Sonic The Hedgehog - Chaos on Mobius
3rd Saga: The Black Armed Nocturnus
Episode 71 - Chapter Twenty One: Kongo Chaotix
The morning after the fight in the Great Plains, there was alot of trees shaking around within the a jungle north of Mushroom City... The reason? Nocturnus soldiers were getting tossed and punched into them by two Mobian gorillas, and two Mobian chimpanzees.
One of the gorillas wore nothing but a red tie, with a yellow 'DK' on it.
The other gorilla wore an army helmet, a belt around his shoulder and chest with oranges clipped to it, camoflage pants, and standard issue army boots.
The male chimpanzee wore a red baseball cap, a red tank-top with yellow stars on it, and a backpack with something inside it...
And the female chimp wore a pink beret, a pink tank-top that was tied above her belly-button, and pink kneepads.
"All right you..." Said the gorilla, who wore only a red tie, as he had one of the soldiers in his right hand. "...are you gonna tell us what you guys are doin' here in the Great Jungle, or do I give you a face-lift?" As he was saying this, the gorilla was winding up a punch with his left fist.
"Okay, okay!" Shouted the soldier, panicing. "We're here for the Ancient Onyx! Just put me down!"
"Ancient Onyx?" He asked as he put the soldier down, unknowingly letting him walk away. "That's in the Crystal Cave, where we keep all the-"
"Donkey Kong!" Shouted the other three Mobian monkeys.
"Oop! Sorry!" He said before knocking the Nocturnus out.
"You've got to be more careful about information like that, Donkey Kong." Said the other gorilla. "What would Cranky think of you?"
"Eh, my old man's got better things to think about than me..." Donkey Kong replied. "Besides Simian, I have been trying to control that habit of mine lately." Someone who was quick to back him up was the male chimpanzee.
"It's true, Sgt." He said. "DK's been getting help from Candy with it." Simian just scoffed before walking away.
"I'm going to get some more oranges from Funky." He told the three, before muttering to himself. "How he got a girl as good as Candy, I'll never know..."
As Sgt. Simian walked away, a monitor made of wood appeared before the other three monkeys, as it propelled itself above the ground. It then faced the male chimpanzee, before showing an elderly gorilla with a beard, glasses, wearing goggles and a lab coat.
"Ahh, Diddy Kong..." He told the chimp. "I've perfected another of my potions for you, my boy, and it's yours for just 30 Mobiums!" Diddy's eyes widened when he heard this. "If you want it, then get your furry butt to my lab, pronto!" Once the elderly gorilla finished speaking, the monitor flew away.
"DK seriously, have you ever tried to make Cranky, you know... inot/i Cranky?" Asked the female chimp.
"Ha! That's like asking Funky not to be Funky, y'know?" Donkey Kong replied, making the chimp sigh.
"Well, I'm off to get my drink!" Joked Diddy Kong. "Wanna come with, Dixie?"
"Not really..." She replied. "Just the smell of all those potions in there makes me sick!" Shrugging, Diddy Kong made his way to Cranky's lab.
At that moment, Omega was outside of the cave in the abandoned Chao Garden outside Mercia, while Shadow and Maria were deeper inside the cave. After repairing a lot of Gamma's body parts and giving him one of the three Chaos Emeralds, Shadow was just staring at Maria without her robot armor on, as he was unable to talk to her...
"Shadow... I never thought I'd see you again!" Maria told him as she hugged him. Eventually, Shadow hugged her back, and he was smiling.
"You even feel the same..." He told her, before they looked at each other again. "...but, how are you still here? And as a uhedgehog/u, no less?"
"Well, according to Dr. Eggman, everyone who was killed aboard the ARK all those years ago had their DNA samples retrieved for identification... including my own..." Maria replied. "After he stole my human DNA, Dr. Eggman managed to revive me, but as the Mobian you see now."
