Chapter 6

A small amount of chaos

Matthew walked around the halls of the fortress. It had only been two days since he was let free. He had tried his best not to seen by Deryk. That dark energy around him. It was as if he had no soul, like a demon. But at the same time, Matthew sensed goodness in his heart. It was if he was evil and good at the same time. Matthew shivered at the thought. But then he remembered why he was let go in the first place. That... Octie guy. He was a bit spectacle about the details. All that he really understood was that he had to recruit a few peo-

Matthew bumped into something. Or to be exact, someone. The one he had been trying to avoid for sometime.

"D-Deryk!" He exclaimed as he quickly took a few steps back. Deryk still had that menacing glare on his face. "I was just..."

"Come with me." Deryk grabbed him by the wrist and pulled him across the hallways. Matthew didn't know where he was taking him, nor did he want to actually. He could still feel that monstrous energy going through him. He really started to wish he was back with that monster at his house. Deryk dragged him all the way to room where Octavio had made his discovery. Speaking of Octavio, he was in the middle of the room orking on something, it was underneath a white cloth so Matthew and Deryk couldn't tell what it was. But Deryk simple ignored it.

"Professor?"

Octavio turned his attention to the boys.

"Ah boys, I hope you're ready for your new assignment." He said.

Matthew however was confused. "What assignment?"

Deryk slapped him across the face. "Didn't you pay attention when Octavio told you about the smashers?"

"What's a smasher?"

Deryk sighed in frustration. "Why did Silvermane have to make you such a dolt?"

Matthew stared at him strangely before turning his attention to Octavio.

"Could you fill me in a bit more on the details? I all that I know is that we have to recruit people."

Octavio sighed. "Matthew, the people you are going to recruit are the descendants of the original forty smashers. Thanks to your time jump, I've been able to find they're locations one at a time. They just might be the key to winning this war. And I've called you here because I've already found one."

"Which one?" Deryk asked.

"Now that's the tricky part, I can't tell which it is. All that I know is that it is indeed a smasher. Also, I'd like to announce that as of today, a new group of warriors will be born. The Smash Force. Deryk, you are the most powerful person in the entire army, which is why I'm appointing you as the leader. And Matthew, if you can live up to your title, I place you as Deryk's second in command."

Matthew was at a loss for words. Not because he was second in command, it was because he was Deryk's second in command. Deryk already hated him, and now they had to spend 'quality time' together.

Deryk on the other hand remained quiet. He really didn't seem to mind, which was weird considering the fact he tried to kill Matthew a few days ago.

"Alright professor, where is he?" Asked Deryk.

Octavio gulped.

"That's the problem..." He said. "I found him... in the radioactive fields."

Deryk's eyes widened, but Matthew was having difficulty understanding.

"The radioactive fields?" He asked. "What's that? Some amusement park?"

Deryk pointed his gun at him, the same glare he usually had on his face. After about three seconds, he put the gun down. He took a deep breath and began to speak:

"The radioactive fields are one of the most dangerous places in the entire world." He said as a map appeared on the large screen. There was a small orange space right in the middle of a border. "You see, a long time ago, the location was used to test radioactive weaponry by both us and Biostar. However we... overdid it. The place was abandoned for being packed to brims with radioactivity. Though at the moment it's only found in the scrap you can find there, but the place is still highly dangerous."

Matthew blinked twice. "Why do you always tell such long stories?"

Deryk glared at him before grabbing his arm and dragging him out of the room. Matthew struggled to get out of his grip, but the boy was to strong for him. He dragged through the halls of the HQ before going to a large room with a strange device in the middle. The device was made up with two circles, one on the floor and the other being suspended on by large metal ropes. It had six white circles on the base and a small computer on the side. Deryk dragged him on to one of the circles before moving to the computer. Matthew was sweating like a pig.

"Uh... Deryk..." He said, nervousness in his voice. "What is this?"

"Don't worry, this will only hurt for a second." He said.

Suddenly, the white circles began to glow. Deryk quickly ran on to one of them before the procedure was finished. Octavio came running in, carrying something.

"Matthew, catch!" He said as he threw the item to Matthew. When he caught it he was surprised to see that it was a long saber. Before he could say anything, he disappeared in a flash of light.

The radioactive fields...

an abandoned desert where no one would ever go.

Well, almost no one. A large ship loomed over the horizon, covering the various pieces of scrap metal scattered across the land. The ship was in the form of a large, golden star. Deep within the main deck. Several scientist were working quietly at various computers. There was, however, someone else between them. In the center of the room he sat on a large throne paved with gold and encrusted with jewels. He was man in his forty's. His skin was very pale and his body wasn't very muscular. But that didn't mean he didn't look sinister. He wore a long white robe covering the slightly scratched up, futuristic, black armor he was wearing. His eyes were emerald green and his teeth were perfectly straight and white. His hair was blonde with a white streak in the middle of the smooth streaks. And to top it all, he was carrying something in his hand. The blue chaos emerald.

