Sonic: Chaos Theory
Chapter 10
Good Enough?
The desert heat was unbearable, the sands blowing in Tails eyes, blinding him as he flew across the Mayan deserts. The temple lays among the sands only a mile away, yet the weather is treacherous, and the temple may as well be twenty miles away. Not a single Chaos had been seen for miles, nor a single ally. "Ngh…. Come on….. I can make it!…" Tails flight path was set askew by the winds, and he had lost sight of the temple on the horizon. Flying blind, Tails found himself crashing head first into an unexpected visitor.
"Agh!" Tails landed roughly in the sands, and just as the sandstorm passed, found himself holding a familiar Chao with a red bow "Cheese?"
"Oh, sorry Tails, Amy sent us to find you! She thought the three of you could use some help!" Cream the Rabbit stepped up to Tails and picked up Cheese, smiling softly, with a faint expression of eagerness, ready to get in on the fight for Earth once again.
Tails wasn't surprised in the slightest that Cream wanted to help. Over the past few years, she had grown into quite a peppy young woman, with Amy's attitude and Tails manners. "Thanks Cream. We could use all the help we can get. The temple's tha-" Just as he was about to finish his sentence, Tails saw the sand shifting a few yards away from them, a massive object surfacing quickly. "LOOK OUT!!" Tails dove for Cream and flew them both out of the way as an Artificial Chaos Borrower, a chaos mech built for underground travel and high-powered ground based combat, emerged from the sands.
Tails landed a few yards further from the beast and put Cream down, glaring at the mech as a slight wind gathered around him. "Cream, When I give the signal, dive."
"Got it Tails!" Both Cream and Cheese took to the skies and circled the Burrower, waiting for her moment to strike. From her height, the mech seemed no threat, just an ant to be stepped on.
Tails retreated to a safe distance and charged a wind orb as the Burrower charged him with the gargantuan drill on its arm facing him, prepared to kill. Tails waited too long, and had to abandon the attack to retreat further. "Come on, big ugly… follow the fox…" Tails spun around and began to fly backwards, facing the beast eye to eye, and fired a wind orb into its face. As the mech slipped on the sands and fell backwards, Tails suddenly reversed the spin of his tails and flew under the beast, firing another wind orb from beneath, launching it into the air. "Cream, NOW!"
"INCOMING!" Cream and Cheese dove head first toward the behemoth, and Cream swiftly kicked it in the forehead, crashing to the ground with several tons of force. As the cloud as sand cleared, Tails found to his horror that it perfectly survived, and burrowed beneath the sands for a counterstrike.
"Cream, get out of there now!"
"What?" It was too late. Before Cream could react, the mech had vaulted itself out of the sands, and transformed back into its ground combat mode, arm high above her. The blunt side of the drill came crashing down on Cream with force equal to the landing it had experienced, and Cream was engulfed in a cloud of sand.
"CREAM!" Tails ran to her and knelt over her in the sands, checking her pulse "Still alive….." The mech landed behind him and gave off a bland, mechanical laugh. Tails sat motionless except for his tails in the wind. A wind that quickly picked up as Tails slowly stood and turned toward the Burrower, a few tears in his eyes and his fists clenched. "You'll pay for this……." the mech couldn't understand what suffering does to a hero. He couldn't comprehend the power Tails had gained at that moment. As is charged itself at Tails again and the drill was only a few feet away fro him, a furious wind threw it backwards. Tails stood surrounded in winds of rage, prepared to kill. "Chaos Tornado." Without moving, the tornado erupted from the field of winds around him, crashing into the Burrower and sending it hurtling through the air, crashing against the jagged cliffside of the temple, broken down in an instant.
The enraged fox slowly calmed down with the winds and ran back to Cream. "Are you alright Cream?"
She stirred slightly and sat up, holding her head "Yeah, I'm fine, I just need a little rest."
"Will you be ok waiting here until I get the Chaos Emerald?" Tails knew she would, but kept his manners in mind and asked anyway.
"Of course. Go ahead Tails, and show em' who's boss!" Cream gave him the thumbs up and an encouraging smile, and Tails lightly smiled back, then slowly walked off toward the Quetzalcoatl Temple, awaiting the next battle.
Tails has proven himself as a man to be a warrior with equal will to Sonics, and a descent amount of power. Yet, with so little power compared to his comrades, will it be enough?