Roleplay:Friend or Foe

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Overview
Lost in the bad part of town, the Mythic Knights awaken at the top of the very old and run-down Hope Hospital. With the hallucinagin of the gas in their system, and traps laid out throughout the hospital, the team is going to need to work their way down to the ground floor without trying to kill each other. And such a trial that will be as secrets are revealed, facts are learned, and monsters among the team are revealed. There is only one question left for each of them to ask. Are they a friend or a foe?

Participants
NeoExlucky

Zapor888

Timesmashaperil

MaverickIDidNotHaveAModemForOverAWeekSigma

Involved Characters
Fey Wayward (Neo)

Leah Dubio (Neo)

Delta Radon (Neo)

Bravo Radon (Neo)

Traps of Radon (Neo)

Hallucinations (Neo)

Bots (Neo)

Zapor the Hedgehog (Z88)

Zak the Kirby (Z88)

Lexi the Hedgehog (Z88)

Wheelman (if i figure a way how to incorperate him into this, Z88)

Uisu~Hyper (TSP)

Saren Arcturias (Saren)

Rules

 * Don't dodge everything in combat, otherwise I'll might have to add a dice system into this somewhere and I don't really want to do that.
 * New rule: With the passage of the swearing rules this is gettting an update here to. Swearing is allowed, but will be moderated. Please do not over use swears. Crap, Damn, and Hell will always be accepted and can pretty much be said whenever. Other words can be said now but again please don't overuse it, I'll warn you if it gets to that point. For the sake of keeping this series PG-13, the F bomb will not be allowed. Furthermore any racial slurs and/or sexual slurs will not be tolerated.
 * Don't kill or take something out with a single move, that's just not cool.
 * Don't kill someone's character without their permission. Not only is that uncool, but I will not stand for it. That being said, no name characters like 'guards' or something, is something I'm okay with you killing.
 * Don't auto hit either, that's still not a cool thing.
 * Do not blatently break the fourth wall, references to things are fine, but doing something like, directly saying your in a roleplay just isn't something you should do.
 * This is not ERP, so no sexual content. Romantic things (Kissing, hugging, etc) are fine, and innuendo is fine, but don't do...you know...
 * I don't like posting orders, so we won't use one. However, if things get too chaotic and I think someone is getting left behind, I will inact a posting order using a randomizer. We're a team, we can't let someone get left behind.
 * "Do try to have fun, dear"

Part 1: Forlorn
The top room of the hospital seemed safe enough. It was rather clean, with lights still working and all the beds placed in a certain order. Everyone lay on top of each bed, with only one window on the side which pointed outside, with a ground that was not only far away, it was unseeable. A Tv hung on a wall close to the roof and opposite of the window was a plain wooden door. The room was very quiet until Fey managed to wake up.

"W-what?" She asked. "Where are-" She quickly took a look around and stood on her feet in a flash. "Everyone wake up." She said. "We have a problem on our hands."

Zapor yawned. "Good morning,..bedroom?" Zapor looked around at the scene. "...Something tells me we didn't have a sleepover"

Zak woke up after. "Ungh...What happened?"'

Uisu's face appeared from the multicolored folds of her robe. "I'm up! Wait, what?"

"I'll say.." Saren grumbled as he tossed an empty bottle on the ground. "I'm out of whiskey.."

Leah groaned as she got out of her bed, looking around the dingy room. "Where are we?"

The TV suddenly turned on showing a girl in black fedora looking over the group. She was a purple furred cat and the resemblance between her and Echo was uncanny. It was clear that this was Echo's sister. "Good evening ladies and gentlemen!" She called out. "Welcome to a very fun game we're playing today. On our list we have an assortment of prizes for you to reap today! My name is Delta Radon and welcome to fight or flight!"

"Where's Echo?" Fey asked.

"Oh, I would worry less about my sister and more about some...other people, namely yourself." Delta laughed. "The game is really simple. You have one hour to escape this hospital, without cheating mind you. We've prevented certain spells and abilities throughout the hospital so if your wondering, it's because of that. After two hours they will be fully working again. Now you may be wondering about the time limit. We don't intend to kill you..." The screen changed to a beat up Neo hanging from chains in a dark room, a large saw was only a couple of feet away from him. "You see, in one hour, that saw is going to cut through your friend and leave quite a mess on the ground. The moment I catch any of you cheating, or I decide that this is no longer fun, I'll pull the cord and let that saw fly, oh the anticipation is killing me!"

Fey was extremely worried upon seeing this. Leah gasped and looked around for her staff which she grabbed off the wall beside her bed.

"Your weapons are fully working, and you will be able to use them against anything you see as an enemy. They won't do any good on the floor or walls however." Delta giggled. "Also we've drugged you all with enough hallucinogens to kill a fully grown horse and/or a Mobian so if you feel a little queasy that's just the acidics burning through you organs. Anywho there are traps all over the building and I'll be coming in every couple of minutes to check on you. Bye bye!" The screen turned off and she disappeared. A clock counting down from an hour appeared in its place.

Saren sighed. "Yeah, I'm calling shenanigans on the saw killing her. She's too valuable to that jerkoff who originally hired me without revealing who their associates were before calling me traitor and trying to off me."

