GL (GalaxyLight): I'm back for another chapter! Sorry for not being around, too much work gets in the way nowadays, and I have low time in coming back here in Fanfiction. But now that I'm here, let's get this started!
Ruby's Recap
What's up, everyone? I'm Ruby Rose, the leader of Team RWBY!
A blue hedgehog named Sonic saved me from a monster which I'm grateful for. And I'm happy that I managed to find Weiss, now I don't have to worry about being lost and helpless anymore. Though I wish I could stop acting like this.
Apparently Weiss tells me that we're in a different world. Of course, I didn't believe it at first, but looking around the unfamiliar place and Weiss explaining that this is nothing like Remnant, I'm starting to feel like I'm in a different world now.
Now we're going with Sonic is his two-tailed fox friend Tails to his workshop saying he got something to show us. I wonder what it is? It's at the Mystic Ruins so we had to take the train to get there. I hope everyone else is alright...
BGM - Sonic Adventure OST - Mystic Ruin
Finally arriving at the Mystic Ruins, we got off the train on a wooden train station. Taking a look around, the place was pretty natural; lots of rocks, trees and ponds, but no ruins...yet. We got down to solid ground and ask a safari person about the place. He said he and his group are an exploration party searching for the ruins, though he's still new to these parts so he's not allowed to go deep about. Kinda sad, because I want to explore ruins as much as he do I and I don't need permission to go see ruins.
I talked to another safari person and he said something about a mountain appearing out of nowhere around here. He assumes that it wasn't sprung out of the ground, but believes that it fell from the sky. That got me very curious to think it's true or not. Of course, Weiss didn't believe any of that, but Sonic and Tails kept quiet about it, I wonder why?
"My workshop is just ahead on this hill. Follow me!" Tails instructed us as we climbed up the stairs to get to his workshop. I wonder what he has inside? Weapons, gadgets, I was very excited to see. But when we got to the first storey, we were stopped by an unknown laughter.
"Ha ha ha ha! If it isn't Sonic!" A loud voice came from above. We looked up to see some kind of egg-shaped machine descending down to us. Is it a hover car? That's cool!
BGM - Sonic Adventure OST - Theme of Dr. Eggman
"Look! It's a giant talking egg!" Sonic taunted. I tried not to laugh, it was kinda true though.
"Silence!" The pilot spoke out. He was goggles on top of his bald head. He wore blue glasses and a long brown spikey and funny-looking moustache. He wore a red jacket with black pants, while I couldn't see his legs, I'm taking a guess that they're short due to how small that car is. "I am Dr. Robotnik, the greatest scientific genius in the world!" Robo-what? I couldn't catch that name. Also, greatest genius in the world? I feel like that's just being hypothetical, like Weiss, actually I shouldn't say that, or she'll kill me.
"Whatever you say, Eggman!" Sonic remarked.
"PFFT!" I covered my mouth to prevent myself from laughing. I know I heard that name before, but I just couldn't hold it. I couldn't help it, that was the funniest name I've heard so far. A guy called Eggman, I'm never gonna forget that anytime soon.
"I said silence! Who even are those pesky girls with you?!" I think he must mean us.
"Hey, We have names, you know!" I shouted. "I'm Ruby and this normal girl is Weiss!"
"What do you mean 'normal'?! I'm a heiress, here! Did you bump your head when we got here?!" Weiss angrily retorts while I just laughed.
"I was just joking!" I replied.
"Enough! I've got big plans, and now I'm gonna put them to work!" Eggman stated.
"Sonic, who is this guys, exactly?" I asked my blue hedgehog friend.
"Remember how I said, a hero is needed in this world?" Sonic asked as I nodded. "Yeah, this guy is the villain here. His name's Dr. Eggman and he plans to take over the world, which he's been trying to do all the time. But I always stop him, and he runs away. I break his stuff, and he chickens out in hiding. Same ol' same ol'!"
"Wow! Must be fun!" I commented.
"You could say that..."
"You're always up to no good." Tails said. "Now what d'ya want?"
"I want all of the Chaos Emeralds!" Eggman stated. "Better not interfere! Or else!"
"Or else what?!" I provoked.
"Or else I'll take them from you by force... the hard way!" He flies away and then goes down, as if he's getting something. He came back up with big parts on his car now. He had some odd attachments on his sides and a large rocket behind him. Wow, he got all that in his car? That's smart! "Face my new creation, the Egg Hornet!" Egg Hornet? Did he add the 'Egg' part in as his symbol or something?
"Let's do this!" Sonic smirked as he jump into battle first. Before, Weiss and Tails could intervene, I had an idea.
"Stand here and watch and learn." I smiled while stopping them with my hand. "Me and Sonic are going to give you a show."
"Oh no, are you doing this again?" Weiss groaned. "Remember the last time you acted reckless?"
"I learned my lesson that time!" I pouted. "Besides, I'm not doing this alone! I got Sonic to back me up! Come on, Weiss! Please!" Weiss was about to retort again until she was interrupted by Tails.
