Alternative Freedom Fighters:
Season Two.
Chapter 1: A final attack...
On the planet Moebius, all the peoples that inhabit it are dominated by a same nation that has expanded its territory all over the world: the Empire of Acorn, later renamed the "Moebian Planetary Empire". The Empire, with its capital in Moebotropolis, was being ruled by a line of moebian chipmunks, counterparts of the Royal House of Acorn that reigned in the mobian nation of the same name.
However, the old King Maxx of Moebius had been killed and his throne had been usurped by Scourge Hedgehog, the infamous counterpart of the Mobian hero Sonic Hedgehog. Alicia, daughter of Maxx and inheriting princess, summoned the MSS (Moebotropolis Suppression Squad) to take her rightful place on the throne, but Scourge repelled the MSS with very little effort; the rebels, defeated, had to exile quickly, hiding until the opportunity arose to throw Scourge out of the throne...
It's midday in Moebotropolis. Since Moebius is a mirror of Mobius in many aspects, it's currently summer in that place on the planet, and this is clearly seen by the strength with which the sun shines and the way it warms the environment.
[Soundtrack: New plot – Metal Slug 3D OST]
Near the city's borders, among the buildings devastated by the war, hordes of mercenaries are firing their weapons in the direction of the barren lands of the city's outskirts. These soldiers, coming from all the planets of all parallel universes that exist and might exist (although most of them have bodies and sizes similar to those of the humans), have the most powerful weapons that can be found, and they also use the strategies typical of the jobs they're engaged in: advancing and attacking in groups, snipers with effective camouflages, etc.
But they're not rivals for the group of heroes that advances towards them.
A male mobian hedgehog, with blue fur, runs at supersonic speed and runs over anyone who crosses his path; he also carries a shield that he uses as a frisbee, which he throws to hit someone at a great distance. When he runs towards an enemy soldier and throws the shield to him while he runs, the shield with added speed hits the unfortunate mercenary and makes him cross a wall.
"Don't come back!"
"Sonic, can you stop imitating Captain America?" A woman talks to the hedgehog, Sonic, through a communicator.
That same woman is riding a motorcycle through the ruined city's streets, zigzagging to dodge the shots, and she casually passes by Sonic quickly: this is a female mobian chipmunk, with brown hair, red hair and light-blue eyes, dressed in a blue jacket and matching boots, and armed with tranquilizer dart guns and Taser weapons.
At the same time, someone almost identical to her is riding another motorcycle and stands next to her: this chipmunk is moebian, her hair is longer and is combed in a punk style, she wears a dark gray-blue military uniform whose front is white, black gloves, pants the same shade of blue as the uniform, a black belt, black military boots, a whip attached to her belt's right side, and a hunting dagger stored in her left boot.
"Let's see if you're as brave as some say, warrior princess Sally!" The punk chipmunk, MSS' leader, shouts at her. Next, she uses her whip to catch a mercenary, and as she races at full speed with her motorcycle, she uses the whip to throw the soldier into the air, who screams in horror as he flies.
In response, Princess Sally Acorn, the mobian chipmunk who leads the KFFs (Knothole Freedom Fighters), activates bombs and hooks them to her motorcycle, and then she accelerates and advances towards an apparently unassailable bunker. When someone pulls a portable rocket launcher similar to a RPG-7 through the bunker's window and is about to shoot at her motorcycle, Sally jumps forward from the seat and she does a somersault but without her hands getting loose from the handlebar; she lands in front of her own motorcycle, and throws it towards the bunker. The motorcycle collides, and when the explosion of the RPG-7's bullet and the explosion of the bombs in the motorcycle are combined...
BOOM!
Almost the entire bunker is gone.
Sally is standing on the street; the other chipmunk takes a turn with her motorcycle, brakes when she meets with Sally, and gets off the bike. Sally smiles smugly, and the other chipmunk is open-mouthed.
"Did you really think that I wasn't gonna overcome that challenge, Princess Alicia?"
