Another Dimension: Demonic Tempest

[ganondorf2]

{Yeah, my bad, also this shows that his patience with Tikal is gone}

"You're on my leash more so Tikal..." Neutron said, before shouting him having enough, "So it's best you keep you mouth shut about my clone from here on out! You hear me, you sorry excuse of a 'dark mage'?!"

"How is he in a leash?" I asked.

"I cloned him too, remember? At least HE doesn't bring up the past like a broken record and puts them down for being clones, replicas, phantoms that sort of thing. I added something to him that will have the clone feel great but the original...feel great pain," he ends with a evil smirk at the mage, "Note what was said, 'I help my fellow clones?' You are going to help him greatly now I've been with you as long as I have. Now, keep your emotions to a simmer, if you don't mind. And Luke, I know you said your piece, but I had to say mine."

"OK, now I'm worried again," I said as the dark clone turns back around and works on the clone's wounds, now calmed down.

"Now I can't tell if he lied or not," Nova said.

"Now then, I did bring some robot eyes with me to replace the one that was lost," before he laughs a little, "This is ironic too."

The good clone sees something in his mind a moment later and asked Luke, "Two questions real quick. One: does Asch hear us and if not two: can he read lips?"

That didn't sound good.

"If that fellow is going to be attacked, leave me and my clone for now. We'll just slow you down," Neutron said, "Sad the hunter suddenly became the hunted."

[Shadow Dragon]

That causes Tikal to stop in his tracks, slowly turning to Neutron with a crazed look in his eyes, "You...ignorant...piece of filth...!"

"Tikal, stop!" Luke pleaded, not wanting him to get hurt.

"That clone not only doesn't HAVE A PAST TO BRING UP, but he would be dead if it wasn't for me pounding some sense into his head before the fight!" Tikal yelled at Neutron, "And I'm glad that Asche guy did what he did to the clone, because maybe now he'll have some sense of how the world works and drop that d**n superiority complex!!!"

"Superiority?!" the clone bit back, sitting up despite the pain in his wounds, "So, you think because I choose to stay with my creator, because I don't know any other way to go about my life, because I have a mission to complete, BECAUSE I SEE NEUTRON AND THE CLONES AS MY FAMILY AND THAT I WAS ORDERED TO ASSIST YOU ALL, means I'm a puppet?!!! You're dumber than I thought!"

"Stop!" Luke pleaded, but his words were ignored.

"I'm not abandoning the clones or my mission! Asch can disfigure me all he wants, but he won't disfigure my loyalty! And if I have the freedom to choose what I want to do, then I choose to remain with my FAMILY, and help out anyway I can, and my decision is FINAL!"

"Then take action on that when you heal, because as you are now, your words mean nothing!" Tikal hissed, storming out of the room.

"Wait!" Luke cried out, but fell on deaf ears.

Armstrong shakes his head, "What a jackass. He claims he won't accept you, yet freaks out about you almost dying by that guy's hand. HE'S the one that needs to resolve his issues."

"Or maybe..." Luke started, "something about the replica almost dying triggered something in Tikal."

The clone lets out a sigh, "Like the inability to save my original, and the thought of losing me brought back those memories of whatever happened to that Zephon guy, and takes out that guilt on me?" he lets out a chuckle, "He's more transparent than I thought, but you know what? He might be right."

"What?" Armstrong asked.

"I'm NOT going to go rouge and lose what I have left," said the clone, "so as soon as I'm able to move, I'll start by training myself and working with what limitations I have." He turns to Neutron on this, "So if I may make a request; my injuries need to heal, yes, but however you plan to fix me, please, discard it!"

"What?!" now it was Luke's turn to be confused.

"Please," the clone clinches his fists and turns his head down to look at his tightened fist, "I need it this way...!"

[ganondorf2]

"Very well. Just let me know if you need any thing, say food or water," he said.

"We better find Asch however...what I saw in my mind he might get killed first," Nova said.

"Then lets move," I said.

"I'm going to stay back, I need to clear my head a bit," Neutron said.

"Again, I don't know if he was lying about that clone of Tikal," the good clone thought

[Shadow Dragon]

"I'm all right for now," said the clone, "but I'll let you know. Thank you."

"Yeah, I don't know what Asch's plans are, but after what he did, I'm curious to know why he's here," said Luke.

"To seek you out?"

"Well, whatever it is," said Armstrong, "let's not let it interrupt our main mission."

"But if he's working for the enemy, then he'll be one of our main targets anyway."

