Sonic Series Fan Fiction ❯ Guardian Angel ❯ Stalking in the dark ( Chapter 2 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

By the way, I know most of the names are weird but they have reasons. Some names give clues to what has/will happen to the character. You can get a glimpse into the future as it were… But if you don’t want a spoiler then I seriously suggest leaving out Kazu. The rest are small clues but his is very big.

Oh Nails is just from my other fiction, it doesn’t mean anything.

The Phantom Blade:
Kazu Banira the Rabbit-35
Nails the Mongoose-26
Sepuku the Bear-35
Okasu Leonardo the Lion-24
Tanto the Fox-30
Espio the Chamelion (come on, he had to be there)- 30


A good deal of this fic will involve death and references to suicide and other junk, enjoy. Oh and I don’t portray any afterlife or anything cos I don’t believe in that stuff.

Song belongs to Tatu.
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Present day:

This high up Shadow could see all of Westopilis, he could practically smell the city full of cruel and greedy Humans. He hated Humans, responsible for all that had gone wrong in his life. The only thing that had stopped him from destroying them all was a single promise.
And yet, he made a living exterminating the individuals.

He was wearing a long jet black coat and some baggy black pants, more for concealing weapons than concealing his more masculine parts. As fur as dark as the night he found himself in covered most of his body. Underneath the coat he wore a plain black shirt, the top few buttons left undone to allow the natural tuft of white chest fur to poke through to the open air. On his hands were an unusual pair of gloves, white but with some red wrist guards on them, they had no fingers where it looked as if they had been torn and burnt off.

His head jumped to the direction of a car below his perch on the skyscraper, the engine incredibly far down but still detected by his unnaturally powerful hearing. Even though it was near midnight he could still see it making its way through he city, night was his element after all.
Taking out a thin PDA, he checked the profile was still on the screen. Illuminated neon blue in the pitch black night.

Michael Beute:

Species: Human
Occupation: President of BioCorp biotechnological industries.
Nationality: German
Amount to be paid: M$10,000 for assassination with %10 discount for target being Human.
Reason: Cheated on his wife.
Target location: Limousine on the way to visit his mistress Lisa Yaites (deceased).

His target was here.

Shadow walked towards the edge of the building and looked down with a demon hawk’s eyes, a black limousine was making its way through the city and was passing under the building soon. Taking one last look at his PDA to verify the identity of his prey he leapt into the cold night air, spinning and flipping several times before righting himself so he would land on his feet.

He fell silently, like an owl hunting its meal, his long coat tailing behind him in the wind as he flew past floor after floor on the huge building. An evil grin on his face as he slowly neared the car. According to his calculations by he time he was a few metres away from the ground he would be right above it. Only now in mid-air did he prepare his gun, a silenced pistol packed with incendiary bullets.

Maria may not have wanted him to kill humans, but the Professor had. A compromise had been made and currently…he was very happy about it.

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Mr Beute smiled to himself as he popped a Viagra in preparation for his “meeting” with the lovely Mrs Yaites, he had no way off knowing that his jealous wife had already had her killed. A certain purple Chameleon had taken care of her, there had been very specific instructions given by Mrs Beute on both of them and as their unofficial motto went “We Aim To Please. Literally”.

“Driver, hurry it up will you? I don’t want to arrive with this pill already taking effect.”

“Yes s-” The driver stopped as the entire front of the car was crushed, standing on the remains of the engine and bonnet was a pair of red eyes. The headlights had been crushed too and all that could be seen were a pair of luminescent ruby red eyes staring back at him, even though he had no way of knowing he knew with a sickening certainty that the creature to who those eyes belonged would be grinning like a maniac. The drivers pulse quickened to astronomical rates as he heard the unmistakable click of a gun being cocked. and he scrabbled for the door lock release button.

As soon as his hand hit the door it exploded in a shower of crimson blood which showered the screaming driver, a mass of jagged bone and tortured flesh was all that was left on the end of his wrist. He clutched it too him as tears of frustration and fear ran down his cheeks, knowing that he would die at this moment in time.
“I haven‘t done anything!!!” He cried out to the unseen creature on his bonnet. The eyes spoke.

“You wouldn‘t have survived anyway, there can be no witnesses.”

And then, in a shower of blood and brains and a silenced gunshot, the world ended for Mr Stevens.

However, life continued for Mr Beute. He had watched his long time driver get murdered through the window and was trying to find a way out when Shadow pressed the door lock button. There was a mechanical click as doors designed to keep out almost anything closed. Unfortunately for him they did a very good job at keeping things inside the car too.