Suddenly, both Sally and Alicia are surprised when a mech lands in front of them, crushing Alicia's bike.
"What the f***?! That motorcycle cost a lot of money!"
"I've got you two!" The mech's pilot says, speaking through a loudspeaker and hovering over the squirrels. "They'll pay me a lot for having caught you-"
"ASIDE!"
Sally recognizes that voice that shouted at them, the voice of a young woman with a southern accent, and she immediately runs towards one of the sidewalks of the street; foreseeing what's to come, Alicia does the same and goes to the opposite sidewalk. Then a large plasma bullet travels rapidly along the street and hits the mech, destroying it in such a way that only the vehicle's legs remain and are still standing on the ground.
"Thanks, Bunnie! I owe you one!" Sally shouts at the girl who originated the plasma shot: a mobian rabbit, with golden and white fur, with her legs and left arm robotized, turquoise eyes, lilac eyeshadow, and dressed in a brown jacket, a pair of short jeans, a fuchsia leotard below these, and a cowboy hat.
"Look what you did!" An angry Alicia shouts at her while pointing to her motorcycle's remains. "Better someone pay for this!"
Bunnie, a member of the KFFs, walks leisurely towards Alicia. "You can charge Scourge later, if that makes you feel better."
Meanwhile, two male walruses move through the streets: one of them, Rotor, is mobian and a KFF, wears a visored cap and a band, and repels the soldiers fighting hand to hand; the other, Boomer, is moebian and a member of the MSS, has his body full of cybernetic implants, and attacks using repulsor cannons and ultrasonic cannons built into his hands' implants while walking in front of his mobian counterpart.
On the other hand, a male moebian coyote, of the MSS, advances among the ruins while hiding from the enemy forces. He's dressed in a green military uniform with white front and yellow edges, and white breeches that reach to the ankles, but because of the most recent battles, all his clothes are tattered, muddy and bloody; he has blue eyes, light brown fur and blond hair that is combed back and tied in a short ponytail, and he's armed with a saber and a machete, both red-hot by electric current. He hides silently behind a pillar of a mansion, and quickly attacks all nearby soldiers from behind; however, his tactic fails, as he leaves the mansion's ruins and is soon targeted by three mercenaries about to shoot him with RPG-7s.
Suddenly, another coyote, who looks like him but is mobian, appears standing on a floor of a building and fires three arrows with smoke bombs at the soldiers with rocket launchers. While the moebian takes the opportunity to escape, the mobian jumps into the street, runs to the unprotected mercenaries and exterminates them: first, he jumps over one of them and quickly breaks his neck, then he beheads another one by using a modified sword whose edge is a red-hot filament, and finally he cuts deep into the third one's abdomen and drops his viscera by using a combat knife made of the purest and most transparent diamond.
The mobian coyote comes out of the smoke cloud: he's another KFF; his hair is divided in the middle and combed sideways but it's quite careless, and he has allowed his beard to grow a little and produce a kind of "shadow" on part of his face; he wears a purple kevlar waistcoat with red details, matching purple artificial leather trousers, dark red military boots, and purple sunglasses with a red frame; in the right hand he carries his modified saber whose edge is a metallic filament red-hot by electric current, and in the left hand he carries his very sharp combat knife made of pure diamond; he's almost completely drenched in blood, except on his sword's burning edge, and he carries a quiver full of arrows and a bow behind his back.
"N'avons-nous pas convenu que tu prendrais soin de ton dos et que je m'occuperais du mien, Antoine?" ["Didn't we agree that you would take care of your back and that I would take care of mine, Antoine?"] says the coyote who has just been saved, making the archer, Antoine, look at him with contempt.
"Patch, ingrat, tu as de la chance d'avoir été sauvé par moi. Et vous disiez que j'étais un lâche..." ["Patch, you ungrateful, you're lucky that I saved you. And you said I was a coward..."]
"Tu devrais te rappeler comment tu étais il y a quelques mois. Je sais que tu es toujours un fagot au fond de toi-" ["You should remember how you were a few months ago. I know you're still a fag in the depths of you-"]
FOOM! FOOM! FOOM!
