Hey guys! I'm on a roll now! I have a pretty good grip on what's going to happen in Family Matters now. Thanks to a pretty... interesting incident. Don't worry! I won't leave you out of the loop of what shall happen... I would never keep secrets such as what becomes of my characters. Unfortunately you have to keep reading to find out everything. Anyways, here's another chapter to Family Matters, I hope you enjoy it and I also hope to hear your opinions on the chapter.
Disclaimer: Dark-Illusion-Detective does not own any of the Sonic Characters nor does she own Sega. She does however own Sinister the hedgehog, Spades the Cat, and Toxin the Hedgehog. The other characters in the previous chapters are also suppose to be here but due to laziness, I'll just say look in the previous chapters for the complete list of OCs.
Anyways, ignoring my Disclaimer's laziness, here's the next chapter!
Chapter Six: Crossing Lines Part Two
The hour of twilight still lingered and Rogue felt his blood boil with pure rage. How could he have lost track of Sinister and that pest of a cat Spades? The demon hated the fact that he was alone to defend himself. He wasn't strong enough to do anything on his own yet... but the plan... it was flawless.
Of course the downside was that dawn and afternoons would never show their golden blazed faces ever again. Rogue smirked as he walked over the barbed wire fence. The purple haze that concealed the ground and the metal pieces seemed pretty realistic, but luckily for Rogue, he had done research and he knew what laid ahead of him. The only chance for Sinister to meet her death.
A set of footsteps were heard behind him and he froze. Turning swiftly he saw someone he knew would easily come with him to help with Sinister's death.
"Ah... just the person I needed to see."
"Who are you?"
"I am Rogue. Rogue the chameleon... and I have a very good feeling we're after the same thing. A black hedgehog with silver streaks. I believe you have seen her as well?"
"What about it?"
"If you come with me, then we will eliminate her. It's your chance for revenge. She's the one that took your precious Maria away. Made it so you would never see Maria again."
Shadow's ruby red eyes widened as he nodded. He glowed with chaos energy, "you've got yourself an ally."
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Even in a time of where everyone would start assuming the apocolypse had finally arrived, Toxin and Spades were very calm. I still felt horrible even when a cloth was placed over my nose and mouth.
"Wha?"
"It won't get rid of the effects the toxic fumes has caused, but it'll at least prevent your condition from getting any worse," Toxin explained simply. I saw that she was wearing army green jeans, and a black tank top with a strap that held a sniper rifle in place on her back. It wasn't the clothes nor the sniper rifle that gave me a strange feeling that I knew her however, but it was the fact that there were no spikes on her but instead fur that can only be described as the kind of fur you would see on baby kittens. She was an auburn colored hedgehog with the strangest lime green eyes I'd ever seen.
"She'll be fine right?"
The question Spades had asked caught me off guard; was he really that worried about my well-being? It... it didn't matter at that moment though. Because if we didn't get out of...
I looked around; where the hell were we?
"Where... are we?" I asked as I sat up with Spades' help.
Actually it seemed strange that the handcuff chains weren't making a single noise as we moved. I looked and sure enough my hopes were shattered, we were still stuck together.
"... It's the crash sight of the Space Colony ARC."
"When did it crash? I thought it stayed up in space!"
I looked at Spades who seemed very confused by this fact. I sighed and slowly told him, "things can't stay in space forever. If you put something in space, chances are within the fifty years it's up there, it'll eventually crash onto the nearest land mass."
The cat sighed as he nodded, "thanks for explaining... and please refrain from making me look like an idiot."
Toxin smirked, apparently she hadn't heard a good argument recently.
"So mind explaining to us why you're here?"
"How about you two explain and I'll explain?"
I crossed my arms and received a yelp from Spades who pulled his handcuffed hand away from me.
"No way. Not until we hear who you are and so on."
"A bit suspicous? Of what?"
Spades eyed the gun with the kind of look that said 'watch out I might just kill you when you're asleep'. Toxin saw the stare but ignored it nonetheless.
"Fine. My name is Toxin and I'm a soldier that got abandoned."
"That's it?"
"If you'd stop talking then I'd tell you more."
At this, Spades and I forced ourselves to be silent to listen to Toxin's tale.
"Anyways as I was saying... I was here on a mission with a friend of mine, but the Space Colony ARC crashed and sort of unleashed this venomous gas that I somehow managed to survive while my friend was killed by it. Taking refugee in this toxic wasteland, I called for help several other times but... no one ever came. I knew that this gas would kill me just like it killed him, even though I looked at reality... death never met me. I somehow stayed alive just by breathing through a cloth most of my stay here."
Spades and I seemed bored at the moment but as she looked at us, we faked an interested look. How could we not look interested in a story like that? It lacked details. Specific details. What details was I looking for as Toxin's voice turned from thoughtful to venomous? I couldn't be sure but when I realized her voice seemed hateful, spiteful, even murderous I felt unsafe.
