Chapter 4: The Hanuting Memories, the Betrayal, and the Painful Truth

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Sega Sonic characters, but I do own Emberly, Shea, and Soda Pop. So no stealing or else! Ok enjoy this new chapter, and please review.

Knock!Knock! Emberly was laying on her on her ever so comfy bed looking at a picture she was holding and looking at it silently crying. When who ever it was knocking at her bedroom door started knocking. She felt just a tade bit relieved that someone had inturputed her; the pain she was reliving from looking at the picture had been so unreal it was almost as if she was there again in that aweful moment agian. The pain was almost unbearable, but then again Emberly had been through a lot in life you might say it really cracked down on her, but she made it through stonger than ever before and ready to take on the next challenge that life threw at her. Emberly tried to shake all the memories she had just relived and the feelings as she rolled over onto her stomach and carefully put the picture face down on her bed as she sat up and swung her legs off the bed and walked to the stainless steel doors whipping the remaining tears from her eyes. When she reached the door she leaned over and pushed the rubbery feeling button that activated the doors to open and as they began to open she regained her standing position brushing a few stray strands of hair out of her face and behind her ears then she rocked back on her heels and exhailed a deep breath as she placed both hands behind her back and regained her natural balance. As the doors slide apart Emberly found Sonic standing at her door way with a smirk on his face, bu that didn't last long because he saw Emberly had been crying. " What's wrong?" Sonic asked.

"Nothing." Emberly said flashing Sonic a huge smile his way.

"Some thing's up. What is it?" Sonic said as he walked through the door and into her room finding him a seat on her bed right next to the picture which he noticed and when he did he picked it up and began to turn it over.

"Son..." it was to late Sonic had already turned over the picture.

"Why would you cry over this picture? It look's like a picture of you and your family. Is that your sister? Wow! Ya'll look almost exactly a like well kinda. You have black stright hair and she has curly blonde hair and blue eyes, but ya'll are the same fur color." Emberly smiles sweetly as a single tear ran down her face as she quickly brushed it away.

" Yeah, that was my familly..."

"What do you mean when you say was?"

"They were killed.. All of them..."

"Emberly, I'm so sorry..." Sonic said getting up and carefully putting it back on the bed. "What happened?" Sonic asked as he wrapped Emberly in his arms as she cried on his shoulder.

"It was the worst night of my life..." Emberly started as she went back to that awesul night.

FLASHBACK

"Bye Mom! Bye Dad! Bye Soda Pop! Love Ya'll! I got my cell if you need me and I might be home late tonight since I'm probably gonna get stuck wiht the night shift or some thing..I'll call you when I know." Emberly shouted gleefully as she hussled down the stairs and towards the door.

"Love you, too!" was repeated by everyone and then Mom said,

"Ok honey! Be careful!"

"Yes, Mom" Emberly said as she rolled her eyes walkin gout the door. Soda Pop who had been sitting on the couch the whole time staring numbly into the glowing T.V. screen. " It isn't just her ya'll should be worried about..." Soda Pop thought to herself clicking off the T.V. and walking up the stairs to her room where she asumed her post at the window and peered out into the drive way waiting for Emberly to get in her car and drive off. Once out the door Emberly jumped in her car and put the keys in the ignition, but before she could turn it she was overwhelmed by a weird, strange sense of a dangerours presence around herself and her family. But she thought she was just acting weird because it was so late at night and since she was alone in the car she was just becoming more alert and aware of her surroundings. So she just shook off the feeling, and drove off. As soon as Soda Pop saw Emberly pull out of the drive way she whipped out her cell and quickly punched in a number and listened to the steady drone of the dial tone.

BBBRRRIIIINNNNGGGG...BBBBRRRRIIIINNNNGG...BBRR.." Hello?" a hushed voice on the other end of the phone replied.

"Hey. It's me Soda Pop. Is this Max? The leader of Team Choas?"

"Yes. This is him. Is everything in place?

"Yeah, everythings a go."

