A/N: Next chapter, enjoy

CHRONICLES OF FATE

Chapter 3: Manipulation at it's finest

Location: Megalo Station

Area: Lower Region: Cyvix Center, road links toward Megalo Station

Time: N/A

The creature of shinning metal that held Vega raised up it's monstrous paw like hands, the sky thundering from it's presence. In the few seconds the heroes used to gaze at it's god like visage, the hand came plummeting down towards the road. The instinct for the three heroes were to dodge but Vega made sure to keep the heroes right where he wanted them. As the right arm came down, the creatures left arm, pulsating with grinding sparks between metal, grasped the underside of the road and began to twist it with all his might, the columns of steel bending to his whim.

This caused the heroes to fall mercy to his crushing hand. The mechanical behemoth slammed its hand down against the road. The brutal weight and force was too powerful for the road to handle as it's multiple columns began to crumble into fine dust. Vega watched with a smile, hidden in his helmet, as the three intruders began to scrape down into the abyss of the city. However, not even a beast can keep a good team down.

Gemini was the first to leave the group as he slid down the road. Dark energy bathed around him, a clone of himself appeared behind him which he caught hold of, levering himself along the road. The clone heaved with all his might and chucked Gemini up to where he wall ran across the turning road to land on the next stable link, opposite to the beast that held Vega. Raine slowly skidded to a stop along the overturning road, the metal soles of her boots colliding against the road in a burst of sparks. She quickly left her spot and sprinted forwards as fast as her legs would take her before leaping up, Gemini grabbing a hold of her in mid air. Edge was the last, slowly descending as his blade impacted the road surface, sparks tickling his fur. Feeling urgent, he threw his blade which extend with chaos energy and managed to tack the edge of the stable road above him. Gemini and Raine quickly grabbed a hold of the chain of golden energy attached to his blade and lifted him up as he swung to the road.

The ivory thief scrambled up to the road and fell on his back while Gemini proceeded to help him up. While Vega watched on, the team noticed how he seemed to be on a broken part of the road; the road that Vega broke had left deep scars along the surface that his machine stood on.

Edge quickly came to ledge of the road they stood on and held his hand out. Closing his eyes in concentration, the glove that masked his right hand began to pulsate with a maroon aura, soft and pleasant. As his eyes opened, the aura began to crackle under pressure as his hand tightened.

"Zero Wave" The hedgehog bellowed, extending his hand fully forward.

Opening his hand, a beam of ruby energy, fifteen feet in diameter, shot across the thundering, night sky, emanating the entire area in a glossy red hue. Vega ordered the machine to bring it's arms up to defend, but the behemoth itself was not what Edge was aiming at. The beam slowly curved down, a few feet from the mechanical monster, and struck the very ground he was standing on. At first, the beam merely brushed against the wall of steel but eventually the road couldn't fare against the blast of white hot energy.

Behind his form fitted helmet, Vega's eyes grew wide as he saw the road disappear in fragments. He grew into panic and urged the behemoth machine to lunge into the air, unfortunately to no avail. The road disappeared and the mechanical monster plummeted down into the lower city. The ruby hue located from zero wave quickly disappeared as Edge withdrew his hand.

"That was close." Edge whispered, wiping sweat from his forehead.

Unfortunately, the battle was far from over.

From the recesses of the deep dark, the behemoth emerged, lunging through the air. It's rotating paws grasped the massive suspended road and managed to force it's weight onto the road, bending it to a 90 degree angle. Edge, located in front of the rest, was caught falling down the angled road and was able get a glimpse of mechanical beast's head...maybe glimpse isn't the right word.

He carved his blades into the flesh of the road and stood still as the behemoth climbed it's way up. Both hands grasped the side of the road and pulled it's head up to face the ivory thief, the color draining from his fur and face. The beast let out a mighty, vibrating roar which sent off destructive sound waves everywhere. Inside the beast's mouth was a rotating cycle of vicious metal blades and a pit of fire as hot as the circles of hell itself. It's red LED lights glared with eyes only a devil could have.

