Sonic & Eggman: Gladiators in Space
Chapter 4: Destruction and Scorn
Day 3:
"Today was uneventful." Sonic write in his journal. "Eggman went to the store to buy some spare parts; I believe it was the first time he even left the workshop since we got here. I still wonder who the other participants are. Are they people we know?" Sonic asked his journal. "Or are they people we don't know? Well we'll find out soon."
Sonic stopped for a moment to look over at Eggman who was snoring like there was no tomorrow. Sonic placed his journal down for the moment and reached into his drawer and grabbed out some sticky tape. Sonic then walked over to Eggman and proceeded to tape his mouth shut. "Much better." Sonic said to himself as he climbed back onto his bed and sat up with his journal again.
"I wonder what everyone is doing back home." Sonic continued. "They might be out looking for me. I doubt they will be looking for Eggman though." Sonic closed his journal and placed it and the pencil in his drawer, lay down, and fell asleep.
Day 4:
The next morning. Sonic awoke to the sound of machines working in the workshop. He groaned at Eggman's seemingly endless work. "Will he ever give it a rest for at least a day?" Sonic mumbled as he got up and entered the kitchen to look for breakfast. Sonic proceeded to check the fridge, and found that they were already running low on food. Sonic made a mental note, not to stuff themselves every night. "Better head to the store and stock up on food." Sonic then proceeded to grab his wallet which he had hidden under his bed, and grabbed a couple handfuls of rings. "I hope they accept these here." He then held up his communicator and teleported to the mall.
- At the mall -
A familiar orange Echidna was walking happily through the large mall, holding several different shopping bags around her arms, and was humming a quiet, but happy tune. Just then she saw a spiky figure appear not far from her position. "Hey it's Sonic!" Tikal shouted and started towards the blue hedgehog.
"Man, that port made me a bit light headed." Sonic said to himself as he shook his head to shake off the dizziness of the teleport.
"Sonic!" Came a familiar voice behind him.
Sonic turned towards the voice to find Tikal Walking towards him with a smile. "Oh hey Tikal." Sonic greeted the echidna.
"How are you feeling?" Tikal asked when she was a couple feet from Sonic.
"Great!" Sonic replied. "You?"
"I'm fine." Tikal smiled at the hedgehog. "But I'm referring to when you fainted the other day." Tikal said now with concern.
Sonic rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment. "Yeah, Sorry about that. It's just, so many things happened at once, and I couldn't take it all."
Tikal patted the hedgehog's shoulder to cheer him up. "It's okay Sonic. I completely understand." Tikal said softly. "I probably would have fainted too if I had to take in that much information." Tikal and Sonic laughed. "Anyway, what brings you here?" Tikal's smile returned.
"Oh, Eggman and I have run out of food so I came here to restock." Sonic explained. His eyes then turned towards the bags Tikal was holding, and court a glimpse of a bit of clothing hanging out of the far right bag. "I didn't know you did clothes shopping." Sonic said as he looked towards her again.
"Oh yeah, this is the first time I got to try it!" Tikal said while holding up the bags.
"Oh I see." Sonic said.
"Attention all citizens!" Came a voice from outside.
Sonic and Tikal heard this and it got their attention. 'Sounds as if someone is talking into a microphone.' Sonic thought.
"It is time for you to bow down to your true king!"
To Sonic the voice seemed kind of familiar, but he couldn't put his finger on it. Sonic thought for moment longer, and it finally hit him. 'Oh God please tell me it isn't who I think it is!' Sonic thought to himself. Sonic then turned back to Tikal and expected to see her frightened, but she actually looked more concerned. "I've got to check this out." Sonic said to Tikal.
"Let me go with you!" Tikal asked.
Sonic was about to protest, but knew that she wasn't going to take no for an answer, and nodded. "Ok if you're sure." Sonic picked Tikal up in his arms and sped off towards where the source of the commotion was.
A couple of blocks away…
A green hedgehog wearing a black jacket, green and black shoes, and red sunglasses, along with a red fox wearing a, black tank top, black track pants, as well as black shoes, were standing on top of a Small office building.
"Scourge babe, why are you stalling as if you're waiting for someone?" Fiona asked the green hedgehog.
Scourge raised his sunglasses over his eyes and back on top of his head revealing his blue eyes and smirked. "That's because I am." Scourge answered. "Specifically one blue hedgehog." Scourge then kneeled down at the edge of the building to see that they were building a crowd.
"Looks as if we're going to have an audience." Fiona smirked.
Scourge chuckled for a second as he got back up. "Good. I love audiences." He then lowered his sunglasses back over his eyes again. "More people for me to hurt." He finished.
