Trixie’s Fifteenth Story
Alterations and Misdeeds

Spike’s team was good and ready for Sonic this time, this time Spike would use his new found ability to it’s full potential with his team to back him up.

“Spike? You couldn’t control yourself before, what makes you think you can this time?” said Rex.
“Well I guess I’ll test it first, if I start to loose control you guys can all stop me at once.” said Spike. “If I only ‘start’ to loose control I think you guys can stop me.”

Spike walked backwards facing his team, clenching his fists as his quills got sharper and soon he found he couldn’t move his eyes; his spikes got sharp and his fur got messy but otherwise Spike looked normal.
You could see glimpses of a purple era around him and when Spike spoke his voice was sharp and angry, but his team knew he wasn’t angry with them this time.

“I think I can control it.” He said in a sharp tone. “…But I can’t help seeing you guys differently…”

His spikes went back to normal as he collapsed then stood up again after rubbing his head.

“I’m only going to use that ability when I have no other choice…” said Spike. “I won’t put you guys in danger, not again.”
“I think it’s a bit late for that.” Rex chuckled. “Aren’t we in danger no matter where we are with you?”
“Spike you don’t need the extra boost from the emerald, you’ll be fine without It.” said Jewels. “Use it if the hedgehog starts coming out on top.”
“Alright then, now I’m ordering you if I start to turn you need to stop me at all cost, the hedgehog’s gonna pay this time he has no idea what he’s in for.” He said. “I’ll be near the big cliff, meet me there.”

Spike turned before he left giving a kind grin to his team then he left his team standing there motivated, the usual before all the drama in his life.

“I’m glad to see the old Boss again.” said Rex smiling wide.

Jewels raised an eyebrow then smiled.

“And the old Rex.” She said chuckling. “Cause you still have mud all over your face from fighting Spike.”

Rex looked down and noticed he was covered in mud.

“What’s weird is I didn’t notice this till now.” He said with an odd expression on his face.

Power put a hand to his mouth amused then turned round at Melody.

“Yeah…I didn’t really get to say much to him aheh.” She said shrugging her shoulders. “You see I have this odd thing that happened to me while you guys were all fine, and I kinda got uhhhh kidnapped aheh.”
“Typical.” said Jewels. “That’s what ALWAYS happens.”

Power just realized this and was done being distracted.

“They tried harming you?” he said tilting his head back at her.
“Well not exactly…” she said seeming to get quieter. “He took my gun and then left me in some strange place, said he was trying to prevent the future, but then I found a way out.”
“How’d you get out?” said Power.

Melody rolled her eyes.

“Lets see I WAS trained as a rebel leader, rebel’s main strength is knowing how to escape from pressing areas and… there was no floor so I dug my way out.” said Melody with a smile. “But before then I figured something out and that’s why I need to contact Spike right away.”
“Yeah yeah we know you need Spike.” said Jewels. “You know it might have been better to ASK him while he was here.”
“Well I DID just get ATTACKED a minute ago ok?” said Melody.

Jewels laughed hard.

“You think THAT was odd? Girl where have you been the millions of times Rex Power and I have been under attack, when we’re the ones supposed to be attacking.” said Jewels with a few loud laughs.
“Yeah ‘attacked’ is our middle name.” Rex chuckled.
“Getting off this odd subject we need to get a move on.” said Power.
End chapter

Chapter Two “The Deal”

Marty saw a blackness in Blake as of now, being the brunt of his anger, and being the victim of it.
He couldn’t lie; Blake was now giving Marty a fearful state.
But it was a choice between Rex or the truth right now, and Blake wouldn’t like the truth, if Blake starts after Rex he could very well beat him, Blake had always finished off his enemies the only exception to that are the hedgehogs who better him in fighting skills and speed.
But Marty knew everything that would happen before it would happen, and it was looking a grim choice either way, there wasn’t a way to escape; Blake’s eye was on him completely.

“Answer me!” Blake shouted.

He picked him off his feet with sheer strength, letting Marty’s feet dangle.
He was thrown against the wall; he held his fur like the scruff of a shirt.
His eyes were a few inches away from Marty’s eyes, black and dead serious; he could hear his hot breath as he even breathed angrily.
Marty felt the sweat fall off his forehead as the tense situation took wind.
He needed to make up his mind fast.

“Alright…just leave my Dad alone.” He said feeling like a traitor.

Blake waited impatiently for him to continue.

“You…you…succeed by turning Sonic, he thought he lost Tails by not being fast enough, you’re too late.” said Marty. “Your plan can’t possibly work now.”

