Chapter 9
Secrets


Blitscreet grumbled as he walked down the hall of Arius’ house dripping wet. As he passed the kitchen he seen Jolteia and Arius looking at him, waiting until he was out of sigh before they burst out laughing.

“Ha ha, very funny Jolteia. Just to let you know I do not appreciate being woken up by having a bucket of water dumped on me, especially after you tied and gagged me beforehand.”
“Serves you right for taping that note to my head last night.”

Blitscreet looked back long enough to throw a threatening stare at her. He would have thrown an article of clothing but he wasn’t wearing anything when they bound and gagged him. He towelled off before walking back to Arius’ bedroom and grabbing his pants.

“God dammit, my pants too!” He picked up his soaked jeans and walked out to throw them at Jolteia before taking out his trench coat which was hidden in Arius’ closet. “Hah didn’t get my coat.”

He put on his coat and grabbed his pants from the living room floor after Jolteia tried to throw them back. As he was walking outside he got drenched again. He just kept walking as he heard Tails laugh. Luckily he made it back to Jolteia’s house without any further incident. Can’t even make a single spark now he thought. He took a better look at his new arm. 

“Hmmm, maybe.” He thought tapping into the emerald.

Within moments he felt the familiar tingle of electricity coursing throughout his body. Much better he thought as he threw his clothes into the dryer. Flicking on the TV the first thing to come on the news was a story about the new security measure that G.U.N headquarters were taking.

“Thank you Braxtonn for remaining inconspicuous.” He said grabbing his still damp clothes out of the dryer.

He made a quick note on where their base was thanks to the news. As he started out to the base he noticed Shadow leaning in a tree waiting for him.

“I wouldn’t rush in there blindly if I were you.” Shadow said walking up to Blitscreet.
“They can’t stop me, and neither can you.”
“I don’t know what you think you can accomplish but just rushing to the G.U.N main base with just that new arm of yours, blade or not. It’s a suicide mission.”
“It doesn’t matter. This is personal for me so either back off and let me get back what belongs to me or tell me something useful.”
“I know what you’re looking for.”
“Doesn’t matter if you know or not. And how did you find out.”
“I confronted Braxtonn on the whole reason he was looking for you. I wanted the whole truth.”
“So what you feel pity, you think that because you know of my past that you can relate to me.”
“No I don’t pity you, because pitying you would mean I would pity myself. I already told Braxtonn that I wasn’t going to stand by and let him abuse his power for his own personal vendetta.”
“So you’re going to help me?” Blitscreet was surprised.
“No we are going to help you.” Sonic had appeared behind Blitscreet.
“You helping attacking a G.U.N base, now that I can’t see happening.”
“It’s not really attacking if it’s a rescuing someone innocent.”
“Umm Sonic, my dad is the world’s greatest assassin.” Blitscreet replied.
“Its true Sonic, I had Braxtonn recover the deleted files to prove it.” Shadow said handing the papers to Sonic.
“Says here that in these papers that Braxtonn killed Jacob Voltix himself.” Sonic said puzzled.

Eighteen Years Ago

“Where am I?” Jacob Voltix awoke in a pitch black room with bandages covering his chest.

It took him a few minutes to remember what happened.

“Alexa…” Tears began to roll down his cheeks but before long feelings of sadness were replaced with rage. “You couldn’t let me die in peace could you?!”
“No, it was much to fun watching you suffer, knowing that you are my prisoner now.” A view screen lit up out of Jacobs reach. “You are probably wondering how you are alive right now. You see, surprisingly you were still alive when my soldiers tried to move you. I took that moment to see how well our cell regeneration composite worked on life threatening wounds, seeing as it worked like a charm fixing up that nasty cut you gave me. Well it took a few days to do its work but looks like you’re finally awake.”
“You bastard, you couldn’t let me die, what more can you take from me.”
“Your freedom, I plan to keep you alive as long as I can, to watch you suffer, to make you pay for your crimes.”
“What do you get from this? Why do you feel it necessary to punish me like this?”
“Oh I plan to keep you here until you tell me everything, from where you get your weapons, to where you hid your children.”
“We are going to be here a long time then.” Jacob smiled spitefully before lying down on the bed.

Present Day

“So we clear on the plan.” Sonic said.
“Yeah I sneak in and look for my father while you two distract the guards.” Blitscreet replied.
“Remember, the instant you get inside you’re on your own, so try not to cause to much havoc because your father is in the central compound and most likely heavily guarded.” Shadow warned.
“You forget that I was the one who completely destroyed G.U.N’s jail outside of the city a few weeks ago, on my own, against every guard and soldier in the whole building and still came out with only a large piece of metal sticking out of my back.”

