Chapter Text
Near the mountains, as the sun was at its hottest, looking down at the earth with enthusiasm, stood a medium sized house. It had two stories and looked quite nice from the outside, the tiles of the roof were a very dark grey, almost black; the house itself was a dark purple and was made from a beautiful oak. It has a fenced porch at the front of it with chairs, a small table, plants and some hanging star lights. Inside was a plethora of different rooms, all with their own charm, from each room being a different colour, to having their own little trinkets and knick knacks and even the floors having their own pop of colour. Not to mention that books could be seen in almost every room, either alone, on counters or tucked away in shelves with many others. Polaroid photos are a constant in this house as well, either framed in many rooms or in photo albums.
It’s quite an interesting house, though it only has two residents, a chao and a mobian opossum named Nyx, who is currently in her bedroom, wearing jean shorts and a white tank top with a skull on it, sewing up one of Amy’s dresses that got ripped from fighting Eggman. Since Amy is busy going on her own adventures, Nyx basically took it upon herself to sew up the dress. Especially since despite her part time job and duties, she still has free time. So for an hour, she sits on her bed, hyperfocusing on finishing the dress as she listens to calming music. Once she’s actually finished, she turns off the music, gets up and slowly walks over to another room, one that is painted grey, with boxes stacked in the corner and a mannequin standing near the window. Nyx puts Amy’s signature red dress on it and admires her stitching, and from what she can see, she did a pretty good job!
As she’s looking at her work, she hears a faint cry coming from the downstairs backyard. She goes down to see what the fuss is about, but she has a strong feeling she already knows what it is. She gets to the back door and behind it, is her chao friend! They are black and purple, with blue eyes and devil-like wings and tail. Their feet and hands are a purple and pink sort of ombre along with having a crescent-like shape on their chest.
They immediately fly over to Nyx and snuggle into her chest fluff. Nyx chuckles as she says, “Jeez Neoma… You weren’t out there for THAT long. Don’t ya think you’re being a bit too clingy?” The chao, Neoma, seems to pout at Nyx’s words and grumbles incoherently as they just pout and cross their arms.
She smiles slightly as she holds them while closing the door, locking it whilst she walks up the stairs.
The moment she fully gets up the stairs she says in an affectionate way, chuckling as she does so, “You are such a stupid little thing.” Then she lightly flicks their forehead.
Neoma isn’t happy at Nyx’s gesture and her words, despite the affectionate tone, they grumble more as they headbutt her chest. Nyx doesn’t react to this as Neoma does this often when she says something that they don't like. It’s not like it hurts anyway.
Nyx gets to her room and puts Neoma down onto the bed and states, “Okay, you do whatever, I’m going to make food for myself.” Neoma looks at her and begins to talk, they point to her guitar and gesture for her to play it. She says, “No, I’m not going to play the guitar just so you can fall asleep quicker. You can make do without it.”
Just as she turns around to leave, she hears Neoma whine and whimper as what Nyx feels like is emotional manipulation: the chao version. She says, “No.” again but Neoma is about as desperate as a kid in a toy store with a tired mother, so after about a minute of this, she shouts, “Okay fine!” She groans as she angrily grabs her guitar and plops down on the end of the bed.
She tunes the guitar for a few seconds before she plays a slow, gentle tune for her chao friend and they LOVE it. After only 5 minutes they are fast asleep. Nyx sighs, relieved that Neoma is finally asleep, she puts a blanket on top of them, makes sure they are comfortable before quietly putting the guitar down and leaving to make food downstairs. As she’s going to the kitchen, she thinks of what to eat. Though she’s not exactly enthusiastic about eating, since her cooking isn’t really good.
The moment she gets into the kitchen, she immediately remembers that Francisca, who is her sister’s girlfriend, made some spaghetti and meatballs recently and gave Nyx some leftovers. So she checks the fridge to find that there are indeed, spaghetti and meatballs in a container inside said fridge. She grabs the container and gets a plate from the cabinet as well as a fork. She puts the spaghetti onto a plate and puts it in the microwave for about two minutes.
Nyx stands there, near the microwave with her arms crossed and her tail rhythmically thumping on the ground over and over again as she waits. Just as she’s zoning out, she hears that familiar loud ding coming from the microwave. She opens it, grabs the plate and her fork and closes it before going to the lounge.
