Notice: Fanfiction.Net Screwed up my Chapter three...I reloaded it three times and nothing. x_O;; Goodness, I'll just repost Chapter Three right here. Chapter Five's going to be up Monday Night hopefully, I'm about halfway done with it now (One extremly long scene left) Chapter 3 is like...a Vital Chapter to the whole damn story along with Chapter Five x_O;;
-------------------Heart to No Heart: Guess Who's Back
Julie-Su laid awake most of that night, the feeling of complete guilt over breaking that walkman went though her mind several times. What was she thinking? She didn't even more from that spot looking at the ceiling of her bladly decorated apartment until the first rays of the morning sun came though the window and across her eyes and muzzle. She blinked awake, away from that state of daydreaming she was in for the last six hours and rolled out of bed. She came to the window which overlooked the street in front of the apartment and seen some shinning pieces of metal surrounded by some blue plastic.
Its still out there! She hurried and got dressed, slipping on her boots and heading out the door. Thank Aurora that her Stepparents where taking a vacation to New Mobotropolis (Knothole) on the surface and didn't see her acting this way. She made it down the steps with the speed only matching that of a certain blue rodent and scooped as many pieces of the walkman as she could.
Stuffing them in her pockets, she thought of a place where she could take the walkman to get it fixed..."Maybe Haven..." They had enough problems as it was scrambling to prepare a new guardian for training, so adding something to their repair list should be no problem.
-------Master Emerald Shrine
SLAM, this wasn't good for Vector's large ego right now. He stumbled off the Shrine's steps and into one of the water beds which surrounded it for summoning Chaos. Groaning in pain, he slowly made his way to sitting up in the puddle of water thicker then anything you can get out a tap (hopefully). He was having second thoughts about dancing without any music to go along with it. The moonwalk wasn't so magical when you didn't have a fast track to move along with. " Man, I can't do anything without that walkman!" He yelled up to Espio and Mighty, Charmy went off to get some food from Echindaopolis.
Mighty chuckled a little. " Looks about the same as when you had the walkman!"
Espio just shook his head, even though he didn't like Vector's style of dance, he knew that Vector was having a definite off day now. That also made him wonder, looking back down at the pair of broken headphones around his neck he was prompted to ask. " I don't see why you're upset over something that can be replaced! Why don't you just go in town and get another walkman?"
Vector shook his head, his large eyes closing for a moment. " There ani't no replacing that walkman. Its one of a kind..."
Espio looked up at the sky for a moment, thinking. " I don't see how, I don't even remember how you got that stupid thing!"
The crocodile made his way to his feet and started back up the stairs. He was surprised that he didn't remember how he got it, it seemed like one of the most important times to the Chaotix...
--------Three Years Ago, the Same Location
It was a day training with Knuckles if Vector remembered right, Locke was overlooking them from the top of the open Shrine platform. He seemed impressed with the progress the better half of the Chaotix were having. Right now the five young Mobians were having a spar to determine who was the strongest in the flat grass around the shrine. Locke did notice something slightly unfair though, and took note of it along with Achemies.
Vector backed up a little and bumped into what felt like an invisible wall, seconds later his arms where brought behind his back by Espio who was coming out of his cloaking shell. He whipped Vector's head back and called out to Mighty who was coming around fast in a spindash to slam into Vector's stomach and send him back on Espio. He landed on the Chameleon he let out a fake cry of pain, which only made Mighty laugh since he was joking about how large Vector was.
" That large one...what are his abilities?" Achemies asked Locke, this was his first time watching the Chaotix in a practice fight and he seemed a little confused.
Locke looked back at the fireant and shook his head. " He's...a normal Mobian, as far as I can see. "
"You can't let a normal Mobian be on the Chaotix! You know what kinds of creatures come around trying to steal the Master Emerald. Heh, we don't have time to be treating the wounds of someone who can get hurt so easily!"
