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Chapter 14: The Secret Life of Antoine D'Coolette

Everyone no longer remembered Antoine as the kind, cowardly, coyote people would occassionaly go to the movies with, help on missions, and rarely let them play fetch with. No. They only remember him as a coldblooded killer who killed his wife because she slept with another man, nevermind the fact that he had been saving people's skins for a long time.

Antoine felt alone. He was stuck in a jail cell all day with next to no friends if you excluded Rotor, Monkey Khan, and Lightning the Lynx, who advised him to not befriend anyone here, and he was smart enough to know that he didn't need told that. He didn't want to be associated with drug dealers, rapists, and serial killers.

Lightning also had a job to do as the prison warden, so only when Lightning was off the clock could he stop calling him Mr. Warden. Lightning also understood his plight and saw sympathy in him, knowing fully well that Antoine was not the monster they made him out to be.

Antoine had even seen some of the murder mystery shows about him. The show, Killers with Swords, made him out to be some psychopath that killed his pregnant wife because the voices told him too, which wasn't true. Another show, Evil Killers, made him out to be some kind of man just aching to kill someone, who had to be tazed because he was just that violent of a person. Sally Acorn made him seem like an absoloute monster, as did Sonic, as they delivered the lines, "We always expected Antoine to turn out this way, as he was indeed a very violent, controlling man."

The shows or Sally and Sonic didn't bother Antoine one bit. In fact, it made him laugh, because he'd saved their asses more times than could be counted, regardless of all the credit Sonic took for himself, because it was just a balant lie so funny, it was scoffable.

The truth is, is that Bunnie had been cheating on him for a long while with some weasel guy named Darren Keyes from Australia (And nobody said a word about it too! To adorn the wound with lemon juice and salt, they all knew about it but him and thought that Antoine was too stupid and too inept at English to know any better), while they were dating, got pregnant with Darren's baby, and decided that Antoine was a stupid bitch that nobody loved and would be leaving tomorrow. And so, heartbroken Antoine didn't like the idea of her getting away with cheating on him, so he decided whether or not to confront her about it.

He took action, and things got out of hand. She told him that she'd do it again with Nack, if he'd give her the time of day (He did have a crush on her at one point, but left it alone when he found out that she was engaged to Antoine), and move to Australia to be with him even though Darren was there, said that Sonic was a far better lover than him, made a rude comment about how horrible it was having a husband who didn't speak proper English, and then he lost his temper and the next thing he knew, he had stabbed Bunnie in the forehead, pulled her son from her womb, for the innocent child to live, and was saying, "Sans pitie."

He named the red rabbit Brake and sent him off to an orphanage and turned himself in to the law. And even though he did that, his reputation was shot. Like he had noted before, Lightning was the only one who sympathized with him because in his life, Sleuth and Drago went looking for foreign kids to put on their team, and found him wandering outside of Japan then drugged him and had his name blown out of proportion as some sick, murdering freak who specialized in making women pay in every way, otherwise, he and the Destructix would actually have helped further the cause against Eggman if people didn't think that they were for him. They only kept up the bad guy act because they didn't think redemption would ever be in their grasp.

On some on those murder mystery shows, they made Lightning out to be a rapist, a psycopath, a stalker, a heartbroken martyr (Which nobody ever thought up of Antoine), and as a bully who like to intimidate people, but Lightning had also done more evil than Antoine could ever achieve, and his reputation was pieced together by the turn of a leaf, but not for Antoine.

Lightning has killed 67 people in his life, and had found redemption, but Antoine knew that he'd never be forgiven. His life was ruined like spoiled milk left out in the sun, and people would forget all the good he's ever done for them. Lightning should be rotting in a cell or dead from death row, and yet the opening of a new prison washes away the blood of his sins, but no such luck exists for Antoine Siene Honore Lafarret Loisel Nuit Soleil Frere Depardieu D'Coolette.

In fact, all Antoine's life has ever been is planned out by stupidity, shunned, mocked, and standing in the shadow of the others, but unlike Rotor, at least somebody actually remembered his name.

This whole mess starts out when he was 9 years old. He and a 6 year old Sally had been put into an arranged marriage, and their father's ideas to make it work: don't teach Antoine any English and don't teach Sally any French so that way when he joins the Freedom Fighters, they can all play that fun game of charades everybody loves, and have everything lost in translation because that's how relationships work.

When Sonic and Sally tried to teach him English, his father whipped him away from America and put him in France for another year, until he ran away at 17. Then Sonic would steal all of his girls from him, there was the constant threat of Eggman hanging overhead, people avoided him because he could barely speak English, and when he did, you could really tell that he had just stepped off of the plane, and he may have been cowardly, but that didn't mean that he wasn't reliable.

