Chapter 4 : Distraction
Hi everyone. Here is Chapter 4. Sorry for the long wait! Again, I don't own any of this, and any story ideas are made up by me. Enjoy!
The missile was getting closer to the group. Everyone stared in fear as it drew closer. Tikal was getting weak in the knees when she fell to the ground, but she felt a tug pulling out of its path as it flew past her. She didn't notice that Espio had grabbed her and pulled her to safety at the last second.
On the other side of the missile, Vector grabbed Charmy as the missile came close, and threw him out of the way as the missile hit the building.
The explosion rocked the area causing an immense amount of damage.
Tikal heard a ringing in her ear from the explosion, and slowly got up to notice the damage around her. She was filled with fear as she noticed a figure coming to her. She curled into a ball as it came closer. That's when she noticed that it was Espio. He picked her up on her feet. She didn't hear a word he was saying from the ringing in her ear, but could make out his lips as he said, " Are you okay? " She nodded, and he took her hand and led to safety.
They started yelling out to Vector and Charmy to find them, and then heard their voices and ran to them. When they saw them, they were glad to see them in good condition.
"You alright, guys," yelled Vector. They both nodded in agreement. "Good, but who fired that missile," asked Vector.
"Uh, Boss, we have a problem. .. a BIG problem," exclaimed Charmy. He pointed in his direction to show a legion of Robots coming their way.
"Vector, what are we going to do," questioned Espio. Vector gulped and realized the number of robots coming, and knew it was about them. That's when he came up with a plan.
"Espio, take Tikal and go. We will fight off the enemy until we can't any longer," ordered the alligator. Espio looked on in disbelief, "Wait, we can..."called out Espio, but he was interrupted by Vector, "That's an order, NOW Do it."
Espio just nodded and turned to Tikal, grabbed her hand, and ran off. Vector turned to face the army of robots coming at them, and looked at Charmy, "you ready for this," asked the reptile. "You kidding, I was born for this, let's rock and roll." They ran full speed at the army to fight them.
Meanwhile, Espio and Tikal had been going through the crowded streets dodging people while Espio had been trying to follow his senses to get a safe route to out of the city. They had decided to catch their breath for a minute.
"Ok, I can't find a route out of here. My senses are all over the place. Need to think,"said Espio as he came up with a plan. Tikal fell to the ground, tired and afraid, "Espio, I'm have to go back and help Vector and Charmy. They could die."
"I know that, but we have to have hope. We have to keep going. Those things are after you. Vector saw that, and that's why we are here. We need to get out of here, and find Chaos. He could be anywhere. We will get out of here, and find him, and stop him."
"Well, I am going back to help them," Tikal said as she got up to leave, but as she did she felt Espio grab her hand.
"I can't let you do that. We are going to get out of here, but I need to find a safe route. Where...", that's when an idea came to him. He grabbed her and pulled her upto his arms, and ran up a skyscraper. He looked around at the top to sensemble a safe route.
"That's better, ok, I can sense a lot of danger that way , but...I got it. I found a way out, come on,"urged Espio, but Tikal turned away from him, "No, you can't make me."
Espio just shook his head in disbelief, "That wasn't a request," he said as he ran up and grabbed her into his arms and, they ran off to escape.
Meanwhile. ..
Vector and Charmy were holding their own, but were getting fatigued from the fight, and the bots were closing in.
"Well, I guess this is it, boss. It was nice knowing you," said Charmy.
Vector shook his head, "I don't know about you, but I am going to live until one of these things kill me," he said as he braced himself for the robots attack.
Suddenly, there came a flurry of explosions around them that eliminated a chunk out of the robots. They looked around to see a plane fly by. It was the Blue Tornado, piloted by Tails, with Sonic and Knuckles riding shotgun. Vector and Charmy looked in total shock as those three had been rescued by those three...again. Tails came around for another pass, this time letting off Knuckles and Sonic. The two landed and started fighting towards Vector and Charmy. The other two looked over, shrugged, and fought their way to them as well.
On the edge of the Forest, Espio and Tikal had safely gotten out of the city. They stopped for a short break.
"Well, we are safe for the moment, " Espio said gasping for air.
"Yeah, but I am still worried about the other two,"said a concerned Tikal.
"I understand, but I sense the battle is turning around for them...yes, they are winning. Wait, what is that,"said a worried Espio. He could see danger coming their way. Espio didn't know what to do.
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