Chapter 12: Zavok's strength, and Zazz' insanity
Seanzilla115: Hey minna. ...I don't own anything in this story, nor the Sonic the Hedgehog Series, Ben 10 Series, or the Blazblue Series. I do though own Haseo Yukimaru Sakurai while GammaTron own Roll Cyber Sakurai.
"Ugh...see anything yet?" Sonic asked as he and his group still continued to search for Eggman.
"Nope. Aside from those EggSwats and Badniks we encountered an hour ago, all we've seen were skies and hills," Ben replied before sighing a bit in boredom, "It's really boring to tell ya the truth."
"I agree with Ben-Kun," Makoto spoke up as she yawned and stretched a bit, "I wish something exciting would hap..."
"Shh!" Tsubaki shushed her friend.
"Eh? What's wrong Tsubaki?" Makoto looked over at the crimson red haired girl.
"I heard something nearby..." Tsubaki replied quietly before she pointed at a nearby hill, "It sounds like it's coming from the other side of that hill."
"...You don't think it's that creature we encountered before...do you?" Roll asked.
"I doubt it..." Tsubaki replied before suggesting, "Let's carefully look over that hill to see what it is."
"Got it...and be prepared for whatever's on the other side," Sonic stated as he and the rest of his team slowly and carefully walked over to the hill.
Once they reached the hill, they slowly looked over it before they blinked in a combination of confusion and a bit of surprise.
"Are those...sheep?" Ben blinked as he and hte others saw a huge flock of sheep grazing on the field before them.
"It appears so...but...what made that noise I heard?" Tsubaki pondered.
"...I know this might sound cry but...maybe it was the sheep?" Makoto suggested, earning looks from the others.
"Ano...Makoto-chan? I don't think that..." Roll began before she noticed a small bird land before one of the sheep.
The bird let out a small chirp, catching one of the sheep's attention. The bird let out another chirp before it began to pale as it saw the sheep giving it a death glare, the sheep's entire body(even the wool) turning a angry red before the sheep charged at the small bird and began pummeling it before bucking the injured bird away.
"..Um...you guys saw that..right?" Sonic asked the others quietly, the group gawking at what they just saw.
"Y...yeah...I did," Makoto gulped as Yacker hid inside Sonic's quills again.
"It...it looks like Makoto was right about the sheep making that growling sound..." Ben spoke quietly.
"H..hai..." Tsubaki nodded slowly, the crimson-red head still gawking at what she just saw before she noticed something nearby, "Eh?"
"What's wrong Tsubaki-san?" Roll asked quietly.
"I see a sign nearby...and I think I can make out what it says form here," Tsubaki replied before she read what was on the sign, "'Warning...these experimental sheep belong to Eggman. Please heed the following warnings. Do not feed the sheep. Do not touch the sheep. And for the love of god, do NOT even talk or look at the sheep. These experimental sheep are highly tempermental, and are known to attack anyone and anything that's near them.'"
"Figure they'd belong to Eggman," Sonic sweatdropped a bit before stating quietly, "Let's try to sneak by them. Perhaps they won't notice us if we move quietly."
"Got it/hai," Ben and the girls replied quietly.
With that, Sonic and his group slowly climbed over the hill and slowly, and quietly walked past the large flock of sheep. Just as they were half-way away from teh sheep, Makoto's tail brushed softly against Ben's nose.
"Ahh...ahh...ahh..." Ben began to sneeze before Sonic quickly put his finger under the Omnitrix wielder's nose, stopping him from sneezing.
"Phew...that was a close..." Sonic began before he let out a sneeze.
Unfortunatly for Sonic and the others, this caught the flock's attention as they turned towards the group and gave them a death glare.
"...RUN!" Ben screamed as the group ran as fast as they could, the huge flock of sheep hot on their tail.
"Me and my big mouth!" Sonic yelled.
"Okay...that should do it for the Tornado," Tails noted as he put the finishing touches on the Tornado, "Now I'll just have to finish fixing the Gale and.."
-Tails?! Tails do you come in?!-
"Huh? That sounded like Nicole," Tails noted as he picked up the communicator located in the pilot's seat inside the Tornado, "I'm here. What's wrong Nicole?"
-I..I don't know how to explain this..but..something is happening to the people and trees inside and outside the city- Nicole explained, a bit of panic and fear in the lynx' voice -i..I don't know how...but someone or something is draining the life out of them-
"W...what?!" Tails gasped.
-It's true. The same thing is happening to the tree's, grass, and the sky- Nicole added -Tails...you have to tell Sonic about this fast-
"G...got it. You keep me informed if anything else happens," Tails stated.
-I'll be sure too- Nicole replied as the communicator turned off.
"Oh man...Sonic better hurry up and find Eggman," Tails said to himself in worry, "From the way Nicole sounded, things are really bad back on the ground."
