Elemental, My Dear, Sonic Pt: 2
"Keep marching you dumb, hedgehog." The big monkey in a monkey suit grunted. "Or I'll fill your furry guts full of lead."
"Hey, watch where you are pointing that thing, you big dumb ape." Knuckles snapped shoving the barrel of the blaster away from his head. "That thing could go off if you're not careful."
"Hey, you'z you callin' an ape, porcupine!" The thug snarled. "I'll have you know I'm a chimp on my mother's side."
"Simmer down, boys. We don't want to be rude to our guests." Breezy said softly as they all walked into her office. "Sonic, I'm so sorry my boys had to rough you and your friends up. Is there anything my assistant, Miss Possum can get you? Tea? Coffee?"
"Spare me the sarcasm, Breeze butt." The blue hedgehog growled, glaring angrily at her. "The only reason you haven't put a bullet in each of our heads already is because you think there's some way you can profit off of us."
"Oh please, Sonic. Don't flatter yourself." Breezy looked away waving a gloved hand, dismissively. "It won't look good if four freedom fighters came into my new Station Square casino and were never heard from again."
"Wait, four freedom fighters?" Sonic asked, trying to hide his surprise. "Honestly, I don't have any idea what you're talking about." Breezy merely smiled at Sonic's words and snapped her fingers. Two of the guards dragged Bunny and Blaze into the room still dressed into their rabbit suits and struggling against their restraints.
"Let me go, you ornery critter." Bunny snapped. "Sonic, I'm sorry. They jumped us when we were comin' out of the ladies budior."
"Don't tell them anything, Sonic." Blaze snapped struggling against her bonds. "Just make sure my peoples' treasure gets back to my tribe where it belongs."
"Oh my, Miss Blaze. Are you referring to these little beauties?" Breezy asked opening a small chest on her desk. Seven colored gemstones floated up out of the box, spinning in a multi-colored circle over their heads. "I really have to thank you and your tribe for this wonderful gift, Miss Blaze. Without its power, I would never be able to carry out some of my wildest dreams for business ventures."
"Breezy, listen to me. You need to give those emeralds back to Blaze." Sonic pleaded, hoping to reach the more sincere side of his ex-girlfriend. "The Sol Emeralds are far too powerful to be kept in the hands of anyone besides the tribes of Down Unda. You need to give them up before there's trouble."
"Oh please, Sonic. Why in the world would I listen to you?" Breezy snarled staring at him coldly. "I trusted you once before, Nicolas Parlouzer Hedgehog. What did sharing three months of my life with you get me?" She picked up a photograph of her and Sonic together off the desk and smashed it on the floor. "A broken heart, shattered into a million pieces."
"I'm sorry about that, Breezy. I was still hurting over Sally and my break-up." Sonic replied sadly. "I never should have given you the wrong idea about us."
"Nic… Parlouzer?" Knuckles suddenly grinned. He busted out laughing. "Your real name is Nicolas Parlouzer?"
"Oh, shut up Mister 'I don't have a name at all except for my tribe'." Sonic yelled back, still holding his hands up in the air. "At least, I have a real name."
"You're right. I have no identity." Knuckles replied, suddenly breaking down. "I don't have a name of my own. Who am I? WHO AM I!?"
"Will you two idiots shut up?" Breeze yelled, rubbing her temples. "Listening to you two is like watching one too many Saturday morning cartoons." At that moment, everyone present seemed to stare out into space for a moment as if looking at an audience that wasn't there.
"So, what are y'all gonna do with us?" Bunny asked glaring at the cyan hedgehog.
"Oh, I think I'll keep you four for a while. I'll put you and cat girl back out on the floor to work." She pointed a finger back to Sonic and Knuckles. "As for you, I need some muscle to load and unload the shipments we get here at the casino. And if one group thinks of escaping, the other group will pay dearly for their actions."
"So, you wish to turn us into exhibitionists?" Blaze said in disgust, her eyes glowing an unnatural red hue. "You will pay dearly for this insult to the queen of the cat tribe, hedgehog woman." Suddenly, a red glowing flame appeared behind Blaze and she burst free from her bindings. Without warning, she lunged at the nearest guard with flaming claws who didn't even have time to raise his gun.
"AH!" He screamed as he dropped from Blaze's deadly blow.
"BURNING YOUR WAY OUT OF THE ROPES! THAT'S USING YOUR FIRE POWER, BLAZE!" Sonic exclaimed as he head butted the guard behind him. "And this is using your head."
"You think you could keep the last echidna tied up?" Knuckles yelled jumping at the guard in front of him feet first. "My fists aren't my only weapon, punk." The guard barely had time to scream before the metal cleats on the top of Knuckles' shoes broke his jaw.
"Knuckles, I didn't know y'all were a fan of steel toes." Bunny exclaimed, jumping up. She grabbed a guard's head between her thighs and broke his neck.
"CAN'T YOU IDIOTS DO ANYTHING RIGHT!?" Breezy yelled slamming the lid on the chest and running out the office door. "Miss Possum, would you please deal with some unwelcome guests?"