The ivory thief felt powerless at that moment, watching the pit of hell absorb him. The heat, though situated slightly far from away Edge, was enough to slightly singe his snow white fur. However, the rotating blades were close enough to draw fresh blood from his muzzle. Before the hedgehog could say goodbye to his life, his eyesight started to dim to a dark hue. He quickly began to panic, thinking he was blind but the deep fire from the throat of the enemy convinced him otherwise. He could her a loud bang behind him and looked up to see a fiery comet flying towards him.

"Dark Comet!" a voice bellowed.

From above was the rose sibling, engulfed in the fiery gaze of a shell made of dark chaos energy. The speed of the attack was astounding, even Edge nor Vega could even think of a way to defend against the incoming attack should they face it. However, Edge was lucky, Vega was the only target of this attack. Gemini slammed right into the face of the machine and pieces of broken, burnt, and torn metal graced the air as the behemoth roared in false pain. The machine also dealt with the struggle to keep hold of the road as the attack pushed him farther back. Eventually, Gemini managed to burrow so far into the machine as to force a reboot, stopping the machine dead in it's tracks. It wasn't long before Gemini quickly flew out of the machine and slid to the top of the bent road where he threw down his hand towards the ivory hedgehog.

"Give me one of your blades!" Gemini yelled, his voice filled with urgency.

Edge complied and shot his right blade towards Gemini, who grasped it and began to pull the thief up by the chain connected to the blade. Once at the top, Edge collapsed over the ground and began to regulate his breathing while laying a hand over his heart to make sure he wasn't having a heart attack.

Gemini merely turned his head to and gazed forward to see Raine long gone, no evidence of her anywhere. Wondering if she had abandoned them, his question was soon answered when the humming of a gear engine echoed around the barren area. From the ground, came Raine in a normal G.U.N assault vehicle, probably a left over soldiers from long before.

She hopped off and said in a quickened tone, "Get in, lets get out of here."

"Hold on.." Edge cried out, still on the floor, " I need a break."

"We have no time." Raine argued, pointing towards the car.

"Where are we heading?" Gemini interrupted.

"The Megalo Station." Raine answered, dragging the ivory hedgehog to the back of the vehicle, " From there, we'll get a grav train ride to Westopolis. "

"That is something I shall not allow!" A voice bellowed in anger.

The sound of grinding metal began to echo and slowly, the behemoth began to awaken. It gave off the roar of a thousand lions and began to crawl up on the road, revealing Vega to be in the center of the broken machine.

"I admit, that last attack was something that caught me by surprise, but do not think that I will allow you traitors to get away." Vega commented.

"Lets go!" Edge yelled, pointing towards the vehicle.

Edge opened the back door of the assault vehicle and sat beside the right door while Gemini took the left door. Raine ran to the front of the vehicle, the engine still humming, and strapped herself in before jamming her foot against the gas pedal. Vega tried a quick punch with the behemoth but missed as the three heroes left, fish tailing a little as the grav vehicle tried to pick up speed.

"Don't think you can get away." Vega laughed maniacally.

The pieces of metal located around the mechanized monster began to morph slowly until jet like engines revealed itself on the back of the mechanical monstrosity. In a burst of fiery heat and flames, Vega was off and after the heroes. Raine quickly gazed at her blind spot to see Vega piloting his monstrous machine after them. She turned towards the back and watched as Edge and Gemini merely gazed in awe while she did all the hard work.

"Get off your lazy asses and take that guy down!" the pale blue hedgehog shouted overhead.

"With what?" Edge said in confusion.

"This is a G.U.N assault vehicle," she explained, "There's a turret above us and guns in the back..which your located in!" she yelled.

"Gotcha." they replied, sheepishly.

Gemini brought his head out of the vehicle, took one look at Vega before beginning to climb the top of the vehicle. As he made his way, several paths of metal fell from the behemoth, revealing a range of rotating turrets. Vega could only cackle as he lit the sky up in a steady stream of bullets cascaded towards the assault vehicle.