"I...I think we lost them..." Sonic panted.
"Y...yeah. But...where are we?" Ben asked as he and the others noticed they were in a swamp like area with venom purple water.
"I don't know...but..." Makoto before she and Roll covered their noses, "It really smells here."
"Hai..." Roll nodded.
"Well whatever this place is, we'd better start moving before..." Sonic began before a low, yet semi-loud growling sound was heard, "...Please tell me that your stomachs."
"N...no it wasn't," Ben replied with a gulp.
"W..well..then what...?" Sonic began before something behind the group began to breath heavily on them, "...There's something bad behind us, isn't there?"
"H...hai..." Roll gulped as Yacker immedeatly went straight into the hedgefox' quills to hide.
Slowly, Sonic and his group turned to see a large, robotic centipede with venom purple and acid green armor staring down at them, a look of hunger in the robot's optics.
"...RUN!" Sonic yelled as the group ran away from the giant, robo-centipede, said robot hot on their tails.
"What the hell's wrong with Eggman?!" Ben demanded.
"Many things! But let's get away from that giant bug before we end up bug food!" Sonic yelled.
"Agree/hai!" the girls agreed with the blue hedgehog.
The chase continued on for a few minutes, the robo-centipede still after Sonic and his group with the intent of eating them. Sonic and his group tried to hide in a few places to lose the robo-centipede, but it still found them. Heck, they even tried posing as sheep, yet that failed terribly as the sheep they were trying to blend in with were the same ones that were chasing them before. So not only did Sonic and the others have to deal with the robo-centipede, but a herd of short tempered, demonic sheep.
"I'm seriously going to kick Eggman's ass when we find him!" Makoto yelled in fustration before she and the others came across a dead end.
"Damn! A dead end!" Sonic cursed as he and the others turned to see the herd of angry sheep, and the robo-centipede charging right at them.
"Oh man oh man oh man...what do we do?" Makoto gulped a bit.
"I don't...wait..." Tsubaki began as she turned to Ben, "Do you have any forms that control gravity?"
"Yeah. Grav-Attack. But I don't..." Ben blinked a before he saw where Tsubaki was going with this, "I see get it. I can use Grav-Attack to send those things far away from us."
"Hai..but you better hurry and change into him fast! Those things are starting to get closer" Tsubaki yelled as she saw the robo-centipede and herd of angry sheep coming closer.
"I'm on it!" Ben nodded as he quickly activated the Omnitrix and slammed down on it, turning him into a new alien, one he didn't choose, "Toepick...are you serious?!"
Toepick was a green-sinned, ogre-like alien with a dark green metal cage on his head, the glow of his green eyes being the only thing visible inside the 'helmet'. The metal 'helmet' had two horns protruding form the sides of it. The cage's door had five bars, three of which were in the center of the door. There was a lock staying on the right half. Connected to the cage-like helmet was armor that wrapped around his shoulders and went halfway down his chest, the Omnitrix symbol located on the chest armor. His armor was connected to a pair of black underpants held up by chains, the pants having a metal waistline matching the color of his armor. His arms were long and misshapen with weed-liek spikes coming out of them and his fingers were pointy. He also had a visible belly button.
"..Um...what kind of Alien is this Ben?" Sonic couldn't help but ask.
"You're about to find out. But...I want you and the girls to turn around. And no matter what you do...don't look at me when the cage on my head is open, got it?" Toepick stated to the hedgehog. his voice sounding deep.
"O...okay," Sonic nodded, the hedgehog feeling a bit scared from hearing Toepick's voice as he turned to face the girls, "Y..you heard him. T..turn around.
"O..okay/Hai," Roll, Makoto, and Tsubaki nodded as they quickly turned around.
"I don't know if this is going to work but...here goes nothing..."Toepick mumbled to himself just as the robo-centipede and sheep were near, ready to pounce on the ogre like alien.
However, they stopped once they saw the cage on Toepick's head began to open, bits of steam and bits of acid green smoke being released as the door opened up. The moment the Robo-centipede and the herd of sheep gazed at Toepick's true face...their entire bodies(or armor in the cenitpede case) became a very, pale white. N..no words could be said at what horror they saw. Pure...unspeakable...horror. Without a moments notice, the robo-centipede and herd of sheep ran away from the ogre-like alien, screaming like girls as a few trails of urine could be seen from the fleeing herd of sheep.
"...Wow...That worked out better than I expected," Toepick blinked a bit as the door on his cage closed before he turned back into Ben, "Okay guys, they're gone."
"Huh? What do you mean they're..." Sonic began as he and the girls turned to see that the robo-centipede and the herd of angry sheep were no longer there, "..gone?"
"Well...yeah," Ben replied, a tiny bit unnerved at the looks of shock he was getting.
