Chapter 2: Let Me In!
Hydra POV
After 3 weeks of working my mind to the point of explosion I had finally completed my training at Eggman's sinister island lair. It was hard I must say and I was shaped to the point where Sonic was no longer a fear but a desire to eliminate along with his annoying friends.
Now you must think I am the world's worst girl and is tricked into thinking that Eggman made me his pawn but, video footage, proof of his destructive manner and a bucket full of lies and deceit to his friends painted the picture of a killer.
So I was sent out to go start my duties as Eggman's spy and -hopefully if the plan works- their new member to team Sonic. Oh I was enjoying my plan already, oh yeah I planned this over a good dream like always, everything useful came to me like a rushing river and filled my brain with the sinister of plots.
I was so pleased with myself Doctor just had to hear it, his smile imply made its way on and once I told him the long plan and how exactly I was going to take them down one after the other then have a huge finale at the end! I'm not going to spoil it for you because it's a secret after all sooooooo, shush.
I'm Hydra bat and I have come to finish off your pesky hero and build Eggman land with the Doctor, my father figure, by my side and nothing can stop me! I had already set up camp some distance away from the village so I could train, have some peace and quiet and pure rest.
But if you all must know where I was right at that moment I was walking down a path near the ocean's edge, said to apparently lead to the village center and I might come across Sonic in action. The ocean was waving its waves to the sandy shore washing up against it and gobbling up debris, creating a perfect untouched beach and the jungle just burst with energy behind me.
By burst I meant a large activity of birds of different species screeching their voices in unison creating a magical music of somewhat hope. Then a dash of rustling trees like maracas crashing to the festive mood and the wind adding it's flute like tone sweetening up the mood. Don't ask me why I could hear such things I was a bat for crying out loud yet, it soothed and reminded me of… something.
Dang I wish I remember some things in my life for crying out loud and I wish I could stop saying 'for crying out loud' It's annoying like some of you would agree. After a long stroll from the water's edge I finally made it to the village and had found what I was looking for.
A blue hedgehog in time for a small party hosted by Dr. Eggman and a tall friend, and there and then I broke out my new signature smile that the doctor said looked so evil he could cry, true words they were, and I went out for the kill like a crazy tiger.
Narrator POV
Sonic was facing another one of Eggman's 30 feet tall robot smashing its large robotic hands on the stands of nearby markets and stores. As usual it had always brought general panic and a bunch of people running around.
The robot planted another sturdy punch near Sonic as his friends scrabbled around trying to defeat it, "Oh come on Eggman you can do better than that!" Sonic mocked as he dodged yet another blow.
"Grrrr hold still while I try and hit you! Beside I have a busy schedule, I'm having my pedicure at 8PM and I don't want to miss my appointment!" Eggman mentioned as he watched his robot -from his hovering Eggmobile- drive another punch just missing Sonic barely.
"To slow!" Sonic cried and received a quick blow launching him into a fruit stand "Agggg, wish I never said that." He thought as Knuckles appeared from the forest with a not so silent sneak attack and launched forward with a tall tree just uprooted from the forest a few feet away. With a charge in his steps and fire lined in his eyes he swung the tree back then forward.
The robot had caught it easily and tossed the tree along with Knuckles into the outskirts of the town. Now came Amy and Sticks turn as the two dashed to the metal giant and then separated into two directions. The robot could only follow one and it decided on Amy as Sticks went around with a long piece of vein and made a trip line for the robot to cross when it rolled forward to Amy in the distance.
The robot rolled as expected and tripped over the thick vine line and fell onto the beach sand which puffed up to a ball of sand.
"Not so tough now you robot creep!" Sticks taunted as she dashed over to the fallen machine but it wasn't done yet. Just as Sticks got close it got up and locked a target on her ready for its next strike, to torch her to dust. Sticks froze in fear as her eyes looked at the hands disappear and change into a barrel ready to blast a fireball of flames.
"Oh come on!" Sticks protested as she saw a red ball form in the barrel just seconds from striking, all of a sudden a grey blur swooped out of the brush and past the fallen troops to the bot, positioned her legs forward for a massive kick and hit the robot with such speed and force that it launched further than Knuckle's could have thrown it.
She glided to the soft sand and stopped in spider man pose with her one leg crouched and the other stretched out and her hand on the ground and the other raised up on the air and her head facing the ground.
Everyone was in awe even Eggman and the bystanders at this new character that joined in the game, with her black shorts and matching knee high boots on with a diamond decorated belt and a black top, printed with a white cracked heart that barely covered her abdomen and her long locks lassoed by a white scrunchy. The bystanders thought she was a spy specifically sent to destroy Eggman once and for all, Sonic thought she was just showing off and getting evolved in something she should have.
