Previously, Mikee has confronted the Horde Commandos, and lost, even though the others recovered. Fox and his team cannot get close to the battleship, but now, they are going to invade. What will they find inside? Can they find Sonic's friends?
Chapter 9
Trouble over Mobius
The Great Fox floated very close to the ship, almost close enough for boarding. The tension was very heavy, as Fox and the others prepared for battle. His blaster was set to its strongest level at the moment. Situations like this didn't mean anything for stun lasers. One mistake and the whole team are done for.
"Fox, I just got word from Wolf, he's coming this way as fast as he can. We're going to need all the help we can get!" Falco announced. He and Red were going to stay on the ship in case the enemy came inside to take their only chance of escape. Sonic was especially ready, as he stretched his legs. Meta Knight, Lucas, Lucario, Pit, Toon Link, and even Luigi were ready as well. The leader nodded as the Great Fox's doors opened.
"Fox, I sense a pack of beings with average auras. There are about five hundred of them coming our way." Lucario told Fox. He nodded and they dashed in as lasers were fired at them. His Reflector activated and those lasers were sent back. They hit weird human-like beings, but they were blue-skinned and had darker skin around their heads. Their armor was pretty thick, but that wasn't going to stop this team. Sonic bounced in first into his spin ball, bouncing and knocking most of them out. Lucario added to the mix, hitting with Force Palm and Aura Sphere. Lucas even joined Lucario by shooting his PK Fires and hitting with his attacks. Pit and Toon Link fired off their arrows while Meta Knight dashed in and attacked with his sword, Galaxia. Fox fired into the swarms coming at their other end. Things were pretty easy, but he didn't see Sonic in the action. He assumed he ran ahead. This is bad, who knows what else is up ahead.
"Gang, we're heading up to where Sonic is going! He's becoming reckless! Move out!" Fox yelled and pointed ahead. Everyone nodded and ran ahead. As they did, Luigi jumped out of the Great Fox, ready to fight. It took him a few seconds to realize that he missed the action going on. He ran the opposite direction, away from the group's path.
Dawn felt really groggy as she woke up on a hard surface. Green energy was surrounding her in a perfect circle, and it felt pretty nice. It was soothing to the injured warrior.
"Don't worry; you'll be fully healed within a few minutes." A voice reassured her as she got back up. Her body ached terribly from all over.
"Please don't get up. You're still not in any condition to move." The voice told her as she looked at the figure. She looked really pretty in green. Her hair was long and green and pretty glittery from the reflection of the glowing energy. Her eyes were even green, almost a teal color. As asked, Dawn lied back down to feel the soothing relief. "What happened to all my friends?" She asked.
"They're being healed as we speak. Everyone is safe from the Horde's Task Force." She told her again. That reminded the Dark Warrior on the Horde Commandos, and of Matt.
"GET OFF OF ME! I HAVE TO GO BACK OUT THERE AND GET THEM BACK!" She heard a booming voice. Her glance went to the side and she saw three other warriors trying to restrain an injured Mikee.
"Hey, you can't be moving after being hit like that! Get back to your bed!" One of the warriors yelled.
"I'm going to hit you the same way if you don't get the heck off!" Mikee threatened as he powered up, but collapsed of exhaustion. They sighed and one of them spun a staff. It encased him in a white bubble and it floated over to another are like hers. Dawn could also see Samus and Pikachu in separate, but Kirby wasn't there resting. The little Star Warrior was actually walking around, as his blue eyes gazed onto Dawn and Kirby jumped up to see if she was all right. "Poyo, poyo poyo!" Kirby talked quickly and excitedly. Dawn smiled; at least she made a new friend in Kirby.
"Your Star Warrior friend is asking if you're okay." The woman told Dawn, taking notice that she wasn't going to answer back.
"Oh, you understand Kirby's speech?" Dawn asked. The woman nodded and looked at Kirby.
"She'll be just fine. It's her friend I'm pretty worried about. He's next for healing again." She said, smiling a little. Dawn looked at her again.
"Who are you?" She asked.
"My name is Cosmo, and I am one of the Guardians." She said.
