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Ryan-M-Prower — Project Vengeance Ch1: Faltering Dominoes
Published: 2014-05-05 02:30:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 1085; Favourites: 6; Downloads: 0
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“Tails, I…I’m so sorry.” Sonic’s voice was full of remorse and sadness as he started to talk to his best friend, whom was still slouched at the bottom of the brigde. Everyone else in the room looked at Tails, non-respondent for some time. All he did was stare out into space where Cosmo once was, the planet eggs and anything that illuminated this part of lonely black space was gone.

“T-Tails…?” Cream tried to get a response but no use.
“I don’t think we just lost two friends today guys…” Thorndike commented, proceeding with trying to get the ship home in one piece. While most of the others stood there watching Tails, Sonic kneeled in front of his little brother so that their eyes could be the same height. “Tails, buddy, c’mon, snap out of it,” Sonic said calmly as he shook him. Meanwhile, an internal war was raging inside Tails.

His heart destroyed and shattered into a million pieces made it hard for him to breathe as parts clogged his airway. Guilt of being the one to end her life engulfed him, blocking all senses with just pure blackness and his repeated wheezing “My fault, all my fault.” Sanity fought alone, happiness and optimism had long ago died in this battle, but nothing could have stopped it. Insanity spread through Tails like wildfire,” I’m going to kill t-“

“TAILS!” Sonic was shaking Tails like a rag doll by now,” SNAP OUT OF IT!”
Tails inhaled deeply, showing the first of any type of response. He looked around, at first confused of where he was, but slowly he started to remember that he was in the Blue Typhoon. “Whoa, what’s up with you?” Tails answered in an unnaturally playful way. “Where’s Cosmo anyways?”

“Um, Tails… she…-“
“Didn’t make it,” Knuckles finished the sentence for Sonic.

Tails kept smiling and starring at them. An awkward silence followed until Tails finally broke it. “No, seriously guys, where is she? She’s hiding somewhere, isn’t she?”
“Tails, quit it!” Amy screamed with tears running down her eyes. “She’s gone Tails! She’s… dead.”
Tails began to laugh hysterically. “C’mon guys, I’m not fooling around. Did she go hide somewhere on the ship?”
“Sonic, he’s in denial,” Amy looked at him worried.
“I know… but what can we do?”

“Ooooh Taaailsss, Taaaailsss. Does your moronic brain not comprehend, not understand? She’s dead, and it’s all your fault.”
“No… that can’t be. She’s still here, I know it! She’s i-“
“Your! Fault!”
“No! Stop! It’s not true, she’s here!”
“You stupid, pathetic fool! Her life was taken by YOUR hands! It’s your entire fault, Tails, and now there’s nothing you can do about it.”
“SHUT UP! I KNOW SHE’S HERE, she’s –

Tails vomited all over the floor. He regained sense of where he was, in the Typhoon’s hallways. He grabbed the walls for support, slowly starting to feel weak and unable to take another step. Nonetheless, he continued to walk, but not five steps later did he throw up another load. “Cosmo…”

Knuckles stared out in space, seeing the planet Greengate slowly disappear from the horizon. “So the guy’s in denial. What do we do? What CAN we do?”
“We can try to make him face it,” Amy suggested. “It’ll break him, but if that’s what we have to do…”
“I’m not really sure either. I think we should just let him be, he’ll come to realize she’s gone, right?” Thorndike called out from his seat.
“I don’t know, I just don’t know.” Sonic stood in the middle of the brig with his eyes shut, thinking of what to do. Minutes passed but not a single suggestion came to mind. He gave a loud sigh and turned around to the others,” He’s going to be back to normal eventually, will he?”
Amy looked at Sonic and shook her head. “We can try, but not after this.”
“Hey guys, come look at this! I’m getting some pretty weird radio frequencies. I can’t seem to exactly trace from where they’re coming from but it looks like they’re coming from,” Thorndike eyes shot wide open.
“From where!?” Amy shouted at him from across the room.
“From inside the ship…”
“What’s it saying?” Sonic called out from where he stood.
“Hear for yourself.” Thorndike tapped some commands on the console until the speakers crackled to life.

“Sunshiiine, my only sunshiiine –statsic- it makes me happy is that you are deeead –static- you’ll never know dear, how much I love you, so please, take my sunshine awa-static- .” Sonic and the team’s hair stood on end as the call ended with the demoniac’s voice laughing.
“What the hell was that?” Knuckles asked in a hoarse voice.
“I don’t know, but that was too cruel!” Amy shouted,” I bet someone down there-“
“The call came from within the ship, Amy,” Thorndike reminded her,” And the systems haven’t picked up anything inside… it’s like whatever it was is inside the system!”
Sonic, Amy, and Knuckles were bewildered. “I don’t know Sonic, something isn’t right here,” Knuckles commented. “I’m sensing some pretty dark energy here, and it’s only intensifying by the minute.”

