Well, what do you know? I managed to get a new chapter updated 2 days before what I intended. Yay for suprises!
After 10 chapters in, it's time for a fight scene! Please leave a review if you have something to say!
To say all the participants in that clearing were surprised or confused by the recent events will be the understatement of the year.
Sly was shocked to see 4 friends he made during an unexpected adventure on another planet. Hiccup was shocked that Merida, out of all the scots, was still solid on the face of the earth. Sonic was surprised that out of all the times he searched for a way to meet with Rayman, he met him under this circumstance and Michelangelo was confused by the fact everybody seemed to know each other somehow.
After a bit of silence, which was caused by the 12 figures looking and studying each other, Merida was the first to speak up. "Sa, like ah said jist naw." She pointed at Hiccup again. "Ah knew ye had samething ta da with ma family and peapale disappearing!" She attacked.
"Oh yeah, sure." Hiccup rolled his eyes. "I totally did it! And I completely made my family; friends and people, as well as every single soul's present here loved once vanish!" He replied sarcastically.
"Merida, don't take this the wrong way." Sonic started. "But if what he says is true, he is definitely not a bad guy."
"Whit? Are ye jist gaing ta believe him?" Merida looked at the hedgehog, slight anger in her eyes.
Sonic nodded at her. "If Rayman is friends with this guy," He pointed to the limbless creature near them. "I trust him as an ally."
Toothless, who seemed to understand what Sonic just said, raced towards the blue hedgehog and started to lick him; much to Sonic's surprise. "Toothless, no. Don't lick strangers." Hiccup told his dragon to stop, as Sonic lifted a hand as if to say "It's okay."
"So, dudes, not to spoil a reunion or something; but what are we going to do about our problem?" Michelangelo asked.
"Did the same things that happen to us happen to you as well?" Rayman asked the turtle, who nodded in response.
"For some reason all of our friends just disappeared with no explanation." Tails explained.
"And it looks like the 12 of us are the only ones in all 3 universes that survived the whole thing." Sonic concluded.
"Then let's fix this, shall we?" Said a voice that Sonic would recognize anywhere; and that wasn't a good sign.
In the skies above, a portal opened up, and from it came out an armada of robots. Some of them were dark purple with a few lights built in their body, the others had a head that was shaped like a skull and they wore a lot of red clothing. As the robot army surrounded the group; a giant robot which had a golden orange body, a red and yellow cape attached to its back, with large feet that could easily squash anyone else present in the area, one arm was a projectile while the other was a canon and to top it all up, it head a round head that served as a cockpit.
Out of the head appeared Dr. Eggman and Admiral Razorbeard. "We hope we didn't destroy anyone's little reunion with everyone." Razorbeard teased from the head.
The group looked up at the 2 villains, each of them familiar with 1 of them; or in Rayman's case, both of them.
"Hey! Isn't that the duck robot that tried to destroy the city once?" Daxter was the first to speak up.
"Yeah. It's him." Jak said, a nod from Rayman confirmed the suspicion.
Michelangelo was the next to comment. "It's that Eggman dude! How did he escape the Technodrome? I thought we trapped him in there!"
"Haw did hi avan ascaped frim whit the witch did ta him?" Merida was also shocked to see the enemy that tried to conquer her kingdom once.
"Same question for that robot." Hiccup stated before he turned to Rayman. "How did he escape from what you did to him?"
"Your guess is as good as mine." was the reply.
Sonic only rolled his eyes as he stretched. "However and whatever is not the point. The point is that these 2 are probably behind what's going on."
"Sonic is right." Sly said as he tightened the grip on his cane. "They have a motive, and it will probably explain the portal they just came out of."
Ratchet was also getting a weapon ready. "We can never catch a break; huh, Clank?"
"Just another day at work." The robot replied as Ratchet held out his favorite blaster.
"Oh, think you can stop us now?" Eggman teased. "You will have to pass our army first!"
"Robots, attack!" Both villains ordered at the same time.
As the robots charged, the heroes got into fighting stances. Jak and Ratchet loaded their weapons, Hiccup jumped on Toothless's back while he grabbed hold on the shield which was previously on his back, Merida nocked an arrow in her bow, Sly held his cane, Michelangelo spun his nun-chucks around, Tails stood up his guard and Sonic and Rayman stretched for a bit; all were ready to take on the armada.
"Do we have any plan for this?" Sly asked.
"Be quick, take those robots out and get to Eggman and this friend of his." Sonic summed it up quickly and loud enough for everyone to hear, before the group split up.
