Chapter 5: The Reunion
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Sega Sonic characters, but I do own Emberly, Shea,Angel, and Soda Pop. So no stealing my characters or else! ;P
At space colony A.R.K.
TAPTAP Soda Pop was looking up with her arms crossed across her chest tapping her foot impatiently on the hard floor. "Shadow! Open up!" Soda Pop shouted angerliy through the thick medal doors as she banged her tiny fist on it.
" Who is it?" Shadow replied in a sing song voice with a sly grin on his face.
"Who do ya think!" Soda Pop shouted throwing her arms in the air in frustration.
"Umm.. The Ice Cream Man?" Shadow said sarcaasticly still smiling mischeviously at the door leaning against it on one shoulder.
"Shadow, it's Soda Pop. Now let me in!" Soda Pop exclaimed in an aggitated tone.
" Whats the magic word?" Shadow replied in his sing songy voice his grin getting bigger.
"Ugh.." Soda Pop growled, "That's it," she mumbeld under her breathe. She backed up a couple of steps and got her mind focused on her power.
"Soda Pop...What are you doing?" Shadow asked a little nervously as he backed away from the door slowly at first shifting one foot then the next then a little faster with each step.
" Oh, nothing,Shadow,Darling." Soda Pop said smiling suductively. She placed her hands in prayer position then she pointed her hands her finger pointing towards the door and began to pull them apart. A look of stress crossed her face her brows crinkled her teeth were gritted it was as if her hands were to big giaintic magnets that she was trying to pull apart. But as she pulled apart her hands the medal doors began to whine and the edges began bend until finally the doors were popped out of place and stasticfaction flooded Soda Pops face as the steel doors hovered above her head and then she threw them through the door frame towards Shadows desk where Shadow was staring in amazment. But as the door flew towards him he ducked down just in time to miss the flying doors.
"W ha..!" Shadow excalimed in surprise as he popped back up from the ground and he turned and looked at Soda Pop who was casually walking towards him with a cocky smile on her lips.
"Did I scare you?"Soda Pop asked in a sing song voice with a pout on her face her hands clasped in front of her chest.
"Ha! Scare me! Shadow the ultimate life form! I don't think so." He replied crossing his arms over his chest and turning his head his nose high in the air. "How about surprised?" she asked with a cocky tone and a puppy dog put on her face," I bet you didn't know I could do that, did you?"
"Nope.I sure didn't. Of chorus I knew you could do that! I'm the Ultimate life form!"
"Well I trust you will answer your door next time." She said her nose high in the air.
" I was gonna let you in all you had to do was say please! You didn't have to go and break my doors down!GEEZ!" Shadow excalimed. Soda Pop just giggled as she sat down in a chair crossing her legs and resting her head on her dainty fist." I didn't think that was very funny." Shadow said. Soda Pop rolled her eyes and sat up staight in the chair her hands in her lap. "So whats going on?"
"Well,"Soda Pop said leaning forward in her chair," Team Choas is gonna lure them up here and you can take care of Sonic and I'll take care of my Sister."
" Sounds good."Shadow replied. Soda Pop smiled proudly. "So when do we put our plan in action?"
"Today.."Soda Pop said an evil grin creeping onto her lips.
BACK AT SONIC'S MANSION
Sonic was lying on his bed reading a sports magazine when suddenly his red emergency light began to flash and beep turning his whole room as well as the whole house red he jumped of his top bunk and raced down to Emberly's floor and where he found Emberly standing outside of her door her hands over her ears with a confused, worried, and pained expression on her face. When she saw Sonic she jogged over to him and yelled over the noise to Sonic," WHAT IN THE HECK IS GOING ON!"
"SOMEONE'S IN THE HOUSE THAT SHOULDN'T BE." Sonic yelled back. They both exchanged a worried look and said," TAILS..." in stero as they raced together down the stairs to the next flight of stiars which led to Tails' room where they found tails typing into a keyboard that had popped out of the side of his wall by his doors and he as hammering in all kinds of things into it. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Sonic yelled to Tails.
"TRYING TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON." Tails shouted back. Embelry tapped Sonic on the shoulder and Sonic turned around and Emberly yelled,
"MAYBE WE SHOULD GO DOWN AND FIND THEM. YOU KNOW AND LIKE STOP THEM."
"YEAH." Sonic agreed as he grabbed her hand as they raced down the stairs when they reached the main floor Emberly said to Sonic,
"WE SHOULD SPLIT UP!" Sonic nodded in agreement as Embelry began to run off Sonic grabbed her hand pulled her into his embrace and kissed her when they pulled apart and looked into each others eyes Emberly mumbled,"What was that for?" She asked,"Not that I'm complaining or anything." She said smiling devilishly.