Blake’s eyes lowered.

“Then I will simply go with my plan B.” Blake said shoving Marty to the corner.

Marty was about to make a run for it but was stopped when Blake threw a broken chair in his direction.
Marty was completely unconscious if not in a worse state.
Blake turned for a slip second.

“He’s getting off lucky.” thought Blake.

On the way out Blake punched a whole through the side of the wall, ticked.
The house started to wrestle and it’s weak support fell, over the chair Marty had been thrown down with.
The house’s dust and fallen support and loose wood pieces didn’t even distract Blake.
His teeth were barred as he fastened his cape in the right direction.
His steps were hastened as a glowing red light shown slightly about them, for one of the first times Blake was going faster for no particular reason.
His determination was eminent as his fist was being clenched tighter and tighter.

“No boy will make a fool out of me.” he thought to himself only feeding to his anger.

His wounds were not bothering him anymore either, even if they were a few days away from being fully heeled.
He was not rested but his lack of sleep didn’t matter, he’d collapse before falling asleep.

“Sarah you traitor…” he thought to himself. “You turned my only son on me, he could have been anything less then he is but he’ll follow in your footsteps, from being a traitor to being brought down for stupidity,.”
“Whether I might have stepped in or not, I knew what would happen before it did and was stupid enough to leave you hanging around longer when before Spike grew older I knew it all, the girl even turned, the one I could raise without your interference, you’re all fools.”

Like the crack of the end of the whip Blake felt something strike his side.
Shadow stood seeming unaware of who he struck.

“You’re not Sonic.” Shadow said simply. “Wait, didn’t I already take care of you?”

Blake darted hatful eyes at Shadow and while his gut was telling him to strike back, something made him hesitant.
Shadow was about to continue on his way but Blake grabbed his shoulder.

“What do you want? If you don’t have an emerald I won’t waste my time.” said Shadow pushing his hand off.
“Wait.” Blake said with haste in his voice.

A few seconds of quick thinking, and Blake found a way to detour Spike so he’d be able to slip under his nose for the trade he was planning.

“I know where you can find an emerald.” Blake said, sounding sincere oddly.
“Do you think I’m an idiot?” said Shadow.
“I’ll get back to you on that one.” Blake whispered to himself.

Shadow raised an eyebrow knowing a liar when he saw one.

“Spike, that hedgehog took one of the emeralds I had.” Blake said convincingly.
“Don’t I remember chaos blasting you?” said Shadow. “How did you survive that?”

Blake’s eyes lowered in an angry fashion.

“Does that matter? I told you where the emerald was so you owe me something in return.” said Blake trying to make it sound like Spike really did have an emerald. “If you don’t believe me look at the facts, why would I want your help after you tried destroying me? Unless I was serious.”

Shadow’s lip raised as he bit his teeth in annoyance.

“You’re as annoying as Sonic, I don’t care what you want I do things on my own.” Shadow said turning his back about to run when he was stopped in silence by Blake’s sentence.
“Even if you’re trading your memory for a shorter trip back to the Doc?” Blake said.

Shadow grunted.

“Now you’ve taken orders before why would this be so different?” Blake said.

Shadow turned starring back at Blake’s jeering look.

“Bring me Spike alive for the information I’ve just given you.” said Blake. “If you find him, bring him to the cliff.”
“If I feel like it.” Shadow said quickly before continuing on his way.
End chapter

Chapter Three “Their Fault”

Tim was on the run; little did he know he was not far off by this time from the secured area Alec took charge of.
The sound of speaking drew his eyes, he looked over in the direction he heard the talking from.
He watched curiously as Arch took his men away and left the two tied to a few trees.
He overheard the last spoken words as the archers left.

“They can dwell here for taking our people.” Arch said helping a few wounded archers out as they left.

Tim waited a while, just watching.
Alec and Lex and the rest of their men were tied so tight they couldn’t possibly break free.

“Nice job Alec.” Lex said angrily.
“Oh like it matters if we die here, we still took charge of this perimeter for a long time.” said Alec.
“You speak as if it was worth it, you idiot why did you approach them in the first place?” said Lex.

Tim stepped closer, in sight.

“Who are you? You look failure.” Tim said, his eye focused to Alec’s armor.

Alec smiled.

“That’s because you were once on our side.” said Alec.

Tim looked annoyed.

“Now I remember, you’re that weird guy who almost turned Me.” said Tim.
“If you’re not turned then why are you wandering off alone?” said Alec.
“Hey at least I’m not tied to a tree.” said Tim.
“Good point.” said Lex.

Tim’s ear twitched as he heard another thought.

