What's Wrong with You?
Chapter One
Kai owns Kai...Sil owns Jayln...Gahlik owns Gahlik...AE owns ShadowX...I own Vinny...nobody owns everyone else except for Sega.
'Man, this party is awesome! It's a good thing Kai, Jayln, ShadowX, Gahlik, and for some reasons unbeknownst to me, Shadow, could all make it! Watch, something bad is going to happen, it always does. One minute you're having a party, the next, someone's trying to kill you. I just hope it doesn't happen today, Shadow NEVER goes to parties.
Vinny's thoughts.
It was a bright, and sunny day, it seemed as though nothing could go wrong. Birds were chirping, people were joyriding, and everyone was having fun. The sun shone brightly on a black echidna that had yellow streaks, and dreadlocks. Gahlik sat, up, and rubbed his eyes. He saw a gun pointed in his face.
"I don't see this ending well." Gahlik said, sweating.
"Pick a number, one through 10..." the person holding the gun said. Gahlik was staring at the gun, so he didn't catch the person's face. Gahlik started sweating even more as he thought.
"Ummmm...umm, 6?" Gahlik asked unsurely. The person with a gun groaned, and shook his fist.
"Dang it! Oh well." The man said, before firing multiple times. Everything went dark for Gahlik.
"What's up with Gahlik? He's the only one not here!" Vinny exclaimed. ShadowX nodded. The two of them were hanging out in Vinny's room, which had a completely decked out closet. It was filled with machinery built by Kai, including night-vision goggles, sight and ear communicators, a hover board, a pair of hover boots, and a few grappling hooks that Vinny had made himself. ShadowX was sitting on the bed, which had green sheets, an orange mattress, and pink pillows. Vinny was near the white door, which was leaning on a dark green wall, playing a handheld video game. He had just looked through the doorway at the party that was going on in the next room over. Kai, Shadow, and Jayln were all having fun in the living room, where refreshments were lying on a table. Or, at least Jayln and Kai were having fun. Shadow was lying on the couch, slurping a slushie. Jayln and Kai were playing video games against each other, and were reasonably well matched.
"What the hey...I hope there's three player!" Vinny exclaimed as he laid the handheld gaming system down, and walked over to the Gamecube.
"Awesome, we can do a Sonic Adventure 2: Battle tournament!" ShadowX exclaimed as he walked into the room. The game booted up, and it took a few minutes to get past the theme song, because Vinny got addicted to it.
"Okay...Shadow, can you draw cards, or pick randomly?" Kai asked, her eyes pleading.
"Kai and Jayln, then ShadowX and Vinny." Shadow said, bored.
"Works for me. I got Shadow!" Kai exclaimed. Jayln selected Metal Sonic, and they chose 'Final Rush'.
A few mind-numbing moments later...
"Wow...Jayln was about to win, but Kai KO'd her, and hit the goal ring...weird..." Vinny said, as Kai won. Kai handed the controller to Vinny, and Jayln gave hers to ShadowX, slightly depressed.
"I got Shadow, and let's do...Metal Harbor!" Vinny exclaimed. ShadowX chose Sonic, and the two raced.
The end of the race...
"No...no...phew, just made the shortcut...activate glitch, and... I win!" Vinny exclaimed. He activated a glitch that froze the other player's character for the rest of the battle. (Next to last checkpoint, Player One Shadow Homing Attack backwards, Sonic gets stuck behind the moving red thing, and you move in slow motion with an inability to jump for the rest of the match.)
"Cheapo..." ShadowX said as he handed the controller to Kai.
"I got Sonic...UPGRADED!" Vinny exclaimed. He selected a Sonic in a red racing suit, and started the game.
"Hey, City Escape, my favorite!" Vinny exclaimed. Kai, who was normal Shadow, sweatdropped.
"It's my best level..." Kai said.
"Mine too!" Vinny exclaimed, as the match started. The two of them started attacking each other in the game, and then reality.
"Hey, why'd you push me? That does it...activate glitch!" Vinny exclaimed, as Sonic suddenly used Sonic Wind four times in quick succession. Kai's Shadow died four times in a row, and Vinny was about to win, singing along to the music, when...