"Good, good, then let the games begin."

Emberly at Work

Emberly arrived at work as she walked through the door she was overcome with the smell of coffee and she found her friend Shea , a dark brown hedgehog with black eyes and medium lenght wavy blonde hair with red streaks in it, was sitting back leaning back in her chair behind the desk blowing bubbles with her gum her hot pink surf board with blue and white ahloha flowers on it and her name was airbrushed in candy red across it's back. When she saw Emberly walk in she put smiled and waved at her, "So you finally here."

"Oh shut up, Shea! Not everyone comes to work as early as you all the time." Shea giggled "So how were the waves today?"

"Oh you mean the ones you missed because you were sleeping in?" Shea said sarcasticly.

"Yeah those." Emberly replied walking into the huge workers area.

"They were good. Very big, very rough, very challenging...Your perfect choice of waves, right?"

"Yeah...Yours ,too! You know you can't resist a challenge eighter." Shea laughed at this remark,

"Yeah my kind of ride." Emberly turned on the radio as it sang "Here We Go Again" as Shea and herself cleaned the coffee shop up a little bit since they had a little more time before they opened up the coffee shop.

BACK AT EMBERLY'S HOUSE

Emberly's parents and Soda Pop were all sitting in the living room watching "The Exercist the Beginning" when suddenly BOOM! The door had been kicked in and a group of men in white suits with a red C T on the front and weird helmets stromed in with guns firing. Emberly's dad quickly flipped the couch over an they all sucked beneath the couch Emberly's Mom pulled out a gun from under her dress and her father thew Soda Pop a semi automatic and she held in his hands a 22. "Soda Pop, run up to your room and call the cops."Soda Pop nodded and took a deep breath and jumped up and ran some of the men began to chase her. "Let's roll, Honey. " her father said to her mother smile kissing her fo rthe last time," I love you."

"I love you, too." her mother said as the both jumped up and started firing at the men. When Emberly reached the kitchen and then men ran in she commanded them to put down their weapons ans they did the she fired a few in the air and then she ripped a sack of flour on the floor and command one to drag the other through it and the one that was being dragged to attempt to put up a struggle, which they did.

AT THE COFFEE SHOP

It was 5 minutes till they opened up shop the coffee machines were runnin the ovens were on and then they heard glass shatter and what sounded like people jumping hrew the window and they began to creep around the shop. The radio sang "Tourniquet"by Evanescence it blared loudly. Emberly and Shea crouched behind the desk.

"What in the heck?" Shea whispered in a raspy voice.

"I have know idea." Emberly said in a hushed voice as she pressed the red button which signaled the cops.

"Well you and I both know the cops may not make it here in time." Shea said with a mischevious grin sneaking onto ther face, "So shall we?"

"Oh, we shall. Time to open up a can of whoop butt on them! On 3, ok?" Shea nodded in reply. "Ok, 1, 2, ...3!" Emberly and Shea sprang out from under the counter and rolled over the top of the counter as Shea jumped on top of the counter and rolled right of it grabbing her gun out of the back of her pants as she did and once she hit the ground held it in front of her turned on its side her finger on the trigger she looked like a gangster which was funny because she probably was at one time. Just as she landed she hit the ground and got up just bearly missing the bullet that just whizzed past her and hit her surf boaard.

"Oh I no you didn't! That was my board! Oh now I'm mad! Now your really in for it!" Shea shouted angrierly at her attackers and began to rain bullets on them. Emberly jumped high into the air and did a triple back flip bullets whizzing past her when she was in mid air and about to land she swiftly pulled out 2 swords one fon eah side of her usuing the opposite hands to grab each one making an X shhaape across her body as they came apart the caught the moon light and shone and glittered so brightly she temporary blinded the men who countinued to fire at them. Emberly across the room from Shea who had already began firing her gun at them and rolling on the ground to aviod the ones they fired at her and behind all sorts of things. Embelry smiled a cocky grin at the men and began slashing away at them her blood covered sword gleamn in the moonlight. Blood was flying every where just as Emberly and Shea began to be forced back into each other which they had been trrying so hard not to do because they knew that made them easy targets. They never quit fighting, then they were back to back Emberly's sword dripping blood and breathing heavliy with her sword still ready to strike at any giving moment, Shea held her gun out like a cop by this point she was also breathing quite heavily.