He simply sat there, watching the men work around him, toying with the chaos emerald in his hand. It felt as if time had almost stopped. After a few more moments one of the soldiers came to him.
A/N: The soldier's attire are very similar to that of master chief's armor from Halo, as is Terren's, but without the helmet.

"Sir," He started. " We've found to unknown signatures here in the radioactive fields, 8km from here."

The man was in deep thought. He looked at the soldier before responding. "Is it Deryk?" His voice was deep, but calm.

"Unknown sir."

The man began to think again, a smirk appeared on his face. He stood from his throne and looked at the soldier. "Set a full course to those coordinates at once!"

"Yes sir!" The warrior saluted before running out of the room. The man sat on his throne before looking back to the emerald in his hand.

"Six more to go..." He thought.

Deryk was dragging Matthew around the sandy plains of the radioactive fields. Matthew was struggling to get out of the demon boy's grip, while still holding that saber. The saber was nothing more but a long Katana. But thought for sure that when he first held onto it, he could see it glow with an awesome power. Deryk simply walked by all the scrap and rubble that they found there. It was one giant radioactive junk pile.

!

Matthew realized something.

"Um... Deryk?" He said.

Deryk glared at him. "What?" He spat out.

"If this place is radioactive, how come we came here without any protection whatsoever?"

Deryk stopped as his eyes widened. He quickly reached into his pocket and took out what appeared to be, two... marshmallows? He quickly stuffed one in his mouth before giving Matthew the other.

"I'd eat that quickly if I were you." He said. Matthew obeyed, but he started to wish he didn't. The marshmallow thingy tasted horrible!

"BLEH! What is this thing?" He asked.

"It's the only thing that will keep you alive for the next seven hours, if we stay here that long. Now move!" Deryk stormed off, Matthew quickly followed. That's when he felt the same dark power again, only even stronger. It was almost as if he evil incarnate. Matthew took a deep breath and asked him something that he would soon regret.

"Deryk, why do you hate Biostar?"

Deryk stopped before glaring at the young boy. He sighed. "Let's just say he took something that was very important from."

"Which was?"

"... My family."

Matthew's eyes widened. He was about to say some thing until he heard a little beeping sound coming from Deryk's back pocket. Deryk quickly reached in and took out what appeared to be a cellphone.

Matthew stared at him. "What? New messages?" He joked causing Deryk to glare at him.

"I'm getting an energy reading not to far from here. This way!" He yelled as he charged in a certain direction, Matthew following him. At least now he knew a little bit of his past, but that still wasn't enough. There was something else that made him like this. Something or someone? After a few more minutes of running, Deryk simply stopped.

Matthew slid into a halt. "What's up? Why'd you stop?"

Deryk scratched the back of his head. "This is strange, according to this, he should be right at this position, but I don't see him anywhere."

Matthew kept staring at the floor. "Um... Deryk?"

"What?"

"Look down."

As commanded, Deryk looked down to the floor, but he started to regret it. He was standing on something... someone...

!

Deryk quickly jumped of the unconscious body. "Why didn't you tell me I was standing on him?"

Matthew only shrugged. But when they got a good look at him they were very shocked to see a boy a little older then them. He was wearing dark clothing. He had a black hoodie that hugged the majority of his body. A pair of black jeans made of a material that Deryk easily recognized. Black hight top sneakers with red shoe string. Even his eyes were black. The two stared at the body right in front of them. Matthew had a relived look on his face, but Deryk only stared at him.

"Well that was easy." Matthew said with a smile on his face. "Now all we have to do is pick him up, and we can go home." He walked to the boy, but Deryk grabbed the back of his collar.

"Hold on there Matthew." He said. "I don't this is the guy we're looking for."

Matthew stared at him. "Why not? The signal's coming from him."

"True, but he doesn't resemble any of the smashers from the history books..." Deryk walked over to him and put him on his back. "Let's take him somewhere safe so I can ask him a few questions." Deryk turned around and pressed a button on his backpack. Two large metal wing ejected from. He looked at Matthew with a smirk on his face. "I hope you like walking." He blasted off into the air. Matthew stared up into the air in disbelief. His eye twitched slightly. He took a deep breath and began to walk in Deryk's direction.

Earth,

from space it looks like heaven.

But those who lived there knew better.

The space colonies were one of the only refuges that these people could go. But not every was able to make it in. Only those with high class could get a ticket. The others were left to suffer... One of these stations became a spot for intergalactic bounty hunters from the far reaches of the galaxy. In this particular station, a figure looked down on the earth. You couldn't really tell how he looked like because his face was covered by his helmet. Truth be told, you couldn't see anything about him. He was about 5'8" and was wearing a green Power Suit. But other then that, you couldn't even if he was white or black. He just stood there, gazing at the Earth below him. He muttered something that no one could hear.

