Chapter 9- Fight to the... what...?
Midnight looked at Shadow Fox with confusion cemented in her expression. "Why would we do that?" she asked. "Shadow used to be one of my allies!"
"So...? What's your point?" Shadow Fox replied bluntly.
"I couldn't!" she stated with her eyes very huge and her hand over her heart. "I just couldn't bare harming Shadow at a time like this! I mean, if I did, what kind of student will I be?" Midnight cried in her hands. "What kind of horrible monster am I?"
"Oh no, not this again..." Shadow Fox scowled.
"You have a very dramatic sister..." Phantom commented.
"What kind of villian are you?" Shadow Fox screamed at his twin. "If your not gonna... Hey were'd she go?"
Phantom and Shadow Fox looked around for any sign of Midnight. "Coward..." Shadow Fox said in a stubborn tone. "If she wants to be a chicken, fine."
Suddenly Midnight came from nowhere and tackled her brother and they fell into the lake. Shadow Fox tried to break free from his sister's choke hold but was failing horribly. Suddenly she let go and swam to surface. Shadow Fox followed and gasped for air, coughing and sputtering.
"What the (cough) hell is wrong with you?" he screamed pulling himself out of the water.
Midnight was doubling over with laughter, rolling on her back. "You should seen your face! Priceless!" she howled.
Even Phantom found that entertaining, so he chuckled in a low voice. "You have admit Shadow, that was pretty funny."
"What do you know?" Shadow hissed. "Traitor!"
"I didn't kill you did I?" Midnight chimed. "I was only playing..."
"Hm... That's awful rough play, don't you think?" a voice questioned slyly.
The trio looked up and saw a well rested Shadow the hedgehog. He stood against a tree with a smirk on his face.
"Midnight, I'm disappointed in you..." he said in a cocky tone. "I thought we were friends."
"I never had any friends." she answered standing, with her fists clenched.
"You mean you don't remember?" he asked, curiosity chaning his smug expression to an almost concerned one.
"Remember what?" she snapped.
"What are you talking about?" Shadow Fox inquired getting angrier by the moment.
"For your information, Fox Boy, Midnight here used to be my apprentice. And, I hate to say it, but, she also used to work with that blue hedgehog you saw earlier. She was one of the 'heroes'." Shadow explained with a slight scowl. "Midnight, you're not who you think you are. Don't you remember? You can still be who you were before any of this happened."
"Shut... up!" Midnight screeched lunging at Shadow with her fists ready.
Shadow grabbed her fist and held her back. He then drove his knee into her stomach, knocking the wind out of the female fox. She fell back and laid on the ground in a slight daze. Shadow grabbed Midnight by her collar and pulled her off the ground.
"Do you really want to fight me?" he growled threateningly.
Midnight opened one eye and glared at Shadow. "I'll... kill you..." she hissed grabbing the hedgehog's arm and kicked him sharply in the chest. She got her feet back on the ground and then swung Shadow around by his arm and through him into a large stone, that shattered on impact.
The black and red hedgehog stood up slowly and charged at Midnight with blinding speed. She turned around slowly to recieve a devestating blow from Shadow sending her reeling. She had to recover quickly in order to block Shadow's wave of attacks. The two fought fiercly with Shadow Fox and Phantom sitting on the sidelines.
"Shouldn't we help her?" Phantom asked his commrad.
"We have more important things to deal with. She won't mind if we shorten her job a little." Shadow Fox replied.
Phantom sighed and rolled his eyes. Then he opened a portal and the two teleported away from the forest area.
Meanwhile...
"HI-YA!" Amy cried using her hammer to try and break the glass dome that surrounded Eggman's head.
The cyborg swatted her away with a robotic arm and laughed. Hope threw a wave of ninja stars to attack the cyborg. They simply stuck to his chest plate and he fired missles in her direction. She jumped out of the way and landed behind the stairwell. Knuckles suddenly flew past her and hit a wall.
"Knuckles!" Haze cried in despiration. (sp?)
Knuckles stood back up and growled angrily. "You'll pay for that Egghead." he snarled leaping back towards the fight.
