The New Threat
Tails just stood there in shock as Sonic ran off into the shadows. He raised a hand and wiped some blood from his nose. Coco quickly ran to him. "You okay?..." she asked. Tails nodded.
"Yeah...I-I'm fine...just a nosebleed that's all, apart from that I'm good." he said. Coco smiled and hugged him.
"I glad about that." she sighed sweetly. Tails smiled and hugged her back.
"Uh, Coco? You were about to say some thing...I low or something?" Tails asked suddenly. Coco froze, and a huge blush appeared on her cheeks. She rested her cheek on Tails' shoulder.
"Oh...I-It's nothing..." she smiled.
"Oh Come on...It had to be something important...Everything you say is important to me." Tails said. Coco blinked and looked up at him.
"You mean that?.." she asked.
"I mean every word I ever say, and I've always done that, all my life I've told everyone what I think." Tails nodded. Coco blushed and looked down at her feet.
'Geez..what do I say?..' she thought, her muzzle becoming quite warm embarrassment. She rubbed the back of her head a little.
"I...I don't really want to say right now...I don't think I'm ready yet..." she sighed.
'Ready? Ready For what?' Tails thought suddenly. He seemed a little downhearted that she didn't tell him, but knew she didn't want to say whatever it was. Coco looked a little over the cliff they were on.
"Wow...look at the view..." she smiled. Tails looked where she was looking. The full moon was casting it's simmering light blue glow over the city. Only some lights were on in Station Square. Coco sat her self down cross-legged. On the cliff side. Tails sat down next to her, his feet over the edge.
"Do you always see a site like this every time you come up here?" the Blonde Bandicoot asked. Tails nodded.
"Yep, every time I get stressed, I come out here every night and just relax." He smiled.
"But I need to say, the sight I saw at your place at night was something amazing...I went out on the beach the night I woke up there, and just wow...it was...it was probably the second most beautiful thing I've ever seen.." Coco looked at him, an eyebrow raised.
"What's the first most beautiful thing?" She asked. Tails suddenly blushed.
"Uhh..." he mumbled. Coco suddenly blinked in surprise.
"Wait...don't tell me..." she suddenly said. Tails froze and his blush maximised.
"I-It's me isn't it?..." Coco whispered, blushing hard. There was a awkward silence.
"Y-Yes...Yes it is Coco..." Tails admitted. Coco was stunned.
"I..I..I really don't know what to say...First the flower...now this..." she smiled. She edged a bit closer to Tails, and curled her hand round his, gripping it tightly. Tails looked over at her, smiling sheepishly.
"I am just lost for words..." Coco giggled. She rested the side of her head on Tails' shoulder. Her eyes were lost in the starry sky. She then yawned.
"Man...I'm getting tired..." she mumbled.
"You wanna go back home?.." Tails asked. Coco nodded. Tails grabbed his bag and slung it over his shoulders. He then picked Coco up in his arms, causing a little giggle. Tails blushed a lot. Should he tell her? He decided against it. He just couldn't muster up the strength. Tails soon came to their house. Most of the people in the house had fallen asleep. Tails quickly opened the door and took Coco to her room. She laid Coco down into her bed. Coco sighed happily and got comfortable.
"Thanks...Night.." she smiled, resting her head on the pillow. Tails smiled warmly.
"Yeah...night..." he whispered. He went to turn off her light, and after he did, he had a sudden Idea. He sighed. He walked gently walked over to her bed, knelt down, and gently kissed her cheek. Coco suddenly opened her eyes, but it was pitch black.
"Whu?.." she mumbled. Tails smirked, and then silently walked out. Coco sat there, stunned.
Tails walked through the corridors of the multi roomed house, that he, Sonic, Amy and everyone else had helped build. He always felt proud of the house, as he did with everything he built. However, as he neared his he felt a little faint. He held his head in slight pain. He stumbled a little and leant against the wall. He began breathing quite heavily. His eyes sight was fogging up with dark mist.
