The Hedgehog Prepares To Brawl
Category: Super Smash Bros. Brawl Fanfic
Written by: Angelcam7
Rating: I'm not quite certain… I mean it's not ultra violent, but it does have some "Damn!" sayings in there, so I guess that's somewhat of a mild language thing. Um, I think it's a K+ or a T.
Summary: In my opinion, there must have been some kind of explanation for Sonic arriving in the Subspace Emissary this close to the end in Brawl. This story right here takes place when Sonic and the gang encounter the Emissary around the same time the stadium in the beginning exploded...
Author's note: I do not own or have any rights to the Sonic the Hedgehog or the Super Smash Bros. franchise. Also, this story is not related to my popular comic series The MISAdventures of Sonic the Hedgehog available on my MySpace page (AngelCam7) in the PICS section.
Chapter 1: The Invasion Begins...
' 'sigh' Never a dull moment in my life...' That thought played over and over in Sonic the Hedgehog's mind. Who would have thought that this whole mess started with an Extreme Gear show...
Sonic had just received tickets to an Extreme Gear Trick-Off in the Future City Stadium featuring his rivals turned friends, Jet, Wave, and Storm, otherwise known as the Babylon Rouges. He decided to take his friends, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy Rose, to check out the event.
"Well, this ought to be fun." The blue hedgehog said while he and his friends went to their seats.
"Hard to believe they can still maintain this popularity. Then again, this crowd isn't aware of what they do on their free time..." Amy, with a soda, commented, referring to the Rouges thieving lifestyle.
"Well," Tails said, carrying a bucket of popcorn, "I, for one, anticipate this show. It's so cool to see them again."
"Yeah, but I bet you're real happy to see Wave again, huh?" Knuckles, with a hot dog in his hand, said to Tails with a sly smirk.
"Wh-What?!" The orange two-tailed fox asked, nearly jumping out of his seat, spilling most of his popcorn in the process, "D-D-Don't be ridiculous! I mean, what gives you any idea that I'm... I mean... She's a... And I... That is to say,... What I mean is... What makes you think that?!"
"Well, for starters, you're blushing..." The red echidna commented.
"Not to mention, you're stuttering a lot." The pink hedgehog dressed in a red dress added.
Tails at that point was sweating. Sonic simply rolled his eyes. Then the lights went out in the stadium and a spotlight shone in on the center of the arena, which had been designed with fancy looking ramps and half-pipes. "Hey! The show's about to start!" Sonic pointed out. "oh, thank god..." Tails said quietly.
3 figures started flying in over the audience on Extreme Gears which looked like some sort of hoverboards. The figures were recognized by Sonic and the gang as Storm, the heavily-built, albino albatross, Wave, the brains/beauty, violet swallow, and Jet, the leader of the pack, green hawk. They landed in the center stage as applause filled the stadium. The 3 birds acknowledged the crowd.
Minutes later, after the Babylon Rouges went through the welcoming/introduction part, the show had begun and the display that the 3 birds were showing proved why they were the best in Extreme Gear performance. Storm, while very powerful, showed some impressive agility by executing a triple horizontal spin on the half-pipe. Maybe a 540. Easily a Grade S. Wave, always trying to one-up Storm, successfully landed a 360 horizontal spin and switched into a 360 vertical spin which left most people in the crowd, including Tails, stunned with jaw-dropping amazement. A grade SS. Finally, Jet, always one to steal the show, as well as other things, came off the giant ramp, flew so high, he practically touched the rafters, and first did a 180 horizontal style, then did a 180 in a backward vertical style, then did another 180 in a reverse horizontal style, and ended up doing a 360 forward vertical style before landing perfectly on the floor. Quite simply, a grade X. When Jet landed, the crowd went nuts.
"Heh," Sonic commented, "I gotta admit, Jet has gotten better. I mean, he's got style, he's got flair, ..." At that point, Jet was soaking in all the attention he was getting from the capacity crowd. "...and he's developed an ego problem." Sonic finished as the green hawk continued hamming it up for the audience.
Suddenly, the building started to shake causing the people in attendance to change their attitude from cheers into worried cries of panic.
"Whoa!" Sonic exclaimed as a boom was heard throughout the arena.
"What the heck was that?!" Knuckles asked looking around for the source of that explosion.
