Chapter 2

Fang the Sniper entered the factory. He had been summoned here because of a bounty put up by the ARK's government for Amy the Hedgehog. Exactly WHY she was wanted, he didn't know. But she was worth money, so he didn't care. Unfortunately, the pink hedgehog was proving to be quite the hassle to catch. He was tempted to say, "Here, Amy, Amy, Amy! SOOOO-WEEEE!" but then he realized that he was thinking about the wrong type of hog. At the moment, he had cornered her, his sniper rifle pointed directly at her. Hmmm… she's pretty hot… stay focused, Fang. He thought.

"Why are you following me? You some kind of perv or something?" Amy shouted at Fang. Apparently she was aware of his tracking her. Crap. He thought, as he leapt from his perch atop a computer tower.

"As a matter of fact, I'm not. In fact," Fang began, "I'm hunting you. You have a bounty on your head. Don't tell me that you didn't know that."

"Actually, I didn't. Thank you for telling me, Mr.…"

"Fang."

"Well, Mr. Fang, it was a pleasure meeting you, but I really have to go."

"Oh, no. You're not getting away THAT easily. What kind of idiot do you take me for?"

"An idiot that's about to get hit with a hammer."

"What?" BOOM! And Fang was knocked unconscious by Amy's hammer.

"Wh-where am I? Am I anywhere at all? Am I really sure that I'm not in some sort of parallel dimension where black is white and 'Yo Momma' jokes aren't funny? Wait; if I was in a parallel dimension, then wouldn't it seem normal to be in a parallel dimension? I just confused myself. Nevertheless, I have a bounty to catch." Fang decided. He then took a look at his surroundings, seeing only computers and gadgets and other doohickeys. He was obviously dragged into a computer lab after that stupid pink hedgehog hit him with that stupid hammer. Didn't the ARK governmental people confiscate everyone's weapons as soon as they had entered? That girl is more of a home wrecker than I thought… Fang thought to himself as he felt for a door. After running into several hard, metal objects (STUPID ARK DESIGNERS!), he finally found the door.

"Took you long enough to get out, hon," A mysterious figure said from the shadows as Fang walked out of that hell hole of a room.

"And just who are you and how long have you been waiting for me?" Fang responded, his hand reaching toward his gun.

"In order, I'm Rouge the Bat, master thief, and I've been waiting for about half an hour. Any more questions, hon?" Rouge answered.

"Just one."

"And what would that be?"

"One bullet wound, or two?" Fang asked sarcastically, as he pulled out his magnum and fired. Rouge jumped into the air, clung to the ceiling, then dropped down behind Fang and struck him in the arm, causing him to release his gun.

"None will be fine, sugar. Now if you'll kindly take your other hand off of your other gun, I'll let you go." Fang complied, and Rouge stepped back about two steps. "Very good! You can listen to directions. You are now officially smarter than a Kindergarten student. Let's see if you can figure out who I'm working for," Rouge said as she pulled out her badge. The badge was gold, and had the words, "Bounty Hunter, ARK Cover-up Project" on it. Fang had one just like it.

"So ARK hired you to kill me so they wouldn't have to pay me for killing that hedgehog. Big whoop. You can't kill what you can't catch!" Fang shouted, and ran. He turned right, then left, then right again, then turned around to see if he had lost her. Whew. Looks like I… Crap. He had run directly into her. It was almost as if she had read his mind as to where he was going to run next. Of course, there were only 2 paths from the door, and they formed a complete circle, so that wasn't very hard.

"Now, if you knew enough about yourself as I know about you, then you would know that you have defied that rule for as long as you've been in this business. Now, recall the facts. We BOTH have these here badges. We BOTH were hired by ARK. Wouldn't that mean that we are on the same side?" Rouge asked.

"Now that I think about it, yeah. I guess it would."

"Right. So, let's go catch us a hedgehog." Rouge suggested. And they were off.