"Looks like our gig is almost over..." Shea panted between breathes. Emberly laughed and then repliled,

"They wish! And since when have you ever said that!"

"Since now becaue the cops are here."

"Oh! For a second there I thought you were givin giving up on me!" They both laughed, "I did't hear them over the radio." Emberly giggled. Just then the cops pulled in and got down in a crouch position there guns ready to fire as one spoke into a booming megaphone,

"Put your weapons down!" Emberly and Shea held on tight to their weapons and then the leader of their attackers yelled,

"You haven't seen the last of Team Choas!" And then threw a weird sphere type thing on the ground which sent a sudden blinding falsh from it blinding everyone.

"Crap." Emberly and Shea said together as they, and everyone else for that matter, winced and squinter in pain form the blinding flash covering their faces by ducking their faces under their fore arms. After being questioned by the police Emberly and Shea jumped into Emberly's cars and drove over to Emberly's house.

"I wonder why those people came after us like that." Emberly said as she picked up her cell phone and dialed her home phone while driving.

"I dunno, but that was pretty weird ands it was fun; me and you haven't been in that much trouble in a while." Shea laughed and looked at Embelry who had turned deafly silent and had a grim expression on her face. "Are you ok?" Shea asked with a concecerned expression on her face.

"No I'm not..." Emberly replied.

"What's wrong?"

"No one's pickin up the phone..." She quickly began to punch in different numbers and listen each time she dialed a different number her face appeared to turn older and older because of all the worry that was building up within her and that weird feeling she had when she pulled out of the drive way came rushing back to her at once... "What happened?..."Emberly wondered to herself. She speed home after she had dialed ecery number even their cells and no one had answered which was very unusaual for her family they always answered their cell phones. She put the pedal to the floor and floored it slinging her and Shea back into their seats they both quickly put on their seatbelts.

"Warn me next time!" Shea yelled with a surprised look on her face her eyes wide. They wove in and out of traffic Emberly could of passed as a NASCAR diver, she was drafting off of other drivers weavin gin and out of traffic her emergency lights flashing, but that didn't to much in Miami, Florida. The whole time all that she could think about is " Are they ok?" When she finally reached her house Emberly practicly broke her car door. Shea and Emberly were stunned at the sight they saw before them. There were dead bodies everywhere as well as blood it looked like a war had just occured. Windows were shattered and the glass was scattered everywhere and the doors looked like they had been kicked in and there were perfectly cut out pieces of her roof missing. While Emberly stood there gwaking at the sight that lay before her thinking that her eyes were playing tricks on her as if she were delusional, Shea whipped put her cell and dialed the police who arrived almost instantly. Emberly didn't even wait for them to get there she pulled a gun out from her car's glove box put a few extra bullets in it loaded it up and walked into the house Shea no to far behind her with her gun also in her hands as they creeped around the house together stepping over all the bodies then suddenly Emberly cried out in pain and anguish and fell suddenly to her knees onto the bodies of her parents ans began sobbing hysterically. Shea knelt beside her and patted her on the back. "Why did this have to happen to Emberly? She's one of the nicest people in the World." Shea wondered silently holding back tears. "Emberly, we should look for your sister." Shea said starting to walk towards the kitchen. Emberly got up, dried her eyes, and followed Shea into the kitchen. Emberly had been keeping her head down and her gun was hanging on her finger swinging back and forth when suddenly Shea, who had been leading the way stopped dead in her tracks and Embelry walked right into her.