Then, the roof began to crack and collapse. The sky had changed from its usual shade of blue to a dark purplish form. As soon as pieces of the roof crashed on the floor, people began to get up and run out in a panicked frenzy. At that point, strange, unusual creatures started to drop down from the newly made hole in the roof surrounding the Babylon Rouges. Sonic tried to get a good look at the creatures due to the fact that the crowd is rushing to leave as soon as possible. He couldn't tell, but it looked like that these life forms had rectangular-like bodies, boxing glove-like hands, and square-ish heads. Almost a combination of robots and aliens of sorts. Most of them were green, some were red. At least 2/3 of these creatures had weapons that consisted of a golden boomerang, a lightsaber-like sword, and what looked like some kind of rocket launcher. (I believe those creatures in the game are called Primids.)
"What the heck are these things?!" Wave asked.
"I don't know..." Jet said with a look of anger on his face, "...But these guys are going to regret interrupting our show!"
The Primids attempted to attack the Rouges, but they were ready. Storm used his strength to knock several Primids up back through the hole they came from. Wave hopped on her Extreme Gear, grabbed her oversized wrench from her pocket of her flame designed pants, and started to whack some Primids senseless. Jet, armed with a couple of green Japanese-like fans, designed with razor-like feathers at the end, swung at the invading creatures, not only knocking out some, but causing a large gust of wind to literally blow the Primids away. However, it seemed that as soon as one of these alien creatures were defeated, two more dropped down through the hole to take its place.
"Boss," Storm said to Jet, "These guys just keep on coming."
"Don't let up, Storm." Jet ordered, "Show these things what the Babylon Rouges are made of!"
Sonic couldn't stand looking from the sidelines any longer. "Looks to me like they could use some backup." He said, "Come on!"
Knuckles jumped from his seat and glided down to the center stage. Tails grabbed Amy and started to fly towards the stage as well. Sonic jumped over the crowd and executed a homing attack toward the stage, bouncing off a Primid in the process. One of the Primids charged in wielding the laser sword. Sonic quickly disposed of him with a rolling attack. Knuckles charged at another one of the Primids and send him sailing right to the wall with a single punch of his spiked-gloved fist. One of the red colored Primids dropped down in front of Tails and Amy and started to release fire from its mouth. Tails and Amy quickly dodged it by moving on either side. Tails then threw what looked like a small paper airplane at the red creature. As soon as it hit him, it caused a surprising large explosion, causing him to fall. Another green Primid met up with Amy with the golden boomerang. "Impressive, but I got a little weapon of my own!" Amy commented as she reach for her trademarked red and yellow Pico Pico hammer which was probably the same size as that boomerang, if not bigger. The Primid immediately threw the boomerang at her only to have it get smashed as soon as Amy slammed her hammer down. "Now it's your turn!" She said, as she charged at the creature and swung full force at it, causing the creature to be sent flying right through the wall.
It seemed as if the home team was winning this battle, but unbeknownst to Sonic and the others, several robots started to enter through the special entrance in the stage. These small white robots had tank-like treads, gray claw-like arms, and computer-like heads with red eyes shining from their screen like faces. (In the game, these were known as R.O.B.s)
Several of the R.O.B. robots held what looked like some sort of dragon shaped cannons in their claw-like hands. Storm had finished off another several Primids when he noticed the robots with the cannons. "Hey!" The albatross exclaimed, "Looks like we have more company!" Everyone became aware of the R.O.B.s that were beginning to surround them.
"What kind of weirdo robots are these?!" Sonic asked as soon as he took out a couple more Primids with a spindash.
"Come on!" Knuckles commented as he delivered one heck of an uppercut to the fire breathing Primid, "Who else do we know makes robots for a living?!"
Tails dodged oncoming fire from the Primid armed with the rocket launcher and presses a button on his watch turning it into like some sort of laser blaster. He then fires an electric ball at the creature, causing a direct hit. "You really think Eggman has something to do with this?" Tails asked.
"Well, I wouldn't put it past him to try something like this." Amy replied as she took out another Primid with her hammer.
"Well, how do you explain these things?!" Jet asked referring to the Primid creatures as he takes more down with those gust creating wings of his, "They don't feel like they're made of metal or anything like that."
"Be careful." Wave said, as she rode in placing a bomb on one of the aliens, causing it to explode and take a whole group out in the process, "We have no clue what these things are capable of."
Storm didn't feel like waiting and decided to take the fight to the robots next. "I hope you're ready for this!" Storm yelled as he charged toward one of the robots. Suddenly, one of the Primids was able to connect with an attack on Storm with the golden boomerang hitting him in the back of the head. Storm lost his balance and fell. The R.O.B. robot held the cannon towards Storm and fired. A strange beam of light shot out of the cannon and nailed Storm. A quick flash of light surrounded him and then he was turned into some sort of life-sized trophy.