Just then, hoven appeared behind them, and he did not look happy. "Ok, what do you two think you're doing?" Hoven asked angrily.
"Oh, nothing." Scourge said without turning around.
Hoven didn't believe him and just glared at them. "You two are thinking of causing trouble aren't you?" Hoven asked.
Scourge didn't say anything for a moment and just looked back at him and smirked. "And what if we are?"
Hoven pull out his sword which was holster on his back. "Then I will have no choice, but to fight you and put the both of you in the participants prison like we did with Slavik yesterday." Hoven explained confidently.
Scourge stood up and chuckled at Hoven. "You can try, but you won't succeed!" Scourge laughed.
Hoven didn't waste any more time, and charged at Scourge. Once he was in range, he slashed at him, but Scourge disappeared before his sword could make contact. Hoven then felt a sharp pain in his back, and found that Scourge at elbowed him from behind. It didn't take him long to recover from this, but by the time he had Scourge had already disappeared again. He then felt a small gust of wind pass him, and by pure instinct he back flipped into the air only just dodging another one of Scourges sneak attacks. Hoven landed on the edge near where Scourge had been sit before, and the two of them went onto a stare off.
-Meanwhile-
-Sonic Pov-
As I reached the Scene there was a moderately large crowd of all kinds of aliens in front of one of the buildings. Tikal and I looked up to the top to see Hoven with his back to the edge. I was curious so told Tikal to hang on tight, and ran towards the building, and started to run up the side. As I was near the top, I could hear a conversation between them, but could make out what they were saying. However the voices sounded familiar, of course one was Hoven, but the others… My suspicions were starting to rise more than before. I finally reached the top, and landed a couple of feet from Hoven, and put Tikal down on her feet.
"Bout time you got here blue!" The voice said to me.
I looked towards the sound of the voice to find that my suspicions were correct. "Scourge, Fiona. Long-time no see." I said dully as I was clearly not happy to see them, and looked over to Hoven. "Seriously did you have to bring those two here?" I asked him irritably, but he just shrugged. I sighed disappointedly, and turned back to them. "Well what do you want this time? Still want to prove you're the 'better' hedgehog?" I joked, but that just caused him to smirk.
Scourge raised his hands in front for his body defensively. "You can read my like a book." He chuckled for a moment.
I sighed a second time. "Alright, but let's not do it he-" I was cut off when Scourge in a blink of an eye punched me square in the face, and the impacted caused me to fly right into the building across the street, which seemed to be an office building. I slowly back sat up and rubbed my head. "Oh so that's how you want to play is it?" I asked him even though he couldn't hear me. So I pulled a Chaos emerald from… Actually where do I pull these out from? My arse? Anyway I pulled it out and it started to glow. "Sonic Boom!" I yelled, and caused a blue aura to form around me. This caused me to be able to run at a faster speed. I ran straight for the building they were on again, and in a blink of an eye I was already in front of Scourge, and quickly kneed him in the gut. The impact from the speed caused him to fly up into the air all the while holding his stomach in pain.
As he was falling to the ground, I pulled the emerald out again, and said different words. "Sonic Wind!" As I yelled this, another blue aura formed, and I swiped my arm through the air in front of Scourge which caused a blue crescent shape out of thin air and flow towards him. Scourge noticed and could only put his arms up in front of himself hoping to block of some of the impact. Unfortunately for him that wasn't the case. The crescent hit, and he was out cold. Fiona was just watching from the side and looked as if she was speechless.
Hoven walked to where Scourge was gonna land and put his right hand up clearly ready to catch him, and as I predicted he did. "Thanks for the help Sonic. He was a handful." I smiled as he thanked me.
Hoven didn't waste any time to put them in handcuffs and take them away. Strangely Fiona went quietly, no arguments. After he left Tikal wasted no time to congratulate me. "Congratulations Sonic! You beat Scourge like he was nothing!" I rubbed the back of my head in embarrassment.
I quickly picked her back up and ran back towards the mall.
-Hoven's Pov-
"Why didn't you put up any resistance back there?" I asked Fiona as we through her cell. I put the two of them into different cells, and to make sure they can't communicate their cells are far apart, far out of talking distance, heck even yelling distance. This place is huge trust me.
Fiona didn't look towards me, but kept looking into the mirror inside her cell. "What would have been the point? Blue boy beat Scourge in only two hits, so what chance would I have had?"