“If we could turn him back on our side, we might actually have a chance.” Tim heard.
“Nice try.” said Tim.
“What is?” Alec asked.
“Trying to switch me again, last time I tried that it made all my friends hate Me.” said Tim.
“I thought they did before.” said Alec sounding serious.

Tim hung his head.

“You know I’m not the grudge holding type like they are, neither is Lex.” said Alec.
“Nice try.” said Tim.
“I’m serious.” said Alec.
“So am I.” said Tim.

Tim’s ear twitched again.

“That kid better watch out, Alec’s a mastermind at making things sound too good to be true.” He heard.
“I knew it!” said Tim.
“What are you talking about?” asked Alec.
“I just head you think Alec’s a mastermind at making things sound too good to be true.’” said Tim.

Lex eyes were wide open.

“How did you know I thought that!” said Lex.

Tim held his head and started rubbing the scruffy fur on his forehead, he was stressed.

“Aha! You really do have something more to you, is that why your friends resent you?” said Alec.
“They don’t resent me, I just need time to myself…” said Tim.
“Like how you were alone when they were around.” said Alec.
“Stop talking to me like you know the situations I’ve been in.” said Tim.
“Don’t you remember telling me that your friends didn’t understand you?” said Alec.
“Yes…” Tim.
“Same thing happened to me, why defend them when they don’t care about you?” said Alec.
“They care about me…” said Tim.
“Then why did you leave?” said Alec.

Tim was quiet; he didn’t want to answer the question.
In reality he just missed his brother, his friends didn’t neglect him he only thought they did.
But in his mind they neglected him and it was all their fault…

In the mean time Tai walked with his head hung low, stepping slowly with his swords hung down in his hands, now without purpose.

“I guess there’s nothing for me to fight for…maybe I should just settle down from fighting…even if swords are my passion.” Tai thought. “But it’s not a good passion evidently, the one thing I’m good at was ruined by my poor judgment.”

Tai was now sleep deprived and decided to sit down for a while, the night sky was still out as usual; the nights were either shorter or longer they were never consistent, but Tai was used to living on Blake’s planet.
A loud scratching sound from his swords made him put them in his belt, placed through them for quick use.
The old general was not pleased in his actions, but was ready to move on with his life even if he did want to continue his loyalty, but that was shattered.
He wished he never joined Blake in the first place, his village was ambushed and since Blake was so kind as to let him live he joined, and grew a bond that wasn’t right considering the things Blake did.
He couldn’t believe it took him so long to wake up, so long to understand it wasn’t a noble thing he was doing, making people fear you was not honor he saw it a different way before.
His gold quills with a chipped one on the top moved in the wind; which was softer now like an evening wind; calm but quiet.
He sunk into a deep sleep, sitting up with his calm quiet eyes closed gently.
A few birds flew by and the small amount of grass near the long river’s side was running smoothly.
End chapter

Chapter Four “Sonic Tails and Trixie”

Trixie and Tails were running full speed with their tails propelling them faster.
They had just seen Sonic race by a few moments ago, and the light from the master emerald was now gone, but the sky’s sun did not light up it was dim and hard to see.

“Tails do you think Sonic’s ok?” Trixie asked.
“You kidding? Sonic’s always ok, I wouldn’t be surprised if he got the emeralds in three seconds.” said Tails with a cute chuckle.

Trixie’s blue eyes lighted up as she was comforted by those words.
Trixie’d already had a tiring day, no time to rest, but since the days were shorter or longer sometimes she was ready for sleep by night and sometimes she was wide awake.
Her cheeks were rosy as she felt the loud wind, seeing a lightning fast drawn picture of places zooming by as she flew.
Tails flew in front of her gaining more and more speed.
Trixie was flying a little more amateurish, never perfectly in a straight line, but this didn’t bother her she was just happy to be back in her own time again.

Sonic at the moment was running along, going to catch up with Tails who he figured was nearby where Arch was.
They were fast but not fast enough to catch what was lighting up the sky before.
The blue streak was speeding by without a care, he was curious about Knuckles before but he figured since the Master Emerald was fine it wasn’t anything to worry about, Knuckles wasn’t the one to let people take it, if he could help it anyway.
As he saw Tails ahead he slowed down to a stop, sliding against the muddy ground till he stopped in a nice dry area of dirt.
Standing tall with his hands taping against his hips he waved.
Tails stopped looking pleased.

“Hey Sonic!” he said in high spirits.
“You certainly are in a good mood Tails, even after running into those weird guys.” Trixie thought smiling.

Sonic gave his half smile and tapped his foot.