Locke blinked and then chuckled a little, that fake spiked clawed glove coming under his chin while he thought about that with a grin. " We could just expel him from the island and call it a day...down below a group for the normal Mobian called the Freedom Fighters could use 'em!" They both let out a long laugh, they disregarded the Freedom Fighters as an organized front. Locke was the first to straiten himself up. " Knuckles wouldn't allow it...as useless as he is, that was Knuckles first friend outside the Brotherhood. "
"We'll have to have a talk with Knuckles about that...so." Achemies came forward and shot a flare into the air from his mouth, covering the whole battlefield with a soft red glow. " Okay boys, its time to call it a day!"
Later on that night, in the location of Haven outside the Hidden Palace Zone Locke and Achemies were able to pull Knuckles over to the side and talk about Vector. They say down at a round table with some papers on the table, mainly the process of the Chaotix training-wise. There was a long silence, only with the sound of the humming monitors around them to confront them while each scrambled for a protest against the others.
Locke, being short for words like he was, planned on making his statement the first and last. " We're kicking Vector out the Chaotix..."
"You can't!" Knuckles shot back so fast it made the two older Mobians jump. " Where is he supposed to go? He knew us his whole life and can't live anywhere else!"
"He can still stay on the island, he just can't go into fighting against the Legion!" Locke stood up along with his son and tried to calm him down, though both of their tones were thunderous.
Their conversation was cut short by the sound of something in another room, the room which was used for the Chaotix to warp from place to place quickly. The three made their way over to see that Vector was on the warp pad yawning since it was so late at night. When the machine powered down he stepped forward with his head hung a little. " Ya'll want me to split, I know. I'll be gone by mornin'...."
"Hold on a second Vector..." Achemies questioned himself for a moment before stepping forward. " How do you know and we just had that conversation?"
"I overheard ya'll from the Master Emerald Shrine. " Vector explained a little meek.
Locke looked down at the fireant and then up at Vector puzzled, the Master Emerald Shrine was more then five miles away. Not even he could hear what was happening at the shrine from here without his special equipment. A smirk came across his muzzle and he spoke. " I think I found out your gift, Vector."
---------Present time
"That still doesn't explain how you got your walkman Vector. " Espio was listening to the story while sitting on top of the Master Emerald. Mighty was sitting on the far wall and Vector was leaning against the doorframe looking down at his belt where the piece of metal which kept the walkman in place was.
Vector grumbled a little, those large sharp fangs becoming bared for a moment before he spat out lowly. " You don't give me a chance to finish...forget about it, you probably don't care about it anyway!"
--------Haven
At Haven, Julie-Su was listening to the same story while Locke took the time out of evaluating the Echidnas on the island who can be a possible Guardian to look at the Walkman. He was prodding though it with a wielder which wasn't turned on just yet to see if there were any parts which weren't broken he could use in the reconstruction.
Julie-Su seemed interested in what he was talking about, sitting at the same table which was used a few years ago to house many conversations about the Chaotix long before Echindaopolis was restored to Angel Island the first time around. " What happened after that?"
Locke chuckled a little and flicked a spring from the inner part of the walkman where it accepted tapes, it bounced along the table and rolled towards her. " I guess you never heard any of the Chaotix's origin stories...Well I thought that Vector could've been useful to detect intruders to the island, so ran a few tests on him though it was hard to keep him from being subspicous..."
---------Three Years ago, the Following Day
"You think I'm retarded, right? " Vector winced when Locke stuck a needle into his arm to extract some blood for another test. Locke had to stick one in that arm several times since Vector's tough scales don't let much get by them, unfortunately the croc wasn't a big fan of needles.
Locke took the needle off the end of the sample and threw it away before putting the bottle of blood down on the table. He lead Vector out of Haven where the rest of the Chaotix were having a meditation session. Vector snickered though he was still depressed about being useless to the Chaotix, mainly because Knuckles was making a mockery of the meditation session again with his fake humming (If anyone reading wants that Comic scan, you can drop me a Review and I'll post it next Chap).
