SonicANIME2010 here, with another chapter to my new story. So the reviews are in, the omakes were a bit funny and Knuckles getting "befriended " by the Divine Buster... and the new or old enemy. Things will get interesting as we go into the new subdivision. Here we go!
-OP: "Eternal Blaze" Mizuki Nana-
Sonic: Knight of the Night Sky
Chapter 4
Training in Special Mobile Force 97, The new enemy strikes! Battle at Angel Island!
-Non-Administrated Planet #97 "Earth": Uminari City: 5:00 am-
-Insert: "Blue Fields" Final Fantasy VIII-
It was the first day for the young members of the newly formed Special Mobile Force 97. The day was to first start off with early morning training for the novices; namely Hayate, Sonic, Tails and Knuckles. The others had some amount of experience and training. In this bright and sunny morning, Lindy and the other instructors with her watched as Sonic, Hayate, Reinforce, Vita, Signum, Shamal, Zafira, Nanoha, Fate, Arf, Tails and Knuckles gathered. Yuuno was with the instructors as he felt he could help in teaching binds and healing. The new Tornado was parked nearby.
"Welcome everyone to the first day as cadets in the Time-Space Administration's Special Mobile Force 97. Before we start with training, we're going to go over the squads you will form when you're on a deployment. In addition, Knuckles, your device is ready." The admiral handed Knuckles a red pendant.
The red echidna caught the pendant and just stared at it for a few seconds. The others waited in anticipation for what the echidna's weapon would be, only for Knuckles to ask "Ano... How do I turn it on?", the others collectively face-faulted., "Nani?" the echidna blinked.
"Baka!" Sonic and Vita deadpanned as the group eventually stood up with similar thoughts.
"Order it to set up!" The eternal loli barked.
"Oh! Set Up!" Knuckles called to the device, and it emitted a light that coated him. When the light dimmed out, Knuckles stood, now in a full red armor set of a breastplate, leg-plates, boots and gloves, a red cloak reached just to his tail from his shoulders, his device took the form of twin red long blades hooked at the end and resembled flames.
"Give a name to your device." Lindy told him.
"Yosh... Flammenschwert!" Knuckles christened his device. (Literally "Flame Sword" in German)
"Namen akzeptiert, bitte rufen sie mich "Flammenschwert"."The device spoke in a german male voice.
The echidna twirled the blades with a smirk, "Yosh! Not bad!"
"You can use the blades separately or combine them to one double-bladed sword, take care of it."
"Hai!" Knuckles nodded
"Ano.. Lindy-san... what about mine?" Tails asked
"We've got something special for you, I'm well aware of your talents in aerial dog-fighting with the Tornado, so we've installed an AI to the plane and you can use that.. We will also have a few instructors teach you how to cast bind and barrier spells."
"Arigatou." Tails said politely, though he was a bit disappointed that he wouldn't get one of his own devices like Sonic or Knuckles.
"Now, for the squads. I'm dividing you up into three squads: Blue, Red and Yellow. The squads are for when you deploy into the field for real combat." Lindy read the squad formations out, "Blue Squad: Sonic the Hedgehog, Hayate Yagami, Reinforce Yagami, Nanoha Takamachi."
Sonic blinked in surprise, "Eh?"
"Yay! Sonic-kun, Reinforce, Nanoha, we're in the same group!" Hayate was excited
Nanoha turned to the other mentioned mages, "Let's do our best!"
"Eto.." the hedgehog was initially a bit unnerved because he was the only boy in the squad.
Reinforce could sense the nerves from her young friend and knelt down to pat him on the shoulder with a serene smile, "Daijobu, Sonic-kun, you'll be fine."
Hayate caught Sonic's unnerved state and giggled, "Ara, Sonic-kun is nervous about being with us girls.. kawaii, ne Nanoha?"
Nanoha nodded to agree "Very kawaii."
The hedgehog's cheeks turned a bright red in a blush, which could only add to his nerves, and the giggles continued.
