Chapter 42: For you Maria
Two days before the ark.
After the mystery's sparring match in the cell with his captive he makes rolls his eyes in his head he gets contacted by his leader in space. Whispers start to fill in his head. He collapses in pain in his head from the hall way and the voice of his leader comes in.
Gloom: "Did you get the ransom?"
?: "Yes"
Gloom: "Wait for my signal and bring her to me."
?: "Understood. Where are you"
Gloom: "Waiting. Waiting for the right moment. Just so you know I'm in maria's room."
?: "How is it?"
Gloom: "Exactly as I remembered."
?: "That's lovely."
Gloom: "I thought they shut down the place."
?: They did. After the first war between us the humans decided to pay homage after professor Gerald by reopening the place."
Gloom: "I have my way to pay homage to him. I'm so close to getting it. I know it's here. The idiots are close to finding it for me. Did you find out about the bastard who gave the order?"
?: "Yes. We found who did it thanks to the records in G.U.N headquarters. It took us a while."
Gloom: "no one saw you right?"
?: "No one."
Gloom: "Feels good with the power does it?"
?: "It does."
Gloom: "So who's the guy?"
?: "His name is William Feldore. He's a retired G.U.N General. 50 years ago he was Commander of the G.U.N Forces. He was the one to give out the order for his troops to raid the Ark and destroy all evidence and projects they were working on. Right now he lives in Central city with his wife and grandchildren. His son was a former G.U.N Agent that fought in the battles between us and them years back when we first started the war."
Gloom: "Fuck whatever he has going on. I want you to send a message."
?: "What message?"
2 days Later when they arrested Gloom
2 hours before the murder
After they arrested Gloom and knee and punched him in the face they take him into a interrogation room. They cuff and seal him into the floor with chains.
Gloom: "Nice chains."
GUN Soldier: "They're made just for you."
He locks him in and now he can't move. They leave him in the room. He rolls his eyes in the back of his head and makes contact with his Partner.
The House Raid
They're at the house behind the trees. There's a whole swarm of them surrounding the place. Hiding out of sight they wait for them to get home. The nice family with four small children exit the SUV and run out into the lawn and grass. The grandmother opens the door with bags and the old man walks out and gives her a kiss and a hug. He whispers to the unit that's with him to make their move.
?: "That's our target. We get them at the right moment. Proceed with caution."
They all wait for the kids to run inside. They close the door and they make their move. The Black arm creatures run into the house from different ways. A few take the backyard past the pool and run into the house. The mystery enters the house up above with 2 others and they hear the kids come up stairs. The mystery quickly uses his cloaking ability Gloom gave to him. one of them hides under the bed and the other one hops on top of the bed and hide under the covers. The kids burst through the door. The boys start playing with their toys while the leader of the operation makes sure to stay out of the way. The oldest 9 year old hops on his computer playing video games while the other two playing with a football and the other one playing with his toy guns. He shoots at the kid with the football and misses hitting the cloaked mystery.
Kid: "Nice try jerk."
Kid: "Now I gotta find it."
He runs out the room looking for his foam bullet and finds it falling from above the hall. He looks up wondering how it got up there but sees nothing but the ceiling. He shrugs it off and goes back into the room. The mystery reappears appearing to be hiding up the ceiling attic. The kids hop back onto the bunk beds squashing the black creature hiding below on the floor. He checks his phone and the kid with the gun shoots his phone out of the hand.
Kid: "What the heck dude!"
Kid: *laughing*
The phone fell back at the bottom of the bed. The kid tries to reach down grabbing it and almost touches the black arm warrior who scoots the phone to him but he still can't reach it. He gets off the bed while the other two are messing around. He looks down under to find his phone and nothing else under. He reaches and grabs it. The black arm quickly got scooted out the room fast. After that the kid shoots another bullet at him from above on the bed and he hides under the covers next to the black arm but thankfully cant feel him there. He giggles to himself under the covers and the brother comes up and starts punching the covers. He hits the black creature but the kid laughs harder as he hits the wrong person who thinks he's punching his brother over and over. The kid is at the other end hiding that think he's punching a pillow. He delivers punches hard thinking it him and hops off. The kid hiding hops down.
Kid: "You were hitting the pillow idiot."
Kid: "No I hit you. you were there."
Kid: "Sure you did moron."
The creature makes his move while they are all distracted and sneaks out the room.
?: "What happened?"
Black arm spy: "Kid hits hard."