Haze's fist clenched tightly as she looked at the monster that was plauging her new friends. Her mind was racing. 'What should I do?' she thought frantically. 'If I don't hurry, everyone could die... wait a second, I know. I'll find Shadow! He'll know what to do! I need to find Sonic too.'
She ran to Charmy and helped him up from the ground after he had just been smacked out of the air.
"C'mon, we have to go find Sonic and Shadow!" she exclaimed as she pulled him out of the house.
"How will we do that? And what about the others?" Charmy replied in a worried tone.
Espio appeared next to them. "Don't worry, we'll hold Eggman off." he said and then he disappeared once more in thin air.
Charmy looked back at Haze and then nodded. The two ran off into the forest and began calling out for the two hedgehogs. Haze could only hope that her brother was okay and not hurt and/or dead somerwhere.
Fortunantly...
Shadow sat on the ground trying to catch his breath again. Midnihgt was surprisingly strong and put up a good fight. But she was still no match for Shadow. Midnight lay unconcious a few feet away from him, badly beaten. Shadow groaned as he stood and walked over to Midnight.
"You... are..." she mumbled in her almost delirious state.
"Too strong? I know..." Shadow chuckled in spite of himself.
He heard a large crash echo adn he sighed in annoyance. "Now what...?" he growled picking Midnight up and putting her over his left shoulder. Then he dashed off into the forest at top speed.
He noticed how everything seemed destroyed around him. 'What could've caused all of this...?' he wondered as he glided through the forest dodging all of the wreckage that blocked him. He then came across the cause of his newest problem.
"Oh... my... god..." he muttered coming to a screeching halt.
Else where...
Shadow Fox and Phantom arrived at the household of Sonic and his friends to see Eggman destroying it adn the people inside. Shadow crossed his arms in disapproval.
"How did he get here first? This was supposed to our job!" the dark fox hissed lowering his ears.
"That cyborg is very... persistant..." Phantom said with a slight nod. "Should we help them?"
"Heck no!" Shadow Fox exclaimed. "We'd be helping the enemy!"
"Think of it this way; we'd be getting back at the robot guy for taking what you wanted to do." Phantom stated folding his arms.
Shadow Fox thought and then scowled. "Alright fine."
The two approached and instantly Shadow Fox attacked Eggman from behind. Rouge looked at the newcomers awkwardly.
'Who are they...?' she thought.
The fight progressed alot faster now that Phantom and Shadow Fox had joined the fight. Soon Eggman fled from the scene. Hope, Espio, Vector, and Amy all cheered. Rouge was still staring at Shadow Fox while Knuckles was glaring at him angrily.
"What are you doing here...?" he snarled clinching his fists.
"Helping you out obviously." The fox sniffed, "Is there something wrong with that?"
"Yeah, you traitor!" Knuckles yelled causing everyone to quiet and look at the two.
"Traitor? Me? For your information I was never associated with you in the first place. I just came here to kick that dumb robot's ass and then prbably yours too." Shadow Fox snapped.
"Just try it..." Knuckles challenged in a low tone.
"Oh knock it off." Phantom scowled.
A dark hole appeared beneath Shadow Fox's feet causing him out of sight. "PHANTOM!" the fox was heard screaming as he fell. Phantom just shook his head.
"I'm sure we'll meet again." He said with an evil laughter as he disappeared in his own portal.
Knuckles let out a cry of frustration. "Why is everything so screwed?" he cried out punching a wall in rage.
"Knuckles, calm down!" Vector scolded walking over to him and placing his hand heavily on the echidna's shoulder. 'We'll find a way to fix things, alright?"
Knuckles nodded after a pause and then lifted his head. 'What happen to Haze?" he asked.
"She and Charmy went to go find Sonic and Shadow." Espio answered rubbing his shoulder gingerly. It was badly cut with blood flowing freely down his back.
"We should go after them." Hope mumbled quietly.
"Yeah." Amy nodded in agreement.
The group all left the house after everyone was sure they could all function alright. They progressed through the forest but was soon stopped by a very familiar scream.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Knuckles gasped in shock. "That sounded like..."
-to be conitinued-
Me- Ha! Cliffy! Muhahahahahahahahaha! Well, review or else you'll never find out what happened. BYE!