(Guess who's baaa~ack? Yep, it's yours truly, with more stories from the world of Tengen Toppa Freedom Emerl!
Now, this story will be a little different than the original story. It will present stories in a slightly nonlinear fashion, showing tales from different time periods in the universe of TTFE. Some will be inspired by the official manga, some by the official Parallel Works videos, and some based off of completely original ideas.
Now, without further ado, an early Christmas present...)
天元突破
フリーダムエメル
〜パラレルワークス〜
Tengen Toppa
Freedom Emerl
~Parallel Works~
by
アムラス・フェラグンド
Amras Felagund
Now... We Will Always Be Together
CHAPTER ONE:
Does This Look Appropriate?
Sunlight glinted off of Freedom's shades, and off of Great Freedom Emerl's shades below. It was only a day since they had defeated the Great MetaCompass and destroyed the last of the Helix King's Four Helix Generals. Thankfully, the Helix King had refrained from attacking them; apparently, he needed time to recover as well.
Charmy's eyes almost popped out of his head.
"Whoa..."
Great Freedom Emerl stood before the largest body of water any of them had seen. It disappeared to the horizon, and looked a very deep blue. Small winged shapes flapped about the sandy beachfront.
"It's... it's a HUGE PUDDLE!" Charmy shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Dummy!" Knuckles smirked. "That's not a puddle; that's the ocean!"
"The 'ocean'...?"
"It's where water from rain and rivers and stuff all ends up," Knuckles explained.
"And where the tears of women go when they've finished crying," Rotor added.
Many people eyed him queerly.
"Just something my mother always told me," he said airily, waving a hand.
Cosmo's eyes sparkled with delight. "I have heard many wonderful stories of the ocean, but this is my first time seeing it!"
"The ocean, huh?" Tails smiled.
Knuckles turned to Charmy and Cream. "Now, it's important to remember," he said severely, "That ocean water is salty!"
Charmy began to flit around people's heads, chanting salty-sea-water-salty-pee-water over and over and over and over and over again.
"So, what're we doing here, anyway?" Vector asked.
Rotor pulled out a small handheld computer.
"The Capital, Greengate, lies across the ocean," he explained. "This is the nearest we can get to it until we cross the ocean."
"Cross the ocean?" Mighty asked suspiciously. "Why not just go around it?"
"Yeah, go around it!" Bark barked.
"That would take too long," explained Rotor. "Plus, it might be a good idea to fine-tune Great Freedom's levi-sphere for sea travel first."
"So, should I uncombine Freedom Emerl from it?" Tails asked.
"That would be helpful; Great Freedom Emerl's configuration is only slightly different from Great Freedom alone, but it wouldn't do for Great Freedom's levi-sphere to disconnect halfway across the ocean because it was incorporated during its Great Freedom Emerl configuration."
And so, minutes later, Tails had climbed back into Emerl's cockpit, and took the controls - Freedom Emerl had not separated from Great Freedom since they first combined to defeat Gnonine Pale-Bayleaf.
Great Freedom Emerl slammed the two halves of Great Freedom's prow back together, docking them on the front of its pelvic regions again.
"Separating... now!" Tails shouted, Freedom Emerl blasting off from Great Freedom's shoulders...
And Great Freedom's right arm fell to pieces, dents and punctures appearing all over the great Gizoid's body, its knees buckling slightly and a tremendous gash being torn through the side of its prow.
Rotor scratched the back of his head.
"I guess the energy-to-matter conversion properties of Emerl fixed up the damage from the Four Helix Generals, but only as long as they were combined."
"We're gonna be here a while, aren't we?" Sally asked.
"'Fraid so, Sal," Elias said.
リゾートライフのイロハ
Meg, Blaze, and Marine had strode out of Great Freedom in their swimsuits mere minutes after finding out that the repairs and upgrades to Great Freedom would take a fair bit of time. Meg's was a yellow sling bikini that showed absolute cleavage; Blaze's was a green one-piece that exposed her navel; Marine's was a blue two-piece.
