CHAPTER 20: SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE
-IF FIGHTING IS SURE TO RESULT IN VICTORY, THAN YOU MUST FIGHT!-
The Knights of the Round Table had reached the lowest point in the bay on the boardwalk, and Percival was getting ready to jump onto the beach, along with Galahad. Sonic was watching from the rooftops, unnoticed.
"So, what is your plan?" Caliburn asked.
"I'm sure six knights can take down the king, but I won't let them kill him. I'll watch, and then when the time comes, I'll steal the kill." Sonic explained.
Caliburn was disappointed in Sonic. "Oh that's nice of you, to steal the fame and glory from those who earned it."
"Hey, if I wasn't here, Merlina would be dead on a gravel road somewhere while Percival, Gawain, and Lancelot are just watching Arthur wreck shit."
"You are really full of yourself, aren't you?"
"Yup."
"Blast it, Sonic." Caliburn groaned.
Sonic watched his knights on the boardwalk silently as Percival looked back at the Knights, and began going over the plan again.
"Alright, Sir Bors, Galehaut, Lamorak and Gawain, you will confront him normally, while me and Galahad flank around him from the beach, find a way up, and cut him off if he tries to run. Any questions?"
"No, I think we are ready." Bors assured. He began to walk toward their enemy, withdrawing his sword, and gesturing his group to follow.
As the knights began to follow Bors, Percival hopped down to the beach, and with Galahad right behind her. They began to run along the beach, while Bors' group walked down the boardwalk, swords withdrawn, casually.
Back on the rooftops, Sonic began to sneak across the hard orange tiles that covered the roofs of the city, making his way toward the Black Knight.
-Now, what snappy one-liner should I say as I remove my helmet before I get into the fight? A line from "With Me"? Nah, I'm not the villain. "I have come here to kick ass, and chew bubblegum"... Maybe... Something to do with Megaman? I am wearing a Protoman outfit after all, scarf, helmet, and shield... wait oh my god YES.-
"The sea looks nice, doesn't it Percival?" Galahad asked in a low tone, either because he was out of breath or he was nervous.
"I guess." Percival replied as she dashed on, not even turning her head to look.
Galahad slumped over while running. "You're taking this too seriously. Now don't get me wrong, this is serious, but still."
"Look Galahad, it's partly my fault why Lancelot is dead." Percival spat back. "I didn't stand when I should had."
"Well, neither did I, but you're not slashing at me." Galahad argued back.
"Yes, it's your fault too. Start taking this more seriously." Percival said. "I don't know what's with you. Always looking on the bright side, always expecting things to work out our way, when it never does."
"Well, it's not like it will be the death of me."
"It probably will!"
"Tell me how, then."
"I followed your advice. I tried to expect the best, when I knew everything was falling apart, and look how I ended up! A slave! Or an 'indentured servant', as Sonic calls it."
"...I'm sorry."
"Instead of writing me a three page long apology letter- like the last time something similar happened, fix the God forsaken problem. That's what I want, okay? Now, silence, and be useful."
"Alright."
"And learn from your mistakes."
"Yes ma'am."
"They're probably making out right now." Lamorak joked.
Bors pinched his eyebrows together. "You would say that."
"What? It's kinda obvious that the kid has the hots for her." Lamorak said.
"Not that, it's just that you would say that." Bors answered.
Gawain intervened. "You are infamous for saying the wrong things at the wrong times, and they're usually baseless assumptions. For example, how when we first met Percival, you told her to 'get back in the kitchen.'"
The hawk chuckled. "Heh, yeah, must have been frustrated or drunk... I still have scratch marks."
"HUSH, IMMATURE PIGEON." Galehaut silently ordered. They were within earshot of the Black Knight now, and Arthur's attention was taken away from harassing citizens to the knights.
"Hello, Gawain, what is it you are with these traitors for?"
"Arthur, it is with my pleasure to tell you that the man who killed Lancelot has been defeated."
The large horseman spoke loudly and proudly. "Good news, but what is with these-"
"But before he lost, he told the victor, Percival, that if someone is going to fight you, they'll fight alone, because none of us were ready to fight you. None of us were willing. None of us were prepared..."
"Are you implying what I think you are..?"
"Yes." Gawain answered, with all the knights getting into battle positions.
"A shame you make this decision at this time." Arthur's voice drooped."Lamorak, Galehaut, I'll give you two the pleasure of knowing that you were great soldiers."
