This is a re-edit and rewriting of my first fanfiction I ever made "Epic, The Sonic Adventures". I first wrote this when I was twelve years old. And now at nineteen, I believed that it would be beneficial to rewrite and rework the characters and the story.
Please note that sonic team and the MLP Mane6 and characters are anthropomorphic bipeds
Please Enjoy.
Chapter One
Tails, a golden, medium-build kitsune worked diligently underneath a monster of a machine; Tails' prized possession, the Super Tornado F10. The bright warehouse light glinted brilliantly against the polished surface colored white, black, and burnt orange. The three hues was painted in a retro design, giving the space-age plane a cool, way-back look.
Soothing soft rock music and clanging of metal parts being bolted together was the music of the warehouse. The cool rock tunes was being played from an old radio he had found years ago, and the clanging came from underneath the metallic beast. This is where Tails spend most of his time nowadays, working like an ant in his junky, three-story garage.
His workplace (playpen to others) is where Tails find his peace. And that peace is filled to the ceiling with scrap metal, engine blocks, rusted out axles and other various mechanical systems you can think of. But it was home, and no one can argue with home; a place of belonging.
"I'm gonna take you on a trip so far from here I've got two tickets in my pocket, now baby, we're gonna disappear. We've waited so long, waited so long We've waited so long, waited so long I've got two tickets to paradise Won't you pack your bags, we'll leave tonight..!" Tails sang out passionately.
Suddenly his music started glitching and buzzing as if he was receiving a bad signal. The signal then cleared a bit and the music returned momentarily, resuming as if nothing had happened. Tails slide himself out from under his machine with a face full of bemusement. As it turned normal he squinted at it before rolling himself back under it.
Halfway of rolling back under the car he quickly pulled his head up in shock, thus hitting his head on the fender of his plane. The radio began making unrecognizable voices, they seemed to be female and yearning for help. The static-sodden voices seemed to scream and were doused in apprehension.
"a-ah s-s-om-one...he-l-*chsssssssh*p-us-s *chssssssh* w-w-we *chsssh* un_deer-r *chssh* at-aack! *BOOM*"
The scattered distress signal then died slowly as Tails' music tuned back in. Tails groaned as he rubbed the area between his large ears. "What the hell was that…?" Tails said with a hurt look across his face as he tenderly massaged his head. Within a second a cool, tall hedgehog with deep cobalt blue spines going down his head appeared through the doorway. The bright warehouse lights lit up his pristine white racing jacket with blue racing stripes going down the back offside. In one hand he carried a hotdog, done to perfection, and in the other he wiped his hand on his dark blue jeans.
Tails pulled himself out from under the Super F10 and sat on the cushioned surface of the creeper he was laying on and looked at Sonic. While now lightly rubbing his hand with his left hand, Tails held his hand out at the radio, eyebrows furrowed in confusion, and asked. "Did you just hear that?" Tails hoped that he did and the bump on his noggin didn't do any damage.
"Norpe..." Sonic said with his mouth full of the delicious food. "Why?" He finished his dog then wiped his mouth as descended the short steps into the warehouse on his way to his friend.
"I-I don't know." Tails stopped rubbing his head as he hoisted himself off the creeper and took a few steps to meet Sonic. "The song was disrupted by another radio signal. It was weird, it sounded like someone was trying to say something..." The golden kitsune trailed off, lost in thought.
Sonic just looked at his friend in a deadpan state and shook his head, "Whatever is wrong with your old, old radio, I'm sure you can fix it."
"But Sonic-" Tails tried to reiterate.
"Any who, have you finished with the Super Tornado yet?" Sonic asked, genuinely interested in the space-age metal in front of him.
Tails returned to Mobius and scratched the back of his head as looked around at his creation. "I mean, sure, I just need to install a UPS (universal positioning system) and intergalactic personnel tracking and it'll be all set-." Tails listed while counting off his fingers.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, and a hundred million more things that you won't need those things at the moment." Sonic started to usher Tails towards the plane with a giddy, excited grin on his face. "Let's take this baby out for a spin!" Sonic exclaimed, eager wanting to get out of the boring house things have been awfully bland as of late.
"But Sonic-," Tails interjected only to be interrupted yet again as Sonic jumped into the open cockpit of the Jet.
/Somewhere high above Mobius airspace/
A ship larger than any galactic space whale, larger than any nautical aircraft carrier ship that ever rode the seas, larger than probably any other warship ever created followed a bogey as its cannons swiveled to aim at an enemy ship. Crimson colored the astronomically huge warship, wherever it wasn't red was black, and silver. The massive ship gleamed and seemed to snarl as it plowed through the empty space. Embellished proudly on the side of the God of a ship was the black logo the Eggman Empire; the infamous mustachioed face, known as no other than the Eggman.