"How did you...?" Makoto began, "Oh my god..." sparkles appeared in her eyes, "Did that alien vaporize them with an eye laser?"
"Um...no. Toepick doesn't have any eye lasers," Ben replied with a small, sweatdrop.
"But then what's with the mask?" Makoto asked, "Is it to make sure he doesn't fire a laser from his mouth?"
"...What is with you and lasers lately?" Sonic asked.
"I read Tails' secret stash of comics," Makoto replied, "So come on, Ben-kun, is it lasers? Huh? Huh? Is it?"
"...Well..." Ben began.
"You remember what to do once Sonic gets here, right?" the voice of a certain, fat doctor asked from nearby, catching the groups attention.
"I thought I heard a fatty," Sonic whispered.
"You did, you did hear a fatty," Roll giggled, making Sonic smirk a bit.
"Yeah yeah...whatever.." another familiar voice spoke.
"...That sounds like that Zazz guy me and Ben-Kun fought before," Makoto whispered.
"...Zeti!-!-!-!" Yacker screamed before zipping back into Sonic's quills, trembling so bad that Sonic's head was shaking.
"...Zeti?" Makoto repeated quietly.
"I think that's what kind of creature that Zazz character is," Tsubaki guessed.
"Yacker-kun..." Roll whispered as she watched Sonic's head tremble, the whimpers and soft cries of her aibou coming from it.
"..Roll? Can you take Yacker back to Tails?" Sonic asked the hedgefox quietly.
"Ano...I-I'll try," Roll replied as she tried to get Yacker out of his quills, only for the Wisp to glow and phase into Sonic, "Oh! He hid in you!"
"What?!" Sonic freaked before realizing he hadn't change, "Uh...Why didn't I change?"
"Yacker-kun can't change my weapon while he's in his normal self," Roll replied, showing her swiss army knife.
"I see..." Sonic note before sighing, "If he can hear me..I want to apologize to him because...well...we're most likely going to have to fight that Zazz guy in order to get to Eggman."
Sonic fell over, holding his head in pain. Yacker's scream of fear easily echoed all around inside his head. He popped out and zipped into Makoto's body.
"Hey!" Makoto yelped.
"Man that hurt..." Sonic winced a bit, his ears still ringing "Roll? Can you see if you can get Yacker out of Makoto? I want you two to stay back since Yacker's really afraid of that Zazz guy. Plus...can you tell him I'm sorry for trying to force him to come?"
"I'll try, but Yacker-chan's never acted like this before," Roll noted, "It's as if these 'Zeti' are an instinctive fear."
"...Do you think the Zeti are the natural predator of Wisps?" Makoto asked, recalling what Ben had told them about an alien known as Khyber.
"Maybe...if that's the case, then we batter make sure that Zazz guy, or any other Zeti(if there are any) don't see him," Ben suggested.
"Agreed," Makoto nodded.
"Hai," Tsubaki added before she peeked around the corner before pulling herself back in, "And from what I saw, aside from Zazz, there's..." she paused as she held five fingers up while mouthing 'five more Zeti over there with Eggman'.
"Ooh...That can't be good at all," Makoto flinched.
"Yeah...I hope we don't go up against them all," Ben replied quietly as Roll managed to get Yacker out of Makoto's body.
"You don't have to go if you don't want to, Yacker-kun," Roll comforted her aibou.
"..." Yacker let out a whimper as he shook in fear, afraid that the Zeti were going to get him.
"Like I said before Roll, You and Yacker stay back. We'll take care of ol' eggbutt and those Zeti," Sonic stated to the hedgefox.
"Hai. A..ano..good luck Sonikku," Roll said to the blue hedgehog.
"Thanks Roll," Sonic nodded as he, Ben, Makoto, and Tsubaki began to leave from their hiding spot.
"..Grr...where are they?! I'm ready to cause some chaos!" Zazz yelled, the Zeti anxious to fight.
"Patience Zazz...know that little blue nuicance, he'll be here any minute," Eggman stated before...
"Hey!"
"Speak of the devil..." Eggman muttered as he turned his hovercraft to see Sonic and his small group-minus Roll, Tails, and Yacker, approach him.
"We've been looking everywhere for you, Baldy Mcnosehair," Sonic grinned before looking over at the Zeti, "So...who're your friends?"
"...Friends? These are nobody's friends. They are the Deadly Six, and they are your worst enemies!" Eggman declared before he turned to Zazz, "Zazz! Show this blue pest how you do things up here on Lost Hex."
"...Heh...with pleasure," Zazz grinned maniacly as he walked up to the hedgehog and pointed his finger close to Sonic's face, "I've been itching for another fight all day!"
"Dude...I think you're itching because you seriously need a bath," Sonic quiped with a grin.
"..." Zazz blinked as he smelled his armpits a bit before realizing something as he glared at Sonic, "Are you disrespecting me?!"