She sits down on her comfy couch and begins to watch a movie as she eats her food, taking her sweet ass time. Especially since she has literally nowhere to be at this moment. She even has a nice blanket wrapped around her too. Once she finishes the movie, she lays on the couch, close to falling asleep. Though through her half lidded eyes, she sees the dirty plate and fork on the coffee table and she groans. She has to put them in the sink, at the very least.
And so she does. Nyx, very slowly, gets up, saunters over to the kitchen and puts the dishes away. Though just as she’s about to go to her bed so she can join Neoma in a nice nap, she notices the sheer amount of dishes in the sink… It’s a lot, like one step away from overflowing kind of a lot. So she swallows her laziness for now and sets everything up to wash the dishes.
Once everything is in place, she begins to wash the dishes with her dish gloves on, silently humming to herself as she does so. In a weird way, she finds washing the dishes to be an almost… peaceful activity. The warm water, the many bubbles from the soap, the dishes getting clean again and the sun coming in from the little window above the sink. It all came together to create a peaceful moment for someone like Nyx, a person who is almost always so busy with errands and duties.
For now, she can just… be, without any sort of emergency happening. She sighs as if a weight was lifted off her shoulders, even if it is only for a small period of time. After about 30 minutes go by, she gets done with the dishes, she puts them all out to air dry as she takes off her dish gloves. She washes her hands too since they smell kinda weird from the gloves. As she’s doing this, she hears some noise upstairs.
“Oh nice, Neoma is awake from their nap.” Nyx thought as she dried her hands off.
She walks out from the kitchen and goes upstairs again to her bedroom. Neoma is slowly looking around the room as they stretch a bit. Nyx smiles as she flicks their forehead, she said playfully, “Hello silly, you slept well huh?” Neoma yelps from the flick and puts their little arms up to their head where she flicked them. They don’t respond to Nyx’s question though it’s obvious that they did indeed have a good nap.
Nyx lays on the bed, arms spread out as she tries to figure out what to do next. As she’s thinking, Neoma sits on her stomach, staring her down. She stares back as she attempts to try and figure out what to do, but after a few seconds of staring, it’s like a lightbulb lights up in her head. She blinks and declares, “I have an idea! Let’s go for a walk in the woods!”
Neoma gets excited at this idea and flies around Nyx as their way of saying, “Yes! I want to go!!” So the two get ready to go out and once they are almost done, Nyx gets a call from Tails. “Why is he calling me now?” She wonders as she answers it.
Tails states, “Nyx! There’s commotion happening in Central City right now! Whisper is fighting this green tenrec named Surge! She has electricity powers and is wearing a machine that’s boosting her powers and it’s making her hard to take down. Normally Sonic would be dealing with her but he’s injured! We would love some help, please!”
After a few seconds, once she has taken in this information, she responds, “No problem. I’ll be there.”
From the other side of the phone, Tails sighs of relief and says, “Thank you, Nyx! I appreciate it.”
He hangs up. Now Nyx turns to Neoma and quickly briefs, “Okay Neoma, Tails, Sonic and Whisper need our help with a new threat, some girl named Surge. Has electricity powers, wanna come with?”
Neoma spins in a circle and cheers, which is their way of saying they want to go with. Nyx smiles and nods before quickly changing into her fighting outfit, which consisted of: A hooded caplet, gloves with blades along the sides with arm warmers on top that reach her elbows (the blade still showing of course), a black sleeveless turtleneck with a crop top over it, a belt, pants and finally, combat boots. The entire ensemble is dark red and green along with black and white.
This opossum is also bringing along her multi-use weapon, which is two sickles chained together and infused with Nyx’s own shadow powers. Neoma gets ready by just hyping themselves up.
Nyx begins to map out the location of how to get to Central City in her mind as Neoma puts themself on Nyx’s shoulder. After a mere second, they teleport there. After they both get their bearings, Nyx realizes that they are on a random block of this city, they need higher ground.
Neoma signals Nyx and points to a high building, she quickly says to them, “Nice one.” before climbing up to the roof. On top of said roof, Nyx can see some commotion happening a few blocks down, Whisper is fighting this Surge character and failing. “Oh this is gonna be interesting…” Nyx thinks as she makes a run for it and begins to jump from building to building as Neoma follows behind.
