Yay! Welcome to our first published charrie, Spike! Yay for you Spikey! Now, everyone glue your eyes to the screen and listen.
Blaze fox HAS been written into the story, expect to see her in chapter ten! Whoopie! As for a male panther, he can be expected between chapter 11 - 13. I'm not sure which one he'll appear in. Anywho, day one of your chapter extrodanaire. Yes. Do not laugh at me...I'm am a HORRIBLE pilot.
Sonic would not shut up.
"I thought you said you could fly a plane! You call that flying?" He demanded, pointing to the X Tornado, which had done a nose dive into the Egg fortress. It was now on a 90 degree angle, its nose crushed into the metal floor. Kylo had a huge 'sweat drop' on her head
"I said I wasn't the best pilot!" She said, defending herself. Sonic shook his head and spun around
"I fly better than that! And I can't really fly at all!" He said as he stomped towards the main gate, Knuckles in tow. Kylo shrugged and turned to follow when something made her pause. It was close…She heard footsteps…a faint, clanking noise like metal on metal. But as soon as she paused to hear it better, it had stopped. Kylo shrugged and excused it as her hearing. Then followed Sonic and Knuckles into the Egg Fortress
Inside the fortress was wired with cameras. There was not a hallway that was not armed with a camera. Sonic wanted his visit to remain private. So he sighed and turned around
"What are we going to do? You'd need a stealth master to get past that." He said. Kylo shifted uncomfortably. "What?" He gasped, suddenly realizing what she had not yet said "You're going to tell me that you're a world-famous thief? Aren't you?" He said, pointing an accusing finger at her. Kylo shook her head and opened her mouth to reply. But Sonic would not give her a chance to speak. "Well then, I at least hope your stealth is better than your piloting skills!" He said, turning his back on her. "When new people come it's like we're not special, unique. You guys come along and have all these special powers and abilities. It's like we're not heroes anymore." Kylo felt a 'sweat drop' fall down her head again. She put her hand on his shoulder to comfort him. "We're not the ones saving the world every time, Sonic." She said quietly. Hoping to comfort the broken Hedgehog. She turned around and slipped into the shadows, quietly creeping along towards the camera, then disconnecting the power by reaching up and moving the cord with her sword. When the little light on the camera went off, the group advanced.
Kylo used this trick for every camera they came across. Approaching the bridge, Kylo heard the sound of footsteps again. The faint, barely audible sound of footsteps on metal. Turning around, Sonic looked back to her. She realized she'd stopped without meaning to.
"What's up Kylo?" Sonic asked, tilting his head. Kylo shook her head and waved her hand
"Nothing…Go on without me, I want to see something…" She said, retracing their steps, flaring her ears to follow the sound of footsteps. She took a side corridor she hadn't noticed before, following the winding walls of metal. She followed the sound of footsteps until she stumbled upon a large, circular room. In the very back was a line of computer consoles. And one Green tube with a faint shadow of a figure inside it. Advancing on the capsule, she looked down to the computer screen and tried to override the password. No luck. With a sigh she hit the computer screen with a fist and grunted. Suddenly, she remembered the reason she'd discovered this capsule. She was following the sound of footsteps. She only remembered this now because the faint sound of footsteps had become a quiet running charge. Rolling aside, she saw a dent form in the metal base of the computer where she'd stood a second before. A small red window appeared on computer screen, but she was too far away to read it. She heard the footsteps come towards her again and rose to her feet. Ducking aside as she heard a whoosh of air above her. Rolling back again, she drew her sword, and pointed in the direction of where she'd been attacked. Keeping her ears flared and opened wide to catch the sound waves as they came. Blinking strangely, she was puzzled at the sight before her. Standing a few feet away, one foot slightly behind the other in a 'Ready' stance, one hand flung behind him the other in front of his face, holding up only two of his fingers, was a Chameleon. A purple one at that. But it wasn't the Espio Kylo remembered, This Espio was the same, no doubt, but a look of steady hatred was implanted on his face. Kylo was puzzled
"Espio? What's up with you today?" She asked, but ducked to avoid flying ninja stars. He really meant to hurt Kylo. But she did not know why. Espio rushed at her, spinning at the last moment, bringing up his foot for a powerful kick. Kylo was not the fastest fox alive. She skittered across the floor. "Okay, Espio or not, NO ONE hits me and gets away with it." She said, reaching for her sword. Espio didn't react, he'd decided now was the time to explain. He slowly started to walk backwards towards the wall.