"WHAT!" Sonic shouted,"I DIDN'T HEAR YOU! I ALWAYS WANTED TO SAY THAT!"
"I SAID: WHAT WAS THAT FOR!"
"WHAT!"
"NEVERMIND! I'LL TELL YOU LATER!"
"NO TELL ME NOW!"
"LATER!" Emberly said as she ran off.
"HEY! GET BACK HERE I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU SAID!" Sonic shouted running after her at full speed. He quickly caught up to her and said," OK TELL ME NOW...IT'S LATER." Emberly turned to face Sonic surprised he had caught up to her that fast she was only a second slower than him.
"AFTER WE GET THESE CREEPS OUTTA HERE OK?"
"OK." Sonic agreed as they raced together down the halls and base floors until they reached the spot where they found the intruders. " Hey! Don't you know this is our house?" Sonic shouted at the intruders.
"And not just anyone's house eighter." Emberly said," But it's the home of one of the most unstoppable teams on the planets house."
"Yeah!" Sonic agreed looking at Emberly for a second then turned around and said with a cocky smile,"So are you really sure this is the house you wanna break into?" Embelry and Sonic had shifted into fighting stances ready to roll and just as they were about to kick their butts the leader stepped up and and shook his index finger at them, "Uh, uh, uh...Not so fast...Emberly, do you happen to remember anyone by the name of...Oh what was it again...Oh yes! Soda Pop, yes, that's it Soda Pop." Embelry snapped out of her fighting stance and stood up with a quizzical look on her face. She began to walk over to them and as she did Sonic noticed a change in Emberly's personality and he also noticed her eyes were on fire like they were reflecting fire dancing widly in her eyes but there was no fire in the room so how was fire in her eyes?
"Where is she? What have you done with her?" Emberly said as she walked closer to them. Her hands balled up into fist. " I asked you a question I said: WHERE IS SHE! WHERE IS MY SISTER AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HER!" She looked at them, her fist were now a blaze with fire. "I WANT ANSWERS NOW!" she yelled as she took a step back and put her wrist together firing a huge ball of fire at the men, she had put so much force into it that it even blew her back a couple of feet. WHOOSH! The huge ball of fire speed on towards the men and knocked quite a few out like bowling pins. Sonics eyes were wide with shock and surprise his mouth hung open.
"Now, now, Emberly, you really must calm down...That is if you want your sister to live..." the leader said. Emberly held her stance her eyes ablaze with fire just then her whole body was covered in fire as she lunged at the man pinning him on the wall her forearm pressed tightly to his throat cutting off his air. She looked him dead in the eye as he began to turn red and said,"I don't guess your men or followers told you about the assian that was killing all of them one by one. Or how strong that person was. Well guess what, buddy, your staring at the face of the one who did it. I killed them just as I will kill you the same way. I've been looking forward to the day I would get to meet you..." As the man gasped for air now red as a beet Emberly loosened her grip just a little and said," So, these are you options: you can tell me where my sister is and take me there, or you can die a painful death as the others did. So what will it be?" The man still red replied between gasps for air in a raspy voice,
" We'll take you there." he replied Emberly didn't loosen her grip just stared him in his eyes and with a cocky smile the fire in her eyes still dancing furioulsy,
"Good, I'm glad we all agree. But let's make sure we're all on the same page. If you get up the nerve and grow enough balls to try any funny buisness I will kill you, if you wanna live then I suggest that you listen to me and play by my rules, OK?" The man nodded and Emberly released her firm grip on his throat and let him fall to the floor and he landed in a crumpled heap on the floor as he rubbed his throat and gasped to air. He took in long, deep, struggled,pianful breaths as he regained color to his cheeks. When he finally got the strength to get up he stuggled off his knees and swayed as if he was drunk, when his team saw this they rushed over to help him regain his balance and carried him back to the ship that was in Sonic's backyard. Emberly just stood there trying to figure out how all this just happened. How could this happen so suddenly. How could she suddenly be told that her sister who she thought was dead be alive? Did they hurt her? Threaten her? Her head seemed to twirl. She tried to shake it off.
"Emberly..." Sonic said placing his hand on her shoulder. Emberly turned to face him. Crap! She thought she had totally forgotten Sonic was there! What would he think of her now?
"Yes?" Embelry said looking into his eyes.
" I dunno what's going on, but we'll help you."
"Thanks, but who's we? And I don't really think I'm gonna need much help you know? This is my battle and I prefer to fight my own battles."
