Station Square- Celestial's Hideout
As the freight elevator's doors slid open, Endigo stepped into his friend's keep. He looked around, hoping to see her somewhere, but the hedgird was nowhere to be seen. He sighed, his head dropping. The locator in his hand had begun humming, having been made to detect Shadow's DNA, which would be everywhere.
It had been built this way because Shadow had told them that Metal Sonic currently had a good bit of the dark hedgehog's blood coursing through his veins. The reason this had happened was because of one Omega's many experiments before he had gone from master to puppet. At any rate, Funk had whipped it up over night, and it had been given to Endigo, since he was the only one of the three not too damaged to get up and move around.
"What am I doing here?" the fox said to himself, sliding to the ground against the elevator doors. "I should be out trying to find Metal Sonic, the guy who plans to take over the world. Instead, I'm sitting in the somewhat apartment of the girl I like who's probably as pissed at me as she is at Funk. You'd think I was a stalker."
"Shut up, Endigo." a familiar voice said from the detector. He pulled it from his belt, looking at it strangely.
"Funk, is that you?" he asked quizzically.
"Yep. Turn it over." the fox flipped the device over, finding that it had slid open, revealing a screen Funk's smiling face was currently on. "I hope you know I finally have recorded proof that you like Celestial."
The fox frowned, a crimson glow coming to fur on his cheeks. "Funk, I'm gonna kill you for this."
"Whatever you say, lover boy." the echidna's eyes then flicked to the right, and Endigo heard an angry voice he knew was Shadow's. "Alright, alright. Endigo, the big man says to get out there and find Metal Sonic."
"Well tell him to calm down. The chances I'm finding his hideout today are slim, considering he could be anywhere on the planet, or even somewhere off it. And tell him I'm sorry I'm here. I don't even know why I came."
"Cause you think you need to apologize, which you don't. I made the mistake, bud, not you. I have to apologize to Celestial, not you." he heard more angry yelling. "Back off, you obsessive nut! Uh oh. Uh, Endigo, I got to run. Our house guest is hobbling towards me at a scarily fast rate. Bye." before the scene went completely dark, he saw Funk grabbing his crutches and moving as quickly as he could.
Endigo chuckled to himself, getting to his feet. "I guess he's right, I got to do my job. I'll worry about Celestial later." he rested against the doors again, looking around the room one last time. "I'll be back. Bye, Celeste." suddenly, the doors to the elevator lurched, the door opening. Losing his balance, the fox fell back, his head hitting the floor of the elevator hard. His eyes opened to see Celestial's surprised face, looking down at him. "Hi, Celeste."
Station Square- Main Street
The fox sighed, walking down the long sidewalk. He had once again made himself look stupid, pathetic, and needy. After his first two words, he had just stared a while, before Celestial had gotten angry, her emotions returning after the initial shock, and shoved his feet the rest of the way into the elevator and let the doors shut on him. "Things could definitely be better."
"I'm sure they could, pal." Endigo looked around, finding something strange about Main Street: it was deserted. He looked to see that the voice wasn't coming from the detector either.
"Who said that?" he asked. The answer to his question came in the form of four bombs dropping around him. His eyes widened, instinctively jumping out of the center. However, the explosion still threw the fox to the ground. He groaned, getting to his feet, wobbling a little bit.
"Nice reflexes." the voice said again. This time, someone appeared to take claim for it. From the rooftop, a green blur fell, slowing thanks to a dropped bomb. The explosion sent him a little bit higher again, which let him back flip clear of the smoke and land safely about five yards from Endigo. It was a green duck. "Name's Bean. And you are?"
"What's your big idea trying to blow me up, feather face?" the fox said angrily.
"Because, I know that you know where Shadow the Hedgehog is."
"How do you know that?"
"Considering how much I'm being paid, I've made it my business to know."
:Well, I hope you know, I'm not going to tell you anything." a smile came onto the duck's face.
"I was hoping you'd say that." the duck pulled out a pair of bombs. "Shall we dance?"
To be continued…