I own no one in this story except Blade J. Ishikawa. All other characters are owned by Sega. Any names that I make up I do not own nor does Sega as far as I know of. Anyone that I make up except Blade can be used freely. Thank you and enjoy.

Warning: This story contains contents meant for an older audience. Little children should not read this. If they do they are held legally responsible for any and all of their actions. The story contain swearing, 'heavy' violence, and some sexual content. You have been warned!!! Enjoy.

Soultouch

Part 1: Return of Blade

The explosion roared across the Floating Island. The trees nearest were blown back, some of which were blown out of the ground.

"What the hell was that?!" Remington asked stepping out of his office.

"Don't know Constable, but we're looking into it right now."

"Got something Constable." Remington walked over to Sergeant Jet's desk. Remington with others crowded about the desk and checked what had caused the explosion.

"No way!"

"It couldn't be!"

"But the computer says so!"

"Quiet!" Remington yelled. "Are you sure this thing is correct Jet?"

"The computer was given to us by the Brotherhood and you know they would never give us garbage."

"So then according to this the Dark Legion's base was blown apart. Let's get our squads out there and check in on it." In an hour a squad of fifty of EST's best was at the former site of the Dark Legion along with Knuckles and the Chaotix.

"This is crazy man." Vector said looking over the place. Everywhere you looked there were shredded, broken, charred, and twisted bits of metal. The spot the base had been in was where what was actually left of base at. It was still on fire and of no use to anyone. Some of the structures of the base were near by in what ever condition possible.

"Who did this?" Espio asked to no one in particular.

"He did." Remington said as he gestured to a body that everyone spotted in the open. Remington, Knuckles, and the Chaotix walked near the body.

"Blade!" Julie-Su gasped.

"You know this guy?" Knuckles asked.

"He used to serve the Dark Legion but I convinced him to leave. Before he did he said he was going to finish the Dark Legion off." Julie-Su knelt by his body.

"Careful!" Might warned her.

Julie-Su rolled him over. His chest had been stabbed in the chest and had an unbelievable deep gash going from one hip to the other and running from the bottom of his rib cage to his waist. Near him was a wakizashi.

"Chicken killed himself after knowing the charges." Vector said with his arms crossed.

"Wrong Vector." Knuckles replied bluntly.

"What do you mean Rad Red?" Vector asked in return.

"He committed seppuku, honorable suicide." Knuckles pointed at the wound. "He did the traditional act of cutting himself open and then stabbing himself with his own wakizashi, the soul of the samurai."

"You mean this guy was a samurai?" Espio asked recalling what he had learned about them. "But all the samurai died out a long time ago."

"Blade has been alive for a long time." Julie-Su said looking at his body.

"We might as well get him to a hospital. They can at least clean him up for a burial worthy of a warrior." Remington said sighing. "So much death. The ground is drenched with blood."

Julie-Su and Knuckles went with Blade's body to the hospital. They removed his ninja garbs and were cleaning the wounds of dry blood when one nurse pulled away. "What is it?" The doctor asked

"He's bleeding freshly." She said gesturing to the new blood.

"It's just excessive blood." Another nurse shrieked. "Now what?!"

"He has a faint pulse."

"Don't be silly." The doctor brought a heart beat monitor and placed the needle in Blade's left arm. He plugged the machine in. "Now you'll see it was all in your heads." He flipped the switch. His blood ran cold for there was a very faint pulse indeed. He checked again and again and the beat was still there. He ran to a switch on the wall and hit it. Alarms went off and a crew came in and shifted Blade onto a stretcher. In seconds he was moved into emergency care where surgeons, doctors, and nurses began frantically working on Blade.

After just a few minutes they discovered that they didn't have the technology to help him. They called the emergency line of the hospital of Haven.

"We understand." Sojourner said. "We'll be waiting for his arrival."

Two months passed and Blade was doing far better then he had thought to have been. Most of his external wounds had healed and surprisingly would not leave scars. It was the internal wounds that they were worried about. When he had sliced himself open he had sliced many organs open and he had ripped the left chamber of his heart open. How he was alive was beyond them but they weren't going to let him go.

