(A/N): Just some quick info. The next chapter of "Pokemon Tales: A New Game" will be posted on October 8. Now then, "would you kindly" read this last chapter. (Sorry, I just recently finish beating the whole BioShock collection for the whole past week. Such a great and beautiful game series!)
Meanwhile with Knuckles and Ray
The echidna and squirrel were walking through some plants and tall grass as Ray was cutting them off the grass with a machete to make a clear path for them as Knuckles was giving directions and was looking at the treasure map, hinting at Henry Every's treasure spot.
Not long in their journey, they came crossed with Sonic and the others, but carefully tried to hide themselves, not wanting to find out about the treasure that lays hidden in Tails Island that it might attract Sonic's attention to find it. Knuckles doesn't want that to happen since he wants to rub it in Sonic's face that he went on a journey and found something epic.
As the two friends walked they can to a complete stop as they stumble across a wall of a tall cliff. Ray and Knuckles then looked at the map together and tried to solve what to do next. Knuckles nodded his head as he put away the map.
"Looks like the road ends here Ray. We just ended at a dead end." Knuckles said.
"There's gotta be something here that can lead us to the treasure. Henry always like to fool people into thinking that they ended up in a dead end." Ray said, looking at the wall of the cliff.
The gold squirrel then placed a hand on the cliff wall and began to to run his hand, scanning the wall carefully. Knuckles grew curious to what Ray was doing, wondering what the squirrel was up to.
"Ray what are you doing?" Knuckles asked, looking at the squirrel.
"I'm trying to see if the wall has some sorta button or lever that can give us a clue what to do-" Ray stopped talking when he felt something.
"Ray, what's wrong?" Knuckles said.
Ray put a ear near the cliff and began listening, "Knuckles! I hear some wind coming from this wall." He said, excitedly.
Knuckles listen in carefully to the wall that Ray was listening to. Sure enough, Knuckles too felt a breeze coming from the wall and took a big glance at the wall.
"This wall is hollow." Knuckles said, touching the wall.
"Knuckles, do you think you can break this wall?" Ray asked.
Knuckles gave a bold smile and and cracked his fist, "This wall is nothing compared to the things I punched before. Stand back Ray." He said as Ray took a few steps back.
Knuckles took a deep breath and gave one big punch to the wall with his bare fist, creating a large ruckus of rocks being destroyed and loud noises.
When the dust cleared off, what Knuckles and Ray were taken by surprise when they found themselves a secret cave that was dark and hollow.
"Woah." Both Knuckles and Ray said, as their voices echo through the cave.
"Henry must have had his pirate crew build this cave for him. I wonder how long did it take them to make it." Ray questioned.
"A tunnel? Now this island is full of surprises." Knuckles looked deep into the tunnel, "I have to say Ray. I'm getting more excited about our treasure hunt. I wonder where this cave goes."
Ray smiled at his friend, "Well what are we waiting for then. Henry's treasure isn't gonna find itself you know." Ray teased as he and Knuckles enter the tunnel.
The two walked for what seem like hours, Ray brought a small flashlight for him and Knuckles in case they had to go somewhere dark.
After walking for a while, the two found a large steel gate blocking their way. The tried to figure out what to do next until Knuckles found a wheel on the wall that can open the steel gate.
"Ray, I'll open the gate. Get ready." Knuckles said, as he went to the wheel and turned it clockwise.
As Knuckles was turning the wheel, the gate was slowly started lifting up from the ground. Once there was enough room to go under, Ray quickly ran and made it through.
Once Ray was in, Knuckles quickly let go of the wheel, ran, and slide through the other side of the steel gate Indiana Jones style just before the steel slammed down shut, preventing Knuckles and Ray from coming back the way they came from.
"Well it looks like there's no turning back now." Ray said, looking back at the gate.
"Who said we were turning back?" Knuckles teased as Ray smiled at his remark as they continued their way in the cave.
Knuckles and Ray went onwards, the more walked further, the more the cave was getting smaller. They came across a wooden platform deathtrap where underneath the them was a pit of spikes. On the spikes, Knuckles and Ray saw a dead skeleton with a sharp spike through his chest. Some of the parts of the wooden deathtrap were missing, as if they been blown off.
"Boy, I hate to be that guy." Ray said, pointing his flashlight at the skeleton. "He must have tried to steal Henry's treasure but got killed by the deathtrap."
"Well let's just hope we don't end up having the same fate as him." Knuckles said, as looking at the death trap in front of him.
"Knuckles hold it! We can't just set a foot on the wooden platform however we please." Ray said, quickly grabbing Knuckles arm.
"I wouldn't worry about it Ray, I can just quickly climb and glide my way up." Knuckles said.
"Well what about being blown up." Ray retorted as he pointed to some barrel of explosions that was tied under the wooden platform, ready to explode if someone were to step on the trigger.
"Yikes, thanks for the heads up, but do we get to the other side without being blown to pieces." Knuckles said, as he swallowed his saliva aat thought of being blown up.
Ray took bended down to one knee and began to examine the the wooden platform. Ray kept on studying it until something caught his eyes and pointed his flashlight.
"Hey Knuckles! Check this out!" Ray called out.
"What did you find?" Knuckles walked to Ray.
"I found some footprints here that may help us get to the other side. Looks like some of Henry's men made though one of his death traps. Maybe if we follow the footprints they can guide us to safety." Ray said, pointing at the footprints.
"Well it's the worth the shot." Knuckles said.
"Alright follow me, I'll point the flashlight on the footprints as we make our way through." Ray said. "Hopefully we don't fall or be blown up to our deaths."
Knuckles nodded his head as Ray was ready to take a step. The gold squirrel took a deep breath and slowly extended his foot and gently stepped on the platform with his eyes closed. At first, both Ray and Knuckles gasp in fear, fearing that they might fall down from the platform.
But nothing happen as the two were still safe. Knuckles and Ray sigh deeply in relief as they Ray took another step following the footprints left by Henry's pirates long ago. The two carefully watched their foots with each step. Nervous sweat drop were falling from the both of them as Ray was carefully watching the footprints and Knuckles following from behind.
