Sonic Series Fan Fiction ❯ Guardian Angel ❯ The first look at the Void ( Chapter 4 )
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By: Shadow 6271 
Read the damn thing. you should all know by now i cant be bothered to write in here!!!
Non Anime: Sonic Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.15.2007 | Updated On: 06.16.2007 | Pages: 5 | Words: 5.7K | Visits: 201 | Status: Work In Progress
Read the damn thing. you should all know by now i cant be bothered to write in here!!!
Non Anime: Sonic Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.15.2007 | Updated On: 06.16.2007 | Pages: 5 | Words: 5.7K | Visits: 201 | Status: Work In Progress
Finally I can get to some of the main points in this damn thing. I couldn’t bring them up much earlier but now you can enjoy.
Feel free to review and all. Bastards (I reserve the right as author to insult all of you, every single one of you backstabbing traitors that doesn’t review. If you do review on the other hand, enjoy ^^; ).
You know? I am beginning to think I have a distinct writing style. A mix of sexual innuendo and extreme violence. I wander if that says anything about me as a person? Probably.
Finally, after this I was going to do a SA2 adapt. But it seems someone has beaten me to it! Now I’m not sure whether I will or not, having two going on at the same time doesn’t really make much sense. I dunno. What do you guys think?
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Schizophrenia
1- A Psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistant often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behaviour, thinking, and emotion.
2- Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist.
Cream yawned as she awoke late again from the large black double-bed. Opening her eyes slightly she felt around herself for any signs of her host in the room or bed. Thank God, I’m alone. A small part of her didn’t really trust the oddly dressed Hedgehog and his erratic moods and had half-expected him to be there next to her. However, this part of her was overruled by the polite part of her that said it was wrong to judge people on how they looked. He couldn’t help it if he was born with dark fur and red eyes. She smiled slightly at the thought of his eyes, stunningly beautiful and deep if a bit demonic. Her Mother often said you could judge someone from their eyes, the doe wandered what his eyes were supposed to portray. What am I thinking? He’s just a strange Hedgehog who saved me.
Cream didn’t have the willpower to drag herself from the bed she had taken and instead snuggled back into the covers with a content sigh. I hope Shadow didn’t have to sleep on his couch or anything. Guilt crept into the thoughtful doe’s mind, this apartment didn’t look like it was made to accommodate guests and he probably wouldn’t have another bed. I’ll have to make it up to him later on. Yes, that was it. She’d surprise her host with something for thanking him, saving her from those disgusting creeps and giving her a place to stay for the night.
Cream opened her eyes to see more of the room that she had hardly seen last night, the light shining through the window allowed her to take in details about it. It looked fairly normal if you ignored the black, a cupboard was half open across the room and Cream could easily see some of Shadows clothes in there. Black, black, black and just for a change black. It seemed he couldn’t tolerate anything that wasn’t as dark as he was. The only other colour she saw was a bit of red and that was in highlights on the black, I wonder where he buys this stuff. She giggled at the thought of him clothes shopping, she just couldn’t imagine the gothic looking Mobian doing something like that.
The window was a large one which she guessed could be opened all the way out and she could see they were quite far up, maybe in one of the large apartment buildings on the less safe sides of town. Still, she could see landmarks she could recognize here and the doe thought she could probably get to Amy’s apartment right now. But that would be rude.
Cream decided that it was about time she got up, looking around for her clothes in only her underwear she felt dirty knowing that she would be wearing the same things from last night (even though she had only worn them for a half hour at most, another of Vanilla’s programmed lessons) but there was really nothing she could do about it unless the Hedgehog had actually brought her more clothes. Whilst it wouldn’t surprise her seeing how odd her host was she wasn’t expecting it. Cream stuck her head out of the room and checked that Shadow wasn’t looking, thankfully it seemed that he wasn’t even in the apartment at the moment.
Satisfied that he wouldn’t see her Cream dressed quickly in her old pink dress and the long sleeved pink shirt but left the sweater. Ever worried about her appearance she checked herself in a handy mirror and made sure to sort out her ears and the fur that had been messed up by sleeping before she decided to try and find out where her host had gone.
Before she could leave the room however Shadow’s mobile phone rang on the bedside table where he had apparently left it. It was an expensive model and Cream guessed that whatever he did for a living must be fairly high paying. The doe decided she would answer it and take a message, it was the least she could do when she had taken his bed for the night. Cream picked it up and checked the caller I.D automatically, reading the name Leo on the phone, before answering.
“Hi Shadow man, listen. I found out you were in Station Square from Tanto, just calling to ask if you had found that Rabbit, what’s her name? Cream or something weird. Got some news too, the reward has been doubled! The “honourable clan leader” is still is trying to stop us from going after her but he’s about to meet with a little accident an- Shadow? Are you even there?”
Cream went pale with fright. She had trouble breathing correctly and had to concentrate to get the right flow of oxygen, the doe had thought Shadow had saved her to help and the knowledge that he had just been saving her for the money shocked the innocent trusting doe. She had never had her trust betrayed like that. He had kidnapped her and she hadn’t even realised it! Another invisible blow of terror came when she remembered the caller had said the “clan leader”. Rouge had said she was after a black Hedgehog Assassin in a clan, black was a super rare colour for any Hedgehog so they had to be the same.
The doe’s legs threatened to fold and leant on the wall to support herself.
The other Mobian continued asking on the phone and Cream decided to answer in case he got suspicious.
“Err… Shadow stepped out for a while. I’m not sure when he’ll be back. I woke up and he was gone.” Cream was terrified at the latest situation she had found herself in but still felt slightly embarrassed at what she had insinuated unintensionally, even with the tremble in her voice it sounded wrong.
“Oh great, Shadow arrives in a city and finds a whore in the first day!”
“I am not like that!” She had wanted to shout it as loud as she could but the combination of hysteric breathing and fear turned it into a pathetic whine. Hardly convincing.