"WHOAAAAAAA!" was the general response of the male Great Freedom Fighters. (Except Knuckles, who was trying to shield his surrogate sisters from view.)
"We have time to kick back and relax, after all," Meg said, kneeling over and clasping her hands together between her knees, squeezing her breasts together. (Elias fought to look at her face.)
"Plus, we can also verify if the water is salty," Blaze added. "If it is not, then we can restock on water."
"So, let's go, mates! Into all of your swimmers!" Marine cheered, putting a fist in the air.
"Let's all go swimming..." Vector breather.
"In our swimsuits..." Bean squealed.
"Which means...!" Knuckles shouted gleefully.
And all eyes fell on Sally, who had ditched her vest, and was currently standing there in only her flame-decal bra and short-shorts and blue boots and if this was her casual wear then her swimsuit could only be skimpier and more revealing and
"YOU PERVERTED CLOWNS!" Sally shrieked. "Don't you know we have better things to do than go swimming?"
"Well, that only really counts for us mechanics," said Rotor, he and Lupe leaning out of Great Freedom's door. "We're gonna be busy for a while, giving Great Freedom the repairs she needs after that battle with the Four Helix Generals. But the rest of you..." He smiled. "The rest of you have plenty of time to goof off."
"ALRIGHT!" Meg, Blaze, and Marine cheered - as did practically every man in the Great Freedom Fighters.
Sally sighed, walking towards her quarters.
"Spending time splashing about in the sea, huh...?" she murmured to herself. "I guess it could be fun."
ブタモグラは螺旋の夢を見るか？
Charmy and Cream skipped energetically as the tide tickled their bare feet.
Putting a finger in the water, Charmy licked it...
And promptly spat it back out.
"Salty!" he cried.
"Yeah, it is very salty," Knuckles added from the sidelines.
"Hey, guys! Look!" Bean squawked, pointing a feathery finger at Great Freedom.
Two females silhouettes were approaching them. They were unmistakably Sally and Cosmo.
The eager men of the Great Freedom Fighters - sans Tails - ogled them as they came out of Great Freedom's shadow. Soon they would see...
Sally's swimsuit consisted of a yellow, flowery cloth strapped around her waist that went to her knees, and a cloth top of the same color.
It did nothing to show off her assets.
The eager men, now feeling diminished, huddled together.
"What the hell? What's with that thing around her waist?"
"Yeah! She's showing less skin than usual!"
"Chintzy squirrel-girl! She's not even showing any cleavage!"
"Take away the gun, and what's she got? Nothin'!"
A vein was popping on Sally's forehead.
"I CAN HEAR YOU, YOU DOUCHEBAGS!" she shrieked.
They turned to face her...
And she was lounging on the beach, her ponytail draped alluringly over an outstretched arm.
"Besides..." she said softly, almost seductively. "Isn't it better to leave some things to the imagination?"
"YOU DUMB-ASS BROAD!" Knuckles bellowed, almost bowling Sally over. "EVERYONE KNOWS THAT THE MORE YOU SHOW, THE BETTER!"
"DON'T FUCK WITH ME!" Sally screamed back. "DO YOU WANT ME TO GET NICOLE AND PUMP YOU FULL OF LEAD?"
"Umm... pardon me..." Cosmo said gently.
She was wearing a simple white one-piece with a simple white skirt, a green balloon tube around her waist and a straw hat on her head.
Cosmo shyly brought a hand to her mouth, "I have never worn an outfit like this. Does... does this look appropriate? It is a bit... embarrassing..."
The eager men of the Great Freedom Fighters swooned.
Such purity should not be tainted by lewd bareness.
"Truly," Knuckles breathed sagely, "'Tis better to conceal than to reveal."
And Knuckles and his posse - consisting of Vector, Mighty, Espio, Big, Bark, Bean, Ari, Lobo, and others - followed dreamily after the pure Seedrian girl.
She was no longer the subject of the Male Gaze, but Sally felt somewhat... diminished now. Was she jealous?
Hardly! Sally told herself. I'm not jealous of her... am I?
萌えろ三姉妹
"When you're at the beach..." Meg said, holding up a rubber ball the size of her head.
