p style="text-align: center;"emstrongExtinct Intergalactic Survivor/strong/em/p
p style="text-align: center;"emstrongChapter 4: The Blacklist/strong/em/p
p data-p-id="00ae43045d3c0ed985d6d58ea69fc917"On a sunny day out here me and Holly were walking around town getting some groceries from the market, as this part of the city is a more poor side of the city it only has people out on the streets selling things which is in the market. She has slowly gotten used to living in this kind of environment, even made some friends out here in the market as well. "Hey Ty! What do you think of these? They look really tasty!" As she pointed at the green and blue tomato's. "Sure, whatever you want." I said as I moved over to her and helped her fill a bag full of the green and blue tomato's. Not long after we filled the bag and paid for the tomato's, we noticed something as we were on our way. "Ty, look!" Holly said as she pointed at a poster on the wall. I wasn't too sure what it was from far so I moved a bit closer. When I got closer it all became clear to what it was. "Ah!-...this looks like some kind of...list..." Holly gave me a soft smack on the head. "Look closely silly, it says blacklist at the top! It contains a list of the most wanted intergalactic criminals! Now look at who is on number 16!" I took the time to go from number 1 all to 16, when I saw who was on number 16, it totally changed the situation. "We have to go back, right now!" I said as I grabbed Holly's hand and took the list with me./p
p data-p-id="cde64da7d693d32bf0038ed863774023"When we arrived home we immediately went to Pho. I smacked the list onto the desk Pho was standing at. "Explain, now!" I yelled as I didn't have any patience at the moment. Pho sighed. "Can't say I know all that much about the Intergalactic blacklists, they just seem to update them every now and then and spread them around the galaxy." I pointed at number 16 on the list. "Have a closer look at who is on there." Pho paused for a second. "But that's you...I guess they're taking precaution now, I mean after we did all that at The Gate...can you blame them?" I shook my head. "I think they want to turn everyone against us, but first by taking me out. After all I'm confident that they think it is just me and Holly, and that they have no idea of your existance even after the events at The Gate." Holly took a step back as she was shocked. "What's the matter?" I asked her. "Take another good look at the list..." She said while stuttering. I looked through the entire list quickly to see if there was anyone else. And there it was. "I noticed that Holly was all the way near the bottom of the list as well. "Look, Holly I am not going to let them take either of us alright?" She hugged me while still shaking. I slowly wrapped my arms around her to comfort her. " I carried Holly back to our room and tucked her into bed nicely. As I didn't want her to deal with any of this nor get her involved. /p
p data-p-id="cda540aa9d8d4be9a1adfd9418efd8b9"I ended up going over to Pho for a quick talk before heading out. "Pho, I need you to give me camera footage of the market streets. I want to know exactly who put those lists on the wall." Pho walked over to one of the desks and accessed the computer to hack into the camera's. "Here you go my good sir, 6 market street camera's!" He said as he moved out of the way. I checked the camera footage while fast forwarding to see who put the list on the wall. "Wait hold on a second!" Pho said as I paused the footage. "This guy...that's Scruffy! I know him, he's the kid who always delivers the Planet Azure daily newspaper!" Pho seemed very surprised. Something seemed off to me, why would a child be putting this on the walls around the market streets? "Pho, I have been trained in a way to not just trust anyone even based on their appearance-" But Pho stopped me right there before I could finish my sentence. Pho put his hands on my shoulders. "Tyson listen to me, he's a good kid and I can't have you hurt this innocent boy over this footage. I know it looks bad, trust me I do! But the poor kid just loves to deliver newspapers to earn his money fairly. Not to mention he lives with only his grandfather and his little sister, you have to believe me!" As Pho was trying to convince me from doing anything to the boy, he might've just found the answer to the question I didn't yet get to ask. "Pho, you just said he lives with his grandfather and his little sister, right?" Pho nodded in agreement. "Now I know that Planet Azure is peaceful, but that's not because the city is all that clean, you wouldn't think that something could've happened to him or his family that he is being blackmailed for? Because that is the only thing I can think of." Pho let go of my shoulders. "Wait, so you do believe me?" I smiled. "If I didn't, I