ‒ said Silver by the handset.
‒ "Excellent" ‒ said the echidna. ‒" Espio, Rookie, Zero, the vehicle should stay with you again soon, go with them to the base, we reach you soon"
‒ "Guys, I think I got problems…" ‒ said Sonic.
‒ "What`s going on?" ‒ the echidna asked.
‒ "She called at Neo, he will come soon" ‒ he replied.
‒ "Scape Sonic, go away!" ‒ said Rouge.
‒ "I can´t" ‒ said Sonic. ‒" I don´t even save her yet… Amy is not the same, I can get closer, that stupid mask controlling her!" ‒said completely frustrated.
‒" Sonic, the operation may be compromised if we expose us to much, I need to ask you to avoid the confrontation, you must escape from there and reunite with us in the base." – said the echidna from the handset.
– "Wait, what?!"– Sonic heard that notice with disgust – "I´ll don´t leave her"
– "Sonic, we have priorities, we´ll save her soon, but right now the operation is in risk, escape right now!"– the hedgehog could felt rage in that moment, it wasn't his thing to escape, but he was reasonable, that mission had an important charge for the others, especially for the prisoners, to fail meant a sentence, he had to leave Amy.
– "I´ll save you Ames, no matter what it takes…"– said the Hedgehog, Amy, who was limited by the mind control of the mask in her face, only looked at him, without any expression. They changed her clothes, the precious red dress of her was changed for a black set, was easier for her to fight, was easier to reach her limit speed, and everything combined was the perfect storm to frustrate the plans of the resistance for the long time that Neo and Eggman were ruling the world.
Sonic was ready to run, he would go to the base, but someone has malevolent intentions with the hedgehog.
– "Are you leaving? But I was enjoying the spectacle." – the masked jackal was descending next to Amy, slowly and imposing a monstrous spectrum around. Sonic knew about Neo and how cruel he could be. Was like the kind of monster that nobody wants to see, even with that, Sonic was not scared. – "Things of the pity heroes of today"
– "This is just the beginning Neo, we'll going to stop you"– replied the hedgehog.
– "Yeah, yeah, whatever, the same empty words of the last year, aren´t you tired of loose against me? Blue clown?"
– "This time will be different"– said the hedgehog.
– "Keep lying on yourself Sonic? Damn, you are a masochist"– said the jackal almost mocking of him – "We both know what you have to do before try to defeat me, and let´s accept it, you don´t have what it takes"– the jackal said that looking at Amy, only thinking about that, the hedgehog felt how his world putting him under pressure, because that special thing, able to make a difference in the battles was: to defeat Amy, and Sonic wasn´t able to hit at her, He didn´t want it, but he needed to do it.
– "You can´t fight by yourself? Ah?! Why you have to push her into this?!"– Sonic screamed with rage.
– "Oh, but it's pretty easy, let me show you how, okay?"– The jackal immediately walked to Amy, every step of his enemy was like adrenaline to his veins, he was analyzing the right moment to run and hit at Neo, thousands of plans were in his mind, but every one of them were frozen when the jackal rise his hand threatening to the girl.
– "Wait! No!"– Sonic screamed like trying to stop at the jackal, but he only gave a mocking smile to the hedgehog and hit at Amy, a strong fist in her face that left her in the floor, Sonic was horrified, surprised, and principally, enraged.
– "What you will do? Hero?"– said the jackal.
– "You monster… I´ll kill you!" – Sonic ran to the jackal, but his race was abruptly ended by a hit of Amy´s hammer in his stomach, even when Neo hit at her, his mind was totally out of any possible reason, she had the order to attack at the blue hedgehog, she would obey, no matter what, the hit was able to throw Sonic many meters back.
– "Hahaha, it´s over Sonic, you lose!"– said the jackal laughing – "It doesn´t matter what you do…" – Neo raised his hand to Sonic, and let the Phantom Ruby load –"My power is superior, and my reign will be ... infinite"– and the jackal shot the power wave, catching at Sonic into a new reality, an illusion dedicated specially to broke his mind…
Meanwhile
In the forest, the strategic withdrawal worked pretty well, everybody lost at their pursuers. The Chaotix continued with the vehicle to the base, but Leven, Rookie and Zero decided to jump down and talk with the team.
– "Everybody is okay?"– Knuckles asked.
– "I think so"– said Shadow.
– "Like a piece of cake…"– said Silver with happiness.
– "You are really awesome man; how do you use that telekinetic power?"– Leven asked to the hedgehog, he looked so interested.
