V.B.- Umm… sorry to burst your bubble… but what you know… is a tiny fraction of what you'll hear…
Z.A.- Nice to know you didn't tell both of those secrets! Yayness!
"My past… is much worse than you've imagined…" Kai whispered to Shadow.
Shadow looked at her… even though they weren't in their normal form, even though that this was Kai he was talking to… he felt sympathy toward her. He didn't even know what it was yet.
She sighed. "You see… I'm not just a tomboy because I want to…"
Her mind traveled back to when she was 4 years old. She was always physically and verbally abused by her father… it was because he wanted two perfect boys. He was excited that her twin brother was perfect in every way he questioned… but Kai… everything that he was against… the very first thing he hated… she was a girl.
"And… I almost died because of my father…" Kai sighed. "My mother's a scientist…"
"So? What does that have to do with this?"
"Lots…" she whispered.
After 8-year-old Kai suffered a brutal beating from her father, her mother finally brought her to a hospital. She wouldn't live anymore… that's what the doctors had told her mother. Her mother's eyes were filled with tears… she looked down and found 10-year-old Flare looking down at Kai's pale body.
Her mother suddenly thought of an idea.
"So… Flare isn't really 10? He's… older?" Shadow asked.
"He's older than me… but for me to live, he risked staying 10 forever… he's such a loyal friend… right now… he should be 18…" Kai said with a small sad smile.
"Wow… what happened?" Shadow asked quietly, so Fear can concentrate.
It was 6 years later when they finished… she was 14… of course, she had to learn everything from scratch. She had to learn to talk, eat, walk, touch, everything! But… there was one mistake her mother made… she made Kai-
"Got it…" Fear said.
"Huh?" Shadow asked, suddenly remembering that he was stuck outside.
Shadow stood up. Fear disappeared in black smoke, taking the two with him. They appeared inside the huge room.
"C'mon… I can get us all out… but… it'll drain up my power if it's this huge group altogether…" Fear told them.
Central Control Room…"Perfect… right where I want them…" Eggman said.
Inside the huge room…"Wait…" Flare stopped Fear.
"What is it?"
"I know… I have an idea… can you get me to the Central Control Room?" Flare asked Fear.
"Umm… I… don't know… and if… I don't know where it is… I really can't get you there…" Fear said.
Flare looked around the room. He noticed Tails's and Kai's fake emeralds. He knew that one fakie was not enough.
"Tails, Kai… gimme those emeralds…" he said, pointing to the two emeralds.
Tails handed it over easily while Kai took a while to think.
"For all you've done for me, here…" she gave him the emerald.
Vinny and Jayln looked at her weirdly. Knuckles was confused at everything.
Flare smiled and took both emeralds. He disappeared in a flash of light.
Central Control Room…"Ah… where'd the small boy go?" Eggman asked himself.
"SMALL?" Flare asked angrily.
Flare walked over to his chemistry table. He mixed a few things up to make… something. He quickly gulped it down.
"Eggman… I'm not 10…" he said.
That room…Lasers came from every side of the room. Kai gasped at them all. She looked around for an idea. She then saw what the wall was made of.
Central Control Room…"Stay back! You look like some teenager!" Eggman said.
"I'm 18, idiot…" Flare said.
Flare has gotten taller. He still had the same fur color and had a better (more boyish) voice.
(A/N-Sorry if that offends anyone… but my little brother has a girl's voice…)
That room…Kai had a huge smile… and no one knew why.
"We're about to be obliterated into a million bits and pieces… and you don't care?" Vinny asked angrily.
She suddenly took out tiles from behind her back.
"See? I told you I'm smart!"
"How's that going to help us?" Rouge asked.
"Simple!" she said happily.
Umm… must go to sleep… school tomorrow… umm… R+R! Anyone know what she's gonna do with a few tiles? And Flare? What's gonna happen to him?Out of everyone who's reading… only one person might know what happens next… well, not exactly… but he'll know what'll happen if Kai's angry… bettcha feel special! This is the first time I've let out almost an entire story to one person! Did you like the work on 'The Inside Threat'? I couldn't have done it without you!