A/N: I don't own Sonic. I do own some OC's. Second chapter. I explain more after this.
The Void Wispon is OP, it will not be in this story. I like it, but no. A wisp or two are going to replace Void.
-4 days later-
Blitz entered the lab that was used by Wave and the rest of the Brain Trust. Some of the brightest minds available who have not been caught by Eggman were here. People who would use their minds to fix gears, weapons, and machines. He saw a few humans. There were a lot here and it seems Wave was the head of it.
Speaking of the Swallow he saw her standing next to a red hedgehog who's quills were curved up. The hedgehog had red spiky hair stick straight for like a punk rocker. Her outfit consisted of a black shirt with a skull on it, purple plaided skirt, black leggings, purple steel toed boots, and red glasses.
He walked over and greeted the duo. "Hello."
Wave looked over and smiled. "I see you arrived."
The red hedgehog looked over and smiled at him. "Hey bro."
"Hi."
"I'm Rasp the Hedgehog, short for Raspberry." She held out his hand and shook it. "Wave is training me to fix machines. After this I want to fix Extreme Gear for tournaments."
Wave smiles and nodded proudly. "There is nobody out there that knows Extreme Gear like I do and we'll be using them on some missions."
Blitz grinned. "Cool, so you asked me to come to."
Rasp walked forward. "I made adjustments to your Wire Launcher. It's more durable and you can do systematic attacks."
"What kind?"
"Like a Wire Attack." Rasp handed him the gear. "Launch your hook, then pull yourself toward the enemy with a devastating attack."
"Like Sonic's Homing attack?"
"Correct," Wave nodded. "All we did was make it stronger, it's up to you train and utilize it's… no your full potential."
"Yep," Rasp nodded. "You will be going 'WHAM' and then they'll be 'OH NOES!" She punched the hair rapidly. "Like that."
Blitz chuckled. "Yeah, like that, but with a boot to the head."
"Dude, you get the reference." Rasp pointed with a twinkle in her eyes. "Let's be friends."
"O..kay." He sounded uncomfortable with her suddenly being in his face.
"Great, I'll see you out on the field as tech support dude." She spun around to get back to work.
Wave sighed. "She's eccentric, wasn't like that when I found her."
Blitz nodded. "Wasn't like that?"
Wave shooed him away. "Another time when she feels like it, move along and train. Be sure to report back on the Blaze Wispon. I want results."
"And the Blaster type?"
"I made those first, they were easy. The others are becoming more cumbersome. So the data I gathered from them are being used for future projects… until the war is over. So keep using the Blaze Wispon and I'll have new ones ready."
Blitz nodded. "I'll do it."
Blitz left the room and strolled down the hallway, walking past various people. In the past 4 days he learned this place was bigger than it was from the outside. There were more rooms and floors underground, more places to train, to rest, to eat, a hanger housing Airships that were still under maintenance and would be ready at a moments notice. Being underground made him a bit uneasy incase they were attacked and he was deep in the basement when it happened.
The training areas, he found a room that housed a bigger obstacle for more leg work. Before going he stopped by the Lounge to meet up with Winter and Sora for team work exercises. When he arrived he saw Amy talking to a white bat. The bat then waved goodbye as she started to leave.
"Excuse me handsome." She winked in his direction and walked off.
"Um… sorry." He looked at Amy who walked toward him. "Hey, Miss Rose."
"Hi."
"Who was that?'
"Rouge, she's employed… was by G.U.N."
"Really? She one of the ones still out there?"
"Yes," Amy nodded. "Remnants are still out there and fighting, but… it's not good."
Blitz frowned. "It's going to get worse."
"Worse or better we still need to keep heads held high." Amy smiled. "Don't lose it okay?"
"Right." He said and watched her leave the room. He then made it to the table to meet up with the duo. He gotten to know them for the past few days. What little he did. Sora seemed every bit of nerdy as he seemed. Winter seemed more reserved. The two of them encountered each other and saved the other while on the run from the Empire. Both from separate cities and met each other by chance and became close to even friends.