Gemini immediately hung in his tracks and took a deep breath before swinging into the turret, escaping the stream of fire. He steadied himself, took hold of the wheel controlling the turret and began to fire. Responding to his attack, the turret began to pump it's two guns back and forth, forcing endless armies of bullets towards the mechanical behemoth. The hot pieces of metal collided towards the rotating pieces of machinery that created the monster. Many bullets managed to chip against the metal, but others merely deflected off the gallant machine that stood.

Meanwhile, Edge curiously scoped the room that was the trunk of the armored assault vehicle. His eyes immediately caught site of a weapon he could definitely use. Laying about the corners of the vehicle were stacked RPG's by the plenty. He hefted the rocket launcher onto his shoulder and walked towards the open doors of the vehicle. The sight slowly connected towards the face of the machine and Edge grinned.

"C'mon, die you son of a."

In a press of a button, the rocket was sent soaring across the sky, mashing into the face of the mechanical beast. The explosion, in Edge's eyes, was a magnificent moment. Gemini even ceased firing the turret as he watched the explosion take place. The air was filled with of several pieces of metal, the ground echoing with the sound of metal colliding against metal.

Ruby fires flew away from the burnt remains of the metal madness. Smoke slowly filled the air and covered the now starry night sky. The armored vehicle skidded to a stop as all three heroes ceased their actions to stare in awe at the damage they did. As they stopped, Raine was taken away from the explosion as she finally got a glimpse of where they had ended up.

The team spent their whole time running that they didn't notice that they had made it to the entrance into the tubes leading the Megalo station sorting system. This could be considered an intersection of sorts. The gears entering the station would fly through a rounding system before entering the actual stadium. Following a dark tunnel, a voice command would ask where you planned on going. From there, you would be transferred into what looked like a bottomless, colossal area which controlled all the movement of the vehicles. They would be sorted to the correct tunnel, lower or upper. A rail would take you to your designated tunnel you'd be on your way towards that destination.

As she gazed at the mesoplex, Edge and Gemini were busy looking at the mess they created.

"Alright!" The ivory thief yelled, admiring the sparks, " That jackass didn't stand a chance."

"I agree." Gemini replied.

"So," Edge started, "Who are you using the keys for?" the ivory thief asked.

"I could ask you the same thing." Gemini responded, a little distant on the subject.

"That's the second time you said that..the key isn't for my personal gain." Edge answered, " I'm collecting them for someone."

"You don't look like the type to owe anyone favors, thief." Gemini went on, slightly bewildered.

"I'm collecting them for a certain person." the thief spoke.

"I'm guess it's this Audi guy that Raine teased." Gemini inquired.

"Yeah, not many know his name but you might better know him as the ring leader inside the Nightlight Requiem." Edge explained.

"I see." Gemini said, more intrigued.

"All the more reason to keep you from these keys." A monstrous voice echoed, forcing the heroes on their toes.

A wave of small tremors started to burst through the metal road they were on. Automatically, the trio ran back to the assault vehicle. As the last hero hopped in, the raging fires was disbanded as the behemoth charged forward. Though damaged by the recent missile, the pieces of metal still managed to meld enough for Vega to control the raging machine.

The assault vehicle was off in a matter of seconds with Vega viciously after it. However, the trio didn't have to go far. Since they were located right at the start of the roundabout tube into the station, the trio merely dashed into the opening while behemoth collided into the tube. Unfortunately for Vega, his mechanized beast was too big to even fit a body part, beside it's head, into the actual roadway. Vega screamed in anger as he tried to press on into the tube; the head of the behemoth began to spit fire and metal scraps out in anger.

"Take that ya mechanical bulldog." the thief yelled, " Now we just sit back and allow this place to take us to our next destination." Edge said in a relaxed tone, leaning back into the machine.

"And that might be?" Gemini questioned, seemingly pressing for information.

