UnUnexpected family in the realm of chaos
Chapter 18, Zone jail..
A/N
Scourge: alright, Losers, let's do this... Huh? ...The others? What others?
Silhouette:Hello everyone!
Scourge: oh... Those others... I wanted to do this without them. Less people to tolerate.
Silhouette: don't forget scourge we have to tolerate you too. Also, *turns to readers* I should've said this in the last chapter, but I will be leaning towards the Sonic the hedgehog/Sonic universe/marvel comics(but more specifically the sonic ones), and if you don't really know what I'm talking about fear not I will do my best to explain what it is or who/where they are as best I can during the story. Please don't give up because I will still be using the video games and movies as well. Also if you're confused or have an idea on a character or something you might like to see, please (PM) tell me.
Sonic: Chapter 18! WOOOO!
Shadow: *covers ears*
Scourge: never thought you'd be excited over something I wrote, blue.
Sonic: WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!?
Scourge: socializing...
Shadow: you picked the wrong time to do that
Scourge: not really, I'm actually going to write the "ZJ" chapters.
Silhouette: You're going to HELP write them.
Scourge: no. I wrote this one so I will write the others!
Sonic: *turns to Sil.* how long will that be?
Silhouette: *shrugs* I don't know... A few chapters?
Shadow: well then I'll stay... *moves chair between them* here.
Scourge: *flicks sunglasses over eyes* Hi, Have fun watching me inflict torture,
Shadow: we'll see who's dealing out the torture.
Silhouette: ummm... Behave. And no fighting afterwords...
Sonic: ON WITH THE STORY! *takes script.*
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"So this is what happens when I don't put up a fight against the Zone Cops." Scourge told himself. He sat in one of the prison holding rooms he'd recognized before from the Zone Jail in the No Zone. Rubbing his head he felt that they had already pruned his spines short already. Not that it mattered as much to him now as he felt the pounding pressure against his skull from a migraine and the fact that most everything is sideways didn't help, but Scourge was use to seeing this set up.
Being taken to the No Zone prison every time he got caught was almost a routine now. The same number on the same orange prison jumpsuit, okay.. So it wasn't the exact same jumpsuit, but they all looked alike so it might've well been; also he had a special gold collar around his neck called: a control collar; what it pretty much does is cut off his natural ability to be fast and good at kicking people's butts.
"I wonder what happened after I blacked out?" Scourge thought. "Ya know, other than the fact that I got drug to this stupid place again."
He walked over to the cell door and looked around at the normally confusing, but painfully familiar sight of the other cells. It was night, but the sudden switch of the light that lit the whole prison up told him that it was now morning, even if what little bit of sky he could see didn't even show it.
"Wake Up, Prisoners!" A Zone Cop yelled as he walked along the walls above the cells till he got to the end.
As the doors to the cells opened Scourge looked at the top bunk of the bed in his cell kinda curious to why Smalls the cat hadn't attempted to antagonize him or harm him only to find that he wasn't there.
"what?" Scourge said confused, but before he could finish his thought the Zone Cop yelled for him to move along with the others, but not the way he was use to hearing it. It kinda sounded a bit surprised and different.
Once in the Mess hall (cafeteria) Scourge realized he was with all girls until he saw the boys come up for breakfast too.
Scourge shook his head. It hurt too bad to comprehend what was going on at the moment and even though He wasn't very hungry he took the slush they call food anyway and found a place by himself.
Looking around the room, He could plainly see which prisoners had a death wish on him, which ones pretended he wasn't there, and who is confused by him being there which, surprisingly, is a majority of them... almost everyone.
Pushing the slush around on his tray he decided not to pay them any attention and tried to finish his food as quickly as he could.
"Why does everyone keep looking at me as if I'm some kind of important person that got arrested for probably being too nice?" He chuckled as the thought passed his mind "That's probably how they'd look at Silhouette if she were here. Then again, she was with me when I got arrested. I can't believe she didn't get arrested too, but she also has no reason to be arrested. What am I even thinking? She was taking me to get arrested when they showed up so of course they didn't..." His thoughts broke when someone sat down across from him.
It was a pig mobian. The same one he and Sil had run into in mobius. He sighed heavily as the pig asked if he could sit there nicely then laughed in his face. Shoving the last bite of food in his mouth Scourge stood up to leave taking his tray with him when the rhino mobian, who was also with the pig mobian that day, tripped him. He dropped his tray and landed face first.