The last thing he needed was to sweep up a body oFf the beach and to him kicking a robot into a jungle was nothing, Knuckles could do that. Well we went over this and Sonic was over thinking it and was just jealous that fighting a robot for 3 hours lead to a bat bringing it down.
"Who are you and why have you foiled my plans!?"
The bat raised her head slowly examining the man in his Eggmobile then said in a deep threatening tone, "I am Hydra the Bat… Your worst nightmare!"
"Oh yeah and how do you intend to plunge me into my scary dreams?" Eggman babied and mocked as he released a hardy evil laugh which by now was so obnoxious!
Hydra stood up and reached for the back of her pocket slipping out what appeared to be a black base of a sword. Eggman observed it and laughed his lungs out, almost tipping the Eggmobile over.
"You expect that to defeat me little girl?" Eggman laughed
"Oh you'll be surprised…" A glow with lavender shade surrounds her iris and something happened to the base, a purple glow formed there too and out came a long lash of a whip, "What this little girl can do." She finished and broke out her 'evil tearing' smile.
Eggman raised a brow to her next move and sooner than he thought she would attack, Hydra leaped high enough for the whip to lasso around the Eggmobile and begin a spin similar to a spin you would do when participating in the sport of ball and chain.
Her feet just, just, hovered over the sand and she began to spin him around as he wailed to the speed, in fact she was so fast she caused a sand tornado to spout and surround them. A crackle in the trees and they gave way to the same robot and then the general panic erupted again.
"Sonic!" Amy yelled getting his attention towards the metal beast but it was way more concerned about its creator rather Sonic and his friends.
The tornado had spun its way into its direction and then engulfed it making a larger more unstable tornado. Sooner or later they had to be spat out but it had to be done in a matter of seconds so with her mind focused on the revolutions left till the tornado brakes apart and the area which she wished to throw them in she began her countdown.
"5…4…3…2…1!" She pulled back the lasso from the already dizzy Eggman on his Eggmobile launching him and his monstrosity across the sea with a quick lash.
"Curses!" Eggman cussed as he launched across the ocean soon to land on his island base, Hydra stood there with her hand above her brows shielding the sunset light and watched him gradually disappear off in the twilight, "And she hits them right out of the park!" She praises loudly with a fist pump praising herself for a job well done and she couldn't had said it any better herself.
"Wow that was incredible!" Amy praised as she maneuver over the debris of the stands and stores to Hydra.
"Hmp, I could have done better." Sonic mumbled with a grudge
Sticks for the first time in forever jumped up from out of nowhere and instead of trying obliterating someone new she hugged her, "Ohhh, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!" She burst putting her arms around her like vice and squeezing hard.
Knuckles just appeared from out of the forest with leaves tangles in his dreadlocks and fur and a disappointed look to his face, "Did we win yet?" He exhaustively said, he was sure not ready to uproot another tree and swing at the robot again for the 36th time.
"HHHHMMMM." Sonic moaned
"What?" Knuckles wondered and looked over at the bat that was showered with praises by Sticks and Amy for a job well done, "Whose she?" Knuckles asked.
"Someone who's about to leave." Sonic got up from the fruit stand and dashed over to the bunch, "Hey, hey, hey ladies back off. Now who are you exactly and why have you come here?"
Sonic folded his arms and awaited an answer from the grey bat, "Well excuse my manners, I'm Hydra the Bat and I came from my home in a distant land to come join you and your friends in saving the village from destruction." She stretched out a politely and looked at Sonic expecting the same in return but kept his arms folded with a grudge planted firmly in his mind.
"Can you see what your tornado did to the village?"
"Sonic, the least you can do is thank her, we took ages to defeat that thing." Amy whined
"Wow she really did that on her own? Sonic you should give her an award or something." Knuckles criticized.
"Yeah I agree, she saved my life! No scum sucking alien would have ever done that, then again they never do that unless they want to eat your brains and take over the WORLD!"Sticks hallucinated with her vice still wrapped around her.
"Sticks I do that all the time!" Sonic reminded
"Well, I still think you work for the government." She blurted and Sonic responded with a face palm.
But first they had to deal with them mess which in fact Sonic and his friends had to clean up and maybe if she didn't but in they could have caused a fewer things to be destroyed. Hydra slipped out of Sticks hug and stepped forward to the mess.
