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"Normal Speech"
'Thoughts'
'Telepathic Speech'
Part 1: Victis
Chapter 3: The World Around Us
They took their time returning to Hedron. Sonic wanted to enjoy the cool night around them, and Midna was happy to take in the new sights while she could. During the day Midna would have to hide inside Sonic's shadow. Being a creature of shadows, she cannot be out of darkness during the day, at least until she regained her true form. She didn't mind though, as this blue hedgehog was proving to be interesting company. Currently he is regaling her with stories of his travels previous into the multi-verse.
"...we ended up having to use the power of the Chaos Emeralds to finally take the two idiot genius's out. Eventually we found a way to return to our dimensions, and that was my adventure with Mega Man." Sonic finished, walking alongside a floating Midna with his hands clasped behind his head. He looked down from starry sky, and gave his companion a grin. Midna had her little right hand resting on her right cheek, pointer finger up by her temple, and her legs crossed one over the other as she floated. (D.O. Info: Sonic and Mega Man have a 12 part crossover comic called "Sonic & Mega Man: Worlds Collide" currently in progress. This ending is speculation based on Vol.12's cover.)
"So let me get this strait, despite everything you two managed to work together and best two evil genius's. Honestly those two men don't sound very smart to be beaten by the likes of you and a blue armored kid." Midna scoffed jokingly. From the tales she'd heard along with this Midna already deduced there was much more to Sonic than his speed and adventurous attitude. Still she liked to chide the young hedgehog, as he was a good sport about it.
"You'd think guys as smart as that would be able to stop us after knowing us for so long right? But I guess the same could be said of me and Mega in that aspect too. We usually always win, but we can never stop them from doing it again. It's a vicious cycle I tell you!" Sonic waved his arms in the air animatedly, before resting them back behind his head with a chuckle. Midna was a great listener, even if she liked to make constant jabs at him. Still he was glad she was at least not being introverted like a lot of new comers to Grand Centari.
"One would think, but still I'm starting to see a pattern in your travels. It seems that your reckless need for adventure tends to bring you into these situations." Midna said with a coy smile, as he took up floating with her legs down, and her arms held behind her back.
"Can't argue with you on that one. But there are even times where I get sucked into another dimension or world when I haven't done anything at all. Like, there was this one time, when I got pulled into a world full of different characters. Kinda like this one. A couple of them I meet in later adventures, like a short plumber named Mario and his brother Luigi. But in this particular world it turns out this being called Tabuu, manipulated a bunch of villains into sucking parts of this world into it's own dimension to give itself more power. I managed to show up at the last minute to stop Tabuu from turning all of them into trophies, and ended up fighting him too. Boy was that a mixed up world...wait..." Sonic stopped walking, and brought his hands around to his front in a contemplative gesture. (D.O. Info: These events are based on the Subspace Emissary mode of Super Smash Bros Brawl.)
"Didn't you say your traveling companion in your world was a guy named Link?" He pointed a finger from his chin toward Midna.
"Yes?" Minda raised her visible eyebrow questioningly.
"Did he wear a green tunic, carry a sword..." Midna's eye widened. "..., and had a long green pointy hat and pointy ears?"
"Yes, yes he did!" She blurted out, and quickly covered her mouth with both hands, blushing slightly.
"Didn't speak much, and I bet he knew a Princess Zelda too." Sonic's grin grew noticeably at Midna's actions.
"How do you know this?! Did you meet them?" Midna tried to sound reserved, but her excitement was easily burning through that mask.
"I believe I have. They were two of the ones fighting Tabuu back in the Subspace world. I ended up fighting along side them until the world was returned to normal, and I was transported back to Mobius." Sonic nodded with closed eyes, but opened one slightly to see Midna's face light up. She had a big smile, probably the biggest and most genuine Sonic had seen since they met. The revelation that he had met two of her only friends from her own world, and even fought along side them, gave her a greater sense of companionship to him. As she mulled this over in her head, her mind wandered to Link and his part in her life. Midna grew a violet blush over her cheeks, one she didn't realize she was creating. She slowly brought her small hands to cusp her cheeks.
