Sorry I haven't been updating lately, I'm having some family issues I need to take care of, so this might take longer than I expected. Nonetheless, I have to say this is turning out quite well. But enough blabbing, time to see what happens to Trey and his world.

Negative Effects

Chapter Four: New Objective

It was a month after Trey's birthday and all seemed very well. All of the young generation was now sixteen and they all thought that life would be easy from there. But they all began to notice some differences in Knothole. One was the fact that it was less populated than usual, one day they would see a neighbor, next they wouldn't hear from them again. Another one was how the school began to throw pop quizzes about survival and not academics. Just little things at first, but they started to grow into bigger problems. Like how Trey had begun to notice how every kid had to train at the stadium every week. There were no other options. It became suspicious to Trey and he wanted to find out the answers.

Trey walked home from school and noticed that their neighbor was out of the hut. He was looking at a newspaper from the city and he looked like he was worried about something. Trey waved to him and he waved back. Trey went inside his hut and noticed that his parents were gone. He looked at a note on the door to his room and it read, 'We are out to eat, we'll be back shortly.' Trey chuckled at the note, 'Dad always did love to show off for mom, I guess he just wants the marriage to be a good one.' he thought. He put down his book bag and decided to go to the stadium to train some more. When he reached the doors of the stadium, he felt a sudden chill and suddenly didn't even want to go into the stadium. 'What's the matter with me? I go in here all the time.' he thought. He walked into the stadium and looked around the place. He pressed his wrist and forgot that he didn't have his wristband. "How could I forget about that?" he asked out loud. He was about to walk back outside to get the wristband when something ran towards him from the shadows.

By instinct, he moved and dodged an attack from a huge sized robot. "What the…" he was saying, until he moved again from a shock blast. "I never turned the program on, how could they be functional?" Trey asked himself. Another robot ran by him and shot many blasts at him. Trey got out of the way and ran towards the exit. But one of the robots blocked it off and began to shoot multiple beams at him. Trey ran into the middle of the stadium and made his final conclusion. "Looks like I have to fight my way out." Trey said and grabbed one of the robots. He took him as a shield as the other robots began to fire at Trey. The robot he was holding was beginning to get too hot for him and he dropped the offline bot. 'One thing is different about these robots than the training ones, they seem more… muscular.' he thought as he ran away from the shock blasts. Another walked to Trey when he was not looking and punched him in his gut. Trey staggered a bit before getting angry. He punched the robot in his face and kicked him. The robot slid across the stadium and then he got up.

"All Shadow bot units, destroy him with everything you got. Dr. Ivo Robotnik will not take prisoners." the robot commanded as he pointed at Trey. All of the other robots aimed their weapons at Trey and fired. 'It's better now than never.' Trey thought and activated the negate effect. A mist began to cover the stadium and the robots could not see anything. Trey was about to run out of the stadium, when someone grabbed his arm and pulled him away from the door. He fell to the ground and tried to get back up. "He is definitely the son of Tails, he sure does act like him." the person said. "Indeed, we should really get paid by Dr. Eggman now." a female said. Trey got back up and was about to attack the person who grabbed him, but he couldn't see him through the mist. 'Dad always screws up with stuff like this, making great inventions and then he forgets about the disadvantage of the person who uses it. I hope I can live long enough to tell him that.' he thought. He tried to run for the door once again and was pulled back a second time. "Why don't you give up kid, it's no use." the person said. The mist began to blow away and the robots and Trey saw who the person was.

Trey couldn't believe his eyes, it was a black fox that looked exactly like his father. Next to him was a black vixen that looked exactly like his mother. "What the hell? Who are you people?" Trey asked. But before the foxes could answer, the robots became furious. "NO ONE messes up Dr. Robotnik's plans. Fire at the black foxes." the leader said. The robots began to fire at the foxes and they ducked low. "What's taking Nightmare so long?" the black vixen asked. Suddenly a black echidna that looked exactly like Knuckles burst through the wall of the stadium and began to beat the bolts off of the robots. "Sorry I'm late Nega. I didn't hear the noise until now." the black echidna said to the black vulpine. "No problem Nightmare, just keep them busy so we can get on with our objective." the black vixen said. "Right on it, Shade." Nightmare said. Trey took this opportunity and ran out of the stadium. He propelled his way into the forest and then into the outskirts of the village. As he was about to reach the gate, a black hedgehog stood in his way.

But he was different from what he had expected him to be. He was expecting him to look exactly like Sonic, but the hedgehog had the end of his quills standing up that had red stripes on it. He also had different type of shoes and a white tuff of fur on his chest. The hedgehog walked to Trey and he noticed that Trey was ready to fight. "Listen fox, I don't want to fight you, my name is Shadow and I need to see Sonic." he said. "Sorry, can't do that. You don't look like the trusting type." Trey said and ran towards the hedgehog. The hedgehog's shoes let out a blast of fire and he was hovering in the air. "Whoa." Trey said. "If you won't tell me where he is, then I will find him myself." Shadow said and flew towards the entrance of Knothole. Trey began to run after him, but he was stopped by a big sized black mallet. Trey knew the mallet instantly, but couldn't figure out why it was black. He looked at the person who was holding the black Piko Piko Hammer and almost dropped his jaw. It was a black female hedgehog that looked exactly Amy. Even her dress was black. "What is with the black today? What is it, Gothic day or something?" Trey asked.

The female hedgehog giggled as she raised her Piko Piko Hammer, "I'd rather not think of it that way, it's just that you ran into us all at once. My name is Midnight and I think our meeting is about to come to an abrupt stop." she said and swung her mallet. Trey dodged the attack and knew that the swing was powerful. If she was anything like Amy, she knew how to use that weapon like an assassin knew how to use a knife. Trey ran for the entrance of Knothole as he looked back and saw Midnight trying to pull her mallet out of the ground. Trey reached his hut and saw someone he thought he would never see again. "Hey son, what's up? Anything interesting happen today?" Tails asked. Then he noticed how Trey was panting and he had bruises everywhere. Tails became serious and shook Trey. "What happened son? Who did this to you?" Tails asked. Trey's eyelids started to become heavy and he noticed how he just wasn't like Knuckles when it came to fighting. "Dr. Robotnik and some black group of furs." Trey said before falling to the floor.

To Be Continued