"Whu...Wh-Whu's happening?..." he moaned. His eyes and head felt like there were burning up. He could feel his brain pulsing, and his heart thumping.
"Grrrk..." he groaned. He crashed to his knees with quite a loud thump. He grabbed his head with both hands, feeling in great pain. A dark aura was starting to slightly form around his fingertips and head. Just around the country, Shadow had sneaked out of his medical facility, his hand was covered in a strong cast.
"Goddamn it...When I get that Fox...I'll...I'll frikken..." he sighed, holding his casted hand. He then heard a thump.
"Hmm? Is everyone okay over there?" he called out quietly. He quickly rushed over round the corner, to see Tails suffering there. Tails was obviously in a lot of pain. The kitsune mustered enough will to look up.
"Sh-Shadow...h-help me..." He whimpered. Shadow just stared at him for a minute. Tails felt his heart sink.
"Y-You're n-not...going to..help me are you?..." he whispered. He hung his head, shivering violently. Shadow was fighting with his inner turmoil. Should he finish Tails? Or help him? He shook his head. He rushed over to Tails and put his arm over his own head.
"To your feet Soldier." he whispered. Shadow pulled Tails to his feet and supported him. Tails looked at the black hedgehog.
"Th-thanks...I..I think...it's..going away..n-now...but it still hurts.." Tails panted. Shadow suddenly got out a chaos emerald.
"Breath Tails...just calm and breath." He muttered. Trails nodded and breathed deeply. He could feel the emeralds aura seep into his lungs. He was beginning to feel better. He seemed to be inhaling some healing power of the Emerald.
"Haaa...haa...Thanks Shadow...I owe you big time..." he smiled weakly. Shadow sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Don't mention it.." he grumbled.
"Seriously...don't...I don't want people thinking I'm turning soft..." he made sure Tails was okay to stand on his own, and then walked off. Tails was left there, wondering what came over him.
'Things have been getting weird recently...I think I'm succumbing to the weirdness..' he thought as he stumbled to his room.
The next few days went without any bizarre happenings, however, Cortex had twigged that something was up with Sonic. Recently, he had a lot of moments where he would stumble and hold his head in pain. One day when he did it again, Cortex knew it was the last straw, and started to confront him about it.
"Okay Sonic, what's up with you? You've been stumbling like this all week!" the scientist growled. Sonic groaned and held his head in pain.
"I...I don't know...it hurts...inside my head...it gets worse every time.." he uttered out. He suddenly collapsed on the floor.
"Sonic? Hey N Gin! We got a problem here! Help me out!" Cortex called out. Some time later, Sonic woke up on some sort of medical bed. He groaned and sat up.
"Uhh..god..." he mumbled. He looked to one side. He saw Cortex near a huge control panel, his back to him.
"Y-Yo Cortex? What just happened? Why did I just suddenly pass out?" Sonic demanded. Cortex sighed. He was getting a little irritated by Sonic's demanding and egotistical attitude.
"Listen, you started stumbling around and then collapsed. I don't know what happened, we've been doing tests on your mental health and we found nothing..." he explained.
"Since when did I stumble? I don't remember that. You'd think I'd remember something like that." Sonic said. At this Cortex froze.
"You don't remember?" he asked. Sonic shook his head.
"Nope, Nein, Non, Nincs, Нет." he replied. Cortex scratched his head, and then jotted this down on a piece of paper.
'Very odd..'
The next morning, Tails groaned a little and turned over in his bed. His digital alarm clock read 6:00 am. The Kitsune sighed, sitting up in bed. His head was thumping with pain. He grabbed a small bedside mirror to check his complexion. He was okay, only a little pale. He sighed. He put the mirror back. He quietly flicked the radio on. The song that was currently playing was "Simple Plan-I'm Just a Kid." He stopped to listen to the song. Even when the song finished, Tails still had it in his head. The song had seemed to sum up his feelings entirely. He was just a kid. And what he was going through could be described as nightmare...but at the same time, when Coco and Crash were around, it was like a very good dream. They were the best friends he had ever had. He smiled a little and turned the radio off. Since it was still quite early in the morning, he lay down in his bed again. He kept his eyes open though. He stopped to think about Sonic. What suddenly caused his sudden attitude change? Why did he suddenly turn his back on those that helped him through his biggest problems. He suddenly heard a few loud beeps and boops. The sound was coming from his control room.