Next, there was the fact that Bunnie had stopped feeling that drive for him when an assassination attempt of King Max's life went sour when Antoine, who didn't know how to drive, dived into the car and drove it, with the bomb still on it, to a hill and got his eye blew out of it's socket, a few fingers knocked off of his hands, lost half of his hearing, his sense of smell, had to go through multiple surgeries to patch together his destroyed face and body, had half of his bones replaced with metal, and lost all feeling in his arms and legs.

The only person that really could aleviate his troubles was Rotor, but he never understood him, and never made the effort to. Then there was Monkey Khan. He loved Monkey Khan like a brother, and they always hung out together, even though they couldn't understand each other well.

While he knew a few English phrases, Monkey Khan knew none, and he wasn't going to because Sally kept him around long enough to sleep with him, and then the next thing everyone knew, Sonic was chasing a naked Monkey Khan out of the palace with a knife as Sally, dressed up in bedsheets, chased both the men out the door, begging for Sonic to not to kill him.

Lightning didn't really know much English either, and the English he did know was fractured, like the rest of his team's, with the exception of Flying Frog, who had wonderful siblings-4 of them to be exact!

Silas was Flying Frog's younger brother with a permanent limp in his leg, who spoke only Spanish and Ukranian (Mainly Spanish; Ukranian on special events like Christmas) and no English, so he knew of Antoine's troubles, and lived on a farm with Bunnie's older brother, Rodredrick the Rabbit, a recovering vetran from several of the Robotnik Wars.

And then there was her- Thistle Hawanya the Frog, the younger sister of Silas and Flying Frog. When he saw her, everyone dissappeared from his life. He loved her so much, nevermind the fact that she was suffering from Myclonis, a disease that makes a person uncontrollably twitch, or the fact that she had just got widowed at 18, as she had fell in love with Darren Keyes's terminally ill brother who was super quiet and super nice (He was Lightning's best friend and an aspiring surgeon), who had loved Thistle so much that they married, and then he died the night of the wedding with a heartattack, at the young age of 21, a year after they met.

But there was still the problem of Bunnie. He was still married and in love with her, even though he suspected her of infidelity long before he placed a ring on her finger. Antoine knew that he had messed up after he had married Bunnie that coming year, on her 20th birthday on August 18th of that year, because they both thought that it'd be super romantic to marry on her birthday.

Either way, those two made love every night until it became clear that she was pregnant. Antoine had already had the divorce papers in order, and then he figured out that Bunnie had been cheating on him, and then he killed her, and Thistle was left all alone to give birth to his son. Then her disease took over, shook her into seizures, and she died a year after their son had been born. He never saw his son, and as far as anyone knows, he was the only one alive who knew of the baby. He thought about telling Lightning, but then again, he wouldn't understand, and the last person that needed to know was Flying, as he was trouble.

Antoine was always superstitous, and he was a bit paranoid of everything, but that paranoia has saved his life multiple times, even to the bemoaning of his friends. You could never be too careful.

Anyways, it was closing time, and Antoine knew what that meant: babysitting Lightning's kids while he went on a romantic date with his wife; But this time, he had an extra set of visitors. Lightning bowed and smiled at him as a certain limp frog and a younger frogman walked in.

"Z-Zilas?"

"Antoine."

Antoine had to make sure it was him, as he looked eerily similiar to Flying, and they weren't even twins. The two exchanged a few words, and then Silas dropped the bomb on him: "Would you like to meet your son?" "M-my son." Antoine choked, trying not to cry.

"Dad?" asked the young man with chestnut eyes, the color of Antoine's, and pale green skin, the color of his mother's. He stood tall in stature and was lean, like Silas. His hair was blonde, which both sides had blonde hair, but the young man's hair was as curly as can be, like Flying's baby brother's.

"Son?" Antoine said, finally crying. "Dad!" cried the other man as father and son lunged and held each other for the first time. "Oh my son, I love you." Antoine whispered into his ear in perfect English. "I love you too dad." replied Antoine's son. "Are you going to tell him your name?" Silas asked, brushing away a tear.

"Sweet Harmony," the man answered. "My name is Sweet Harmony." "Oh what a beautiful name." Antoine cried, burying his face in his son's shoulder. "Don't cry dad," Sweet Harmony stated, patting him on the back. "It's alright." "But I missed so much of your life." Antoine sobbed. "It's alright. I understand that your temper can get away from you sometimes, afterall, I inheritted it." Sweet Harmony said with good humor.

Antoine looked at him, sniffling, "You did?" "Yeah, I got to learn to fight somehow." Sweet Harmony said. "O-oh Sweet Harmony," Antoine sobbed again, holding his son. "I'll never let you go." Antoine looked up at the faces in the room. Silas, Maybelle, Lightning, and their children stood there smiling at him.

Antoine didn't know what else to say, except, "Thank you. Thank you all." He continued to hug and cry on his son, and the two spent the rest of the night as father and son would have.

End of Chapter 14