"You gotta play volleyball!" cheered Meg, Blaze, and Marine.
Cosmo cocked her head to the side.
"What is this 'volleyball'?" she asked.
Meg tossed it to Cosmo, who caught it with a small squeak.
"You just smash this into your opponent's half of the playing field as hard as you can," the squirrel woman of the Wandering Orphans explained, drawing a line in the sand between Cosmo and Sally.
Cosmo gazed at the volleyball in wonder.
"'As hard as I can'...?"
Sally clenched her fists eagerly.
This'll be a cinch! she thought. I've been training for all sorts of physical activities for years, so I'm obviously the su
Cosmo leapt twice her own height into the air with a war cry...
A glint of emerald light came from her sky-colored eyes...
She threw the ball up at least twice her height again...
And Cosmo seemed to hover in mid-air.
The ball fell down to Cosmo's level as she spun once in the air...
She brought her right hand around...
And the volleyball left a crater twice its size in front of Sally. Perfectly intact.
...superior... player...?
Eyes popped out, staring at Cosmo excitedly as she landed, folding her hands demurely over her waist.
"Did I do it right?" she asked anxiously.
"That was freakin' awesome, Cosmo!" Vector shouted.
Cosmo smiled.
"I received basic sports training in the Capital," she said. "It was considered part of a well-rounded lady's education."
S-she's a much more formidable opponent than she appears! Sally resolved to herself.
She would not let this girl upstage her.
After Sally lost soundly to Cosmo in volleyball...
"Don't forget about suikawari!" Marine cheered, holding up a watermelon.
Suikawari was a traditional game on the surface, and it involved swinging a stick at a watermelon set on the ground and splitting it... while blindfolded, after being spun around three times. Whoever split it first won. (In that regard, it was similar to piñata.) The split pieces were then shared amongst the participants. Suikawari came from the extinct language of the ancient country Japan's phrase for 'watermelon splitting'.
Sally swung a wooden pole at the watermelon, but the blackjelly that had latched onto it, giving it its black stripes, had scuttled away at the last moment.
"And now, it is Miss Cosmo's turn," said Silver, softly but clearly.
Immediately after Espio had finished spinning Cosmo around and stepped away, she raised up the wooden stick and - the stick somehow leaving behind a glowing green trail - smashed down on the watermelon.
It split into many identically sized pieces. Exactly one slice each for everyone present.
(The blackjelly stared up at Cosmo with large fearful eyes, and scuttled into the sea.)
Cosmo lifted her blindfold.
"Wow... I did it!"
Everyone cheered.
Except Sally. She simmered bitterly.
And so Cosmo proved that she was a much more capable sportswoman than Sally by far...
In Capture-The-Flag (Sally nicked her toes against a shell hidden under the sand, and Cosmo continued onward after ensuring that Sally was alright)...
In sand castle building (Sally had barely gotten it together into a small mound when Cosmo had finished hers: a palace with drill-shaped minarets)...
In holding breath underwater (Cosmo simply clasped her hands and closed her eyes while Sally struggled to hold her breath in, finally flailing to surface, gasping for air)...
So Sally decided to sit it out, Kukku sitting on her head, while Cosmo and the guys splashed about in the water.
"She really fits in, doesn't she?" said Rotor, standing beside Sally.
"Rotor!" Sally gasped. "How long were you...?"
"Long enough. Even us mechanics need a lunch break," he said simply. "But, you seem mad that she stole the boys' attention away."
"I am not mad!" Sally shouted, Kukku flitting off in shock, his ball turning into a !.
Rotor chuckled slightly. "Clearly." He started to walk off towards the group, who were leaving the water, Tails & Cosmo holding hands. "Well, what's on the itinerary, guys?"
"After a swim, you gotta have a barbecue!" Knuckles called out.
"I'll get the fish!" Big called out, producing a fishing pole.
And a short while later, a fire was set up with wood from Great Freedom's storage, and fish and crabs and various other edible sea life were prepared by Cosmo for everyone's enjoyment. Her cooking was just as extraordinary as her sports skills.