"Give us a week Vector. I know you're upset that you can't be a help to the Chaotix, but if you don't feel better in a week you can leave on your own! " Locke dug around in his pocket, looking for something that he had made the previous night. " Today, I have to apologize for suggesting that you leave...so I'm giving you a present."
Out of his right pocket came a pair of headphones, the same headphones that Vector had around his neck to this day. Out of his left pocket came the walkman, which was shining from just being polished up and was made to withstand some of the harsher elements. He handed them to Vector and motioned off to the brush of trees which started the forest off in a clearing. " We think you should take a break from training to try out your new Walkman."
"What do you mean we?" Espio muttered under his breath, not opening his eyes to look at them from his mediation though his train of thought was broken.
Vector looked over to Epsio and then at the clearing of trees. He decides not to say anything about it now since he wanted to figure out how that walkman worked. He slipped the headphones over his ears(?) and headed over to the clearing.
When he was almost out of sight, Locke looked over towards Achemies " Is everything set Achemies?"
The fire ant stood up from his meditation and nodded to the Echidna, looking over towards the forest where Vector just disappeared into. " In a few minutes the simulation will be starting. I still think its cruel to test Vector in that manner..."
Knuckles opened his purple toned eyes and looked up to them. " Question, why are you discussing this out loud? Can't Vector...erm...hear you?"
"Sure I can..." Vector's ears were drowned with a song which may have been popular with the Overlanders down on the surface at one time. It had a really tropical beat which made his head bob up and down with a grin.
He came up with words of his own to go along with the beat, his inspiration came from a stream which was in the center of the forest. He walked up to the bank of the river and turned up the volume so the sound could be heard though those headphones and around him. Someone was watching him, but he didn't seem to care, thinking that it was Achemies with his 'simulation' whatever it happened to be.
He decided to dive under the water and try and think up the lyrics in his mind so they can come to his mouth . " Under the stream! Under the Stream!"
--------Present Time
Julie-Su laughed at that point, pushing herself back in the chair until she caught her breath and asked. " How did you know?"
Locke was laughing himself, he found the parts which he could use for the walkman in that short conversation and pushed them towards his right, but most of the parts where towards his left and were useless unless he felt the need for another clock around here. " Cameras, they're all over the island. I just took the time to rewind the tape and find out what I was looking for. "
"So what happened next? " She found herself asking without thinking, she wanted to know how it ended.
Locke looked up at her with that all knowing grin. " You should know...you were the one who attacked him if I recall. "
The pink Echidna flushed in embarrassment, she had such a bad memory when it came to the earlier days that she almost forgot. Her paws shifted in front of her before she moved to push herself out of her chair. " Thanks for sharing that with me Locke."
"Don't worry about it Julie-Su, I won't tell anyone." He winked at her before he went back to his work with the walkman, he continued his statement like he said nothing major. " I'll have to build him a new walkman from scratch, the old one was done for before it was broken. "
Julie-Su nodded to that, but then backtracked to what he said before and turned to him with her gloved paws on her hips. " What was that supposed to mean?"
Locke scooped up the pieces of the walkman he was going to use and started to walk away like he was ignoring her question. Soon after he looked over his shoulder and noted. " I won't tell anyone that you of all people have taken a sudden interest in Vector!"
Julie-Su flushed, mainly angry that he would even think that she has an interest in Vector besides smacking him over the head. She stood up from where she was at the table and headed towards the door, fuming over that. The very nerve behind that got her upset, she wasn't paying attention to that which was happening around her. The slamming of the double doors of the hidden headquarters and her stepping onto the streets after she slipped though the small door of the warehouse.
She was walking back towards Echindaopolis when it happened. She didn't even hear the shot of the dartgun firing, but felt something prick her in the back of her neck which made her stumble forward with her senses dulled to a stupor. She tripped over her own feet and fell to the feet of an Echidna who wore blue leather boots. She couldn't mutter the name, but knew who had knocked her out before her vision blurred to darkness.