"And that's what I want to find out," said Luke.

[ganondorf2]

"Lets move and quickly," Nova said, "Something else is tracking him and not just Ganondorf's monsters."

"And I told them to track, not kill. Let's see what we have to do," he said.

"I could use Shear Heart Attack to try and spot him," Kira said.

"Are you worried about it being attacked?" I asked.

"Did you forget? Nothing can destroy it. Just watch my back."

[Shadow Dragon]

"Agreed," nods Armstrong.

"Are you sure you-" Luke says to the clone.

"Just go," said the clone, "I'll be fine. I'll catch up once Neutron gives me the go-ahead."

"Just take your time to heal," said Armstrong, ready to go with the others.

[ganondorf2]

"Protect him well," Nova said as my team walked away.

"I will," Neutron said, before taking off what looked like a cover over his left eye, showing it was blacked out but the iris was glowing red and said to his clone, "At least you don't have this to cover up."

{Did you say which eye the clone was hit? I forgot if you did}

[Shadow Dragon]

{Yeah, his left eye. Also my last post for the night. I'll try and come by early tomorrow.}

Armstrong leaves the room, Luke hesitates a moment, then leaves as well. The clone remains sat up, and looks at Neutron as he spoke, "I don't remember you ever showing me that. What happened?"

[ganondorf2]

{OK, no rush}

Seeing Rugal had left with us, "You must have forgot. Rugal gave me this...He used one move that made me lose my eye and my left hand as punishment years ago. He gave me replacement ones to have me look more 'like him'. I'm glad Nova helped me with my hand...but I don't think he can help me with my eye. I just put a special cover over it. I can see through it, but the real look is hidden." He looks down and said, "I didn't think this would happen at the same time, I did. As I said, have a clone of Tikal, and once he was made, he got every memory of what happened. No different from Nova."

He sat down next to the replica and asked, "Can you keep a secret?"

[Shadow Dragon]

{Didn't he lose it sometime during Dark Mirror? I'm trying to find the post...}

The clone listens and understands, unfortunately he did forget, but it had been a while, too.

"Why would I have any reason to expose one's secrets?" he asks and answering Neutron's question at the same time.

[ganondorf2]

He laughs to that then starts, "I knew Nova and his partner long before he knew me. I was searching high and low for another clone like me and I did, so my ally and I kept close watch over him until he was ready. I was willing to do anything to see if he was ready for those fights against me, training at the same time as him but more so as I don't have his DNA adaption...well I do, but it's slow to catch up. I had to continue with that and making sure I had everything under control with my power increasing by the day and what happened a month ago with Rugal, Galeem, Dharkan and Star Dream...Like Sans...I remember each and every reset. I needed this to be the right time line...and sure enough this was it, more so, I made sure all bases were covered should something happen to him or me."

Neutron looks at the clone and continued, "And this is where you come in. Tikal may think you're my puppet, but you're more then that. You have a little bit of my DNA as well, so you could have some of my abilities or something of that nature, thus the 'boost' I was speaking about, though it might take a bit for it to wake up but training is all you need."

He sighs then said, "I don't know what will happen to me from here on out with Elfilis or anyone like him, but you will be my successor? Do you think you can handle that? I won't be mad if you refuse, just something to think about."

[Shadow Dragon]

The clone tries to follow along with Neutron's words, and nods.

"Deep down, though, I understand where he's coming from. I see someone with the DNA of someone I failed to save, I'd be pretty vengeful, too." The clone sighs, "I can accept being cloned from one I've never met, but to be exactly like him? I don't even know what he was like, but either way, that's not happening. I'm determined to keep it that way, and I'll make sure that mage knows it, too, even if he never accepts me."

The clone looks at him with a surprised look after mentioning something about having sleeping powers, and a successor. Then again, this might be the push he needed to put all he had into this living hell. All the more reason to train! Of course, he wouldn't let that power go to his head again, not after losing his eye. Unfortunately, however, he had serious doubts.

"That's a pretty heavy responsibility," said the clone, "but why me? I haven't shown anything to justify having such a title yet." he slowly turns away, staring at his sword that was leaning against the wall away from the bed he was in, asking very seriously, "Don't you think that title would better fit Raven? I believe so."


