Chapter 10: The There Tests

Previously on An Assassin's Way

"I have brought what you have asked." Blackout said, trying hard not to sound too bothered about the fact that he had touched pieces of an arm of a dead person in the building opposite them. Rose on the other hand was grinning slightly.

"Well done Blackout." Rose continued to grin as she took the bag from Blackout and quickly took a glance at the pieces inside it. "And now for your first test Blackout." Rose finally said when satisfied that Blackout had done what she had asked him to do. Blackout took a deep breath before listening to Rose's first test.

And now to continue the story

"Like I said, well done Blackout, but I'm sure you didn't have too much trouble with the task. Anyway, back to the first test," Rose paused as she glanced at the surroundings, having an idea she grinned but only for a couple of seconds as she remained her usual expression. "I want you to steal a diamond necklace in that building." She pointed to the specific building. "There is a women in her twenties that has an expensive diamond necklace, on the second floor, in her office, to the window on the far left, I want you to retrieve it for me, to be honest this is an easy task so you should be grateful." She said while running her hand through her fringe that covered her right eye. 'Believe me I am, so very grateful.' Blackout thought while glancing at Amy who was relieved that Rose hadn't set him such an impossible task.

"How do you know all this anyway? And how do I know that this isn't a trap?" Blackout asked curiously. Rose just smirked at him before replying.

"I just know these things, and trust me, I wouldn't send you up there for any reason, it would be pointless and it would waste a great deal of my training time." Rose said while Amy grimaced when she heard Rose talking about her training yet again, what was she, obsessed or something? "Oh and try not to get caught, but since you have succeeded with the other task I don't think that this will be a problem." Rose continued while she walked besides Amy, folding her arms and having that famous Shadow-like smirk on her face.

"Very well, I shall complete the test." Was all Blackout had said before he jumped over buildings to reach his destination. Blackout looked at the window on the far left of which Rose had pointed and just like she had said there was a women in her office who was wearing a diamond necklace around her neck. He took a deep breath, not believing that he was about to do this but nonetheless he gathered up the strength to do so as he waited until the coast was clear so that he could sneak inside. When he saw the women leave the room, he sneaked inside, being careful not to make any sudden noises or not doing anything that would gain unwanted attention. While he was inside he looked at the surroundings for a temporarily hiding place, his mind running wild since he was nervous and was making him slow to find a place to hide. Once he heard faint footsteps he immediately hid behind the door out of plain instinct, he watched the women coming back into view once she entered the room, not knowing that he was behind her. In one swift movement he placed his hand on her mouth and (using his other hand) pinned her hands behind her.

"Don't worry, I won't hurt you." He whispered in the quivering women's ear. "All I require is that beautiful diamond necklace of yours, and then I shall leave. Please don't make this hard and start screaming once I let you go, okay?" he remained calm while trying to be as civilised as he could. The women nodded even though her whole body was shaking violently, noting the nod that she just gave him, he let her go and watched as she frantically tried to take off her necklace. Once she took it off she tossed it to Blackout who caught it swiftly. "Thank you," he said as he walked towards the window but stopped in front of it to say one more thing. "Oh and by the way, don't mention this to anyone, you'll regret it later if you do." And with that he was gone. Blackout headed back, where Rose and Amy were waiting patiently, while there he showed Rose the diamond necklace that he had claimed off the women. He glanced at Amy, who seemed somewhat happy, as he saw just for a moment, that little sparkle that was usually in her eyes.

"As I have thought, you did the task with ease, correct?" She asked a proud looking Blackout who just simply smirked at her question, taking it as his answer, Rose continued. "For your second task, you will have to terminate this person." She tossed a picture of the victim so that Blackout could see. Blackout just stared at the picture for a moment, he didn't think that he would have to kill anyone, he couldn't kill someone just like that, but he does know someone who will, if only he could do the deed later and then somehow prove that he did it, since he would ask a certain black and ebony hedgehog to do the task. Looks like he's gonna have to convince Rose, even though the odds are against him of succeeding into persuading Rose so that he could do the task later, he was gonna have a shot.