"Not so tough anymore, cookie, welcome to your world of pain." The rhino said as the prisoners who saw laughed.
"Cookie?" He repeated. "Did you just call me a tough cookie then turn it into a nickname That's suppose to intimidate me?" Scourge stood up not entirely sure wether he should be offended by that or not. I mean the last nickname they have him wasn't all that great either, but he's never, as far as he knows, been called: tough, especially in this prison.
"No one said you could get up!" The buff pig mobian said as he grabbed his shoulder and shoved him down into the tray of food he had dropped.
Scourge groaned annoyed. Looking at the two in front of him who couldn't refrain from laughing he knew the rest of the jail had noticed them as well, but he was surprised to find the others laughing a lot less then he thought they would.
"I guess you can consider this your warning, crumb cake, I don't like it when food is wasted. Especially by short people, like you." A voice from behind him said as he was jerked up by the collar of his jumpsuit by a big cat mobian, named Smalls, who resembled Big the cat only his color scheme was reversed and this guy does not seem as friendly.
Scourge hung there annoyed from the schedule of torture the inmates probably planned for him when he returned. When Smalls shoved him back into his seat and they dispersed he cocked his head in confusion. Glancing around at the other inmates trying to figure out what happened.
"They gave me a warning? Since when?" Scourge wondered but not for long kind of getting a clue when the officers came in and dragged him out.
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After a quick session in "consequences-for-starting-something-that-could-get -out-of-hand." Scourge was back in his cell. Alone.
"for some reason. I remember those beating hurting worse than that." He said to himself sitting on his bed leaning against the bars leading to the top bunk.
looking through the window on the other side of the prison through the bars of his cell Something seemed like it was different. He didn't get placed in the cell he normally would've, the fights they inmates involved him in weren't as long as they use to be, and the beatings for rehabilitation purposes that he had didn't hurt, like, almost at all. Plus ever since he arrived they've been coming up with a new nickname for him. (Not that he didn't mind that part. After all getting called "Snot" isn't something he wanted to get use to.)
he stood and started pacing the room going over the past few hours in his mind. Why in the multiverse would they start going easy on him now? It's not like his wife could've convinced them to take the number one most despised inmate that was ever arrested and go easy on him. If she could.. Well... He knew he married a smart woman. But he didn't recall seeing Fiona today.
"Alright. Nothing weird is going on here. You've just not been here in a while. Besides these are small details that I'm stressing over. It's not anything major they just... Well, saying that they want to be nice to me would be a flat out lie, but it's one I'm down for. Mainly because I've got nothing else to go on." He told himself confidentially.
"...yep. I'm sticking with that." He assured himself looking at the metal wall attempting to use it as a mirror. His shadow cast up against the wall and looked almost like... Shadow? "Huh?"
running his fingers through his spines Scourge found that, despite being cut shorter than normal, they were spiked up on the ends. "What the..." He started to say but froze "...no." He held out his hands and noticed that his gloves have different cuffs. Then he looked at his shoes, but instead of them being his normal black and green they we're black white and red hover shoes. Looking back up at his 'reflection' Scourge walked up to the wall where he could faintly see a reflection, but it wasn't his, it was Silhouette's.
Turning around and leaning against the wall Scourge tried convincing himself that he was dreaming, after all you don't feel pain when you're asleep. that explained why the session didn't hurt... As much.
lifting his arm he pulled down his sleeve to look at the cuffs. He never cared that Silhouette had different cuffs then him and he could be remembering them wrong. They looked very similar to Shadow's only there is a strip of white-silver around the red flap on the cuffs. And His arm was black.
"Okay." Scourge said trying to calm himself. "So they arrested Silhouette, why? She didn't do anything, did she? What could she have done when I was passed out? Anything I can think of doesn't sound like something she would do unless I forced her to do it." He said still freaked out by the idea that could've traded bodies, but he still held up on the hope they this was a nightmare.
"then again.." Scourge said with an evil smirk "posing as Sonic was so much fun. Pretending to be a G.U.N. Agent, or former agent, from the prime zone should be interestingly amusing with these idiots."