Sonic and Shadow both gave Blitscreet a look that said ‘Only a giant piece of metal’. After that they headed through the open field towards the G.U.N base. Sonic and Shadow took the direct approach while Blitscreet went around the back keeping out of scan range. The instant Blitscreet heard the first explosion he made a rush for the fence slicing through it rather than jumping over it. Keeping the sparks flowing he made his way inside short circuiting any scanner or deice blocking his way.

“Sir, it appears we have a disturbance outside the base.” A soldier reported to Braxtonn.
“Any electrical anomaly detected?” He questioned.
“Not with the disturbance out front but something or someone is short-circuiting everything from the east wing. It appears to be heading for the main power generator.”
“Prepare the backup generator, and step up security around cell block B. If you believe it necessary move the prisoners.”
“But Commander there is only one prisoner there…”
“That was an order Lieutenant, or did I not make myself clear enough.”
“Of course sir.” A few moments passed before an announcement was heard all over the base. “All reporting personnel report to Cell Block B and prepare for prisoner relocation.”


Sonic and Shadow heard this and before long they began hearing a massive commotion inside the building followed by a total power blackout.

“I don’t think Blitscreet realizes that G.U.N has a second generator, located on the opposite side of the building.” Shadow said as he and Sonic casually started to walk into the building unopposed.
“No he knows.”
“Are you sure about that?”
“Three, two, one.” Sonic counted down.

Following this was a massive explosion on the other side of the base. Shadow gave a quick glance at Sonic before they rushed towards the prison block. The inmates were rioting in their cells as the soldiers were moving a single inmate outside for prisoner transport.

“Hey, what’s so special about him?” Shouted one.
“Yeah, how some he gets this special treatment.” Yelled another.
“Because unlike the rest of you this one is worth something to me alive.” Commander Braxtonn bellowed. “So unless the rest of you want to be on death row I suggest you settle down or else.”

Needless to say thing got very quiet in the prison block. The inmates knew the Commander wasn’t kidding when he said they would be put on death row. He once had an inmate put into solitary for nine months just for spitting outside his cell.

“Hey Braxtonn, I’m giving you three seconds to give the order to let that man go before I start doing some damage.” Blitscreet yelled from above Shadow and Sonic.
“Fire at will. Hedgehogs included.” The Commander responded.
“Wrong answer.” Blitscreet said before making a rush for Braxtonn. “Sonic, get my dad out of here, Shadow and I can take care of the rest.”

“Dad…” Those words rang in Jacobs ears as he looked up to the source.

Jacob stretched and stood up straight before knocking down the guard in front of him followed by knocking out two more before grabbing the keys to his cuffs. In one swift motion he undid them and bashed another guard over the head with them. By now the rest of the guards had heard the commotion coming from behind them and turned to the now free prisoner. As they were about to turn the sound of a sniper rifle caught their attention.

“One more move Jacob, and I use your own gun to end your miserable existence.” Braxtonn was holding Jacobs modified rifle and had it pointed at the ceiling.
“You’re forgetting one thing Braxtonn.” He yelled back.
“And what would that be?”
“My son.” Jacob pointed behind the Commander causing him to turn around.
“Sweet dreams.” Blitscreet slugged the Commander in the face knocking unconscious and sending him over the railing.

The Commander fell three stories before colliding face first with the pavement. At that moment all hell broke loose. The G.U.N soldiers now without a commander broke ranks and fled in all directions. Shadow had opened the cell doors causing a massive flood of inmates to attack every G.U.N soldier within eye sight.

“Come on lets go.” Sonic said to Jacob as Shadow hopped down holding the sniper.
“Nice rifle, custom made?” Shadow asked.
“Only by the best. You can have it if you would like, besides I’m done with that life, have been for over nineteen years. Speaking of which, where is Blitscreet?” Jacob replied.
“Right here. I gathered a few more of your things from the Commander’s personal safe.” Blitscreet said as his sword retracted.
“Thanks son.” Jacob spoke as he replaced his prison uniform with some more comfortable clothing.
“As touching as this reunion is, I believe we should leave before one of the prisoners happens upon the self-destruct.” Shadow said.
“Already taken care of.” Blitscreet said smugly.
“You didn’t.”
“I did, now let’s go I set the timer for this one to go off in ten minutes and fried the controls.”