Lindy cleared her throat, "Now for the Red Squad: Knuckles the Echidna, Signum Yagami, Vita Yagami, Fate Tesarossa-Harlaown."
Knuckles sighed in relief that he wasn't put in the same squad as the girl that blasted him with a pink beam of utter pain the other day.
Signum was a bit neutral about being put in the same squad as her former rival Fate. She still saw her as a rival and figured that their rivalry can be settled with a full rematch.
Fate had similar thoughts, she and the swordswoman had a bit of a rivalry that started off when they first clashed that one night, despite that, she too held respect for the woman.
Vita was a bit peeved, she could already tell the echidna was about as smart as a stick sometimes; she voiced her disapproval, "Oy... do we really have to be put with him?"
"Vita...It can't be helped.. its our orders.." Signum remained seriousness
"Urusai! Boob Monster!" Vita barked
"Ah..."Signum blushed and moved her arms over her "assets".
Hayate burst out into a giggling fit with Reinforce. Nanoha giggled a bit, but not as much as Hayate.. and as for Sonic... well he did let out a few chuckles.. but he retracted them because he was nervous, after all, Reinforce's are bigger.
Reinforce patted him on the shoulder more, "Relax, this is typical for those two, we're not going to hurt you for joining in the fun."
"H-hai.." Sonic nodded.
Lindy cleared her throat again "If you're done with the jokes it's time for the Yellow Squad. Miles Prower, Shamal Yagami, Zafira Yagami, and Arf."
Tails seemed a bit indifferent about his new comrades, mainly because he doesn't know them as much, but to be optimistic, he looked forward to the experiences he'd get from working with the mages.
Arf on the other hand had some thoughts of her own, while she regretted not being able to be put in the same squad as Sonic, she saw light in Tails, if she earned his trust and friendship, in turn she can earn points with Sonic.
"With that out of the way, let's start the training!" Lindy declared.
"Hai!" everyone saluted.
The training first started with target practice for Sonic and Hayate, the target was a can provided by Nanoha. Reinforce assisted by advising them on how to focus and remain calm in the aiming. When it came to melee combat, the four took to the skies and sparred with one another, their primary focus was blocking and aiming of precise strikes.
Vita and Signum practically grilled Knuckles about using his blades. They also worked on getting him to defend from attacks in close quarters, they backed off to let Fate have her shot, her focus was a combination of defense from spells, to close melee with Bardiche.
As for Tails, the instructors saw fitting for the fox to learn binding spells so that he can immobilize aerial units and deliver punishment with the Tornado's turrets, of course the targets were synthetic and the Tornado was grounded, practicing aerial maneuvers would come for another day.
The training was ended with Red and Blue squads avoiding and deflecting shots from the instructors in an exercise.
"Training is over for the morning, minna, shower and eat breakfast, we'll meet back up afterward." Lindy dismissed the trainees. Everyone went to their respective houses and returned after their breakfast and showers.
-Arthra-
-Insert: "Gin no Tsubasa ~Asura~" Lyrical Nanoha OST-
The instructors knew that most of the new mages from earth probably haven't learned too much of the magic themselves, such as the differences between the magic systems; so they held classes to teach the theory as well as the mathematics behind the magic. While the lessons served as semi-refreshers for Nanoha and Fate, the same could not be said for Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Hayate, as they were completely new at the subject matter. During the first class, the hedgehog, fox and human took clear notes of the instructor's lectures... Knuckles however... did not really pay too much attention, apparently the back of his eye-lids were more appealing.
Barely within the first hour of the lecture, the echidna was out like a light-bulb during a power surge, and to make matters more annoying, he was snoring! The instructor, Fern Corrando, seemed a bit peeved, she was just getting to how the Mid-Childan circles and Ancient Belkan triangles were drawn.
"Could someone wake him up?" the instructor asked in a deadpanning manner.