"Well, yeah, I kinda figured that out after watching what just happend. I've got some friends who I can call on if I need them." No Emberly.. This could be OUR fight..Let me take care of you... Sonic thought to himself. Emberly brushed strand of hair out of her face and smiled as a tear ran down her cheek she quickly brushed it away also. Emberly walked through the hole in the wall that Team Choas( T.C.) created by barging in.
"Hey!" Emberly yelled," no one leaves until I say so! So no one better leave understand?" They all nodded. Emberly whipped out her cell and dialed a number. As the phone rang thoughts swirled in Emberly's head what to do what to do...
"Hello?" came the voice on the other line.
"Shea?"
"Yeah? Who is this?"
"It's me, Emberly."
"EMBERLY?"
"Yeah are you ok?"
"Yeah I'm ok. I just found out that Soda Pops' alive I'm going to rescue her. Do you think you can borrow one of Angel's rockets and get to the space colony A.R.K.?"
" Yeah no problem."
"OK well hurry see you there." When Emberly walked back through the hole she was surrounded by new people. "Who are all these people?"
"Oh," said Sonic rubbing the back of his quills, " this is Rouge, Knuckles, and you already know Tails and Amy. "
"Unfortantly, I do know Amy." Emberly said crossing her arms across her chest.
"Hey!" Amy wailed," That's not very nice."
" Look, Pinky, I'm not having a very good day so far so do you really wanna get on my bad side again? I already don't like you so why push your luck? If I were you, which thank goddness I'm not, I would leave me alone exspecially after that beating I gave you ." Emberly said.
"I like your style I'm sure me and you will get along quite nicely and I too know Amy as unfourtant as it may seem..." said Rouge extending her hand to Embelry, " I'm Rouge, Rouge the bat. I work for the goverment and I'm a well known treasure hunter." Embelry shook her hand and said,
" Nice to meet you, I'm Emberly I have a dark past that seems to be trying to come back again..."
"Interesting," Rouge replied.
"Well, I'm Knuckles. I'm keeper of the Master Emerald. And I'm a far better treasure hunter than Rouge." Emberly shook his hand and said,
"Nice to meet you."
"Oh, shut up, Knuckle Head you're just mad because I won't go out with you on Friday!"
"DON'T CALL ME THAT !"Knuckle's yelled,"And I am not!" Everyone laughed as Knuckles chased around Rouge.
"Ok, ok,ok." Sonic said, " Everyone just calm down and get onto the ship, let's do this!" Everyone loaded onto the ship and began to take their seats. Tails was steering the ship so he was in the front of the plane in, Sonic was next he took a seat by a window, Amy who was right behind Sonic plopped down in the empty seat next to Sonic. Sonic scouted as close to the window as possible and crossed his arms a look of worry and fear all over his face and Amy leaned in closer to him. Knuckles sat in an Empty seat towards the back of the plane and leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms and closed his eyes. Embelry was next. When she saw Sonic and Amy she rolled her eyes and started to walk by that is until Amy turned around and stuck her tounge out at Emberly. Emberly whirled around and punched Amy in her mouth.
"What did you do that for?" Amy asked her hand flying to her mouth.
"What do you think?" Embelry asked with a sarcastic tone as she struggled to maintaine her cool.
"I dunno what you're talking about." Amy said.
"If there's one thing I can't stand it's a liar. And if I were you I would quit while I was ahead." Embelry said as she walked off towards the back row and sat on the other side of the plane two rows in front of Knuckles. Rouge ,who had began to walk in before the fight broke out between Amy and Emberly, walked towards where Emberly was sitting and sat a row in front of her. When she took her seat she glanced back at Embelry. Embelry locked eyes with her for a moment then Rouge turned around and Embelry sunk into her seat her arms crossed over her chest as she closed her eyes and put on her head phones which blared out Evanescence, she looked very hostile.
"Every one ready? Seatbelts fastened please." Everyone fastened their seatbelts. "Now enjoy the ride." Tails said as he flicked some switches and played with a few knobs. And before you knew it the jets engines came to life and roared with fury. The plane shook violently, Amy grabbed Sonics's hand and cuddled up to him all while looking at Embelry who just turned and looked out the window rolling her eyes as she turned her whole body around, her elbow resting on the window. So, I won! I beat Emberly! Yay! thought Amy happily as she snuggled closer to Sonic who winced looking pleadingly at Emberly. I don't know what she's so freakin' happy about. She hasn't won anything yet. I'm just trying to save my energy, power, and anger for those idots who took my sister from me. Thought Emberly as she locked eyes with Sonic.
"So..." Rouge said as she turned around to face Emberly," You like Sonic don't you?"