The cell doors slid open and the cops directed them to the field. Scourge looked around for Fiona. After all she would be the only person who would talk to the Real Scourge of he wasn't confined in another form.
After a moment of searching...
"Fiona." Scourge called, taping the reddish-brown fox on the opposite shoulder from the one he stood on, but she looked straight at him with a smug look on her face.
glancing at the other inmates around them Scourge whispered to her "I know what happened to Scourge, but I can't tell you here. He told me to tell you in your cell."
Fiona looked at him in disbelief. "Really?" She asked putting on a fake sense of interest. "Well then, maybe, on the way, you can tell me why my husband would tell it to you first to tell me." She said wrapping her arm around his shoulders and leading him towards the elevator.
Letting out a sigh he knew convincing her would be difficult, but he always did love a challenge. he got on the elevator and pulled her on as it went up to her cell. And despite how many questions she asked him he remained quiet until they got in the cell.
"I Lied." He blurted out. Turning back to Fiona she obviously believed him so far.
"Kind of.. Lied. I mean. I know where your husband is. I don't know where Scourge is. Umm...Or how he is like that."
Raising an eye ridge "and That's suppose to mean what?" Fiona asked
Scourge turned towards the bars "I'm not even sure I know what I'm saying. But to say it bluntly: I'm Scourge and Silhouette is somewhere here in my body. I'm not sure how it happened, but it did, and honestly I'm not 100% sure if it happened, and if it did, I don't know if it can be reversed." He admitted turning back to Fiona who obviously didn't believe him.
She laughed quietly to herself "you expect me to believe that after you just lied to me twice?"
"Yes." Scourge said without hesitating looking her straight in the eyes. "Because I'm forcing myself to believe it too, and I need your help to figure out what happened to me."
Fiona looked at Silhouette confused "That makes no sense, but...okay, just for fun, let's say I did believe you, what would you want me to do while helping you find your...self?"
Chuckling amused at how he never thought he would ever have to convince anyone of this. "Nothing really. Just treat me like you would Silhouette, because I don't want the whole dump knowing this happened. I don't even want to know this happened, but I'm going to pose as her until we find me and if she's in my body I'm gunna... Umm... Demand she switch us back. Then when I'm myself I'll teach her a lesson."
"Did your plan fail, or what?" Fiona said smugly as a smug smile spread across her lips.
Scourge chuckled leaning against the bars, not bothering to look up since he knew she somewhat believed him now. "I guess I could've planned it a little better. I almost had Mobius, but... I should've just killed her."
Fiona watched as Scourge hit his head on the bars. "Look, it's not all your fault, you were just trying to find a new gang. Besides I told you not to win over Mobius until I got there, remember?"
"Yeah, yeah.. But you don't understand. I was this close!" He said with a raised voice holding up his hand angrily as he spread his thumb and finger about a fourth of an inch apart.
"Calm down. And remember that, even though I don't fully believe you yet, I'm the only person here who will talk to you. Don't push your luck." She whispered to him under her breath.
Scourge looked at her with no sympathetic trace at all, and managed a half smile that he didn't hold for very long. Before 'he' dropped it and glanced out of the cell again.
"Do you want to tell me how you came back?" Fiona asked, she could tell he was forced to come, but then again who here wasn't forced to endure this place.
Without moving Scourge plainly said "no." After a few seconds he looked at her, "it's a long story." He said Then proceeded to give a brief overview of what he believed had happened.
Fiona chuckled when he finished telling the story.
"That's funny to you?" He asked
Fiona shook her head back and forth "no. It only becomes funny when to hear it come from Silhouette's mouth instead of yours."
Scourge chuckled as well "yeah, I guess that would look funny."
"I'll let you know if I find anything about that." Fiona said as they left her cell heading back to the yard.
Scourge sighed as he glanced back at Fiona. He couldn't hangout with her the others would get suspicious and That's not what he needed right now. He figured he best not tell her this now and he walked away as she walked opposite him. Scourge thought hard about what could've happened as to how and why this happened to him so much so he wasn't really paying attention to everyone around him.
Kicking some of the dirt towards the fence he grabbed the wire looking at the sideways world. Make up several scenarios all which seemed like something she would never do. Scoffing in amusement wondering with the limited information he had about her was enough to convince these idiots that he is her, at least for now.
