Chapter 10
Recon Mission:
Shoreline Conflict
Sonic's P.O.V.
In the following week, I made a full recovery so I got out of the hospital to take in the fresh air. "I'll need to stretch out the legs. I quick run around the city should do" I put my hands on the ground to prepare for a run. "Go" I dash in a flash to rip across the streets of the city to leap on the side of the building to land on top of a pole to jump off to reach the rooftop to run around it to see another building nearby.
I jump over the roof to notice a railing that led to the other building "Sweet" I said as I plant my shoes on the railing to grind across it looking over the citizens below. As the rail ends, I leap towards the building to see a ramp nearby.
I curl into a ball to roll down the ramp to launch myself through the air to land on a building 18 yards away. "That's a nice stretch" I said as my comlink starts to beep.
"It's Espio, come to the square. Debrief our new mission" Espio cut off the line for me to get there in a flash.
I see Jet and Espio waiting for me in the square, Espio is playing with his kunai twisting it with his finger and Jet is using a pocket computer.
"This is going to be hard to crack, maybe it'll…" he suddenly snaps the computer shut and slips it away as I try to look at it.
"What are you looking up?" I asked.
"I'm looking up some equipment for my gloves and hovershoes, trying to upgrade them" Jet said.
Espio has a strange look on his face. "Well, our mission is to go to a port city New Dawn to check a suspicious cargo in the ship that docked there two days ago" Espio said.
"Where is it?" I asked.
"It's along the coast line south of here, 28 miles away. There's a person down there keeping tabs on the ship's cargo" he said as we head for the hidden hanger.
As we get into the hanger, we see a four seated buggy parked nearby "Shotgun" Espio said.
"Fuck" Jet said as I sit in the driver's seat, Espio in the passenger seat and Jet is in the back seat.
The doors open up as I stomp the petal to go at full speed to leap out the door to head for the port city.
Meanwhile in an unknown location, Fiona, Scourge and Fang regroup to recover their wounds. "Damn, you guys are worthless in a fight, you do know that" Scourge stated as Fang pointed his pistol at his head.
"You want to repeat that mate, if I heard correctly. You'll go out of here without a brain" Fang said as Scourge shown a self-righteous smirk.
"What are you waiting for, a space rock to hit us" he urged as Fang cocked his gun in Scourge's face.
"You assholes, stop fighting or I'll blast you both to oblivion" a ghostly voice said from behind them.
"Geist, how's it going?" Fiona said as she slaps him a high-five.
Geist is a purple mink who's about 21 years old. He has pearl-white eyes, lean figure, and 3'9 tall. He has black gloves with orbs on them and black shoes with weird markings on the sides. He's enigmatic, strong willed and thorough. Also has a scar across his face.
"Nothing really, got a job for us to do. Bark turn on the screen" he said to a large Mobian.
Bark is a yellow polar bear who's about 15 years old. He has blue eyes, short blond hair, strong build, and 3'12 tall. He's wearing a red cap, green gloves, and black hiking boots. He's stubborn, rash, and fierce.
"Okay, let's see. Here we go" he press a few buttons to see the screen to pop up.
"Hello, hello. Is this thing on?" a voice said out of the screen.
"Yes, doctor. It's on sir" the robot said as Doctor Robotnik's image came up on screen.
"Egghead?" Scourge said sounding surprised.
"Well, you guys. I have a job for you to complete. There is an artifact inside a transporter docked at New Dawn City. Secure this artifact and you'll be pay handsomely as usual" he said.
"We'll take it" Fiona said as Eggman has a big grin on his face.
"Excellent. One of my Omega Brigadiers will provide assist you. Nice doing business with you" Robotnik said as the transmission cuts off.
"Okay, Bark come with me. I'll call Vet for backup" Geist said as the two vanish down the path.
Meanwhile we travel for 3 hours on the coastline to see the city in our sights. "Wow" I said amazed by the coastal city but it look more ugly with Eggman's goons are everywhere.
