OMMAN. Hi there folks! Come on down to S- Wait, Hi there! I know, it's been a while, but just look at the time difference. I ACTUALLY UPLOADED -Insert Angelic choir here- Well, pretty-okaly long, I may still not have gotten everyone, but hey, I've got a bad memory. I decided on the two that would be getting into the story, however as I can't remember thier names, I'm just gonna do this. EXTRA EXTRA. BIRDBOY AND THE FIRST DRAGON TO REQUEST GETS WRITTEN IN. Okay. I'm done. This chapter was kind of..well uhm. I dunno. It was a chapter, that's for sure. Why don't YOU tell ME with a REVIEW Huh? huh? Make me feel proud, D
Mikey was awoken by the loud bang of a door being opened rather harshly. He rubbed his head and rolled himself out of bed and onto the floor. Sonic must've gone off somewhere, he did that a lot. Pushing himself to his feet, the hedgehog opened the door and stretched. After a loud yawn, the hedgehog clattered down the steps to find the front door still open and swinging in the wind. The hedgehog walked over to the front door and pulled it closed before proceeding into the living room and turning on the T.V. This was a routine for him; He usually sat down in front of the T.V. while he fully woke up, and then went into the kitchen to grab something to eat. The hedgehog flipped through the channels dully, upset to find that nothing caught his eyes. He turned off the T.V and sat down, staring at the blank screen in a bored fashion. The hedgehog stretched and yawned then forced himself to get something to eat. He wondered into the Kitchen to find Tails sitting at the table with two wires in his hand from a small electrical device set on the table. A bowl of half-finished cereal was still on the table, and he was 'playing with the wires' in such a way that whenever they touched, sparks flew and the fox's face lit up.
"Hey, Tails!" Mikey called as he walked into the kitchen, he had a yearning for toast today, so he popped two white bread pieces into the toaster and waiting
"Hey, Mike. Sleep well?" He asked his attention still on his device. Mikey nodded his head and turned to check on his toast
"Yup." When the toast popped, he snatched them out of mid-air and threw them on a plate he'd laid out. After buttering his toast, the hedgehog sat at the table and yawned
"So where'd Sonic dash off to?" He asked, munching on the end of his toast as he waited for Tails to answer
"Nowhere really, he said he was just going out for a run." As he said this, Mikey glanced at the clock He'd taken a few moments just to get out of bed, and sit on the couch for a while, Sonic was usually back within ten or fifteen minutes of a run, it had been forty-five.
"How long ago was this?" He asked, Tails lifted his gaze to from the machine to Mikey and shrugged
"Didn't see the time" The two-tailed being said. With a sigh, Mikey finished off his toast and headed towards the front door. Once he'd stepped outside, he noticed a large black cloud looming overhead, trailing in the direction of the city.
"Cool, a storm" He said, sitting on a chair set out on the porch. He was admiring the way the storm cloud flashed when he finally noticed a deep crater in the ground. Could Sonic have made that? No, he wouldn't damage the land like that without good reason. The hedgehog jumped off the porch and went over to observe the crater. The edges were burnt, so it must've been caused by heat, what scared him, is it was awfully close to the workshop. Maybe someone had fired at them from above and missed. But how could they not hear it? All this was puzzling to him. He looked from the city to the desert, Sonic was nowhere in sight, this made him nervous. Sonic was usually nearby when trouble aroused, and not having him around meant this was something he hadn't known about. It must've been recent too, or Sonic would've stopped and told us about the crater before he left, assuming he still did leave. The hedgehog scratched his quills and puzzled upon the cause of the crater's being. He called for Tails as he thought and was soon joined by the dual-tailed fox.