Sonic noticed this not so subtle change in Midna's actions. He knew that look, heck he had been caught doing the same back home. Sally Acorn, Sonic's on and off girlfriend for many years, gave him this same reaction. He missed her, just like the rest of his friends and Freedom Fighters, but there was little he could do as things were now. Sonic simply pushed the unpleasant feelings away for now. He had his own ways of dealing with them, but Midna's actions were ripe for payback. (D.O. Character Info: Sally Acorn is a character from the Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehog comic. She is a Princess as well.)
"So you like Mr. Pointy Ears I take it?" Sonic let the question hang, as Midna was brought from her own, and took a moment to register said question. Her purple blush deepened and grew, she quickly got defensive, and turned away from Sonic with crossed arms.
"I don't harbor feelings for Link. He was just a companion on my journey to stop Zant and Ganondorf, that was all." She said this a little too fast, which Sonic picked up on.
"Well he did seem to be on pretty good terms with Princess Zelda when I met them." His sly grin was lost on the shadow being, as she turned back around, annoyance bordering on jealousy, painting her face.
"How well of terms? He was practically begging me to stay before I left." Again she found herself covering her unchecked mouth. Eyes widening as Sonic's now large grin. He caught her, there was no denying it.
"I...I..."
"Midna it's okay if you like him. Link seemed like a stand up guy to me. I'm sure he left quite an impression on you." Sonic decided to just be calm about this as it seemed to be a delicate subject for the diminutive princess.
"He was my first real friend. Even if I was just using him in my venture at first, his...his loyalty and kindness toward me caused... an alien feeling. The Twilight Realm is a place of darkness and strength. I rule there only because of my lineage, and power. He showed me what genuine kindness was. That power and authority weren't everything in the realms. Even if he was annoyingly the hero at times, he always came back to help me." Sonic just listened to Midna, as she hugged herself, and continued.
"When I was finally rid of the curse Zant placed on me, and could finally stand as an equal to Link, I relished in his astounded expression. He looked at me with those caring eyes full of shock and awe at my true self. I wanted to just embrace him, but we could never be. My realm was never supposed to mix with the World of Light, and any relationship we could have, was taboo. Besides I had to return to my world, as the thin barrier was reenforcing and would soon separate our realms again. My duty came before my feelings." Midna let the last part escape his lips before biting down softly on her lower lip. A white gloved hand rested on her small shoulder, and she looked up to see a warm smile from the Blue Blur.
"Midna, I know how you feel. I do. But following your heart isn't a bad thing. When you follow your heart, even when things don't always turn out how you hope they will, at least you won't regret your actions. I do it all the time, and I rarely ever have regrets. I'm sure there will be a way that you two can reunite. So until then don't disregard your feelings, embrace them. The heart wants what the heart wants. Besides it looked like Link was just friends with Zelda. So you probably left him wanting when you left." Sonic's bright outlook, brought a small but happy smile to Midna's face. She perked up, and nodded to the hedgehog.
"Thank you Sonic. That really means a lot."
"No problem Princess. Now how about we get heading back to HQ, and give them our report." Midna only nodded once, before slipping into Sonic's shadow. The moon was starting to near the horizon, indicating day break was only a few hours away. Sonic was ready for some R&R, after all he'd been traveling pretty much all night. Doing a quick set of stretches, he took off into a sprint, which soon escalated into a blurring run.
His return pace to Hedron was considerably slower. Still, it didn't take to long to get back to the capital city of Victis. As they entered the city Sonic found himself skidding to an abrupt halt, at seeing a poster on the side of a building. Quickly he back peddled, and stopped back in front of the colorful poster. On it was the name of an event and times, along with the picture of a catgirl with long blue fluffy hair, and a skimpily white fur covered body. She was holding a microphone, with a punk rock looking teenage girl leaning in next to her. The girl had literal flaming blue hair, a one shoulder strap tank top, leather pants, and pale green skin. Behind them were their band mates. A young man with a plain green shirt and blue jeans, with messy brown hair, on bass. An older looking young man with a long black hooded trench coat, a large cross and heart shaped blue guitar, and blond spiked up down the center hair, and cut sides. Behind them on the drums was a short blue skinned chubby faced boy. The boy had a wide smile, long brown hair, an orange and white stage suit, and a white headband with red jewels on it.