As Arthur finished, he rose his sword, which was glowing with dark energy. He slashed the air, and dozens of large underworld beings fell from the tear in reality to intercept the knights.
"SEND YOUR ARMIES, COWARD, WE'LL CUT THEM TO PIECES!"
Sonic had broken into someone's house, and they didn't seem to mind. -They don't give a fuck about home intruders, or giant horsemen right outside their front door. Extra hardcore family lives in this house, folks.- Sonic was watching the events unfold from a closed window on the third floor.
"Oh my god holy shit YES this is awesome." Sonic whispered excitedly to Caliburn, his leg bouncing up and down as he leaned on the windowsill.
"Yes, and you could be in that!"
Sonic's mind began to trail off. "Hmmm... Nah." -~... I'M QUICKMAN, DRESSED IN RED. I'VE GOT A YELLOW BOOMERANG ATTACHED TO MY HEAD...~-
Percival finished climbing up the metal beams of the boardwalk, and hopped on, closely followed by Galahad.
"From what I've seen recently, Arthur has been using cowards' tactics, like running away and sending minion after minion to fight." Percival explained.
"So we stop him from running?" Galahad guessed.
"Indeed. Grab that rope there."
In moments, all of the underworld monsters were sent back to where they came from, and Lamorak was already gloating.
"Is that the best you've got? Ha! We could have killed you all along!" Lamorak snidely joked. Gawain was being proven right by the moment that Lamorak is known for having a foul mouth.
"Don't underestimate him, Lamorak..." Bors said in an unsettling tone.
"Fine, I won't say he sucks." Lamorak rolled his eyes, turning his attention to Arthur, and began jogging toward him, pounding his chest with one hand. "BRING IT, MOTHERFUCKER!"
The giant horse kicked its front legs into the air, neighing as the Black Knight rose his massive sword, as prepared to fight as Lamorak was...
And then turned around and began galloping off in the other direction.
Lamorak was caught off guard by this, and stumbled into a run. "HEY! GET BACK HERE YOU PUSSY!"
The knights began chasing down the large horseman, Lamorak's mouth running as fast as he did, spewing any and every insult he could think of out of his mouth toward the fleeing King.
"Dammit." Sonic cursed. "Forgot that guy runs."
"Yes, kings naturally resort to other ways to deal with problems than fighting. Decent ones, at least." Caliburn noted.
"We haven't gone this far to kill a decent king, right?"
"True, true."
Sonic ran over to a balcony, and got on the ledge. He climbed onto the roof and began following the knights again.
Lamorak had finally gotten close to the horse, after maneuvering around death rays and fire balls, followed by Gawain, Bors, and finally Galehaut. The Black Knight was not used to handling multiple enemies at once, and was doing a poor job fighting.
"SLOW DOWN SO I CAN HIT YOU WITH MY SWORD, YOU HORSE-DICK RIDING CUNT!" Lamorak shouted.
"You do not need to be screaming every curse word you know, Lamorak!" Bors said.
"I DON'T GIVE A FUCK!" The bird wailed back.
Lamorak took out his fan. He jumped, swishing his fan downward to get some extra height. The hawk then swished his fan backward, sending him forward, jumping onto King Arthur's head. He began to slash at his helmet, but Arthur smashed him off with his fist off after a couple slashes.
Lamorak fell to the ground on his back, quickly trying to get back up, as everyone else kept running.
Bors was next to fight the knight. He blasted past the horse, rolled up, and jumped right under the jaw of the giant horse. This made the horse slow down a bit, as Bors rolled off to the side and with drew his sword, and jumped onto the head of the horse.
Arthur began slashing at the armadillo, each attack either dodged or deflected. After five attacks, Bors began to stab the king rapidly, but soon after six hits, Arthur swiped his huge hand at Bors, and knocked him off his horse.
Gawain jumped on the back of the horse, and began to swing at the Black Knight from behind. Arthur grunted in pain, and turned around to fight him. They clashed swords for a moment, and Arthur used his size to push Gawain off. Unlike the other knights, Gawain rolled when he hit the ground, keeping some of his speed, and he ran on alongside Galehaut.
"You are all still fine knights, but you are no match for-"
The horse's two front feet gave way and the giant horseman went flying to the ground.
"Gah!" Arthur grumbled. His horse teleported back onto its feet, and Arthur, not bothering to think about why it tripped, was getting on it again when two more knights ran in front of him. These were Percival and Galahad.
