Neutral Charges {Sequel/ Sonourge}

NINETEEN

__Scourge watched in amusement as Fiona was pacing back and forth, crushing the grass and flattening them. Scourge had stifled a giggle as he placed his sunglasses over his eyes. "Will you calm down, babe? I figured this would've happened eventually."
__Fiona stopped where she was and looked at Scourge. There was anger and a hint of hurt in her eyes. "I helped those fools get one of their beloved comrades back! They promised to follow me no matter what!" She calmed herself down and crossed her arms. "'You're wasting our time,' they said. 'You don't know what you're doing,' they said. Idiots!"
__"Forget them, Fi," Scourge said in annoyance. "It's not like we needed them anyway."
__"But we did need them!" Fiona retorted. "Remember what I said about Sonic's friends being his liabilities? We need people like that, and the Destructix was supposed to be our liabilities."
__Scourge rolled his eyes and sighed. "If it makes you feel better, we can find more suckers to use. There's bound to be people stronger than the Destructix anyway."
__"You don't get it, Scourge," Fiona said tiredly. "We were actually getting along with them well."
__"Fiona, you're killing me here. Stuff like that is only going to get in the way of our goals."
__Fiona flattened her ears and uncrossed her arms as she raised her shoulders up. "Is that how you feel? What about me? You do care, don't you?" There was doubt in her shaking voice.
__Scourge perked his ears and looked at Fiona. He groaned and placed his sunglasses back over his forehead. "Fi, look, it's not that I don't care." He walked over to Fiona and grabbed her chin to make her look at him. "You're the only person that actually cares about me. I don't want anything to happen to you."
__Fiona's eyes soften and she managed to grin. "You really mean that? You won't abandon me like they did?"
__Scourge shook his head and smirked. "You belong to me. Even if for some reason you leave me, I'll just hunt you down and force you back."
__Fiona narrowed her eyes and giggled. "Most girls would be horrified by that. Lucky for you I'm not like those other girls." She then hugged Scourge tightly. "I wouldn't ever leave you anyway."
__Scourge hesitated before reluctantly hugging her back. He caught a whiff of her scent as he closed his eyes. "Neither will I. We don't need anyone else. We can accomplish anything on our own."
__"I love you, Scourge."
__"I know."