"Blitz," Sora waved. "You met Rouge the Bat, a G.U.N. spy"
"She's a jewel hunter.. or thief… or something." The cool looking polar bear crossed her legs and huffed "She struts around thinking she owns this… what a sl-."
"No, she's not." Sora pointed at her dramatically with a large blush on her beak. "She's the greatest spy the world has ever known. Team Dark was a secret team to hunt down rogue fiends unrelated to Eggman. From the likes of Sleet to Nack the Weasel."
"Those sound like not good guys." Blitz said
"Obviously." Winter leaned back in her chair in a laidback way. "With G.U.N. and every governing force down we're bound to run into Rogues. Although, they might serve under Eggman to get what they want, but they might not like his 'invitation'
"You mean that broadcast he made about joining his empire. Only a moron would think he's being sincere."
"I think we need to focus on one thing at a time." Winter reminded. "Eggman's Enforcers are a priority."
"Yeah, but those other guys are no cup of tea too." Sora replied
"We'll deal with it one way." Said the brown furred dog. "We need to try."
"We mean us." Said a voice behind that pushed him forward. Blitz stumbled onto the duo. Winter and Sora helped on his feet where he turned around to face Barry and two members of his team. He got to know other two. The rabbit and the tiger. Hop and Stripes. Both were just as egotistical as Barry and agreed with everything he said.
"Barry." He said with a growl. "What do you want."
Barry rolled his eyes. "Just one resistance member to another. Can't we all get along?"
"Yep." Blitz replied. "But, you always seem to be egging me on."
"We both know." He frowned. "You were there when Grace lost her family."
"That wasn't my fault."
"True, but whatever you did to live, could've help them escape."
"Cold." Winter said.
"Winter." Barry chuckled. "Still want to go on a date."
"Pass." She said. "We're not in high school."
"I know, who know when it will be our last." Barry shrugged. "I'll see you out in the battlefield cowering like before."
He and his group chuckled as they walked off.
Sora looked at Blitz. "People think that creature spared you because you hid."
"Lies!" Blitz turned around quickly and glared the bird. The yellow jacket wearing bird and flinched and shrunk at the intense gaze. "He… he saw me… he let me go…. Because…" He started quivering in fear and searched for any sign of him. "He… h-he didn't d-deem m-me… the e-effort.
"Blitz." Winter got up and grabbed him. "Not everyone thinks that. The ones that do are idiots with screws lose. Thinking like is going to cost us and they are the weak links not you."
"True." Sora patted the dog on the back. "We got your back when the others don't."
The dog calmed down and breathed out. "Thanks, but that's hypocritical of people with all we went through."
"People are scared… may not be the best excuse." The polar bear looked around at the members in the room. "Sometimes… people want to know if there is someone worse off than them. They picked you because you are new and…"
"I don't look like much…" The vest wearing dog stared at everyone in the room, he could feel judgment from everyone. He bet there were people that hid from the demon, so why was he did different. No… it doesn't matter what they think. However, there was a part of him still feeling as he failed Grace and her family.
"Now." Sora held a thumbs up, "Let's go train."
"Right."
….
4 days had passed and Blitz couldn't help, but feel worse off than when he got here. The mattresses were kind of lump and some people snored. He would have to get used to place like this, but what can he do? He gazed down at his wrist mount wire launcher. He had tested out the device and managed to get the hang of it
As of now he was with the rest of the troops, in a large room, getting ready to go on a mission. Sora and Winter were to his left. They were Team Misfit, as they finally decided on their proper name. He looked to his right and further down he spotted Barry looking smug. He heard a cough and saw Knuckles and the other leaders standing before them. He commanded respect and they in return gave it to him. They fought Eggman more times than them, but this was on a whole other ballgame.