“Yo Tails you know what’s up with Knux? He was all shook up when I talked to him.” said Sonic.
“That’s new.” Tails said playfully.
“Good point, but I think something’s up anyhow, he said Spike went after the emerald and ran off.” said Sonic in a concerned tone.

Trixie stomped her foot.

“For goodness sake! I hate that guy!” Trixie grumbled.
“You’re telling me.” said Tails.
“Sonic what else did he tell you about Spike?” asked Trixie.
“He said that he had a fake emerald and then didn’t, walked off all weird and attacked people for nothing.” said Sonic.
“His team?” she asked.
“Yeah think so.” He said.

Trixie looked baffled, but was not surprised even if confused.
Her pinkish fur was wrestled when she shook her head in disgust.

“I never should have let him out of that cave.” thought Trixie. “He was the one who didn’t help me when I slipped off that cliff.”

Tails stroked his chin.

“What do you think we should do then Sonic?” asked Tails.
“I’m not normally looking for a fight with this guy, he takes things so personally, SHADOW would be more understanding, this guy doesn’t have a clue but if he’s out attacking innocent people we should look into It.” said Sonic. “Well, maybe not innocent, I guess Knuckles could count.”

Sonic smirked with a smile.

“Yeah not my crowd either.” said Tails. “I’m up for confrontation if you are Sonic.”

Sonic shrugged his shoulders.

“Ok then.” said Sonic simply.

Trixie’s eyes were sunk, darted behind her as if something else being on her mind.
She clutched her locket; then she took a deep breath.

“Sonic I don’t think that’s such a good idea.” said Trixie.

Sonic and Tails looked back at Trixie a bit surprised.

“Why?” Tails asked.
“Because Spike probably set it up for another fight, why else would he disturb Knuckles when he doesn’t canister the Master Emerald valuable?” said Trixie.
“I don’t think Spike thinks ahead, he’s very by-the-moment.” said Tails. “Or at least that’s how I’ve seen him.”
“Maybe…I don’t know I’d just rather avoid running into him again.” said Trixie.
“Well you and I could stay here if you want.” said Tails.
“No you guys go ahead.” said Trixie. “Just be careful.”
“You sure?” Tails asked.
“Yeah I’m sure, go ahead guys, go get um’.” She said smiling.
“Ok.’ Sonic said eagerly as his blue flash zoomed by, followed by Tails’s gold streak and circled propeller-shaped image of his twin tails.

The wind almost blew Trixie backwards, She laughed sweetly then shook her head.
She stepped slowly, letting all her situations sink in and finding the free time to relax.

“This planet’s not like home, the days are odd.” thought Trixie. “But the wind is more vibrant and peaceful even if there aren’t many birds or wildlife.”

She leaned down to get a drink of water from the lake, washing her face and shaking the water off.
The water was clean and clear, very refreshing for not having the chance for a drink for a while.
As she nudged her elbow on the grass and set it as a stand for her head to rest, she felt calmer now.

“Gosh seems like I don’t get very much time to rest anymore, what’s weird is it’s winter where we found Arch and here it’s like spring.” thought Trixie. “Weird weather to say the least.”
End chapter

Chapter Five “The Newbie”

A dim light shown, the fox lay pressed into the soled metal floor breathing fast.
His hand moved, slowly feeling the ground as he grunted.

“Where am I…?” he wondered.

He struggled to open his eyes and they opened slowly and heavily.
He was severely scarred, from head to toe, but he saw his arms were bandaged.
There were white bandages many around his waist and on his ankles, his socks were burned off and replaced with bandages, strong ones like able to hold many years of bleeding.
He felt his face, there was a scarring against his fur next to his mouth, a large black mark, a few of the same marks laid on his leg.
But he wasn’t bleeding; it looked as if the wounds had healed a long time ago.
But there were many scars that had potential to carry with him his whole life forward.
He felt the patch of fur over his eye, and part of it was burned off and sharp.
When he found the courage to stand he saw a broken mirror in front of him.
The fox was probably around fifteen years old.

“What in the world happened…?” he wondered.

As he turned his head backwards he saw a table and chair who somebody was sitting at, going over papers, many of them pictures of various people.
Naming them; there was a large amount of Sonic photos and Spike Blake and many others that were recognizable.
Not to this fox however, he saw the glimpse of the photos but they were put away when the wolf saw he was awake.