Shadow jumped off of the bonnet and there was silence inside the car, the company president was for a few seconds fooled into thinking that he had gone and collapsed back into his chair sighing. Then a horrible creak of tortured metal groaned into the night and Shadow flew straight through the roof of the car, standing in front of him gun in one hand and…nothing in the other. His hand just seemed to be holding thin air as if it was holding a stick or something like a cylinder.

“It is your time to die.” There was no mercy in that voice, it presented no alternatives.

“Why, what have I done?” He whimpered to the menacing figure that was actually shorter than he was, although it didn’t seem that way.

“You cheated on your wife, and she wasn’t happy about that.” His wife!! She couldn’t have known, he had taken every step possible! And here he was about to die with a strengthening erection!

“You can’t do this to me! I am-”

“I know who you are, I know where you work and what you like doing, I also know who your mistress is. Oh did I say is? I meant was. She was taken care of little under an hour ago.” Lisa couldn’t be dead! He was playing with him, lying to scare him eve more! “It seems she was quite…ready for your arrival. The Assassin in question was quite surprised when he saw her. But I really have chatted too much, now you will die.”

“Get back!” To Shadow’s mild surprise the overweight businessman pulled a revolver from under the chair. “I’m not afraid to use this!!” His voice was full of terror but Shadow didn’t need the police brought here by gunfire. Unfortunately for his prey, he did not know the first rule of threatening someone with a gun. Don’t point it where they can reach it.

In a move so quick that you would need a frame by frame camera to see it properly Shadow put away his own weapon and crushed the gun barrel with his bare hand, Mr Beute just looked at the ruined gun before he screamed and tensed as pain erupted from his chest, his heart.

Breathing heavily he looked at his smirking attacker who had jammed…something into his chest, he couldn’t see anything in him but the red agonizing wound was there. The final clue came as blood flowed onto the invisible object, pouring an invisible line and dropping wetly to the floor to the floor. His own blood had outlined a knife, an invisible knife.

As the electricity finally switched off in his brain and condemned him to death the last spark spoke to him. Not about his wife, or his lover’s fate but about his own company.

A blade covered with Chameleon skin, I could make millions with that! And then he died, sinking into the blackness and nothingness that was death. A waste of life. Everything that had been Michael Beute disappeared.

It would take Shadow a matter of seconds to leave his mark on the scene, the mark was a what Assassin used to ensure that everyone knew it was him/her who had killed. It was a good way of advertising yourself and your Assassin clan to future customers.

It also ensured that no-one could take credit for another’s kill or pretend to be someone else. If one person used another’s mark then he was automatically on the hit-list of every Assassin in the Human colonies, even enemies worked together if that happened.

The mark was generally left on a white card near the body or painted somewhere in the area although it could be done in other ways, written in blood was popular. One was meant to represent his/her clan or gang, the other was meant to show the aspects of the Assassin in question. Shadow placed his first card on the floor in the middle of the room.

This one had the symbol of his own Assassin clan, the Phantom Blade. It was simply a picture of a sword handle with some blood dripping off an unseen blade.

The next he dropped he left on the body to show that he was the one for whom the contract had specified. This was his personal mark, he was very proud of it.

It showed a large green Chaos Emerald, drawn glowing on the paper, in the middle of the jewel was the black silhouette of a double helix of DNA. He had designed the card himself and it had quickly become a major symbol in the underworld of the Colonies.

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Eight years ago: In the forest a few dozen miles from Westopilis



Kazu (full name Kazu Banira the Rabbit) led his little gang through the forest they had been training in, following the screams of the thing that had fallen from the sky. He was a mostly grey tall Rabbit, with patches of black covering his eyes and the occasional patch of black on his body. No-one knew why some Mobians grew to be the size of Humans and some stayed normal size, it was probably just something odd in the genes but the rest of the group were much shorter than him

Next to him ran his second in command and possible girlfriend (no-one was quite sure with her) Nails, a bright pink Mongoose with long silky black hair who always dressed like a teenage party girl out for a night binge-drinking, in a short purple skirt and a tight revealing pink top with the words “Stop looking, you don‘t have enough money.” printed on it. She was the only one who didn’t take the whole dress darkly thing seriously. Her argument was if everyone just kept staring at her more than sumptuous breasts then they wouldn’t see where her gun or whip went. She also wore the customary Mobian gloves like most of the gang but these had the things from which her name came. Inside the fingers of each one was a spring loaded with a small knife, which could be shot a good 20 metres if her aim was good by pressing a switch in the knuckle in a special way.