As she gets closer, she sees Surge hit Tails and Sonic, which pisses her off . She speeds up and after only 30 seconds, Nyx finally makes it there and goes over to help up Sonic and Tails. Then she yells to get Surge’s attention, “Hey Greenie!”
Surge quickly turns, looks at Nyx before yelling back, “Who the hell are you!? One of Sonic’s little friends or something? And what’s with the pet?” Neoma is NOT pleased with being referred to as “the pet” they immediately want to fight, but Nyx stops them and looks at them as she mumbles, “Don’t. I’ve got it. Go check on Whisper.”
Neoma sighs but nods and does what they are told. Nyx herself on the other hand, quickly teleports behind Surge just before she was going to say something and damages a few wires on her machine as she says, “I guess you could say Sonic and I are friends. Oh, and the name’s Nyx, by the way.”
Surge shocks Nyx off of her which sends Nyx flying a few meters. She states, “Nice to meet ya Nyxie, I’m Surge, your worst nightmare.” Nyx doesn’t reply as she gets up and recovers from the shock. She merely grins as she ties up Surge using the chains of her weapon, and not only that, but as she grips the weapon tighter, small spikes form along the small chains and pierce Surge’s body, this causes her to shout in pain. Then with a flick of a wrist, she whips the weapon around and it sends Surge flying into a nearby building.
The machine got many scratches, but Surge herself took the most damage from that attack, now with many bruises and bloody cuts on her torso and arms, she is definitely the one who’s looking worse for wear right now. So, to counteract this, Surge shouts, “Take this, you pathetic ass!” as she quickly speeds over to her and punches Nyx in the face as hard as she physically can. The punch makes her go back a few meters and fall to the ground.
Said punch was bad enough to almost break Nyx’s nose. After the punch, she started seeing stars, her head ringing as her nose bled all over her shirt. A few seconds pass by and she eventually comes to, she finds Whisper and Neoma in front of her. She looks at the two of them as she holds her head, she mumbles, “What are you guys doing? I’m meant to be fighting her.”
Whisper looks at her before she mutters, “I’m helping you, I appreciate you fighting her for me as I recovered, but now I need to return the favour.” Neoma goes up to her and holds her head as they make sad noises, they’re worried… Nyx notices, grabs Neoma and hugs them as she says, “Hey, hey, I’m fine dude.”
The opossum looks around while she slowly gets up, she realizes that Sonic is waving at her as if he’s signaling her to come over to him, while Tails is nowhere to be seen. So she lets go of Neoma and runs over, only once does she glance over her back to look at Whisper and Surge fighting… Nyx gets over to him and asks, “What do you want? Whisper and I are kinda busy with a certain tenrec right now…”
Sonic says, “Yeah I know, but Tails has a plan, and he says you guys need to lead Surge to this shop.” He gestures to a nearby tool shop.
Nyx nods while replying, “Alright, I’ll try and lead her there, though I could use your help since she very obviously wants you dead.”
The blue blur himself chuckles as he bragged, rubbing under his nose with his thumb, “I guess I’m just that special huh?”
Nyx groans before mumbling, facepalming herself in the process, “Special is an… interesting way of putting it.” As she’s cringing at Sonic being himself, she gains an idea. She quickly removes her hand from her face and puts it on Sonic’s shoulder.
“I have an idea.” Before Sonic can ask anything about said idea, Nyx quickly sweeps Sonic off of his feet and carries him bridal style. She knows that despite his leg injury that he can still be very fast, but for our weird opossum girl, this is just easier. The blue hedgehog just kinda lets this happen. As long as Nyx has a plan, he’s willing to entertain it, even if he doesn’t know what it is. He trusts her.
She runs over to the two fighting girls as she shouts, “Hey Surge! I got the guy you hate so much! Come and get him!” Surge immediately stops fighting Whisper and looks over at the two. While she runs over there, she shouts back, “Well just stay still and this will be over quick!” Nyx runs away as she yells to her again, “Nah, this is more fun!”
They get into the store and the light is still on, not to mention that it’s stocked with many things: nuts, bolts, saws, tools and the like. Nyx was looking around a lot as she could feel Surge lurking somewhere. Her vigilance is high as she walks more into the store. After a few seconds, she feels Surge coming up behind her so she puts Sonic down, and just barely manages to catch Surge’s fist in her hand. Through non-verbal cues, she tells Sonic to go to Tails and that she’ll handle Surge.
