Chapter Eleven: Facing Eggman and Nanook
Ryan woke up one morning and headed out the door and ran into the sky blue golden retriever named Alue.
"Alue! Um, hey. Whatcha doing here?"
"I just came over to see you. Is that a problem?"
"No, it's fine."
"I heard what happened."
"Oh, no. Please, I swear. I didn't do it."
"What are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about what I did. On the video. Please don't turn me in."
"I'm not. I was gonna say that I heard that you were attacked by that black imposter of you."
"What?"
"That black husky that stole the Chaos Emerald. Don't you remember?"
"Oh, yeah. Him. Wait! Who told you?"The white mouse appeared behind from her head.
"Smike saw it when he was getting my welder from the store."
"Your what?"
"My welder. See?" She showed it to him.
"Why do you have that?"
"I carry it with me for heating metals together or for attacking."
"Yeah, like it's gonna do anything." he mumbled.
"What was that?"
"Nothing!"
As he turned and started walking away from her, she hollered, "Hey! Where do you think you're going?"
"I'm gonna show Nanook what for!"
She caught up next to him. "Then in that case, I'm coming with you."
"No, Alue. I can do this myself and plus, I don't think your tomboyish action will do any good."
She raised her eyebrow. "Are you saying this tomboy can't fight."
"Kinda."
"Well, you haven't seen me yet."
"Fine, you can tag along."
"Yes! Smike! Finally, an adventure that will have some good fighting in it."
"Squeak! Squeak!"
"Oh, brother!"
Meanwhile at Eggman's base…
Nanook was pacing around angrily in front of Dark.
"I can't believe it! You let that foolish dog get away! I ordered you to go out there and destroy him! Now, give one good reason why not to send you back where you came from!"A moment of silence rose in the room.
"It was him." Dark finally said.
"Who?""That black hedgehog. He stopped me from destroying the blue mutt, but he reminded me of something."
"Really? Tell me then."
"I can't."
"Why not?"
"Because…I just don't have it yet."
"Okay, a little bit more time then, huh?"All of the suddenly, a bunch of alarms went off.
"You stay here. I'll be back."Nanook ran off and went up to Eggman.
"What's the problem, now?""Them!"He followed his finger which pointed to Ryan and Alue.
"What! That blue mutt and…who's that?"
"Alue. She's that lazy cat's dog, but it looks like they came to the right place at the wrong time. Hand me the microphone, Nanook."
He handed him the microphone.
"Ahem. Ryan! Alue! It's such a special surprise to see you here! Have you met my new friend, Dr. Nanook?"
"We met him alright." Ryan said with a small growl.
"You have? Splendid! Cause I didn't want to waste my breath over you two. Ryan, I assume you're still exhausted after that fight with Dark?"
"Kind of."
"Then I hope you'll be wiped out after we send out these robots and I hope your blonde retriever friend can be useful for once in a while." He pressed the button and a whole bunch of robots came out.
"I'm a golden retriever for your information, Buster!" Ryan can tell that she was also getting mad.
"Well, it's too bad that your outnumbered already and that your owners didn't come and help you. Especially you, Alue! Your owner is too fat and lazy to come and fight. He probably always left you to fight because he wanted to get away from YOU!"
That did it! Alue was growling loudly and pulled out her welder and set it to 'Max Extreme'. Smike jumped off of her and ran behind Ryan's ear. Even Ryan started backing away from her. Alue charged for the pack of robot and blew them up by setting them on fire. The burning ones landed on the others which blew them up too. After they were all destroyed, she stood in the rubble of the destroyed robots and was panting loudly and angrily. The brave hero was shocked to see the action that she did and came up to her.
"Oh, my gosh! That was incredible! I'll never doubt you again."She seemed to calm down and smiled at him.
"Thanks. Okay, here's the game plan. You'll go after Egghead and Numskull while I'll go after Dark."
"What? No!"
"Why not?"
"I don't want you getting hurt."
"I won't. I know what's wrong with him. I can do it."
He sighed. "Fine, but make sure you come back in one piece."A twinkle sparkled in her eye and they both took off in different directions.
What crazy idea does Alue have in mind? Can Ryan stop the evil Eggman and Nanook? Find out in the next chapter.