"We'll need to park the Buggy on the side while we need disguises" Espio said as I park the Buggy near a sand dune to hide it from sight. Espio climb out the car to go to the trunk to grab some cloaks. "These will suffice" he said as he tosses us each one.
We head inside the city with our cloaks on for us to remain undetected. "Good thing, Egghead is not thorough" I said.
"Your one to talk" Espio said as Jet laugh at the joke.
"You just got burn" Jet said as I jab his shoulder.
"Let's split up to cover more ground" Espio said as we went in different directions.
Espio is going over to the guard quarters to check out; he ducks under the window to see three swatbots on sleep mode inside pods. "Good" he searches the area to find nothing. "Damn it, nothing" he said as he jump out a window for a group of swatbots to come into the room.
"Man, it's a fortress in this place" he said as he spots more guard stations along the edge of the city.
I walk along the sidewalk to see Egghead's goon squads walking through the area. "Man, this guy is paranoid with the security" I said as a flash of terrible memory surface in my mind.
I suppress this memory because it was too horrible to remember as a person is standing far away and the Doctor came in the screen in his mech to open fire. I try to reach the person but it was too late, he shot the person right in the chest.
"That's the first time my speed didn't cut it, this still freaks me out. I need a drink" I said as I enter a bar. The place is loaded with Mobians of all kinds. "This must be a well-known bar" I thought as I take a seat near the window.
There's an attractive lady coming this way to take my order. "Hello sir, may I take your order" she said as her soft sexy voice rang a familiar sound.
"Mina. Is that you?" I asked as Mina looks confused.
"Sir, how you know my name?" she asked as I lift my hood to show my smile as Mina's face flush red. "Ssssonic, what are you dddoing here" she said tumbling on her words.
"Question, what you are wearing" I said seeing Mina in a sexy outfit. She's wearing a blue tube top, form fitting short black skirt, fishnet stockings, and sky blue heel shoes. Her long waist length hair in curly waves and her yellow fur shining like a diamond in the sunlight.
Mina looks very embarrass by her racy outfit. "This isn't the most modest uniform but I have to keep tabs" she said as she tries to fix her tight skirt. "Damn, these skirts are too small, what do you think?" she show her backside for me to see her curvy hips and round rear forming on it.
"Personally, it shows off your lower body pretty good. Very sexy" I bluntly said for me to mentally slap myself.
"Thanks" she said with a blush on her face. She pulls out something out her bra to toss it to me and grab it in mid-air.
"Do you normally put big secrets in there?" I teased her as she flushes cherry red.
"Quit it, you're making me blush. Anyway, that's a dock key, use it to go inside the cargo ship and destroy the cargo inside" she said as I hug her.
"Thanks, you're the best. Catch you later" I said as I went out the door for Mina to be left dazed by my hug.
"Always a pleasure to help, Sonic" she thought as I walk into the crowd.
I walk through the sidewalk to see a huge crowd of people around the intersection. "What's going on?" I said.
"Some idiot is getting in a fight with the guards" a fellow mobian said as I went across the crowd to get a better look.
"What the hell! This is totally unfair, I pay the taxes that I own you" the angry person shouted at the head of the guards.
"No excuses, you were too late, so we are taking your property until you pay last month and this month" the head guard said.
"Who's that?" I asked that same mobian.
"The jackass's name is Alpha, he's part of the Omega Brigade and ruler of this city" the mobian said as the guards moved along leaving the stranger behind.
"Yo man, are you okay?" I asked in concern.
"Yeah, I'll live" he said as he picks himself up. "You Sonic the hedgehog?" he asked.
"Yep, that's me" I said as the stranger shakes my hand.
"The name's Aero the hedgehog. It's an honor to meet you face to face" he said.