They continue to sneak down stairs. Seeing the grandmother cook and the daughter playing with the grandfather. He watches for him to make a move to be alone. The other Black arm troopers are ready to move into the house on his signal.
Feldore: "Alright honey, I'll be back. Nature is calling."
He goes into the bathroom and takes a number 2. While he is doing that the mystery signals the ambush.
?: "Take them out quietly. Wait for him to get out of the bathroom."
They call the ambush and Black Arms swarm the upstairs from the windows. They get the boys and tie them up with rope. A black warrior big as a body builder sneaks through the window down stairs and grabs the grandmother by the mouth and ties up her arms and mouth. The mystery walks into the living room and turns the tv off and covers the daughter's mouth.
?: "Shhh, quiet. Stay silent."
She does just that so they won't spook the general. They bring the family into the living room and tie them into the chair living room chairs.
?: "Listen we're going to take off the mouth gags if you stay silent."
The grandmother nods and the children nod and they all wait for the man of the house to exit the bathroom. The toilet flushes and he can be heard whistling.
Feldore: "Alright Honey Bun, I'm back for mo-"
He sees his family and the room full of soldiers except they're not the type of soldiers he commands. He looks around and recognizes the color and texture.
Feldore: "So you freaks are alive."
?: "Sit down mister."
Feldore: "Please, do whatever you want with me. Just let them go."
?: "We attend to. So please sit down."
He walks with the whole house of uninvited guest staring at him. One of them brings out a camera and sets it on the table. The black warrior records and waits for the mystery to see everything goes to according to plan.
?: "You two. Make sure no one else comes. You check the upstairs."
They do as they are told and the other black arm soldiers check the windows to see if anybody comes.
Feldore: "What do you want from us?"
?: "We have been given orders to know who you are. And you might wanna tell me the truth cause I will know you are lying to me."
Feldore: "What do you want?"
?: "The Ark"
Feldore: "The Ark. What about it?"
?: "50 years ago you gave out the order to raid the operation and destroy any known evidence related to what was going on there."
Feldore: "I Had Nothing to do with that."
?: "Bad move. Get the girl."
Feldore: "No, NO!"
They pull off the couch and the mystery pulls out a pistol. He pulls out the clip and shows him the bullets and reloads it again. He cocks it back and points the gun at her.
Feldore: "O-OKAY! OKAY! I did give out the order but I did it to protect society from those nut jobs."
?: "Well you done a shitty job at it."
Feldore: "What exactly is this about? The Black Hedgehog, we didn't kill him."
?: "You didn't but you pissed off someone worst."
Feldore: "Who? Gerald? Is he still alive? Robotnik?"
?: "Warm but no. Our leader wanted to tell you this."
He pulls out a letter and reads it out loud to him.
"Dear Monster,
50 years ago, you gave out the order to strike the Space Colony Ark and kill every innocent human being and person there. You ruined lives and Crushed their dreams and destroyed the innocent lives that wanted a better future and safety of this beautiful planet. The people here deserve a chance to be happy but filth like you break and take everything you seem fit worth while to you. You are the example of Human Nature that sickens me. You stole everyone's lively hood and strong will of purpose on the Space Colony Ark that you pathetic monster wanted. You forced the world's greatest geniuses and stuffed them together to create and make rare elements and technology of the daily life you worthless fools take advantage off. I see this world poisoned by the evil you spread across the globe. I understand this beautiful planet is not all bad but there will always be people like you. You take, and take, and take until there is nothing left and chew it up and spit it out like disposable trash. You are probably asking why are you doing this? The Honest and truthful reason why I am doing this is because 50 years ago you killed my sister. You took the very thing that gave me purpose. Maria Robotnik was a sweet little angel from heaven and you stole her from me because you fear the unknown. The black arms were only trying to help and you killed an innocent girl to cover it up. You killed innocent men, women, and children aboard that ark and you didn't even look twice. You sent merciless killers who followed your orders and stole who considered family. I may as well order my troops to kill those kids of yours, but I'm better than that. We are better than that. I don't do this for my own monetary gain. I do this in the name of the girl who was killed by your evil arrogance. Maria would've hated this but I do it for the sake of the planet and her and my family. So as of now I wish I was there to hear you scream. To hear you beg for your miserable life. I want to see the tears come out of your eyes as I hear the children cry out your name and know what you've did. I wish to see you burn. I wish for all evil to just disappear. So just know before you die, know that I'm only getting started. I this war you set off is about to begin. As I hear the devil you are screaming, I would love to be there laughing my ass off. Know the people of this planet started it. I am the righteous hand. I am vengeance and Justice. The good I'm about to do for you all. The peacefulness of the new world will begin soon. Know the bloodshed that's about to commence is on your hands. As of people like you, they will watch me recreate a world without them. So Maria, This is for you.