There were times when Ray took a step to another platform it would make a loud creaking sound, making Knuckles and Ray worry that the platform below them wasn't stable enough to walk on. As the two trek through the wooden platform they manage to make it to the other side safely. The echidna and squirrel let out a big sigh and high five each other.
"Oh man, my heart is pumping like it never has before." Knuckles said, breathing heavily.
"Yeah, my heart hasn't never pump this hard since I avoid those deathtraps from Robotnik's island with Sonic and Mighty years ago." Ray said, trying calm down his shivering heart.
The two looked head in front of them and saw that they ended up in another dead end.
"Aw crud, another dead end." Knuckles said, losing a bit of hope.
"Actually no." Ray said, making Knuckles's head jolt up a bit.
"What do you mean?" Knuckles questioned the squirrel.
"I found a small gap for us to go under." Ray said, pointing with his flashlight. "But the gap is being blocked by this boulder. Lift it up would ya." Ray said.
Knuckles nodded and with no effort, he lifted up the boulder with ease moved the boulder to the side, making them enough room for him and Ray to move under the small gap.
"Watch your head." Knuckles said, as Ray enter the small gap first in a crouching position with him following.
The two enter as Ray was shining their way through way the darkness of the gap. They encounter some small bugs that crawl pass them as they went through.
There were multiple pathways they took, but most of them ended in a dead end because they been sheild tight by some rocks. Knuckles could have easily punch through barricaded pathways, but didn't because doing so would probably make the the place collapse on them.
The only sound the guys heard was the sound of water dripping above, seeing that above them was a body of water and another good reason for Knuckles not use his fist at the moment. They smelled bad things coming from the gap caused by some rats that scatter when Ray flash his light at the rodents.
"Hey Ray! I found an exit!" Knuckles said, as his voice echo.
"Where?!" Ray yelled back.
"Over here! Follow the sound of my voice!" Knuckles yelled.
When Ray reached back with Knuckles, he saw the exit that Knuckles was talking about and saw it was an opening to a floor below them. Both Knuckles and Ray nodded at each other and jumped to the floor below them and landed on their feet perfectly.
When Ray lifted up his flashlight to brighten up the area, they were greeted by multiple dead skeleton hands hanging from the ceiling as they were slowly swinging left and right, sending both a cold shiver to Ray and Knuckles that something like this could exist on Tails Island. The two stood speechless until Ray pointed his flashlight at a sign that was painted in red on a wood board.
"What the heck is this? It's kinda creepy." Knuckles admitted as he walked close to where Ray was at.
"The hands that stole from me." Ray read the sign out loud.
Knuckles gaze back at the hanging dead hands above him and Ray, "Wow, Henry's not even pretending to be sane at this point. I don't like this place." Knuckles said.
"Me either Knuckles, but we gotta keep going." Ray said, as he took the lead.
"I'm guessing some of Henry's men were trying to steal his treasure by the looks of things." Knuckles explained, as he touched the skeleton hands.
"Or Henry was too paranoid about everybody trying to steal his treasure and just killed all his men. He never trusted anyone, but himself." Ray stated as he and continued forward.
As they walked towards more in the cave of hanging hands of Henry's enemies they came across some gas barrels and gibbet cages that still had the dead the body of Henry's men that was causing the bad smell that was worse than the small gap they crawl through.
They stopped walking when Ray's flash flight was started buzzing and flickering, signing that the batteries were almost going out. Ray quickly tapped the bottom of the flashlight, hoping to get a bit more power before they get covered in the darkness of the cave.
"Darn it, I knew I should have brought another pair of batteries." Ray said, still tapping his flashlight.
Knuckles then had an idea, "Ray, do you have a match with you?" He asked the squirrel.
"Just a few, but they won't last long though." Ray said.
"I just need one match. I know how to solve our light problem." Knuckles said.
Ray nodded his head, reached down to his hammerspace, and quickly handed a match to Knuckles. The red echidna quickly ran to one of the gibbet cages containing a dead body and ripped out the clothes of the man who once wore them. Knuckles found a wooden staff and snapped into two and quickly wrapped the clothes of the dead guy on the tip of the two wood sticks.
Once Knuckles was done tieing the rags of clothes at the end of sticks, he ran to the barrel of gas and dunk both sticks, trying to get enough gas on both sticks. Knuckles then took out the match that Ray gave him, lit the match up, and lighten up the the sticks of rags, making him and Ray two fire torches.
"Wah-la! I made us torches." Knuckles said, proudly as he offer Ray a torch.
"Woah, nice thinking Knuckles! Using the power of man's red flower!" Ray praised the echidna for his smart thinking as he grabbed a torch from him, "Thanks Knuckles, I'm glad you're the one that came with me on this treasure hunt."
Knuckles smirked and rubbed his nose in a cheeky manner, "No problem, now let's move forward to Henry's treasure." Knuckles told the squirrel as they light cave with their torches.
The hot headed echidna then looked at something in the distance of the of the cave. Curious, Knuckles run towards the strange object that caught his eyes with Ray following. As they drew close to the object, Knuckles and Ray witness a dead body wrapped in white rags like a mummy and was hanging of the side of the cave like a decor.
It wasn't the only dead body in rags they saw that day. When Knuckles pointed his torch to the rest of the pathway. He found a row of more dead bodies in white rag. Knuckles and Ray looked back the first dead body in front of them, trying to figure out the meaning of this.
"What is this? A mummy?" Knuckles scratched his head as he looked at the dead wrapped corpse.
A scary thought came to Ray's mind, "You don't suppose these mummies are going to come back to life and try to eat our brains like zombies. I'm not ready for that!" Ray said, frighten.
Knuckles rolled his eyes at his friend's silly idea, "You been watching too many horror films as of lately huh?" Knuckles said.
"Maybe." Ray said, twiddling his thumbs.
"Well, I won't worry too much if they do come back to life. I'll be able to one hit K.O these mummies due to how fragile their bodies are." Knuckles said, trying to cheer up his friend.