Fiona made a good point, she may be strong, but not stronger then both Sonic and I combined. I just simply shrugged, I seem to do that a lot don't I? Anyway I decided to go check on Scourge, but not before I spied a smirk on Fiona's face. I knew she was up to something, but decided to let it play out till I knew for sure. Meanwhile Fiona is in cell 2056, while Scourge is in Cell 107987. See told you it was big. Anyway I teleported to Scourge's cell to find him lying on his bed with his hands behind his head, and his legs crossed. "Feeling good about yourself Scourge?" I asked him bluntly.
Scourge was silent for a minute. "Will I still be able to fight?" Scourge asked quietly.
I nodded. "Yes, you will be released for your fights, but you will be put back in here when you're done. Slavic is the only exception though." I explained.
Scourge then looked towards me. "How so?" he asked curiously.
"Well he destroyed a quarter of the city in his rampage yesterday. So he won't be allowed back out till he is sent back home after the gauntlet is over." I explained. "Which means Ashton will be fighting by himself in his battles, but I think he can handle it though." Scourge then went back to looking at the ceiling. "Well I've said enough. You better not cause too much trouble later." I warned him. "I've got my eye on you." I could see that Scourge smirked at my warnings, but I ignored it and teleported back to my office.
-Sonic's Pov-
After a couple of hours I was finally able to get everything we needed, namely food. I said goodbye to Tikal, teleported back to my quarters. Once I got back I found Eggman, and get this… He was outside of his workshop! To be specific, he was at the table. "Bout time you got back and where is the food!?" Eggman cried. I was this close to clobbering him! But I just answered calmly. "We were out so I went out and got some. I also ran into Scourge and Fiona." I explained.
"Can we talk after we've eaten?" Eggman asked desperately.
I sighed and began to attempt to cook some for the two of them.
Eggman was behind me, watching me the whole time and it was really making me nervous. In the end I ended up making a pizza, it wasn't amazing, but at was editable, heck Eggman was just happy to finally eat something. When we finished Eggman, Go on guess what he did next… Go on guess… I'll give you ten seconds:
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Time's up! *Drum roll for five seconds*
He went straight back into his workshop without letting me say a thing about before. Yeah, bet you didn't see that one coming huh?
Anyway I've got to stop breaking the forth wall.
Anyway I was really starting to get annoyed by this, but hey at least the bedrooms are sound proof so I don't have to listen to him working all night.
-Tails' Pov-
"Come on. Come on." I mumbled to myself as I tapped on my computer impatiently. We lost communications with Sonic not long after he confronted Eggman nearly 3 days ago, and I'm getting really worried, and I've sent Shadow to investigate. That was nearly 2 hours ago. Suddenly the screen turned on and Shadow was on the other side of it.
"Tails, come in. Can you hear me?" Shadow asked as his screen started to static a bit.
"I hear you Shadow. What's going on down there, and why is there so much static?" I asked curiously as the communicator's never get static unless it couldn't connect with another one. This one had interference instead.
Shadow looked behind him for a second and looked back to the communicator. "Well you know how the Doctors base is supposed to be here?"
"This doesn't sound like it's gonna be good." I said to him.
Shadow shook his head and I spied a bit of hesitance. "No, it's not. The Doctors base isn't here. Instead there's a large crater." Shadow explained. "But not only that, I can feel a dangerous amount of chaos energy all through this area. Which would explain most of the sick or even dead creatures around here. There's some much it's giving of type of poison, somewhat similar to radiation poison, but much worse. It's even known to sometimes instantly kill whoever gets infected, but not always, usually depends on their chaos energy. The more you have, the more your immune to it." Shadow continued to explain. "I only just barely have enough right now to be immune to it."
I thought for a minute, but then it hit me. "Shadow you don't think that Sonic could have been infected and is hiding some place?" I asked with dread.
"It's possible after all he was supposed to be here." Shadow confirmed. "But we have a bigger problem here Tails. This sort of energy won't just dissipate, it will spread. Sometimes slowly, sometimes fast. Either way everyone on Mobius is in grave danger, by how this one feels, it might spread moderately slowly, but it is more powerful then it usually is. We have to seal it off. That may not stop it, but it will at least slow it down." Shadow explained.
I nodded. "Understood. This is more important right now." I said sadly. "Quickly get back here and regroup before you do catch it." Shadow nodded and the screen went blank. My arms fell to my sides as my face stayed blank. "Oh Sonic, where are you?" I asked as I looked back up to the blank computer screen.
TO BE CONTINUED…
It looks like things are getting bad back home, and to hear the gruesome tale that has be found Mobius then stay tuned for the new upcoming spin off story: Tails and the Chaos Epidemic.