For those who already read this story, I changed it a bit. Sorta XP Anyway, I don't own SEGA characters, you should know who, nor Falco (from Star Fox). I only own my OC: Tobi Darken. Enjoy ^^
Hyper Heroes: Chapter 01: A Hyper Encounter
- Tobi's POV -
There is a group of fighters with incredible power that fight to free the world from evil, but they're still hidden from normal people, but fortunately, I know who they really are. That group is called the Hyper Heroes. Most of them are my age plus one, which is 15 years old, and they also live in Station Square, the same city where my friends and I live. I've got a friend that belongs to that group. Sonic is his name, but he didn't tell me anything about the Hyper Heroes; I figured it out myself. He doesn't even know that I know his secret.
My name is Tobi Darken. I'm a 14-year-old hedgehog. My fur or quills however you want to call it, is black and my head quills are the same shape as Sonic's, but mine are just little shorter. Also, I've got three yellow fur lines coming from my forehead like that friend of Sonic's, Tails I think. I've got one dark eye and the other one is brown. Normally, I wear a red scarf and black shoes with random silver stripes and white gloves like everybody. My size, I'm shorter than Sonic. I posses the power of darkness and it's inside me, I can't lose it.
All what I want is to be accepted there and be part of that team. I'm willing to ask them for a fight to be accepted. I was just outside their home: the Hyper Mansion, ringing the bell, until finally Sonic answered.
"Hey, Tobi! Long time no see!" he greeted.
"Hi, Sonic!" I answered "Long time no see! How are you doing?"
"I'm doing awesome! What about you?"
"I'm doing awesome too!" I thumbed up.
"Cool!" he answered with a thumb up too. "What brings you here?"
"Well, I was a little bored at home, and I remembered your address, so I came. I hope you don't mind." My excuse. Really credible, isn't it?
"Of course not! Come in!" he answered.
I saw the beautiful mansion's interior with polished-wood floor and golden painted walls. The main hall has three doors: one to the right, one to the left and one behind the stairs. The stairs lead you to the upper floor and are T-formed, with a way to the left and a way to the right, and also a door on the intersection. Also, the main hall has a big crystallized candelabrum. We entered to the floor to the right, which leaded to the living room. It isn't small, I'll tell you that.
Some big picture windows covered with golden curtains, on the opposite side of that window there's a fancy black sofa of 5 spaces. The cushions are black with golden trimmings. On the right side there's another armchair of 8 spaces of the same model. On its side, there's a black egg-shaped chair of the same model. Between the picture windows there's a plasma TV inlaid to the wall that encompasses 3.5 x 2 meters with different shelves on the sides with different consoles, a computer, movies, videogames, etc. In the center, there's a wide table of 1.5 x 2.5 meters, black-colored and with golden designs. The tapestry under that table is black colored with golden designs too. The floor is polished wood, like the rest of the mansion.
After I saw the living room I asked Sonic "Do you live here alone? I mean, it's an immense living room for just one person."
"Well, I live with other people here. In fact, they're students from the same school as us, but from other classrooms."
"Do I know them?"
"I don't think so" he answered "They are at their rooms."
"And why do they live here and not at their own homes?" I asked.
"Because it's better to live in a group of friends than to live alone, don't you think so?"
"Yup" I answered "I really thought it was because everybody that lives in this mansion is part of the Hyper Heroes." Just when I mentioned the name of their group, Sonic jumped and his pupils shrunk by the surprise… though I said that like if I was a little innocent kid, like if it didn't matter.
"Huh? How do you know about the Hyper Heroes?" he asked.
"I've seen you and other guys battling against Dr. Eggman a lot of times. Don't worry, I won't tell anybody! I just finally wanted to challenge you and join the Hyper Heroes. I posses the power of darkness and I want to proof myself what I'm capable of."
"You never told me you had power!" he yelled "and I couldn't even sense it!"
"Because I have the ability to hide the essence of my power" I answered "So, come on! I want to have a battle against you all!"
"Ok, then! Just let me ask the leader, Falco" he answered.
The cobalt hedgehog then leaded me to a teleporting seal which was the door at the stairs' intersection. He told me to wait a moment and called every Hyper Hero to come to battle. The battlefield is a 4-wall-closed, plain terrain with stadium lights at the ceiling and also some terraces for spectators, where each Hyper Heroes sit, except for a blue falcon. Sonic was telling him something and I could see the blue guy nod. I'm prepared; I'm sure they will be impressed with my power and I'm eager to battle them! Yahoo!