"Traitor." He said darkly, placing one hand behind him, so he would not bump into the wall. Kylo looked puzzled. But Espio didn't give her the chance to ask. He needed to distract her for a moment while he prepared himself for a surprise attack. His distraction was working "You took Tails here. It's your fault he's captured." The chameleon continued, backing up against the wall. Kylo was puzzled,
"How?"
"You were the one that took him here! Don't pretend you don't know…" He stated, sliding one foot behind him as he spoke. But he was starting to get slightly startled at the Fox's lack of memory. Maybe she was purposely denying it?
"I did not take him here!" Kylo retorted, surprised. Espio just shook his head and spun around. By the time Kylo realized what was happening, it was too late. He jumped off the wall and twisted around in mid air. Vanishing by instinct as he flew over the fox's head, he landed behind her, brought his foot along the ground, tripping the fox. He caught her hands as she fell, wrenched them behind her, crossing her wrists and shoved her to the ground. He re-appeared, calmly placed his right foot on her crossed wrists and narrowed his eyes
"Hmph" He said, disapproving on how easy the fox had fallen. "Are you even trying?" He asked. But now that he thought carefully about it, he thought maybe the truth was Kylo was just a Mobian Citizen who had a bit more experience with a sword then most and a certain gift of hearing. Not specially trained like he was. To trap her, he'd used a certain move that would pin the victim to the ground, if he pushed his foot upward a bit, the way her arms were twisted behind her would cause her pain by pulling the muscle. He would use this feature of the move to get real answers "So, care to tell you the truth?" He said darkly, keeping his eyes fixed on her sword incase she tried something. Kylo's voice was muffled
"I told you, I didn't bring Tails here!" She protested. Espio put some weight on his right foot. Kylo visibly tensed
"Ow! Jeezus someone got up on the wrong side of the bed. Hey! OW!"
"If you didn't bring Tails here, what are you doing here?" He asked, tilting his head slightly. Kylo grunted, pulling her shoulders back to minimize the pain "I came here looking for Tails!" She said, with an admirable amount of dignity considering she was being interrogated by someone she'd grown to like. Espio's eyes narrowed more.
"Why were you following-ungh!" Espio never got to finish his sentence, a blue figure had flung himself at the Chameleon. Kylo rolled over on her back and pulled her hands out from behind her. Rotating her shoulders behind her
"That hurt." She said, looking up to who had struck Espio. Standing a few feet away was a blue hedgehog, not Sonic, but looking strikingly like him. He appeared to resemble Shadow the Hedgehog more, only his fur, like Sonic's, was blue. Espio however, was not amazed or intimidated by the newcomer, he jumped to his feet and flung three Ninja stars at the hedgehog. The hedgehog zipped aside and rushed at Espio. Espio vanished from sight. Kylo flung herself in the hedgehog's path. "Whoa! Calm down!" She said, holding up a hand. The blue hedgehog skidded to a stop. "Now I would like some answers. From both of you!" She called, raising her voice. Espio grunted, and made himself visible again, he leaned against the wall and looked away, slightly ashamed and enraged at being caught off-guard. Kylo turned her attention to the Hedgehog "First off, who are you? And what are you doing here?" She asked him, Blinking slowly. The hedgehog shrugged
"They call me Spike, and…" He trailed off; his gaze wondering to the capsule Kylo had tried to hack before. It was cracked and opened. Kylo looked puzzled, turning her head to the computer console, she stepped up to the dented machine. Turning to a smaller computer, she typed in a few commands and a large plasma screen popped up above the console.