The nerve of that guy! Even Cream knew vaguely what that word meant, many a man had been slapped by Rouge for mistaking her for one.
In fact, most of her information on more “adult” themes had come from the Bat. Swears, dating, how to dress attractively and, to Cream‘s eternal bright red and stuttering embarrassment but Rouge’s (and even Amy‘s) insistence, the importance of using condoms and how to put them on people. Her Mother just didn’t seem to want to teach her what her best friends assured her was essential. Her Mom called the Bat a bad influence and Cream took guilty pleasure in Rouge‘s lessons knowing full well that she was probably right.
“You slept in his bed didn’t you?”
“Well yes. But we didn’t do anything!” The doe wasn’t even sure WHY she was having a full conversation with this guy. Shadow could come back any minute and she had to get out of here!
“Right.. sure. How old are you anyway. You sound pretty young.”
“Fourteen.” The Mobian on the line laughed.
“And he called me disgusting for what I do!”
“You can just shut up!”
“Another thing. Why are you breathing so heavily?” Great, he had recognized how scared she was.
“No..no reason.”
“Oh…I see what’s going on.” Cream let out a small eep automatically.
“Nothings going on, nothing at all.”
“Well your breathing even more heavily now. And Shadow is of course busy, it makes sense.”
“I’m not breathing heavily at all, and Shadow isn‘t here.” She said with a squeak.
“Is Shadow occupied….under the covers by any chance? Say about half way down you?” She could practically hear the smirk in his voice but didn’t understand him.
“What do you mean?”
“A little bit of tongue goes a long way with a girl…” Cream finally caught on to what he was suggesting and went red again, with embarrassment and fury.
“I am not in bed and Shadow is not here!!!! Your a disgusting pervert and I hope I never hear from you again!”
Hearing nothing but laughing on the other line Cream slammed the phone down on the table in anger at the obnoxious perverted caller. Even the way he had said it had been suggestive- disgusting and sick to the innocent doe.
“This is a Mobile phone moron, it doesn’t have a holder! You’re so stupid! You press the big red bu-” Cream had located the end call button.
“Disgusting insensitive bas-” She clamped her hands over her mouth suddenly. I almost swore! Well, I can hardly blame myself. He was a disgusting pig. And I still have to escape!
The doe only then remembered what she had to do. She had to escape! Cream crept through the apartment. Worried that perhaps Shadow was still about somewhere. The doe’s heart was beating
extremely quickly and a rush of adrenaline made her feel ready to sprint if needed, as if she could escape someone as fast as Sonic.
The Rabbit crept into the main room, which was bathed in a kind of twilight from the sun shining through the curtains. As she walked past the long black sofa in the main room she heard a noise. Looking over it she inhaled sharply and tried to keep her sounds to a minimum. On the sofa was Shadow, fast asleep and as still as a rock and for some reason covered partly in a grey dust.
Still wearing the same black clothes and battered torn gloves as before he looked almost peaceful from the complete lack of movement. For the first time the doe wandered if he could really be that dangerous. When she had said thank you and goodnight he had seemed a perfectly nice person.
Well, not exactly nice but he hadn’t been mean. And he had saved her, and hadn’t even hurt her. He didn’t look so bad now that he was asleep. He wasn’t frowning for a start. In fact, he almost looked..…handsome. She blushed despite the situation and simply stared at him asleep until he stirred slightly, a tiny smile on her bright red face and, she wasn’t sure, but she thought she might have seen the ghost of a smile on his face too.
Cream turned to go hesitantly and then found herself looking straight at a large high tech rifle leaning against the front door, placed as normally as an umbrella might be put against the wall.
Cream’s vision began to go strange as tears of fright came to her and she tried to back away from the dangerous looking weapon, it wasn’t even particularly fearsome looking. But it did look very efficient, it wasn’t designed to intimidate, painted a dull matt black, it was designed to kill and kill well.
As the doe backed away she tripped over the couch and landed across the sleeping Hedgehog, eliciting an eep from her and a small grunt in him as he adjusted to the new weight.
To Cream’s joy he still did not wake up. However, she still lay across his lap, motionless in wide-eyed terror, trying to do nothing to make him awaken. For a few minutes she was sure he would but he seemed to drift back to sleep, only now did she realise just how close she was to him. His hot breath was tickling her large sensitive Rabbit ears- making them twitch and move around to attempt to relieve the irritation.
She got even more worried when his arms enclosed around her and drew her closer, apparently changing personality yet again by acting tender. Shadow lifted her up closer to him, caught in some sort of odd dream he was forced to re-enact. Oh well, at least he won’t hurt me. This thought reassured the Rabbit, her host/kidnapper wasn’t likely to harm her in his sleep.
“Maria.” He muttered in his sleep and further confused the poor doe. He began to turn slightly in his slumber, like he was having a nightmare. Holding her less like he was comforting her and more like he was trying to stop her from being taken away. I wonder what he’s dreaming about. Whatever it is it must be bad. Cream remembered some of her own nightmares and her heart went out to him, her Mother always heard her and came in to comfort her, but Shadow didn’t have anyone.
Always the compassionate one Cream lifted her hand to his face and began to stroke his fur gently, doing what little she could to try and calm him without waking him up. Gradually he actually stopped and became more relaxed before loosening his grip on her.
This allowed her to get her feet down to the floor and she stood up, almost regretting that she had to leave the person who had kidnapped her! As one last thank you for saving her she tiptoed back into his bedroom and took one of the covers out before laying it over him.
Cream snuck out.
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It washes over the planet unnoticed. Only a few realise its presence and fewer still know it’s identity.
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Time: 12:10 Pm
Local time: 7:10 Pm
Location: Flicky Island
“Get ready for the greatest meal you will ever eat my darling Sonikku!” Amy called from the kitchen of their temporary holiday home. In her mind’s eye it was going perfectly for the young pink Hedgehog. She had managed to get Sonic’s attention with a skimpy black dress, she was cooking an Italian dish for her crush which apparently Humans considered the food of lovers, there was a candle lit table and it was nice and dark, making sure Sonic wouldn‘t be so shy about himself. Maybe tonight’s the night we may actually…ooh! I’ve got shivers!