"Well what do you know. Felicia's back in town." Sonic smirked looking at the poster, with his fists on his hips. Midna stirred in his shadow, and floated back into the corporeal world. It was still at least an hour till daybreak, so she could. She examined the poster too, but turned a questioning look to Sonic.
"Who's Felicia, and what does this parchment mean?" Sonic's smile met her, and he tapped the poster with the back of his right hand, using two fingers knuckles.
"This poster is for a concert being held in Hedron. Felicia is the one in the white fur and cat ears in front. She is a talented singer, and a fellow Traveler. I met her shortly after I got here. She must have got a band together and followed her dream."
"A concert? As in music and singing. Oh that does sound like a pleasant activity. I've heard of them but never experienced one." Midna pipped in excitedly.
Sonic scratched his cheek with one finger, as he gave her an unsure look. "Well I'm not sure this is the same kind of concert you may be thinking of. Still I'm sure Chifuyu would love to hear about this. She's a big fan of Felicia's singing, and it'll be good to see her again." Midna turned to Sonic with her hands clasped together in front of her in a pleading manner. She even stuck out her lower lip in a slight pout. Sonic chuckled then shrugged in a mock defeated manner.
"Well the concert is in two days, how about we check in, get some rest, and then go?"
"Oh this will be so exhilarating."
'Heh, you have no idea Princess.' Sonic smiled, and the continued on their way to the G.C.D.F. HQ.
"Took you long enough to get back Sonic. For being the supposed fastest thing alive, you sure were slow in getting here." Chifuyu chided, as she, Sonic, and Midna, made their way through the HQ's hallways. They were headed to the vault, as Sonic and Midna recounted the events in Farnir. Sonic was not known for doing paperwork, and trying to force him was met with a gust of wind, and a taunting raspberry. So Chifuyu took his report verbally, and would do the paper part later. In her hands she held the Black Skull Dragon card, and the small glowing orb found in Bahamut Sin's place. She examined them briefly before deciding to let the eggheads do their thing with them instead.
"Well you know me Chifuyu, I like to sight see a lot. Can't help it if the night sky was so pretty and shiny." Sonic jabbed back in good humor. The Traveler Commander, just shook her head, and turned another corner.
"Oh that reminds me!" Sonic waved his right pointer finger forward. "Have your heard that Felicia is holding a concert here tomorrow?" He waited for Chifuyu's reaction by looking up to her out of the side of his eyes. She just grew a small grin.
"I knew about that last week. Where have you been?"
"Oh the usual, space, fighting, doing the G.C.D.F.'s dirty work, exploring, meeting people, you know all the stuff you don't get to do stuck here." Chifuyu huffed, and sighed dramatically.
"Well some of us can't just magically transform into a powerful golden rodent, and fight giant monsters in space. Besides someone's gotta do your paperwork you lazy bum." This caught Midna's attention.
"Transform into a power golden rodent? What do you mean Commander Orimura?" Chifuyu was about to respond, when Sonic cut in.
"Trade secret." He left it at that, which only made the Princess more curious. The Commander just rolled her eyes, and let out an audible breath.
After the two items were placed into the vault, and securely sealed, Sonic and Midna bid their farewells to Chifuyu. They headed deeper into the large city, heading toward a building that served as a temporary residence to the Victis based Travelers working for the G.C.D.F. Upon entering the building, and getting into the elevator, Midna reformed from Sonic's shadow, and floated next to him, as the oddly cheery music played in the metal box.
"So are you taking everything in stride now Midna?" Sonic asked as she examined the insides of the elevator.
"Actually I have a million questions, but I will leave them for after we get some rest." Sonic barked out a laugh, and shook his head chuckling.
"It'll take some time Midna, but I'll be happy to answer to the best of my ability." The doors opened after a cheerful ding, and Sonic stepped out, moving to the side to let a tall blue alien woman enter the elevator. Her skin was an azure tint, and she wore a red, low V cut, one piece suit, with black sections and gold highlights. It had a tall black collar, and golden clasps. She had no hair, but had tendrils that swooped back into a curve, resembling hair. A broken red 'tiara' adorned her forehead. She had silver tinted pupils, and a steady world wise looking face. She obviously held herself in a poised and dignified manner. As they passed, the Asari Justicar nodded politely to Sonic, and he gave her a warm smile and nod back.