"Alright," Knuckles spoke out as he showed them the monitor displaying two villages. "As of right now Maple Village and Emerald Town don't have the necessary strong forces occupying it. We have reason to believe one of Eggman's small time captains is there, but they're secretive and aren't giving their identity away. We don't know which village they are staying so stay sharp. Right now, you'll be led by other officers. Mighty and Amy will lead the Red Team to Emerald Town. Chaotix will lead Blue team to Maple Village. We're shipping out 1400 hours, get your equipment ready and be sure to head to the buggies by then. Soldiers for each team will be hanging on the wall there. Alright dismiss!"
Everyone separated to find out who will be with who. Blitz moved along with Winter and Sora as he wondered where he was heading to. He looked down at the list and saw he was assigned to the Blue Team, they would be going to be Maple Village.
"Heh, we're going to Emerald Town we're Red Team," He heard Barry say. He spotted him conversing with a rabbit with blue fur covering his face and a white tiger. They slapped five walked off.
"They act like they got an easy one." Blitz snorted at the trio.
"Or they think this give them big gains. Both Emerald and Maple are close, yet distance. That's' why we can afford to split up."
"We need the territory." Winter added. "We're short on supplies and this might be our best gamble."
Blitz nodded. "Then we're on it. Let's organize our gear before heading off in a few."
"Blitz."
The group saw Barry and his team walking toward them. The bear grinned at him. "Just so you know we'll take back our territory in no time."
"Don't take this lightly." Blitz retorted.
"Hey, I've been at this longer than you."
"Only by two month." Growled Blitz. "Unlike you I want to see the next the sunrise."
"But if I run into Grace first, she'll be so grateful to me that she'll see me as the coolest guy."
Blitz narrowed his eyes. "She's not that shallow."
"Show's how much you know." Barry patted him on the shoulder. "The strongest always come out on top." He frowned. "Eggman may be strong now, but he and his army will get his then Sonic will rest knowing we inherited his will." He smiled. "Then Grace will be thankful that I pulled off the mission… hey Winter try not to let the kid slow you down."
Winter rolled her eyes. "Whatever
"I'm faster than you." Blitz snorted.
"I'm stronger… we both know Grace is faster. She may got away and waiting for someone to find her."
Barry walked away with his team. Blitz growled and watched him go.
"He's been pining for you friend?"
"Yeah…" He sighed. "She never liked his attitude, but Grace will still be friendly regardless." He then walked away. "
Grace glared at Barry and then at Blitz. The dog had a bruised eye, but the bear also had one. "Barry why did you do that?"
"You see my eye? Why does it got me?"
Blitz shrugged. "You kept egging me on."
"Shut it." Barry growled
Grace sighed. "Barry please stop it."
"Fine," Barry walked away. "Do whatever it is you two do.
Grace frown a the bear leaving and looked back at Blitz who was looking away. "Blitz, what happened?"
The dog shrugged. "The usual, it's not that I haven't heard." He snorted. "He decided to bring up that man."
"Your dad?"
"He's not my dad, parents don't abandon their pups." He scoffed. "I don't need him, I've been taking good care of myself. I don't need him or anyone."
Grace's ears dropped and her tail lowered. She looked at him with sadness. "You don't need me?"
He looked alarmed. "I… that's not what I meant."
She started giggling and her tail started waving vibrantly. "I'm just teasing."
"Ah…" He chuckled as he rubbed the back of his head. "I knew that."
"You can always come by for dinner."
"No thanks, your brother always has this mean look whenever I'm there. I swear he hates me for no good reason."
"My brother… I don't care what he thinks and you shouldn't either. Plus he's going out with friends to party."
"Okay, but I just don't feel welcome whenever he's there. Your mom doesn't mind me and your dad doesn't care. I'm just afraid that you might go away."
"I'm not."
"You don't know that."