"Why not we just let her help Sonic. I think he can keep her out of harm's way. Besides, I want to see how Ruby fights so I can see any improvements on her skills." He said to her. Good ol' Tails, I'm glad he's on my side on this one. Also, improvements? He can do that? That's interesting. "Trust me, Sonic has done many things and defeated Eggman pretty easily, even without our help." Seriously? Wow, makes me wonder what kind of adventures has he been in. Weiss gave it a little thought and then let out a sigh.
"Fine! But don't blame me if you're hurt anywhere." Weiss agreed, causing me to hug her with joy.
"Yay! Thank you, Weiss! You're the best friend ever!" I stated.
"I still haven't agreed about that! Now get off me!" Weiss pushed me away, which causes me to pout, before going to help Sonic out on taking out Eggman. Yep, I'm going to call him that too, it's very funny.
BGM - Sonic Adventure OST - Egg Mobile... Boss: Egg Hornet
"Hey, Sonic! I'm here to help!" I called to Sonic as I got beside him.
"Huh? You wanna help out?" The blue hedgehog asked surprised. "Y'know, I can do this myself. I don't really need a hand."
"I know, but I wanna let you know that I'm not some pushy uptight girl. I dreamed to be a hero too and I wanna help many people and save the world as well. C'mon, I wanna beat some bad guys too! Please!" Sonic sweatdropped from my begging and sighed.
"Okay, okay. Just be careful. Eggman may look dumb and weak, but he's not a pushover since he's smart and all." Sonic said as I chuckled by his statement about Eggman...who heard us speaking.
"I heard that!" The doctor growled as he flies far away from us and started to fire homing missiles at us. Thanks to both of our speed, we dodged all of them easily with no trouble.
I then transformed my Crescent Rose into sniper mode, much to Sonic and Tails's surprise and started firing bullets at Eggman. He barely dodges them but some managed to hit him and damage the hover car. It didn't do much, but it definitely scratched him.
"Whoa! Did your scythe, just change into a gun?!" Sonic exclaimed while I chuckled by his reaction, it was pretty funny.
"Yup! My weapon is customizable, high impact velocity sniper rifle." I explained.
"Basically a gun." Sonic putted it out.
"Yep!"
"CHARGE!" We both heard Eggman shout as he charged his car at us. It happened pretty fast too, because I couldn't react fast enough to dodge it, but Sonic was. He suddenly held me princess-style and zipped to another spot, without me noticing anything. It happened so fast, I couldn't react at all!
"You okay?" Sonic asked me. I was blushing red when he was carrying me like that. Seriously, it's embarrassing!
"Y-Yes! Please put me down now." I stuttered a bit, causing Sonic to laugh as he put me down. Yep, definitely embarrassing alright. I shook my head trying to get the scene out of the way, but something tells me it's not going to go away anytime soon.
"This time, you won't dodge this!" Eggman exclaimed as his drill attachments change to sharp pointy things (bad plural, I know). "ALL SYSTEMS, FULL POWER!" Once he's got the sight on us, he immediately rams us from above, trying kill us, literally. But he was slow enough for us to dodge out of the way as he slams his drills onto the ground. Now's he stuck on the ground like glue, giving us a chance to attack him. "Gah! Why can't I unstuck myself?!" Eggman growled.
"Sonic, let me go first and I'll let you take the finisher!" I said to Sonic.
"Alright, Red! show him what you got!" Sonic smiled. Red? Not often I get nicknames like those, but that one is fine by me. I turned to Eggman with a smirk, ready to make my move. I could see Eggman's face is pale and wants to beg for his life. I'm not letting this one go one bit since I'm going to enjoy this. Using my Crescent Rose scythe, I slashed away the drill pieces on the doctor's car off and also the big turbo piece on his back, leaving him nothing but his Egg-shaped car.
"My turn!" Sonic smirked as he jumps while curling himself into a ball and sends himself flying to Eggman hitting him hard enough for his car to cause smoke and explode a few times and then collapses down on the ground, meaning we won the battle, sweet!
Speaking of which, I never called the car 'the Egg Hornet', it was because the word 'hornet' kinda brings back memories...bad ones. When I saw one, I sort of freaked out by its looks and how it stared at me, like it was looking at its prey. I thought I'd never remember it...
"Yay! We win!" I cheered to me and Sonic's victory.
"Well, that wasn't so hard!" Sonic smiled.
"You did it, guys!" Tails cheered happily for us.
"Hmph! I could have done better than that." Weiss mockingly said as she and Tails approached them with Tails holding the Chaos Emerald. Geez, there she goes again; it's the 'I can do better than that' phrase. I don't know if she's ever gonna stop saying things like that. Little did we notice, that Eggman used some kind of claw hand and snatched the Chaos Emerald away from Tails's hands, much to our shock.
BGM - Sonic Adventure OST - Theme of Dr. Eggman
"Oh no!" I gasped in shock.
