Chapter 9: Plans and Motives

Hey guys I'm so sorry for the VERY late update. Like I said before in my other story I have been quite busy lately and not able to get on here as much as I would like to but here is something for you guys. Hey by the way, I have the sequel to Enemies for Life, Revelation and Revenge. If you like Enemies for Life you I'm sure you will enjoy this one. OH! Sorry for ANY mistakes I'm pretty sure there are some in there.

Finnie didn't remember a time she cried so much and felt so hurt and betrayed. Not by her father no… As soon as she, Eclipse and Lien-Da was teleported to the main ship of the fleet, she and Eclipse were immediately locked up. But Lien-Da wasn't which meant that Lien-Da was on the bad guys' side. Finnie thought she was her friend.

Eclipse held Finnie as she continued to sob. For the first few hours Finnie cried for her father then she just stopped yelling and cried silently in her hands. Eclipse was afraid the child had lost hope that her father would come. The only person she blamed was Lien-Da and the fat man she heard the people on the ship call, Eggman. She had heard of the fat scientist that attacked and killed Mobians.

Eclipse looked to the camera in the corner of her and Finnie's cell. She glared hoping matter-of-fact knowing they were watching her. She hissed showing her sharp fangs letting the poison seep, she then spit covering the lenses.

"I can't wait for every last one of them to taste my poison…"

Lien-Da sighed, a sad sigh as Eggman laughed his belly off at the gesture. She didn't know why but she felt guilty than she should have felt. She wasn't supposed to get close to the girl. She was just using the little girl to get back at Finitevus and then get the emerald back was her main objective but that didn't work out. She had gotten close to the child and now the guilt was eating at her.

"Finitevus had a daughter. That is most amazing." Snively said chuckling.

Eggman slapped his hands on a particular button cleaning off the security lens and making Eclipse growl harder.

"I always thought the echidna was completely heartless from day one!" Eggman yelled calming down from his laughter. "But this… This will make him work for me. I'm pretty sure he'll anything for his precious little girl. Correct, Lien-Da?"

Lien-Da looked at him, erasing all emotion from her face. "Correct, Doctor."

Eggman scoffed and turned back to the camera. "I wonder if she knows what her daddy did… I also wonder if she knew how would she feel about her daddy…"

Lien-Da immediately looked up. "She already knows." She lied.

Eggman turned around looking to her. She knew he didn't believe her…for now.

"Is that so?"

Lien-Da nodded. "She overheard me taunting him about it. She believed it, I'm sure. She was afraid him but he reassured her some how."

Eggman rubbed his mustache. "Nice try but that didn't get the emerald back."

Lien-Da hung her head happy that he had believed her. She looked up again seeing he was still watching the two children. "What will you do with her doctor?"

Eggman hummed. "Well… There really is no use for her unless she knows some of her dad's secrets and powers but then again I doubt he would tell her such things, making her useless and a waste of my space." He turned around in the chair and got up leaving the central control on a elevator with Snively following behind him.

"Find something to with her and her friend or I will do away with her." He turned around saying before the elevator closed. As it began to move he stared glaring. "Snively…"

"Um, yes Uncle."

"Do you believe Lien-Da has gotten fond of that little girl?"

"Why, I do believe so." Snively replied smirking.

Eggman smirked along with him. "Hmmm… Maybe we can use that." He said chuckling lowly as he climbed off the elevator with Snively.

Lien-Da walked back to her quarters. She didn't want to face the child at all but she knew if she didn't Eggman would do something with her. If not use her against Finitevus. She also knew deep down he didn't believe her story about Finnie knowing about her dad's history, the evil part of it anyway.

She sighed again before leaving and going to the holding cafeteria. She got Finnie and Eclipse's food telling the eggbots on portal that she could handle watching the girls and that left her all alone. Night time had fallen by this time and she knew Finnie had probably cried herself to sleep and if she didn't, she surely wasn't hungry.

She took a deep breathe. She had never been this nervous nor truly guilty in her life. Not even after killing her father did she feel this guilty. She walked into sight of the girls noticing only Finnie was awake. Her head resting on her knees as Eclipse slept silently beside her.

Lien-Da took another deep breathe, saying softly, "Finnie…"

"Go away." She said lowly.

Lien-Da could hear the hoarse sound in her voice for all the yelling and crying she had done.

"Finnie I brought you and your friend something to eat."

"I'm not hungry. I just want my daddy."

Lien-Da heart could have broken in two hearing the girl go into to tears once again. She cried loud enough to awake Eclipse, who immediately wrapped around her like some type of shield away from Lien-Da.

Eclipse hissed at her, glaring. "What are you doing here?! Haven't you done enough!?"

Lien-Da glared at the child. "I haven't done anything." She said, then again, even she knew otherwise.

"Yes you have! It's your fault we're here in the first place!"

Lien-Da growled. She wasn't up for being belittled by a child. "Listen! If you can't get along with me Eggman is going to do away with you and who knows what he might try. So it's either listen to me or your going to deal with him!"

Eclipse calmed down enough to listen. "What is it?"

Lien-Da sighed relieved that she didn't have to get verbally violent with a 6 year old. "Look, I know this my fault but I can't really do much. If Eggman even thinks I'm attached to Finnie he will use her against me and do away with you. I don't want that. Like I said before, I'm sorry Finnie. I didn't want to take you from your dad and if I could I would take you back to him-"

"Why can't you?" Eclipse said making Finnie look up at Lien-Da hopeful. Her little face wet with tears.

Lien-Da did her best not to growl. "Listen, I have dealt with Eggman a lot longer than you have ever known him. He has eyes and ears everywhere on this place."

Eclipse wrapped from around Finnie seeing as she wanted to get up. She did so turning back to Lien-Da. "But you talking to us now, wouldn't he be listening and wouldn't get in trouble if he was."

Lien-Da sighed. "I'll take my chances." Lien-Da noticed Finnie had walked up close enough to touch her. Lien-Da crouched down placing the food trays inside and taking Finnie's hands.

Finnie's looked to her, eyes puffy and red tears still streaming down. Eclipse had made her way behind her placing both her hands on her either shoulder.

Lien-Da smiled to her saying, "Finnie I'm going to do everything I can to make sure nothing happens to you."

Finnie nodded sadly before looking to her again. "Will my daddy come for me?"

Lien-Da smile grew bigger. "Yep and he is going to come with a wrath not even I have seen."

I know it's short but at least I gave you guys something! Right! Right?...

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