She grasped his hands, causing him to look at her curiously. "I promise you, we'll save up or build a house. The two of us, so you'll live in a place you feel welcome and you'll never be lonely again."
"I…" He chuckled. "Thanks Grace."
"I'm not going away anytime soon." She smiled.
Grace opened her eyes and sighed after the memory. She broke her promise. She didn't know if he was alive and if he was did he die alone. That alone made her miserable. She should've gone to find him, but she fled without a second thought.. and he mother… some friend and daughter she was.
It was morning, another day. She hoped she would wake up in her bed, but being out here was another reminder of the fatman's reign. It was week and she felt she wanted to go back home. She sat up and spotted Tails checking on the badnik he was bringing with him. E-123 Omega was its name. The badnik betrayed the mad scientist and went its own way. Join Shadow in forming Team Rouge and now… this. Whatever happened to him wasn't good and he though repairing it would help.
They had spent a week traveling and hiding. Making sure they weren't caught by any Eggman badnik or his enforcers. During that week she spent trying to get to know the fox. Making sure he wasn't alone and hopefully relieve his worries… but she learned one thing about him that developed during the six months.
…
"Mr. Tails."
"Just call me Miles."
"Miles?"
"My real name is Miles Prowler… the only person… who gave me that nickname… is gone."
…
She let it go after that as he was in a sour mood. She didn't want to pry in and they hardly know each other, but she felt now was the day to at least ask.
Grace frowned. "Um Miles… did you see it happen… him gone?"
Tails shook his head. "All I did was see him fall and then… I ran."
"You ran?"
"I ran. Eggman had five of the most powerful beings under his belt. Shadow, Zavok, Metal Sonic, Chaos, and that… monster. I didn't see him kill him…"
"Ta-Miles, so there might be a chance that."
"I know…" The fox picked up the wheelbarrel and started walking. "I failed him, I failed everyone. I stopped Eggman before. A few years ago he launched a failed nuke on Station Square, I dismantled it. He tried to attack with mech, I destroyed that."
"But what changed."
"I don't know it feels like I'm regressing for some reason. I failed my friend, I was too weak stand up to a force like that and now the world is like this because I became a coward… or I was already one. I think I let Sonic do all the world all this time while I build machines and acted as his cheerleader."
Grace heart ached for him. The poor guy was beating himself over for what happened to his friend and mentor. Something about this had to be changed.
"Is that why you don't want to go the Resistance."
"I can't face them… not until I get him fixed… not until I find my purpose or…" He sighed and picked up the handles of the wheelbarrel. "Let's keep moving."
She nodded and followed after him, still hoping they wouldn't run into any fiends out here.
The ride to Maple wasn't a long trip, but many of the occupants had different feelings. Some were confident, other were scared. Blitz sat down in the back was feeling nervous. Many thoughts were running in his head. Was going to do good out there? Was he going to fight well? Will he be useful. Will he run into that creature or any of the generals.. and most of all… who is the general at Maple that keeps alternating trips in secret?
All this worrying wasn't going to do him any good. He looked over at his right to find his polar bear companion listening to music, the cardinal was also listening to music. Now that he mention it, it seems that most of the people in this buggy was listening to music. They also did say music soothes the savage beast, but none of them were savages. He stood up and noticed something at the corner of his eye.
Espio the Chameleon was meditating in his seat. His legs crossed and his hands seemingly like an okay symbol. He heard stories of his bravery. Right next to Knuckles and Silver, he had also shown his skill against the Empire many times, even before the war happened. He walked over to the chameleon and sat down. He opened his mouth to speak when Espio spoke up.
"Do you have any questions?"
"How did you know?"
"I can sense you Blitz." He raised one eye up. "I sense fear in you, but also passion."
"Fear and passion?" The dog was confused about the serious ninja.
"You are passionate about our mission.. no our goal. Correct?"
Blitz stared at him before nodding. "I don't like what happening."
