THE DARK WINDS CHAPTER 8 Partners
DISCLAMER; I DON'T OWN SONIC, YADA, YADA, YADA.
Yo what's up everyone heatx here, back with more of THE DARK WINDS, I got some new reviews and just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to tell me what you think. Also from what I've seen and read about Sonic he has always seemed to be holding back when he fought,(refusing to go at full speed or use his chaos powers for example) so I began to think how strong would Dark Sonic be, and to add more to it Dark Sonic probably does not need the chaos emeralds… But enough of my rambling back to the story.
"Finally…Were home, that was the worst trip I have ever been on." Shade said rather relieved, as she stepped up to a large door hidden behind a sliding wall in an empty building.
"Hmph… Whatever, it wasn't that bad." Shadow said with his usual attitude, following her.
"Are you kidding Shadow, were we even on the same boat?" Shade stated in disbelief.
"Yes and the mission was rather routine. To be honest it was actually fun." Shadow said with a smirk thinking back to his previous destruction.
"The mission wasn't the problem; I was referring to the boat ride back." She said.
"Why? The boat ride was pretty easy if you ask me." Shadow said quite normally as if the ride had been the easy part.
"Not for me! All that swaying back and forth drove me crazy I nearly lost my dinner back there." Shade said rather upset.
Shadow just looked at her for a moment, Shade was usually a very calm and level headed woman, and she was quiet and reserved, only speaking when needed. She actually reminded him a lot of himself, and he found this rather interesting, he enjoyed being around her more than he let on, which is precisely why he picked her as his partner. Yet this behavior was new to him, thus the only way he thought to respond was with his eyebrow raised, confused as to why such a thing would affect a warrior like her.
Shade instantly noticed Shadow's expression and at once turned and straightened herself blushing slightly. She then began to respond.
"So… Shall we head inside now the commander is most likely awaiting our report?" Shade said trying to regain her composer.
Shadow responded with a slightly still confused "Yea," as he followed her into the base.
The G.U.N base was usually a place very few people knew about let alone could get into. Yet it had many entrances and locations, but almost all of them were so well hidden that if you didn't know were they were at exactly you would have an easier time locating Bigfoot swimming in a pond in the middle of the Goby dessert, which was ironic as there was an entrance to a base located in that very place with a Bigfoot robot guarding the entrance.
Shadow and Shade walked inside the door behind the sliding wall, and then found themselves in a small empty white room. Shadow and Shade then both placed their hands to the walls and stated their names. A computerized voice answered back by saying. "Axcess granted, welcome back agents."
The floor of the room then opened up as they began descending into the base through a clear tunnel. The tunnel was quite large as they could both fit in it rather well. They were given a clear view of the many levels of the base as they descended. The first level contained a vast amount of vehicles, ranging from hi-tech planes, and tanks to motor cycles, one of which was Shadow's and he smiled at seeing it. The second floor contained the weapons used by all the agents. There were bazookas, swords, and guns everywhere you looked making it a very dangerous room to let your guard down in. Next was the third floor which was the testing ground. This was where all the new technology used by G.U.N was developed. Everywhere you looked there was something amazing going on, people were using belts to turn invisible an make barriers. (Note: a little something from the nocturnus clan from Sonic chronicles and the dark brotherhood.) Shade laughed at this proudly to herself as it was her people's tech they were improving on. Yet the forth floor seemed to catch both Shadow and Shade's attention. It was the training grounds; it contained hundreds of new agents testing their skills in many ways. They were dodging gun fire on obstacle courses, going over formation plans that were mandatory for all agents to know, but the most interesting to Shadow and Shade was the sparing dojo. They saw several new recruits going head to head testing there own skills against each other. Shadow and Shade then looked at one another an smirked. Shade then spoke up.
"Brings back memories huh Shadow." Shade said smiling at him.
"Sure does." Shadow stated matching her grin.
"You remember how we became partners I trust." Shade spoke as she looked him in the eyes warmly.
"How could I forget one of the most entertaining days of my life?" Shadow said as his eyes focused on her completely.
They both then began to think back to the day they became partners.
FLASH BACK.