"Wha..." Embelry said pulling off one of her head phones snapping out of her daze.
" I said: you like Sonic don't you?"
"Maybe I do...Maybe I don't."
"Oh," Rouge said," I see. Well, either you do or you don't."
"Look, nows not really a good time."
"Oh, ok, we'll talk later then."
"Sure." Embelry said. Once the jet was in outer space and everyone was walking around Emberly went to the front of the jet and sat down next to Tails. "Hey."
"Hey."
"Can I borow this?" Emberly asked pointing to the radio.
"Sure." Emberly grabbed the radio and pressed a few buttons.
"Come in Heaven Sent 01, come in Heaven Sent 01. It's me Emberly guys."
"Emberly!" The radio shouted gleefully.
"Hey," Embelry giggled," Angel, what are you doing?"
"Well I wasn't about to let Shea take my jet out into outer space with out me it's wonderful and talented creator!"
"I should've known." Embelry said giggling and rolling her eyes.
" Are those your friends?" Tails asked
" Yeah." Emberly said
" Well, you can tell them they can attach themselves to our ship and climb aboard."
"Ok." Embelry said, "Hey, guys, come over her and get on!"
"OK!" Angel shouted.
" Thanks, Tails."
"No problem." Emberly practicly floated out the door, she was so excited two of her oldest friends were coming to see her. As Emberly waited in the cargo bay Sonic who was running his regular rounds around the ship saw her and stopped right in front of her. The wind that he brought with him knocked Emberly over and Sonic caught her in his arms. At first they looked like they were gonna kiss, but Embelry just stood back up. What's up with her? Sonic thought with a disapointed look on his face. Doesn't she know I'm falling in love with her?
"So what are you doing down here all alone?" Sonic asked
"Waiting for some friends." Emberly replied.
" Oh , really? They aren't boys are they?" Sonic asked jokingly
" No." Embery laughed gently and playfully punching him in the arm lighlty.
"I've missed you."
" We haven't even been away from each other yet. And besides you got Amy remember?"
"Oh, c'mon!"Sonic exclaimed," You know I don't like Amy that way. She's like my stalker!" Emberly laughed with Sonic. Just then they heard another plane attach it's self to theirs and Emberly sprinted to the door Sonic stood beside her as the doors opened and as the smoke that came from them cleared Embelry was jumping up and down like an excited school girl her hands clasped in front of her. At first all you could see was a dark outline of the people that were standing there. Then all of a sudden Emberly was on the ground pinned down by a white two tailed fox with innocent blue eyes and white pig tails with pink streaks in them. She must have been about 8.
"Angel!" Emberly said gleefully.
"Emberly!"Angel exclaimed. Then there was a dark brown female hedgehog with medium length black hair with red streaks and she had these deep dark brown eyes and was wearing a bandana that was red with white ahloah flowers on it. She stood there shaking her head.
" You two are such goofballs." she said rolling her eyes.
"Oh, shut up, Shea!" Embelry and Angel shouted at Shea as they tackled her to the ground.
"Hey! That's not fair! That was a cheep shot!" Shea exclaimed. Just then Knuckles walked into the room to get some coffee when he saw the three girls laughing and acting crazy.
"Sweetness girls on girls! And I got front row seats! Sonic, why didn't you come and get me! Oh, I see how it is you just wanted it all to yourself didn't you?" Knuckles said. Sonic just shrugged and starred at him like he was crazy.
"Oh, no he didn't!" Shea exclaimed as she lunged at Knuckles.
"Sweetness!" Knuckles exclaimed." It's my turn !" Knuckles laughed. Shea pinned him down on the ground. "So you wanna go, big boy?"
"Heck yes!" Knuckles exclaimed.
"Ok." Shea said then suddenly she pulled back her fist and punched him in his face.
"What was that for?" Knuckles exclaimed with surprise.
" For being a pervert! You should know better than to talk to a lady that way exspecially one thats study just about ever type of martial arts, self-defense, and training as myself." Knuckles just layed there. Shea got off him and dusted herself off.
" Dude! You just got whooped by a girl!" Sonic exclaimed.
" And just what is that suppose to mean?" Embelry asked with a hint of anger in her tone her arms crossed as she shifted all her weight to one leg with one eyebrow raised.
"Oh, nothing, nothing at all." Sonic said with his eyes closed and a big smile on his face as he rubbed the back of his quills. Just then Amy came running down the stairs along with Rouge.
"What's going on down here!" Amy asked.
"Who is she?" Angel whispered to Embelry
" That's Amy...I can't stand her." Emberly replied.