The "Great", round man himself sat in a large, egg-shaped command chair that overlooked the humongous bow of his spaceship. He was on a mission. He has been following the ultimate paragon of all treasure ships, or so he assumed. He have been following a this "specific target" for a while now, reason for that being that it radiated with something the Eggman wants. Power, and magic, and otherworldly energies exuded from the ship's beautiful hull. And like a dog eyeing a delectable meal, he licked his chops and thrust his hand forward signaling the his attack.
Upon command every cannon, gun, and howitzer aboard Eggman's vessel whirled with energy and fired upon the valuable target.
/At the same time/
The valuable target gave the definition of pristine and ostentatious a whole new meaning as the ship glided through space. The hull was formed out of a cream colored wood, and a band of purpleheart wood was the lavish belt upon the ship. The deck, mast, and the rails were all constructed out of lavish, rare woods and materials. The trim of the glorious ship donned gold plating that sparkled with radiance and importance. Many hand carved grooves and symbols was embellished into the creamy white wood.
The ship was beautiful… but the most astonishing part of the whole Fluyt was the large, imperial sunsails. Embedded with techno-grace in the sails were crystalline, glowing hexagons that provided the ship with power from the stars and suns. (similar to the ones off of Disney's Treasure Planet for reference). They rose high above the ship and glowed with radiance as it captured the sun that graciously provided propulsion and power from behind them. The sails itself gave a heavenly glow upon the ship, and would understandably hypnotize any mere mortal that dared grace their eyes upon the remarkable sails.
More proud than a pride of lions and more pulchritudinous than brunch full of models stood the powerful Diarchy of the nation of Equestria, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.
Princess Celestia and Princess Luna both stood unfazed as they witnessed the weaponry on the massive warship charge up. They stood as cool and stoic as statues at the obvious pirate's trial of bombardment on her ship. With a bored look they yawned for they knew the magical shield would keep her and her crew safe from the exploding display that barely rocked the ship.
Massive explosions and fire and clouds of smoke blasted against the side of the ship, its force and resulting fire wrapping itself around the curvature of the magical force field that envelops the treasure ship. Rain of light and the dampened sound of the concussive forces were the only things that permeated the shield's impermeable structure.
Well, until…
/
After a few minutes of his fruitless assault on the ship, Eggman smiled evilly and stood up out of his chair. He snatched his drink out of the cup holder of the chair with a grunt as he stared frustrated at the ship engulfed in the force field. After taking a monumental sip of his "Super Big Gulp" soda he began to bark out orders. "Okay, I think I had enough petty playtime with these hoggers of treasure, take down their shields, take whatever sending off that potent ray of valuable on her ship, and then kill the rest." he stated while he waved away his most trusting of robots, Decoe and Bocoe, to ready the Emerald Blaster.
The Emerald Blaster works also as a siphon to drain away every ounce of power from the host. The Emerald Blaster/Siphon is extremely powerful, and, honestly, haven't been tested, but Eggman would never tell anyone that. Its immense power is drawn from the artificial emeralds he manufactures whenever he conquers a planet or world, taking their chaos and dissidence to forge the chaotic power.
Eggman turned around and pressed a few buttons on his holographic control panel and walked back to the huge window overlooking the bow to watch the fireworks. A huge grin spread across his face, he teeth pearly and large, his sanity slipping as he thought about conquering the treasure ship, and all of its prizes it contains.
/
Celestia continued to stare nonchalantly at the warship following behind them. She rolled her eyes at the hardly intimidating spaceship and began to think about the precious cargo that was aboard her ship.
The cargo was secret, a special type of magic that is barely used in this modern era of magicuso. Being that it is older, unreformed magic… it is incredibly powerful. Just obtaining this artifact required every defensive power in this ship to be put on high alert, matter fact as soon as Eggman gotten five miles too close to the ship it sent alerts to the Kingdom of Equestria. The artifact is kept in a secret, impermeable locked box in the deepest chasm of the ship.
"This character here must have sensed the power seeping from the ship, I'm sure of it, he must be a pirate..." Celestia's thoughts trailed off as the shorter, but equally beautiful woman, and arguably more intimidating than her kin, approached slowly behind her. She bore a dark-navy military commanding uniform, opposite that of her sister's, Princess Celestia, who wore a white uniform brandished with gold and silver, and on her hip sat with pride was the royal saber.
"Tia..." She spoke with a stern, businesslike manner, "... Do you wish for me to return fire?" Her fair cyan eyes glinted in the starlight. The star's light glinted off her own medals and buttons on her strict coat.
Celestia, now with her left hand holding her jaw thoughtfully, slowly shook her head, "No. Luna we need to safely return home as quickly as possible. You know that the weaponry will only slow us down from our top speed, besides-"
"No?!" Luna looked at her sister is shock. Her tone then rose and got slightly more sarcastic. "Surely you do not think that your almighty shield can hold up to this much bombard-AGHHH!" Luna shouted out in sudden shock as the mighty cream-colored ship swayed harshly. The two braced their hands against the golden rails that bordered the ship as the ship rocked like a space whale had bumped into it.
