Cut To:
Int.
Inside the tunnel...
"Knuckles, can I ask you a question?" Tails asked
Knuckles gaze him, then looks forward.
"Sure."
Tails paused before speaking.
"What happened to your eye?"
A long pause was issued from Knuckles before he lowered his gaze and spoke.
"It was 9 years ago, when the holocaust started on Floating Island. The chaotixs and I headed to the hidden palace to protect it, including the emeralds. (Sighs, nods) Mutated motherfuckers that called themselves the Ravics broke through and destroyed everything inside. The Ravens killed almost every inhabitant on the island. (Paused) They shattered the master emerald causing Tikal to forcefully come out. Throughout the months, Tikal starts to become mortal by the second due to the separation. Anyway, after that, we made a run for it. After we did that, two raven creatures got to us. One of them attempts to grab Tikal but I prevented that. Once I saw a second one come at me, I hesitated before it knocked me onto the ground leaving a piece of its claw in my left eye. (Shakes head) You couldn't imagine seeing darkness through one eye, then see light through the other. I prevented myself from telling anyone to avoid traumatic elements. Kinda like what charmy did when he mourned for sonic's death and blamed Bunnie for it."
Tails listened to the entire thing and was shocked at this for the most part. He was more surprised not to hear cream's name in the conversation as far as knuckles was concerned.
"The next thing you know..." Knuckles raised his eye patch away from his other eye showing Tails the horror that the creatures had done to him
Tails was definitely shocked at what he saw. Knuckles' eye was scarred, bloodied a little, and clearly replaced with a new crooked eye with no pupil.
"...See no evil." He stated before placing his eye patch back on.
Nonetheless, Tails slightly nods shaking the shocked expression from his face as Bunnie stopped her movement. The teams noticed.
"What is it?" Tails asked
Bunnie sniffed the air and exhales deeply.
"It's sally." She said, softly
"Good. That means we're close." Manic said
Manic was about to go further before Bunnie held him back.
"Hold ya'll distance."
"Why?" Manic asked
(Soft Growling)
Everyone else turned slowing and heard the monsterous growl.
"That's why." Bunnie said
Despite the pain, Cream stands and breathing heavily before her eyes spliced to life and bared her fang. Through Cream's reptilian sight, she could easily see a swarm of 12 ravinok creatures coming. Bunnie took out her two claw daggers before throwing one to cream. Cream caught it with her right hand before Rouge stepped in front of everyone.
"Let's give 'em hell." Rouge said, cocking her gun.
Bunnie and Cream growled like monsters before charging forward with the teams in pursuit. The ravinok creatures started charging towards them as well. They all collided into battle as Bunnie swiped menacingly at the ravinok creature as well as Cream did.
Rouge fired several shots at 2 ravinok creatures while Manic and Tails took care of the other two. Knuckles and Tikal started shooting at the two ravinoks as the bullets ricocheted on the creatures wildly. Blood splashing everywhere.
Bunnie evades strike attacks before blocking and striking the creature's right arm. The creature screeches in pain before bunnie quickly swiped its mid-section, then struck the forehead killing it instantly. The creature fell dead to the ground with blood coming from it. Bunnie forcefully yanks her weapons from its forehead while blood leaks from the damaged wound.
Cream bared her fangs as the creature roared at her before striking. Cream evades numerous strike attacks before blocking and grabbing the creature's left arm and snapping it. The creature screeched in pain before cream pulled its arm in and struck the claw dagger straight on its head. Blood sprayed from the back as cream knocked the creature off before the pain in her chest came back to her. She groans and kneels a little to the ground as Tails noticed before shooting a ravinok creature in the head point blank. He releases a mag and replaces it. He soon approaches cream. But before he could get inches to her, he was issued a clothesline by a ravinok creature as Tails flipped and hit the ground hard. The ravinok creature wasted little time grabbing and pinning Tails to the ground on his stomach with its arm around his neck. The ravinok bared its saliva filled fangs as Tails tries desperately to shake him off but to no avail due to its strength.
"Time to die, foxboy!" The creature replied, viciously
The ravinok roars and lunges its fangs down to Tails' shoulder. However, before that could happen, a hand grasped around its neck with the ravinok's mouth wide open. Tails veered his pupil to find that it was Cream's hand that grasped the monster as she glared deadly at the creature. Her eyes spliced along with bared fangs.
"After you." She said in a stern but deadly tone.
With that statement, she struck the dagger claw in the back of the creature. This basically forced the creature to release its hold on Tails.
(Ravinok Screeched Loudly)
Blood surfaces from the creature as cream takes the dagger out before striking it at the front mid-section causing the creature to screech some more in agonizing pain.
But Cream didn't stop there.
Cream could fill the blood spilling onto her, which, to her, became a sensual feeling as she forcefully struck the dagger right through the creature completely. Blood splashed out from the back as it killed the creature instantly. Blood was all over cream's arm as Tails got up and looked at cream.
"You alright?"