From the new leader of the black arms
-Gloom
After those last words come from the mystery's mouth and the last words of the leader's paper, Tears start to fall down the old man's face. He is in shock to hear that. He remembers the operation and all his friends who volunteered to take on the very mission that changed his career forever. The Grandmother is shocked to hear it and so are the kids who don't understand what is going on.
Feldore: "Okay, I did give out the order, But the old president of the united federation wanted me to deal with the Ark. I was just following orders like them."
?: "Hold on"
He rolls his eyes in the back of his head even though they can't see his face so, he puts his fingers to his head like an earpiece to signify he's hearing something.
?: "Sir he was just following orders."
Gloom: "Doesn't matter."
He leaves the chat in his head and goes back into the living room situation.
?: "Yeah sir I just got off with my leader and he said doesn't matter."
Feldore: "B-But, BUT-"
?: "Sorry man. Like you, I was just following orders. I'll give you a minute with the family."
He leaves the room and wait for the family to finish have a talk. They take of the cloths in their mouths and they start talking. He makes contact His boss again and they go into a family meeting.
?: "Listen. I don't think this is a good idea. It feels so wrong."
Gloom: "Somebody should've told him that before he commenced the raid."
?: "Listen I'm not disobeying you but I don't feel like this is right at all."
Gloom: "If that guy isn't dead and I will know, I swear, I will kill you."
He Goes back into his head and waits for Beth to enter the room on the Ark.
?: *Sigh* "Remember, do it for Maria. Just do this and never speak of it again."
He walks back and forth for 45 minutes. After time pass by, as Feldore speaks his last words to the children and his wife the mystery makes his choice. They say they're goodbye's and the mystery walk's into the living room and turns on the tv to some sports.
?: "What's your favorite sport?"
Feldore: "Football."
?: "would you like for the kids to stay?"
Feldore: "I want the all of you to know… I will always love you."
Wife: "We love you too."
Girl: "Please papa make it stop."
Feldore: "It will honey, Guys leave us now. You be… *crying* You be strong men and face on the cruelty of this world."
Kid: "Grandpa. Please don't!"
The mystery hurries to get this over with and stabs the old man's lap above his knee with his combat blade.
Feldore: "AAAAAHHHHHHHHNNNN"
?: "You boys are welcome to leave if you choose."
Wife: "Tim. Take your brothers and sisters and hide when it's over."
They untie the kids and they run upstairs and hide in the parents bedroom and dial 9/11. They won't be able to because after they tied them up they cut all the house cord lines. They lock the door and they hide under the bed. While they're hiding upstairs they turn up the tv to the game. Another team against another team.
?: "I just want you to know. We take no joy from this except our leader. My apologies for what's going to happen to you today."
Feldore: "Fuck you. Black Arm Dog!"
?: "Insults won't save you man."
He moves the knife down towards his knee cap in his lap and pulls hard and harder. The man Screams loudly and they turn up the tv loud so no one can hear. The wife watches In horror to what they're doing to him and the mystery man rips out his knee cap. It falls onto the floor and the wife closes her eyes as she still hears his screams.
The neighbors next door
Neighbor: "Seems the Feldore's are watching the game."
Neighbors wife: "I wonder why they got the TV loud."
Neighbor: "Probably the kids. You know them. Seems like they're having a good time over there."
Neighbors wife: "Yep. He's cursing. He gets frustrated when he curses."
Neighbor: "Told the old coot The bears were going to win."
Back at the house
Feldore is screaming for his life. He screams and begs for him to live. He curses as they tear the skin from his flesh. The wife keeps her eyes close as they rip off his arms and legs. They open his mouth and cut off his tongue and knock out his teeth. He's close to death but they keep him alive by shoving a needle into his heart. The camera clips it all as they take their sweet time with the retired general. They cut off his fingers and toes and head towards his private parts. He screams in agony until they finally rip his throat out. They paint the living room red with his blood. As he slowly loses consciousness and gets ready to leave this world they jab a needle into his heart giving him more adrenaline keeping him alive. He throws up his breakfast and blood.
Black arm warrior: "Ugh… Now that's just Sour."
