Special thanks to Deliverer for inspiring certain aspects of this chapter. Give her fics a read. She does some pretty good SleeAleena, as well as some other fics.
Sonic Underground: The Search for Aleena
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Reader Descretion is advised.
Chapter Six: Bounty Hunters and Secret romances
WARNING: This chapter is rated R.
It contains strong sexual material, and is intended for mature audiences only.
Sleet: *Is plowing a random whore * "Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Who's your daddy! Who's your daddy!"
CLASSY!
Shady Charrie's Apartments
Downtown Robotropolis
The next morning…
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"So, how much are we talking in terms of bounty?"
A greyish-blue furred mobian wolf was on the phone in his living room, having received a call from Emperor Julius Robotnik.
"roughly around 150,000,000 mobiums." Julius replied.
The wolf's eyes lit up.
"Really now?" he mused.
"I was told you and your partner were two of the best bounty hunters around." Julius replied, "The deadliest, even."
"Well, you know me..." the wolf replied, "'Sleet, the blood-stained moonlight star.'"
"…"
"… that's what they call me."
"… Riiiight."
"I personally am also one of the manliest bounty hunters around, as well." Sleet added.
Of course, as he was saying this, he was wearing a french maid's outfit, having been dusting the living room beforehand with a feather duster.
He also had on a corset underneath and a pair of high heels.
God. Damned. High heels!
"I'll take your word on that." Julius told him, "For now, I want you and your partner to meet me at my fortress so I can give you, and all the other bounty hunters and mercenaries I'm hiring for this job, a proper briefing on the matter."
"You got it, sire!" Sleet told him, "I'll be there in a bit!"
"Be here at noon…." Julius instructed, "Sharp."
He then hung up.
Sleet then hung up the phone on his end, then went back to daintily dusting the living room, whistling a very Disney-worthy tune as he did so.
"Oi, Sleet!" Said Dingo, entering the living room, "who was on the phone?"
He paused when he saw Sleet's attire.
Sleet paused as well, seeing Dingo enter the room.
"… Oi…" he said.
"… Hey…" Sleet responded.
"… Playin' a little dress-up, are we?"
"… Yeah…"
"Yeah… It's fun to pertend…"
Dingo was quiet for another moment before then adding, "Well, alright, I'm gonna go pertend to throw up somewhere else."
"Well, before you do that…" Sleet said, going over to Dingo, "Hear me out for a moment."
He cleared his throat, then said, "I just got a call from the emperor. He wants us, as well as a few other fellow hunters and killers, to hunt down a certain target for him. And, he's going to pay us a large sum of money."
"How much we talkin'?" Dingo asked.
"150,000,000 Mobiums." Sleet replied.
"Bloody hell… 150 million?"
The lupe nodded.
"We could literally buy ourselves a fucking penthouse with that amount of cash!" he said, "Maybe even a fast car, a private helicopter, a yacht, and not to mention all the ladies that will be literally drawn to us like a magnet, ready for us to do sex with them whenever we want!"
"Sounds pretty tempting." Dingo said, smirking.
"Oh, it's more than tempting!" Sleet responded, "It's an offer we just can't refuse."
He then put an arm around Dingo and said, "Follow me, Dingo, and before long we'll be at the top of the world!"
"alright…" Dingo said, gently lifting Sleet's arm off of him, "But you might wanna change, first. Can't go bounty huntin' dressed in drag, can we?"
"Huh? Oh, this?" Sleet replied, "Oh, I just wear this when I'm doing chores around the house, or just for fun."
"… Sure."
And so, Sleet changed out of his French maid's outfit into his usual form-fitting body armor, along with a skintight undersuit underneath, and his robot-like armored boots and gloves, ande his cape that draped down to the floor behind him, and strapped his gun holster carrying a SIG Saur P226 9-mm handgun around his waist, and then the two bounty hunters were off, riding their chopper motorcycles over to Julius Robotnik's fortress, where they were greeted by a few guards armed with AK-12 assault rifles, then escorted to a the throne room, where a bunch of other bounty hunters, mercenaries and assassins were gathered, such as the 'Fleur De Lis' Mercenary group, the Higurashi Mobian Yakuza crime family, Team Hooligan, The Femme Fatale Woman's Assassin group, The Tiger Squad Mercenary Group, and many others.
