Not Fate
One by one, they all were sent in that god forsaken room. Fresh out of a mental evaluation, they and their loved ones were all promised "Good, clean, effective treatments that will help you/your loved one improve your/their state of life while in a friendly environment full of caring and gentle staff that will make you/your loved one feel right at home", which all sounded pretty good.
But oh, how misleading that would prove to be.
They were forced into a single, windowless, white padded room together. A white padded room with six individual tiny cells connected to it by a hallway, where six small benches chained to the wall served as beds. A white padded room with one bathroom, where all the water ran ice cold.
Six complete strangers were now trapped inside this room with no escape. Knuckles was the first to break down, pounding on the walls as he screamed to someone who possibly wasn't even there.
"THIS IS AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS! ITS AGAINST THE LAW! ITS AGAINST EVERYTHING ANYTHING STANDS FOR! YOU CANT SEPARATE ME FROM MY GUN POSSESSIONS, OR WHEN I DIE MY GHOST WILL COME BACK AND SHOOT YOUR BRAINS OUT WITH ONE CLEAN SHOT. TRY ME! TRY ME! I CAN MAKE THAT HAPPEN!"
As he yelled on and the captives finally realized all this was real, hell broke loose. Tails began to weep hysterically. "I shouldn't BE HERE! THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH ME!" His outburst brought Sonic over, who calmly tried to assuage his fears.
"Buddy, what's…" he walked over to him, extending a hand that Tails slapped away as he shrieked.
"S-Stay back! Stay BACK! All of you! All you freaks!" His hands trembled, and tears blurred his vision.
"What do you mean, freaks?" Rouge said, her hands falling on her hips.
"I don't BELONG here with you people! You all are SICK IN THE HEAD!" he yelled as his hands covered his head.
Trying to reason with him, Sonic bent down. "Do you know exactly why we're here, buddy?" The small fox immediately stopped crying, looking at Sonic as if he had insulted him.
"Of course I know why. We've all been condemned to die in here because of our depleting mental state and the risk it poses to society. They don't know what to do with us, so they stick us in here in hope that our problem will resolve itself." As he said this, his face once again turned red with rage. "But…but there's nothing wrong with ME! I-It must be a mistake…that's right…yeah, a mistake!"
As he tried to convince himself with some positive words and modest chuckles, Rouge came up and forcefully smacked him across the face, leaving a big red mark blazing on it. "How DARE you accuse me of being insane. How DARE YOU!" She moved in to strike again, but was cut off by the blue hedgehog.
"Hey, you better stop right now. Leave him alone, he's a little kid!"
"A little dork who's going to see an early death!" she roared, clawing around behind Sonic for him. Running in horror, the twin-tailed fox took off back towards the cells to hide away.
"Aw, geez, look what you did!" Sonic yelled at her.
As Knuckles raged on and the others fought, Blaze stood away from them all as she faced the padded wall and thoughtfully ran her hand over it. Hmm…fabric. "I think I can get us out of here." She whispered, but it was just audible enough to catch three of the others' attention.
"Do you think you can?" Sonic asked eagerly as he walked up to her.
Nodding, she lit her hands on fire. The others stood back, slightly in awe, slightly in fear. By now, Knuckles's attention was even caught. Punching forward, she expected the whole wall to go up in flames. However, the fire was quickly put down on impact and Blaze was thrust backwards, tumbling to the ground.
Cackling, Rouge walked up to her. "That was some nice work; I can't believe we got out so quickly." Sneering, she turned on her heel, shaking her head in disgust.
"I-I don't know what went wrong." Blaze began to tear up as she stared at her palms. Sonic offered a smile as he extended a hand to help her up, which visibly brightened her mood.
As Rouge left what she thought of as 'the pathetic heap of people over there to wallow in their own failure', something tripped her and sent her in a face-plant on the floor. "What the…?" She propped herself up with her elbows and looked behind her. Quizzically, she looked at what appeared to be a small sleeping pink hedgehog lying on her side.
"What about this pink thing? She hasn't woken up since we got here." Forcefully, the bat kicked the girl in the head with the tip of her long purple boot.
"What was that all about?" Sonic rushed over and stood between them. "You're going to hurt someone!" Gently, he shook the hedgehog. "Hey, are you alright? I'm sorry about…"
Suddenly, the sleeping girl's eyes shot open at an alarming speed, causing Sonic to slightly tumble backwards in surprise. She quickly stood, eyes unblinking and mouth curling into a toothy, almost creepy, smile. "Oh…you're even cuter than Jet."
"Uhm…who?" Sonic looked on in confusion. Without hesitation she wrapped her arms around his neck tightly, restricting his air path. Gasping, choking, and gurgling, he tried pleading for help. Her grip blacked him out too fast, however, and he was soon collapsed into her arms. Giggling, she quietly stroked his quills and snuggled into his chest.
As she watched this in horror, Blaze did the first thing that came to her mind. "Get off of him!" she yelled as she shot balls of fire at Amy without warning. Amy let out a blood-curdling scream as one caught on her dress, rapidly spreading all over and coming dangerously close to charring her fragile flesh. Hoping to quickly dowse the flames she raced towards the bathroom.
As Blaze looked on in disbelief at what she had just caused, Rouge slowly clapped and walked up to her. "What a great show, thanks for the entertainment." She smirked. "It's too bad she's going to kill you when she gets back…"
"K-kill me?" Blaze's heart pounded in her chest. With everything going on, this prediction didn't seem too unlikely.