---------Legion Headquarters
Her vision came back to her hours later, and she was in a room which was lit by one single light over her head with heat pouring down on her fur. She shuddered a little, which made the chains which surrounded her wrists and ankles cling together, along with the one on her neck which let her have a foot away from the wall. Her vision came back completely and she could seen Lein-Da in the corner cleaning her nails with the flat end of a knife, paying her no mind. Julie-Su wouldn't have been able to see her at all without the glare of that sharp metal blade against the faint lighting.
Lein-Da's eyes slid over to Julie-Su who was already struggling against the restraints. " Don't bother, those bonds could hold even Knuckles without a problem!" Julie-Su shot daggers towards her before looking down at the ground. " Speaking of Knuckles...I have a surprise for you!"
The way Lein-Da said that brought a cold chill down her spine, she seemed to be happy over what she had to show her. That sort of happiness shown though someone as cold hearted at Lein-Da was a horrible sight. She went to her feet and over towards the door, placing her hand on the door she called out into the hallway. " She's awake now, she wants to see you!"
Julie-Su could hear the sounds of boots against the cold ground when the male Echidna came into the room in a cool stride. Her violet eyes widened in fright while the Echidna came over towards the light, it couldn't be...It wasn't clear until the Echidna stepped into the light where she could see the features of his body. The spiked gloves on either hand, the white crest across his chest, the same purple eyes she shared, and that devilish grin.
He leaned in close to her, whispering into where her ear was under that mess of pink hair. " Guess who's back! "
-----------------To Be continued
I think this chapter is a lot shorter then the chapters which came before it. I'm not sure, maybe because of the lack of events though something major happened at the end. I'd like to take this time to thank everyone who reviewed. Red Fox who reviewed more then one of my fics, and am looking for more reviews to help me get some direction in the story. I hope to have the next chapter out on Thursday, maybe late tonight if I could. I hope to get this story up and over with before Archie finishes their 'Afterlife' storyline in the Sonic backstories.
-------------------Heart to No Heart: Guess Who's Back
Julie-Su laid awake most of that night, the feeling of complete guilt over breaking that walkman went though her mind several times. What was she thinking? She didn't even more from that spot looking at the ceiling of her bladly decorated apartment until the first rays of the morning sun came though the window and across her eyes and muzzle. She blinked awake, away from that state of daydreaming she was in for the last six hours and rolled out of bed. She came to the window which overlooked the street in front of the apartment and seen some shinning pieces of metal surrounded by some blue plastic.
Its still out there! She hurried and got dressed, slipping on her boots and heading out the door. Thank Aurora that her Stepparents where taking a vacation to New Mobotropolis (Knothole) on the surface and didn't see her acting this way. She made it down the steps with the speed only matching that of a certain blue rodent and scooped as many pieces of the walkman as she could.
Stuffing them in her pockets, she thought of a place where she could take the walkman to get it fixed..."Maybe Haven..." They had enough problems as it was scrambling to prepare a new guardian for training, so adding something to their repair list should be no problem.
-------Master Emerald Shrine
SLAM, this wasn't good for Vector's large ego right now. He stumbled off the Shrine's steps and into one of the water beds which surrounded it for summoning Chaos. Groaning in pain, he slowly made his way to sitting up in the puddle of water thicker then anything you can get out a tap (hopefully). He was having second thoughts about dancing without any music to go along with it. The moonwalk wasn't so magical when you didn't have a fast track to move along with. " Man, I can't do anything without that walkman!" He yelled up to Espio and Mighty, Charmy went off to get some food from Echindaopolis.
Mighty chuckled a little. " Looks about the same as when you had the walkman!"
