WARNING! THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE STORY THE VIOLENCE AND LANGUAGE WILL GET WORST. LANGUAGE WILL GET CENSORED BUT IT WILL GET USED MORE FREQUENTLY. VIOLENCE CONTAINS: Shooting, Physical and Bloody Descriptions.
This is an AU of Sonic Forces written in a realistic, dramatic way. Am in no way the best writer in the world. I'm just an idiot trying to get a story out of my head and put it into to words the best that I can. I would really appreciate some feed back on how everything is. Please.
I am Looking For Beta-Readers to help me out as I Up-Load the next coming chapters.
Sonic And Tails are alot OLDER in this STORY. Sonic is 23yrs old while Tails is 16yrs old.
I Uploaded the 1st set of chapters in one go but this is the 2nd set of Chapters is going to be chapter by chapter at a weekly basis on Friday at around 5pm PST
Forces: Chasing Memories is set after the battle against Infinite from the 1st set of Chapters.
Chapter 7 Word count is 4124
Sonic and Tails are owned by SEGA.
Main Sonic Cast: Sonic, Tails.
Main OC Cast: Wally, Peanut and Zeke.
Warning/Disclaimer: This story is written with teens to adults in mind. It does contain Bad Language(Some will be censored) And Violence. You will be warned when it does get WORST.
Chapter 7 The Line Between Good And Evil
AGAIN, WARNING! THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE STORY THE VIOLENCE AND LANGUAGE WILL GET WORST. LANGUAGE WILL GET CENSORED BUT IT WILL GET USED MORE FREQUENTLY. VIOLENCE CONTAINS: Shooting, Physical and Bloody Descriptions.
Craig stands there watching Curtis and his men drag Zeke's unconscious body and shoved into a car. Curtis turns to look back and flips him off. "Next time don't be so slow." He laughs entering the car.
Craig returns a halfhearted smile and waves them goodbye. Once they were gone, he looks over to two of the Boa soldiers next to him and whispers. "Follow me."
The two Boa Soldiers look at each other and then back to him. "Only high ranking-"
Craig snaps back annoyed, "Just f&%$ing do it. Trust me for once. The payoff is going to be worth it."
The two soldiers follow him while Craig sneaks his way around to the bush. He raises a hand to make the two soldiers stop. He puts his finger to his mouth and then points signaling to look at the bush. He whispers, "Stay here hidden. He might run this way."
"Run this way?" One of the soldiers asks as he looks at the bush seeing Peanut in it. "Oh shit."
Craig slowly sneaks behind the bush that Peanut's hiding in and points his gun at him. "Get out… now."
Peanut slowly gets out scared. He looks at Craig and pleads. "Please don't hit me."
Craig looks at him and smirks. "I'm not going to hit you… unless you run, then I'll use you as target practice. Spoiler alert…" He leans right at him and grins. "I don't miss." He whispers.
Peanut nods in agreement just staring at Craig's gun, and then looks upward into his eyes.
As Craig just stares into Peanuts eyes, he was beginning to feel weird and awkward. Any semblance of anger and bitterness was being purged out of his body; suddenly Peanut gets tackled to the ground by one of the Boa soldiers. Craig gets startled from it happening, snapping him out of it.
"AHhgah! Ahh! mhmhm." Peanut couldn't put up a struggle getting restrained and mouth taped shut instantly.
"Good one Craig. Curtis might have one of Sonic's friends but at least we have the damn kid." One of the Boa Soldiers says. He picks him up and throws him over his shoulder.
Craig seeing and not approving the way he's treating Peanut. "Riiiight, lets head back to turn him in." Heading back to their vehicle as Craig rubs his hands together excited, "I personally would love to see Curtis' face when…-" He stops and looks around for the car. He sighs and rubs his forehead in frustration, "They took the damn car."
"Tell me that you have a radio to call them?" One of the Soldiers asks.
"I do. It's in the damn car." He answers trying not to get mad.
Both Boa soldiers glared at him.
He glares back at them, "How was I supposed to know they were going to take the damn car?"
The Soldier drops Peanut to the ground. Muffled pain comes from him. "Now we have to f&$ walk." He complains.
Craig looking at what he just did to Peanut. "HEY! Watch it with the package."
"You want to carry him?"
"He barely weighs anything so quit your b%#ing and let's get going."
"When did you become in Charge?" He glares back.
"AGAIN WITH THIS? Let's just f&$ go. We have a long ass walk to do." Craig gets mad and walks away ending with, "Shit."