"The Warden." Scourge mumbled to himself. "Maybe, If I can pull off Silhouette well, I can get him to tell me what happened; Why I'm here, and where I- uh.. Scourge is. I can't... Ugh.. Believe, really, any of this, much less getting in trouble just so I can see that fat idiot."
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(In Zobotnik's office)
"then again.. Being correctly processed works too. At least I don't have to get beat up too badly just to get here." Scourge thought while walking into the room on the little odd platform that stuck out from the floor of the room followed by the Two Zone cops. Crossing his arms over his chest and stood there as an obese man who resembled Dr. Eggman, only sideways and dressed in a uniform, stood up from the desk "Welcome to Zone Jail, Silhouette the Hedgehog. I can honestly say I never thought I'd see the day where you would show up in my jail." The Warden said suspicious of the hedgehog.
Scourge stood there looking blankly at the warden. He could've said something, but he wasn't sure if he wanted to give away that he wasn't her and that something had gone wrong during the time when he had blacked out and was arrested. Also he had no idea how she would respond to anything.
Looking over some papers on his clip board, the Warden clarified that the reason she was brought to Zone Jail under the charges that she was Scourge's accomplice in conquering Mobius Pirme and of jumping zones that were in lockdown.
Scourge sighed then responded doing his best impression of a girl as he could "umm... I've never Zone jumped before except for this time when you guys brought me here."
the warden wasn't amused by her outburst. "And you're not denying the fact that you helped Scourge?"
Scourge scoffed "Helped me- uhh him? I was...ummm" He said but his voice, that sounded like Silhouette's, trailed off as he realized that she wasn't helping him in the way that he thought she was, but never reacted the way Shadow or any other person in mobius did.
"You were doing what?" The Warden prompted her to finish her sentence, Becoming slightly interested in what she had to say.
Scourge sighed not exactly sure how to tell him. "I was.. Trying to stop Scourge. I was undercover. Not an accomplice."
Warden Zobotnik nodded "Ahh.. Well. ...Scourge said otherwise, and until that disproved I'm afraid you're stuck here. But don't worry, I have Zone cops working on that now. So enjoy your stay because you might be here longer than you'd expect."
Scoffing lightly trying not to make it too noticeable. He knew that they brought him here, now for the tricky part. The curious black hedgehog asked. "Where is Scourge? I haven't seen him here yet." He asked still pretending to be Silhouette.
In ignoring the question the Warden asked a few more questions that needed to be answered for her to be officially processed into the system. And while Scourge answered as best he could as if he were Silhouette he still had no idea if anything he said was accurate, but kept trying to bring the conversation around so he could figure out what part of the prison they took him to.
"That will be all. I do believe you have met your cell mate, but he won't be there until tomorrow so enjoy the peace while you can." The Warden said as Zonic came in the room.
Scourge opened his mouth to say something, but bit his tongue in confusion when he proceed the Warden's word. "What room mate?" He asked quietly as he turned to see the Zone cop entering.
With his hand in a salute Zonic was welcomed as Silhouette was being ushered out, but stopped for a brief moment when he heard Zonic requested permission to take Silhouette to the Science lab for the project the government assigned to see if the process could be done better with her.
Scourge heard them agree as the doers closed behind them.
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"Fi." The fox heard as she turned the corner in line with the other inmates. Glancing over her shoulder she saw Silhouette.
"What?" She asked quietly
Scourge looked at the other inmates being carful to keep quiet so they couldn't hear him. "I found that they did bring him here, I'm just not sure where here."
sighing Fiona took the tray of mush they called food. Scourge did likewise and they went and sat down next to a green fox that appeared to be about 4-5 years old. Scourge didn't seem to notice him though. "I don't know where else they could've put me. They always just stick me in here, with smalls." Scourge said swallowing some of the green ish brown mush. It tasted as bland as he felt but he was so preoccupied with his thoughts that he barley noticed that Zonic was in the cafeteria watching him.