Cream kept her dark gaze at the corpse before speaking.
"Never better." She said, softly
Bunnie held one last ravinok creature by the throat and pinned it against the wall.
"Whe-uh is she?" Bunnie asked, sinisterly
The ravinok didn't respond as Bunnie sliced open the midsection of the creature with her dagger weapon causing it to screech in pain. Bunnie's eyes spliced to life before showing her saliva filled fangs indicating to the creature that she would feast on the creature if she doesn't get a response.
"Last chance. Whe-uh...is she?!" Bunnie screeched, viciously
The ravinok didn't answer and before bunnie could do anything else, she sensed something.
Suddenly, Bunnie screamed in pain before grasping her head letting the unconscious creature go. The teams saw this in total shock.
"What the fuck?!" Knuckles started to say before he heard another scream.
Cream started grasping her head and screaming in pain. Both Bunnie and Cream got down on their knees as the teams got to both of them.
"What the fuck is wrong with them?!" Tails asked, before gazing Manic
"I don't know!" Manic said
Tails gazes Bunnie again as she softly stopped screaming.
"Bunnie, what's wrong with you?" Tails asked
Bunnie grunts and slowly opens her eyes before speaking.
"Voices." She replied, softly
Bunnie's eyes closed tightly before speaking again.
"Voices of the victims. (Panting, grunts) He knows we're he-uh."
"Wait a minute. Who?" Knuckles asked
Bunnie grunts in pain again which prevented her from talking. Whatever Bunnie and Cream heard seems to be silent for none of them to hear and it's affecting both of them.
Cut To:
Int. Dark Hive
"Stop this! You're killing them!" Sally fumed, while her ears were covered
Dregnok raised his hand up as about all the ravinok creatures around the machine stopped screeching inside the place, although it wasn't loud enough to break the machine. Dregnok gazes halfway to Sally before speaking.
"Half-Breed's like Bunnie and Cream don't die. They were reborn. (Approaches Sally) Kind of like me."
Sally tried to back up but couldn't find the strength to do so. Everytime she looked at Dregnok, she sees the one person she truly loved. But she could hardly believe that the world's fastest hedgehog is the face of evil itself. Even if he did showed his face. Without hesitating, she asked.
"What happened to you?"
Dregnok turns around before speaking.
"It was 11 years in the darkness."
(Flashback - 11 years Ago - After The Explosion)
Black smoke was everywhere as a whole wreckage of Robotnik's lab was everywhere. Metal, concrete's, debris. Everywhere.
"Pain and suffering was inflicted. Yet, you felt nothing. It's...painless. Nonetheless." Dregnok said, voice-over
Throughout the wreckage, an arm was stuck out from the concrete. Body parts were scattered throughout half the destruction. Blood was everywhere. Then, a greenish fog surrounded the area around the body parts. Then, the blood started moving and forms into a pile. It starts approaching the arm before sinking into a tiny hole in the concrete wreckage. After that, the arm started to change color. A dark black color. Then, the hand starts moving and wiggling fingers before sharp claws busted out from the gloves. A soft growling was heard before an earthquake was emitting.
"Soon, your beloved Sonic became the face of terror itself."
The concrete exploded and debris spreads away before a figure came out into focus. This figure is a hedgehog. Or so it was. This hedgehog was black all over and has black wings on its back. The hedgehog's eyes were spliced and have shaped fangs. Claws were on its hands and feets. Sharp spikes were by his quills. Horns on his forehead. The creatures grit its teeth.
"In the form...of Dregnok."
The creature known as Dregnok roars into the night.
(Flashback Ends)
"Throughout the years, I have watched the freedom fighters. And for years, I have watched the holocaust happen. Millions screaming, Millions dying, and millions suffering. (Looks halfway to sally) But they live....Because of us."
Dregnok turns and faces the machine.
"Because of us, mobians have lived like creatures of the night. Invulnerable to attacks. Making them immortal. However, they were weakened against dark shade light. Ultraviolet, if you will. So they use darkness as their ally. Rendering the ravens including ravic creatures...invisible. (Gestures to machine) Since robotnik has created the ravens and Ravics, I...will do the next best thing."
Dregnok turns halfway and gazes Sally, who noticed and listened the entire time.
"But you don't know what kind of suffering you've caused. (Gestures to machine) This machine is almost the opposite of robotnik's machine. If you unleash the virus, the whole world will be infected and overrunned by these creatures." Sally said
Dregnok stood his ground and chuckles carelessly.
"You obviously have me mistaken for someone who would care."
Sally paused and gazes dregnok expressionless before uttering out the word she finally had the courage to say.
"You know, you're right. I am mistaken. And you're right. You're not Sonic. But what you're wrong about, is that I have troops coming this way to stop you in any which way they can."
Dregnok turns to Sally and approaches.
"Oh, I'm counting on it. Princess."
His glare almost frightened sally, but she obviously tried to compose it.
Cut To:
Int.
At the HQ...