"You pick him up this time." He orders to the other soldier and walks away.
The other soldier hoists him over his shoulder. "Damn… You really do weigh like nothing."
After a while of walking… one of the soldiers stops for a break. "Let's stop and take five."
All Craig wanted to do is just get back to base, but refusing to take a break was only going to lead to an argument he didn't want to deal with. "Fine." Craig says and sits down near a tree to relax and watches the Soldier carrying Peanut.
The soldier carrying Peanut just drops him. Peanut muffles in pain from the drop. Peanut rolls onto his back and looks at everyone.
Craig gives the Soldier a glare.
The Soldier looks to him and scoffs at it. "You have a problem with that?" Peanut tries to squirm but then the Soldier delivers a kick to him. "STAY PUT AND DON'T MOVE!"
Peanut whimpers and doesn't move afterwards. His eyes darting back and forth in fear he stops and looks at Craig.
Craig just stares right back and looks away.
While relaxing with his eyes closed, he hears muffled pleas coming from Peanut. He opens them and sees that one of the soldiers is throwing rocks at him. Craig then covers his face getting angry and tries to ignore it… but Peanut pleas was finally getting to him. He looks back to Peanut and sees him staring right at him… then gets hit by another rock in the face forcing him to close his eyes.
Craig… gets… up. He walks towards Peanut and stands right over him. He looks directly into his eyes.
Another rock hits Peanut again.
Craig places his hand over his gun…
Another rock hits Peanut.
He un-holsters it and shoots the soldier right in the head.
The other soldier quickly gets up surprised, looking at what Craig just did and tries to get his gun out. Craig then aims right at him and fires off every last shot into him till he was empty.
Craig then lets out a loud yell in frustration and points the gun at Peanut. He storms to him kneeling in front of him, placing the tip of the muzzle of his gun to his face, feeling the scorching heat from it hurting him. Peanut closes his eyes and muffles in pain from it.
With Peanut in agony he grabs the tape wrapped onto his mouth and pulls it off. "AAhhh oowowow!"
"SHUT UP! OKAY?! JUST, SHUT UP!" Craig shouts at him and then walks away trying to come to terms with what he just did. He sits back down dropping his gun and tries to relax. He puts his hands over his face and yells into them. Once calming down he looks back at Peanut.
Peanut just stares right back at Craig. "Thank you." He says quietly but enough for him to hear.
All Craig does is just sit there in silence, till he gets back to his feet. He reaches down picking up his gun holstering it back to his side. He heads to one of the soldiers picking up his flask and taking a drink… then spits it out and throws it away. He goes back to rubbing his head. "Okay… alright… just… okay. Nobody knows." He mutters to himself. He looks at Peanut and just stands there. "Your friend …Willard."
Peanut awkwardly looks at him. "You mean Wally."
"Whatever… He's not who you think he is."
"I don't care."
He glares at his response. "You should. He's dangerous… once you really get to know him. See the real side of him."
"I… Don't… Care. He's not mean."
He looks away from Peanut and just stands there rubbing the back of his neck while looking at the two dead soldiers.
Peanut just stares at him, wondering what he's thinking. "How do you know him?"
Hearing his question, he answers back without looking. "He was… a friend of mine." He pulls out his knife and just looks at it… then turns to Peanut. He takes a step towards him.
Peanuts eyes widen about to panic.
Craig kneels down in front of him gritting his teeth while pointing the knife at him. "Alright, this is what we're going to do. I'm going to do three stabs."
Peanut eyes widen looking directly at the knife. "Wha, what? What do you-" Craig grabs him by his shirt and flips him to his back. "Ack..wha?"
Craig stabs into his hand restraints and cuts them off. "Stab number one." He grabs and flips him over again then grabs his leg restraints and stabs into them cutting them off. "Stab number two." He then grabs his neck and forcing him up to his feet not letting go yet. "Now what you're going to do is walk straight that way." He points as Peanut looks. "ONLY STRAIGHT and once you see a road… you go left and you follow it. You'll find someone to help you. GOT IT?!"
Peanut nods. "But that was only two stabs." He corrects him.
Craig nods back. "That's right. The third one will come if I see you again. You understand?"
Peanut nods. "Okay."
Craig releases him pushing him away and then turns around walking away.
Peanut just stands looking at the two dead bodies and then back to Craig. "You are a good guy."