"Wow…" Sleet said, looking at all the different hired guns that had gathered here, "So many hunters… I think I personally know some of these people."
"Which ones?" Dingo asked.
"Well…" Sleet replied, "For starters, there's the leader of the Fleur De Lis Mercenary group, Jean La'Fleur, whom I once did a ride-along on an assassination mission with…"
The aformentioned mercenary was a human, with light skin, blonde hair done in a devil's do haircut, with the sides slightly buzzed, blue eyes, and had a tattoo of the Fleur De Lis symbol on his right cheek, as well as an earring on his left ear of the same symbol, and wore a set of woodland camouflage fatigues underneath a light tan tactical vest, some combat boots, and had a Walther P88 pistol in a holster worn on his right thigh, as well as a tactical knife held in a sheath on his left shoulder.
"… And there's Team hooligan…" Sleet said, "Consisting of Nack the Weasel, Bean the Duck, and Bark the Polar bear…"
Sure enough, the three miscreents were over by a column, just sorta hanging out.
"And there's… Oh fucking hell…"
"What?" Dingo asked.
Sleet didn't answer, but instead stormed over to a more bigger and muscular mobian wolf.
This wolf was a little bit bigger than Sleet, and also a little more muscular, too, and had slate-grey fur, green eyes, short black hair hidden under an outback-style boonie hat, and wore a black leather motorcycle jacket with spikes on the shoulders of it, a pair of jungle camoflage pants, steel-toed boots, a pair of black fingerless motorcycle gloves, and had a brass-plated Taurus Raging Judge .28 Gauge revolver held in a holster on his belt.
Accompanying him were his two underlings.
One was a mobian wolf with black fur, red eyes, and long, black hair that was matted and messy, and was pretty muscular for someone his size, which in truth made him look like he could punch through a tank with his bare hands, and wore a pair of jungle camoflage pants, a torn and tattered grey tanktop, black combat boots, a set of machine gun ammunition bandoliers worn across his torso, a pair of black fingerless gloves with brass spikes on the knuckles of them, and had a PKM light machine gun slung on his back.
The other was a female wolf, a little bit smaller and slender than her two partners, and had greyish-red fur, with long, bright red hair that went down her back to her rear and tail, blue eyes, and wore a metallic silver PVC trenchcoat overtop a fishnet bodysuit with a black rubber corset dress worn underneath that, a pair of stilleto boots, a bandolier of sniper rifle ammuntion worn around her chest, and had a SV-98 sniper rifle with an attached silencer and variable zoom scope on it slung on her back, and a Glock 18 machine pistol held in a shoulder holster under her trenchcoat.
"Rourke Van Winkle…" Sleet said, storming over to the slate grey wolf, "I should have known emperor Robotnik would hire you as well."
"Well, well well…" Rourke responded with a chuckle, "Sleet the Wolf, or should I say, 'The Bloody Moonlight Star!'"
"Hey, shut up!" Sleet shouted at him, "It's a cool nickname and everyone knows it!"
"More like it's a fruity nickname." Rourke sneered, "Like you."
He then glanced at Dingo and said, "By the way, was he wearing his french maid's outfit again today?"
At this, Sleet began to blush profusely, his cheeks turning bright red, looking very embarrassed.
In addition to that, some of the other bounty hunters had heard this and began to laugh.
"What's the matter, Sleet?" Rourke mused, "Did I strike a nerve?"
Sleet then began to growl angrily like an actual wolf, and would have easily slugged Rourke in the jaw if he wasn't stopped by a familiar voice.
"Sleet! Surely you wouldn't hit someone who's clearly picking on you in order to compansate for his tiny genitalia, would you?"
