{Ahhh! I'm sorry my darlings! I forgot to mention the city that Vector said that Jet and Wave might be! I was going to put it but I forgot what it was called to I left the - for later. Now, none of this explaining stuff and let me tell you the place already. It's –drum roll- Central City ! lol yup. And this problem reminded me of another mistake I had in chapter 3 where Espio was explaining the name of the flower. I kept forgetting to give it a name. Well the name of the flower is the Sogni d'oro flower! Hooray! At least I remembered to name it. Now on with the story! }
The sun shined through the young bee's small window that was all the way on top of the wall, which was placed there because it wasn't supposed to be a bedroom in the first place. The beams of light first reached the bee, which made him stir in his sleep. Then sounds were heard next to the bees, bigger and louder sounds.
"No, wait!" the albatross tossed around. The grey albatross was dreaming again, about his friends.
"Don't go!" the albatross woke up in a cold sweat, panting from the scare.
"Ahhh! Storm!" Charmy woke up from Storm's terror. "What's wrong?" the bee asked, rubbing his sleepy eyes. Storm looked around, forgetting that he wasn't in his own room, and then stared at his new friend.
"Oh, sorry Charmy. I just had a bad dream, I think," Storm explained as he started to stretch.
"What was it about?" Charmy, being curious as he is, asked the bird.
"It was just about Jet and Wave again," Storm explained. He reached for his gear, observing it; he noticed the new features Wave added before he got lost. It looked brand new; it didn't even have a scratch or anything. A bright grey streak repainted above from his old paint. 'Wave sure knows what to put on my gear,' Storm thought. 'Wave. I miss her temper. Can't believe I even miss that.'
"Hey, come on," Charmy flew onto Storm's head. "Let's go get some breakfast." He smiled at Storm, which smiled back, feeling comforted by the young one. They started to walk out, after Storm put on his shoes and Charmy put on his shoes and vest. The first thing that Storm saw was his little flower, or more Espio's flower now, in a little white vase that was on a bookshelf that was in between Espio's and Charmy's bedrooms. 'The flower. The Signi…doro flower? I think that was what Espio called it.' He stayed standing there, staring at the little yellow and white flower. 'Just some few more days.'
"Hey, come and eat Storm," Charmy was calling him from the table, with a piece of toast in his mouth. Storm walked over and took a seat next to Charmy. Espio started to serve him a plate with two pieces of toast and scrambled eggs. Storm charged in on the food, smiling some because it was actually really good. As the three ate, quiet snores were heard from the couch. Then loud grumbles were heard from the other room, Vector the Crocodile has awoken. Espio immediately got up and started to serve a big plate with toast and eggs. The door was heard opening and loud hip-hop music bursting from that direction.
"Where's my breakfast?" the leader roared as he sat down next to the others. Espio placed the plate in front of him in which Vector started to inspect.
"I guess it looks good," Vector concluded as he started to take some bites from the toast; Espio grumbled some. The snores from earlier were now getting louder now, in which everyone started to notice. They all ate peacefully, ignoring the snores of the sleeping one; all except the crocodile. They continued to eat until a fork fell and 'cling'-ed onto a plate. Vector stood up from his sleep, everyone staring, and walked over to the couch. When he arrived at the couch, he stared at the inhabitant. Vector reached down and tossed the armadillo out from the couch. Might immediately woke up, flailing all over on the floor.
"What the hell? Where's the resistance?" Mighty said as he looked around, wondering how he was tossed.
"Good, you're awake. Now, PLEASE STAY QUIET!" Vector turned around, walking towards the table, smiling at himself. All was silent.
After some few minutes of eating in total and complete silence, Vector started to talk.
"So last night I decided to call some of my friends over at Central City. Most of them did see your boss and one definitely saw him at the Babylon Area. My buddie said that he saw him snooping around at night with his gear." Vector took a bite from the eggs that Charmy hasn't eaten yet, which received a "Hey!" from the bee.
"I think you should head over there right when you're done eating, to you know, make sure your boss doesn't leave you again," Vector was now picking his teeth with a toothpick, which is a scary thing to see when you're the size of a certain flying annoyance. When Storm heard that, he had the biggest grin on his face as he nodded at him.
"Wait, but if he leaves, wouldn't people see him?" Charmy asked; either worried for his friend or more so not wanting him to leave.
"That's a good point," Vector rubbed his chin, thinking hard. Everyone started to think, even the stunned Mighty.
"Oh! I know!" Everybody turned their attention to the armadillo. "Why doesn't Espio go with him and use his invisible thingy-ness so that they wouldn't see both of them?" Espio snickered, crossing his arms as the disapproval.
"Impossible. My camouflage only works for me," he closed his eyes as he explained. "It's a chameleon thing. I can't just touch someone and that person turn invisible too."