Making his way to the base (snap) he hears something crack behind him once in a while. He stops to look around behind him, looking at everything… especially bushes. He goes back to walking until he hears a car driving by. He stops as it gets louder and louder as it drives right by.
He hears the car hits the breaks and it comes back in reverse. One of the soldiers pulls down the window. "Craig? Why are you walking around alone?" The Commanding Officer orders.
"Everyone left me behind at the crash site. I had no choice but to walk back." He answers back. Knowing how far he still has left to walk, he wanted to ask for a ride but he knew he was being followed. "Are you guys patrolling?" He asks.
"Yeah we are. You know the pilot that's one of Sonics friends? He escaped."
He laughs crossing his arms. "No shit?"
He glares at Craig and demands. "Compose yourself Craig. This isn't the time to get out of line."
Trying not to get angry being talked down too, he responds. "Sorry."
He rises up from his seat. "Sorry what?" He orders.
He takes a deep breath trying to stay calm, "Sorry… Sir." He struggles to say nicely.
He sits back on his seat. "That's better and to answer your question, yes he did escape and the boss is pissed off about it. He's so mad that he shot one of the guys in the face for just asking a damn question. I'll stay away from him if I were you."
Now he knows for sure that he can't go back with Peanut following him, he had to scare him to go away. He looks at the soldiers in the car and says. "Thanks for the warning but I'm still going to head back."
"You don't want a ride?" One of the Soldier's asks.
"Naw, I'm good. A good nature walk is good once in a while." Craig answers back, trying not to get mad missing out on the offer.
"That's on you but keep an eye out for the pilot." He orders while giving the command to drive off.
"Dammit." He mutters. (snap) Becoming angry he stares right at the bush that the sound came from. He scowls at it and keeps on walking.
Paying close attention while walking… (snap) and again he hears another branch break making him stop. He turns, knowing where it came from. Slowly walking towards the direction… he stops again near a bush. Slightly turning around, he then quickly thrust his hand into it, grabbing Peanut by the neck, pulling him out of it.
"ACKgah!" Peanut surprised by it.
Craig then lifts him up high and slams him to a nearby tree. He then pulls out his knife and in one quick motion he thrust it right next to his neck, centimeters from getting him.
Craig snarls at Peanut and shouts; "STOP FOLLOWING ME!"
"No." Peanut answers back.
"YOU DO NOT… WANT TO GO WHERE I'M GOING, SO STOP FOLLOWING ME!" Craig demands.
Peanut grabs his arm that he's being held up by. "NO! I WON'T STOP! I WON'T STOP FOLLOWING YOU UNTIL I SEE WALLY AGAIN! I WON'T STOP!"
Craig begins to squeeze on his neck causing him not to breathe, but Peanut just kept holding onto his arm. …He stops and let's goes. "Alright… FINE! It's your damn fault if something happens to you."
Peanut then releases his arm and smiles.
Craig just turns around and walks away.
Peanut just smiles, but then slowly loses it realizing that he can't touch the ground. "Hmm?" He looks down swinging his feet. "What… why?" He looks at the knife still there lodge into his shirt keeping him pinned to the tree. "No, Gah.. No… Grr!" Desperately pulling on the knife. "NO! GAhh ahh! You are evil." He says watching Craig still walking away from him.
"What the f&%$ is wrong with me?" Craig mutters to himself walking back to base. "I feel different… when I look at that kid. Less worried, less scared, less …angry. Is this what Chris went through… when he left? That's the reason why Leader wants him so badly." (snap) He hears a sound behind him making him crack a smile, knowing Peanut's following him again. He kept on walking and says out loud. "Your friend… umm… Walter?"
"Wally"
He hears his voice sounding annoyed, having to correct him with the right name. It almost causes him to laugh. "Even though… he did all of those cruel things... Eventually I knew something was off. Something was now different about him."
"He became nice." Again his voice was heard somewhere behind him.
"Like I said… we were friends. We both joined BOA together, leaving everything behind. The Leader… he… corrupted us. But Somehow Wal…lice?"
"Wally." Again, he corrects him sounding less annoyed but being more curious instead wanting to hear Craig talk about Wally.
"He broke out of it… came to his senses. When he did, he warned me that he was going to leave. I didn't follow him. I stayed behind. I… I was weak…" He stops walking. "I've always been weak. On that night… I lost the only friend I had and I wound up being alone."
(sniff) "He's the only friend I have too." He hears his sad voice behind him.