The shots of a missile launcher resonates very close to where the two coyotes are. Patch, the member of the MSS, screams like a girl and runs to hide in the space of a second, but Antoine, with that same speed, turns around and shoots an arrow with an acid bomb, which hits the target: a heavily armored missile launcher that had just turned a corner a block away. The acid makes a big hole in the tank's armor, through which he can see the vehicle's terrified driver (a young man who evidently is a rookie and works as a mercenary just to have something to eat), who immediately escapes; as soon as the driver leaves and gets far enough from the missile launcher, the coyote shoots an explosive arrow into the hole in the vehicle...
BOOM!
Which explodes along with all the unused ammunition.
Patch comes out of hiding and pretends nothing happened, but Antoine faces him.
"¿Que disiez-vous?" ["What were you saying?"] The KFFs' archer says, smiling.
Patch is surprised but soon regains his composure. "Tu es toujours un lâche: tu n'as pas osé tuer le conducteur." ["You're still a coward: you didn't dare to kill the driver."]
"Suis-je vraiment un lâche? Même après que j'ai tué de sang-froid trois mercenaires dangereux qui étaient sur le point de te transformer en vapeur?" ["Am I really a coward? Even after killing in cold blood three dangerous mercenaries who were about to turn you into steam?"]
In another street near there, a female mobian hedgehog, also of the KFFs, attacks the mercenaries using a huge hammer; her fur is pink like a bubble gum, and she has greenish eyes, a red hairband, a red dress with white edges, and red boots with a white stripe that traverses them lengthwise. For some strange reason, she manages to wield and move her hammer with very little physical effort; when she approaches a bunker, she protects herself from the bullets with it, then hits the ground in front of her, and the shock wave caused by the blow picks up pieces of land along its entire length and it finally destroys the bunker.
An armored tank appears in front of her, after slowly turning a corner.
PUM!
The tank shoots, and the she-hedgehog protects herself with her hammer.
BOOM!
The bullet's blow causes her to be pushed a few meters back...
PUM! PUM!
But two other bullets are fired one after the other, just after the first one, the three shots being shot in the space of half a second. Having believed that it was a single shot, she barely manages to put her hammer in position to protect herself from the next two shots...
BOOM! BOOM!
Which throw her several meters back. Meanwhile, the tank crew loads three more bullets and prepares to shoot at the unprotected mobian again.
Nobody notices a miniature missile that flies into the tank and enters its cannon when it's about to fire.
KA-BOOM!
The miniature missile's explosion causes all the ammunition in the tank to explode, and the tank ends up in pieces. Then, the she-hedgehog recovers, turns around and meets with another KFF, the one who saved her: a male mobian fox with a striking double tail, dressed in an armor that covers his entire body; the armor is made of an alloy of gold and titanium, allows great mobility without leaving unprotected any part of the body, and is painted red on much of its surface; this armor has several weapons built into it (laser gatling gun mounted on his left shoulder, rail gun mounted on his right shoulder, several miniature missile launchers on his wrists, repulsor cannons on his hands' palms), plus it receives energy from quantum reactors built into the chest and other parts of the body.
The armor begins to retract, opening all its front side and allowing its owner to leave it: the fox is barely twelve years old, has golden fur with some white parts, his eyes are blue, he wears a black jumpsuit with some built-in quantum reactors, and he always smiles.
"Are you okay, Amy?" The fox asks the she-hedgehog.
"I'm fine, Tails, thanks." Helping herself with her hammer, Amy gets up off the ground. "I was only surprised by that tank, that's all. I can keep fighting."
"Okay, if you say so-"
"Oh, c'mon... That useless one shouldn't even be here!"
Both look up to the sky and meet with a fox almost exactly like Tails, but with some differences: this fox is moebian and belongs to the MSS, he uses some kind of magic to stay in the air and keep attacking the mercenaries while talking to his mobian counterpart and the she-hedgehog, he always looks serious or angry, and his outfit consists of a red military uniform whose front is very dark gray, black bracelets with metal spikes, a black leather belt, black pants, and red boots; at some point, he had his black hair combed neatly to one side, but now his hair is disheveled, revealing even that it was originally somewhat curly.
