Razor Wolfblade: the First Adventure
Intro song: Sonic X: Gotta Go Fast!
Notes: this chapter is special! It's going to have the return of a heroic Robo-fighter who died.
Earth, Mystic Ruins, November 22, 2013. Time: 11:00AM
Tails had been working on the X-Tornado 2 since he'd been able to get on his feet. He was just about finished with the repairs, when Sonic came in and asked him to stop for a second. "What is it Sonic?" the young fox asked. "There's something on the news you should see." Sonic stated simply. He seemed to be half-and-half with smiling and frowning. Tails didn't press on it and allowed Sonic to lead him to the TV room. "Okay, what is it Sonic?" Tails asked. Sonic didn't respond and turned on the TV. "Today, we bring you a very special broadcast." The reporter stated. "Huh?"
"Today, in the nearby forest just outside Station Square, what is confirmed to be the red Chaos Emerald was found, and now, we are currently setting up a two-stage event to compete for this special jewel. This situation is believed to be a way to respect the previous President's first ever Martial Arts combat tournament some ten or so years ago. We have chosen the events to be a Race to finish line in whatever transportation the contestant wants, so long as it's legal, and an almost no-rules combat tournament, just like the one held so long ago by our last president. We openly invite anyone and everyone. To learn all the rules and regulations, please ask the assistants at the register. We hope you all have a good day." And then the report ended
Tails only stood there. Sonic snapped him out of it by saying, "Remind you of anyone? Tails?" Tails jumped at his name. "Huh? Oh, yeah! This is just like that one time when we were with Chris and his family." He said. Sonic sighed. "I think you're forgetting someone Tails." He stated. "Who?" Tails replied in question. "Does Emel ring a bell?" Sonic asked simply. Tails thought for a moment before he realized who it was. Tails mentally slapped himself for forgetting Emel. His tails drooped.
Suddenly Razor came into the base. Everyone else had been off doing their own thing. "Hey, did you guys see the news just now?" he asked. "Sure did. And it brings back memories." Sonic replied. "What's up, anyway? I thought you were doing something." He asked. Razor only shrugged. "I was taking out some stray eggbots. But then they ran out. Like someone else was taking them out. Anyway, we joining the tourney, or what?" Razor explained. Sonic and Tails smirked and smiled respectively, both giving a thumbs-up. "Then what are we waiting for?"
The other side of Station Square, 11:15AM
The Pale-grey hedgehog girl blasted many Eggman Robots, enjoying every second of it. Eggman was furious. "Just who are you, little girl?!" he shouted in anger. The girl hedgehog only smirked and said, "I'm just crushing some tin cans. Besides, why should I tell you? What'll you do if I don't? Kill me? I'd love to see ya try." Eggman only growled and brought out the rebuilt Egg Walker. "I'm gonna destroy you! Get a load of THIS!" Eggman shouted as his laser fired. The girl only smirked before dodging around just as the laser would've hit her. "What?! How?!" Eggman questioned. The girl simply stated, "Yawn….this is boring. I've almost made a Sonic Boom once, I'd ruin my title if I let a simple oversized laser hit me." Eggman was furious. "Get ready to be SCHOOLED!" he yelled, firing his rocket launcher. Again, the hedgehog girl dodged just before she was struck. "This is impossible!" Eggman exclaimed. "Yaaaawwwwwnnn….you know, this game of tag is so boring, I might actually fall asleep. You know how embarrassing that would be for you? I'd beat you just by tossing and turning!" the girl taunted. Eggman was getting tired of being messed with. "Get ready to be Schooled! Get a load of THIS!" Eggman shouted as he fired both his rocket launcher and his laser. The girl only laughed. She dodged both with ease.
"C'mon! Step it up! I'm bored! Give me some EXCITEMENT. I mean, you're supposed to be an evil genius, and yet you're losing to a 'little girl' as you put it. how sad! Sucks to be you." She taunted. Eggman growled, slammed the rim of his machine, and straight up fired everything at the annoying pest. "DIE ALREADY!" Eggman shouted. The Hedgehog girl dodged one thing after another. "Now this is exciting! Good job doctor! But, I'm afraid your aim is off… I mean, you WERE after me, weren't you? She asked, soon after the barrage stopped. Eggman growled more. "Alright then." The girl stated, suddenly serious. "Playtime is over!" she said, summoning two weapons out of thin-air. They looked like oversized throwing stars. "What?! Where did those come from?!" Eggman questioned. "Like I'd tell you!" the girl stated, before throwing both of them at the mech. They circled it a few times, slashed its front in an X formation, sliced the back in a parallel lines formation, and finally slashed over and below each other moving opposite directions straight through the center of the mech from the sides, effectively blowing it up.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Eggman shouted as he was blasted off by the explosion in a cartoonish fashion. "Better luck next time, doc! And now, to find everyone. It's about time I started to help." The Hedgehog girl said to herself, before running off like Sonic.