"Hmm? Who could that be at this time?" He mumbled to himself. He gout out bed and tied his shoes and gloves on. He quickly arrived at the Control room, where the beeps and whirs were at their loudest. The black leather spinning chair was facing toward the panel. Lots of things were up on the multiple screens.
"Hello?" Tails asked quietly. The boops stopped, and the chair swivelled round.
"Morning Tails!" Coco smiled, giggling a little.
"You use this thing all the time, so I thought 'If Tails can do it with ease, it should be the same for me', seeing as we both have the same Brain Capacity." Tails grinned.
"I see. So, what have been working on?" he asked.
"I found some Readings that matched that of the same of the Chaos Emerald we found in that cave a few weeks back. Speaking of which, how's your leg?" Coco asked.
"It's fine, a little achy at times, but it definitely better." The fox smiled. He thought about telling her what happened last night, but didn't want to scare her.
"So, where are the reading's emanating from?" he asked.
"Luckily nowhere potentially dangerous. It's just in the grassy plains somewhere just near the market." The blonde bandicoot grinned. She noticed a small look of worry on Tails' face.
"Tails, what's wrong?.." she asked.
"I dunno...it's just every time we go out, something tries to kill us..dangerous place or not.." Tails sighed. Coco was uneasy.
"I guess. Hey, maybe we could get Crash to come with us! He's got a quick eye and can probably fend a lot of stuff off." she suggested. Tails smiled, his twin tails beginning to swish happily.
"Somebody mention me?" Crash himself suddenly appeared at the doorway. Coco swivelled round.
"Morning Bro!" Coco beamed.
"Why are you up so early?" Tails smiled.
"Oh, Me and Coco usually get up at this time back at Wumpa Island, Coco likes to play around with her electronic gizmos, and I go around looking for Crystals. But seeing that there are no Crystals around here that I know of, I just go for a walk now. Amazing Scenery!" Crash smiled.
"So, watcha want me for?" he asked.
"Well, we found a location of another Chaos Emerald, but Tails is getting a little cautious about what's gonna happen when we go out to get it, so did you think you could help us find it?" Coco explained and asked. "Yeah, Sure!" Crash smiled. "When do we set off?" Tails shrugged. "I would grab some breakfast first, and maybe wait until after lunch." He suggested. "Sounds reasonably, then we could let everyone know where we are."
In Cortex's base, N Gin was watching the security cameras over a school he looked after, that taught Brat Girls evil ways. The Rocket Head drummed his fingers on the steel board.
"Doooomy doomy dooom..." he sighed. Unbeknownst to him, something was slithering in the industrial equipment behind him. Whatever it was moved quickly, making a liquidy slush noise. N Gin swivelled round in his chair.
"Eh? Sonic? Doctor Cortex?...Tiny?..." N Gin listed through all the possibilities. There was silence. N Gin shivered a bit, and turned back around. There was more movement, slithering along the floor like a snake. It was like water, with two yellow glowing eyes. N Gin waited for a while and then spun round swiftly.
"Aha!...Whu?..." He hoped to catch whoever was behind off guard, but before he did, the liquid mass had sunken into the floor. N Gin shimmied his eyes around the room. Unaware of the activity's behind him, the strange liquid began crawling onto his back. N Gin froze, cold liquid slithering around his shoulder. His eyes bogged out of his skull as he looked on his shoulder. Cortex was on a computer, trying to figure out what was up with Sonic, the Blue Blur was lying on a table, looking up at a Magazine he was reading. There was an ear piercing scream throughout the base, making Sonic jolt and rip his magazine in half.