"Good morning to you Sonic." Samara said in a strong, but soft voice.
"And good morning to you Samara. Best of luck out there today." Sonic replied, oddly serious for him.
(D.O. Character Info: Samara is a party member and reoccurring character from the Mass Effect game and universe.)
"You have my thanks. Till we meet again." The elevator closed between them, and Sonic started down the hall whistling.
"Who was that Sonic?"
"That was Samara. She is from a race of aliens called Asari. She is a Justicar, which is a really high and strict position in their culture. She doesn't talk much, but I've worked with her once or twice, so we got to know each other some."
"Why were you so polite to her? You don't even show Commander Orimura that kind of respect." Midna asked seriously.
"Well I guess it is cause she just gives off a serious no nonsense vibe. I feel like I can be friendly with her, but she's not really the type to take antics, like mine, in stride, not like Chifuyu. Plus I hold her in high respect. She's dedicated and fearless, something I got to experience first hand." He scratched the tip of his nose, while trying to vocalize his thoughts.
"She did indeed present herself as such." Midna added, but let the subject drop when she covered her mouth to stifle a yawn.
"Don't start that cause...*YAWN*...dangit I knew it. Anyways, lets get some shut eye Midna. We'll start fresh after some sleep." Sonic stopped in front of a door, and pulled a key from his Infini-box. They entered the simple one bed room. It was basically a larger hotel room, with a kitchenette, bathroom, bedroom/living room, TV, and couch. There was a large bay window, which held a great view of that side of the city.
"Midna you go ahead and take the bed. I'll sleep on the couch." Sonic moved over to the window, and closed the heavy curtains, draping the room in a dimly lit darkness. Next he made his way to the couch and flopped down on it. He removed his glasses and belt, setting them aside on the end table.
"Are you sure Sonic? It is after all your room."
"No worries Princess. I'm used to sleeping on the ground, so a couch is a luxury to me anyway." Midna floated over to the large soft bed, well large for the two of them. She removed the Fused Shadow from her head. Long orange colored hair fell down around her, and her left eye became visible. She set the mask on the night stand, and looked over to Sonic, who was staring.
"Yes?" She asked as she started to used her fingers to straiten her hair.
"I finally get to see your whole face. I gotta say you look much better without the mask." He shot her a genuine smile, and she blushed lightly.
"Well thank you. But let us get some rest now." She turned to look down at the covers, and then slid further under them.
"No arguments here. Good night Midna."
"Good night Sonic...and thank you again." She heard light snoring already after she said this. Sonic had already passed out. She blinked at him as he lay sprawled out on the couch dead asleep. A soft chuckled escaped her, before she quickly followed suit.
It was hours later, early afternoon, that Midna woke to the sound of running water. Her tired eyes fluttered open after much deliberation on wanting to stay shut. She sat up slowly with her bottom half still under the huge comforter. Lazily looking around the single light lit room, she noticed that a certain blue hedgehog was missing from her immediate view. Rubbing the sleep from her eyes with her tiny fists, she hovered out from under the warm downy covers. Not bothering to put the Fused Shadow mask on, she floated around the room, and noticed the running water sound coming from behind a close door. Figuring her roommate was in there, she decided to look at the collected objects in the room. On the TV stand, which she thought the TV was a black mirror, was several books and various wrappers. She looked at her warped reflection in the TV, and shook her head.
'What kind of mirror is this?' Shrugging, she moved on to the chair by the window. On it was some clothing. A Sonic sized storm cloak, a Sonic shaped face cover, and several pairs of gloves. She guessed they must have been for different environments or situations. Floating over to the dresser on the opposite side of the bed, she looked at the food containers and wrappers on the top, then opened the first of three drawers. Inside was a golden ring. To big to be a bracelet, to small to be a necklace, and even in the dull light it glimmered beautifully. She picked it up and admired it, not hearing the bathroom door open. Sonic walked out with a towel around his shoulders, and using one end to dry off his spines. He noticed Midna holding and staring at one of his treasured possessions, his one billionth power ring. (D.O. Info: This is a canon ring in the Archie Comic Sonic Comic. It is a super powered power ring given to Sonic by the Ancient Walkers, enigmatic beings that mastered Chaos Energy, and are near immortal. Not much is known about them otherwise.)