They gag his mouth with a towel as he screams through it. They get to work on his eyes and rip them out. After another 20 seconds of the un-invited guest ripping his entrails out. He finally passes on. They stop to look at the dismembered man as the woman screams crying under her voice.
Black arm warrior: "What about the woman?"
?: "Leave her alive."
The mystery looks around. the living room and looks at his hands of the blood of the enemy.
?:" Mission is accomplished. Vandalize the place and get out. I'll catch up."
They start destroying and smearing his blood and guts everywhere while the woman watches the mystery walk to her and unleashes her.
?: "I'm Sorry."
He lets her loose and she runs upstairs to check on the children. The mystery follows and sees the grandmother holding the children close. He walks closer and closer and kneels down towards the kids.
?: "Don't worry. You're safe now. I just want you all to know it was never really personal. It's just revenge for a friend. You'll be able to call 9/11 in the next minute."
He stands up and bows to them and leaves the house following the trail back out the neighbor hood at a back alley and a van pulls by and picks them all up.
Present time
Cal: "Where is that son of a bitch?"
Amy: "In the interrogation room."
GUN Soldier: "Lets kill him!"
GUN battalion: "YEAH!"
Shadow: "NO!"
Amy: "Listen, I'm close to having a break through with him."
Cal: "It won't matter."
He tries to scoot past her but she blocks him.
Amy: "Listen. We don't have to kill him. He's just hurt and angry."
Cal: "You're making me angry and I might hurt you if you don't move now!"
Amy: "Please, I got him to let it all out. I just need time with him. He'll turn himself in."
Cal: "Move it!"
He pulls out his six shooter and points it at her. the room stops and look at them both. Shadow steps in front of Amy and he's ready to kill. Sonic clutches Blitz to get ready if he actually does pull the trigger. Cream pulls out her dart and Tails puts his hand on her. He shakes his head no and she puts it back. Knuckles gets ready to fight and the researchers and scientist stand back a bit. Rouge intervenes.
Rouge: "Captain. If you give her time we can-"
He pulls the trigger and there are no bullets. No shot, no blasts. Everyone jumps a bit from the sound and he puts it back into his holster.
Cal: "I didn't load it. Madam Rouge you are relieved of duty. I'm taking over the show now."
He looks at Shadow and Amy.
Cal: "I wouldn't kill if I have to, but if you are on the side of good you would move for the sake of your fellow friends."
The soldiers point their guns at Tails and Cream. A big buff dude stare's down at Knuckles sizing him up. Sonic has almost every gun in the room pointed at him. The chaotix are suppressed by the soldiers and be on the ready. Amy looks around and Shadow looks back at her. She moves out the way and Cal walks past with his men following him. They rush with Cal to the interrogation room.
Cal: "Bring him to the cargo hold. We're gonna finish this."
They all rush towards the room where gloom is just minding his own business playing in his imagination. It's past 4:45. The next minute 4 to 5 GUN agents smash through the door. They punch the hedgehog who's freed himself during his talk with beth. They beat him senseless till blood comes out his nose and mouth.
GUN Soldier: "piece of shit, motherfucker!"
They grab him by the arms and drag him towards the cargo hold. There's almost a hundred people there looking at him. Their guns aiming at him while they drag him to the middle. The freedom fighters all watch as they can't do anything about at this time. They drop him in the center where an entire battalion has guns and weapons pointed at him but soon realize he can't do anything. The gun agent who was dragging him speaks in his ear.
GUN: Soldier: "We're gonna enjoy this."
They all cheer and whistle to have the leader of the black arms at their feet. Captain Cal walks through the crowd following the path where they dragged gloom and pulls out his sidearm. He stands at the front of the ultimate life form number one and look down at him. He holds his hand up as Gloom sits up on his knees.
Cal: "Normally, we would arrest you for the murder of a great man that was killed earlier today. Now, we're willing to make an exception."
He loads his six shooter weapon and spins it and aims it at Gloom. Gloom looks up and tears can be seen down his eyes.
GUN Soldier: "Woah, is he crying?"
Whispers go around and Shadow walks close to the two of them.
Cal: "Tears don't move me."
Gloom: "Not for you."
Cal: "Then what are you crying for?"
Gloom: "For Maria."
Cal: "That's the difference between you two and us. You both have a common weakness. Here's a little recap. She died on this ark 50 years ago. What ever you're doing this for is a lost cause. You and Him over there are not people. You're only machines made for killing."