"What did you call me, brat?!" Amy yells at him.
"Amy, Miles, leave the stupid discussions for another time." Tails tries to intervene. "Don't forget why we're here."
"I think I found something with my magical powers." says Miles. "Powers that are obviously superior to yours... better said, those of your suit, Tails."
"Get to the point and stop teasing my Advanced Technology Armor, or I'll make fun of you for the rest of my time on this planet, Anti-Tails."
Miles growls in response to the nickname. "There's a mercenary fleet going towards our planet."
"Oh yeah, of course... Bagbar Breeblebrox and his Starmada. I've read the Zone Cops' reports about them: they're from the same universe where Mobius is. I already imagined that they were gonna be hired by Scourge. I'll take care of them, unless..." Tails takes a look at his doppelgänger.
"Are you challenging me, Tails? I thought I heard you say that we should leave the stupid discussions for another time. Or am I wrong?"
"What? Are you afraid of me, Anti-Tails? Are you afraid of being overtaken by someone like me, a nerd who continues to have ridiculous childish behavior, someone who prefers technology and mechanics rather than take advantage of his already incorporated magical powers?"
This time, Miles makes a half smile. "You're looking more and more like me-"
"Not a chance."
As soon as Tails finishes speaking, he returns to get into his ATA suit (Advanced Technology Armor) and goes flying into space, followed by Miles, which generates an Anarchy energy bubble around himself.
Bagbar Breeblebrox is in his seat as Captain of the Senteller, the flagship of the mercenary fleet Starmada. Scourge had hired them to perform functions equivalent to those of an air force and a star fleet. Breeblebrox is a robust humanoid with grayish green skin, his face shares certain similarities with a toad and a bulldog, he has long, pointed ears and has some kind of electronic device built into his left eye, similar to the lenses used by jewelers to examine precious stones. The exact origin of him and the Starmada isn't known, but it's known that they're not from the same universe where Moebius is, but from the universe of Mobius.
The captain turns on a microphone to speak to the crew of all the starships.
"Here, the captain. Prepare for the attack on Moebotropolis. Remember our client's orders: destroy everything-"
"Captain, unidentified spaceships are approaching." A crew member of the Senteller's bridge of command interrupts Bagbar.
"It better be something important."
"Actually, it's just one spaceship: it's full of weapons, but it's small in size; it has a humanoid form, although its shape also has similarities to that of a canid; it seems that there are signs of life coming from inside, which suggests that it's not a simple drone, but a manned spaceship or someone carrying a sort of advanced technology armor."
"Weird. Maybe it's someone sent by our client."
"I don't think so, Captain. According to the energy readings, it comes from the same universe that we do, it doesn't belong to our client's universe."
"He mentioned that his planet was going to be attacked by beings from another planet of our own universe. Maybe those invaders have noticed our presence and sent someone to negotiate with us; otherwise, they would have sent a whole fleet or they would have directly withdrawn from Moebius. Now that I remember it, you mentioned two spaceships, and then you said it was a single one."
"It happens that I was reviewing the images: actually they are, on the one hand, a manned ship, and on the other hand, an individual that seems to be traveling exposed to the space void. According to our readings, it's from Moebius, but it has a shape very similar to the possible shape of the armor's wearer; unlike the guy in the armor, the other guy is surrounded by some kind of force field that keeps it protected inside an air bubble..." The soldier checks his screen, and addresses the captain again. "We're receiving a transmission of the guy in the armor. I put it on the main screen."
"Go ahead, do it..." Breeblebrox orders as he lights something similar to a Tuscan cigar and puts it in his mouth.
The large window in front of his seat transforms into a screen, and Tails' face appears on it.