"Just a few more days..."

Matthew and Deryk sat on the never ending sand of the radioactive plains, along with the unconscious body. Deryk simply sat there quietly, but Matthew becoming very impatient. All he did was sit there staring at the body. His eyes twitched. His entire body began to tremble. He getting very annoyed. He let out a bloodcurdling scream into the air.

"I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!" He yelled before drawing his attention to Deryk. "HOW CAN YOU JUST SIT THERE! AREN'T YOU THE LEAST BIT BORED!"

"Patience Matthew." He said not even opening his eye to look at him. He's going to wake up at any moment."

"When!"

"Right now."

Matthew drew his attention to the boy they found earlier. He was sitting down, staring at them. He scanned his surroundings, but all he saw was sand and junk. The darkly dressed figure looked at thtwo.

"Where am I?" He said.

Before Matthew could say anything, Deryk interrupted him.

"Radioactive fields." He said. "I found you unconscious a while ago and stayed with until you were better."

The figure didn't say anything. Matthew put a hand on his shoulder.

"Don't mind Red-eyes over there." He said. "Anyway, my name's Matthew and that's Deryk. What's your's?"

The figure put a cocky smile on his face. "The name's Miles. Miles Smalls. Thank's for helping me out but I've got to get going." Before he could leave though, Deryk shot a bullet in his direction. Luckily it missed. Both Miles and Matthew looked at Deryk in disbelief.

"I'm not finished yet." The same menacing tone he spoke with Matthew days ago returned. "I have a very important question for you: Are you a descendant of a smasher or not?"

A few seconds passed, but no answer. Miles actually looked... spooked at that question. Sort of like Dryk when Matthew asked way he hated Biostar.

"I'm waiting."

"Deryk!" Matthew yelled at him. "Calm down! Can't you see that your freaking the guy out? Can't we just bring him home and have Octavio question him? Honestly, do you have to-"

"Alright." Miles interrupted Matthew's line of speech, earning him a stare of surprise from him. "Just promise me that you won't laugh or take me to the authorities."

Deryk put his gun away. "We're in the middle of a wasteland and I haven't laughed since I was a baby. Speak."

Miles took a deep breath. "When I was small, people thought I was strange. Not because of the way I act, but... you see, I can harness chaos energy. Sounds crazy, but no one I ever knew could come up with a logical explanation. Except for my family. You see, my family tree consists of hedgehogs, humans and hybrids. I come from the bloodline of the worlds most fastest hedgehog, Sonic the hedgehog... but ever since they found out i can us chaos energy. I've been held in captivity... I'm out now, but everyone thinks I'm dead. If I were to contact anybody, it would easily allow him to find me..."

Deryk raised an eyebrow. "Who's 'him'?"

Miles bit the bottom of his lip. "T-... Terren Biostar."

Deryk eyes widened. He heard a voices in his mind, they that taunted him his entire life.

'Well, what an innocent looking child... don't worry young one, I'll turn you into the prime of my army in no time. We just have to do some 'testing''

'KEEP AWAY FROM MY SON!'

'I'm sorry it had to come to this, old chum. By I have some paranormal experiments waiting for your son. Ta-ta.'

'D-Deryk... my son... n-no...'

A loud growl escaped Deryk throat.

He looked to the floor. "Bi...o..." He looked up into the air. "STAAAAAAAAARRRR!" Deryk was screaming at the top of his lungs. When he stopped. Everything became quiet.

To quiet.

The three felt the floor rumble. The rocks and scrap metal began to shake and rumble. Deryk, as if he already knew what was happening searched the skies, as if he was looking for something. And he found something alright. The same large golden star from earlier shadowed the three warriors. Deryk and Mile glared at the large ship, but Matthew had no idea what was going on. Deryk held his guns backwards and they both turned into long tonfa-blades, Miles hands ignited in a green fire and Matthew, seeing that his teammates were prepared for battle, unsheathed his saber. The ship was heading in they're direction. Deryk growled an audible word: "Biostar..."

"Deryk, the boy with a demon's heart, joins the fight for earth!"

"Matthew Dikapurio, the youngest king of hearts, joins the fight for earth!"

"Miles Smalls, the chaos wielding human, joins the fight for earth!"

"Terren Biostar Appears!"

DING!

Time's up already?

WHOAH! MAN I'M LATE! Sorry about the delay, but I've been busy with this project I'm doing at a friends house. Anyway I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. The next will finally be a fight scene. I'only cutting it here for some tension.

One more chapter and then a new SSBU.

Catch ya later's!