“Aha perfect, took you long enough to wake up.” said Leo.
“Where am I?” asked the fox. “And who are you?”
“I’m here to make sure the future goes as planned, you are in a secured area where only time travelers can go to, it’s a rift but a controlled rift, it’s the backbone of our operation.” said Leo. “This place in fact is the way we can manipulate time in the first place, what makes time travel possible.”
“A place can do that?” he asked.
“Oh course, if time didn’t have a minor flaw we couldn’t unlock its secrets.” said Leo. “In fact it’s how I was able to find you.”

The fox felt a feeling in his gut; something telling him Leo was not wishing good intentions.
The room was a large dim room, with a mirror like floor.
A girl stood behind the fox, she had glowing green eyes and a terrifying look inside them.

“Hey Leo who’s the fox?” Anna asked.
“Lets call him the New Guy.” Leo said hinting that Anna would catch on to something the fox was unaware of.
“Why am I scarred everywhere?” he asked.
“That doesn’t matter.” Leo said.

Anna sat down at the table.

“Where have you been Anna?” Leo asked.
“Well Marty found a way out of here, you’re darn lucky he fell for my whole ‘stuck’ trick.” said Anna. “He could have found where we laid out the plans, but he was looking for an exit in the wrong direction.”

Leo nodded.

“I will admit you’re a smart one, no wonder they took you from the past.” said Leo.

Anna looked back at the fox who was just watching, trying to understand what they meant.
Anna came up close to him.

“Hi new guy.” She said smiling.
“Anna leave him be, we’ll get to him later.” said Leo.
“But he’s so cute.” She said. “And just my type, the quiet listening kind.”

She starred close into his blue focused eyes and smiled.
Leo rolled his eyes.

“Focus Anna.” Leo said going over more papers, not looking up to say the sentence.
“Girls.” Leo thought with a sigh.

The fox gulped.

“Do you have any idea what happened to you before you got here?” asked Anna.
“No…” he said.

Anna smirked then cupped her hands whispering in Leo’s ear.
The fox couldn’t hear what they were saying.

“He can’t remember, because we wiped his memory so he’d be easier to use.” Leo whispered back.
“Perfect idea.” said Anna.
“If he turns out like Shadow did it will work perfect.” said Leo.

Anna gasped.

“You wiped Shadow’s memory?” she whispered back only louder then before.
“Not me personally, but this was one of the plans future Blake sent forth, he went deeper back in time.” Leo whispered. “A lot of things happened before you were enlisted.”

The fox only heard hushing and letters from sentences, they were making sure he couldn’t eavesdrop.
End chapter

Chapter Six “Unexpected”

Spike grinned, feeling the pieces fall into place, feeling confident.
His quills blowing by the wind, he was going about half the speed of Sonic but he didn’t care anymore, all he wanted was this final chance to prove he was better then Sonic and that he could take him down and siege the planet.
Spike figured if the population feared him enough he could one by one claim everything for himself and his team.
His fist was clenched tighter as he came closer.

“Time for your last lesion Sonic.” thought Spike.

The loud sound of his pace was distracting to anyone but himself; he was even running in an offensive manner.
It was finally the chance he’d waited for, the fake emerald’s fused energy was unstable but if he really needed to use the power he would, and Sonic would never see it coming.
He stopped, somebody was hiding behind one of the trees, and with so few trees it was easy to spot.
His shoes scraped into the ground paving his footprint there, he stood tall with his hand closed.

“Oh it’s you.” said Tai. “I just wasted my time.”

Spike, now distracted by Tai’s appearance and comment, put his fist against his hip, staying for the explanation to his soaking wet uniform.
After a minute and a half of silence Spike was about to take off again.
Tai didn’t interrupt and Spike went on his way.

“One opinion didn’t change after having a different commander.” thought Tai.

Spike didn’t quit his pace, but Tai moved back with his blades drawn.
Lightning like reflexes pulled them from his belt.
Suddenly…snap…Tai was bashed in the back of the head bleeding and hyperventilating.

The robot stood tall, it’s eyes glowing red and taking one of Tai’s swords.
It began demonstrating how good his skills were, and was using the exact same techniques as Tai would in a sword fight.
Tai looked up trying to stand when the metal foot pressed down in his back.

“Who are you!” Tai shouted grunting.