"My, my must I do these tasks now? I mean seriously, I don't want to get my clothes covered in blood and to be honest I'm not that interested in this at the moment." He did a fake yawn to prove his point. Amy smiled slightly at his boldness, he sounds a bit of both Sonic and Shadow she giggled, not believing that she had compared Sonic and Shadow to Blackout who she had just met.

"Very well, you may do this task in your own time but just in case you try and cheat, you will have to bring me his head at the same time at this very place tomorrow, come Amy, we're leaving." And with that Rose had jumped over the buildings without a second glance. Amy glanced at Blackout who was surprised that he was able to persuade Rose that quickly, she smiled genuinely at him before following Rose, very likely that they were going back to their base. He looked at the picture that Rose had given him, he was a human male instead of a hedgehog or a half breed, he would have to check on his background after he explained the situation to Shadow and Tails. And so he rushed off back to Tails's apartment.

With Rose and Amy

Both Rose and Amy had reached the base of Angels 4 Hell and were now discussing about Blackout. Rose was sitting on Amy's bed with Amy opposite her.

"So, what do you think of him so far?" asked a curious Amy.

"I told you, what I think of him means nothing, I am merely thinking if he's really suited of being a worthy member of Angels 4 Hell nothing more." Said a calm Rose.

"Wait, if I have to train with Blackout, who are you gonna train with?" Amy said as she realised that if she trained with Blackout that would mean that Rose would be training by herself, but she knew that that would be impossible since Rose always love to train with someone who would be a worthy opponent to her. Rose thought about it for a moment before answering and breaking the short silence that was between her and Amy.

"I'll find someone, hopefully." She said but whispered out the last bit to herself. Amy watched her friend for a moment, just for a second she saw something, something that she had never seen before, if she blinked then she would have missed it because just then there was a mixture of emotions that was in Rose's eyes but all of them were negative. In that moment Amy was stunned, she knew that out of herself, Starlight and Rose. Rose was the strongest since she was strong willed, Starlight came second since she was trained by Rose first, and then came herself, but Rose was only the strongest because of the fact that she just simply didn't care, about anyone or anything. When Amy first joined Angels 4 Hell she heard that Rose had to endure a set of tasks to become official in the organization, and because since she was the first girl to ever joined, they decided to make every task harder then the last. Much harder. In total there was 8 tasks that need to be done which was more then the usual 3 which was reasonable amount, but nonetheless she managed to do them all and came out in one piece. How did Amy know this? From Starlight of course and from the other members of the organization, although she didn't knew what those task were she knew that Rose must have possessed a great amount of power to do them all. But seeing those emotions flashed in her eyes, even it was for that second made her think, was all those negative emotions the power that helped her thought those tasks? Was that the reason why she was so cold and hardly ever show her emotions? And most importantly, how did she become like this? Surely she wasn't like this all her life, Amy believed that, but how?

Back at Tails's apartment

Sonic was explaining to Shadow and Tails about what happened earlier and about the three tests.

"Hold on there, so this Rose girl said that Amy was looking for a recruit and that-"

"This recruit would be you." Said Shadow, cutting off Tails while he was in the middle of a sentence. Sonic nodded, but he still had to ask Shadow about the second test.

"Umm, there's something I've got to ask you Shadow, the second test that I had to do was that I had to kill someone, and I was wondering if you could-"

"If I could do the test for you." Shadow said, once again interrupting someone but since when did he care? "who is the victim?" at that moment Sonic showed Shadow the picture of which Rose had given her, he took a few moments to study it, taking in his features before giving the picture back to Sonic. "What in the world made you think that I will help you?!" he yelled at the surprised hedgehog standing in front of him.