Running next to them was Espio the Chameleon, the only person with real ninja training and therefore the only person without a firearm. Whilst the rest had mastered their individual melee weaponry he had training in swords from traditional Japanese Sensei. He wore no normal clothes so that his natural Chameleon ability could be used to turn invisible at will, his scales were a dark purple colour with a golden horn protruding from his head. The only things he did wear were a few belts and sheaths for his knives and throwing stars made from previously shed Chameleon skin, touching his own skin as to allow the faint electrical signals from his nerves to pass into it. Essentially meaning that when he turned invisible the clothing did too.

The next member of their little group was about five metres behind them, Tanto was a light blue female Fox with her tail fluffed up to a ridiculous size, apparently a turn on for any male Fox. She wore a very dark purple pair of pants with a long jacket of the same colour. A golden chain hung from her neck and her sky blue eyes matched with her natural fur perfectly. She was engaged In an argument with the youngest member of the group, Leo. Of course his real name was Okasu Leonardo but they all called him Leo for short. Kazu wasn’t sure that the young golden maned Lion had any idea what his name actually meant, but whatever the reason his mother had seen fit to call him that and Kazu tried to avoid talking about it. He was dressed in dark black material but he betrayed the look by being scared or worried a lot of the time.

The last member of their group was Sepuku the bear, another frankly questionable name, his dark blue cloak was all that covered his minty green furred body. He rarely said much, preferring to run at the back and make sure no-one snuck up on them. Neither was he often very violent, preferring to use poisons or quick blades to do his work despite the fact that he had a punch that could fell trees. He was however, obviously annoyed at the two arguing furs.

“Leo, we have to check it out! Otherwise someone else might find it and then who know who will be wondering around our training ground.” Tanto said.

“Am I the only person who can hear that?” The scream was even louder now and definitely sounded alive. “What kind of thing makes that noise?”

“Quiet, we mustn’t reveal ourselves to it.” Espio reprimanded as they broke through into a clearing that had not previously been there. The object had cut a swathe through the forest, leaving it burnt and smouldering. The line of destruction ended in a large glowing crater a few hundred metres away, from which the screaming was coming from. It even made Espio uneasy to be this close to it and Kazu took it upon himself to go first.

The Rabbit walked right up to the impact zone and tried to see what was inside, although it was hidden by smoke he could see vague movements in the black choking air. Whatever it was it was in tremendous pain, the screams were just as loud now but every so often it would stop for a bit before starting up again. Nails walked up next to him with Tanto, but Kazu instructed the rest to stay back not wanting to shock the creature.

Gently he wafted the smoke away from the crater with his hand and got a look at the ball of still burning flesh and fur that was the single greatest scientific breakthrough in the history of man.
“Oh my god.” Tatu whispered to herself before gagging as she fought the urge to throw up.

“Hello, can you hear us?” Nails gently poked the creature with a gloved finger, immediately taking it away as the material actually melted on contact and made the creature roll in pain before screaming out again.

“What are we supposed to do? I don‘t think this guy will survive.” The Rabbit Mobian wasn’t sure what to do, yes he killed for money but that didn’t make him a bad person. He liked to think he never killed the innocent and knew he never killed the young or defenceless.

“I think we should put him out of his misery.” Nails suggested sadly to her on/off boyfriend. “Don’t make him suffer like that.” The creature’s species was almost unrecognizable, burnt bloody flesh was what made up his body and little fur was left at all. Gold rings were still around his ankles, amazingly intact but she was sure he was supposed to have some around its wrists too, they just looked a bit odd with only two. Now she looked closer she could see that his shoes were perfectly intact, looking new almost, the gloves hadn’t fared so well as the fingers were burnt off but they had done well for a pair of gloves. What these few clothes were made off she didn’t know but it had to be tough.

“Your right, we can’t help him.” Kazu pulled out his gun and aimed it at the head of the creature, who’s eyes suddenly opened to the world and looked directly at him. He spoke in a throaty rasp.

“I couldn‘t even kill myself, I‘m that perfect.” Kazu wasn’t sure it was even speaking to him. “Only the Ultimate could survive that.” It attempted to stand up and collapsed again before the confused Mobians, who didn’t know whether to help him or shoot him.

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Sirens could be heard screaming through the night now, likely someone had seen the Limo stop and got worried when the drivers scream had rung out. Shadow jumped out of the hole in the roof and sped down the darkened road. A few streetlights were on but the were mostly destroyed by the criminal gangs that roamed all the colonies. Shadow briefly enjoyed the sense of speed he got when his air-shoes activated, lifting him on a cushion of frictionless air and allowing him to skate along. His form becoming a golden streak as he continued to go faster and faster.

His ears pricked up at a familiar sound and he leapt to the side of the street before activating one of his favourite Chaos powers.

