A New Age, A New Team
Chapter 42: Revenge Isn't Always Sweet

Clutch (Noah) stood staring at Rage (Sam) in disbelief, but stepped to the side. His grayish-blue eyes watched as Rage slowly stormed off towards Caution (Lyndsey).

Shocker (Lucas) looked over at Rage, Sammy? He thought and then saw that Clutch wasn't paying attention at all, and was alone. Perfect. He smirked to himself as he ball his fists together. Tiny lightening bolts circles around his fists before he brought his hands together and turned his palms out to shoot a ball of electricity out at Clutch.

Clutch turned his attention towards the large ball, and wrapped his wings around his body. He felt the surge of shock move from his wings into his back and spread through his entire body. He grinded his teeth as he tried to continue standing through the pain surging throughout his stone body. He pushed his wings out and behind him as the pain slowly faded and then he stumbled forward. The world around him was blurred as he still felt a slight twinge of pain as he stood there for a moment.

Shocker smirked as he stared at the man who was half man, half gargoyle and chuckled. He stepped forward to attack him again, but the glint of something out of the corner of his brown eyes with gold flecks. He turned and looked amongst the wooden crates and saw a dark figure laying on the ground. What the hell? He slowly walked towards the figure and then crouched down next to his side. He carefully rolled him over and then gasped aloud, "Shadow Runner…"He checked his pulse, and barely felt one.

He looked around to see if anyone had noticed what had happened and then slowly stood up. Shocker quietly back away from his fallen teammate and quickly jogged back into the opening and looked around. There's someone else here… He thought as he looked in the darkness of the ceilings and around at the carnage.

Rage slowly walked up to Caution, who was standing calmly waiting for her. "I thought you abandoned us?" Caution smirked.

"I couldn't abandoned my family when there's a traitor amongst them." Rage growled as she stopped a couple of feet away from Caution.

"Are you trying to imply something?" Caution asked in her thick Australian accent.

"Yeah," Rage huffed, "why weren't you protecting Dreamer? I know Poseidon told you to."

Caution's brown eyes glared at Rage for a moment, "She wanted to fight, so I let her."

"You were supposed to protect her! You almost let her die, and I bet if she had you wouldn't have cared," Rage shouted as she felt her blood begin to boil in disgust the more she looked at Caution. "Just like how you didn't care when you let Ghost die!" She screamed.

So she found out… Caution thought as she stayed calm at the acussation, "What are you talking about? Ghost got away from me and by the time I found him, Sonic had-"

"Save it!" Rage growled, "I saw the tape. You let him die… You technically killed him!"

Caution gained her posture and then smirked, "Took you long enough." She chuckled and then quickly turned into her werewolf state. "So you're here for revenge"

"I'm here for you," Rage said as he fingernails turned into long claws, and her hazel-green eyes transformed into completely yellow colored eyes with tiny slit irises. Her body quickly became covered in auburn colored fur.

Rage took off running towards Caution as fast as she could. She jumped up in the air and tried to kick her, but Caution blocked the kick and pushed back against her foot. Rage flipped backwards and landed perfectly on her feet. She looked up just as Caution was running towards her. Caution slashed her claws at Rage's face, but grabbed Caution's wrists and kicked her in the stomach to push her backwards.

Caution caught her ground and took off running towards Rage again. She flipped over her back and kicked Rage in the back of the head as she was flipping, which made Rage fall to the ground. Rage rolled onto her back just as Caution jumped on top of her and punched her across the face. "You won't beat me." Caution laughed in her face as she punched Rage across the face again.

Rage's blood boiled inside of her as her anger began to let her feral instincts take over her body. "Watch me," She growled as she curled her leg to her chest and pushed Caution off of her. She flipped to her feet and took off running towards Caution.

Rage's fist cracked across Caution's cheek over and over again, which made both of them walk closer and closer towards the edge of the landing that overlooked the sunken equipment testing area. Rage finally punched her as hard as she could, which sent Caution falling to the ground. Rage strangled her and wrapped her clawed hands around Caution's throat and began to squeeze. "I'm going to watch you die, like you watched Ghost die!" She growled as her claws dug into Caution's neck, drawing tiny lines of blood. "I should cut your throat and watch you gasp for life like you did with him!" She said as tears absentmindedly rolled down her cheek as the image of Ghost's death played over in her mind like a silent movie.

Caution rolled her foot to her chest and then kicked Rage off of her and quickly flipped to her feet. In the blink of an eye, Rage had landed on one foot and used her other foot to kick Caution in the stomach and off the ledge they were standing on. She heard a clatter below and then a desperate gasp.

Rage stood there for a moment and then slowly walked over to the ledge, and as she walked her body slowly transformed back into its human state. She stood at the ledge and looked down at Caution, who was gasping for her last breathes as a bloody jagged pole was sticking through her stomach. Rage's hazel-green eyes stared coldly at her enemy as Caution wrapped her hands around the bloody pole and slowly began to transform back into her human state.

Rage's stomach slightly twisted at the sight of the puncturing pole as she stared at Caution. I got revenge for Ghost… She thought quietly, I killed her. A twinge of guilt rolled through her body as she stared at her and then she slowly turned and began to walk away from her justice.

Clutch flew towards Sam and then tackled her to the ground in his gargoyle state. Rage gasped as she felt the weight of his stone body on top of her as she laid underneath him. "What the hell?!" She yelled as she tried to push Clutch off of her, but he was too heavy. When she placed her hands against his shoulders again, the cold stone of his skin transformed back into the warmth as he changed back into his human state. "What are you doing?!" She gasped as continued to try to push him off of her.

Clutch's stone gargoyle wings crumbled into ash on top of his back and around him and Rage. She slightly sat up and looked across his back and threw the crumbled ash she saw an injection needle in between his shoulder blades. Noah… She gasped as she ran her fingers slowly down his bare back and wrapped her hands around the needle. With a tiny grunt she pulled the empty needle out and slid it across the ground away from them.

"Clutch?" She whispered as he laid on top of her. "Clutch?"

There was no response.

She carefully rolled him off of her and laid him on his back as she laid next to his side. "Clutch? Please…" She whispered as she checked his pulse, which was barely there. Her hazel-green eyes looked across the ground at the injection needle, That was meant for me, she looked back at Clutch, he saved my life. "Please don't leave me…"