"Well, I already don't like her." Shea said as she leaned in to whisper in the group of girls.
"What do you want now?" Embelry asked practicly shooting laser beams out of her eyes at Amy.
"I want you to leave my boyfriend alone."Amy said leaning back and crossing her arms slightly shaking her head.
"I'M NOT YOUR BOYFRIEND!" Sonic exclaimed throwing his arms downward with great force and defiance.
"Sure, Sonic." Amy said winking at Sonic. "So who are these girls?"
"I'm Shea and this is Angel and we're Emberly's friends." Shea replied stepping forward a few steps and when she stopped she shifted all her weight to one side of her body and crossing her arms her head slightly turned and shook one time to add attitude to her pose and then crossed her arms slowly which also added more attitude. " And, Honey, I don't quite like your attitude so I suggest you lose it pronto."
"Hmph." Amy said as she turned and marched upstairs.
"That's what I thougt." Shea mumbled to herself.
" Alright people lets go back onto the main deck it's time to get some rest." Sonic said as she motioned for them all to follow him up the stairs which they did. Once they arrived up stairs Sonic tapped on the ceiling twice and a set of stairs popped down. "Ladies first." Sonic said.
"Aww! What a gentleman!" Angel said her hands clasped in front of her and one leg raised.
"And he's all mine." Amy said
"That's what you think..." Sonic mumbled under his breath looking at Emberly who smiled at him as she walked past him and up the stairs.
"OK, well I'm sleeping in here." Emberly said walking up to the door of a room.
"Ok, well then looks like we're all bunking here then, right, Angel?" Shea said turning to face Angel.
"Yeah, I guess so." Angel replied.
" Then it's settled then, this is our new room." Emberly said as she pressed the button and walked into the room with her friends behind her. Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails got the room across the hall from them, Rouge picked the one next to Sonics's, And Amy was forced to pick the one beside Embelry's. As they all unpacked a few things Embelry walked out onto the ship deciding to go and explore the ship. She was walking down a tiny, dimmly lite hallway. While walking through this hallway she got this weird feeling that made her adrenline rush and senses tingle and increase as if to help her if she needed them. When suddenly some one grabbed her and covered her mouth. Emberly's heartbeat increased. Who had her? What should she do. She decided to let instinct take over. She grabbed her attackers fore arms and through them over her back but as the rolled off they sum how pulled out a dagger which gleamed in the light as they held it over their head. Emberly tried to find her voice when she finally did she said, " Who are you and what do you want?"
" I want to kill you." The figure who was dressed in full black said.
"Why? Who are you?" Emberly asked.
" That's none of your business, and if you really want to know why don't you show me? Use your power. After all you are the new and improved ansector and rightful ruler of Eternal Flame."
"What are you talking about?" Emberly said confused. The attacker then put it's hands in front of thier chest in prayer position and bowed then disapperaded in a cloud of smoke. Emberly broke out into a sprint. As she ran down the hall that seemed to go on forever she could see nothing in front of her and she could hear nothing but the thoughts that swarmed around in her head. The hall then turned into a throne made of pure gold that had a red velvet carpet in the middle of it. Emberly tried to shake it, but it refused to go away. "LEAVE ME ALONE!" Emberly screamed then it faded and returned to its orginal form. Embelry was running down the hall tears streaked her face suddenly she ran into something that held her tightly. "LEAVE ME ALONE! LET ME GO!" She screamed as she kicked her legs and pounded it with her fist as she continued to scream and kick and resist whatever had her.
"Emberly, it's me Sonic. What's wrong are you ok?" Sonic said as he winced in pain as she continued to hit him, but he never loosened his grip on her.
"Sonic?" Embelry said as she stopped hitting him, but her tears continued to flow.
"Yeah, it's me calm down." Emberly finding it hard to believe her ears snapped her fingers together and fire shot up from them from the light Emberly could see that it was truely Sonic.
" Sonic! I'm so glad to see you." Embelry said as she hugged Sonic.
" What happend?"
" Nothing, I'm fine really." Emberly lied.
" Something's up." Embelry looked up into his eyes.
"Do you really want to know?"
" Yeah."
"Ok then I'll tell you." Emberly told her story and was totally unaware of the pair of eyes that were watching them. After Emberly retold her story Sonic held her in his arms and comforted her and told her it would be ok as he walked her back to her room.
" Here we are." Sonic said.
" Thanks for everything, Sonic." Embelry said.
"No problem any time." Sonic said smiling casually at Emberly. Embelry returned the smile then gave him a quick kiss on the cheek.
"Good night, Sonic." Emberly said as she walked through the door.