Princess Celestia's sparkling magenta eyes were transfixed horrifically on the bright, powerful beam focused on the shield exactly 10 feet from their faces. Does that beam have the potential to rupture her shield and destroy them all? For a second the princesses shock turned into relief when the shield absorbed the deleterious attack.
Or so they thought…
/
Eggman sat in his extra-large command chair as he smile got even wider as he watched the Emerald Blaster focused it's incredibly potent ray of power into the shield. Decoe and Bocoe returned into the bridge and projected holographic displays of the power status of the ray and the Celestial Galley shield systems; both decreasing steadily as the Emerald Blaster poured it's raw energy into the shield and the shield energy being siphoned by the beam, deteriorating. Eggman smiled villainously at this. "Tell the Attacker divisions to prepare for the boarding of their ship." And with a more frowning, sinister face he added, "And get me whatever's on that damn ship."
/
Blaring sirens was heard all over the vessel as blinding red lights erupted from spotlights and deck lights. Celestia looked each blaring light as if they were each giving her a different message, but in actuality she was overly astonished that they were actually in trouble. The Princess Commander took short breaths as she fully grasped the severity of their predicament.
"CODE RED - CODE RED!" A fearful crew member hollered in panic.
Co-Commander Princess Luna ran back and forth to the crew members to try and calm them down. She could sympathize with them though, compared to the warship that was shooting at them they were a mere mackerel to a whale. Indefatigable she coaxed the crew to remain calm even though her own hair on the back of her neck was standing up thanks to them being totally exposed without their "impermeable" shield. She returned to her sister, "TIA! We have to get out of here, we-!" She took another look at the light-pinkish Celestial shield and noticed it began starting to flicker, and then it's brilliant aura dimming to a dull champagne pink. The ray also ebbed away into mere light particles as the shield blinked away.
Celestia stared at horror as her titanic shield was destroyed and even more so when she noticed a horde of attacking units from the Crimson warship began to descend upon the Celestia's ship at high speed.
And then it hit her.
As if in slow motion, she watched as the huge barrels of the main Crimson warship start to rotate toward her vessel. We're going to need help, we can't do this alone, not with our current weaponry. Thinking quickly she used her magic to teleport herself into the bridge of her ship. In the bridge she found Luna already commanding the cannon operators to take aim and get ready for battle. Suddenly the ship lurched sharply as the ship took a heavy dose of explosive rounds.
"FIRE EVERYTHING!" Luna yelled in her commanding voice as she withdrew her elegant saber from her sheath pointing it at the main Eggman warship, her face and hair bearing fury. As soon as the words left her mouth the Celestial main plasmatic howitzers rained fiery back at Eggman. Celestia, seeing that order over the attack was being taken care of, retreated to the force-field system module and tried to regain power to the Force Field systems. Celestia looked solemnly at the magic capacitors which acted as a medium for the magic to flow, but the beam that was shot at them totally fried everything. Frustrated, Princess Celestia then went to the radio transmitter and tried calling to the most nearby planetary system, Mobius.
"HELP! WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!" Yelled the Princess into the radio transceiver, just when she transmitted the message heavy caliber rounds met the commanding cabin, shocking her.
A frantic, scrawny crew member bust through the commanding quarters door and in pure fear shouted for the captains. "PRINCESS, THEY'RE BOARDING THE SHI-..." The last part was cut off by the sounds of gurgling blood as his cranium was no longer connected to his neck.
Luna stared in a state of horror, only to be quickly replaced by sheer anger that bubbled like a cauldron of acid. She cried an angry war cry and stormed down to main deck, her sister following closely.
Heavy, mechanical robots were boarding the ship wielding huge, electrified broadswords and hand Gatling guns. Already crew members were trying to fight off these metal contraptions in different ways: the pegasi (flight) type flew above the carnage and rained heavy caliber semi-automatic sniper rounds upon the robots or hard hitting lightweight machine gun fire, the unicorn (magic) channeled magic to their hands, shooting rays of energy at the robots, destroying the lot of them, and the Earth (strength) beings used their high strength to end the miserable bots with heavy shotgun fire and heavy iron gauntlets to bash them up. Though with as much bravery and power they had, there were only more and more robots boarding the ship, duly conquering it.
/
Eggman laughed hoarsely at the Princesses' tiny attempts to get rid of his metallic warriors. He smiled contently as his seemingly unlimited forces of attacker units poured on the space vessel. Although his numbers were great and should of already taken over the ship and slaughtered everyone upon it, the flight type soldiers kept them at bay with their powerful weapons from above, safe from harm.
