Ch.9
Sonic was very disappointed as soon as he left the King's room, he was going to tell him about the plan Rob and him came up with for when the Anti's return and try to take them over, but he had to fall asleep. If it wasn't for his excessive huffing and barking couple hours ago.
Sonic decided to go Shadow's and Amy's place, having a feeling that Rob didn't even bother to do it. He went outside in a fast pace, outside the doors and into the cold,moon-filled night with a bunch of sparkling dots shining in the air. "Heh, breathtaking night... but sadly I can't stick around to enjoy it..." Sonic uttered to himself, so in a flash of neon blue, he zipped from the castle grounds,through the gates and all the way to their place, which is in the north side of New Mobotropolis. On a hill.
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After zipping around a few times, he finally found the place. It's a very large house for the two of them, which is a white house with green shingles, and a large front porch. "Looks like an old rich person's house..." Sonic commented as he step towards the house,up the steps and to the front entrance. He tapped on it without any hesitation, which is quite usual for him, almost not caring for anything. Especially when it involves a certain person...
He tapped again.
No Response.
He tapped once more, this a little louder "Shadow!" Sonic yelled in a whispered voice
Feet inside were heard shuffling and rapping against the floor, and he can hear yawning as it came towards his position. He felt a bit uneasy about it. Did he made a mistake about going here and interrupting them? He feels that way. He felt unwelcome here, so he was about to step off and go back to the castle, but the door was already open. Sonic gulped a nervous gulp and spun around. Shadow the hedgehog appeared at the doorway looking excessively broken down with tiredness in his eyes and he wasnt too happy about what he sees. "What do you want Faker?" he grunted
Sonic put on a mischievous smirk "Good evening, Mr. Grumpy Face, I Sonic the hedgehog came to you that I..." Then he went serious "..have a plan that Rob and I came up with to take down Scourge if he comes back..." He said
Shadow just looked at him "Ok...?"
Sonic nodded his head yes "Ok, so may I come in?"
"I don't know, Sonic, Amy's asleep and god forbid I don't want to wake her up" Shadow slurred
"Come on Shadow, I'll be quiet as a mouse in someone's kitchen and she wouldn't notice I even came" Sonic said,smiling
Shadow stared at him again, looking at his goofy face, he sighed in defeat "Fine..you can come in, but don't make any loud noises, if you do, it will be the end of you" he pointed his finger at him which upsets the blue blur "Alright,alright, you don't have to be an ass about it,dude" he smacked his finger away.
The blue hedgehog came in and they both they went into the living room and sat down on the couches. It was a very nice place for the two of them to stay in.
Shadow sat down the big,comfortable chair and cross over his leg, "Ok talk, Faker" he demanded
"Ok"
A few minutes later...
"And so we'll use Mighty as a backup fighter if anything else go wrong" Sonic suddenly spoke finishing his speech which left Shadow a bit confused as he looked at him
"So,that's it? The whole plan?" Shadow asked,raising a brow
"Yep, that's pretty much the whol- wait a second Rob didn't stop by and told you?" wondered Sonic
"I'm afraid not, Sonic" Shadow answered with a straight face "Never came at all"
Sonic's face was covered by his own gloves in distress, and slide it down stretching it, with a tiresome expression "Rob.. ya lazy son of a..."
"He was suppose to come to your house and say everything that we know!" Sonic half-yelled
"Quiet down, Sonic, Amy's asleep stupid" Shadow threatened
"I know that, but still he was suppose to come over here so you and Amy will know what to do if Scourge ever comes back"
"Well, you told the stuff to me so... that means I can just tell it to Amy" Shadow said with a smug
"This is a waste of my time.." Sonic let out a frustrated breath,got up and step towards the door.
"Where your going blue freak?" Shadow demanded
"Back to the freaking castle, where else?" Sonic assured
Shadow walked outside, but he didn't say a word as he sees Sonic wander away from the house, he got into one of his running stance and sped off into the city with the lights flickering on and off like a bunch of fireflies from a distance. The speed he went off let a chilly,soft breeze that cause the black hedgehog to shutter a little. With leaves swaying in the air.
"Good night Sonic" Shadow whispered "Like if he even needs it" He went back inside to doze off.
Sonic continued to dash through the sleepy city as an anger thought trailed into his head "Man Rob, me and you are going talk about this...when you come back..."
Moebius
The next morning...
The gray, lifeless twilight from the sun has risen from its slumbering as it rose up in the sky. As the silvery light has penetrated through the window of a fancy bedroom. Chasing the shadows away. There on the bed still sleeping is the pink Rascal from last night, tossing and turning a few times, and then her eyes shot open, yawned, sat straight up and stretched. Popping her joints. She has slept with the green menace.
"Good morning, Scourgey, rise and shine.." Rosy looked beside her, and sees the sheets already ruffled up and thrown on the foot of the bed. Scourge has woken up earlier and left, it made her a bit upset. "Where did he go?" She asked herself, her eyes wandered down on the nightstand , caught a glimpse of a yellow sticky pad on the nightstand, hanging on the edge. She crawled to it, and read it written in amazingly neat handwriting:
Dear Rosy,
Sorry, I didn't wake you up earlier, you passed out! But it's time to get ready to train in the gym because remember we still have that big night ahead of us, conquering the castle will be a breeze and watching the king and Sonic suffer...see ya there!
-Scourge
Rosy couldn't help but smile, she loves it when Scourge talks about bringing agony and suffering to their Prime counterparts, same with the others. She jumped up out the bed, already having her usual clothes on when she slept, and raced down all the way to the gym which is hidden within the castle corridors.