"Oh wow" The fox exclaimed as he neared the crater. He got down onto his knees and felt the burnt sand around the edges of the blast zone. "Must've have been a high powered burning laser, coming down from several hundreds of feet in the air for us not to hear it. Might have been intentionally place here, or just a test. I'm thinking it was a test, because when someone fires a laser of this magnitude, they'd want to check and re-check their co-ordinates and make it actually hit something" The fox explained, as much to himself as to his hedgehog companion. Mike nodded, half taking in what the fox was telling him, the rest of his mind was on what could've gone on. Who would launch a test heat-beam thing in a field? It made no sense. Well, at least not to him. It was then that Tails noticed the storm cloud; his fierce blue eyes were fixed on the cloud, slightly narrowed. Mikey stared at him for a moment, slightly confused at the fox's sudden silence. A moment ago, he'd been fascinated by this crater…thing. The fox suddenly snapped back to attention, he whirled around, grabbing the hedgehog by the arm and dragging him inside. Mike allowed himself to be pulled indoors and upstairs, to Tail's observatory. Maybe Tails expected to find something, but what it was that he hoped to find would probably be something bad.
Sonic hit the sand and painfully rolled across the itchy surface. The hedgehog stopped rolling, then pushed himself onto his knees, spitting out a mouthful of sand that'd scratched his tounge
"Bleh." He said, forcing himself not to attempt to scrape the sand of his tounge with his hands, he was still under attack. He looked up across the pains in the direction he'd been attacked from, expecting to see his attacker there, but instead he saw nothing. This chilled him. As he pushed himself back onto his feet, it was silent. Maybe he'd just passed out or something? He hadn't time to ponder over it, for something nailed him in the back and sent him tumbling forwards. He stopped tumbling again a mere few feet away, he hadn't been hit all too hard. He lay there for a moment, and then slowly rose back to his feet, keeping his ears perked. Finally, he heard it, the shrill whistle of wind before he was slammed in the chest by the shady figure. He rolled again, and then sprang into the air the moment he found his footing, yes! An opportunity to see what was going on! He turned, only to feel a pair of fists pound down on his head and he went spiraling to the ground, crashing into it a moment later. This time it hurt a lot. He felt dizzy and it took him a while to straighten his vision again. Damn it! He couldn't get two seconds on his feet before he was nailed. This time, he tried a different approach He sprang to his feet and took off at a run. He heard no pursuers, so he banked into a wide turn so he could see the spot where he'd been attacked. This was weird; he could've sworn he'd been jumped. He slowed to a halt and as soon as he did, something slammed into his back again, harder than before. But what bothered him most, was instead of smashing into the ground as usual, the true blue hedgehog was vaulted into the air, but as soon as he reached the peak of his short and unintentionally flight, two fists slammed down again onto his forehead, sending spasms of pain through his nervous system as he went crashing to the earth again, he didn't bother getting up this time, he'd only get smashed back down. And besides, even if he wanted to get up, he'd have to wait until the world stopped pulsing to try. When he decided to ignore the pain and get up, he heard the crunching of footsteps on the sand and then a large boot press into his back. The sole and heel of the boot burned, like hot metal that was only partially cooled, it made his back sting even more. For the first time, Sonic's attacker spoke, which confirmed his thoughts of not going mad.
"Lie still and you will suffer no further pain." The voice was monotone, emotionless and masculine and it carried a familiar tone that he couldn't remember to whom it belonged. When the blue hero tensed, his attacker pushed his boot further into his back, making it burn more.
"What?" He managed to choke out through the sand that had thrown itself into his mouth, "What are you doing, who are you?" He received no reply, but to his relief, he did recognize a slow and steady plasma pulsing that usually marked the arrival of someone he knew all too well. He heard the sand crunch loudly, as if someone heavy had stepped onto it, score one for Sonic, he'd figured something out.
"Well, Well!" The haughty voice chuckled "Somebody finally met his match!" The voice was deep and painfully annoying; the cyan hedgehog had heard it monologue many times before. It was the voice of Dr. Ivo Robotnik. But the new voice is what puzzled him. It spoke again, accompanied by the high-pitched sound of a phaser charging.