"The Hell?" Sonic shouted. Cortex shivered.
"That sounded like N Gin!" The two ran into the CCTV room, to see N Gin shivering manically on the floor.
"Heehee...dooomy doom..." N Gin giggled, a little crazy. Sonic ran over to N gin and turned him onto his back.
"N Gin! Dude! What happened up here?" He asked, worried for his...'friend'. N Gin was rocking back and forth like a crazy man.
"Heehee...blue liquid thing...doomy doom...yellow eyes..." Sonic froze to the spot.
"Blue Liquid? Yellow Eyes?...Jesus H. Christ..." he mumbled.
"What's wrong Sonic?" Cortex asked hesitantly.
"Watch your back from now on...just to be safe..." Sonic said.
"Umm...okay, but listen, more important news, I need you to go and fetch a very important agent of mine. He was done exceedingly well against Crash in past years, I need you to go get him, so that we can chop down one of their offences..." Cortex began, until he was cut off by Sonic.
"I'll go get your stinking agent, but this is SERIOUS! There is a monster creeping around here! Now where can I find this guy?" Sonic shouted Cortex was a little taken back by this.
"I can set you some co-ordinates on a tracker, that should help you out."
Crash took a huge bite of his sandwich, munching on it happily, sitting in a laid back position.
"Mmm.." He swallowed.
"I must say Mrs. Cream...Vanilla is it? You do make some lovely food!" Vanilla smiled.
"Well, I did take cookery back in High School.." she said happily, it was nice to know her food was appreciated.
"Yeah, so anyway guys, us three are going to go find an emerald Coco picked up on the main scanner." Tails was explaining to everyone about their plans for the day.
"Huh, okay," Crunch nodded.
"I also pin pointed a Power Crystal earlier." Tails turned his head, and looked a little shocked.
"How?" he asked, a little bewildered.
"Oh, I forgot to say, Coco built a Crystal Tracker a while back, well, actually she built three, all in one hour. She gave one to herself, me and Crash." Crunch explained quickly. Tails looked impressed and nodded.
"Hey, while you three go get the chaos emerald, me and the others can go get the Power Crystal, how does that sound?" Amy proposed this idea forward. Coco nodded in agreement.
"Sure! Y'know what a Power Crystal looks like...right?" Amy looked a bit thoughtful.
"Umm...big...long...pink...kinda glowy..right?" she said. Coco giggled and nodded.
"Yeah, exactly." she nodded. A little later, when everyone was about to go out, Crash found Tails sitting down in the living room, hands clasped together, looking down at the floor. Crash sat down beside him and poked his shoulder.
"You okay buddy?" he asked. Tails sighed and nodded.
"I'm fine..." he said.
"It's just..." Crash cut him off.
"Coco?" Tails nodded.
"Yeah...Coco..I was with her on the hill last night, and my nerves were getting to me..." he sighed disgruntlement and rest his forehead on his hands.
"I just don't know how to tell her...Every time there's a good opportunity the butterflies in my stomach clog up my voice-box..." he mumbled. Crash rubbed his hand on the fox's shoulder supportively.
"Sometimes it just happens naturally." he said.
"One day you'll get that burst of courage and confidence naturally to tell her." Tails sighed and smiled, then looked up at Crash.
"I guess you're right..." he said quietly.
"But...I'm worried that she might get hurt out there...I don't want to carry any more guilt around with me.." Crash sighed a little.
"Tails, lil' buddy, you worry a tad too much...Just cool off a little, think positive thoughts..The time will come on it's own." Tails smiled happily.
"Thanks Crash." he said. Crash patted the kitsune's shoulder. Unbeknownst to both of them, Coco herself was just outside of the living room, listening in. She had a huge blush on her face the whole time.
