Prologue~ Team Chaotix
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Vector sat in the jail cell, mumbling. He was using one of his teeth to draw elaborate escape plans. "If I go here, they'll catch me right here... But if I go here, they'll stop me with lasers... here. Agh... I can't believe I'm here... If anyone should be here, it should be that nameless wench. I remember that after the Eggman threat, we got a lot of publicity for saving the world. Life was good for me, Espio, and Charmy...
I guess nothing lasts forever, though. One day, I was watching the news reports, and I saw a story on the T.V about two bats named Bain and Rouge, they were partners in crime. Just after the report ended, a girl came into the office. She was the typical kind of girl you would see in a detective story. She had a pretty face, but it held a lot of lies. She wore lots of makeup; midnight blue eye shadow, lipstick, and she had some really weird looking boots. Those boots had hearts on them, and they were pointed at the end. She looked like she was in a rush to change, but I couldn't tell for sure because she wore a cloak that covered her entire body. I should've been suspicious the second she walked in the office. She wouldn't tell me her name. In fact, she didn't say much at all. She just put down a large wad of money, and a photo of that black bat I saw on the T.V, and said "Kill 'em." If we were in our right minds at the time, we would've definitely been suspicious and not carried out with her plan. But we had become miserly during the peak of our careers, and would do anything to earn a little money... That was our downfall. While we did succeed in killing him, things began to get worse. I was arrested, and Espio and Charmy couldn't pay the rent, so they went their separate ways. I remember that I had told Charmy to hide when the authorities came. I've never forgiven myself for that. His parents and friends called him a coward for hiding, and he ran away from home. When I received news that he had died, I told everyone to leave me alone. But they wouldn't listen. They insisted on telling me every detail of his death. Charmy had decided to kill himself. He stuck his foot in the lava at the Marble Zone, but it hurt him so badly he decided not to do it. He screamed at the top of his lungs that he was a coward, and he wasn't even brave enough to take his own life. It sounded ridiculous, but when you're that desperate to die, it doesn't matter what you do. I would know; I feel like that right now... Charmy stayed at Marble Zone, and died because he lost his mind and tried to "beat some bravery into himself" by hitting himself repeatedly with a rock. He died when everyone hated him. No one even cared about him enough to bury him. I'm not sure how much longer I can keep my own sanity; every morning I wake up after dreams of Charmy's death, each time more vivid and gory. That's why I have to escape. I have to get out of my cell, and bury Charmy's body. It's the only way he'll ever rest in peace. Of course, I have nothing else to live for, so I will hurl myself into the magma, and end my own life. I can't believe I started this stupid "Detective Idea" anyways. All that came from it was the death of its members..."
"Hey, stupid! Quit mumbling!" Vector scowled. The room was supposedly soundproof; how could they even hear him? He was in the highest security room in the prison... He must escape...
Vector sat in the jail cell, mumbling. He was using one of his teeth to draw elaborate escape plans. "If I go here, they'll catch me right here... But if I go here, they'll stop me with lasers... here. Agh... I can't believe I'm here... If anyone should be here, it should be that nameless wench. I remember that after the Eggman threat, we got a lot of publicity for saving the world. Life was good for me, Espio, and Charmy...
I guess nothing lasts forever, though. One day, I was watching the news reports, and I saw a story on the T.V about two bats named Bain and Rouge, they were partners in crime. Just after the report ended, a girl came into the office. She was the typical kind of girl you would see in a detective story. She had a pretty face, but it held a lot of lies. She wore lots of makeup; midnight blue eye shadow, lipstick, and she had some really weird looking boots. Those boots had hearts on them, and they were pointed at the end. She looked like she was in a rush to change, but I couldn't tell for sure because she wore a cloak that covered her entire body. I should've been suspicious the second she walked in the office. She wouldn't tell me her name. In fact, she didn't say much at all. She just put down a large wad of money, and a photo of that black bat I saw on the T.V, and said "Kill 'em." If we were in our right minds at the time, we would've definitely been suspicious and not carried out with her plan. But we had become miserly during the peak of our careers, and would do anything to earn a little money... That was our downfall. While we did succeed in killing him, things began to get worse. I was arrested, and Espio and Charmy couldn't pay the rent, so they went their separate ways. I remember that I had told Charmy to hide when the authorities came. I've never forgiven myself for that. His parents and friends called him a coward for hiding, and he ran away from home. When I received news that he had died, I told everyone to leave me alone. But they wouldn't listen. They insisted on telling me every detail of his death. Charmy had decided to kill himself. He stuck his foot in the lava at the Marble Zone, but it hurt him so badly he decided not to do it. He screamed at the top of his lungs that he was a coward, and he wasn't even brave enough to take his own life. It sounded ridiculous, but when you're that desperate to die, it doesn't matter what you do. I would know; I feel like that right now... Charmy stayed at Marble Zone, and died because he lost his mind and tried to "beat some bravery into himself" by hitting himself repeatedly with a rock. He died when everyone hated him. No one even cared about him enough to bury him. I'm not sure how much longer I can keep my own sanity; every morning I wake up after dreams of Charmy's death, each time more vivid and gory. That's why I have to escape. I have to get out of my cell, and bury Charmy's body. It's the only way he'll ever rest in peace. Of course, I have nothing else to live for, so I will hurl myself into the magma, and end my own life. I can't believe I started this stupid "Detective Idea" anyways. All that came from it was the death of its members..."
"Hey, stupid! Quit mumbling!" Vector scowled. The room was supposedly soundproof; how could they even hear him? He was in the highest security room in the prison... He must escape...