A/N: on with chapter 13, we are TWO chapters away from the end, I have chosen an ending to use but I'm not saying which. Enjoy!
The Federal Governments along with The Kingdom Of Acorn have issued evacuation orders for the surrounding areas following the Legacy Gene outbreak along the west coast. The Kingdom of Acorn has issued an order for all citizens to report to New Metropolis for containment and quarantine…
Mobius World News, 26th October 3164
Theo sped along the dual carriageway, his brown cloak whipping behind him as the wind caught it, His head was down, almost touching the handlebars and his eyes were focused into the distance, the storm in the distance was brewing and churning as if the clouds were a vat of bubbling liquid, lightening was striking almost every second and the explosions of thunder was louder than the wind in his ears. Checkpoints had littered the last 20 miles but Theo had expertly avoided them, he needed to get in Spagonia without being noticed, but this was getting steadily harder and harder as he drew closer. Then cars started to swerve and turn the other way like rats, Theo had to swerve violently as the traffic roared towards him, a women stuck her head out of the window and yelled at him as Theo began to slow down,
"For god sake, turn around and get the hell out of here!"
But before he could answer she drove off, swerving and skidding away form the opposite traffic, he turned and looked into the distance, something was moving quickly in his direction, ripping apart anyone in their way staining the air a misty red, he stopped the bike, ceasing the purrs and growls from the engine. He now recognised the blotted features and grotesque mutilation of the horde rapidly closing in,
"Legacy Gene" He muttered, he remembered the horror in Neon City and anger started to build like an ever-increasing tide. He pulled the balaclava off along with the goggles and tossed them aside, he turned the safety off on the gauntlets and let electricity flow onto his hands, making it spark off and hit the metal bodies of the cars all around.
The horde caught his sent an began to advance on him, ignoring others and going straight for him, Theo began to jog towards them, eyes blazing with anger, electricity roaring through him. Then both he and the infected began to run towards each other closing the gap fast, Theo jumped, high above the horde, fist raised, crimson electricity crackling over it; the infected scrambled for him, but all missed, Theo brought his fist down on the ground, cracking the road and throwing the surrounding infected back from the resulting shockwave. Theo roared at them and threw himself at the crowd, slamming electrified fists into skulls and faces, he felt some of the bones collapse in on themselves from the force of the punches with sickening crunches, when he landed the infected pounced upon him, slashing at him with unblocked rage, Theo leaned back as far as he could away from the bloated fingers of the infected, but he would only be safe for a few seconds, he had to act fast. He curled up and kicked his feet up at the faces of the infected, he felt a shudder up his leg as metal his bone, he kicked himself upright, throwing the infected off him; however he was still surrounded on all sides by the monsters, some were only a few inches away, he held the closest ones back with his hands, avoiding the numerous pairs of gnashing teeth, he pushed them back, quickly he clenched his fists and fired a bullet from each gauntlet, they hit the closest two infected. Blood and flesh splattered all over, hitting the crowd of infected and Theo, soaking his clothing, he then began to fire at random, spinning around and clenching his fists, firing bullets at the horde, blood rained from the sky, the multiple gunshots muted everything else in the world, they flowed in the air like notes in a symphony, then there was a click as both gauntlets ran out of bullets.
"Shit!" Theo yelled, the infected moved forward with inhuman speed, "NOOOOOOOO!" Theo yelled, electricity surged through him, he began to rise into the air, electricity arcing off him, hitting the surrounding crowd, incinerating some of them, He looked at the crowd; he managed to count at least fifty infected all staring at him in what looked like, disbelief. There was a huge rumble of thunder above and a giant red bolt of lightening hit the road, ripping up the road and causing the cars to explode, wreckage flying into the air like ash from a volcanic eruption. More lightening bolts hit the ground all around, dust and smoke flying up into the air; the infected screamed and tried to run away from the chaos, Theo gazed down at them,
"Oh no you don't" Theo muttered, he pointed his hand at them and a shockwave burst forth from his hand, hitting all of the surrounding crowd, they flew twenty feet away from him, their bodies electrified with over 29,000 volts of pure energy. Even after the infected had escaped their mortal coils, Theo kept striking the road and anyone close, never wanting the power to leave, a dozen bolts of crimson lightening suddenly struck the bare ground, the elevated highway around him cracked and fell, spiralling down the cliff bellow, the road bellow him still stood upright but the highway on either side flipped and spiralled as the lightening hit the supporting pillars, causing cars and people to get thrown up with it like some insane inflatable castle, The highway thrashed and cracked once more and crashed down the tall chalk cliff face in which the supporting pillars had been built in to. Theo stopped the energy overload and glided gracefully back onto the small patch of land that remained standing from the monstrous blast. He looked around the burning scene of devastation that hung all around, bodies of both the well and the infected lay scattered like crumbs all around, either burned from the lightening, or crushed or skewered from the falling wreckage. The overhanging part of the highway was all but destroyed, its fallen carcass lying in pieces in the crystal blue sea bellow.