Sonic saw this and was shocked. "What the heck did those things do to him?!" He asked.
"He... he... he's been turned into a trophy!" Tails exclaimed, not believing what had just transpired.
"Just what are these creatures?..." Wave asked, when all of a sudden, she started to shake. Her board was taking damage due to the fact that one of the Primids armed with the rocket launcher fired a shot at it. She continued to lose control of the Extreme Gear as the creature fired again hitting her board again causing her to crash on the ground. She tried to pick herself up, but another R.O.B. armed with the dragon shaped cannon fired at her. Wave couldn't react fast enough and the beam hit her turning her into a life-like trophy as well.
"Wave! NO!" Tails yelled as he went toward the robot when he was blocked by a couple of Primids. "Get Out Of My Way!" Tails said in a sense of rage as he delivered a swinging attack using his tails knocking them out of the way. Tails was almost in the robot's field of vision when Sonic zoomed in and stopped him.
"What Are You Doing, Sonic?!" Tails asked angrily, "I Have To Save Her!"
"Dude, chill out, if you're not careful, you're gonna end up like her!" Sonic said, trying to bring some sense into Tails.
Tails looked on with frustration knowing that Sonic was right. They needed a new plan of attack.
Jet jumped in front of Sonic and Tails holding off the attacks from the Primids. "Sonic!" Jet said, "You got to get out of here!"
"What?!" Sonic replied, "Are you nuts?! You can't handle these guys all by yourself!"
"Just go!" Jet said, "Find out what exactly is going on and put a stop to it!"
"All right, man." Sonic said, "Just be careful." Sonic and Tails then high-tailed it towards the exit. Then a beam was heard being fired. Sonic looked and saw it coming right towards him from the side. It looked like the hedgehog would be next to be trophy-zised, but then Jet jumped in front of him, taking the full blunt of the blast!
"Uh, Sonic..." Jet struggled to speak, "...Don't worry about me. ... Just go and stop... these... ...freaks!..." And then in a blinding flash of light, the hawk had been turned into a life size statue.
"Knuckles! Amy!" Sonic called out as he and Tails began running again, "Come on! Let's regroup and come up with a different plan!"
"All right." Amy said as she dealt another blow to a Primid with her hammer just before joining up with them.
"Not A Chance!" Knuckles argued, "I never ran from a fight before and I'm not starting now!" He laid in another punch to another fire breathing Primid then turned to face one of the R.O.B.s.
"Knuckles, this isn't an option at this moment!" Tails countered, "We got to get out of here now!"
Knuckles began taking out the robots one by one with a series of wild punches. "Relax!" He said as he continued knocking out the R.O.B.s, "I got this under con--" Knuckles' speech ended prematurely as one the robots fired at Knuckles hitting him and turning him into a trophy as well.
"Damn it!" Sonic said as he saw what happened, "Tails, follow me. Amy, you get out of here, pronto!" And with that, Sonic raced across the stage, taking out Primids and R.O.B.s in the process with Tails quickly following behind him. The robots almost got a hold of the Knuckles statue, but in an instant, one by one, they were all runed down by Sonic as he did a spindash, knocking them over like oddly shaped bowling pins.
"Jeez, he's heavy." Sonic said, trying to lift up the statue.
"Let me help you out with that." Tails said as he began to fly, helping Sonic lift up the statue.
"Thanks, bro." Sonic said, "Now let's get out of here, before something else happens."
Sonic and Tails started to move again towards the exit when another R.O.B. landed in front of them with that transforming cannon aimed at them. The cannon was warming up, but before it could be fired, a loud smack was heard and the robot was sent flying in the air.
"What the?!" Sonic asked, as he wondered what just happened until he looked at the spot where the robot stood. "Amy?!" He said in shock. Amy was standing in front of them with her hammer in her hand. "What are you doing?! I said to head outside!"
"You should be thanking me!" Amy responded in an angry tone, "Nobody points a gun at my Sonic and gets away with it!"
"Amy..." Sonic began but then he saw another robot behind her with another cannon. It fired and the beam was heading straight for Amy. "Look Out!" Sonic said as he dropped the Knuckles statue and zoomed towards Amy leaving Tails struggling to carry it himself. Sonic then reached Amy and forced her down as he ducked the beam. Tails then fell down with the Knuckles statue on top of him. The beam bounced off of the Knuckles trophy, ricocheted back over Sonic and Amy again, and blasted the R.O.B. robot turning it into a trophy, causing it to drop the cannon in the process.
