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Chapter 9: Race to Kanto pt 3

Clanking chains echoed down the rocky walls as Sonic was slowly being lowered down. On his back, Link's clawshot was clenching tightly (and painfully) to his fur. He went down a couple feet until the clawshot came to a stop.

"This isn't far enough!" Sonic shouted up. "I need to go down more!"

"This is as far as it goes!" Link replied. Him, Mario, Falco, Snake, Pikachu, Pichu, Warrior Kitty, Light, and Frost all stood at the edge of the cliff and looked down at the hedgehog.

"Well maybe you should think about getting a longer clawshot!" Sonic shouted back at the hylian with a scowl. Suddenly, he was jerked downward and he started feeling something rip on his back. Eyes widening and ears lowering, Sonic put on an "oh shit" expression. "Oh no..."

Finally, the fur on his back ripped off and he started falling down the cliff, his scream echoing back up as he did. Back on the edge, the others watched with wide eyes until they cringed once a large crash sounded.

At the bottom of the cliff, Sonic had landed head-first on the log pile. He groaned painfully and blinked open his eyes. The first thing he see was Mighty, Lilac, Midna, Shadow, Dillon, and Hammer Bro looking at him in surprise. However, the dark hedgehog sighed and lowered his ears.

"Oh no..." He muttered and turned to the Vulpix. "You're bringing him on this mission?"

"Hey, what's up Shads!" Sonic greeted and got into a sitting position. "Didn't think we'd run into you and your friends out here." A confused expression then came on his face. "Hold on, what're you guys doin' here?"

"We'll explain later." Lilac told him. "First, we gotta get back to the others. Shadow, can you get us up there?"

"Of course." Shadow then took out his green Chaos Emerald and held it tightly as it began to glow. "Chaos Control!"

Back on top of the cliff, Link was pulling his clawshot back up. Once it reached them, the group looked silently at the blue fur clenched in the claw.

"...That's not good." Warrior Kitty finally mumbled.

"That's great." Falco growled. "Now three of our teammates are stuck down there! Got anymore brilliant ideas, Light?"

"Hold on, I'm thinking." Light waved her paw at the pilot as she began to process ideas. All was quiet again until a bright, green light flashed behind the group. They turned around in surprise to see the four Assist Trophies appear there with Mighty, Lilac, and Sonic. They remained quiet as the two groups faced each other.

"Huh, well that was convenient." Frost finally said.

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After Shadow had got them out of the cliff, he teleported the entire group and the motorcycles to the other side. Mighty and Lilac explained to the others as to how the Assist Trophies got there and what they were doing. They then accepted the four into the group and they proceeded on their way to the Kanto region.

Finally, after about an hour or two, they reached their destination. The group had entered Kanto from Pallet Town and rode their way to Lavender Town. It took quite a while to go through all the routes, but they, luckily, had no problems regarding wild Pokemon or trainers. Through out the ride, the five girls were amazed by seeing the entire region in real life.

But despite all of this, the group couldn't help but notice the quiet and...dead atmosphere, which was really abnormal for the region. Sara and Ebony were definitely here.

After a while, they all finally exited out of Route 9. "Okay, there's the Rock Tunnel." Pikachu said as the group stopped their motorcycles and got off. "We just need to go through here and it'll lead us straight to the entrance of Lavender Town."

The group looked at the entrance to the cave. Darkness was all that could be seen from inside and cold air blew out at them.

"Oh boy..." Hammer Bro squeaked nervously.

"Alright, let's do this!" Light said exictedly. With that, they walked forward and entered the Rock Tunnel.

And what will they find within this tunnel? Only time will tell...

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