A quick gust of wind from Sonic’s dash is felt from the two of them as he runs off. Now just like before, it’s the two of them alone. Surge demanded, “Let me fight him dammit! Stop letting him get away!”
Nyx smiles as she shakes her head. In a second, she lets go of Surge’s hand and is about to punch her in the face, she then notices Whisper and Neoma quietly sneaking behind Surge. As Nyx is slightly distracted, Surge just zips past her, trying to get to Sonic. There’s silence for a moment, as Nyx walks out of the aisle she was in and looks at Whisper.
The two stare at each other before realizing what they need to do. So they nod at each other before running to the back of the store to help Sonic and Tails. With Neoma, who isn’t sure of what’s happening. They get there and hear Tails say, “Sorry in advance, cause’ this is gonna hurt!” As they all get down there, they see Surge hooked up to many, many appliances. It seems to be draining her power! She screams as this happens.
Tails states, “It’s working! Powering everything in here will drain her power in no time!” Surge fumed, “You can’t… stop me… I’ll show you power!” She makes the situation worse as she puts more of her power into the machine. As she does this, it begins to make horrible noises, as if it’s going to blow at any moment.
Tails is the first to notice, so he yells, “Uh oh! It’s gonna blow!” Everyone gets down as the appliances around them explode. Once it all settles down, they all get up, wiping away the smoke as they see Surge on the ground, unconscious, with the machine somehow still not fully broken. Sonic immediately attempts to get closer to Surge in hopes to get that wretched machine off of her, but he steps weirdly and it causes him to hurt his ankle. He falls to the floor, then holds his ankle as he curses, “Augh, dang it!”
Miles ran past Sonic as he declared, “I’ve got it!” He gets closer to Surge, but he stops as he sees a blue fennec fox standing at the top of the stairs. He runs down as he mutters, sounding worried, “Wh- what…”
Sonic begins to stand up as he quickly says to this fennec fox, “Kit, please get that ring machine thing off her!”
The new fox, known as Kit, gets closer to Surge, tears pricking his eyes as he seems to look very shaken up due to seeing her in such a beaten up state. Sonic insisted, “We can’t stop her, and when she wakes up, who knows what will happen…”
The room is silent for a moment, Nyx looks around, feeling confused at everything that’s taking place. “Who even is this kid? I’m guessing he knows Surge, he seems to care about her a lot… Sonic better tell me what he knows after this.” She even looks at Whisper, who only responds with a mere shrug whilst Neoma is perching on her shoulder.
However, the silence is broken as she hears Kit mumble angrily, holding Surge in his arms, “You said she was gone.”
Sonic replies carefully, “I… thought she was. I swear I saw her fall.”
Kit grumbles, “She’s hurt… bad.”
The blue blur tries to clarify, “She’s hurting herself, trying to-”
Kit let go of Surge, he made himself float in the air using the water from his backpack, even striking Sonic with water, causing him to get pushed back, he lashed out, “No! It’s your fault! You lied to me! You just wanted to finish what you started because you couldn’t even succeed the first time!”
Just before Kit was about to shout at our fox and hedgehog duo, he noticed something in his peripheral vision, he saw Whisper, Neoma and… Nyx, who looks considerably more beaten up than anyone else here. The cogs turn in his brain and he realizes something that makes his blood boil. He looks over at Nyx, his eyes a dull pink as he seethes, “You didn’t fight Surge much, did you Sonic? No… it was HER.” He floats over to Nyx and points at her.
He begins to ask her questions as if he was interrogating her, “Who even are you? Did Sonic put you up to this? Why did you hurt her?! How could you do that?!” As Kit does this, Nyx stays quiet, keeping her hands at her sides, as she has her eyes locked onto his. Whisper looks over at Nyx again, not really knowing what to do.
She looks at Nyx’s face and she notices, much like Kit did, that it’s pretty badly scuffed up compared to everyone else. There’s dried blood on her nose, with a beaten up looking face, and a reddish bruise that is slowly forming on her cheek. Not to mention her basically getting whiplash too…
Meanwhile, Kit has lowered himself to be on a similar level to Nyx and he swiftly punches her in the stomach, then he yells again, “How could you?! How could you do this to my friend!?” Nyx falters, leaning over from the punch, but she still doesn’t raise a hand to him, instead she just clutches her stomach where she was punched. Neoma is about to fly over and put themself in the middle of them, but before they even move, Whisper holds them in place.
