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Disclaimer: Dark-Illusion-Detective does not own Team Chaotix, the other Sonic characters or Sega in any way. Dark-Illusion-Detective does however own Illusion and Charcoal.
Okay so here's chapter three because this internet is getting better and I'm not going to take it for granted!
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Chapter Three
Everyone was pretty scared at the moment; everyone except the people that were on the other side of the guns pointing at everyone else that is. The king and queen's faces were priceless as they looked at their son, Sherman the raccoon only closed his eyes and began thinking of a prayer in his mind, Charmy's eyes were wide as he looked from the sniper rifle to the pistol to everyone else, Vector and Espio were trying to think of a way to get the queen, Sherman, and the king and Illusion out safely, and Illusion stared at the sniper rifle. Charcoal's green eyes looked at his sister and he ordered, "stand up."
Illusion did and she looked very small, she had changed into a seven year old out of fear. Charcoal motioned her to get over next to him and she slowly made her way there.
"Now that you're out of the way."
Charcoal glanced at the group of men and suddenly three shots pierced the air, causing the Chaotix to flip the table over, and Illusion shrieked. The Chaotix looked at King Collin, Sherman and Queen Shaylah and saw them slumped over their chairs... dead. Charmy was the one freaking out as he buzzed frantically around Vector's head to keep himself from having nightmares about this.
"MOM!! DAD!! UNCLE!!"
"SHUT UP!"
A loud slapping noise was heard followed by a cry of pain; Charcoal had slapped his own sister. Her seven year old eyes looked at him with fear, and her eyes started watering as though she was going to cry. Then that's when everything seemed to go to hell; the waiter, and a family of three entered in and saw this.
"What the hell is going on?!" yelled the waiter with a demanding voice. The man with the sniper rifle pointed it at the waiter and the shot made Illusion scream in fear. Then Charcoal pointed his pistol at the young child with the newly wed couple. Illusion grabbed the pistol and she shrieked.
"STOP!! BROTHER DON'T DO THIS!! YOU'RE BETTER THAN THIS!!"
"SHUT THE HELL UP!"
Another slap to the face as the couple and their child were shot. The look on the couple was enough to make anyone shriek and run away and the child was gasping for air until Charcoal shot at the small child again, killing him and ending his pain; that act alone scared the living crap out of Illusion. Vector was covering where his ears were, Espio looked at his kunai and camaflouged himself. The chameleon smiled as he walked toward the group of men calmly without being seen but when one of the men doubled over, a stab wound in his chest that killed him almost instantly, the second man took out a small hand gun and started shooting everywhere. The sniper man smiled as he secretly made his way to the flipped table and slammed the rifle into Vector, and he watched as the alligator fell into unconsciousness. Charmy yelped as he was lifted and he saw it was the sniper man.
Meanwhile, Espio had gotten the king and queen as shields and he darted toward the second man. The chameleon got close enough to the man and he stabbed him. The second man coughed for a few minutes until he let out his last breath, making Espio sad he killed him, but he had no other choice at that moment.
"ESPIO!"
"I'm coming Charmy! Stay there!"
"ESPIO!! HELP!!"
The chameleon turned toward the table and saw that the sniper man had grabbed the bee and pointed the rifle at his head. Charmy was hypervenilating as Espio dropped the king and queen to the ground and he appeared.
"CHARMY!!"
"Vector's unconscious! Vector's unconscious!" screamed Charmy as he started crying out of fear.
"Time to say good bye bee boy," muttered the sniper man as he was about to pull the trigger until-
"NOOOO!!"
"ILLUSION!"
BANG!! The shot fired but Charmy was on the ground, the sniper man was in a state of shock and Illusion was screeching as loud as she could; her hand red with her crimson blood and she held it.
Espio's eyes were wide as he dashed toward Charmy, picked the crying bee up and was about to get Illusion when she pushed them behind the table and gun shots were being heard.
Vector was barely conscious and it was lucky he was wearing his headphones like usual, otherwise he'd be deaf. Espio held his own ears along with Charmy. The trio stayed hidden behind the table, blocking out the sounds.
"Why you little-"
Illusion looked toward her brother and a gun shot echoed in the air as there was a pained scream. Charcoal laughed as he walked toward the wounded cat and picked her up by her shirt.
"Now what?"
"... THIS!"
Illusion lunged at Charcoal and bit the dark cat's hand. He screamed in agony as Illusion just bit down harder, and she could taste the horrid blood that was spilling from the bite wound. Charcoal threw Illusion to the wall and fired; Illusion rolled out of the way and she grabbed the table cloth that had been shot at from where the Chaotix were.
"What-"
"Magic trick. Now you see me... now you don't," whispered Illusion as she wrapped the table cloth around her and she camaflouged. Charcoal swore rapidly as he ordered the sniper man to shoot everything in sight.
"I... I can't!"
"What the bloody hell do you mean you can't do it?! You're trained to do this!"
"I don't kill kids. That was your job boss! Not mine!"
"Then you're no longer a use to me," replied Charcoal angrily as he shot at the sniper man just as the sniper man shot at Charcoal. The sniper man laid on the ground dead, as Charcoal held his shoulder.
The dusty black cat looked around and saw that everything was still; the people he and the sniper man shot were dead, the table had bullets dented into the wood, and Illusion was gone.
"You've won this round Team Chaotix. Brace yourself because as long as the insignificant brat is alive this isn't over," said Charcoal as he dashed out of the three story building and left the Chaotix in the room.
A few minutes passed as the room sat in utter dead silence. The Chaotix slowly uncovered their ears to realize the shooting had stopped. In that time, Vector had regained consciousness. Charmy peeked over the table that was flipped on its side; everyone was either laying down dead or had fled. Espio kept his kunai out as he slowly walked out of the shelter and looked around. The bee flew after Espio followed by Vector. The trio frowned as they saw how much blood there was and the alligator's first action toward this was grabbing Charmy out of the air and covering his eyes.
"Hey!" shouted Charmy as he wasn't expecting that. Espio frowned when he saw their clients on the ground, dead. Everyone else was gone too.
"Is everyone okay?"
Charmy nodded slightly and he bit Vector's hand, making the alligator let go of him and the bee instantly went into panic mode. Espio looked at himself and nodded as well. Vector saw the clients and he sighed angrily.
"We failed," muttered Espio sadly as he walked over to the clients. "We're very sorry. We never expected this to happen."
"There wasn't anything we could do."
"I know Vector. We still should've seen it coming."
Charmy flew closer to the floor but his panic mode ended when he slammed into something and fell backwards.
"OW!"
"You okay Charmy?"
"Y-yeah. But I just hit-"
A very scared seven year old cat appeared before the Chaotix and she was crying silently. Her hand was still red with her own blood, and her shoulder was bleeding badly.
"Illusion!"
She didn't say anything until Vector was about to pick her up.
"I-I'm n-not a l-little kid! I-I can wa... lk," she said while she stood up and started swaying. Vector caught her and held her in his strong arms.
"It's okay... don't worry. We're going to get you out of here immediately."
Illusion then started crying hysterically and she buried her face into Vector's chest as they all darted out of the three story building before anything bad happened again.
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I'm sorry this is short. I was mainly concerned about getting the fighting part done and out of the way. I wasn't thinking about anything else so now I feel kind of stupid for that. I know the chapter could've been better but this was all I could dig up for now. Don't worry the chapters will get longer after this, so read and review and I'll try to put up the next chapter as soon as I can.