As they rushed out of the base a warning siren sounded for everyone to evacuate. The seen some soldiers carrying out Braxtonn on a stretcher, before taking off in a helicopter. When they were a safe distance away Blitscreet took a switch and a pair of binoculars out of his pocket.

“You really thought that one through didn’t you?” Jacob asked.
“I figured that waiting ten minutes might not be enough time for some people I grabbed a pair of thermal binoculars and a remote detonator.” Blitscreet said looking through the binoculars. “Last time I didn’t think and nearly killed a whole lot of people. Seeing as this is safer and that the only heat sources I can see right now are the few fires I made blowing up the back-up generator, I can say it’s safe to blow this thing sky high. Care to do the honours?”
“With pleasure.” Jacob took the switch and flipped it.

It took a few seconds before the signal was received. It started out as a few small explosions around the outside of the base before closing in to the center. A massive mushroom cloud erupted as the four of them were nearly blown backwards from the sheer force of the blast.

“Now that is an explosion that would make Eggman jealous.” Sonic laughed.
“I think G.U.N needs to tone down their security protocols.” Shadow scoffed.
“Actually they need to encrypt their hardware better.” Jacob replied walking away. “Self-destruct is something they only use when there isn’t any other choice.”
“Anyways we better get going I’m sure Jolteia wouldn’t mind seeing you alive either.” Blitscreet said eager to leave.
“I’m in no rush to go anywhere, I just spent the last eighteen years of my life stuck in that hole. As I said before in the base, you can keep the rifle Shadow, I don’t need it anymore.”
“Thank you. So where did you get this thing made?”
“I had a friend custom make it. I wonder if he still lives in Station Square? That guy can forge anything.”
“If that’s the same person that forged my blade I think Jolteia already met him.” Blitscreet said extending the sword out of his arm.
“It looks like his craftsmanship. So what happened with your arm anyways.”
“I will tell you when we get to town, I’m hungry and I neglected eating this morning.” Blitscreet said as his stomach growled.
“Know what you need.” Sonic asked.
“A chilidog?”
“Exactly.”
“I think your obsession with those things is a bit too much.” Shadow ridiculed.
“I haven’t had real food in a long time, so a chilli dog sounds really god right now.” Jacob said. “So let’s eat and you can tell me everything I missed.”

As they headed back to town Sonic bolted as soon as he heard Amy calling him. Shadow left when the emerald in his pocket began responding so he went in search of the other emerald. As they  passed a nearby restaurant they grabbed a bite to eat and Blitscreet filled him in on everything that happened to him.

“Well I missed a lot.” Jacob laughed. “I will have to get Jolteia to tell me what happened to her. I can pay for this.”
“How, I doubt you have any money on you.”
“Braxtonn may have frozen my public bank account but that only accounted for a total of five percent of my savings.” Jacob pulled a dusty wallet out of his pocket before grabbing a card that was different from all the others.

He paid for the meal and they headed to the bank.

“This is your card.” Jacob passed a similar card to Blitscreet. “I had accounts done up for you two before I dropped you off at the orphanage. The funds in it should be more than enough to sustain you and buy you your own home, as well as leave you plenty extra.”
“How did you make so much money?”
“I was paid well for my services, and I wasn’t just an assassin. I was also a thief. But I made sure I didn’t steal from the wrong people. Mostly I was hired by the military to take out certain people, or retrieve stolen property. Other than that it was mostly private investors that could afford my sums. I am a man of my word, never go back on an agreement if you have been paid.” Jacob sighed before continuing. “When I was contracted for another job by the government I refused, saying I was retiring form this line of work, I had found something more precious than money.”
“I see, so when you refused they turned on you faster than Sonic when he sees a chilidog stand.”
“Exactly. I wired all my money to a private bank preventing the government from accessing it. And that is this one. It is the safest place on this planet to store your money. Each card is encoded with the DNA of the account user so only you can access it. It reads your DNA as you input the card” Jacob pointed to an ATM inside the bank.

Blitscreet went over inserting his card. Within moments the account sum appeared on screen leaving Blitscreet jaw dropped until Jacob came over and closed his mouth.