"Great" Theo said "Now how the fuck am I going to get out of here?" Then he thought of something, he had seen his father do it a couple of times but he himself had never ever tried it. He thought hard and parted the air with his hands, instantly a seething black portal opened up before him,
"Lets hope this works" He muttered before stepping through, the portal snapped shut behind him and all was silent on the decimated cliff top…
Screaming filled the air like oxygen, both from the fleeing refugees and the infected, bearing down on them, Shadow was crouched on top of an overturned truck, firing at the huge crowd of infected surrounding them, his left arm was bleeding heavily the blood dribbled over the edge of his glove and ran down his fingers but he didn't care, the bottom of his left eye had been bruised from a collision with the top of the truck when he had jumped onto it and hadn't landed correctly. One of the infected tried to climb up the overturned cab of the truck, but Shadow ran over and kicked it straight in the face, he felt the bone break under his foot, the wheeled backwards and fell crashing into its warped brethren. Shadow was holding up fine, to him, this was just another mission, but he was mainly concerned about Sonic and Tails, both of which had never used a gun or indeed had any effective weapon against the infected, to his left he saw Sonic fumbling with a handgun, the car that he was perched on was quickly being surrounded by infected, their distended hands clawing at him,
"You need more ammo! You've ran out" Shadow yelled at him, Sonic quickly unclipped the empty magazine from its hold and replaced it, hands still shaking; he was beaten up pretty bad, his knees and elbows were grazed and oozing blood, scratches littered his face; his right arm was hanging at an odd angle, Shadow suspected it to be broken. Sonic managed to shoot some of the infected off the car, but he flinched every single time he shot. Tails on the other hand was pretty much screwed the way he was going, he couldn't control the automatic rifle he had been given, he fired for too long and at random, and it took him ages to reload, his chest had been clawed to hell, and he was losing a lot of blood, he had twisted his ankle badly and was dragging it behind him, but he did have one slight advantage, when the infected surrounded him, he could simply fly away but due to his sapped strength; not for long. Knuckles was helping him out, pummelling the infected and keeping most of them off Tails, blood coated his gloves and he had a long gash that ran from his cheek to his eye, but otherwise he was fine.
Shadow ran to the back of the van, on which Rouge was perched, she was cut all over and her clothes were bloody, she couldn't rely on her fighting stills like Knuckles, instead she was using a shotgun, its shells strapped around her waist.
"We've got to get out of here!" He yelled at her "We're getting fucking slaughtered"
"No!" She yelled back "We can keep going!" But before Shadow could reply, something black and smoky descended from the clouds and streaked towards them, Shadow raised his gun but, instead of going for them, the cloud-like objects swirled around them, ripping apart, infected at will and leaving the Freedom fighters unharmed,
"What the hell?" Sonic yelled, dropping his gun and cradling his broken arm. The black storm ceased and the smoke began to reform itself into a person, a black bat immerged from the shadows, spiked black armour glinting, her eyes cast over the scene of devastation and smiled,
"I never knew I could do that. Awesome!" she walked forward "Is everyone ok?", but instead of giving a reply, Shadow jumped down and raised his gun at her
"Who the hell are you?" He asked, she raised her hands in mock surrender
"Easy, babe watch were you point that thing"
"You didn't answer my question" She sighed and walked towards him until the barrel of the gun was touching her chest plate,
"Are you really going to put a bullet in me" she asked, Shadow frowned doubtfully, she leaned forward until her face was centimetres away from his "See? I know you wouldn't". She turned away and walked over to a fallen Amy, her body bloody, clothes ripped beyond repair, arms and legs slashed, she picked he up and passed her over to Knuckles,
"Take her somewhere safe" She said, Knuckles grudgingly obeyed and walked off with Amy in his arms, The black bat turned to Shadow, "My name is Cynder, or as some of your people call me, "The Artificial Demon", I'm a mercenary and I used to work for Mephiles the Dark along with Chaos and Theo Arcreus, but things happened and we disbanded".