"I am Miles Prower, Knothole Freedom Fighter, awarded with the Anti-Robotnik Resistance Medal, Commander of the New Legion of Honour of Mercia, Honorary Agent of the Guardian Units of the Nations, awarded with the Bronze Medal for Bravery with two oak leaf clusters made of bronze."
"But... You're a child!"
"We know that you were hired by Scourge Hedgehog, a fugitive interdimensional criminal and illegitimate ruler of the Moebian Planetary Empire. So we offer you a very simple deal: withdraw from this planet and don't work in the service of Scourge Hedgehog again, or we will be forced to destroy the entire Starmada."
"But who do you think you are to threaten me?!" Bagbar cuts the transmission and turns on the microphone again. "To all the units: Get rid of those two guys who are flying here! Have no mercy!"
Tens of thousands of shuttles are fired from the Senteller and the Starmada's other starships; the shuttles prepare their weapons and go to Tails and Miles, who simply stay floating where they were. Tails' ATA suit's quantum reactors already release green light, indicating that the Turbo Control System is activated: the suit is using the potential Chaos energy that the mobian fox stores in his body by his condition of Adept to Chaos.
"I managed to hack the Senteller's systems, I already have the plans." Tails reports.
"So fast?" Miles answers surprised.
"Don't underrate a nerd's talents."
A few minutes later, Breeblebrox is watching their starships' shuttles approaching the two foxes. Increasingly, he's anxious to put an end to that child who dared to threaten him.
"C'mon, c'mon, c'mon..." He says to himself. "Kill him..."
"I would leave that child alone if I were you."
Bagbar turns around and the entire crew prepares their weapons, but a sudden flash of light blinds everyone on the bridge.
When Bagbar recovers, he realizes that he and the others are tied with red and black "ropes", apparently made of energy; unlike himself, the rest of the crew on the bridge is passed out. In front of them is Miles, the same fox that was next to Tails in space just a moment ago.
"Alright, Captain Breeblebrox ... It's clear that my childish counterpart doesn't know how to negotiate, since he hasn't managed to get you outta here. But I have faith that I'll be more convincing with the deal I'm gonna propose to you: leave my planet, or I'll end the spouses and offspring of the Starmada's soldiers. Yes, I know that y'all live in these starships together with all your families, as if this fleet were your home."
Bagbar looks to one side and another, checking that his subordinates are not listening, and then he addresses Miles. "Do you really think I'm gonna back down? I'll comply with the request of that 'Scourge', I'll pick up my money and I'll leave."
"Are you sure? Because, if I comply with my threat... which I'm very capable of doing, unlike the fagot that issued that feeble ultimatum... all the members of the Starmada will blame you for your incompetence and indifference when you should have cared about the soldiers' families. And I suppose you don't wanna deal with the thirst for revenge of an entire army."
A few minutes later, on Moebius' surface...
Tails and Miles land in front of the gates of Moebotropolis Castle, meeting there with their comrades: Tails with his friends in the KFFs, and Miles with his comrades in the MSS. Boomer, Miles, Bunnie and Tails combine their weapons and powers, shoot the huge gates simultaneously and tear them off their hinges, and the eleven of this mixed team make their way through the castle. All the way to the throne room, there's no one resisting.
Upon reaching the throne room, they meet with the illegitimate King of Moebius: a male Moebian hedgehog, with blue eyes, with the Royal Crown of Moebius (a simple ring that surrounds its head, with three things similar to barbs in front, being all made of iron), who was originally blue but is now light green because of an accident with Mobius' Master Emerald, is dressed in a black leather jacket with drawings of flames on the sides, and is wearing black and green sneakers; he has two parallel scars that diagonally cross the entire surface of his chest, and his right hand is devoid of fur and seems to have been the result of a recent regeneration.
Scourge: "Aha! So you finally got here, huh? Well, you'll have to face my fury when I become ...!"
Scourge immediately sits on his throne and, by the effect of the Anarchy Beryls that he hid there previously, he transforms into Super Scourge: now, his fur is purple, his thorns are slightly bent up, his eyes have black sclera and red iris, and his whole body is radiating a reddish glow.
