It Started With a Heist

A soft tap was all that was heard as I easily landed on the tiled floors.

Without missing a beat I pressed my back against the wall of the store, putting myself in the security cameras blind spot.

'For a jewellery store this place has laughable security,' I thought snidely. 'It's like they're begging to have their jewels put into more... capable hands.'

I stealthily scaled the smooth surface of the wall until I was level with the security camera. I pulled a tiny device from the side compartment of my breastplate, undid the wire connecting the camera to the security room of the store, and swapped it with the wire attached to the device.

'Three... Two... One...'

A light flashed on the device telling me that the camera was showing a continuous loop of the room.

An empty room.

I continued to do the same to the other five cameras in the room.

I sighed.

Where's the thrill?

Either these places were getting exponentially worse with security or this was becoming too easy for me.

This 'job' was becoming much too simple.

It was passing by in a blur of monotony. I felt like I was on automatic rather than actually doing something worthwhile.

The thrill of the hunt was quickly becoming extinct. The excitement of snatching jewels from their pedastals was losing its luster.

More of an obligation than a want.

I sighed as I started to pack the jewels into the pack I brought.

A gleam caught my eye as I closed the sack.

I gasped.

The gem was huge, standing on a luxurious pedastal in the back room of the store. The main attraction for sure.

'And it matches my eyes,' I thought lustfully. The gem was in a 'brilliant cut' diamond style, but it was definitely no diamond. It seemed to create its own light, as if it had some kind of energy deep inside of it.

But that would be ridiculous.

Stones reflect light, they don't create it.

I shook my head.

Why was I thinking this instead of just swiping the gem?

I swiftly yet quietly scampered over to the pedastal, removing the gem from its place atop it.

I felt so warm touching the gem.

Maybe I was wrong and it did somehow make its own energy...

I stood still to admire it in my hands for a second, it's cyan glow giving my white opera gloves a light blue hue of their own.

'Now this is what it's all about, baby!' I thought excitedly, 'this is what I've been looking for!'

I decided to leave the store. All of the other jewels in here were tame compared to this one, no matter how good they may have looked previously. No diamond in the world could compare to this one.

I walked under the air vent I entered in, jumping half of the way up and using my powerful wings to fly the rest. When I was safely in I pressed a button on the scanner that covered my the top left side of my face.

'Three... Two... One...'

My sensitive ears picked up a light popping noise.

The devices interfering with the cameras were gone just like that.

I climbed through the air vent to the roof. The same way I came into the store.

'Thanks Opus Jewllers, you have made one very satisfied customer,' I silently giggled to myself.

I pulled myself out of the air vent easily, and dropped down from the elevated entrance with no more than a light tap.

"Nice night out, isn't it?"

I jumped a bit, startled from the sudden noise. I looked around for the culprit and found a silhouette of what looked to be an athletic yet slender body with slicked back quills.

A hedgehog for sure.

"It'd be even nicer if you put those rocks back where they belong,"the male voice said confidently although it seemed a bit young... Maybe a year or two younger than me. "But I guess you're not gonna do it if I just ask you, right?"

I recovered my demeanour, giving off my own confident air to counter the kid's. "You got that right, hon. Aren't you out past you're bedtime anyway?" I kept my voice silkily flirtatious and teasing. Trying to fluster the kid into letting me leave.

He turned around and the only thing I could identify of him now were his emerald eyes."Nope," he said cheekily "This hedgehog has no bedtime."

"And this bat doesn't take orders kid."

"Who're you calling kid? You're only a year older than me, batgirl."

I dismissed the accusotory statement with a wave of my hand. "It doesn't matter kid, because in five seconds you'll never see me again."

I turned and ran the other way, ready to fly of into the night, away from the little brat.

The wind seemed to pick up for a bit before easing up again.

"No such luck, babe."

My eyes widened momentarily before going back to normal.

How did this kid get from one side of the building to the other so quickly? I didn't even take two steps and he's already there!

"Now if we're done with all this, would you be so kind as to return the jewels to the store?" The mocking tone was clear now.

I didn't like it.

"Are you sure I can't keep the jewels big boy?" My tone changing from flirtatious to outright seductive, my pose doing the same. "They're so pretty, and diamonds are a girl's best friend you know? Though I'm sure you're a close second." I purred. I was laying it on so thick, that even I could see this wasn't going to go as well as I thought.

So I poured it on even more.

I leaned foreword a bit, exposing my slightly large though still budding cleavage to his eyes. I batted my eyelashes at him, though still keeping a sultry look.

I did everything in my power to get away from him.

And it worked.

Almost.

"F-fine! You c-can keep the d-diamonds," It was almost hilarious how he tried to keep his eyes in my face instead of my chest. "All I really want is the Chaos Emerald."

'The what now?'

My confusion must have shown on my face because his lost all signs of nervousness.

'Damn I lost my edge!'

"You know, a stone about the size of a hand. Glows on its own, is a bit hot to touch."

Oh that gem.

No way he's taking that from me.

"Sorry blue boy. But that gem is staying where it belongs now, with me."

"Look, babe I need that gem, it's part of a set that's really important to me, you don't know what it can do."

