(A/N): Seriously, why do my updates take so long? School, of course, but guys! You don't review! Reviews give me the initiative to continue without them I start to feel obligated and when I feel obligated I procrastinate. It's boring if I get nothing in return. I put effort into these chapters and make sure they're long and all I get is 1 or 2 reviews? I mean, c'mon! I use to get 6 or 8. This is just sad.
"How the hell did you get these?" Julian asked as he stared at the papers spread out on the dining table.
"Some guy broke into my room and left them there." Lauren said as Hydro raised his eyebrow.
"A guy broke into your room?" He asked protectively as Lauren rolled her eyes at her boyfriend.
"Oh please, don't get all mucho-man. I could handle an attacker." Lauren said as Hydro rolled his eyes.
"Man, they're seriously going to rent out a mall for this to happen?" Donovan asked as Kim shook her head.
"How can they even execute this? We haven't even gone through all the stone crap." Kim said placing her hands on the table.
"They're probably waiting. We do only have two people left." Bolt said as most of the group looked at him in confusion.
"Since when?" Shina asked in confusion.
"Oh, yeah…I got my stone thing." Bolt said as he scratched the side of his cheek.
"You never say anything!" Flash exclaimed as Bolt rolled his eyes.
"Guys, we have the upper hand and whenever this will happen we'll be prepared." Derek said as everybody nodded.
"Let's just go to the mall and plant some devices." Stephan said as everybody nodded.
"You guys can go ahead. I'll take care of the kids." Alana said as she held her son in her arms.
"I'll stay too." Renegade said as everybody nodded. Rafael looked at them hesitantly before going with the rest of the group.
"Can I go?" Aiden asked running out with Luca, Nessa, Juliana, and Alex.
"Fine." Julian said as they all cheered and hopped into Andrew's car—since he had the biggest. Alana was putting Elizabeth and Renegade Jr. to sleep in their cribs as Renegade watched.
"He's cute." Renegade mumbled as Alana looked at him confused.
"What?" Alana asked.
"RJ, he's cute, you know, for a kid." Renegade said stuffing his hands in his pockets.
"RJ?" Alana asked with a small smile on her face.
"Renegade Jr. It's kind of annoying to hear my name all the time and know someone is not talking about me." Renegade said with a shrug of his shoulders.
"Well, thanks. It's always nice to hear my son is cute." Alana said as she walked out to the living room to see Tyson and Alena playing some kind of imaginary game with toys. Alana walked into the kitchen and Renegade followed her. They sat at the kitchen table as a silence fell over them.
"You know, I never meant to hurt you like that, right?" Alana asked as Renegade looked at her. "One of us had to mention it." She said as Renegade sighed.
"Yeah, I know. It's just hard. It's one thing to sleep with him, but you fell for him and that's a little harsher than cheating." Renegade said as he clasped his hands together and put them on the table.
"I really wish I didn't have to hurt you." Alana said tracing circles into the table.
"I knew it was going to happen anyway." Renegade said with a shrug of his shoulders as Alana looked at him in confusion.
"Rafael told me you said that. Why? How did you know?" Alana asked as Renegade ran his hand down his face and let out a sigh.
"I'm the Sacrifice." He said as Alana gasped. "And besides protecting the Guardian. I protect you until you meet Disorder. It's not a main duty, but ever since the Avengers came into play I had to protect you. That's why I came to CMHS and started dating you." Renegade said as Alana started to tear up.
"So, our relationship meant nothing to you?" She asked as Renegade shook his head.
"It was supposed to be like that, but after four years together and experiencing practically everything together it was kind of hard to not to love you." Renegade said as Alana wiped her eyes.
"But as long as the Guardian is not in any mortal danger you'll live, right?" Alana asked as Renegade looked at his hands. "Right?" Alana repeated.
"No. I will…die. There has never been a surviving Sacrifice." Renegade said as Alana choked out a sob.
"No. No, no, no, no! Renegade! You can't die, you just can't!" Alana exclaimed as she stood up from her seat.
