ARC 3: Sodor Grand Prix
Chapter 6: Breezie The Hedgehog PT 1
Light made its way into Vanilla's eyes as she slowly began to open them while groaning. She moved a hand over her eyes to block the incoming light, but then she heard multiple voices.
"MAMA!"
"Vanilla you okay?"
"Ms. Rabbit please speak to us."
"What happened?"
Vanilla fully opened her eyes and looked to see everyone surrounding her, including Tails. She was lying on the hospital bed Tails was previously on. Shade, Bunnie and Gemerl were also there to check on her. Cream immediately went to hug her.
"Oh mama I was so worried! You passed out on us." Cream said.
"How long?" Vanilla asked.
"Just 20 minutes...but why?" Sonic asked.
Vanilla remembered why and now knew she had no choice but to tell them about her thoughts. She took a deep breath as everyone moved a bit closer.
"It's Breezie..." She started.
The others were confused of course.
"What about her?" Shade asked.
"She's...she's planning to take control of the whole island!" Vanilla revealed.
"WHAT?" Tails gasped.
"No! She wouldn't do that! Right Honey?" Cream whined.
Honey thought back to how many times she had seen Breezie on the phone, but never payed her no mind to what she was talking about. Now that she thought about it, Breezie did seem to be hiding something.
"I don't know...I was sure I could trust her, we all should have." Honey said.
"Well now we can't...Breezie can't do this! And I won't let her!" Sonic shook a fist.
"We can just go ambush her right now, she's probably at Sir Topham Hatts office." Gemerl suggested.
"True...however, you know she really love the media...maybe we can use it against her." Sonic figured out.
Everyone turned to the blue hedgehog confused.
"What do you mean Sonic?" Tails asked.
"I'm saying we should wait until the Sodor Grand Prix begins, there we can foil her plans once and for all and humiliate her. It's time to wreck her empire!" Sonic held a thumbs up.
Everyone agreed, it was a good plan...except for one detail.
"Uh...what about Predator Hawk sugar-hog?" Bunnie asked.
"I have a feeling he and Breezie are working together...and so...we need someone to go undercover and kinda spill any more hidden details on their plans." Sonic said.
They all looked at one another, who would volunteer for that?
"WE WILL!"
Honey smiled and raised both Zooey and Perci's hands.
"Huh?"
"What?"
"Yeah, we can totally do this!" Honey cheered.
"True, you three are in the same businesses as Breezie." Tails figured.
"Are you sure about this?" Rouge asked.
"Of course! not to worry, we can make her crack." Honey smirked.
"Excellent, meanwhile me and Tails need to go get our extreme gear for practice, I wanna give Jet the challenge of his life." Sonic said.
"Let's go! Wait...Vanilla will you be okay?" Tails asked.
"Yes I'm fine now." Vanilla assured.
Cream helped her mother onto her feet as they proceeded to leave the hospital and over to Toby.
"Everything in there okay?" Toby asked.
"Yep, come on Toby, I wanna get Vanilla a little ride if that's okay." Cream said.
"No problem." Toby ringed his bell.
Meanwhile, Thomas was racing through the night heading home after a crazy day. Up ahead he could see Percy taking on water while still wearing his cat outfit.
"Hello Percy, where have you been lately?" Thomas asked.
"Oh hey Thomas...I've been going all around the island showing off my outfit...but now I'm heading home." Percy said.
"He-he, you sure do look great." Thomas chuckled.
"Thanks...hey what's wrong?"
Thomas had suddenly felt a strange energy...it was very familiar. He looked down the tracks and gasped.
"Thomas?" Percy called out.
"Percy...it's...it's."
"It's what?"
"Follow me."
So Percy followed Thomas down the line, it was starting to get foggy but the two pushed on. Percy had no idea where Thomas could be taking him, or could be feeling. Finally after a few more minutes, Thomas stopped at a familiar location.
"What are we doing here? I don't think she needs help right now." Percy whispered.
They had stopped just before the magic buffers, Thomas shut his eyes.