"Were going to Westopolis." Raine explained, turning the vehicle slowly as they flew through the roundabout, " From there, we'll talk to Audi about the key and maybe come back to get the key from Vega."

"I see." Gemini responded, a slight smirk on his face.

"As far as I can tell, this mission was a straight failure, but maybe we still have time." Edge inquired.

"It's not worth it anymore." Raine interjected, " Lets just get back, take a breather, and figure out our next plan."

"Fine..but I don't like it." Edge mumbled.

The assault vehicle finished it's roundabout and finally entered a dark hall which led into Megalo Station itself. Edge casually gazed up at the twin row of lights, located on the roof, flying past them as they sped through. Eventually the vehicle came to a halt in front of twin steel doors. A platform they hovered over gently attracted the vehicle down and in response, Raine turned off the vehicle.

"What is your destination?" a robotic voice said over an intercom.

"We're going to train station B-set, heading to Westopolis." Raine yelled out.

"Processing....processing...processing...processing complete...station B-set, destination..Westopolis." the computer complied.

"Alright, we're in." Edge huffed out, reclining into one of the back seats again, closing his eyes.

With an eerie shimmer, the steel doors began to slowly spread apart, unraveling the gargantuan center of the station. The entire area was a diluted sapphire fortress of moving platforms and tunnels. On the wall of the whole dome were thousand upon thousands of tunnels leading to some of the many of the locations around Mobius.

The platform which stood beneath the assault vehicle began to rumble before levitating into the air. Instantly they were shot through a a series of metal rings, speeding towards a rail upwards.

"Something doesn't feel right." Edge muttered, raising his blades.

"Why might that be?" Gemini questioned, relaxing in one of the seats.

"Whenever we think we're out of the blue...something just ends up f..."

A distant rumbling, enough to shake the entire dome, began to echo throughout the area. The heroes instinctively looked back to see part of the wall of the dome crumble into pieces of fine dust as a giant mechanical monstrosity burst through area. The beast revealed itself to be Vega, his anger growing though unnoticeable through his helmet.

Vega knew the insides and outsides of the entire city and station and so he didn't even need to gaze down to know that ground was located at least 4,000 feet below sea level, which in other cases meant that the one jump meant an instant ticket down a bottomless hole. He instantly made the behemoth lunge out into the opening, it's sight focused on platform that held the trio.

"Your journey ends tonight!" Vega roared out, eyes turned towards the ivory thief.

The behemoth crashed beside the platform and managed to scrape the side, causing the platform to spin around the rail. Raine watched out in horror as Edge was forcefully ejected out of the assault vehicle. Gemini rocked back and forth in the trunk of the truck before flying out the doors as they broke from the force of the behemoth. He latched on to the knob of the right door as he fell out and then and there, got a glimpse of the item they sought.

Located one foot above the shield that held Vega was the shinning brilliance, the Exilon Key.

"Edge, the Exilon key is above Vega!" Gemini informed.

As the rose hedgehog yelled out in urgency, the ivory thief was quickly trying to recover from the forced ejection from the assault vehicle. His color mixed eyes slowly draped open, watching the platform he was on pass by, getting farther away from him by the second. To the left was Vega, in his machine, coming slightly closer to him. It took the thief several seconds before he realized that he was drifting down the endless hole that was Megalo Station.

His motion was slow, elegant, almost frame by frame. The thief reached behind his back and from within, brought out his right hand twinblade. His left arm mirrored his previous action and brought out the left hand blade. With quick aim, Edge chucked the left blade into the air, accompanied by a golden chain of energy from the hilt to his hand. The projectile pierced straight into the shell of the creature, his intended target. He yanked on the chain and was propelled straight at the beast, busy with it's own agenda.

Up on the platform, Raine had recovered from her shock and leaped out of the armored car. At the south side, she saw the hands of the beast clawing at the edge of the metal carrier, keeping hold for dear life. She unsheathed her sword and ran towards the right arm of the beast. With a quick slice, Raine sliced through the pinky finger of the beast right hand. Following up, she spun around before slicing through the sheet metal that was it's thumb.