Scourge sat up and looked down. He was uncomfortable with discovering what he and the warden discussed as he left the office. He saw the reflective metal on Silhouette's air shoes that he wore. "Wait a second.." He thought "dosent Silhouette have a double in this world? If she does why isn't she here watching me instead of Zonic? Does Zonic know about.. This? Or am I over thinking this?" He glanced back to where Zonic was. There were three more zone cops with him, talking amongst themselves.
shaking his head Scourge continued eating, and turned his tray in. Walking out to the field he glanced over his shoulder at the empty floor where the Zone cops were. Scourge raised an eye ridge in confusion, but shook his head as he let the doors shut behind him. He looked ahead and froze to see the same Zone cops approaching. Except for Zonic, who he immediately found when he started backing up back into the mess hall.
"what did I do?" Scourge asked trying to act as if he never heard any of the conversation in the office.
"Quiet!" Zonic yelled as he put cuffs on Silhouette's wrists. One Zone cop got behind him, another in front one held his left arm and Zonic held his.. Right arm?
Scourge looked at Zonic as he was talk/yelling in his ear, but he was more distracted by the fact that they were both walking in the same gravity field.
"I.. I'm sorry what? I didn't get..any of that." Scourge stuttered at a loss of words for having to remember that he was trying to be someone else as well as processing what happened to his No Zonic counterpart.
Zonic glared at Silhouette's confused face "Just behave and I'll make sure nothing bad happen more than it needs to."
"What?" Was all that could come to mind at the moment the boarded him on a shuttle.
Holding on to Silhouette so she didn't have much give for movement, Zonic awkwardly braced himself in the sideways shuttle as it took off.
"What's going on? Where are we going?" Scourge finally asked very quietly
Groaning with impatience One of the Zone cops ordered him to be quiet.
"You'll see when we get there." Zonic said with a little smirk on his face.
Scourge let out a little growl "Alright, punk. I'll tell you this it turns out you have me wrong. I'm not Silhouette. I'm really Scourge, the Evil Sonic, and I have no idea what the heck is going on, or why I look like Silhouette. And I've been trying to get you guys to tell me where you're keeping whoever is in my body." Scourge angrily admitted through his teeth, having looking all day for Silhouette in his body he had had enough trick and lies as he imagined a few things that he knew very well that could've happened.
Zonic's unchanged expression ticked him off but also confused Scourge a bit. Did he know what happened to Scourge? Did he even believe him? Why wasn't anyone talking to him like they normally, and aggressively, would? So many more questions run through his head as they landed.
"Keep moving." Zonic said forcefully but slightly quieter than his normal yell as they got off and went inside the Science lab.
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A/N
Scourge: not that I'd really care, but Silhouette's been pestering me the whole story so I have to ask, what do you guys think of the story so far?
Silhouette: Smooth, String bean
Sonic: I'll leave that question for them to answer, but I'll add on to it. Is there anything that you'd might like to see in future chapters? More action? A specific character (Me!)?
Silhouette: which is all coming up! Even you, Sonic. But I Love hearing from all of you too! And digital cake for all who have commented and will comment! Thank you all so much!
Shadow: I want to know what happened? Why did you two trade bodies and how?
Silhouette: good question! How do you think it happened?
Sonic: *looks at Scourge* do you know?
Scourge: of course I know. I wrote the chapter! Do you know how hard it is not to give the idea away? I mean it fits so well with the future chapter in explaining how-
Silhouette: SCOURGE SHUT UP!
Scourge: I just wish it could've been introduced differently than this happening to us. And I'm married. Also, you were trying to stop me from taking over Mobius, weren't you?
Silhouette:no. I mean yeah.. duh. It's my planet. I don't want it overthrown. But that wasn't the reason or the main reason of what I was doing, but it doesn't matter anymore.
Scourge: Of Course It Dosent! I Was Directly Involved!
Silhouette: shut up..
Sonic: *Busts out laughing!*
Shadow: Moving on.
Silhouette: yeah, thanks for reading! I'm so sorry it's taking a long time to post these Chapters. I promise I'm not done with the story it just keeps building everytime I write and I can stay put in one chapter so hopefully, since I am working on future chapters as well as these it won't take me as long to post the later chapters, but I do apologize.
Shadow: we got it. You're busy and sorry.
Silhouette: sorry. I don't like making excuses...
Scourge: *pulls out a rubber fish and throws at Silhouette which hits her in the head* are ya done apologizing?
Silhouette: *exsaperated sigh* watch it!
Sonic: oook well. Until the next chapter I'll make sure these two don't kill each other.
Everyone: Bye!
(P.S. I don't own Sonic or Archie Sonic.)