"So, you are Tobi, right?" said the blue falcon staring at me. Then he evil-smirked and said "You really think you can defeat each one of us?
He looked very confident about himself, maybe he thought I wasn't strong enough.
"I don't, but I want to be accepted here and be a member of your team." I said hoping that he accepts my challenge. "And I'll fight to prove that I can be worthy to be a member of this team!" He had a very serious look; he just wasn't satisfied with my answer so he asked "Why?"
"Because I simply want to see your power… and I also think that having friends like you would be fun!" I answered cheerfully. He looked at me for a moment and then answered me.
"Alright then, show us what you've got! You'll fight from the weakest member to the strongest" he said while he turned around and walked away to the battlefield's terraces. While walking there he ordered: "Cream, Cheese, you're the first ones."
Then a rabbit stood up and jumped. She landed in front of me and I could see that she was way smaller than me.
"I'll do my best, Mr. Falco!" she said with a little cute and soft voice.
"Chao, chao."
"Come on, Cream, I'm only 15; you don't have to call me Mr." said the falcon as if she always said that. Wow, I can't believe what my eyes saw; the cutest thing in the whole world, Cream the Rabbit. She was just a 7-year-old kid and her little chao friend: Cheese; and they form part of the Hyper Heroes. I knew I couldn't hurt her, so I just needed to defeat her falsely.
"Are you ready, Cheese? Here we come!" said Cream to Cheese to tell him to be prepared. Cheese just said "Chao!" and Cream jumped so high that I was distracted by the height of her jump. Man, she could fly, she attacked with a kick while she was falling and then Cheese tried to punch me, but both attacks missed, or better said, evaded. I just grabbed Cream's foot and pulled it to make Cream fall to the floor; I pulled out my violet-steeled dagger, feinted Cream and grabbed Cheese so that he couldn't move.
I said while closing my eyes "That was easy. You know, you should declare me the winner. I don't want to hurt you."
"Oh… Thanks Mr. Tobi for not hurting me! You win." she declared cheerfully.
"I'm 14, Cream; you don't have to call me Mr."
"Oh… ok, Mr. Tobi!" she answered. I think she didn't get the message. Oh well, my first battle was a piece of chocolate sweet cake. My next battle was against a big fat purple cat called Big the Cat; he's 20 years old.
"I'm ready, my little friend. I hope you are prepared!" he warned. I think he's underestimating me. I answered to him "I'm more prepared than I look."
Strange, he just had a fishing rod that was attached to… A FREAKIN' SPIKES BALL! But well, he was too slow, so it wasn't that difficult to evade. I just jumped and hopped on his spikes ball, luckily the ball wasn't completely full of spikes. When he swung his spikes ball back to him, I jumped and kicked him on the face using darkness to boost my power. I think I exaggerated that kick, because he was already defeated.
"Man, I'm sorry… are you ok?" I asked hoping that he wasn't too hurt. Nah, I was exaggerating my preoccupation.
"Yeah, don't worry, you win!" he answered. Another easy victory; I think I will clear this in a flash. My next battle is against Charmy the Bee, a 7-year-old bee.
"Yeah! Let's battle now! I wanna rock 'n' roll!" said Charmy with joy. He looks eager to battle me.
"You like battling as much as I do… cool! Let's rock 'n' roll" I answered with joy too. Yeah, we have something in common. The first move he did was his Bee Sting, in other words; his most powerful move. A potent bee needle striking at high speed towards me, but it wasn't fast enough. I only had to block him with my dagger to stop him. He had a surprised look on his face. I could stop his most powerful move that easy. I only pushed him with my dagger upwards to send him flying back to the place he stood up. He declared me the winner of his fight. My next battle was against Storm the Albatross.
"Alright little brat, I'm going to show you who is boss here!" he said while cracking his fists.
"He's the boss!" I answered stupidly pointing at… Falco, wasn't he?
"I was talking about defeating you!" he yelled.
"Oh… I knew that." I answered with a nervous smile.
