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Kita: Boo @ Fanfiction.net. Itg really stinks for the fact of 2 days of no uploading, and only reading. And I think I'm locked out of my stats thing on my menu, because it keeps on denying any loading of the screen to get to it. Sheesh, I'm bout ready to kick ass if something like that happens again. Oh well, here's chapter 13.
Broken HopeKnuckles couldn't believe that there was someone that almost looked like Rouge, except this bat was black almost all over, and his leather boot looked as if it had erupted into flames with the flame-like pattern embedded as a design, would come here… and for what reason?
"I told you, get off the Island, or face the consequences, you idiot."
"Hmm, I zink not, idiot. For ju see, ju have something I seek. And I'm not leaving until I get it for my superior lord."
Knuckles made a strange face at the bat, and he immediately began to think. By the looks of it…" Don't tell me, you're one of Eggman's ridiculous cronies, I can tell by the roboticized body parts, a common trademark of Eggman's handiwork."
"Ooh, such an observationist, no? I zink I shall take that Master Emerald, which is what I seek!"
Knuckles had just about had enough of this freak, deciding to give him simple instructions... " Listen here you freak of nature. You can forget about taking my Emerald. Tell you what, do me a small favor and go take that order FATman gave you, and go back to him. You can shove that up his ass, or I will do it personally for you."
Inferno could see that Knuckles was not going to give up the emerald easily, and such a sarcastic halfwit, too. A smirk played across the bat's face, his toothy-like grin showing his canines towards the Echidna."Sooo pitiful. If that's the way ju vant to play, then I will have to forcibly take it from ju. I von't be responsible for the damage I vill caaaause…"
"Suit yourself. I gave you fair warnings to go, but I will have to take this in to my own hands." The Red Echidna reared his sharp-tipped knuckles. He wouldn't let some stupid crazy-ass half-mechanical bat steal the Master emerald. And he thought he had seen enough of Rouge, but apparently Eggman was trying to steal his emerald again for some reason or another. Knuckles kept his eyes steadily on the bat, which looked like he could go on the offensive just any given passing minute, or second.
"Vell, vell. I'll take care of ju, then!" The mechanical parts, due to Eggman's new and reinforced machine-designs, gave Inferno the upper edge as soon as the bat was able to get at Knucles' face within a split-second. No way! Just about as fast as Sonic would?! That can't be! The Bat merely used his own remaining flesh-embedded hand, which was his right hand, and gained a hook shot to Knucles' jaw, impacting it with less force. But had he used his robot hand, he would have surely almost cracked Knuckles' jawbone loose.
Falling back, holding the sore area, which is his jaw, Knuckles growls at Inferno, charging at him with immense speed. He coldly starts to deliver out smooth, lightning-fast jabs, and punches towards the bat's flesh-side, since hitting the metal doesn't do very much good, but dent the stupid armor. He catches Inferno's face plenty of times with his spiked knuckles, bruising him badly at the one side, which just caused him to fall back, but not before the bat looked at the Guardian angrily, as if he were on fire, hence the name Inferno... No one messes with the Master Emerald, not even thieves, Dr. Eggman, or whatever else could steal this precious source of power from the protection, and wrath of the Echidna guarding it fiercely.
Inferno had just had enough up to his forehead with this annoying Echidna. "Ju are just as stupid as ze Echidna known as Katai! Although, he haz not battled me, yet." The black bat mentions, as he finally gains the upper hand again, this time with the use of his robotic arm and fist. The ends of his metal fingers were lethally sharp, designed to cut through almost anything; Flesh, Steel, Iron, Wood, etc. The black bat merely used his fingers to snare one of Knuckles' fists in a tight death-like grip.
The Echidna found the grip was very hard to break, considering it was a robotic grip, and the machinery has no muscles, just fiber optical circuitry that sends pulses to command each and every individual part of that machine, mainly the fingers, and the wrist. Knuckles struggles to get his fist free, by using his other fist upon the unguarded Inferno, since before this, he used the arm as a shield to block a lot of his punches, and that arm was doing a damn good job of not being dented, even a little bit! He was growing angry at each moment that grinning bat kept crushing his right fist with that damn robotic hand of his. The pain was beginning to pile up, and Knuckles was going to finish this, one way or another…
An electrical charge soared up in his remaining free fist. He had to act now before that freak crushed his trapped fist, as the red echidna stared at the menacing bat for only three seconds. The intention of knocking this freakish bat away would do the trick…
Knuckles grinned. "You're gonna regret coming here for the Emerald, bat boy."