would've simply knocked you out and went over to the kid to get some answers now wouldn't I?" Pho laughed. "I don't think you can actually take me out so easily-" but before Pho could finish his sentence I gave him a low kick to have him fall onto the floor, as I aimed my hand with a charging blast at his face afterwards. "I-I give up! Ty, take it easy!" Pho said while he was on the floor. I stopped charging the blast and pulled him back up. "Now then jokes aside, where can I find this kid?" I asked. "Whoa whoa hold on, what are you going to do with the kid? You're not planning to hurt him either way are you?" I shook my head. "Don't worry about it, I'm sure the kid has his reasons for these wrong doings. I am going to help set him free, and he should lead us to the source." I said as we both nodded afterwards. "What about Holly though?" Pho asked. "I don't want her involved in this, I can take care of it on my own." I said after letting out a sigh. "I actually have something for you, just give me on second!" Pho said./p
p data-p-id="6c8316447f68a439b55d3272273a9d0a"After Pho returned he got me some kind of lightweight armored suit, it seemed to be a perfect fit for me, which also allowed me to use my powers to the fullest as well as enhancing them slightly. The suit gave me somewhat of a resistance against weapons as well, so it was an interesting gift to say the least. Pho gave me more information about Scruffy, telling me that he often also delivers newspapers in the evening which also happened to be on this day. He told me exactly where I would get to find him. What I did not know though is that Holly wasn't asleep and overheard everything. After I left, Holly moved downstairs and walked over to Pho. "H-Holly! Don't scare me like that, It's not fun to scare people like that-" Holly's eyes starting glowing cyan as she made Pho pass out. She shook her head to return to reality. "I don't know how I did that but it doesn't matter, I need to find him and fast!" she thought to herself as she moved out./p
p data-p-id="6a9a17b7566c41d40aa1fd206057e8dc"Somewhere out on the streets, Scruffy was putting the blacklist on the walls. Until I approached him. "I didn't know putting blacklists on the wall was part of delivering newspapers, Scruffy." He turned around and was backed onto the wall. "W-who are you!? How do you know my name!?" I slowly began to move closer. "Don't worry, I'm not here to hurt you. I just want to ask you some questions and then I'll be gone." Scruffy gulped as he realized that I was number 16 from the list. "Y-you're the person from the blacklist...please don't hurt me or take these lists from me...I need to put them up on the walls or otherwise they will kill my sister!" I stopped approaching him after hearing that. "I guessed right so it seems, someone took your sister hostage and are using you to do their dirty work for them. Who is it?" I asked him. "You don't understand, if I say anything they will-" I interrupted him as I quickly moved in front of him and punched a huge hole into the wall next to him. Scruffy became very scared from the looks of it, but it was the opposite. "That was so cool! I didn't know you could put such a giant hole into the wall simply by punching it! Please sir help me get my sister back! I will do anything!" Scruffy asked as he bowed in front of me. "I patted him and smiled. "That was what I came here for in the first place, to help you out. You should thank Pho for that after all." Scruffy smiled back at me as he told me everything afterwards. It seemed like some kind Mafia took his sister hostage, and told me their exact current /As I headed over to the location with Scruffy he pointed at the large warehouse building. I told him to wait outside. As I began my infiltration into the warehouse and destroyed the garage entrance. I rushed into the warehouse and was immediately attacked by multiple mafia goons. I didn't take much time to knock them out as I was in a rush. A bit later after beating at least 40 of them, I heard a clapping sound. "Impressive, very impressive! You are an amazing fighter, I will give you that." An unknown person said to me in the shadows. "Show yourself, tell me where the little girl is at!" The unknown person laughed as he came out of the shadows. "You mean the one one of my guards is holding over here?" He pointed at the little girl with handcuffs on in front of a mafia goon. I began to get ready to rush over, however I got interrupted before I could. I noticed the unknown person smirk. When suddenly a big muscular person landed from above in front of me. I took a few steps back and took a fighting pose. "I am the head of the Intergalactic Mafia here on Planet Azure, and that in front of you is my right hand. Fight him young hedgehog, and show me what you are made of! If you can't beat my right hand, this little girl will have to suffer a terrible death." Scruffy's sister began crying and screaming. Scruffy himself went into the warehouse after hearing her cry for help, however he got caught by a mafia goon as well./p
