Chapter 3 - No Hospitality

Chapter 3-No Hospitality.[br]
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A bleeping of a heart rate monitor is the only thing that the heavily bandaged Mikey can hear the next day, but he was unable to open his eyes due to the amount of things going on in his head. His mind was recalling the events that happened with him and Vertigo. Holding onto his swords, his mind went mental with thoughts of what happened during his and his friends dormancy. What was happening? Why were they under Eggman’s control? How did Eggman become a dominant force? More importantly, where was his family? His other friends? Miles? His vision of fighting Vertigo stood out, more fore mostly, how did he do it?[br]
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Vertigo was on his hands and knees, his face covered in cuts and slashes, blood trickling slowly from them, the most damaging wound coming from a huge gash from the right side of his chest. Voltage only needed to use his right hand sword, Thunder Aura to bring Vertigo to his knees. Mikey smirked with confidence, with blood trickling from his lip.[br]

“Eggman obviously tried to deceive me, by saying that you were the “Ultimate Life form” …” he scoffed, flicking the blood off the kissaki*, “but, as usual, he was wrong, and underestimated me!”[br]

Vertigo started to snigger, then the snigger grew into an malevolent laugh. Mikey gave a perplexed look towards the fallen being. Vertigo disappeared behind a ferocious ball of purple and red fire. Mikey backed off to avoid the combustion, shocked with what just occurred in front of his eyes , before bumping into something other than the wall. He gradually turned around to see Vertigo, standing in front of him, grinning nonchalantly. How can he disappear, and reappear behind him, without the damage that was inflicted by Mikey?[br]

Vertigo lifted a fist up, while it was glowing a light purple. “Chaos…,” he called out, and disappeared, without a trace. Mikey held his sword parallel to his chest, eagle-eyeing all corners of the area that they’ve been fighting in, the corridor had slashes in the concrete, the wooden cupboard, ruined by the fight. [br]

The fight started by Vertigo kicking him in the back of the head, while he was retrieving his swords from the cupboard.[br]

Mikey lowered his guard, assuming that the fight was over, and Vertigo ran off. He turned to walk back towards where Chain, Rogue and Thorn were cleaning up, until…[br]
“ TRACER!” Vertigo reappeared in front of him and swung the glowing fist at Mikey. Voltage braced himself for impact, closing his eyes and being unable to unsheathe his left hand sword, Phoenix Plume. He opened his eyes, looking at the Hedgesquirrel, who glanced back, closed his eyes and smiled malevolently. “Check your chest, Wolfy.” On that command, Mikey looked down towards his chest, a light purple globe protruded from the middle of his chest. His face practically turned white with terror.[br]

“Not good, most definitely not good.” He thought in panic. Vertigo reopened his eyes, grinned even more sadistically, and snapped his fingers. The orb, virtually blew up on his chest, knocking him on his back, sliding at least ten feet before stopping. He laid for two seconds, got onto his knees, before collapsing back on the floor in a pool of blood. He did the same amount of damage on him, but with one punch. Impossible![br]

“Get up!” Vertigo commanded, and lashed out on the reopened chest scar. Mikey coughed up blood as soon as the kick connected, looking as he just got shot by a shotgun. “GET UP!”. Voltage slowly got up to his feet, dripping blood all over the place. “Let this be a lesson to you,” he spat in his face, then without warning, laid into Mikey with a flurry of fists. Mikey, unable to block any of the pummelling, gradually blacking out from blood-loss.[br]
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“Pssst, Mikey, you awake?” Mikey, snapped his eyes open, looking at the door, seeing Thorn standing at the door, holding a package and a file with the Eggman insignia. Mikey nodded, and signalled to close the door behind him. “Man, you took a pummelling from that freak.”[br]

“I know, I didn’t see half of the attacks… Damn…” he mentioned to Thorn.[br]

“Mikey, a purple cat girl left this with us”, handing over the package to Mikey, who grabbed it by the strings.[br]

Mikey looked at the label, and read it to himself.[br]

“Dear Mikey,[br]


Make sure you open this up as soon as you wake up, it’s your trademark clothes.[br]
Love from… you know who. Xxxxxx.”[br]

“Blaze,” he said, smiling like he met an old friend, for the first time in years.[br]

“Who?”[br]

“Never mind,” he replied quickly, shaking his head. He untied the string, unwrapped the paper and took out the items of clothing. His bandana, trademark hat, a fedora, a “Combi Buff”** , his jacket and his black shirt with the Masamoto phoenix kamon***. He shed a tear due to the fact that someone made it through the time he was immobilised. He then reached into his hat, pulling out two pieces of folded paper, spreading them out, and looking at them for at least a minute, before being interrupted by Thorn.[br]

“What is that?”[br]

“A couple of old pics, one being of me and my little brother, and the other of my girlfriend, wearing my hat,” he answered, showing the pics to Thorn.[br]

“You look really cute without the tatts and scars!” he laughed.[br]

“Ah, Shut it,” Mikey replied, being very embarrassed by the comment.[br]

Thorn looked at the girl in the other picture. “That’s the girl that gave us the package.” Mikey took another look at the girl, “She hasn’t change a bit in looks, as a matter of fact, she hasn’t changed a bit.”[br]

“Blaze? Wow, that’s the power of Quantum Aura crystals.”[br]

“Blaze, huh? You are lucky.”[br]

“I know.” Mikey told Thorn, tears welling up in his eyes.[br]
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Thorn grabbed the folder from the table and shoved into Voltage’s chest that was wrapped up in bandages, connecting with the cut.[br]

“OW!”[br]

“Whoops. Sorry,” he told Mikey, struggling to restrain his laughter.[br]

“Ought to be, What is this?”[br]

“A profile on “Project: Vertigo”, but it’s encrypted with a code.” The folder had a digital lock on an aluminium folder.[br]

“Ok, “3GG, M4N”.” With that, the folder clicked open.[br]

“That was simple.”[br]

“But complicated enough for you to not get it.”[br]

Thorn, unimpressed by those few words, thumped Mikey in the cut on the chest.[br]

“OW,OW,OW! Okay, I deserved that.”[br]

“Let’s put that behind us, now.”[br]

“Agreed.”[br]

Mikey took a look at the few pages that were in the folder, two of the pages caught his eye. “Here, take a look at this…” He told Thorn. Thorn scanned through the page.[br]

“Wow, wait until he hears this.”[br]

Mikey smirked, but he looked at the second page, which wiped the smirk clean off his face, and replaced it with rage.[br]

“What’s wrong?” Thorn enquired. Mikey replied by giving the page to him.[br]

“Ok,…test complete. Subject…” Then Thorn looked at Mikey in shock. “In Critical State.”[br]

“The “Subject”… was my brother.”[br]
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*=Japanese for the tip of the sword.[br]
**=Google “Buff Headgear”.[br]
***=Japanese for crest.

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