The robot pressed more and Tai grunted louder, feeling the pressure.
He attempted turning himself over grasping at his other sword now two feet away from him.
The robot clenched its metal fists, pulling Tai’s hand, making it feel like it was being ripped right off.
A few loud screams from all the pain, and he knew he had to think fast.
He tried rolling and kicked to try tripping the metal enemy.
The robot simply stood up making a dent in the ground.
Tai, breathing quickly grabbed at his swords.
A red light glowed from the robot’s eyes, scanning a red bar down Tai’s swords and then through him completely.
The red light flashed on Tai’s swords.
The robot snapped a piece of wood off a tree, taking a large branch three times bigger then Tai’s swords, he ran it though his metal hands breaking the twigs off of it then placing it in front of his head as if to fight him in combat.
Tai’s eyes darted he was amazed at the robot’s reflexes, almost like fighting himself.
A strike to his blades and it began to be a battle of strength, because it seemed it knew every move before he made it.
Tai pressed his sword trying to push against the wooden-sword-like branch, the robot was stronger, bending Tai’s sword down with the pressure he applied.
End chapter

Chapter Seven “The New Threat”

Tim looked behind him, Alec and Lex were still tied to the tree but he heard something behind the one they were tied to.
A few rustles of the tree, Tim gasped.
Grey colored robots about fifty stood behind the tree, glowing red eyes with metal hard bodies, they seemed built to appear harmless but the eyes gave it all away.

“Huh!” Tim said in surprise.

He tried running but it suddenly became clear he was surrounded in all exits.

“Hey! What the heck!” Alec exclaimed.

The two were apprehended being untied and held against their will.
Tim was also pulled down on his knees.

“Hands up.’ One of them said.

Alec Tim Lex and the men tied to the other trees all put their hands up slowly.

“Status: Lex former Commanding Officer, Alec former Captain, Tim…approved target.” It said running a red laser type bar through all of them.

Tim’s ear twitched again…hearing only metal bleeping in the mechanic exteriors of the machines.
Pulled back now, a loud sound blurred his eyes and clouded his memory forever to follow.

“Lex, Alec, mission priority 1: terminate any creature not on the list.” One of the robots said.

Lex Alec and their men were pushed down on the ground.
Tim was taken away; his ear twitched once more…hearing scary thoughts as he realized Lex and Alec were not able to escape.
A thunderous sound of gun shots as they fought them off, but were taken down fighting, Lex being the last.
Tim’s eyes sunk…nobody should have to hear those sounds and hear those thoughts.
Swallowed up in shock he was pushed to the ground again, never in his life had he felt so helpless.

“Error, Alec has escaped.” One of them said. “But it will not matter soon.”
“Background check: status. Traitor to his cause. Changes paths. Not trustworthy. Perfect target for Doctor Eggman.” It said in its recorded voice.

Tim lay on the ground with his eyes still sunk, going over the awful situation.
Now what would he do; him now being a captive of an enemy standing over him that can’t possibly hold back.
But this was the least of his worries now his safety was a big deal but if they took down Lex and Alec, well-trained army captains and hand-to-hand combat experts, it would be easy to attack anybody else.
End chapter

Chapter Eight “The Target”

Anna whispered a few more times to Leo.

“All right Leo, he’s going to be asking naturally about what happened to him.” said Anna.
“Well make something up, you’re supposedly a master manipulator second to Blake himself, you should be able to come up with a believable story.” said Leo.

Anna smiled.

“Alright then.” She said approaching the injured fox. “This should be fun.”
“Ok go ahead with the Q and A, I know you’re probably dying to know what happened to you.” She said.

She pulled up two chairs, sitting him in one and sitting on the other one herself.
She crossed her legs with an arm leaned against the base of the chair with an alarming smile on her face.

“Alright, what’s my name?” he said.

She laughed.

“Boy you really were out of It.” said Anna.

The fox rubbed the scar on his cheek; the black eye sore and Anna had an idea.

“Lets just call you Scar.” She said. “It suits you Cutie.”
“I don’t know if I like that name, it sounds evil.” said Scar.
“Look I’m in charge and I’ll give you your name.” said Anna. “You’ve always liked the nickname before.”
“Then why did you ask who I was when you saw me?” said Scar.
“Oooo you’re a keen one aren’t you, I was only funning you I know you, you and I do that a lot.” said Anna.
“We do? Then how come I didn’t recognize you?” said Scar.
“You don’t even recognize your number one girl, I am so insulted.” said Anna.

Leo slapped his palm against his face.

“You’ve been in a comma for at least three years.” said Anna. “You always had that scar, but the injuries were gained on a mission and you slipped into a comma for a while, if not for the abilities of this room you might not be alive, we took you from a spot in time to make sure we could use you.”

Scar scratched his chin.

“Why would you need me?” asked Scar.
“Hello, your secret connections of course, you’re our spy our information, everyone has already seen Leo’s face and my cover was blown by a meddling pink hedgehog.” said Anna.
“Why would I do something like that, it’s immoral to go behind other’s backs.” said Scar.