“Smells great Amy.” Sonic was already sitting down, looking in confusion at the candles and the numerous roses strewn around the room. In truth he was worried about Amy’s health, the dress she was wearing hardly had enough material to make a hanky and she could catch a cold. She was also cooking some spaghetti which Sonic had never tasted (although he never trusted Human food, especially if he couldn’t even spell it).And what is up with the light? I can’t see a thing!
“Here it comes!” Amy walked in with two plates of the strange snake like food which Sonic prodded with his fork in suspicion. It smelt good but who knew what it might do once his trust was earned? He had seen those sci-fi shows, the alien pretended to be a kebab until you believed it was safe to eat and then leapt up and tried to strangle you and people had to write “killed by Indian takeaway” on your tombstone.
Once the Hedgehog was fairly sure the food wasn’t alive he picked up a forkful and tried to guide it to his mouth in the dark. He had to try it, Amy was staring at him and waiting.
As it entered his mouth a sharp pain slammed into his chest and he fell straight over onto the floor.
“Sonic! Are you ok?” Amy rushed over to stand above him and the twitching Hedgehog noted with some embarrassment the fact that she didn’t appear to be wearing panties when her short dress moved out of the way briefly.
“Argh-ogh furfuf.” Was all he got out through the spaghetti as he clutched his chest checking for some kind of wound. It felt like a really bad case of heartburn in all but it had still surprised him.
You to..…..dit for S..…ow’s sacr.fi.., you don’t ……….any…..ds. Your noth.. ….a fake.
“Yugfar-fraghak!” What the hell was that?! It sounded like a voice but it was all screwed up! The voice he had heard had been very quiet, almost whispering. And it had been broken into parts too.
“Oh come on! It can’t be that bad! I followed the recipe exactly.”
“Okfor-garags.” The pain seemed to subside slightly now but his mouth was still full of food.
Sonic quickly decided not to mention the voice to Amy, she’d probably think he was insane. Or worse, think he was insulting the food and hit him with her hammer.
“Get up Sonikku.” The pink Hedgehog helped him up and back to the table, after a while he settled down and she managed to ask him about the meal nervously. “Well, what do you think of it?”
“Its nice. And it packs a punch too!” Amy smiled at the joke and blushed at the compliment. Maybe the night wasn’t ruined after all….
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Time: 12:10
Local Time: 12:10
Location: Mystic Forest Chao garden
“Miss Kiyone. What are the Chao doing?”
“I don’t know sir.” The two researchers were peering out of the bushes into a natural Chao garden. They had been studying their sleeping habits but they didn’t appear to be doing anything of the sort.
“Chaooooo!” Some of the normally comical blue animals were shouting out, others were whimpering on the ground, others had just fainted and a few were jumping into the water like it would save them.
“What the hell?”
Some Chao still standing were fighting each other now, and not in the way they did in Chao Karate (as shown on ChaoTV"). They were really trying to hurt each other.
As quickly as they had begun they stopped, some dropping to the ground and some trying to heal the wounds on their previous opponents In puzzlement with various chants and Chao prayers to their Chao god Chaos.
Unfortunately, he was having his own problems.
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Time: 12:10
Local Time: 12:10
Location: Angel Island (located precariously above Mystic ruins)
“Chaos! What is wrong?” To all appearances a glowing reddish light was talking to a puddle on the altar of the Master Emerald. In time it formed into a young echidna girl wearing a Mayan style dress and a matching cape. Her face was etched in concern.
The puddle briefly roared and tentacles whipped out to demolish anything they caught, flying straight through the girl when she so wished. Chaos could feel pain through its entire water based body. And something else too.
You destroyed them all. The entire civilisation is gone now. She didn’t want this you know, she hates you. You should just go and die. Not a living creature or anything else. You shouldn’t be allowed to live.
Tikal ran down the steps away from her long time friend and right into her Nephew.
“What’s wrong Tikal?”
“Something is wrong with Chaos! He is acting strange!”
Knuckles could hear him from here, looking up the steps he saw Chaos looking down. However, his usual appearance was altered slightly. His eyes were glowing red not green and masses of tentacles were springing from his back in an agitated fury.
Very slowly the God of Destruction began to lose the blue colour and turn black slowly.
“Yep, that’s strange all right. Don’t worry though, I have a plan.”
“What does your plan consist of Nephew?”
“Running. Very fast.”
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Time: 12:10
Local Time: 12:10
Location: Station Square
His target in the reticule of his sniper rifle, the Hedgehog knew he should be watching the Rabbit. But she was in his own home, asleep and safe. And he had to make a living didn’t he? That apartment had cost quite a bit.
Shadow let out a gasp as it hit him. Everything just began to scream like his body had been stabbed with needles all over. With a pathetic shriek unworthy of the Ultimate Life form he fell off the roof he was perched on and down onto the pavement below with a crunch of concrete breaking. One or two of his ribs cracked as it hit the hard ground and he cursed silently, that would take a longer time to heal than normal flesh would. He could stimulate tissue to grow back simply by feeding Chaos energy into it but bones were somewhat harder to stimulate.
Do you have any idea how pathetic you are?
Why do you bother going on?
You failed her, you deserve to die.
JUST DIE !!!!
The massive pain didn’t subside, everything felt like he was burning. It was almost as bad as the time he had fallen through the atmosphere. Shadow screamed out into the night like a wounded animal.
Far away people heard the scream and cowered behind each other, thinking some horrible murder was going on. Police tried to locate it and children found it entering their dreams and giving nightmares.
Who would miss you if you died right now? No one loves you and you have no one to love.
You’re alone.
Die.
Everyone you love dies.
Kill.
Your not better. Your just a freak of nature.