Knuckles gaze back at the pathway of wrapped corpses that lay in front of him and Ray, "I don't know about you, but I have a feeling we're almost to the treasure once we get through path of dead bodies." Knuckles said.
"Right, let's go with cautious." Ray said as Knuckles was taking the lead this time.
The two friends held their torches high as they walked through the row of wrapped bodies. Each corpse Knuckles and Ray walk passed, the more uglier and foul scent they were getting. Knuckles began to notice that the corpse were starting to smell like gasoline as they walked further which eventually Ray picked up the scent as well.
Ray stopped walking as he took a moment to think about why there hasn't been anything dangerous as he and Knuckles walked through of cave of dead bodies. Knuckles stopped walking, wonder what his squirrel pal was thinking.
"Is something wrong Ray?" Knuckles asked.
"I just find it really odd that nothing bad has happen as we walk through the pathway of dead bodies. There must be a reason why Henry put them here." Ray said, thinking out loud.
"Maybe, Henry put these dead mummified bodies to scare the thieves away from his treasure as a warning." Knuckles said, giving his own explanation.
"Maybe, but still. Something still doesn't feel right." Ray said, looking all over the cave.
Just before they could move forward in the cave, Knuckles tripped and broke a wired string that caused a large snap that both Knuckles and Ray heard.
"What was that?" Knuckles said, quickly getting back to his feet.
Before Ray could answer Knuckles' question. The two heard a large sizzling sound coming behind them. The two looking looked behind found the wrapped dead body they first encounter lighting up as flames started to engulf it's body. Ray and Knuckles started to step back as they watch the fire corpse go off.
"Knuckles! RUN!" Ray panic as he and Knuckles started to run.
The corpse behind them then exploded as well as the ones next to them. Knuckles and Ray were fleeing from a row of exploding bodies that was exploding one by one. Knuckles and Ray ran as quickly as they can as they tried to escape the explosion behind them.
With each explosion, it slow down Knuckles's and Ray's speed as the cave was shaking violently. Knuckles and Ray had to cover their heads and eyes from the falling rocks and dust caused by the explosion.
"Exploding dead corpses!? Really?" Knuckles said, as he and Ray ran.
"I guess Henry had a few extra dead men to spare to use as a deathtrap for thieves. I'll give him credit though, using exploding dead corpses as a death trap is pretty creative." Ray said.
Knuckles looked up ahead to see small faint light at the end of the cave, "I think I see an exit! Come on! Before we get blown to ashes!" Knuckles said.
As the duo were getting to close to the exit, so was the explosion behind them as it drew inches close with a each pass moment. The two were starting to get nervous, thinking they might not make it in time to the exit.
The explosion was now behind them inches and at the last minute, Knuckles and Ray both went for it and jump out to the exit at a split second causing the explosion to push them out of the cave.
They two friends fell into a pit of water that was part of a secret lagoon inside the cave. They quickly swam up to the surface of the water and looked back at the cave that is now barricaded by rocks. The two felt their heart at ease once more and were happy that they made out alive.
"Woah! That was pretty bomb!" Ray said, making a pun.
Knuckles didn't laugh as he gave disappointed nodded at the squirrel at his horrible pun. "Oh come on, it was pretty funny." Ray laughed.
Ray stopped laughing when he and Knuckles turn around to find practically the most amazing saw that day. What they saw was Henry Every's pirate ship docked on the other side of the lagoon. The echidna and squirrel widen their eyes as much as they could.
"I can't believe it! It's Every's old pirate ship!" Ray said, letting out his excitement out.
"My best bet is that Every's treasure in his boat." Knuckles stated.
"Well let's claim our booty then!" Ray laughed as he and Knuckles began swimming to the ship in haste.
Upon reach the ship, Knuckles was the first to climb aboard before helping Ray hop on the ship. As they boarded the ship, they saw more dead bodies around the ship. From the looks of thing, Knuckles and Ray knew that there was once a pirate battle that happen on the ship long ago, due to how some of the pirates had swords stabbed through their chest and old rusty muskets on their hands.
There was cannons that were loaded, but most likely didn't work to how broken and rotten they looked. The ship also had Henry's symbol as the ship's flag that was torn in some parts, but the symbol was still there as it waved in the wind softly. Knuckles and Ray were being carefully to watch their step for they didn't want the ship break apart.
"Watch your step, Ray. It's really steep here. Be carefully." Knuckles said, warning the squirrel.
"Gotcha!" Ray responded.
"Where do you think the treasure is?" Knuckles said, as he looked around the ship.
"I think over there! In his private quarters!" Ray said, seeing a door a encrusted in jewels.
Before entering the private quarters of Henry Every, there was a plaque on top of the door with the words "Join Me in Paradise" engrave on it. Both Knuckles and Ray grabbed the handle from the both sides of the door.
The two looked each other, took a deep breath, and open the door enter in the head quarters in hopes of finding treasure. What they expected was something different. There wasn't any gold coins or gems to be found.
All they found was an empty room filled with old busted furniture, old used carpets, and a kitchen table filled with old rotten food that was covered in worms while parts of the room was covered in nothing but spider web.
"Where's the treasure?" Knuckles asked.
"Maybe Henry hid it somewhere in the room. Quick, let's search." Ray said as he and Knuckles spread out and looked over the room.
The two search high and low, but nothing came up as they all found was spiders and flies that have infested the room. They search through the many drawers, cabinets, and closets but still haven't found a sign of gold anywhere.
As the two were searching, Ray was looking through some old reports left by Henry. One of the reports turn out to be a letter from Henry himself. Carefully, Ray open the letter and dusted off the dirt to get a better reading from it.
"Knuckles, look what I found." Ray said.
"The treasure?" Knuckles said.
"Nope, a letter from Henry himself." He said as he began to read the letter out loud.
To whoever reads this letter,
ARG!...That's what we pirates say you know! Anyways, you have come this far in search of the treasure. The treasure that I stole from other big name pirates. Well I hate to tell ya matey, but I hid the treasure in a different island far from this one that you're standing on. But give ya this, you made it this far surviving all my booby traps that most other people who don't make it to the ship. If you truly want to seek my booty. Turn this page over, but I must warn you. You might not like what you see.