Anna grunted.

“Ok goodie two shoes, you need to realize we’re in a war bigger then any of us, you and I are fighting for what is right, they may appear nice and cute and sweet and so adorable you want to puke, but that’s all part of their cover, they want to destroy the planet.” said Anna turning to grab something out of Leo’s hands.

She threw a bunch of photos at him, landing on his lap.
He squinted, looking at them.

“Who are they?” he asked.

The pictures were random snapshots of people, Spike, Trixie and Vicky, a few of Flame and Mint, pretty much everybody on Trixie and Spike’s side.

“The enemy.” She said plainly. “And we can’t hold back even if some of them are young and appear harmless.”
“This doesn’t sound like me, I don’t believe this is my history, I think you’re just making it up because I’m at a disadvantage.” said Scar.
“No, it’s because it would be completely easy for you to walk up to one of them, strike them without them striking back, and if I have enough time to train you I’ll make sure you can finish them off.” said Anna cruelly. “If you strike fast they won’t have time to react.”
“…You’re sure they’re trying to destroy the world?” he asked hesitantly.
“Oh course.” said Anna. “Would I lie to you?”

She pointed to one photo in particular.

“This is Trixie Prower, your first target, now get up and get ready for training.” She said.
End chapter

Chapter Nine “Mindless Confrontation”

Jewels and the others ran quickly, they needed to be sure they’d be there in time for Spike to show up.
Rex’s lip quivered as he was suddenly pulled close to Jewels.

“Rex.” said Jewels.
“Y-yes...?” Rex said expecting something along the lines of her feelings.
“STOP TRYING TO TRIP ME AND GET IN THE BACK!” said Jewels shoving him behind her.

Rex’s eye twitched.

“Grumpy, grumpy.” He mumbled.

Power was amused, he continued at his pace as Melody began rubbing her arm as if having some terrible secret weighing on her mind.

“So with the Boss going all crazy-fake-emerald-glowey-like, think he’ll need us when he finally gets his power?” said Rex.

The reply took a minute.

“Well our lives won’t be completely the same I guess.” Jewels said, not turning her head back but fixing her bangs.
“The Master will be pleased, I’ll finally be recognized with him.” said Power. “Some credit to this long time on the road that will make it all worth it.”
“Interesting to finally know what you’re hoping to get out of it Power.” said Jewels.
“Well I’ll be happy without it, I’m just saying.” said Power staggering a bit.
“I for one will be happy to be able to build my computers without worrying about it being crushed.” said Jewels humorously looking back at Rex. “I so want to be able to have all the equipment I need.”
“I’ll just be happy to be around you.” said Rex.
“What?” Jewels said.
“Uhhh…I mean y-you guys, you know the whole crew.” said Rex biting his lip.
“Yeah it’ll be nice to not always be known as ‘Spike’s Team’ that title got old.” said Jewels.

Rex sighed in relief quietly.

“I’ll just be happy we won’t have to deal with Blake in command, he won’t be able to do anything when Spike is recognized.” said Melody.
“Is that really what you want? You went from Rebel to here.” Power said curiously.
“Being a Rebel’s not all it’s cracked up to be.” said Melody. “I was raised by Blake, didn’t know my mother or Spike, every day he’d be angry about something, never satisfied with his life always lashing out, he hardly paid any attention to me. Spike was scolded but I was completely ignored. One day I just got tired of it and snuck into the cells and let everyone out, they were the only ‘real’ rebels there were, apparently Lex and the others were frauds, and the real ones were all eventually caught and shot…”

Jewels raised an eyebrow looking back at her.

“Sounds like you had almost as tough a time as Spike did.” said Jewels a bit distantly.
“Probably worse of one.” said Melody.
“I’d highly doubt it Melody, I’ve been with him from a kid, I know exactly what he’s been through.” said Power.
“Either way it’ll all be worth it soon.” said Jewels.

Behind them secretly was Blake the hedgehog himself, he gritted his teeth hearing the distasteful words from Melody, who was in his eyes a traitor.
He was fighting off attacking them too soon in his mind.
A loud sound alerted the four.
Rex stood bluntly in front where he heard the sound.

“I think we’re being followed.” Rex said.
“You think?” they all heard.

Jewels put her hands on her hips as she saw whom it was starring back at them.
Blake was on the other side of them staying out of sight, but it turns out somebody else was following them too.

“Remember me?” said Leo.
“And me.” Anna said seeming to appear out of nowhere.

Jewels shot a hateful look at Leo.