Those voices! They were inside his own head, accompanying the pure agony he was enduring. As he thrashed about in agony they were taunting him, whispering in his mind. Shadow gritted his teeth as another wave of burning pain washed over him, driving him mad. Despite his position Shadow had to lash out, had to hit something! His fist collided with pavement and the artificial stone splintered, unprepared for an attack of such strength. Anger filled him with every whisper and he caught a lust for destruction that he had not experienced for a long time.
I hate you. The voices continued as he tried to break anything near him into pieces.
“Fine with me, I hate you too!” He got out, growling through gritted lips.
Maria is dead. She was your only reason for living. Why go on?
You aren’t perfect, your just an experiment. A program with no real emotions.
How can you claim to be ultimate?
“I fell through the planet’s atmosphere and survived! Find me someone more qualified!” He shouted as he punched a fire hydrant near him, severely denting the metal. That seemed to shut them up and Shadow felt the pain subside into manageable levels along with the anger. What the hell just happened to me? Shadow pulled himself up from the pavement dust and looked around to find the cause.
He was standing in a quiet street. No one else was there but he had definitely heard voices speaking to him. Shadow knew they had been in his mind but checked anyway.
“Great, now I’m insane.”
Is it really so bad? Shadow span around to look for the voice before realising that it too was in his head, only talking like a normal person instead of unnatural whispers.
“Yes. Go away.”
No. Get used to me, I’m here now. Shadow growled in annoyance. He was talking to nothing for crying out loud! Why was he even keeping a conversation with it?!?
“Who are you?!”
I’m a voice in your head. That’s pretty much the extent of my identity.
“What do you want?”
You to fulfil your desires and purpose. It wasn’t an unpleasant voice as such, it sounded much like his own, but there was something odd about it. It was easy to tell it wasn’t coming from a living person. It also had something of a lighter tone than his own voice and sounded fairly happy and even joking.
“And they are…”
To destroy the Humans of course.
“You are immensely annoying.”
Thank you, but you know its true.
“My purpose is…is to protect the Earth. Maria said so.” Uncertainty was in his voice, the Ultimate Life form was glad no one was around to hear him. He was supposed to be strong and determined, being unsure was beneath him.
You kill people for money.
“The Professor wanted that, I have a compromise. But my main purpose is to protect the innocent.” The last part he spat out like it was sour.
You know…as much as Maria was a kind and loving young girl she wasn’t always right you know. Didn’t she once say that all Humans were good deep down. That all Humans were innocent.
“Yes.” This voice really didn’t sound at all like the others he had heard briefly. They had been hateful and mean but this one sounded almost kind. It sounded like it cared. Distrust was an instinct to him but how could a voice in his head betray him?
Well, judging from what you’ve seen in the time you have been here, more time than she spent on Earth I’m sure, has that hypothesis ever been proven? Have you ever met one innocent Human or a child that will grow up to be one?
“I never said I agree with her, I just do what she told me to.”
And that got you very far didn’t it? Sarcasm and anger was evident in its voice. You could have killed every attacking soldier but instead you followed her directions to go to the escape pods. Result! She dies, your creator is locked up, you are tampered with and frozen. Yes, what a track record that is. Very successful course of action!
“Shut up.”
I am not in possession of a mouth. It had gotten slightly more aggressive before but was now icily cold.
“Then leave.”
I’ll be back. You will need me I know. Goodbye.
“Good riddance. The day I start talking to myself….”The sharp pain as he attempted to walk reminded him of the broken ribs, God damn it.
Shadow teleported home without his contract fulfilled and slipped into a deep unconsciousness on the couch to heal. Only stirring slightly a few hours later when a certain doe slipped out.
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Cream could not decide what she felt as she walked through the sprawling city of Station Square. An odd mix of emotions weighed down her heart but she could not figure out why. On the one hand she was happy that she was going back to Amy’s place, she could relax and follow all her original plans whilst still proving how responsible she was, on the other she was sad about leaving the Hedgehog.
“He wasn’t so bad.” She told herself. Yeah, he only wanted to sell me for money. Even after reminding herself of this she wasn’t sure if really had meant to. He could have taken her straight to whoever wanted her but he hadn’t…
Cream wasn’t even sure how she felt about the Hedgehog, a good part of her was terrified of him but another part felt, for some reason, curious and caring.
I need to stop thinking about this so much, I’ll just go to Amy’s, relax, maybe have a shower and change these old clothes and call Tikal later, she’ll know what to do. The thought of getting advice from the pacifistic echidna immediately calmed her nerves. Surely she would know what to do.
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“Damn it!!” The General slammed his hand down onto his desk with a bang but Lt. Stevens just waited for him to lose his anger. “You mean out of 50 manufactured jewels only one worked?”
“Yes sir, and even that shattered after one test at around 24:10 this morning. After producing a seriously large amount of energy.”
“Oh well, its served its purpose. What did you get?”
“We got a total count of a few hundred Chaos endowed creatures, most of them Chao. Among them we got four that were too powerful to be one of those.”
“Well, we own the first, the second will soon be ours. So that just leaves Shadow and someone else.”
“We believe it was likely Sonic, his signature was much weaker than the others.” The General grunted his agreement.
“What about the other Void Crystals?”
“We only picked up one other one sir. And it was ours not Kazu‘s, like I said - he must have shielded it somehow.”
“Only one? But there is supposed to be six of these things!”
“Well, they weren’t destroyed. That’s for sure.”
“How do you know?”
“We tested one, they just don’t break!” The General gave him a questioning look. “They just don’t, we dropped one by accident. It just rearranged itself into the original shape!”
“So where are they?”
“We think they may no longer be on the planet sir.”
“Another world? That’s likely, they’re probably just buried under a mile of magma or something. Try using the original in the next test.”
“Yes sir.” Lt. Stevens turned to leave.
“Stevens, one more thing.”
“Sir?”
“Did you get an approximate location on the most powerful of the signatures?”
“Yes sir, it came from Station Square, as you predicted.”
