Cory in the House: Trials of the Earth (Season 2)

Loss

The wind blew Cory's long auburn hair as he walked through the woods outside Washington DC. The distant sounds of chirping caused him to feel at ease, the stars shooting across the sky like a million angels flying toward the ground. A new age had begun.

Cory's new objective was to find espio the chameleon, a trained ninja and a great adversary that would be vital to their success. He knew that the chaos emeralds would be needed to defeat Hitler, he just didn't know where to find them.

Espio was last seen in the forest outside of Washington DC, after he ran away due to the agony of vector the crocodile's death. Ever since he had been living as a recluse.

Cory looked toward the center of the forest, thinking about Japan. No, Cory thought, Japan doesn't exist. He knew from personal experience. He pushed on. Fueled by his emptiness.

Suddenly, a loud bang was heard behind him, and a shotgun shell flew past his face.

"Death to the evil one, prepare to die eggman"

Cory dove behind a tree, dodging Espios bullets as the hit around him. As he fell, the chaos emerald flew out of his pocket and fell to the ground. He knew what he had to do. Cory jumped into the open and held up the stone, the entire area was filled with bright light. Espio dropped his gun and stared.

"ah, so it's you. I would've rather seen death." espio said, picking up his gun and resting it on his shoulder. Cory put down the chaos emerald and walked cautiously toward espio.

"I need you to help me stop Hitler." Cory said simply.

"why would I help you with that, Hitler did nothing wrong." Espio said edgily.

Cory nodded sadly, "but the president wanted him dead."

"Who cares what anyone wants?"

Cory thought it over, Espio sighed, "I'll help you if you can find Michael Jackson, the famous one."

Cory nodded, "the best one."

Espio nodded and handed Cory a map. "this leads to Jackson's temple, now go."

Cory went right away. It led him to an alleyway in the middle of Detroit, he used the chaos emerald to teleport to the exact location. As he walked down the alleyway, he felt shivers down his spine, there was something here, something spooky. All of a sudden, a skeleton popped out and attacked Cory!!!!

Cory got hit in the arm by the Skeleton, instantly marking him as a Skeleton virus carrier. Cory fell down to his knees, slowly becoming more and more skeletal, his arm became bones and it slowly went up toward his shoulder.

Suddenly, a chaos emerald fell into Cory's lap, instantly transforming him, his arm healed automatically and his skin turned to white. Cory became ecstatic, he could now attend supremacy rallies without feeling awkward. The person who dropped the emerald did sick dance moves to kill both of the skeletons, instantly disintegrating them.

He looked up and saw that his savior was Michael Jackson, the legend. Michael used his magic dance moves to kill the last Skeleton. It was instantly destroyed.

Cory looked and saw mj, holding out his hand to help him get up.

"m-michael Jackson?!?" Cory exclaimed.

"yes, it is I."

"I need your help to get a chameleon to help me. We need to stop Hitler."

"but why would you want to stop Hitler? "

Cory thought it over. "it doesn't matter, it's my destiny. Will you help me?"

Michael Jackson thought it over and nodded eventually, grabbing his fedora. Cory sighed as he grabbed both chaos emeralds and teleported them both back to espios forest.

Espio was hiding in the bushes, shooting at deer. They teleported behind him, causing him to shoot a tree, igniting the woods.

"we gotta get out!" Michael shouted as he ran.

"no! Charmy the bee is in there!" Espio shouted, Cory pulled him along and out of the woods. Espio cried for the first time in years.

As they escaped, the woods were completely destroyed... as was espios heart. This was the end of regular Espio. Now he was a soulless heartless edge lord.

They walked through the charred woods later, looking for signs of Charmy.

They found him.

He was a pile of bones on the ground, completely black with soot. His face was the only thing that remained, and it formed a face of true horror. Espio grabbed it, but it instantly dissolved, destroying his last friend left forever.

Espio grunted and turned away, "he deserved it, I hated his voice."

Cory and Michael looked at him in shock. Espio walked away slowly, a scowl on his face, the rest of the group followed.

And thus began the descent of Espios hopes and dreams. He was a 20 something year old man with no friends and no wife. His life could now be described in a single word: loss.