Sonic Adventure: World 'BlazBlue'

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Floating Island #13: Angel Island

"Lieutenant."

"Yes, Major?"

"Fight me." Answered a very stern sounding Sonic-Kisaragi. Since his awakening he had been unusually very calculative in his thoughts. It had been a week since the events that occurred. Seven days after being hospitalized in critical condition. 168 hours following the Death Egg's crash. 10080 minutes since he had confronted and lost to his best friend Shadow. Lastly, 604800 seconds passed and he had not been updated on Shadow's fate. He was pretty sure that those calculations were right but who knows? He was never the best at math.

"M-major!" The human girl stammered and tripped over her own words in an endearing, if not foolish fashion. "But you've just started walking again! I couldn't possibly engage in sparring with you!" They were on the rooftop of G.U.N.'s official Guardians Cross Hospital. Leaning over a railing Sonic looked down upon Angel Island's citizens, feeling the wind blow through his quills with his assigned aide and personal secretary behind him. Smirking, he answered with: "Sorry to hear that lieutenant. Because that means…" Before she could even blink, Sonic drew forth his trusty nodachi-style sword Caliburn and swiped at her. It was a direct hit but instead of drawing blood it merely broke apart the wooden clipboard she was holding. "It'll be a perfect victory."

"Fine…" Holding her hands out she materialized her weapons of choice, twin revolver guns named Donec vitae Salvatore. "I've no choice now then. It is an order after all isn't it?" smirking she took a battle stance with one gun held horizontally in her right hand and the other placed vertically in her left. Nodding, her superior then beckoned at her with a hand gesture. "Here I come!" And true to his word, he curled up into a ball and spin dashed at her making contact with her forehead to throw her off balance. After landing, he kneeled down and struck upwards with an overhead slash, making a harsh gust of wind fling her body into the air.

Not wanting to collide with the ground head first, the girl performed an aerial recovery to land on her feet. Expecting this, Sonic-Kisaragi threw a lightning fast jab but what he didn't anticipate was for it to get knocked down by the side of his lieutenant's gun, or for it to be followed up by the other gun's barrel to bash him upside the head. Figuring she wouldn't be fast enough to dodge a repeat of his first attack, he attempted the swipe again only to get knocked off his feet via a low sweep kick. "Heh…not bad."

"It's about to get better…" With the grace of a master gymnast, Sonic's aide had leaped over, placed his head in between her thighs and performed an aerial backflip to swing him face first onto the ground. Nowhere near done though, she shot down at him from the air with Salvatore, bouncing him off the ground with dull pellets in place of actual bullets that were designed only to temporarily knock foes unconscious. Upon landing, the lieutenant then heel dropped him to render him spiraling senseless before rolling around on the tip of said heel in order to successfully shoulder charge her commanding officer, sending him skidding along so far across the roof he almost reached the edge of the railing. The entire display of CQC style combat was executed with flawless precision. This prompted a prideful laugh from the currently losing combatant. "Hah hah! I'm not done yet!"

Rolling forwards into a spin charge, he darted forward in his curled ball form and collided into the girl with the full force of his weight, sending her reeling back and clutching her side. Sonic landed upright and began swiping at the teenage soldier too fast for the eye to see. Knowing Sonic-Kisaragi's famous for being the fastest thing alive ever to serve in G.U.N., she forced her eyes shut, deciding to rely on her sense of hearing and reflexes to dodge the barrage of attacks.

The first couple of sword swings hit their marks across her arms but like something out of a choreographed cinema she dodged and evaded the remaining attacks. Hearing Caliburn being tucked away, she opened her eyes and saw a sideways kick coming at her. Using the same method that stopped the jab from earlier, the lieutenant threw her opponent's foot down and hopped up and over him in the form of a cartwheel to attempt a kick of the same variety before her major could recover. Instead, however: "Rookie mistake…"

Turning around, Sonic-Kisaragi performed his special quick draw move to counter and swing horizontally where his follower was unprotected as both firearms were up above her. It would've been a clean kill of an attack. "Whoa there!"

A lunging backwards swipe from above the two of them not only blocked the sword from making contact but actually snapped the thin nodachi blade in two. Afterwards, a crouching thrust of the foot made Sonic fall backwards followed by a light elbow to the back to bring his opponent back down and then came a standing sweep kick that made her fall on top of him in a rather…compromising manner. "Well well well, having relations between fellow soldiers eh? Tsk tsk, this just won't do at all now will it…right Lieutenant Maria Vermillion?"

Immediately turning a tomato color upon realization of his words, the lieutenant jumped off of her major and threw about a hundred apologies his way. "No prob Maria...and you are?" Looking up at the one who interrupted their bout, he turned out to be a black hedgehog with a tall, lean figure donning a very stylish black suit accompanied by a matching fedora which obscured his eyes from view. All of it together just screamed of the 'shady' archetype. He held out his hand which the blue hedgehog took graciously.

"Allow me to introduce myself; my name is Teru M. Philes from the Guardian Unit of Nations' Intelligence Department. I believe my rank is ah, captain? Please, call me Terumi."

"Okay. So what brings the captain of intelligence here?" inquired the younger of the two hedgehogs. "Oh yes of course." He opened a folder that was tucked away in the deep inside pocket of his coat, opened it and began reading after clearing his throat. "Major Sonic-Kisaragi and Lieutenant Maria Vermillion. Once the former's rested up and able, the two of you are to investigate and arrest a certain criminal who was last seen around the lowest levels of Downunda here on Angel Island. He has been identified as none other than…" Pausing for dramatic tension he read the name.

"Shadow the Bloodedge."