"Hello again Thomas...I sense trouble heading to the island again..."
"Yes...but nothing as big this time."
"Indeed, I believe you and Sonic can handle this one on your own. However, I believe some alternate forms are necessary if you want to learn more...maybe even join the grand prix. I sensed how you wish you could join in."
"It would be nice, but how?"
"Keep your eyes closed."
Immediately Thomas and Percy began to feel themselves float of the ground and surrounded in magic gold dust. Percy's eyes were forced shut as they groaned in uneasiness.
"Don't worry...you'll be able to change back whenever you want to."
Up in the sky, Rouge was flying around thinking back to that pod.
"Soon we'll need to crack that thing open and either save or destroy whatever is inside." Rouge thought.
Suddenly she sees a bright golden light shoot out nearby some trees, she thought it was uncovered treasure.
"Ooh, looks like tonight may be my lucky night." Rouge figured.
She flew down towards the location as the beam vanished, but what she saw made her gasp.
"Huh...that's a good look for you two." She purred.
Meanwhile, Breezie had exited Sir Topham Hatt's office satisfied and ready to move on to the next part of her plan, the Sodor Grand Prix. Many fliers were posted all around the island so everyone was excited. Breezie was ready to own the island for herself. Up in the sky, she could see Predator Hawk coming to land.
"Nice work Hawk, keep this up and the money will be yours." Breezie said.
"Good...I'm actually having fun with this. So did the man finally crack?"
"Oh yes, he thinks I just want part of it, but I'm gonna claim all of it once the Grand Prix is over, thought I'd give the plan a little stretch in order to lower suspicion. Hmm...though I may have another problem."
"What?"
"That mother rabbit...she's been getting in the way a lot. She knows too much, probably told the others by now."
A crooked grin spread across Predator's beak.
"You want me to take her out?"
"Yes...but not now...like I said, need to lower the risk. Wait until tomorrow, but still make sure she never gets to me."
"With pleasure, I assume she's the one who did that?"
He pointed to the little spot of dried blood on her lip.
"So what?" She scoffed.
"Just asking." Predator shrugged.
"Just keep them away, QUICK HERE COMES HONEY!" Breezie shooed him away.
Predator flew off just as Honey, Perci and Zooey came over acting like nothing happened.
"Hey Breezie, how's your business holding up? You've been doing a lot lately." Honey asked.
"Oh it's perfect, Sir Topham Hatt just allowed me to work with him on expanding, everything is going according to plan."
The three quickly trade nervous smiles before looking back at her.
"I see, well you coming back to the house?" Honey asked.
"Yep, Topham looked so tired no doubt he's leaving now."
Just as Breezie said that, STH could be seen leaving his office avoiding eye contact with Breezie.
"Ladies." He nodded.
They waved before STH got in his car and sped off home. Honey had noticed STH's uneasy look so she tried to get Breezie to explain more.
"Breezie, you sure everything will be okay? No secrets that could affect any of us?" Honey asked hopefully.
"Sorry kitty, nothing else left to reveal. But I assure that my plans will have a positive impact on this island...Topham and the engines will be pleased." Breezie smirked.
"Okay then...just let us know if you need help or, find anything new." Zooey said.
Perci however was getting annoyed with how Breezie was acting, she was definitely stalling.
"Look Breezie, how do you even know your plan will work? Surely you would need more than just yourself to help expand this island...you can't have the others working for you as slaves or overwork the engines, they have enough to do as it is. Besides, this island doesn't need any more engines." Perci explained.
Breezie rolled her eyes, were they really that desperate to know her full motive? Apparently. Even so...she didn't need anyone getting in her way.
"You worry too much...just leave everything to me." Breezie said.
Perci wanted so bad just to sock her in the jaw, but seeing the small cut on Breezie's lip meant that Vanilla may have already done it. She clenched her fists tightly and just sighed.
"Fine...but don't be surprised when this plan of yours crashes and burns." Perci scowled.
She stormed off with Zooey nervously following her, Honey looked between her friends and Breezie before mouthing an "I'm sorry" and going to catch up. Breezie shook her head.
