Werewolf99: I'm not really sure how to explain my logic, but I'll try. Since this is a fan fiction, I'm writing about characters who aren't mine, and that I love. Mario, Sonic, and their supporting casts are very important to me, my childhood heroes, really – I wouldn't want to take away from that with some character I made up. Does that make sense?
Chapter 14 (Rouge/Omega)
Rouge jumped out of the portal, arriving in Soleanna Castle town with the green Chaos Emerald. She guessed that Team Sonic probably appeared somewhere else, or maybe at a slightly different time… They had entered before her, after all.
For a minute or so, she waited for Shadow to arrive, and the only reason she stopped was because the portal closed. Then she started to freak out a little bit.
"Shadow? Shadow? Where'd you go?" Rouge asked, but to no avail. Her best friend wasn't here. "… If he's left behind… Then he doesn't have a Chaos Emerald…"
The GUN communicator on her wrist began ringing. "Agent Rouge? Have you retrieved the Scepter?"
"… Well… It's rather complicated. I'll provide a full report shortly. Right now, I have a situation. I need to contact Omega immediately." Omega had been built specifically to guard Shadow, after all. If anyone could find Shadow, it'd be him. It helped that they got along very well – Omega was fascinated with the sheer destruction Shadow could cause when he felt like it.
"He is currently situated within the jungle near your location. He was sent there to deal with a small problem, in the form of… And you won't believe this… A hyper-strong gorilla with a tie and a little monkey with a red hat who has a jetpack and peanut-shooting guns."
"With all due respect, I did help defeat Metal Sonic when he went insane and consumed the Egg Fleet. I'm not sure it gets much weirder than that."
"Too true, Agent Rouge. Report back when you have time."
Rouge hung up, and flew off towards the Tropical Jungle that was near Soleanna, to begin her search for Omega. The Tropical Jungle was a very odd place, in Rouge's opinion. She'd been here once before while treasure hunting, and had always found it odd how there were ruins sticking up out of a lake. It was pretty easy for her to navigate, though, since she could just fly from platform to platform with no trouble.
The only real difference from last time was that there were Eggman robots swarming the place, but that was no big surprise. Wherever Sonic and Eggman were, this was bound to happen. What did surprise her, though, were the winged turtles that kept trying to divebomb her. She'd never seen anything like them before.
"FOR BOWSER!" One of them, with a red shell, screamed as it tried to attack her. She kicked it into the water, and watched it resurface. It shook its fist at her, and began swimming for shore. Rouge thought back a bit. Bowser… Where had she heard that name before? Oh, right, Wario had said that was Mario's nemesis. So these turtles must be his minions… Either he's working with Eggman, or against him.
She landed on a rather wide platform to rest her wings for a bit, and, of course, was ambushed. Two turtles, wearing odd armor and carrying hammers, along with two large badniks, had surrounded her.
"Come quietly and we won't rough ya up too bad!" One of the turtles yelled.
"Yeah!" The other agreed.
"My, that's no way to treat a lady. Just who are you?"
"We won't tell our names to-"
"I'm Clark and this is Mark! We're hammer bros! We gonna beat you with an endless volley of these things!" The second turtle said, and nearly beaned Rouge in the head with a thrown hammer.
"… Right. Well, I'll just be on my way then…" Rouge tossed a couple of bat-bombs at the badniks, destroying them effortlessly, and kicked Clark into Mark, knocking them out before they could carry out their threat.
"… I'm getting the feeling these guys are either just incompetent, or out of their element. Ah well! Makes it easier for me!"
Clark and Mark were just coming to as she flew off, and started throwing hammers at her. Not that any of them actually reached her, but they did try.
"SUBMIT IDIOT APE!" Omega yelled in is monotonous voice, using his flamethrower on the spot the gorilla had just been standing.
"Donkey Kong no understand why tin man attack! Donkey just want to help!" Donkey Kong replied, as he rolled out of the way.
"YOU ARE JUST TRYING TO TRICK ME. DECEIVERS MUST BE ANHILLATED." Omega raised his arm to fire again, but was met with peanuts moving at high speeds hitting it.
"He's not gonna listen, DK!" Diddy, Donkey Kong's nephew and longtime companion, shouted as he flew by with his jetpack, peanut popguns in hand. "Gotta take things up a notch!"
"Take up? Ooh! Donkey say Bongo and Guitar! Boomy tunes!"
