Chapter 10: The Fight for the Village

From the nowhere shadow monsters popped up, more than we could count.
They rushed in the village's direction. Mephiles was shaking in fear, but he pulled himself together, and ordered his minions.
"Prepare yourselves, my Christaline servants. Let none get trough!"
The Christaline monsters formed a defense line in the only bridge leading to the village, and the small foothold we just created in the coast. It wasn't small, just a small half circle in a 10 meter wide range from the bridge's beginning, rounded by a wooden palisade.
"Let's go guys!" I shouted, but it wasn't required for them. They all rushed forward to the battle area.
Amy easily wrecked the monsters with her piko piko, Sonic and Shadow preformed cool combo attacks, and the enemies just went flying. and Blaze pulled up a firewall in front of the palisade.
Fang and Jack operated one of the two turrets Tails built, the other one was operated by Tails himself, and one of the villagers. Tails gave him instructions every second.
Omega used his machine guns to kill the attackers, and Rouge used her deadly kicks.
'Note to self: do not make Rouge angry, because one kick in the balls and I will never have a child.'
Shade used her leech blade, and Mephiles used his powers to get rid of the attackers.
Luna was busy to reinforce the bridge, to make sure it will hold the extra weight in case of a retreat. To be honest, it looks very likely. No matter how hard we fight, no matter how many enemies I throw away, or crush into the ground with my psychokinesis, 3 others took every defeated enemy's place. It is only a matter of time before they are breaking trough.
"UP! In the sky!" I hear Tropos yelling to us, and I look up.
Flying shadow horrors are filling the sky.
"Rouge, Tails, we have to fly up into the air!" I yelled
"On it!" Rouge said, and flew up.
"Tropos, please operate the Turret!" Tails asked his great great grandchildren. Even the fact gives me the creeps. Tropos quickly get into the turret, and Tails is flying up with me.
"Thanks for joining the party!" Rouge said to us, as she kills 3 monsters with the same kick.
"No time for teasing now." I barked, and pulled up a rock boulder from the ground, and used it as weapon, as usual.

Barely ten minutes has passed since the battle begun, but we were losing the small foothold. They have broken trough the palisade, and the number of the Christalines were dwindling too quickly.
"Fall back to the second line!" I ordered the retreat.
The christalines rushed forward to protect us, while we made our retreat. The guys down there run trough the bridge, and Luna, who reinforced it, now letting it go, and the bridge is collapsing behind them. The Christalines left on that side all died under 35 seconds.
"Tails, is the automatized air defense turrets operational?" Shade asked him.
"I don't know. I never had time to test them." He said with a worried face.
"No better test, than live action." I said, and winked. Tails activated the turret system, and with the exception of 1 automated air defense turret, they all started to fire on the enemy.
"Well, 14 out of 15 is not a bad rate at all." Tails said proudly.
"Especially if we count with the small amount of time you had" I added.
"Nice job, buddy" Sonic agreed, and shown a thumbs up for Tails.
"No time to celebrate yet, the battle is not over" Tropos pulled us back into reality
We looked at where the bridge used to be, and saw that the shadow monsters are building a new one from their bodies.
"Are you serious?" I asked, and a gigantic shadow monster appeared in the background. "What else can go wrong?" I asked the question, what only makes things worse.
In that exact moment two of the AA turrets shut down, and a gap appeared in our air defense.
"Rouge, Omega, we will hold them off. Tails, Shade try to repair at least one of them before they can finish the bridge." I ordered them.
"On it!" Tails said
"Affirmative! Targets: Flying shadow creatures." Omega said
We barely can hold them off, but luckily Tails could bring back one of the towers just in time, and started to work on the another one. In the meantime, Shade is trying to figure out why the one which didn't started was inoperable.
"Guys, we have a problem here!" Sonic said, and when I looked down, the bridge was nearly complete.
"Omega, go. Rouge and I will hold them off for now. You should try to bring that bridge down, ASAP.(A/N: as soon as possible if you didn't knew.)"
"Affirmative! New objective: Bring down the bridge." Omega said, and he launched rockets at the bridge.
"Are you sure the two of us can hold them off?" Rouge asked.
"No, but if they can finish the bridge before at least one more turret activates, we are surely goners."
"Then, we will have to-" She said, but before she could finish, the turret what shade worked on started to rain fire on the creatures, shortly followed with the last one.
"The village is under complete protection from the sky!" Tails said proudly. "What was the problem with that turret, Shade?"
"The energy transmitter was fried. I had to repair it, and reboot the targeting computer."
"Nice job!" I said for both of them. In the meantime, Omega gave a hard time for the bridge, but whatever he tried wasn't effective enough. Everyone who had ranged attack, now tried to bring the bridge down, but sadly with little effect.
"Sonic! We have to use the Chaos emeralds!" Shadow shouted.
"I agree!" Sonic said, and pulled them out.
"Wait!" Blaze shouted. "I need one for Silver! Something just came into my mind, what can turn the battle to our side!"
"Better be worth it!" Shadow said, and threw the green emerald to me. I grabbed it, and turned to Blaze
"What's the big idea?" I asked her.
"Transport us to the dimension you found me in."
"Why?"
"No time, just do it!"
I did as she told, and used Chaos Control.