Gloom: "And what does that make you? In case you haven't notice, we are all killers here. All we do is take, take, take, take, take. That's all you do we take away the living from this world. I shouldn't be talking, but I got a plan to fix that. We don't need to keep doing this. The endless bloodshed. Do not you not tire of the endless cycle?"
Cal: "Yeah. But that's how nature works. We kill to survive. I ensure the survival of the people of this planet by killing you right here and now."
Gloom: "Then you only prove my point. You monster!"
He waves his gun in the air and he punches gloom in the face with the butt of the gun. He falls onto his side holding his face. His nose bleeding some more. Shadow walks forward but is stopped by the buff dude and Amy. She walks towards gloom and helps him up. She pulls rag out her pocket and puts it on his nose wiping all the blood off. Gloom's mark starts glowing a bit but he holds it in.
Gloom: "Thanks."
Shadow steps to look past the buff guy to see Cal standing before him and Amy.
Amy: "Don't you see he's not here to fight. He's only here to get something."
Cal: "Out of the way lady."
Amy: "Listen, you kill him and nothing here is solved at all. It just makes things worst."
Cal: "Kid out of the way now."
Amy: "At least have some sympathy. This is his brother you're beating here."
Cal: "Right, the two same people who killed some of our brothers. The Shit show right there killed innocents. He murdered one of our own. Gerald created a monster."
Amy: "And what does that make you?"
Cal: "You're either with us or against us. So I'm gonna ask you one last time to get out of my way."
She shakes her head protecting him and Gloom looks in shock.
Gloom: "Why is she protecting me?"
Captain Cal moves Amy out the way and knee's him into the face breaking his teeth. He falls back with the Captain kicking him in the stomach and face. He gets punched and the marks start glowing a bit. He grabs him by the quill and raises him.
Cal: "It's over Gloom. We beat you."
Gloom: *Cough* "I'm not putting up a fight. This just further proves my point."
He drops him on the ground with everyone cheering and screaming to kill him. Beth looks in disgust and wishes to something about it. Shadow wants to intervene but knows the Captain will go to extreme lengths. He pushes him over on his back and stands on top of him. he puts his gun into his face.
Cal: "Five years ago I lost good men thanks to your kind. By tomorrow, we're gonna find every last one of them. And they'll be joining you soon. See you in Hell."
He gets ready to pull the trigger until Amy rushes and grabs his Arm. He Shoots her in the stomach and she collapses. She falls onto the ground and the whole room goes quiet. Shadow jumps and kicks the buff soldier out the way and runs towards Amy to check. Sonic and Beth run to her aid as she lies there in pain. Gloom watches in horror.
Gloom: "Not Again… Not again… NOT AGAIN!"
The marks Glow on him and his eyes turn a hazy shade of yellow with Red black pupils. The black aurora unleashes out of him and his body starts swelling. Cal watches him and decides to fire at him. The bullets are stop by him and he flicks one back him in his leg. He runs over to Amy and checks her. She's bleeding fast and he reaches in and grabs the bullet out of her. Shadow walks over and the marks on him start glowing on his side again. he places his hand there on instinct and Gloom helps there as well. They heal her and she starts to wake up. She grunts in pain a bit until it leaves.
Amy: "S-Shadow. You saved me."
Shadow: "Not alone."
She looks at Gloom who looks back.
Amy: "Gloom?"
Gloom: "Yeah."
Amy: "Why would you?"
Gloom: "Same thing to you."
The soldiers hold their guns at Shadow and Gloom. Gloom stands up and the lights start shaking. Spikes grow out of his funny bone in the elbows ripping his coat. His muscles getting bigger and spikes ripping through the back of his shirt. He stands away from them as Cal points his gun at him.
Gloom: "If you want a fight. You will have one."
The wind starts to surround him. the electricity starts sparking rapidly on the station. Black aurora started growing around him his eyes turned black his teeth turning demonically venomous. It's like he's a whole different person. His eyes turn pure black with a yellow pupil in the middle. He's ready for a battle.