You meddling dogs, why don't you lot fold over already and die! He frowned at this and flipped a black switch on his dashboard which raised his automatic 30mm sniping system. The gun raised itself out of the hull of the ship and pointed right at the avian above the ship. With a series of mechanical whirls and clacking of ammo being loaded, a long, mean, black barrel vaulted out of the hull. A periscope lowered from the ceiling and Eggman took it greedily. A deep red dot pointed at his mark as his ship self-aimed the rifle at the flying bipeds. .. The dot stopped at one of their heads.
Eggman smiled.
His toothy grin glinting with malice.
He pulled the trigger.
*Pfffttttttterrrn*
/
Celestia was busy hacking away with her magically enhanced saber at the death machines boarding her craft, each slash stunning the robots in close proximity to them, allowing cutting them down with ease. Using her magic she lifted one in the air and clenched her fist, in turn crushing the robot within her magical grasp. A rounder robot then jumped upon the ship right in front of Celestia. Its belly opened up to reveal a series of quick moving claws tethered on metal arms. The arms aimed to constrict her and strike upon her blind spots, but Celestia was quicker. She spun around and as graceful as a swan her sword targeted the claws, smiting each down like a flyswatter would a fly. She smiled as her crew was drawing the robots backwards, surprisingly this attack haven't gained casualties from The Celestial Galley.
*THUD*
Luna, fighting beside her sister, felt the thud first that sounded behind them. She looked back and had to double check to confirm what she saw was real. A mixing pot of emotions coursed through her. Celestia then noticed her shocked face and looked where her eyes was transfixed to. A body with a head so severely split apart and deformed it didn't look real. The skull was split in half with an eye missing, the face was tearing off the side and brain was everywhere. How vile! Princess Celestia angrily thought.
Another after another unsuspecting flight types were duck-hunted out of the air above the ship.
Brain and blood rained upon the army on the Celestial Galley.
That was the final straw.
Luna eyes grew into an intense, blazing white, so intense in fact that energy seeped from her skull from her eyes and nostrils, giving her a ghastly look. Her horn glowed brilliantly as energy coursed through her body. She levitated briefly above the ground as she made her power transformation, capturing the eyes of her crewmates. As feet made contact with the wood beneath her soles she then dangerously eyed the robots around her with a hatred glistening in her now hard-white gaze, and with one swoop of her hand she eradicated the opposing forces from existence. Burned by the infernal fire that was made of her potent detestation and utter animosity for her opposition. Celestia watched as her sister changed into Nightmare Moon, wishing she wouldn't do that, for her offensive capabilities are almost all powerful, but her defense is reduced to zero. Luna swished her blazing saber at any approaching attacker unit sending slashes of high frequency energy exploding the units upon contact.
/
Eggman laughed as he shot down more of her flying crew, he laughed hysterically until a bright flash of white started cutting down his forces to none.
"Okay. Enough of this" Eggman screamed angrily.
/ Break /
A white, puffy thrust tail came from the Super Tornado's quadruple high performance Quaker® jet engines as Sonic and Tails zoomed through Mobius airspace. The F10 roared smoothly through the air, barely interrupted by the jet streams, crosswinds, and turbulence. They made small talk on their test run, talking about the usual, machinery, girls, and most importantly why on Mobius was Eggman so quiet?
As they talked they realized that Eggman has been extremely quiet lately. Usually he would strike every week with a new convoluted plan, then he would space it out to perhaps every month… But this latest hiatus has been going about for over six months. Whatever he has planned must be huge or is it possible that he has actually retired from villainy?
The Mobius evening sun soon began to set and darkness became imminent.
"Well, I think it's about time to take this baby back home-," Tails started to say and proceeded to adjust the controls to prepare the return home.
"Wait, why? You BARELY flew the thing, you said it yourself, and we need to test the F10 to our highest capabilities." Sonic complained. He actually was very reluctant to go back home to boredom again.
Tails rolled his baby blue eyes at this and sighed in defeat while Sonic lounged back further in his seat smirking in victory. As he lounged he looked up through the cockpit glass. Sonic's eyes observed and squinted at what he saw... fireworks? Bright explosions erupted above them, without a sound, like a silent show.
"Hey bud, can this thing go into space?" Sonic asked, still looking up at the "fireworks", as he looked closer he realized that some of the light seemed to be behind a large whale.
"Uhhh, I guess... But-" Tails trailed off.
Yeah? One more question then, are space whales real?" Sonic asked.
Tails giggled lightly, but looked up in thought. And when he did his baby blue eyes twinkled, gazing questionably at what did look like fireworks.
Without another word, and his natural curiosity taking over, Tails pulled back the twin levers built into the futuristic looking steering wheel which in turn increased the plane's altitude and speed. After flying for a few minutes the plane started to sound alarms warning Tails that he has reached the ceiling limit and his engines started to stall thanks to the lack of oxygen in the air. Tails noticed this and hit a few buttons to initiate his powerful /rocket thrusters. The two then felt the tug of the g-forces on them as the rockets initiated.