– "Well, all of my power comes…"
– "Guys, where is Sonic?"– the wolf interrupt, and made everybody notice that the blue hedgehog was not with them.
– "Damn…"– the echidna took his Handset – "Sonic? Where are you Sonic?"– he began to contact at him – "I told you to leave that place Sonic, what happened?"– the echidna began to get mad thinking that the hedgehog wanted to disobey even when the complications could mean a lot in the next movements in that war.
– "Knuckles, calm down, maybe he is in troubles"– said Rouge to the echidna, he growled angrily.
– "Damn it… hope he doesn't think of failing now, let´s get out of here, he´ll reach us latter… maybe"– said the echidna.
– "Wait, we are leaving? Without him?"– Zero asked really surprised and confused.
– "We talk about Sonic, he can solve these situations by himself, he will be alright"– reply Shadow – "This zone is still dangerous, they can fold more robots to hunt us, we must move, fast" – after his words, nobody wanted to protest, the group began to move to the base, even Leven, who saw that like a "common situation" in the group, only Zero and Rookie stood a few more in the place.
– "Are you okay?"– asked the wolf.
– "They don´t know at Neo like I do, he´s unpredictable, a cheater, he will get his hands dirty if with that he reaches the victory, it's not an easy target."– the jackal replied a bit worried.
– "… But what we can do?"
– "I don´t know exactly… but we should do something for him"– the wolf looked at the jackal, that answer was different than many others – "I can understand why didn´t wanted to leave her, maybe… she means more to him than they imagine… I want to help him, because I'm sure I would feel the same way if I were close to losing you" – the jackal was talking from the bottom of his heart, his emotions were on the surface, and Rookie was watching, Zero felt empathy for Sonic, he put himself in his shoes and saw what he was facing.
"I`m so proud of you Zero" thought the wolf, who immediately got close to the jackal, and gently kiss his cheek. The jackal blushed and looked at the wolf.
– "I think I understand too Zero, let`s help at Sonic"– replied the wolf, the jackal (who was coming out of the sweet sensation of the kiss) nodded and without hesitation, they both ran to the forest.
Back again with Sonic
The hedgehog was not good at all, for his last battles with Infinite, he knew about the power of modify the reality, creating illusions and destroying slowly the mind of the rival. But even knowing that, the illusion that had him trapped was like a nightmare, many illusion, one behind another, showing to the blue hero an apocalyptic future, the worse part was that Sonic was feeling that as something real.
He could feel the warm of the burned cities, the disgusting and toxic smell of a chemical accident that destroyed every trail of live. The sky was grey, smoke and acid rain were covering Green Hill landscapes, and that places was a graveyard, many corpses where there, innocent people with a scared expression, prove of how cruel was their last seconds alive, the people, his friends, the animals, even Eggman was there, Neo didn`t forget nobody, the few alive were taken as slaves, working under the government of Neo, who raised his figure as a specter of death for those who did not obey his word, and who was once his beloved Amy, now become empress of the jackal.
Sonic couldn`t resist anymore, he fell on his knees, waiting for illusion end, trembling with fear, but more than that, with rage.
– "All those chaos… all that death and destruction… you kill them all"– the hedgehog couldn´t rise his look, his mind was brooked, he couldn´t be more shocked, and the masked jackal saw that.
– "That's what will happen soon, there will even be fireworks"– said the jackal, in a clear and disgusting joke.
– "… And Amy… s-she is…"
– "She´s mine"– said the jackal interrupting at him – "I´m bad, but I recognize the beauty when is in front of my eyes, she´ll be the perfect queen" – the hedgehog made fists after heard those words, the rage in his body began to burn, the jackal knew that, but he wanted more than that.
– "She´s… She´s not yours…"– said the hedgehog.
– "She´s not mine?... Ouh… I can see what´s going on, Hahaha, it´s adorable"– the jackal was still mocking of Sonic – "Today you make me laugh to much Sonic, let´s make a deal, give up to me, help me with my objective, and when that happens, I´ll let you be the pet of my queen"– that was the drop that spilled the glass…
– "You… y-you are a monster… I don´t… like monsters…"– Sonic said, every inch of him was trembling, not for fear, or cold, the jackal could saw a new different Sonic, a black aura was coming out of him, the jackal for the first time in all that time saw that kind of energy coming from Sonic.
– "What are you doing?"– he asked, the hedgehog didn't reply his question, looked like he was talking alone.