Zapor moaned. "Ugh, now thats three things suck in less than 8 minutes. Grapejuice cat wants to saw Neo,I can't heal, and Echo's still missing." Zapor picked up his guns.

"You are correct Saren we can't kill Echo, that's why we're killing Neo instead." Delta said over the intercom. "And you wonder why our father fired, your clearly not that bright."

"And she can hear everything we're saying." Leah noted. "Great..."

"Ok, lets just get out of this room so we can get Neo, hit Grape Juice, and then save Echo." Zapor said as he walked to the door.

"You know, I would take offense to that but the execution was poor and we all know that if I wasn't that bright I'd have been offered a long time ago." Saren responded, he couldn't help but try to get the last word in.

"Is everyone awake?" Fey asked. "Or seeing anything odd?"

Zak looked at the group. Everyone looked the same, except for a small face, which was shrouded in darkness near a dark corner. He shook the feeling out his head. "...All good."

"I'm alive.. So no complaints here."

(Was trying to wait for the others but I think we should move on for now. -Neo)

"I'm all good here too." Leah noted, although she was unsure of herself.

"Alright," Fey said. "Let's move." She approached the door and slowly pushed it open into a very dark hallway, with broken benches, wilted plants, and several other doors, when attempting to open them most would be locked but there were a few exceptions. Fey stepped out into e dark. "Everything looks okay out here... I think."

Saren yawned, reaching around to see if his scythe was still on him.

Uisu looked around. No hallucinogens affecting her quite yet. "Well, we better get started!"

Fey pulled her sword from it's sheath. "I don't get it. I don't really feel that different, maybe a little groggy but I feel fine and I don't see any traps." She took another look around. "I don't see any stairs though..."

Leah conjured up an orb of fire to light up the area, it was clear though that her fire spells had been tampered with as only a dim light was produced from it. "Maybe their in one of the doorways?"

Zapor tried peeking through one of the windows on the door. "Uh..not in this one.."

"A hallway with no stairs..." Fey thought aloud. "There's always the elevator shaft."

"If there's even one of those around." Leah noted. "It's probably in a room too."

"This is getting booooooo-ring!" Delta's voice echoed through the intercom.

"Well if you didn't hide the stairs from us we would know where to go." Fey called back angrily.

Delta gave a very loud groan in annoyance. "It's in one of the rooms...just like, open one of the doors. I promise there's nothing else in the room except stairs. I didn't place any traps on the first floor."

"Ok, I'm gonna trust you, because something I saw once told me to trust grapes." Zapor said as a comeback. He then opened the door, but then almost lost all color in his fur.

"What is it?" Zak asked him.

"P-p-...pupeets!" Zapor yelled then hid behind Zak, though when Zak looked in the room, there wasn't any puppets.

Saren sighed, looking at zapor and shaking his head before entering the room. "The sooner we find Neo the sooner we can blow this joint back to hell where it came from."

Fey looked into the room. "Okay, drugs are working then..." She noted, then opened the next door which actually had stairs. "Stairs over here." She called, and descended into a new hallway which was filled with very creepy looking statues. They were almost like demonic versions of her friends. She noticed Zero and Apollo looking statues that appeared to be laughing Neo and Echo statues that were screaming and Fate and Celia statues which were crying. There was also what appeared to be a statue on that ground that had been smashed.

"Wow, someone's really into statue making." Lexi said following Fey, with Zak behind her carrying Zapor, who is still frieghtend by the puppets.

"I wonder what the smashed statue was..." Uisu took a closer look at the fragments. She briefly saw an image of a pitch-black echidna in her mind. Shuddering, she waved it aside as an illusion and stood back up.

The fragments were jagged and sharp, but judging from the powder on the ground, it was broken recently. It's also very easy to put the pieces together to get a small piece. It was very strange looking. It looked similar to Kala's heels on her shoes, but it also could have been part of a blade like from a sword or dagger, the rest of the pieces are too broken to tell who exactly it was.

"Oh aren't these just breath-taking?" Delta asked. "Litterally!"

Upon turning back away from the broken statue, the group noticed that the other statues had changed, they had moved closer to the group, all of them with their hands up trying to grab the necks of Knights.

"Statues that move..." Fey noted. "Like the mannequins from when Neo met Echo."

"Yep, the day where everything was set into motion and we all became enemies." Delta giggled. "We took the old idea our Dad did and sort of changed it to fit specific items. Like these statues! 'Course if your other friend was still around her statue would be up to..."

"Who was it?" Leah asked.

"Think about the one who's missing! She's been here this whole time. If only your memories hadn't been altered by Tallis..." Delta sighed.

Saren sighed, taking a swig of whiskey. "Fear toxin.. What's ne-...." Whatever Saren was going to say was cut off by silence.

Saren dropped his whiskey flask, whatever he saw must've horrified him to the core.

"The one who's missing? Not really specific, Grape Juice." Zapor muttered, now with his normal composture

Silence echoed from the room now.

"Oh so now she wants to shut up." Leah noted staring at the statues. "Guys I think we need to move on before anything happens."

Saren nods. "Aye aye."

"Zapor, master of comebacks." Zapor told himself as he moved foward.

"The one who is missing..." Fey whispered as she quickly grabbed the railing of the stairs and descended deeper into the hospital.

