Blazing Through Chaos

Opening her eyes Blaze looked around her and sniffed the air. Pure and clean, everything felt and looked that way in the tropical jungle that she had somehow ended up in. Gently she purred feeling the wind on her face and smiled as she got to her feet. "I don't know where on earth I am," she sighed and yawned, "But I like it. But how did I get here? Last thing I remember is running from G.U.N. to find Silver...Silver. Where could he-huh?" From where she stood Blaze could see a blue streak of light speeding towards the island.

Curious, Blaze began running towards the direction it would land in racing against the insane speed of the approaching beam that didn't seem to be bringing any destruction to the island. ZAP! The sound echoed hollowly across the land as the beam landed on the horizon causing a blue light to wash over the island bathing Blaze in an indescribable energy that one would have to witness to know. "The Sol Emeralds..." she gasped and propelled herself towards the impact site passing by various plants and vegetation in the path.

Finally she could make out a crater in the distance with an ancient civilization built upon stone and temples in the horizon. "Whoa!" she exclaimed as she felt the ground beneath her tremble falling backwards, "what is going on?!" That's when Blaze realized just what was happening as she saw the clouds getting larger and closer to the land, the island was being lifted into the sky! Regaining her balance the cat continued to run towards the crater and looked into it spotting, to her amazement, seven brilliant cut emeralds lying around a bluish puddle of what appeared to be water. "It can't be," she whispered wide eyed, "it's the...Chaos Emeralds...and if this island is lifting into the sky then...I'm on the legendary Angel Island..." Astounded, Blaze shook her head dizzily and woke up in the alley she had fallen asleep in.

"What the hell?" she whispered opening her eyes and yawning, "Was I really on Angel Island? Oh right, G.U.N.'s after me, gotta keep moving." In a similar fashion to Silver, Blaze found a ripped and torn cloth and wrapped it around her like a poncho or robe and began stumbling through the alley. It had been a few days now since Blaze had fled the palace and she'd been looking for a way to possibly get out of Soleanna. "Pathetic," she said to herself as she shook her head loosely, "So far I haven't found a way out of this confounded city and for all I know Silver could be...he isn't. He always finds some way to survive. It's his nature."

Sighing, Blaze continued onward passing by various people and humanoid animals with little to no attention being given to her. "So," she said swiveling her eyes about to observe everything, "this is what it's like to be a normal citizen. definitely a lot more interesting than being cooped up in the palace all day long. Oof!" "Watch were you're going," the man that bumped into said rudely as he passed, "Geez, freaking animal." "I'm sorry," the cat said confused back to him but he was already gone, "maybe I should pay more attention to where I go."

Upon saying this Blaze looked around her and saw that she did in fact have no clue as to where she was. All she could tell was that there were neon signs and buildings everywhere with run down areas cast aside next to the enormous sky scrapers. "Hello?" she called walking up to one of the homes, "Is anyone here? I'm the queen of Soleanna. I command anyone inside to respond and tell me where I am." "Ha!" came the reply of Fang the Weasel, "And what's a little brat like you doing out here in the open, all vulnerable and away from your guards?" "Fang?" she gasped astounded and backed up a bit, "You're alive?!" "I was tasked with the assignment to keep you and your boyfriend out of Robotnik's way so that he can take over the earth in peace," Fang laughed closing his normal eyes and continually staring at the cat with his robot one, "unfortunately I couldn't stop Silver but he's been taken care of."

Blushing with embarrassment and fury Blaze generated a ball of fire into one of her hands. "I don't know how on earth you're alive but I'm going to make sure that you join your generation in the afterlife!" she hissed glaring at the weasel, "But before I kill you where am I?" "Oh nowhere really," Fang laughed firing an electric cork at Blaze disapating her fire and knocking her to the ground stunned from the electricity, "Just where Dr. Eggman Robotnik stole the demon of Soleanna from long ago. The military of the city failed to stop him but released the monster and it tore this place to shreds in minutes! You should have been there, oh the screaming and crying! So so satisfying." "You're one sick creature," the cat coughed getting back to her feet and throwing a fireball in the weasel's direction, "So I'm at the ruins of Soleanna eh? How nice, that means I'm near the harbor." "You fail to take note that you're not going to make it there however," Fang said grinning and loading his gun back up as he dodged the fireball and shot another electric cork, "Cause I'm going to kill you."