– "Amy doesn´t deserve that, to be a slave… a machine… she… she deserves to be happy… and you stole her happiness"– the dark aura was coloring the blue fur of the hedgehog, into black. Even when the jackal was impressed, he showed nothing to the transformation. – "You think you can do whatever you want, without consequences, right?"– Sonic raised his head, showing a new face, a new expression totally unusual in him, with his eyes turned in yellow and a long smile, he looked like a psychopath. – "Let´s prove if actions got no consequences!"
Sonic threw himself in attack, Neo was surprised for the frenetic speed of the hedgehog, even with the illusion still on, Sonic was able to complicate at Neo, nothing looked able to stop his rage, the spectrums of the illusion were reduced to nothing, and this time, Sonic had no complications if the enemy was a friend, like he knew that they were fake, or simply he didn´t care.
When Sonic reached Neo, the illusion ended with a strong punch in the mask, it was so strong that the mask ended brooked and was left stunned, but the hedgehog had not enough with that, two more hits in the jackal´s face, and a kick in the chest, right on the Phantom Ruby just for threw him away. Neo had unleash a side that he never wanted to see from Sonic.
For that moment, the hedgehog had no pupils in his eyes, only a ghostly with and the darkest fur ever. Looked like Sonic wanted more violence, like the instinct of a predator over his prey, he wanted more, he wanted blood.
Amy, who was still there, stood in front of him, with a hammer in his arms, ready to fight him, perhaps the mask and mind control did not allow her to see the monster in front, and the risk to which she was exposed. Those who were friends in the past looked at each other as enemies, as targets to destroy, and perhaps, and without the intervention of two spies in that scene, one of them would surely have died.
Amy and Sonic ran to attack themselves, the quick reflects of Zero and his powerful blade stopped at the hedgehog, crossing a hit in his chest, and then, a kick in the stomach to separate of him, while this happened, the wolf shot his electrified hook in Amy´s Mask, the electroshock was able to stop the mind control, and the overcharge made Amy fell on the ground, she was finally free, fainted, but free. There was only Sonic.
The hedgehog attacked once again, Zero blocked the fists and kicks the better he can, when the opportunity appeared, the jackal crossed the blade between them, and began to resist the onslaught of Sonic.
– "Sonic, calm down! Look at us, Rookie and Zero"– said the wolf, trying to call at his real friend. – "We know that´s not you Sonic, come back!"
– "Listen at him Sonic"– said the jackal – "We have enough with one monster to fight, don´t turn yourself into one"– the jackal was talking with a quiet voice, trying to relax at the hedgehog – "Don´t leave at your friends for power and angriness… don´t make my mistake Sonic, calm down…"
Slowly, the words of the guys began to sound in the mind of the hedgehog, was not the first time that Sonic lost the control in that way, but fortunately, he never was a foolish, and when a friend was calling, was easy for him to come back to the road of the reason. Sonic began to reduce his strength, the black aura who was rounding him reduce to, his eyes, his fur, everything came back to the normal. Sonic was with them again, with a dark expression in his face. He felt shame and disappointment for his acts.
– "I…I'm Sorry guys"– said Sonic.
–*Sigh* "It´s okay man, no one died, that's the important part here"– replied the jackal given a pat in the hedgehog´s shoulder.
– "Hum… guys, Neo escaped"– said the wolf and was right, Neo surely suffered a big hurt in his battle against Dark Sonic, and that interruption was the opportunity to scape.
– "Damn… well, fortunately we got Amy again, we should take her to the base, Leven could treat her"– said Zero.
– "Okay… thank you guys for coming…"
– "That´s what friends do after all, no?"– replied the wolf.
– "Yeah…"
The jackal charged at the girl in his back, and with constant step, they all came back to the base.
Well, this was a long chapter, but when the Christmas spirit invades you, you are unstoppable, well my dear readers, I really hope you like this chapter, I want to say thank you for those who began to follow the story in the last three months without activity, principally:
GranGabrie, KatalinaCipher1, MilesTPrower14, SCFOLF, ZickDist8 and star-mine, thank you so much guys, when I saw your names in following my story, I began to plan more ideas to continue this, and now, I´m able to put them in action, thank you so much.
For my other readers, don´t worry, I´m really grated with you, and if you want to talk with me, or give me a review, a commentary or a critic, I will accept it and reply it as it deserves, well, I think that´s enough for today, I´m Furry Cat Writter, and with no more to say, Sayounara!