“It’s all your fault. You stupid little boy, look at how pathetic you are. Not only could you not save the girl of your dreams, but you also keep denying the fact that YOU killed her.”
“Shut up! Shut up! It wasn’t me, it wasn’t me! She’s still alive, she’s-“
“Repeating it over and over again won’t bring her back. All your fault, all your fault!” the distortional voice mocked Tails, always ending his sentences with a small laugh. “But you know what you have to do…”
“What is it?”
“Kill. Kill for her death. Kill all that stand in your way and kill the people that changed their people. Kill, kill, kill! Make the river of blood run throughout the galaxy! Kill all!” a different voice called out.
“No, she wouldn’t want that…”
“You’re right. She would’ve wanted to stay alive, now you’ve killed her. The only way to balance it out, is to destroy the ones that led to this.”
“The meterex are dead! There’s no one to kill except… myself…”
“No you fool! There was a force that led the male seedrians to become the meterex!”
“She would have wanted peace! She… she wants peace. Who are you! Get out of my head!”
“Who are we?” the two voices said in unison. “We’re you.”
“Tails, please, don’t do it! This isn’t you, they’re not you!” a panicked voice cried out.
“Cosmo…?”

“This doesn’t make any sense! Tails was sleeping when that transmission came in, it couldn’t be him. Security systems hadn’t picked up anyone, not an intruder, not anyone!” Thorndike recollected.
“Are you sure the message came from inside the Typhoon? Did you check nothing is wrong with the system thingy?” Sonic asked, hoping that Thorndike would have been mistaken. A creepy, eerie feeling fell upon the occupants of the ship, they all felt a dark presence watching them. 
“Amy, AMY!” Cream ran to said hedgehog with tears streaming from her eyes.
“What is it Cream?”
“I-I hear w-whispering, listen!” Everyone stood in absolute silence, trying to hear the whispering Cream was talking about. Nothing but the occasional creak and tapping from the ship’s haul was heard. “It’s out to get us; it’s out to get everyone. Amy, he’s telling me awful things, he’s going to kill us all. Amy, please, can’t you hear him!” Cream gripped Amy’s leg with all the force she could.
“Cream, I think its best you go to sleep, okay? I’ll sleep with you if you’re too afraid.” Amy was uneasy from the stacking factors, but she still looked at Cream calmly so she would reassure that nothing was wrong.
Cream nodded in response to Amy’s offer. “Call me through the intercom if you need me,” Amy whispered loadly to the group as she left for Cream’s quarters.
“That was pretty fucking creepy, don’t yah think,” Thorndike chuckled uneasily. “Those kids could have such an imagination!”
“We all know something isn’t right here, Chris. I don’t know though, it’s just… weird.”
“I was just trying to lighten the mood a bit. And everything says nothing has infiltrated the ship! It’s probably just our imagination!”
“I don’t think so,” Knuckles interjected,” My senses are never wrong, there’s dark energy somewhere around here.  The strange part about it though, is that it feels like it’s everywhere.”
“Well you don’t have to worry! Team Chaotix is here to investigate!” Vector shouted out. “We’ll check stuff out and see if anything is wrong!”
“Hey, big mouth, I don’t know about you, but I’m getting the creeps here too. If you’re going to go check on things, I’m staying right here,” Charmy whispered to Vector.
“Nonsense! Everything’s alright here, Espio, you coming?”
“Sure why not. Might as well do something about this than just stand around.”
“So where should we start!?” Vector said enthusiastically. As if on cue, a loud scream came from the halls.
“Amy!” Sonic recognized the voice. He sped off, running towards her direction.

“It’s alright Cream, everything’s going to be alright,” Amy covered Cream’s eyes with her chest, clutching her as close to her as she could.  
“Amy, what’s wrong!” Once Sonic made it to where the two girls were, even he had to flinch and gag at the foul stench of dead that assaulted his nose. When he looked back, he could see streaks of blood on the walls and floor. On the far wall, handwriting of a shaky hand spelled a name that covered the wall,” Cosmo.”
Sonic grabbed Amy and pulled both of them together, leading them back to the bridge. Everyone one caught up just around the corner of the scene. “Don’t go in there, it’s horrible…” Knuckles ignored what Sonic said and continued anyways,” No, don’t! There’s blood everywhere, there’s-“
“nothing here,” Knuckles finished for Sonic. “If this is a prank, it’s not funny, especially from what’s hap-“  Knuckles saw in the corner of his eye something looking at him from the turn of the hallway. The figure seemed to have noticed that it had been spotted and turned to hide and escape its witness. “Hey, how did you get on this ship! I’m talking to you, get back here!” Nothing came back so Knuckles started to run after it. Sonic peaked over the corner expected to see the horrid sight but nothing was there and the smell had disappeared. He began to walk to Knuckles’ direction until he heard a him scream. Again Sonic ran to the cause of the noise. He found Knuckles slumped against the wall, having a crooked smile on his face as he stared aimlessly at the roof with eyes full of madness. As Sonic got closer, Knuckles giggled. He abruptly stopped and quickly turned to Sonic,” His pain is our pain. His pain will become everyone’s pain. It will consume the world.” His voice was hoarse and ended his sentence will a wheezing laugh. “Can you feel the sunshine…?”