Suddenly, the jet engines stopped causing the aircraft to slow down and the ship started to freefall backwards. Tails repeatedly kept pressing the button to initiate the rocket thrusters, and panic started to rise in his throat and feeling his heart with anxiety, his external thrusters aren't firing! The F10 continued to freefall backwards whilst gathering speed quickly.
Sonic tapped on Tails shoulder and sheepishly chuckles, "Uhhh, buddy, you do know we are falling to our deaths right hehe..." obviously keeping his optimism. Tails envies him but ignores his question.
"C'mon, c'mon, c'mon..." Tails coaxed the plane softly while gritting his teeth, he repeatedly pressing the thruster switch hoping it'll finally fire. The rushing air outside became terrifying, there were really falling. They were really falling to their doom. Come on, come on, come on! Tails' mixed emotions of panic and frustration made him extremely irritable and he started kicking under the dash "Come on you piece of SHI-" he kicked right into the switch manifold box and the thrusters immediately kicked in over 200,000 lbs. of thrust and caused them both to shoot back into their seats as the plane shot out towards the edge of the atmosphere.
Sonic fought against the force of gravity and held out his fist to Tails, Tails spotted it and put on a relieved smile, bumped his fist against Sonic's, and then closed his eyes in relief.
Once free outside Mobius atmosphere and after they flew for a while they found out what the "fireworks" were. In front of them was a HUGE, red dreadnaught releasing havoc onto a smaller, but still very large, creamy white Galleon ship. Tails and Sonic both gawked at the size of the gunship ahead of them, and even more so when they saw the cliché and malicious logo on the side.
"Eggman." They said in unison, gritting their teeth in disgust at the name.
/
Eggman eagerly started pressing some colorful buttons and then dramatically flipped a yellow switch which raised a platform with a comically large red button sitting it. Eggman smiled as he flipped a switch on the dash before walking over to the podium with the big button. The warship whistled and whined as the transformation process began to inaugurate. Eggman smiled widely as though he was about to receive a prize.
Outside the massive hull, the bow of Eggman's vessel began to transform and retract, revealing a massive barrel. The barrel was short like a mortar barrel, but it was wide in diameter, making the Eggman Dreadnaught look much like a basking shark. The metal was dark and sent a bad vibe of dread amongst all who dare gaze upon it. Slowly, from it depths, a ominous, brightly, glowing orb of energy began to form. The intensity of the orb's power output multiplied itself by the power of ten every second. With each passion moment the orb continued to grow until its capacity overflowed from the barrel and long tendrils of energy leaked from the cannon. Finally, the orb shook as its brilliance blinded even Eggman behind his spectacles until Eggman pressed a button with a gloved hand.
And as if he didn't look crazy enough he began to cackle with joy.
"Ska-doosh."
There was a cataclysmic pulse that rippled throughout the fabric of space as soon as the energy was released. The dark barrel that shot out the orb slowly grew dim due to the sudden release of pure energy. The infernal, raw energy projectile shot out towards The Celestial Fleet at high speed and deafening droning sound. The very light bent to the presence of the dense energy as it barreled through space. The orb left shimmering sparkles of light that bounced about like embers from a fire in its wake, almost beautiful despite how disastrous the weapon is.
/
Celestia and the rest of her star-stricken crew onboard stared in apprehensive silence as they watched the herculean hull of the master warship convert and reveal a massive cannon barrel. In several dreadful seconds a glowing orb took place in its dark belly. And there was silence.
Nothing.
There was no sound but the crackling of the splintered wood under stress from the previous attacks from the enemy warship.
Nothing.
They could hear the blood rushing in their ears it was so quiet.
Nothing.
Though a tiny flicker of something shiny, like off of metal, exiting out of Mobius airspace caught Celestia's brilliant purple eyes, but they returned back to whatever was pointing at them, anticipating the worst.
Luna, the first to break free of the ominous orb shining stare, and still in her Nightmare form, smirked and drew up the most powerful shield she could muster; sparkling dark purple/blue in front of the Celestial Fleet. A prideful smile couldn't help but crawl upon her face. The shield was powerful enough to block any blow that her sister, and even Discord could launch against her. This shield withstood whole wars full of bombardment, there is no way that this simple attack could break through... "Humph. This shield should..." Luna cockily started.
But as soon as those presumptuous word left her lips there was a deep, stomach throbbing, droning sound that erupted from the initial release of the orb casting its energy towards the Celestia's fleet. The blast roared deeply towards them filling it's victims with intense dread as it neared. Darkness seemed to engulf it as it bored through space. The orb power shook the ship as it mercilessly slammed headstrong through the shield, going through it like paper, then through the ship.