It was just another day for Shadow, as he walked though the various hallways of the base quite bored. He had just left the commander's office and was quite annoyed by what he had told him as he remembered.
"Shadow your one of our top agents that's a fact but you lack a partner to back you up." The commander stated as calmly as humanly possible.
"Hmph… No thanks a partner would only slow me down." Shadow stated in his usual cocky way.
"I know how good you are Shadow but everyone needs help every now and again." The commander spoke as he looked at Shadow.
"I said, I was fine without one sir, as you are well aware, I work best alone." Shadow said turning his head away from the man slightly upset that he would insult him by saying he needed a partner.
"It looks like I'm not getting anywhere… So how about this Shadow, we have a bunch of new promising recruits starting today, why don't you go down and check them out." The commander sighed in defeat as he said this.
Shadow looked at the commander still upset but then remembered he had nothing better to do so agreed and walked out.
Shadow was now at the door of the training room and slowly walked in. he watched uninterestedly at the many new recruits as he walked by. Few were able to dodge the gun fire on the obstacle course and those who did were quickly stopped by the next hazard in front, be it a pitfall, or hidden wall.
Shadow continued unimpressed by how the new recruits were unable to grasp the simple formations of G.U.N agents. He was starting to really regret coming here, until something caught him by surprise as he came to the dojo. He turned slightly to the left as he dodged a large man who had been sent hurdling through the air. Shadow then rushed inside the dojo in an effort to find out why the man had suddenly taken flight. As he walked in he was shocked to find that recruits were gathering in a circle around someone, and quickly being sent skyward. Yet the surprises didn't stop there as Shadow saw the one responsible for this, it was none other than Shade the echidna, a woman whom he had met a few months ago during his adventures with Sonic against the Nocturnus, and Eggman. Needles to say Shadow was burdened with many questions, but the main one seemed to be, why was she here beating on G.U.N soldiers? Shadow decided that he was better of taking the direct approach to his question and at once dashed up to her.
"Hey what do you think your doing?" Shadow said as he came up behind her and placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Hmph, sneaking up from behind won't do you any good." Shade said arrogantly as she let of a round house kick at Shadow without looking at him.
He at once blocked the kick with his left hand and caught her foot at the same time. This caught her by surprise but what was more surprising was that Shadow wasn't done yet, as he quickly threw her by her leg sending her flying to the left. She caught herself in mid air and then back flipped to her feet.
"I see your not just some pitiful human, but don't think that I will lose to… Wait I know you. Is that you Shadow the Hedgehog? Shade said in awe.
"Hmph took you long enough to notice, but yes it is me." Shadow said rather unenthusiastically.
"Well this is a shock, what are you doing here Shadow?" Shade said still quite surprised to see him.
"I should be asking you the same question." Shadow said highly annoyed.
"I 'm a new recruit of G.U.N, and you Shadow?" Shade now said with a hint of attitude, to match his.
"I've been a top G.U.N agent for two years now." Shadow stated with pride.
"Wow, I had no idea you were a top agent, quite impressive hedgehog. Yet what brings you to the new recruits training ground?" Shade said.
"Hmph, if you must know I'm here to check out the new recruits. Better yet why were you attacking them all just now?" Shadow retorted.
"Oh you saw that? Well to tell you the truth I was getting rather bored with the training session today so, I decided to test the strength of the other recruits." Shade said with a hint of embarrassment as she put her right hand behind her head.
"Well I see it wasn't that entertaining." Shadow said as he looked at the numerous amounts of knocked out soldiers.
"Yea it was rather boring… Hey you're a strong warrior would you mind sparing with me?" Shade said with a smirk as she began to assume her fighting stance.
"You honestly don't think you can beat do you?" Shadow said with his cockiness in full effect as he assumed his own stance.
"You never know." Shade said as she rushed towards him.
Shade immediately tried to punch him but Shadow just blocked her with his arm, seeing this Shade then quickly switched into a round house, but Shadow ducked the kick and instantly countered with an upper cut, yet Shade saw it coming and simply back flipped to avoid it. Yet before Shade could fully gain her footing Shadow rushed up to her and delivered a series of lightning fast punches to her body, she winced at this as she started to falter holding her stomach, Shadow then raised his hand ready to delver a finisher but, before he could Shade sweep kicked him causing him start to fall to the ground yet before he did Shade let of another round house sending Shadow sailing. Shadow then caught himself and landed firmly on the ground. They both then looked at each other for a moment waiting for the other to make the next move. Shadow then spoke up.