"He's got the Emerald!" Sonic exclaimed. No! I got careless, and maybe Sonic...and Tails and... actually, I think all of us got caught off guard by that. Why does this have to happen?
"Come on, Chaos, time to eat!" Eggman called out as if he was summoning somebody.
"Chaos?" Sonic and I spoke out in confusion, until we saw a blue puddle coming out of the ground. It looked slightly familiar somehow, until it turned into something that made our eyes widened in shock. It was the monster that attacked me last night.
"Oh no, isn't that the same monster we saw the other day...?" Sonic groaned.
"We?" Weiss asked in confusion. Oh right, she doesn't know.
"I...was kinda involved with that monster too." I faked chuckled while scratching my head. Weiss just rolls her eyes. We went back to Eggman to see him toss the Chaos Emerald to the monster named 'Chaos' and then suddenly shines, causing us to cover our eyes. When the light faded, we gasped in shock to see a big metal right arm inside him, and he looks surprisingly bigger than usual.
"Ooooh, yes!" Eggman laughed darkly. "It's just as the stone tablets predicted."
"What do you mean?!" I demanded.
"His strength increases every time I feed him a Chaos Emerald! With all the 7 Emeralds in him, he'll be invincible! And work for me!" Invincible? And working for an evil villain? Yeah, that is so going to turn bad. "Together, we'll destroy Station Square! And on its ruins, I'll build Robotnikland, the ultimate city! Where I will rule it all!" Robotnikland? That's the lamest name I've ever heard. "Come on, Chaos! Let's find another Emerald, shall we?" He then tosses a flash grenade at us, causing his to cover our eyes again from the light. In a few seconds, the two villains were gone from our sights.
"They're gone..." I slowly said.
"Guys, we can't him get away with this. Can we?" Tails asked us. What kind of question is that?
"No way, Tails!" I piped up. "There's no way he's going to take over the world and build his theme park!"
"Theme park? Really?" Weiss asked me in disbelief.
"What? The name describes it, doesn't it?" Weiss just facepalms. Sometimes, I just don't understand that girl.
"Without more Emeralds, the monster can't transform, so..." Tails was about to say more until I finished the rest for him.
"It's up to us to get the Emeralds before Eggman does, huh?" I said. "Okay then, let's find them so we can save the world from the evil that is here!"
"Yeah! Let's do this!" Sonic agreed as we high-fived each other. Weiss just sighs and Tails chuckles by our energetic personalities. I guess Sonic and I have that much in common, and maybe the only thing besides speed, although he's way faster than me, but I digress.
BGM - Sonic Adventure OST - Mystic Ruin
"Back to the main priority. Tails, you said about something you want to show us." Weiss said to Tails.
"Oh, right! My workshop is just up there. Come on!" The two-tailed fox said to us as we finally got to the workshop. Taking a closer look at it, it was small and old but it still looked like it's standing well. I wonder who built this or did Tails build this himself, I dunno. "Wait here, I'll be right back." Tails informed as he went inside the workshop.
"So what does Tails do in this workshop?" I asked Sonic.
"Well, I never really go in there and see what he does much." Sonic replied. "But when I do, he mostly tinkers with his inventions, such as making dash shoes that make you go faster, jet packs, radars and many other gadgets. Sometimes, I myself don't know what they do so I mostly leave them alone, not that I have any need for 'em anyway."
"Because you only rely on your speed?" Weiss guessed.
"Yep! Speed is all I need! The gadgets are just extra stuff to get new things."
"That reminds me, how are you able to go so fast? I mean, no being can run with that kind of speed. Unless you have a special ability, that would make sense." I was curious too, I never seen anyone run so fast before. He was like a bullet in which I could not react fast enough. I just gotta know his secret to this ability.
"...To be honest, don't really know either." Sonic admits, much to our shock. "Whenever I started running, I began to go faster and faster and faster without getting tired at all. Sometimes, I wonder why I can do something like this, but I ended up forgetting about since it doesn't matter. As long as I can do many awesome things, then I'm cool with it. I guess you could say I was born with this kind of gift."
"Wow, seriously?! You're so lucky! I wish I could run fast like you!" I exclaimed. I'll admit, I'm a bit jealous of Sonic's awesome power. I mean, come on, the guy can run faster than a bullet without getting tired at all. It's like God chose him and gave him this power to save the world. Anyone would want that ability.
"...I guess there's not point in finding more information about it, since you sound like you're telling the truth..." Weiss sighed.
"You mean you didn't believe him?!" I shockingly shouted at her.
"I mean, anyone would hide their secrets about their powers. It's not easy to trust others so they can easily spill the beans. You need trust in order to get the truth from them. And that's what I'm trying to do, unlike you who instantly befriends others without second thoughts!"
"Hey, at least, they're on our side, right?!" Before any of us can argue more, we heard the door open and Tails comes out with two slightly-big pairs of cool-looking sneakers. Each of pair was a different colour; one of them was red and black and the other one was white and grey.