"Okay, look. We can't take any chances here. We can't get in contact with the teams due to a far-away frequency. And we can't go after them by ground due to the viral agent. So our only chance is to infiltrate their location by air." Charmy suggested
"Will the air craft protect us from the virus?" Vector asked
"Yes. We just have to make sure not to sustain damage to the craft or the virus will swoop its way in. If ravens come in, we fire on impact, are we clear?" Charmy said
"Crystal." Espio said
"All right, guys. Let's go." Charmy ordered
The four chaotix's minus Ray walked out of the room with five other uniform soldiers.
Ext.
Later, a hangar door opened as nine aircraft comes out and took flight in the air towards Echidnanopolis.
Cut To:
Int.
Back in the tunnel, the teams continued en route to the center of the dark hive. But although they had to keep going, they were more concerned about Bunnie and Cream. Whatever happened to them somehow managed to leave the rest of them unaffected by it.
The teams kept their ultraviolet lights on their guns in case any ravinok creature surfaces onto them.
Bunnie and Cream were walking despite the eerie voices they were hearing that got them on the ground. Bunnie and Cream subsides it for a while as they kept walking.
The teams soon came across a somewhat corridor to the left side. The big corridor led up the stairway. The teams stopped in front of it.
"This is a strange way to enter a place like this." Nack said
"Let's go." Manic said
Naturally, everyone went and crossed the corridor.
It was almost a few minutes as the whole team scanned the area of the corridor making sure that they don't get any surprise attack or anything. The team kept going til they came across a double door that sled open by itself. The teams kept their guard up making sure that whatever was behind the door would get a megaload of bullets riddled into them. But what they saw was absolutely nothing.
So they slowly started to enter the place. They came upon a lower facility that was like a boiler room of some sort. Some metallic operational machineries were inside the place. The teams gaze at this expressionless as they kept going.
"What is this place?" Lupe asked
"I don't know. Looks like a boiler room." Trevor said
"Let's keep going." Tails said
The teams kept walking, while keeping their entire guard up.
They were about halfway inside the place as they saw what they couldn't believe.
What they saw were different sets of robotic ravinok creatures encased in large tubes and motionlessly standing with their eyes closed. About five or six of them were there by some steaming pipes being hibernated inside the tubes. The creatures had half metallic skin on part of their arms, legs, and lower body, while a small pieced visor covered thier left eye. Wires were connected on parts of the creatures body. The rest of the creatures skin were visible beyond the metallic skin as Bunnie and Cream approaches slowly and caresses the glass tube. Manic, Tails, Knuckles, Tikal, Rouge, and her teams approaches the tubes and got a full display of the creatures inside.
"What are these things?" Rouge asked
After a long silence, Bunnie answered.
"These are Meta-Ravinoks. They are lethal versions of the ones that are screwing around with us."
"How lethal?" Knuckles asked
Bunnie gazes halfway to Knuckles and spoke softly.
"You don't wanna know."
Suddenly, bunnie sensed something and before any reaction was made, the darkness came into the room. This got everyone by surprise.
"What the hell was that?" Nack asked, aiming around the place
"The lights went out!" Lupe replied
Suddenly, some screeching noises were heard several feets away from them as everyone was on alert.
"What was that?" Dirk asked
"I don't know! I can't see anything!" Drago said
Suddenly, distant glass broke from behind them before the screeching got even louder. Then, a scream came after the recent screeching roared, which almost came from behind them.
"Dirk?!" Rouge shouted
Suddenly, some emergency red lights shoned onto the room. Everyone looked around and saw that the six glasses of the tubes were shattered. What frightened them even more was that the creatures that were in the tube were missing. The only thing that was in the tube was dangling electric cables that were attached to them.
"Everyone keep on alert." Tails said, while cocking his gun
"Where the hell is Dirk?" Lupe asked
"Holy shit." Nack said as he caught sight of a trail of blood leading across the boiler room
Bunnie approaches and kneels down towards the substance. She took a sample with her finger and licked it. With her eyes closed sensing the taste, she slowly opened them. The look bunnie was giving was indescribable even for the teams to even figure out.
"Bunnie, what is it?" Tikal asked
After a short pause from her, she finally answered.
"Blood level is low. (pause) He's dead." She said before standing again
This caught the team, especially rouge and her team, by total shock and disbelief.
"What?" Lupe replied
Bunnie was wordless for a while before quickly donning her senses forward along with Cream, who did the same. Manic and the rest of the team noticed.
"Wha--" Manic started to say before Bunnie silences him.
Bunnie instructed the team's including Cream to stay as she started to approach further of the blood trail. Throughout her approach, she was seeing body parts on the ground. But it was nothing that bunnie has ever seen before. She's seen many death almost more than anyone and saw them slaughtered by the creatures. Although she was exile in jail for 9 years, she could obviously sense a lot that's going on around mobius without even speaking a voice.
Throughout a reptilian pupiled vision, an unknown figure stalks bunnie from the top of a structure.