Cosmo, holding a barbecued crab, looked sidelong at Sally.
Miss Sally seems rather put off, she thought. Is it because of me? Would she like to receive some food that I prepared?
She approached Sally.
"Miss Sally, here. Take this," she said brightly, holding out the barbecued crab in its bowl.
Sally started, but put on a too-wide smile and raised her hands slowly, "S-sure thing, Cosmo."
As Sally's hands touched the crab, Cosmo released it...
But Sally's grip was looser than either knew or intended, and the crab, bowl and all, fell into the sand.
Sally gasped in shock and shame; Cosmo had worked so hard at it, and...
And the guys were yelling at her now!
"What the quack, Sally?" Bean shouted.
"Yeah! Cosmo slaved over that crab just for you!" Mighty called.
And all of them - save Tails and Rotor - booed Sally...
And then burst out laughing, "JUST KIDDING!"
They stopped abruptly, though, at what they next heard.
"Don't worry, Miss Sally," Cosmo said cheerily, picking up the crab and bowl. "I will make you another."
Sally, fists balled up, turned away.
"I'm sorry," said Sally sharply. "I'm not hungry."
She walked off down the beach.
"I need to cool off," she called back shortly. "I'll be back whenever."
"Miss Sally..." Cosmo said sadly.
"Aww, c'mon, Sal!" called Mighty. "Can't you even take a joke?"
"Yeah, it was just a joke," Big said slowly.
"Learn to read the room, lady!" Bean squawked.
"Yeah! Read the room!" Bark barked.
Tails's ears perked up.
"Wait. What's that sound?"
Everyone cupped their ears; sure enough, everyone eventually heard the sound of a stampede.
"What's going...?" Knuckles grumbled, turning to the source of the sound...
And freezing.
It was a stampede of beautiful women!
And at the lead were two particularly attractive girls.
One was a very beautiful bat woman, with long white hair and bright cyan eyes. She was wearing a deep-purple dress that hugged her every curve, with a pink heart-shaped mark over her chest. And speaking of her chest...
Yowza! Knuckles's eyes nearly burst out of his head. She's even bigger than Sal!
Her companion was a stunning teal hedgehog woman with blue quills styled like waist-length hair. The hedgehog-girl eyes were the exact shade of milk chocolate, and her figure was almost as developed as the bat-girl. She wore a simple red dress that proudly presented her magnificent mammaries, a slit running down the side from her left hip, and elbow-length red gloves.
The bat-girl fluttered her eyes alluringly, and the hedgehog-girl kneeled over, giving a generous view of her cleavage.
"My name is Rouge," said the bat-girl.
"And I'm Breezie," the hedgehog-girl said.
"You must be the Great Freedom Fighters," Rouge breathed, pressing her breasts against Knuckles's chest, walking her fingers along his arm.
"We saw the images in the sky that the Helix Generals were showing," Breezie trilled, her hips swaying as she approached Tails and - Tails took a step backwards, but it was fruitless - began to stroke the back of his neck.
"And we have to say," Rouge sighed, "You're even more amazing in person."
By this point, the entire group of Great Freedom Fighters was surrounded by the crowd of alluring women - some were human, some were anthros, and some were of Cosmo's race. But all of them were blindingly beautiful.
"W-where did all these girls come from?" Knuckles stammered, though he did not really resist the bat-girl who was currently trying to wrap her wings around him.
"We're all from a women-only village nearby called Byuutee Village," said a brown-haired half-anthro girl with cat ears and tail, wearing a yellow skirt and top and a pink jacket. "If you don't mind, would you stop by and allow us to..." She folded her arms under her chest, pushing her breasts up. "...'entertain' you? Lavishly?"
Blaze whispered to Marine, "Is it not fishy that this is a woman's-only village?"
"Yeah. Really suss," Marine agreed.
"But, knowing Knuckles, he will see through i—"
"ALRIGHT!" Knuckles bellowed, taking Rouge and Breezie in his arms. "OF COURSE WE'LL COME! WE'LL REGALE YOU WITH TALES OF OUR HEROIC DEEDS! RIGHT, GUYS?" he addressed the other guys of the Great Freedom Fighters.