p data-p-id="7e3aafc8514c9cb38ef751aaf0793dec"The battle was about to begin, I had a similar feeling to this person in front of me like when I first met Holly or when I first fought against that person at The Gate. I wasn't sure what I was in for, but it was time to put my new suit to the test! The two of us began fighting, and I noticed he had a somewhat interesting fighting style. It was similar to the fighting style they used to teach us at the EoE, but it felt slightly different, better and improved. I got past his punches due to my speed and punched him out of the way. I thought I had knocked him out with that, but he got back up quickly and suddenly had some kind of aura around him. He then charged at me with an insane speed and hit me multiple times with powerful punches. "You're going to feel this one for life kid!" he said as he charged up a powerful punch, I could barely move after taking all those hits and felt overpowered. First at the prison and now here again somewhat. "Take this, Red Fist of Fury!" he said as he hit me with an immense amount of power in the stomach. I spat blood before I was launched into a big set of giant boxes. I couldn't move anymore, and saw that Scruffy was also caught. They moved him next to his sister one last time so they could see each other before their demise the head of the mafia said. I felt like I failed my mission for the first time, but to be overpowered like this wasn't the worst part, it was the fact that I made things worse and now both of those kids are going to suffer for it because of me. "Hold it right there!" Holly said as she appeared in front of me. "You might think that you always have to protect me, because maybe you think I am weak or maybe it is because I am just a girl to you. But I am much more than that Tyson! I need you to understand that and you should know that we should protect each other and help each other out at all times! Because that is what us Hedgehogs were raised to do as a race!" The head of the mafia and the right hand's expression both changed to a shocking one. Holly charged at the right hand and attempted to punch him in the face, however he simply punched her towards the wall on the left. Holly was knocked out and was laying up against the wall with a bit of blood coming down from her mouth. When I saw her like that I felt something inside of me, something just snapped and I could feel something powerful come out of me. My vision changed, I could feel an immense amount of power filled within me. I slowly began to get up as I powered up with an insane dark blue aura around me. My eyes turned completely cyan as I was still powering up. The right hand became excited and also powered up even more. "You're going to wish you did never lay a finger on her." The head of the mafia himself seemed very impressed, however also worried. "Hey, Red! Focus on powering up your guard not your fist! If not he'll kill you for sure!" He yelled at him. "Kill me?" The right hand looked back at Tyson and realized his mistake. He quickly began to switch over his power to his guard, but it was too late. "This is for Holly, you bastard!" I quickly teleported to him and punched his arms to break the guard. "W-what!? How did you teleport-" I didn't have full control of myself anymore, and punched him in the face with a dark blue aura around my fist as well. The head of the mafia used some kind of power to refrain him from hitting the wall and slowly moved him to the floor with his arm. Holly woke up and saw what was going on. The head of the mafia felt afraid and so did the mafia goons and the kids. Holly quickly got up and moved over to him. She jumped in and hugged him, begging Tyson to stop. "It's over, you've won already. Just stop and come back to me!" I felt like I was going to power up even more to get her off me, but I felt at peace and balanced again. My dark blue aura disappeared and my eyes returned to normal as well. I fell onto my knees and put my right hand onto my face. "Urgh...my head..." The head of the mafia made a sign to move the right hand away from here. "Get him to the medic, immediately!" All of the mafia goons quickly went to help him out and also released the two kids. "I apologize for the harsh treatment kids, and you two as well." Holly became very angry. "Apologize!? Are you serious right now!? You were threatening to kill all of us and are a mafia boss! What gives you the right to even apologize to us huh!?" He bowed in front of Holly. "We are not who you think we are, you have to believe us miss." I slowly got up and faced him. "I