PASSWORD?
Kylo paused
'Eggman'
The screen went blank for a moment, until a blinking white dot appeared on the screen. The screen flashed back to life
INCORRECT
Kylo slammed a fist on the console, and then paused again, looking at her fingers that were poised over the keyboard. She snapped her fingers then typed again
'Spike Hedgehog'
The screen went black again with the same blinking dot, before the screen lit up again:
LOADING…
Kylo grinned at the glowing plasma screen then looked back down to the keyboard, until a small blip went off and the Screen fired to life. Kylo reached up to the plasma screen and moved her hand across it, tapping a file labeled 'Experiment Spike'. The file enlarged and opened up in an animated fashion. Kylo read aloud what was there
"Project 'Spike Hedgehog' was a specially designed Mobian, created after the release of 'Project Shadow' to destroy him. Using the same DNA patterns as Shadow, We've managed to create a combined copy of Shadow, with some skills of Sonic. But the personality implant was corrupted; 'Spike' was designed to not feel remorse, to have no pity. Unfortunately, the altered Mobian's personality remained. We decided to continue with our operation anyway. Unfortunetaly, when 'Spike' was released, we figured there were no more bugs in his system, but we were wrong. When 'Spike' was in briefing, he was introduced to a prototype of Shadow the Hedgehog. We explained to 'Spike' the similarities in his DNA and Shadow's. The same night, 'Spike's' powers went out of control, he was changed, altered. He did not care about others, he was solitary, he was a perfect killing machine. Though everyone was his enemy. He destroyed our laboratory, sabotaged our research, killed innocent humans and completely demolished the building. One survivor, my self, happened to live to write this journal, and capture him while his powers were weak and he changed back to the original 'Spike'. I locked him in this capsule, and recorded my research, storing them into the files you are reading now. Be careful around 'Spike' If angered his Chaos power will be unleashed. Our only records of his weakness show that Spike is weakest when put up against…" Kylo trailed off, staring at her fingers, they were quivering slightly. Spike looked uneasy, even Espio looked surprised. Spike shifted uncomfortably.
"Against what?" Spike asked, sounding worried, Kylo shrugged, clicking a button in the top right hand corner of the screen. The plasma screen went blank and disappeared.
"It doesn't say, the document stopped there." She said, turning around with a sigh. She looked at Spike then smirked "Well considering you're up and about, you might as well help us," She said after a moment's pause. Then she headed back to the hallway of metal, Espio followed, a few steps behind. Spike turned to follow the pair as well, before one more uneasy glance at the capsule. Up ahead, Espio caught up to Kylo and put a hand on her shoulder to stop her.
"I'm sorry…" Kylo's ears flared. " About attacking you…" Espio said quietly, Kylo shrugged, pushing off Espio's hand and coldly turning away, back to the direction she was facing before.
"It's nothing really," She said, gripping an arm before walking away. Espio shut his eyes tightly and turned his head away, then opening them slowly, waiting until Spike turned the corner, then followed the fox down the hall.
I normally don't do concluding notes, but there is something I want to highlight in this chapter
"When new people come it's like we're not special, unique. You guys come along and have all these special powers and abilities. It's like we're not heroes anymore." Kylo felt a 'sweat drop' fall down her head again. She put her hand on his shoulder to comfort him. "We're not the ones saving the world every time, Sonic."
A lot of made-ups are all-powerfull and indistructable. Someone asked me why I chopped down every character that was thrown at me. well, your awnser is above. Sonic is sonic, sonic is a hero. Making your character indistructable makes it unfair to everyone else. Keep in mind, this meesage from Kylo:YOU ARE NOT THE BEST PERSON IN THE WORLD!
There, that made me feel better. A valuable lesson learned here.