"With pleasure, Miss Breezy." The blonde secretary in a black tail jacket and fish nets cracked her knuckles and walked in to the office angrily. "I'm sorry you four, but I'm going to have to ask the lot of you to leave the premises immediately."
"We don't have time for this." Sonic replied in annoyance. "Blaze, you come with me. Knuckles, you and Bunny deal with this outrageous opossum."
"You got it, Sonic." Knuckles replied as the cat and the hedgehog ran out the door. "End of the road, blondie. We're gonna clean your clock."
"Well, if that's the case, enchilada. Then, you'd better have brought a feather duster."
The echidna jumped at Miss Possum who immediately ducked his swinging punches. Jumping down low, she delivered a high heeled kick right into this jaw knocking him backwards. Leaping up into the air like a gazelle, she bicycle kicked him back into the wall.
"Wow, I see pretty stars." Knuckles declared sliding down the wall. "I need to come to this candy store more often."
"Sounds like I knocked your senses out of you, enchilada." Miss Possum snickered putting her stiletto on top of Knuckle's throat. "I guess you just don't have the strength to keep up with a working girl."
"No… But I do." Bunny leapt at the secretary hitting her with a clothesline that sent both of them tumbling to the ground. The two proceeded to roll around on the floor punching, kicking, and hair pulling as they knocked lamps and paperweights off the tables and desks.
"How pathetic." Miss Possum snapped trying to get an opening on the rabbit. "You fight like a boy."
"Well, I'd take that as a compliment from y'all." Bunny smirked. "Cause y'all fight like a yankee."
Leaping back to her feet, Miss Possum wrapped her tail around Bunny's leg and threw her against the wall. Jumping straight for her face with a closed fist, Miss Possum only found air when she tried to connect with her punch. Suddenly, a cybernetic hand closed around the back of her neck and the secretary found herself lifted into the air.
"Come on now, y'all didn't think y'all were gonna win this one." Bunny declared smugly, holding the possum girl up in mid-air. "Taking me out would have been mission impossum-able."
"That's what you think, hillbilly bunny." Miss Possum reached into her jacket and pulled out a small red button. "I think you'll really get a charge out of this." She pushed the button sending an electric shock through Bunny's cybernetic parts causing the rabbit to collapse, screaming in pain.
"What y'all do to me?" Bunny shrieked rolling around on the floor in agony.
"It's the casino's security systems. An electro-magnetic field that targets any computerized cheating devices gamblers might bring in with them." The possum smirked. "Unfortunately, it also targets the cybernetic parts of any half-robotisized mobian in the building."
"Why you ornery little rodent!" Bunny growled trying to get back up to her feet with no success. "I'm gonna kill y'all when I get outta here."
"That seems highly improbable, Miss Rabbot." The secetary chuckled standing up in front of the office window. "I'm afraid in your current situation, you have a date with destiny."
"AND YOU GOT A FLIGHT TO CATCH!" A loud male voice snapped as an echidna rushed forward slamming his fist right into the possum's face.
"AAAIIIIIIEEEE!" Miss Possum screamed as she was sent flying out the window, plunging downward and slamming into the bumper on the front of the casino. The two mobians remaining in the office watched her spinning and screaming form bounce upward and go flying off towards the horizon.
"Wow, do y'all think she'll survive that?" Bunny asked as she tumbled down towards the main highway of Station Square.
"Huh, no I guess not." Knuckles replied as a large eighteen wheeler with the letters G.U.N. on the side smashed into her before she hit the road. "I guess that's one more possum who tragically became roadkill."
"Ugh, I feel like I've been hit with a truck myself." Bunny declared, stumbling backwards and falling down. "I think her little gadget got me good."
"Just relax, Bunny. I'll take care of you." Knuckles put her arm around his head and started to help her out of the room. "It's all up to Sonic and Blaze now."
Meanwhile, the crowds in the casino turned away from their slot machines and poker tables to witness Breezy Hedgehog being chased through the game room floor by the famous hero Sonic and a strange lavender cat wearing head feathers.
"Hey, isn't that the cocktail bunny we saw earlier?" Bean asked coming to.
"Ah, shut up and go back to sleep, Beanbag." Nac declared punching the bird out before passing out himself.
Desperate to get away from her pursuers, Breezy climbed up the fire escape ladder on the wall and started to jump across the light fixtures on the ceiling towards the giant pirate ship decoration suspended in the middle of the grand ballroom.
"It's all over, Breezy." Sonic stated to her as he spindashed across the crystal chandeliers after his ex. "There is nowhere left to run."
"It's funny I should be the one running, Nicolas." Breezy remarked, finally stopping on the pirate ship deck. "You're the one who's more experienced running away like a coward."
"Enough talk, you fork tongued commoner." Blaze stated in a rage. "Give me back my birthright and I may spare your miserable peasant life." Blaze kneeled down and place her paws on the ground. Two red flames shot out of her front paws rocketing her upwards onto the deck of the ship.
"Well, well, well. It looks like it's two against one." The hedgehog said mockingly, opening up the small chest in her possession. "It looks like poor little old Breezy is gonna have to even up the odds."
