Sapphire's Power and Niko's Lock-Up
#4 of The Reasons We Fight
With this newest revelation Niko and Sapphire must figure out what they will do, but Tails comes in to take Niko away to keep him away. However, while locked up, Niko discovers that his mother is alive and he and Sapphire use telepathy to figure out an escape plan.
"I'm quite aware of what is going on with my hands," Sapphire told Niko, removing the bloody gauze from his wound carefully. "Well, so much for calling the Councilor," she thought absently.
Niko looks outside using psychic vision and sees it's clear. Getting up, he looks at Sapphire a playful glare in his eyes.
"I'm not the only one with secrets it seems." he stated matter-of-factly. "Looks like you've got some confessing to do-"
"There you are!" a voice yells out from behind Niko. Niko gulped audibly, knowing full well who it was he was going to see when he turned around. He turned to see Tails staring at him with a look that told Niko his fate without Tails even saying it.
"Dad...I..." Niko began but immediately stopped when Tails raised his hand.
"Lemme guess," Tails said in a calm but angry tone. "I just had to see her?"
Niko nods at this and suddenly Tails does something no one on Mobius would expect him to do, he throws a solid right hook which lands on Niko's right jaw making Niko fall to the ground. Sapphire runs to Niko's side. Niko looks at Tails with a look of inquiry.
"I tell you not to go anywhere near Sapphire until I see you've gained a good amount of control and here I find you with her," Tail said listing off every "rule" Niko broke. "I grounded you for a week and told you to stay in the lab during that time...and you sneak out. I told you not to use your powers in front of people...and you use them in front of Sapphire...to turn 7 G.U.N soldiers into millions of tiny cubes...do you have ANY IDEA WHAT YOU'VE GOTTEN ME INTO, NIKO! I'VE HAD TO ERASE MEMORIES, PAY THE NEIGHBORS TO KEEP QUIET AND REMOVE A SNIPER'S BODY FROM A LITTLE GIRL'S TREE HOUSE! WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?! ANSWER ME!"
Niko hadn't thought of how his use of his powers were affecting tails who was cleaning up his mess. He got so caught up in his powers that he had forgotten the person who was going to have to repair the damage and restore the order.
"I...I..." Niko stammered before Tails cut him off again.
"SAVE IT!" Tails shouted. Having calmed down, he sighed. "So you truly think you can do what you want now that you've "gained full control", huh?" Tails continued. "I'll give you a choice, then. You can do what you want and I disown you..." Niko gasped. Why was he saying this? He thought. "Or you can come home and swear you'll never use your powers or go anywhere near Sapphire ever again until I say it's okay...which, due to what's happened here, will probably be close to never...take your pick wisely, as the choice you make decides where you'll be living for the rest of your life."
"Tails...please..." was all Niko could say before tears began to stream down his face. He was being forced to choose between his family or Sapphire, a decision he couldn't have imagined he would have to make. Tails and Mina raised him despite his powers. Given him food, clothing, shelter. On the other side, he had known Sapphire since their diaper days. He had just told her he loved her and asked out to the dance, revealed his powers and made her hate him, took a bullet for her and made her trust him a little more, and found out he wasn't the only one with supernatural gifts, giving them something in common. Who could he pick? Finally coming up with his answer he turned to face Sapphire, tears going down his face faster than before.
"I'm sorry, Sapphire." He choked. "Please don't forget me." He turned to his father and glared with a look saying, "I'll never forgive you for this" and walks past him to go back to his prison cell, the lab. Tails turns his attention to Sapphire.
"I want you to contact your boss and tell him I need some...security measures set up around my lab, in case the G.U.N show up again." Tails said. "Can you do that?"
Sapphire nods and does so. When Sapphire's boss arrives at Tails's house, Tails asks for them to put up as much military grade security as he can. They agrees and, 5 hours and 25,000 rings later, Tails' lab is air tight with security. Inside the lab, Niko is throwing random psi attacks out of anger and begging Tails to let him go. This continues for awhile until he feels a calming presence. He began to realize that the presence is Sapphire's. She's using Psi-Link to try to communicate to Niko. Doing the same, Niko sees her face soaked in tears.
"Sapphire?" Niko asked, eyes glowing a bright blue. "If you can hear me...please say something..."
"Hey," Sapphire said softly, laying on her bed and looking towards the ceiling. "I've never tried this. Platinum was trying to extend my powers, but I didn't think she would be able to. Well, I guess she did." She sat up and held her head in her hands.
"I can't believe the Director actually put up that security." Sapphire shook her head is immense disapproval. She then stood up to begin pacing.
"Do you know how damn hard it was for me to resist the urge to slap your father across the face?" she asked angrily, "Punching you in the face, forcing you to make a decision like that, calling me a little girl." Sapphire used to love Tails. He was always fun to be around, but she just saw a side of him that made almost all of that admiration disappear.
"I miss you Sapphire." Niko said sadly. "With all my heart."
"So do I Niko." Sapphire said sadly. "I wish there was a way I could show you how much you matter to me. I want to free you."
"Me too, Saph." Niko said as he is beginning to do a powerful attack. "Me too."
Being in the lab, having food given to you via a doggie door, and having no contact with the world outside the lab, it was a relief hearing her voice or just anyone's voice. Now he had a new reason to bust out, with main reason being he found newspaper article from eleven years ago, the day his parents went missing. At least that's what Fiona said when she found him. The article says his parents were last seen in a small town called Shimalu, a few miles from where he was found. Fiona brought him to Tails and Mina in the hopes that they could take care of him. Niko felt so out of place amongst the town and wanted to know where he came from. When he found the newspaper clipping, Niko knew this was the only clue he had and he wasn't going to wait until Tails could trust him. He projected the newspaper article to Sapphire.
"Can you help me with this?" Niko asked Sapphire, projecting the newspaper article to her. "I wanna find my real parents and I can't do it alone. As for the whole "trapped under tight security" thing, I've got that covered. Does your house have a fireplace?" She nods and Niko's smirk turns into a wide smile.
"Well I want you to remove the logs if any are in there. I have the ability to teleport to anywhere with a fireplace, be it a standard one or one of those amish fireplaces. Much like the Floo Powder from Harry , but no need to be specific on where I'm going. Lemme know when you've done so, but please be quick about it. There's a guard who's supposed to check to see if I'm still here. I wanna be gone before he gets here." Niko had his mind made up. He was getting out tonight and he wasn't gonna let no Mobian or machine stop him.