"YEAH!" they cried.
Tails & Cosmo, holding hands, merely gawked.
Meg and Blaze facepalmed.
"Phh... Hopeless," Marine sighed.
狼が来た！！
Byuutee Village was only visible as a wide hole in the ground from the surface. However, inside the hub of the village, it was milling about with more beautiful women than any of the Great Freedom Fighters had ever seen before, many of whom were eying the Great Freedom Fighters with interest and... regret?
"Th-this village only has women in it, huh...?" Rotor asked himself. He felt out of place with all of these guys who were practically salivating at their fortune.
"Feed us entertainment!" Knuckles - and several of the Gizoid pilots - shouted. "Hurry up with the entertainment!"
Rouge, Breezie, and Sara - the half-cat-girl - smiled brightly.
"Right away," Breezie said lowly.
She clapped twice...
And Black Arms poured into the room, pointing machine guns at the Great Freedom Fighters.
Cosmo squeaked in fright, a hand falling on Tails's chest. Meg let out a scream of terror.
Rouge, Breezie, and Sara averted their eyes.
"We're so sorry," Rouge said softly.
"We were ordered to do this," Sara breathed.
"We would have been killed if we refused," Breezie sniffed, sounding close to tears.
"YOU GOTTA BE SHITTING ME!" Knuckles shouted. "THIS WAS A BLACK ARMS TRAP ALL ALONG?"
"Seriously?" Marine murmured.
Loud footsteps reached them, and the Great Freedom Fighters fell silent.
A large white wolf in a purple sleeveless uniform parted the crowds of Black Arms. His golden-yellow eyes looked over the Great Freedom Fighters as if they were a savory steak. His arms were folded behind his back.
"We have apprehended the Great Freedom Fighters, Master Drago," Rouge said, bowing deeply.
"Good work, girls," he said lascivously, stroking her cheek - some of the Great Freedom Fighters gasped, because with his arms no longer folded behind his back, Drago's arms from the shoulders down were revealed to be cybernetic replacements with long steel claws on the ends of his fingers.
To her credit, Rouge glowered at Drago with intense loathing.
Drago leered, growling dangerously, "Why the sour look, sweet-cheeks? You should know better than to give me such a nasty look!"
He swiftly pulled his hand back, leaving some slices along Rouge's cheek. Her hands flew up to her face as she shouted in pain, then, bearing her teeth, Rouge spat at Drago.
Drago growled angrily, and pulled his hand back —
"LEAVE THEM ALONE!"
Tails strode forward, his hands balled up. Cosmo was gazing fearfully at Tails.
Drago, his yellow eyes popping, his razor teeth bared, strode up to Tails.
"I know you... You're the one who killed General Blacknarcissus," he hissed. "If it was me on that battlefield, you would be as dead as that bro of yours."
"Shut up!" Tails shouted. "What do you know, anyway? You're just a big brute who's siding with the Helix King! And you call yourself a Möbian?"
"QUIET, WHELP!"
Tails fell to the ground, his eye blackening from where Drago's fist struck him. Drago grabbed Tails by the scruff and held him up off the ground, many guns trained on the fox boy. Drago's eyes fell on the small emerald drill dangling from Tails's neck.
His grin showed all of his teeth.
"I'll be taking that," he snarled, pulling the Core Drill clean off, the cord of pig-mole hair snapping.
Then he tossed it to a Black Arms soldier.
"Hold on to this," Drago ordered. "And make sure their Gizoids are secured in the name of the Helix King."
"Yes, sir!" said the Black Arms soldier, saluting, before making her way up the ramp leading back to the surface.
"And for your information, whelp," Drago growled, practically nose-to-nose with Tails, "I am not serving the Helix King because I agree with him. I serve no one but the strong and able. And when I offered my great service to him, I had my arms upgraded to what they are by the Helix King himself. So don't you dare suggest that I am debasing myself to the Helix King."
And he threw Tails roughly to the ground.
