Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic or PSO, if I did then Sonic Dark Brotherhood would already be released.
I hope all of you guys enjoy this chapter. I did this on a different computer, so that's why it's a bit late.
Also, to Siran 774: I guess I could, although don't flay me alive if I alter their personalities a bit to fit what I want. Also, thanks for reviewing!
The wolves got up from their laying down positions. The three of them startled to growl, and the one nearest the teleporter, a darker blue one, howled into the sky.
And promptly got shot in the face, courtesy of MRU.
The two remaining gray blue ones charged, going in a diagonal pattern. The one in the back also charged, but went straight. The three slowly tried to circle the eight, but there were simply far more of them. MRU kept firing, Seraph struggled to hit the wolves. Chaos was simply using foie as a means of hoping to connect.
Tails, using the help from Chaos, was successfully using foie for the first time in a combat situation. He doubted it would be the last, as one wolf successfully fell to the burns on its body. Sonic was right in their faces, getting them to attack, and speeding out of the way, all the while using his saber to cut them up on the insides.
Amy was doing it a bit safer than what Sonic was. When he was speeding around them, she was hitting them near the head, and jumping back after each hit so when the wolf inevitably turned it's head to snap at her, she was still a fair distance away.
Chris was nowhere to be found.
Soon the three wolves were nothing more than bloodstains on the ground, with nothing more than small gashes on the unusual party of eight. "Ok, we're heading to the second area...any objections?" Seraph said. Suikoshi nodded.
"Yeah, where's that brown haired kid?"
"I'm right here!" said Chris, who happened to be in a bush. "I got pushed over when one of the wolves knocked me into it."
"This kid's gonna be a pain isn't he..." Suikoshi sighed. At least the other three were holding their weight up. She wondered if there was a possibility to exchange the kid for one of the other ones, like the red guy back at their ship. He looked strong enough to hold his own weight. But before she could wonder anymore if Chris could be 'replaced', she got interrupted.
"He's your responsibility now Sui." Chaos said. He pointed an accusing finger at her, and then motioned towards the teleporter, where Tails could be seen going through at the moment. Only Sonic, Chris, Chaos, and Suikoshi were left. She hadn't noticed they were moving out to the second location.
"What!? You can't just stick him with me!" She replied. How to strangle Chaos, but get away with it...this and other such 'friendly' thoughts ran through her head.
"I can, and I believe I just did!" Chaos shouted, going through the teleporter to silence all possible retorts. Chris was still standing out there, wondering why Chaos and Suikoshi would be arguing about him.
"Surely I don't need that much protection do I...?" he questioned. His use in the last few battles have been...a little less than he had thought he was. But he just told himself to do better, and braved himself against the next teleporter.
The first thing they felt was water. On their faces, clothes, everything. Most of them were still dizzy from the teleportation still, so only Chaos and Tails at this point noticed that it was raining. Not hard, but enough to be a nuisance in some battles. The footing was poor, so Sonic would be reduced to running at only half mach speed, and foie's effectiveness would be vastly reduced.
But all in all, a nice change of pace.
"So, where exactly are we Chaos?" tails asked. They had all, besides Chris who has yet to come through the teleporter, shaken off the affects of the teleport.
"We're near the central dome. This is near where the explosion took place." Chaos said, pointing to the west. A large dome, obviously the central dome, spread out in front of them, taking with it a better part of the sky behind it. "We should get moving, we're near it aren't we?" he said.
The eight, as Chris had come out of the teleporter by now, brandished their weapons. A small cliffside was to their right. They took the door directly in front of them, the gates opening with a small sound, almost a creaking. The gates were metal, so they thought nothing of it.
They came to a large clearing again. A large computer terminal was floating on a platform disconnected to the original clearing. A small button made it clear what to do. What made it not clear, was the three booma-like enemies roaring their lungs out. These however were different from the normal brown boomas. These were a yellowish color, with bigger arms on the side, and were far faster.
Comparatively, at least. The eight got to work once more. Sonic and his team of four got to work on one, while Seraph and the other three got to work on another one. They completely ignored the third one.
Sonic took another slash to it. The yellow booma, now called "goboomas" as it turns out they were called, were a lot tougher than the ordinary ones. "Step back!" shouted Chaos over the screams of pain from the animals. The group fighting did so, and were such surprised to see lightning come from the darkened skies, three long strikes, each such a flash, so fast that it was like it never happened, but the effect of it certainly did.
The gobooma screamed, and suddenly charged at Chaos. Chaos, who was suddenly decharging from that large outburst of the zonde technique, was unable to dodge, even though he saw it coming. Sonic, Tails, and everybody who was worth a dime was off fighting one of the other ones.
Chris, for the first time in his life, was being useful, and actually blocked the gobooma's path to Chaos. He took the hit head on, and to everyone listening, it seemed as if they could hear the bones breaking as the enraged monster flew through him.
But they all forgot about the third. As one fell, the other one took it's place. It bashed suikoshi into the wall, headbutted Sonic and Amy in one hit, and was somehow still above to overpower Tails with it's other hand at the same time. How it was able to do this while the others ones weren't, no one was sure.