"Maybe," Sonic quiped again, causing Zazz to growl.
"Grr...I'm going to mess you up, rat!" Zazz snarled before Zavok held him back.
"Not yet..." the large, red Zeti quietly ordered, "Wait until the fat one leaves."
"..." Zazz nodded as he calmed down a bit.
"I'd love to stay and watch Zazz disassemble you and your friends, but I have business to attend to," Eggman stated as he turned his hovercraft and prepared to leave before looking at Zavok, "Come Zavok. We're leaving."
"...No. If it's okay with you..I'd like to stay and observe the hedgehog a bit," Zavok replied, the red Zeti eying the group, or to be specific...Ben and his watch.
"..Fine. Just be sure to let me know if anything interesting happens," Eggman said as he and the four Zeti hiding in the shadows left.
"Geheh...I know the perfect spot to take care of you..." Zazz grinned as he and Sonic glared at eachother.
"...heh. That's funny..." Sonic began with a teasing grin, "Because I know the perfect spot to kick you!"
"..." Zazz' eye twitched a bit before he left in a blur, "Later!"
"Hey! Get back here!" Sonic yelled as he ran after the crazed Zeti.
Ben, Makoto, and Tsubaki were about to run after the two before...
"Hold it..." Zavok spoke, catching the three's attention, "You...the boy with that strange watch..you're Ben Tennyson, correct?"
"...Who want's to know?" Ben asked, the teen steadily preparing to activate the Omnitrix.
"I am Zavok, leader of the Deadly Six," the red Zeti introduced himself while glaring at Ben, "And I know about you, Ben Tennyson."
"...Let me guess, Eggman told you I'm not a threat and you believe him, right?" Ben asked, a bit ticked off that Eggman was underestimating him.
"Not exactly," Zavok replied.
"...beg pardon?" Ben blinked in surprise a bit.
"That fool doesn't see a potential threat when he's busy going after that hedgehog friend of yours," the red Zeti explained while crossing his arms, "However...While you maybe a threat to Eggman...I doubt you'll be able to defeat me."
"...Oh yeah? Well we'll see about..." Ben began with a sorta-cocky grin before Tsubaki placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Don't act so overconfident, Ben," The crimson-red head whispered to Ben as she looked at Zavok, "There's probably a reason Zavok is the leader of his group."
"Right...I better go Big Chill just in case," Ben stated as he activated the Omnitrix and pressed down on it, turning him into one of his more wild aliens, "Raaagh!...Let me tell ya somethin' Omnitrix: Rath is getting sick and tired of you turning him into the wrong alien!"
"..." Zavok gave off a low, unimpressed chuckle, catching Rath's attention.
"Hey! What's so funny Zavok, Leader of the Deadly Six?!" the Appolexian demanded.
"Nothing. It's just...the form you have chosen is rather...pathetic," Zavok stated, "After looking up what info the doctor had on you, I was hoping you'd transform into one of your more challenging aliens, but instead you give me the muscle bound idiot of your transformations."
"Grr...Let me tell ya something Zavok, Leader of the Deadly Six: You're going to regret talking down to Rath like that!" Rath growled at the Zeti.
"Heh...if you think you're so tough.." Zavok began as he uncrossed his arms, "Then come at me with everything you got."
"...Alright. Now you're making it interesting," Rath grinned as he cracked his knuckles, "The first thing I'm going to do is break those teeth of yours, and fashion them into a trophy!"
"Then what's stopping you?" Zavok smirked a little, "Come at me...little kitten."
"KITTEN?! Oh that's it!" Rath growled as he charged at Zavok.
Once he was within range, Rath reeled his fist back and delivered a powerful punch to Zavok's face, the Apoplexian giving off a small smirk before his, along with Makoto and Tsubaki, eyes widened in shock to see Zavok unaffected by the attack.
"...Was that supposed to hurt me?" Zavok scoffed, the Zeti unimpressed by Rath's attack.
"N...no way! I punched you really hard!" Rath growled as he jumped away from Zavok, "You're face should be broken!"
"Tch! That was a punch? Funny...I thought a fly had landed on my cheek," Zavok scoffed, causing Rath to growl even more.
"Oh dear..." Tsubaki gasped quietly.
"What's wrong, Tsubaki?" Makoto asked her friend.
"Before we left, Rook-san gave me a small, dictionary for the Aliens Ben turns into...and from what I read on Rath's species..." Tsubaki began as she looked at Rath trembling with anger, "They don't like being talked down to."
"What's the matter? Did I upset the little kitty cat?" Zavok gave a small smirk, angering Rath even further.
"Don't...talk..down to me!-!-!" Rath roared as he charged at Zavok, the Apoplexian delivering a series of powerful punches to the Zeti's face. Unfortunatly, the had the same result as before...no damage at all.
"Please...surely you can do better than this," Zavok scoffed.