"Sir," a G.U.N. soldier said approaching the commander in the palace and saluting him, "Blaze the cat has still not been found, what if she has escaped?" "No!" he replied angrily slamming his fist down on the arm of the queen's throne, "She needs to be kept in the city! The people need to keep their hope!" "Sir, if she's out of the city we can't really do anything more." Putting a hand to his chin the commander began to go into a state of deep thought and looked up at the Orb of Chaos. "Damn it," he sighed glaring, "Perhaps we should widen our territories a bit. Expand G.U.N. protection to neighboring cities to make sure Robotnik can't easily attack them and dispatch Squad Chaos to hunt down the queen. I didn't think it'd ever have to come to this but we don't have much other choice." "But sir," the soldier said shocked, "Squad Chaos is not ready yet! They're still not up to full fighting capacity and maturity!" "We don't have a choice!" the commander yelled at the soldier angrily, "the queen can take out anyone else in her path, we have to give an equal match to subdue her!"

Saluting nervously, the soldier walked out of the throne room and towards an elevator on the other side of the hall. "I can't believe what he's ordering, the soldiers of that group aren't done, they're bound to not do things properly," he sighed stepping into the elevator and pressing a button causing it to zoom down at an insane speed with a ball monitoring the gravity in the vessel to keep him from being destroyed as he turned to look out the window allowing him to see the entire city of Soleanna, "and even if they do manage to succeed they won't just subdue Blaze, they'll kill her, not to mention anyone else they please."

After about a minute or so the soldier was deep underground in the underbelly of the palace and the door hissed open letting cooled oxygen into the vessel. Sighing he stepped out and walked as orderly as possible down a long metal hall illuminated by green lights from grating on the pathway below him. Finally he stopped at a metal door and typed some numbers and letters into a key card device beside it causing the door to hiss open as the elevator had done just minutes ago allowing him inside where scientists were bustling about with their work. "Hello," said one of the scientists of the division, "why are you here?" "The commander is ordering Squad Chaos to be dispatched to find the queen."

"WHAT?!" the head scientist exclaimed loosing his balance as he took a step backwards, "That's pure insanity! They're not ready yet, their power is not controllable entirely yet and upon that they just do whatever they want as long as their primary target isn't around!" "I know," the soldier replied lowering his eyes shamefully, "But it's a direct order from the commander, he feels it's the only way to catch Blaze." "It'd be better to fail than to send out Squad Chaos!" the scientist explained rather frantically, "If they're let loose they'll do more damage than help." "That's not how the commander views it. He's dead set on keeping either Blaze or Silver alive even if it means making them prisoners." Growling the scientist walked past the desks forming the hallway of the room and turned left around the corner of a real hall once he reached the door of the room with the soldier following close behind, "I really question if he should be our commander sometimes.

Not replying, at least not in words, the soldier merely kept his pace with the scientist until they came to a computer terminal in front of a greenish window with three humanoid animal-sized capsules inside the room beyond. "Be ready to have the specimens dragged out while they're still dormant," the scientist warned as he punched in various commands into the keyboard of the terminal, "They're nearly unstoppable once awake." Putting a hand to his chin and raising an eyebrow the soldier replied, "Weren't there supposed to be four specimens of the project?" "Yes, but the fourth one is the youngest and still in its embryonic stage. It's not done growing yet...there!"