"AHHHHH!" Both Knuckles and Ray screamed in disgust. What Knuckles and Ray found behind the letter was actually a drawn picture of Henry Every's real butt on the back. Knuckles's and Ray's faces turn barf green and wanted to throw up. Once the two felt good again, Ray quickly turned back the page and read the rest of it.
Har har har har! I warn you matey! I drew it myself you know! I'm quite the artist to say the least. But look at the bright side of all this. The real treasure was inside you the whole time and you had a grand adventure coming all the way here to my ship…..Nah! I'm just kidding! I just wasted your time! Well this ends your trip! Of a long friendship! Brother!
With Pirate Love,
Captain Henry Every
P.S. I lied about the whole "Arg!" thing, we pirates don't actually say that. I don't know who started that stupid fad. Rule number one of being a pirate; Never trust a pirate!
After Ray was done reading the letter, he crumple the paper up in frustration and threw it on the ground and Knuckles started stomping on the letter.
As the two were letting out their anger, behind them was the skeleton body of Henry Every, who was in a funny position, making him look like he was pointing and laughing at both Knuckles's and Ray's misfortune.
Meanwhile with Tails and Marine
Back with Tails and Marine, the two were in the middle of the ocean far from Tails Island. They were in Tails's yellow submarine that he had builded years ago as a kid. Their reason riding Tails's old submarine in the middle of the ocean was to find the giant squid that saved Tails from drowning years ago.
Now Tails and his friend, Marine the Raccoon, are on a mission together to find the giant squid together that Tails has been trying to seek after all years. Currently Tails was using his fish translator to talk to the fish to get any info about the giant squid he and Marine are seeking together.
Unfortunately, some unfortunate event has occur as the fishes of the sea were swimming away in fear of something dangerous that's heading in Tails' and Marine's direction.
"Shark week?" Tails said.
"What's Shark week?" Marine said, confused.
"Only the worst time of any fish's life who live in the ocean." Said Jack, the yellow Jack fish as he, Tails, and Marine saw the fishes make their escape
"RUN!" Said another fish that swam past them.
"Hide your kids! Hide your wives!" Said another fish, also panicking from the scene.
Jack looked back at Tails and Marine in their submarine, "A bad group of sharks come here for one whole week each month to wreck our homes and make it their playground. Just for fun." Jack said.
"Well that isn't very nice." Marine puffed her cheeks.
"No it isn't! I suggest that the both of you get out of here before the shark gang shows up! You don't want to be here when they show up. They are very aggressive sharks to witness." Jack told the
"Well what do we have here?" said an unfamiliar voice.
Tails, Marine and Jack turn their attention to the mysterious voice that they heard. When the gang turned around, they a group of sharks smiling devilishly at them with their sharp.
Behind them was a tiger shark, hammerhead shark, sand shark, school shark, and a great white shark. The great white shark was in the middle of the gang that Tails and the others assume that the great white shark was the one in charge of the gang of five sharks began to swim around Tails, Marine and Jack in circles, trapping them from getting away, giving them a scary faces.
"Looks like we have some fishes they don't know about shark week." Said the Hammerhead shark.
"That yellow Jack fish looks tasty gulp up. He's mine to eat!" Said the school shark.
"It looks like that big yellow fish has already eaten two of them in it's belly." Said the sand shark.
"We're gonna eat like kings tonight!" Shouted the tiger shark.
The four sharks laughed in a mocking tone as their the great white shark leader swam out from the circle and drew close to the front mirror of Tails's submarine, meeting eye to eye with Tails and Marine, who Tails was keeping a bold look and Marine was getting rather nervous as her legs were shaking in fear.
"It seems like some fishes decided to stick around and watch the show." The Great White shark said. "Wow, I never seen fishes like you around the sea. Are you lost or something?" He mocked Tails and Marine.
"Look we don't want any trouble." Tails said, speaking through the mic of his fish translator.
"Well you got trouble!" said the school shark.
"Quiet Carl! Let me do the talking here!" The great white shark to his comrade shark.
"Yes sir!" Carl the school shark said, giving his boss a nod.
"We're just here looking for something. No need to get violent or anything. We'll just look someplace else." Tails said, starting to drive away the submarine from the area with Jack swimming beside him.
The great white shark and his gang quickly intercept Tails as they blocked his way. "Just where do you think you're going young chum." The large white shark said, in front of Tails.
"We're just heading out." Tails said, calmly.
The great white shark and his gang started laughing at Tails as they drew closer to him. Then out of nowhere the great white shark did a hard body slam to Tails's yellow submarine. The body slam attack pushed Tails and Marine away and made them crash on a boulder and cause some damage to the submarine.
"Guys!" Jack said, as he swam quickly to Tails's submarine
"Nobody leaves this area!" The great white shark yelled angrily. "Once you enter shark week, there's no returning back."
Tails and Marine were on the floor of the submarine as the impact of the body slam knocked them out of their seats of the submarine. Tails and Marine moan grunted as they got up to their knees and rubbed their heads from the pain.
"Marine, are you okay." Tails said, a bit concern for his friend.
"I'm alright mate. No worries." Marine shot a smile to the fox as she and Tails got back to their seats and fasten their seatbelts.
"Marine quick! What's the damage to the submarine?" Tails asked as he prepare the submarine.
"We took some damage, but luckily nothing too critical. Let's hope it stays that way." Marine said, looking at a monitor.
"You guys okay?" Jack asked.
"We're okay jack, but I suggest that you find a hiding spot. Things are about to get ugly." Tails said to the yellow jack fish as he was pressing multiple buttons in his submarine..
"Why?" Jack said, curious.
"We're gonna fight those gang of sharks." Tails said with a bold smile.
"WHAT!?" Both Marine and Jack shouted at the same time.
"You heard me. We're gonna fight sharks." Tails said, like it was no big deal.
"Are you crazy Tails!" Marine shouted at the yellow fox.
"Crazy like a fox!" Tails said with a toothless smile.
