Love Struck

Chapter 139 - Grave Digger, But Backwards

Archer's POV

Ghost and General Hannon stood their ground as I stared at them from the doorway. I think shock was the most in their heads at the moment as I replied with a nod of my head.

Both Hannon and Ghost began to approach me as the cat behind them along with the hedgehog I never met before continued to stare.

Ghost slowly went to touch my chest and the second his hand hit my solid figure he looked into my eyes.

"Your dead?" He stated still in shock.

I slowly shook my head in approval.

"I was." I stated as Hannon looked me over.

"We buried you along with Jake and Amy?" He stated in confusion.

Gently I lowered my head in sadness.

Ghost quickly took my shoulder and asked.

"How are you alive?"

I didn't respond.

They all waited for an answer as I looked up with tears rolling down my fur.

Three months ago. Afghanistan. Archer's POV

"AGHHHH!" I screamed as I raised my head up.

"Bang! UGHHHH!" I grunted as I hit the top of something.

It was pitch black all around and I couldn't move my arms and legs more then a few inches from where I was laying.

"HELLO!" I screamed as I began to bang on the top of this thing.

It wouldn't budge and whatever was on top of me stopped any sound from leaving.

I began to panic and I tried to look around for something, for anything.

As I ran my hand around the walls I found a switch.

"Flick!"

"AGHHHHHHHHH!" I screamed as a small light turned on inside the…coffin I was inside.

I began to look around to see I was in a suit. The coffin was padded and locked and I was trapped.

"NO! NO! NO! THEY DIDN'T!?" I begged out loud as I tried not to believe I was buried alive.

As I began to move in waves I felt my stomach hurt along with my head.

As I lifted up the suit I found stitches. Instantly I remembered the soldier in black who was attacking the capital. He stabbed me and shot me in the head.

"How am I alive?" I asked myself as I covered up the wounds.

I had to do something or I was going to die down here.

"LET ME OUT!" I screamed as I began to bang on the wooden coffin.

"BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!"

Normal POV

The well dressed, suppose to be dead hedgehog banged furiously on the coffin under six feet of mud and dirt being made from the oncoming storm. He fought and fought but losing energy very quickly from old wounds he made a final attempt to hope of surviving this near death encounter.

"BANG! SNAP!"

The lock outside the coffin broke with his last blow and with widened eyes the hedgehog checked to see if he had done what he had hoped for.

"AGHHHH!" He panicked as mud full of worms and other bugs such as spiders poured into the coffin where he laid.

"AGHHHHH!" He began to panicked as spiders and worms crawled onto his cloths.

With force he attempted to lift the lid fighting the heavy mud.

"UGHHHHHHHH!" He groaned as the force of the mud pushed down on his weak body.

"AGHHHHHHHHH!" Adrenaline had kicked in and slowly the lid pushed up letting more and more mud and critters drop down on the crawled upon hedgehog.

His pain mixed with blood from the stitches on his stomach breaking open filled with the mud and bugs as the lid finally was raised off.

Now the mud engulf the hedgehog and it was like a pool just mud not water. He couldn't breath and using all he had left he forced the mud and dirt aside slowly going up from where he was left to die.

Inch by inch he swam through the hell and after a few long, painful minutes his fingers reached air.

With mud in the nails and mouth the hedgehog began to poke his head up from the grave.

"AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" He screamed for air as his arms came out into the rain.

The hedgehog was broken and not able to move after he managed to raise his legs out of the grave.

Taking breath after breath the hedgehog held his stomach hoping he wouldn't die so easily after that.

As the rain washed most of the mud off the quills some spiders crawled onto his face making him scream in fear.

Instantly the hedgehog forced himself up and he began to smack off the bugs who had grown a home on his cold fur and quills.

After they were all gone the hedgehog fell down next to another grave to rest his eyes on the name.

The grave made him shake as he saw it was his old friend Jake.

Slowly the hedgehog backed away to see the one next to it. It was his best friends girlfriend Amy Rose. As he continued to read it he also saw someone else buried with her and to his shock it was his best friend's son.

The hedgehog slowly stood up realizing he had failed his duty of protecting them and began to force his way to the entrance of the cemetery where he once rested.

Archer's POV End Of Flashback

Everyone stared at me in shock as I finished telling the story.

"Jesus Archer." Stated Hannon as I continued to cry.

"What happened after you left the cemetery? Why didn't you come back to us?" Asked Ghost as I prepared myself for another tale.