“I told you. He sent him.”
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Dodo dododo do dodo dooooo!!!!!
I finished but its like 1:48 so im all tired. Prepare to review readers!!! Review or I will kill you.
I finally named my weirdo gems. “Void Crystals” , personally I think its sounds pretty cool. But I’m suffering from lack of sleep so what do I know?
Feel free to review and all. Bastards (I reserve the right as author to insult all of you, every single one of you backstabbing traitors that doesn’t review. If you do review on the other hand, enjoy ^^; ).
You know? I am beginning to think I have a distinct writing style. A mix of sexual innuendo and extreme violence. I wander if that says anything about me as a person? Probably.
Finally, after this I was going to do a SA2 adapt. But it seems someone has beaten me to it! Now I’m not sure whether I will or not, having two going on at the same time doesn’t really make much sense. I dunno. What do you guys think?
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Schizophrenia
1- A Psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistant often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behaviour, thinking, and emotion.
2- Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist.
Cream yawned as she awoke late again from the large black double-bed. Opening her eyes slightly she felt around herself for any signs of her host in the room or bed. Thank God, I’m alone. A small part of her didn’t really trust the oddly dressed Hedgehog and his erratic moods and had half-expected him to be there next to her. However, this part of her was overruled by the polite part of her that said it was wrong to judge people on how they looked. He couldn’t help it if he was born with dark fur and red eyes. She smiled slightly at the thought of his eyes, stunningly beautiful and deep if a bit demonic. Her Mother often said you could judge someone from their eyes, the doe wandered what his eyes were supposed to portray. What am I thinking? He’s just a strange Hedgehog who saved me.
Cream didn’t have the willpower to drag herself from the bed she had taken and instead snuggled back into the covers with a content sigh. I hope Shadow didn’t have to sleep on his couch or anything. Guilt crept into the thoughtful doe’s mind, this apartment didn’t look like it was made to accommodate guests and he probably wouldn’t have another bed. I’ll have to make it up to him later on. Yes, that was it. She’d surprise her host with something for thanking him, saving her from those disgusting creeps and giving her a place to stay for the night.
Cream opened her eyes to see more of the room that she had hardly seen last night, the light shining through the window allowed her to take in details about it. It looked fairly normal if you ignored the black, a cupboard was half open across the room and Cream could easily see some of Shadows clothes in there. Black, black, black and just for a change black. It seemed he couldn’t tolerate anything that wasn’t as dark as he was. The only other colour she saw was a bit of red and that was in highlights on the black, I wonder where he buys this stuff. She giggled at the thought of him clothes shopping, she just couldn’t imagine the gothic looking Mobian doing something like that.
The window was a large one which she guessed could be opened all the way out and she could see they were quite far up, maybe in one of the large apartment buildings on the less safe sides of town. Still, she could see landmarks she could recognize here and the doe thought she could probably get to Amy’s apartment right now. But that would be rude.
Cream decided that it was about time she got up, looking around for her clothes in only her underwear she felt dirty knowing that she would be wearing the same things from last night (even though she had only worn them for a half hour at most, another of Vanilla’s programmed lessons) but there was really nothing she could do about it unless the Hedgehog had actually brought her more clothes. Whilst it wouldn’t surprise her seeing how odd her host was she wasn’t expecting it. Cream stuck her head out of the room and checked that Shadow wasn’t looking, thankfully it seemed that he wasn’t even in the apartment at the moment.
Satisfied that he wouldn’t see her Cream dressed quickly in her old pink dress and the long sleeved pink shirt but left the sweater. Ever worried about her appearance she checked herself in a handy mirror and made sure to sort out her ears and the fur that had been messed up by sleeping before she decided to try and find out where her host had gone.
Before she could leave the room however Shadow’s mobile phone rang on the bedside table where he had apparently left it. It was an expensive model and Cream guessed that whatever he did for a living must be fairly high paying. The doe decided she would answer it and take a message, it was the least she could do when she had taken his bed for the night. Cream picked it up and checked the caller I.D automatically, reading the name Leo on the phone, before answering.
“Hi Shadow man, listen. I found out you were in Station Square from Tanto, just calling to ask if you had found that Rabbit, what’s her name? Cream or something weird. Got some news too, the reward has been doubled! The “honourable clan leader” is still is trying to stop us from going after her but he’s about to meet with a little accident an- Shadow? Are you even there?”
Cream went pale with fright. She had trouble breathing correctly and had to concentrate to get the right flow of oxygen, the doe had thought Shadow had saved her to help and the knowledge that he had just been saving her for the money shocked the innocent trusting doe. She had never had her trust betrayed like that. He had kidnapped her and she hadn’t even realised it! Another invisible blow of terror came when she remembered the caller had said the “clan leader”. Rouge had said she was after a black Hedgehog Assassin in a clan, black was a super rare colour for any Hedgehog so they had to be the same.
The doe’s legs threatened to fold and leant on the wall to support herself.
The other Mobian continued asking on the phone and Cream decided to answer in case he got suspicious.
“Err… Shadow stepped out for a while. I’m not sure when he’ll be back. I woke up and he was gone.” Cream was terrified at the latest situation she had found herself in but still felt slightly embarrassed at what she had insinuated unintensionally, even with the tremble in her voice it sounded wrong.
“Oh great, Shadow arrives in a city and finds a whore in the first day!”
“I am not like that!” She had wanted to shout it as loud as she could but the combination of hysteric breathing and fear turned it into a pathetic whine. Hardly convincing.
The nerve of that guy! Even Cream knew vaguely what that word meant, many a man had been slapped by Rouge for mistaking her for one.
In fact, most of her information on more “adult” themes had come from the Bat. Swears, dating, how to dress attractively and, to Cream‘s eternal bright red and stuttering embarrassment but Rouge’s (and even Amy‘s) insistence, the importance of using condoms and how to put them on people. Her Mother just didn’t seem to want to teach her what her best friends assured her was essential. Her Mom called the Bat a bad influence and Cream took guilty pleasure in Rouge‘s lessons knowing full well that she was probably right.