In the seconds following everyone who braced for the attack stood, looked around in a craze wondering what damage the attack had done, and then sheepishly started to chuckle lightly in relief. I mean that's what they've would've done if they could.
Can't chuckle without your lungs right?
The energy released upon them was a special neuro-plasmatic (cold type) that saps away at your very life by greedily gulps down every joule of energy in your body, and if not cured, making you as useless as a carcass.
The avian type that hovered above the Galleon found themselves plummeting towards the deck of the ship- hitting it hard. Their eyes grew wide as every attempt to draw in air was greeted with failure. Within seconds everyone on the deck was writhing in their own desperate attempt to grasp just the tiniest bit of air. But they couldn't. Their starving lungs screamed for it, but unfortunately they couldn't relieve its despondent screams, and within a moment just about everyone on deck blacked out.
The princesses felt a resurgence of panic claw their way from their feet to their throat, life being sucked from their bodies. They could feel the cold start to seep into their bodies. They could the blood in their bodies slow to a few beats a minute. Even their minds began to slip, the blackness of unconsciousness flickered and threatened to take over. But thanks to their higher magical abilities they sustained themselves far longer than their crewmates.
A captain's first duty is to her mates.
Princess Celestia felt guilt cloud her mind.
/
Sonic looked on curiously towards the white vessel as Tails maneuvered the F10 closer to the Eggman master warship.
Just then there was an enormous pulse of light and a heart-skipping droning sound that pierced the airtight cockpit of the Super Tornado. Tails' electronic systems started to flicker and give out for a second and they felt their breath slip away from them. Once the massive pulse shot farther away from them and towards the Galley their precious breathing was caught back. Tails briefly looked back at Sonic, who was wearing the same gawking, bewildered face as himself. "What was that Tails?!" Sonic asked slightly fearful and gasping, obviously still shocked for having his breath taken away so suddenly.
Tails looked back towards his command panel and pressed a button and a bright holographic HUD came up with vitality stats and read: *1.8% of Lethal Neuro-plasmatic levels in your area* The two heroes both looked back at the victim's cream colored galleon and feared the worse for those onboard. As the blast of energy got closer to the galleon they saw a glistening, dark blue force-field like barrier being constituted, and then only to be obliterated by the pulse a few seconds later. The pulse then seemingly hit the ship with so much force, but concurrently it also seemed like the attack reaped nothing at all as the deteriorating energy from the projectile wisped gracefully around the galley for a few seconds before disappearing completely.
"Hah! Another failed weapon Egghead!" Sonic cheered happily.
Tails, too, was relieved the attack didn't obliterate the ship, but at the same time he thought about the effects of the orb of light, just being maybe a few hundred yards from them gave Tails and Sonic a absolute miniscule dose of energy siphon… Tails gulped in apprehension at just how disastrous it may of been for those on the ship.
Like flies ensnared in a cloud of pesticide, they saw a figures fall from the area above the ship fall; another, and another, and so on until each avian crashed upon the deck. Tails wanted to maneuver his creation closer to the attacked Galley, but making sure he stayed close to Eggman's mountainous vessel to decrease chances to being spotted. Suddenly Eggman's warship engines started to roar to life as it proceeded closer to the galleon. Tails sped up as he stayed with Eggman. When they got closer to the Cream colored vessel the ship seemed dead, everyone onboard was either writhing in desperation or was sprawled out in a way that seemed like it'll haunt whomever that looked upon their absolutely scared faces for life.
/
Eggman was no longer in the commanding quarters anymore, but now in the departure room ready to walk out onto the deck of the Celestial ship he just attacked.
The landing ramp lowers itself on top of the deck with a heavy thump. Eggman walks out onto the main deck of the Celestial ship and upon doing so he smiles to himself, clearly exultant at his easy victory. He stalks his long legs around and over the senseless people, and towards the leaders of this ship. He found them; Luna, unconscious and eyes wide with shock as she ceased to breathe, and Celestia, struggling with all her might to bring the life supporting gulps of air to her lungs, magic still coursing through her, quickly depleting, but keeping her alive, for now.
"Ahhh," The Mad Doctor checked his high-tech wristwatch computer to find out who they are "Uhhh, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, I am glad to meet your acquaintance." He say as he sticks out a hand mockingly as if though he was attempting to receive a handshake. Mockery, because he knew that his attack would render them to vegetables in a few minutes if not treated.
Eggman retracted his hand and stooped down to get closer to Princess Celestia. "You gals mind showing me where you're hiding that powerful treasure from me?" He said still looking down at them, his evil, toothy grin boring a mental image in Celestia's mind. Celestia's dulling purple eyes looked up at Eggman with so much animosity. Eggman saw this and mockingly smiled, "Egad! She's giving me the evil eye! Oh my, I hope she doesn't.. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!" Eggman mocked, now laughing hysterically. Pulling out a Walther P38 and pointing it towards a crew member trying to fight against the effects of the plasmatic weapon.
