Chapter 2-15: Nightmares

The morning sun rises over the horizon and peeks its way into Rage's bedroom waking him up. He opens his emerald eyes and sighs. "Another one…" he sighs getting out of bed The first thing he did was walk to the bathroom to do his morning routine. Within twenty minutes he was out the door.

"Morning Rage!" Sonic says looking at the red haired male who looked horrible. "Damn dude you look worse and worse every day. You need to find a way to get those dreams under control."

"I know…every night since my past caught up to me." Rage sighs "Guess being normal just isn't possible for someone like me."

"Oh come on Rage, Shads and I are doing fine! Heck XL is too and he's got artificial limbs!" Sonic says.

"Are either of them the guardian of legendary emeralds? Orphans? Mentally scarred? All at once?" Rage asks looking at Sonic.

"Well….er…no." the cobalt haired kid answers.

"RAGE!" Sunset yells as the two look to see her running down the street with a smile. One soon crossed Rage's face. If there was one person who could make his day no matter what it was her. Sunset Shimmer was someone he loved.

"Sunset!" he smiles as the two hugged. "How are you?"

"I am doing good!" she smiles "What about you? Is everything okay?"

"I am fine, really." Rage smiles.

"Really because I was told you've been having problems with stuff?" Sunset asks

"It's just I am having trouble sleeping at night with everything that has happened recently." Rage answers. "Thank you for the concern Sunset."

"Well if you want I could come sleep with you for a night see if that helps." She offers. Rage looks at her and blushes a bright red as Sonic looks shocked at the response from the fiery girl.

"Uh…" Rage says "I dunno…I mean we could end up doing something dumb." He says rubbing the back of his head.

"Oh come on it's worth a try!" Sunset says

"…Okay…" Rage finally agrees as the bus pulls up. "We can try that…" Though Rage wasn't completely sold on the idea he was desperate to find a way to stop the nightmares. They had been eating away at him for far too long. But the thing that bugged him the most was stranger still. What did they suddenly come back to him? Ever since he left Mobius with Sonic and Shadow the nightmares and flashbacks had stopped. Like, they were tied to something on the planet.

"Rage?" Rainbow asks looking at the spaced out kid. "Rage!" she shouts this time he shakes his head and looks at her.

"Huh? Wha-" he stutters.

"Rage what is wrong with you? You're all spaced out." Rainbow asks with a worried tone looking from over the seat at him.

"Huh? Nothing." He answers "I am fine." He lies. Sonic the whispers about Rage's predicament to Rainbow Dash. She nods and sits back down as Rage is once again lost in thought about what could be wrong with him for the dreams to suddenly pop back up.

Back home they started after Vlagh revealed himself and stopped once Rage left Mobius soon after his triumph over the evil being. But he hasn't had a single nightmare. It must have been all of the recent events that reminded him of home that brought on the flashbacks.

The bus arrives and everyone files off like every other day. Rage walks next to Sunset and Shadow as they enter the school. Shadow was looking down and both Sunset and Rage knew why. Rebecca had seemingly vanished for the last few weeks with no trace. Rage and Twilight searched through technology to try and track her but she has just vanished. But as Rage and Shadow went to their lockers a note was attached to Shadows locker.

"Whats this?" he asks taking it and reading it softly. "If this has reached you Shadow I am in trouble…a guy from my old school has taken me captive and I need help! I know it sounds strange but…please don't rescue me I don't want you hurt! Yours always, Rebecca." He reads. Shadow beams with anger as he growls. Rage puts a hand on his shoulder and he calms down looking at Rage. "Dammit I really hate having to ask but Rage…could you go save her for me? I don't want her to hate me for saving her when she asked me not to."

"Of course I can." Rage smiles giving his friend a thumbs up "I'll be back soon!"

"Thank you." Shadow says as Rage takes off.