"Then time seemed to get faster and faster, that's when I knew something was up. I travelled from my base, over the barbed wire fence only to be met with two people that threatened to kill me if I didn't help them."
"An armadillo and a chameleon? Were those the people that threatened you?" I questioned as my interested look turned serious and was now etched onto my face.
Toxin nodded solemnly and she sighed.
"I don't know what they were doing here in the first place without masks. They would probably die, that was my original thought... until I saw the chameleon attacking you two along with that mess of a hedgehog."
"Shadow," I whispered as Toxin looked around.
"That's right... Emo."
My eyes widened as I suddenly shouted, "how do you know him?! Only Sonic and Knuckles call him Emo!"
Toxin didn't meet our curious gazes as she walked a little ways from us and returned with a knife. My heart skipped a beat and I'm pretty sure I saw Spades quiver slightly with fear.
"Sinister. I can't explain everything to you guys. The last bit of information I can give you is that I don't know where I come from, who I was once called, I just know that I was in a tank like Emo once was. I woke up when my friend found me a long time ago."
The first idea that came into my head was that she came from the ARC, but I tossed it out almost immediately after it entered my mind. What a dumb idea. Besides, the ARC hadn't crashed until recently or at least that's what I'm assuming, so there's no way that she came from the ARC. I felt something sharp slash across my arm. Then warmth trickled down my arm and what happened next made me go into a panic.
"OOOWWW!! IT HURTS!! IT STINGS!!! STOP IT!!!" I shrieked loudly.
"Shut her up!"
Spades covered my mouth so I couldn't scream anymore. Did I mention that I hate when people have me in a headlock? Well that's what Spades had me in and I wanted to murder him.
Suddenly as fast as the pain came, it disappeared. Looking at my arm I saw that instead of crimson blood running from the deep wound, it was silver and lavender rivers that flowed from the cut. And the trail of lavender and silver left dark burns that were easily visible despite the fact that my spikes were black.
"W-what-"
"The venom. It's the venom. This is bad. We need to get you to a safer environment," Toxin said in a wise voice. She then added, "but to do that, we need to get through the toxic fields."
Spades was the first one that asked, "what's the closest town?"
"It's an old ninja school to be honest. No one really knows about it, except for me and the only person there. It's home to a small organization called the Hikaru Raid. It was once-"
"Enough of the history lesson!" Spades seemed to practically shout at Toxin. "Just get us the hell out of here so we can treat her and get her to where she has to go."
For a moment I looked at Spades who seemed truely concerned about my well-being. It... I don't know what it exactly triggered, I guess a sense of happiness, that somewhere in his heart... deep down, he was just like Angel who wanted to help. My vision blurred for a moment before I pulled myself back together.
Spades then lifted me off the ground, bridal style, and that's when I felt regret and sorrow overcome me as though something bad would happen and this would be my only chance to say this.
"I-I'm sorry... I can't... I can't get the handcuffs off."
The cat looked at me with his red specked eyes and only confusion filled them, "what?"
"Remember... I can't-"
"Why can't you? Aren't you the Angel of Death's Apprentice?"
I glanced at Toxin who smiled innocently.
"And you know about that how?"
"Well you're not denying it so it must be true. Right?"
She was smart. But even intelligence couldn't have been her reason as to how she knew that I was an apprentice to one of the most hated immortals around. I shrugged it off, she would guide us to safety, I had confidence in her; I sighed and started to explain.
"I may have killed things in the past, but that doesn't mean I have weaknesses. You see, when something in connected to me and another person such as handcuffs, I can't take it off or break it off."
"No duh, we sorta figured that out. But why?"
Everyone has weaknesses that was true. I had a lot even though I would never admit it. I liked having people wonder about me, but I feared that by saying my reason would just make me appear weak in the eyes of Spades and Toxin. But if I didn't tell them... how would they be able to help me?
"... Fate."
"Pardon?"
"Fate took away that ability of mine to escape from a majority of restraints, like handcuffs, when we were younger," I explained as my face turned pink. "I had pulled a prank on Fate and for revenge she... took away the escape artist ability. And that's my reason."
To my surprise, Toxin just nodded while Spades seemed to understand completely. He looked at the handcuffs that held us together and he smiled, "it's okay. Besides... I'm sure we'll get out of this pretty soon."
Toxin seemed pretty calm until an explosion occured nearby. Her eyes seemed to flash with a sense of knowledge and a commanding spirit, one you'd find in a leader. Turning to us she told us, "Spades. The card thing you did will help us greatly. There are mines, bombs that are invisible to the naked eye. Your cards somehow hit them directly. We've given the enemy something to worry about. Keep that in mind, it'll come in use in the future."
The furry hedgehog climbed out of the hiding spot and motioned Spades to follow. He looked at me and seemed concerned about something; maybe the fact that the bombs were invisible and we wouldn't know where exactly they were. At least that was the first thing that ran through my mind. The second was what if we ran right into a bomb, would Spades make it out alive?