Three Months Ago. Archer's POV. Afghanistan

Holding myself up barely after digging out of my own grave I tried to find out where to go.

I didn't know, I wanted to go back to base to tell everyone I'm alive, but at the same time, my girlfriend thinks I'm dead. I can't let her think that any longer plus with what was on the line before I so called "Died."

As fast as I could go I proceeded down the road to where I knew she lived…where we use to live before the war.

I saw it in my sights and began to go for the door.

Placing my muddy hand on the door I knocked.

"Knock! Knock! Knock!"

With pain filling my body and blood dripping on the floor I heard her coming.

As she opened the door I saw her black fur and green eyes glance at me.

She took no longer then a second to scream.

"AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Using my hand I grabbed the door and fell down into the house.

I continued to bleed out as she got on her knees to shout.

"ARCHER ISTHAT YOU!?"

I smiled and immediately she dragged me inside the house.

End Of Flashback Archer's POV

"Your girlfriend saved you?" Asked Hannon as I nodded in tears.

"How come you or her didn't tell the us?! It would have been great to find out you were alive somehow!?" Shouted Ghost in anger.

"I made a promise after I was able to move again." I stated in tears as Ghost looked at me in confusion.

Three Months Ago. Afghanistan Archer's POV

"Daddy!" Shouted my little girl as I came to the table for breakfast.

I smiled and replied.

"How are you kiddo?"

Molly Smiled as I ran my hand on our little angel.

"You feeling better?" Asked Molly as I sat down next to my baby girl Eva.

"Much better." I replied as I grabbed my fork.

Molly lowered her black quills as I went to eat.

After Breakfast

"Where you going?" Asked Molly as I grabbed my coat.

"I need to go back to work." I replied as Molly grabbed my arm.

"You can't go back to that! We almost lost you! Do you know what it's like to have rebellion men come and tell me you were killed in action?!" She asked in anger.

"It was a mistake Molly…!" She cut me off.

"They left you under the ground to rot! How can you go back to people who wouldn't even ask if you were really dead!?"

I lowered my head as she piled it on.

"We can't lose you again hon! Please don't go!" She begged.

"But I have too." I replied in sadness.

"No you don't!" She shouted back in tears.

Again I lowered my head feeling sad and slowly I felt her hand take mine.

"Please don't go. I love you Archer." She stated as her lips connected to mine.

We kissed passionately and after a few rounds she retracted to see my smile.

"Please." She begged one last time.

With force I grabbed her by the butt and dragged her into my body.

"I promise I won't go." I stated feeling the betrayal I just committed to my friends who still believed I was gone forever.

She smiled grabbing my hands that held her butt and asked.

"You promise?"

I smiled while leaning forward into her soft wet lips.

"I promise." I replied as I kiss her once again.

As she kissed back I thought about what I was risking. I just made a huge choice.

End Of Flashback. Archer's POV

"So for the past three months you've been alive and hiding from us?!" Asked Ghost in anger.

"I'm sorry Ghost." I replied in tears.

"We thought you were dead!" Screamed Ghost as Hannon pushed him away.

"BACK OFF GHOST! THAT'S AN ORDER!" Screamed Hannon as Ghost stood there in rage.

"Why are you here now?" Asked Hannon calmly as I replied.

"Because they left me." I replied now crying madly.

Hannon and Ghost along with anyone else who now watched stared at me in shock as I continued.

"I couldn't take it any longer! After all that has happened with you guys I felt so guilty hiding and I had to come back! Turns out when I went to tell her she got mad and said I was making a huge mistake! She asked what was more important, her and my daughter or the war! I lost them! She took Eva and left me! It was only because of a problem outside I managed to sneak in here to confront you all! So I'm SORRY IF I LIED BUT I FELT AS IF I HAD NO OTHER CHOICE! HOW WOULD YOU FEEL BEING BURIED ALIVE!?" I asked Ghost as he apologized.

"I'm so sorry Archer I didn't…!" I cut him off.

"Fuck you! Just give me some gear Hannon so I can go!" I ordered him as he was caught off by my anger.

Slowly he nodded as Ghost looked at me in shock and disbelief.

I began to follow Hannon and in tears I said.

"I'm sorry."

Hannon grabbed me by my neck and hugged me as we walked and replied.

"We understand now. It's ok. We'll talk after you get back, ok?" He asked as I wiped my nose.

"Ok." I replied as we entered the armory.

I explained how he managed to get help but if anyone remembers Archer was shot in the head by Dark, how did he survive that?