What everyone was sure of though, was a massive spark of electricity come from Tails body, seemingly by itself, travel to the gobooma in front of him, and in a giant spark of ultimate discharge hit the other one in a single bolt.
This shocked both gobooma's into submission. What was even more 'shocking' was what Tails said afterwards. "What was that!?" he yelled. No enemies around yet, so it was safe at the moment. He couldn't recall what it was exactly that he did, but what if was, it was awesome.
"that...was a photon blast...but how did it manifest itself when your mag is only a basic..." Seraph questioned. Tails' Mag, a simple basic yellow mag, only turned to it's owner. If they could sense what these mags would do, they would hold another idea for them altogether. As it was, Sonic voiced up next.
"Wow that was awesome! Can you do it again! It almost felt like a Chaos emerald!"
"I doubt they have that much power Sonic." Tails said.
"Hey...thanks for saving my ass back there. It would've taken me out. Resta!" cried Chaos as he healed Chris. For once in his life, he'd risked his own to save another's. Sure, he saved Sonic when he first met him, but that's because Sonic couldn't jump out of the pool, and couldn't swim. It wasn't exactly a risk to his life now was it?
Seraph pointed to Chris and Chaos. "Hey, if you're done healing him, can we get going? I have a feeling I know where to go from here."
Chris nodded. The eight then moved on to another clearing. There was nothing here except weeds and what appeared to be a large bear. Not a booma, nor a gobooma, not anything like them. It was a lot bigger, and appeared to be more of a bear then the other enemies. It was red in some parts, and it's fists that it traveled on the ground on, almost like an ape, were huge.
It slowly turned around, and it's small eyes made contact with the group's. Then it threw it's head back, and suddenly launched a fireball, not unlike Chaos' own foie! The group ducked out of the way, scattering into eight small targets compared to one big one.
The two ranger's started firing immediately. The four hunters immediately ran up to it, hoping to buy the two ranger's and forces time to think of a strategy against this monstrosity. "BARTA!" yelled Tails from the back, a small linear portion of ice flowing from his feet, freezing the ground in front of him, and creating a line of ice leading up to the monstrosity. Chaos did the same thing, his trail of ice flowing just a bit faster than tails'.
The two trails combined at the same point where the bear thing was. It seemed to actually flinch in pain before putting one foot on the ice. It promptly slipped, and if not for Sonic's own quick speed, he would've been crushed. A resounding thud echoed across the landscape, the hunters trying to make as quick a work as they could against this thing.
More shouts from the forces, and finally the beast fell. Suikoshi dashed over to it's head and lopped it off. "Just to make sure it doesn't come back." she said.
"So, what was that thing anyway?" Amy asked, pulling her hammer to lean against it.
"Pioneer 1 called it a hildebear. According to the report it's the toughest thing in the forest. Can spit fire from it's mouth, and if it hits with it's fists, it will hurt. A lot." Seraph explained.
Sonic looked towards the hildebear's corpse. "I think we could tell that it could hit hard already." he pointed to the hildebear's fists, not unclenched even after death. The black skin started suddenly dissolving, with an odor of acid in the air. Before their eyes, the hildebear's body started to dissolve into the ground. Then it vanished, the only trace being the blood on the ground and the head Suikoshi has yet to let go of.
"What...was that all about?" Amy asked, echoing everyone's thoughts. Seraph searched the Pioneer 1 records, and nothing was found. It was almost as if something had taken the hildebear's body, or the ground had eaten the corpse. Either way, the body was gone, and in it's place stood a purple version of a gobooma. The spike thing near the top of their heads was taller, and they could tell it was a lot stronger.
Well, not just one of those purple ones. More like three.
"Split up! Chaos, Tails! Take the one on the left. Hunters, take the one on the right. We'll take care of the one in the middle!" Seraph yelled. They obeyed without question, or at least the human ones did. After hearing exactly what it was that Seraph said, it made sense. So they went along with his orders, for now at least.
"Barta!" Tails yelled, creating the line of ice towards the 'gigobooma' as it was called. Apparently Pioneer 1 struggled when it came to naming things. The line of ice appeared from underneath the gigobooma, and as it couldn't walk or run straight on ice it couldn't dodge Chaos' own saber type weapon.
Suikoshi weaved flawlessly through the gigobooma's strikes. A small hit there, a blue blur above her, a dodge here for another small hit, and down. Sonic landed on it's head and jumped off, the propulsion from his jump launching the gigobooma into the ground, where it was sufficiently killed by Chris and Amy.
The two rangers just kept firing. Seraph with his rifle, and MRU with a small handgun. "MRU, fire!" Seraph yelled. MRU didn't even nod, he just lifted up the handgun like it was dead weight. He charged his shot, feeling the special power of the gun slowly take over his programming. When he felt like it was going to completely take him over he fired. And in his visors, he saw the gigobooma fall from the single hit.
The Hells lockgun takes yet another victim to it's everlasting toll.
Yep, this chapters' done. For all those who aren't sure what the Hells lockgun is, it's a lockgun (3rd) type of gun with the hell special, a one hit kill. I "altered" the effect a bit for this story.
Also, just so people could get a word in, should the group find a hildeblue/al rappy in this last part of forest?
Hope you all enjoyed it, and please drop a review! I also apologize for the lateness of this chapter.