"None of us do." He closed his eye. "On the battlefield you'll have to make decisions that will affect the mission. You have potential, but something is holding you back."
"I going to do my part."
"I believe you." He opened both eyes and stared at him. "But do more than common solider, go the extra mile."
Blitz nodded at him. "Okay, I'm going to try my best."
Espio didn't say another word and continued meditating. Blitz went back to the his seat. Before sitting he gazed at the chameleon one more time, then sat down. He closed is eyes as he tried to not let worry affect his mind.
Maple Village. From what Blitz read it was a community surrounded by maple trees. It's neighbor town Emerald, was quaint community outside the means of technology. Now it's overrun by the Empire. Once the group arrived the set up camp and prepared their weapons. The Chaotix were discussing amongst themselves with the other captains for potential strategy.
Blitz looked over at the large squad ready to deploy. There were some humans among them as well. Seems Eggman doesn't care whether they're human or not. He wanted the world.
"This is our first fight." Sora said with apprehension in his voice. "We're going in there, fight some bots, and free the village. Yep that's right." He adjusted his glasses. "We're doing this. We have the Chaotix with us."
Winter shook her head. "We can't rely on them too much."
"I know… but."
"The Commander and the Generals may have their encounters Eggman in the past, but this changed once he gained a hold of the planet."
"Y-yeah."
"Sora." Blitz turned to him. "We're needed, we may not be the best, but we can make a difference if we try. Let's do more than the common soldier."
Winter smirked. "That's one way."
"Do more than the common soldier." Sora rubbed his chin in deep thought. "Where have I heard that from?"
"General Espio told me." Blitz shrugged. "That's the best advice I got from him."
"Oooo." Sora cooed in awe. "I see, he must mean we have to have guts, courage, and awesomeness!"
Blitz grinned and wrapped his arm around the bird's shoulder. "Or just plain ol coolness."
"Maximum attitude."
"And all around awesomeness!"
Winter rolled her eyes. "Yep." Sarcasm was her reply, but the other two didn't hear it.
"Plus we have these" Sora pointed at the Blaster Wispon in his hand.. "The majority of the army have been using the Blaster for months and the Blaze has been recently been made. Only 50 have the Blaze model so far.
"50?" Blitz was surprised.. "I heard some have them. Why was the model more opportunistic than Blaze"
"It depends on how powerful they and the wisps available. The White are more abundant than the others. I don't know much, but the others are more… out. So we've been ordered to find the ones we haven't seen yet and bring them back. The Generals and the Commander don't use them because they are already skilled on their own."
Blitz gazed at the weapon in his hand. He was given this, but it seems some of the current users were having difficulty with it. It took practice and the long hours he trained made him more confident with this. This combined with his Wire Launcher could make his battle
"Everyone!" Vector called out. "Our mission is to free this village. Now we wait for Espio to make"
Blitz nodded and noticed Espio was absent, did he go on ahead to spy? He was a ninja, so of course he could. Everyone wait awhile until the purple ninja appeared in front of them.
"We go now!"
Vector noticed the alarm look on the usual stoic ninja and growled. "Come on!" Vector called forward and lead them to the attack. As they were running. "Is that thing there?"
"No, but they made a grave mistake."
"What?" Charmy flew along. "What kind of mistake.."
Vector narrowed his eyes at the chameleon. "What happened."
Espio narrowed his eyes. "It's…"
"INCOMING!"
Everyone scattered as robots emerged and began to fire. Blitz, Winter, and Sora jumped away from the attack and hid behind the tree. Everyone else fired or hid when the attack happened. Blitz looked and was somewhat reminded of what happened back at his home. It clicked on him that he was truly participating in a war for the world and he couldn't turn back. No, there were people there suffering, being taken advantage of by Eggman and that thing.
He felt as if he was going over his head. Things were beginning to intensify and he wasn't sure he would make it. Was he going to fail them, did he make the right choice. No, he can't quit nor take it back.