“Fifteen million, tell me I’m dreaming.” Blitscreet.
“No, I told you I was paid well, because I did my job well. You and your sister each have fifteen million in your accounts leaving me with twenty million.”
“You made fifty million before you met my mother, that’s crazy, that’s more than I think even Renkai Subochi has.”
“That would be the man who adopted Jolteia right?”
“Yeah. But fifty million.”
“Ok let’s go find your sister.” Jacob ushered Blitscreet out of the bank. “Besides I have one more account that the card I had is still at our old house, if it’s still there. And there is a heck of a lot more than fifty million in that account.

Blitscreet lead his father to Jolteia’s house all the while mumbling fifty million.

“Nice house, not too fond of having an open window like that for the person living over there to have a perfect view of your sister.”
“It’s ok, that’s where Sonic lives.”
“She bought it knowing Sonic lives there?”
“No, she bought it before realizing Sonic lives there. Now where is that key?” After a few moments of rummaging through his pockets he found the key. “The only thing I don’t like about this coat, can never find anything in these pockets.”
“True but being indestructible makes up for that.”
“Yeah I’ve been meaning to ask you, how did you make it indestructible?”
“Secret, and no I’m never going to tell you.”

Blitscreet sighed before letting them into Jolteia’s house. A quick call determined that no one else was home.

“Bathroom is down the hall. I can honestly say you need a shower.” Blitscreet said hanging his coat and taking Jacobs.
“Yeah didn’t really get many showers in there.”
“How often did you get cleaned?”
“Maybe once or twice in a year.”
Go go go, don’t come out till your clean and I can’t smell you.” Blitscreet pushed Jacob into the bathroom.
“Sheesh, you don’t even remember the last time you seen me and this is how you treat your old man.”
“Yes.” Blitscreet shut the door. “Trust me, Jolteia would be much worse.”
“Fine.”

After about an hour, Jacob finally smelled clean enough to be let out of the bathroom. Blitscreet sent him back in a few times after disapproving of the smell.

“There now I can say you’re my father, without having to worry about people asking me if he ever bathes.”
“You better start treating your old man with some respect, or else I’m going to have to teach you some.”
“Hah, now that’s funny.”

Jacob smiled before to quick punches to Blitscreet’s back as well as two to behind the knees. Blitscreet collapsed to the floor unable to move.

“Can’t say I didn’t warn you. And remember, just because you have those fancy powers doesn’t mean you’re invincible. If you let your guard down for one second you’re as good as dead.” He started walking away.
“Ok, you win this round.” Blitscreet swiped Jacob’s feet out from under him. “But remember to make sure you know all your opponents’ abilities before you try and take them down.”

Blitscreet helped Jacob up to his feet. “My powers let me by pass my nervous system if any part of it becomes blocked. But can you fix what you did to me, I don’t like using my powers all the time.”
“Sure thing son, now hold still.” Jacob made one quick jab to the base of Blitscreet’s neck before recoiling from the shock.
“And that would be why I don’t like using my powers to move, when I don’t need to.”
“Yeah guess nerve punches are something I should avoid when dealing with you. I think I will stick to basic parenting tactics.”
“Like what.”

Jacob hit Blitscreet with a quick spurt of water from the tap causing a couple sparks to shoot off.

“Well looks like I found your weakness.” Jacob laughed as he hit Blitscreet with a couple more.
“Unfortunately for you I figured out a way to fix that problem.” Blitscreet lifted up hit metal arm showing the glow of the emerald to Jacob.
“A chaos emerald, pretty smart of your sister to put that in your arm.”
“Yeah, thanks to the G.U.N experiments I can also use Chaos Control.”
“Why didn’t you just warp in grab me and warp out then.”
“That would ruin all the fun.”
“You didn’t think of it did you?”
“No.” Blitscreet admitted embarrassed. “Besides I think that Braxtonn may also be retiring after that one.”
“Why would you think that?”
“Just the fact that he has messed up so much recently and I’m sure G.U.N high command will make him step down.”
“True. Anyways I have a few more things I need to clear up, feel like coming along or you going to stay here and wait for your sister?”
“Well seeing as I am not really in the mood to talk to her since this morning I think I will come with. Besides I’m sure she has probably seen the news by now and is probably ticked at me, since that is the second one of their buildings I destroyed.”
“Yeah, I would be pretty ticked at you too, if I wasn’t the reason you blew it up.”
“So what needs clearing up anyways?” Blitscreet locked the door behind them.
“Just have to take care of a few things.”
“What things do you need to take care of?”
“Just need to tie up a few loose ends.”
“You’re doing that on purpose aren’t you?”
“You will find out when we get there.”
“I know you are trying to be the parent here but I’m old enough that you don’t need to hide anything from me.”
“Trust me Blitscreet, there are a lot of things I need to keep hidden from you and Jolteia.”