“You slept in his bed didn’t you?”
“Well yes. But we didn’t do anything!” The doe wasn’t even sure WHY she was having a full conversation with this guy. Shadow could come back any minute and she had to get out of here!
“Right.. sure. How old are you anyway. You sound pretty young.”
“Fourteen.” The Mobian on the line laughed.
“And he called me disgusting for what I do!”
“You can just shut up!”
“Another thing. Why are you breathing so heavily?” Great, he had recognized how scared she was.
“No..no reason.”
“Oh…I see what’s going on.” Cream let out a small eep automatically.
“Nothings going on, nothing at all.”
“Well your breathing even more heavily now. And Shadow is of course busy, it makes sense.”
“I’m not breathing heavily at all, and Shadow isn‘t here.” She said with a squeak.
“Is Shadow occupied….under the covers by any chance? Say about half way down you?” She could practically hear the smirk in his voice but didn’t understand him.
“What do you mean?”
“A little bit of tongue goes a long way with a girl…” Cream finally caught on to what he was suggesting and went red again, with embarrassment and fury.
“I am not in bed and Shadow is not here!!!! Your a disgusting pervert and I hope I never hear from you again!”
Hearing nothing but laughing on the other line Cream slammed the phone down on the table in anger at the obnoxious perverted caller. Even the way he had said it had been suggestive- disgusting and sick to the innocent doe.
“This is a Mobile phone moron, it doesn’t have a holder! You’re so stupid! You press the big red bu-” Cream had located the end call button.
“Disgusting insensitive bas-” She clamped her hands over her mouth suddenly. I almost swore! Well, I can hardly blame myself. He was a disgusting pig. And I still have to escape!
The doe only then remembered what she had to do. She had to escape! Cream crept through the apartment. Worried that perhaps Shadow was still about somewhere. The doe’s heart was beating
extremely quickly and a rush of adrenaline made her feel ready to sprint if needed, as if she could escape someone as fast as Sonic.
The Rabbit crept into the main room, which was bathed in a kind of twilight from the sun shining through the curtains. As she walked past the long black sofa in the main room she heard a noise. Looking over it she inhaled sharply and tried to keep her sounds to a minimum. On the sofa was Shadow, fast asleep and as still as a rock and for some reason covered partly in a grey dust.
Still wearing the same black clothes and battered torn gloves as before he looked almost peaceful from the complete lack of movement. For the first time the doe wandered if he could really be that dangerous. When she had said thank you and goodnight he had seemed a perfectly nice person.
Well, not exactly nice but he hadn’t been mean. And he had saved her, and hadn’t even hurt her. He didn’t look so bad now that he was asleep. He wasn’t frowning for a start. In fact, he almost looked..…handsome. She blushed despite the situation and simply stared at him asleep until he stirred slightly, a tiny smile on her bright red face and, she wasn’t sure, but she thought she might have seen the ghost of a smile on his face too.
Cream turned to go hesitantly and then found herself looking straight at a large high tech rifle leaning against the front door, placed as normally as an umbrella might be put against the wall.
Cream’s vision began to go strange as tears of fright came to her and she tried to back away from the dangerous looking weapon, it wasn’t even particularly fearsome looking. But it did look very efficient, it wasn’t designed to intimidate, painted a dull matt black, it was designed to kill and kill well.
As the doe backed away she tripped over the couch and landed across the sleeping Hedgehog, eliciting an eep from her and a small grunt in him as he adjusted to the new weight.
To Cream’s joy he still did not wake up. However, she still lay across his lap, motionless in wide-eyed terror, trying to do nothing to make him awaken. For a few minutes she was sure he would but he seemed to drift back to sleep, only now did she realise just how close she was to him. His hot breath was tickling her large sensitive Rabbit ears- making them twitch and move around to attempt to relieve the irritation.
She got even more worried when his arms enclosed around her and drew her closer, apparently changing personality yet again by acting tender. Shadow lifted her up closer to him, caught in some sort of odd dream he was forced to re-enact. Oh well, at least he won’t hurt me. This thought reassured the Rabbit, her host/kidnapper wasn’t likely to harm her in his sleep.
“Maria.” He muttered in his sleep and further confused the poor doe. He began to turn slightly in his slumber, like he was having a nightmare. Holding her less like he was comforting her and more like he was trying to stop her from being taken away. I wonder what he’s dreaming about. Whatever it is it must be bad. Cream remembered some of her own nightmares and her heart went out to him, her Mother always heard her and came in to comfort her, but Shadow didn’t have anyone.
Always the compassionate one Cream lifted her hand to his face and began to stroke his fur gently, doing what little she could to try and calm him without waking him up. Gradually he actually stopped and became more relaxed before loosening his grip on her.
This allowed her to get her feet down to the floor and she stood up, almost regretting that she had to leave the person who had kidnapped her! As one last thank you for saving her she tiptoed back into his bedroom and took one of the covers out before laying it over him.
Cream snuck out.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely
- Lord Acton
Its purpose is unknown. Its starting point is unknown. Its consequences few.- Lord Acton
It washes over the planet unnoticed. Only a few realise its presence and fewer still know it’s identity.
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Time: 12:10 Pm
Local time: 7:10 Pm
Location: Flicky Island
“Get ready for the greatest meal you will ever eat my darling Sonikku!” Amy called from the kitchen of their temporary holiday home. In her mind’s eye it was going perfectly for the young pink Hedgehog. She had managed to get Sonic’s attention with a skimpy black dress, she was cooking an Italian dish for her crush which apparently Humans considered the food of lovers, there was a candle lit table and it was nice and dark, making sure Sonic wouldn‘t be so shy about himself. Maybe tonight’s the night we may actually…ooh! I’ve got shivers!
