A Thief's Fate

It started off so normal by Team Dragoon's standards. The sun was shining, flickies were tweeting, and Team Dragoon was searching for Alas Umbren. As they went through the woods on their Extreme Gear, Dria of course flying above the woods, Alan flashed back to the meeting where they had been asked to go after Alas.
Jewel: I'll get to the point, Team Dragoon. My mineral museum was robbed.
Alan: And it wasn't Rouge?
Jewel: No, footage shows it was in fact Alas.
Srish: Quick question, why send us when you're friends with Tangle?
Jewel: I felt you might want to have a hand in taking him down.
Alan: Fair enough. We'll get going... Where exactly is he?
Jewel: Reports say he went through the woods just outside Spiral Hill Village.
Team Dragoon collectively nod, and Alan's flashback ends.
Srish: Stupid forest! We'll never find Alas in here!
Silence: As he likely intended. Dria, you seeing anything?
Dria: No, nothing! Wait!
Dria spots a void blast suck away the leaves from a tree, and someone jump atop it. She looks/gets closer, and determines that it is in fact Alas. Alas also notices Dria, and panics, jumping from the treetops a bit too slow, getting shot by Dria's Combat Wings. The group soon closes in, and surround Alas.
Alas: Of course. I knew sucking the leaves off a tree wasn't a good idea, but i did it anyways!
Alan: Actually, the bad idea was stealing from the Mineral Museum, especially after popping up like you did recently. Of course, that was entirely the fault of the Dimensional Council, so you couldn't exactly not.
Alas: You may be right for the first time in your life. Nonetheless, you wouldn't let me go even if i gave back the gems, so i'll have to chase you off!
Alas opens fire with his Void Wispon, Team Dragoon scattering, before firing back. 
Srish: You know, there's no winning this battle. You're outnumbered, outclassed, and backed into a corner. 
Alas: I've beat you before! Back at that temple!
Srish: Yeah, with ruins. You don't have those to shoot at me this time. This is your final defeat!
Alas: Never!
Alas begins running, firing void blasts to cover his exit. The blasts are immediately canceled by Alan's shots, with the group zooming after him on their Extreme Gear.
Alan: You actually thought you could run from us on foot? You're not Sonic.
Srish proceeds to kick Alas off his feet, and the others stop.
Silence: The game is up, forever.
Alas: No!
Alas attempts to point blank void blast Silence, but Alan preemptively stops that by shooting Alas's Wispon and the blast he shot with Lightning claws. Before Alas can even scream in defeat or anything, his Wispon explodes, sending the gems stored in it flying at everyone and Alas's Wisp, Vacuum flying across the woods. Silence and Dria duck. while Alan puts up the Dragoon Sigil's shield, deflecting the gems heading at Srish and himself. When they look to see what happened to Alas, however, they see him with a gem stuck in the roof of his mouth. Alan pulls it out, only for it to be covered in blood, and Alas to fall over, dead. Team Dragoon quickly recoil, Alan in plain shock, Dria in horror, Srish in horrified shock, and Silence in disbelief, falling off his Extreme Gear. Vacuum then flies in and sees his dead friend, breaking down in despair. Ranger then pops out and grabs Vacuum, before taking a glance at Alas's corpse with regret, before dragging Vacuum towards Team Dragoon, not letting the death of Alas stop him from bringing his Wisp partner to justice. Team Dragoon then gather up the scattered gems, as well as Alas's body, and head off towards Spiral Hill Village to return the gems. As they pull into town, people take notice of Alas's body, and wonder about it. Team Dragoon quickly return the gems, but before they leave, a villager asks about Alas.
Spiral Hill Villager: What happened to him?
Alan: He got stabbed through the roof of his mouth with one of the gems he stole. It was a accident.
The villagers all recoiled with various expressions, and Team Dragoon just left. Soon, they returned to Restoration HQ and handed Alas's body over to people who knew what to do with him, as well as handing Vacuum to the autorities. They also informed Jewel, who acknowledged regret that this was how it ended, but that there wasn't anything anyone could do. As Team Dragoon returned to their room, they finally took the time to acknowledge what happened.
Alan: I wish i hadn't fired when i did. Then Alas would be in jail right now instead of a morgue.
Silence: You did what solved the immediate issue. It's not your fault the gem killed him.
Alan: But if i didn't shoot, his Wispon wouldn't have broken, and i wouldn't have to be thinking so hard about my decisions.
Dria: What exactly do you mean by that?
Alan: Nothing!... I suppose it's only fair to explain. All my life, i've always had the answer to tough decisions dropped into my lap. I knew what i wanted to do when i grew up when the Resistance freed Central City during the war. I knew who i'd be working alongside in the Badnik Corps when you approached me. Now, a tough decision has been answered for me, and i'm regretting the answer. It's making me wonder and worry if it will be the same if i ever get my hands on Eggman, or Eror, or any other tough decision. This is all making me think way too hard about things i don't want to be thinking about...
Srish: Maybe we could find Alas wherever he got sent and you can get closure that way?
Alan: I don't think so. We've seen a couple heavenly and hellish environments throughout the Dimension Hub, but we don't know if those actually are the heaven or hell of some dimension, nor if our dimension links to any of them. With how big the place is. finding a definitive answer is as likely as finding a grain of sand in a desert.
Srish: Ok, what about having Scribble revive him to get your answers that way?
Alan: Truthfully, i don't want to see him alive again, even if Scribble would do that for us. He was a traitor, and now he's gotten his comeuppance. I just regret being the one to deliver it.
Dria: Srish, just stop. Alan, i get it. Seeing a fellow person die right in front of you because of your indirect actions can be hard. But don't let self-questioning consume you. 
Alan: That's, heh, not exactly the best advice. But thanks. 
Dria: You're welcome. Maybe all you need is to give him some final respects. There should be a burial rather soon if the people who took Alas away are right.
Alan: Perhaps.
Team Dragoon eventually went to Alas's grave, along with Sonic, Tails, Tangle, Whisper, Jewel and Silver, if only to give him a proper sendoff.
Alan: Well, farewell, Alas. Hope wherever you are, your actions are being judged fairly.
Team Dragoon stuck around a bit longer, seeing remembering Alas for that little bit longer as the fairest thing they could do to acknowledge their regrets, before leaving with the others.
The End.
Category:Sonic Postgame(Hero of Team Dragoon's AU)