Chapter 7: Interlude: Destroy or Desire?
Infinite watches in victory as every last resistance member and citizens of Mobius looking at him in fear while lined up for either execution or robotization. While hanging on the wall was that blue savior as he watches in agony his fellow members and friends either killed or robotized. The jackal dark chuckles as everyone shivers in fear or look down in defeat. "Infinite," he suddenly hears his communicator. Knowing who it is, he waits for the old man's status update or situation. "It appears we have someone trying to escape located near the exit. Find them and get rid of them," the voice added.
Infinite dark chuckles as he heads to the entrance/exit of the fortress. Once he arrives, he sees a blond wolf looking around for a way out... Wait, he recognizes her back at the Mystic Jungle! Finally, this can be his chance to get back at her for seeing him as weak! So, the jackal starts throwing his phantom cubes at the wolf. Unfortunately, Saura saw them coming and dodges them the best she could. Infinite growls and charges towards the wolf. Saura was barely able to get away. When the jackal was close to the wolf, he suddenly caught something from her again, her scent. Infinite froze when he smells it. Slowly, he turns to Saura, who is watching him in fear. Seeing this wolf look at him the same way as everyone else does, it makes him... hurt! He stiffens; why is he feeling pain?
Infinite then sees Saura running away! "Wait," he shouts to her without even thinking it! Still not thinking, the jackal charges towards the wolf and catches her. He has no idea what he's doing! He can't even get his own body to listen! Infinite then has Saura trapped to the wall with the Phantom Ruby. The wolf struggles to try and break herself free, but with no success as she starts deep breath. The jackal still sees her still looking at him in fear and now with tears in her eyes. Infinite starts to feel strange emotions rise as he frowns. Why can't he control himself?! He then feels himself moving closer to Saura until he's a few inches away. The scent from the wolf catches him once again. Its smell is so... alluring like last time. But, the more he smells it, he'll lose more control of himself... "Saura," he says the wolf's name in a gentle tone. He watches the wolf continue to shiver and look at him in fear. Infinite flinches at Saura's look of fear as he slowly tries to touch her cheek.
Infinite awoke from his rest while deep breathing. It was her again! Since that night, that female wolf had never left his mind. Even in his dream, that wolf, Saura, was there! He saw her showing the look of fear along with other mobian citizens. Seeing the citizens frightened brings him great joy. It shows how powerful he is compared to those insects. However, when he sees the blond wolf frightened, the jackal doesn't feel joy. It was pain! It made him feel- "No," he shouts to himself as he growls! He is not weak! He won't allow it! He should focus on doing his mission, finding all the rest of the other phantom ruby prototypes and destroy them. Noticing the cloth, he opens it up to see the white crescent moon necklace still there. He thought about not taking it with him for it will only be a distraction. But the necklace could be like… Growling a bit, he picks up the necklace to take it with him. Once he finds his mask and puts it on along with making sure the Phantom Ruby is on his chest, he walks out of his resting headquarters in Metropolis.
Infinite traveled all over the world to destroy the remaining Phantom Ruby prototypes aside from the Mystic Jungle; he believes he got the gem there. Finally, he arrives in Green Hill. Infinite immediately found the prototype. It had a different shape than the one he wears. The masked jackal looks up to see a human man in a hovering craft come down. He knows who that. This is the man who had given him the Phantom Ruby, which gave the jackal unlimited power, Dr. Eggman. He shows the human the gem in his hand. "And with that, the disposal of the Phantom Ruby prototypes is complete doctor," he says to the human as he easily crushes the gem. The gem in his hand shattered into tiny pieces.
The Doctor, or Dr. Eggman, nods. "It was a defective model," he starts to explain. "It could only record the DNA of the one that triggered it," he explains more about the gem.
"Only a being with my strength of will could ever activate it," Infinite reassures with confidence. Besides, there is no one out there with the same strength of will as he does.
Dr. Eggman nods as he thinks a bit. "It doesn't matter now with the lab locked down in Mystic Jungle," he states. He then remembers something. "Which reminds me, didn't you run into Sonic there after he escaped?" he asks Infinite with a confused look.
Infinite nodded as he crosses his arms. "Yes, but he was powerless against me," he replies. He lets out a small dark chuckle. "There is no need for concern," he states with a shrug.
Unfortunately, Eggman didn't like that. "You let the hedgehog LIVE?" he exclaims in anger! "That is a great source of concern," he added with more anger.
Infinite adjusts his mask a bit. "For you, perhaps. He has beaten you for decades, yet I defeated him in out first encounter," he points out. He noticed he angered Eggman more, but it doesn't concern him.
Infinite then thought he heard something and looked to the right, but to his confusion, no one is there. Eggman sees Infinite looking somewhere else. "What is it?" he asks.
The masked jackal looks for a moment more until he believes no one is there. "Nothing," he answers. He soon looks back to Eggman. "We move forward with the plan?" he asks the doctor.
Eggman lets out an evil smirk. "Of course," he replies in excitement. "When it's complete, the resistance will be erased. And then, the world will be nothing, but ashes, from which a glorious Eggman Empire will rise," he added as his smirk increases.