"You can drop the act now, I know your way stronger than this." Shadow said with a smirk.
"You are holding back as well I see, so your one to talk." Shade added.
"Well what do you say we start having some fun then?" Shadow said.
"Thought you'd never ask." Shade stated as she held up her wrist thus producing a sword made with purple energy.
Shadow then instantly brought out a modified silver hand gun from behind his back. They stared at each other for a moment, and then they both rushed forward. Shadow quickly fired of several shots from his gun at Shade. Seeing this she instantly began deflecting them with her sword. This was all part of Shadows plan as he immediately teleported behind her and was about to fire of another shot, but before he could do so Shade disappeared from sight. Shadow looked around himself in an effort to locate her but could not seem to find her. Shade then reappeared in midair on his left as she brought down her leg in a powerful kick. Shadow seen this and was barely able to bring his arm up in time to block it. The clash of the two warriors caused a shock wave to pulse through the base. They both winced in pain at this as both jumped back away from each other. They then smiled at one another as they rushed at each other again shouting.
Shadow shouted out "Shadow Spreader." As he began to accelerate, causing 5 afterimages to appear behind him. Shade at the same time shouted leech blade, as she brought her sword to her face, it turned blue and grew to twice its size, as she ran towards Shadow. He then raised his hand and fired of a shot that came out with so much speed and power that it created 5 afterimages of its own. Shade then slashed at Shadow so quickly one slice looked like it lasted for hours. The two attacks then collided, Shade was able to block 4 bullets but the 5th one hit her in her right arm, Shadow was only able to back up a little to dodge half of her swing, but the sword still sliced deep into his right arm an shoulder. They both jumped back from each other, holding their arms trying to endure the pain. Shade then spoke up.
"Agh… Not bad Shadow but looks like you couldn't completely dodge my sword." Shade said trying not to think about her arm as blood was running down it.
"Agh… Well what about you? I doubt that wound is pleasant." Shadow said with a wince as he felt his own blood running from his shoulder and to his back.
"Yea looks like were both pretty messed up. What do you say we finish this with one last shot?" Shade said with a grin.
"Sounds like a plan, lets do it." Shadow said mirroring her grin.
They both then raised their left arms for one last attack. Shade's sword began to glow green as she held it up. Shadow's hand and gun began to glow yellow as he pointed it at her direction. They looked into each others eyes once more as they let of their attacks shouting out again. Shade yelled LEECH WAVE! As she sliced the air causing, a blade of pure energy to fly towards Shadow. Shadow then yelled out CHAOS SHOT! As his gun fired of a large energy blast that barreled towards Shade. The two attacks exploded when they came in contact and sent a massive shock wave through the entire base, forcing most G.U.N personnel to grab a hold of something to avoid being blown away. Through the smoke one figure was still standing as the other was on the ground. When the smoke cleared the figures were identifiable, the few new recruits that were able to remain within the dojo watched as the standing figure walked over to the figure on the floor and reached out its hand.
"Need a hand there Shade?" Shadow said with a now caring expression on his face.
"Sure, thanks Shadow." Shade said with a smile aimed at him, as he pulled her up.
"No, thank you Shade that was one of the most entertaining fights I've had in a while. You are truly a strong opponent." Shadow said in a respectful tone.
"Wow, Shadow that's really sweet of you to say, and I really enjoyed it to. Shade said with a slight blush.
"Indeed that was splendid." A voice spoke out of nowhere.
They both turned around to find the commander looking at them from behind a glass window in the wall.
"What are you doing here sir?" Shade said quite surprised.
"I was watching the whole time and my dear I must say you are more then ready to join our elite agents." He said proudly.
"Really, Thank you sir I won't let you down." Shade stuttered still in shock.
"There's just one problem, you will need to find a partner. An since you are very new to our ranks you will need to find one on your level with at least two years of experience, but who could you find. Hmmm…" The commander said as he rubbed his chin looking at Shadow.