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The soldiers start firing him and he disappears. The lights get turned off. The whole place is powered down. Screaming of the men can be heard all around. people pointing where he is. No one knows what's going on. Sonic pulls out his sword and the electricity brighten up Shadow, Amy and Sonic. The whole place is silent and no one is saying or doing anything. A certain chaos spear can be seen in the distance sending a loud explosion towards a group of men. They get blown into the air and another towards another group. They start shooting. But no one can see where he is. Blood curl screaming can be heard so they stop firing the scream is from above and a slash of something getting smacked takes place. The body falls down and it's a GUN agent. His head is missing but blood is dripping. Someone sends a flair up into the air and they all see Gloom or what is him with a head in his hand. He is standing upside down from above and the light everyone looks in shock. They fire at will and Gloom drops down and sends a spike through another gun agents stomach. They fire but gloom uses him as a human shield. They fire at him until he curls up into a ball and slams over in the middle of the crowd. They all fire at him and he absorbs the bullets. His rage and frustration consume him and he sends out a swarm of spikes killing a lot of them. they all get sent back and a lot of them hide into cover. Shadow sends a chaos spear at him but it does nothing to him. Gloom turns his attention towards him and marches heavily and fast. Dashes towards him and sends spikes towards gloom who doesn't seem fazed or affected by it. He grabs Shadow by the arm and tosses him towards a pile of boxes. Tails and Cream run off somewhere with rouge as knuckles stays. He sends punches towards Gloom until he grabs his fist.
Knuckles: "Let me go!"
He tries to fight him off until Gloom snaps both his elbows backwards where they don't belong.
Knuckles: "AHHHH!"
He headbutts him in the face and kicks him out of the way.
A gun agent tries to attack him with a knife until he grabs him by the wrist and rips his arm off. He pushes him down and Gloom jumps up and slams his heavy body cause two holes into him. He twists his body breaking his bones killing him instantly. He walks heavily towards Cal and Amy stands in front of him. Gloom decides not to hurt her but by jumping high into the air and tries to slam down on Cal who moves out the way instantly. He shoots Gloom until he runs out of ammo. He pulls out a knife until sonic steps in front of him.
Sonic: "Get lost, NOW CAPTAIN!"
He runs out the cargo hold and sonic whips out his partner blitz who's ready to engage combat for the first time.
Sonic: "Alright buddy. Time for the real thing."
Gloom sends a slash of his claws at sonic who dodger. Sonic does a spin dash and trips his leg. He runs up to gloom and strikes at his spikes cutting them but barely harming Gloom. Gloom sounds out a punch at his him that sends him to the wall. Gloom runs up to punch sonic but he quickly disappears. He appears above gloom at full speed and wheel kicks him. He hits hard but not hard enough. Gloom falls down but pulls out spikes from his wrist and sends them at sonic. He slashes them with his new blade and he can feel the electricity surging and giving him a boost. Sonic runs up kicking him with fury of kicks and elbows him into the stomach. Gloom sends swipes and claws at him but misses. He pulls out a powerful punch that misses him. Sonic quickly side flipes out the way and bicycle kicks him in the face over and over pushing him back into the middle of the cargo hold. He grabs Sonic by the leg and slams him to the ground. He punches him into the ground breaking his guard and letting loose his blade. He grabs a spike out of his arm and sends a spike towards sonic. Until espio comes up with his blade and cuts the spikes sharp end in time. He grabs the spike and stabs it into Glooms leg who roars out in pain. He helps sonic up. Amy tosses a hammer towards gloom and knocks him back a bit. Shadow runs up and prepares for battle. Team heroes, Dark's, Rose's, and Chaotix speedsters are now ready to beat brute strength. The battle between speed and strength. Gloom Sends out parasites from his hand to the dead bodies of gun soldiers and they start to take over. Guess the more people dead meant the more of their problems.
Sonic: "So glad you guys are here."
Shadow: "Until you guys deal with the dead troopers. Leave gloom to me."
Espio: "Amy, do you still have eggman's rings on you?"
Amy: "Yeah. Lets take him down first.
Gloom slams his fist to the ground and roars. He charges at them but they jump out in the nick of time. Shadow teleports after him and the tattoos start growing around his body. The dead GUN soldiers pick up their guns and fire at them. Sonic and espio Deal with the army as Amy runs to help Shadow. She runs and fights her way through the undead. She slams her hammer getting rid of the enemies in her way. While she's dealing with that sonic deals with a giant parasitic stump of people in her way. It slams the bodies of dead victims at her and Shadow sends chaos spears at them helping her out. Gloom sends a box at Amy and she smashes it. Shadow unleashes his full power boosts at Gloom who holds him but is being pushed back a bit. Amy quickly hurries to his aid and swings at Gloom who ducks from her hammer. He lets shadow go and leaps over him. He grabs Amy and tosses her away from him. Sonic comes up and slashes him with attacks with Blitz. Gloom swings his arm at him but Sonic dodges. Gloom jumps back and opens his mouth. A canon ball gets sent towards Sonic and explodes knocking him back in the air. Sonic spins and Spin dash charges into the air. Espio runs up the wall and hops towards sonic in the air. He kicks him like a soccer ball and Sonic comes in fast like a bullet and Gloom tries to hold off his attack but amy comes in with the hammer and Smacks him across the face into the wall. A dead Gun soldier comes from behind her and bites down hard on her shoulder. She shoves him off and hammers his head into his body killing him. A horde of soldiers with Gun's try to kill them. Since they only just turned their nervous system's their aim sucks. They hide or dodge them all. Amy tosses her hammer at the undead soldiers hitting a stack of them. She reaches down and grabs a pistol and fires at the Controlled forces.