"These are for you two." Tails smiled as he gave the two pairs to us. While confused, I took the red and black one since it suited my colour and Weiss took the white and grey one since it suited hers as well.
"What are these?" Weiss asked the yellow fox.
"I call them 'Sonic-Style Rocket Sneakers'!" Tails smiled. I like the name. "Gyroscopic sensors detect your movements and 25 mirco rocket boosters installed that increases your foot speed to 456 miles per hour." Definitely didn't get all of that, I don't speak geek after all, unless it's about weapons. "Basically when you wear these sneakers, you'll run so fast that you'll be able to keep up with Sonic without getting tired (This isn't really Sonic's maximum speed, but I'll leave that out for now). There's no limit so don't worry about overdoing it and keep running." Me and Weiss's eyes widen when he explained that.
"Really?! We can be as fast as Sonic?!" I exclaimed in excitement. This is great! I always wanted to be as fast as lightning. Now with this, I can be the fastest huntress in Remnant, with the exception of Weiss getting one too. I took off my shoes and put on the Sonic-Style sneakers. I suddenly felt a bit taller, maybe because of how big the shoes were. By the way, I put my shoes in my bag for keepsake.
"I worry where we watch where we're going." I heard Weiss grumbled.
"Oh, don't worry about that." Tails who heard, said to her. "The speed will allow you to react the same speed you're going... Of course, it's difficult for first timers but you'll get the hang of it eventually." Not sure if that makes me feel any better, but I hope I don't run into a wall when I go too fast. Weiss shrugs as she takes off her heels and put the sneakers on. She put her heels in her bag to keep it safe.
"I'm gonna test mine out." I said as I hopped a few times to get myself ready. When I began to ran myself down the stairs, I felt I was being pushed fast down as I was moving forward like a laser. When I noticed a wall coming, I immediately braked myself and almost hit the wall. When I turned back, I spluttered in shock to realise that I was already far away from Tails's Workshop, much to my surprise. I just got my way here to there in under 2 seconds. No human can do that. I was really running at the speed of sound. I don't know rather to joyful or surprised. I ran back to the group in the same ever to show how I amazed I was. Even Weiss's mouth dropped down and Sonic was just as surprised as I am. Tails however was smiling knowing that his invention worked perfectly.
"That was scary...and awesome!" I exclaimed. "I never thought I would run much faster than this! This is much better than my Sem- I mean, special ability! I'm gonna so much fun!"
"When did you get the time to make these?" Weiss who snapped out of her shock, asked Tails as she looked at her sneakers.
"Well, when I was having some thoughts, I had an odd feeling that some people will come and help us in our adventures. That gave me an idea and decided to make some footwear that can match up with Sonic's speed so they can keep up with us."
"Us? Are you fast too?" I asked.
"I wouldn't say I'm faster than Sonic. BTW, those shoes cannot reach Sonic's maximum speed yet." Ours eyes widen in shock. Sonic can go even faster than these shoes. I gulped not wanting to imagine what kind of speed Sonic can go. "I can use my tails as a propeller to accelerate my speed so I can keep up with Sonic, so I don't really need the shoes."
"Wow, that's cool!" I commented.
"And somewhat creative..." Weiss followed.
"Hey, Tails. What's that?" Sonic asked as he saw Tails holding something on his hand. It looked to be a green stone with a sphere inside of it. Looks very old too.
"Oh this? I found it somewhere in the ruins so I picked it up." Tails explained. "I'm not sure what it is, though I can say that it looks like some sort of key that can activate something. Maybe if we look around, we might be able to use it."
"Okay, let's explore around." I smiled. Everyone else nodded in response as we split up to look around. Thanks to our speedy shoes, it made it easier to look around without bothering to tire out and get lost. The place was small since most of the places were blocked. I saw a small cave and went in, what I saw there was a hole and four pieces of wood floating on it. Next to it was some kind of old green pedestal. I called out to the others to come here.
"What do you suppose this is?" Weiss asked.
"I dunno, but that hole sure keeping the wood afloat. I wonder if I..." I took steps closer to the hole. I looked down to see what's down there but it was pitch black. What surprised me though is that I felt a huge gust of wind flowing past me, making my hair fly backwards. When I step away from it, my hair was crazy as if I had a bed head. "Wow! That's some wind!" I commented as I fixed my hair. Weiss examined the pedestal and then looked at the key Tails was carrying.
"That key has the same symbol and colour to this pedestal." Weiss said. "On top of that, that hole in the middle seems to be the exact same shape as the square bottom."
"...Maybe..." Tails slowly moved to the pedestal and slowly placed the key onto the hole. It fit perfectly, and because of that, we heard louder wind noise. The wood which was floating then ascend high up and we could see the wind flow, leaves and smaller pieces of wood fly up.
"Y'know, I wonder what's up there." Sonic said curious. He hopped to the hole and then suddenly fly high up that we couldn't see him. I was excited but a bit nervous at the same time in going to the windy hole.