Blitscreet decided to leave it at that. They walked back through town eventually finding the place Jacob was looking for.

“Here we are, Magnum Blacksmithing. I wonder if he’s in.” Jacob smoke opening the door.
“Yeah, I wouldn’t mind meeting this master blacksmith.” Blitscreet replied.

Jacob tapped on a large bell in front and a booming voice came from the closed door.

“Be with you in just a sec.”
“No problem, I’ve waited over nineteen years to see you my friend I can wait a few more minutes.”

The sound of something dropping was heard followed by a large grunt of pain. Within moments the door burst open followed by the large smith.

“My god, it is you Jacob, I thought you were dead.” He wrapped Jacob in a bear hug. “Where’ve you been?”
“First, stop crushing me.” Jacob was released then punched Burner in the arm. “You know I hate it when you do that.”
“Well sorry for showing some joy for seeing my oldest friend for the first time in a long time. So anyways where did you go?”
“Long story short, I got caught, was killed, and spent the last eighteen years in the G.U.N main headquarters.”
“Wait you were killed?” Burner sounded shocked.
“Well according to military and government files. I’m sure you are well familiar with Braxtonn.”
“Yeah, I remember now, he wasn’t too happy when you decided to quit on us.”
“Yeah, all because of him, my life is the way it is now. Because of him Alexa is dead…” A tear rolled down his cheek.
“I’m sorry. She was good to you.”
“She was good to everyone.” Jacob changed the subject. “Well from what I know you have already met my daughter Jolteia.”
“Yeah, seems I’m indebted to you and her now. Well even more so her, she saved my daughter as well.”
“Oh, I didn’t know you had a daughter, damn I missed a lot.”
“Not really, I was going to tell you, but I couldn’t get a hold of you, it seemed like you disappeared of the face of the planet.”
“No old friend just hidden from sight. So how old is she?”
“She will be eighteen this week. She looks just like her mother.”
“And how is Carmen?”
“Dead, she died giving birth to Krystelle.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Don’t be, she died peacefully, and I have Krystelle to remind me of her every day.”
“Well I wouldn’t mind meeting her.”
“And I would introduce you except the fact that she isn’t feeling well. She got too close to the furnace and it made her sick. Ironically unlike me she can’t stand the heat.”
“Well anyways, this is my son Blitscreet.” He pointed towards Blitscreet who had gotten preoccupied messing around with a shield while wielding his sword.
“I can tell you like that blade.” Burner spoke directing his voice towards Blitscreet.
“Yeah, sliced right through a fence, a foot of solid concrete and a generator and still holds its edge.”
“And it always will. So where is your sister?”
“No clue, probably still at Arius’ house.”
“And who is Arius?” Jacob asked.
“My girlfriend.” Blitscreet caught the look in Jacob’s eye. “Oh no, you are not meeting her.”
“And why not?” Jacob smiled devilishly.
“You know exactly why, besides you couldn’t find where she lives if you wanted to.”

Jacob and Burner burst out laughing. They kept at it for about five minutes before Burner wiped a tear form his cheek.

“You really don’t know much about him do you?” Burner laughed.
“I can find a needle in a mountain of needles. In fact judging by what I know so far, she probably lives on the beach not far from Jolteia’s house.”
“You know, I already dislike you.”

Burner and Jacob kept laughing as Blitscreet stormed off in the direction of Arius’ house. He was about halfway there when he caught Tail peering into the window of a lingerie shop.