"Take them to the maximum security cell," Drago commanded the remaining Black Arms.
Rouge, Breezie and Sara at her side, gazed sorrowfully after the Great Freedom Fighters.
クロゼ
The few Great Freedom Fighters who took no part in the shenanigans on the beach were shortly rounded up by those Gizoids and Black Arms under the control of Drago Wolf.
Krozé, an anteater-shaped Black Arms, narrowed his golden compound eyes with mirth as he made off with a very well-made sniper rifle from one of the quarters inside the Great MetaFlare. It looked old, but whatever one of the Great Freedom Fighters owned it took very good care of it. Almost like a good friend. Maybe he would get to keep it —
"Hey."
Krozé turned around —
And his skull was promptly crushed by a large stone dropped on it from the ledge above.
Sally leapt down and picked up Nicole.
"Sorry, girl," she said gently, before looking up at the Great Freedom.
Gizoids were surrounding it from every direction, and there was a line of Great Freedom Fighters being led away from it by Black Arms. Various other Gizoids were carting off those that previously belonged to the Great Freedom Fighters.
Standing erect over the distant line of captive Great Freedom Fighters, clearly devoid of a pilot, was a tall, slender Gizoid of stainless steel, a golden-yellow orb in the middle of its chest in lieu of a face. Its head bore a vicious maw of razor-sharp metal teeth.
ドラゴ・ウルフ専用カスタムギゾイド
グレイトドラゴん
Drago Wolf's Exclusive Use Custom Gizoid
Great DragoN
"What happened here...?" Sally murmured.
ドラゴ・ウルフ
Drago, wiping off the bat-spit from his face with a napkin and disposing of it in an incinerator, entered the dark room and knelt on the dais in the middle.
A holographic black monolith appeared before him, blood-red letters reading 'HELIX KING - SOUND ONLY' appeared before him.
"How has it proceeded, Drago?" asked the Helix King, Lucus Darkoak.
"The women of Byuutee Village played their part magnificently, sire," Drago said, licking his lips. "I can have my way with them if I please, right, sire? Reward them as only I can?"
A prolonged pause from the Helix King.
"Very well," the Helix King said. "But do not spoil all of them. Your Helix King has desire to sate as well."
Drago bowed his head still lower.
"Of course... sire."
"You have the pilot of Freedom Emerl as well, do you?"
"Of course, sire."
"Good. See to it that he is brought to me, and his Core Drill properly disposed of."
"I have already seen to that, sire. I will have the whelp brought to you as quickly as possible."
"Excellent work, Drago. You are a credit to your kind."
"Thank you, sire. Then again, I am a credit to your Helix Empire as well."
The Helix King gave a grunt that Drago took to be an agreement.
"So, she will be meeting the latest Exiled Princess, will she not?" the Helix King continued.
"I can only suppose so, sire," grunted Drago. "And what do you suppose she will say, sire? She who lost herself to servitude and despair...
"The Other Princess."
ギャラクシーナ・ダークオーク
The very core of Byuutee Village was the location of the village leader's audience chamber. It was a spacious chamber, but dark, the walls completely obscured by forest-green curtains.
And in the center, in a tall chair that reached the ceiling, sat the chief of Byuutee Village.
She was of the Helix King's race, and appeared to be in her late teens. Atop her teal hair sat a single daisy flower. Her purple eyes were currently narrowed at the holographic display showing the core Great Freedom Fighters being led to their cell.
Her eyes were focused on the green-haired, blue-eyed girl near the lead of the group.
The girl had very similar facial features to the chief of Byuutee Village.
Flicking a finger paused the image on the girl called Cosmo Darkoak.
"Madam...?" asked Breezie, the hedgehog girl attending to the village leader.
"Bring this girl to me," said the village leader simply.
"Yes, Lady Galaxina," Breezie said, bowing, before sweeping out of the room.
The door closed behind Breezie...
And Galaxina Darkoak, the Other Princess, the other surviving daughter of the Helix King, offered a weary smile to the image of her little sister Cosmo.
つづく
To be continued...