He turns around seeing Peanut just standing there out in view with his shirt torn. His eyes were red filled with sadness, but he was trying not to cry. "I'm also alone. I have no friends. Nobody but him. He's not the person you might know… but when I'm around him… I feel like I have a big brother. He's someone that I can look up to. He's someone that appreciates me. He's someone that makes me feel like I'm not invisible." He wipes his nose. "I wouldn't know what I'll do… if he wasn't around anymore."
Craig just stood there and just listens to him, figuring out how much he has in common with this kid. He then turns around and looks at the base. Way more in common then everyone in that damn base. He warns him again, "Last chance." He says as Peanut stands right next to him. "Turn away right now; cuz what might happen in there isn't going to be pretty."
Peanut shakes his head refusing. "I know Wally is coming here. I want to be here."
They hear gun fire at a distance. Craig un-holsters his gun, "Don't say I didn't warn you."
Rewind
Miller being at the base, mad that he isn't outside like everyone else. He's still testing and adjusting the Infinite particle bullets. "Why did I have to be the smart one around here?" Grabbing one of the bullets and putting it into a rifle. "Test number… shit… um… 82?" He sighs. "82 it is." He aims at a target fifty meters away and pulls the trigger. He lazily looks at the target and then down to his notes putting a check-mark on it… "Wait… what?" He looks back at the target's bullseye penetrated; and throws his arms into the air in celebration. "F&%$ING FINALLY!" Puts another into the rifle and fires again. He looks at the target again with excitement. "Hell yeah. This batch actually works. IT WORKS!" He sets them to the side. He counts how many of them are there. "Twenty rounds. Now to start calibrating them to be like this and we'll be set."
Beep, Beep, Boop! An alarm goes off. "Wha?" Becoming worried, he franticly checks his laptop and in relief checking. "He's still there… restrained… but what caused the alarm to go off?" He scans to figure out what caused the alarm to go off. "A window broke… at the main building?" Checking and scanning where the location is. "3rd floor… Infirmary?… Wait… What? Who the f&$% puts the infirmary on the 3rd floor?" He sighs. "Whatever, am surrounded by… idiots? Oh shit… OH SHIT!" He takes out a radio. "DEAD BODY SPOTTED AT THE BASE! HEAD BACK! COME BACK TO BASE!" He alerts looking at the first floor hallway seeing a body on the floor with blood splattered to the walls and floor. Suddenly the camera feed goes black and then a green error screen appears. "What the… he's here. He's still here." He gets up grabbing a hand full of bullets and puts them into his pocket. He then leaves grabbing his sniper rifle.
Meanwhile Sonic, Tails and Wally make their way towards Peanut's location. Tails keeps track of their location throughout the way in the dense forest. He then looks at Sonic and asks being concerned, "What are we going to do once we get there? I mean… How are we going to deal with Infinite if he's really there?"
Sonic rubbing the back of his head, "Umm… maybe we can talk some sense into him?" He chuckles back masking his concern.
Hearing his response and his concerned tone, "What if that doesn't work?"
Sonic stops walking and looks at the ground. "I still remember it as if it was yesterday when we fought. I punched him. I kicked him. I elbowed him and also spin dashed him. I even head bunted him. Out of all that nothing fazed him." He looks at Tails then looks at Wally remembering about the warning Colbort said. He looks away and back to Tails, "I hope we made the right choice."
Tails knowing what he means and just stares at him… seeing him in a way he rarely ever sees Sonic. Worried… Concerned… Scared. He had to get him out of his self-doubt. "Are you saying that you can't beat him?"
Surprised to hear it come out of Tails, "I couldn't beat him then. What makes you think I can do it now?"
Tails takes a step to him and reminds him of what he went through, "You were beaten and taken. Tortured for months till the Resistance found you. Did you just stayed in bed once you were rescued? NO! You got up and went back to face him again. And even though you were still hurting you fought him with everything you had. YOU DID EVERYTHING YOU COULD TO STOP HIM!" Tails looks at Wally seeing him as Chris then looks at Sonic again. "You did whatever it took to buy enough time for everyone to do what they had to do to take Infinite down."
Sonic just stood there and listens to him.
Tails then says, "That was then. This is now. I saw how you kept rubbing your legs when they hurt. I haven't seen you do that for months now. I know you can beat him. You just have to know it too."
Sonic smiles and jabs him on the shoulder, "Yeah… You're right."
Tails smiles back, "Of course I'm right. I'm always right."