“You tried blowing me up before.” Jewels screeched.
“Yeah.” said Leo. “But you deserved it.”
“Don’t talk to her like that!” Rex said taking a punch at him.
“This is another mindless confrontation, lets get moving.” Power said grabbing Rex by the arm.

They started to walk, ignoring Leo and Anna’s presence.
Anna stopped and stomped.

“Well, the whole stalling thing didn’t work.” said Leo.
“Why does it matter? Old Scar will take care of the real problem and the other links in the chain won’t matter.” said Anna. “Besides if history goes as planned, none of Spike’s team will live anyway.”
End chapter

Chapter Ten “New Appearances”

Shadow was about to get on the move again, but as he saw something he didn’t continue running.
His glowing streaked died down as he slid to a complete stop, bothered by the interruption.
Eggman’s robots were out in the open, marching slowly towards him.

“What the?” Shadow said. “I didn’t realize he was going to send them out so quickly.”

The head MLbot approached Shadow with at least twenty behind him.
They were moving slowly with a fingers-on-a-chalkboard sound to their movements.
Clearly Eggman was serious this time.

“Scanning...Shadow the Hedgehog, allied to Dr. Eggman.” It said in a robotic sounding voice.

Shadow put his hand to his chin, lowering his eyes as if suspicious.
His black fur was moving slightly as the wind was picking up again.

“Accessing data…Emerald found, key objective 3, other target acquired.” It said.

As it’s gray colored metal body came slower, it’s metal hinged hands had it’s grasp out to Shadow, opened Shadow’s hand, and lowered the item from his other metal hand for Shadow to except.

“Target acquired, Chaos Emerald, Objective Number 4; Give Shadow as many emeralds acquired.” It said.

Shadow smirked amused, feeling the emerald’s access energy in his hands going straight through him, giving him a powerful and eager feeling.

“Well this should be interesting, I thought I felt an emerald near by.” Shadow said in a hushed voice. “Any others found?”
“Negative.” Was his reply. “Prioritized objective; message for Shadow the Hedgehog, confirmed identity. Transmitting message...”

Shadow put his hand on his hips as a message in a mechanic voice pressed on.

“Shadow the Hedgehog, mission; collect chaos emeralds to receive memory, objective; receive them by the end of day, before night falls, or it will be too late to obtain. Collect emeralds or Dr. Eggman will not have enough achieved time to deal with your memory objective.” It said.
”The Doctor’s giving me a time limit?” Shadow said almost insulted if not for the idea Eggman was planning on pressing on his plan at that time.

Shadow ran fast not caring to give the robots any explanation, leaving the grass that was actually there blow fast and the wind give a loud sucking sound as he left.
The red streak that broke the sound barrier ran by at sonic speed, him being the only one besides Sonic to be able to do that.

In the meantime Mint had been wandering for a long time, but she couldn’t find Tim wherever she looked.
She started regretting following after him, and realized she’d completely forgotten Gizmo who was still wounded.

“Oh great…wait a second what’s that?” Mint thought out loud.

An image started getting closer until it became in focus, a panting fox stood before her.

“Gizmo, how’d you find me?” asked Mint.
“I heard a crash.” said Gizmo panting through the sentence.
“Oh, it must be that rock I threw into the ground.” Mint said nervously. “Why is our first instant after hearing crashes to run straight for it?”
“Wait…you made the sound by throwing a rock?” he said looking dazed from the running.
“Yeah I sorta got strong all of a sudden.” She said.

Mint laughed trying to make light of the situation, but Gizmo was far more concerned which got her attention.

“What is it Giz?” she asked.
“I saw Angie back there…I looked out my window and something black or gray or something was attacking her, I could barely see it was a little far off, but the glowing green belt gave me enough to see something’s going on.” Gizmo said.

Mint stomped her foot.

“I’m sick of all this chaos.” She yelled.
“Mint calm down, it’s not like this planet was labeled friendly.” Gizmo said kindly.

Mint had distaste in her mouth she was not liking her current situation.

“I guess we should go check out what’s wrong with Angie.” said Mint.
“What about Tim?” Gizmo asked.
“He’s having a ‘Loner’ thing, I’m sure he’ll turn around.” She said doubting that in her mind.

With that the two of them trotted off, Gizmo way in front as Mint wasn’t looking forward to getting there.
As they came up to it they realized more and more that something was wrong, strange sounds got louder and louder and as they followed the glowing green light their surroundings seemed to get darker.
Angie’s teenage scream shattered glass as they saw something tear into her side.
Wounded she tried fighting it off.

“Gizmo what’s that fighting her!” Mint exclaimed.
End chapter