With her hands on her waist she turned her head slowly to the left and right, observing the fallen landscape, "Yep that's a real mess you've got there." She commented and kicked a bored of broken timber away.
"And who do expect to clean it all?" Sonic asked
"Me."
"WHAT?" Everyone said in shock, no way could a bat clean up all this mess alone but Hydra wasn't an ordinary bat. No, she was a bat with the power if whatever she desired and now was the time to put one of the many in motion.
She levitated just an inch or two of the ground and raised her right hand waving it over the debris and forming it into its original form. Again everyone was amazed as she literally worked her magic cleaning up the place by, rebuilding stand, statues and some houses to perfect conditions, sweeping the dust and other debris away and getting fountains to spout out or ponds to flow with water once more.
She backed down and clamped back on her hips to view the sight, "Good as new, am I right?"
She turned back at the amazed crew and laughed shortly with her eyes shut, "So now may I join?"
"W-What? No! We already have enough members!" Sonic refused
"Oh, so where is Tails then?"
"Tails…..Tails is having a bad cold." Sonic didn't seem the usual self when explaining about Tail's condition, he seemed saddened, there must be more to this 'cold' than what meets the eye or in this case the ears.
"Is he okay?"
"None of your business just LEAVE okay."
"Sonic." Amy said trying to get him to apologies for his rudeness but Hydra was not going to let this go, "I can help, really I can, maybe if I could see him and fix him up I would be allowed on the team?" She told Sonic
Sonic turned his head away and faced it to the dying sun, he missed Tails for one and being without him while he was sick really brought the team down. He didn't want a new member on his team as well but Tails… he was his best bud, why would he reject a chance to fix him if at all she could do it.
"Fine," Sonic agreed and Hydra jumped up and scram in a confidential voice, "BUT… Only if he gets better by sunrise tomorrow and you must go through the course with a time limit. I'm not guaranteeing a membership, you going to work for it."
"Anything, just let me see Tails." She begged and she was dragged along with the others to Tails' home. Sonic walked up the steps and opened the front door and slowly marched in followed by Hydra. A quick glance of the wooden themed house and her eyes spotted Tails lying on the lime colored couch with beads of sweat on his forehead and blanket abandoned on the floor.
He looked to be suffering from a fever and seemed very weak, even breathing from his nose seemed hard as his lungs took in a large dose of air and slowly took it out. This was not good and it seemed like Tails was on the brink of fading away.
For some reason Hydra didn't feel as despicable like when she came to the village or when 'battling Eggman' she seemed to have had a softened heart to Tails' condition. "I need some privacy." She told Sonic but expected the others to obey the same orders as well.
Sonic had no choice but left his home silently and closed the door behind him then, tiny chatters followed behind the door, mostly in concern and wonder. Hydra diverted her attention to the little fox breathless taking in air beside her.
"It's okay little guy let me just…" She crouched down and placed her hand on either side of his temples and closed her eyes. The glow that we knew was blue was now a bright yellow which meant healing. To some it seemed a near myth for someone to heal with just their powers alone but of course this was not an ordinary bat after all.
The process was like a transfer of life from one to the other, at first she felt his pain, the suffering and the immense heat he went through. Then after a while she felt it fade and feel his strength and power fed into him like his old self.
At last she pulled away and watch the twin tailed fox raise his eyelids just enough for his sapphire eyes and meet with her own lavender ones. Hydra smiled sweetly and said, "Hey bud, Sonic was worried sick about you."
Tails tried to raise himself up and asked, "Who are you?"
"Well, I'm Hydra but Sonic can explain the rest. Now you do me a favor and take an ice cold shower for a few second them warm up the water for me."
"Reliving an intense fever trick hey? Sure why not but I don't feel signs of it anymore so I assume it faded away. Although, the logical reason behind it is unclear." Tails rubbed his chin trying to imagine what really happened but Hydra rubbed his head, raised herself and walked out.
The door to the home swung open with Sonic and his friends chatting in the twilight of the day about the fight and Tails until they spotted Hydra go down the steps.
"Hydra, have you failed?" Sonic gagged from the distant table only to be slapped on the shoulder by Amy.
"I have until sunset… I'll see you guys later." She told and walked away from the group
"How about at Meh Burgers?" Knuckles suggested thinking of nothing but food, "Sure I'll be sure to meet you there." She responded and gazed back at the bunch and flew off into the forest.
"Guys what happened?" Tails asked everyone from the steps of Sonics' home
"Tails!?"
"Guys seriously what happened?" Tails repeated a little agitated that no one would answer him but everyone couldn't believe that after 5 days of unconsciousness he finally woke up.