Shadow saw this and instantly sighed as he knew what was coming next, but he was shocked when Shade began to speak.
"With all do respect sir I don't think I don't need a partner, as I work best alone." Shade said looking at the commander.
Both he and Shadow were taken of guard by this, but mostly Shadow as he said the thing, not to long ago. Shade then instantly began to speak again.
"Yet… If I had to have a partner, the only one I would accept would be agent Shadow sir." Shade said as she smiled at Shadow.
The commander and Shadow both gawked at her after hearing her response. The commander then stated "Well that's fine with me, but it's Shadow who makes the final decision." The commander said as he looked at Shadow.
Shadow then turned away from the two of them as he stated.
"Well, I guess I don't have much of a choice… Fine I'll do it. Shadow said with a slight blush on his face.
"Then it's settled from this day forward Shadow, and Shade you're both partners." The commander said with a huge smile aimed at the two of them.
The two then looked each other in the eye and smiled as they shook hands.
BACK TO THE PRESENT
"Good times a Shadow." Shade said looking at him with a smile.
"Yea that was something." Shadow said returning her smile.
"Oh were here." Shade said as her and Shadow landed in the commander's office.
"Hello Shadow and Shade I'm glad your back how was your mission the commander stated." With a warm smile.
"Hmph, perfect as always." Shadow said with a smirk.
"I'm glad because I've a big job for you." The commander said as he handed them a folder.
"What so soon we haven't even given you are full report yet, why the rush?" Shade said rather confused.
"I am sorry agents but this a very important job and with agent Sonic in the Hospital we are short on top agents." The commander stated with a hint of worry.
"Wait, Sonic's in the hospital, why?" Shadow stated in a rather worried tone.
"There were some complications during agent Sonic's and agent Blaze's mission, but I will brief you on our way." The commander stated as he got up from his chair.
"Wait, you're coming to sir?" Shade said in shock.
"Why yes I am coming along to take charge of the mission. We just need to pick up some one on are way." The commander stated as he Shadow and Shade boarded a helicopter.
"Who?" Both Shade and Shadow said as the helicopter took of.
BACK AT THE HOSPITAL, IN SONIC'S ROOM.
"Umm… What a beautiful day." Blaze said as she opened the window in the room and began to breathe in the air. This day felt like that of a fairy tale, birds were chirping, the sun was bright and there was not a cloud in the sky. Blaze began to relish this moment and slowly let a smile loose from her mouth as she closed her eyes and felt the breeze. She heard aloud sound coming from the room, she turned around to see what was making the racket. It was Sonic snoring loudly proving that he was indeed tired, Blaze began to chuckle slightly as she looked at him, and then turned back towards the window. She loved days like this as it reminded her of how she and Sonic joined G.U.N and became partners.
FLASH BACK
"Your highness the sol emeralds are acting strangely, what's going on?" Gordon stated in fright.
"I don't know what's more annoying? The fact that Gordon persists on referring to me as your highness, or this?" Is what Blaze was thinking as she stood in front of the seven sol emeralds. They were glowing brightly as if ready to blow, causing massive shaking throughout the castle. They then lifted from their pedestals and began to hover around her. Blaze was unable to move as they began to revolve faster causing a blinding light to start engulfing her.
"Oye, Oye, Blaze what's with all the chatter it's lunch time ya know." Marine said as she walked in quite upset that her lunch was being interrupted, she then screamed as the light began to engulf her as well.
"Your highness, miss Marine, look out!" Gordon yelled as he dived for them, but it was too late as they both vanished. He then slammed his fist to the ground as yelled out in anger.
ELSEWERE IN SONIC'S WORLD
It was a gorgeous day as Sonic ran through the mountain side heading for Tails' place when he stopped at the top of the mountain to enjoy the view. Everywhere he looked he saw the beauty of the mountain, there were red, yellow and, orange flowers covering the hillside, it was truly something worth seeing.
"Wow you know I should come here more often… Well better get to Tails' house." Sonic thought to himself, as he took in the view once more before starting to run.