__Everything fell quiet. Scourge kept his eyes tightly closed. He didn't open them until he heard both Miles and Alicia gasp. He looked behind them and saw that Miles was holding the purple Chaos Emerald, his hands shaking. When did they get that? Alicia and Miles were trembling as they had their eyes locked on something. Scourge slowly looked over to what they were staring at and flattened his ears. He couldn't believe it. He saw Fiona, in her sparkling see-through form, trying to push Super Metal Sonic back. When!? How!?
__Fiona was struggling to keep the cyborg from moving closer to Scourge. There was rage and determination in her eyes as they tried to push each other back. "I won't let you hurt him!" She yelled. She then managed to push the cyborg back and slammed herself into it, knocking it down. The cyborg shook its head as it looked up at Fiona in surprise.
__"How is this possible!? I killed you!"
__"You did," Fiona spread her legs and held her fists up as she glared at the cyborg. "And I won't let you ruin Scourge's life again!"
__As Fiona and Super Metal Sonic glared at each other, Scourge looked back at Alicia and Miles. He kept his hands on his stomach as he narrowed his eyes at them. "Why do you have that?" He asked. They both looked at each other nervously and Miles dropped the emerald. "Why do you have that!?" He repeated angrily.
__"We didn't exactly chase after the dog right away," Alicia responded shakily. "We found this Chaos Emerald in this office by the living room."
__"And you just took it!?" Scourge sneered.
__"We're still bad by heart," Miles stated.
__Scourge looked over when Super Metal Sonic rushed for Fiona. Fiona ran from it and out maneuvered it. She was able to get behind it and grabbed hold of its leg. She quickly yanked it and threw the cyborg into the trees. The cyborg didn't move. Fiona then sighed and looked over at Scourge lovingly. "Hey, Scourgey."
__Scourge sighed in relief and flattened his ears. "You only ever come if we need you, huh?"
__"Just like Tikal, only I answer to you and Sonic." A beam of light suddenly shot through her stomach and she gasped. Behind her, Super Metal Sonic was still on the ground with its hand as a gun pointed at her. Fiona's face turned pale as she disintegrated into nothing. Scourge's eyes were wide and he felt his stomach clench. What!? No!
__Super Metal Sonic stood up and turned its gun back into a hand. It flexed it claws and glared at Scourge. "How many of your pathetic friends are going to get in my way!?"
__"You have friends?" Miles said half joking, half scared.
__Scourge ignored him. He felt the rage consuming him. He didn't care about his bleeding leg and stomach. He didn't even feel them as he got up and ran straight for the cyborg. It was caught by surprise when he tackled it and pressed its head against the ground. "I'll kill you!" Scourge screamed. He brought his fists up and started punching the cyborg. "I'll kill you! I'll kill you! I'LL KILL YOU!!!" He was about to hit it again when its chest opened and shot Scourge off of it. Scourge yowled in agony as he was flung right beside the red line. His whole body burned and he couldn't make himself move. He felt his body go limp.
__"Holy shit!" Alicia exclaimed.
__Buck finally brought himself to go over the line. He ran over to Scourge and was nudging him with his snout, whimpering as he tried to make Scourge get up. Scourge moved his eyes slowly to look at Buck. "Stupid dog," He whispered.
__"About damn time!" Super Metal Sonic growled. Buck turned to face the cyborg and started growling and barking at it. Super Metal Sonic scowled as it brought its claws up. "You can die with--" A green spear shot into its arm and blew it up. As its arm grew back, the cyborg glared behind itself. "Who would dare!?"
__"I would," Shadow was standing right behind it. He looked down at Scourge and crossed his arms. "Rouge told me you were feeling out of it and asked me to check on you today." He then looked back at the cyborg. "And I can see why. You're the one who killed all those people last year."
__The cyborg stomped its foot and screamed. "This is not how it's supposed to happen! There aren't supposed to be other people here!" It then pointed at Shadow. "How did you even use your powers!? You're not supposed to be able to!"
__"This field can't stop chaos abilities," Shadow explained. "Especially when this field is made out of chaos energy."
__The cyborg dropped its hand and trembled. "No..."
__Scourge brought himself to look at the red line. Chaos energy. That I know I can do. He struggled to get his hand over the line. He placed it on it and focused its power. He continued to struggle until the red line disappeared. He then felt a strong surge of energy enter his body. Oh hell yeah! He stood up and glared at the cyborg. He felt his leg and stomach's wounds close and shivered. Chaos control is still nerve wrecking. He brought himself to giggle. "And here I thought I was gonna die."
__Super Metal Sonic backed up as Scourge, Shadow, Buck, Miles, and Alicia started to crowd him. "No, no, NO! This isn't what's supposed to happen!"
__"As I expected; another hunk of junk."
__"What?" Scourge looked up and saw Eggman in his flying mobile. He was over the cyborg and pushed something that pulled it and attached it to the bottom of the mobile. "Wait, wait. What's happening?" Scourge asked in disbelief.
__"Nothing now," Eggman replied in disappointment. "Just another failed attempt. Well, at least I can reuse the metal and machinery inside this thing."
__"What!?" Super Metal Sonic looked up in fear as Eggman flew away.
__"What the hell was that!?" Alicia exclaimed. "That was so...pointless!"
__Scourge looked down at the purple Chaos Emerald and went to pick it up. He stared into it and pictured Fiona disappearing after getting shot. He bared his fangs and clenched the emerald as he glared at the moebians. "Don't ever steal from me again!" He hissed.
__"That emerald belongs to you?" Miles said in disbelief. "Last I checked, that was in Sonic's house."
__"It's our house," Scourge sneered. Before Miles could respond, Buck walked over to Scourge and whimpered as he sat down and looked up at him. Scourge put the emerald away and kneeled down to pet his head. "I know, boy. I know."
__"Can someone please get me off the ground!?" Caliburn yelled. He was somehow faced down in the dirt.
__Scourge ran over quickly and picked him up. He held him at eye level and smirked. "Hey, we won."
__"Well, good for you," Caliburn said sarcastically. "My face is covered in dirt!"
__"Is that a talking sword?" Shadow asked.
__"Aw shit," Scourge muttered.
__"Scourge the Hedgehog!!!"
__Scourge turned and flattened his ears as Sonic was stomping toward him. He backed up a bit and smiled awkwardly as Sonic got closer. "Hey! You're back early."
__Sonic bared his teeth and glared at Scourge. "You no good, lying, deceiving, idiot!"
__"Right, you're mad," Scourge muttered shamefully.
__"What the hell is going on!?" Sonic growled. "You got my sword out of my closet, lied to me, and hung up on me!"
__"Okay, I have a lot to answer for," Scourge admitted. "But just know I did all this for you."
__Sonic's eye started twitching. "For me!? Are you fucking serious!? You know how much trouble I went through to come back!? I had to threaten to hire a new manager so mine could allow me to check on you!"
__Scourge avoided eye contact as he explained. "Look, Super Metal Sonic was back and it wanted to kill me before Eggman made it kill you."
__"Am I supposed to believe that!?"
__"Yes?" Scourge had given up.
__"Sir Sonic, it is all true," Caliburn said. "Knave here asked me to teach him how to use me because there was some kind of field this cyborg was hiding in that would strip him of his powers."
__"What? Knave?" Sonic then looked over at Shadow. "You know about this?"
__Shadow shrugged his shoulders. "I came in right when this blue robot was about to attack Scourge and your dog."
__"Buck?" Sonic looked down when the border collie walked up to him. Sonic then looked Scourge with narrowed eyes. "So, what do you have to say now?"
__"I'm sorry I lied to you, but I did it to protect you," Scourge said quietly. "If it makes you feel any better, you can hit me."
__Sonic was still for a few seconds. He sighed and Scourge braced himself for a hit in the stomach, but Sonic just hugged Scourge. "You need to tell me these things. You really had me worried." Scourge dropped Caliburn and hugged Sonic back. "Let's get back to the house now. I wanna hear a full explanation."
__"...I love you, Sonic."
__"I know."