"L...Let me...tell ya somethin'...Zavok: n...nobody u...underestimates Rath...and walks away..in one piece!" Rath panted, the Apoplexian already feeling a bit winded after delivering so many punches to Zavok.
"Somehow I doubt that...but I'll humor you a bit Tennyson. I'll give two minutes to hit me with everything you got..." Zavok challenged Rath.
"..Two minutes? Please..Rath'll beat you within 30 second!" Rath yelled as he got ready to attack again.
"Ben, wait! I think Zavok's just trying to..." Tsubaki began.
"Shut up, Tsubaki Yayoi! Rath'll show Zavok not to mess with me!" Rath yelled as he charged at Zavok again.
Meanwhile, both Sonic and Zazz had reached a empty plain, the crazed Zeti staring down at Sonic.
"So...you ready to get pummeled, hedgehog?" Zazz asked, the crazed Zeti cracking his neck a bit.
"Maybe. Are you ready to finally take a bath?" Sonic smirked.
"...Mock me all you want..this battle's going to be a LOT different than our last one!" Zazz yelled as he charged at Sonic, who jumped out of the way just as Zazz slashed a tree that was behind him, the tree falling to pieces after the slash.
"Whoa! You fight a sharpener and lose?" Sonic asked, "'Cause your face looks like ya lost."
"Go to hell!' Zazz growled as he swiped at the hedgehog a few more times.
"Now I know why you don't like baths," Sonic quipped as he dodged the slashes, "Too much soap in your mouth."
"RAAAH!" Zazz roared as he attempted to smash Sonic, only of the hedgehog to dodge as a crazed Zeti destroyed a boulder that was behind Sonic.
"Ooh...Maybe you got time outs for breaking your toys when you were a kid?" Sonic teased, "Must be the cause of all your anger."
"That's it!" Zazz growled as he became a blur.
"Heh...don't think you'll..." Sonic began before Zazz grabbed him by the neck with his tail, "Gah!"
"Heh...what's the matter..can't breath?" Zazz smirked darkly as he tightened his grip on Sonic's neck.
'Oh man..he's gonna choke me to death...oh man this is going to be gross!' Sonic thought before he bit Zazz' tail, the sound of glass breaking being heard as the crazed Zeti's eyes widened.
"GAH!" Zazz yelped as he let go of Sonic and held his tail, "Son of a..mother...GRAH!" the Zeti growled as he punched Sonic in the face, sending him staggering back a bit.
Sonic coughed up a bit of blood as some trickled from his nose.
'Oh yeah. I think that broke my nose...' Sonic thought in his pain.
"You're going to regret biting my tail, hedgehog!" Zazz growled as he charged at Sonic, preparing to impale the hedgehog with his horns.
Sonic barely rolled out of the way, letting Zazz hit a wall, "Trust me, I'll be brushing my mouth for weeks constantly from what I tasted."
Zazz roared before trying to pull himself out of the wall, "..." he tugged again and then five more times for good measure, "...This wall is eating me!-!-!-!"
'...Wow...this guy is a major idiot...insane, but still an idiot,' Sonic sweatdropped before grinning, "Oh well..might as well take advantage of this situation."
"Radda-radda-ra-ra-radda!" Zazz snapped as he put his feet on the wall to try to pull himself out as Sonic began to charge up a Spin Dash.
Just as Zazz finally pulled his horns out of the wall, Sonic Spin Dashed forward and slammed hard into Zazz' back, causing the Zeti to cry out in pain as he was sent crashing into the same wall.
Zazz looked down to see that behind the wall was a deep chasm was on the other side. Zazz turned to glare at Sonic.
"I hate you," Zazz stated before he fell into the chasm, "Yah-hoo-hoo-hooey~!"
"Well...That's one way to end a fight," Sonic noted, looking down at the falling Zazz, "...I better check up on Ben and see how he and the girls are faring," the hedgehog stated to himself as he left in a blur.
"..." Rath panted as he started at Zavok, who was still unimpressed by his attacks.
"Is that all you have?" Zavok asked.
"N...No! Rath still has...plenty of energy...to beat you!" Rath yelled while panting, the Apoplexian's energy almost spent.
"Please. You're on your knees now," Zavok frowned, "But, I suppose that since you have about thirty seconds left before I start attacking, I should let you have one last try."
"Y...y..you're going to regret saying that Zavok, Leader of the Deadly six!" Rath yelled as he charged again, reeling his arm back to deliver one last powerful punch to Zavok.
When he got within range Rath clenched his fist hard, a bit of blood dripping from it as he slammed it hard into Zavok's face, resulting in a powerful shockwave that sent Makoto and Tsubaki skidding back a few feet.
"...H...heh heh...how...how do you like...?" Rath began as he looked up at Zavok ,the appolexian's eyes widening in shock to see once again, his attack had no affect on the Zeti, "N...no way! I...I put all my strength in that punch!"