Tails couldn’t sleep, the scene of him shooting at Cosmo played in his mind over and over again. No tears came to his face, he felt nothing; he felt like a complete shell. “Did I ever get to tell her that I loved her…” Tails asked the darkness in a voice that would give anyone pity to the young kitsune. “Did she kiss me or was it all just a hallucination?” Tails began to sit up, something wasn’t right. Apart from the gloominess, he sensed another strange feeling in the atmosphere. He began to walk to the bridge and see if everyone was alright. The automated doors opened as he walked towards it and started to head down the hallway when he heard his name called.
“Tails!”
“C-Cosmo…? Tails looked back and saw Cosmo looking back at him with a worried face.
“Tails, I don’t have much time. Don’t do what the voices-“
“Cosmo, I thought you were dead… oh Cosmo!” He began running to her. All life restored back to him and his heart fluttered back to life.
“Wait, no! Tails, don’t listen to the voices! I’m so sorry Tails,” was all she said as Tails was about to grasp her in his arms. As he did, she vanished in a light, white smoke.
“Cosmo…” As fast as hope filled him, it disappeared. His heart died, his mind went blank. His heart string was pulled and torn; his bones felt weak and his muscles gave out. He fell to his knees, slumping. “Cosmo… I-“ Tails began to fall forward. Time seemed to slow down as he noticed his surroundings change. The room became dark and streaks of red illuminated the room, as if the blood itself contained the faltering light of life within them. Tails looked ahead, Sonic was mangled, but he still came at him at an incredible pace as he got near. “I love you,” he whispered out with his last breathe and Sonic’s face twisted into madness and his eyes became black.
“You can scream all you want, but no one will come. Everyone will be asleep. Everyone will dream with their nightmares…”

“Doctor Eggman-sama,” Bocoe called out to his master. “We’re getting a S.O.S radio transmission from the Blue Typhoon.”
“Bah, they’re just trying to find others out there that will be willing to give both of us power. We should also do so but even we don’t have enough power to send a broadcast out…”
“Should we shut everything else down? At this rate, we’re not even going to be able to make it back home!” Decoe interrupted Eggman.
“Right, shut down anything that needs a power supply except the engines and life support systems on this room. Recheck anything we might have missed that has batteries!”
“Aye aye, sir!” the two robots said in unison.
“I don’t know, I have a bad feeling. Something is near, it’s making me feel queasy,” Bokkun commented.
“Be quiet and get on to it right now. Or do you want me to dissemble you and use your battery as a means to get back!?”
“Sorry Eggman-sama, right on it!” the little robot flew away in a panic, hoping Eggman would not follow through with his threats.
“But nonetheless, at least I’m not the only one who feels this way,” Eggman mumbled to himself. “I’ve been around power so long that I know when I sense a dark one amongst us… Bocoe, use your torch to open a doorway to the Blue Typhoon, as to save power and a means to communicate with Sonic and his team.”
“I have no fuel to be able to use it sir, sorry.”
“Drat, then send a small message to the Blue Typhoon and see if they are alright,” Eggman said with concern in his voice,” Because I’m starting to believe it’s not just an energy problem they’re having problems with…”

I will consume everything that is dear to you. I wills swallow you whole in your dreams. I will break you and you will be my puppet. Sweet dreams Team Sonic.

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Comments: 6

XGBlue [2014-05-05 04:00:26 +0000 UTC]

Comment after fully reading: WHAT... THE.... FUCK?

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Ryan-M-Prower In reply to XGBlue [2014-05-06 01:25:08 +0000 UTC]

Good way or bad way? I'd love the criticism!

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XGBlue In reply to Ryan-M-Prower [2014-05-06 01:58:31 +0000 UTC]

Both

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XGBlue [2014-05-05 03:55:46 +0000 UTC]

Urgent:  You keep using brig (the place on a ship where you would keep prisoners) instead of BRIDGE where you drive the ship

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Ryan-M-Prower In reply to XGBlue [2014-05-06 01:03:17 +0000 UTC]

Heh, yeah; I got it the first time but then brig was so catchy that i eventually tricked myself into thinking they were the same thing, heh ^^"

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XGBlue In reply to Ryan-M-Prower [2014-05-06 01:58:23 +0000 UTC]

Wow

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