Sonic continued to careen around the base, tearing through the aliens and soldiers. He wasn't going to stop until he found his friends, but he also noticed that there were more concentrated soldiers around his area. He could sense them near-by. They were close to the hedgehog, as he could feel it within his quills. Door by door, he kept checking to see, but he hasn't found anything yet. Nothing seemed to go his way, as he clenched his fist. Sonic must have gone through at least ten doors before more guards surrounded him on both ends. He grunted as they fired at him, and he took cover behind one of the rooms. They stopped and to Sonic's surprise, walked away.
"Sonic!" Someone yelled from a container. The hedgehog turned to see several glowing containers, each of them holding hedgehogs, foxes, bats, and a robot. He saw them as Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Rouge, and Omega. They looked pretty tired and exhausted, but Knuckles looked unconscious. His injuries looked pretty bad.
"Guys!" Sonic said and dashed up to them until the lights in the room shone and he shielded himself from the glare. Suddenly, something huge grabbed him, as he opened his eyes slowly. It was a giant, and the room was like a small training room. This figure was covered in a dark armor, and it threw the hedgehog up and fired a fist. Sonic smirked and spun into a spin ball and slammed into the skull of his opponent, which didn't do anything. A dark energy covered him and that resulted in Sonic being blasted back. He slammed into the containers which didn't break.
"Sonic, hang in there!" Tails yelled from his container, cheering him on. Sonic dashed around in his fast speeds, but the giant stomped the ground and that stopped Sonic, since the ground was shaking and it stunned him.
"Such weak powers you possess." The giant said and clasped his hands together and aimed a hammer fist. A laser struck the skull, and so did bombs and arrows. Even though they didn't have any effect, Sonic was spared from his fate. He looked as Meta Knight slashed at the skull, in which the helmet came right off. It was a human-like head, but it was all blue, and around the dome was dark blue. He growled as he aimed his palm at the Smashers. Dark energy similar to Dawn's fired out and it hit them all back.
"What the heck? What or who are you?" Fox asked. The giant alien stood up again and laughed a bit.
"I am the leader of the race known as DarkTech. I am Omega." It said as more Dark energy was concentrated in his palms.
Dawn opened her eyes after hearing Guardians. She rose up, feeling a lot better. "You're one of the Guardians Mikee was looking for?" Dawn asked, looking excited. Cosmo nodded, smiling at her. Now that Dawn had a better look, Cosmo looked around twenty-eight, and beautiful. She had this sort of armor on that covered her whole body, but it had flowers around the shoulders and wrists. Her hands were bare though, and looked soft, like her expression.
"Yes, I believe so. If that's Mikee over there, but we were expecting him." Cosmo answered back. Dawn looked confused as another human went to them.
"Cosmo, don't reveal the trade secrets. Hey, I'm Flare." The second one said. This one was a male and around the same age, only his hair and armor color were red like fire. His eyes were even a natural red too.
"Let me guess, you're the Guardian of the Fire Orb?" Dawn asked.
"You're figuring it out huh? We're color coded." Flare asked, laughing a bit. Cosmo giggled a bit too. Dawn got up on her feet to join Kirby. She then remembered the Horde Commandos.
"Wait, what about Matt and the-"
"You don't have to worry about them. Destiny, Shade, and Volts took care of them for now. They brought you here." Flare told Dawn. Cosmo walked over to Mikee's resting area and began healing him too with the same energy as before. She guessed they were Guardians too.
"So, the Dark Warrior has been completely healed?" A voice said from the inside of another room. She looked and saw more people come through the entry. They were blue, light green, yellow, brown, black, white, and one normal girl. They were in armor, all except the normal one. She had light blonde hair in two buns on her head and blue ribbons tied on them to keep them like that. Her clothes were something of a jumpsuit underneath a robe.
"Yes, she's healed by Cosmo. The Aeros we were waiting for is being healed at the moment. The other three are also healed, and they're ready to fight again." The black armor one reported.
"I see. Thank you Shade." The normal one stated and went over to Dawn. She had green eyes as well, like Cosmo. Kirby looked pretty excited to see this one though. She smiled and shook hands with the Star Warrior.