Nanoha not so discreetly sent several divine shooter rounds with her finger-tips, the rounds themselves weren't too lethal, packing only enough power to be the equivalent of a headslap. Nevertheless they flicked the back of the echidna's head a couple times and jolted him awake.
"Eh. Nani?" the echidna blinked.
"Try to pay attention, this is important if you're going to be a mage." Fern scolded
"Feh.. Like I should care about any of this.. My sole destiny is to protect the Master Emerald forever.."
"As I am well aware, however you're not the only one here.." the instructor pointed behind the echidna to reveal several glares from the others, "It's very disruptive... and I'm sure the others won't be pleased."
A simultaneous nod and continued death glare from Sonic, Tails, Nanoha, Fate and Hayate.
"A-ah.. gomen.. I'll focus.." Knuckles quickly relented when he saw that one of those glaring was Nanoha. He already wasn't on her good side to begin with because of the events from the other day. The last thing he wanted was to suffer another of her blasts. The lessons continued with lectures, demonstrations, and exercises, all in all, with a minor exception in Knuckles, the new mage trainees did pretty well.
For the next few days the schedule went by with training in the morning, lectures and theory, then more training. The Blue and Red squads trained hard to master their devices and spells. What was most notable was Nanoha's work ethic. She pushed herself and her own squad hard. Sonic was curious to why Nanoha was pushing herself especially hard. The brunette even went so far as to arrange nightly training for the members of her own squad. To the hedgehog, Nanoha's fortitude was admirable, Reinforce had similar thoughts, though she took caution not to let anyone in the same squad push it too far. Still, Nanoha's focus on training could not be denied.
Lindy also gave them paperwork and study materials because at the end of the week, the instructors would quiz on what they learned that week. Study time for the unit was not only productive in learning further about magic, but also a great time for everyone to get to know each other better. So much so that Nanoha let her squad-mates study at her house.
-Midori-ya Cafe-
-Insert: "Calm before the storm" FFX-
The day before the quiz on the lecture, Nanoha, Reinforce, Sonic and Hayate studied at the cafe, where Nanoha and her family lived. Nanoha's sister, Miyuki, was kind enough to give them some shakes and other sweets to keep them energized and pepped in their studies.
"Nanoha-chan.. could you take my shift for awhile?" Miyuki asked
"Hai." Nanoha left the table to relieve her sister. Which left the window of opportunity for the other members of her family to usher the rest of the blue squad to another room.
Miyuki joined her father, brother and mother in the same room, "Nanoha-chan's running my shift, we have some time."
"Ano... What's going on?" Sonic asked
"Nanoha-chan told us about the work, you three in the same squad as her. We thought it best to ask you something." Momoko, Nanoha's mother explained.
Reinforce had some insight as to why the family wanted to talk to them and she didn't blame them, "You were going to ask us something about her.. and you didn't want her in the room when you asked."
"Hai.. Has Nanoha-chan seemed a bit hard with this training you have started with her?" Shiro, Nanoha's father asked.
"Hai." Reinforce replied, "I assume you noticed her sneaking out at night and getting us to train with her?"
"Hai... It wasn't too difficult.. it does run in the family.. regardless.. her work is concerning.." Shiro stated
"You're concerned that she's overdoing it?" Reinforce asked.
"Nanoha-chan always works hard... but sometimes too hard.." Momoko agreed.
"We're just looking out for her." Kyouya, Nanoha's brother informed the others.
"Reinforce, what do you think?" Hayate asked
"If she overworks herself, it will be dangerous. Her body can only take so much physical strain, and it could damage her Linker Core, which part of it already was drained to fill the Tome. We will take measures to keep her from overworking herself any further." Reinforce informed. The other squad-mates nodded in agreement.
"Arigatou." Nanoha's father said politely.
The others left the room to join Nanoha, whose sister took her shift back. The rest of the time was spent studying and socializing.
-That Night-
The nightly training started again, only this time, Reinforce took charge and limited it down to merely stretching and light on the body exercise. And the training didn't take too long. A half hour tops, versus the two hours Nanoha usually put in.