“Chaos Burst!!” Shadow disappeared to hide in space-time, for all intents and purposes invisible and untouchable until his energy ran out and he had to recharge. All that gave away his position was his shadow still on the floor, and in the dark that was unnoticeable.

A blue and orange line zoomed past him- Sonic the Hedgehog and his Fox friend. Sonic was his Arch-nemesis and rival. He hated that egotistical stupid Hedgehog and kept away from him on the rare occasions that he saw him, it had been eight years since he had “died” and the Sonic crew believed he was gone forever. That suited him just fine, he didn’t want to have to endure the blue Hedgehog’s annoying voice again, or talk to that Bat who had betrayed him to search those damn research files, the only one he doubted he would mind seeing again too much was that pink Hedgehog who had helped him but even then he‘d far prefer doing something more interesting with his time.

Like…being tortured.

The line ran into the distance but Shadow waited perfectly still for a few minutes until he was sure that they wouldn’t meet and then reappeared into normal dimensions. He was about to leave and go back to his hotel room when his mobile phone went off.

“This is Shadow.”

“Its me, Kazu” The Rabbit sounded worried, he had known him for years and if he was worried then something was definitely wrong. “I have to call in that favour you owe me okay?” If Shadow’s attention had been caught by the Rabbit’s voice then now it was gagged, tied up and locked in a basement. Kazu had never tried to call that debt in, Shadow had begun to think he never would.

“What’s wrong Kazu?”

“I need to speak with you right now.” The guy sounded, scared. “Bye.” He hung up and Shadow decided to go straight to Kazu’s office. He usually avoided using his Chaos Emerald, instead using planes or other transport, so that his movements around the globe would be normal and GUN wouldn’t get suspicious if they found out a black Hedgehog was travelling all around the place in seconds. But this was urgent and only a few miles in any case.

“Chaos Control!!” His emerald flashed and crackled with energy as a rip in space and time appeared around his frame and he was taken to his destination.

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T hree hours later Westopilis airport logged in one unusual black and red Hedgehog (under an assumed name) to fly to the capital Station Square. Fours hours later an expensive apartment was sold to a differently named unusual black and red Hedgehog in one of the more criminal parts of the sprawling metropolis and five hours later he set out to find his target. The profile that had been given to every Assassin, bounty hunter and criminal gang in the colonies on his PDA.

Cream the Rabbit:

Species: Mobian Rabbit
Occupation: Unknown
Nationality: Mobian
Amount to be paid: M$ 250,000,000
Reason: Classified
Target Location: Station Square

That didn’t help much but he still had the picture Kazu had given him. It was off by quite a few years but he doubted it would matter in the long run, Mobians never seemed to age as extremely as Humans mostly because fur covers wrinkles and doesn’t change much.

“Huh, she looks kind of cute in this photo.” He continued looking at the photo whilst taking out his mobile again.

“Kazu, I’m here.”

“Good, I can’t be sure about the other members loyalty but I hope I can trust you to do this for me. You know how important this is man, promise you will do it.”

“I promise Kazu, today is the day I pay back my debts.” He hung up, it would likely take him all day to find this Rabbit but he was confident that he could locate her before anyone else did.

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12:34 PM

In true teenager fashion Cream awoke late in the day, despite the fact that she had not stayed up, and switched on her radio, finding her favourite song.

“Starting from here, lets make a promise! Just you and I, lets just be honest!” Cream’s voice had gotten more mature but was still capable of reaching unusually high notes as she was singing along to it, yawning widely when she finally dragged herself from her comfy orange bed but ready to face the new day. The same creamy fur with brown patches as her Mother was warmed by the sun seeping through the gap in her curtains.
In eight years she had changed a lot from the young girl she had been. Whilst her eyes were still as large and caring as they ever had been she had grown much taller and her body had developed the natural curves of a young woman, she now had shapely hips and breasts that, whilst they weren’t huge and mouth watering like a certain Bat’s were, were a good size and looked better on her than larger breasts would.

Her ears had grown with her and still drooped down her back instead of standing up like some Rabbits put them, but she had been slightly disappointed to learn that she wasn’t going to be a “tall” Mobian like her Mother. That had confused her a bit at first, as what little her single parent had said about her father told her he was also a “tall” Mobian.

Vanilla had then explained to her that her entire family had all been shorter and that it was just random genetics what size you grew to.

In the long run it’s probably better Cream thought to herself If I kept growing Amy would probably get uncomfortable still, she had kind of looked forward to showing the rest of the gang that she wasn’t the smallest anymore by showing up one day six feet tall.

She got up clothed in nothing more than a delicate white nightgown and made her way to her cub board to pick out something to wear.