"Yeah, there's no way you can take on those sharks!" Jack said, "I have seen the types of things those sharks have done. They even took down a whale."
"No need to be worry. This submarine has defense and offense mode that I build in case if we face danger." Tails stated. "I never thought I'll able to use it, but it looks like today is gonna be the day."
"Besides, someone should put these sharks in their places and know that they can't just barge in and destroy other's home for fun. We ain't leaving until we find the giant squid." Tails said.
The young fox looked at his raccoon friend, "So Marine, would you help me. I can't do this without your help?"
Marine hesitated a bit, but when she looked at Tails bold blue eyes and face. It gave her confident as she smiled and nodded her head. Marine knew well that with Tails on her side, they can overcome any problems that they face together.
"I'm with you through every step on the way mate." Marine said, as she and Tails nodded and shook hands.
"Thanks Marine. Quick, got over there on that seats and help operate the weapons." Tails said.
"On it!" Marine responded as she went to a different seat.
Tails looked back at the jack fish, "Jack, find yourself a spot to hide and lay low." Tails said.
"No need to ask me again." Jack said, as he hide swam away hid behind to two corals that help camouflage with his scales.
Once Jack went to his hiding spot, Tails blast off back to where The great white shark and his gang were at. When they got back, Tails and Marine saw the gang of sharks were wrecking the homes of the fishes like Jack said they love do and were laughing as some fishes were hiding watch their homes be demolished by the sharks.
"HEY!" Tails shout at the mic of his fish translator, gaining the great white shark's attention
"Well looks who's back, I was actually hoping you be the last thing I bite before eating all the small fishes. Saving the best for last." The white shark said.
"It's time that you and gang stop terrorizing the innocent fishes and destroy their homes. It's time to stop!" Tails said, randomly pulling out a clock at his last phrase.
"It's time to stop! Or else!" Tails yelled, giving a warning.
"Or else what?" The great white shark laughed.
"Or else this. Now Marine!" Tails shouted at his friend.
At Tails's command, Marine pressed a button in the submarine and out came a two robot arms from the side. One of the robotic arms quickly stretch out and gave hard punch to the sand Shark from the gang, knocking it out cold. The great white shark growl, seeing his fallen comrade on the floor.
"So you wanna fight? Let's fight! Get them!" The white shark commanded.
With that, Tails sprang to action with his yellow submarine. The Hammerhead Shark charge up first and tried use his head to hammer down the yellow submarine to the sea floor.
Tails did his best to swing side to side to avoid the hammerhead's attack. As Tails was avoiding the attack, he notice that the school Shark was biting on the back of the submarine, trying to bite off the submarine parts.
"Marine press that blue button next to you!" Tails shouted.
Quickly as she can, Marine pressed the button that's instructed her to press. When Marine pressed the blue button, another robotic hand pop out from the submarine with a can of Shark repellent (Not the one that makes shark randomly explode.) and spray the school shark straight to the face causing to it to scream in pain.
"Ahhhhh! My eyes! They burn!" Screamed the school shark and wail out loud.
Tails stop the hammerhead's attack by stopping it with both strength of the submarine's robotic arms and grabbed the Hammerhead shark's body and used him to hammer down the school shark like a real hammer, knocking both shark's out.
When Tails was done beating the school and Hammerhead Shark, he was hit by surprise attack by the tiger shark who pounce on the submarine like a real tiger of the jungle.
The tiger shark's attack did heavy damage to the circuits of the submarine as the lights inside the submarine were flashing red in alert. Marine widen her eyes when she saw badly damage the submarine from a monitor displaying the damage.
"Tails, the submarine is badly damage! What do we do?!" Marine yelled.
"No worries, the ship has a automatic repair system build in it, but we need to run away or a bit until everything is clear." Tails said.
"Try saying that to him." Marine said, pointing at the tiger shark in front of them, who was ready to pounce attack the submarine again.
Without haste, Tails began to drive away from the aggressive tiger as it began to come at them, while the submarine's auto repair was taking effect.
Though due to the submarine being in auto repair mode, the submarine was moving in much slower rate, making the tiger shark tailgate it close from behind.
As the tiger shark drew close to the submarine, it would try to bite off the back of the submarine. Tails was quick enough to make the submarine bob and weave by making it go up and down and all around in the sea.
Tails thought of an idea to buy some time for the submarine to repair itself when he saw a barrier reefs and stones that can help slow down the tiger shark for a bit.
It was a wild goose chase through the ocean as Tails would trick the tiger shark to bump his head in a few rocks, stones, and corals. Tails would slow down the Shark by having Marine shootout tranquilizer darts at the tiger shark.
The monitor in front of Marine started beeping out loud. When Marine looked at the monitor, a big smile appeared on her face having some good news to share to her fox friend.
"Tails! The repairs are complete! All system is a go!" Marine inform Tails, giving a thumbs up.
Tails smirked, "Good, let's beat this catfish!" He shouted!
"Oh, I love that show!" Marine said.
Tails did a 180 degree turn to face back at the tiger shark, who was coming at him really fast. Tails then used the robotic hands of the submarine and gave them electric punch.
When the tiger shark got close, Tails quickly gave one electrical punch straight to the tiger shark, zapping it down to the ground.
Tails and Marine high five each other in joy for their victory, but it quickly ended when they realise that they one more bad Shark to deal with. The fox and raccoon scan the area carefully, trying to find the great white shark.
Just like before, they got hit by another surprise attack, only this time it was from underneath them. The great white shark manage to catch the yellow submarine with his huge mouth and began biting it down and shaking it violently as much as he can.
As the great white shark was biting down the submarine. The shark was draining out the power and oxygen from the submarine, dealing more damage than the tiger shark from before.
With quick thinking, Tails used the thrusters of the submarine to blast off from the large shark's mouth to escape and get good distance away from the Shark.
The emergency siren of the submarine were going off like never before as small puff of smoke was coming out of it. Tails was doing his best to calm down as he tried to fix the problem.
"Tails, we got some bad news. We're losing power to move the submarine and the submarine can't use the auto repair system because of it. Not to mention we're losing oxygen from our tank." Marine said, trying her best to help by trying figure a situation.