At that moment, Inferno hadn't any idea, until it was too late when the real eye darted to look at his free, poised fist… the fist aimed towards the torso of Inferno himself. When it was too late for the black bat to notice, the electrical punch shot out towards the bat in a quick motion in which no one in close range could dodge, unless they could go faster than the speed of Sonic, of course. Knuckles could only mouth out his main attack, before the vocal cords did their trick.
"THUNDER ARROW!"The force of the electricity pushed on Inferno as the punch jabbed his gut firmly, and he falls back, literally by sending the surprised intruder smashing into a wall, thus making an imprint, being shocked enormously by the amount of powerful lightning-fast move Knuckles threw out at him in an instant.
"WAARGH! Ju rotten pathetic pest! I am going to wring jur neck until jur head snaps off of ze spine… Vat the…" But at that moment, a slight malfunction of the arm began to register as the arm, also designed to be extendible to a certain amount of length, began to shoot out of control, and the steel-coated fist actually 'flew' straight at the Emerald. The fist collided with the jewel, knocking it off balance, and unfortunately, it also shattered it to pieces. Right there on the ground of the shrine, too. Both Knuckles and Inferno went wide-eyed…
"Ahh, no, nonononoooo! That was not supposed to happeeeeeen! Oh good stinking grief!! Robotnik will not like zis… but for you, Knucklehead, I'll be taking most of those pieces!" The arm had retracted fast, and Inferno ran towards the shards. The black bat grabbed, and snagged as many pieces as he could before Knuckles ran at him. Inferno simply sidestepped and tripped the Echidna, which sent Knuckles tumbling down. The bat got most of the big pieces, but the littler shards, essential for the jewel's power, were left behind as Inferno fled the scene altogether with about eight to nine shards in hand.
"Don't vink that ju have won. I vill be back!!" Inferno's voice echoes, as the bat's voice silences, nothing else heard anymore but the quiet sounds.
"Huh?…" Knuckles knew that was bad news, since his Master emerald was shattered, again, the Island began to rumble. Knuckles couldn't stay here unless he wanted to go down with it, but he had his duty to protect the emerald, and he would retrieve those shards at any cost. Gathering the remaining shards, and pieces, and placing them into a handy little sack made of cloth he made, Knuckles fled the island, leaping into the air to get a good start, checking for some thermals. There were some, but now he had to head out to find that nuisance of a black bat and get back those pieces! He instantly extended his fists forwards, gliding along the air currents as the Island falls to the water.
"Rats, damn bats. Soon, I'd have a whole flock of bats coming to my island!" Knuckles shouted.
Back at San Francisco
"Hey, nice place. Pink everywhere, but cool, still," Blizzard comments as she takes a look around Amy's own little home. Kinda comfy-looking, almost like her private quarters back on the Colony, but a lot less pink… A white towel hits the blue hedgehog's face out of nowhere, Amy having tossed it to her. "Thanks for the towel, Amy," She adds, as Blizzard starts to furiously dry her quills off, shaking her head to wring out the last of the rainwater on her quills, and fur. Making a silent mental note, she decides to pester her brother to come inside.
Blizzard - 'You know, you can come in here, Brother It'd be awfully nice of you to enter since you're standing out in the rain like a dork…'
Shadow -'I'd prefer not to, dear Sister.'
'Stubborn jerk.'
'Stupid moron.'
'Well maybe I should join Sonic and call you the faker!'
'Oh, you go ahead and do that, Sonic-clone.'
'What??! Why I ought to freaking shove this towel I have in my hand down your stinking throat, you asshole. Just get your ass in here, and at LEAST dry off, for gosh sake. It's not like I'm asking you to do extremely hard work, you know. And I was trying to be polite.'
'Calling me a dork isn't polite, by the way, but whatever. If it makes you happy…"
Shadow leaps off the rooftop, to land on the pavement below. He had mentally argued with his little sibling for the past few seconds, and, usually, she won… most of the time. Shaking his head, he slowly skated through the pounding rain. He merely toyed with his thoughts, and sometimes his mind pausing more often than usual. Why is Blizzard being nice to Amy? Could there be a reason why?
A sudden impact of a soft object on his face caught him off-guard in his thoughts. Shadow stumbled back a bit, and looked around fiercely. Was he blinded?!? By what? Only when he calmed down, the tension decreasing, did he only find out it was just a lavender-colored towel covering his face.