"Do anything rational, and I'll wipe you from existence." It said, but then as soon as it was done speaking, the doctor spoke again
"You can sit up if you'd like, just watch, my friend doesn't like you very much and won't hesitate to shoot you." Great. The cyan hedgehog would finally see his attacker fact to face. He rolled over and pushed himself up with his hands so that a lot of his weight was on his hands which were place behind him
"Hey Egghead, been a while, hasn't it?" He said with a grin. He brush the bangs from his face and grinned, before flicking his deep green gaze to his attacker, only to find Hard, cold red eyes staring back. Metal sonic! Wait no, Metal wasn't metal anymore, but he was unmistakably Metal, or at least, as he called himself, Canon. Canon the Hedgehog stared back at Sonic with his piercing red gaze. Sonic couldn't help but to snarl "Gone back to working for fat-man, have you?" Canon said nothing, but something flickered in his eyes, like hurt, but it was gone and replaced with emotionless haze. He narrowed his eyes and said nothing. But Eggman didn't seem to hear Sonic
"I've got a plan hedgehog, I was hoping you could get out here so I could tell you about it personally, and also make sure you stay out of the way." He said, and he began to pace around the hedgehog, wearing a happy grin under that red moustache of his. "There's a storm, moving quite fast, towards the city right now." He began "Or at least, it looks like a storm, but really, underneath that big, dark cloud is my latest creation! I call it the Storm breaker, it's a floating machine that generates electrical storms and high winds and heavy precipitation all in one super-storm! See, you, me and Canon are going to stand here, where it's safe in the desert, and watch as Station square is destroyed by my monster! Buildings will fall, people will die and all your little friends will suffer along with them!" His last tone hinted insanity, but the hedgehog wasn't surprised "Then in the ruins, I rebuild my robotosizer, robotosize the survivors and start again on my campaign to build the city Robotropolis! When that's done, my army will head out and begin conquering the cities of the world, and by the end of the year, all will bow down to me! Even you, you my friend will start calling me 'Lord Robotnik'" This earned a snort of laughter
"Yeah right, Egghead, like that'll ever happen" But the hedgehog's comment only sparked a grin on the doctor's face. He looked at Canon and nodded, and the once robotic hedgehog moved behind the blue hero and snapped two metal cuffs on each wrist, by the press of a button, a strong stream of plasma light flooded from one cuff to another. Sonic found that though the line looked delicate, he couldn't break it. Canon pressed a phaser into the hero's back
"Get up." He growled, and for a moment, Sonic just yawned. The other hedgehog calmly lifted a foot and brought it down on his back, sending him sprawling painfully on his front, his hands were restricted behind my back and he couldn't catch himself when he fell. This only made it hurt more. "Up!" He demanded again. This time, gritting his teeth, Sonic obeyed. Canon pushed the phaser into Sonic's back and guided him across the desert. Surprisingly, Eggman walked with them as well.
"I'll break your spirit yet, Sonic the hedgehog"
Istas peered through the shop window of some sort of store imported from New England. It's not that she was interested in anything she saw, but she was just bored out of her mind. She leaned back slightly to stare at the neon sign, wondering why on earth it was lit, it was broad daylight. She shielded her eyes with one hand and look to the sky. Sure, the sun was shining, but now that she'd paid attention, she'd noticed to her despair the large and curt dry line of an approaching storm. The girl clicked her tounge on the roof of her mouth and shook her head. Well, no use looking for Kylo now. That was the reason she was out here in the first place. The fox had left the previous night and had not returned since, Blaze was naturally worried. They'd been out looking since they got up and so far Istas, her luck had run dry. She hadn't seen or heard about anyone or anything seeing the fox at all. She automatically assumed that the fox had just gone away for a while. Istas was smart; she knew Kylo could take care of herself. But in order to make Blaze stop whining about it and to help make her feel better, they'd agreed to help her look. Now, Istas folded her arms behind her back and looked up at the clouds, then began a slow pace back to their apartment. She'd become so lost in her thoughts, that she didn't notice her feet had taken her to the wrong side of town, and when she did, she found herself lost. She looked up and around. It was a quiet street for this time of day and the wind was beginning to pick up. Dead leaves rattled across the scarcely occupied street. She continued walking. It wasn't long before a noise from inside a ramshackle building caught her attention. She twisted her head to face the building, and began a quiet pace towards it. Something inside snarled and she froze.