A 16-year-old albatross almost twice as tall as me, but I didn't sense much more power than Charmy. He attacked me clapping his hands; releasing a small but very powerful tornado. It was his Wind Clap, his most powerful move. His Wind Clap was coming towards me coming from his hands, I thought it was going to be a good fight, but since it was a projectile, I only swung my fist, opening it during the swing, releasing my Ominous Wind; a spooky violet long-circled-ranged wind that easily canceled Storm's attack and it hit him so heavy that he fell on his face. He stood up and tried to punch me; but he was so clumsy that I just stepped aside and put my foot so that he could fall. He was so angry that he stood up and since I was close, he wanted to punch me at the moment he stood up, but his attempt failed thanks to another Ominous Wind. The nearer the victim is from my Ominous Wind, the more damage it receives.
"Drat! I lost! I can't believe this but you win!" he yelled. I wanted to tease him so I only said "Well, believe it, 'cause it happened."
I wanted to skip my battles until I confronted Sonic or some other powerful foe, but they didn't let me. Oh well, my next opponent was Wave the Swallow.
"Who do you think you are to come to our home and attack us?" asked Wave.
"I think I'm someone that wants a challenge." As soon as I finished that sentenced I ran towards her to strike her with my dagger. She used some kind of giant wrench to block my attack and counterattack pushing her wrench like a sword to toss me. I landed on my feet and when I looked again, she was already running towards me and swung her wrench horizontally down. I stepped back quickly to evade and when the wrench hit the floor, it cracked. I think that wrench is too big for her; she swung it a lot of times, she didn't hit me and I only moved a little.
"Um… isn't that thing a little big for you?" I asked rubbing my head.
"It's not! It will take you down!" she yelled.
"Are you sure?" I jeered followed by using my Ominous Wind near her and she was easily defeated. I like using my Ominous Wind, but unfortunately, it costs a lot of energy to cast it. My next opponent was Miles Prower, also known as Tails; he's a 12-year-old two-tailed kitsune.
"Alright, I'll do my best!" he said.
"You're better than Storm and Wave?" I asked while looking at Tails with a surprised face. "Wow, you have to be good for being younger."
"Heheh, I think so." said Tails blushing.
"Then don't let your guard down!" I warned him and instantly started to run towards him.
I fooled him; that was easy. I ran towards him to punch him but he flew spinning his tails as if they were a helicopter. He then took out some kind of ring and threw it to me. When that ring touched me, it electrified me! I had to take revenge on that, so I used the Ominous Wind to hit him. He fell down but he wasn't defeated yet; he threw me three rings similar to the first one, but I easily blocked them with an Ominous Wind, hitting Tails while I used it.
"Ugh!" he squealed.
"Got you now!"
He stood up and I ran towards him. I quickly kicked his feet to make him fall, but before he hit the floor I pressed my fist against his back and used the Ominous Wind, sending him through the air. I just let his body fall and he was already defeated.
"You barely got me, but I defeated you." I said.
"Yeah… you win..." said the yellow kitsune, already flying to the terraces to rest.
"Great! Time I have my action!" said a red echidna that was behind me ready to battle.
I turned my head "And you are…?" I asked.
"My name is Knuckles the Echidna, and I'll be your defeater." he said trying to presume that he was stronger than me.
"Heh, then bring it on! I want to have fun!" I said cheerfully; I love to have fun after all. He charged towards me to punch me, but I just stepped aside and he missed, and then I kicked him on his back and made him fall, but before he could fall he put his hands on the floor to take impulse and jump forward to avoid the fall. He tried to punch again with his spiky knuckles but this time I used my dagger to block him. Even if I blocked him, his fist continued its course, since I'm not as strong as him; but he couldn't hit me; I jumped back before he could. When I landed, Knuckles was already coming towards me to hit me again, so I used the Ominous Wind to finish him when he was close enough from me. When I hit him he was blown away, but not defeated yet.
"Argh! I won't lose… against you!" he yelled.
He punched the floor and it cracked. The crack increased, continuing its course towards me. I jumped high to reach him through the air. He lifted a rock from the ground, a giant one, and threw it to me. The only thing I could do was to spin at mid-air and break the rock with my dagger. Fortunately, I could do it and I didn't stop, so I fell over Knuckles and defeated him.
"Whoa! I'm dizzy!" I said while trying to stand still "I never tried that move before." It seems that Knuckles was totally mad and yelled "I won't lose against a brat like you! Rrraaggh!"