Michelangelo had his share of fights with fighting groups of robots with his brothers, and this time was no different. They still charged at him, they still shot at him and they still wanted him dead. The ninja turtle ran towards a few robots with his Nun-Chucks spinning at full speed; once he got close to one robot, he swung his weapon into it and quickly did the same to another robot who was closed by. Once a third robot came near him, Michelangelo back flipped away from his attack and once he landed, he kicked its legs to make the robot fall to the ground. Another robot was already on its way towards Michelangelo, but the turtle quickly chained his hand with his Nun-Chucks and threw him at another robot that came near him.
As Michelangelo was handling himself well, he noticed Merida quickly dodging and rolling around the place; shooting arrows at robots that she had a clear shot of. She didn't noticed however, when a robot had its gun aimed at her from a distance. "Merida, watch out!" Michelangelo screamed as he transformed his Nun-Chucks into a Kusarigama chain, impaled an upcoming robot with its knife, and swung it at the robot that aimed at Merida.
The red-head turned as he called her, and she was fast to notice the now downed robot that almost shot her. Seeing how she was saved, she quickly raised her hand in gratitude. "Thank ye, Mikey!" She told him before getting back in the action. Merida ran through the battlefield, gathering some of her previously used arrows from destroyed robots, and shooting robots that were coming towards her. Once a few robots ganged her up, the princess took out her sword, which she took just in case, and sliced them all in a spinning motion, sending them to the junk yard in no time.
As she took a glance around, she noticed Toothless shooting plasma blasts at some of the robots while swiping his tail at others; Hiccup was on his back. When one other robot was close to him, the dragon tried to fire at him but he failed to do so, due to passing the dragons shot limit of 6. "Oh, no." Hiccup signed as the robot got closer and knocked him off of Toothless's back. In a split second reaction, Merida aimed her bow at the robot and shot an arrow at it, impaling its head.
Hiccup quickly got up to see Merida still in the position of firing. Even though he was in a middle of a huge fight, he couldn't help but notice how pretty Merida looked in that pose and with that large mane of hair flying in the wind. He quickly regained his senses though. "I think you missed me." He told her as he got back on the dragon's back.
Merida let out a small giggle at his joke. "Ah wasn't aiming fer ye this time." She replied before she returned to fighting.
Hiccup patted Toothless's head. "Come on, bud. Time for some aerial bombing." The dragon growled in agreement as both took off to the air, avoiding a few robots that charged at them. When both were high enough in the clouds, Toothless dived back down at full speed, a plasma blast building in his mouth. When they closed in for landing, Hiccup locked Toothless's prostatic tail fin in a position that allowed the dragon to glide without the Vikings help. When they were an inch from the ground, Toothless blasted the waiting robots and Hiccup quickly jumped off of his friend's back. As the night fury glided away from Hiccup, more robots made their way towards the teen; who threw his shield at them, knocking their heads away. Toothless eventually grabbed the shield when it came near him and threw it back to Hiccup, taking out a few other robots on the way back. "Thanks, bud." Hiccup said to Toothless as he noticed Sly being out numbered.
Hiccup aimed his shield in the direction of the events and a Viking weapon called "Bola" was shot from the middle of it. The weapon tangled some of the robots up, allowing Sly to worry less about the enemies and take down the now smaller group. He quickly looked in the direction of Hiccup who got back on Toothless's back. The raccoon gave him a nod and a smile signaling gratitude, before continuing to fight.
Sly was never the fighting type. Being a thief, he would usually try to stay out of sight and engage in combat only if necessary. Throughout his carrier, he found himself in a gang battle every once in a while; but even then he had his friend, Murray, helping him out. With the hippo not around, Sly just tried to be quick and attack only in given opportunities. Luckily for Sly, his friend Bentley has given him some gadgets to help him in fights, and he sure made use of them. The master thief pressed a tiny button on his cane, making it surrounded by electricity. Swinging the cane at the robots electrified them and when a group of robots charged at him, he slid on the ground with the cane touching it, leaving an electric trail on the ground which worked as well for stopping enemies.
Near where Sly was, Ratchet and Jak were also ambushed by more robots. Sly thought to help his old friends in their little fight; he took off his hat and threw it between Ratchet and Jak, and the robots. Ratchet and Jak raised eyebrows at the sight; Daxter also had no idea what its point of existence was. A split second later, the hat exploded and took down the group of robots; the 4 turned to look at the raccoon which took a new hat out of his backpack, spinning it on his finger and winking at them as he was putting the hat on his head.