Sonic chuckles and before he gets a chance to say anything else he looks up and notices smoke. He points, "Is that what I think it is?"
Both Tails and Wally look, and before Tails has a chance to answer, Sonic already speeds off.
"Smoke… That has to be the Air-" Before Tails can finish, Wally also runs pass him in desperation to it.
Tails takes flight to get through the forest quicker and the closer he gets the sound of gun fire gets louder and louder. Once getting there he sees the crashed aircraft and Sonic fighting off BOA Soldiers. He hides watching Sonic rush back and forth disarming them, then knocks them out.
He looks for Wally and sees him fighting two Soldiers. One of them was on the ground shaking his head while rubbing it, while the other Wally was fighting him. The Soldier throws a right hook but not only does Wally slap the punch away, he also grabs it, pulls and begins to unleash punch after punch back to the Soldiers face till he was out cold.
"Geez… does he have to fight… so aggressively?" Completely focused on how he's reacting, he sees Wally notice the other Soldier trying to get back to his feet as he runs to him, delivering a kick to the side of his head.
"Stay the f&%$ down." He threatens in anger.
"Wait… is he… is he fighting like-" He pondering if it really was him. "…Chris?" He asks making sure.
He turns to face Tails. "Hmm, What Tails?"
Getting disappointed that it isn't him, "Never mind."
One of them tries to escape but Sonic was already at him doing a spin dash colliding into him and sending him flying into a tree. "That was the last one." Sonic says grabbing the last soldier and dragging him back to the rest of the soldiers that were knocked out.
Tails checks his locator seeing that it's still pointing east. "He's not here."
"But what about Zeke?" Sonic asks as he rushes into the downed Aircraft. Seconds later he rushes right back out. "Zeke isn't here either."
"Both of them might be at their base?" Wally suggests.
One of the BOA soldiers wakes up. Sonic walks up to him. "Hi, mind if you give us directions to your base? And no… were not looking to join up."
Trying to get out of his restraints to not answer, "I-I… I can't. He'll kill me if I do." The Boa Soldier pleads.
Wally getting furious with his response he picks up a gun. "If something happens to Peanut then you're going to have me to worry about." He points the gun at him. "WHERE'S YOUR BASE?!"
He panics from the threat. "OKAY! It's… It's straight that way."
"That way?" Tails points looking at his tracker.
"Yes, that way." He answers again.
Tails looks at his tracker and nods. "It matches. That's exactly where the signal is." He marks their current location.
Sonic smirks at the Soldier, "Sit tight while we go shake up your base."
The Soldier shakes his head. "You have no idea who you're dealing with. Leader of the BOA's is insane. You take him lightly and he'll make you regret it."
"Pfft! I've had my fill of crazy maniacal villains. He'll be no different. I'll wipe the floor with him." Sonic answers back boldly.
The Soldier just looks at Sonic and slowly shakes his head. "You really have no idea. He'll make you eat those words."
Wally grabs his head hearing those words. "Not… again. GAh!"
The Soldier looks at Wally worried.
"Don't worry. It's something he's dealing with." Sonic informs. After a while the pain stops and Wally regains control. "Are you okay?"
Wally takes a deep breath. "The Tornado…"
"What about it?" Sonic asks.
"It belongs to you."
Sonic chuckles about the plane and looks at Tails. "Well… not really anymore. It's more like Tail's than mine. He takes care of it way more than I ever do."
Tails smiles back appreciating it.
Sonic looks at the Soldier, "You and you're buds stay here and behave. Got it? It'll be all over before you know it."
The Soldier just nods.
"Well let's get going and end this." Sonic says.
Everyone nods and head off towards the BOA's base.
Trudging through the forest again, they finally reach the base. Tails looks at the tracker and sees that Peanut signal is somewhere around in the base.
"Can you get in touch with the Resistance?" Wally asks.
Tails shakes his head. "No, I can't. A Jammer isn't letting me do it. We're on our own."
Sonic nods and takes a step forward cracking his knuckles. "You guys ready for this?"
Wally also takes a step forward. "I'm ready. I'm not afraid."
Tails does the same. "Yeah, let's do this."
Zeke was hiding somewhere in the base outside. Craig and Peanut also arriving to the base. With everyone approaching the BOA's Base they knew that once they enter, it was going to be a one way trip. They all take a step forward knowing that danger is waiting for them.
End of Chapter. Thanks for Reading.
Next: The Final Chapter: Chapter 8 A Tango with Bullets.