Bunnie kept approaching before finally getting to the end of the blood trail. She soon came into eye contact with the dead corpse of Dirk. He was bloodied all around with half of his body gone with his small and large intestines showing. His eyes were deadpan and rolled back while his blood freely drips onto the ground.
Bunnie kept her gaze at the dead corpse before a soft screeching noise came from behind her. Although it was half dark and the room was donned with red illuminated light, many unusual things could happen.
Bunnie slowly gazes left before the soft growling came. She slowly took out her titanium weapon from the holster and backs away a little. Before any reaction could be made, bunnie quickly sensed the creature. But...it wasn't behind her. In fact, it was about a few feet to the right of her. Bunnie's eyes widen and as soon as she turned around, a creature, by the form of the Meta-Ravinok, roared towards her.
Meanwhile, the teams heard the roar and got on alert.
"What was that?" Trevor asked
Suddenly, Cream shot her gaze to the side sensing some presences near them.
"I don't know." Lupe replied
Tikal approaches forward using the UV light as guard for her to find the source of the noise. But that was as far as she went when she heard a soft growling about a few feet from her. She slowly gazes left and noticed a shadow a few feet from her position.
"Fuck. GUYS, LOOK OUT! IT'S AN AMBUSH!" Tikal shouted
She aimed at the side and before she could fire, the creature known as Meta-Ravinok roars and lunges out towards her. Tikal got off guard before the creature got onto her and pinned her to the ground. Tikal grunts trying to get the creature off.
The teams heard the scream and before they could go any further, about four Meta-Ravinok creatures came out and surrounded them in a circle.
Meanwhile, Bunnie started trading blows with the first Meta-Ravinok creature and so far, it was starting to be a stalemate. Bunnie suddenly grabbed the arm of the creature during its attempt to reach for Bunnie's face. Using her right hand, she quickly grasped the creatures neck and forcefully ripped the skin off of it. Blood was draining from the neck as she threw a headbutt to the creature. The dead creature hits the ground before Bunnie turned and headed for the others position.
The four Meta-Ravinok creatures circled around the troops while the troops kept steady aims at them not wanting any surprise attacks from either of them.
Tikal continues to struggle the creature off her. The creature bared its open fangs before shooting its gaze to the right noticing Bunnie's approach. The creature growls before, in the blink of an eye, it let out an ear piercing screech.
Bunnie's movement was put on hold as she grasped her ears in pain. She grits her teeth preventing any means to let out a scream of her own.
With the team, Cream heard the scream and got into the same predictament as Bunnie. The teams heard it too and was almost on the verge of dropping to their knees and dropping their weapons. But they tried struggling not to risk being unguarded.
Bunnie continues holding her ears as well as Tikal was. The creature was still screeching as Bunnie desperately opened her spliced eyes and reached for her side. She threw a few stars at the howling creature and it impact onto its face knocking it of Tikal and to the ground dead. Bunnie breaths heavily as well as Tikal was.
The teams regained control as well as Cream did and before the creatures could take action, Cream quickly used her left hand and twisted the creatures arm. The creature painfully screeched before Cream got up and struck her fingers into the creatures lower chin. Then, she ripped off the face of the creature as blood was shown on the other side before it fell dead.
The teams started shooting at the other three creatures. Some of their bullets bounced off their metallic skin while some made impact with the visible skin.
The creatures roared as one charged towards Drago and knocked the gun from his hand. The creature threw a hard back hand to Drago as he flew across the facility and hits a pole breaking it.
Lupe saw this and started shooting at the creature, but the creature lunges in the air evading the bullets and pounced on her. Lupe started screaming as Rouge saw this and fired some bullets point blank in the head. Blood splash from the head on impact as Lupe knocks the body off.
Rouge didn't pay attention before another Meta-Ravinok creature lunged at her.
Cream saw this and extended outward her left hand while twirling the titanium claw in hand. With a single thrust forward, she threw the claw dagger straight at the creature. The claw dagger soars and cuts through the creature's head, killing it instantly before it hits the ground.
There was one left as the teams surrounded the creature. However, the creature wasn't giving up as it grits its fanged teeth and lets out a howling screeching that caused the teams to go down.
Suddenly, a shadowy figure was seen airborne at the same time the creature noticed and turned to see Bunnie in the air lunging down at him with the claw in her left hand. With a quick swipe to the creature, she lands. A diagonal line was shown on the creatures body as half of its body fell to the ground, while the rest did the same.
Bunnie gazed down at the creature remorseless.
"So much for new improvements." She gazed forward and saw the team in good health before approaching them.
Manic and the rest of the teams noticed as they gathered their grounds. Tails walked up to Bunnie.
"You okay?" Tails asked
Cream throws Bunnie her other claw. Bunnie caught it and twirls both her claws with two hands before holstering them.
"Oh, ah'm gonna be just fine." She answered.
"Anything else you should let us in on while we continue?" Tails asked
Bunnie just looks at Tails and smirks before walking pass him and the others.