"Nice work, Galahad." Percival complimented.
"Nice plan, Percival!" Galahad replied cheerfully.
"Two more of my former knights? Pity. Have at you!"
Percival began moving her hands around. Very subtly, a small ring of fire came out of the ground, surrounding the horse. The Black Knight noticed this, and let out a gasp of fear. He dashed out of the ring of fire, and a moment after he did, a pillar of fire erupted from where he once was, -Fuck I hated that move. ~'I fell in-to a burnin' ring of fire...'~- completely missing the target. Percival muttered a curse under her breath.
As the pillar of fire faded, Galahad turned toward the fleeing king, and also began moving his hands. "Let me help."
Arthur's horse was stopped suddenly. In a moment, the horse shoes began grinding into the boardwalk as Galahad was using his mind to drag him back.
Percival thanked Galahad quickly. She jumped to Arthur, who tried to slash at her while she was jumping. She dodged the slash, and landed on his shoulder. She began slashing at his head. When the hand came to knock her off, she swung around the large helmet and slashed it one more time from the other side. The black knight's arm came around and picked up the fiery cat by the head, and tossed her at a wall.
"I'm proud I trained such swordsmen, but I'll have you know it does not bother me to kill scumbag traitors such as yoursel-"
Gawain interrupted him, sounding like he was throwing something large. "YEAAAAAGH!"
Arthur turned around to see what was going on, and there in the air flew Galehaut, longsword poised to stab and spinning rapidly. -FUCK YEAR!-
The Black Knight gasped. "MOTHER OF-"
"WORTHLESS SELFISH RULER." Galehaut said as he drove the heavy sword straight into Arthur's chest, the sword twisting his insides.
The Black Knight dropped his sword, and focused both his hands onto pushing Galehaut away. It took a couple seconds, but the King managed to pry the largest rebel off him and threw him to the ground.
The massive horseman began to taunt. "I have to hand it to you all, valiant effort. But, as long as I have the Scabbard, you cannot win!"
-Thanks for the que, Arthur. ~DOCTOR LIGHT NEEDS OUR HELP AND THE WORLD NEEDS HIS GENIUS...~-
The Black Knight rested his hand upon the Scabbard, and began to withdraw its power.
"NOPE!"
Arthur turned to look for who made that sound, and in the air flew a knight wearing red and white armor, and a shield, who instantly grabbed the Scabbard at King Arthur's side. Surprised, Arthur tried to snatch it, but the knight was so fast that he had kicked off with the Scabbard by the time his hand got there.
-~... WILY CAN SUCK A PENIS...~-
The helmeted knight landed and rolled in front of all of the Knights of the Round Table. Before one of them could begin to say "Ezio", he tossed the Scabbard to Percival, and removed his helmet, slamming it onto the ground. Gawain was first to say anything.
"WHAT THE HELL-"
Sonic withdrew Caliburn, and pointed at King Arthur. "Come and face me like a man, you old coot! I'm tired of fightin' demons and cleaning up your messes! I'm takin' out the trash, it's time to learn a lesson! SO COME DOWN, TO THE GROUND, OFF OF YOUR HORSESHIT! YOU AIN'T GOT THE BALLS TO BE FUCKIN' WITH THIS SHIT! After I take you, I'll rip outcha brain, you won't even remember your name!" -C'MAWN- "YA FUCKIN' MEANIE, YA TEN POUND WEENIE. To get the WORLD, you're gonna have to go THROUGH ME! I'm the knight of the wind, but you can call me 'Rock', 'cause I'll be rocking your SHIT up and down the block!"
Everyone remained silent, completely confused at how Sonic even thought of doing that. -Duane and Brando kicks ass, fuck you.-
After a very long, drawn out awkward pause, Arthur spoke up.
"You want me off my horse?"
"Yeah."
As King Arthur got off his high horse, he and his sword began to shrink.
"Oh, no!" The Black Knight cried as he was becoming smaller than his horse. He had stopped shrinking when he became slightly larger than Sonic's size. He grumbled in frustration to drown out the laughter of a certain green bird that was getting on his nerves lately. -Huh. The Scabbard's power has the power to make you giant? Well, explains how he wasn't called out for being unnatural before I came along.-
"No matter!" Arthur scoffed. "I will still stand victorious, no matter the size!"