"You did. And allow me to tell you that it was a good strike," Zavok noted, "Had you used that on Zazz, he would've been sent flying a good...twenty kilometers." He proceeded to pick up Rath by his neck, "And I should tell you this; I've fought Apoplexians before and at least they had a sense of honor in wearing clothes."
Rath blinked twice, "What you talkin' 'bout, Zavok of the Deadly Six?"
"Apoplexians have a sense of honor in wearing clothing. You seem to have no shame in going about in the nude," Zavok explained, almost as if he was merely talking about the weather, "Also..." Zavok reeled his fist back, "Your time is up."
With that, Zavok gave a light punch. That light punch sent Rath rocketing away from him in a shockwave that easily sent Tsubaki and Makoto far back. Rath screamed as he crashed into a wall, completely demolishing it into piles of debris with nothing in it bigger than a Nintendo DS cartridge. Rath could barely get his head out of it before he timed out, Ben passing out just a second after. Nearby, the two girls ended up landing in a bit of a compromising position of Tsubaki's face in Makoto's breast with Makoto's hands on Tsubaki's behind, the Squirrel Beastkin on top of the crimson-red head.
"Pathetic...I'd thought he would be a better challenge," Zavok scoffed as he prepared to walk away, but not before noticing a bit of blood on his lip, "Hmm?"
The two girls got out of their positions with small blushes. They shook them off when they saw Ben.
"Ben!" both exclaimed before turning to glare at Zavok, his back facing them.
"Oh, please. As if you two could truly hurt me," Zavok chuckled, "When he awakes, tell him that the next time we meet will have a different outcome."
With that, Zavok jumped a good distance away from them. It only two a second jump to make him a dot to their eyes. The two girls turned to the rubble and quickly ran to Ben.
"Ben, are you okay?" Tsubaki asked Ben, earning a unconscious groan in the process. She then looked over at Makoto, "Help me get Ben out of here, Makoto."
Makoto didn't reply as she was already on it as evident by the large amount of dirt going into the air as she was digging as fast as she could.
"Good..now help me carefully pull him out," Tsubaki said to her friend.
"Hai," Makoto noded as she and Tsubaki carefully pulled the unconscious Ben out before the crimson-red head began to check him for any serious injuries, "Is he okay, Tsubaki?"
"...It's not as bad as it looks," Tsubaki noted as she took out a few medical supplies she had on her, "We're just lucky Rath is such an endurable alien."
"...Is Ben nude as Rath?" Makoto asked.
"Why are you asking that now?!" Tsubaki frowned.
"What? Blame that guy for it getting into my head. I mean, if we've been seeing him in the nude, why haven't we seen his junk?" Makoto asked, making Tsubaki facepalm.
"Hey!" a voice called out as Sonic arrived in the area, "Sorry I'm late guys. I had to...woah," the hedgehog's eyes widened in shock once he saw Ben's condition, "What happened to Ben?"
"That red figure, Zavok, easily defeated Ben as Rath," Tsubaki explained.
"You know this rubble? It was a huge hill!" Makoto added, "Also, do you think Rath's species wears clothes because they've got no junk?"
"Makoto!" Tsubaki exclaimed.
"What?! I'm curious, okay?" Makoto yelped a bit.
"Wait..you mean..Ben lost to that red guy from earlier?" Sonic blinked in surprise.
"Hai..and if he was able to beat Ben so easily..I'd hate to see how strong the other four Zeti are," Makoto gulped a bit.
A white blur raced through the skies before stopping before them, revealing itself to be Yacker. Roll ran up after that.
"Yacker-chan, why did you run off like th..." Roll began before gasping, "Oh my!"
"Yeah...Ben-kun got beat pretty badly by that red Zeti," Makoto stated to the hedgefox before hearing Ben wince in pain, causing the Beastkin and hedgefox to look at Ben's unconscious body while Tsubaki was placing a cast on his arm.
"No wonder Yacker-chan is so terrified of them," Roll noted as she held the mentioned Wisp in her arms.
"There...I've managed to bandage up the wounds..although..Ben shouldn't move his arm around for a few days," Tsubaki stated as she picked Ben up and put his good arm over her shoulder, "Let's get back to Tails."
Everyone, minus Ben, nodded.
"There...that should do it," Tails said as he finished to repairs on the Gale.
"Tails-chan!" Roll called, earning Tails' attention, "Incoming wounded!"
"Huh? Wounded? What...?" Tails began as he turned around before his eyes widened, seeing the condition of Ben, "Wh..what happened to Ben?!"
"This red guy named Zavok pummeled him as Rath with just one punch!" Makoto replied, "By the way..."
"You're not asking that!" Tsubaki growled.
"Asking what?" Tails raised a brow.