"..." she didn't say word. She slowly walked away, taking the flower out of her hair and holding to her chest happily. She kissed the flower gently. As far as she was concerned, the flower represented Tails to her. She sighed and put the flower back in her hair. Crash and Tails went out of the living room. Crash spotted Coco with the flower to her chest.
"Okay, you go get ready, I'll catch up to you in a bit." he said to Tails, who nodded, not seeing Coco. As Tails went into the kitchen to talk to the others, Crash ran up to Coco.
"Hey Coco, can I talk to you for a sec?" he asked. Coco looked round at her brother, the blush still lingering on her face.
"Huh? Oh yeah, s-sure.." the blonde Bandicoot nodded shyly. Crash took her shyness into account. He ushered her into the living room. She sat down on the sofa, and Crash sat next to her.
"Wh-What do you want to talk about?" She asked nervously. Crash raised an eyebrow.
"Why are you so shaky?" he asked. Coco shivered a little, then shrugged.
"I dunno...Anticip-pation?" she stuttered.
"Coc, you never get this shaky when you're in anticipation. Seriously, I'm your brother, you can tell me anything. What's Wrong?" Crash sighed a little. Coco looked down at her shoes, squirming a bit.
"It's just...I heard you and Tails talking just now...about me...you said that he'll tell me something naturally...what was it? Why is he shy about it?" Coco asked. Crash was a little silent, thinking about what he should say.
"Well, I can't really say what he said, but he doesn't want you to get hurt on this outing. It seems that every time some one he likes gets hurt in his presence, he takes on a guilt trip. I dunno why." Coco seemed a little confused.
"But...a couple of days ago, he only said he got like that when this Cosmo girl got hurt, and that was because he lov..." she froze, as the penny dropped, as realisation dawned.
"..no...h-he doesn't...he can't do.." she mumbled.
"Should I leave you with your own thoughts?" Crash asked. Coco nodded.
"Much obliged..." Coco whispered. As Crash left the room, Coco felt a little faint.
"Wow...d-does he?.." she said to herself. She took the flower from her hair and held it close to her heart.
"See you in a few hours guys!" Crunch called out as he, Amy, Carbon and Cream set off in the opposite direction to Crash, Coco and Tails.
"Yep! Seeya!" Tails waved happily.
"Okay, which way." Crash muttered to himself, tapping a few buttons into the Emerald Tracker, despite not having a clue what it did. Tails looked over at Coco, who was looking down at her feet a little, the white flower clutched in her hands.
"Coco?" he asked quietly. Coco looked up sharply.
"Hmm? S-Sorry, kinda zoned out there." She chuckled, a ^^ expression on her face. Tails smiled. "Oh Okay, you always do that these days." he smirked.
"Yeah, dunno why." Coco giggled and shrugged.
"Hey Guys! I think I got something!" Crash suddenly said, the Emerald Tracker coming to life. Tails turned to see it.
"Which way?" he asked.
"I thiiiink...South!" Crash pointed to the south.
"Crash that's the North, you've got the device upside down." Tails chuckled, turning it the right way up. As Tails turned away, Coco sighed blissfully.
'Oh Tails...if only I had the guts...' she thought to herself dreamily.
"Okay! We got the exact location! Lets go!" Tails smiled Crash had already set off, Tails looked back at Coco, and he noticed she'd zoned out again. He smiled, blushing a little. He walked over to her and gently took her hand. Coco snapped out of her daze, and blushed extremely hard.
"Come on Sleepy Head, we need to get moving." The twin tailed fox grinned. Coco looked down at their hands, then back up at Tails and nodded.
"Y-Yeah..s-sure.." Tails quickly followed Crash, Coco keeping up with him. The Blonde Bandicoot looked down at her and Tails' hands connected.
'Oh..My...God...' she thought, giggling and blushing.
Everything seemed pretty peaceful with Crunch and the rest. Cream was riding on Crunch's shoudlers. with Cheese floating around her head. Amy was having a lovely conversation with Carbon.