"It's true. We've tried," Charmy nodded, also with his arms crossed. Storm sighed, 'How am I gonna get home when I can't even get out from here without being noticed.'
"HA. I have the greatest idea," all eyes shifted to Vector now. "The sewers. The place green and scaly creatures, for some odd reason, roam!"
"Hey, that's not bad," Mighty said, patting the crocodile's back, which laughed in returned. Storm also liked the idea. He was used of going through sewers, since Jet sometimes made them hide there.
"There's a manhole right outside of the headquarters, so it will be safe for him to go out," Charmy flew in between of Vector's and Mighty's heads. "But wouldn't he get lost in the maze of sewers?"
"That's where I barge in," Mighty smiled at the others, while they stared at him confused. Mighty leaned in his chair, closing his eyes, and grinned.
"All I need is a computer, internet and a printer…" Mighty told the others. Espio grumbled, knowing he had to go and get his computer. Vector eyed Espio which just started to walk towards his room. When he came back he had his laptop in hand.
"Alrighty, now let the master in peace. This might take 10 or so minutes so just chill for now," Mighty cracked his fingers for his work. Hearing the time period, Charmy and Vector smiled and looked at Storm that also smiled.
"Beat you to Charmy's room," Vector said as he started to run to the little room, followed by the flying bee and jogging albatross.
"Let's play zombie mode!" Charmy exclaimed. Vector gave a nervous cheer while Storm gave a nervous smile. 'Zombies…Wave's favorite mode. She was so good at him. Even though she did leave me and boss dead by level 10.' Storm remembered the last time he played zombie mode on Black Ops with his friends.
"Get ready. Storm you take the window and make sure they don't come any further from there," Charmy assigned the other as he loaded his virtual shot gun. "Vector, make sure to look out that door. I'll take the stair case and hall." Scary background music started to play, making the bigger humanoid animals shutter. The first zombie came from the door that Vector had to look out from. He killed the Robotnik robot (Nazi) with a head shot, making it fall to the ground with green ooze coming out of it. Vector gave out a sigh of relief until he heard another shot being fired, this time from Storm's window. Two robots leaned in with the green ooze pouring in to the side of the window Storm's character was on. Then more started to come in by the minute and then even by the seconds, mostly from Storm's window and the stair case and halls that Charmy was patrolling.
"Vector back me up! There are too many for me," Charmy told the crocodile and did what the bee told him.
"AH!" Vector's character fell onto the floor, not moving.
"You died?" Charmy asked him, shocked. Now he had to kill all of the hall zombies by himself.
"Dammit. He snuck behind me!" Vector grumbled, mad that he had to wait until the others finished. He looked over at Storm's screen, impressed at what he saw.
"Wow Storm. You really know how to kick zombie butt!" Storm was shooting all of the zombies that came across him with one shot, and that was all they needed. They game was intense, Storm and Charmy were on fire until…level 12.
"Oh damn, oh damn, oh damn!" the little bee cried out, not able to catch up with the zombie pouring in.
"Come on, you can do it…Never mind." Vector's encouragement wasn't enough to help Charmy's character, which was now on the floor, dead.
"I guess, that's it. Wait a minute, you're still playing?" Charmy looked shock, as Storm was still shooting.
"You can do it Storm!" Charmy cheered. Dumm…. Game Over.
"Darn! You were so close!" Vector said as he started to turn off the game.
"Awwwww… you were playing so good," Charmy flew over Storm with his fists up in the air. They all started to walk back to the kitchen, reminiscing on the best scenes. They all saw the armadillo leaning in his chair, yawning some.
"I've been waiting for you guys!" Mighty scolded them, reminding them that they had to come back by 10 minutes. Mighty searched the table for some papers and handed some to Storm.
"There you go. The map you have to follow to get out of the city," Mighty explained to Storm. "I made sure to get only the ones you have to follow so you won't get lost. It isn't so hard; the whole route is a straight line from here going west which will lead you to a highway that you can follow all the way to Central City. I found out that there is a forest alongside from the highway, so you can hide there while you are going to the city. Easy, huh?" Mighty smiled at the albatross that just nodded.
"I should go, huh?" Storm asked, wanting to leave and at the same time, not wanting to.
"Yup, if you want to catch up to your friends," Vector nodded with his arms crossed. Charmy started to droop, sad because of the situation.
"I'll go get the manhole open," Espio said as he started to walk out the front door. Charmy just glared at him, thinking that Espio could see him through walls.
"I'll go get my stuff," Storm said as he walked to Charmy's room, followed by the little bee. Storm looked for his gear and goggles that were somewhere in this little room. When he found them, somewhere under the bed, he saw Charmy looking at him, sitting down on the bed.
"Umm… I had fun," Storm told Charmy which looked at him with sad little eyes. (A/N: This is making me tear up.)
"I did too…" Charmy told him with a weak smiled. Storm decided to sit next to the little bee, looking down to his own hands.