“Smells great Amy.” Sonic was already sitting down, looking in confusion at the candles and the numerous roses strewn around the room. In truth he was worried about Amy’s health, the dress she was wearing hardly had enough material to make a hanky and she could catch a cold. She was also cooking some spaghetti which Sonic had never tasted (although he never trusted Human food, especially if he couldn’t even spell it).And what is up with the light? I can’t see a thing!
“Here it comes!” Amy walked in with two plates of the strange snake like food which Sonic prodded with his fork in suspicion. It smelt good but who knew what it might do once his trust was earned? He had seen those sci-fi shows, the alien pretended to be a kebab until you believed it was safe to eat and then leapt up and tried to strangle you and people had to write “killed by Indian takeaway” on your tombstone.
Once the Hedgehog was fairly sure the food wasn’t alive he picked up a forkful and tried to guide it to his mouth in the dark. He had to try it, Amy was staring at him and waiting.
As it entered his mouth a sharp pain slammed into his chest and he fell straight over onto the floor.
“Sonic! Are you ok?” Amy rushed over to stand above him and the twitching Hedgehog noted with some embarrassment the fact that she didn’t appear to be wearing panties when her short dress moved out of the way briefly.
“Argh-ogh furfuf.” Was all he got out through the spaghetti as he clutched his chest checking for some kind of wound. It felt like a really bad case of heartburn in all but it had still surprised him.
You to..…..dit for S..…ow’s sacr.fi.., you don’t ……….any…..ds. Your noth.. ….a fake.
“Yugfar-fraghak!” What the hell was that?! It sounded like a voice but it was all screwed up! The voice he had heard had been very quiet, almost whispering. And it had been broken into parts too.
“Oh come on! It can’t be that bad! I followed the recipe exactly.”
“Okfor-garags.” The pain seemed to subside slightly now but his mouth was still full of food.
Sonic quickly decided not to mention the voice to Amy, she’d probably think he was insane. Or worse, think he was insulting the food and hit him with her hammer.
“Get up Sonikku.” The pink Hedgehog helped him up and back to the table, after a while he settled down and she managed to ask him about the meal nervously. “Well, what do you think of it?”
“Its nice. And it packs a punch too!” Amy smiled at the joke and blushed at the compliment. Maybe the night wasn’t ruined after all….
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Time: 12:10
Local Time: 12:10
Location: Mystic Forest Chao garden
“Miss Kiyone. What are the Chao doing?”
“I don’t know sir.” The two researchers were peering out of the bushes into a natural Chao garden. They had been studying their sleeping habits but they didn’t appear to be doing anything of the sort.
“Chaooooo!” Some of the normally comical blue animals were shouting out, others were whimpering on the ground, others had just fainted and a few were jumping into the water like it would save them.
“What the hell?”
Some Chao still standing were fighting each other now, and not in the way they did in Chao Karate (as shown on ChaoTV"). They were really trying to hurt each other.
As quickly as they had begun they stopped, some dropping to the ground and some trying to heal the wounds on their previous opponents In puzzlement with various chants and Chao prayers to their Chao god Chaos.
Unfortunately, he was having his own problems.
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Time: 12:10
Local Time: 12:10
Location: Angel Island (located precariously above Mystic ruins)
“Chaos! What is wrong?” To all appearances a glowing reddish light was talking to a puddle on the altar of the Master Emerald. In time it formed into a young echidna girl wearing a Mayan style dress and a matching cape. Her face was etched in concern.
The puddle briefly roared and tentacles whipped out to demolish anything they caught, flying straight through the girl when she so wished. Chaos could feel pain through its entire water based body. And something else too.
You destroyed them all. The entire civilisation is gone now. She didn’t want this you know, she hates you. You should just go and die. Not a living creature or anything else. You shouldn’t be allowed to live.
Tikal ran down the steps away from her long time friend and right into her Nephew.
“What’s wrong Tikal?”
“Something is wrong with Chaos! He is acting strange!”
Knuckles could hear him from here, looking up the steps he saw Chaos looking down. However, his usual appearance was altered slightly. His eyes were glowing red not green and masses of tentacles were springing from his back in an agitated fury.
Very slowly the God of Destruction began to lose the blue colour and turn black slowly.
“Yep, that’s strange all right. Don’t worry though, I have a plan.”
“What does your plan consist of Nephew?”
“Running. Very fast.”
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Time: 12:10
Local Time: 12:10
Location: Station Square
His target in the reticule of his sniper rifle, the Hedgehog knew he should be watching the Rabbit. But she was in his own home, asleep and safe. And he had to make a living didn’t he? That apartment had cost quite a bit.
Shadow let out a gasp as it hit him. Everything just began to scream like his body had been stabbed with needles all over. With a pathetic shriek unworthy of the Ultimate Life form he fell off the roof he was perched on and down onto the pavement below with a crunch of concrete breaking. One or two of his ribs cracked as it hit the hard ground and he cursed silently, that would take a longer time to heal than normal flesh would. He could stimulate tissue to grow back simply by feeding Chaos energy into it but bones were somewhat harder to stimulate.
Do you have any idea how pathetic you are?
Why do you bother going on?
You failed her, you deserve to die.
JUST DIE !!!!
The massive pain didn’t subside, everything felt like he was burning. It was almost as bad as the time he had fallen through the atmosphere. Shadow screamed out into the night like a wounded animal.
Far away people heard the scream and cowered behind each other, thinking some horrible murder was going on. Police tried to locate it and children found it entering their dreams and giving nightmares.
Who would miss you if you died right now? No one loves you and you have no one to love.
You’re alone.
Die.
Everyone you love dies.
Kill.
Your not better. Your just a freak of nature.
Those voices! They were inside his own head, accompanying the pure agony he was enduring. As he thrashed about in agony they were taunting him, whispering in his mind. Shadow gritted his teeth as another wave of burning pain washed over him, driving him mad. Despite his position Shadow had to lash out, had to hit something! His fist collided with pavement and the artificial stone splintered, unprepared for an attack of such strength. Anger filled him with every whisper and he caught a lust for destruction that he had not experienced for a long time.