"Geeze, do you have to be that edgy? I mean, come on, we're not in any sort of danger now and you take a towel as if it were dangerous, Shadow. Besides, I think you better come in if you're going to. I'm going to be busy for a while so make yourself at home," It was just Amy tossing that towel to him... and he overreacted when he was at the front doorway. Amy slinked off towards her bedroom, and shut the door. Shadow blinked once, before he took the towel off his face.
"Are you gonna stand there like a dork, and go 'duuuuuh', or are you gonna dry yourself off?" Blizzard was relaxing in a very comfy-looking spot, mainly the fluffy-like couch. Obviously she made herself at home more quickly than he did. Sighing to himself, he took the soft towel, and began to wipe his face off, still, some dirt and ash lodged inbetween.
"Okay, I'm finished, but Shadow, you're gonna have to take a bath…" Amy says, as she comes to peek her head out, a darker shade of pink wrapped around her head.
Shadow stiffened.
…A…. bath.
Blizzard got that weird eye on her brother, like she knew what to do if he stiffened, which was a sign of reluctance. "Oh no you don't, mister. You're gonna take a bath, whether you like it or not… Amy, I think you're gonna have to help me keep him down in the water."
Amy blinks about five times in a row. Her, help Blizzard… hold down Shadow in the bathtub? But why? Amy rolls her eyes mentally, before she decided to go and dress herself up before she could try to tackle that little feat. Plucking through her closet, then to her drawers, she decides to lose the little girl look… since everyone always thought of her as a little spoiled brat that couldn't do anything right but get herself into so much trouble. Psh, they wish. Dragging out some bought, unused tee shirts, she looked through the different colors, as she had her bra on. Hmm…. Nah, not red. How about yellow? Nope. Looking to the last one, she sees that it's black, but really clean…and hasn't been worn yet… She just throws that shirt on, along with an extra piece of clothing to make the shirt look non-dull, a nice red vest with white outlines. Perfect! Now she had to choose her shorts, but she hardly wore jeans. Just that dress she usually wore… Shaking her head, she just takes a nice pair of light blue jean shorts, and slips those on. Her bathroom was in her bedroom, so Blizzard would get all the help she needed.
Taking a brush lying on her dresser, she managed to brush out all the tangles, and straighten her shoulder-length quills. Maybe she should let her hair grow out somewhat. It'd make her more stylish. Grabbing her red hair band, she places it on her hair, those three bangs poking out from her straightened quills. Oh well…
"Hey, I'm dressed. You can come in if you like, now," Amy shouted.
"This is going to be fun.…" Commented a snickering Blizzard in the main room.
/ Oh boy… / Amy commented to herself, mentally.
"No… I'm not going in there. I'm not taking a bath…" Protested Shadow, who was growing angrier. Amy was hearing all of this, before she thought she heard the sounds of a slight scuffle, a few punches, and some 'oof's, before Blizzard dragged her partially dazed brother through Amy's bedroom door. Amy couldn't believe it. His own little sister was dragging Shadow, the Ultimate Life Form! Amy couldn't help but giggle at the sight, as Blizzard heaved Shadow into the tub as quick as she could. Removing his gloves, and his shoes, and placing them aside, the Black and red hedgehog tried to make a slight run for it, but found no way out as Blizzard held him down with one hand, starting the water with the other. Feeling the lukewarm water, she plugged up the bottom, and leaned over.
"Ah, sorry big brother, but you know it's actually polite, too, if you clean yourself… often…" Blizzard whispers.
Shadow growled, and looked away. He couldn't believe this was happening to him…
The water filled, as she began to make shadow sit upright. Pouring in some shampoo Amy handed her earlier, she began to vigorously scrub the quills very hard, Shadow's eyes darting from left to right. There was no way he could escape now with fucking suds in his quills… fuck it. He'll just sit there… and wait, patiently. After the thorough scrubbing he received, his head was dunked underwater all of a sudden, the water getting rid of the suds. The quills literally dropped, making him look like he had long hair.
Shadow looked furious…
Unplugging the tub, she let the water drain out, and Blizzard left a towel, Amy following out with an extra towel being placed on the floor of the tub. Shadow took notice of her new clothing, and tilted his head as he got a funny look from Amy. What was her problem?
As Shadow gives Amy a questioning look, she shrugs, and takes her leave, two towels covering the annoyed Ultimate Life Form… What pathetic idiots they were… He could have done one by himself.