"Whew, that was close." Sonic said as he picked himself and Amy back up. "Hey Tails, are you okay?"
"Uh, I could use a little bit of help." Tails said as he was still trapped underneath the Knuckles trophy.
"Oh, hold on, be right there." Sonic said as he ran back to help out his buddy. Amy saw the unique cannon that was in front of the R.O.B. statue and picked it up. "Hmm, this sure is a weird looking cannon." She said as she examined it.
"Amy! Let's go! We've got to get moving!" Sonic said as he and Tails were successful in escaping with the Knuckles statue. Amy, carrying the odd cannon, was not far behind.
"Quick, to the car!" Tails said as everyone headed for the parking lot which had been baron for a good few minutes with the exception of one blue and orange striped hovercar convertible.
"Hurry, put Knuckles in the backseat!" Sonic said as he lifted with all his might to get Knuckles over the door and in the car with Tails lifting up the statue with extra effort.
As soon as the task was done, Tails then flew to the driver's seat and started the car. "Amy! Hurry up and get in!" He called out. Amy threw the cannon in the backseat next to Knuckles, ran past Sonic, slid across the hood Dukes-of-Hazard style, and hopped over the door and landed in the passenger's side. "Ready." She said.
"Sonic, come on." Tails said as he saw Sonic just stand there looking towards the stadium as more Primids and R.O.B.s were coming out of the stadium.
"You go on ahead!" Sonic said. "What?!" Tails asked, wondering what Sonic was thinking. "Go! I'll hold them off and catch up with you later." Sonic said as he was waiting for these unknown creatures to make their move.
"All right. Just be careful." Tails said as the hovercar began to move and he drove it out of the parking lot and into the street.
"Heh, no problem..." Sonic said as he faced off with the invading army.
Several Primids armed with laser swords charged in towards the blue hedgehog swinging wildly. Sonic was able to quickly and easily dodge the blades and land a few punches and kicks knocking them down. Sonic then took one of the creature's blades for himself. "Sa-hay," He commented, "This looks pretty cool. Ya mind if I try it out for myself."
More Primids and several R.O.B.s attempted to attack Sonic, but Sonic winded up the sword and swung it with all his might. The laser-like blade appeared to extend as he swung it and ended up taking out a large group of creatures and robots. Sonic then did a rolling aerial attack with the sword in his hands causing more damage to the other group of invaders.
Sonic landed, ready with whatever these things were going to throw at him next. Or so he thought. Another group of R.O.B. robots were about to charge up the special dragon-shaped cannons, but then their heads started to flash and beep in a weird mode. At that point, the remaining Primids returned in the stadium. The robots dropped their cannons and followed them back inside. "Ha!" Sonic said, "I got them running scared!"
Sonic then peeked in the arena. He witnessed the creatures taking the trophy version of the Babylon Rouges inside some sort of weird dimensional portal and then they as well as some of the robots jumped in.
Then 2 of the R.O.B. robots came out with a large strange black orb with red Xs on the front and back of it. Both robots grabbed a handle that was on both sides of the orb. The orb then looked liked it was splitting in half as both robots were pulling on either side of the orb. A bright blue light then shined and dimmed revealing a timer that read 3:00:00 (3 minutes). The timer then started to count down. "Oh, no." Sonic replied, "It's some sort of doomsday device!"
Sonic then ran towards the streets and immediately caught up with Tails' car. "Tails, what's the situation around Future City?" Sonic asked as he ran matching the top speed of Tails' car.
"Oh, hey Sonic. Well, I heard on the radio that these unusual creatures have taken over Future City." Tails said, keeping his attention towards the road, "Thankfully, every citizen has been successfully and safely evacuated from the city."
"Good thing." Sonic said, "These things just took the Rouges into some weird portal and left some kind of explosive device in the arena."
"What?!" Amy asked turning to Sonic, "How much time we got left?"
"From last I saw, we have less than 3 minutes left." Sonic replied.
"Well, we better hurry!" Tails said as he switched gears and engaged the turbo boost on his car causing it to go faster. Sonic picked up the pace to still catch up with the car. They soon exited the city limits.
A minute later, the city was soon engulfed in some strange electrical field covered in darkness. Sonic turned around as he ran and he, Tails, and Amy saw the scene before them.
"Oh, man." Tails said after a few seconds after the explosion, "This is really, really bad."
"What kind of creatures are we dealing with?" Amy asked with a sense of fear in her voice.
"Here's a better question," Sonic added, "How the heck do we stop them?"
Sonic, Tails, and Amy soon wondered if this madness would end soon...