(Author note: At this point the author describing this had to have a cold shower before continuing and deciding to forgo the description of her undressing and putting something else on and just go straight to her new clothes, I think in all honesty you would prefer that to the detailed description of Cream‘s delicate curves and soft luxurious mounds).


“We’re gunna run, nothing can stop us!” Cream now wore what was something close to a cheerleaders outfit given to her by Rouge, it consisted of a fairly short pink skirt and a pink T-shirt which was made tight to show off her feminine parts. Cream had blushed when she had first tried it on but was now getting more comfortable with the way it showed her off.

On her feet were shoes like she had always worn, she always thought it was odd that she didn’t have the customary large and tough Rabbit feet, her Mother lacked them too but her cousin Bunnie possessed them, to her jealousy. She usually refrained from wearing any shoes as was the natural Rabbit instinct but had them on because she was going out soon and broken glass was common in the city. “Even the night that falls all around us!!” She continued.

The only real explanation that Cream could think of for the foot dilemma was that somewhere in the line another species had interbred with her family and their feet had carried down the line, she didn’t tell her Mother of her suspicions though. Vanilla was a bit old-fashioned in many ways, like many older Mobians she didn’t think that people should date outside their species.

Cream stopped singing along and turned to her mirror to inspect the damage. “Oh, great. It shouldn’t be possible to get this messy sleeping.” Cream immediately started to sort out her bed fur with a carrot shaped brush, not an easy task when your covered in fur.

Eventually though she was ready to go, running downstairs as she did not want to miss her best friend going away. She was looking after Amy’s apartment whilst she was on a holiday with Sonic to the wide open spaces of Flicky Island, where Amy hoped to “win” Sonic’s heart as she put it.

“Are you going out in that dress again? You know I don‘t like you flaunting yourself off like that.” Came the kind but slightly disapproving voice of Vanilla the Rabbit.

“Yes Mom, sorry I don’t have time to talk but I have to make sure I’m there to see Amy go.” Cream gave her Mother a smile before attempting to escape the all too knowing older doe.

“Hold on little Miss.” Affection was in the older Rabbit’s voice but Cream still knew somehow that she would be saying something that she wouldn’t like. “Amy doesn’t leave until tonight” It was true, Cream just didn’t want to miss anything and wanted to help her friend pack. “And I want a word with you.” Cream followed her Mom into the kitchen and helped herself to a carrot from a bowl which would, in a normal house, contain fruit. Cheese looked up from a bowl of Chao food to greet her with a happy, well- what’s the only word they know?

“Hey Cheese. What did you want to speak to me about Mom?” Vanilla poured the herself and her daughter a cup of tea which Cream gladly excepted.

“I just wanted to tell you to be careful when you go to Amy’s place, don’t talk to an strange boys or let anyone you don’t know in the apartment okay?”

“Yes, don’t worry Mom, Amy never has any problems over there and what could happen anyway?.”

“Yes, but Amy carries around a large hammer at all times, most girls settle for pepper spray, and I’ll tell you the worst that could happen since I think your old enough to know.” Cream was all ears (instead of just about 40%) to hear what her Mother had to say, sometimes they disagreed yes but she was generally right. Vanilla took a deep breath before continuing. “Cream, there are people in the world who might want to harm you. Not in the normal way either, you’re almost a woman now and to many people you are very attractive.” Cream smiled at the compliment but didn’t really know where she was going with this. “Remember when I told you about sex?” Cream blushed at the memory but repeated what she had been taught.

“I shouldn’t have sex until I’m ready and only with someone I really, really love.”

“And?”

“And that you approve of. What has that got to do with it Mom?”

“Well, some people will want to force you to have sex, that’s called rape. If a man you don’t know talks to you like that or tries to get you to go somewhere with him just say no and run okay?” Cream was shocked, her Mom had kept telling her earlier that sex could only be done between two people who loved each other and that it was very special. Now it seemed that people might force her into doing that with them, that wasn‘t special!

“Run where?”

“To a policeman preferably, but if you can’t find someone like that just find a big crowd and look for someone big and strong to protect you and tell them what happened. People hate rapists.”

“Okay Mom, I’ll be careful. Bye Cheese, have fun with Tikal ok?” Cheese was going to stay with the other Chao on Angel Island for a day or two, to see his girlfriend Chocula. It would give Cream time to set up Amy’s apartment with some of her own things and not let the curious Chao get in the way.

“Chao chao chao!!” Cheese replied in the Chao equivalent of “love you” . Cream bent down to pet the strange flying creature with its raindrop shaped head.

“We really have to teach him more words, at this rate he’ll never sweet talk his girlfriend at all.” Cream giggled at this and ran out the front door before running as fast as she could to the train station, as she lived in a cottage out in Emerald Hill she had to ride the train to get to Station Square but it was only a short five-minute ride as the train was fast.