BANG
He pointed to another one.
BANG
"What are you going to do about it?! Huh?! Celestia?! NOW SHOW ME WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS HIDING!" He shouted in her face.
Anger. Just sheer anger was given back to the mad, mustachioed man. Princess Celestia, if she could, she would of utterly diminish the fiend into ashes. But unfortunately she was powerless to the gnawing cold that seemed to devour her body and mind.
Then Eggman pointed his black P38 towards Celestia, right against her nose. He tensed his finger. Smiling hard and psychotic in her face.
/
Eggman's ship came to a stop at the brilliant galley and within a second he was walking off onto the ship's deck. He walked around until he stops at two downed figures with horns on their heads'. He stoops down and seem like he was talking to them. They could hear his booming, clearly angry voice from inside of the ship.
"Should we intervene?" Tails asked Sonic as they both checked out the scene.
"Looks that way" Sonic replied back to his friend, he unbuckled his seatbelt as he prepared to get out.
Just then a gunshot was heard, then another and Sonic's eyes widened at how quickly he was escalating things. "Open the cockpit door right now!" The seriousness in his voice made Tails shiver a bit, but he opened the hatch and Sonic stood up and got ready to home attack the gun outta Eggman's hand.
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Celestia couldn't move. All she could do was gulp in the painful, rank breath of Eggman as he shouted mere inches from her face.
Anger.
All she could feel was anger and nothing more. He was the reason why so her crew is going to die.
He was the problem, and she needed to eradicate him. But she knew that was futile, I mean how could she, she's dying on her most powerful ship with a bald, fat guy yelling in her face. And not to mention he pretty much turned her into a vegetable... She hated vegetables.
In the corner of her eye she saw a jet plane like vehicle slowly rise above the bow of her ship. Silently, the cockpit of it rose and a creature with spiky quills stood up out of it. Her eye shot towards him, and Eggman noticed this. He quickly turned and pointed his P38 towards whatever she shot her glance at.
Too slow.
Nothing but a blur and a yell and a gunshot was seen and heard.
It was all too fast, what happened?
Sonic jumped out of the cockpit and with his trademark lightning speed and precision, he home-attacked at Eggman's hand, the hand which wielded the gun. As he quickly shot forward Eggman turned around sharply and pointed the gun at him. Sonic barely managed to knock the gun out of his hand in time, but when he did the disarmed handgun hit the deck it fired and unfortunately Sonic was in the unprejudiced path of the bullet. The bullet came out of the barrel and thankfully, to Sonic, it only went through only the top part of his ear and onward towards Tails.
"Watch what're doing Sonic!" Tails shouted as the bullet collided right where his head would've been if it wasn't for his highly resilient compound cockpit windows.
"Hehe, sorry..." Sonic chuckled sheepishly. With adrenaline still coursing through his body, the gunshot wound on his ear went totally unnoticed by the hedgehog.
"DAMN YOU SONIC!" Eggman yelled to the top of his lungs. He then hastily pressed a button on his watch and the hull of his ship started to retract to blazon a shiny, black and red minigun with more barrels than Sonic cared to count. It began to slowly rotate, then faster, and then faster until the barrels looked like a black circle. Sonic stared in disbelief and jumped up high into the air just as soon as the liquid lead started to pour out of the great pitcher of death. Sonic weaved amongst the upper portions of the ship to avoid any collateral damage from below.
Tails fumbled throughout his cockpit and found what he was looking for: the neuro-plasmatic antidote. The antidote contained a supercapacitor that, when injected into a body, should shock the body with billions of tiny electrical charges to re-energize the slowed electrons in the body. He picked up a pastel white and sunset orange plastic gun and then loaded an antidote capsule into it. He aimed it at who he presumed to be the leader and fired it, just in time too, because Eggman had retrieved his trusty gun.
Celestia panic silently to herself as she saw Eggman retrieve his handy-dandy P38 and as if in slow-motion he turned around, his psychotic grin plastered stupidly upon his face. His ugly face. But just then something tiny and fast flew towards her, seen by her peripheral vision. Then it hit her. She thinks.
At once she started to feel again. Heat seemed to radiate from behind where the antidote was shot. Warmful heat spread around her body like a ripple from the contact point and she could feel her muscles and organs rejuvenate with energy. Her mind became stable again, and her blood rushed warm. Whatever had hit her started to give her a warm rush of feeling, power restoring, but at a creep. Her breathing came back in short breaths, but still, the refreshing air quenched her long-starved lungs.
A sharp gasp.