"Ug, where are we?" They heard Samus wake up herself, still in her own jumpsuit. Pikachu woke up as well and jumped over to Samus, happy that she was all right.
"Good, you're all right. It's time to begin explaining. My name is Destiny, and I am the leader of the Guardians." The normal one introduced to them. Even Mikee rose back up, shaking off the pain. The others came in, and they were matching the eight Power Orbs.
"I'm Cosmo, the Guardian of the Grass Power Orb." She introduced herself with a slight bow and a smile.
"I'm Flare, the Guardian of the Fire Power Orb." Flare introduced, showing off some fire. The blue armored one stepped up and cleared her throat.
"I'm Mist, the Guardian of the Water Power Orb." She introduced. A flash occurred and the yellow armored one stepped up.
"I'm Voltic, the Guardian of the Thunder Power Orb!" He greeted with laughter. The light-green one stepped up, letting a slight breeze blow through.
"I'm Bane, Guardian of the Wind Power Orb." He greeted. The white-armored one came up.
"I'm Lyla, the Guardian of the Light Orb." She greeted with a smile as well. Finally, the dark one stepped up, nothing special.
"I'm Shade, Dark Power Orb Guardian." He simply said. Destiny nodded and looked at the surprised look on Mikee's face, as if he was ready for a fight.
"We are the Guardians, and we have been expecting you, Mikee Aeros." Destiny stated to them. Mikee looked pretty surprised at their appearances and rose up from his resting place.
"Guardians, I came here with Samus, Dawn, Kirby and Pikachu, and I come to listen to your message you bring in order to defeat the Horde once and for all. They are threatening to take the world of Brawl into their clutches. I need your help." He asked.
"I see, and we are aware of the Horde's recent movements around the universe. They are residing inside of Brawl's universe, but they won't be for long. They're searching for something in that universe. We're unaware of their goal, and their elite squad won't give us the answers." Destiny answered his question. Samus wondered about that too, searching for something in Brawl, but what could it be?
"I see. How do I stop the Horde? How can I defeat the Shadow King and Shadow Queen once and for all?" Mikee asked, clenching his fists. His energy was normal, as it began to radiate from his body.
"It's pretty simple. You have to become stronger than the original Hero of Light. He was not able to stop them in their last fight, but you are the chosen Hero. Mikee, you have to be trained by our methods, and become the strongest. You'll start with facing me." Destiny said to him.
"Fine by me; I just didn't expect it to happen this fast." Mikee said. Before he got up, there was something wrong in the air, as Destiny held up her hand.
"Before training with me, you must prove you're worthy enough, and to see if you are the true Hero of Light." Destiny added. Mikee looked a bit surprised still, and a bit annoyed, as he clenched his fists.
"First off, you must save your friends. They are in danger. The Horde's Elites are meeting up with him outside of Mobius. Once that is complete, you must return here for training." Destiny finished.
"Outside of Sonic's world? We better hurry up then!" Dawn said and thanked them and ran out with Samus and Pikachu. Kirby followed Mikee out, and the Guardians stood there.
"Destiny, was it wise enough to let the Hero of Light go there? It is DarkTech. If he finds out about what they have in store, then his rage will…" Cosmo asked the leader. Destiny closed her eyes.
"It is to prove that Aeros is the true Hero of Light. I have a sneaking suspicion about the darkness in him. He'll be all right though." Destiny said and the nine of them vanished instantly in a flash.
Samus and the others got onto their ship when she noticed her communicator holding messages. As everyone strapped in, she activated her communicator, and the messages played.
"Samus, your communicator is off, and we have some troubling news. Mobius is completely in darkness, and we have found an odd battleship. We're going in, and we will contact you when we return." Fox's voice reported. As soon as it finished, another call came, but it was from Falco this time. She put it on screen.
"Falco, come in, this is Samus." She asked.
"Samus, finally! We have huge trouble!" Falco said, looking worried as Red in the background was commanding his Ivysaur to use Razor Leaf on a bunch of soldiers. Mikee and Dawn both looked closer to see one of their oldest foes.
"Omega's troops, only Gammas this time. Falco, what's going on?" Mikee asked.
