Sonic Rebirth
Author's Notes: Once again, remember there's Japanese, and it's English translation is written next to it in ( ).
Direct continuation from the previous chapter, the only not worthy thing is that about Skye's plane. It's based off the original plans of the Tornado and not the Tornado II, so it essentially looks a lot like that plane only with different colors and such.
Chapter 14
My name is Skye Prower, but I'm just called Skye. It's hard to believe that mere seconds ago my biggest concern was getting home early, now it's if I'll get out of here alive! I felt really bad not being able to help Crimson, but it was amazing at the speed the others rushed in. Within a blink of the eye Dusk already saved Crimson while Circlet and Seraphim at the same time deflected the machine's giant arm. And wow, is it an impressive machine! Too bad it's evil and destroying the city. Now the five of us are racing off to try to stop the machine before it causes any more damage. I'm not sure how much I'll be able to help though...
Skye could feel her heart thumping loudly in her chest as she struggled to keep up with the others. All five of them more or less agreed to stop that machine. All they had to go on was a really long shot plan that Circlet told them before heading out, Skye wasn't sure about the others but she herself had doubts in this plan working. She wasn't sure if she should be glad or not to not be having a prominent role, after all her specialty was working with machines not fighting to destroy them.
Up a little ways from her was Seraphim, and beyond her was Circlet, Dusk and Crimson running about the same speed just slightly staggered out. Even running as fast as she could, Skye could barely keep up with the others, not that it mattered really, she was going to split up from them shortly. After passing up what remained of an intersection, Skye looked up and spotted up at the next corner an unscathed building not too far away from where the robot was currently standing at demolishing buildings and anything else in its path.
Buildings were on fire billowing up huge clouds of thick smoke, while others laid in rubble smoldering. A few fire hydrants were busted and water was flooding parts of the street up ahead. As they neared the intersection with the building, Seraphim glanced back to her, her violet eyes only briefly making contact with her own wide blue eyes.
"This is your stop," she said plainly, motioning to the building, "Just remember what you're to do and leave the rest to us."
Skye nodded slightly, trying to keep up appearances of not being scared. She didn't think the Seraphim bought into it, or even cared enough before turning back to look towards their goal. Skye tried not to focus on the large robot as she turned towards the building stopping in front of it to watch the others race ahead.
"Ganbatte yo! (Good luck!)" she heard Circlet shout back from the lead.
Now alone Skye started to seriously doubt this idea would work, after all it relied too much on everything working just right. The skyscraper was completely covered in shiny glass that reflected the devastation around it; it was in its silver blue pane she could see her small frame. After hesitating for a few more minutes she finally clinched her hands into fists, stared at her reflection mirroring her every movement.
"Dekimashite, dekimasu yo (I can do this, I can do this)," she said to herself.
At a young age Skye discovered she had the ability to fly by spinning her two tails like the blades on a helicopter, the same ability her father had as well. After taking in a deep breath she twirled her tails and steadily flew up the side of the building, as she reached the top she was pretty exhausted. She never really flew for long periods of time before, mainly because there was no reason, but she'd still practice on her father's suggestion. As she rested for a bit near the edge of the roof on her hands and knees she silently thanked her father for being persistent upon learning to fly. Just as she was ready to get up she could clearly hear the shouting of the others as they engaged the robot.
I have to hurry, she said to herself pulling the bag off from around her shoulders.
She flung open the flap and pulled out her mini computer she just finished building yesterday before going to Circlet's birthday party. She flipped up the top, the LCD screen, and sat it down in front of her. The system was already booted up from showing the other's earlier the news footage of that Dr. Eggman guy.
Her first duty was to call up the auto pilot program for her airplane; she knew something would come about from bringing it today on her trip to the city. She parked it at the research building her father sometimes went to; he technically worked for them though he did most of his work at his work shop in the Mystic Ruins. The best part about landing it there was that it was equipped with a quick launch pulley, so even from the short runway the craft could build up enough speed to stay in the air.
After a few key strokes the program was activated, the program was mostly hard wired into the plane when she was still learning how to fly so her father could monitor the craft from below and if needed assist in the operation. Now she could fully fly the plane without being anywhere remotely near the cockpit, the only minor adjustment was the three small cameras she installed, two to view the outside and the other which pointed directly at the physical instruments. On the monitor the gauges were shown at the very bottom while the larger top area showed the view out the cockpit.