Before Tails could think of solution to solve their problem. His eyes immediately caught sight of the great white shark swimming towards his submarine, ready for final crunch attack with his sharp shark teeth.
Tails then face the submarine to the Shark leader with a bold face, not wanting to show a hint of fear on his face.
"Marine get ready to aim and shot at my command." Tails said.
"But Tails, we're losing power from the ship. If we use more of it we wouldn't be able to move. As much as I love being in the sea, I don't want to be part of it forever!" Marine shouted scarily.
"I'm well aware of that, but I rather go out with a fight than be fish food." Tails said with a growl while looking at the great white shark.
Tails then put on hand on Marine's shoulder to calm her down, "Just trust in me, okay?" Tails said, in a calm tone. Marine nodded at her friend got ready to shot at the great white shark at Tails's command.
Tails waited patiently as he watch the Shark swam straight forward to him with his mouth wide open. Marine steady her aim carefully at the Shark, having the aim icon perfectly set on the huge shark.
"Now!" Tails yelled.
At Tails's command, Marine pulled the trigger and out came a large electrical fishnet. The great white shark was taken by surprise as it got caught in the net. The shark struggle as it tried to break free, but kept on getting shock when trying to do so.
Quickly, Tails maneuver the submarine behind the great shark and grabbed the end of the net with the submarine's robotic hands.
With a tight grip from the robot hands, Tails used the last large chunk size of energy he had left from the submarine and began swinging the net containing the shark, swinging it around and around like a merry go round with his submarine.
We enough strength and speed build up, Tails then let go of the fish net and send the great white shark flying off from the sea, sending him far away to another part of the sea.
The other sharks from the gang witness their boss getting beaten and began to swim in fear and swam away from Tails and Marine as they scatter.
Tails and Marine once again cheered for victory as they high five each other, knowing this time that their shark week problem has been solved.
"You did it mate!" Marine said, giving Tails a huge beaming smile.
"No, we did it, Marine." Tails said, smiling back.
The fishes that lived in the area, began to come out of their hiding spots as they saw Tails and smiled seeing that the Shark gang and their silly shark week traditions has finally come to end, thanks to Tails and Marine.
The fishes then began to gather around Tails and Marine as they cheered for their heroes who protected their homes from the gruesome sharks.
Tails and Marine smiled and waved at the fishes cheering for them as Tails grabbed the mic of his fish translator to speak to fishes.
"You guys are welcome." Tails said
"Wow I can't believe it! You guys actually beat those sharks!" Said Jack the jack fish who swam back to Tails and Marine.
"Well it looks like we dealt with your shark problem. I'm sure those sharks will never come back here to wreck your home." Tails said
"But Tails, we still our own problem to deal with. We used so much power to throw that great white away and we can't even move an inch of the submarine to go anywhere. We're powerless!" Marine inform the fox.
Tails quickly tried to find a way to solve their problem. As Tails was thinking hard, a large dark shadow of a large cover above the submarine. Tails and Marine saw the shape of the large of the sea creature. At first they thought it was another shark, but quick decline it when they saw that the shape was completely than a shark would.
A big happy grin appeared on Tails's face when he recognized the shape of the large creature that was above his yellow submarine.
"It's you. It really is you. I finally found you after all these years." Tails said, with a small tear of joy coming from his eye as his friend Marine put a hand on his shoulder, enjoying this wonderful discover together.
Meanwhile with Sonic and Co.
Sonic and the gang spent most of their time traveling around the island, visiting all the places that Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles spent as kids. They went to various places of island such as the tall treetops that Sonic and Knuckles would climb and race by jumping tree to tree.
A rocky area where Tails where wrestle some monkeys, after rustling their jimmies. A beautiful waterfall where Sonic and his friends took a moment to admire the nature around it.
They went to see an area fill with woodland critters that recognize Sonic the moment they saw him appear and had small happy reunion with them. Afterwards, Sonic showed his friends a place in the area where some of the freshest peaches grew on the island and tasted them.
Honey the Cat wasn't in the best of moods as of lately. The yellow cat was frustrated that she wasn't able to spend time with her crush, Mighty the Armadillo.
Throughout her whole day on Tails Island, she was forced to spent time with her brother Sonic as she would watch her cat pal, Blaze the Cat, spend time with Mighty, getting rather jealous because of it.
The yellow cat would often see Blaze and Mighty laughing and smiling at each other. Because of this, Honey assume that Blaze was trying to gain Mighty's interest in her.
What Honey doesn't know is that Blaze was actually giving Mighty some advice to date her by giving info about the yellow cat that will help boost up their relationship and Mighty giving his reasons why he likes the yellow feline in the first place.
Honey also doesn't know is that Sonic thinks that Mighty has a crush on Blaze and was making sure that Mighty and Blaze were spending enough time with each other while he, Tiara, and Honey travel together through Tails Island. Mighty has been wanting to tell Honey about the situation about the lie he told to Sonic at the beginning of their trip, but couldn't as Sonic was always near Honey.
After the hike, Sonic sent Mighty and Blaze back to the beach where they could be alone while he, Tiara, and Honey would let them be. Honey growl in frustration as she walked towards Sonic, who was looking at a beautiful mountain with his girlfriend Tiara.
"Hey brother." Honey said, hiding her jealously from brother.
"Yeah Honey?" Sonic said, turning back and face his sister.
"As much as I like our hiking trip together. There's something I need to get from Tails's beach house I've been wanting to get for a while, so if you don't mind I really like to get it." Honey lied.
"Sure, go for it." Sonic said, giving a nod as he and Tiara started walking towards the mountain they examine.
"Okay! Thanks!" Honey said, as quickly left the blue hedgehog and manx cat.
"Well she seems really eager about something." Tiara said.
"She must really want to get what she left back at Tails's beach house. Come on, let's head to that mountain and see if we can climb it." Sonic suggested as Tiara smiled and nodded her head.
As Sonic and Tiara were closing near the mountain, they saw two familiar faces come heading their way, away from the mountain. Sonic's and Tiara's eyes widen when they saw their two friends, Knuckles and Ray, looking at beat up and covered in dirt and mud.