Espio just shook his head, even though he didn't like Vector's style of dance, he knew that Vector was having a definite off day now. That also made him wonder, looking back down at the pair of broken headphones around his neck he was prompted to ask. " I don't see why you're upset over something that can be replaced! Why don't you just go in town and get another walkman?"
Vector shook his head, his large eyes closing for a moment. " There ani't no replacing that walkman. Its one of a kind..."
Espio looked up at the sky for a moment, thinking. " I don't see how, I don't even remember how you got that stupid thing!"
The crocodile made his way to his feet and started back up the stairs. He was surprised that he didn't remember how he got it, it seemed like one of the most important times to the Chaotix...
--------Three Years Ago, the Same Location
It was a day training with Knuckles if Vector remembered right, Locke was overlooking them from the top of the open Shrine platform. He seemed impressed with the progress the better half of the Chaotix were having. Right now the five young Mobians were having a spar to determine who was the strongest in the flat grass around the shrine. Locke did notice something slightly unfair though, and took note of it along with Achemies.
Vector backed up a little and bumped into what felt like an invisible wall, seconds later his arms where brought behind his back by Espio who was coming out of his cloaking shell. He whipped Vector's head back and called out to Mighty who was coming around fast in a spindash to slam into Vector's stomach and send him back on Espio. He landed on the Chameleon he let out a fake cry of pain, which only made Mighty laugh since he was joking about how large Vector was.
" That large one...what are his abilities?" Achemies asked Locke, this was his first time watching the Chaotix in a practice fight and he seemed a little confused.
Locke looked back at the fireant and shook his head. " He's...a normal Mobian, as far as I can see. "
"You can't let a normal Mobian be on the Chaotix! You know what kinds of creatures come around trying to steal the Master Emerald. Heh, we don't have time to be treating the wounds of someone who can get hurt so easily!"
Locke blinked and then chuckled a little, that fake spiked clawed glove coming under his chin while he thought about that with a grin. " We could just expel him from the island and call it a day...down below a group for the normal Mobian called the Freedom Fighters could use 'em!" They both let out a long laugh, they disregarded the Freedom Fighters as an organized front. Locke was the first to straiten himself up. " Knuckles wouldn't allow it...as useless as he is, that was Knuckles first friend outside the Brotherhood. "
"We'll have to have a talk with Knuckles about that...so." Achemies came forward and shot a flare into the air from his mouth, covering the whole battlefield with a soft red glow. " Okay boys, its time to call it a day!"
Later on that night, in the location of Haven outside the Hidden Palace Zone Locke and Achemies were able to pull Knuckles over to the side and talk about Vector. They say down at a round table with some papers on the table, mainly the process of the Chaotix training-wise. There was a long silence, only with the sound of the humming monitors around them to confront them while each scrambled for a protest against the others.
Locke, being short for words like he was, planned on making his statement the first and last. " We're kicking Vector out the Chaotix..."
"You can't!" Knuckles shot back so fast it made the two older Mobians jump. " Where is he supposed to go? He knew us his whole life and can't live anywhere else!"
"He can still stay on the island, he just can't go into fighting against the Legion!" Locke stood up along with his son and tried to calm him down, though both of their tones were thunderous.
Their conversation was cut short by the sound of something in another room, the room which was used for the Chaotix to warp from place to place quickly. The three made their way over to see that Vector was on the warp pad yawning since it was so late at night. When the machine powered down he stepped forward with his head hung a little. " Ya'll want me to split, I know. I'll be gone by mornin'...."
"Hold on a second Vector..." Achemies questioned himself for a moment before stepping forward. " How do you know and we just had that conversation?"
"I overheard ya'll from the Master Emerald Shrine. " Vector explained a little meek.
Locke looked down at the fireant and then up at Vector puzzled, the Master Emerald Shrine was more then five miles away. Not even he could hear what was happening at the shrine from here without his special equipment. A smirk came across his muzzle and he spoke. " I think I found out your gift, Vector."