Aero is a green hedgehog that's about 16 years old. He has yellow eyes; quills hiked up, 3'5 tall, and lean figure. He's wearing black gauntlets, white cloak, green combat boots and a sword sheath hanging on his back. He's kind, laidback and thoughtful. Also can be stoic in battle.
"So, you need help with anything?" I said as Aero pull out his sword to see it shine in the sunlight.
"I'm going to attack the cargo ship and steal their treasure, call it payback" he said as a light bulb in my head with off.
"You can help me break inside and take the cargo" I said as we head for the docks.
Meanwhile Espio is checking out the docks to see several sniper towers surrounding the area. He grabs a sniper rifle from the guard quarters as he position himself on the roof of a nearby building.
He sees ships coming into port, once they call their horns; they will not notice the shots. His rifle is equipped with a silencer just for being careful. He shot the first one in the head as the ships cry out their sounds.
He kept on shooting laser bolts taking down the bots leaving the area cleared. "Sonic, this whole area is cleared you can move in" Espio said on his comlink.
"Thanks, come on board ASAP" I said as I cut the line. We head for the ship as we jump across the gap between the ship and the dock. "I hate water. I hate water" I thought as we hit the deck as we spot several squads of swatbots.
"Halt, this area is closed off to the general public. Leave at once" it said as I show my face to launch a kick into the swatbot's chest for it to fly into a pile of crates. "The hedgehog, get him" the robots open fire as we scatter across the deck.
"Sonic, let's split up, I'll meet you at the lower levels" Aero said as we went in different directions. He goes in with his long sword to slash a nearby bot, then to thrust into a swatbot's chest to toss into a crowd of robots.
I went to kick a bot as I hop off the fallen robot to stomp on top of a swatbot's head. Then I link my legs around a bot's head to swing it up in the air to kick it into a squad of swatbots. I kept going for the opening towards the inner area for a Goliath mech to fire its machine guns to spread laser fire across the deck.
I slide under the large robot to hop towards its head "Axe Kick" I cut across its neck with a swift kick to sever its head. I got to the ground the Goliath hit the ground with a big thud. "Got to keep moving" I got into the stairs going towards the lower areas.
Aero is on the 3rd floor, only several floor away from the bottom as he notice several hover drones searching the area. "Time to use some tech" he toss out an EMP grenade into the hall for a blast of blue energy to cover the whole area disabling the droids. He walks up to a droid and rips open its head to see its brain.
He went over to elevator shaft to see a lift going up the shaft; I overcharge the droid to toss into the opening. The makeshift bomb set off to destroy the lift and all the bots got vaporized by the explosion. The lift is struck on the 8th floor as he leaps down the shaft and thrust his sword into the wall to slow his descent towards the broken lift.
He lands on the lift with a thump to see the 8th floor in view. He checks the halls to see no sign of enemies anywhere. "The hell, where everybody go?" he questioned as he walk through the halls.
"Never let your eyes fool you" a voice echo in his head as I toss my sword into the wall to hit a hidden turret concealed inside. He tosses out an EMP grenade into the hallway for the blast to disable the hidden turrets in the ceilings, revealing their hiding spots. He grabs his sword and destroys the turrets.
"Thanks Master" he said as he goes towards the bottom floor.
Meanwhile I keep running towards the bottom floor to face resistance. "Homing Attack" I curl up into a ball to continue hitting bots in the head.
Goliath came out of nowhere tries to slam its large fist in my direction for me to leap on its arm and kick its head hard enough to make it flinch. I flip kick its head off to hit it towards the crowd of bots to wreck them badly.
I see piles of scrap everywhere as I see an empty shaft that leads towards the last floor. I leap down the hole to land on a busted up lift. I walk into a vast area filled with varsity crates and boxes. "This must be it" I said as Aero and Espio came into the picture.
"Espio, have you meet Aero?" I asked as Espio looks at the green hedgehog.
"What's up" Aero said as Espio looks sharply at him.