The echidna and squirrel couldn't walk anymore as they both fell to their knees, as they're legs finally gave in and started breathing heavily. Sonic and Tiara quickly ran to the two and help back up to their friends and worried for their conditions.
"Knuckles! Ray! What happen!?" Tiara asked.
"We don't know!" Knuckles and Ray cried out loud.
Meanwhile Blaze and Mighty were walking together on the beach discussing about the various of their lives. Blaze was just done answering Mighty's question about the busy life of being a princess, since Mighty was curious to know what the royalty lifestyle was.
"And that's how the royalty lifestyle is." Blaze said.
"It seems like being a princess is a lot of hard work if you have to go through all that." Mighty said.
"Well somebody has to protect the world from any threat that comes." Blaze told the armadillo.
"Still, having to protect all those people from being harm has to be nerve wrecking isn't it." Mighty raised an eyebrow.
Blaze chuckles softly at Mighty's response, confusing the armadillo at her random laughter. "What's so funny?" Mighty asked
"Nothing, it's just that find it a bit funny that you and Honey like each other and I can see why." Blaze chuckled some more.
"How so?" Mighty wonder.
"When I really think about it. The two of you are kinda the opposite of each other and yet the two of you still affect each other." Blaze said, smiling at the armadillo.
"Honey is a girl that can get pretty aggressive at times and she loves to fight. You Mighty are always calm and less violent than Honey. The things you guys have in common is your good hearts for each other. Even your names are the opposite of who you two are." The lavender cat said.
Mighty blushed, "Woah, I never thought of it that way." He said, rubbing the back of his head.
"Honey also likes you because you put her on ease and make her less violent than she usually is when she's around you. You can tell that she really likes you if you affect her that much." Blaze said.
"I won't lie, when I'm around Honey. She gives me courage and makes me fight to get stronger to protect her and our friends. I guess she affects me too as much as I affect her." Mighty laughed softly.
"Honey is lucky to have a guy like you in her life." Blaze smiled.
"Thanks Blaze." Mighty smiled.
"I can't imagine anybody else being with her but you. She's one of my cat pals, Mighty. Treat her well." Blaze gave a nod to the armadillo..
"I'll treat her as a queen." Mighty shot back as Blaze laughed his remark.
Blaze put a hand on the armadillo's shoulder, "Sonic's gotta be blind for not letting a guy like you date his sister." Blaze said, comforting Mighty.
"I'm sure I just have to warm up to Sonic, hopefully when that happens he's over his protection for Honey." Mighty said.
"Blaze!" shouted a voice angry behind the lavender cat and armadillo.
Mighty and Blaze turned around to see a very angry, Honey the Cat, giving Blaze a bloodthirsty look of anger on her and her cheeks red in anger. Both Mighty and Blaze gulped their saliva in fear as they saw Honey. The yellow cat stomp her way to the lavender cat and armadillo as they stood there frozen.
"Why is Honey angry?" Blaze said, scratching her head.
Mighty's eyes widen realizing the reason behind Honey's anger, "I think Honey is angry because we been spending time with each other throughout the whole day." Mighty said, sweating in fear.
"Oh no." Said Blaze in a worry tone.
Honey got close to Blaze and gave her a cold stare like she never gave to anybody.
"Blaze! How dare you! Taking my time with Mighty away!" Honey yelled as she shook her fist at the lavender cat.
"Honey, please. You got it wrong." Blaze said, trying to explain.
Mighty stepped between Blaze and Honey, hoping to stop the conflict between the two cats, especially since the two cats cause some real damage to each other.
"Honey stop!" Mighty said, spreading his arms to protect Blaze from Honey's wrath, knowing full well that Honey wouldn't hurt him. "It's not what you think. I swear."
"Oh yeah, then why were you blushing when I saw you talking to each other just now." Honey yelled.
Mighty quickly grabbed Honey's hand with both his hands, trying to calm down the yellow cat. Honey's faced then started blushing madly when Mighty held her hand tightly with his hand and felt her anger slowly going down and her heart pumping rapidly.
Mighty looked at Honey's feline eyes with his eyes as they met, while giving her a smile, "Please just hear me out, Honey. Please, I beg you." Mighty said, tightly gripping Honey's hand.
With Honey's face blushing madly, she took in a small breath of the air.
"O-Okay." She said, blushing.
One explanation later
Mighty, Honey, and Blaze found themselves sitting on the pier of the beach, enjoying the view of the ocean in front of them as Mighty was finishing telling the situation that he and Blaze were in. Even telling Honey that Blaze knows that about their relationship and their issue with Sonic.
"So Sonic caught you blushing and thought it was meant for Blaze?" Honey said, tilting her head.
"Yeah, so I went along and told Sonic a lie that I have crush on Blaze." Mighty said, as Blaze nodded her head to Honey.
"Yes and because of that. Sonic kept pushing us away from the trip so that something could happen between us." Blaze said as she and Mighty sigh in relief when they finish their story.
"So you weren't trying to steal Mighty from me?" Honey said to Blaze.
"Of course not Honey. I wouldn't want to hurt a friend by taking the person they love away from them." Blaze said, placing a hand on her heart.
When Blaze said the word "Love" from her mouth. Mighty and Honey gaze at each other, blushed uncontrollably, and shyly away from each other causing Blaze to laugh at the armadillo's and cat's blushing faces. Once the blush from Honey's face die down a bit, she looked back at Mighty.
"So, you're not attracted to Blaze?" Honey asked the armadillo.
"No, Honey. I don't find Blaze attractive. Ummm….no offense Blaze." Mighty said, looking at the lavender cat beside him.
"None taken." Blaze answered as she shrugged her shoulder.
Honey smiled and gave out a small giggle of joy at the comment between her friend Blaze and her crush Mighty. Once Honey was done giggling, she quickly pounce and gave Mighty a hug as she pressed the side of her head on the armadillo's chest as Mighty hugged back.