The next floor was very different from the rest. It was like a completely different building. In this new floor it was completely barren, nothing between here and the next flight of stairs. However Zapor and Saren might recognize this room as the same floor where they once battled Aero after he had taken several police families hostage.

"Hm. Room seems familiar." Zapor said.

Lexi shrugged at his comment. "At least there isn't any traps in this room." She walked foward.

"Well, I really don't get any of this nostalgia trip, but I'm sure it would be kinda creepy if I did. I wonder what berry smoothie wants with me?" Uisu wondered, walking into the room.

Immediatly upon walking furthur into the room, a portal opened in front of Lexi and out of it stepped Aero.

"Aero!....wait, this doesn't count as cheating right? Grape Juice has Neo in a saw." Zapor asked.

"That would certainly be a problem." Aero noted, a hint of spite dripping from his words. "If we didn't have other problems at this very moment."

"Hey, no fair that's cheating." Delta noted. "You're not allowed to bring friends into the hospital with you!"

"But you didn't say that when you gave us the rules." Fey said. "So we didn't listen."

There was silence on the other end before Delta responded back. "She's not wrong..." She said in an almost whisper. "But I'm a villain so I don't have to play by the rules! Say goodbye to Neo!"

Aero very quickly pulled his sword ready. "We need to hurry." He turned to the elevator.

"Wait a second." Leah said. "No, I'm not buying it."

"The hell are you talking about?" Aero asked.

"You're not real." Leah told him. "You don't have any magic energy."

"He had magic energy to begin with?" Zapor asked.

"I wouldn't know. Berry smoothie, you're not very good at this manipulation stuff." Uisu said to the disembodied voice.

"Every mobian has at least a minute amount of magical energy in them, not always enough to produce magic spells but enough that a wizard skilled in the mana sense could be able to detect them. Aero Facade, you always have a large amount of magic energy in you, so why is it that I can detect none of it?" Leah asked.

"I don't know, maybe Delta made your mana sense weak or something." Aero noted. "Look it doesn't matter, I'm here to help you."

"So you can betray us?" Leah asked. "No, I'm not buying it. I don't trust this guy."

"What do the rest of you think?" Fey asked.

"In all honesty I thought he was some cool dude with a sword, but he has a point. Our powers aren't exactly working." Zapor said.

"Plus, what would he gain if he did betray us? We get betrayed, Neo gets sliced, Delta laughs like a crazy person. I don't see how he would betray us, seeing that he...helped us in some points." Zak added.

"...Wait a minute." Uisu muttered, walking up to Aero. She thought back to the tournament. "Yeah, I remember you! If you really are who you say you are, tell me my name!"

"It's not like we have a choice, we're probably gonna need his help." Saren explained in a moment of clarity.

"Your name is Uisu." Aero told her. "But your real name is Platinum."

"Then we'll come with you." Fey noted.

"Fine, whatever." Leah sighed. "But I'm telling you all he's going to betray us."

"We need to hurry." Aero said, rushing to the stairs.

"Why don't you just use your portals?" Fey asked earnestly.

"I can't take us to a location I don't know." Aero told them. "So we'll just have to hurry."

The group descended even furthur down where they now were in a normal looking room with lots of corridors. It was also filled with what appeared to be walking pale people in dark hoods. Zapor would have recalled this from his date with Echo.

A blush grew on Zapor's face, part of his fur turning red to white. "How does Grape Juice know..about this?"

"I feel like I'm starting to see a pattern here." Fey noted.

"You know what?" Delta said, her face appearing on yet another TV. "I think I've seen enough. You guys are cheaters, and you know what cheating does? It ruins the fun. So I think it's time for some...more interesting fun."

The TV cut back to Neo, unconscious in the chains as the saw began to whir very loudly. It moved towards Neo oh so slowly, inching it's way closer to the fox. It was almost like a movie where you were sure that in the end someone, would come and rescue him from the saw. Waiting with bated breath that anyone, Fate, Ages, Time Spinner, even one of the Order of the Scythe would appear and rescue Neo like they would in any movie.

But this wasn't a movie. This was reality, and not all of reality gets happy endings. The saw whirred faster and louder as it approached the Fox's stomach and in an instant, the saw cut through Neo's fur and flesh, Blood splattered over the camera, covering it so no one could see, but they all knew what had happened. Every single member of the group all knew what had just been done. Neo was dead.

Fey's legs wobbled as she fell onto her knees, tears streaming down her face as she witnessed the death of their leader, and of her first real friend that she could remember. Although the group did not know of it yet, she and Neo had been romantically involved for a while, and she felt her heart break in two as she slowly realized that her friend was gone.

Leah's head pulsed with anger, her fingers gripped tightly into a white flush. Her entire body hissed in rage. Her magic did not help at all. Her magic only edged the emotions on, telling her that this was it, this was the death of her leader, of her friend, and she was absolutely pissed. She looked up into the corridors where the zombie people were and she blasted them with fire, and not like in her normal way, she burned them to ash, as if killing their unlife would bring Neo back, that destroying them would save the one they lost, but some part of her knew that he was gone forever.

Aero's expression was hidden behind his mask, but it was obvious that he was even upset at it. He did not know Neo as well as the rest, he had even thought of Neo as an enemy once, but this was too much. This was the worst thing anyone could do. Radon would pay, he would make sure of that.