Amy: "Hope all those practices pay off from Shadow."
She shoots one in the head. She runs up killing a lot more with the ammo that's in the clip. She reaches down to one of the corpses and grabs more magazines. She reloads her pistol and runs towards one. She shoots on in the stomach and slides past it and grabs it. She shoots another in the stomach and kills the one she's holding in the head and reaches for the other one by the head and pops it in the head.
Sonic: "Damn Amy."
Amy: "Credit goes to Shadow for teaching me. So what can you do with that sword?"
Sonic: "Watch this."
He runs up to the next upcoming horde and slashes his sword. He unleashes the electricity and spins sending a thunder wave that pushes them all back. he swarms a undead giving it three cuts and pulling out the sheath and sends two knocks and cuts with the sheath first and sword. He hits the dead soldier in the head and holds him there. He slides forward slashing his leg and arm. He slides the other side of it and slashes its neck. He slides back in front of it and slashes its arm and leg. He's back in the front of it and it explodes all its limps and heads fly off. The body drops to the ground. The chameleon appears next to him from his camouflage.
Espio: "You fight well. Your blade speaks to you."
Sonic: "Thanks Es. Got something you wanna show?"
Espio: "I don't know."
Sonic and Amy: "Show us, Show us!"
Espio: "Okay."
He runs up with his blade and scroll ready. He slashes through the horde and ninja runs above them. He severs a few heads and jumps up in the air with the scroll and unleashes the 100 blades. The smoke appears in the air and the many blades fall towards the army of undead. It kills them all and Espio lands in the middle safely.
Sonic: "Did I mention it is so awesome to have a ninja as part of your team."
Espio: "You can stand to mention it more."
Shadow gets thrown towards the crew and slides on the ground in front of them. Gloom walks up staring. He speaks in tongue and a portal opens in his chest. Two handles come out and he pulls them out. It's two dual axes but they don't look normal. They have bright red-hot lights at the edge. Axe sabers they look like.
Amy: "Those look deadly."
He slashes a box that gets cut clean with a molten slice. You get cut, you get cleaned out completely.
Sonic: "They probably burn."
He roars and charges at them. Espio charges and dodges the axes. He sends punches and flip kicks at Gloom who knocks him back and almost cuts him with the blades. He jumps and sends a kunai past him. he teleports next to him and tries to stab him. He gets kicks away by Gloom. Amy charges at Gloom with her hammer and he cuts her hammer clean in half.
Gloom: *Laughing*
She snaps her fingers and another one comes in. Gloom looks at it in shock and shrugs. He slashes towards her and she hammers him in the legs tripping him. She slams his head into the ground and he crawls through the floor panels. They can hear the clanking and noise. Sonic and Amy stand next to each other and look out for anything. He can be heard speaking in tongue and a whole another language. He jumps above them and slams into them but misses. He crawls through the ground but he can't be heard. Shadow looks around and remembers his hiding spots. He concentrate's hard and learns a new trick. He speaks in the language as well and a portal opens. Two guns that look like molten magma come out of him. They have a red-ish tint on them. they look dark orange red with glowing matter on the triggers. The Black arm's symbol is on them. He fires a bullet at a wall and it explodes. The scientist appear and are shock at the huge gap in the wall.
Shadow: "Not Sorry."
He grins and his brother appears at the top of the boxes. He jumps down and tosses his dual axes at Shadow. He dodges and Gloom mysteriously teleports over with the blades in his hand and charges at Shadow and swings at him. He dodges each at attack until Sonic charges into a ball with electricity storming him in a circle. He spin dashes at him and he has another spin battle. He fights and fights but sonic gets faster and faster. Shadow takes aim and Amy stops him.