Sternly the two men watched as the tentacle-like cords keeping the capsules hanging retreated into the ceiling above the room dropping the objects to the floor with a clang. Then the lights in the capsules began to flicker on and off with electricity surging through them illuminating the fogged glass coating and heating them up making the glass clearer to see through. SPWEW!! The capsules shot out steam and liquid drained out as the tops flipped open exposing the specimens within to the cooled air of the outside world. "Be careful and hurry," the scientist ordered saluting, "And may god help us all." Nervously the soldier opened the door to the room and stepped in before bending over the first humanoid animal and reaching down to carry it out.

"UGH!" Blaze cried as she was hit by one of the electric cork projectiles and stunned for a few seconds, "Cut it out! You're really getting annoying!" "Why should I?" Fang cackled firing another just barely missing her hair, "It's so fun to here you scream and writhe in your torment!" By this point they had battled all through the back alleys of the city breaking just about everything in their path along the way finally making it to the harbor of Soleanna. Spotting a bar above, Blaze leapt up and grabbed it causing Fang to run forward beneath her to be hit in the back as she swung back down, kicked him, and pinned him to the ground.

"Give up you little Weasel," she hissed pressing her cheek against his as she bent forward with her legs on either side of his body, "and I won't kill you." "You idiot," he hissed back at her, "I'm not going to do what you say queeny, that's what you have peasants for you moron. I've been ordered by Robotnik to take you down and make sure you and your boyfriend don't inter-" The purple humanoid cyborg animal yelped in pain as Blaze bent his arm backwards, "He is not my boyfriend and you're going to die." "Coulda fooled me," Fang laughed nervously as his free hand fumbled around with his belt, "You two sure hang out a lot for being JUST friends."

"What would you know about friends?" the cat hissed again not noticing the cyborg unsheathing a dagger from his belt. "A lot more than you'd think!" he laughed stabbing her in the thigh and kicking her off him, "Take my old friend Rouge the Bat for example! We were great buddies going to treasure hunting and stuff together when she just decides to betray me to the police one day so she can get away! Boy, aren't friends great?" In pain Blaze rolled around on the ground clutching the cut in her leg as Fang loaded another cork into his gun, "And now, to make sure you stay out of Robotnik's way for good."

But the shot never came, Fang was slammed through the air and into the water of the sea beyond by some fast moving blur. "Well well, what do we have here?" one voice said with no one in sight as Blaze looked around for who was talking, "a cat I see." "No make that a girl," another lighter voice called back. "No, make that a nice pretty cute vulnerable princess," laughed a final voice as the three humanoid animals of Squad Chaos leapt down in a circle around Blaze, "Boy are we going to have fun with you."

"Ugh!" Fang moaned gasping for air upon breaching the surface of the water, "What the crap hit me? It couldn't have been Blaze, there's no way in hell that that little kitty cat could have thrown me...that...far...what's going on over there?" Sloppily, the cyborg got a pair of makeshift binoculars from his belt and peeked over to where he'd been battling Blaze just moments before spotting the three humanoid animals surrounding her. "What the...three humanoid animals...Squad Chaos?! What the hell?! They weren't supposed to be released this early! Damn! Well...at least that kitty cat ain't gonna give the bossman anymore trouble." Putting his binoculars back Fang began to swim for shore.

Shaking her head Blaze coughed some blood onto the ground and looked around at her attackers. Without time to even breathe two of them pinned her to a wall and the third stepped in front of her tugging on her shirt. "Get off me," she screamed angrily and looked at the blue hedgehog in front of her, "I'm the ruler of this city and...Sonic?" Grinning the face of her opponent looked up at hers indeed bearing an unnatural resemblance to the long dead hero of the world. "That's my name," he said with a hint of evil in his voice, "I'm Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog!" "What?!" the cat exclaimed as she tried to pull against his two companions catching quick glances at them, "And who are these...Tails? And...who are you?"