The voice belonged to a mobian wolf, female, with lavender-colored fur, long, dark purple hair that went a little past her shoulders, rose colored eyes, and wore a deep red full-body latex catsuit, some matching high-heeled boots, some deep red lipstick and purple eyeshadow, a utility belt holding various gadgets and tools, a bandolier holding a bunch of throwing knives and vials of various poisons worn around her torso, another set of throwing knives and poison vials she held in holders on her thighs, and had a TEC-9 machine pistol held in a shoulder holster, and a pair of HKP2000 pistols held in holsters on her belt.
Rourke growled at the wolfess.
"Juliet Everdread…" he snarled, "Always gotta defend poor little Sleet, don't ya? Why don't you mind your damn business!"
"And why don't you stop picking on my cousin…" Juliet shot back, "… Lest I mention to all these other fine gentlemen your personal hobbies."
"You wouldn't dare…" Rourke snarled.
"Wanna bet?" Juliet mused, then cleared her throat and began to yell out, "Rourke Van Winkle is into My Li-"
"Alright, alright, fine!" the bigger lupine snarled, "I'll leave your dumbass cousin alone."
"Thank you." Juliet replied, "Besides, we're all here for the same reason, so if you wouldn't mind growing up and acting civil for a change, it would work out in the long run."
Before Rourke could retort, he was interrupted by Julius walking into the room, accompanied by a few of his guards.
He stopped before the group of hired guns, then smirked a little, then said, "Gentlemen… Ladies… Hunters, gatherers, killers, and overall miscreants alike… I doubt you don't who I am, but just in case, allow me to introduce myself. I am Emperor Julius Octavius Robotnik, the son of the late Dr. Ivo Robotnik, and ruler of all or most of Planet Mobius. As you already know, my regime has been plagued by the 'Terrorists' known as the Freedom fighters. While their actions as of late have become a little more 'Aggressive' I will say that they are not the threat I wish to talk to you all today about. The threat I wish to talk to you about… Well, you'll probably laugh at first. I know you will, but do so at your own risk."
He then pulled out a small remote control, then aimed it at a large screen that had been set up in the front of the throne room, then pressed a button, showing pictures of Sonic, Sonia and Manic on it.
"These…" Julius said, "Are the three long-lost children of King Jules and Queen Aleena Hedgehog. Sure, they may not look like much, but I assure you… they are not and should not be taken lightly. Now, you may not know this about me, but I am very particular about my words, so when I say that they are a 'threat' I actually do mean it."
"So, why are zey such a threat?" Le'Fleur asked, his french accent strong-sounding, "Are they skilled agents in ze Freedom fighters?"
"Actually, one of them is, Mr. Le'Fleur." Julius replied, "The eldest son of Jules and Aleena, Sonic. He is considered to be the Freedom fighter's best agent, and has surprised me as to how long he's been able to stay under the radar, in plain sight, no less. Now, as for the other two, the magenta-colored one, the sister, Sonia, is currently living with an aristocratic woman over in Locke Hill. The youngest brother, a thief by the name of Manic, is speculated to be living with a clan of theives somewhere in the city.
"Now, the question that is no doubt circulating through your minds is, 'If they're such a threat, why haven't your men dealt with it?' The reason, of course, is that my 'men' are very much busy fighting the rebels and I don't wish to waste my army's talents on mere children. That's where you come in.
"You are all masters of your trade; killing for profit. You have all been hand-selected for your talents in bounty-hunting, assassinations, and just overall villainy. Some of you have even been referred by one of my Regional bosses, whom confided to me which of you he believed to be up to the task of taking out the three royal siblings. Now, that being said, allow me to get right down to the point.
"Now, tonight, you are to go to their place of residence, and capture them, as well as anyone who tries to either help, hide, or defend them… Oh, that reminds me, there is one other target I wish to tell you of…"
He then pressed the button on the remote again, and a picture of Jake came on the screen.