"Fox and everyone else went inside the ship, but I just got a codec from Fox saying they're in danger! You won't believe this, but Matt and the others came and attacked them. I don't know what's happened, and soldiers keep coming in! We need help!" Falco said before cutting off communication. Samus looked at them and nodded, the ship taking off into the atmosphere. They soon entered Hyper Space after that, and appeared right outside the planet of dark air. They saw the battleship that the Great Fox was in, and both Mikee and Dawn recognized it.
"Omega's battleship, that's them, DarkTech." Dawn said.
"The who?" Samus asked.
"They're an alien race that takes planets for their resources so they can strengthen their own powers. They have no planet of their own, so they try to take a planet, but they end up destroying it in the end. In our universe, we have fought against them for a very long time until we found out they were helping the Horde, and then we defeated them. It was a tough battle, and it ended up with a lot of people dying, especially one mission of Mikee and Aaron, but only Mikee came back alive." Dawn explained, and looked at Mikee, who was supposed to be next to her, but he was gone. The top suddenly opened, and they saw him dive at high speeds.
"Mikee!" Dawn yelled from the window.
Mikee fell down from the ship, diving and gaining speed using his powers as he slammed into the ship's hull, causing a slight explosion. Alarms suddenly began to ring all around the ship. He looked pretty angry, and his energy was radiating.
"What?" Omega said as screens flashed to see Mikee landing on his ship. The other Smashers noticed and saw him too. The leader pulled up more screens, which had his soldiers and robot ones. "All stationed troops, begin attack! Set all on-board turrets and cannons to Mikee at once, and begin attack!" He ordered.
All the turrets pointed directly to Mikee as alien and robots came onto the deck and began firing. Mikee vanished in a Shadow Warp, and reappeared, slamming away so many robots and aliens. Mikee looked at the turrets until smart bombs detonated and the turrets exploded yet again. Mikee looked up to space and saw Wolf's Arwing flying by, firing at the turrets. A dark spin ball came down and slammed on a pile of robots that were going to surround him. He spun out of it, and it looked at Mikee. He was a ebony-black hedgehog with red highlights in his quills, yellow rings on his wrists, and red jet shoes.
"So, you're the new Smasher they're talking about." He said and scoffed. More robots came and he simply waved his palm. An energy shot out and pierced through them. Wolf provided some back-up, along with two other regular Arwings. "I'm Shadow the Hedgehog." He introduced. Shadow looked up and nodded as he advanced onward. Mikee followed, taking out the other robots that came out.
"They're on their way here. Perfect, they'll witness my secret weapon that I've been preparing. It'll be a real shocker." He said and was about to leave them when Sonic glowed and unleashed his Super Sonic. He charged and rammed Omega hard, slamming him through the wall and close to outside the ship's hull. The huge alien charged up more energy and punched the golden hedgehog straight through the ship. The Smashers saw him go through at least five walls.
From the ceiling, Mikee and Shadow burst through and slammed onto Omega. Shadow backed off, but Mikee charged up his fist and slammed the alien onto the top of the ship. Super Sonic flew up to join him, as well as Shadow. The others went to work on the capture chambers.
Omega crashed onto the top, as Mikee landed, ready to fight. "It's been a while, huh Omega?" He asked, charging up the energy inside of him. The alien laughed slightly as he rose back up. Mikee wasn't intimidated by his size at all. Samus's ship leaned in closer as Dawn launched herself as well as Samus and Kirby. Pikachu joined them using a small air bubble for oxygen. Samus's Varia Suit merged into the Gravity Suit to fit the scenario of space.
"So, everyone has come to fight against me. Very well." He stated and charged up energy. The giant was actually shrinking, from being over six feet tall to about five feet.
"This Omega is shrinking, condensing all the energy inside of him to maximum power! Everything has just increased dramatically, speed, strength, defenses, everything!" Samus told them. Mikee remembered that type of form; it was one of his memories, as his fist clenched.
"It's been a while since we fought last, Mikee. Last time, Aaron was here, wasn't he?" He asked, dark blades appearing on the brute's hands. Mikee growled at the name as his fists glowed. His energy burst from him, as he charged at Omega. His fist contacted against sword as the energies exploded, sending both skidding back. Samus jumped up and fired her beams combined with missiles. Omega's dark weaponry merged into a shield as the attacks bounced off and hit another section of the ship.