"Well, I thought that you might help for Amy, I'm the only person who can get her back I mean she's a criminal now! And I turned her into that, I did that to her, I gave her enough reasons to make her leave. This is why I have to bring her back." He said looking at the ground in defeat. Shadow rolled his eyes, he was the Ultimate Life Form and so he didn't have any sympathy for the blue hedgehog but if it would stop his foolish whimpering then he would have to do the stupid task. And so he snatched the picture from Sonic's hands and walked out of the door, taking the hint of Shadow leaving the apartment, Sonic figured out that Shadow was off doing the task that he was supposed to do, but then it hit him. He forgot to tell Shadow about the fact that he had to bring back the victim's head and so once again our blue hedgehog chased after Shadow...who seemed to know where he was going? When Shadow stopped at an unusual apartment on the other side of Mobius (Sonic had told him about bringing the head to Rose), Sonic looked at him uneasy, to which Shadow questioned him.

"Why the hell are you looking at me like that faker?" he snapped at him, noticing Sonic's uneasiness against him.

"How did you know where to find the victim?" he asked while keeping a certain distance between himself and Shadow. Shadow stared at Sonic for a few moments before answering.

"That is none of your business faker." He replied coolly and with that he walked towards the door and kicked it down, not bothering about the damage it might cost him later. A couple of seconds later, Shadow could hear footsteps, rushing down the stairs and sure enough there was the man that Shadow needed to decapitate. The man was cursing the man stood in front of him who had broken his door not knowing who it was. He then stopped abruptly when he saw Shadow, his face that was full of anger was now full of fear, in fact he was shaking, and Shadow gave his rarely seen smirk at the shaking man knowing that his presence was scaring the man in front of him.

"W-w-what do you want?" he asked Shadow keeping his full attention on Shadow and not on Sonic, Sonic raised an eyebrow 'why was this man so scared of Shadow?' Sonic thought.

"It seems that your time is up I'm afraid." Shadow said calmly while watching the man's eyes growing in more fear than before and his face growing pale.

"W-w-wait you said that you would leave me alone. A-a-and I helped you out with that girl." His voice had remained shaky but still he stood his ground. When Sonic heard this, more questions appeared in his mind 'helped him out with a girl? Whathappened'

"I know, but if it helps I'll make it as painless as possible." He said with a hint of regret in his voice, knowing that Shadow was about to make his move Sonic turned around, not wanting to see what was about to come. Without waiting for a reply Shadow charged for the man, pulling out a secret knife he did the job in one swift movement. Leaving the body behind he picked up the head and gave it to Sonic who just stared at him in shock. When he looked at the head he saw the expression the man had before Shadow had killed him, all he saw was fear, he shuddered and brought out the bag he had with him, not wanting to see the head any longer. He then followed Shadow back to Tails's apartment where there would get a nights rest but I doubt that Sonic would after tonight.

Meanwhile with Rose and Amy

The two hedgehogs were training hard even though it was 11:00 correction now 11:01 neither of them wanting to stop their sparring time but knowing that tomorrow was going to be another tiring day they decided that they should rest in their chambers. The two pink hedgehogs said goodnight and parted to their chambers. Knowing that Amy had gone to her chamber Rose walked right past hers and walked back to the training facility 7, she was going to train no matter what it takes, she had to be stronger for reasons that she will never share with another and since Amy had gone to bed no one was going to stop her from training. She turned round the corner to where all the training facilities were only to walk into someone, she growled, and looked at the person who she had bumped into. Instead of finding some weakling that she could beat up into a pulp she found Vengeance, he smirked when he saw her slightly shocked face, but she regained composure and stood up as if nothing had happened and began to dust herself down as if she had been contaminated with something.

"What are you doing up at this time girl?" he smirked knowing that calling her that usually ticks her off and as if on cue she does.

"Don't you ever call me that ever again..." She said to Vengeance with her teeth clenched and her every word nearly dripped with poison. Vengeance was shocked, he had never heard her use that kind of tone before, but nonetheless he didn't let her faze him.