"Sooo, Wumpa Island is like one HUGE beach!" the Pink Hedgehog grinned ecstatically. Carbon nodded.
"Yup, It's beautiful, sun or moon." Amy's eyes were sparkling with excitement. "You've got to take me there! Please oh Please?" she yapped.
"That's not really for me to decide."
"I suppose Crash will allow it." Crunch chipped in. Amy jumped up with a 'Yay!' Cream was holding the Crystal Tracker.
"How's the radar Cream?" Crunch asked.
"Its says its straight ahead!" Cream smiled.
"Chao Chao!" Cheese chanted happily.
"Hey Crunch, do you think we could stop for a picnic when we find the Crystal? I brought some food!" Cream then asked. Crunch grinned.
"I don't see why not." They soon came to a rocky area.
"Guys! The Radar is glowing really bright. It's like right near us!" Cream suddenly alerted them. Crunch looked around.
"Can't see it.." he mumbled. Carbon sighed quickly and closed his eyes, his ears perking up. He could hear a faint hum.
"Hmm, it's coming from...over there! Be right back!" Carbon grinned. There was a largeish mound of rocks. Carbon quickly scaled it, looking around it, listening for the hum.
"Hmm..." Carbon took a while.
"I think I got it..." he murmured to himself. He tried shifting some rocks out the way.
"Nng...this is tough..." Carbon struggled to find a loose rock. Amy was about to help him out, when Crunch stopped her.
"Don't bother, Carbon gets a little ticked off if he needs help in something that isn't fighting." Amy nodded in understanding. Meanwhile in the sky, Rouge was gliding overhead.
"Guh, what to do what to do...I can't use any chaos emeralds...I need to leave those for Tails and company...what to do..." She looked downwards. She saw Carbon struggling to get something out of the mound of rocks. She gently glided down to the ground.
"Hey, looks like you need a bit of help." she grinned at Carbon. Carbon looked over at her.
"That won't be necessary." she grunted.
"Rouge? What're you doing here?" Amy immediately demanded. Rouge blinked.
"Chill hun..jesus..you're worse than Shadow at times..I'm just here to help." she scoffed. Carbon grunted a little, finding a loose set of rocks, pushing his hand in and scrabbling around.
"I said, assistance will be unneeded," he said.
"Oh c'mon hun." Rouge smirked a little. She walked over and put a gentle, yet forceful hand on Carbon's forearm, which was deep into the pile of rocks. Carbon was silenced, looking at Rouge's hand. A faint blush appeared on his cheeks.
"I think, sometimes a guy like you needs..." Rouge suddenly pushed Carbon's arm deeper into the rock pile. Carbon was surprised. He wrapped his hand around the Crystal inside.
"A little Woman's Touch." Rouge finished her sentence.
"Uhh...Thanks..." Carbon mumbled. He yanked the Crystal out of the Rock Pile with force. Crunch watched the whole thing in confusion. Cream looked down at Amy.
"Amy?" she asked quietly. Amy was steaming with fury.
"Soooooo, the Emerald should be just ahead." Crash said to himself.
"Well, according to this tracker. I still don't know how to work this thing." Tails and Coco chuckled. Though she didn't look it, she was a little concerned. She and Tails had been holding hands all the way, and she could feel something. Tails hand had a somewhat permanent shake in his hand. It was very very small, only feeling by feeling his hand you would be able to know. Coco wondered why his hand was shaking like this. Tails didn't seem to notice that his hand was shaking at all. Tails sighed.
"Lemme have a look at that Crash." he smiled. He let go of Coco's hand and looked at the scanner.
"Yep, we're near it!" the kitsune nodded. Coco looked at the Tracker.
"Hmm, according to these muffled readings...it seems its underground somewhere." she said like a professional technician.
"Ah Christ..." Crash groaned.
"Oh c'mon Crash, what's what's wrong with the underground." Coco suddenly whispered in his hair.
"He hates it when dirt gets in his fur." she giggled. Tails stifled and laugh. Crash rolled his eyes.