Slapping his face the purple chameleon stumbled out of place loosing his grip on the feline and blushing embarrassed. "My name's Espio!" he barked menacingly grabbing Blaze by the throat and holding an enormous ninja star to her face, "How is it that I'm never remembered while the other two are?!" "Maybe it's just cause we're better than you," Tails snickered sticking his tongue out at Espio, "I mean, we must be quite popular here for a reason." "Why you little brat-" Looking around quite a bit freaked out Blaze took the opportunity to knock tails off her, pounce on Sonic, and rocket through the alleyway.

"I'll kill you!" Espio roared clutching Tails and throwing him against a wall, "How dare you say you're anywhere near better than me!" "Guys..." Sonic said irritably as he watched Blaze dash off into the distance, "Guys...GUYS!!" Finally the two animaloids stopped fighting long enough to pay attention to the hedgehog who currently had his two fists clenched in annoyance. "Our target is getting away." "What do we get for catching her anyway?" Espio sighed eyeing his companion, "I mean this our time to do whatever we want isn't it?" "Maybe we could make her our pleasure device," Tails suggested with a grin on his face, "and she's a queen to boot!" "That's what I was thinking, but we could do that to any girl," Sonic told them and began to pace about the alleyway, "We really should probably spend our time doing whatever we can."

Just then out of the corner of Tails eye the fox spotted a animaloid float drop down into the alleyway silently garbed in black, red, and yellow skin that looked like clothing with orange hair. "Hello there," Ghost said quietly turning everyone's attention to him, "I suppose you annihilated the cat by now?" "Who the hell are you?" Sonic asked getting into a fighting stance and charging up blue energy in them, "A new playmate for us to toy with hopefully?" The hedgehog laughing evilly released all the energy in a sonic boom at the presence of the intruder. His laughing however, stopped once the smoke from the blast cleared and they saw Ghost standing there unharmed with the energy Sonic shot at him collected now in his hand that he held extended in front of them. "More likely though I'm guessing you managed to loose her do to your immaturity," the Eggman resembling animaloid continued and threw the sonic boom back at the hedgehog slamming him into a metal wall of a building.

Irritably the commander's fingers tapped along the arm of the queen's throne as he stared deeply into the Orb of Chaos. "There should be some news by now shouldn't there?" he said to himself in an almost inaudible voice, "how come Team Chaos hasn't reported back yet? I mean I know they're not fully mature yet but we don't have much else of a choice..." Just then an image projected from the Orb from a computer screen in back of it plastering a shadowed face with shiny glasses covering the eyes in front of the G.U.N. commander's face. "Hello there commander..." the figure greeted darkly, "and how are we today? Skinning a cat I hope for her misactions? Or letting a not ready team comprised of beings equivalent to demigods run amok on your own city? Dear me, which is it I wonder."

"Sir please, I can explain-" "No need, no need," he laughed in a sarcastic evil manner, "my agent already told me of your little foul-up and I have another agent checking it out just in case. Blaze the Cat escaped their clutches and has made her way to a boat in the harbor of Soleanna. The G.U.N. robots were nothing compared to her power. Your new mission is to get Team Chaos under control and send them after Blaze the Cat or you will be marked as a target! Understood?!" "How dare you give me orders!" the G.U.N. Commander yelled at the person on the screen, "I do what is best for the safety of the people." "Ohoho! Don't make me laugh! Is making deals where your partners can't show their faces or presence most the time even a good thing for the people? My how times have changed haven't they? Do as your told commander or it's your demise! You're obligation is not to the people! You gave up your rights of freedom when you decided to be on our side," the enraged person yelled back slamming his fist down on the monitor he was communicating from shaking his hologram image, "now hop to it, or else."

As the screen faded away the G.U.N. Commander slouched down into the thrown and looked back up at the Orb of Chaos. "Just you wait..." he sighed with a grin, "You may think you're pulling the strings buddy but I'm not abandoning the people."