"Very well, but you still haven't answered my question girl." Vengeance said once again using the nickname he called her. That was all she could handle as she tried to punch him, tried. Vengeance caught it in his right hand. He smirked at Rose before pinning her up against the wall behind her. Rose was surprised at his quickness and also at the closeness that was between them. That was when she did something that will haunt her afterwards, she blushed. Vengeance once again smirked at the sight of her blushing; he thought he might taunt her a little more, as he leaned to her ear he whispered. "My, my does kitty have an attraction for me?" As soon as he whispered that he dropped her from the pinned position he had her in and walked off to his chamber down the corridor from hers, Rose frowned as she replayed what had just happened with Vengeance. 'Did he just call me kitty? That's impossible, only one person called me that but I left him... He's in my past there is no way- this is a coincidence that's it, and besides he would have moved on in his life by now' with that thought Rose was relieved. She checked to see if that pain-in-the-butt had gone to bed, sometimes he can be such a jerk wait correction he's always a jerk, and who does he think he is? Calling her 'girl' as if she was some sort of baby, she growled, knowing that she couldn't do anything if she tried, since he was stronger than most males that she had previously fought, she would have no chance in surviving a fight with that moron... But then again she can always change that, liking that thought she continued her way to her favourite training facility and began her intense training once more.

The Next Day...

Sonic woke from an uncomfortable slumber; his gaze went to the floor where a bag lay, knowing full well what was inside his stomach tightened, as if on cue his mobile rang, naturally he answered it, expecting a workmate he was surprised as to who was on the other end of the phone.

"Faker, get your lazy butt downstairs right now and open the god damn door!!" Shadow nearly yelled, nearly, but of course this was too much for Sonic's ears especially since he just woke up and therefore nearly deafening him.

"Ugh... okay Shads I'm up, geez no need to shout..." and with that he disconnected his conversation with Shadow and opened the door. "What's the problem Shads?" he said while rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.

"Don't you realise what time it is faker!?!?!?!?!? Your suppose to meet Rose and Amy by now you moron!!" as soon as Shadow had said that Sonic's eyes widen, he rushed to his bedroom and started to put on his 'disguise' as he dressed as Blackout, after he was dressed he picked up the bag which held the item to which he could pass the second test, he raced to the alley where Rose and Amy were waiting.

In Mobius

Rose and Amy were waiting for Blackout to show or at least for him to come, to be honest either way he would be accepted into Angels 4 Hell it was just that Rose wanted to see what he could do and saying that she wanted to see if he was worthy of Angels 4 Hell was the perfect cover story... Rose smirked inside while keeping the same emotionless face on the outside. Amy still hadn't realised Rose's real intentions though, but she knew that something wasn't right it was just that he couldn't place her finger on it. A couple of minutes had past and Rose had manage to keep her patience but unfortunately Amy didn't have this kind of skill and was therefore complaining as if there was no tomorrow.

"Awww... Where is he?" Amy asked no one in particular and therefore no one answered. When no answer came she began to pace up and down which to say the least was becoming annoying for Rose.

"Amy... I'm going to ask you nicely," she paused so that Amy was listening, while Rose was gathering her anger, without any warning she fazed out and fazed behind her where she began to yell in her ear. "QUIT COMPLAINING AND JUST WAIT WILL YOU?!?!??!?" Amy immediately withdraws from Rose and covered her ears but kept her mouth shut since she had just told her to stop complaining, but she just had to say one thing.

"You call that asking me nicely?" she said while desperately trying to get her hearing back. Rose wanted to answer her but was cut short when Blackout came rushing in, looking out of breath.

"And what time do you call this?" asked Amy, clearly obvious that she was out of patience. Blackout stared at Amy for a moment, remembering the fact that Amy didn't have much patience; he chuckled, holding the bag that he carried in front of him.

"This is what you wanted was it not?" he said as he tossed the bag to Rose, who caught it swiftly, she then took a look in it and placed it to one side.