Sonic then felt something strange and began to stop, "What the," Sonic said as he pulled out the blue chaos emerald from his back. It was glowing brightly almost as if it was signaling something to him. Then suddenly a bright flash appeared over head. "What's going on here?" Sonic thought to himself still a bit confused as to why there was a flash just now. He then heard what sounded like something falling, he looked around, but could not find were it was coming from. It then became louder, Sonic looked and was shocked to see that some one was coming right at him, but what really shocked was as the figure came into view he realized who it was.
"Blaze?" Sonic said as he looked up at her.
Seeing this Sonic quickly sprung into action. Sonic jumped into the air and grabbed her, and the sol emeralds, as he cradled her in his arms, he then front flipped and landed on his feet back to the ground. She then opened her eyes slowly, she at once realized she was being held and looked up.
"Hey Blaze long time no see." Sonic said as he gave her a warm smile.
"Sonic is that you?" Blaze said a little shaky as she was still in shock.
"Unless you know another heart stoppingly handsome blue hedgehog." Sonic said playfully.
"It is you; Sonic I'm so glad to see you." Blaze said as she hugged Sonic tightly emitting a little bit of heat, so that she was comfortably warm to the touch.
Blaze wouldn't admit it but she had felt quite empty and lonely since Sonic left her world after they recovered the jeweled scepter from the two Eggmen. She had really missed having him around, he made her life not some fated duty to protect a bunch of glorified rocks but an adventure that always lead to a wondrous feeling of freedom, and she needed that more than she knew.
Sonic was caught of guard by this. Blaze was usually very reserved and quiet when it came to people. Yet now she was out right hugging him. He felt her warmth and how she smelled like lilac and couldn't help but return the hug. Truth be told he had missed her as well, it was no fun running around the world at hypersonic speeds battling monsters and robots if he didn't have his fiery friend watching his back. She gave him some one to talk to as he ran at high speeds, Tails couldn't keep up and Shadow usually never liked to laugh and chat. After a few minutes they broke the hug, and gazed at each other, Sonic then placed Blaze on the ground. Both of them were blushing heavily now. Blaze then spoke up.
"Thanks for the help Sonic." Blaze said still with a red color on her face.
"No problem Blaze, but why are you here?" Sonic said trying to hide his own red coloring.
"I don't know the sol emeralds brought me here but I need to get back quickly." She said in a rushed voice, remembering what she was doing before being teleported.
"Well, you picked a great time to drop in actually; I was heading to Tails' place right now to give him the last chaos emerald. Sonic said as he held up the blue emerald to her.
"No way! But why does he need the emeralds?" Blaze said in awe at this.
"He needs them to power this new generator he made for G.U.N. Ever since me him and Knuckles joined them after the whole Black Arms thing he's been really into it. Speaking of which I better get back the commander is on his way to pick it up. Sonic said as he scooped up Blaze in his arms and jetted of for Tails' place.
TAILS WORKSHOP
"Good morning Mr. Prower how are you today." The commander said to the fox.
"Great commander I can't wait to show you my new generator, I just have to wait for Sonic to bring the last emerald." Tails said with glee as he thought about it.
"I'm quite sure your invention will be amazing my boy, but I do have one question have you and Sonic found your partners yet?" The commander stated with hope in his voice.
"Sorry sir, but no, it's been hard since, Knuckles has Rouge, and Shadow now has Shade, and since me and Sonic can't be partners, are answer isn't just going to fall out of the sky. Tails said.
"I see, my boy it's not that we don't want you to be Sonic's partner, it's just that he is a front line fighter and you tend to cling to the technology based, so you two would not be able to work in your own elements." The commander stated with disappointment in his voice.
All of a sudden a loud scream echoed though the air. "What's that?" Tails said as he looked around. Then it got louder, he looked as a figure came and crashed down upon him, stirring up a huge dust cloud. As the dust cleared a voice said.
"Oye were am I? This sure aint the palace lunch room." Marine said trying to get her bearings.
"Ow. What hit me? No way Marine?" Tails said as he looked at the one on his back.
"Oy! Tails that you mate, it's just ripper to see yea." Maine said as she hugged him.
"It's good to see you to Marine, but what are you doing here?" Tails said quite confused.
