Hey guys, its me Austorias, got some bad news... My computer has been going haywire on me for a while now, so ive given up on fixing it. I've written this on my phone, that's why it took so long. Don't expect steady updates until Christmas. If you have a question you would like a character to read, let me know!
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Jacks laid there, in complete awe of the orange glow of the night sky from the burning city. He had to be at least a mile away, and yet he could still feel the dry heat against his face. His thoughts quickly drove him back to mindfulness, and he staggered to his feet, running in leaping bounds toward the city. To Jacks it did not feel like running, more like floating with legs… His heart raced, his breath quickened, and he ran faster than he ever had in his life. He ran so fast that he could hear wind currents passing in his ear. Nothing else crossed his mind, except for the thought of the group's safety. As he passed over small hills and mounds, leapt over fallen trees, and grappled solitary tree's branches, his mind screamed to him. It screamed to him thoughts of reluctance and self-preservation, and somehow, Jacks ignored them completely. Jacks ignored him because of one thing, one unseen, unnoticed, thing. Jacks ignored these thoughts, because of his bravery. For one of the first times in Jacks' life, he was putting the safety of other people before his own. In every fight that he has had so far, he did not charge because of other people, he charged to defend himself, he fought… for himself.
Jacks could have very easily turned and walked away from that burning city, left the people, left the group, to their fate. Deep down inside Jacks did not even realize what he was doing, the amount of bravery that he was showing as he rushed to defend the people whom he found at his side, to the people that he called friends.
Jacks' heart pumped blood and emotion through his body once he reached the city limits. He felt a mixture of fear and excitement as he ran past burning buildings and under fallen wood. His first priority, was the base, and so he ran quickly in the direction of Spring's house, finding it hard to navigate a burning city. Jacks quickly found himself lost, the city looked much different while on fire. Eventually, Jacks saw Spring's house, on the same little hill, burning to the ground like the rest of the houses. On the hill in front of the house Jacks saw two black figures standing over a purple one, lower to the ground. As Jacks got closer, he made the black figures out to be Sin, and the purple one, to be Bonnie. Bonnie was slumped against the house, and the two Sin were just observing her, twitching their heads in curiosity.
Jacks released a yell as he jumped and drew his sword from his back, cleaving one Sin in half before they knew that he was there. The other Sin turned quickly, hissing and grunting as it moved sporadically. Jacks took his stance, holding the sword in both hands at the hilt, keeping it slightly pointed forward for defense. Little did the Sin know that Jacks took this stance to have his grapple pointed at his foe. As the Sin jumped, Jacks was able to line up a perfect shot into it's belly, pulling it down directly onto his sword and going through it's back. Jacks turned the sword to let the corpse slide off, and turned his attention to Bonnie.
Jacks' expression fell blank, he fell to his knees, and he dropped his sword as he looked Bonnie in the eyes. Bonnie was not exactly in one piece, her torso and legs had been separated, likely by the Sin. There was nothing but a single strand of intestine linking her legs and body together. Jacks quickly crawled up to her, and she spoke, surprisingly clearly.
"Huhuhu, looks like they got me…." Bonnie said, looking at her legs.
Jacks kept the same opened mouth frown as he looked at her.
"They got Chica too, I watched them pull her limb from limb with my own two eyes, they destroyed the base Jacks." She said, a tear running down each of her eyes.
Jacks was quick to ask a question.
"Where are the others?" Jacks asked, concerned for her and the rest of the group.
"Sin took them, a lot of them, not sure where to….. The bastards, they've never launched an attack this large before." She cut out mid-sentence, letting her eyes droop a bit.
"Bonnie…" Was all that Jacks said, still afraid for her.
"You'll be fine kid, I know that you'll be great, the very fact that you came shows how brave you really are…." She trailed off.
"Just…..Just remember what Spring said what true bravery is…." Her eyes drooped more.
Jacks was in awe of her, complimenting him even though that he could not save her.
"Oh, and I managed to… to grab this out of the base, I didn't want you to forget it on Earth." She said, nodding to a ripped backpack.
Jacks slowly looked over and crawled to the backpack, opening it slowly to reveal his helmet, now charred a black tint. He took the helmet out without putting it on.
"Bonnie…." He repeated himself, looking at her.
"My friends….. call me….. Bon." She said, leaning to the side and closing her eyes, never to be awakened again.
Jacks wiped a tear from his eye and looked at the city again, the vast orange landscape reflected quite similarly to Jacks' burning expression.
"Sorry, Bon, I couldn't save you or Chica." He said, honoring Bonnie and Chica while looking at the eyes of his helmet.
"But, I will save you guys." He said, looking back at the city and placing his helmet where it belonged, on his head.
Jacks began running into the city again, to the next best place he though to go, the police station. It took much more dodging and maneuvering to get there, and he even swore he saw more sin crawling on walls, but he did not want to be distracted. Surprisingly, the station was not burnt to the ground, nor burning to the ground. He burst through the door, looking for somebody, anybody, to help him find his friends. When he shoulder checked the door open he was met with the barrels of various guns, and multiple uniformed policemen and women.