"I see you found my One Billionth Power Ring." Sonic spoke up, moving to sit on the couch and finish toweling off. Midna started a bit, and fumbled with the ring in her hands. She gave Sonic a weak smile, laughing as if she was just caught red handed.
"What is so special about it aside from it's number?" She asked trying to cover herself from seeming embarrassed.
"Well first, Power Rings are power sources on Mobius, and some Mobians can use them to boost their own powers. I'm one of them. I can use this ring to increase my strength and speed further." Midna gaped at Sonic. The idea that Sonic could move even faster was mind boggling. She had to catch herself before her jaw fell any further toward the floor.
Sonic chuckled, letting the towel rest around his neck, his fur matted slightly, and his spines hanging down more than usual. "Believe it or not I do occasionally need the speed boost. But this ring is special, when I collected it, beings called the Ancient Walkers saw it as an accomplishment of sorts and empowered it further. So now it's power output and use time are extended, so it can be used more." Sonic leaned forward resting his forearms against his knees, and smiling. "I keep it with me wherever I go, and try not to use it to much."
"Sonic you live a very interesting life." She shook her head, and put the ring back into the dresser drawer.
"I keep getting told that. So hungry? I know a place in town where they have great chili dogs." He licked his lips.
"That sounds delightful." She floated over and grabbed her mask. "Just one question. What are chili dogs?"
"Oh Princess you are in for a treat." His smile was so wide it threatened to split his face.
Seeing as it was daylight, Midna hid inside Sonic's shadow again, and would materialize once they were out of the sun's reach. From his shadow she watched all the strange and wondrous people and creatures that would pass by them. Idle thought chat passed between the two as they walked down the busy streets of Hedron. Sonic explained that when he first got here he explored the entirety of the city in a few days. He kept a pretty good map of the city in his head. Nothing really specific, but major areas and streets. They shortly came upon an ethereal cloud of delicious and odd smells. Sonic walked through the crowed almost effortlessly, even for his size. They had entered a section of the city devoted almost totally to food. Restaurants, deli's, markets, stands, vendors, and peddlers. So many different kinds of food were on display it was almost impossible to know where to look, unless you know what you wanted.
Sonic grabbed the two plates handed to him by the man behind the vending cart. Midna watched the exchange as best as she could, but from a shadow perspective it wasn't much. She couldn't even see what the food being handed to him looked like. She was curious though, the smell was inviting but heavy. They wandered over to a pretty shadowed alley, after Sonic inspected it of course. The alley was wide and was very visible to the public street, so he really didn't worry. Once they were covered in the shade, Midna slipped out of her hiding place, and floated to a seat on a wooden crate where Sonic placed the plates. Her first impression of the chili dog, wasn't the greatest. It was a mess of bread meat and beans, and to her looked absolutely dreadful.
"You can't seriously eat..." When she looked up from her plate Sonic had half his chili dog gone already. Her expression blanched, as she looked at him take another bite of the thing. As he was chewing he looked over to her, from his leaning position on the alley wall. Swallowing his mouthful, and using his free thumb to wipe his mouth, he spoke up.
"What's wrong? You haven't even tried it yet." He raised a brow at her, after looking at her full plate.
"This chili dog just looks wrong." Sonic chuckled, when she looked back to hers, and her pouting lips grew more comical.
"Princess just try it. You might be pleasantly surprised. If not, there is almost every food imaginable here, we can find you something." She swallowed still looking at her plate. Sonic noticed that the dog was probably to big to fit in her little hands without a mess ensuing.
"Just a sec." He raced out of the alley, and back a moment later with a plastic fork, and a plate with three more dogs on it. "Here use this." Midna took the utensil, and slowly sliced off a bite of the abomination before her. Sonic could barely stifle a laugh, at her acting so very child-like with a new food. She shakily brought the food to her mouth, but stopped just short of her lips. Sonic's face showed he was trying to hold back a laugh fest.
