The Guardian Revealed
Stamping of feet were heard several miles through the quiet forest as two spider monkeys followed the gray wolf with the green and blue parrot perched on its shoulder, one was carrying the yellow fox kit and the other the swallow. Behind them were two orangutans carrying the white bat and the echidna. They arrived at a wooden wall with a large hole in one side, allowing easy entrance and exit from the village it once surrounded. They entered revealing the village burnt to the ground or in a pile of wooden rubble. In the center of the ruined village was a large base possibly twenty feet high with a large clearing in the trees, making it the only way into the village by air.
"Hey, Petro," one of the orangutans said, Knuckles stirring slightly in its arm. The green parrot seemed to not hear the primate, "Petro."
"What, what is it, Oran?!" Petro said in agitation as he turned around to face the orangutan, feathers fluffing up giving him the appearance almost like a chick with its downy feather.
"Uh, the intruder is beginning to wake up." He said nervously.
"Yeah, this one of here is too." The gorilla replied, Shadow stirring slightly, fingers closing slightly as the hedgehog eyes opened slightly, "Can I knock him back out."
"No, the Guardian would be mad if we did. I'll just go inform him of the capture." The parrot said as he flapped his wings, lingering above the wolf's shoulder before flying off to the base.
"Ugh, what just…" Shadow groaned in slight pain as he lifted his hand to rub his head. He stopped seconds later as he realized he was being carried. He struggled under the gorilla's grip, gaining free just as the other awoke.
"Unhand me you filthy ape." Rouge shouted she punched the orangutan carrying her in the face, causing it to be sprawling to the ground as she hovered in the before landing on the ground softly.
"Petro," the wolf shouted as he back toward the base as the others had released themselves from their captives and had token them out easily as they try to get their guard up, "you need the hurry it up in there!" Shadow adjusted his inhibitor rings, looking at the wolf with a smirk.
"You made our mission easier. Now be a good doggy and go fetch the guardian. He must be pretty weak to send a bunch of animals to deal with us." The wolf stopped in its place, fur bristling up as it snarled at the group.
"Felder now is not the time for your temper to act up, especially to one who believes he could easily defeat me." A voice shouted causing them all to freeze in place. Felder's ears laid against his head, his tail between its legs as he looked at the ground in disappointment. Shadow and the others looked up, seeing Sonic standing on a branch several feet above their heads, his arms cross, and a currently common frown on his face as he glared at the group. Jet was also there, leaning against the same tree on a branch a few feet below Sonic's, a large grin on his face as he looked at the group.
"Hey ya." Jet said, as he waved below before jumping down along with Sonic. They landed with a thud in front of the group, dusting themselves off before Sonic spoke again.
"Hey, I'm happy to see ya got through all the animals with little damage, and Tails, sorry about that yellow jacket, had a stern talking to it for that." The group raised an eyebrow in confusion. Je saw there expression and chuckled.
"The animals here are not like the normal ones found anywhere else. The creatures have been mutated by the chaos energy on the island, allowing them a certain amount of control over it and the ability to communicate with mobians and humans and still able to understand there distinct cousins. I thought you learn that from the cave. Why else would Sonic lead you all there?" Jet explained.
"Jet, you have a lot of explaining to do." Wave shouted glaring at the hawk in frustration. Jet lifted a finger, making it move side to side as he shook his head.
"I wouldn't be getting mad. It's not a good idea to upset my brother." Jet said with a wide smirk. Sonic rolled his eyes at the comment
"Your brother!" they all shouted at the same time, looking at the blue hedgehog to see if it was true.
"He's right. I'm his brother. He was adopted into the family after both his parents died from a deadly disease along with the most of the other citizens of Babylon Garden." Sonic replied as Petro landed on his shoulder, "Anyway, I believe you have overstayed your welcome here, leave now or I'll do something I'll regret." Knuckles laughed at the comment, making the hedgehog raise an eyebrow in confusion.
"Yeah, we'll do that, after we find and beat the Guardian of this place." Sonic, Jet, Petro, and Felder had burst out laughing at Knuckles comment.
"You have no idea who you're talking to do you?" Felder replied through his laughter, "Sonic is the guardian of this island."
"What?!" they all shouted, not believing what they just heard.
"Ha, you're just like Felder, slow and dimwitted." Petro said chuckling earning a growl from the wolf.
"Hey, I'm not slow, I'm special."
"Same thing."
"So, what happened between you and the G.U.N. Commander?" Rouge asked the question she said the last time she and Shadow personally visited the hedgehog. Sonic sighed in defeat, closing his eyes.
"Look around you," Sonic replied, making a suggestion to the destroyed village. The others looked around, gasping in shock at the smoldering buildings, "this is what the G.U.N. Commander did. He caused a three year war when I was only one. He had attacked Babylon Gardens during the first year of the war. A disease had followed and was soon spread throughout the place. We tried to help, but they blocked off our way. Only a few people had escaped the garden in time, one of them was Jet. The commander soon made his way to our island, back then it wasn't surrounded by the hurricane barrier and was only avoided by the sharks that protected the waters and the birds of prey that protected the skies. My dad tried to form a treaty with them, just as he did with the Black Arms a year before. He denied all attempts, only seeking the jewels of the island. The villagers along with my dad try to drive them back, but we didn't have enough supplies, having been trapped in the village. We had to have the animals gather supplies, but it wasn't enough. He made it through the barricade and killed off most of the villagers. I wanted to help, but my mom wouldn't let me. I was sent off the island to my uncle's, Jet was staying over there at the time. My parents along with the surviving villagers had sacrificed themselves by creating a large chaos blast. It got rid of all but him. He somehow got off the island and hasn't made another attempt at the island…until now." They all looked down, seeing that they were being used for another person's scheme.
"So, we're not different after all." Shadow replied. Petro chuckled quietly as he whispered.
"You have no idea." Felder chuckled slightly at his comment.
"Well, ya should have said that earlier." Wave said nervously, legs crossed slightly and her head down nervously.
"And why is that?" Sonic asked in confusion. The island shook slightly as an intercom was blared throughout the island.
"DEFENCE SYSTEM MALFUNCTIONING. DEFENCE SYSTEM MALFUNCTIONING. HURRICANE SHIELD SHUTTING OFF!" the voice died as everyone glared at the swallow.
"Really Wave." Jet said. Wave was about to reply until the area was engulfed in a red flashing light, sirens blared out and the animals nearby except for the parrot and he wolf began to run amok. Sonic and Jet looked at each other with grim faces before rushing toward base. The others had followed and had climbed up the two flights of stairs and into a surveillance room.
"Sharel, what's happening?!" Sonic asked as a falcon came rushing up to him.
"Guardian, the sharks, hawks, and eagles from sector D and S has reported a group of G.U.N. ships and jets approaching this way, ad their coming in fast." Sonic walked up to the screen before looking at the falcon.
"Tell Maurice and Drake to get all the sharks to tear through the ships. Send some bombers to assist Herald and Joseph. I want all predators near the beach. All birds are to be in position if they make it past them. Everyone else, have their traps ready. This is not a drill." As he finished, the building shook slightly as the sound of a helicopter approaching was heard from above.