"Hey, the power went out!" Vinny exclaimed as the T.V. screen dimmed, and turned off.
"Huh? It's suddenly night time!" Kai said, pointing out of the window. Gahlik suddenly burst through the door, and opened fire with the M16's in his hands.
"Annihilate, Kill, Destroy!" Gahlik exclaimed, his eyes completely bloodshot. There seemed to be a small burn mark on his forehead.
"Hit the deck!" Kai exclaimed, tackling Vinny and rolling behind the couch. ShadowX dove underneath the couch, and Shadow and Jayln shot underneath the T.V.
"Kai, can your x-ray vision see what's wrong? He'd never do this, unless Shadow cheated, or stole some money from him in poker...again..." Jayln said, as bullets ricocheted off of the T.V.
"No way... It looks like something's controlling him...I think aliens took over his body..." Kai said, her right eye changing from an amethyst red to a sharp vermillion. Vinny, who was right next to her, shivered, remembering the last time it had happened.
Flashback (This is from 'Dark meets Light', Kai's story...
"Great… my life is sooo screwed… thanks a lot, Eggman!" Kai said sarcastically.
"Yeah right… great… Dark is back… and I guess… this time, it's permanent." Shadow muttered, looking down at the floor. Kai sighed. She was angry.
"Grr…"
Flare gasped. "Kai, maintain all emotional problems, now!"
"Nooo!" she yelled.
"You know what happens when you get too angry!" he said.
"I DON'T CARE!" she yelled. She closed her eyes and clenched her fists. She then hit the wall… the door collapsed from the force she hit the wall with. She opened her eyes… her right eye… was a different color. She blinked once and her right eye was a bright yellow. Shadow was staring at her, not knowing what happened. She looked at the thick walls surrounding her. She then pointed to one side.
"There… Flare, fire there." She said softly. Flare started burning a hole through the wall. Kai ran up to it and kicked it with her right leg. It fell to pieces… giving them a passageway to another place. It was pitch dark. She blinked again. Her right eye turned green.
End Flashback (It looked better in her story; I just did a little editing to fit my format...)
"That was scary...I'm amazed you didn't kill us all...anyway, he's being controlled? That's weird..." Vinny said. Kai glared at him, her vermillion eye turning back to normal. Vinny laughed sheepishly, scratching the back of his head nervously.
"So, our mission's to find the mother base...shut it down...kill stuff...and beat the crap out of Eggman because he probably did this in another one of his 'accidents'?" ShadowX asked. Shadow nodded, as he Chaos Controlled out of the room. They heard an electric shock, and an angry growl. Shadow suddenly appeared behind Gahlik, and tanked him with the tazer in his hand. An electric shock passed through Gahlik, and his eyes rolled into the back of his head. His legs started smoking, and he fell to the floor.
"It's a good thing Shadow thought of a tazer..." Jayln said, rolling out from underneath the T.V.
"Good thing Vinny's got a whole box of these things in his closet...what a se- ShadowX! Where the hell is he?" Shadow asked angrily. Kai shot out from behind the couch, and stopped near the window. Vinny leaped over the couch, and landed cat-like near the doorway.
"I don't see him...this can't possible be good..." Vinny said, gulping. Jayln gasped, and everyone looked at her.
"This is like a horror movie, only instead of being picked off, we get turned into zombies! Or, at least disappear..." Jayln said, shaking. Vinny's eyes widened in fear.
"I've seen those...the comic relief guy always goes first...that means me!" Vinny exclaimed in horror. Kai rolled her eyes.
"We won't let that happen. Or, at least, I...won't...what?" Kai asked. Everyone had stared at her, causing her to slow her speech.
"You just made it sound like...you..." Jayln was cut off.
"No way!" Kai exclaimed, blushing. Shadow and Vinny exchanged confused glances.
"As interesting as this conversation that Shadow and I can't understand is, I think saving ShadowX and Gahlik within some time limit like usual is of the essence. Besides, who knows where it's coming from...however, I'm too tired to do it now...how about...tomorrow morning, at...I dunno...Scenic Street? That's right down the road from here..." Vinny said, yawning. Everyone nodded.