"Such a knucklehead… then I'll take you out!" I shouted raising my dagger to hit him again, but Tails cut in and scolded to Knuckles "Calm down, Knuckles! Listen to him; you could get seriously damaged."
"Damn it, fine!" Knuckles yelled. Yup, another battle won. But it's not over yet, I must continue… Meanwhile on the terraces Sonic and other guys were discussing something.
"Sonic, Shadow, Silver, do you think we should let him skip all his battles and let him challenge us?" Falco asked to his hedgehog friends.
"He has to defeat us all." said a black hedgehog that had his arms crossed and was almost sleepy because of the 'boring' battles "He's just started."
"Shadow's right." said a white hedgehog. "We must make him reach his limits, even though he's advancing with so much ease."
"Yeah and it looks like he isn't getting exhausted. He may be a very big challenge for us." said Sonic while looking at me like if he was analyzing. They were mistaken; my energy was lower than they thought because of the many times I used my Ominous Wind. My next battle against Rouge the Bat wasn't as easy as the last battles I had.
"Ok honey, time to see if you are really strong; not like those other guys you defeated." Rouge said trying to flirt to me to distract me with a wink. I blushed for a moment but then shook my head and came back to myself. "Whenever you're ready…" I said.
She was flying, and she wasn't easy to hit. Fortunately, my Ominous Wind had two attack forms, its all-circled-ranged form; which is the normal Ominous Wind, and its explosive projectile form or Ominous Projectile, and it doesn't cost me too much energy. Before I could shoot she came down with her Screw Attack, her most powerful move. She was spinning very fast with her foot at the top of the screw; and her high heels have a sharp metallic edge. I had to evade it so I jumped high; she hit the floor then, but still attacked again and I was still in the air. The only thing I could do was the Ominous Projectile. I used it and hit her, then she stopped spinning and while I was falling I hit her with my dagger. Nobody can't kill or damage lethally if they don't wish to so she was ok, but she still felt the pain. I landed and she was still falling, so I used another Ominous Projectile to send her flying to the ceiling. She hit it very hard and also the projectile exploded, so that's the same as a sure K.O.
"Ah! You are a very strong guy… I declare you the winner." She said while grabbing her wound I did with my dagger.
"I hope I didn't hurt you." I said worried about her.
"Nah, it's just the feeling not the cut." she affirmed. At least she's okay. Falco then stood up from the terraces glaring at me with a smirk and said:
"Well, well, Tobi, you really are getting through this very easily. But playtime is over. Your next opponent is E-123 Omega, a destruction machine with artificial intelligence. Don't think that it will hold back."
"Well then, bring him here!" I said prepared for the battle with Omega. Omega is almost as big as Storm; he stood up in front of me and I was looking upwards thanks to his size.
I was looking him with widened eyes and stuttered "Uh… can I backtrack?"
It transformed its arms to machineguns. "MISSION: DEFEAT CHALLENGER! INICIATING BATTLE MODE. TARGET LOCATED, OPENING FIRE!" he said with robotic voice. It was a hell evading each shot, so I just used my Ominous Wind repeatedly without full power so that it won't cost a lot of energy. After a while, Omega stopped shooting and changed his firing weapon. You could hear a robotic voice saying:
"CHANGING WEAPON TO FLAMETHROWER! INICIATING FIRE!"
Well, now THAT'S a very well armed machine. I did a high jump to evade the flames, but then Omega fired at me to the air. I knew I couldn't evade it. I had to protect myself with my dark energy. When the flames reached me, I felt the heat and it was too intense, but fortunately it didn't damage me a lot. When I recovered I shot at Omega using the Ominous Projectile. It pierced Omega and exploded inside him. Omega's armor was really strong, so I didn't destroy him, but he declared me as the winner.
"MISSION FAILED. WINNER: CHALLENGER. PROCEED TO YOUR NEXT BATTLE." he declared. Falco and the others were impressed that I defeated him.
"What the…?" Falco exclaimed.
"He… didn't get damaged, did he?" Sonic stuttered.
"No… he must have been damaged. Omega's flames aren't weak, you know." said the white hedgehog nervously.
"He is no joke; it's not easy, not even a little bit to defeat Omega" said a green hawk impressed about my success.
"Well, we will defeat him when he reaches us." said the arrogant black hedgehog.