She knows this place like the back of her hand and knows where to go, due to living in this place before the Squad reclaimed this castle, she used to walk around aimlessly discovering lots of unusual things. Very unusual things.
She soon approached a giant doubled entrance of the gym which the glass is see through but anybody who's behind it will look a black blob no matter what colored clothes you wear. But it doesn't matter though.
Today is the day of the invasion of the castle. The Squad couldn't wait for it to take action by training first, they really want to take on their counterparts.
On the other side, she can hear feet screeching across the floor, yells, shouts, punches, kicks,slashes from a sword,stuff being demolished, and glass being smashed like a bunch of cups plummeted. But it cause her to develop an adrenaline rush.
She waltz right in, all the stuff she eavesdrop were true. She sees Miles fight against a bunch of dummies with dripping,dried painted targets on the chest as he karate kicked them using his twin tails, A huge bag filled with sand hanging on the wall was shredded by Patch, Alicia using a whip to bring down bigger versions of the dummies while shouting at some points, Buns in a flash jabbed a hook, kick, avoid anything that comes towards her. While Boomer on the other hand, is watching over them as he stood near another entrance to this place.
"Well talk about lazy..." Rosy thought
"Hey Rosy" A deep, hoarse voice spoke startling her when she looked beside her, Scourge happened to appear. "Woah" She panted a little
"Ha, did I scared ya?" He smirked
"No! I was... uh... practicing for my.. terror scene so I can get better at it" She smiled
Scourge looked at her blankly, brow raised "Sure...well speaking of practicing, we have a lot of training to do, see those hard-plastic dummies over there?" He pointed at the plastic dummies that require a more powerful blow to bring it down, standing in rows like a platoon ready for battle at the far side of the gym.
"Yeah?"
"To prove you have gotten stronger, those dummies can really take a blow, they're really hard to destroy perfect example of some of the Fighters are, I want you to take down all of them in a row as fast as you can"
Rosy scoffed "No problem, sounds like an easy job to me"
"You sure?"
"Yeah, I'm sure"
That when that fear feeling came rushing back overtaking Scourge's body. He groaned mentally again, his chest became weaken, heart threaten to pound out. "No! Why now? Leave me alone you stupid fear virus grrr!" He thought, gritting his teeth inside without her noticing. She's still standing there looking out into the giant area. "Alright, hot-shot now's the perfect time to take her!" The same, teasing voice from last night, is now very demonic roared in his head. Inside it's all black as night.
His conscience voice fought back "No, I'm not ready to tell my true feelings to her!"
"Why the hell not chump?! Is it because of that Fiona chick?"
"Yeah, I have feelings for both Fiona and Rosy!"
"Dude, forget about Rosy, forget about the Squad! Why do you care about them? They betrayed you!"
"I made up for all my mistakes, I understand that my misleading and the cruel treatment of them were the main reasons they betrayed me! It's practically my fault and I apologize! They forgave me!"
"You make me sick, what happened to the "I don't give a crap about things" Scourge I used to know?"
"That "Scourge" is now long-gone..." He responded back firmly
"I'm trying to change my ways"
"Then why you come back for Rosy? And your traitor gang? Do they mean anything to you?"
The conscience struggled to speak, being scared of its wits "Yes they do
"Why is that?"
"B-b-b-because Rosy and the Squad a-a-are... they are...my..."
"Family..." Scourge whispered, in a melancholy tone. Rosy's ear flicked and eyed at him "Uh Scourge do you say something?" He snapped out of his thoughts "Huh? Oh, no I didn't say anything, could be Patch talking to himself over there" He quickly commented
"Your probably right" She bought it. Then it was a few seconds of awkward silence as they watched the other members kept training, til he broke the ice
"So do ya sleep well?" Scourge suddenly question
"I slept like a rock,your bed is very comfy" Rosy admitted, smugged at him
"No wonder you didn't wake up early" Scourge joked
"Oh shut up" She playfully punch his arm while he laughed "It's the bed's fault, not mine"
"Alright, alright, do your training missy!"
"Yes sir!" She saluted and bolted to the other side and immediately started smashing the targets into pieces with her big,spiky,deadly green hammer with a battle cry. Scourge snickered as he seen her hitting stuff. Seconds later, the green hedgie began to stare a bit dreamily at her, while she's training throwing her weapon as a boomerang.
"She is so amazing, hitting the dummies, and cute the way she uses her hammer..."
The thought when he spoke family came back
"What did I meant when I said family...? My dad was the only person I know that was considered "family" before I murdered him. It doesn't mean I can make a new family right? With Rosy possibly. The guys can be like my brothers, girls can be like my sisters... but of different species."
Somewhere... also morning
"This is how our project will work out if one of you idiots don't mess up, just follow me and do what I tell you to do and you'll be just fine" A female voice said
"Tell that to old crazy frog brain over here" A kid-like phrase mentioned
"Hey you shut up you Lynx- fathead, before I cut you!" A manic laughed echoed throughout
"You shut it!"
"You shut it!"
"Will you guys shut yer trap already, God, you two irritate me!" complained a screechy bird
"Just ignore them Fiona" Simon mentioned as he put his hand over his face
Fiona took a swift of the same rum she drank back at the bar, she gotten used to it. "Ok,so yeah you guys know what to do, that Project Scourge is on the brink of action, at night time in Mobius Prime" She slurred a bit "You guys get prepared or something"
"So were done?" the Lynx asked
"Yeah, get training now" Fiona ordered as they scattered away. And she took a sip of the rum again.