"This is Jacob Capulet Vi Britannia Prower." He explained, "Goes by the name of 'Jake' Now, the reason I've taken an interest in him is because he is believed to be Princess Sonia's current Fiance, and… is believed to also play a part in her and her siblings' destiny. What destiny, you ask? Why, the Council of four prophecy, of course. He is to be captured, alive, like the other three he is believed to be protecting, along with those who try to help them, like I mentioned before.
"Now, before we end this off, are there any questions about the assignment details?"
Sleet raised his hand first.
"Yes, you…" Julius said, "… Who are you, exactly?"
"Sleet, sire." Sleet replied, then cleared his throat and added, "'The Bloody Moonlight St-"
"Yes, yes, that'll do." Julius interrupted, "Anyways, your question?"
"W-well…" Sleet replied, "… Who goes after who, exactly?"
"That… is an excellent question, Sleet." Julius replied, then said to the group, "Now, when you came in today, you all no doubt received a colored slip of paper, am I right?"
Sure enough, they all did receive a colored slip of paper, even Sleet and dingo received one, a blue one.
"Right then." Julius said, "Here's the deal. Those who received a blue slip will go after Sonic. Those who received a magenta slip will go after Sonia. Those who received a green slip will go after Manic, and those who got an orange slip the prower boy."
Now, Juliet also got the blue slip like Sleet and dingo did.
The Tiger Squad all got pink slips, as did the Higurashi Crime family.
De'Fleur and his men all got green slips, as well as the Femme Fatales.
And Rourke and his gang, along with Team Hooligan, got the orange slips.
Everyone else got a red slip, which meant they would simply be aiding the Imperial Army's forces.
"Now then…" Julius said, "Those who got the colored slips, you are to go after your targets tonight. Those who didn't, well that's too bad then, but you will not leave empty-handed. You will instead be fighting the Freedom fighters alongside my army. Now, off you all go. You're on the clock starting… Now."
And with that, the selected bounty hunters and mercenaries departed, and Sleet, Dingo and Juliet all went straight from the fortress to a dive bar downtown, where they would discuss their strategy.
"So, how are we going to do this?" Sleet asked, "Sonic is said to be the fastest thing on the planet, so catching him will doubt be tricky."
"Why not have Dingo lure him out?" Juliet suggested, "He can shapeshift after all, can't he?"
"That's true…" Sleet said, "But I can do that with also with the help of my Shapeshifter remote, or with a Shapeshifter suit, whichever I have on hand at the time."
"That may be…" Juliet said, "We still need a plan of attack, especially since his Uncle, with whom he's currently living, is an active member of the Freedom fighters."
"what about his cousin and Adoptive Sister?" Dingo asked.
"Who?" Sleet asked.
"these two." Dingo answered, showing pictures of Mia and Charlie.
Sleet looked at both pictures, but Mia caught his eye more than charlie did.
"Wait a second, I know her…" he said, "She's the one who murdered a group of Imperial policemen after they tried to arrest her parents and Sonic, whom they had adopted at the time. Yeah… no yeah, we can use her. We could use her to draw him out."
"But, isn't she said to be rather… 'Mentally Ill?" Juliet asked.
"elaborate, will you?"
"The night she murdered those imperial policemen was said to have 'damaged her' in such a way that she eventually had to be institutionalized prior to Charles Hedgehog taking her in. She is said to be a danger to herself and those around her, especially under circumstances where she or her family, whatever remains of it, is threatened. That being said, I think it would be wise if we didn't use her as bait."
"Good point…" Sleet said, then was quiet for a moment before saying, "Aw, fuck it, let's just do what we always do and go over to their house, kick open the door and wave around assault rifles like a bunch of jackasses and wreck their shit until they tell us where he is."
Juliet sighed, then said, "Fair enough."
"Sounds like a plan." Dingo added.
"right then." Sleet said, "We meet at my apartment tonight, at 8:00. Meanwhile, I have some errands to run."
"'Errands?'" Juliet asked.