Rage ran looking at the map enclosed in the letter. "The hell is she doing in a cabin all the way out in the woods?" Rage asks himself getting a bad feeling about it all. Soon he arrives at the cabin and looks at it. It was run down and old. Almost like something out of a horror story. "A little late for Halloween ain't it?" Rage sighs to himself again. He walks up the stairs and a note was on the door. This one read:

'I see you have no sense of listening even to your girlfriend Shadow. So if you are that determined then you will find her in the old mansion but also me…' Rage scoffs after reading this. With a heavy sigh he heads to the old mansion. To his surprise the old locked gate had been opened and the lock laying broken on the ground. Rage was ready for anything when XL came running up to him shouting his name.

"Rage! Rage!" He screamed

"What?" Rage asks turning to XL.

"Let me come with you!" he says "I want to help."

"XL, I can't…Shadow asked me to do this. I can't let him down besides I owe him." Rage replies

"Rage…" XL sighs

"No buts." Rage responds walking forwards. "Sorry man." he sighs opening the door to the mansion. XL nods and Rage goes inside shutting the door. Rage looks around the large room. "Now where would she be?" Rage asks as a scream is heard. "The basement!" he says to himself running to the staircase and proceeding downwards. As he kept going he heard another voice. Finally at the door he went to open it but stopped when he heard the voice again.

"Tell me bitch!" it yells.

"I'll never tell you Sebastian!" Rebecca's voice yells. Rage growled hearing the slap following soon after as he kicks the door clean off its hinges.

"What?" the voice yells as Rage walks in his fists clenched. "Why who do we have here? Is this Shadow?" the man owning the voice chuckles. He was on top of Rebecca with a knife in his hand. "Did you disobey me you little bitch?"

"No he's not!" Rebecca yells struggling.

"Then who is he?!" Sebastian yells.

"Who I am is none of your concern." Rage says "But if you call her a bitch one more time I am going to kill you and that is a promise…" he growls.

"So you're a friend?" Sebastian smirks "Surprised this bitch even has any."

"Well why don't you get off of her and let's settle this like men." Rage says. Sebastian laughs at Rage's nobility.

"As you can see I am the one with the knife…but okay since you must have a death wish…" Sebastian chuckles getting up. He then dashes at Rage who kicks him back and proceeded to disarm Sebastian and snap his arm with a downward chop. Sebastian screams in pain as Rage drops him and he falls down. Rage grabs and helps Rebecca up and the two leave.

"Thank you Rage!" she cheers hugging him.

"Don't thank me." Rage says "It was nothing. Come on Shadow has been worried sick about you." He smiles taking her back to CHS.

The two walk into the room the friends shared and the first thing she was met with was a hug and kiss from Shadow. Rage stood there smiling feeling happy he could help and Shadow mouths a thank you to him. Rage just nods and turns to head home before Sunset stops him. "Wait up Rage." She says "Have you forgotten?" she smiles and Rage sighs before leading her home with him.

The two didn't really do much. They played some Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros for Wii U which Rage had gotten for Christmas. At about 9:00 Rage and Sunset head up for bed. While Rage was in his closet getting everything ready for tomorrow Sunset changes into her sleepwear which wasn't much just her underwear. Rage comes out wearing some pajama pants but no shirt. Rage always seemed to be hot when he slept so he never wore a shirt. Coming out he looks in surprise. "Sunset I know I agreed to letting you sleep in my bed with me but no funny business ok?"

"Yes, yes I know." Sunset says as the two climb into bed. Both soon fall asleep next to each other.

The next day Rage woke up refreshed and good as new! Surprisingly it had worked! Rage smiled looking over to his sleeping girlfriend and smiled.

To be continued

Q and A time!

From Happyloveguest-

To rage ;D
Tell me what you love about sunset?

Rage: A lot of things. Her personality, hairstyle, eyes…and how awkward things can be with her just makes it fun!

To shadow
Why don't you give Rebecca so much attention?

Shadow: Because up until recently she had been missin

From XLR8 The Fox

Twilight, Are you gonna ask XL about his robotic arm? If so, are you gonna try to do some research on him and his robot arm?

Twilight: Probably not to both. I am not interested in robotics.

Sunset, What do you think about XL and his robotic parts now? Are you now curious about why he has robot parts?

Sunset: I have no interest in it at all. I don't think any of us do. Frankly we're all too busy with other stuff to give that much thought. Besides I have to worry about Rage and his nightmares right now.

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