I stopped myself after that thought; what was I thinking? Why was I thinking about his safety?
My vision seemed to be effected by the venom because I couldn't follow anything fast moving; which left me in a huge black out until suddenly the world came back to my view. Dark clouds lingered above us in the sky, and all around us was the dark grey smoke that rose from the scattered pieces of a recently exploded bomb.
"Toxin? Where are we?"
"We didn't cross the barbed fence. The fence is gone. Who-"
My eyes locked onto a figure a little ways from us and I instantly grabbed a card from Spades and tossed it.
"Bombs away!" Toxin shouted as she grabbed Spades and brought him down to the ground along with me.
BOOM!
Then smoke was both our escape plan, and our major downfall. We started to crawl, I remember crawling along side Spades. I decided right then and there that now wasn't the time to play defenseless and let Spades and Toxin take responsibility for what happened to me. Toxin stopped but Spades didn't.
"Why are you-"
He was cut off and we looked up to see a pair of red eyes staring at us. Those were Shadow's eyes. The black hedgehog was glowing dangerously with chaos energy and I sensed danger rolling all around us. I wasn't sure if it was because of Shadow's chaos energy or it was just the incorrect theory about the invisible bombs. Either way, I was pretty sure Spades and myself were scared.
Toxin stood up and took out her sniper rifle.
"Stay away from us Emo. Take another step toward us and you'll regret it."
Her voice turned back into the venomous tone she had used earlier, and the sound of my heart beating frantically migrated up to my head. It was as if someone started to play the drums in my mind, creating a throbbing feeling.
Despite the tone, Shadow seemed to almost smirk.
"Guns don't scare me."
He took a step toward us and the sound of the rifle going off caused Spades to shake slightly. He got up, lifting me along with himself and we darted away.
We didn't get far though when a clawed hand grabbed my wrist, pulling our escape plan down the drain and causing us to stop from running. Spades' eyes were wide as he looked at Rogue, and I felt like I had to protect Spades from getting hurt by Rogue.
"Let. Me. GO!"
I wasn't a chaos user, nor did I possess any real interesting powers, but what caught me off guard at that moment was the fact that my sight was leaving me. Darkness took over but I knew I was still conscious.
"Shadow Ring!"
The darkness left my sight and slammed into Rogue's arm. Yelling with pain he held his arm that was now bleeding badly and I started to run. Spades was next to me luckily.
"What the hell was that?"
"I honestly don't know," I replied until we reflected what just happened. Then we started to think the same thing:
Was Toxin alright?
"Guys!"
We looked behind us and then to the side of us to see Toxin with one side of her face covered in silver and lavender blood, but thankfully she was still conscious and still able to run.
"Straight ahead! Keep running!"
Spades then said, "here's a card for you, and you too Sin. Get ready."
Toxin caught right onto the plan but it took me a few minutes to comprehend exactly what I was suppose to do. We faced straight ahead.
"SCREAM AND FIRE!"
We shot the cards in front of us and the sudden force of the explosion made us stop for a second before we were engulfed in the dark smoke.
Rogue and Shadow kept running after us, I knew that much, but when I heard a shout I started to get confused. It wasn't Rogue's scream nor was it Shadow's. But... it... it seemed familiar. I didn't bother to think of that in that particular moment in time.
When the first raindrop hit me, I suddenly realized I was crying as Toxin, Spades and I kept running. It was raining. Time was back in motion.
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Shadow growled as the smoke cleared, the chaos energy that once surrounded him faded. He turned toward Rogue who muttered a few words before the wound on his arm healed almost completely.
"We lost them."
Rogue was getting aggitated, he could've taken over Mobius, and could've destroyed Sinister in one blow if he didn't have Cecelia and Shadow getting in his way. No. That wasn't it. He just picked the wrong people. He needed better allies. Better fighters and trackers. His brain turned as he actually had a thought on who to consider.
"Shadow. Come. We plan our next step. And this time it will not fail," Rogue quietly said as he led Shadow away from the debris of the bombs.
When they were no longer in sight, a set of soft colored eyes appeared, and a small whisper was heard among the wind.
"A plan... designed not to fail? We'll have to see about this now won't we? Light Warp."
A large flash of light appeared out of nowhere, temporarily breaking the dark storm clouds apart to reveal the sky above. When the light vanished, so did the clear portion of the sky as the storm was persistant in staying.
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Wow, let me tell you, when you have a major case of writers block, it's hard to finish a chapter. It took me three whole tries at trying to get this chapter to explain a little bit of information. It was hard let me just leave it at that. Anyways so there's the chapter. What is Rogue's new plan, and who exactly is he thinking as a possibility for an ally? What lies ahead for Sinister and the others? And... what is so important about the Hikaru Raid? You'll find out in the next chapter. Until then, thanks for reading I hope you guys enjoyed it!