"Ugh!" Emberly said stuttering a few steps back wards her eyes squinted shut. "What the heck are yooo..." Emberly began, but never finished her sentence because of the horrific site that lay before her; she froze, her eyes wide with shock, then they began to overflow with tears. Her tears stung her face. She could taste the salt. She wasn't crying because of sorrow, but of anger, hatrd, rage, and a longing for vengence. "I should have never left and none of this would have happend!" Emberly wailed. No sooner had those words left her trembleing lips Shea whirled around and pointed her index finger right square in her face and stirctly ordered,

"Don't you dare blame yourself! It's not your falut! Do you hear me!" Emberly's eyes got wide her mouth hung open. How could her best friend who had just been attacked by these weird men with her, saw her parents dead bodies on the ground, stand in the place where her little sister was mostly likely kiddnapped, the friend she had grown up with who knew all of her secrets and how close she had been to her family and stand here and yell at her while she was crying, which was a thing she hardly did because she believed it showed weakness and valnurblity, and in her own house! Just then the cops pulled up and further invegestegated the scene and questioned them even more. After the cops left Emberly and Shea were standing out in Emberly's front yard. It was about 10:30 pm and the stars were shinning brightly and the moonlight was upon them. Emberly looked up towards the moon its' light flooded her face and the stars twinkled in her eyes. "Shea, I'm going to find them, and when I do I'm going to kill them or if I even supect they did it." Emberly growled.

"Emberly, don't talk like that. You could kill innocent people." Shea replied her eyes fearful and her face filled with worry. Emberly chuckled a low chuckle.

"And what excatly were you, my family, and myself so guilty of?" Emberly said as she quickly turned and looked at Shea.

"I dunno." She looked at her friend whose eyes were ablaze with fire.

"Tonight..."Emberly said in a cold voice," I'm goin to hack into a few files of the F.B.I. 's and take a look at what they've found so far. Then I will kill all the suspects."

"They would know it was you."

"No they won't I have my ways." Emberly said walking into the darkness.

"Emberly! Wait!" Shea called after her. Emberly turned around and ran up to her and handed her a whistle and said," Blow on this if you need me. Write me when ever posslible,or e-mail,and call to you know my number,and don't forget to stop by every now and again and if you need any help I'm here and if I find out anything I'll get ahold of you some how."

"Thanks." Emberly said tears trickeling down both of their cheeks as they hugged for the last time. Emberly began to run into teh darkness and jumped onto a trashcan, to a nearby house roof, and jumped from house roof to house roof. Shea stood there and watched her friend's shadow bound away knowing that she was making the worst mistake of her life. But what could she do? Tears continued to fall from her eyes onto the ground she looked up into the moonlight and whispered under her breath, "Be care ful, Emberly. And God please protect her even thought she's in the wrong..." Shea turned and walked away...

END OF FLASHBACK

When Emberly had finished the story Sonic had a shocked look on his face, he shook his head and then asked, "Did you kill them? Those people who killed your family?" Emberly searched his face, looking for something that could tell her if she could tell him the truth or not. She looked down and replied,

"Yes..." A look of shame filled her face. "Sonic, if you want me to leave I'll go, and if your gonna call the cops tell me please."

"No it's ok you can stay and your secrets safe with me. It happend along time ago and you were confused and angry, I understand."

"Thank you so much..." Emberly said breaking into tears and wrapping her arms around his neck as he patted her on her back.

"It'll be ok..." Sonic mubbled," It'll be ok..."

SOME WHERE ELSE IN OUTER SPACE

Soda Pop was very much so alive. She was leaned back in acomputer chair her feet propped up on the desk as she blew a bubble with her bubble gum. A man in a white jumpsuit and a weird helmet and a " T.C." was written in red on the chest. "We have located your sister Emberly, Soda Pop."

"Good...We will have to pay her a visit sometime, won't we, Captain?"

"Yes ma'am."

"Well that's all for now I'll call you if I need you, good-bye." The man bowed and left the room. Soda Pop picked up a picture of Emberly. "I'm sure your all nice and weak, Sis. And I'm all big and strong...Hmm what a lovely family reunion this will be." Soda Pop giggled evilly.