"You go next, Weiss." I said pushing Weiss to the hole.
"What the-! What are you doing?! I'm not going on that!" Weiss exclaimed as she tries to stop but I kept pushing.
"Don't worry, Weiss. I'm sure you'll be fine. Now let's go!" I tackled Weiss to the hole together and now both of us were going up and up and up high in the sky. "WHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" I yelled out.
"EYYYAAAAAAHHH!" Weiss screamed.
BGM - Sonic Adventure OST - Windy Hill ...for Windy Valley
We kept screaming until we hit the ground. Sadly, I crashed headfirst onto the ground, meaning I got my head stuck onto the ground. I tried pulling myself off until Weiss helped pulling me off.
"Next time, don't make me do things until I'm ready!" She scolded me.
"Okay, okay." I sighed. We looked around to see the big view, it was beautiful. The landscape, the mountains, the clouds and lots of windmills, some are floating. "Gorgeous." I commented.
"Reminds me of Emerald Forest." Weiss said.
"Oh, there you guys are." Sonic said as we saw him along with Tails who flew down to us... hold on, FLEW?!
"D-D-Did you just fly...WITH YOUR TAILS?!" I yelled out in shock while pointing my finger at him.
"Yes, that actually surprised me too when I saw that for the first time." Weiss sweadropped. "Who would have thought that two tails can turn into a helicopter?"
"Let's just say I often do things with my tails a lot. That's why they're strong that I can spin them fast. I came up with this one my own too. Though, it does can tire me so I shouldn't fly too much."
"Okay, now you're just making me jealous!" I pouted. How come they get to do awesome things while our stuff looks cheap, even though they're amazing but not as amazing as theirs.
"Come on! There should be a Chaos Emerald around here somewhere." Tails informed as he took out a radar. The radar says it's around here."
"You have a Chaos Emerald GPS?" Weiss asked.
"Yep! Since we collect Chaos Emeralds all the time. I thought making a radar of it would make things easier to find." Tails smiled. We explored the place, and there were lots of floating platforms, thanks to the windmills keeping it afloat. The springs helped us go far places too. A few wind took us around too since it was pretty strong. There were also a few badniks around, which we assume that they'll looking for the Chaos Emeralds for Eggman.
There were lots of rings scattered about too. I asked Weiss about rings being money in this world, but she too had no clue how to describe about it. I wonder whatever happened to cash and coins and stuff.
We stopped as there was a dead end with no path left, at least that's what we thought. Sonic used his speed and when he ran off the solid path, our eyes widen to see Sonic running around in a trail of leaves, leading him to the next area.
"Wow! Now that's cool!" I commented.
"And reckless..." Weiss sweatdropped. I tired to do the same and oddly enough, I was running on a trail of leaves and managed to get to where Sonic was. Weiss did too, though she doesn't feel happy about it for some reason. As we moved on, the wind become more fiercer and the sky was covered by dark clouds, making the place darker to see.
"Umm... Is it just me, or is the wind getting more nastier than before?" I said to everyone.
"...Maybe it's because of that..." Sonic answered as he pointed to a giant tornado beside us. The rest of us jawdropped to see how close it was to us. How did we missed that?!
"What?! A tornado?! Where did that come from?!" Weiss exclaimed as the tornado grew stronger, dragging us close to it.
"AAAAH! RUN!" I screamed as I tried to run as fast as I can but we couldn't since we were running on the air. The tornado has already started to pull us to it. "NOOOOOOOOOO!" We all screamed as we all got sucked inside. What a cruel way to die. Is it the end of us?...
BGM - Sonic Adventure OST - Tornado ...for Windy Valley
NOPE! Just kidding! We managed to somehow land on a piece of land which was also caught in the tornado.
"Is everyone okay?" Sonic asked us.
"Y-Yeah! We're fine!" I stuttered a bit as I shook my head to recover the dizziness from the experience with tornado. We looked up to see lots of other parts of the land also taken by the tornado. We then suddenly spotted a red energy ball. When we got close to it, it spoke of a girl, much to our surprise.
"Head straight up. You should be able to get out of the tornado." It told us as it flies away, much to our confusion. We look up and the path almost look like a path to go up. "Do you the think we can get out if we go up there, like the ball girl said?" I asked.
"Perhaps, or maybe we could just wait here until the tornado disappears?" Weiss said sarcastically
"I was just asking." We jumped on springs to make our way up. There were a panel labelled one and there were two and three above us. I wonder what they mean. I just found out though, when Sonic stood on it and jumped high up and landed on the other panels really fast, as if he was a ninja. If he can do that, I can too. I stood on panel 1 and carefully looked at the other panels. After getting good aim, I jumped up on panel 2 to 3 to 4 to 5 and down to solid ground. I did it! Weiss managed to do the same, though I think she was better off that I was. Going on more springs and trampolines, we jumped on the last spring which sent us sky high and away from the tornado. We're finally out, yay!