"It's a rock. It sits there and looks pretty, it does nothing of importance. And did you just call me babe? I am not your 'babe', honey?"

"Well I don't know your name and batgirl's a bit too long don't you think?" He mock pondered for a second. "Yeah, I think it fits just fine."

'The nerve of this brat! Why I ought to slap him silly for being so fresh with a lady like me.'

"And you're wrong. That's not just some gem. It's a very powerful source of energy. One discharge could power the entire country for hours."

"Well that's some useful information there kid. But I'm not giving you my Chaos Emerald!" I turned away in a huff. "You said that it's part of a set so why don't you just get you're o-"

Sirens. My ears picked up sirens in the distance.

'This kid kept me here to long! I have to go now!'

"Move kid! I have to go!"

My change in tone startled him a bit but he regained his composure soon enough.

"No way babe," he said in a snarky tone,"that emerald's more powerful than you can understand. I'm not letting you keep it unsupervised!"

"I'm a grown woman! I don't need anybody to watch over me, especially not you, you glorified pincushion!"

He scoffed. "Please you're no older than fourteen."

"I don't think you understand! I have too go now!"

"What's the rush? Am I too much for you?" he winked mockingly.

'That's it! I'm so done with this kid.'

Without warning I rushed him and aimed a dangerous kick at his midsection.

It never hit.

At least not his midsection. He countred it with a kick of his own.

"Very ladylike, you should right a book on it," he remarked sarcastically.

"Shut up!"

I aimed another kick to his head, he dodged this one by stepping back.

Right off of the roof...

I actually gasped in horror. I just seriously injured if not killed a kid. The kid could have landed on something sharp, he could be slowly dying...

Or he could be in a ball, bouncing back up, right in front of me...

I'm starting to hate this kid more and more.

"You like that move? I call it my bounce attack."

"Move kid! Who do you think you are, faking your death! Do you get off on pissing people off?"

"... Is it that time of the month for you?"

'Argh!'

'This kid is driving me insane!'

"Because I'd totally understand that. You know one time-"

He cut himself off.

Thank goodness the kid stopped talking!

"Do you hear that?" he asked. "Are those... Sirens? The police!"

I rolled my eyes. 'Oh this kid is a genius alright.'

"Come out with your hands up! If you refuse to do so, force will be used!"

'Oh gosh they're right outside the building!' The panic was evident in my voice. I haven't gotten caught since my raid six months ago.

I shuddered at the thought of what the bastards in Empire City made me do to go free...

He must have noticed my subdued state. His face lost its playful demeanour and took on a confused and concerned one.

"Hey. Are you okay?"

I didn't answer.

I just stood there frozen.

I heard him curse under his breath.

"Hey, I'm going to get you out of this. Okay?"

I looked at him in surprise.

"You don't want to turn me in?"

"I just want my emerald, I couldn't care less about the people on this island." there was a film of hate laced over his words.

"You're a strange one, blue boy." I gave him a genuine smile.

"I try to keep it interesting." he chuckled.

I heard the policemen scaling the wall. They'd be up here in no time.

"Let me hold the emerald," he ordered.

"Wha-," was he just lying before?

"I need the power boost for us to sneak by quick enough for them not too notice us."

I hesitantly gave the gem over.

It looked like it reacted to him immediately. Bolts of energy flew around his body it looked as if he was about to explode.

Without warning he picked me up bridal style.

Then he was off. Like a shot of lightning.

The scenery changed so quickly. One second we were in the city, the next in a small forest beside a cottage.

He set me down on the ground slowly. He probably knew that I was discombobulated.

I slowly got my bearings.

The trees stopped spinning and up became up again, not left like before.

"That was amazing..." I gasped.

"Thanks. That emerald increases the parameters of my abilities ten times over. At least that's what Tails told me."

"Interesting..."

"I think so." he chuckled then looked slightly more serious. "I think you should stay here for a bit."

"What?"

"The police are going to be looking high and low for their jewel thief. Mr. Battier, the shop owner, is one of the nastiest people on this island. And that's saying something. You're gonna have to lay low"

"You don't seem to like this place very much."

"I hate it." That's all no explanation, no reason, just hatred... It seemed off on this kid. It didn't fit.

"Oh..."

"My suggestion is that you leave as soon as possible," the hate was lifted from his voice. As if he forcefully pushed it to the back of his mind. "That's what me and Tails are doing."

"But how am I going to get off this island? It's not like I can just hop on a plane with all my 'merchandise'."

"Tails and I can get you off of here no problem."

"Just like that?" I was amazed.

"Yep." He shrugged it off like it was no big deal. "Except one thing..."

I sighed. It's never that easy. "What do you want blue boy?"

He winked at me. "I don't travel with people whose names I don't know."

I sighed in relief than shook my head, giggling a bit. "You're something else. My name is Rouge the Bat, but you can just call me Rouge." I winked back at him. "What's your name, blue?"

He flashed me a confident smile and a thumbs up, "I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog."

I'm going for it. A chaptered story it's probably not going to be very long I'm thinking around ten to fifteen chapters, but hey quality not quantity right. I hope you all enjoyed this and if you did let me know in the review section.

Thanks for reading.