Yay! Chapter 4 is here!

Oh, yeah, I should mention… I am willing to accept flames now, seeing as I haven't gotten any comments yet.

I don't own any Sega or Dragonball Z characters. I only own Steve, Lord Z, and maybe Blade.

New character ages:

Tails: 13

Nazo: 17

Cream: 13

Chapter 4

"Ugh… What the Hell happened to me?"

"Sorry, Mr. Deputy, but you were defeated by Blaze in the fight, and badly injured doing so. I suggest you don't try to stand for a day or so."

"You're telling ME this? How pointless." As Steve says this, he tries to stand up, and promptly falls down.

"I told you not to try to stand."

"I don't care what you said. I WILL be out and about before the day's end!"

And sure enough, after many more failed attempts, Steve gets up and walks out of the tent. While wandering around, he bumps into Trunks.

"Steve! I was just on my way to come see you! How do you feel after all that?"

"A little wobbly and disoriented, but otherwise okay."

"Here, next time you're in trouble, eat this." And Trunks tosses him a bean.

"What's this?"

"A Senzu bean. Instantly heals any and all wounds. Only take it when you really need it though."

"Gotcha. Oh, do you know anywhere in the camp that I can stay? Right now I don't live anywhere."

"Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. I'll show you where you live and introduce you to your tentmate."

They walked a short distance, and came up to another building.

"I thought you said it was a tent?"

"This building is the same thing as the command building, Steve. People call it a tent, but it's really a building. Now let's introduce you to your tentmate."

They walk into the building and Trunks yells out, "Tails! You have a tentmate now! Come and meet him!"

"Alright, just wait a second Trunks!"

"No! You come here right now!"

"Why don't you come over here? I'm kind of under something right now!"

Trunks sighs, then complies with Tail's request.

"Why do you call him Tails?"

"You'll know when you see him."

Tails was invisible under his machine, except for his ears, betraying the fact that he is also a Mobian.

"Tails, we're here. Get out from under the machine."

"No, I don't think I will."

"NOW!" Steve yelled at Tails.

A sigh is heard, and Tails slides out from under the machine. "Who are YOU to give ME orders! I'm a super commando!"

Steve walks up to Tails and says, "Well I'm your deputy. Let's not start this on a bad note."

Tails thinks it over and agrees, "Good point. One question though. Who are you?"

"Me? I'm Steve the Dragon. You are?"

"Miles Prower. You can call me Tails."

"Yeah I know. I heard Trunks call you that. Right Trunks?"

Steve and Tails look around, and don't see Trunks anywhere.

"Guess he left. What're you building Tails?"

"World transport device. Everything is placed right, but electricity won't flow."

"Let me help with that." Steve goes under the machine and gives it a jolt with his electrokinesis.

"Try it now."

Tails then goes to the machine and presses a button. The machine makes a strange noise and starts to whir. Tails, in his excitement, yells, "We did it!" He then shuts the machine down and, regaining his composure, asks Steve, "What did you do and how did you do it?"

"I gave it a shock with my electrokinesis."

"You're electrokinetic?"

"Yeah, I am. I'm a LIGHTING dragon after all."

At about that time they heard a knock on the door.

"Tails! It's Cream. Can you come open the door?"

Tails, having a huge crush on Cream, quickly gets up and opens the door.

"Cream! What's wrong? You look so sad!"

"The Empire's attacking again! We need your help!"

Steve gets up. "I'll help too."

"Yeah, they mentioned the new deputy too. We need all the help we can get!"

Steve and Tails rush to the battle scene.

"Tails! Go assist the troops! I'm going looking for the leader of this operation!"

After watching Tails leave, Steve sets off to the center of the battle, expecting the leader to be there. Surprisingly, he's not. Steve then makes his way to the edge of the battle, where he is surprised by a sword flying at his neck. Steve ducks it, and watches as a red hedgehog jumps out of a tree. Upon being noticed by Steve, the sword reappears in his hand, longer than before.

"So, you dodged my initial attack. But can you dodge this?" And his sword grows longer than it was before, and it nearly impales Steve. However, Steve dodges out of the way, and as the sword shrinks, he attacks with an electric bolt, aimed straight at Blade's face. Blade, knowing that an attack was imminent, holds up his now normal-sized sword blade and blocks the bolt.

"You call THAT an attack? Take this!" And Blade tosses aside his sword and yells "Dark Impact!" launching a huge dark energy blast at Steve. Steve, not being prepared for such a rapid attack, prepares for death. However, right before the blast hits, a voice yells, "NO WAY!" And the energy blast is reflected at Blade. Standing in front of Steve is a pale blue hedgehog whose quills resemble Super Sonic's.

"Leave this place Blade. The Elemental is now under my care. Your darkness powers are nothing compared to mine."

"Bah! You had better keep an eye on him! First time he's outta sight, he's dead meat." And with that, Blade dashes off.

The mystery hedgehog then turns to Steve.

"You alright? Not hurt are you?"

"No. Why did you save me, and who are you?"

"I have many reasons for saving you. We can discuss them later. And who am I? I am Nazo the hedgehog, and your older brother."

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