Uisu could only watch as the person she just met was murdered before she could even have the chance to truly meet him. As her fur glowed blue, it took all her willpower to stop herself from trying to flood the entire building, though the water level grew by about an inch. She had no idea who those people were, but she did know one thing. They were not going to get off so easily for this. If there was anything she hated more than bad people, it was injustice. The fact that she had simply been dragged into this without even having a chance to know the team, only meeting up by pure chance, drove the point even further. It was as she feared. No matter how hard she tried, she would never be in control of the situation.

Zapor watched the screen, jaws wide open in shock. Seeing the death of Neo, a person he viewed as an older brother, murdered by a saw, his body heated up, and his teeth was clenched in rage. Zak also stood in shock, and would get on his knees, but he didn't have any knees so he stood in total shock. Lexi was probably the one who had the most ticked off face out of the three, with tears in her eyes.

Delta's voice erupted in laughter over the intercom. "Now wasn't that fun! I feel so much better already!"

That drove Uisu over the edge. Her fists clenched. The water in the bottom of the room slightly rose, and the ground ever so slightly shook. For a moment, she seemed divided; one half of her fur red, the other blue. It eventually settled at grey, though she had a faint purple aura around her. She turned towards the intercom. "So. You think that you can get away with this? Because I happen to disagree. You've just made a mistake that you will never forget: You've driven me over the edge. I woke up only a month ago with no memories at all, and suddenly I'm dragged into this? My life has only been like a rollercoaster, only without the fun. I've been flung through this, unable to control what happens. But not anymore. This coaster is mine to steer, and it's off the rails. Do you hear me! You have done wrong, and this has been ONE. TOO. MANY. You've messed with a murderer. Yep! I admit it! Uisu? That's not my real name! I am Platinum The Echidna, convicted mass murderer! You haven't just messed with someone who has a point to make, you're messing with someone's last stand. Not just a powerful being, I am a force of nature! You are not just messing with someone who has lost! I am someone without ANYTHING. LEFT. TO. LOSE!" The rumbling ground subsided, and the flooding stopped. "So do what the sane person does. Run." Platinum turned to the rest of the group. "Well? Let's get moving. I have a pompous grape to kill."

Saren watched with horrified eyes, he may not have known neo but he did think of him as a friend, and the loss of a friend brought in the sense of helplessness that he hated above all else, he stared at the monitor, a twitch in his eye as he started chuckling. The chuckling increased in volume until it reached full on laughter as he clutched his scythe as any shadows that are visible would start to contort and writhe in seeming agony. As if to reflect his unhinged mental state.

"You will not live long... You killed a friend, now I will return that pain, over and over until you, your associates, Radon and his associates all lay dead.." Saren spoke, his grief stricken laughter grinding to a halt. "This.. I promise.."

"You bitch!" Leah called. "I will kill you!"

"Aw, you're all so cute when your frustrated." Delta said with a smirk, not that they could see it. "I'm a villain, I kill people, surpirse! Did you think I was lying when I said I'd kill him? 'Cause I wasn't! Now here's the fun part of the game! How many people can I kill while you guys try to get to the end? Neo wasn't the only one I had, I have tons more! Celia, Fate, Kala, all of them are just toys that I'm going to play with. You know last time I checked, Kala was awake! I just love to hear the screams." She giggled a little. "I'll be waiting for you at the bottom floor, Mythic Knights."

"I can't believe Neo's dead." Aero noted. "How am..." He cut himself off. "We should press on."

The next floor of the hospital was very similar to a rocky castle, covered in different runes and odd shapes. It looked like Wayward Castle creepy atmosphere and all. It was just a blank room though, with darkness all around, which made the hallucinations even stronger.

Lexi looked around the room. "Well, still as cree-...no.." Lexi muttered.

"What?" Zak asked. Lexi fell on the floor.

"Nonononono...." She held her head. If you could see what Lexi was seeing, she would be seeing 2 whales, except both had a demonic look to them. "Nononono..." She cradled herself on the floor.

Though Platinum had been plagued by visions of darkness throughout, her strange transformation seemed to change that. She simply pushed the hallucinations aside. Glowing a faint purple, she started to walk through the room.

Saren, being an erebrokinetic, found comfort in the darkness normally, but this isn't normal circumstances and there was killing to be done. With that in mind he trudged through, wary of whatever images the hallucinations might bring up.

"Guys listen to me," Neo's voice echoed through the intercom. "Look, don't listen to Delta, ignore the hallucination, I'm not dead, I'm fine, if you get to the end, we can beat her, and then we can all go out for ice cream!"

"Neo!" Fey asked, still crying.

"Just kidding, Neo's still dead!" Delta giggled. "Did you like that voice though? I've been working on it for this. No but seriously though, Neo's dead." A girlish scream could be heared in the background. "Would you shut up? Sorry about that, your genie friend was going to be the next one I was going to play with, but your hacker friend woke up and started getting a little rowdy for me. I've taken her back for some...punishment."

Leah wasn't seeing right. She wasn't initially scared of the dark but she saw terrible things. Visions of things covered in blood, her home buring to ash, and visions of death coming to the future. The hallucinations were getting stronger.