-An Undisclosed Location-
The mysterious figure from before stood before his battalion once more and thought out loud, "Ho ho ho ho! My fleet is completed.. Now I must make preparations, my attack will commence the morning after tomorrow.. This time, I won't be interfered with."
-That Saturday-
As usual the trainees woke up early and trained, their progress was quite admirable to the instructors. After the usual, albeit lighter training they were given the chance to shower and have breakfast before their quiz.
-Arthra-
-Insert: "Between Ordeals" Final Fantasy X-
The meeting room turned classroom served as a suitable spot for Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Nanoha, Fate and Hayate to take their assigned quiz on the topics Instructor Fern went over that week. The instructor watched as her students took the test. The test itself was a good balance of multiple choice, true/false and short essay answers.
Sonic concentrated and remembered the things he and the others of his squad studied on in the cafe. So it was no surprise that he was one of the first actually done with his quiz, though that also may be because his speed extends to his test taking skills.
Nanoha was soon behind her hedgehog friend in finishing her quiz, she was no stranger to the types of tests taken because she still took primary and cram schools.
Fate finished her test just after Nanoha did, she's worked a few months as a contract mage for the TSA so it wouldn't be too much of a surprise that she didn't get too much delay in her answers.
Hayate and Tails turned in theirs at the same time. While the brunette had studied before hand with Sonic and Nanoha, Tails was helped by Arf, the reasons baffled him, but he didn't think too much on it as he was grateful for the familiar's aid. If only he knew the wolf's true intentions.
The last one still working was Knuckles; the squad he was part of did actually study quite a bit, just only the echidna didn't pay too much attention; but what he did pay attention to were luckily most of the questions that the quiz was on, a few minutes later he turned in his quiz and waited outside with the others.
After a few minutes the results were in. With the exception of Knuckles, who actually scored a high "B", everyone aced their test. The others went about their day as usual with reports and whatnot, mainly breaking the boredom because there was no deployments yet.
Admiral Lindy pulled the echidna aside, but not for the reason of the quiz, she wanted more information about Angel Island and how it was divided up. The echidna knew enough about his island to provide clear intel about each "Zone" or section of the island, where their enemy might strike, and also about the Hidden Palace, where the Master Emerald was, the only way to get through to that palace was to pass through hard terrain. Knuckles had it easy though, because of his bloodline and being a descendent of the echidna clan that guards the emeralds, he's given exclusive access to the teleporters on the island that serve as shortcuts to the palace. After that, everyone went about their lives, not knowing what was to happen.
-Arthra: Sunday Morning-
-Insert: "Inflexible Determination" FFX-
The morning would have gone off as normal with the training, but it was pre-empted. Alarms rang out through the warship, the whole squad met up with Lindy, Amy Limietta and Chrono once more in the meeting room.
"This just came in" Amy put up a display of the floating Angel Island under siege, a massive warship hovered over the island and sent out waves and waves of troops, "We just spotted this warship laying siege on the island, we suspect their target is the "Master Emerald" on the island, if the emerald is removed the island will sink into the ocean, if that happens we could be in for some trouble. We caught this on the ship, recognize the emblem?" the display shifted to a close up of the ship, where a white insignia of a bald man wearing glasses with a weird, spikey mustache,
"E-Eggman!" Sonic exclaimed.
"How did he get such a big fleet so fast?" Tails asked
"He didn't..." Sonic answered
"You're correct Sonic, what this Eggman did is a smart tactic. He allowed his forces to build up over the time he didn't attack. The fleet built up over the time he was inactive.. how long was it since you last dealt with him?" Lindy asked
"Little Planet, over a month ago, just before I met Hayate."
"More than enough time for his forces to re-gather." Chrono observed.
"The island sinking is the least of our worries if Eggman gets his hands on the Emerald." Lindy noted, "Knuckles you said he used it before?"