Vega's cybernetic systems went onto high alert as he felt the creature's hands slipping. Meanwhile, Edge finally attached himself into the back of the creature. He shot his blade at the left hand of the mechanized monster and swung himself around it before latching on. Vega clearly saw the thief's movement and unlatched it's left arm before beginning a sequences of shaking in attempt to lose the ivory hedgehog. Edge anticipated that so he left his right blade attached to the beast's left arm. Soon the strength of the behemoth launched the hedgehog off the arm but what Vega didn't see was Edge being connected by a chain of energy between him and the behemoths arm. As Edge flew away from the arm, the chain began to stretch to it's max; in response, the ivory hedgehog grasped his left blade, extending it's reach with the golden chains. The right chain soon reached it's full separation and viciously tugged Edge back at the creature's left arm. Just feet from the arm, Edge spun around and swung his left hand blade, which augmented by his power, left a trail of silver energy in it's wake.

The shinning blade easily cleaved through the multiple skins of metal around the beast's mechanical arm. Vega's eyes grew wide as he watched the ivory thief saw right through his own creation's left arm. At first, the pieces just floated in the air, just like the emptiness of space. Eventually, gravity had to be victor in the end; the pieces of metal fell down, not another use for them left.

While this was going, Vega again felt urgency flowing through his mind as another one of his fingers suddenly went off, not doubt sliced away by Raine. He was running out of time, running out of options, and of course, running out of power. Gemini, who was still holding on to the door knob at the time, managed to push himself back into the vehicle and out the front to move back onto the platform.

Edge landed just inches beside Vega's shield, located on the mechanical monstrosity. Raine herself had prepared to finish Vega off by charging yet another gravity bomb in her grasp, much bigger than the last.

"Tine to finish the job." Edge said, sternly.

Crawling to the front of the shield that held Vega, Edge got a good look at the mechanized mobian. For seconds, the two exchanged glares as if they knew who that the match was over. Vega's armored head may have held back his emotions due to the disclosure of his face but he could already tell that Edge knew that the robot had been defeated.

The ivory thief felt nothing else should be said and climbed above the shield to grab the Exilon key. The large item firm in his grasp, the hedgehog quickly leaped away as Raine's attack commenced. On top of the platform which was slowly moving up, trying to locate the tunnel, Raine had finished charging her orb of energy and shot it across the field to where it collided into the leftover fingers of the mechanized terror.

As per every enemy, a field of fuchsia energy surrounded the whole creature before gravity started to increase, bringing Vega down. The power of gravity increased so much, causing the fingers attached to the platform to break through the platform, taking Raine and part of the platform down with him. The ivory thief already accessed the situation and shot his left blade towards Raine, to which she grabbed hold off.

Weighted down a significant amount, Edge was only able to grasp the edge of the platform, rather what was left of it. The key in his right hand and his left hand holding the chain that kept Raine from falling to his demise, Edge could only sigh as their mission was completed.

"That's all she wrote, I guess." Edge mumbled, turning towards Gemini, " Hey, can you help us up?"

Gemini walked over to where Edge lay and reached for Edge's hand over the balcony of the platform. With forceful skill, Gemini began to heave Edge up by the hand until they were at least at equal height.

"There we go, thanks for the.."

The thief's eyes suddenly grew wide as he gazed at Gemini, a smug grin over the rose's face.

"What are you doing?" Edge asked, fear evident in his voice.

The ivory hedgehog's eyes slowly lowered from Gemini's face to his right hand which was engulfed in dark static, just inches away from the ivory thief's face. In the short hours the trio had been together, the tables had turned. In these last seconds, Edge could remember all the things Raine said about not trusting him, how the thief wished he could rewind time just to screw up his past self for thinking about trusting this lowly trash bag. Gemini tightened his grip on Edge's hand, forcing the thief to relinquish the key to the Rose CEO.

"I guess this where our paths end." Gemini soothed, looking at the key as it slid close to him.