"Don't worry, he needs to get use to you, since you are a newbie" I said as we three walk to the center of the cargo area to see a glass case with a red emerald inside.
"A chaos emerald, some of the most powerful artifacts in the universe" Aero said as we got closer I sense something.
I grab both Espio and Aero and got out of the rocket's path for it to destroy a box of weapons. "Damn, I miss" a voice said.
I look at the voice's direction to see three people on top of a crate. Vet, Bark and Alpha are right up there. Bark toss the rocket launcher aside, "Piece of crap" Bark said.
"You!" Aero shouted as he draws his sword at his enemy. "You jerk, you screw me over back" he said as Alpha laughed.
"You are that kid from before. You need to stick your nose out of other people's business" Alpha said.
Alpha is an orange lizard who's about 24 years old. He's body is half flesh and half robotic with a blaster attached in his left arm. He has black robotic eyes, strong frame, and a solid horn out his forehead and 3'10 tall. His voice is more robotic than organic.
"You must be here for the emerald. You'll have to go through us first" Alpha said as they got into combat stances.
"Looks like we can't secure this emerald, unless we beat them" Espio said as we got into battle positions to fight.
Meanwhile on deck a female dress in black sneaks into the command tower and hack into the computer mainframe find something. "This hold place will be seal off, hold on guys" she said as she hack as fast as possible.
Back to us, we are in a fierce battle to gain the chaos emerald as Bark and I are getting to know one another. Bark slams his fists towards me but I twist myself around to kick him on the back of his neck.
He swings his large fists to hit me but I dodge his attack as I flip backwards. "Hah, you miss me" I said.
"Ground Quake" he crash his fist into the floor to knock me to the floor for him to reach out and grab my foot but I quickly recover and hit his hand off my foot.
"Don't touch the sneaks, Axe Kick" I roll up to Bark and slash his chest with one swift kick. "Thruster Swarm" I rapidly thrust my foot into the bear's chest to seriously wound him.
Then a ball of energy came in my direction for me to dodge it to see Vet double teaming with Bark. "This is great" I said sarcastically.
Espio equip with his kunai knife at Bark to cut across his back for blood to spread on the floor. "Have a ball" he toss a black ball at the duo for Vet to shoot it with an energy ray. The beam pierces the ball for smoke to explode all over the place.
With the two blinded, now I see an opening. "Homing Attack" I toss myself against Vet to launch him into a steel crate to go right inside.
"Blast you hedgehog" Vet recover as he fires waves of energy bolts from his armored gloves.
I start to dash through the barrage to send a kick aim at his head for Vet to project an energy barrier to block my attack.
"Crap, Spin Dash" I spin at high speed in ball form to strike the barrier to grind against the shield. "Come on" I said as the barrier bounce me off for me to gain my footing.
"Useless, Mass beam" he shot a large powerful ray at me as I roll out of the way for the blast to destroy a pile of crates.
Elsewhere Aero and Alpha are fighting on a cat walk up above as Alpha fire lasers from his arm blaster with Aero deflects his attacks with his sword as he gets closer.
Aero swing his sword at Alpha but the cyborg grab the blade with his robotic arm and toss him across the cat walk to point his blaster at him. "Pulse Laser" he fire a big green energy beam towards Aero.
Aero dig his sword into the steel floor to slow himself down, he swing his blade in front to collide with the beam head on. He's getting push back by the force of the attack as he slaps the beam away with his sword for the attack to hit the wall.
"You were a pest and still are a pest. When will you get off my back?" Alpha threatens the young hedgehog as he pointed his blaster at him.
"Not until you give me my family heirloom back. That ring belongs in my grandmother's grave" he said as Alpha flash a ring with a red gem on top on his ring finger.
"You're too weak to wield this ring, Flame Lance" he shot out a red energy spear speeding for Aero.
He try to block but it came too fast it bore into his left shoulder and it got him to the other end of the cat walk. Aero is struck on the wall with the spear still impaled on the wall. Blood is leaking from his critical injures.