"Don't have a clue mate I was about to eat lunch with Blaze and next thing I knew I was ere. Hey where blue and miss royal stick in the mud at that.
"Some one call me?" Sonic said as he dashed in placing Blaze down.
"What was that about a stick in the mud Marine?" Blaze said with obvious anger.
"Oy, nothin, queeny." Marine stuttered in fear.
"Wow, Blaze to this is quite a day huh Sonic?" Tails said trying to process it all.
"You can say that again buddy. Hey I got the emerald you mind if we use them to send Blaze and Marine back first?" Sonic stated.
"Is that ok commander?" Tails added.
"Yes it's quite alright but who are these two?" The commander said in slight shock.
"Oh my bad commander, this is Blaze and this is Marine there are friends from another dimension." Sonic said.
They all exclaimed nice to meet you as Tails brought the rest of the emeralds. They were placed with the sol emeralds as they began to glow. Sonic asked the emeralds to send Blaze and Marine back and then said chaos control. Yet the emeralds stopped glowing, "that's weird, that usually does the trick, it's almost as if the emeralds don't want to do it." Sonic said. Yet before they could try anything else a strange black creature with claws appeared and tried to attack, but as soon as it moved Sonic and Blaze had taken it out with a quick shot of wind and fire, once it was gone Tails and Marine quickly pulled out their own scanners and tried to analyze the best's remains, the commander looked at this with interest. Blaze then spoke.
"Well I don't think the emeralds are going to let us go home anytime soon." Blaze stated with a frown.
"Hey don't worry we will find you two away back until then just think of it as a long vacation." Sonic said with a smile trying to cheer up Blaze.
Blaze thanked Sonic and gazed at him warmly smiling as well. Then the commander spoke out.
"That settles it, if you two wouldn't mind sticking around I would like you to join G.U.N as Sonic and Tails new partners. The commander said with a wide grin.
Everyone was caught of guard by this as they all looked at each other, unsure of what to think. Blaze then said "are you sure, you just met us and your offering us jobs as agents?" The commander replied "you fight along Sonic like its second nature Blaze (She began to blush) and you Marine you seem to have a little bit of a tech wizard in you, most assuredly you could help Tails. So how about it."
They all looked at each other again and then smirked as they all turned back to the commander an nodded.
"Good then from now on Sonic, Blaze will be your partner, and Tails Marine shall be yours welcome to G.U.N. The commander stated with pride.
FLASH BACK END.
After remembering this Blaze began to think it's been three months since that day and she really didn't miss her world at all, she was perfectly content being Sonic's partner. She then looked at him again he was still sound asleep, she was about to try and wake him when her communicator went of Blaze walked to the window and then answered it. "Blaze here" she said as a voice spoke back
"Blaze I hate to take you away from Sonic but we have a big mission that I need you on." The commander stated on the other line.
Blaze then began to think to herself, she didn't want to leave Sonic alone but she knew if he was awake he would have told her to go as she would say to him if reversed. She then walked up to Sonic and whispered "I'll be back soon" in his ear before she jumped out of the room window and dashed of, but no sooner had she left a spider like robot slipped through the window and into Sonic's room. It gazed upon him as he laid there asleep, a voice could then be heard as it said commencing phase 2 of the plan.
THERE YOU GO CHAPTER 8 I KNOW YOUR WONDERING WHY IT WAS ALL PRETTY MUCH FLASH BACKS, WELL I FIGURED I HAD TO PUT IN HOW BLAZE AND MARINE GOT THERE AND HOW THEY ALL WERE A PART OF G.U.N, SO I THOUGHT MIGHT AS WELL DO IT NOW. CHAPETERS 9 AND 10 ARE WERE THE STORIES REALLY GOING TO START GETTING INTENSE SO I WANTED TO GET THE FILLER CHAPTERS OUT OF THE WAY, AND DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT BLACK CREATURE IT WILL BE EXPLAINED SOON ENOUGH. A LITTLE BAD NEWS THOUGH I WILL BE TAKING A BREAK FOR A WHILE AS I WILL BE SUPER BUSY FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS BUT DON'T WORRY I'LL BE BACK SOON ENOUGH
SO UNTIL NEXT CHAPTER STAY THIRSTY MY FRIENDS…