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Finding this girl was harder than Shadow had thought it would be, he had searched around a bit but not found anything that could be a place where she might frequent. Okay, try and think like a girl. that’s easy, I have trouble thinking like a mortal, let alone a specific group of them. Shadow went over the few traits of this girl he knew. Fairly young, physical weak, easy target…she’d be somewhere safe for a start. The less crime ridden parts of the city, maybe the park???

A park seemed to be the kind of place a young girl might be, oh well - if I’m having this much trouble then everyone else is too. I’m the best after all.

If Shadow had one fault it was his arrogance, luckily he usually had the skills he was boasting about.

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“Who is it?” Amy replied to the knock on her door, the hyperactive pink Hedgehog was psyched for her trip with her hero Sonic, she had no idea how long they would stay but she was sure she could cast her charm over him in time. Sonic on the otherhand still couldn’t remember why he had decided to let her come.

“Its Cream Amy.” Amy squealed in joy that the last part of the preparations were complete and let her friend in immediately. Showing her into the disturbingly pink apartment of the excitable Hedgehog, Cream had almost forgotten how many things were pink and fluffy here. It was all a bit creepy.

“This is going to be the best thing ever Cream!!” Amy squealed.

“I hope you enjoy yourself, and Sonic of course.”

“Oh he will for sure, there is no way he will be able to resist me. Maybe I’ll even get him into bed.” Amy’s eyes glossed over and Cream wasn’t sure she wanted to know what her “older sister” was thinking about.

“Amy?”

“Yes Cream.” She broke out of her trance and was brought back to the present.

“Have you ever had anyone try to rape you?” That question came out of the blue all right! Mmmm blue…..concentrate!!!!

“Did I miss a gap in conversation? What brought that on?” The confused Hedgehog asked her friend.

“Mom was talking to me about how it was dangerous up here and I just wondered if it ever happened to you.” Cream was afraid she’d asked something wrong.

“Well Cream, a guy did try once. This weirdo green Hedgehog, I think he might have been an addict he twitched a lot, tried to get me to come into an alley with him and told me to give him a…uur your too young to hear that part of the story. Anyway I just hit him with my hammer and waited for the police.”

“Do you think it could happen to me?” She asked quietly, almost afraid to go out of the apartment.

“Just keep away from the bad places in the city and it shouldn’t okay.” Cream smiled and they got back to talking about the trip and how obvious it was that Sonic was in love with Amy but too shy to admit it.

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“Damn it!!” Humans and Mobians alike stayed out of the way of the evil looking Hedgehog as he walked down a street, anger pouring of every fibre of his being. “Where is this stupid Rabbit? Shadow had been searching for hours and had checked the park, the market, the fairground (Twinkle Park) and anywhere else she was likely to turn up at but now found her yet! Shadow looking normal was scary enough to most but now he was annoyed, and the all black clothing did not help.

“Hey! You calm down son!” A police officer came up to him looking slightly annoyed, Shadow immediately classed his intelligence as lower than that of a garden pea. What kind of idiot would approach him when he was obviously angry?

“Son? I’m older than you are!” Of course, if you counted the fifty-years of cryogenic freezing Shadow was pretty old.

“Sure you are, now what the hell is wrong with you. Walking down the street looking like that and scaring everybody.” Of course! He could ask someone! The thought hadn’t even crossed his mind but someone had to know where she was.

“I’m trying to locate a very important person. A Rabbit by the name of Cream, it would save me a lot of time if someone could tell me where she is.”

“Can’t say I know, but stop being so creepy and ask around. Maybe someone knows where your friend is.”

“Thank you police-slave.” Shadow walked off in another direction leaving the confused officer alone.

“That guy has serious problems.”

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Ba ck to Amy and Cream:

“So Cream” There was a mischievous quality to Amy’s voice. The doe was helping her pack for the trip and they were currently in Amy’s room (also pink). “Have you met any boys you like yet?”

“Amy!” Cream’s face lit up red as the Hedgehog smiled at her embarrassment.

“Don’t be embarrassed Cream, I knew I loved Sonic since I was 15. I’m sure there is someone you like about.”

“No, no-one. I’m not old enough for that kind of thing anyway.”

“That’s Vanilla talking, not you. I bet you copied that word for word from her, didn’t you?” Cream had and hadn’t even realised it until Amy said something. “You’re never too young or too old to be in love Cream. Come on, what would be your ideal guy. And your ideal guy not your Mom‘s idea of one.”

“I don’t know, someone big and strong would be nice.” Cream was blushing wildly as she was not used to answering this sort of question, the idea of doing anything with a boy made her nervous.