"And now I suppose you want the final test?" she asked a confident looking Blackout, who had just crossed his arms, (Shadow- style). "Very well, your final test would be..." she paused to make it a little dramatic; she quickly gazed at Amy who too was anxious to know. But little does Amy now that the final test which Rose had planned involved her in it, "Is to go up against Amy in one- to- one fight." She said coolly after feeling that Blackout and Amy had waited long enough.

"What!" Blackout said a little surprised.

"WHAT!!!!!" yelled Amy after Blackout almost making him jump, she could not believe that Rose was saying, she can't go up against Blackout, mainly because he was too cute to be taken down but that wasn't the point. The point was that she didn't know anything about this, she growled as Rose grinned at the look off Amy's face.

"Why Amy, you're not scared are you? Surely someone as Blackout shouldn't be a problem for you." Rose couldn't help but toy with Amy. Even though she was persuading Amy into this final test for Blackout, it was a good opportunity for her, if Amy loses then she could learn off Blackout, if Amy won then she could train with him, and if the outcome was a draw then they can have frequent sparring matching against one another. Basically Amy would benefit from it. Amy got into her fighting stance, as she got out her hammer and crouch to her fighting stance, Blackout of course was slightly shocked, he didn't realise how much she had changed, he glanced at her fighting stance before going into his. There was only one thing he could do to be with her and not having to hurt her... He had to let her win. Just when Blackout was finishing his trail of thought, Amy rushed towards him, dropping her hammer and fazing out. He guarded his face, feeling Amy's presence that she was going to attack him in the face first, and to his surprise she did but only just a split second after he shielded himself. Amy growled when she saw that her surprise attack had failed, she then back flipped while grabbing her hammer in the process and threw it at Blackout hoping that he would catch it, leaving his body venerable for an attack. Just as Amy had expected he caught it before it could do any damage, she then tried her tactic again. She fazed out and fazed back in front of him so she could send a right punch in his gut. But since Blackout was the fastest thing alive he caught her punch and just smirked, not believing that both her tactics failed she threw another punch with her left hand, but only to be caught easily by Blackout. Struggling to get out of his grasp, he thought this might be a good time to tell her. Lowering his voice so that only Amy could hear, he began to speak,

"Kick me." Was all he said, Amy gave a confused look in response. "I want you to kick me... here." He said while looking at his chest.

"Why?" she asked him in the same low voice he talked to her.

"Please..." he said letting his dark sunglasses slip a little so that she could see the pleading look in his eyes. Amy gazed at his eyes for a moment feeling that she recognised that look before, shaking her head out of her dazed expression; she did as she was told. Breaking free of his holds she kicked him where he had said, surprised that the impact made him go further away then she intended. Blackout got up from the ground groggily; she walked towards him slightly concerned that she might have hurt him more then she meant, but it was then that he winked in her direction when he was sure that Rose wasn't looking, giving the signal that he was okay and just putting on a act for Rose to witness. At that instant she knew that from now on it'll be a fake fight for Rose to watch knowing that Blackout will deliberately lose, although she didn't know what was his reasons were for him to lose deliberately, she'll ask him later. And so the fight continued, until Rose had stopped them.

"Okay enough," she said as she stepped in between the two fighters, who were both breathing heavily to make the fight more realistic. "I have decided that you have passed the final test and therefore you can join us," she held a hand out for Blackout to shake, he looked at her hand and shook it, "meet us here in 2 hours, and we'll teleport you to our base" she smirked as she pulled a throwing star and threw it at him. He dodged out of the way like she had planned, and landed in his fighting stance; she took the throwing star from the wall where it had ended up. "By the way," she flashed a smirk at him "You'll have to stay on your toes from now on." And with that she and Amy left a confused blue hedgehog in the alley...

So... What do you think? Good? Bad? I had a bit of writers block so yeh, sorry guys, this chapter was longer then I intended but hopefully that's a good thing, but still R&R guys!!

/Sonamy 4 ever\ /Danny's my Soniku\ (One of my catchphrases)