dark team is resting

In the depth of regret and darkness , a loyal subject floating while thinking about their oh so past, thought no regret seen.

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I stare out at chrome and glass that made up the strange world in-between, curious as to where such a place even comes from. Is there molten metal somewhere that helped form the oddly organic shapes? Was this odd universe designed this way from the start? Was there any real proper life here to begin with, or has it always been this way?

Heavy steps reverberate on the crystalline ground, followed by the light ping of heels against glass.

"Good Gaia, this place is STUNNING!!" blueish-green eyes sparkle as they peer out upon the glittering chromescape. A world seemingly made of shining metal and crystal... Of course she'd be enamored.

"Listen, Rouge, we need to stay on task. Maybe we can visit this place again after, but right now we need to be looking for any sign of the Doctor. Who knows what he's got planned, opening strange rifts into worlds like this..." my voice trails into the seemingly infinite air of the realm around us.

"Oh of course Little Red, don't you worry, I won't get TOO distracted~" she replies to me, giving a wink. God damn her and those stupid nicknames.

"SCANNING ENVIRONMENT FOR HEAT SIGNATURES." our other friend, Omega, "spoke" before his body began to move like a camera taking a panoramic shot, laser light shining from his eyes as we watched him do his robot thing. Despite being an "Ultimate Lifeform", I've always been admittedly kinda jealous of some of his abilities... Though, I'm honestly glad I'm not a robot. Having a mech suit could be cool though.... Maybe I should ask Tails about that when we get back...

Suddenly, Omega stopped, his eyes flashing red. "UNKNOWN HEAT SIGNATURE DETECTED. NON-HUMAN LIFEFORM. INITIATING LOADING SEQUENCE." His arms locked into firing position as a multitude of clicks and buzzing noises could be heard, preparing to unleash a fury of bullets onto whatever the hell he'd found.

Our eyes widened, and Rouge managed to speak up first.

"OMEGA! HALT! DON'T FIRE!"

We're fortunate that he listens to us, as that was enough on it's own to make the noises stop, his arms lowering. Now, he simply pointed in the direction that he'd detected the unknown lifeform in.

I speed over to get a better vantage point, having to look around large, metallic structures to see whatever Omega had found....

And...

Of fucking course.

A blue shine flashes in my vision as the form suddenly speeds off across some of the glass structures that made up this strange world.

The mission no longer mattered to me, in that moment.

I became a hypocrite within only a few seconds.

My shoes propelled me onto the glistening path as I took off, my friends calling out from behind me, and I heard the spark of annoyance in Rouge's voice as I left them behind.

Following bright blue light, leaving an amber trail of my own behind, the race was on.

And nothing else mattered.

It's idiotic, it's reckless, absolutely ignoring the mission for something so menial. I should've tried asking how he even got here, I should've questioned his motives, I should've been suspicious, and yet I simply couldn't get my mind out of the rush of exhilaration. What a pathetic agent I am, huh?

He hadn't even realized I was there until I passed by him, to which he let out a sudden laugh before speeding up.

"Should've known you'd be here too! Got hired to scout the place I'm guessing?"

"Wouldn't you like to know, blue hedgehog."

"I mean, yeah I'd like to know, 'specially since you're not doing too great a job at the whole 'scouting' thing right now"

"Gah!- You- You shut your damn mouth!"

"Says the one who just can't handle not getting the last word in!"

"Oh it's ON."

And we blazed across gleaming trails of glass, the materials beneath his feet making chiming noises with every step, the sounds of whooshing air from my shoes blotting out whatever other thoughts I'd had prior.

Our streams of light began to mix, fading together as we leapt and dashed over and around each other, creating lines of pale purple that chased after us.

Nothing else mattered.

Until it did.

Until the blue light faded, until no one was beside me, until I drifted to a halt on smooth crystalline glass and spun around, looking about, expecting to find that he'd taken some other path, or that he'd just stopped to fuck with me.

But it was much more. Something much, much more than that.

I saw him on the ground, as if he'd simply crumpled beneath himself, the way a body looks when the life has been stripped from it, when all that's left is watery blood and cold skin.