"Do more than the common soldier. Go the extra mile."
His eyes shot open. Espio sensed fear and passion within him. Was fear holding him back? Sure, but he wanted to help. He wanted to free the planet. So now he needed to find a way.
"Sora, Winter grab on to me."
The two did and Blitz launched his wire launcher at a branch. Once hooked it pulled them up in the canopy. He then lead them across the branch where used another wire to latch on the trees across from him. The other grabbed on and they were pulled along with him.
"Hit them!" He shouted. Winter and Sora pulled out their Blaze Wispons and fired at the robots below. Upon contact most of the egg robots were destroyed. The dropped to the next tree branch and fired on the other robots below, until a laser hit a branch cause them to fall. Charmy flew in and grabbed on to Winter, while Blitz grabbed Sora and hook shotted themselves to safety.
They dropped down to where Winter and Charmy were as the later flew to Blitz.
"That was cool, can you do that again?"
"… I guess?" Blitz scratched his head wondering why that was exciting to the bee.
"You did well." Espio dropped down below them. "But we still have a long way and a village to secure for a proper… nevermind."
"Huh?" Blitz looked confused. "A proper what?"
Espio shook his head. "I'll tell you after this is over… you know as far I do that war has a way of taking precious things from you."
The dog didn't like where this was going. He followed orders and kept moving.
They made it past the forest where the village was. More egg soldiers were there, but they were repelled by tactics thought up on the fly or before the battle started. Some of the soldiers got hit and were out of commission, others pushed on through. Blitz dodged, weaved and hookshotted himself to the nearest building with Sora and Winter. They fought along the buildings, destroy robots of various sizes with their Wispon. Blitz grappled a flying bot with his Wire Launcher, propelled himself forward and delivered a kick that the robot through the air and into a building. He frowned at the damage.
Sora flew away from a few Egg bots that were on his tail, but he turned around shot fire from his gun, destroying them. Winter jumped in the air and unleashed an assault from hers. After destroying the metallic machines she leaps toward Blitz and Sora.
"We keep this up we can repel them." Sora grinned.
"True, but we have to keep up or wits." Winter stated. "Something Espio said is still bugging me."
"Me too." Blitz mumbled. He spotted something in the corner of his eye and fire. The figured dodged the attack and charged at them. Blitz leapt away from the claw hand
"Who are you?"
"BA-HA ha-HAAAAA! Looks like a bunch of Resistance losers are here!"
"Who are you?" The two of them jumped away as the robotic chick raised its sharpen claw.
"Scratch of the previous Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad. The six 6's."
"That's a mouth full." Responded the dog
"Search and Smash?" responded Wave on the communicator.
"Guys, that's Scratch," Knuckles answered through the comm "When Sonic and Tails ventured to Westside Island to stop Eggman he made him and Grounder to capture Sonic. He made other robots, but those two were designed to capture him. They failed each time and we haven't seen them after that."
Espio dropped down to behind Scratch. "If he's here then Grounder isn't far behind… or."
Scratch chuckled. "Oh Grounder's here alright." The robot showed its razor sharp claws. "Now I'm back and better. This is our territory and I like to call ourselves the Resistance Reversers."
"That's right!" shouted a voice as a giant large burrow bot emerges from the ground. It was 2 stories tall and sharp pointed drills.
Sora gaped and backed away. "Wh-wha- Is that?"
"That's Grounder." Espio stared at the large monstrocity. "He's larger than usual. A medium size house, could be a problem."
Charmy flew in with Vector in his hands. "I think we can handle this." Vector said as he slammed his fist together.
Scratch smirked. "But can you handle me?" Suddenly he glowed and another version of himself appeared next to him. "or me?" Then he multiplied until 15 Scratch's were upon them.
Blitz gulped at what he saw, fear started dwelling up from within him. He noticed Sora shivering at the multiple Scratches descending upon them and Winter with a concerned look on her face. The Chaotix..