"Alana…" Renegade said before Alana whipped around the face him.
"Renegade, don't you understand what's going to happen? You're going to die! I can't have you ripped out of my life when I just got you back! I just can't I can't! I can't…" She sobbed as Renegade got up from his seat and held her in his arms.
"I know this is hard. But, I can't do anything about it. Even if I wasn't the Sacrifice. I would protect the Guardian because she means a lot to me." Renegade said as Alana cried into his chest. "I'll always be with you, Alana; because memories can never be erased." Renegade whispered. Everybody arrived at the mall as Chrissy and Stephan gave devices to Onyx, Tyler, Ruby, Cat, and Jeff. Since the mall was practically empty because it was closing time, the skaters were going to skate around the mall and place all the devices in the designated areas.
"Let's do this." Ruby said as they all took off through the mall avoiding the remaining mall-goers.
"Let's put this plan into action." Ethan said as he and the Avengers watched from the glass ceiling of the mall. They waited for the last of the people to leave before Ethan hacked into the security system and locked down all the exits.
"Shit, they're doing this now." Conner said as the kids stuck out their hands. "Not now!" He exclaimed as they put their hands back in their pockets. The Avengers broke through the glass ceiling and landed on the balcony facing the main entrance of the mall.
"Ah, nice to see you again." Mason said as Julian glared at him.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Julian growled as Mason shrugged his shoulders.
"To go through with the plan that you didn't see." Mason said as the whole group's eyes widened.
"What?" Derek asked as Drake walked out with a badly beaten Eric in his hand. Eric winced as Drake threw him against the bar of the balcony.
"You see, we found out about our little traitor and gave him the plans to our original plan. We knew he would give them to you and what you think is our plan really isn't." Ethan said as Lauren gasped.
"What do you mean traitor?" Brice yelled up to them.
"He's been giving our plans and secrets to you guys, idiot." Drake said with a roll of his eyes as Brice glared at him.
"We don't do well with traitors." Mason said as Dominique grabbed Eric by his arms and flew into the air. She threw him into the air as he began to fall to his untimely death. Lauren ran forward and formed an ice bubble around him before making a pile of snow for him to land in. The ice broke as he slid through the snow carefully. A small light flew into Lauren's snow as Mason smirked. "All apart of the plan." He said before laughing evilly as the group glared up at him. Alana and Renegade were still hugging when Anna appeared.
"Alana, the group is in trouble." Anna said as the former couple broke apart.
"Are you serious? What's happening?" Alana asked.
"The Avengers are putting their final plan into order. You two need to be there." Anna said before disappearing. Alana quickly grabbed her phone and dialed the first number that came to her.
"Hello?" Todd yelled over some loud noise.
"Todd? You call Todd!" Renegade exclaimed as Alana rolled her eyes.
"Todd, I need one or two of the parents to come back here and watch the children." Alana said as Todd groaned.
"But we just got out of the club." He said as Alana and Renegade heard some rumbling on the phone. "By club, I mean country club." Todd said as they rolled their eyes.
"I really don't care where you guys are, but we need two of you guys here twenty minutes ago!" Alana yelled as Renegade looked at her shocked. Suddenly a green flash appeared in the kitchen showing Shadow and Amy.
"What's going on?" Amy asked as Alana looked at her in confusion.
"I think the important question is: what are you wearing?" Renegade said as Amy looked down at the short sparkly dress that she was wearing. Shadow rolled his eyes as Amy took his jacket and wore it over herself.
"The Avengers are putting their final plan into action and we need you guys to watch the kids." Alana said as Amy and Shadow nodded their heads. "Thanks. Tyson and Alena are playing in the living room and Elizabeth and RJ are sleeping in their cribs." Alana said before she and Renegade raced out of the house.
"How did all of a sudden we switched roles of parents and children?" Shadow asked as Amy rolled her eyes and patted his arm. Back at the mall the group split up through the mall trying to avoid the Avengers. Lauren, Hydro, and Ginger took Eric and hid out in a Foot Locker. Nick appeared in front of them as Ginger worked on healing Eric's wounds.