"It's not going to kill you Midna. What are you afraid of?" He managed to make it sound like he wasn't mocking her...too much. She shot him a glare with puffed out cheeks.
"I'm not afraid!" She said back before shoving the fork into her mouth. Her closed eyes shot open in surprise. It was good...no more than good, it was delectable! She hadn't had something this scrumptious since Hyrule, and even then the taste was so distinctly different it couldn't compare. Her eyes almost grew starry, and Sonic let out his long held laugh.
"This is...this is delicious. I've never had anything so robust and flavorful." She quickly took another bite, and another, and another. Before Sonic took his breath from his laugh, she had plucked one of his three spares, and was devouring it. When he looked back at her, she was just transferring the second of three dogs from his plate to hers. His eyebrows shot up in shock, and he pulled his plate away from her, saving the last dog.
"Whoa whoa there little piranha. The last on is mine." He took a quick bite to ensure it was his. Midna didn't even realize how fast she ate after her revelation. She was already full, and her stomach swelled slightly. She gingerly patted her full belly, and let out a contented sigh.
"I can't believe how good chili dogs are."
"Mmhmm." Sonic hummed out with a mouthful of his chili dog.
"I hope we can have some more once dinner comes around." She dreamily looked up into the daytime sky, as she said this.
"Glad to hear you enjoyed them." Sonic had finished his, and was now cleaning his fingers off in his mouth.
"Oh I loved them. Thank you for showing me such a splendor." She gave Sonic a big smile, which he returned.
"You are very welcome." He patted his hands clean. "Well shall we go sight seeing?" Midna lazily nodded, before hopping into his shadow again.
It took them some time winding through the crowds, but Sonic finally reached the huge green park on the west side of the city. Inside the bustling city, this was a natural relief. Sonic still preferred being outside the city, but this was a day to show Midna around. Walking casually along a winding path in the park, he let her see as much as she could from his shadow.
'This is a nice reprieve from the city.' Sonic quietly nodded, agreeing with her. The ground suddenly trembled around them. Something large had landed near them. Sonic turned to a ringing sound coming from the air. There in the sky above the park was a large spinning spell ring. A figure floated well above the ring, and couldn't be made out, but something small and shiny fell from the figure into the spell ring. The object hit the ring, and out of the bottom, a large 15 ft black demonic creature fell the rest of the way. The spell ring vanished, just after this the figure above it did too. A deafening hollowed roar brought Sonic's attention back to earth and behind them. A skeletal figure, the size of a two story house was reaching toward them.
Sonic immediately launched into action and dashed away from the giant skeleton creature. Turning fully to face it, Sonic got in a defensive stance. The creature looked like large dinosaur skeleton, with three bone spikes coming off its back on each side. In between those was a wrinkly fish-looking thing attached to its spine. The only other flesh was a core-like ball of flesh in between it's ribs. It had long taloned bone arms, a long bone tail, and it's head was about two sizes bigger than it should have been. It's eyes were just red glowing wisps inside the darkened eye sockets. It reached forward again, and let out its ghostly hollow roar. (D.O. Enemy Info: This is Skull Greymon from the Digimon universe. It is a Greymon forced to digivolve for the purpose of battle. It is an Undead Digimon.)
Sonic easily avoided the grip of the lumbering beast, and ran in between it's legs, and past it's swaying tail. 'What is this beast?! It reminds me of the dead dragon Link and I faced.' Midna's voice was laced with worry. (D.O. Info: She means the Twilight Fossil: Stallord in the Twilight Princess game.)
"I have no clue, but I don't think it's friendly." Sonic said back to her, as the giant turned it's head and leaned down slightly. It's already hanging jaw opened further, and a torrent of black flames shot out toward the duo. Sonic quickly turned on his heels, and took off ahead of the flames. He easily outran the beast and it's flames, but the black demonic figure from before flew down from above and reared back it's right arm. The arm looked more like four long black blades, attached at the elbow and fanned out to look like a wing.