Amy: "No. Not in hear. The explosions might destroy the station."
Shadow nods and agrees. The guns disappear into thin air and they're gone. Sonic battles it out. With gloom and gloom looks like he's ready to overpower Sonic.
Sonic's conscience: "No… C'mon sonic! C'mon Blitz!"
He spins faster and faster and the electricity gets stronger and stronger and stronger. He slashes hard against the dual axes and Gloom is trying harder and harder. Sonic uses the emerald he has in his quill and uses the power of chaos to help him. He spins faster and faster and it's sounds of thunder and lightning happening in space until he breaks the axes and slashes gloom enough to not kill him. He screams out in agony of the electric slashes Sonic unleashes onto him. He stabs cuts him and slashes through his side. Blood comes out and electricity fries him leaving him tired and panting. He calms down and he powers down. The parasitic GUN soldiers fall one by one and are released by the parasites. Gloom starts to power down from the battle and is back to normal and bloodied. Gloom looks around and see's dead corpses of the ark. He starts breathing heavily and starts to get a panic attack. He holds his shoulder that's bleeding. He gets a hot flash and the memory of the gun soldiers start to dwell on him. in reality the rest of the gun battalion runs out to check the wounded. Rouge, Cream, and Tails run to find Knuckles with his arms broken backwards.
Rouge: "KNUCKLES!"
Tails and Cream: "KNUCKLES!"
They check on him and he's still breathing. He's breathing hard in pain. He looks to see Rouge and his best friend tending to him.
Knuckles: "G-guys! D-did we stop him?" *grunts*
Tails: "They did. Your arms man. They need to be repaired."
Shadow walks over to knuckles and the group.
Shadow: "I got him."
He holds his arms.
Knuckles: *Grunts*
His bones and elbow joints start snapping back into place and his arms and blood start circulating again. His arms heal fast and they're back to normal.
Knuckles: *sigh* "That's better. Thanks Shad-"
They all see the pain in shadows arms. He did more than just heal him. He took his pain. His arms heal fast like it did last time when Amy smashed them.
Tails and Knuckles: "Woah"
Shadow: "Learning is a painful process."
Cal and Beth and the other security teams enter to check the wounded and Dead. Cal marches and stomps towards Gloom until Espio stands in front of him.
Cal: "Stand Aside."
Espio: "You won't kill him."
Cal: "Look around you mobian! He slaughtered an entire battalion of my finest men and friends. He must die!"
Amy stands next to Espio.
Amy: "Then you're gonna have to kill us."
She pulls out her hammer and the remaining battalion gun soldiers point their Guns at her.
GUN Soldier: "Your orders Sir?"
They stare each other down until Cal raises his hand to stand down. They point the guns down.
Cal: "We'll bring him down to justice."
They nod their heads and Gloom makes a break for it. He's running off through the corridor. He runs through the rooms and past the security guards.
Beth: "Wait! Gloom!"
He storms through hallways and passes Maria's room. He remembers the gunshots and the dead Bodies.
Gloom: "MARIA! MARIA! WHERE ARE YOU?"
He runs down the corridor and until he makes his way to the escape pods he looks around and nobody is there but one person. The doctor himself. Checking old records into the room. He looks at the floor Maria died on and remembers Shadow getting sent down to earth.
Dr. Eggman: "Hello Gloom. I've been expecting you."
Gloom looks at himself in the reflection of the pods and witness something scary. He's see's a monster. His walls on the inside start to break down and he collapses having flashbacks of a happy Maria Robotnik. Tears swarm his eyes and he realizes what he has become. He wails out in agony. Shadow and Amy can be heard running towards the escape pods. They bust through the door to find the doctor leaning against the wall as Gloom is crying in agony on his knees. Cal and a few soldiers walk up to see a broken man on his knees screaming in agony. One of them holds their gun towards him but Cal puts is hand on the gun. He looks at the soldier and shakes his head no. The soldier follows the order and places his gun on his back. Amy walks up to him and kneels behind Gloom. She hugs him from the back. Gloom could care less who's doing it. He remembers Maria used to hug him from the back. He cries more and more as She holds his hands and places the cuffs on him.
Eggman: "Mission Complete. We won."
Shadow: "Not. Now. Eggman."
Gloom: *Crying*
Amy: "I know Honey. You did it for someone you love. I understand. I know what it's like. The feeling is mutual. Hurts doesn't it. Believe me, You are not alone."
To Be Continued…