"What is it that you want, Lemur?" the voice that spoke was deep, and sounded coated in such hate that it shook Istas to the bone. On a higher note, Istas was relieved, whatever it was that was doing the snarling; it wasn't doing it to her. She gathered up her courage and crept forwards a few more paces. The two large metal doors appeared closed at first, but as the reptilian girl got closer, she noted with slight relief that the door had been left slightly ajar. She crept forward and peered through the slit, unfortunately, she couldn't see anything but boxes. But the voices became louder, so she stilled. A low, dull scratching noise sounded and a notoriously familiar voice pierced the room.
Migro Vampryum
"My former employees"
"Former?" Shmeeko said in disdain, picking up the unimportant detail first, this bothered me.
"You may have wondered why I have ceased to contact you in the past few months. The reason is I've been terribly busy with arranging a certain meeting with my adversary and my newest employee. He's replacing the lot of you. See, in order to save myself some time and effort, you are going to become one with the thousands of people that will perish in Station square by next sunrise. If you are feeling vengeful, good luck finding me, I doubt you will!" The screen flashed with a bright light that forced me to close my eyes and turn away, but the message was over and the room that had been lit with light was dark once more. Shmeeko screamed and Claire stirred in the rafters. I turned around to silence her, but she was continuing to scream in panic
"UNEMPLOYED?" She hollered, Niomie lifted her head from her perch on top of some boxes in the corner of the warehouse "WHAT ABOUT MY KIDS? WHAT WILL MY HUSBAND SAY! MOM WON'T APPROVE." She tripped over her own feet and clattered to the ground. Quarma shook his head and rolled his eyes.
"Shmeeko, you don't have a husband, or kids and I doubt your mom cares if you were fired from criminal activity" He said negatively, flicking his eyes to the corner where Niomie was stirring "Now shut up." For once I agreed with the panther's speech. But I decided not to say anything, something had claimed my attention. Quarma had begun to say something, but I held up a hand to silence him. I took a swift step backwards into the shadows, now Quarma would know I had sensed something. I crept along the wall, sliding against it and making no noise whatsoever. I strained my ears and heard the hurried breathing of a spy. I quickly flew over the two metal doors and landed on the other side. With swift accuracy I flung the door open and bright sunlight flooded in, I hissed instinctively and forced myself not to turn away from it
"Hello" I said evenly to a reptilian-looking girl that had begun to back away from the doorway. My hand was resting on the side and my eyes were narrowed, I must've looked pretty intimidating because the girl turned and fled from the sight of me. Well, I'm not surprised, most people do. Claire swooped out into the light ahead of me and the panther streaked past me on all fours. I slowly followed, feeling very weak at the most in the daylight. Shmeeko tumbled out after me, cart wheeling her way. The girl looked around feverishly at the four of us, then spun and paused, before taking off into an alley. Quarma began to pad after her, but I called out
"Stop." I told him quietly "We'll hunt her when the sun is gone." I pointed up, a torrent of dark clouds were beginning to approach the sun, and with it gone, hunting the girl would be easy.
"How do you know she won't have escaped from this district?" He asked me, narrowing his eyes accusingly at my proposition.
"She is obviously lost, she hesitated before running. Such clues are obvious to those who look." I said, my hand was still shielding the sun from my eyes, I couldn't hold back a mocking smirk. I would be first out of the warehouse when the clouds covered the skies, I'd hunt the girl down without mercy. I can't stand random people deciding to evesdrop. Now taking a young girl prisoner was not my Idea of heroic or noble. I'm neither of those qualities, but I knew I would be expected to deal out a punishment, what it would be…Well, there are a few things in mind.
Oh dear. Creepy cliffhanger of total D0000Meh!
Well, Phabam. Guess what Istas-person D I honestly have no Idea what's gonna happen. Creepy vampire guy always has to leave out the good stuffz. Oh well. I like reviews you know.
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