"My stone thing happened, didn't it?" Lauren asked as Eric winced in pain as another open wound closed.
"Yes, you put your pride aside to save a enemy." Nick said pointing to Eric who looked up at him. "But there are more important things at hand. They're going to initiate everything tonight. The Guardian, the stones, the angels, everything is going to happen tonight!" Nick said as Hydro looked up at him.
"Are you kidding me? Shade hasn't even completed his task and Lauren just got hers." Hydro said as Nick sighed.
"That's the thing. They know Lauren and Shade were the last ones and conveniently they found out about Eric. Now they're trying to active Shade's and then bam! The stones are complete." Nick said as Lauren sighed.
"They're trying to hurt Emma." Eric hissed as everybody flicked their heads over to him.
"What? Why are they trying to hurt Emma?" Lauren asked as Eric struggle to sit up.
"They may have given me the wrong plans, but I still heard some of the new plans. If Emma gets hurt, Renegade will try to help her and when Renegade dies the group breaks up." Eric said as they looked at him confused.
"What do you mean the group will break up?" Ginger asked in confusion.
"Shade had a vision of the future and when Renegade died Julian blamed Rafael and soon many different arguments broke out. Renegade will protect his cousin at any cost." Eric said as he looked at the group.
"Why? I mean, I know that's his cousin, but what about Goldeye?" Lauren asked as Eric's eyes flickered over to someone else.
"Because I'm the Sacrifice." Renegade said as everybody whipped around to face him. Alana call ahead and Rafael fazed them in. Alana obviously went with Rafael and Renegade decided to find a group. This was the first one he found.
"You're what?" Hydro asked in disbelief as he stood up from the ground. Nick sighed as the rest of the group—minus Eric—looked at him in shock.
"Even though Goldeye is the—her boyfriend I protect her at any cost. They're probably going to take out Goldeye or something along those lines." Renegade said as they all just continued to look at him in shock.
"But if you die, the group will break up." Ginger said as Renegade sighed.
"No, Shade will fix it. That's his duty and that's why the Avengers are doing this." Renegade said as they all looked at him disbelief.
"But-but-but-but-but-"Renegade cut off Lauren.
"Shade will fix this. That vision he got freaked him out too much to not let the group break up." Renegade said as the group looked down grimly.
"But we have the stones! Can't we access our powers?" Lauren asked as she looked over at Nick.
"Not until they're together. That's how chaos emeralds work." He said as they all looked over at him confused. "What?" He asked in confusion.
"Chaos emeralds?" Ginger asked.
"Yeah…you did know that the stones were made up of a segment of a chaos emerald, right?" Nick asked as they all shook their heads. "Erica you were supposed to tell them!" He yelled.
"My bad!" Erica's voice rang through the store as Nick rolled her eyes.
"That doesn't make sense. There are only seven chaos emeralds—technically four now, but how can we get ten different stones from seven emeralds?" Hydro asked as Nick sighed.
"There were ten emeralds. Like the three that got destroyed this generation, three got destroyed eons ago. The stones are older then you think. The guardians of Angel Island made these for the angels to represent the ten things essential in life. The angels passed them on to humans to help serve and protect to angels and of course the Guardian." Nick said as Ginger looked at him confused.
"But didn't you guys say that the Guardian gets his/her power from the stones?" Ginger asked.
"That's because centuries ago after the Guardian was fatally attacked and the Sacrifice and Protector were both killed the stone-holders gathered to give their powers to the Guardian. Now the stones are the main power source for him/her." Nick explained as they all nodded. Nick chose this time to leave before there was a giant explosion heard outside of the store. Renegade and the rest of the group ran out as Eric mostly walked out.
"Look-y at what we found here." Dominique said before firing another combustion blast at the running couple of Goldeye and Emma. Renegade glared at the flying bat before running after them. Goldeye whipped out his gun and started firing at Dominique who flew swiftly around the bullets. "Tsk. Tsk. You should never harm a lady. Hasn't your mother taught you any manners? Oh wait, she's dead!" She said before cackling evilly and firing another blast towards them. This one sent them flying into the wall knocking Goldeye out. Emma backed herself into the wall as Dominique smiled at her evilly.