A nearby flower field, 11:34AM
Cream and Cheese were relaxing in the flower field, picking flowers and such. Razor was practicing his sword skills, as he hadn't used his Beam Blade in a long time. Sonic and Tails were conversing about how they would enter and win the competition. Knuckles was just leaning against a tree near where Razor was practicing. "Hey Tails." Sonic said. "Huh?" Tails replied. "I think…we need to teach you some hand-to-hand combat, pal. Let's not forget your fight with Rouge that one time." Sonic stated. Tails blushed in embarrassment. "W-well, she…she kissed me! Out of nowhere! How was I supposed to react?! He stuttered, feeling his face redden even more with every word. Sonic laughed. "Okay Tails. Maybe you don't need training, but you need to brace yourself when facing Rouge. You never know when she'll give you the kiss-off again." He stated. He noticed Tails only blushed more. Tails then noticed Cream was coming over and hid behind his two tails.
"Hi Mr. Sonic, Mr. Tails." Cream greeted. Tails hid himself more. He did not want to be caught blushing by anyone except Sonic. "Are you okay, Mr. Tails?" Cream asked. "He's fine, just embarrassed." Sonic answered for him. Cream only looked confused, but accepted it anyway. "I wanted to give you both something. Here." Cream said, holding out two flower crowns. Sonic put one on Tails' tail, and put the other one around his own neck. "Thanks Cream." Sonic said. "You're welcome Mr. Sonic. Are you sure Mr. Tails is okay?" Cream questioned again. "I'm sure." Sonic replied simply. Just then, Razor and Knuckles came over. Knuckles seemed ticked about something. "Hey everyone." Razor greeted. Knuckles remained silent. "Hi Mr. Razor." Cream said. "Hey pal. You and Knuckles ready?" Sonic asked. "I'm gonna kill you when this is done." Knuckles whispered harshly into Razor's ear. "We're ready. I just hope we don't have any tough competition like Rouge or Shadow." Razor said, somehow shaking off Knuckles' threat.
Cream looked saddened suddenly. "Huh? Hey, are you alright Cream?" Razor asked. Cream only replied, "Yes I'm fine. Just remembering someone." Razor decided to gently press on. "Why does that sadden you?" he asked. "Cheese and I had to fight him…" Cream replied sullenly. Razor only asked one more question. "Can I share this experience with you?" this made everyone surpised. "Say what?" Sonic and Knuckles asked. "Huh?" Tails mumbled. "You can do that, Mr. Razor?" Cream questioned in surprise. "Chao chao Chao?" Cheese said in the same voice as Cream. "What did you say?" Amy wondered from someplace.
Razor only smiled. "Yes. I can see someone else's memories or experiences from their point of view if they allow it. I don't remember how I learned it." he said. The last part a lie. He did remember how he learned it, but they didn't know that. "Will you allow me to see what you saw, and feel what you felt when you were with this 'someone'?" he asked next. Cream nodded. Razor placed his right hand on Cream's forehead and activated his power. He soon felt and experienced something that surprised him greatly. When the memory flash ended, he fell to the ground, feeling a liquid in his eyes. He wiped it away, and stood up again. "So that's who you were talking about. I see." He said. "What did you see?" everyone except Cream asked. Cream spoke up first. "Emel…"
Station Square, 12:15 PM
"A fighting tourney for a Chaos Emerald? I'll be sure to be there, if only for everyone. Sonic, I'm wondering if you'll be able to keep up with me this time." The pale-grey hedgehog said to herself as she destroyed Eggman's leftover troops with her oversized ninja stars, the Chakrams. "This game of tag is boring. I'm outta here!" she remarked to herself as she sped off, taking out every stray evil robot along the way. "Razor, I'm coming!"
Competition registry, 1:00PM
Everyone had registered, minus Cream and Cheese. Razor suddenly had an Idea. "Hey Tails, do think you could put together a blown-up robot if you had all the parts?" he asked. Tails nodded. "Yeah, why?" he asked. Razor smirked. "Well, if you're going to be in this and have memories that make you cry, we might as well have an old friend rejoin us. Emel exploded in the Ocean, right? Surely, we can fish out the parts and rebuild him with all his memories." He explained. Tails' ears perked up and his mouth opened wide in surprise. "That could work! If I had enough of Emel's original parts and memory component, I could bring him back to life, so to speak!" he exclaimed after a minute. "Then let's get the others and get Emel out of the Ocean. It'd be awesome to learn what he's like for myself as well." Razor said.