get it now, you're not a real mafia. You guys are the exact opposite, and you and that right hand of yours are Hedgehogs aren't you?" Holly and the kids became surprised. "You are very sharp indeed as my spies have told me. We are a resistance to stand up against the EoE as we are filled with ex criminals and ex EoE members as well. Me and my right hand Red used to be part of the EoE as well. But I saved both of us a long time ago from their brainwashing methods, had it not been for me the two of us would've been killed just like the rest of our race. But it looks like my hunch was right and that there are still plenty of survivors out there!" I looked the old man in the eyes and could tell he was telling the truth. As much as I don't want to believe him after everything that has happened, I figured it wasn't just my choice to make. "I suggest you come with us, to explain to all of us what is going on exactly. And make sure that big guy also comes." I said as I turned around and began heading to the entrance. "B-but he might not even-" I moved my hand up with a thumbs up while walking away. "I know he'll make it, he's just unconscious. Come on Holly, kids, we're going home." Holly looked out of dispise at the old man and quickly ran over to Tyson and so did the kids. The old man sighed. "I might not have done the right thing here, but it was the easiest way. I should go check on Red and then get ready to move."/p
p data-p-id="e73256a73373fd802401782c8b7ccf2e"While the old man was checking in on his right hand at the medics, I was walking home with Holly and the kids. "You've got some wicked power sir! I was so scared we wouldn't get out of there alive but you got back up after miss got knocked out and became so powerful!" Scruffy's sister said. Holly grabbed her cheek and pulled it. "You better knock it off little girl, I could've taken him easily if I took it seriously!" Scruffy stood next to me while Holly was scolding her. "Sir, thank you for everything. Without you I would've never gotten Emily back. I know that things could've ended badly, but they didn't. And I believe it was fate that you two came to help us!" I smiled and wrapped an arm around Scruffy as I began walking. "You know Scruffy, I've always wanted a little brother. And you are starting to look like that kind of little brother." Scruffy slightly blushed and smiled. As we all began heading home, wondering what awaits us next after today's events./p
p style="text-align: center;"emstrongChapter 4: The Blacklist/strong/em/p
p data-p-id="00ae43045d3c0ed985d6d58ea69fc917"On a sunny day out here me and Holly were walking around town getting some groceries from the market, as this part of the city is a more poor side of the city it only has people out on the streets selling things which is in the market. She has slowly gotten used to living in this kind of environment, even made some friends out here in the market as well. "Hey Ty! What do you think of these? They look really tasty!" As she pointed at the green and blue tomato's. "Sure, whatever you want." I said as I moved over to her and helped her fill a bag full of the green and blue tomato's. Not long after we filled the bag and paid for the tomato's, we noticed something as we were on our way. "Ty, look!" Holly said as she pointed at a poster on the wall. I wasn't too sure what it was from far so I moved a bit closer. When I got closer it all became clear to what it was. "Ah!-...this looks like some kind of...list..." Holly gave me a soft smack on the head. "Look closely silly, it says blacklist at the top! It contains a list of the most wanted intergalactic criminals! Now look at who is on number 16!" I took the time to go from number 1 all to 16, when I saw who was on number 16, it totally changed the situation. "We have to go back, right now!" I said as I grabbed Holly's hand and took the list with me./p
p data-p-id="cde64da7d693d32bf0038ed863774023"When we arrived home we immediately went to Pho. I smacked the list onto the desk Pho was standing at. "Explain, now!" I yelled as I didn't have any patience at the moment. Pho sighed. "Can't say I know all that much about the Intergalactic blacklists, they just seem to update them every now and then and spread them around the galaxy." I pointed at number 16 on the list. "Have a closer look at who is on there." Pho paused for a second. "But that's you...I guess they're taking precaution now, I mean after we did all that at The Gate...can you blame them?" I shook my head. "I think they want to turn everyone against us, but first by taking me out. After all I'm confident that they think it is just me and Holly, and that they have no idea of your existance even after the events at The Gate." Holly took a step back as she was shocked. "What's the matter?" I asked her. "Take another good look at the list..." She said while stuttering. I looked through the entire list quickly to see if there was anyone else. And there it was. "I noticed that Holly was all the way near the bottom of the list as well. "Look, Holly I am not going to let them take either of us alright?" She hugged me while still shaking. I slowly wrapped my arms around her to comfort her. " I carried Holly back to our room and tucked her into bed nicely. As I didn't want her to deal with any of this nor get her involved. /p