Fey saw people she couldn't recall hung on ropes and chains and other items. It was a very mentally taxing experience and one that she wasn't sure she'd be able to forget for the rest of her life. She was done. She just wanted to wake up in her bed and realize that this was all a dream.

Zak started hallucinating, but the things he saw were unclear. He saw blurred images of ghosts, and some other faces that were darkened, but was slightly keeping his cool. "Zap, how are you doing?" He asked wearily.

Zapor was swinging the handle of his shotgun around in the air. "Go away you puppet jerks! I will burn your families if you turn anyone I know into a puppet!"

Aero looked through the room. "We need to keep going." He noted. "This room...I don't feel good about this room..."

"...Right..." Leah noted. "I think I can light the room up if..." Still scared out of her mind, she channeled a flame into the air which caused the room to lighten up, revealing all of it, but at the same time came something from the darkness, a figure who looked to be made of shadows, but Saren, the only umbrakinesis member there at the time, would know that he wasn't, he was something much different. He wore thick black armor and carried a large scythe on him. He looked to be a hedgehog.

"Who is that?" Fey asked.

The figure did nothing but stood there and stared the group down.

"It's just another trick." Aero noted as she took another step forward and the figure slashed at Aero, who barely managed to jump back.

"Not a trick." Fey noted, pulling her sword out.

Zak pulled his sword out, switching to Buster mode. "Zapor,we gotta-" Zak was starting to say, but just remebered that Zapor was swinging his rifle around still. "Nevermind.." Zak muttered.

(Sorry, I just don't know how to join in at the moment. -MHS)

(Well the only ways you could would be to either come from the floor below us, up due to hearing noise or to follow us from the floor upstairs.)

Saren lunged at the figure from behind, holding a knife in his left hand, he was gonna try and restrain the figure before shoving the knife into one of the kidneys.

The figure quickly turned around spinning his scythe in a strange manner, not one that a normal scythe user would have done. However it caused a large gust of wind to be blown towards Saren.

Fey for some reason or another, had a flashback of this man issueing a command to a group of soldiers, one of them being herself. She wasn't too sure, but she must have known this man.

Saren was blown back, his face set in a sneer. "Hmph.. You seem like fun~" He said with a merciless grin before pulling out his own scythe.

"Do you bleed well~?"

Zak went for a slash at the figure from above.

The figure pulled his own scythe out, preparing for someone to come close to him.

Leah, sent a barrage of flames at the target, hoping to burn him, or at least distract him.

Fey was still lost in thought of trying to remember this man, who was he? Why did she know him? How?

The ground shook. The sound of what appeared to be rapid pounding was now present in one side of the room.

Leah and Fey both stopped and looked over to the side of the room.

The Shadow figure didn't move an inch.

"What now!?" Saren shouted, irritated as all hell at the moment.

Lexi looked at the wall, less frightened. Zapor dropped his rifle and looked at the wall.

Platinum looked at the shadowy figure. "W-who are you?" The strange purple glow had faded, and Platinum had been trying to avoid the gaze of the others after her earlier outburst.

"ORA!" The Reaper's fist crashed through the wall, scattering debris clear across the other side of the room.

The debris scattered everywhere, including through the shadow figure, who was broken into shards of glass all across the floor.

"Are you kidding me?" Delta's voice screamed over the intercom. "Again? What's with you guys and cheating!"

"Didn't you capture Rose with us?" Fey asked.

"Well...yeah..." Delta noted sadly. "But she was supposed to be playing a different game!" She sighed, frustration oozing from her breath. "Now I suppose there'll have to be punishment, since I like playing with her so much, I'll only take your hacker friend's right hand!"

"You bitch... first you think that little trap could hold me, now you're taking our friends' limbs? You better hope I don't find you, because I'll be taking more than a hand!" Rose growled, her fur standing on end.

Zapor snapped out of his trauma after hearing what Delta said. "Grape Juice, you better not cut off Ceila's righty!"

"Yeah can't you, like take Zapor instead? He's so messed up that he won't even say much." Lexi asked, with Zak nodding in agreement.

"His regeneration would only bring back the hand." Delta noted. "Besides, it's already been taken care of."

Rose ordered The Reaper to throw a chunk of debris at the intercom.

"Really, I'm surprised no one offered me up. Ah well, it'd just leave me closer to gutting you like two cannibal midgets in a fat guys ribcage." Saren spoke in a snarky manner before chuckling to himself.

"You know, the living tub of grape juice really should have thought of separating us eh?~"

"I wouldn't doubt her logic..." Fey noted. "She kept us together for a reason."

"What if she has already killed everyone?" Leah asked. "What if everyone she has is dead?"

"We still have Echo." Fey said. "Plus there's still Trinity, and the rest of the Order. Not to mention Vitality or whoever that was."

"It's true that we are not alone in this endeavor, I know there are others still looking for us." Aero noted. "All we have to do is get out of here, and then take of Radon."

"And Delta." Fey said darkly. "Let's move on."

Part 2: Despair
The next floor was covered in bright, colorful lights with slot machines all over the place. It was obviously a casino from Reale City, but what made it really intersting was the people. There were people here, minding their own buisness and generally looking like they were having a good time. There was a card table in the back of the room, and there were even waiters and waitresses walking around offering drinks to people.