"Why did you just save us?" Shadow asked, gun still pointed at her,
"Well I did and you" she pointed at Shadow "Should be thankful"
Tails limped forward towards Shadow; without looking at him, Shadow spoke to him,
"How is everyone?"
"We're all pretty screwed up, Silver has dislocated his knee and Blaze had been clawed pretty badly, but no one has lethal wounds"
"Ok, then" Shadow put the gun down and walked towards Cynder, "Make yourself useful and help out, the infected will be back soon". Shadow followed Tails, Cynder hot on his heels, they walked around an overturned bus and to where Silver was laying on the ground, Blaze sat next to him, bandages wrapped round her arms and legs. Silvers leg was lying at an odd angle and the pain was clearly shown on his face, sweat glistened on his forehead.
"Ok, Silver" Shadow said, crouching next to his dislocated leg, "I'm going to relocate this, its gonna hurt like hell so relax, on three" He grabbed both sides of leg either side of the knee "One" he pushed both sides together, there was a crunch and Silver screamed in pain, tears streamed from his eyes, his screams turned into grunts after a minute,
"You ok?" Blaze asked
"Oh never better" Silver grunted, Shadow held out his hand out and Silver grabbed it and Shadow pulled him up, he was shaky on his feet but he seemed ok. Cynder tapped Shadow on the shoulder,
"We need to go, now!" Cynder said
"How? Fly" Shadow asked,
"I've already sorted that out" Shadow heard a rush of air and then the world around him blacken out.
Theo stepped out of the portal into a large grand room, with a high domed ceiling; it was it by a grand chandelier that hung above and papers, books and maps overflowed off every surface, and the entrance to the outside world was barricaded and fortified. But something immediately drew his attention, in the centre of the room was a large oval table on which stood a metal ball, about the size of a football, covered in buttons and switches, a small window was set into the sphere, inside was a smaller, glowing sphere of what looked like liquid metal, somehow supported by an electromagnetic or gravitational field. The metal sphere glowed a bright blue, casting its cobalt light all over the room, Theo walked up and picked up the metal ball by the handle built onto of it and he gazed at the liquid metal inside, as if hypnotised by its radiant blue light, he could hear a faint humming noise from its centre.
"So what the hell are you?" Theo muttered he replaced it and looked through the papers clustered around it, he spotted blueprints in between the bits of yellowed paper, he pulled them out and examined them, then he noticed something, the liquid core was made of a metal called "Daemonaseptium", Theo knew that this metal was a synthetic metal, used as power source in some power plants, why was Daemonaseptium being used in this…. thing?
Theo examined more of the blue prints, then he found what he was looking for, the Professor hadn't just been building any old science project, he had been building a bomb, and not just any bomb, this one was designed to kill Demons only. Theo spotted a map of Spagonia pinned to the wall opposite, someone had drawn on it with red marker pen, vaulting one of the tables Theo walked over to the map and looked at it, a circle was drawn around a cathedral in the centre of the city and two words had been written next to it
Rafael…
Hellgate…
He had heard of the Hellgate, the place where the demon world met the mobian one, could this be what Mephiles was after?
He looked through the glass dome of the roof as a rumble of thunder sounded overhead followed swiftly by a flash of lightening; Theo put two and two together…and froze, the demonic omens were a sign, a sign that the Hellgate was being opened, Theo desperately tried to remember the song about the Hellgate
Six days is all it takes,
It lies in darkness, dead to all
When opened, shadows fall
The demons chaos makes
Our world no more
So, according to the song, he had only six days until the Hellgate broke open and demons overran the world. And if he finished the bomb, if he took over from the Professor who had fled a long time ago, he could destroy the Demons before they cross. But what about Rafael? Theo knew that he wouldn't become that, but someone could, someone like Mephiles. Either way he had to finish the bomb before the six days were out.
"Lets get to work" Theo muttered…
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