Words caught in my throat, my legs feeling solid, my whole body frozen in the moment. My eyes darted around, falling on a figure standing in the distance, something seemingly just as chrome as the world it stood in, yet somehow... Like one of us. Pale, glossy eyes met my own as it's head turned in my direction, and it pointed it's arm at me. I could see the odd appendage it wielded, something like a gun at the end of it's own finger.

I would've cracked a sneer at it, if I weren't so terrified.

I had no moment to react before a blinding light clouded my vision...

And everything went dark.

The last thing I'd heard were the sounds of mechanical gunfire, and an enraged and frightened cry.

"SHADOW?! SONIC?!?!"

And then... Nothing, but darkness... A void...

Surrounding me.... Pitch black air, with the slightest bits of what seemed like pale dust particles floating around....

The echoes of our names rang through my mind, my mind which felt so empty in the moment... Was it even there anymore??

This wasn't death. I'd felt death before, death is... Different, than whatever this was...

I felt like my being existed, yet not my body. Like I was there, yet not at all, all of it at once.

And... Suddenly...

A strange world fizzled into view around me...

Could I... Even call it a "world"?

It was a vast nothingness, a blue "sky" above with a bright "sun" shining down... Yet the ground seemed more like it was merely light itself, rather than a solid thing. Barren trees were scattered about here and there, pale and seemingly abiotic. The world itself was.... Devoid of life in general.

It was beautiful, yet eerie... So lost and desolate, so empty...

The light made me shield my eyes. I tried to bring myself to explore it, but I couldn't handle the glare, I couldn't handle how it shined into my face. The world was so open, yet the light made me feel as though everything was closing in around me...

I had to get out.

"ROUGE?? OMEGAAAA?? SONIIIC????"

I called into the nothingness, and found no reply.

Nothing was here... What even WAS here?? I had more questions than ever, and none could even possibly be answered, not anytime soon at least...

So I covered my eyes, and I began to walk...

Aimlessly...

Wandering...

....And I hear... A distant voice...

A familiar one...

And I begin to follow the sound, where I'd heard it come from....

Covering my eyes, letting my ears guide me...

And suddenly....

I heard the sounds of gentle water.

And my shoes made a slight splash as I stepped into a shallow pool.

I uncovered my eyes, and the brightness was gone.... All that was left being a similarly empty space, this time the infinite void realm simply having shallow water all across it, out into the vast nothingness surrounding me....

And... in the distance.... tall, far-off pillars of similarly greenish, oceanic liquid, defying all laws of gravity and climbing high into the sky.

My eyes adjusted to what I was seeing, slowly... And soon, they focused on the towering obelisks of liquid, jutting into the endless atmosphere.

Nothing in this world made sense, nothing in any of these worlds did...

But before I could be truly wrought with confusion, I heard a familiar voice, the one I'd been following blindly before ending up here.

"Shadow!!! Hey!! You're... Here?"

I turned around, the water rippling around me. A splash hit my face as he ran over, making me take a step back in surprise before finally focusing on what the hell was happening here.

"Sorry about that- Hey, you feel... Mostly okay, right?"

I took a second to try and shake myself off before replying.

"You're... NOT dead. Thank Chaos."

"Uhhh... Nnnno? I'm not? I mean, thanks for the concern and all but what are you talking about??"

"That...." the image of the being remained blurry in my mind, despite how well I'd seen them prior, "THING. It... Shot me. Shot YOU too, I think-"

"...Huh."

He went oddly silent, looking around.

"Welllll anyway, lets find a way outta here. I'm just glad this isn't an ACTUAL ocean... I woulda been doomed!"

"...How do YOU feel, Sonic?"

"Huh?"

"How... Do you feel? Right now?"

"...Oh-... Well, a tad dizzy, super confused, and uh... A little bit terrified, I gotta admit."

"..."

We were both silent for a moment longer....

"....You're not alone there. Come on, let's... Try to find a place to at least sit down for a bit..."

"Uuuugh, come oooonn we can't just get the whole 'going back home' thing on the road already?"

"...Sonic..."

I looked around, up at the foggy "sky" above us, then at the distance aquatic pillars.

"...We aren't getting out of this place for a while. It's best we regain some energy before continuing to... wherever the hell we're headed."

He went quiet again, for seemingly the first time in his life really, before taking a deep breath and nodding.

But he didn't speak, he just.... Began following beside me...

And together, we began on our way toward the far-off pillars.

Day 9: ‘’Defense’’

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