"NO! BREEZY, DON'T!" Sonic warned rushing forward to stop her. "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'LL HAPPEN!" It was too late. The emeralds seemed to dance in the air around the female hedgehog lifting her up above the pirate ship's deck. There was a great flash of light and Breezy's whole body was encased in a small storm cloud.
"Blaze, what's happening?" Sonic asked as wind seemed to pick up inside the casino. "What're the emeralds doing to her?"
"I don't know." Blaze declared, trying to hold on to the deck as well as holding on to Sonic. "The emeralds have never been used by someone not from Down Unda before." Lightning began to shoot and spark all over the casino, knocking out the power and sending all the customers fleeing outside in a terrified panic. Then, a loud bellowing laugh came from inside the small storm cloud.
"Mwahaha." A loud voice that sounded like Breezy's shouted. "You have angered your goddess, greatly. And now you must face the wrath of Broomhilda the Terrible." The cloud parted and Breezy now had platinum blonde hair, was dressed in a silver metal bikini and had a tiara with wings on the side adorning her head. The rays of the sun seemed to glow off her body and lightning crackled from her eyes as she landed back on the deck.
"Sonic, what just happened to her?" Blaze asked a look of dumbfounded terror on her face.
"Well… Breezy always did have a thing for Nordic mythology." Sonic answered, rolling his eyes.
"I am no longer concerned about poultry things like money. I know crave the worship of mortals." She raised her hand firing a lightning bolt down at the pirate ship decorations transforming it into a Viking longship. "Now, this vessel shall serve as my great sky chariot carrying my holy message."
"Blaze, how is she doing this?" Sonic asked in a panic.
"The Sol Emeralds turned your thoughts into power, just like the chaos emeralds do." She answered. "But only the royal cat and dog lines can handle the Sol Emerald's power. It's driven her completely insane." Just then, the boat rose skyward smashing through the skylight and taking off into the clouds over Station Square.
"Sonic, we only got one chance." Blaze told him. "You need to distract her while I go for the Sol Emeralds."
"I don't know if I can, but I'll see what I can do." Sonic stated, standing up on the deck. The blue blur turned to face the would-be goddess. "Hey, Breezy. You want to know why I dumped you?" he yelled up to her. "It's because you were so fat and ugly."
"WHAT!?" She yelled, floating down to where Sonic stood on the deck. "YOU DARE TO SPEAK TO YOUR GODDESS IN SUCH A MANNER!?"
"You're a lot of things, lady. Some I won't say in polite company." Sonic snapped at her. "But you sure aren't a goddess. When we were dating, I swear you had a shorter fuse than Bean's TNT."
"YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO SAY THAT!" Broomhilda bellowed. Lightning and winds blasting in Sonic's direction. "I DID EVERYTHING TO MAKE YOU HAPPY AND YOU STILL WALKED OUT ON ME!"
"So you hate me for walking out and leaving you alone? That I can understand." Sonic gave her a look of pity. "But all the ruthless and heartless things you've done since then? That guilt is yours and yours alone, Breezy."
"YOU… YOU…" The angry goddess screamed at him tears streaming down her face. "I SHOULD DESTROY YOU FOR- NOOOOO!" Broomhilda noticed the lavender cat touching the circling Sol Emeralds. But by the time she got up there, Blaze already harnessed their power. The feathers on her hair burned to life like a torch and her whole body glistened like the sun. Sol Blaze, then, leapt straight towards the crazed Valkyrie and there was a great explosion that completely destroyed the longship, sending Sonic tumbling downwards towards Station Square below.
"Whoa!" Sonic screamed as he tumbled downwards. Barely managing to catch the end of a skyscrapers radio antenna, he hung on as he watched the battle rage overhead. It was as if two great storm clouds were smashing into each other. Lightning flying in every direction, and mighty winds creating great tornados that never seemed to touch down.
"Whoa! It looks cooler than a fireworks festival." Sonic exclaimed jumping over to a nearby rooftop. "But I wonder if Blaze can really stop her." Finally, there were several smaller flashes of lightning followed by one great explosion in the sky. Everything quieted down after that and it wasn't long before the night sky was clear once more.
"Sonic, there you are." Knuckles exclaimed as he saw the hedgehog coming out of the casino. "Glad you're all right, but where the heck is Blaze?"
"I don't know. But I think she won the battle." Sonic replied looking up at the night sky. "Otherwise, we'd all be suffering the wrath of an angry goddess right now."
"Well, if the whole thing is ova. I'd sure love to head back to Knothole now." Bunny answered. "I would sure love to catch forty winks right now."
It turned out Sonic was right. Miss Possum soon turned up alive and had taken over control of Breezy's casinos. A certain female cyan colored hedgehog turned up in West Side Island's Home for the Criminally Unsound spending her days dressed in a straight jacket and mumbling to herself about being a goddess and calling everyone her loyal worshippers.
Sonic never got a thank you directly from Blaze herself, but he did find it odd that Soleanna and Knothole enjoyed nice weather throughout the rest of the Summer...