We found ourselves in her palace.
"This way!" She ordered me, and I followed.
"Where are we going?"
"To the emerald chamber." She replied
"Emerald chamber?" I asked
"There are magical emeralds in this dimension too, called the Sol Emeralds. Their powers are very similar to the Chaos Emeralds."
"I see" I said, and from sprint I changed to levitation, and grabbed her in bridal style. "Just tell me the way."
in a minute, we stood in a chamber with 7 emeralds very much alike the chaos emeralds in it.
"Are these...?"
"Yes! Now go!"
"Intruders!" A guard yelled in the chamber's entrance.
"Stop it! I am Princess Blaze, and I came for what's rightfully mine!" Blaze said.
"Princess! I haven't seen you for a year!" the guard said
"I know, and I have to go now. Me and my friends are fighting a losing war against a fallen god, and his armies, and we need to help them, or they will die!"
"Then we will help you, my daughter." A lilac lion came in with a crown in his head.
"Father!" Blaze said with tears in her eyes.
"Why did you left, my dear?"
"I love Silver, and he wouldn't be able to marry me here."
"I see. You know, I wasn't a worthy suitor for your mother either. We might be able to work it out."
"Why would you? You never cared for me. Your kingdom is the only important thing to you" Blaze snapped back to her father
"We have no time, Blaze! We have to go back!"
"NO!" the king yelled "Not without help!" he added "Captain, get the men ready. We are going to war!"
"Dad?" Blaze asked confused.
"I am sorry if I were harsh on you. I never realized how important you were until you left." the king replied with tears in his eyes. "I am sure we will find a way for you to be together." he added, hugging his daughter.
"In fact, with all due respect sir." I said shyly "We are already married."
"What?" He asked, nearly falling to the ground in shock.
"We married yesterday, as we didn't knew if we can survive the day, and we didn't wanted any regrets." I said.
"I see." the king said, and nodded. "Then welcome to the family, Silver."
"Sir, the first, the second and the fourth platoons are ready, the others are still preparing."
"Do it in double time."
Under 2 minutes, we had 200 armed soldiers behind our back.
"Silver, you will be the field commander. Show me you are worthy for my daughter's hand." The king said.
"Chaos, Control!" I yelled, and Blaze used the power of the Sol emeralds to follow me.
When we got back, the shadow bridge was complete, and the fight was on.
"About time you two sho-" Shadow started, but saw the soldiers behind us.
"Men, Our enemies are the Shadow creatures. The Christaline ones are on our side! Now, Attack!" I yelled, and the royal troops immediately rushed into the battle.
"Sonic, now we can use the Chaos Emeralds!" I yelled, and we all went into super forms.
For our biggest surprise Blaze did the same with the Sol Emeralds.
"What the?" the three of us asked in unision.
"I call this form Burning Blaze. I told you that the Sol Emeralds work like the Chaos Emeralds." She said smiling.
The tide of the battle instantly turned. Now we pushed them back to the bridge, and made it collapse under them. I used my powers, and recreated the bridge destroyed by Luna, and we reestablished our foothold in the other side of the bridge. The shadow creatures are now pulling back.
"Well well, looks like you were busy..." Haxius said.
"He is the one we have to defeat?" King Teranas asked
"Yes, father" Blaze replied
"Father?" Sonic asked looking at the king.
"King Teranas Lionheart." He introduced himself.
"I am going back for the rest of the troops." Blaze said.
"For the rest of them?" The guys all said in unison and shocked.
"The imperial army stands from five thousands of soldiers. This was only the first wave." the King said
"Say what?" Sonic asked "Well, your plan worked out well, Blaze."
"To be honest, I just wanted the emeralds. I didn't counted that my father would go to war for us..."

Well, chapter 10 is done. However the battle is over, and our heroes won, the war only begun, and will be hard to win.
How will our heroes proceed? We will find out in the next chapter.