Fey immediatly turned to Saren. "Don't start drinking." She told him. "We don't know what's in those and we need you sober right now."

"That probably goes to you too." Leah noted to Zapor.

"Jeez Leah, have some faith. I'm a nut but I'm not Grape Juice." Zapor muttered.

And there they would find Monica in a truly sorry state. She was taking every drink that was offered to her.

Saren looked at Fey. "Fey, this is quite possibly the only time I want to be sober.. Just so I can better relish in the screams Delta will make when I get my hands on her...." Saren said with a dark undertone.

"No." Fey walked over to Monica, taking the drinks away from her. "No one is drinking right now."

Monica turned to her with a red blush spread across her face. "Whegh--who are you?"

Fey pointed out all the people. "My name is Fey." She began. "Notice how no one else is drinking? The fact that you are tells me you're real."

"..I think they put something in those drinks." Zapor muttered.

"Yeah well, your--hic--face is... real." Monica drunkenly replied.

"Well...you're not wrong." Fey said, picking Monica up.

"I agree." Leah nodded at Zapor. "The drinks porbably have something in them."

"Either alcohal, or sonething else we should be concerned about." Zapor said, walking to the door.

"If it was just alchohol then things would be okay. I doubt she would give us something like that, and only that." Leah noted. "Then again perhaps the alchohol is poisonous when paired with the all the drugs she gave us?"

"Are you feeling alright?" Fey asked Monica. "Do you remember anything? What's your name?"

"How many fingers am I holding?" Zak raised his hand up, his normal expresion still on, but says it in a sarcastic voice.

"Damn it, can't you just leave me be?" Monica complained. "Ugh... it's Monica. My name's Monica. Look, I have... ssss... no idea how I got here. But as long as I'm getting free drinks, I'm not complaining."

"Nothing is free." Fey chided Monica. "Now we need to leave."

"C'mon you drunky. I'm pretty sure that they have food in the next room." Lexi said walking to the next door.

"If she's really drunk, how long until she's sober?" Rose asked.

"Hand me the bottle she was drinking." Saren told Fey. "I can figure this one out."

"Dunno." Leah answered Rose. "Alcohol is prohibited where I'm from."

Fey looked from Saren to the bottle. "I guess if anyone could figure it out its you." She handed the Lynx the bottle.

Upon closer...inspection it seemed like a normal bottle except for there was a very light waft of something sour in the concoction. Saren could probably suspect trioxin, a non-lethal chemical that doesn't do anything on its own. Paired with very limited chemicals it can enhance their potency and make them worse. The only chemicals that can do that though are only provided by Tranquil Corp, the company Neo's parents own.

"Trioxin.. Yet it shouldn't be able to do anything unless certain chemicals were added to it... So why lace alcohol with the stuff?" Saren asked.

"Trioxin?" Fey asked. "If Neo were here, he'd know. He leaves his claws with poison all the time."

"Did he use Trioxin?" Leah asked.

"No,he used a couple of others..." Fey noted.

"Odd... It might be a good idea to make sure she doesn't enter conflict."

"Considering she's also drunk that might be a good idea." Fey noted. "Now lets get moving."

The group moved their way throw the crowd of people and made it to the other side of the room where they descended even more into a dark Station Square, with horrors circling the group. There was a tv on the side of one of the marble buildings which turned on with Delta's picture, a necklace of pointy human ears around her neck. "You want to know what I just learned? Your genie friend has really cool looking ears! So I took them! Thing is, because she can change her form, they just grow right back. Which means every time I saw through her ears so slowly they just grow back and I can keep doing it."

Delta laughed. "She's asleep now, so I think I'll move on to the woman who took my sister away from me."

"1. Dude, that is gross. You should be ashamed of yourself. 2. You aren't even a cool sister, let alone a nice person in general so she did Echo a favor. And 3." The last remarked was muttered under Zapor's breath. "If we can't change the channel, can we just look for another TV?"

Saren looked at Zapor. "I got this.." He flipped Delta the bird before going to smash the TV with his scythe.

"If it were anyone else, I'd just beat them within an inch of their life. But this woman... I'll tear her head clean off her shoulders," Rose hissed. "That's exactly what she wants us to do though, isn't it? Convince us all to just let hatred take over?"

"And if she does?" Leah asked. "It's working either way."

"Guys we have a problem." Fey took her sword out. "We've got horrors everywhere and no stairway down."

Zak looked at the horrors slowly surrounding them and took out his sword.

Zapor took out his pistols. "Well this is just dandy."

The horrors continuted to circle around the group, perpetually moving around. The barked and growled at them much like wolves. Those with a good eye though would notice they looked...off. Before they had looked like they were made out of solid shadows but now the darkness was moving, almost as if they were made out of fire.

"Can anybody find an exit?" Fey asked. "Because right now, fighting is the last thing we want to do."

Although the television was broken by Saren, Delta's voice still rang out of the room. "You know what? I'm tired of this charade. I don't like to be direct with people, but this time, I'll make an exception."

"Oh, does that mean you're coming to us? Good. I don't feel like wasting my energy tearing through this place to find you." Rose taunted.