Blaze smiled at the lovebirds, got up to her feet, and stretch her arms. "Well, it looks like it's time for me to hit the old dusty trail." Blaze said, stretching her arms and looked at Mighty.
"If I come across Sonic, I'll tell him things didn't work out between us and we decide to be friends and I'll lead him away from here." She said to the Armadillo
"You're a really pal Blaze." Honey smiled softly at her cat friend.
Blaze walked up to Honey and whisper in her ear, "You're lucky to have a guy like Mighty around. Don't let him slip away or else I'll really take him away." She teased and whisper to Honey as she nodded.
"Enjoy yourselves, but not too much you hear me." Blaze teased, giving a bow before leaving the area.
Once Blaze was gone, Mighty and Honey scooted closer to each other and looked at the beautiful sun that was starting to set in front of them. Honey laid her head on the armadillo's shoulder, trying get a better comfort to see the sunset.
Mighty then chuckled causing Honey to look at him weirdly.
"Why are you laughing?" Honey asked
"It's just that I never really took you as a jealous type of person." Mighty said.
It was Honey's turn to laugh, "Neither did I. I guess I just….." Honey was interrupted by Mighty.
"Like me so much." Mighty teased, finishing Honey's sentence for her.
"Yeah. I guess I like you too much, you big lump." Honey blushed, twiddling her fingers shyly.
Mighty and Honey back at the sunset, reflecting its light on the ocean, giving the cat and armadillo a beautiful sight to witness together.
"We might not have spend the whole day together, but least we could enjoy this beautiful sunset together." Mighty said, holding Honey close to him.
"Yeah, at least we got this." She said, sighing happily.
Mighty and Honey blushed madly when they looked down to their hands and realized that they were gripping together tightly as if they had a mind of their own.
The two slowly turned their heads and looked each other, seeing the sparks in their eyes as silence occurring between.
Without thinking, the two starting slowly leaning their faces close with their eyes closed. Both their hearts were pumping madly, ready to share their first kiss together as their lips were just inches close to press against each other as nothing was around them to ruin the moment.
The kiss didn't happen though, as the ground started shaking violently causing Mighty and Honey to accidentally hit their foreheads instead of kissing.
"Ouch!" the two shouted in pain as they rubbed their foreheads as the ground was still shaking.
"An earthquake!? Right now!? Come on!" Honey yelled, angry that her first kiss with Mighty was disrupted by an earthquake.
Mighty looked around the area as the place was shaking, "No it can't be an earthquake. Something else is causing this." Mighty said, knowing how earthquakes work.
Sonic, Tiara, Knuckles, Blaze, and Ray soon appeared behind Mighty and Honey as they came in running to them at the piers.
"Guys are you okay?" Sonic asked Mighty and Honey as the ground kept on shaking. "What's going on?" Knuckles said, as and the others were trying to stay on their feet.
Honey's eyes then spotted something in the ocean in front of them as it was slowly rising above.
"Guys! Look! There's something coming this way!" Honey pointed.
The ground stopped shaking, and soon pop out something that Sonic and the others never seen in their whole life. What pop out from the depths of the ocean was a 100 feet tall squid giant in it's glory as it was waving its tentacles violently.
Needless to say, everybody was shocked with their jaws dropping to the floor as they just stood there watching the huge sea creature.
"No...way." Sonic slowly said.
"A giant squid." Ray spoke, also amazed.
"What's it doing here?" Honey asked, still angry that her first kiss with Mighty didn't happen as she was clenching her fist at the giant squid.
The giant squid then stopped waving its tentacles and looked down at Sonic and the gang with a angry expression. Sonic and the gang got in their fighting position when they saw the giant squid raise one of it's tentacles.
"Guys get ready, it might attack us." Sonic said, as his friends nodded at him.
Instead of an attack from its tentacles, the giant squid slowly lower down his tentacle that it has clenched up. Sonic and the gang were shocked when the giant squid slowly reveal none other than Tails's yellow submarine on the paw of his tentacle and laid it safely on the beach sand.
The hatchet of the submarine bursted open and out came Tails and Marine, jumping to the sandy shore of the beach. Alive and well in front of their friends.
Tails walked to Sonic with a smile of pride, "Ha! In your face Sonic! The giant squid is real as you can see right here! Woooo!" Tails said, as he and Marine high five.
Sonic and the gang were once again speechless as they looked back up to the giant squid, who was smiling and waving hello to them in a friendly manner as Tails and Marine were dancing in celebration.
Later that night
"Okay Blaze, use the power of man's red flower." Sonic said to the lavender cat, as he was stepping back from a large pile of wood that he and his friends were circling around.
"On it." Blaze answer back to the hedgehog, shooting a large fireball to the pile of woods, starting a large bonfire that became their only source of light.
"Ha-zah!" Everybody shouted at the fire started.
After everybody was done with their own little adventures. They all gather back up at the beach for a party. It was night time at Tails Island, there was stars covering the night sky above Sonic and the gang, probably the most stars they seen in the sky that night.
On a radio that Tails set up, the gang were dancing to a dumb 90's boy band song called "Get Down" by "B4-4" that always made Sonic and Tails laughed on how ridiculous the lyrics are and reminded them how cheesy the 90's were. (Trust me, just look up the song for yourself. You'll laugh!)
Sonic was dancing with Tiara near the bonfire as they dancing by spinning and turning their bodies up and down and all around. Tails, Blaze, and Marine were dancing on one of the giant squid's tentacles who also stuck around for the beach party and was dancing as well. Tails even made good friends with the giant squid and is able to call it at anytime if he's around the island.
Knuckles and Ray were dancing with Henry Every's dead skeleton body, taking turns dancing with the famous pirate, yet no bother asking the echidna and squirrel where they got the dead body since everybody was too busy having fun to even care.
Lastly, nobody was enjoying their time more than Mighty and Honey. The armadillo and cat weren't with their friends for they are sitting on top of a palm tree together in dark shadows of Tails Island, so that nobody can see them and watched their friends party hard.
The two were alone as they lean their heads against each other and their hands tightly grip together, having themselves one big summer lovin' night that they'll both never forget under the stars above them.
Alone together at last.
The End.