"Its not that! Its that we don't have any digging stuff!" he exclaimed. Tails shrugged.
"I can deal with that." he smiled. Crash looked at him and raised an eyebrow.
"Really?" he asked.
"Really." Tails smirked confidently.
Sonic ran across plains of fields, checking his wrist every know and then. On his wrist, Cortex's navigator was attached like a watch. He was sweating a little. He was worried. More worried than he had ever been. A monster had made its presence felt in Cortex's base. He knew what it was.
'What a FOOL I was to think I could keep something like that under control!' The Blue Speed Demon thought to himself. He bashed himself in the head.
'Stupid Stupid STUPID!' he eventually ran across a big-ish building. Sonic checked the small wrist watch again.
"This is the place.." he mumbled to himself. The building was like a big Mafia hideout, like the ones Sonic had seen in countless films. He hastily walked up and wrapped on the door. There was a big wait. Sonic tapped his foot a little, and he knocked on the door again, a little more forcefully. This time, almost instantly, the door flung open, and Sonic was greeted by the nozzle of an AK 47.
"Okay Punk, Whadya Want?" Snarled what seemed to be some kind of Weasel in a suit. Sonic took a few steps back.
"Woah Woah! Ch-Chill! Jesus!" Sonic stammered.
"Answer my question ya schmuck, whadya want?" the Mafia guy snapped. Sonic quickly fished into his pocket and pulled out a small card and tossed it to the Weasel.
"I was sent here by Dr. Neo Cortex." he said. The weasel blinked, and lowered his gun.
"Ahh, Ol' Cortex ey?" he grinned.
"Yeah, Cortex." Sonic nodded.
"Pinstripe Potoroo? Am I right?" Pinstripe nodded.
"Yah come to tha right guy. Come on in." Pinstripe waved a beaconing hand for Sonic to come in. Sonic followed him in and looked around. The walls were laden with firearms, everything from pistols, shotguns, machine guns, Snipers, every gun you could imagine. Sonic whistled in amazement.
"Wowser, you sure know your guns." he grinned.
"So, never seen you aroun' Cortex's base. You a new recruit?" Pinstripe questioned, lounging back in an arm chair.
"Nah, no chance. Name's Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog. I'm just in joint co-operation with Cortex. Y'See, we have common enemies, so we're working together." Sonic explained. The suited Potoroo nodded with interest. "Lemme guess. One of them would be...Crash Bandicoot.." Pinstripe shuddered as he said this. Sonic nodded.
"Indeed. Cortex said that you had the ability to get inside Crash head. How?" he asked.
"Tawna!" Pinstripe suddenly called out in a loud voice.
"Grab ya gun! We got shit ta shoot!" he hollered. There was a thundering upstairs.
"Seriously? Cortex has contacted us finally!" a female voice was heard. Suddnely, a bandicoot with a full head of poofy blonde hair burst through the door, armed with a sniper rifle. She immediately set her sights on Sonic. "Who's...this?.." she asked, a little worry in her voice.
"This is Sonic. He's Cortex's Co-operative Assistant." Pinstripe explained. Tawna nodded.
"Huh, 'kay, makes sense." Sonic sighed and crossed his ankles over.
"So...how can you get inside Crash's head?" Sonic asked again. Pinstripe laughed.
"This girl IS the reason! This is Crash's ex girlfriend. Her name is Tawna. Tawna Bandicoot. Beautiful, Smart, and a Crack Shot with a Sniper Rifle." Pinstripe grinned widely. Sonic nodded at Tawna, smiling.
"Pleased to make your acquaintances." he said quietly.
"Now, we best be planning our attack, if we can pinpoint their location, to do that, we better head back to Cortex's." Tawna grinned, and Pinstripe took hold of his AK 47 and racked it, smiling evilly.
"Lets do this..."
AUTHOR NOTE
Don't expect any new chapters of CL for a while, as I want to focus on my other fics and school, thanks