BGM - Sonic Adventure OST - The Air ...for Windy Valley
"WEEEEEEE!" I yelled excitingly as I was falling down with Sonic and Weiss who was screaming again. We managed to land on ground again, and this time I didn't land headfirst, HA! Looking around amazed me because we were so high, I can even see clouds beside me. Looking down almost made me dizzy because we were so high up. I can see lots of floating lands, maybe because they have propeller? I don't know, but that's nothing to worry about.
"Wow! We're so high up!" I commented.
"...Not even the best ships here can make it up here due to altitude." Weiss added.
"Maybe we can find the Emerald here." Tails, who surprisingly made it up here, said to us.
"Alright! Then let's roll!" Sonic smiled as he ran off again with us following him. We were running on a metal road which I have no idea where it came from, but it does look like it's leading us somewhere. Me and Weiss even experience a speed booster and our first loop-de-loop together, I had fun though Weiss looked like she was about to throw up. We then found a small rocket out of nowhere. Since there were three of us, we held onto Sonic as he activated the rocket which sent us far away onto another land.
"...Not sure if I'm gonna get used to that." Weiss shrugged feeling a bit pale from that. Moving on, the road seems to be very crazy since it curves down making on run down swirly roads, run on walls and make us run on leaves again. But in no time at all, we finally found our Chaos Emerald. This time it was a blue coloured gem.
"Wait, do Chaos Emeralds have different colours?" Weiss asked.
"Yep! Red, blue, green, yellow, white, cyan and purple." Sonic answered.
"Wow! Kinda like rainbow." I commented. I guess it's to make sure that one colour is the right one. Seven Emeralds with the same colour would be very confusing. "Now, that we have it, I got a question... How do we get back down to the Mystic Ruins?" Everyone turned to look at me and turned pale.
"Oh boy..." Sonic shrugged.
BGM END
We finally managed to get back down to the Mystic Ruins grounds after we found a couple of parachutes lying around. I don't know where they come from, but I'm glad we found them.
"Now what do we do?" I asked.
"Well, since we're done in the Mystic Ruins for now, how about we go back to Station Square?" Sonic said to us.
"Okay." The four of us made our way back to the train station and boarded in to get to Station Square.
BGM - Sonic Adventure OST - Welcome to Station Square
When we got back, it was already noon as we saw the sun setting down, night time was coming soon.
"So where's the next Chaos Emerald?" Weiss asked. Tails took a look at his radar.
"It's at the Casino." Tails stated. "It's close, unfortunately it only opens at night so we have to wait." A casino, huh? I've never been in one before. I heard people can get lots of money in there with luck. I wonder what you can do in there?
While we wait for night time, we decided to take a small walk around Station Square. I took a bite at the Burger Shop when the owner shrugs for some reason.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"Oh, I'm sorry if I worry you." The Burger Shop guy said. "It's just working here right now... I feel like somebody's staring at me. What can it be?" A stalker? I don't like the sound of that. I wonder who it is. Asking people about, a person told me that a girl was staring at the Burger Shop all day. I thought it was because that she wanted something to eat. I went to the girl deciding that I should talk her, but I stopped when I heard her muttering about something.
"Oh, my heart's breaking." She muttered out. "I thought it would be enough just to stare at him from a distance. But I can't go out like this! I'd love to get to know the Burger Shop guy!" She's in love with him?! Now that is what I did NOT see coming. Though, if you think about it, the Burger Shop guy does have a pretty face, but he's not my type. From the looks of it, the girl seems pretty determined to get the man's heart. If she does get to him, I'll support her in every way.
As the sun was setting, I took a small walk at the beach, only to trip on something. Good thing, I fell on sand, if it was concrete, it would hurt badly. I wiped the sand off my face before picking up what I just tripped on. What it looked to be was a red old looking sniper scope which looks surprisingly fine. I took a peek and when I did, I could directly see seagulls flying by, as if I know where they're going next. Curious, I placed it on top of my Crescent Rose in its sniper form and much to my surprise, it fits perfectly. When I did that, the red ball of light comes to me again.
"You have obtained the Lock-On Scope. Now you can accurately snipe enemies even when they move, without the need to focus as the scope does it for you. If shot accurately enough, it could fiercely break down the enemy's defence, leaving them exposed, fragile and open to attack." After she explained that, she flies away. I was amazed by the scope's ability. I can shoot without needing to concentrate on my aim? That's awesome! Now I can stop worrying about my firing aim. I can't wait to tell my friends about this. Though, that ball of light, how did she know this stuff? Did she drop it here so I can get it? What a mystery.
It was finally night time. We regrouped and made our way to the casino by going to the hotel and to a different door that leads to there. We can also go there by the train station but we decided to pick this route. The door was closed all of the sudden. The sign says to hit the circle on the below the logo for the door to open, why they came up with a gimmick like that is what I don't know. Before I could ask Tails to hit it for us, I noticed Sonic wearing different shoes and they look more stunning that usual.
"Hey, Sonic. Are those new shoes?" I asked the blue hedgehog.