Scourge: "THE COOLEST VARIANT OF SUPER SCOURGE!"
Tails uncovers his face, and when he observes the throne's usurper, he crosses his arms and appears to be bored. When Scourge has already transformed, he begins to laugh madly, but the fox fakes an exaggerated yawn including the typical mime, which infuriates the moebian hedgehog.
Tails: "You don't scare anymore. [totally gets rid of his ATA suit, only wearing his black jumpsuit with small quantum reactors] It's likely that I won't be able to defeat you without my armor, but Sonic will surely agree to help me... [to Sonic] Is not it?"
Scourge: "I don't care! Staying in my Super form, I'll survive the bombardment of the Starmada, while you'll end up buried!"
Tails: "I doubt it very much: the bombardment has just been canceled. I can prove it to you if you don't believe me. I assure you I ain't bluffing in any way."
Taken by surprise, Super Scourge growls, activates a Warp Ring and escapes. Sonic runs to him and gets to keep the portal open, but when everyone pass through the Warp Ring to chase the throne's usurper...
BOOM!
All of them are thrown back by a wave of Anarchy energy.
Tails: "Ouch..."
Antoine: "Did anyone get to see the license plate of that thing?"
Bunnie: "Surely the license plate was something like '5C0UR6E'. [everyone else looks at her] It was a bad joke, wasn't it?"
Sonic recovers from what happened, gets up from the ground, looks around and recognizes the place: a temple on the "Demon Island". It's the moebian equivalent of Angel Island, with the difference that this island isn't floating at tens of kilometers of height, but is sunk in the ocean, with a dome-shaped shield that keeps the island inside an air bubble.
Then, Sonic sees Scourge standing on top of a gigantic, irregularly shaped gem that emits magenta light while he's carrying out a new and more powerful Super transformation. Near him, Sonic sees O'Nux, a moebian equidna with thin mustaches and a black tam-o'-shanter: he was in charge of protecting the huge precious stone of that temple, but now he's lying on the ground.
Sonic: "Don't fuck with me... Will he use the Master Emerald of this world to transform and kick our asses?"
O'Nux: [in a weak voice and with an accent similar to the Irish, as he sits on the floor] "It's the Supreme Beryl, to be precise. The good thing is that Scourge will spend very quickly the energy he gets, and considering his way of fighting, his energy will be over in about five minutes; later, he will probably die or fall into a coma. The bad thing is that, during those five minutes, he will be unstoppable."
Sonic: [to Tails] "It would be great if you helped me kick the ass of this moron."
Tails: "You can count on me."
Sonic: [to the other KFFs and the MSS' members] "All of you: get outta here through the Warp Ring. You wouldn't survive this."
Sally: "Okay. [to Alicia] You'd better do the same with your team."
Alicia: "I agree. [to the MSS' members] Withdraw!"
Everyone leaves through the Warp Ring, but Miles stays in the temple.
Tails: "Miles, you have to leave. Seriously, this is gonna get ugly."
Miles: "I like the things that get ugly, they're my specialty. And what about you?"
In response to the moebian fox, his counterpart gets into his ATA suit while his face remains uncovered, and then he activates his Turbo Control System.
Tails: [raising an eyebrow, looking sideways at Miles] "Do you wanna bet?"
Meanwhile, the moebian hedgehog ends his transformation, becoming Hyper Scourge: now he's taller and more muscular, has black fur, and his body is releasing an aura also black.
Hyper Scourge: "Alright, people ... Let the show begin!"
Hyper Scourge throws a barrage of Anarchy spears at his mobian counterpart and the two foxes; Tails quickly covers his face and generates a shield of Chaos energy around himself and Sonic, while Miles creates a shield of Anarchy energy to protect himself as well. When the spears of the berserk super-powerful hedgehog are repelled, he tries to attack them directly: he throws himself on Sonic and Tails, penetrates the shield and breaks it; Tails flies towards Hyper Scourge and starts to beat him without stopping, also using his tails to make deep cuts, but the hedgehog doesn't tire, heals his wounds and reacts by giving a single but very strong punch to the fox, who hits a thick stone wall and crosses it; Sonic uses his super-speed to hit him much faster, which seems to take effect this time...