Breathing a sigh of relief Blaze stepped into the hoverboat's control room and began flipping switches and levers activating the vessel's systems. "Don't worry Silver, I'm coming after you, just hang in there...you have to be alright." Just then her ears twitched catching the sound of police sirens in the distance just a few miles from the harbor and dashed over to one of the windows to see the cars approaching. Something odd happened though, the group of vehicles split into two groups: one traveling to where she fought her attackers and the other obviously coming for her in a vain attempt.

Sucking air in she encased her hands in flames and walked out to the upper deck of the boat to deal with her new pursuers. "Hello there," she said waving at the police as they stepped out their hovercars, guns in their hands and robots floating about the scene, "why are you not defending the city?" "Princess," the chief of the police group announced over a megaphone, "you are under arrest and charged to solitary confinement until the incident with Dr. Robotnik is over. You must stay in Soleanna." "I don't think you fully understand the situation chief," Blaze replied, her eyelids lowering, "the incident won't end if we don't do anything, Dr. Robotnik will simply do as he wishes without much of anyone to oppose him." "We have a group after him." "What have they done," she asked, "That me and Silver could not have already done and much more with less damage taken to us?" The chief coughed a bit annoyed now and signaled to one of the police men to get out an electric net launcher while he continued his conversation.

"We're only acting in the best interest of the people." "Then give me permission to leave," Blaze demanded sternly incinerating the net before it could touch her upon opening her eyes, "me and Silver will take down Robotnik." "Silver's dead miss," the chief said a bit worried at how he just worded his statement. "Silver...is...not...dead!" the queen yelled maddeningly at the police and knocking the troops a few feet back with a fire-barrier unintentionally emitted from her body in rage. "Move in," the chief ordered to his troops and the humans and animaloids began to rush towards the boat with robots hovering above carrying deadly lazer cannons.

As the first troop charged onto the ramp leading to the boat Blaze flipped over him and slammed her foot into the back of his head hurtling him into the water below while she sliced another one's chest with firey nails acting as cat claws cutting clean through the person's vest and a bit into their skin. Next the cat crouched down and stretched out her arms allowing laser fire from one of the robots to pass right over her before she launched her body high into the air and began flipping nonstop until she landed on the robot and pointed its cannon at the other robots annihilating them. Finally she smashed through the top of the robot she was using and landed on her ship spinning around and blasting an enormous burst of fire onto the harbor incinerating anymore attacking robots or vehicles and stunning the humans and animaloids while at the same time launching her off into the sea at an amazing speed. "That was fun," she yawned and returned to the control room, "Now to find Silver."

"Now then, are you going to follow orders or not?" Ghost yawned with his feet planted on their faces while they squirmed about beneath him, "Because all sides participating in this event are quite angered by your performance so far." "They're angered?!" Sonic yelled, "We're the pissed off ones! I'm going to rip your intestines out and shove them down your throat! ACK!" "Thank you sir," the police man saluted Ghost while the troops surrounded Team Chaos shocking them into submition and placed metal rings around their heads, "these should keep the rascals under control, please go back to your daily life now, your assistance is no longer needed." Saluting the law enforcer back, Ghost walked off towards the harbor and spoke allowed so that Robotnik, listening from Ghost's cylinder ear piece, could hear him. "Blaze escaped," Ghost announced, "But Team Chaos is being brought under control. I'm supposing it's ok to lend enemies helping hands if it helps us in the end correct?" "Affirmative," Robotnik agreed laughing, "We just need to make sure Blaze doesn't reach us is all, I'm sure Team Chaos can take her down if they want to, now report back to base. We seem to have found a Sol Emerald..." With that Ghost jumped onto the surface of the water and began running off into the horizon.

Well, here ends the next chapter of the story =) Sorry it took so long to update, it's just I've been busy at school and all and bleh. Sorry if it's shorter also but I also have other things I need to get done. I just hope it's enough for the people that view the story. Give reply or rant on the story if you want, me gotta get back to drawing a poster for art! Happy vacation/easter everyone!