Int.
Inside the tunnel...
"Knuckles, can I ask you a question?" Tails asked
Knuckles gaze him, then looks forward.
"Sure."
Tails paused before speaking.
"What happened to your eye?"
A long pause was issued from Knuckles before he lowered his gaze and spoke.
"It was 9 years ago, when the holocaust started on Floating Island. The chaotixs and I headed to the hidden palace to protect it, including the emeralds. (Sighs, nods) Mutated motherfuckers that called themselves the Ravics broke through and destroyed everything inside. The Ravens killed almost every inhabitant on the island. (Paused) They shattered the master emerald causing Tikal to forcefully come out. Throughout the months, Tikal starts to become mortal by the second due to the separation. Anyway, after that, we made a run for it. After we did that, two raven creatures got to us. One of them attempts to grab Tikal but I prevented that. Once I saw a second one come at me, I hesitated before it knocked me onto the ground leaving a piece of its claw in my left eye. (Shakes head) You couldn't imagine seeing darkness through one eye, then see light through the other. I prevented myself from telling anyone to avoid traumatic elements. Kinda like what charmy did when he mourned for sonic's death and blamed Bunnie for it."
Tails listened to the entire thing and was shocked at this for the most part. He was more surprised not to hear cream's name in the conversation as far as knuckles was concerned.
"The next thing you know..." Knuckles raised his eye patch away from his other eye showing Tails the horror that the creatures had done to him
Tails was definitely shocked at what he saw. Knuckles' eye was scarred, bloodied a little, and clearly replaced with a new crooked eye with no pupil.
"...See no evil." He stated before placing his eye patch back on.
Nonetheless, Tails slightly nods shaking the shocked expression from his face as Bunnie stopped her movement. The teams noticed.
"What is it?" Tails asked
Bunnie sniffed the air and exhales deeply.
"It's sally." She said, softly
"Good. That means we're close." Manic said
Manic was about to go further before Bunnie held him back.
"Hold ya'll distance."
"Why?" Manic asked
(Soft Growling)
Everyone else turned slowing and heard the monsterous growl.
"That's why." Bunnie said
Despite the pain, Cream stands and breathing heavily before her eyes spliced to life and bared her fang. Through Cream's reptilian sight, she could easily see a swarm of 12 ravinok creatures coming. Bunnie took out her two claw daggers before throwing one to cream. Cream caught it with her right hand before Rouge stepped in front of everyone.
"Let's give 'em hell." Rouge said, cocking her gun.
Bunnie and Cream growled like monsters before charging forward with the teams in pursuit. The ravinok creatures started charging towards them as well. They all collided into battle as Bunnie swiped menacingly at the ravinok creature as well as Cream did.
Rouge fired several shots at 2 ravinok creatures while Manic and Tails took care of the other two. Knuckles and Tikal started shooting at the two ravinoks as the bullets ricocheted on the creatures wildly. Blood splashing everywhere.
Bunnie evades strike attacks before blocking and striking the creature's right arm. The creature screeches in pain before bunnie quickly swiped its mid-section, then struck the forehead killing it instantly. The creature fell dead to the ground with blood coming from it. Bunnie forcefully yanks her weapons from its forehead while blood leaks from the damaged wound.
Cream bared her fangs as the creature roared at her before striking. Cream evades numerous strike attacks before blocking and grabbing the creature's left arm and snapping it. The creature screeched in pain before cream pulled its arm in and struck the claw dagger straight on its head. Blood sprayed from the back as cream knocked the creature off before the pain in her chest came back to her. She groans and kneels a little to the ground as Tails noticed before shooting a ravinok creature in the head point blank. He releases a mag and replaces it. He soon approaches cream. But before he could get inches to her, he was issued a clothesline by a ravinok creature as Tails flipped and hit the ground hard. The ravinok creature wasted little time grabbing and pinning Tails to the ground on his stomach with its arm around his neck. The ravinok bared its saliva filled fangs as Tails tries desperately to shake him off but to no avail due to its strength.
"Time to die, foxboy!" The creature replied, viciously
The ravinok roars and lunges its fangs down to Tails' shoulder. However, before that could happen, a hand grasped around its neck with the ravinok's mouth wide open. Tails veered his pupil to find that it was Cream's hand that grasped the monster as she glared deadly at the creature. Her eyes spliced along with bared fangs.
"After you." She said in a stern but deadly tone.
With that statement, she struck the dagger claw in the back of the creature. This basically forced the creature to release its hold on Tails.
(Ravinok Screeched Loudly)
Blood surfaces from the creature as cream takes the dagger out before striking it at the front mid-section causing the creature to screech some more in agonizing pain.
But Cream didn't stop there.
Cream could fill the blood spilling onto her, which, to her, became a sensual feeling as she forcefully struck the dagger right through the creature completely. Blood splashed out from the back as it killed the creature instantly. Blood was all over cream's arm as Tails got up and looked at cream.
"You alright?"