"It's getting late, better be prepared for the contest tomorrow." Breezie walked off.
Back at the sheds, all the engines minus Thomas and Percy were chatting about the strange events and the Grand Prix. Sonic, Tails, Shade and Bunnie were there watching as Tails worked on his plane.
"Huh? I wonder where Thomas and Percy are." Sonic said.
"Probably just out for a run." Bunnie figured.
"They don't usually go out this late." Shade said.
"HEY GUYS COME ON!"
The three turn to see Tails cashing a few Boos around who were laughing and stealing his tools. Henry of course backed more into his shed while the others engines just watched unable to do anything. Sonic thought it was funny.
"Lighten up Tails, they're just playing." Sonic chuckled.
"Well I'm busy." Tails sneered.
Just then Rouge arrived with too unfamiliar mobians, everyone was suprised.
"Look who I found!" Rouge smirked.
Everyone got a good look at the two. One was a blue cat dressed with a cowboy theme. He had white chest fur, blue eyes and tail, red boots with yellow stripes, black fingerless gloves, a brown cowboy hat between his ears and finally a gold chain necklace with the number 1. He was only a foot taller than Sonic. The second mobian was a shorter green cat with white chest fur, green eyes, a red baseball cap between his long ears, red and green tennis shoes and a red chain necklace with the number 6. Unlike the others he didn't wear gloves.
"Wait a minute...Thomas? Percy? Is that you?" Sonic stepped up.
The blue cat stepped up and smiled.
"Yeah...It's crazy right? Lady did this to us...and even gave us the knowledge of the extreme gear. You see, we wanted to compete in the world grand prix with you. But just being engines...there was no way we could...until now." Thomas said.
"Yeah...it would be fun. And if it goes well this year, maybe next time the others can join in." Percy added.
The mobians thought it was a great idea. Bunnie and Shade thought the two were so adorable.
"Aw you sweeties look so cute." Bunnie pinched Percy's cheek.
"Yeah, your blue is much lighter than Sonic's Thomas." Shade compared them.
"Hey, any shade of blue is awesome." Sonic scoffed.
The engines were also amazed by the transformation.
"Huh...I wonder what animal I would be." James wondered.
"I bet Gordon and Henry would be some kind of bear." Emily said.
"I wouldn't mind that, I'd be the fastest bear on the island." Gordon smirked.
"I'd be the sickest." Henry snorted.
"Hey, are those forms permanent or something?" Edward asked.
"No...we can changed back into engines anytime." Thomas smiled.
"Too bad Lady didn't want to join us." Percy sighed.
"Who said I didn't?"
Everyone turned behind Thomas and Percy to see another cat, only she was pink with dark red eyes and tail, dark blue eyelids, and long blond hair stretching halfway down the back and curled into hooks. She wore a golden dress, long red latex gloves, pink high-heeled boots and a pink tiara. She was taller than Thomas.
"Lady?" Thomas gasped.
"Who else?" She smirked.
Sonic and Tails smiled wide when they saw Thomas blush.
"You look beautiful." Percy said.
"Thanks, surely you two didn't think you were going to compete without a third member did ya?" Lady said.
"Uh...well..." Thomas was at a lost for words.
Sonic chuckled.
"Looks like we got some practice to do." Sonic held a thumbs up.
Nearby, Predator Hawk was perched on top of a building spying on them. He had heard the stories of the magic railroad and Lady.
"So...these three really think they have a chance huh? We'll see about that...heh...and so will my third employer."
Speaking of his third employer, the person contacted him. He pulled down his glove seeing the name.
"Now what could she want now? Probably to talk about what happened today with Breezie."
"Predator Hawk, what the hell was that?"
"Hey I told you from the beginning, anyone who gets in my way, will suffer as well, even if you know them."
"You're lucky you were the only one I could get to do this. But for god's sake don't screw this up."
"Relax...this will be easy..."
"It better be."
The person hung up and Predator Hawk scoffed.
"That kitty needs to take a chill pill."
To be continued...