"Don't do it, Gemini.." Edge begged, fear in his voice

"I must thank you for revealing all the information about the Exilon key and it's perks." Gemini sneered, chuckling along the way, " The fact that you two fell for the sympathy trick is enough to make me shit my pants from laughing."

"You lied about resurrecting someone?" Edge asked, a malicious gaze evident at Gemini.

"No, it's the truth.." Gemini replied, chuckling slowly, " But I prefer working alone."

"It doesn't have to go down like this." Edge coaxed, eying the orb of dark energy near his face.

"Now if I remember, I just take the train and from there use the key's guiding system to find all the keys, maybe when I gain access to the graveyard, I can save you just to repay the favor." Gemini wondered out loud.

"You can't be serious?" Edge sneered.

"Oh yes I am, I'll let you fall to your death." Gemini said, laughing manically, "If you survive, G.U.N will break your ass in..if you die, well then your story ends here."

"Don't you dare!" Edge threatened, his eyes radiating in a golden hue, "You do this..and I'll hunt your ass down, you'll have nowhere to run to."

"You say that now.." Gemini spoke, his face close to the thief, " But I wonder if you can back that up?"

"Try me."

The blast from Gemini's hand began increasing in size, the area beginning to darken all around them.

"Dark Cannon!" Gemini bellowed.

A muffled screech occurred as the orb of energy exploded in the ivory thief's face. The furious blast at close range caused the thief's body to go limp, the pain no doubt causing him to black out. Gemini grinned as he let go of Edge's arm, watching the body of the thief descend towards the ground, smoke and burnt clothes flying off the body. Raine, still holding on to Edge's blade, also began to fall down to the depths of the station. Since she was fully awake, it didn't take her much energy to slowly guide her body to one of tunnels along the walls. She grasped her hand on one of the tunnels, halting her fall entirely. She urgently pushed herself up into the tunnel and watched as Edge descended down into the depths of the station.

"Dammit!" Raine yelled, watching Edge drift down towards the ground below.

Eventually the ivory thief disappeared into the abyss, beyond the eyesight of the sapphire hedgehog. Deciding to not go after Gemini, she quickly launched a orb of gravitational force down into the abyss, hoping it caught the hedgehog. Calming down somewhat, she could only gaze up and watch as the broken platform that held Gemini rose to it's tunnel before rocketing off. She sighed before walking out of the tunnel, getting a look at the tunnels around her.

" I told you not put your trust in him, people like him only try to break others down." Raine said, stressed out.

She finally gazed up, noticing the Gemini leave the premiss of the Megalo Station, Exilon key in hand. She reached into her leg carrier and brought out a phone. She frowned lightly before lifting her phone to her ear, making a short call.

TO BE CONTINUED

A/N: And so ends chapter 3 and this small arc which will bring us out of this scenario to go continue into a new one for a bit. Well tell me what you think, was it good, could it use some more whatevers and stuff like that? Don't forget to review.

Chapter 4 progress came to 50% percent so I'd thought I'd release this. However, chapter 4 wont be released until chapter 5 is complete or close to completion.

Shot out to DJ-SlashMusika21, he's an awesome author with 4 great stories worth the time. Please check those stories out! Review his work! Or I'll end this story by tragically killing everyone using bricks...yeah, that could make a good ending. lol

TRIVIA

The ending for this chapter was actually planned to be much more heartwarming..but hell to heartwarming.

This chapter was rewritten once.

It's was planned for this chapter to be much bigger, but then we might reached at least over 7,000 in words. Chapters like that will only appear in the finale of each scenario.

Vega could be considered an obsolete version of Abyssal from Distortion of Chaos so I scrapped him but brought him back for this story.

There is even a more advanced robot than Abyssal called Abyssion, slated to appear in Distortion of Chaos and Chronicles if possible.

Raine was originally never meant to be in this story, she was originally taking place of a character you'll see later when this is continued. ( she still has an important part to two scenarios where her character will develop)