Part 3: Delta the Gambler
The sound of a snap echoed through the entire room. The horrors ran off to somewhere and Delta exited one of the buildings walking very slowly towards the group. "Now I know what you're thinking." She said. "But if it's any consolation, Kala is not dead. Neither is Celia, turns out her hand was cybotic."

"What are you talking about?" Leah asked. "Are you trying to apologize?"

"...Slightly." Delta noted. "Look here's the thing, I sort of have this thing with killing people, it gets out of hand, you know how it is, let me just-"

That's when the explosion happened. The side of one of the walls exploded, leaving a massive hole, chunks of debris flew everywhere, as the outside, real world showed through.

And in jumped Trinity. The green vixen was litterally exploding as she took steps, leaving a trail of fire in her wake. The fire had changed from it's normal orange color to a bright white, the hottest flame type there is. She was very clearly pissed about the fact that her friends had been taken, but there was no way she knew about Neo's death. "Bitch!" She called out as she stomped over to Delta, who simply did nothing.

"Now look Trinity-" Delta began but was interrupted as Trinity grabbed her ankle and threw her into the ground with the force of a meteor. It was obvious now, judging from the way her fur singed, that she was in Phoenix Up 2 and that she was constantly burning herself in this state.

"Where the hell is everybody!" Trinity threw Delta again.

"Trinity..." Leah began. "Fate and Neo..."

"They what?" Trinity asked, throwing Delta once more.

"They...are no longer with us..." Fey answered.

Trinity at first didn't understand it, but her eyes grew wide as she understood the meaning and immediately her eyes began to burn, in actual fire. "No...no!" She grabbed Delta and litterally began to tighten her grip on the child's arm, several audible cracks could be heard as Trinity litterally crushed Delta's left arm to dust.

Platinum watched. I mean, she was totally about to go hardcore and obliterate this chick in the moment for a while, but- wow.

"Wow...20 rings she do it to the skull." Lexi muttered to Zak.

"Trinity stop!" Rang some familiar voices as Kala and Celia both exited the same building that Delta had.

"Wh-what?" Trinity asked, confused by what they had done. "How are you-"

Delta pushed Trinity back a couple of feet using something that looked like a telekinetic shield. "If you'd take a minute to listen to me, I could explain what's going on."

"Because we're going to listen to you? We saw Neo die!" Leah asked. "You cut straight through him!"

"Well, yes, but that's-" Delta began.

"You all need to listen to her and stop acting like children." Aero noted harshly, prompting Trinity to fire a blast of flames at Aero's mask. The mask went flying and revealed that Aero didn't have a face. He was a robot.

"You're not even real." Trinity noted. "And I doubt these two are either."

"Aero took his mask off during Zapor and Echo's date." Leah informed the group. "So...he wasn't always a robot."

"Because we need that explanation!" Fey chided the mage.

"Look let me explain." Delta started.

"Your murdered Neo and Fate, you don't get to make requests!" Trinity said.

"What do we do?" Fey asked. "Looks like we either side with Trinity or Delta..."

Saren looked at Trinity, then Delta. ".... Pitiful.. Killing her would be too easy a fate for her.. Better for her to live with the knowledge that the ones she tried so hard to kill ended up sparing her, on the other hand I want her to feel the pain she's caused and what better way than to kill her the same way she killed Neo.."

"On one hand, we spare her and hear what she has to say, while also taking a chance at getting dunked on. On the other, we rip her guts out and grill them...I don't really know.." Zapor said.

"Or, spare her until we hear what she has to say and then kill her.." Saren whispered in Zapor's ear.

(So here is a new roleplay mechanic I'm using right now. We're going to call these Tales Decisions. I'll explain more in a blog post when I get home from school, but in short; this is a decision that I have written to highly impact the story of the series, every user participating will get one vote to decide what we do. Note that no matter what decision you make, there will be consequences. Also in the case of a tie, is the only time I'll vote and I'll randomize my vote. You can find the blog post here! -Neo)

"Let her speak." Plat said. "I that I'm just new here, and I literally only met you guys yesterday, but you should let her speak. Kill her later, but now, give her a chance." She gave a sad smile. "Everyone should get a chance, no matter what they did."

"Need I remind you that she murdered Neo?" Trintity shouted. "This girl killed our leader!"

"It's true." Delta said, the slightest sign of a smirk showing on her face. "I did kill him."

Platinum clutched the obsidian pendant around her neck. "..." She looked at the ground. "I just want to give people a chance that I never got. But," She continued, looking at Delta. "if you waste that chance, you'll pay the price. And the price is your life."

"...Well, on normal circumstances, you know that I would kill Grape Juice where she's standing, but something about this seems different." Zapor said. "I mean we don't even know how we got here in the first place, this Aero turned out to be a robot that somehow got in, and Grape Juice likes taking body parts off for some reason."

"Well I guess in Zapor logic that makes a small amount of sense." Zak admitted. "And if Aero was a robot, we don't really know if anything is actually anything. So I guess the only one who answer all this is Delta."

(And so they sided with Delta... -Neo)

"Explain. Now." Leah said.