"Hai. To power his Death Egg. No doubt he'll try again." The echidna nodded
"We can't let him. Here's our plan of attack. Chrono and the Yellow squad will engage the forces in the air and open up a path for the Red and Blue squads to attack on the ground. Blue squad will go in first and clear the way of attacking units to prevent any destruction to the island, Red will follow up and disable the teleportation devices and keep the enemy from securing a quick way to the Hidden Palace, take out any and all robots you find! Now go!"
Within a window of merely minutes, the respective squads changed to their barrier jackets and knight armor and prepared to dimension transfer to the planet. Tails hopped into the pilot seat of the Tornado and started the engines.
"Here we go, Tornado." Tails declared
"Alright Master!" the female AI agreed.
With Chrono taking the lead, the squads transferred down to the planet to engage the robots attacking Angel Island
-Angel Island: Skies: POV: Yellow Squad-
-Insert: "Sky Chase" Sonic Adventure-
Under the command of Chrono Harlaown, Tails and the yellow squad engaged the aerial mechs in a heated battle, they weren't going to bother going after every mech, just only the ones that mattered so they can clear a path for Sonic and his squad. Chrono held his own with his variety of stinger spells that ripped through at least ten at one cast.
Tails, Arf, Zafira and Shamal used a strategy they have been practicing since the beginning of the week; the three mages would put a wave under a binding lock and leave it open for Tails to unleash the weapons of the Tornado on them. With great success, there was little issue. Soon enough they managed to clear open a path.
-Angel Island: POV: Blue Squad-
-Insert: "Angel Island ~Brawl mix"
Sonic and his team made it to the shores of the island where they were greeted by the usual unwelcome mat of robots. The blue hedgehog took the lead and within a matter of seconds the welcome wagon was mere scrap metal.
"Quantity over Quality... Lets go!" Sonic blasted off with the others flying to keep up into the forest. The scenery of the peaceful forest was easily weather calendar material from the looks. Gorgeous palm tress as far as the eye could see, the ground was blessed by the peaceful grass. But the scenery itself didn't last as it was plagued with mechanical monstrosities such as the robots seen. True to Sonic's word they were created from helpless animals.. The thought was saddening.. but it added to the resolve to save them. The blue team blazed through the zone, demolishing any robot in their wake.
One of the robots did nail a shot in, albeit the "shot" was a robotic monkey nailing Hayate with a coconut from the tree it was attached to. The coconut broke open on impact which spilt its contents on the brunette.
Nanoha couldn't help but giggle "Well, he got you Hayate-chan... With a coconut!"
Sonic and Reinforce also had their share of laughs. While Hayate had other thoughts in her mind, with a finger, she took a taste of the milk, "Mmmm Tasty.. Sonic-kun, try some." she held out her free hand that was covered in the coconut milk to the hedgehog. Notably she had a mischievous expression on her face.
Nanoha and Reinforce quickly intervened "Later Hayate!", the white mage sent a mental scold to her friend, 'He's pure! Keep it that way!'
'Gomen.. couldn't resist.' Hayate giggled.
"Can we move on please?" Sonic asked after slicing down the robot with Freiewind.
"Hai.. Lets.." Reinforce confirmed and they continued on.
The team continued their conquest to liberate the island from the robotic menace, as well as save the animals who were trapped in the very same robots they were facing. They also met with the obstacles in the terrain itself, such as the somehow natural occurring loops in the forest. They eventually came to a clearing where a blue, medium sized bomb dropping mech descended on them.
"Watch out.. if those bombs hit they could cause damage to the forest." Sonic warned as he readied his blade.
Reinforce raised her fists in a martial artists stance, "We'll take care of it.." the other two readied their staves.
-Insert: "Fighting" Final Fantasy VII-
Sonic started off with a little bit of old meets new with his spin-dash and sword combination attack, it's damage was minor because of the armor the mech was packing, but he managed to set it up for an onslaught.
Reinforce allowed her fists to gain a dark glow as she dealt a powerful fist combination, which pierced the armor albeit slightly. She had to stop her attack to avoid the mech's flamethrower.