"Night." Sonic said smiling at the door touching his cheek ginerly. He lingered at her door for a couple of minutes all though he was not quite sure why.
"Sonic, what are you doing? If you wanna go in then you should knock on the door; people aren't physic you know." Knuckles said as he popped his head out of the door.
"How long have you been standing there?" Sonic asked a little worried.
"Long enough to see stare at the door for about 5 minutes."
"Oh, well, umm.. Forget it, I'm going to sleep so move outta my way, Knuckle Head."
" HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU PEOPLE! DON'T CALL ME THAT!" Knuckles screamed at the top of his lungs.
"Oh, shut up and move I'm tired." Knuckles stayed right where he was. " Move, Knuckles." But when Knuckles refused to mover he tackled the unexpectant Sonic... This lead to Knuckles and Sonic began wresling on the floor. Everyone poked their heads out of their doors. Shea came out as she yawned and streached.
"What's goin on out here?" She asked. Then she saw what was going on.
"Looks like those two are at it again." Tails said as he started heading back into his room.
"Well, aren't you going to do something?" Angel asked. Tails had never seen Angel yet. Hmm she's kinda cute, but girls are werid ... Tails thought to himself.
" Who are you?" Tails asked
" Oh, I'm Angel, the two tailed fox."
"Wow, I've never seen someone of my species before well nice to meet you and no, I'm not going to do anything."
"Why?"
"Because it's normal for those two to always be at each others throats."
"Oh." As everyone began to go back to their rooms Shea started walking over to Sonic and Knuckles who were still rolling around on the floor throwing a punch when ever they got the chance. Emberly and Angel just stood there and exchanged glances both were smirking.
"What's she going to do?" Amy whispered to Angel.
"Watch." Angel replied. Shea walked right up to the two grabbed Knuckles off of Sonic and held them both up like rag dolls. Knuckles continued swinging until he noticed he was hitting nothing but air he looked around confused as he noticed his feet were dangling a couple of inches of the ground.
"What the heck!" They said in unison as they looked up at Shea who was holding them.
"Got ya both, so are you gonna act like your mature or 5 years old? It's your choice, but if you continue to act up then I'll show you both what it's like to get killed by a girl; slowly and painfully." Shea said looking them both in the eyes with an amazingly calm expression plasstured on her face. " So what will it be fella's?" Sonic and Knuckles exchanged glances.
"If Knuckle Head over here can control himself and be a good echindna then I'll be fine."Sonic said turning his head away from Knuckles and sticking his nose high in the air. If looks could kill Knuckles would've just killed Sonic. He gritted his teeth and narrowed his eyes.
"Will you two knock it off or not?" Shea demanded shaking them both a few times.
"YES!" They both screamed in stero.
"Good." Shea said as she dropped them casually to the ground where Knuckles landed on his stomach on the floor.
"UGH!" He exclaimed. Then Sonic landed on his stomach on top of Knuckles' back which broke his fall, but was not the best thing for Knuckles.
"UUUGGHH!" Knuckles said as his breathe left his body.
"My bad." Sonic said rolling off Knuckles' back and onto his feet where he then dusted himself off casually smiling at Emberly his usually cocky smile. Emberly returned the smile. Angel giggled under her breathe. And as for poor Knuckles, he just laid on the floor for a couple of minutes. By this time everyone had gone back into their rooms expect for Shea, who crouched down to his level her hair covering part of her face as she tucked it behind her ears and said,
" Are you ok?"
" Uh, yeah, I think." Knuckles said as he looked up at her.
" Well it looks like you could use some help. Roll over." Knuckles smiled and rolled over onto his back, as Shea stood up and extended her hand down to him smiling warmly.
" Sorry for killing you by the way, but you asked for it." She said jokingly as Knuckles grabbed her hand and allowed her to help pull him up. Once he was on his feet there was this warm feeling neighter one of them had ever really felt before. They stood in the middle of the hallway hands still locked together staring into each others eyes. Shea shifted uneasily. "Uh sorry again! Well I'll see you later! Have a good night sleep!" Shea said jerking her hand out of Knuckles as she rubbed the back of her head with a bright smile on her face as she turned and dashed for her bedroom door.
" You too..." Knuckles mumbled. He just stood there for a second trying to figure out what had just happened. When he came up with nothing he shrugged and turned on his heel as he walked over to his door and slowly reached out to push the button and entered the room. Shea had just gotten into her room. When the cold, hard medal doors shut she leaned against them and heaved a huge sigh. She lingered by the door for a minute or two and then pulled herself off the door and walked over to her bed and climbed in. Emberly, who had a bunk above her, swung half of her body over the rail and said,
"So..."