Without talking back, Sonic began to walk up to the now equally sized knight, tossing aside Caliburn in cockiness. Arthur swung his heavy sword overhand at the enlarged hedgehog. Sonic ran up and caught it quickly, before it gained power, with both his gauntlet-clad hands, moving his head out of the way so it didn't cut his head open. Sonic kicked Arthur in the gut, and pulled his sword away. Sonic did not even bother switching to the blade. He quickly rose the hilt to Arthur's' face and pushed it forward, slamming him through the hole of his helmet.
"Bonk." Sonic joked as he retracted the sword away from his enemy. Sonic tossed the sword up and grabbed the handle of the blade. Sonic began slashing at his stunned and unarmed enemy relentlessly.
"Dude are you even trying?" SCHING. "Drink it up, pal. THAT'S HOW FAILURE TASTES." CHLANG. "HOW THE HELL DID YOU EVER BECOME A KING?" CHING WACHING CHING.
Sonic tossed aside his enemy's sword when Arthur was on his knees cradling his wounds. He began pulled out a tiny sack, filled with black powder, and poured its contents into a hole on the vambrace. He then loaded a ball into the hole.
Sonic began to taunt, his voice's power raised. "No, seriously, how the hell did you take over this place? Who was the wimp in control before?"
Sonic began to work with his vambrace's parts, readying it.
"Because, man, I could take you down with my fists if I tried hard enough. Face it, dude..."
Sonic pointed it at the helpless foe.
"I OWNED YOU, YOU FAT BALD BASTARD!"
KAAAOOOOOOWWWWwwwwooooo...
Before Sonic could even look at the victim, he retracted his hand in pain. -DAGGIT, too much DAKKA.- He was not wounded, from what he could feel, and began to swing his arm around in an attempt to pacify the pain. Sonic looked at Arthur.
Arthur's armor pieces had began flying around, as if no one was in the armor to stop them from flailing around. Purple and black smoke floated in the space Arthur was. -So that shot was so powerful, he died like a normal underworld monster? Cool.- He began walking over to the helmet, which, as with the rest of the armor, was filling with dark, underworldly smoke, laughing loudly for his allies to hear, and began to speak to the warrior-less helmet.
"Hahaha," Sonic laughed. "Oh, they're gonta have to glue you back together. IN HELL!"
"Okay okay okay, let me get things sorted out." Gawain stammered. "Sonic was alive, in fighting condition, and he was Ezio this whole time?"
Percival sighed. "Yes."
"So you didn't win?"
With another sigh, Percival began answering in a more annoyed tone. "No, I did not win. And it was his plan to burn down your house, too."
"You lied to me. If you told me he switched sides, I would have helped... If I could punch him hard enough..."
"He never switched sides. Besides, I'd rather not have you beating up allies."
Sonic walked over to the group of knights. "Nice job, all of you. You all helped defeat him and save this world. Percival, Galahad, nice thinking with the rope. Gawain, Galehaut, I have to say I was impressed with that idea to get around Galehaut's lack of mobility. Bors, your dodging skills were stellar, and Lamorak, I have never heard that many insults come out of someone's mouth while they were fighting expertly."
"Oh how flattering." Lamorak thanked with a ludicrous amount of sarcasm. -I like this new not-giving-a-fuck Jet.-
"SATISFIED TO BE OF ASSISTANCE." Galehaut replied.
"So you're Sonic?" Bors asked. "You did a pretty incredible job yourself."
"Especially when you tossed me aside like food scraps." Caliburn sarcastically added, hopping over.
"If that wasn't proof that I'm good, then there are no skilled knights in this world." Sonic retorted.
Lamorak stood up for Sonic. "Yes, humiliating kills are the best kills, and defeating an enemy with their own weapon has got to be humiliating. Especially since you grabbed the blade and smacked him with the hilt."
"You see? This guy has the right mindset." Sonic explained.
Sonic walked over to Percival, who had picked up his helmet, and collected it and the Scabbard from her. He put the helmet under his shoulder, and put the Scabbard behind his shield. Sonic began to walk back down the boardwalk, with the knights following him, their backs to the sunset.
Sonic began to walk backwards to face the knights. "Welp, I think we're done here." Sonic said, in an 'I'm finally finished' tone.
Bors began to stretch his arms. "Yes, Sir Sonic. I think we are. What do we do, now?"
Sonic smiled, turned around to face them and began walking backwards. "We just slayed a king. We will be returning to the city, which was celebrating for the past day over the freeing of hundreds from said king's grasp, with news that we killed the king. What do you think will happen?"