One of them attacked Vector, but the Crocodile evaded and swung his tail and knocked it out. Charmy flew around and used his sharp stinger to attack each one. Espio, the Chameleon used his speed and skill decimate the scratches, but it seemed a few more took his place. He turned to him.
"Blitz, take your group and stop Grounder."
Blitz snapped back to reality and saw the giant machine rolling toward the Resistance who were attacking the soldiers. He dodged and kicked another Scratch away from him and ran toward Grounder. "Winter, Sora."
"A little busy." Sora flew around evading the fighting chickens."
"I can't" Winter fired her weapon and dodged another chicken.
He groaned inwardly and looked at the monstrocity. Was it up to him.
"Blitz!" the voice was Wave. "You need to put a serious dent in him, I don't think your weapon will do the job. I should've given you a Blaster or something more powerful. If only you can swap weapons on the fly.
She was right, he saw some of the soldiers with Blaze and Blaster Wispon firing, but having no effect. There had to be something he can do.
"GOING SOMEWHERE!" He rolled away from the strike of the chicken. The chicken continued swipe the dog with the claws as the former evaded each one.
"You can't win mutt. The Hedgehog failed! What makes you think you're are the ideal candidate!"
"I don't." He was backed up against the wall and leapt in the air and over the chicken as he struck the wall. "I'm just a guy trying to fight a tyrant."
"Oh…" He cackled. "Well, just give up." Scratch raised his claw.
"That's right." Another scratch appeared behind him. "You are way in over your head. There is nothing you can do to stop this."
"Yep." The one in front of him said. "Nothing."
Blitz didn't want to give up. There was no point in doing that. There was no point in being scared, he was, but he didn't want to die yet. He hid and ran away before and some part of him felt he failed Grace by not saving her family. He looked at the chicken and back at the burrowbot that was carving its way down the village. He looked at his launcher and then at the chicken and the back the burrow machine. An ideal came to mind.
"HAAA!" He ran toward where Grounder was burrowing with the chickens racing after him. One of them descended upon him his claws raised. Blitz leapt above him and snagged him with his hook shot. Once grappled the door dog twirled around a few times, hitting the other one into a wall and then launched the chicken at the burrow bot. Once contact, Blitz shot a fire ball at the bot. Once it contact with Scratch, it cause him to explode, dealing in damage to Grounder.
"OW THAT HURT!" Grounder turned around and stared at the dog. "Did you do that? I'm going run over you jerk!"
Maybe that wasn't a good idea.
"Quick follow the Rookie's example." He whipped around and saw Vector grabbing a scratch and tossing him at the Grounder. Blitz smirked and shot at the chicken once it made contact with Grounder.
"OW! Hey quit it!"
Winter grabbed the wing of the bird as it tried to attack her, she spun and threw it at Grounder. She then shot him with her own Blaze Wispon. Sora flipped over one that was chasing him and kicked it toward Grounder, after hitting with his weapon, the explosive impact caused more damage to grounder. A few Scratch bombs caused a hole to be torn into Grounder.
"AIM FOR THE HOLE!" Espio shouted as he threw a kunai with TNT wrapped around it.
"What? NO!" shouted Scratch, but to no avail. Blitz, Winter, and Sora unleashed a triple fireball into the newly formed hole. Once it made contact there was a chain reaction that cause Grounder to explode into pieces of scrap metal. Scratch baffled by what happened didn't see Vector coming. The crocodile and slammed the robotic chicken into the ground with a hammer blow and shot a flamethrower from his mouth, destroying the chicken
The battle continued until there was none left. Once Scratch and Grounder were destroyed the rest of the army was easy pickings. Once the dust settled there were no remaining Eggman soldiers.
"I don't sense anyone more Empire soldiers where you're at." Wave spoke. "You won."
"Here that!" A general shouted. "Victory is ours!"