"That Rath's species..." Makoto began before Tsubaki gave her an even glare, "..Shutting up."
"Ugh..." Ben groaned.
"..Ben-kun?" Makoto looked at Ben, who started to regain conciousness, "Daijoubu?"
"Y...yeah...but...I feel like I just got hit by a whole army of Raths," Ben groaned as he looked at Makoto, "Wh..what happened?"
"...You lost..badly," Makoto replied with a sigh.
"...You sure it wasn't an army of Apopplexians?" Ben asked/joked.
"No...that red Zeti beat you pretty bad...and you couldn't even hurt him once as Rath," Tsubaki explained with a sigh.
"...I think he did," Roll noted, "I smelled a tiny drop of weird blood near this pair of feet indents in the ground."
"That must have been where Zavok had been," Tsubaki guessed, "But how are you sure?"
"It had more iron than copper in terms of smell," Roll replied.
"...You can tell someone's blood from scent?" Sonic asked, making Roll blush.
"H-Hai. The women on my Kaa-chan's side of the family were known for their strong sense of smell," Roll explained, finding playing with her tail interesting at the moment.
"I see..." Sonic noted as he looked at Tails, "So..are the planes fixed up?"
"Eeyup," Tails nodded.
"Good, because We need to catching up to Eggman and fast," Sonic stated.
"Right..." Tails nodded as he took out a small device from inside the Tornado and pressed a switch on it, causing a hexagonal map to appear, "We can probably catch up to him if we go through this desert area here," he stated as he pointed to a part of the map.
"Any beaches or oasis?" Makoto asked.
"Just one, and it seems pretty big too," Tails noted, seeing a medium-sized, green spot on the desert part of the map before pointing to a large blue and green part of the map, "And form what I can guess, there's a beach like area on the other side of the desert."
"Whoo!" Makoto cheered, "I'll break out the Golden An..."
"Don't you dare!" Tsubaki barked.
"Okay, okay! Sorry!" Makoto yelped.
"Just how bad was it that you don't even want to use that stuff?" Sonic asked before flinching at Tsubaki's blade barely missing his nose.
"Let's just drop the subject, head out, and go after Eggman, okay?" Tsubaki asked the group, her blade still out.
"..." Everyone slowly nodded in response, scared of the crimson-red head right now.
"Good..now let's head out," Tsubaki stated as she put her weapons away.
"You idiot! I cant' believe you lost! TWICE!" Eggman snapped at a bruised and bandaged Zazz.
Zazz's mouth bandages made it impossible for anyone to understand him. Zavok just glanced at Zazz, wondering just where the Zeti had gotten that wheelchair.
"Also..." Eggman began as he held up a small rabbit by its ears, "The animals you and Zavok brought me are pathetic, which makes me disappointed...violently disappointed," he added with a frown as he tossed the rabbit over his shoulder, letting Orbot catch it.
"..We don't care about your dissappoinment...master,' Zavok frowned at the fat doctor.
"...Oh really?" Eggman frowned before he brought out the dark-purple counch-shell again, causing both Zavok and Zazz to back away in slight fear, "Do you care now?" he asked before he began to play the conch, causing both Zavok and Zazz to grunt and hiss in pain until Eggman stopped playing the Conch-shell, "Next tiem...bring better animals!"
"...Yes...master," Zavok nodded, the red Zeti dangerously glaring at Eggman as he and the injured Zazz left into the shadows.
"..Now I'm going to have to get someone else to deal with that blue pest and his allies," Eggman frowned before turning towards the shadows, "Zommom! Get over here!"
"...Okay," a voice replied as a really fat Zeti walked in, the ground shaking a bit with each step the Zeti took.
Th Zeti's entire body was somewhat circular in shape, giving him a rather chubby appearance. His upper body was a vibrant orange color. His thick arms ended with equally large five-fingered hands with yellow nails. His lower body was pure black, and the Zeti's legs were so stubby to be nearly non-existent. His flat feet were each tipped with a pair of yellow claws, with a third on the heel. The fat Zeti appeared to have some sort of stubby tail.
The Zeti also had thick yellow lips and he appeared to be missing some teeth and others seemed chipped. Unlike the other two Zeti in the room however, the Zeti's teeth were square in shape instead of sharp fangs. The fat Zeti had small red eyes with yellow sclera, with black markings surrounding each eye. The Zeti was fully bald, unlike the other Zazz and Zavok. On the top of his head, the Zeti appeared to have four relatively short yet sharp horns, each one being striped black and red. On his wrists, the fat Zeti wore a pair of black bracelets with grey spikes.
"Now fat one...I want you to take care of that blue pest, Sonic!" Eggman ordered, pointing to a screen that showed the Tornado and Gale.
"Hey! Who're you calling fat?!" Zommom snapped, rather dumbly.