"FREEZE!" A large bird with blazing red feathers yelled at him, pointing his gun at, and walking towards Jacks.
"Hey hey hey, I'm not a bad guy!" Jacks said, shaking his hands up in defense and surprise.
The bird quickly put Jacks' hands behind his back to cuff him, and he took his sword to throw it on the ground, as well as the dagger. He forcefully tore his helmet of as the bird put Jacks to the ground and pointed his gun at him again, without even looking he called out a name.
"Savion, check him." The bird said, nodding toward Jacks.
A tall panda bear walked through the door wearing clothing much different from the rest of the officers. He wore a martial arts gi, with gold bands on his wrists, his yellow green eyes were big with compassion.
"I don't see why you have to be so forceful Jerry…." Savion said, removing a syringe from a pack he wore.
"You never know Savion, I don't want any more people dying." The bird responded.
Jacks did not struggle to fight as Savion drew a small amount of blood into the syringe from his arm. He took a band-aid out of the pack and placed it over the area where he picked Jacks.
"Yep, its human blood Jerry, you can let him go now." Savion said, looking closely at the syringe, as well as the blood inside.
Without a word, the bird uncuffed Jacks, and helped him to his feet.
"Sorry about that, we just can't be too careful with everything that's going on, so, who are you?" Savion asked Jacks, he had a kind voice.
"I'm…. I'm Jackson, officer, Jackson Tinkers." Jacks said, being careful not to trigger the officers in any way.
The bird quickly chimed in.
"So that's your name! Man, I thought it was Rick!" The bird exclaimed out of the blue.
"I'm sorry, have we met before?" Jacks was confused by the bird.
"Nope, you just kinda stick out like a sore thumb, I've seen you walking the streets before. You're easy to pick out in a crowd with the not having fur and all." Jerry said, bluntly.
"Jerry!" Savion hit Jerry in the arm, scolding him for being so blunt.
"It's quite alright, I've gotten used to it." Jacks said, trying not to laugh.
"Well I am Savion, and this is my partner loud mouth partner, Jerry." Savion said, looking evilly at Jerry.
Jacks was tired of the meet and greet, and jumped straight to his question.
"I'm looking for a group of people, there is a yellow bear, a red fox, a yellow rabb…." Jerry cut him off.
"Oh no, you're looking for *them*." Jerry said, looking at Savion and the other officers with a worried face.
Jacks said nothing, he just watched as Savion turned on a television on top of a reception desk.
Static appeared on the screen, before clearing to reveal the face of a grey wolf, with an ear to ear smile, he had strange black tendrils on his face.
"Hellllllloooooo everyone, as you might know by now, your city is burning to the ground in a wondrous display of orange and red!" The wolf said, oddly happily.
"Now you see, my people are tired of waiting to be systematically slaughtered by you… Polybians, and your power of numbers, so, we are going to begin our push back!" He continued, smiling and raising his arms, the camera still zoomed on his face.
"Now, onto the good part! We have captured the very thing that has held us off for so long!" He said, spinning around to reveal shadows of six chairs.
A light flicked on and the wolf ran back on camera standing behind, and removing the masks of figures sitting in said chairs. In the chairs were none other than Francis, Fawkes, Spring, Freddy, Vix, and Grey. Their arms and legs were restrained with strange metal. Jacks' expression instantly darkened.
"Now this is how it's gonna play out, we know that there is one last defender out there, somewhere, and we want it here. So, Jackson, for every hour you fail to be here, this fox right here… is gonna get hurt." He said, rubbing Foxy's shoulders gently.
Foxy just stared at the floor as the wolf talked. Jacks' face was now restless.
"FOR EXAMPLE." The wolf said, running around to Foxy's front.
He grabbed Foxy by his neck, and shoved his thumb into Foxy's right eye, causing him to scream in pain in a high pitch as he struggled against his restraints.
"FOXY!" Jacks screamed, slamming his hands on the desk.
Vix twitched in his seat as the wolf went back to looking at the camera.
"EVERY HOUR!" The video cut to static.
Jacks looked at the timestamp of the video, it was made an hour ago. He wondered what else that he had done to Foxy.
"So that means that you're the one mentioned in the video?" Savion asked softly, placing a hand on Jacks' shoulder.
Jacks nodded, his heart pumping with anger as he kept his fist on the table.
"Where are they?" Jacks asked, coldly.
"Hey now we can't just.." Savion was cut off.
"WHERE!" Jacks yelled, slamming his other fist on the table and drawing the rest of the cop's attention.
"*sigh*, they're at the bank, we saw the banner in the background of the video." Savion said, Jerry just looked in awe.
Jacks instantly headed for the door, on a mission to save his friends, he put his helmet on as he reached for the door, but a hand on his shoulder stopped him.
"You can't go alone, you're just a kid!" Jerry said, trying to talk Jacks out of it.
"Well then, you better be going with me." Jacks finished, and turned out the door.
R.I.P. Bonnie and Chica ;-;