“Big and strong is good, what else?”

“Kind and caring.”

“And…”

“Good looking.” She said quietly afraid of sounding shallow.

“Rabbit or another species.”

“Rabbit definitely! Mommy said that people who date outside their species are weird.”

“What did I say a few seconds ago?” Cream decided to try and change the subject and get away from talking about this now.

“Ur…Amy, what are these for?” The doe looked up from the suitcase she was packing and took out some tight red panties.

“Give me those!” Amy snatched the panties of off her and put them in the suitcase she was packing.

“Are they for Mr Sonic?” Cream still called people Mr and Miss after all these years, she hadn’t lost any of her manners.

“No, I just like wearing them.”

“And you just like Mr Sonic wearing these right?” Cream held up a packet of condoms. Obviously Amy was really planning this trip out.

“Cheeky Rabbit. I can’t help it if I’m prepared for everything.”

“Too prepared Amy.” Cream placed a few more items in the suitcase and closed it, waiting for Amy to do the same. Amy’s doorbell rang just then and another feminine voice could be heard.

“Anyone going to let us in?”

“It’s Miss Rouge, we better let her in before she kicks the door down...again.”

“I heard that Creamy, and I definitely told you to stop calling me Miss. It makes me sound old.” Amy opened her door to a good looking but tired partly white furred Bat in a purple leather jumpsuit. She was carrying a few files with the GUN emblem printed on them.

“What’s wrong Rouge?”

“I’m exhausted.” She trudged into the living room and was about to collapse on the sofa when a Sonic boom erupted through the neighbourhood. A blue flash tore through the room and dropped a dizzy Kitsune before it settled on the sofa Rouge was about fall onto.

“Amy, we got those from things from Westopilis you wanted! Rouge what are you doing?”

*SLAP*

“There we go.” Rouge sank back into the chair with a sigh whilst Sonic rolled around on the floor clutching his face and Tails dropped some of the bags he was carrying to fall down on the floor, attempting to regain his sense of balance.

“Ow ow ow ow ow!!”

“Serves you right for being rude Mr Sonic.”

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Eight years ago: The house of Vanilla and the Cream the Rabbit

“See Creamy, there’s Sonic.” Cream and Cheese let out a small cheer when Sonic’s face came onto the TV screen.

“This is Scarlet Garcia reporting. Sonic the Hedgehog, you have once again single-handedly saved the planet from destruction by the evil Doctor.” The Hedgehog looked uneasy for a second. As if he wasn’t sure if he should say something. “Of course, you will be rewarded with anything you desire. Sonic’s eyes opened wide as he imagined a lifetimes supply of chilli-dogs, being surrounded by cute (scantily dressed) Hedgehog girls and relaxing on a beach all at the same time.

“Yep that’s me, saved the world all by myself all right.”

“What do you have to say for yourself?”

“No-one can beat Sonic the Hedgehog so don’t even try, that goes double for you Robotnik!” He flashed his standard ego induced grin at the cameras, who ate up the pictures of their hero.

“What about that other Hedgehog? The criminal that reportedly escaped from Prison Island? Where is he now?” In Sonic’s mind the sexy Hedgehog girls vanished to go to his black counterpart just because he had given his life to save them.

“That guy was just…a trick invented by Eggman! He didn’t exist at all! Now I’ve got to go see the president about some hot girls! Bye now!” Sonic sped off in an all too eager sonic boom.

“Mommy, what were they talking about another Hedgehog?”

“Nothing Cream.” Vanilla didn’t want her daughter to see the violent footage that had been taken of the black Hedgehog, although it wasn’t very clear he still looked scary. He might give her nightmares. “Sonic said it himself, there wasn’t one. Now lets go see Amy, I heard she was upset about something.

Had Vanilla showed Cream the video then chances are that this story would have been slightly altered, had Amy told her why she and her new kind of friend Rouge were so upset it is likely that things would have gone very, very different.

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“ ;Why are you so tired Miss- I mean Rouge.”

“I was up all night at the agency trying to piece together this latest case. I was hoping maybe Fox-boy could help me by telling me how they can do their tricks.”

“I will, just as soon as the room stops spinning.” Said a voice from the floor.

“What’s the case about Rouge?” Said Amy from the kitchen.

“Its about a growing number of Assassinations from an Assassin clan based in Westopilis. Specifically one member who joined about eight years ago as far as we can tell, although he likely spent time training too.”

“Assassin clan?” Sonic returned from the kitchen with a bag of peas from the fridge on his face and sat down far away from Rouge.

“Will you look at that Rouge, you ruined my future husbands face.” Amy said playfully, Rouge and Sonic argued all the time and the bruise would heal soon.