p data-p-id="cda540aa9d8d4be9a1adfd9418efd8b9"I ended up going over to Pho for a quick talk before heading out. "Pho, I need you to give me camera footage of the market streets. I want to know exactly who put those lists on the wall." Pho walked over to one of the desks and accessed the computer to hack into the camera's. "Here you go my good sir, 6 market street camera's!" He said as he moved out of the way. I checked the camera footage while fast forwarding to see who put the list on the wall. "Wait hold on a second!" Pho said as I paused the footage. "This guy...that's Scruffy! I know him, he's the kid who always delivers the Planet Azure daily newspaper!" Pho seemed very surprised. Something seemed off to me, why would a child be putting this on the walls around the market streets? "Pho, I have been trained in a way to not just trust anyone even based on their appearance-" But Pho stopped me right there before I could finish my sentence. Pho put his hands on my shoulders. "Tyson listen to me, he's a good kid and I can't have you hurt this innocent boy over this footage. I know it looks bad, trust me I do! But the poor kid just loves to deliver newspapers to earn his money fairly. Not to mention he lives with only his grandfather and his little sister, you have to believe me!" As Pho was trying to convince me from doing anything to the boy, he might've just found the answer to the question I didn't yet get to ask. "Pho, you just said he lives with his grandfather and his little sister, right?" Pho nodded in agreement. "Now I know that Planet Azure is peaceful, but that's not because the city is all that clean, you wouldn't think that something could've happened to him or his family that he is being blackmailed for? Because that is the only thing I can think of." Pho let go of my shoulders. "Wait, so you do believe me?" I smiled. "If I didn't, I would've simply knocked you out and went over to the kid to get some answers now wouldn't I?" Pho laughed. "I don't think you can actually take me out so easily-" but before Pho could finish his sentence I gave him a low kick to have him fall onto the floor, as I aimed my hand with a charging blast at his face afterwards. "I-I give up! Ty, take it easy!" Pho said while he was on the floor. I stopped charging the blast and pulled him back up. "Now then jokes aside, where can I find this kid?" I asked. "Whoa whoa hold on, what are you going to do with the kid? You're not planning to hurt him either way are you?" I shook my head. "Don't worry about it, I'm sure the kid has his reasons for these wrong doings. I am going to help set him free, and he should lead us to the source." I said as we both nodded afterwards. "What about Holly though?" Pho asked. "I don't want her involved in this, I can take care of it on my own." I said after letting out a sigh. "I actually have something for you, just give me on second!" Pho said./p
p data-p-id="6c8316447f68a439b55d3272273a9d0a"After Pho returned he got me some kind of lightweight armored suit, it seemed to be a perfect fit for me, which also allowed me to use my powers to the fullest as well as enhancing them slightly. The suit gave me somewhat of a resistance against weapons as well, so it was an interesting gift to say the least. Pho gave me more information about Scruffy, telling me that he often also delivers newspapers in the evening which also happened to be on this day. He told me exactly where I would get to find him. What I did not know though is that Holly wasn't asleep and overheard everything. After I left, Holly moved downstairs and walked over to Pho. "H-Holly! Don't scare me like that, It's not fun to scare people like that-" Holly's eyes starting glowing cyan as she made Pho pass out. She shook her head to return to reality. "I don't know how I did that but it doesn't matter, I need to find him and fast!" she thought to herself as she moved out./p