Ratchet, Jak, Clank and Daxter nodded with a tiny smile at Sly before returning to fight. Both didn't have much of a strategy going on other than shooting every robot that came near them. Ratchet, however, used a weapon he hadn't used in a while; he pressed Clank's antenna, causing his eyes to shot lasers at robots that came from the back. He used this weapon only during 1 adventure, but this time seemed like a good time to use it again. While Jak shot some robots, Daxter actually charged from his friend's shoulder and made his way through the robots insides to disable them from there.
Nearby, Rayman was punching and kicking every robot that came close to him, and shooting his charged up fists at ones that were far away. As Daxter finished short circuiting a robo-pirate he threw its head to Rayman, who kicked it at one robot that was coming towards him. When 2 robots came at him from 2 sides, Rayman hovered in the air for a bit; thus causing the 2 robots to run into each other and he used the given opportunity to smash them into the ground.
As everyone was fighting their own enemies in their own way, a blue blur was running around the place destroying a few robots by running into them at enormous speeds, or by jumping on their heads. The blur, no surprise to the ones who knew him, was Sonic. He fought robots before and took them all down with no sweat at all, and this wasn't any different. If it wasn't an arrow, a fire arm or just a good beating up; it was most likely the blue hedgehog who took down a threat to the team.
Once all the robots were down, the only thing standing was Eggman and Razorbeard's giant robot. "They defeated the robots, what now?" Razorbeard panicked.
"Retreat!" Eggman replied. "You haven't seen the last of us!" He exclaimed as the giant robot was about to jump away into a portal. But sudden shots at the robot's back caused it to lose some power.
"You are not going anywhere until you bring our friends back!" Ratchet said, revealing that the shots came from his and Jak's weapons.
Merida noticed small sparks coming from the back of the large machine, signaling it as a weak spot. She took an arrow out and fired it at the back of it. When the arrow priced through that part, it caused the robot to lose more power and it seemed like it was about to shot down.
Sonic turned to Tails, who nodded back as he realized what the hedgehog was planning. Tails grabbed Sonic and threw him at the cockpit of the robot, where the 2 evil master minds were. As Sonic curled into a ball and was coming at full speed, Eggman quickly pressed the eject button; causing Sonic to miss them by a second.
As both villains escaped through the same portal they came out of, all the heroes seemed to be mad at the fact that they were so close to find a solution, but failed the execution part.
"So, what do we do now?" Hiccup asked after a few seconds of silence.
"There is probably a way to open a portal that leads to where they are." Clank popped in. "We just need to find it."
"I know!" Michelangelo suddenly said, causing all the attention to turn towards him. "We could probably use the portal in TCRI to get to where they are!" He said as he turned to Tails. "You and Donnie programmed it so that we could trap Eggman in some sort of "In-between" place, maybe that's where they keep everyone!"
Everyone, with the exception of Sonic and Tails, had no idea what the turtle was talking about; but it sounded like a good lead.
"That's actually a possibility." Tails confirmed.
"Great idea, Mikey!" Sonic said as he thumbed him up.
"Tell it to my brothers once we rescue them." Michelangelo said with a smile of pride.
"So, how are we going to get to this TCRI place, anyway?" Daxter intervened.
"I would have suggested the portal back on Berk, but it probably closed when we got there. So, we can't use it to get back to the heart of the world." Rayman said,realizing the unfortunate problem.
"I think the portal we came through in Merida's room is still open." Tails said as a reassurance.
"Then whit are we daing standing here? Let's ga!" Merida was already pumped to go before everyone realized it was already night time.
"We should probably rest tonight before going there." Sly offered. "That was a rough battle; we need to gather some energy."
"Are you still all about taking things slow?" Jak asked in a not so friendly tone.
"Let's not fight over this now." Ratchet stood between them.
"As much as I hate to admit it, Sly is right. We need to rest before attempting to fight something that can make everyone in 3 universes and tons of planets disappear." Sonic brought up.
Even the ones who hated to admit it, agreed with Sonic on this case.
"We will head out to that portal at dawn." Rayman said. "Right now, let's try and get some rest and food, so that we could all be ready for what waits us tomorrow."
Everyone nodded and went on to set a one night camp. As they were preparing their resting place, they had a feeling that what they faced today was just the beginning.
That was so much fun to write! Such a nightmare to proof check though...
I think I read somewhere that a Night Fury's shot limit is actually 14-15 and not 6, but I remember an episode of the TV show where Hiccup said it's still 6 but they regenerate their shots faster. If there is any HTTYD expert out there who can tell me what's correct, go right ahead.
A lot of the attacks that Sly uses here came from "Battle Royale" for those who wonder.
The thing with Clank's eyes is something from "Ratchet And Clank: Going Commando". I don't remember the actual name of the weapon, I just remember it looking cool(And being very helpful) so I decided, "Why not?"
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