"Yep! And they give me a special ability." Sonic smiled as he spots a button beside him. He steps on it and a trial of rings that lead to the circle appears. "In fact, I'll show you." Sonic then curls into a ball and started spinning. I can see blue energy flowing into him as he keeps spinning. When he stops, he was covered in blue energy and was the in front of the rings. He then launches himself to the rings flying his way and hits the circle. It flips and the door to the casino opens. "Like this." Our eyes widen in surprise.
"Wow! How did you do that?!" I exclaimed.
"When you asked me about the new shoes, these aren't ordinary shoes. These are Light Speed Shoes. I can spin to store up power and once I've got enough I can do this ability called Light Speed Dash. The Light Speed Dash lets me race towards rings at light speed, even if they're in the air. As long as there's a trial of rings, I can go just about anywhere."
"That's awesome!" I commented loudly. Seriously, fly about in a trial of rings. That makes exploring the place and collecting rings much more easier. "Where did you find them?"
"In the sewers." Sonic answered. Of course, he'd find something like that in the sewers. There's always goodies under there. Man, I wish I could have gone to the sewers and find goodies but it's too late now. Sighing, I decided to go in the casino with everyone.
BGM - Sonic Adventure OST - The Dreamy Stage ...for Casinopolis
"Wow! This place is bright!" I commented as I looked around inside the casino which was called Casinopolis, funny name. So many people are around here, I could hardly count all of them. There were lots of slot machines spewing out rings when its won. There was even a shower room in here which was very nice of them. I saw two teleporters which weer both pinball related. One of them was called '777 Slots Pinball' and the other one was called 'Card & Pinball'.
"The Chaos Emerald is in there." Tails said to us as he pointed us to the vault. At the top, we could see the grey Chaos Emerald right at the top. While we loved to go and grab it with our powers, but because there are so many people around here, I think we should lay low and not. Besides, there security around the place so we can't do anything to get that anyway. We went to the information bureau and asked how to get to the top of the vault.
She told us than we need to store the vault with rings. To get to the top, we need to save at least 400 rings. That's a lot. I know this is a casino where we can get a lot of money, but 400 rings sounds like we got a lot of work to do.
"Let's split up! We'll collect rings faster that way." Sonic stated. "I'll go with Ruby and Tails can go with Weiss."
"Will do!" Tails nodded. "Come on, Weiss. I know a place where we can get a good number of rings." Tails went off with Weiss to, wherever they went. As for me and Sonic, we went to the 777 Slot Pinball room.
"I'll go in first." Sonic stated as he went in. When he got inside, the door in front of me closes and Sonic floats as he glows bright, causing me to cover my eyes. When the light faded, my eyes widen to see a pinball machine inside the room but Sonic was nowhere to be seen.
"S-Sonic?!" I called out for him when I came in.
"Ruby...in here." I heard Sonic's voice but it was very high-pitched and I couldn't see him anywhere, until I took a look at the pinball machine. It looked like a Sonic-style pinball machine, it even had his face in it with all sorts of things related to him. Wow, he must be popular. "S-Sonic? Is that you?" I said dumbfounded as I saw him so tiny at the ball shooter lane. "You're so small..." I commented.
"I know right." He said in a high-pitched voice. Man, that's so cute! "The pinball must have mistook me for a pinball and I was in here now. Though I did become a pinball at some place."
"Really? Where?"
"It's a long story. Right now, why don't you play this pinball machine and get some rings? Use me as a pinball, don't worry, I can take the hits, I'm pretty tough against hard things when I'm in this state."
"Okay then." I replied. In all honesty, I haven't played pinball for a while. I think it was about a year ago since I played, for some reason I stopped. I don't know why, muss have forgotten about it. But I think I remember how to play it right so I shouldn't have that much problem. Besides, the game is simple, just hit the ball with the flipper bats and watch the ball move around like crazy as it gets points.
BGM - Sonic Adventure OST - Blue Star ...for Casinopolis
I pulled the ball shooter and let go to see Sonic, I see him hitting the bumpers which cost one ring. Apparently the rings are the points, so we know how much we get after the game ends. I hit Sonic with the flipper bats and sent him into a slot machine and the slots in the middle of the pinball spins. I ended up getting Ring 3K which is three rings in a row that makes me get fifteen rings and get a thirty second multiplier, meaning every bumper Sonic hits, he gets two rings instead of one. I accidentally missed hitting Sonic again with the flipper and cause him to fall down the drain. Now I only have two balls left as I see Sonic at the ball shooter lane.
"Don't give up, Ruby. You still got two chances left." Sonic smiled.
"Y-Yeah! I won't screw up this time!" I encouraged myself as I pulled the ball shooter to sent Sonic up again. When the slot machine was open, I sent him there and this time, I got a Speed Star which is three Sonics in a row. I won fifty rings and got a ninety-nine second multiplier, much to my delight. When I stroke a cyan-glowing switch which opens up a gate, I sent Sonic there and then suddenly rolls out of the playfield which I need to help him jump specifically. I earned a bubble full of 100 rings; sweet! I'm so lucky right now! But that luck didn't last long when I got Sonic down the drain again. Now I only have one ball left.