Cream kept her dark gaze at the corpse before speaking.
"Never better." She said, softly
Bunnie held one last ravinok creature by the throat and pinned it against the wall.
"Whe-uh is she?" Bunnie asked, sinisterly
The ravinok didn't respond as Bunnie sliced open the midsection of the creature with her dagger weapon causing it to screech in pain. Bunnie's eyes spliced to life before showing her saliva filled fangs indicating to the creature that she would feast on the creature if she doesn't get a response.
"Last chance. Whe-uh...is she?!" Bunnie screeched, viciously
The ravinok didn't answer and before bunnie could do anything else, she sensed something.
Suddenly, Bunnie screamed in pain before grasping her head letting the unconscious creature go. The teams saw this in total shock.
"What the fuck?!" Knuckles started to say before he heard another scream.
Cream started grasping her head and screaming in pain. Both Bunnie and Cream got down on their knees as the teams got to both of them.
"What the fuck is wrong with them?!" Tails asked, before gazing Manic
"I don't know!" Manic said
Tails gazes Bunnie again as she softly stopped screaming.
"Bunnie, what's wrong with you?" Tails asked
Bunnie grunts and slowly opens her eyes before speaking.
"Voices." She replied, softly
Bunnie's eyes closed tightly before speaking again.
"Voices of the victims. (Panting, grunts) He knows we're he-uh."
"Wait a minute. Who?" Knuckles asked
Bunnie grunts in pain again which prevented her from talking. Whatever Bunnie and Cream heard seems to be silent for none of them to hear and it's affecting both of them.
Cut To:
Int. Dark Hive
"Stop this! You're killing them!" Sally fumed, while her ears were covered
Dregnok raised his hand up as about all the ravinok creatures around the machine stopped screeching inside the place, although it wasn't loud enough to break the machine. Dregnok gazes halfway to Sally before speaking.
"Half-Breed's like Bunnie and Cream don't die. They were reborn. (Approaches Sally) Kind of like me."
Sally tried to back up but couldn't find the strength to do so. Everytime she looked at Dregnok, she sees the one person she truly loved. But she could hardly believe that the world's fastest hedgehog is the face of evil itself. Even if he did showed his face. Without hesitating, she asked.
"What happened to you?"
Dregnok turns around before speaking.
"It was 11 years in the darkness."
(Flashback - 11 years Ago - After The Explosion)
Black smoke was everywhere as a whole wreckage of Robotnik's lab was everywhere. Metal, concrete's, debris. Everywhere.
"Pain and suffering was inflicted. Yet, you felt nothing. It's...painless. Nonetheless." Dregnok said, voice-over
Throughout the wreckage, an arm was stuck out from the concrete. Body parts were scattered throughout half the destruction. Blood was everywhere. Then, a greenish fog surrounded the area around the body parts. Then, the blood started moving and forms into a pile. It starts approaching the arm before sinking into a tiny hole in the concrete wreckage. After that, the arm started to change color. A dark black color. Then, the hand starts moving and wiggling fingers before sharp claws busted out from the gloves. A soft growling was heard before an earthquake was emitting.
"Soon, your beloved Sonic became the face of terror itself."
The concrete exploded and debris spreads away before a figure came out into focus. This figure is a hedgehog. Or so it was. This hedgehog was black all over and has black wings on its back. The hedgehog's eyes were spliced and have shaped fangs. Claws were on its hands and feets. Sharp spikes were by his quills. Horns on his forehead. The creatures grit its teeth.
"In the form...of Dregnok."
The creature known as Dregnok roars into the night.
(Flashback Ends)
"Throughout the years, I have watched the freedom fighters. And for years, I have watched the holocaust happen. Millions screaming, Millions dying, and millions suffering. (Looks halfway to sally) But they live....Because of us."
Dregnok turns and faces the machine.
"Because of us, mobians have lived like creatures of the night. Invulnerable to attacks. Making them immortal. However, they were weakened against dark shade light. Ultraviolet, if you will. So they use darkness as their ally. Rendering the ravens including ravic creatures...invisible. (Gestures to machine) Since robotnik has created the ravens and Ravics, I...will do the next best thing."
Dregnok turns halfway and gazes Sally, who noticed and listened the entire time.
"But you don't know what kind of suffering you've caused. (Gestures to machine) This machine is almost the opposite of robotnik's machine. If you unleash the virus, the whole world will be infected and overrunned by these creatures." Sally said
Dregnok stood his ground and chuckles carelessly.
"You obviously have me mistaken for someone who would care."
Sally paused and gazes dregnok expressionless before uttering out the word she finally had the courage to say.
"You know, you're right. I am mistaken. And you're right. You're not Sonic. But what you're wrong about, is that I have troops coming this way to stop you in any which way they can."
Dregnok turns to Sally and approaches.
"Oh, I'm counting on it. Princess."
His glare almost frightened sally, but she obviously tried to compose it.
Cut To:
Int.
At the HQ...