p data-p-id="6a9a17b7566c41d40aa1fd206057e8dc"Somewhere out on the streets, Scruffy was putting the blacklist on the walls. Until I approached him. "I didn't know putting blacklists on the wall was part of delivering newspapers, Scruffy." He turned around and was backed onto the wall. "W-who are you!? How do you know my name!?" I slowly began to move closer. "Don't worry, I'm not here to hurt you. I just want to ask you some questions and then I'll be gone." Scruffy gulped as he realized that I was number 16 from the list. "Y-you're the person from the blacklist...please don't hurt me or take these lists from me...I need to put them up on the walls or otherwise they will kill my sister!" I stopped approaching him after hearing that. "I guessed right so it seems, someone took your sister hostage and are using you to do their dirty work for them. Who is it?" I asked him. "You don't understand, if I say anything they will-" I interrupted him as I quickly moved in front of him and punched a huge hole into the wall next to him. Scruffy became very scared from the looks of it, but it was the opposite. "That was so cool! I didn't know you could put such a giant hole into the wall simply by punching it! Please sir help me get my sister back! I will do anything!" Scruffy asked as he bowed in front of me. "I patted him and smiled. "That was what I came here for in the first place, to help you out. You should thank Pho for that after all." Scruffy smiled back at me as he told me everything afterwards. It seemed like some kind Mafia took his sister hostage, and told me their exact current /As I headed over to the location with Scruffy he pointed at the large warehouse building. I told him to wait outside. As I began my infiltration into the warehouse and destroyed the garage entrance. I rushed into the warehouse and was immediately attacked by multiple mafia goons. I didn't take much time to knock them out as I was in a rush. A bit later after beating at least 40 of them, I heard a clapping sound. "Impressive, very impressive! You are an amazing fighter, I will give you that." An unknown person said to me in the shadows. "Show yourself, tell me where the little girl is at!" The unknown person laughed as he came out of the shadows. "You mean the one one of my guards is holding over here?" He pointed at the little girl with handcuffs on in front of a mafia goon. I began to get ready to rush over, however I got interrupted before I could. I noticed the unknown person smirk. When suddenly a big muscular person landed from above in front of me. I took a few steps back and took a fighting pose. "I am the head of the Intergalactic Mafia here on Planet Azure, and that in front of you is my right hand. Fight him young hedgehog, and show me what you are made of! If you can't beat my right hand, this little girl will have to suffer a terrible death." Scruffy's sister began crying and screaming. Scruffy himself went into the warehouse after hearing her cry for help, however he got caught by a mafia goon as well./p
p data-p-id="7e3aafc8514c9cb38ef751aaf0793dec"The battle was about to begin, I had a similar feeling to this person in front of me like when I first met Holly or when I first fought against that person at The Gate. I wasn't sure what I was in for, but it was time to put my new suit to the test! The two of us began fighting, and I noticed he had a somewhat interesting fighting style. It was similar to the fighting style they used to teach us at the EoE, but it felt slightly different, better and improved. I got past his punches due to my speed and punched him out of the way. I thought I had knocked him out with that, but he got back up quickly and suddenly had some kind of aura around him. He then charged at me with an insane speed and hit me multiple times with powerful punches. "You're going to feel this one for life kid!" he said as he charged up a powerful punch, I could barely move after taking all those hits and felt overpowered. First at the prison and now here again somewhat. "Take this, Red Fist of Fury!" he said as he hit me with an immense amount of power in the stomach. I spat blood before I was launched into a big set of giant boxes. I couldn't move anymore, and saw that Scruffy was also caught. They moved him next to his sister one last time so they could see each other before their demise the head of the mafia said. I felt like I failed my mission for the first time, but to be overpowered like this wasn't the worst part, it was the fact that I made things worse and now both of those kids are going to suffer for it because of me. "Hold it right there!" Holly said as she appeared in front of me. "You might think that you always have to protect me, because maybe you think I am weak or maybe it is because I am just a girl to you. But I am much more than that Tyson! I need you to understand that and you should know that we should protect each other and help each other out at all times! Because that is what us Hedgehogs were raised to do as a race!" The head of the mafia and the right hand's expression both changed to a shocking one. Holly charged at the right hand and attempted to punch him in the face, however he simply punched her towards the wall on the left. Holly