Eggman, unaware of this, still coming towards her, he aims his gun at the fallen Princess-Commander and then-
ZWOOOOOOSH
Celestia puts as much of the little power she just rejuvenated and put it into a single flap of her large, creamy white wings, propelling herself more than 20 feet into the space above the deck. At this time the sun was behind her and poured its warm light onto her magnificent, large wings. The sun gave her strength; it's warm, tickling fingers etched into her soul, filling her with energy and power. She could stay there forever... well, if it weren't for a madman staring up at her in a utterly bemused glare, the gun in his hand, a minigun spraying bullets around the place, littering her lavish deck with bullet casings, and destroying the upper deck with bullet holes, and her current predicaments below her: her beloved sister and crew.
At this time the minigun had run out of bullets and Eggman began to reevaluate his options. With a face fuming with frustration so much that anyone would suspect that steam was ready to expel from his ears, Eggman ran back to his ship and in a few moments his warship started to drift backwards in retreat. Celestia, now full of the sun's potent energy, shot towards the ship, for she has a score to settle. She charged up her horn with magical energy and channeled it to her hands, magic sparked around her, and she pointed her hands to the ship. She smiles as she readies herself to blast Eggman's dreadnaught into oblivion.
Without warning a very large cannon blazoned itself out from the top of the ship, pointing it, NOT at Celestia, but her galleon.
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Eggman cursed and cussed and swore up a storm as he reentered his ship. Once he entered the bridge he stalked quickly to his command panel. The dreadnaught, which was outfitted with the universe's best A.I., had ran full diagnostics, parameters, and searched for any power sources on the Celestial Galley. The ship then spoke to Eggman in a computerized female voice.
"Lord Eggman, the objective is located in the lower hull bunker. Room 18, cell 6, locked in reinforced steel and a highly encrypted enchantment-" Eggman held his hand out to silence the ship and started to grin evilly, "Well, I guess this hasn't been too much of a disaster." He pressed a few buttons and he quickly glanced outside his balcony view of the deck and saw Celestia pointing her pale white hands towards his ship. He notices the elevated energy that was spiking around her. He smirks and presses a big yellow button and a large cannon rose out of the ceiling of his ship. The ship self-aimed it towards exactly where the treasure was resting.
BOOM-DU-DU-DU-DU-DU-DU
The blast burned through ship like it was butter, and then multiple blasts after that gouged a hole into the ship to reach down to the room that held the treasure. Once the dark dust lifted away a brilliant blue glow exuded from the debris. The treasure beneath the multiple floors of the ship radiated more power than Sonic do at Super Sonic, Hyper Sonic even. Eggman's greedy eyes started to have an 'eyegasm' as he quickly pulled a lever, and a comically massive claw-like grappling device sprang from the ship, towards the glowing artifact.
"YOU'RE MINE!" Eggman hollered.
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Sonic jumped out the way thinking the large cannon purpose was to eradicate him from existence. Instead the weapon pointed towards a position on the deck of the ship. Celestia quickly got out the way, too thinking the cannon were going to be used against her. The cannon shot a large, fiery blast towards the ship and once it did its job a blinding blue light pierced the eye-sockets of Sonic and now Tails as he stood near him, injecting Luna and other crew members with the vital antidote. Celestia gasped loudly as she knew what was about to happen, and as if she read the ship's mind, a massive hook sprang towards the debris and retrieved a secure steel box, inside it, something of herculean power, sat mysteriously, hidden from sight.
Sonic decided on staying put till he processed all this in his mind, was Eggman really going to win this time?
"No, not while I'm alive" Sonic thought aloud and with a serious face and tone.
He charged up his light speed attack only to be blown aback by the massive pulse of magical energy that hit Sonic like a crashing wave. Celestia boosted out towards the retreating hook and ship to retrieve the valuable cargo. But her attempt was all in vain for while they was distracted by the hook Eggman had charged up enough energy and used his wormhole technology to disappear with a loud crack and photonic blast.
Celestia just hung there, lazily flapping her wings, staring out into the empty, vast space to where Eggman had just been not even a second before. Being out of range of her ship's life supporting, oxygen infiltration systems and gravity stabilizers she started to choke on the vacuum around her, she teleported back to the deck and stood, her eyes never left the space where Eggman disappeared to.
Sonic and Tails looked at her in worry, they both proceeded to walk cautiously towards her. Tails dropped his gun since he had already injected whom he could with the antidote; not many came back from the other side, only Luna and a couple of other strong and magically adept would pull through it.
Celestia dropped down to her knees. She have failed. She have failed to protect her crew; she have failed to secure the precious cargo, and have failed herself. The amount of embarrassment and shame that washed over her couldn't be numbered in any observable fashion. Dissidence coursed through her in waves and Sonic and Tails sensed it. With her mind rushing faster than it had ever done before she collapsed and blacked out.
Sonic and Tails looked at each other then back around them, what have they gotten themselves into?