"So what?" Shea asked quizzically trying to play it cool.
"Don't act like you don't know what I mean." Embelry said aggitated as she rolled her eyes.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Shea said experated.
"You and Knuckles?"
"What about it?" Shea asked still trying to play it cool, but she could feel her heart quicken.
"What's going on between you two? You sure were out there a long time." Embelry said.
"I just helped him up and gave him a pep talk that's all."
"Sure ya did." Emberly said giving Shea a wink. "Go on."
"Emberly?"
"Yeah?"
"You're starting to turn red."
"What? No I'm not." Emberly said definantly.
"Yes you are."
"Ok so maybe I am. What's your point?"
"Well normally when a person turns red in the face and they're hanging upside down it means that all your blood is rushing to your head and that you should probably turn rightside up."
"Oh, fine I see how you are. I'll leave you alone for now, but don't think this means you're off the hook. I want ALL the details tomorrow so sleep on it and get your wonderful story together." Oh I'll get my story together... Shea thought.
"Fine! Whatever! Now will you just leave me alone so I can get some sleep?" Shea said as she rolled over onto her side so she faced the wall.
"Sure." Emberly said as she gracefully swung herself back over the rail and rolled over to face the wall also.
"I think you two are both retarded still. My opinion hasn't changed." Angel said from her bed across the room.
"GO TO SLEEP, ANGEL!" Emberly and Shea shouted irratedly at poor Angel.
"Ok! Ok! Geesh! Kill some body for stating their opinion! You know the United Stated of America..."
"GO TO SLEEP!" They shouted againg cutting Angel off. This time Angel didn't put up a fight. She just rolled over and went back to sleep obediently.
"RISE AND SHINE EVERYONE! C'MON IT'S TIME TO GET UP!" Tails shouted as he walked through the hall banging on all the doors. From every room groans and moans answered to Tails banging and noise making. Emberly rolled right off the top bunk and landed with a loud thud on her stomach.
"MMM!" Emberly said still half asleep, but she still flet the pain that raced through her body. She did a push up and was back on her feet in an intstant. Shea tossed and turned and threw her pillow over her head as she clutched it tightly trying to keep out the sound. Angel just merrily got up and began to do her usually morning routine. Emberly grabbed the pillow Shea had held tightly in her hands and threw it across the room and then ripped the covers off of her. Shea grabbed at the railing in front of her as Emberly pulled at her legs. "Come on! Get up! If I have to so do you!" Emberly yelled at Shea.
"Why don't you just leave me alone!" Shea shouted irritatdly back at Emberly.
"Why can't you to just get along?" Angel asked innocently.
"Stay out of this!" They both growled at Angel.
"Well I see you two aren't morning people." Angel said as she disappeared into the bathroom.
"Shea, you have 5 seconds to get out of bed before I do some serious damage to you." Embelry said letting go of Shea's legs.
"1..." Emberly said crossing her arms and shifting all of her weight to one leg. "2.." Emberly said checking her nails. "3.." I wonder what she's gonna do?" Shea thought to herself. "4... Last chance!" "5!" Emberly clapped her hands together forming a huge fire ball which set off the sprinker system which drenched Shea.
"Ahhh!" Shea said jumping up to her feet in alarm. "OK OK! TURN IT OFF! I'M UP! I'M UP ALREADY!" Shea shouted dancing around the room.
"One problem... I don't know how to turn them off..." Embelry admitted beaming her dazzeling smile at Shea.
"Are you kidding me!" Shea shouted angrily looking as if she was about to kill Emberly.
"My hair is ruined!" Angel shouted from the bathroom.
"Get bent!" Shea yelled over her shoulder at Angel. Next thing you know there was all kinds of banging on the door as everyone was trying to yell through it at once. Shea and Emberly exchanged worried looks.
"Well you open it." Shea said to Emberly.
"Are you insane you open it." Emberly replied.
"You set off the sprinklers." Shea said accusingly to Embelry.
"So."
"So you open the door."
"Fine. I will. Since I'm the only one brave enough to do it."
"Go ahead." Shea said tossing her head to the door as she crossed her arms and shifted all of her weight to one foot. Emberly stride over to the door with confidence, but when she reached the door she looked back at Shea who just gave a casually cocky smirk. Emberly turned back to the door and as she reached for the button she thought, Come on, Emberly! You've taked down some serioius bad guys and yet you're scared of your own team? Be a woman and open the dumb door!" Emberly pushed the button and was nearly knocked out by all the noise that flooded the room right after the door opened!