Hyper Scourge: " ANARCHY... BLAST!"
BOOM!
But a blast of Anarchy energy throws Sonic through the hole in the wall and makes him lie on the ground, next to Tails.
Sonic: [in a weak voice, as he slowly gets up from the ground] "This is the second time that I'm thrown through a wall."
Tails: [in a firm voice, as he quickly gets up from the ground] "Same here."
Then the child prodigy activates his feet's soles' propeller and he flies at full speed towards Hyper Scourge while the moebian hedgehog prepares to fire a beam of Anarchy energy.
Tails: [thinking] ("I must be crazy...")
When Tails is close enough and his opponent is about to shoot, the fox takes off the ATA suit and moves on. Hyper Scourge cancels the attack and diverts his attention to Tails, but the ATA suit crashes into him and starts flying around the temple while taking the surprised hedgehog with it.
Finally, the suit self-destructs along with the quantum reactors, residual Chaos energy and the ammunition of all its weapons, and the immense explosion's force destroys the temple and also shakes the entire island and the water around it. Anyway, Hyper Scourge is still alive and he's getting more and more angry, but he looks at the still intact Supreme Beryl, and then he sees Tails performing the same Super transformation that he had done before.
When Tails ends his transformation, he falls from the top of the Supreme Beryl and collapses on the ground, where he stays crouched; but then the mobian fox looks at Scourge and makes his maniacal smile, almost transformed into a trademark of him. This Super transformation, made by the Supreme Beryl, has turned the child prodigy into an unstable version of Hyper Tails, whose body now stores a mixture of Chaos energy and Anarchy energy: some parts of his pelage are of a bright gold-yellow color, but others are of a deep shade of blue, and the parts of both colors change constantly; one of his eyes looks normal, although with a slight shine in its pupil, but the other eye has black sclera and dark blue iris; his naked body is smoking, and he himself seems to be "bubbling" under his skin; four flickies, made of pure Chaos energy, are fluttering around him, but only two of them are still yellow and are similar to canaries, while the other two are now black and look more like ravens. Hyper Scourge doesn't know how to feel when he sees this.
Hyper Scourge: [arches an eyebrow] "Wow... This is getting more and more interesting."
Hyper Tails makes a spindash and quickly attacks Hyper Scourge, and his two tails make deep cuts to the hedgehog throughout his body; these cuts, which reach the bone in some cases, can't be cured as easily and quickly as the previous ones. Immediately after the spindash, Hyper Tails starts to hit Hyper Scourge on the temple and spine, seeking to cause serious injuries to his brain and spinal cord. His blows are successful, and the hedgehog is practically out of combat for a few seconds while his injuries are repaired; however, after recovering...
BOOM!
The hedgehog suddenly makes an Anarchy blast with all the energy he's capable of using. Hyper Tails manages to create a sort of Chaos/Anarchy double shield, which repels the energy wave released by his rival and then vanishes; meanwhile, Hyper Scourge is even more weakened after such an attack.
Hyper Tails: [walking slowly towards Hyper Scourge] "I seem to remember I had given you a warning when I rescued Fiona and defeated you for the first time."
Hyper Scourge had fallen to the ground and was beginning to get up when he heard the fox say that. When the hedgehog starts to remember that event and becomes aware of his own current situation, his face slowly begins to fill with concern.
Hyper Tails: "This will be disgusting..."
The criminal, apparently fallen from grace, remains on the ground and standing on four legs; his rival stands behind him and closes his hand in a fist as he carefully observes the butt of the hedgehog.
Hyper Tails: "But you'll surely feel much worse than me. Anyway... What can I say? Enjoy it. After all, it's the least you deserve for all the damage you did."
A second later, loud and prolonged cries of pain from the illegitimate King of Moebius resound throughout the Demon Island.