I couldn't wait until I faced them. Omega's power was greater than Rouge's so I think the next Heroes will be tough from now on. My next battle is against Vector the Crocodile, a 20-year-old crocodile.
"Well, it's the first time I battle a challenger," said Vector congratulating me "The first one, and also one that could beat Omega."
"I see… you're supposed to be stronger than Omega. Then show me what you've got!" I ordered to start the battle.
Vector spit out from his mouth… musical notes? I thought this was a joke, but when those notes reached me, I was getting dizzy. I could barely feel stable; Vector then punched me very hard and I was sent flying. I was buried inside the wall by the hit; he's very strong. When I got out I felt stable again.
"Ow… You punch very hard, don't you?" I said while rubbing my head in pain. Then I prepared for combat and said "Well, then I won't go easy this time."
"I'd like to see you try." Vector said.
I charged towards him and dashed right behind him. I was too fast for him, it seemed. I lengthen my dagger with my darkness, transforming it into a long dark saber and hit Vector. He was blown away until he hit the wall. He got angry and spit fire from his mouth. For a moment I thought I needed to do the same I did with Omega, but I shot an Ominous Projectile and battled the flames; the projectile was going through the flames disabling them and when it was about to go into Vector's mouth, he bit it and my attack was disabled too. He looked at me with a somewhat evil smile.
"Give up already; I've seen your techniques 8 times. I know all your tricks!" he said thinking that I had no other new moves left.
"Heheh… not all of them…" I said while giving an evil smile.
Again, I dashed, but this time, below him, I kicked him and sent him upwards and then jumped to slash him with my saber many times and then kicked him to make him fall heavier and I also fell piercing Vector with my saber, but since I didn't want to, it wasn't fatal damage. He was knocked out and I was declared the winner again.
"Tobi, your next battle is against Cosmo the Plant. If you defeat her, you will face the strongest group of the Hyper Heroes." Falco announced to me.
"I look forward to confront that group," I said eagerly pointing at Falco with my dagger "and you're part of that excitement."
Cosmo then stood in front of me. She looked like a sweet plant girl; I looked through her eyes that she didn't want… not fight but… something else…
"Do you feel ok? You don't wish to fight?" I asked looking at her cute blue eyes.
Cosmo closed her eyes and said "It's nothing…" and then she opened her eyes and glared at me saying "let's do this!"
"Alright!" I answered cheerfully and prepared for battle.
Cosmo then threw some roses to me; I covered them easily with my dagger, but when they fell on the ground, they grew and grabbed my feet so I couldn't move. Cosmo threw more roses, but his time I used the Ominous Wind without full power to block them, but they still reached me and grabbed my arms. Cosmo then put her hands on the floor and many giant spiky knots rose from the ground, hitting me very badly, and to finish, she used her most powerful move, the Petal Storm. It was a whirlwind of rose petals striking my body with much strength. After the storm ended, the roses freed me and I fell to the ground.
"So he isn't strong enough to defeat Cosmo." said Falco disappointed because of my defeat against Cosmo.
"How disappointing, I was getting excited to battle him, but he couldn't defeat Cosmo." said the ebony hedgehog with his eyes closed. He then stood up and prepared to go saying "Well then, it's all over"
"At least he fought well." Falco said satisfied.
When Falco and Shadow were standing up to go, my azure hedgehog friend told them to wait and see. My body was transforming into dark matter and then disappeared. I reappeared behind Cosmo and I was pointing her neck with my dagger.
"Your roses trapped me but your Petal Storm didn't hit me, thanks to my dark clone." I muttered and then leaned over to her and whispered on her ear "I can swing my dagger and end this, or you could only save me the trouble to swing it and declare me the winner already."
"You already are the winner." she answered immediately. "Congratulations, you will know confront the Hyper Elite."
I removed my dagger from Cosmo's neck. I was silent on a moment and then celebrated "Woohoo! I finally confront that group! Yeah!"
Cosmo then smiled at me and went to sit to the terraces. Falco was trembling and Sonic was looking at him with an eyebrow rose.
"Falco? Are you… trembling?" asked Sonic to Falco, thinking that something was wrong with him.
"Don't tell us you're afraid!" said the black and red hedgehog trying to scoff at Falco.
Falco was silent for a moment and then he stopped trembling. He then smiled and answered to Sonic and Shadow "I'm not afraid… I'm excited… excited of fighting somebody who is a real challenge."