"EVERYONE SHUT UP!" Emberly screamed over everyone. "Ok now that I have your attenetion... One at a time, ok?" Amy made her way through the crowd and shouted," Who did it? Who set off the sprinkers?" Then pointed to her hair which looked like she just got sturck by lightening her nomally pink body had turned charcoal black. "Look what you did to my hair!" Amy whinned. Emberly and Shea hit the floor and began rolling around hitting the floor and laughing so hard they began to cry and then turned red, blue, and prurple because they couldn't breathe. " I don't see what's so funny!" Amy complained.
"Have you seen your hair?" Sonic said snickering.
"Honey, there's a thing called a beautition. You may want to look into that." Rouge said giggling. pretty soon they were all on the floor, well except for Amy, having a giggle fit also.
"Good one, Rouge!" Knuckles said between laughes.
"Hmph!" Amy said as she stromed back to her room and slammed the door behind her. When everyone gained control of themselves again they got up and whipped away a few tears and dusted themselves off.
"Well, that was interesting." Shea said.
"Well why did the sprinkler go off? Is there a fire?" Sonic asked.
"Hun, there is always a fire if Emberly's around she's a walking flame literatly." Shea said.
" Yeah.. She is pretty hot." Knuckles said. Shea tried not to show her hurt. Why did everyone always drool over Emberly? Sonic punched Knuckles in the arm and said,"She's all mine."
"Hey! Who said I wanted her!" Knuckles exclaimed cutting his eyes over to Shea and then quickly back to Sonic. Shea after seeing and hearing all this smiled. Emberly just shook her head," You two are crazy!" She said laughing.
"Well so ya'll never answered my question. Why did the sprinkler go off?" Sonic asked. Shea explained the whole scenrio over to Sonic and everyone else.
"Oh." They all said.
"Well anyways, I suggest everyone gets ready right now because we only have 3 hours till we get to space colony A.R.K." Tails said heading back to the captians pit. All the girls raced for their rooms and began to get ready. Emberly went to her closet and opened it up wondering what she should wear. After all she had to look her best. She pulled out her old fighting suit that she had wore when ever she killed all those people. It was her black leather jumpsuit that hugged her every curve with the chinese character for fire on the chest and a red and golden dragon behind it and candy red flames running up and down her legs arms with slits around her waist and upper body and on her arms a few by her theighs and upper legs.
"I don't know if I like the looks of this.." Shea said from behind her. Embelry whirrled around and said,
" What are you talking about?" Emberly asked.
"Well if I remember correctly that's your killing suit."
"Yes it is." Shea shook her head and said,
" The last time I saw you in that thing I never saw you again until I got that phone call from you. Well I'm gonna go get ready be back." Shea said as she turned to walk over to her closet and Emberly walked into her bathroom. She pulled her jumped in the shower came out and her hair was wavy she got dressed and applied some gold eyes shadow to her eye lids, black eyeliner over that, the masscara, and then out lined her lips black and filled it in with red, shiney lip stick. When she came out she found Shea in her leather black jumpsuit that hugged her every curve and had the symbol for 'bad' written in the middle of her chest. Her jumpsuit was ripped around her chest, waist, theighs, and her sleeves looked like they had been ripped off. Her hair was in a high pony tail. She had on blue eyeshadow with black eyeliner, and her lips where out lines in a bright red and the rest was filled in with a lighter more faded red.
"And if I remeber correctly that was your killing suit." Emberly teased.
" Well since you're wearing yours I decided to wear mine." Shea said. Then over the intercom Tails said,
"Everyone come up to the docking bay we're here." Shea and Emberly exchanged glances.
"Be carefull." They both said as the walked out of the room as they walked down the hall everyone's eyes were on them. Angel went up to the Captians pit with Tails.
"Look who the sluts are!" Amy giggled. Shea grabbed Emberly before she could even lunge at Amy and said,
" Save all that for the big guys."
"How did you know I was even gonna do that?" Emberly asked a little surprised.
"Think about it. Who's been your best friend since you were born?" Embelry just nodded as they continued walking.
"Man they look hot.." Knuckles said to Sonic
" You said it.." He replied. They began to follow them out as Rouge and Amy followed them. When they walked out onto A.R.K. Emberlyl saw her sister Soda pop standing there smiling.
"Good to see you again, sis." She said cockly.
"I don't think this is gonna be good I'm getting this bad vibe from her." Shea whispered to Emberly.
"Shea, she's my little sister.."
"Emberly, be careful." Just then Shadow appeared out of no where.
"Good to see you, Sonic." He said as he walked over to where Soda Pop was. "We're so glad you could make it. To bad you won't live through this lovely reunion." He said cockly.