“He’s only your husband if you can get him to say I do without using a threat, and yes Sonic Assassin clan. There are quite a few of them throughout the colonies. They’re basically gangs with trademarks to make it easier to hire people.”

“So what? Are you trying to catch them all?” Sonic asked her.

“No, that would be impossible to do at once and if we tried to destroy a few clans the others would get angry. We generally just ignore them and only go for the ones that do the most killing.”

“That’s horrible!” Cream told her, surprised that the government would just let the exist like that.

“I know Cream, but it works a lot of the time.”

“Who’s this new member then?” Asked Tails, still on the floor as he didn’t really feel like getting up.

“This strange black Hedgehog, I don‘t know his name.” As soon as she said that Cream saw everybody go wide-eyed and silent. She was left feeling as though she had missed something.

“A little too close to a certain old enemy, Isn’t it.” Tails said coldly.

“Shut up Fox! He gave his life to save us and that’s what you say?” Rouge was angry but for a second Cream was sure she saw a tear.

“Who are you guys talking about?

“No-one Cream, that psycho is dead thank god.” Sonic said happily. “He was this guy we met on the ARK way back, he tried to blow up the planet and did a pretty big number on the moon too.”

“And then what did he do?”

“He helped save the planet that’s what he did!” Amy told Cream crossly. “I still can’t believe that you lied to the news Sonic, you didn’t mention him at all!”

“The guy was nuts! What kind of hero would that be?”

“It doesn’t matter now I guess, he burnt up in the atmosphere.”

“What do you mean?” Cream asked her.

“He fell from the ARK and back to Earth, never stood a chance thank Chaos.” Tails explained.

“You guys can shut up, he wasn’t so evil.” Rouge was upset obviously but she had come here for a reason and tried to get back on track. “This Assassin clan I’m investigating call themselves The Phantom Blade. The name is well deserved , apparently every member is given a dagger covered in shed Chameleon skin which they have somehow worked out how to make turn invisible without a live Chameleon. That what I need Tails to work out. This newest member is turning out to be the most lethal of them and has been hired to kill a number of different people.”

“Oh come on, how good could he be?” Sonic ridiculed from his chair.

“GUN tried to hire him, he’s that good. He has killed extremely important people- several politicians, most of them corrupt, businessmen, military men. But he also accepts contracts and bounties for common criminals and doesn’t seem to care whether or not someone can pay well.”

“So, that’s good isn’t it? He doesn’t care about money.” Cream said, a bit out of her depth with these kind of things.

“No Cream, that isn’t good with Assassins. Doubly so when they have a discount policy for killing Humans and GUN. If your target is a member of GUN then you can get 30% off. What kind of person does that?” She didn’t get an answer because there was none to be had. Tails examined some of the files that Rouge had brought and took a few pictures with a handheld computer.

“I’ll go back to my lab tonight and try and figure out how they use Chameleon skin to turn things invisible, however I think that if you two are going to go on this holiday then you better catch your plane huh?” Tails was right! It was getting late and the plain to Flicky Island was leaving soon!

“Can we come and see you off?”

“Sure you can Cream.” Amy told the excited doe.

“Amy, I think something in your suitcase is vibrating. A lot.” Tails had one hand placed on a suitcase and the other over his mouth to stop himself laughing out loud. Amy turned a bright red colour before stammering out an explanation.

“Must be my electric toothbrush.” The suitcase was really rolling around, it must have been powerful.

“That’s what they all say Amy.” Rouge laughed at her pinker than usual friend.

“Besides Amy, I packed your toothbrush in the other suitcase, and it wasn’t electric.” Cream had caught on now too, knowing what it was from a shop she had once wandered into, it had had a lot of pink and she had no idea at the time that “adult” shopping meant that! She had thought it was a clothes shop and had run blushing from it when she realised its true purpose.

“What, what’s so funny?” Sonic asked the laughing Mobians.

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Jesus that is one long chapter. Remember people review!!!! If there are any inconsistencies you spot in this thing please point them out and I will change them, my head isn’t completely intact when I’m writing this stuff. And its like 2 in the AM.


What will Shadow do when he finds Cream, what was in Amy’s bag (if you haven’t guessed then you shouldn’t be reading this), have I completely ruined Vanilla’s personality to fit my own devious ends (yes), is Mobius’ day very very short to fit my fiction because there was nothing else for Cream to do today (very yes).

All this and more in the next chapter -which won’t be up for a while you bloodsucking, murdering evil bastard child molesters who aren’t reviewing!! Excluded from this statement is my single reviewer who’s name I cant be bothered typing currently because I’m a lazy tired bastard. You know who you are. Review again please.