"It's a shame that you have to die, well…not really." She said cynically as she aimed her finger at Emma. Emma closed her eyes as she awaited death. Dominique fired at Renegade stood in front of Emma. The explosion went off as the rest of the group ran to the scene. Emma opened her eyes and touched herself to see that she was alright. She looked down at herself in confusion before looking in front of her to see Renegade fall on his knees and collapse forward.
"Renegade!" She exclaimed as Dominique smirked and flew off. Renegade was covered in ash and his clothes were ripped off showing many cuts, bruises, and open-wounds. Emma started to cry as Goldeye lurched forward in pain. He looked over to see Emma crying over Renegade's dead body as he and the rest of the group made their way to her.
"No!" Alana screamed as she dropped on her knees by Renegade's body. "I told you not to do it." Alana said as she shook her head and cried over Renegade's body. Some members of the group had tears in their eyes as they looked at their fallen friend. Julian growled as the tears in his eyes fell before whipping his head over to Rafael.
"This is all your fault!" Julian yelled as he pointed his finger at Rafael. Shade's ears perked up as he looked at the exchange.
"My fault? How is this my fault?" Rafael yelled back.
"If you never showed up Renegade wouldn't have left and would have still been with Alana! You messed everything up!" Julian yelled as Rafael glared at him.
"That has nothing to do with this! Even if I wasn't even in the picture, Renegade would have still jumped in front of Emma!" Rafael retorted.
"Guys, settle down…" Serenity said as she held back her tears.
"No! I fucking tired of this douche thinking he's one of us, but he's not!" Julian screamed as Rafael clenched his fists.
"Julian, I know you're upset about Renegade-"Julian quickly cut off Serenity.
"This is his fault! My friend is dead because of you!" Julian yelled pushing Serenity away from him.
"Hey! I know you're fucking mad and depressed about this! We all our! But you have no right to push my girlfriend!" Conner yelled at Julian who rolled his eyes.
"Am I seriously the only one who knows who is at fault here?" Julian exclaimed as some of the group started to yell at him or at each other. Everybody was yelling at Shade could see the group breaking apart before his eyes. He covered his eyes and clenched his eyes shut as he leaned over. He growled before standing up straight and letting his arms drop back to his sides.
"EVERYBODY SHUT THE FUCK UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!" Shade yelled at the top of his voice. Everybody became silent as they looked over to the black hedgehog. "Don't you see what's this is doing to us?" Shade said as they all looked down. "I know this is hard, but we have to pull through. We're at a final battle of a war and if we're against each other there's no way we'll be able to beat these guys." Shade said as they looked back at him.
"But-"Shade quickly cut off Julian.
"Julian, you're my friend, but seriously, if you don't shut up and let me get on with my hero speech I will chaos blast your ass through this mall." Shade said as he Julian shut his mouth. "No one is at fault for Renegade's death. Not Rafael, Julian, Emma, nor Alana. No one. He was protecting his cousin and that was his choice to make to jump in front of her." Shade said as everybody looked at Renegade's body. "Renegade meant something to all of us and he'll be missed, but we need to do what he wanted us to do." Shade said as everybody looked over at him. "We need to kill these guys and keep the Guardian alive!" Shade exclaimed as everybody clapped and cheered.
"No!" Emma exclaimed as everybody looked over at her. "I'm not going to have anyone else die at my expense!" She said as tears trailed down her face.
"Emma, what do you mean?" Chrissy asked as Emma clenched her fists.
"I'm the Guardian!" She yelled as everybody gasped.
(A/N): Who was right about Emma? C'mon be honest. Any-who, if you haven't realized this story is shortly coming to end. I know, it's sad, but I realized I've been writing this story for over a year now! Can you believe it? It's really been that long! Plus, things just need to come to an end. Review!