"Errands." Sleet replied, then got up and left the bar, getting on his motorcycle and driving off to a certain location.
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Warehouse 25 Marketplace
Robotropolis dockside district
A little later…
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A mobian women wearing a long cloak walked through the marketplace, not really looking to buy anything, just sort of wandering.
She was saddened by how many people in this part of town were poor and poverish, some living on the streets and starving.
She spotted a small mobian boy, a labarador, wearing nothing but a tattered t-shirt and some tattered pants, no shoes or gloves, sitting by an alleyway, his knees curled against his chest, looking miserable and very skinny.
The woman then went over to a nearby stall in the marketplace and bought a loaf of bread, a leg of baked chicken, an apple and some candy and brought it over to the boy, carrying it all in a plastic bag.
"Here…" she said, handing the bag to the boy.
The boy looked inside the bag, his eye going wide with surprise, then looked up at the woman for a moment.
He then smiled brightly and said, "Thanks!"
"Not a problem." The woman replied, smiling under her cloak's muffler, "I hate to see children as young as yourself go without food. Are your parents around?"
The boy shook his head, frowning.
"… they died last winter…" she said.
"I'm sorry to hear that.." the woman replied, frowning as well, then reached under her cloak and produced 100 mobiums and handed it to the boy and said, "Here. Take this. It should help you get by until you can find a proper home."
The boy pocketed the money, then said, "… thanks, miss."
The woman smiled again, then said, "No problem."
She then walked off, passing by some female street performers dancing by a market stall, including a bluish-grey furred wolf wearing a bluish-green silk harem top and mouth viel, a knee-length skirt made of peacock feathers, some bluish-green silk srm sleeves bearing some feathers on the sides of them, a long, silk scarf around her neck a headdress made of pearls, and a pair of silk slipper, as well as some bright bluish-green lipstick, bright pale blush, metallic green eyeshadow and some bluish green feathered false eyelashes.
Of course, despite the 'wolfess's' beauty, the woman kept walking.
Of course, along the way, she felt like she was being followed, then proceeded out of the marketplace and into an abandoned subway station.
She only got as far as the turnstile when she heard the all-too familiar click of the hammer of a gun being pulled.
"… Not one of your usual disguises, I take it…" she said without turning.
The 'wolfess' smirked, then said, 'her' voice very much that of a man's, "I was feeling nostalgic."
"Of what, praytell?" the woman asked.
"You know what." Sleet growled, aiming the gun against the back of the woman's head.
"… What do you want?" the woman asked.
"Take off your hood and face me." The lupine snarled, "No one's around to save you this time."
The woman then obeyed, revealing her face, then turned to face him.
"I suppose I shouldn't have strayed into this part of town, should I have?" Aleena mused.
"I guess not." Sleet replied.
The two looked at each other for a long moment…
And then…
The began to kiss one another deeply, embracing each other as they did so.
They eventually found themselves against a wall as they kissed, before Sleet pulled away and asked, "Why does it have to be this way? Why can't we meet on more peaceful terms?"
"It seems we cannot…" Aleena replied, "With you being the hunter, and me being the prey."
"… I wish it were not so…" Sleet mused, sighing.
"So again…" Aleena asked, "What purpose is our little meeting for this time?"
Sleet let go of her, then backed away a little, then turned his gaze down to the ground.
"… I've been hired to capture your eldest son…" he admitted.
Aleena blinked solemnly, then put her hands behind her back and said, "I take It Julius has found out about the prophecy, hasn't he?"
Sleet nodded, then let out a sorrowful sigh.
"I wish I didn't have to…" he said.
"You never had to…" she told him, "You always had the choice."
"No, I didn't…" the lupine replied, "… I was, and always will be but a slave."
He rubbed the side of his neck, where under the fur lay red marks from a tight, stiff collar that had once been around it.
"No matter what I do…" he said, "I'll always be nothing more than a tool to be used by someone… Bound by the chains of servitude, and existential for the mere purpose of being used."