"I saw her smuggle a hammer in here." Rouge hoarsely whispered. "At least, once she gets a hold of you," she took a few menacing steps towards Blaze, meeting her face to face. "I'll have something to…remember you by." An evil glint shone in her eyes as she pulled out a small ruby from her top and watched the cat feel her forehead frantically for the item.
"T-that's mine! How did you…?"
"I get what I want, cat" she smiled evilly.
Blaze's whole body shook in fury, and she outreached her palm, preparing to blast Rouge as hard as she could. Before she could do that, however, loud, wailing, deranged screams came from behind her; Amy came at her with her hammer held high above her head, a wild and murderous look in her eyes. She crushed the top of Blaze's head mercilessly as the cat slammed into the ground, tiny drops of blood spattering the hammer maniac and staining the floor.
"That's what you get for messing with me and my new boyfriend!" She cackled manically as she raised her hammer again, preparing the finish her off for good. No one lights Amy Rose on fire and gets away with it.
As she helplessly lay on the ground, Blaze yelped in pain as she saw her blood drip on the white floor. Her feet and hands went numb, and she was paralyzed with fright.
"You're going down, hedgehog." Knuckles jumped in front of her, holding his hands together in a mock-gun position just as Amy was about to swing down. "I-If I cant have my real guns, this is second best, right?" He looked down at the cat for some sort of reassurance in this theory; however, his eyes quickly caught hers and he slightly gasped as her lowered his 'weapon'. "Hey, you're that girl I was going to shoot."
"Sh-shoot! When, what did I ever…?" Her golden orbs suddenly glimmered with realization, and she painfully sat up as far as she could to face him. "You…you're the one who tried to murder my father!"
Knuckles look bewildered. "Father? He tried to take my guns away…lets just say if I had gotten to him, we wouldn't be here right now. And I was trying to save you from the police by shooting you."
"S-Shoot? The…? How would shooting me have HELPED?"
"Oh, so you do have a bad side, cat? What did you do?" Rouge inquired. This was the first interesting thing she heard the entire stay here. She saw that this made Blaze stammer and become flustered, which only made her question further. "What happened?"
"I-I-I…accidentally…my house it just…it went up in flames because of me…"
Knuckles finally realized why. Why the palace had been in ruins when he got there…why the police were all there. "YOU did that?" He raised his brow up in shock. "You burnt down the palace? Your own house?"
The cat began frantically shaking her head to try and deny all of this. "It…it's nothing like that…"
"Do you want to kill the king too?" Knuckles's smile twisted into an excited evil grin, as if he was planning…scheming. He looked at the cat with bright eyes. With her power and his guns, there would be no stopping them…
"W-w-wait…you're the princess? Princess Blaze?" Amy got down on her knees and began weeping at Blaze's feet. "I'm…SO SORRY I TRIED TO KILL YOU!" she wailed. As Blaze gently nudged her off, she only tried to ignore the burnt areas Amy's dress that were tempting Blaze to finish the job.
"No…no I wasn't trying to kill my own father. I just…wanted to see what would happen if the palace caught fire" she explained. The other three looked up, eyes wide like this was the craziest thing they had ever heard.
"So you're some sick pyromaniac? Trying to kill your parents with your 'experimentation'? Are we next? Is this place going to burn to the ground?" Rouge screamed at her.
"No! NO! I mean…I don't…I didn't want to. But I had to. It was the only thing to do."
Rouge shook her head and muttered something under her breath, while Knuckles looked on at her with admiration. "Would you like to help kill your father?" he asked excitedly.
As Blaze exclaimed in shock, Sonic slowly came to and regained consciousness. "AH! HE'S ALIVE!" Amy ran to him as the blue hedgehog, who tensed up at the sight of her. "I guess I was just…too much for you to handle?" She giggled. "I'll make sure to tone it down to keep your love from making you pass out."
"Who even are you?" Sonic asked as he tried squirming out of her strong grip. Her nails were beginning to dig into his flesh.
"You silly, I'm Amy. You're girlfriend. Jet is my ex…just WAIT until he sees US TOGETHER!"
"Amy…" He looked thoughtful, as if recalling a good time. "I once killed a girl named Amy, right after I sold her sister to slavery" Sonic calmly said.
At this point, everything just froze. Even Amy backed away slightly from him. When he saw their faces, his heart dropped inside of him and he cursed himself for allowing him to so blatantly lie. This could be something to get him killed.
While the other three maintained their shocked silence, Amy just leaned back and shrugged. "My love is unconditional." Her voice quivered as she took his hands, gently massaging his palms.
"Lay one finger on me or anyone else here, and I'll run a bullet through your heart." Knuckles gruffly said, coming nose to nose with him. "Hell, I'd run a bullet through you now if I had the chance." Pushing him to the ground, Sonic looked up at Blaze and Rouge. The bat kicked him in the stomach. As he was doubled over in pain, she took his shoes, running away with them to her cell.
The last there was Blaze. She knelt down, and whispered into his ear. "I don't know if you're truthful; even if you are, I still consider you one of the more sane people here." She turned to leave, and Sonic only watched as she stumbled to the ground, her bloodied head coming into full contact with the floor.
He could only look on in disdain as the gripped the floor, clawing her way across it just to get in an area where she would still be on the ground…still be a prisoner.
Slightly different, without titles and such. I couldn't really continue to focus on each of their individual thoughts when they were all together! Anyways, please leave a review if you liked it! Thank you to everyone who is reading :)