---------Present time
"That still doesn't explain how you got your walkman Vector. " Espio was listening to the story while sitting on top of the Master Emerald. Mighty was sitting on the far wall and Vector was leaning against the doorframe looking down at his belt where the piece of metal which kept the walkman in place was.
Vector grumbled a little, those large sharp fangs becoming bared for a moment before he spat out lowly. " You don't give me a chance to finish...forget about it, you probably don't care about it anyway!"
--------Haven
At Haven, Julie-Su was listening to the same story while Locke took the time out of evaluating the Echidnas on the island who can be a possible Guardian to look at the Walkman. He was prodding though it with a wielder which wasn't turned on just yet to see if there were any parts which weren't broken he could use in the reconstruction.
Julie-Su seemed interested in what he was talking about, sitting at the same table which was used a few years ago to house many conversations about the Chaotix long before Echindaopolis was restored to Angel Island the first time around. " What happened after that?"
Locke chuckled a little and flicked a spring from the inner part of the walkman where it accepted tapes, it bounced along the table and rolled towards her. " I guess you never heard any of the Chaotix's origin stories...Well I thought that Vector could've been useful to detect intruders to the island, so ran a few tests on him though it was hard to keep him from being subspicous..."
---------Three Years ago, the Following Day
"You think I'm retarded, right? " Vector winced when Locke stuck a needle into his arm to extract some blood for another test. Locke had to stick one in that arm several times since Vector's tough scales don't let much get by them, unfortunately the croc wasn't a big fan of needles.
Locke took the needle off the end of the sample and threw it away before putting the bottle of blood down on the table. He lead Vector out of Haven where the rest of the Chaotix were having a meditation session. Vector snickered though he was still depressed about being useless to the Chaotix, mainly because Knuckles was making a mockery of the meditation session again with his fake humming (If anyone reading wants that Comic scan, you can drop me a Review and I'll post it next Chap).
"Give us a week Vector. I know you're upset that you can't be a help to the Chaotix, but if you don't feel better in a week you can leave on your own! " Locke dug around in his pocket, looking for something that he had made the previous night. " Today, I have to apologize for suggesting that you leave...so I'm giving you a present."
Out of his right pocket came a pair of headphones, the same headphones that Vector had around his neck to this day. Out of his left pocket came the walkman, which was shining from just being polished up and was made to withstand some of the harsher elements. He handed them to Vector and motioned off to the brush of trees which started the forest off in a clearing. " We think you should take a break from training to try out your new Walkman."
"What do you mean we?" Espio muttered under his breath, not opening his eyes to look at them from his mediation though his train of thought was broken.
Vector looked over to Epsio and then at the clearing of trees. He decides not to say anything about it now since he wanted to figure out how that walkman worked. He slipped the headphones over his ears(?) and headed over to the clearing.
When he was almost out of sight, Locke looked over towards Achemies " Is everything set Achemies?"
The fire ant stood up from his meditation and nodded to the Echidna, looking over towards the forest where Vector just disappeared into. " In a few minutes the simulation will be starting. I still think its cruel to test Vector in that manner..."
Knuckles opened his purple toned eyes and looked up to them. " Question, why are you discussing this out loud? Can't Vector...erm...hear you?"
"Sure I can..." Vector's ears were drowned with a song which may have been popular with the Overlanders down on the surface at one time. It had a really tropical beat which made his head bob up and down with a grin.
He came up with words of his own to go along with the beat, his inspiration came from a stream which was in the center of the forest. He walked up to the bank of the river and turned up the volume so the sound could be heard though those headphones and around him. Someone was watching him, but he didn't seem to care, thinking that it was Achemies with his 'simulation' whatever it happened to be.
He decided to dive under the water and try and think up the lyrics in his mind so they can come to his mouth . " Under the stream! Under the Stream!"
--------Present Time
Julie-Su laughed at that point, pushing herself back in the chair until she caught her breath and asked. " How did you know?"