Soon after, the screams stop; keeping his face expressionless, Hyper Tails watches his arm, bloodied to the elbow, and then he prepares to end Scourge's life once and for all. However, his body becomes more and more unstable, he looks at himself helplessly as the "bubbling" under his skin gets stronger and stronger...
Hyper Tails: "Oh oh."
KA-BOOM!
And Tails finally expels all the Chaos and Anarchy energy from his body in the form of a powerful Chaos/Anarchy blast.
Now, Tails lies at the bottom of a large crater: he's back in his normal state, but he has third-degree burns all over his body and on his face, there are pieces of meat that are no longer there and that leave the bones exposed, and he's having difficulty breathing, while his body tries to regenerate with the little potential Chaos energy that still remains for him.
Meanwhile, Hyper Scourge, very sore and especially ashamed but with his energies already restored, stands up with difficulty and observes Tails while trying to contain a laugh.
Hyper Scourge: "You were strong, and quite bold... but not enough! Hahahahahaha! And now who will come to get you off the ground?! Huh?! You and the other Freedom Assholes presume much of their friendship! Where are those buddies now?! HAHAHAHAHA- AAAAARRRGGH!"
Scourge screams in pain once again when he's impaled by a sword made of pure Anarchy energy, this sword being wielded by Miles: while Hyper Tails was fighting with Hyper Scourge, the moebian fox has also used the Supreme Beryl to become his Super form, Master Miles, and this magnified his magical powers already learned and trained; unlike Tails, Miles is moebian and an Adept to Anarchy, and his body has no Chaos energy and isn't unstable when he's in his Master Miles form.
Scourge returns to his normal form when Master Miles removes the sword. Then, the moebian fox grabs him by his leather jacket, and then he takes off and lifts the hedgehog as if he were a rag doll.
Master Miles: [his eyes turn red] "Look into my eyes..."
Despite the order, an unusually scared Scourge keeps his eyes closed and pointing elsewhere.
Master Miles: "I said, look into my eyes."
Using his telekinesis, the sorcerer fox forces Scourge to open his eyes and look directly at his own. As soon as Scourge does it, Master Miles' eyes emit an even brighter red light, as if there were fire in them, and the hedgehog ends up in a catatonic state.
Next, Master Miles lands together with Scourge, and the fox quickly returns to his normal form voluntarily and runs to Tails. Visibly concerned about his mobian counterpart, the Adept to Anarchy kneels at his side.
"Tails... Tails, answer... Tails!" He gives him a strong slap. "Tails, stop playing dumb, goddammit!"
"..."
"Tails... wake up..." A tear leaves Miles's eye without him noticing. "Please... brother..."
The sorcerer rests his head on the body of his counterpart; then, the latter raises his right arm with great effort, and he begins to silently caress Miles' head. Of course, Miles reacts, crying with joy as if it were a reflex act.
"TAILS! You're alive!"
Miles realizes what he did, and he regains his composure trying to look grumpy again.
"Uh... I'll call a doctor-"
"I discovered you..." Tails says in a weak voice.
"Huh? What? What are you talking about?" Miles asks acting as if he's distracted.
"You've just revealed your fond side..."
"WHAT?! Of course not! You must have confused me with another-"
"It's okay, Miles... I'm willing to not tell anyone about it..."
Given what was said by the Adept to Chaos, his moebian dopplegänger starts to doubt. "O- Ok..."
"But I need you to do something for me too..."
"Be very careful with what you're gonna ask for. If you ask me to do something humiliating, I'll leave you lying here."
"No, not at all. Swear that you'll not tell no-one that... that I tortured Scourge by fisting him..."
Miles starts laughing sincerely. "Don't worry, brother. He deserved it. Besides, I'm proud of you."
"NO."
Tails suddenly gets up to sit on the ground, despite still having his body in such bad condition. "Nothing of 'you're looking more and more like me', nothing of 'I'm proud of you', nothing of comparing us with each other, nothing of- Ouch!" Acute pains all over his body force him to lie down again.
"I better stay in the crater."