Hayate took to her offensive in the skies, and borrowed one of the spells her Tome copied from Nanoha, the Axel Shooter. The shooting spell did it's job in further weakening the armor.
Nanoha took her shot when she shifted Raising Heart to it's Buster Mode, loaded a few cartridges and formed a pink energy sphere at the tip of her device, "Dibain... BASUTA!" she shouted and unleashed the trademark Divine Buster, which made a hole clean through the mech, but it was still active.
Sonic took to finishing it off with a straight spin-dash sword combo once more, going clean through the hole and up through the head, causing it to explode.
-Insert: "Victory Fanfare" Final Fantasy VII-
The hedgehog had a bright smile as he cheered his victory with a No 1 finger pose with his sword held over his back, "Cool!"
"Cheat! I blasted the hole!" Nanoha argued.
"It aint over till it goes boom, Nanoha" Sonic argued back
Hayate giggled at her teammates' comical argument "She's got you there, Sonic-kun."
Reinforce agreed then changed the subject "Let's keep moving.."
-The "Angel Island ~Brawl Mix~" Continues-
They did do just that until they found a wall blocking their path, and it looked like there was nothing beyond it but more wall.
"Ano.. how are we going to move on?" Nanoha asked
"Deja vu all over again.. leave it to me.." Sonic spun into his spin-dash and dug into the wall, his teammates slid down the tunnel he made.
-POV: Red Team-
Knuckles, Vita, Signum and Fate went their own route through the forest, disabling all the teleportation devices they could find, Knuckles was the only one who could because they were connected to his clan, so that left the other teammates to defend him from the robots. The echidna guided his team in their advance, his twin blades providing ample offensive power to cut the robots down and rescue the animal within. Part of their objective was also to catch up with the Blue team, however they were delayed as they had to deal with a massive bomb carrying ship sent by Eggman to attack.
Knuckles held out his twin blades and spiral-spun, the equivalent of a drill, into the hull of the ship, his teammates followed suit and began to wreck havoc from within, it took a lengthy five minutes. But the red team dismantled the ship into scrap metal.
-POV: Blue Team-
Sonic and his team eventually made it to a clearing with waterfalls and bridges, where Sonic stopped abruptly.
"Sonic-kun.. ano.. what are we doing?" Nanoha asked
"We're waiting for Eggman to show up"
"What makes you think he'll be here?" Reinforce asked
"Knowing him this is the point where he shows up with some big powerful "boss" robot.." Sonic replied.
"Do you really think he'd be that predictable?" Hayate asked
-Insert: "Eggman Battle" Sonic 3-
A very familiar, yet annoying evil laugh seemed to serve as Hayate's answer. The scientist showed himself inside a flame-throwing tank with several missiles on the back of it, "Why hello there, if it isn't my old pal Sonic! And you've got friends too." the doctor taunted.
The taunts were ignored as Sonic turned to face his teammates with a deadpanning expression, "Does that answer your question?"
"Hai..That laugh will certainly annoy the iron knight.. it's already on my nerves." Reinforce sounded a bit peeved.
"How dare you ignore me? Who are you ladies anyway?" the doc slammed his hands on the console.
"Yagami Hayate, cadet for the Time-Space Administration" Hayate answered, she hovered slightly (as she couldn't walk without her wheelchair, which was collapsed and stored away at the moment)
"Takamachi Nanoha, also of the Time-Space Administration" Nanoha introduced herself and held Raising Heart at her side.
"Reinforce." The silver-haired woman held up her fists in an aggressive fighting stance.
"My name is Doctor Eggman. And let me tell you that your attempts at resisting are futile, for I shall-" his speech went on and on for a few minutes.
Sonic cut him off "Oy. We already know you're gonna steal the Master Emerald and use it to power some doomsday weapon and then conquer all the world with it.. Heard it before."
