CHAPTER 6

THE PAIN IN THE BRAIN! IS KNOWLEDGE EVERYTHING!?

At the end of the day, Spike, Lynn, Takashi, and Ker were about to go home. They were all standing outside of the Chaotix watching the sun set in the sky.

Ker tilted his head up towards the orange sky and sighed. "What a beautiful sunset."

Lynn had no idea how Ker could tell when the sun was setting especially when he was wearing his blindfold. "Ker?" She called, "How can you tell what the sky looks like?"

After hearing her voice, he turned to her. "Oh, that's an easy one. I can actually tell as time goes by from the change of atmosphere and temperature."

Everyone began to have blank looks on their faces as he explained.

"You see...this morning felt great. It was so warm, but you can actually tell the temperature from this morning had decreased making the air slightly colder as it is always a little colder at night."

Everyone began giving each other confusing looks.

The demon heard no response from them and thought that they were confused by his answer. He chuckled a bit, "It's simple actually."

Spike still didn't quite understand but pretended like he agreed with him. "Um...okay?" His eyes traveled to Ker's bloody cloak and remembered how bad their attacks had wounded him. "Hey, Ker?" He called. "Are you sure you're okay from all of the attacks we made on you?"

"Yeah", Lynn added. "Your wounds did look pretty bad."

Ker placed his hand over on his arm where the blood on his cloak was. "Oh, this? I'll be fine. Us demons heal quickly remember?" He took his hand away from his arm and still felt the damp blood run over his fingers. "Although...I better get back to Kassidy's so she can bandage me up a bit." He waved to the group before he began to walk off. "Goodbye, guys. See you here again tomorrow."

Spike and Lynn waved back at the demon as he walked away. "Later, Ker."

Takashi turned to Spike and Lynn, "I'd better get going too." He held up his hand and began to walk his separate way as well. "Later."

"Later", Spike and Lynn turned to each other and smiled.

"Let's go too", Spike had spoken as he took Lynn's hand and began to walk in a different direction with her.

The cat made a nod, "Yeah."

As they walked down the sidewalk, a mysterious hooded figure wearing a black cloak was watching them while standing on top of a nearby building with his arms crossed. As a sudden strong wind flowed through the air, the hood from his head had fell back revealing his ruby red eyes and red hair. "Heh, you think this is playtime, boy? Well, I have news for you. Playtime is officially over." The mysterious man turned his back and began to walk away.

Later, Takashi was in his garage working on a new upgrade for his rifle cannon. 'This gun really did the trick today', he thought. 'I can't believe it literally blew a chunk of Ker's arm off!' He stared at his gun with a small smile. "I'll make it even better", he murmured. He took his eyes away from the gun and stared at the full white moon through his window. "Spike has a purpose in life. Lynn is destined to be by his side, but...but what about me? What's my purpose?"

The next morning, Lynn and Spike were outside of their home about to leave to go to the Chaotix.

Lynn turned to Spike in worry. "Are you sure you want me to go ahead? Ker might be a little upset that you're going to show up late."

The ebony hedgehog sighed like it was no big deal. "Yeah of course I'm sure. I have something to take care of. Ker will be cool with it. Just go on ahead. I'll be at the Chaotix in no time."

Her ears flopped down and began to wonder what Spike had to do that was so important than meeting with Ker at the Chaotix. "All right." She gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. "I'll see you later then", she began to walk towards the Chaotix.

Spike formed a small smile as she walked away and before he could do what he wanted, he was suddenly pushed aside almost making him fall face first to the ground. He quickly spun around in annoyance to see who or what had pushed him. "What the?" His eyes widened when he saw a light blue female bird standing before him giving him a hateful glare. "Tori?" He confronted her and began to shake his fists around angrily. "What the hell's your problem?"

"You were in my way, idiot."

"Then why didn't you tell me to move? I could've moved aside by myself. I don't need your assistance!"

"It's simple", she began. "You're a moron. If I told you to move the first time, you wouldn't have heard me, but if I told you to move again, you would've given me a pointless response in which I have to repeat myself again. And at last, the third time...well...then you would get the message. To make things short and simple for your inferior mind, I simply shoved you since you act like you're death in both ears."

Spike stood there for a moment or two trying to take what she said into his mind. He still didn't understand her reason for pushing him. "...What?"

She raised her finger in front of him, "Point proven. You will always and forever be an idiot. You have no mind whatsoever."

Spike was fueled with anger from the inside out by her words. He slapped her finger from his face in annoyance. "What the? Bitch! Where the hell do you get off calling me an idiot huh?"

"Since my IQ is 400 and yours...well let's just say it's in the negatives..."

"Shut up! I don't care how smart you are! You have no right to mock me like that!"

The bird made a small nod, "Indeed I do. You deserve to hear the truth straight from a genius' mouth."

He got close to her and gave her a menacing look, "Look, you smart mouthed bitch! I don't care if you're a chick or not! I will slug you nice and hard if I have to! So I'd advise you to shut it and I mean now!"

The bird placed her hands on her hips as she gave him the same angry look back. "Oh, scary!" She spoke sarcastically, "I'm shaking in my feathers!"

He could no longer control himself and raised his fist towards her. "That's it! You wanna go?"

She arched an eyebrow in amusement, "Let's do it!"

They both stood a distance away from each other while standing in fighting stances. Before they could both fight each other, a strange round device had fallen from the sky and landed in front of them.

Spike rose an eyebrow at the mysterious device. "What the heck is that thing?"

Tori's eyes widened in horror at the device. "You fool! That's a..."

Suddenly, the device had exploded forming dust and pieces of rubble as it blew Tori and Spike away from each other.

Spike lied on the ground covered in some scratches from the explosion. He coughed a bit from the dust as he slowly got up from the ground. He fanned some of the smoke away as he began to look around. "What the hell?" His eyes then traveled to Tori who was slowly getting up from the ground as well. "Tori?" He called. "You okay?"

Before she could answer, she was suddenly grabbed by a huge mechanical hand. She let out a scream of panic as she felt her body being lifted from the ground.

Spike watched in worry as he saw her body slowly being crushed in the hand of a giant robot. "Tori!" He was startled when he heard an annoying yet familiar laugh. He observed the robot closely and saw a blue wolf leaning on the head of the robot with an evil smirk on his face. "What the? Hao!"

"Finally!" The wolf spoke in excitement. "Revenge!"

A/N:

Tori: Gah! This robot's crushing me!

Spike: Tori! Hang on!

Hao: Hehe! What fun! This will show you to make a fool out of me, Spike the Hedgehog!