"Why are you sad?" Storm said. Charmy shifted some before he answered, though it took him some time.
"Well, Vector and Espio don't really play with me. They are always busy or doing 'Adult' stuff," Charmy looked at his shoes, barely noticing that they looked brand new even though he bought them some time ago.
"But you have the game, you can play with that." Storm pointed at his ps3, Charmy shook his head.
"It's not the same, though." Charmy gave a little sigh, fiddling with his fingers.
"You know what, Ima ask boss to come visit you guys. Then we can all play with you," Storm told Charmy with a grin. Charmy looked up, blinking some either cause he couldn't believe what he just heard or because some tears were building up and he was trying to hide them.
"Really?" Charmy said, right before a little sniffle.
"Yeah! Well, all except Wave because she's evil when she plays," Storm whispered to him, scared that Wave might come out of nowhere and hit him with her wrench.
"Will you promise?" Charmy looked up at him.
"I promise," Storm took out his pinky for Charmy's pinky. Charmy looked at his pinky and then at him, he smiled and took out his pinky which was 10 times smaller than Storm's.
"I have to go now, or I won't be able to reach my boss," Storm looked at the door. Charmy decided to fly over before Storm, which followed. Everyone was waiting outside with the manhole opened.
"Well, here you go. One way trip to Central City," Mighty gave Storm the papers, which he left at the table before he went to get his gear.
"We're gonna miss ya, big guy!" Vector smiled, actually liking his stay.
"Come and visit us soon alright," Charmy hovered by Vector's shoulder. Espio just 'hmph-ed' and gave a little smile to Storm.
"I really thought you were going to do something bad, so I kept an eye on you. But you're really an okay guy," Espio finally said. Storm smiled at all of them, and then looked down at the manhole. It was a pretty big, enough for Storm to jump in.
"Thanks for the stay. Guess I should be going now; you were all fun to be with. I'll make sure to tell boss to bring us some time," Storm said as he was about to go down the manhole until he looked back.
"Oh wait! I forgot to get something," Storm dashed back to the house. No one was able to see what he was getting because of his big physique. When Storm got what he 'forgot', he ran back and jumped into the manhole by surprise. Everyone stood dumbfounded, not expecting that. They looked down at the manhole and say Storm waving at them.
"Goodbye!" he said with a smile. He looked at his map and started to run the way he thought was right.
"The other way," Mighty yelled in the sewer, which Storm turned around and started to run. The Chaotix team looked into the sewer until they couldn't see the grey bird. Vector decided to finally close the manhole and then they all started to walk in.
"Hey, didn't he get everything he needed when he went to your room, Charmy?" Mighty asked the bee, confused. The bee placed his hand on his chin, thinking thoughtfully.
"Hmm…yeah he did. Then what did he ran back for?" Charmy asked himself. Suddenly, Mighty, Vector, and Charmy stood stiff when a loud scream was heard next to them.
"What was that?" Vector asked as they all turned their heads. Their chameleon friend was seen with his jaw dropped, pale as paper. He was frozen, not really moving much.
"Yo, Espio? You okay?" Mighty said, poking him some.
"T-t-t-that b-b-bird…" Espio muttered out.
"Bird? You mean Storm?" Charmy was now poking him as well. Espio turned around violently, glaring at all of them. Both Charmy and Mighty stopped poking him, starting to walk away slowly.
"That bird just ran off with the Sogni d'oro!" Espio yelled at them.
"The golden dream*?" Mighty asked, not understanding since he wasn't in that chapter.
"The flower that Storm gave us?" Charmy asked, forgetting what it was called.
"Yes!" Espio got Charmy's shoulders and shook them.
"Just relax Espio. It probably meant a lot for him. It's not like we really needed it," Vector said as he scratched his abs, not caring about the situation.
"It could have been sold for millions," Espio reminded him. Vector's head turned toward the door. He ran outside and kneeled down next to the manhole.
"DAMN YOU, STORM! NOW WE WON'T BE ABLE TO FIND THE COMPUTER ROOM!" Vector cried out. Storm, that was about half way to his location, thought he heard his name but decided to just continue onto his journey.
{I believe that was one of the best endings (for a chapter) I have ever written. Okay, so~ during the Black Ops part, I put the robotnik bots instead of Nazi zombies because of some few reasons. 1) Nazis don't exist in the Sega/Sonic world. 2) Robotnik bots did exist. 3) Robots don't have blood, so there was green ooze. 4) Zombies are fun to shoot! Oh yeah, also the asterisk ( the * thingy) was because golden dream is the meaning of Sogni d'oro. Oh yeah~ I went Italian on your Faces! Back to Black Ops… as I said before, I'm not really into it, I just play whenever my nephew yells my name when i have writer's block. That is all, now I must go rest my hand because it has been hurting lately. For some odd reason, I blame all this writing.}