Chapter 10

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Violet's POV (still)

"You both must be stragglers who got left behind. The strong will always vanquish the weak. You only have your own frailty to blame."

"Who are you calling frail?!" Stitch growls. The masked entity turns his head to her before summoning a tentacle of red cubes towards her. She successfully dodges, and Infinite turns in my direction and performs the same attack. I dodge, thankfully. But before I could celebrate my dodge, Infinite charges at me. Stitch in an instinct jumps, forcing me down and I end up dodging his assault. I then realise this is a good time to attack. I ready my wire and shoot myself towards him, knocking him off balance. I land back on the ground as Stitch shoots something from her wrists at him. Huh? I shake my head. No time for questions! Infinite then floats out of reach and I notice below Stitch's feet, some red cubes. I run to get her off the ground, but the cubes overwhelm us! The atmosphere has turned an uncomfortable colour of red. I then notice a bunch of large cannons forming from some cubes. I take Stitch's hand before we are hit and we end up dodging the lot of them. And as quickly as it started, it came to an end, and i'm greeted by another assault attempt from Infinite, and I aimed my wire and sent another blow to him. Again, knocked off balance, and we lock eyes before saying with what i'm assuming is a smile under his mask,

"Well well. It seems behind that fear is a spark of defiance. And those eyes... I feel like we've met before." I feel as if my heart had stopped beating. Those words sent a chill down my spine. I shake my head.

"Uh... what is he talking about?" Stitch asks, still focusing on the fight, as some bots come into our battle arena.

"Nevermind that! Fight now, questions later!" I reply, not taking my eyes off Infinite. He summons more walls of cubes and using all the power I can gather up, I avoid touching them at all! I glance at Stitch and she appears to be doing the same thing. Infinite then makes an attempt to bash into Stitch who dodges and immediately attacks him with another kick, before he floats to the middle of the room, with all the robots gone.

"You both have put up quite a fight. I underestimated just how desperately the feeble cling to life." oh haha! I scramble back as I dodge an energy sphere that he throws at me, seeing that Stitch dodges another one, he sends another two at the both of us, and I hear a light clattering on the floor, glancing down to see the Phantom Ruby Prototype, I think it was? Before Glaring up at Infinite. He returns the glare. "I remember you." no. no you don't. "You ran from me before" oh shut up! I quickly duck another blast, grabbing the jewel in my hand, staring my challenge at him. "You survived then, but you throw it all away now... curious." I freeze when multiple cannons form around him, all aimed at Me. "this will be good-bye"

"VIOLET!" Stitch shrieks. i shoot my arms up to cover my face, bracing for impact, shutting my eyes in the process... but no impact comes, noise of an explosion behind me makes me blink open my eyes in confusion. What- Whatever. I lower my arms, glaring up at Infinite again.

"What?!" that makes Stitch shake like she almost laughed. "How is this possible? It can't be... how did you-" he doesn't question for longer, firing again, and i jump to dodge, getting the sight of Infinite's mask in my face, as he blasts me in the chest, sending me flying into the wall, making me collapse. I stare up at him, my entire body sore from the impact, wincing when all the surroundings return to normal. "No matter. They have only two days left. Let them contemplate the inevitable until I end this once and for all." he flies off as Stitch tries attacking, making her hiss out a light insult, before running over to me to help me to my feet.

"You alright? That looked like it hurt... badly..." Stitch looks at me, concerned. I give a weak smile.

"I'll be fine... I just need a break. Come on. Let's head back to base." I make my attempt to walk but end up falling onto a knee. Ow... Stitch takes my arm.

"Not by yourself. You're too hurt by that blow. Hmm... I have an idea. But you got to promise not to tell anyone!" I look at Stitch, raising a brow. Huh?

"Uh, ok...?" I don't know what she's thinking but I trust- she opens to what appears to be a rift. WOAH! I look at her and back at the rift. "What!? When?! Who?! Where?! Why!?" She smiles and laughs.

"Come on! I'll get you to someone who can fix you up in no time!" She then turns on her radio. "We'll meet you guys back at base in a minute. Me and Violet just need to do something." She then guides me through the rift. I close my eyes and when i open them again, I am in grassy terrain! Woah! This isn't Metropolis nor is it Green Hills! Where are we? I hear a light... singing from a group nearby.
"Come on" I look at Stitch, seeing that she looks... different... like Dr Eggman, but... nicer. She helps me to the source of the voices, and I see three of the same kind, and once they finish whatever they were singing, they burst into cheers. One pushes herself to her feet, spinning, making another laugh. "Vanilla" Stitch speaks, making the one who laughed lift her gaze, and gets up, walking over

"Ah. i didn't expect you of all beings to come to me for help"

"What's going on, Rac?" the black haired one, the one who was still sitting, asks,

"Don't worry about it" the one who walked over says to her, before flicking Stitch in the forehead "she wouldn't have needed to know my name anyways" Stitch grumbles in protest, before the girl looks to me "do you trust me to heal you?" I blink, confused. You're able to heal? "Um... if Stitch trusts you, then i do as well" she blinks, before nodding slightly, and i catch that her palms glow a bit, before i fall from Stitch's support in the pain that coats my entire body, but then... all of it goes away, fading into the strength that i know and need for the war. I blink out of shock, looking up at her, she's now crossing her arms with a tilted head, light catching on two small butterfly hair clips beside her eyes.

"How did you-" and the butterflies are shifting to a yellow-orange colour. "How'd you do that?!" the other two girls that she was with laugh. I get to my feet, alarmed that i don't even feel sore from running.

"That's Rac for you. Freaks you out with what she can do, and always makes it the most casua- OW" a branch falls on the girl's head, cutting her off, making the girl in front of me smile and let out a light chuckle

"You feel better, Violet?" she asks, completely ignoring what happened behind her. Why didn't you rea- How does she know my name?! I realise my jaw is hanging open, so i close my mouth, nodding, since i can't speak

"D'aw, she's Speechless-"

"Oakly. I don't think i need to wrap a vine over your mouth, do i?" the girl cuts her off, which makes the other one shut up, but not after snickering. "Stitch. Take her back. You guys have things to do, do you not?" the healer says, smiling as the orange fades from the hair clips. What is that-

"Yeah, thanks again" the girl smiles, nods, and waves a hand, almost like a farewell, as another rift like noise flares up. I look, seeing that this one is tinted yellow

"I may see you another time, Violet" the girl says with a chuckle as me and Stitch walk back through, and it closes behind us. Looking around, the terrain is more familiar. We're... back at the base! I look at Stitch.

"So that's what was kinda off about you!" Stitch gives a small chuckle.

"Yeah... that ability can get me into a whole bunch of trouble." i flinch when i get a connection on my device

"Don't mention me to the others of the resistance, mkay? Thank you" the healer girl's voice speaks, before it cuts off. I glance at Stitch, silently asking if she heard it too, which she nods, before laughing.

"She's confusing, i know" i blink, before shaking my head

"L... let's just return to HQ" i say, seeing her nod, and we make our way back to base

"Oh... i should've asked if i could get a bit of heals too... meh, whatever," I hear Stitch mutter to herself as we make our way to our base.

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