Locke was laughing himself, he found the parts which he could use for the walkman in that short conversation and pushed them towards his right, but most of the parts where towards his left and were useless unless he felt the need for another clock around here. " Cameras, they're all over the island. I just took the time to rewind the tape and find out what I was looking for. "
"So what happened next? " She found herself asking without thinking, she wanted to know how it ended.
Locke looked up at her with that all knowing grin. " You should know...you were the one who attacked him if I recall. "
The pink Echidna flushed in embarrassment, she had such a bad memory when it came to the earlier days that she almost forgot. Her paws shifted in front of her before she moved to push herself out of her chair. " Thanks for sharing that with me Locke."
"Don't worry about it Julie-Su, I won't tell anyone." He winked at her before he went back to his work with the walkman, he continued his statement like he said nothing major. " I'll have to build him a new walkman from scratch, the old one was done for before it was broken. "
Julie-Su nodded to that, but then backtracked to what he said before and turned to him with her gloved paws on her hips. " What was that supposed to mean?"
Locke scooped up the pieces of the walkman he was going to use and started to walk away like he was ignoring her question. Soon after he looked over his shoulder and noted. " I won't tell anyone that you of all people have taken a sudden interest in Vector!"
Julie-Su flushed, mainly angry that he would even think that she has an interest in Vector besides smacking him over the head. She stood up from where she was at the table and headed towards the door, fuming over that. The very nerve behind that got her upset, she wasn't paying attention to that which was happening around her. The slamming of the double doors of the hidden headquarters and her stepping onto the streets after she slipped though the small door of the warehouse.
She was walking back towards Echindaopolis when it happened. She didn't even hear the shot of the dartgun firing, but felt something prick her in the back of her neck which made her stumble forward with her senses dulled to a stupor. She tripped over her own feet and fell to the feet of an Echidna who wore blue leather boots. She couldn't mutter the name, but knew who had knocked her out before her vision blurred to darkness.
---------Legion Headquarters
Her vision came back to her hours later, and she was in a room which was lit by one single light over her head with heat pouring down on her fur. She shuddered a little, which made the chains which surrounded her wrists and ankles cling together, along with the one on her neck which let her have a foot away from the wall. Her vision came back completely and she could seen Lein-Da in the corner cleaning her nails with the flat end of a knife, paying her no mind. Julie-Su wouldn't have been able to see her at all without the glare of that sharp metal blade against the faint lighting.
Lein-Da's eyes slid over to Julie-Su who was already struggling against the restraints. " Don't bother, those bonds could hold even Knuckles without a problem!" Julie-Su shot daggers towards her before looking down at the ground. " Speaking of Knuckles...I have a surprise for you!"
The way Lein-Da said that brought a cold chill down her spine, she seemed to be happy over what she had to show her. That sort of happiness shown though someone as cold hearted at Lein-Da was a horrible sight. She went to her feet and over towards the door, placing her hand on the door she called out into the hallway. " She's awake now, she wants to see you!"
Julie-Su could hear the sounds of boots against the cold ground when the male Echidna came into the room in a cool stride. Her violet eyes widened in fright while the Echidna came over towards the light, it couldn't be...It wasn't clear until the Echidna stepped into the light where she could see the features of his body. The spiked gloves on either hand, the white crest across his chest, the same purple eyes she shared, and that devilish grin.
He leaned in close to her, whispering into where her ear was under that mess of pink hair. " Guess who's back! "
-----------------To Be continued
I think this chapter is a lot shorter then the chapters which came before it. I'm not sure, maybe because of the lack of events though something major happened at the end. I'd like to take this time to thank everyone who reviewed. Red Fox who reviewed more then one of my fics, and am looking for more reviews to help me get some direction in the story. I hope to have the next chapter out on Thursday, maybe late tonight if I could. I hope to get this story up and over with before Archie finishes their 'Afterlife' storyline in the Sonic backstories.