Blitscreet snuck up behind him and in his creepiest voice he spoke. “What are you doing?”
“AAAHHH!” Tails yelled startled. “Don’t sneak up on people.”
“Hey consider it payback for this morning.” Blitscreet laughed. “So what are you doing peering into a lingerie store?”
“I was…looking for someone.” Tails hesitantly spoke.
“Tails, I know when someone is lying to me.”
“Ok, I was looking to buy something, is that illegal?” Tails blurted somewhat embarrassed.
“Ok, ok, calm down, I just wanted an answer. And what is so embarrassing about buying a girl you like some lingerie?”
“It’s not for someone else…” Tails lowered his head.
“Oh, sorry about bugging you. I won’t judge, who am I to criticize the person who has helped me and my sister countless times.” Blitscreet said patting Tails on the back. “Besides I promise I won’t tell anyone with anything.”
“Thank you.”
“So what were you looking at anyways?”
“Why do you want to know?” Tails was surprised.
“Just wondering if you have good taste, besides I owe Arius a new pair of panties. Kinda tore the other pair with my teeth getting them off.”
“Ok, too much information.”
“Why, I had to get them off somehow and she had me tied up.” Blitscreet spoke reminiscing about the previous night.
“What part of too much info did you not get? I don’t need to know about your sex life.”
“Well you better know something, since I know you want to nail my sister.”
“What the hell, since when did I say that?
“You didn’t say anything, I’ve just been watching how to act towards Jolteia.”
“For your information, that isn’t even close to why I act differently towards Jolteia.”
“So then why do you act differently towards her then.”
“I can’t tell you…” Tails lowered his ears again.
“Ok, if it’s that big of a secret you don’t have to tell me, but remember I owe you more than you think. You can trust me with anything. I would never do anything to betray your trust.”
“Thanks but just for now keep this conversation between us ok.”
“Sure. So what were you looking at in the window?”

Tails sweat-dropped as Blitscreet laughed before reluctantly pointing at the pair he was looking at.

“Not bad, low-cut, black lace. I think I might get Arius that pair. I wonder if there is a bra to go with that.”
“How I would look in that.” Tails thought aloud.
“I don’t know and nor am I going to think about that.”
“Sorry.” Tails blushed.

Dammit, now I have the thought in my head, Blitscreet swore, stupid curiosity. He glanced over at Tails, surprisingly something caught his attention. Tails isn’t shaped like a guy, his build is too wrong, I must be imagining things I’m imagining Tails to be a girl.  

“That would be embarrassing, if I said that out loud.”
“What would?” Tails asked
“Umm, nothing, never mind.” Blitscreet  said.
“Hey I told you why I was looking in the store.”
“Fine but you going to think I’m weird”
“Please I’m shopping for lingerie for myself. What can be weirder than that?”
“Well when I turned to look at you, I thought for a second my eyes were playing a trick on me.”
“How so?” Tails was getting both curious and nervous at the same time.
“When I looked at you it looked like I was looking at a girl’s body.”
“Yeah…that’s pretty weird.” Tails laughed nervously.

Blitscreet noticed Tails nervous laughter and something clicked.

“Wait, Tails, are you?” Blitscreet asked.

Tails response was to turn and run off as the tears started.

“Tails wait, I’m sorry!” Blitscreet called out after. “Fuck, I had to go and open my mouth.”

He went into the lingerie store before starting to walk in the direction Tails had headed. Of all the things to do, I had to go and fucking guess Tails biggest secret, then ask him it. Why did I have to let my curiosity get the better of me? I better go try and fix this. I don’t like the fact that I made Tails cry, especially now that I know he is a she.

Blitscreet ended up at Tails house. All the windows were shut and covered as well as the doors were locked.

“Tails, it’s me please let me in.” Blitscreet spoke loudly enough for Tails to hear.

The response that he got was the windows being slammed shut by metal barriers as well as all the doors and other entrances.

“Tails, I’m sorry now let me in please.” There was no response. “I intend to come in regardless, and you know I can get in anyways, please let me in. I don’t want to cut a hole in your house.”

The metal barricades retracted and the sound of the door unlocking was heard. Blitscreet walked inside and headed to Tails room. She was in a corner in her room, tears rolling down her cheeks, with her knees to her face.

“I’m sorry Tails, I didn’t mean to, I just let my curiosity get the better of me. Please stop crying.”

Tails didn’t say anything. Blitscreet walked over and sat down beside her then wrapped his arm around her shoulder.

“I’m sorry,  when I seen you looking into the store I should have minded my own business and kept walking.” He pulled her into a hug stroking her back.

Tails response was to bury her face into his chest and continue sobbing. After a few minutes she calmed down long enough to speak.

“It’s not your fault. I was scared when you found out and so I ran, I just don’t know what I’m going to do, I wanted to pretend to be a boy forever, but I knew that eventually I was going to have to tell everyone, I just didn’t want to. I’m afraid of what everyone will think when I tell them.”
“They are your friends, they should still be there even if you are a girl, that doesn’t change who you are on the inside.”
“It’s just I’ve acted like a guy my whole life. It was easier for me because I wasn’t picked on for being a tech-head if I was a guy.”
“Tails, don’t worry about it. You don’t have to tell anyone right away, and I promise I will keep your secret for as long as you want me to.”
“Thank you.” Tails pulled herself close to Blitscreet still sobbing quietly.