"Okay, look. We can't take any chances here. We can't get in contact with the teams due to a far-away frequency. And we can't go after them by ground due to the viral agent. So our only chance is to infiltrate their location by air." Charmy suggested
"Will the air craft protect us from the virus?" Vector asked
"Yes. We just have to make sure not to sustain damage to the craft or the virus will swoop its way in. If ravens come in, we fire on impact, are we clear?" Charmy said
"Crystal." Espio said
"All right, guys. Let's go." Charmy ordered
The four chaotix's minus Ray walked out of the room with five other uniform soldiers.
Ext.
Later, a hangar door opened as nine aircraft comes out and took flight in the air towards Echidnanopolis.
Cut To:
Int.
Back in the tunnel, the teams continued en route to the center of the dark hive. But although they had to keep going, they were more concerned about Bunnie and Cream. Whatever happened to them somehow managed to leave the rest of them unaffected by it.
The teams kept their ultraviolet lights on their guns in case any ravinok creature surfaces onto them.
Bunnie and Cream were walking despite the eerie voices they were hearing that got them on the ground. Bunnie and Cream subsides it for a while as they kept walking.
The teams soon came across a somewhat corridor to the left side. The big corridor led up the stairway. The teams stopped in front of it.
"This is a strange way to enter a place like this." Nack said
"Let's go." Manic said
Naturally, everyone went and crossed the corridor.
It was almost a few minutes as the whole team scanned the area of the corridor making sure that they don't get any surprise attack or anything. The team kept going til they came across a double door that sled open by itself. The teams kept their guard up making sure that whatever was behind the door would get a megaload of bullets riddled into them. But what they saw was absolutely nothing.
So they slowly started to enter the place. They came upon a lower facility that was like a boiler room of some sort. Some metallic operational machineries were inside the place. The teams gaze at this expressionless as they kept going.
"What is this place?" Lupe asked
"I don't know. Looks like a boiler room." Trevor said
"Let's keep going." Tails said
The teams kept walking, while keeping their entire guard up.
They were about halfway inside the place as they saw what they couldn't believe.
What they saw were different sets of robotic ravinok creatures encased in large tubes and motionlessly standing with their eyes closed. About five or six of them were there by some steaming pipes being hibernated inside the tubes. The creatures had half metallic skin on part of their arms, legs, and lower body, while a small pieced visor covered thier left eye. Wires were connected on parts of the creatures body. The rest of the creatures skin were visible beyond the metallic skin as Bunnie and Cream approaches slowly and caresses the glass tube. Manic, Tails, Knuckles, Tikal, Rouge, and her teams approaches the tubes and got a full display of the creatures inside.
"What are these things?" Rouge asked
After a long silence, Bunnie answered.
"These are Meta-Ravinoks. They are lethal versions of the ones that are screwing around with us."
"How lethal?" Knuckles asked
Bunnie gazes halfway to Knuckles and spoke softly.
"You don't wanna know."
Suddenly, bunnie sensed something and before any reaction was made, the darkness came into the room. This got everyone by surprise.
"What the hell was that?" Nack asked, aiming around the place
"The lights went out!" Lupe replied
Suddenly, some screeching noises were heard several feets away from them as everyone was on alert.
"What was that?" Dirk asked
"I don't know! I can't see anything!" Drago said
Suddenly, distant glass broke from behind them before the screeching got even louder. Then, a scream came after the recent screeching roared, which almost came from behind them.
"Dirk?!" Rouge shouted
Suddenly, some emergency red lights shoned onto the room. Everyone looked around and saw that the six glasses of the tubes were shattered. What frightened them even more was that the creatures that were in the tube were missing. The only thing that was in the tube was dangling electric cables that were attached to them.
"Everyone keep on alert." Tails said, while cocking his gun
"Where the hell is Dirk?" Lupe asked
"Holy shit." Nack said as he caught sight of a trail of blood leading across the boiler room
Bunnie approaches and kneels down towards the substance. She took a sample with her finger and licked it. With her eyes closed sensing the taste, she slowly opened them. The look bunnie was giving was indescribable even for the teams to even figure out.
"Bunnie, what is it?" Tikal asked
After a short pause from her, she finally answered.
"Blood level is low. (pause) He's dead." She said before standing again
This caught the team, especially rouge and her team, by total shock and disbelief.
"What?" Lupe replied
Bunnie was wordless for a while before quickly donning her senses forward along with Cream, who did the same. Manic and the rest of the team noticed.
"Wha--" Manic started to say before Bunnie silences him.
Bunnie instructed the team's including Cream to stay as she started to approach further of the blood trail. Throughout her approach, she was seeing body parts on the ground. But it was nothing that bunnie has ever seen before. She's seen many death almost more than anyone and saw them slaughtered by the creatures. Although she was exile in jail for 9 years, she could obviously sense a lot that's going on around mobius without even speaking a voice.
Throughout a reptilian pupiled vision, an unknown figure stalks bunnie from the top of a structure.