"I just got word that Emerald Town has been secured, they stopped a large crabmeat."
"HOORAY!"
Everyone started cheering, Blitz looked thrilled, but his smile lowered when he saw Espio talking to Vector and Charmy. The looks on their faces weren't too happy and Vector looked ready to kill. The Chaotix looked at the group and noticed Blitz looking at them. The Crocodile gestured for him to come. Blitz looked back at Sora and Winter joining the celebration and slipped out before they notice.
Once he came close to them Espio spoke. "You did good out there Blitz. Twice you displayed to do more than the common solider."
"Thanks..., but I feel something is wrong."
The Chaotix looked at each other and back at the dog. This time Vector spoke. "Kid, when this started many of lost contact with one another. There were a few people we know that we didn't receive word on."
Charmy nodded. "Some were more precious than others."
Espio looked over at where Grounder spoke. "I infiltrated and learned a lot, the people trapped here and what they do with some. Remember how I said war can take something precious from us."
The dog nodded and knew what he learned next was going to be bad.
"We only knew him through Mighty and Sonic. He always traveled with Mighty more than the rest of us. He was good friend… Ray the Flying Squirrel.
"And he's…?"
"Dead. He was executed yesterday…"
-Two hours later-
Blitz watched as Mighty and the others put Ray to rest. They had freed both villages and recruited more, but it was a matter of time before Eggman decided attack, but there were more oppositions elsewhere that were taking his attention from the Resistance. G.U.N. remnants were out there too, but how long would they last? Plus a princess from the Acorn Kingdom was challenging the doctor.
"If we had gone there yesterday." Sora muttered. "Maybe he would have been alive."
Winter shook her head. "Who knows"
"What do you mean who knows?" Sora turned to her. "You heard what the townfolk said, he literally took all the punishment on him for their sake. That's a hero."
Winter nodded sadly. "I know…, but what he took from them. What the doctor said. He wouldn't survive the trip back or another few days."
"I… he would…. Would've seen General Mighty once last time." Sora took off his glasses and rubbed the tears from his eyes.
Blitz watched on as Mighty pated the dirt where they buried Ray. Amy and the Chaotix were right behind him, mourning. He didn't know the squirrel, but this was still terrible.
"This is terrible."
"Terrible."
Blitz looked to his left and saw Barry. The barry had singed fur and a bandage on his head.
"I don't have time for this."
"Neither do I, but this should be a reminder of getting good. I heard you did two good things today."
"And."
"We'll win yet." He turned around to walk. "See ya later."
Blitz watched him go and then looked back at the seen of Mighty staring at the grave of Ray the Flying Squirrel. He saw his friends comforting him and immediately came to Grace. She comforted him when he lost someone close to him. If he found her he would have to comfort her… or would she hate him for leaving her family to die. They were too later for this. Was it going to be like this all the time. Will they be too late on some missions? They need to be on time or push harder. Blitz continued to stand there watching the sad scene and vowed to get better.
A/N: Well... Ray's dead. My other thought was Vanilla, but I decided against it. Some may know Ray from the SegaSonic arcade game and other from the Archie Comics. Ray was close to Mighty and this is another reminder to the others of the seriousness of this war.
Scratch and Grounder. From the Sonic 2 game to the Adventure cartoon. Why? I needed more subbosses. Yes, Chaos, Metal, Zavok, and Shadow are strong. Yes, Inifinite is OP, but who's guarding the territory instead of mindless robots? So why not some subbosses and some threats that the group can take out early. At least for Blitz it will help gain experience. So expect the rest of the Deadly six and some other villains from past games and a cartoon or two.
They are not going to the Chemical Planet next chapter. 3 or 4 more chapers and then we're going. Then we're going to find out what happened to Shadow because the games reason made thing think he did nothing, but let the world burn.
I read somewhere that the Wispons that the other Resistance use to fire beams are from the White Wispon. The ones that give Sonic the boost.