Delta put a finger to her lips, calling for the group to remain silent, then with her other hand she reached for Leah's long hair. Leah looked very confused. "Neo was scum anyway, he was weak, pathetic, he couldn't do anything in the first place, him being dead doesn't mean much." Delta moved her hand around, as if looking for something. "And Fate didn't do much either, she isn't much of a fighter in the first place and she didn't even last that long on the table." Finally she found it, Delta pulled a small robotic byte out Leah's hair it was simple tracking technology, able for people to track movement, location and sound. Delta very quickly crushed it. "There are people like that all over, even in your team, so it is my job to crush them." She pointed to Saren, Zak and Fey.

"Uh...ow?" Zak responded, not really sure if she was being mean or just being honest.

"Zak does stuff. Hacking, cooking, hacking, sword stuff, some more hacking, uh..some other nerd stuff." Zapor counted on his fingers.

Saren looked at Delta. "A fantastic job you've done on trying to kill me.~" He said in a sarcastic tone.

Delta gave a very annoyed look, and reached into Fey's scabbard and pulled a similar byte off, crushing it in her fingers. "Good, the effects of the gas are working. She reached over to Zak's shoe and pulled one more byte off. "If you're hearing this father, the Mythic Knights are dying, the gas you gave me worked." She reached over to Saren and pulled another byte off throwing it onto the ground.

"It's done." Delta noted. "Now let's start on buisness. My name is Delta Radon, I'm the prototype of the Ehcho Project, and a traitor to my family."

"You guys were being bugged this whole time." Celia explained. "They were tracking and listening to everything going on."

"Then I really hope they delete the first 45 minutes." Lexi muttered.

Saren sighed. "I don't get paid enough for this.." He grumbled, truthfully he wanted to murder Delta and he couldn't stand to be near her so he floated over to Trinity.

"You still killed Neo!" Fey said. "We saw you do it!"

"You saw a saw go through a body which released blood to cover the camera." Delta told the group. "Fake bodies are easier to come by then you would think."

"Everyone's okay." Celia told them. "Except for Trinity, you aren't stable yet."

"I'll be fine." Trinity noted coldly.

"But I won't be." Said another voice, as another Mobian stepped out, Bravo, Echo's brother came out of another building. "How could you betray our family like this Delta? You know what happens to traitors." He said, pulling a large blue and white spear off of his back.

Saren looked at Celia with an unusually harsh glance. "So she isn't stable for being denied the right to exact just revenge..!?.. Riiight.. Next thing you know you'll label me as unstable just because I refuse to kick my drinking habits.."

"No, she's unstable because we still don't have a cure to her mind control." Celia argued in a hushed tone. "If you'll recall Radon can take control of her at any given moment if she's out of the capsule we put her in. On top of that her power is is still growing out of control and in case you haven't noticed she's still stuck in Phoenix up 2, which is constantly burning her flesh."

"Don't pretend I'm not here!" Bravo called out.

Saren looked at Bravo. "..."

"..." Zapor looked at Bravo and blinked twice. "..So..that's your brother, Grape Juice?"

"Yes." Delta noted. "Bravo, you don't have to-"

"No, shut up! You're a traitor, you're just like Father warned us about! You wanna take Echo away from us, and never see us again." Bravo yelled. "...You wanna be just like Charlie..."

"Bravo..." Delta said sadly.

"Fine, if you wanna be like that, then I'll take you down, I'll take you all down!" He shouted.

"There's only one of you." Leah said. "How do you expect-"

Bravo slammed his spear into the ground as it shattered into millions of swords, floating in the air, each one at his command to do with as he pleased.

"He is an outdated model." Delta said. "But he's still a B-model prototype of the Echo Project." The purple cat pulled a cane with a die on the handle off of her belt. She pulled the top part of the cane, revealing a blade hidden within. Of course she'd be using a cane sword.

"Looks like we'll need to fight out way out of this one." Fey noted, pulling her sword ready.

Bravo raised his hand and threw it to the ground, launching the blades to the ground.

(This will be the day (Echo's theme) Epic Rock cover - Vs Bravo)

Zapor was cut by a few blades, and got one blade impaled in his foot. "Man, these were new shoes!" Zapor shouted, and fired a few mini-bomb bullets at Bravo.

Zak rolled out of the swords way, and switched to speed mode, and ran towards Bravo.

Saren phased through some of the swords, having been caught off guard so some would have sliced him in some places, he lunged at Bravo with his scythe.

The blades phased into a large wall between Bravo and the rest of the group, covered in spikes.

Zak halted before he would've ran right into the wall.

"How the heck do we get past that?" Lexi shouted.

Saren willed his shadow to spawn tendrils to grab him so he wouldn't get himself gored on the spiked wall. Hesitantly, he poked the wall to see if he could phase through it.

Delta approached the wall, quickly she bashed her cane against the wall, causing the wall itself to quiver, only for it to shatter back to it's millions of swords, all of which was pointing towards Zapor and Delta.

Insantly Delta felt something, as she stood by Zapor. "Zapor," She said. "We're gonna need to fight these off."

Although Saren was left out of the blade prison, he and Fey were given ample time to target a very focused Bravo.

"Whatever you say, Grape Juice." Zapor said and started firing bullets at the swords. "Just a hop, skip, and bullet to get through all of them."

The swords all started to thrust towards the two, aiming to impale them, someone with a good eye might notice that there was something on the blades, which was a poison, Warfarin, a horrible inflammation poison created for the purpoes of causing pain throughout the nervous system.