I hate you. The voices continued as he tried to break anything near him into pieces.
“Fine with me, I hate you too!” He got out, growling through gritted lips.
Maria is dead. She was your only reason for living. Why go on?
You aren’t perfect, your just an experiment. A program with no real emotions.
How can you claim to be ultimate?
“I fell through the planet’s atmosphere and survived! Find me someone more qualified!” He shouted as he punched a fire hydrant near him, severely denting the metal. That seemed to shut them up and Shadow felt the pain subside into manageable levels along with the anger. What the hell just happened to me? Shadow pulled himself up from the pavement dust and looked around to find the cause.
He was standing in a quiet street. No one else was there but he had definitely heard voices speaking to him. Shadow knew they had been in his mind but checked anyway.
“Great, now I’m insane.”
Is it really so bad? Shadow span around to look for the voice before realising that it too was in his head, only talking like a normal person instead of unnatural whispers.
“Yes. Go away.”
No. Get used to me, I’m here now. Shadow growled in annoyance. He was talking to nothing for crying out loud! Why was he even keeping a conversation with it?!?
“Who are you?!”
I’m a voice in your head. That’s pretty much the extent of my identity.
“What do you want?”
You to fulfil your desires and purpose. It wasn’t an unpleasant voice as such, it sounded much like his own, but there was something odd about it. It was easy to tell it wasn’t coming from a living person. It also had something of a lighter tone than his own voice and sounded fairly happy and even joking.
“And they are…”
To destroy the Humans of course.
“You are immensely annoying.”
Thank you, but you know its true.
“My purpose is…is to protect the Earth. Maria said so.” Uncertainty was in his voice, the Ultimate Life form was glad no one was around to hear him. He was supposed to be strong and determined, being unsure was beneath him.
You kill people for money.
“The Professor wanted that, I have a compromise. But my main purpose is to protect the innocent.” The last part he spat out like it was sour.
You know…as much as Maria was a kind and loving young girl she wasn’t always right you know. Didn’t she once say that all Humans were good deep down. That all Humans were innocent.
“Yes.” This voice really didn’t sound at all like the others he had heard briefly. They had been hateful and mean but this one sounded almost kind. It sounded like it cared. Distrust was an instinct to him but how could a voice in his head betray him?
Well, judging from what you’ve seen in the time you have been here, more time than she spent on Earth I’m sure, has that hypothesis ever been proven? Have you ever met one innocent Human or a child that will grow up to be one?
“I never said I agree with her, I just do what she told me to.”
And that got you very far didn’t it? Sarcasm and anger was evident in its voice. You could have killed every attacking soldier but instead you followed her directions to go to the escape pods. Result! She dies, your creator is locked up, you are tampered with and frozen. Yes, what a track record that is. Very successful course of action!
“Shut up.”
I am not in possession of a mouth. It had gotten slightly more aggressive before but was now icily cold.
“Then leave.”
I’ll be back. You will need me I know. Goodbye.
“Good riddance. The day I start talking to myself….”The sharp pain as he attempted to walk reminded him of the broken ribs, God damn it.
Shadow teleported home without his contract fulfilled and slipped into a deep unconsciousness on the couch to heal. Only stirring slightly a few hours later when a certain doe slipped out.
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Cream could not decide what she felt as she walked through the sprawling city of Station Square. An odd mix of emotions weighed down her heart but she could not figure out why. On the one hand she was happy that she was going back to Amy’s place, she could relax and follow all her original plans whilst still proving how responsible she was, on the other she was sad about leaving the Hedgehog.
“He wasn’t so bad.” She told herself. Yeah, he only wanted to sell me for money. Even after reminding herself of this she wasn’t sure if really had meant to. He could have taken her straight to whoever wanted her but he hadn’t…
Cream wasn’t even sure how she felt about the Hedgehog, a good part of her was terrified of him but another part felt, for some reason, curious and caring.
I need to stop thinking about this so much, I’ll just go to Amy’s, relax, maybe have a shower and change these old clothes and call Tikal later, she’ll know what to do. The thought of getting advice from the pacifistic echidna immediately calmed her nerves. Surely she would know what to do.
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“Damn it!!” The General slammed his hand down onto his desk with a bang but Lt. Stevens just waited for him to lose his anger. “You mean out of 50 manufactured jewels only one worked?”
“Yes sir, and even that shattered after one test at around 24:10 this morning. After producing a seriously large amount of energy.”
“Oh well, its served its purpose. What did you get?”
“We got a total count of a few hundred Chaos endowed creatures, most of them Chao. Among them we got four that were too powerful to be one of those.”
“Well, we own the first, the second will soon be ours. So that just leaves Shadow and someone else.”
“We believe it was likely Sonic, his signature was much weaker than the others.” The General grunted his agreement.
“What about the other Void Crystals?”
“We only picked up one other one sir. And it was ours not Kazu‘s, like I said - he must have shielded it somehow.”
“Only one? But there is supposed to be six of these things!”
“Well, they weren’t destroyed. That’s for sure.”
“How do you know?”
“We tested one, they just don’t break!” The General gave him a questioning look. “They just don’t, we dropped one by accident. It just rearranged itself into the original shape!”
“So where are they?”
“We think they may no longer be on the planet sir.”
“Another world? That’s likely, they’re probably just buried under a mile of magma or something. Try using the original in the next test.”
“Yes sir.” Lt. Stevens turned to leave.
“Stevens, one more thing.”
“Sir?”
“Did you get an approximate location on the most powerful of the signatures?”
“Yes sir, it came from Station Square, as you predicted.”
“I told you. He sent him.”
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Dodo dododo do dodo dooooo!!!!!
I finished but its like 1:48 so im all tired. Prepare to review readers!!! Review or I will kill you.
I finally named my weirdo gems. “Void Crystals” , personally I think its sounds pretty cool. But I’m suffering from lack of sleep so what do I know?