{Be back later. Going with my brother and parents to do some errands.}

[ganondorf2]

"I see you have doubt even though you helped save this universe from those foes I mentioned. Thing is, not everyone listens to Raven even though she is quite the fighter...however, here's the thing. We share the role. You never saw this, but when I acted like a villain to Nova and his team, we took turns to give them a hard time as a test and also save energy and tag each other out. This why I asked," Neutron said and got up, "I had to train hard to keep up with foes and show I am not one to take on in a fight, I'm sure you'll be fine with training. If you're still not sure, you can test your skills on me. Well, not right now, but I'm sure you understand. Let alone...there was the case I almost lost my mind..."

[Shadow Dragon]

The clone quietly listens, then nods in understanding, "All right, if you have that much faith in me, then I'll accept." Hopefully it won't happen for a long time, if at all, however.

[ganondorf2]

He makes a kind smile to this and said, "Now remember, it's just between us for now. First off however, I'll have to change your bandages. I don't need another problem to show."

[Shadow Dragon]

He nods, "Yeah, of course. I'd like to take a look at how bad the wounds are anyway, if you don't mind." He looked down at the bloody bandages and gauzes that bind around his chest.

[ganondorf2]

"Give me a moment and get some clean ones," Neutron said, before stopping, sensing something and asked, "Who's there?"

"Just me," a familiar voice was heard and the dark clone sees Gerald Robotnik walk in, hands up, "I wanted to catch up to my grandson, but I heard someone got hurt along the way. If you need aide, I'm more than happy to do so. Anything from what you and that Nova fellow did for my niece."

Neutron smiles to that and said, "But of course. I need some clean wrappings if you don't mind."

"Give me a moment, I have some in a case I brought," he said, showing a medical aide bag in hand, "Never leave home without it."

"With what's been happening, I should have thought of that," Neutron said was an embarrassed laugh as Gerald walked over to the clone to see if he can help with the wounds.

{Stupid site}

[Shadow Dragon]

{I saw that... }

The clone sits up in preparation before turning to the door to see Gerald. He says nothing and allowed the Dr to do as he pleased.

[ganondorf2]

He gets out clean bandages to set them up as he removed the old ones, Neutron watching close by.

[Shadow Dragon]

The clone looks down as the bandages and gauzes to his torso are removed, seeing the sword wounds inflicted by Asch and both wet and dry blood caked around them. They began to sting as they were exposed to open air, but the swordsman forced himself not to flinch in fear of making Gerald mess up.

[ganondorf2]

"I'm impressed you survived as you did," Gerald said as he was cleaning the clone of the blood.

"As I said, you're stronger then you think," Neutron said to the clone.

[Shadow Dragon]

"You really believe I was going to let that jerk kill me?" hissed the clone as he forced himself to stand the pain. Slowly grasping onto the oxygen mask that had been on his face, the clone takes it off and lets it fall off the bed, no longer needing it, then forces himself to remain still, "But I was still..." then he forces himself to remain silent.

[ganondorf2]

"My goodness youngster! Don't do that! I don't know how much blood was lost! You might have blacked out!" Gerald said in shock.

"Its ok. You survived and that's a win to me," Neutron said, "You'll get your chance again. Relax."

[Shadow Dragon]

The clone remains silent and still as he allowed Gerald to do as he pleased, hoping he wouldn't go near his face right now. He wanted to see that for himself.

[ganondorf2]

Putting new wrapping on the body Gerald was about to remove the one on the clone's face when Neutron said, "No. Let him do it himself. I know he wants this. Do you need a mirror?"

[Shadow Dragon]

"If you don't mind," the clone moves his legs over the edge of the bed and shakily stands.

[ganondorf2]

{I thought he was still standing}

Neutron nods and makes a mirror appear in his hands with the phazon he can control and gives it to the clone.

[Shadow Dragon]

{I thought I had him sitting up in bed the whole time. Huh.}

Looking into the mirror, he sees that his left eye was patched with gauze. He then slowly unwraps the bandages that held the gauze to his face, and what he saw confirmed what he already knew.

His face where Asche's blade sliced showed a red vertical wound over his left eye, from forehead to cheek, caked with dry blood, and will definitely leave a scar. His eyelid split in two due to the sword strike, held together with stitches. The lid itself drooped down his face, and when the clone used his finger to painfully lift it open, all he saw was the flesh of the inside of his eyelids. The eye was completely gone, apparently what was left had to be surgically removed.

[ganondorf2]

Then Neutron said, as Gerald stood by "What else do you wish for me to do? Or do you need more time? To process?"

[Shadow Dragon]

"Yes," the clone nods, "can you create fire? If so, please let me use it for a moment."