As she pushed in the commands to start up the plane and launch it, she glanced over to the large robot. It was now starting to frantically shoot about, taking down even more buildings. She could clearly see the purple blur of Circlet and the dark grey blue of Dusk as they zoomed about distracting it. Skye managed to pull herself back to focusing on the screen her plane, Aurora, which just finished launching after a few more key strokes she programmed the onboard GPS to pilot the plane to her location. It should only take a few minutes, since the large engineering building wasn't all that far away where they were at.
Now satisfied she snapped the computer shut again and picked it up in her hands as she stood up to stare out at the action. So far no one seemed to be hurt which was good, but neither did they seem to be making any progress. She watched as Circlet spin dashed into the heavy armored front of the robot with little luck, as she flew back to land on the building she leaped off. As Circlet paused for a moment to catch her breath, Skye spotted the robot getting ready to smash its arm down on top of her.
"Circlet!" Skye instinctively cried out running to the other side of the roof closest to them.
She clutched the computer against her chest as she stared wide-eyed at the scene unfolding in front of her. Then seemingly at the last possible minute, right at the moment Circlet looked up and saw the arm ready to crash onto her from seemingly nowhere Seraphim leapt up to catch the massive arm. She strained to hold up the arm from crushing them both, as she glanced back with her one eye squinted shut to Circlet.
"Tachidomaru abunai na (It's dangerous to stand still, you know)," she said nonchalantly, before tossing the arm to the side where it broke off a corner of the building.
Skye sighed, relieved before it struck here. Where did Seraphim jump from? She looked back to the building there was no ledges or awnings anywhere on the building, the only place to start from was the ground! Her eyes widened even more as she realized that Seraphim just leaped up a 6 story building from the ground.
"No way...!" Skye gasped.
Before she could even try to think about how many ways that was impossible she could hear the familiar roar of an engine. She turned to her right to see the Aurora zooming towards her building, the building she told it to fly to.
"Ah, perfect," she said excitedly watching the turquoise and purple plane approach.
Her father told her that the Aurora had nearly the same design plan as the infamous plane of Sonic's, the Tornado. Skye seen pictures of Sonic's plane, and for the first time last night actually caught a glimpse of the plane parked inside the hanger behind Sonic's impressive house. The biplane had a duotone color, with the color fading from turquoise to purple some of the bits and trim were done in white. Skye stepped up on the ledge of the building, being careful not to look down as waited anxiously for the plane to pass by. Only a few times has she ever attempted what she was going to attempt now, jumping into the plane's cockpit while it's in flight. She practiced a few times before, mostly because her father told her if she was going to keep the auto piloting abilities she'd have to prove she could actually get into the plane while it was in flight.
Skye took a deep breath and readied herself, keeping a close watch on the position of the plane. She learned from a few errors you have to jump sooner than you think and pretty much knew when to jump. As the plane raced past the imaginary point she designated along the building hopped off the building and hoped she didn't miscalculate too much. She could feel the rush of wind around her as she dropped a few feet and to her relief into the cockpit. She landed on top of the seat she carefully turned around and sat down, stashing the computer into the small compartment next to the instruments. Finally able to assist in the efforts of her new found friends Skye grabbed a hold of the controls and steered the plane towards the robot.
"Hey, guys!" she shouted, to Circlet and Seraphim who were running to the other side of the roof to avoid the machine gun bullets.
They both looked up to watch the plane approach, still running.
"Alright!" Circlet said, "Let's catch a ride and finally destroy that thing!" She turned to Seraphim pointing her thumb towards the Aurora.
"Okay," she said following Circlet's lead jumping off the roof.
Skye couldn't believe her eyes, as Circlet and Seraphim leapt off the roof and landed one after the other on opposite sides of the top wing of her biplane. Circlet on the farther side of the wing from the building, which was to Skye's right, while Seraphim stood on the left side of the wing. After quickly glancing at each other Circlet looked back to the stunned Skye smiling.
"Hey, nice plane," she first said, "How about we turn back and plant that device on the robot now?"
The plane only rocked slightly from the sudden impact and slight imbalance, but nothing that she couldn't handle. What amazed Skye was how they were able to stand on the wings with such ease, she wondered if they were worried about ever falling off. After blinking a few times to recover from her surprise and awe, she nodded.
"Oke! Tsukamatte, ikimashou! (Okay! Let's go and do this!)" Skye exclaimed, tightening her grasp on the controls as she pulled them towards her to loop back around.
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