A little while later, they'd found 80% of Emel's parts, and most of his memories were on the component they found. "Alright! These parts are more than enough to bring Emel back to us! And they haven't even rusted at all yet! In fact, they hardly look as if they'd blown up." Tails remarked. Cream had a sparkle in her eyes that showed her immense hope and excitement at the idea of Emel returning. It was 1:30 PM by the time Tails had Emel's parts placed in a solved puzzle type of formation. Tails began to construct the extra 20% of parts needed to revive Emel using the original components as the base, then he built newer versions of the old parts with the same circuitry, and better outer defense. Tails was making Absolutely 1000% sure of Emel never becoming bad again and he wasn't going to rest until he was 9001% sure of Emel being perfectly like his old self, and Immune to corruption.
At around 2:00 PM Tails had finished Emel, and just in time. He quickly registered the rebuilt robot for the tourney in the nick of time. Luckily, the actual tourney started in two days, giving Tails enough time to make completely sure Emel would be the way he used to be. Sure, he'd have a bit of a gap in his memory, but that would only make bringing him back all the more complete for them.
After only the first day, Emel was completely complete. Tails was quick, but careful, swift, but precise, you know, stuff genius fox kids do all the time. Well, maybe only this fox kid, but still, super intelligence had to be a fox thing. Tails nervously turned Emel on, and was surprised when the robot shot up and said, "Cream!? Cheese?! Wha-Tails? What's going on? How'd I get here? I thought…." He trailed off. Tails only stood there, frozen. Emel talked. Oh, yeah, now he remembered; one of his extra parts was a voicebox. "Emel, what do you remember?" Tails asked. The confused/shocked Robot replied, "I remember waking up when Cream and Cheese found me, but before that I remember I helped Bokkun with something…a machine got blown up, then Cream and Cheese found me. I was named and treated well. I lived with all of you guys as a friend for a while. I copied many of you guys' skills, and abilities, then I won a fighting tournament. I remember Rouge… kissed you and you fainted," Tails covered his face with his tails as he blushed from the embarrassment of that moment. "I got the red Chaos Emerald….and then the next thing I knew Cream was calling me, and then I was suddenly sinking in the ocean and then….I…" he saw an image flash through his head of a blinding light and extreme pain. "….Died…?" he finally finished. "You don't remember what happened when you absorbed the Chaos Emerald, or when you attacked us?" Emel froze at Tails' words. "I….absorbed…..the Chaos Emerald? And…..I….attacked you?!" he slowly repeated, feeling more surprised by the second. "Don't worry Emel! You weren't yourself then. Otherwise Cream's callings wouldn't have affected you." Tails said with a reassuring smile.
Emel's eyes seemed to give off an assured glow as he nodded slightly. The revived living robot got off the worktable. "I'm sorry you had to go through so much trouble to for me Tails." Emel said. Tails only smiled. "Actually, thanks to one of our newest friends, it wasn't much trouble at all to find what I needed to bring you back to us. I suppose I should also tell you, you've missed a bit over the time you've been gone. I've registered you for the upcoming race. We're going to compete for the same Chaos Emerald we did so long ago today, and the race is Act 1. We'd best get ready for tomorrow Emel. C'mon, everyone's waiting to see ya." The little fox explained. They walked outside and everyone reintroduced themselves to Emel.
November 23, 2013. Time: 9:00 AM
Today was the day of the big race, and everyone was at the starting line. Rouge and Shadow somehow ended up there too. "Alright contestants, let the Racers get to their starting spaces!" the commentator announced. Everyone got to their starting positions, and Razor couldn't help noticing a certain, pale-grey hedgehog girl he was familiar with standing next to him. They both made eye contact, widened their eyes in surprise, and said each other's names at the same time.
"Lirica?!"
"Razor?!"
To Be Continued…
Next Time, Everybody's Super Sonic Racing
Notes: Surprise! Emel is Emerl from Sonic Battle for those who don't know. Look him up sometime and you should find him somewhere. Emerl's name was changed to Emel in the Anime because of a translational error which made the "r" in his name disappear. He doesn't talk in the anime, but in Sonic Battle he becomes a chatterbox, so I had Tails give him a voicebox. Cliffhangers are evil, I know, but they add suspense! See you next chapter!