Infinite then rises from the ground with an evil smirk underneath his mask. "And the resistance will yield to the Phantom Ruby's power," he says as the red aura flows around him. "All will submit," he added. Once he sees Dr. Eggman nod in agreement, the masked jackal flies off.
As Infinite continues to fly around, he notices the city and flies towards it. Seeing all of the Death Egg robots destroying the city, he evil smirks and lands on to the ground. Suddenly, he remembers the time he attacked a city two months ago. All the fear the jackal saw in the citizens' eyes gave him so much power even with the resistance trying to fight back. And then… No, no! Not again, the image of the blond wolf appears in his head! Infinite places his hands on his head while groaning. That girl is still on his mind! "Why?" he asks himself in anger! The masked jackal uses the Phantom Ruby to make an illusion of the female wolf. Once he fights off this illusion, he'll know for sure he can crush the girl with no trouble. She is nothing but an insect just like everyone else! He glares at the trembling wolf. The masked jackal has his hand glow red and aims it at the female. He hopes this will clear his head once and for all.
But when Infinite continues to stare at the terrified female wolf, his glare weakens, and he puts his hand down as the glowing stops. What's going on with him? Why can't he destroy this wolf just like he does with the resistance? "You," he growls out. He walks up to the illusion while still watching it. Infinite sees the fake wolf back away from him a bit. Quickly, Infinite gets close which caused it to not move. "Who are you?" he asks. When there is no response, Infinite tries to place his hand on the muzzle to make the fake wolf look at him. But the moment his hand made contact, the illusion disappears.
The masked jackal glares at the spot where the illusion was at. Did he just try to… touch her just like in his dream? He puts his hand at the empty spot and growls. In anger, he blasts an already torn building with the Phantom Ruby. He must find her again! There is something wrong with him and she is the cause of it! If Infinite can't destroy her, then what can he do to her? One thing is certain, nothing will change if he doesn't find her. He needs to see her, touch her, and to smell her. Yes, he still had not forgotten that smell he scent on the wol- No, Saura. It was intoxicating to him as he remembers it!
Infinite growls as his hands form to fists. This feeling, what is it?! It's something he never felt before towards another mobian! He then pulls out the necklace he grabbed from Saura. He definitely needs to find her! And when he does, he will take the wolf and make her- "Mine," he says in a whisper subconsciously. Once he finally registers what he said and what it could mean, he looks at the necklace and has a dark smirk underneath his mask. "Yes, with the Phantom Ruby's power, she will submit just like the resistance, and she will be mine," he says to himself. Looking at the sky, he realizes it's best to head back to Metropolis to come up with a plan first. A plan to find the wolf and take her away from which ever group she is in if she is in one. After all, wolves are usually in packs. So, he flies back to Metropolis.
When Infinite arrives at night, everything seems to be calm. So, he starts searching back at the destroyed city first. When that failed, he moves on to Green Hill, and then the Mystic Jungle. Both places took the masked jackal all night to look everywhere for the blond wolf, but he hadn't found anything! He returns to Metropolis in the morning. True, he's exhausted from not stopping to rest, but he must not stop! While pacing a bit around the training room, Infinite suddenly sees a red, round robot who would sometimes follow the doctor. "Excuse me, but the boss requires your presence," it said nervously. Infinite growls a bit as he makes his way to Dr. Eggman and ignores the red robot.
When the masked jackal arrives, Eggman opens up several screens. Each one shows different mobians from the resistance attacking Metropolis. "It seems the resistance think they can take back this city with an-all-out attack. Let's show them how wrong they are," he says with an evil chuckle.
Infinite glares at the screens with annoyance. Out of all the times in the world, the resistance decided to attack now! How pathetic… Suddenly, he notices someone in one of the screens. It's her! The female blond wolf that he was searching for last night, Saura. And it seems, she is not alone. Several members of the resistance are with her. So, she is one of the members of the resistance… How sad that she wasted her time with them. He'll make her change her mind when he's done with the resistance and her. This isn't exactly how he plans it, but this could be the chance he needs to claim the wolf. He releases a dark chuckle and turns to Eggman. "So, what's the plan doctor?" he asks the human.
Author's Note:
Hello everyone! I want to thank you guys for voting for the new title of this fanfic! It really helps. :) As you guys can see, the winner of the title is: "Don't be Scared, Speak Up!" Also, the cover shows what Saura looks like. I originally wanted Saura's hair-like fur longer, but I realized why SEGA wanted the ocs to have military cuts (or I think that's what they did). So now, I just have Saura's hair-like fur shorter and gave her some bangs like I did in the actual game. I also know that her outfit isn't in the game, but I wanted to keep it the way it is. ^^; And that is Saura!
To the chapter: Here is the next update! Sorry if this is short. I only wanted to make it a bit sorter than the other chapters since this isn't somewhat part of the plot... a bit. ^^; In here, we learn more about what our little "friend" did while the resistance had been focusing on their missions. And he's been quite busy. The poor jackal still can't let go. But now that he's got an idea on what to do next. I wonder how the resistance will handle the two villains' plan. We will not know until next time!
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