"C-curse you! You foiled my speech! Grr! Why I outt- GAAAAACK!" Eggman again was interrupted by this time, Nanoha with a Divine Buster, smart girl. She used Eggman's lengthy speech to load a few cartridges into Raising Heart and pull off a powerful Divine Buster that demolished his tank. "Nani?"
"That was annoying..." Nanoha could only deadpan.
"You won't get away with this meddling!" Eggman made his quick escape.
-Insert: "Victory Fanfare" Final Fantasy VII-
Nanoha cheered with a twirl of her staff and a cute little wink "Nipaaa~"
Sonic burst out in a fit of laughs and clapped for his teammate "Every day I like her more"
"Oy! Sonic!" Knuckles and the Red team finally caught up,"What happened? Eggman attacked?"
"Well he showed up.. but Nanoha here blasted him before he could finish his speech."
"Nice.. So what's next?" the echidna asked.
Amy Limietta opened a com-link with the teams, "I'm picking up signals of enemies ahead and below.. what is out there Knuckles?"
"Below us is Hydrocity.. Up ahead is a shortcut to Marble Garden. I went through the second area in and out on my spare time and there's no teleport devices.. Hyrdocity on the other hand does." Knuckles informed.
Admiral Lindy gave a suggestion, "It'd be better if the teams split up. The Blue team will take Marble Garden, Red will go disable the devices in Hydrocity."
"Hai.. Let's go team." Sonic led his group up a ledge and moved onto the Marble Garden.
With the Blue team advancing towards the Marble Garden, Knuckles took his group into the Hydrocity to further their objective.
What's in store for Sonic and his team in the Marble Gardens? And what could await Knuckles in his own mission? More importantly, will Vita be able to stand the echidna?
-End of Main Chapter-
-Omake: Arf's attempt #2-
Hayate and the other Wolkenritter went shopping for groceries and left Sonic and Reinforce to tend to the house while they were out. Arf once again made another attempt with the hedgehog, unbeknownst to her, Reinforce wouldn't allow any of it.
Reinforce folded the laundry in another room while Arf snuck in to spend some quality time with Sonic.
"Konnichiwa Sonic!" the familiar beamed a bit forward.
"A-arf? Hey.."
"Did you know that you're kawaii... so much that I could really eat you up.." Arf licked her lips playfully, although a slight hint of a blush in her cheeks.
"Arigatou." Sonic blushed a bit in modesty.
"And you're so kawaii when you blush.." the wolf-girl put her arm around Sonic's shoulders, she was still acting in a playful manner, though her thoughts would speak otherwise if she escalated.'
At that time Reinforce looked down at the two on the couch and cleared her throat.
"Ara? Reinforce? Ah.. Gomen.. I was..eto.. Looking for Zafira.. Hai.. I wanted to teach him a convenient form to use civilly." Arf tried to talk her way out of it
Reinforce bought it for the moment, though she was no fool, "He's helping Hayate shop for groceries.. Go back to your master, I'm sure you can wait with her until Zafira gets back.."
"H-hai! Gomen-nasai." Arf ran out and back home to Fate.
"Ano, Reinforce, was something wrong?" Sonic asked
"It's nothing. Why don't you go take a bath and clean yourself up for when Hayate comes back. I'll go help you."
"You don't have to, I can do it myself." Sonic told her
"Not your back though.. If you don't want my help I understand your privacy."
"Putting it like that.. okay.. arigatou Reinforce" Sonic and Reinforce went to clean up for Hayate and the other's return from shopping.
-Ending: "Spiritual Garden" Tamura Yukari-
-End of Chapter 4-
Author's Notes: Okay. .so I'm going to have a it of Sonic 3 in here.. but I'm stopping after Lunch. I mean Launch Base.. I've got so much arcs to go through on this one. There will be plenty of twists here. I am just getting started on this one.. OH Trivia challenge! There is a reference to another anime made in this chapter, identify it. Eggman's still got some tricks up his sleeve and there could be some serious changes here, so watch out!