Julie-Su sat at Lara-Le's where Knuckles and Locke had come. While they were getting Blade into a rehabilitation tube they had checked his DNA for anything that might help them understand him. What they found was bloodline connections to the guardian line. They also discovered genetic mutations. His fur was one example of this as he was albino, but the streaks in his dreads were another. He also had damage to his DNA structure that they couldn't figure out but told them that his body aged much slower then it was suppose to. He also had some interesting mutations. For starters he was capable of running faster then most vehicles but fell far behind Sonic's speed. He also had amazing strength even for echidna standards which was quite strong in the male echidnas.

Julie-Su wondered if he would be okay. Knuckles found out about her feelings for the tall echidna but he didn't go into it as he and Julie-Su had broken up two months ago.

Five months

"Where am I?" Blade awoke slowly. Blade felt a stiffer then a log. He looked about his surroundings and finally realized he was in a hospital. Blade then his noticed his weapons out on a table across from him and some fresh clothes folded on a table next to that. "What the-"

"I see you're awake Mr. Nobokan." Blade looked at the doctor who had just entered puzzled. "You were in pretty bad shape when you came in. You had so many injuries it looked like you were the result of every casualty in a war."

"How long have I been here?"

"Five months Mr. Nobokan."

"Five months?" Blade nodded in agreement since he had no since of time. "How did I end up here?"

"I brought you in." Blade looked to the doorway and spotted Julie-Su.

"I'll leave you two alone." The doctor left. When he did Julie-Su shut the door and walked over to Blade.

"You feel okay?"

"Tired, hungry, and really beat, but yeah I feel as okay as I can be for a murder of thirteen hundred."

"You did kill yourself and you were reborn."

"How so?" Julie-Su lifted Blade's left hand to his face and showed him something he didn't have before. Spurs. They looked like the guardian's but they turned from white at the base and turned into a dark blue. "Well I be damned." Blade said turning his hand this way and that.

"So when you get out of here, how about we do something?"

"Sure." Blade just hopped out of the bed which totally surprised her, got dressed, and tucked his katana and wakizashi into the belt. These weren't exactly what he would wear. Something about brown cowboy boots, blue pants with dark brown chaps, a white shirt, a dark brown leather jacket, and a brown cowboy hat just isn't him. "Next time I get my clothes."

"Are you sure you should be doing that?" She asked as Blade stretched out.

"I'm fine."

The two left and entered the streets of Echidnapolis. No one really looked at him except to notice his fur color and that was it.

The two walked to the nearest restaurant, went in, and were seated.

"So what do you like?" Julie-Su asked looking through the menu.

"You." Blade said grinning.

Julie-Su blushed behind the menu. "I meant to eat silly."

Blade picked up his menu and looked through. It had been a while since he ate, a very long while. "To be honest Julie I haven't eaten in so long I don't know what food really tastes like."

"Well that's true." Julie-Su had to agree with him there. "I'll order for you." Julie-Su thought back to her dreams of there marriage and thought of what he liked. He loved pancakes with scrambled eggs. "I'll get you some pancakes with scrambled eggs."

"That sounds rather good." Blade said scratching his chin.

"And a glass of Coca-Cola."

"You know me rather well he said smiling. I'll let you order for until I can figure it out for myself."

"Thanks." Julie-Su felt like they were already to together. The waitress came and took their orders. While they waited Julie-Su jogged his memory of what had happened during his time of absence from the living realm. As Julie-Su told him about what had happened something within in remembered what it shouldn't and he began to fill that his work was unfinished.

End

Please Review

Blade: I'm back and healthier then ever but I'm beginning to wonder if I finished off all of the Dark Legionnaires. If I haven't then I can't rest easy until they are all dead! But how will I know if any are alive. I now need a computer with knowledge of all the island inhabitants.

Part 2: Finding More Insects