The lack of hostility coming from Nyx only makes Kit angrier, he shouts, “Why won’t you hit me!?!”
Nyx still doesn’t respond, so he looks between her and Sonic as he raged, “I hate both of you!” He begins to gather water to attack both Nyx and Sonic with, but Whisper stands in front of Nyx with Neoma still on her shoulder. She turns her wispon into an umbrella, which does stop the water, though it pushes both of them back and breaks her wispon even more than it already was.
Meanwhile, Miles gets in front of Sonic and uses his spinning tails to negate the water.
Kit turns his attention back to Miles and scowls, “Why would you bother with me anyway? You already have him…” Then, Surge, who is behind Kit, has (mostly) woken up, she mumbles, “Huh?? What…” Kit notices this and exclaims, “Surge!” He quickly goes over to her and fretted, “Ah, please don’t move! I’ll get you out of here…” He picks her up and looks back to everyone as he says, “I’m done with all of you. Don’t follow us.” Using his water powers, he quickly floats out of there.
Just like that, the room was silent once more… While in said silence, everyone attempted to grapple with what to do next, each of their minds processing it all, like cogs turning in a machine. As usual, Sonic lived up to his catchphrase of “Gotta go fast!” because he was the first one to finish processing everything as well as the first one to speak. He goes over to Whisper, limping slightly as he puts his arm around and practically leaned on her for support. He says, “Sorry about your wisp buddies being taken by Surge, but we’ll get them back from her!”
Whisper turns to Sonic and smiles weakly for a moment, while letting him use her for standing support before looking down at her broken wispon. She murmured, “I know we’ll get them back, but I still hate that they were taken… I should’ve been more careful.”
The blue blur squeezes her shoulder as he reassures, “Hey, hey.. It wasn’t your fault Whisper, it’ll be okay. Try and think positively because we will get them back, trust me.”
A smile forms on Whisper’s face again, but this time, it stays. She mutters, “Thanks, Sonic. I appreciate it.”
Sonic smiles brightly at Whisper as he tries to stand on his own, and he kinda succeeds? He is technically standing on his own, but he’s shaking as he attempts to stay upright. He looks over at Tails, who seems to be talking to Nyx about something, though he can’t fully tell what it is. He goes over there, albeit slowly. The moment he gets close to them, the two notice him and stop talking to look at him.
Tails is the one to speak, he says, “Sonic! I think we need to go back to Belle and make sure she’s okay. We should leave soon.”
The hedgehog begins to put his weight onto Nyx by leaning on her, he chuckled before answering, “You have many good points little bro. I think we should leave too.” Once he finishes his sentence, Nyx sweeps him off his feet and carries his bridal style again, Sonic himself feels slightly embarrassed about being carried this much, but he doesn’t say anything about it. Meanwhile, Tails tells Whisper that they are leaving and she should come with. Whisper, feeling generally terrible and sluggish, just goes along with them as they all ascend from the basement of this tool shop.
They all eventually get to where Belle was, and the place is a mess! There’s debris everywhere and the tinkerer herself is stuck under a big beam, unable to get herself out. Nyx puts Sonic down before she lifts up this massive beam she was under by herself. Belle gets out from under the debris, covers her face as she mumbles, “Sweet sawdust, I’m sorry Sonic…”
Sonic reassures as he’s leaning on the wall, “Eh no worries, it happens.”
Nyx puts the beam down and signs to Sonic, “What is she sorry about?”
He explains, telling her that they thought Surge died after being buried under a big pile of rubble and that they saved Kit, how him and Belle were originally here but Kit came to help Sonic since he felt useless if he couldn’t do anything, and Belle couldn’t stop him.
After the whole explanation, Nyx merely nods as a way of saying that she understands. She then looks around, while she tries to calm down after everything that happened today. She hears Tails and Sonic, talking about what to do next and how to get Whisper’s friends back.
Whisper herself is sitting in the corner, Neoma hugging her face as Belle talks to her. Our opossum thinks about the Surge and Kit, her back leaning against the wall whilst she slowly slides down and sits on the floor. She touches her own face, feeling how beaten up and swollen it is in some places.
Despite the pain and the anger she feels, she smiles a little. In a weird way, she hopes she can see Surge again, just so they can fight once more.
“I hate her, she’s rude and weird. I need to know more about her.” She thinks.