Bunnie kept approaching before finally getting to the end of the blood trail. She soon came into eye contact with the dead corpse of Dirk. He was bloodied all around with half of his body gone with his small and large intestines showing. His eyes were deadpan and rolled back while his blood freely drips onto the ground.
Bunnie kept her gaze at the dead corpse before a soft screeching noise came from behind her. Although it was half dark and the room was donned with red illuminated light, many unusual things could happen.
Bunnie slowly gazes left before the soft growling came. She slowly took out her titanium weapon from the holster and backs away a little. Before any reaction could be made, bunnie quickly sensed the creature. But...it wasn't behind her. In fact, it was about a few feet to the right of her. Bunnie's eyes widen and as soon as she turned around, a creature, by the form of the Meta-Ravinok, roared towards her.
Meanwhile, the teams heard the roar and got on alert.
"What was that?" Trevor asked
Suddenly, Cream shot her gaze to the side sensing some presences near them.
"I don't know." Lupe replied
Tikal approaches forward using the UV light as guard for her to find the source of the noise. But that was as far as she went when she heard a soft growling about a few feet from her. She slowly gazes left and noticed a shadow a few feet from her position.
"Fuck. GUYS, LOOK OUT! IT'S AN AMBUSH!" Tikal shouted
She aimed at the side and before she could fire, the creature known as Meta-Ravinok roars and lunges out towards her. Tikal got off guard before the creature got onto her and pinned her to the ground. Tikal grunts trying to get the creature off.
The teams heard the scream and before they could go any further, about four Meta-Ravinok creatures came out and surrounded them in a circle.
Meanwhile, Bunnie started trading blows with the first Meta-Ravinok creature and so far, it was starting to be a stalemate. Bunnie suddenly grabbed the arm of the creature during its attempt to reach for Bunnie's face. Using her right hand, she quickly grasped the creatures neck and forcefully ripped the skin off of it. Blood was draining from the neck as she threw a headbutt to the creature. The dead creature hits the ground before Bunnie turned and headed for the others position.
The four Meta-Ravinok creatures circled around the troops while the troops kept steady aims at them not wanting any surprise attacks from either of them.
Tikal continues to struggle the creature off her. The creature bared its open fangs before shooting its gaze to the right noticing Bunnie's approach. The creature growls before, in the blink of an eye, it let out an ear piercing screech.
Bunnie's movement was put on hold as she grasped her ears in pain. She grits her teeth preventing any means to let out a scream of her own.
With the team, Cream heard the scream and got into the same predictament as Bunnie. The teams heard it too and was almost on the verge of dropping to their knees and dropping their weapons. But they tried struggling not to risk being unguarded.
Bunnie continues holding her ears as well as Tikal was. The creature was still screeching as Bunnie desperately opened her spliced eyes and reached for her side. She threw a few stars at the howling creature and it impact onto its face knocking it of Tikal and to the ground dead. Bunnie breaths heavily as well as Tikal was.
The teams regained control as well as Cream did and before the creatures could take action, Cream quickly used her left hand and twisted the creatures arm. The creature painfully screeched before Cream got up and struck her fingers into the creatures lower chin. Then, she ripped off the face of the creature as blood was shown on the other side before it fell dead.
The teams started shooting at the other three creatures. Some of their bullets bounced off their metallic skin while some made impact with the visible skin.
The creatures roared as one charged towards Drago and knocked the gun from his hand. The creature threw a hard back hand to Drago as he flew across the facility and hits a pole breaking it.
Lupe saw this and started shooting at the creature, but the creature lunges in the air evading the bullets and pounced on her. Lupe started screaming as Rouge saw this and fired some bullets point blank in the head. Blood splash from the head on impact as Lupe knocks the body off.
Rouge didn't pay attention before another Meta-Ravinok creature lunged at her.
Cream saw this and extended outward her left hand while twirling the titanium claw in hand. With a single thrust forward, she threw the claw dagger straight at the creature. The claw dagger soars and cuts through the creature's head, killing it instantly before it hits the ground.
There was one left as the teams surrounded the creature. However, the creature wasn't giving up as it grits its fanged teeth and lets out a howling screeching that caused the teams to go down.
Suddenly, a shadowy figure was seen airborne at the same time the creature noticed and turned to see Bunnie in the air lunging down at him with the claw in her left hand. With a quick swipe to the creature, she lands. A diagonal line was shown on the creatures body as half of its body fell to the ground, while the rest did the same.
Bunnie gazed down at the creature remorseless.
"So much for new improvements." She gazed forward and saw the team in good health before approaching them.
Manic and the rest of the teams noticed as they gathered their grounds. Tails walked up to Bunnie.
"You okay?" Tails asked
Cream throws Bunnie her other claw. Bunnie caught it and twirls both her claws with two hands before holstering them.
"Oh, ah'm gonna be just fine." She answered.
"Anything else you should let us in on while we continue?" Tails asked
Bunnie just looks at Tails and smirks before walking pass him and the others.