"Come on, Ruby! You got one more, so make it count!" Sonic gave me a thumbs up.
"You got it!" I smiled back as I used my last ball and shot him back to the playfield. I sent him to the slot again and got Final Eggman which is three Eggman faces sticking their tongues at me, much to my annoyance. I lot 50 rings when I got it. What's even worse is that the slot machine doesn't start until a minute has passed so all I could do was send Sonic around the place until the time is up. I grunted as I accidentally sent Sonic into the slot machine while it was still block and ended up getting Final Eggman again which made me angrier, but that didn't last long. Because I instantly earn one-hundred and twenty rings after getting that. My jaws dropped down to the ground as I subconsciously let Sonic go down the drain. After that, we were instantly teleported to the vault with the huge sack of rings beside us.
BGM END
"...What just happened?" I asked in disbelief. I got an Eggman, and I ended up getting a huge ton of rings from doing that. HOW DOES THAT EVEN WORK?! Was that a glitch or something or is the game just making fun of me. Man, I'll never know!
"I don't know, but at least we got butt-load of rings." Sonic said. He was right on that one. The sack was bigger than me, I wonder if this is enough to fill the vault and get the Chaos Emerald. "But we only have two-hundred and sixty rings, so it's not enough." Apparently not. I let out a sigh in distraught.
"Let's hope Tails and Weiss got some good amount of rings." I said.
"We did." The two of us turned around to see the two-tailed fox carrying his own sack of rings but it wasn't as big as ours. "Looks like you had a good time collecting them as well."
"Where's Weiss?" I asked.
"Oh, don't worry about her, she's just...cleaning herself for a moment."
"Cleaning herself?"
"L-Let's just get these rings to the vault and get the Chaos Emerald while we wait for her, okay?" I looked at Sonic and he looks at me. We just lifted our shoulders in confusion and went to the vault. We gave the rings to the claws at it shakes the bags, spewing rings everywhere. In no time at all, the vault was filled with gold rings. I tempted to fill my pockets with all this loot, but I doubt the security would let me. I climbed the mountain of rings and got the grey Chaos Emerald.
"Woo-hoo! We got it!" I smiled in victory as I got down. As we left the vault, we saw Weiss coming to us while she was oddly wiping her hair with a towel. Must have got that from the shower room. What's odd is that I could see a bit of steam coming out of her, almost as if she took a bath or something. "Weiss, were you-" I was cut off by the princes-er heiress before I could finish.
"I know what you're going to say and I don't want you to ask me. Have you got the Emerald?" She asked me.
"Yep! Right here!" I showed her the grey gemstone of power.
"Good, now let's leave! I'm tired and need a rest." I agree, it's midnight and I didn't get much of a nap today. Deciding what we're going to do next, we were about to leave the casino until I saw Sonic looking at the Card & Pinball room.
"Do you wanna go in there, Sonic?" I asked my blue-furred friend.
"Huh? Oh no, it's just that this pinball is about a friend that I know about. But I don't really wanna talk about now. Best if you know it some other time." Sonic replied as he went on. I wonder what Sonic is talking about when he was looking at that pinball. Decided that I should slide that away, we left the casino but just as we did that, we were suddenly ambushed by Eggman and his hover car.
"YIKES!" I squeaked as I saw him trying to ram us. We all dodged out of the way but I accidentally dropped the grey Chaos Emerald as it hits the ground. "Ah! The Emerald!" I shouted as the four of us tried to grab it before Eggman could.
"On, no you don't!" Eggman cried out as he sprayed some kind of blue gas right in front of us, making us cry out in pain. All of the sudden, I began to feel sleepy and sleepy and sleepy. My head was getting dizzy and my eyes became drowsy.
"Hahahahaha! I can hear Eggman laughing from a distance.
"E-E-gg-m-ma-n-" I moaned out my last words before I ended up collapsing onto the floor.
GL: Phew! That ends chapter two of Ruby's story. That took longer than I expected, but hey, I got it done.
Yep! I'm also giving the heroes of Remnant upgrades, just like the Sonic characters. It would be unfair if I didn't give them anything so I decided to give them good gadgets to help them on their new adventure. Of course, the gadgets are things I made up, so don't bother looking it up.
I decided to skip NiGHTs pinball as it took too much space, so I just decided to make a reference about it. Anyone who is confused about that Final Eggman ring gain was a glitch. When I first played it, this happened. I don't know how but I might as well accept it and add this here as well.
I also decided to give Ruby and Weiss speed shoes since Sonic and Tails go super fast. So in order to keep up with them, I gave the girls this so they have no need to get tired and get lost when running, now they're clones of Sonic (not exactly but you get the idea).
Looks like Eggman stole another Chaos Emerald from them. What will the four heroes do now? See you in the next chapter!