"… Great idea!" Diddy said, landing next to DK. "Okay, mister crazy killer robot…"
"MY NAME IS OMEGA. THANK YOU FOR THE COMPLIMENT, MEATBAG."
"Listen to this!" Out of nowhere, Diddy pulled out an electric guitar, while DK pulled out a pair of bongos.
If Omega wasn't a robot, the sheer volume of the sound produced would have surely knocked him unconscious. As it was, it messed up his sensors for a precious few seconds, allowing DK to get in close and deliver a devastating uppercut punch.
"Banana-slamma!" DK yelled.
Omega went flying into the air, somewhat damaged from the punch (nothing a few rings couldn't fix, though), and began gliding on his way down. He began to analyze the fight. Clearly, his favorite method of blast-first-and-keep-blasting-until-it-stops-moving wasn't going to work – This ape was strong. Possibly almost as strong as him. He'd need a trick to take him down… And he got it. The ruins across from their little arena were weaking on the bottom. If he hit them just right, DK should be buried underneath. Still gliding down, Omega fired at the ruins, getting his intended effect.
The ruins fell towards DK, rushing down to crush the giant ape… Only to be stopped. Donkey Kong was holding the building, which must have weight several hundred tons, above his head. He crouched down as Omega, and at first Omega believed it was because the building was too heavy. Upon closer analysis of his stance, though, it seemed more like he was about to throw…
"DOES NOT COMPUTE!" Omega yelled, moving out of the way as the ape flung the building at him.
"NONE STRONGER THAN DONKEY!" DK yelled, pounding his chest. "Give bananas! Was told get bananas if beat robots!"
"Wait, that's why we're here?" Diddy asked. "I thought we were just coming on vacation."
"Am I interrupting anything?" Omega was glad to hear Rouge's voice, she was one of the few people the walking arsenal could call a friend, in whatever loose, warped definition he had of it.
"Beat Eggman robots for bananas! Wario promise bananas for DK!" DK yelled, pounding his chest more. "WHERE BANANAS?!"
"Hang on, Wario sent you?" the bat asked. "To… Beat up robots. And then he'd give you bananas."
"Hey, this is news to me, too," the companion of the ape said. "I just thought we were having a vacation. Well, my uncle's kinda hard to understand sometimes, anyway…"
"DONKEY STUBBORN AND STUPID AND STRONG AND PROUD!" DK yelled.
"… I can see that," Rouge said. "Well, this is the wrong robot. He's my friend. There's some robots you can beat up back in the jungle. And some turtle-things that are working with them, too."
"Koopas?" Diddy asked. "There are Koopas here? Aw, yeah! I've always wanted to fight Bowser's forces! K. Rool gets really boring! C'mon DK, let's go!" Diddy flew off in his jetpack, DK following close behind by swinging through the trees, yelling about bananas.
Rouge flew down to Omega. "You alright there, big guy?"
"UNIT IS SAFE. MULE APE IS STRONG IDIOT."
"Yeah, I got that. But a… friend… maybe… of mine sent him to help out. Okay, to be honest, I've no idea what the guy is doing. He ditched us, but now he's sending people to help. Anyway, that doesn't matter. What DOES matter is that I need your help locating Shadow."
"BROODING HEDGEHOG IS OFFLINE. LOCATION UNKNOWN."
"… I was afraid of that," Rouge said, sighing. "Okay, here's the deal, Omega. Shadow is some two hundred years in the future. He hadn't got a Chaos Emerald, so-"
"ROUGE WISHES FOR ME TO ENTER STANDBY AND BRING IT TO HIM. ALSO DESTROY ANYTHING THAT GETS IN MY WAY."
"… Yes. And-"
"I WILL RETURN WITH SHADOW. GIVE ME THE EMERALD."
Rouge handed the green emerald to Omega, and he put it into a special compartment in his torso.
"INITIATING TIMED RESTART. BACKUP POWER AND EXTRA AMMUNITION PRESENT. I WILL SEE YOU LATER, ROUGE."
"I'm counting on you, Omega. And… See you later."
Omega nodded, and activated his thrusters to blast off somewhere to lie in wait for two hundred years, so he could support Shadow in the far future.
Wario, once again, is in the background, trying to forward some goal. Maybe it involves money. But, in any case, he's gotten Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, and Daisy to all come to Soleanna.