was knocked out and was laying up against the wall with a bit of blood coming down from her mouth. When I saw her like that I felt something inside of me, something just snapped and I could feel something powerful come out of me. My vision changed, I could feel an immense amount of power filled within me. I slowly began to get up as I powered up with an insane dark blue aura around me. My eyes turned completely cyan as I was still powering up. The right hand became excited and also powered up even more. "You're going to wish you did never lay a finger on her." The head of the mafia himself seemed very impressed, however also worried. "Hey, Red! Focus on powering up your guard not your fist! If not he'll kill you for sure!" He yelled at him. "Kill me?" The right hand looked back at Tyson and realized his mistake. He quickly began to switch over his power to his guard, but it was too late. "This is for Holly, you bastard!" I quickly teleported to him and punched his arms to break the guard. "W-what!? How did you teleport-" I didn't have full control of myself anymore, and punched him in the face with a dark blue aura around my fist as well. The head of the mafia used some kind of power to refrain him from hitting the wall and slowly moved him to the floor with his arm. Holly woke up and saw what was going on. The head of the mafia felt afraid and so did the mafia goons and the kids. Holly quickly got up and moved over to him. She jumped in and hugged him, begging Tyson to stop. "It's over, you've won already. Just stop and come back to me!" I felt like I was going to power up even more to get her off me, but I felt at peace and balanced again. My dark blue aura disappeared and my eyes returned to normal as well. I fell onto my knees and put my right hand onto my face. "Urgh...my head..." The head of the mafia made a sign to move the right hand away from here. "Get him to the medic, immediately!" All of the mafia goons quickly went to help him out and also released the two kids. "I apologize for the harsh treatment kids, and you two as well." Holly became very angry. "Apologize!? Are you serious right now!? You were threatening to kill all of us and are a mafia boss! What gives you the right to even apologize to us huh!?" He bowed in front of Holly. "We are not who you think we are, you have to believe us miss." I slowly got up and faced him. "I get it now, you're not a real mafia. You guys are the exact opposite, and you and that right hand of yours are Hedgehogs aren't you?" Holly and the kids became surprised. "You are very sharp indeed as my spies have told me. We are a resistance to stand up against the EoE as we are filled with ex criminals and ex EoE members as well. Me and my right hand Red used to be part of the EoE as well. But I saved both of us a long time ago from their brainwashing methods, had it not been for me the two of us would've been killed just like the rest of our race. But it looks like my hunch was right and that there are still plenty of survivors out there!" I looked the old man in the eyes and could tell he was telling the truth. As much as I don't want to believe him after everything that has happened, I figured it wasn't just my choice to make. "I suggest you come with us, to explain to all of us what is going on exactly. And make sure that big guy also comes." I said as I turned around and began heading to the entrance. "B-but he might not even-" I moved my hand up with a thumbs up while walking away. "I know he'll make it, he's just unconscious. Come on Holly, kids, we're going home." Holly looked out of dispise at the old man and quickly ran over to Tyson and so did the kids. The old man sighed. "I might not have done the right thing here, but it was the easiest way. I should go check on Red and then get ready to move."/p
p data-p-id="e73256a73373fd802401782c8b7ccf2e"While the old man was checking in on his right hand at the medics, I was walking home with Holly and the kids. "You've got some wicked power sir! I was so scared we wouldn't get out of there alive but you got back up after miss got knocked out and became so powerful!" Scruffy's sister said. Holly grabbed her cheek and pulled it. "You better knock it off little girl, I could've taken him easily if I took it seriously!" Scruffy stood next to me while Holly was scolding her. "Sir, thank you for everything. Without you I would've never gotten Emily back. I know that things could've ended badly, but they didn't. And I believe it was fate that you two came to help us!" I smiled and wrapped an arm around Scruffy as I began walking. "You know Scruffy, I've always wanted a little brother. And you are starting to look like that kind of little brother." Scruffy slightly blushed and smiled. As we all began heading home, wondering what awaits us next after today's events./p