Sonic's ear twitched forward, and he turned his head in time to see and dive to the side, out of the way of the black bladed arm. The blades cut into the ground effortlessly, leaving the earth scarred. Sonic tucked into a roll, and bounced out to face the new, smaller adversary. It's bottom half looked like a long black spear tip, wrapped in rune covered cloth. Its entire body was ebony black, and had jagged and sharp features. It had two wing-like bladed arms, attached to spiked up shoulders. In the middle of its chest was a large red jewel eye. It's head was small and shaped like a V. The two points were thin horns, and about midway down it filled in to a very point chin, and a singular red eye in the middle of the head. Unlike it's larger companion this creature made no sound, and hovered above the ground. (D.O. Enemy Info: This is Body Eye from the manga and anime MAR. Body Eye is a guardian Arm, a summoned beast inside of a pendant.)
"Great another one." Sonic didn't sound worried, in fact he smirked, but this smaller one was gonna be a problem he knew it. The thudding footsteps of the dinosaur skeleton drew closer, as the black creature streaked forward over the ground and swung again at Sonic with it's left arm. 'How are you going to fight two of them? You don't have any support!' Midna asked as Sonic easily read the demon's attack and rushed forward. He jumped off the ground as the creature swung, and brought his right leg around kicking the demon in the head. Caught off guard the black creature fell to the ground to it's right, digging up dirt and plants as it did.
"Back up will be here soon. There is little in this town that goes on that the Defense Force doesn't know about." Sonic landed, and immediately had to back flip a few times, avoiding the boney hand of the dinosaur smashing them into the ground. He skidded to a halt, and looked up to the behemoth. It's red eyes flared suddenly, and Sonic took off strait toward the beast again. It released another torrent of black flame, which was on the heels of our hero, until he passed under the owner of the flames, between its legs again. This time Sonic grabbed onto the tail, and flipped up onto the spine of the monster. He ran up the bones, grabbing and jumping his way up it's back. When Sonic landed on the wrinkly fleshed fish thing, the monster let out another roar, and the fish thing launched off it's back with Sonic on it. The fish missile streaked into the sky, and arced toward the ground near the large man made pool of water in the park.
Sonic was holding onto the cords coming off the fish thing's front, but decided it was time to get off as it headed toward the water. He let go of the cords, and pushed off the missile, tucking himself into a ball. His ball form landed on the grass, and rolled for a moment before he popped out of it. The missile hit the water. A second later the pool exploded sending waves of water and debris everywhere. There was now a large crater, filling with water, where the pool had been. Sonic turned around to see the two creatures moving toward him, the demon in front. The park was ablaze, and citizens of Victis were scattering away from the monsters. Luckily the two seemed intent on Sonic for the moment. 'I'm not gonna win at this rate, and backup isn't here yet. Dang I didn't want to have to use these so soon again. I hope they still have some charge.'
Sonic raced toward the creatures, opening and reaching into his Infini-Box. 'Sonic what are you gonna do?!' Midna chimed in, as he felt the Chaos Emeralds float toward his hand from the box.
Out of thin air, a giant white mech appeared in front of Sonic's path. Again Sonic skidded to a halt, and looked up to the newcomer. It was easily a story and a half tall, Had a long serpentine tail, that ridged at the end. It's head was very reptile-like with fins coming off the back, and a long forward pointing hollowed horn. A greyish bubble protruded from it's chest, and inside it was a boy no more than fifteen, with short black hair, a white sleeveless vest/shirt, and baggy shorts. The mech turned it's head, and its yellow eyes trained into the small blue hedgehog near it.
"What the? What the?" The boy and Sonic said at the same time, staring at each other.
PART 1, CHAPTER 3 END
A/N: Hello again. I'm sorry for making those following this story wait for this chapter. Yep I'm that kind of writer. Cliff hanger. Bwahahahaha. Anyways I hope you enjoyed the chapter. I figured I'd get more character development and introduction done in this chapter. Believe it or not the chapter is only halfway done. This only led up to half the original outline I had. I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks to all who followed and faved my side project. See you next time.
~Wiggles
Pokemaster94: Thanks. I'll do my best.
SonicCrazyGal: Indeed. (Standard response to Interesting). Thanks I got the idea from a great writer on here called RebukeX7, and in a story like this I figured I'd need some. Hope you enjoyed the chapter.
Guest: I might, but not for this particular part. Maybe in future parts.