"Then you're a fool." Aleena told him, "You always had a choice, Sleet. You always have and always will."
"I wish it were true…" he sighed, "Especially given the circumstances… I mean, he's… they're…"
He was silent again.
"… We're going after him tonight." He said finally, "Other bounty hunters and mercenaries are going after the other two, as well as the elder son of Rosemary Prower. I don't expect you to stop me… You never do, after all."
"And yet we're both still alive…" Aleena pointed out.
Sleet looked at her for a moment.
He then went over to her, then pinned her down against the wall, pressing her face and body against it, and pressing his own body against hers, holding her arms tightly behind her back with his free hand, and pressing the barrel of the gun against her left temple.
She let out a brief yelp as she was pinned down, then he said, "Know this, and never forget it, your highness. The only reason I've spared you thus far as out of sentiment alone. I can and will kill you if I ever felt the need to."
He then turned her around, then began groping her chest with his free hand.
Aleena blushed, turning her gaze away.
"Ahhh…. It feels just as it used to…" he said, smirking, then made his way down her front to her crotch, then began to kiss her deeply.
For a while, Aleena didn't actually fight back. Rather, she simply let Sleet have his way with her.
It was only until she felt a certain 'bulge' poke her front that she shoved him off finally.
Angered by this, Sleet aimed the pistol at her, but didn't fire. He just simply pointed it at her.
Aleena simply looked at him, then said, "Why do you hesitate? I thought you were a bounty hunter?"
Sleet glared at her, his grip on the gun firm and unyielding.
For a moment, both he and Aleena were still, locked in a state of checkmate.
Finally, Sleet pulled himself back up and put the pistol back into a holster under his skirt, then said, "I'm sorry. I was angry."
"You say that…" Aleena replied, "But do you mean it?"
Sleet was quiet for a while.
He then embraced Aleena again, beginning to kiss her deeply again, but this time in a romantic manner rather than a forced manner.
Aleena kissed back, pulling him down to ground level as she did so, then pulling her cloak up and over, covering both of them.
Under the cloak, Sleet began to kiss the side of Aleena's neck, nibbling every so often.
Aleena shuddered, then began to undress Sleet, as he did her, or at least raising the skirt of her dress and pulling down her panty.
Sleet went back to kissing her, this time kissing her breasts, then eventually felt his member stiffen as it became excited, much like he was.
Both wished that they could erase the past and start over, from scratch, even, and just forget that the past few years had happened. But alas, time doesn't work that way. It never has and it never will. Sleet eventually entered her, letting out a shudder as he began to gently thrust. Aleena began to blush and moan a little, matching his movements with her own.
Sleet grunted as he began to thrust faster, and aleena began to moan as she matched his speed.
By the gods, the pleasure they felt…
It was maddening!
Eventually, Sleet felt himself close to peaking, as Aleena did as well, and just as he peaked, he let out a loud, wolf-like howl, which chilled the hedgehog queen to the bone as she climaxed upon him.
Once it was over, the two lay on their backs inside Aleena's cloak, panting and sweating.
They were quiet for a bit, until Sleet finally asked, "What time is it?"
"Almost seven." Aleena replied, "You have somewhere to be?"
Sleet looked at her for a moment, then simply said, "I have to meet my group to go and kidnap your son."
Aleena simply said in return, "I suppose your duty comes first, then."
Sleet then got dressed in his disguise again under the cloak, as Aleena got back into her gown, then slipped out from under her cloak as she tightly wrapped it around herself again, slipping the muffler on it over her mouth, and Sleet the silk veil over his.
When the two were standing once again, Sleet looked at her one last time.
Oh how he wished he could be with her, by the Gods how he wished that could be so. But alas, like she said, she was the prey and he was the hunter.
"… I'll see you around, I suppose." Sleet told her, before walking off.
The two left the abandoned subway station seperately, going separate paths after leaving.
Neither would mention anything of what went on in there, nor would they ever feel inclined to do so.
Their love was secret, as it always was.
From beginning… to end.
To be continued…