"You are still weak. Everyone retreat" Alpha said on his comlink as the ship's doors start to close off. "You all are trap inside, if you bother to decode the countdown. The ship will explode before you crack it. See you all in hell" Alpha said as he teleport out of the ship.
"You got to be shitting me" Aero said as he grips his wound as blood is rapidly leaking down his arm.
Espio goes to a console trying to hack it. "Hold off our guests while I crack this" Espio is typing on the keyboard as swarms of swatbots came in from the catwalks from above to fire hails of lasers to come down on us.
I leap up to a cat walk to grab onto Aero."Hang on tight" I jump off for laser fire to cut apart the platform.
I land back on the floor to come across crates of grenades for an idea to pop in my head. I place Aero on the floor to kick a crate of explosives near a support pillar holding up the platform with all the bots on it.
Espio toss me an explosive knife to me to throw at the crate to set off a fiery explosion to wreak apart the cat walk and trash the robots into the ground.
"Almost, almost" Espio said for the console to burst into flames from the strain of the data. "Now, we're fucked" he said as he kicks the computer for the computer to explode.
"Man, fate is starting to piss on us" Aero said as the interior starts to collapse around us. As I turn to get Aero, a pillar from behind bang against my head knocking me out as darkness clouds my view.
Within the darkness, I feel very hot, the heat is going under my fur and skin as fire is everywhere as the city is on fire with bodies laying on the ground in blood soaked pieces. "Guilty" a low creepy voice came from an old building.
"Who are you? Who's guilty?" I shouted at the figure as it walks out the building with its head hang down staring at the floor.
"A great injustice has taken place here, these folks didn't deserve to suffer especially someone very close to your heart" it voice sounds more like a female.
Then the images vanish from sight as my body feels wet as I smell seawater. I think I'm at the beach as the cooling sea air feels great. Tears start to drop on my forehead as I see Mina crying with her hands covering her face.
"Mina?" I said as the mongoose looks relief as she hugs me tightly.
"Oh Sonic, I'm so glad your okay" She said cheerfully as she patch me up. "The debris cut up your body something horrible. I was scare half to death with all the cuts around your body" she said as I look at the plume of smoke at a distance. Espio is looking over the sea while Aero is standing on the sand dune staring at the sky.
"How it we escape?" I asked as Mina show her pocket computer and her form fitting black bodysuit.
"I sneak on board and hack the system to let you guys go" she said as she finishes bandaging me up my arm and chest. "There all patch up" she said.
"Thanks, you are one hell of a wildcard" I said as Mina blushes as I hug her. Espio walks up me Mina.
"Mina has Jet try to make contact with you?" he asked as Mina shakes her head.
"No, have not heard of him at all" Mina said as Espio has an annoyed expression.
"He's starting to become unreliable. What the hell is he doing?" he said. Speaking of the devil, he appears on a sand dune right behind us.
"Hey, guys. Did I miss anything?"He said as Espio jumps up to the green hawk to press his knife against Jet's feathered neck. "Cool your engines" he said as Espio presses his dagger closer to his feathers.
"Look Jet, you deserve that for blowing us off. We really needed you" I said as Jet floated in mid-air with his hover-shoes.
"I had to take care of business, I need to go to Angel Island and check something's, see you guys later" he said as he went off at high speed.
"Damn it, we're not finished here" Espio said as he chases after him as Mina and I follow after him. I look over to Aero's spot but he was nowhere to be found.
Aero covered in his cloak as he looks from the far off sand dunes to see us in the distance. "Good luck, guys. Our paths will cross again in the future" he said as he vanishes into the far reaching beach.
Meanwhile on the Floating Island, several D.L. warriors are station near a shrine with their commander. "
"When do we steal the Master Emerald?" one of the warriors asked his commander.
"At the crack of dawn, we take the gem" a strong female voice said as the armored warriors hide in the forest.