Dawn and Kirby both leaped in, both attacking at once. Omega was able to stop their attacks and holding them off until Pikachu dashed in and hit the alien in the skull with his Iron Tail. This knocked back the alien, as Super Sonic came up and smashed him into the space around them. Shadow appeared golden as well and with a well aimed axe kick, hit Omega in the chest, sending him straight through the ship.
Energy glowed from the opening and fired straight up, hitting Shadow hard, as the hedgehog fell down onto the deck. Omega rose back up, laughing a bit. They were surprised, except for Mikee, who only looked angrier.
"Was that all?" He asked and clenched his blue fists together. Energy crackled between them as he unleashed a huge shockwave, sending every one back, except for Mikee who took the hit and charged again, as Sonic charged in his spin ball. Omega vanished as Sonic hit into Mikee instead, making the Light Warrior slam on the deck several times and skidded on his back. Sonic was shocked and then slammed by Omega into Mikee once again. Shadow hit Omega in the back using Chaos Spear as payback. He turned around and was about to fire energy when Dawn rammed him in the back, and jumped away as Samus fired off a Super Missile, exploding on Omega and sending him crashing back hard. Kirby grabbed the alien and picked him up into the air and then slamming him back down causing damage. As soon as Omega got back up, Sonic and Mikee both punched him in the stomach hard, which made the alien crash into more of the ship.
"It's over Omega, you're done!" Mikee yelled, waving his fist around.
"Heh, you really think so?" Omega said and rose back up, slightly injured. He laughed a bit and charged up his energy again. Before that was possible, Mikee dashed out and kneed the alien in the stomach, hurting Omega slightly still. Mikee hit him off right after that. He continued onward by slamming the leader even more all around the area.
Omega, you will pay for what you've done! Mikee yelled in his thoughts, as Omega rose back up. He pressed several buttons on his wrist communicator as Dawn started to yell in sudden pain. She clutched her head and fell down to her knees. The other Smashers looked and hurried to her side as Mikee turned to see. Her hair was turning from its natural blue to a dark black. She opened her eyes and unleashed enough energy to send everyone back, but Shadow saved them using Chaos Control.
"Dawn?" Mikee called out to her as she glared at Mikee. She began charging at him, as he begun to hold his ground. Omega took the opportunity to slam him against the back, as he hurtled towards Dawn who gave him a clean uppercut, which injured him pretty badly. Pikachu dashed towards Dawn this time and unleashed a big Thunderbolt, shocking the Dark Warrior pretty good, making her yell out.
"Dawn, snap out of it!" Mikee yelled as she tried resisting the electricity, but couldn't as Pikachu kept it coming. Omega began charging, but Mikee threw himself in his way and slammed the leader into the steel. He held his fist inches from the alien's face. "WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?" Mikee yelled.
"Simple, didn't she tell you? Wait, she can't remember. Hate to break it to you, but Dawn isn't on your side." Omega told Mikee and grabbed his fist before it made contact with his face. Omega flung Mikee to the side and fired dark energy, but it was stopped as Mikee charged at the alien leader once more.
Mikee charges recklessly once more at an old enemy as Dawn becomes out of control. What has happened to her and what has DarkTech's leader done? Can Mikee stop this, or will he have to stop Dawn himself? Find out next time in Rise of the Horde, Chapter 10, Memories of Anguish.
Complete explanation time!
Well since I last updated, I was taking care of my aunt, who is disabled. She needed my help and that limited my computer time greatly. As I got home after the three months, my laptop was taken, and college is coming up. I'm actually typing over half of this in college.
So, that basically explains it.
Power Academy is going through some plot twists that I'm hand-writing at the moment, but inspiration is dying, but I'm not giving up.
Guardian of Dawn hasn't been progressing, so I'll be done with the second chapter in a few days, maybe weeks.
Instead of always trying to update, I'll try to update weekly, around the weekends maybe. It will be either comics or stories, possibly both.
So, sorry for the long wait and I hope it was worth it.
~PerfectPhoenix