"Okay, it's a date! We meet at dawn!" Vinny exclaimed, and with that, everyone headed out. Soon, Vinny was left in his house, packing. In his cloak, which contained many pockets, he decided to store a few tazers, the four grappling hooks he'd made, a hover board for himself, the sight and ear communicators, the night vision goggles. Once that was done, he laid down on the bed and closed his eyes.
'Who knows WHAT might happen tomorrow...all I know is that it'll be fun...what was that?' Vinny thought as shadows moved in the distance. He opened his eyes, alert.
"If Kai was here, she could use her magnifying vision..." Vinny said, as something in his house creaked. Vinny drew a tazer, and charged it. There was another creak, and a shadow loomed across the room. A tall figure stepped into the room, and Vinny wished he had his goggles on.
"Pick a number, one through ten..." the figure said in a cold, dark voice Vinny'd never heard before. His burning, silver eyes seemed to glow. The figure raised a gun, and Vinny's brain seemed to shut down.
"Ummmmm...hang on, ummmm...27?" Vinny asked hesitantly. The figure's jaw dropped.
"That's not between one and ten...but you still got it! To hell with that, just DIE!" the figure exclaimed, before opening fire. Vinny jumped and flipped in mid-air, and tazed the figure. It froze, then kicked Vinny between the legs and ran off.
"If Kai was here...or Jayln... or Sonic, for all I know...that wouldn't have hurt..." Vinny said, groaning.
"Shit...that was too close...way too close..." the figure said, removing the mask which changed his eye color and voice. Then, his black robes fell off, and he kicked off the stilts that added a few feet to his height.
"They'd never know it was me, one of their 'friends', and with Gahlik and ShadowX under my control, I'll have them in no time!" he exclaimed, before melting in mid-air.
The Next Morning, Scenic Street...
Kai, Jayln, and Shadow were waiting impatiently for the very late Vinny. Shadow was leaning back against the stop sign, and Kai and Jayln were pacing the ground.
"Where is he? He was the one that made us come so early, and then he doesn't show up!" Kai exclaimed angrily. They saw a faint blur of green, before Vinny suddenly stopped in front of them, panting,
"He...attacked...last...night...got...away...scared...living...shit...out...of...me..." Vinny panted.
"It's a he? And he attacked?" Jayln asked, suddenly surprised. Vinny nodded, trying to catch his breath and failing horribly.
"Are you alright?" Kai asked, putting a hand on Vinny's back. Vinny and Shadow looked surprised at the gesture. Vinny stood upright, before taking a refrigerated Pepsi out of his cloak. He chugged it, and crushed the can.
"I will be...thanks though...what's up with Jayln?" Vinny asked, raising his right eyebrow. Jayln was snickering, trying to hold in a huge laugh.
"I knew it Kai, I knew it." Jayln said, laughing. Shadow and Vinny looked at each other weirdly, before ShadowX stepped next to the bench.
"I think we should go help Gahlik now." ShadowX said. His eyes seemed to be a little different, possibly a little...colder, darker, harsher? Vinny noted.
"I agree, but first, I say we kick fatass's butt..." Shadow said. They nodded, and dashed off to where they knew where they'd find Eggman. ShadowX, however, stayed behind.
"Mission Successful, Master. They suspect nothing. It was a good thing you thought of hiding the burn mark. Commencing Phase Two." ShadowX said before dashing to catch up with Kai and the others.
Chapter One comes to a close, with suspense all around. Who's the person who attacked Vinny? Why is ShadowX talking like a machine? What does Jayln know that Shadow and Vinny don't, and is it crucial to the storyline? Is Gahlik still knocked out? Who's 'Master', does he/she/it have any connection to the figure who attacked Vinny? When will Kai get better? And why am I asking questions I already know the answers to, I mean can be answered if you read the rest of the story that I haven't written yet? Why am I talking to myself? Why did I steal Gahlik's line? Why haven't I gone crazy yet? Am I already crazy? Why am I asking so many questions? WHEN WILL I STOP?
Pyro Hedgehog4ever