Tails stayed there as Blitscreet stroked her back calming her down. Eventually Tails pulled herself away wiping her eyes.

“Thank you. It’s a little weird since I’m so used to being a guy.” Tails laughed slightly.
“You’re welcome, and it didn’t feel weird for me  because I somehow knew you were a girl but only now realizing it.” Blitscreet said standing up.

His chest was wet from her tears but he didn’t care. He simply gave Tails another hug before standing up. He went into tails living room before coming back with a bag.

“I made a quick purchase in the lingerie store before coming here, hope you don’t mind.” He said passing Tails the bag. “It makes a lot more sense for you wanting this now.”

Tails pulled out the lingerie, the only difference between this pair and the one in the store was that this pair wasn’t black.

“Cyan is more your color.” Blitscreet said as Tails felt the material between her fingers.
“Thank you.”
“I better go, will you be alright?”
“I should be good, I just need some time to think.”

Blitscreet left Tails to herself closing her bedroom door behind her. Tails was still looking at the lingerie when she noticed the size of the bra and panties. How did he know my size, she thought as she thumbed the tag.

Blitscreet decided to take a quick walk through the mystic ruins. As he did he noticed a girl echidna lying in the grass smelling a flower. He tried to avoid being noticed but to no avail.

“Hello.” Tikal said as she sat up.
“Hi.” Blitscreet kept walking.
“You know its common courtesy to make eye contact with someone when you greet them.”
“Sorry, I just have a lot on my mind right now.”
“Care to talk about it.”
“No, I prefer to keep my problems to myself, for everyone’s good.”
“Your problems can’t be that bad.”
“Trust me when I say this, it’s better for everyone if I solve my own problems.”
“Ok, then. By the way my name is Tikal.”
“I’m Blitscreet, now not to be rude but I need to be going.”
“Ok, if you ever need to talk I will be right here.”
“Thanks.” Blitscreet was about to continue but something wasn’t letting him leave. “There is something else here.”

Blitscreet altered his stance before relaxing to listen. Tikal sat on a rock with a curious look on her face.

“Of course there is something else here, Chaos, and might I suggest you tone down the hostility, he doesn’t like it when people with hostile intent come near the master emerald.”
“Well to be honest I don’t like to be watched, and I have no intent of touching the master emerald, besides how would I move it. Knuckles would surely be pretty pissed if I tried to take it.”
“Oh you know Knuckles?” Tikal asked.
“Yeah he is an acquaintance. If it wasn’t for him and Sonic, Shadow and I would have torn each other apart.”
“I see, well if you wouldn’t mind calming down, Chaos won’t hurt you.”
“Hah, like to see him try.”
“Chaos cannot be beaten or destroyed.”
“Everything has a weakness, therefore everything can be beaten.”
“And what’s your weakness?”
“I see no reason not to tell you because I have found a way to solve my little problem.” Blitscreet lowered his center of gravity then extended the blade on his arm. “Water, I know that’s ironic, a cat who is beaten by water.”
“And how do you overcome this fear?”
“It’s not a fear, it actually hurts me, leaves me powerless.”
“Well then I guess Chaos will be more difficult to beat then”

Just as Blitscreet was about to ask why, an eruption of water sprang up beneath him. He had barely enough time to dodge it before getting struck midair.

“Of course he is made of water, just my luck.” Blitscreet groaned pulling himself up.
“Well not really water, just a liquefied form of chaos energy.” Tikal explained.
“Well then let’s have some fun shall we.”

Chaos leapt forward and swung his arm only to have Blitscreet slash it mid swing. Chaos liquefied before Blitscreet could make another slash. He was then struck in the back by chaos before being pinned down.

“Bad move.” Blitscreet began sparking.

Chaos threw him before he could be electrocuted and changed his strategy. He began throwing rocks and boulders at Blitscreet only to have them blown apart by Blitscreet’s punches from his metal arm. They continued until the damage they were causing to the ruins was becoming noticeable. Blitscreet stopped and retracted his blade. This caused Chaos to calm down as well.