"You! If you hurry and destroy Sonic and his friends..." Eggman began as he snapped his fingers, causing Cubot, who was wearing a chef's hat, to come in, the cube-shaped bot holding a plate with a rather large sub on it before Eggman took the sub, "I'll make you an even bigger sandwich for you," he grinned as he tossed the sub into the air.
"Oh boy! Sandwich!" Zommom cheered as he jumped into the air and grabbed the sub, the ground shaking like crazy the moment the fat Zeti landed as he began to leave, munching on the sub.
"...Oh help me..." Eggman facepalmed, the egg-shaped doctor starting to regret choosing Zommom. He then looked over at Orbot, who was looking at a percentage meter on the screen, "How's the machine holding, Orbot?"
"So far we've extracted 15% of Mobius' energy. At this rate, you'll have enough to increase the power of your robots, and possibly the Dark Egg Legion," Orbot replied, seeing the screen read '15%' with a fairly, large dome-like image being filled with something green.
"Excellent..." Eggman grinned darkly, "By the time I"m done absorbing Mobius' energy, Sonic and his friends won't know what hit them! In fact...the first robot that'll taste this 'power-up' first is Mecha-Sally, followed by Metal Sonic."
"...Um...excuse me my lord...but that doesn't seem like..." Orbot began.
"Shut up! I know what I'm doing, okay?! Now get back to work!" Eggman snapped.
"Y..yes sir!" Orbot yelped as he got back to work on the computer.
"Good...now if you'll excuse me..I'm going to make an important call with my new partner," Eggman stated as he left, unaware that Zavok was watching from the shadow's the red Zeti over hearing what he said.
Instruct me: Magister Tennyson
(Staring Max Tennyson, Taokaka, Scratch, and Grounder)
Max: Hello everyone. It's nice to see you all again. I apologize for not being here last time. There was some...technical difficulties with the equipment.
Taokaka: Meow! What about us, Hawaii-guy?
Max: Hmm? Oh! I apologize Tao*motions to Taokaka, Scratch, and Grounder*This is my Taokaka, a vigilante in training and my student, and Scartch and Grounder, my two assistants.
Grounder:*waves at you*hey there!
Scratch: Great to be back! Ba-haha!*looks at Max*So, what'll we be learning today, boss man?
Max: Well...today we'll be talking about another of Ben's aliens, Toepick.
Taokaka:..Nya?*a few question marks appear over her head*Toe..pick?
Grounder:*starts snickering with Scratch*Wh...what kind of name is that?
Scratch:*starts laughing with grounder*Yeah! It sounds really stu...*stops laughing before he and Grounder started shivering in fear the moment Toepick's image came up on the screen*Wh...what is that?
Max: That is Toepick. Nobody knows what kind of Alien he is, or what planet he comes from.
Taokaka:*starts shivering in fear with Scratch and Grounder* Meow...Toe-Guy looks really scary...nya.
Scratch, Grounder:*gulps*W...we agree.
Max: Well...he is Ben's scariest alien.*sees the image zoom in on Toepick's helmet*In fact, this helmet here hides Toepick's true face, and trust me when I say this...you DON'T want to see what he looks like underneath that helmet.
Scratch:..*gulps*Wh...Why?
Max: Well...*sees the image changing to Toepick opening his helmet to Psyphon, the villain shaking and screaming like crazy as his entire body, even his armor, turned white*It is said that Toepick's face is so horrifying and hideous, that anyone who gazes at it will be so terrified, that not only their entire body turns white as a sheet, but they are filled with fear, sickness, and possibly even madness. And, if it's true, there's a rumor saying that his face can scare a Celestialsapien's personalities.
Taokaka:*gulps in fear with Scratch and Grounder after hearing that*Meow...Tao doesn't want to see Toe-Guys' face after hearing that...meow.
Grounder: S...same here.
Scratch: Y...yeah...d...does he h-have any weaknesses?
Max: Just a few..one; if Toepick sees his face in the mirror, he'll be terrified by his own image. Two; Vulpimancers and other blind aliens are immune to Toepick's face since they have no eyes, thus not seeing it. And three; beings that lack sapient emotion or survival instincts, such as drones and robots, are immune to Toepick's face.*the image changes to Toepick scaring the Robo-Centipede and the mad-sheep* Though there are a few rare cases, such as Eggman's creation here.
Scratch: I...I see...*looks at Grounder*shall we faint now?
Grounder: Yes.
Scratch: Good.*faints with Grounder*
Max:*sweatdrops at that before looking at a shivering Taokaka*Are you okay, Tao?
Taokaka: N...nyes. Um...T...Tao's-going-to-go-visit-Boobie-Lady-bye-Hawaii-Guy!*zooms out of the room, the Kaka clan member not wanting to see anymore of Toepick*
Max:...*sighs a bit before looking at you* That's all for now.