“If causing damage to this historic place is not necessary or unavoidable I will not be part of it.” Blitscreet began walking again until Tikal grabbed his arm.
“You don’t have to go to prevent violence, Chaos trusts you because I trust you now. So come and tell me what is bothering you.” She said pulling him up to the shrine where the master emerald rested.
“A lot of things have been bothering me, I just don’t know if what I have been doing has been right. I have been doing so much wrong against G.U.N out of spite towards what the current commander did to my father and look what that has gotten me.” He lifted up his right arm watching as the sun glinted off its still polished surface.
“Surely good things have come from it.”
“Well I was reunited with my twin sister, as well as I made some new friends who surprisingly are helping keep G.U.N off my back. But I know it won’t last forever. I have a feeling in my gut that what I have been doing is leading me to some horrible consequences in the near future.”
“Well to be honest, I think the chaos emerald in your arm is having a part in that. It seems as if it is resonating with your body gradually linking itself to your genetic structure, so eventually you will be able to use certain abilities like chaos control.”
“Well to be honest I can already do that. I got my powers due to some unwilling G.U.N experimentation involving a chaos emerald. In my escape from there I ended up with these powers. I sometimes regret my past actions which lead to my imprisonment there but in the end it was worth it, for the most part.”
“Well as I see it you have two choices. One, confront your problems and try to solve them. Or two, run away from them leaving everything behind.”
“Not really much choice since running away would cause my sister more pain and a few others as well. I have never run away from my problems, I have always preferred to take them head on and get rid of them.”
“And how will you do that in this situation?” Tikal was goring ever more curious listening to Blitscreet.
“I guess dealing with them when they become unavoidable. Trying to nip some things in the bud right now would only be disastrous. I just realized my life has so much more than I thought it did. Abandoning it all now would seem like a cowards act.” Blitscreet stood up. “But I have to go now; there are some matters I have to attend to.”
“And I don’t suppose you will tell me what these things are?”
“Well the main one is catching my sister before she thinks my dad is an intruder into her home and ties to kill him.”
“Well that certainly seems like fun.” Tikal stands up brushing herself off. “I guess I will see you around Blitscreet.”
“I guess you will.”

Blitscreet took a few steps to get started running before speeding off leaving the sound of sparks in his wake. Tikal just sat in amazement, thinking about what Blitscreet had said. Maybe this has something to do with Tails running by earlier and crying.

Blitscreet got to Jolteia’s house just as she was about to climb in through the top floor window. He yanked her down by her leg catching her by surprise.

“What the hell are you doing?!” She yelled at him quietly.
“You don’t have to yell, the person in your house is no threat.
“And how would you know that?”
“Because if he was I wouldn’t have let him in and made him bathe until he smelled decent enough to present to you.”
“Ok, you’re confusing the hell out of me.”
“Just come inside like a normal person.” He opened the door pulling her in.

When they came inside Jacob turned around from the kitchen and almost immediately Jolteia fell to her knees. She could feel it in her gut who this man was. His striking resemblance to Blitscreet as well as white tipped tail and faded lightning bolts under both of his eyes. Tears rolled down her cheeks as she got up and ran over to him grasping him tightly sobbing into his jacket. He hugged her tightly before throwing Blitscreet a snide comment.

“See this is the greeting I was expecting, not being told I stank and forcing me to get in the shower till I was acceptable to be your father.”
“Trust me, if you didn’t get a shower she wouldn’t have come within arm’s reach.” Blitscreet shrugged.

Jolteia pulled herself away before composing herself. “To be honest you still stink so you can go finish washing up.”
“Are you kidding me…” Jacob slowly walked back to the bathroom dragging his feet. “You think being their father, they would at least treat me with more respect.”

Blitscreet laughed before heading back towards the door. “I better go see Arius before she starts to worry if I did something reckless, and get her back for this morning.”

Jolteia waited until Blitscreet left before falling to the couch her knees still shaking. She cried until she heard the water turn off. She kept her gaze downwards in thought as Jacob came back out and sat down beside her.

“It doesn’t take a genius to know something’s troubling you.” He said wrapping an arm around her.
“It’s just, unlike Blitscreet I was adopted, I had a family, and I thought I was never going to see him again. But after that night everything changed, I got him back and now I even have you, my real dad.” She leaned in close to him hugging him tightly again.

“Jolteia, never forget your adopted family, they raised you, and you turned out to be a remarkable woman, that any man would be lucky to have. I know you’re confused but know that I am not a great man, I have done my fair share of horrible acts that I regret.”
“I don’t really care, all I really wanted to know was where I came from and who I really am.”
“ It’s a long story, where should I start.”
“The beginning, I want to know everything.” She replied calmly.