"I... I don't believe it..." Said Shadow, trying to understand what Maria had just told him. "It is good to see you again Maria, but-"
"You don't understand." Maria said, finishing Shadow's sentance as she hugged him. "It's okay. I still find it confusing, myself." While hugging Maria back again, Shadow shed a single tear.
"Maria..." He said as he looked into her beautiful blue eyes. "I may have failed to save you all those years ago... but I promise you... I will never let anyone hurt you again." Hearing this, Maria kissed Shadow on the cheek, making him blush slightly.
"I know you won't, Shadow." She said before giggling, making Shadow smile again.
Meanwhile, TodStar arrives in Babylon Volcanica with Julie-Su and Meg-Le via Chaos Control.
"Phew! And I thought it got hot in Downunda!" Said TodStar as he wiped the sweat from his forehead, while the girls looked around.
"Look! A castle!" Exclaimed Meg-Le, pointing at a castle with a number of spikes on it.
"That must be Bowser's Castle..." Julie-Su pointed out.
"All right then, let's go!" Said TodStar, before the three of them got rammed by something moving quite fast!
"*chuckle* You're going to have to deal with one of my best Gizoid soldiers in order to breach my castle!" Said the voice of a grey echidna within a Ring. When the three echidnas looked up, they saw a Mobian lynx in Nocturnus armor looking down at them, looking angry...
"Isn't that...?" Asked Julie-Su, as TodStar shook his head in denial, while tears formed in his eyes.
"You... you MONSTER!" He angrily screamed as he got to his feet, and those tears streamed down his face. "HOW COULD YOU TURN NICOLE AGAINST ME?"
"*chuckle* I don't need to answer to the likes of you, Son of Chaos..." Said the grey echidna. "Nicole-Phi, destroy them at once."
"At once, Lord Ix." She replied as she bowed before the grey echidna, before Spin Dashing towards the other three.
Before her attack could hit Julie-Su however, TodStar blew Nicole back with his Chaos Wave technique!
"TodStar..." Exclaimed Julie-Su.
"Go! Rescue the Chaotix! I'll hold her off!" TodStar yelled, before the two echidna girls nodded. Nicole tried Spin Dashing towards them, but TodStar blew her away from them again with his Chaos Wave! "C'mon, Nicole! It's me! TodStar! You shouldn't be fighting me!"
"TodStar..." She said as she scanned the green echidna. "Target identified as TodStar the Echidna. Objective: Eliminate." Nicole Spin Dashed towards TodStar. but he blew her back with another Chaos Wave.
"Carn Nicole, you know me better than this!" TodStar told her, as he was still quite teary-eyed, before throwing a Chaos Spear at her. "If you absolutely have to fight me..." Nicole merely blocked the Chaos Spear with her Black Shield, but when she removed the shield, TodStar was nowhere to be seen... Until he warped behind her and punched her in the back, causing her to fly into a rock! "...you gotta do it right." As TodStar approached Nicole, she was starting to malfunction from being hit into a rock.
"...I'm sorry, Nicole..." TodStar said as his left hand became surrounded with Chaos Energy, when suddenly the fake Chaos Emerald within Nicole appeared in his hand, causing her to shut down, and her nanites to melt, revealing her 'true' Gizoid form. "...he left me no choice..." He then picked Nicole up and left Babylon Volcanica using Chaos Control.
At that moment, in a laboratory within the Great Jungle, Diddy Kong had just arrived when he saw the elderly gorilla sitting in his desk chair with a strange liquid in a beaker on the desk.
"Hmph. You took your time, Diddy." He said to the chimp. "So, you got the 30 Mobiums, or what?"
"Yeah here, gramps." Diddy told the gorilla as he handed him 3 notes that had '10 Mobiums' written on them, before taking the beaker, and gulped the potion down! "*gasp* Mmm... tasty! Thanks, Cranky!"
"Now then, with that potion, you'll be able to use that thick skull of yours to ram into anything you find suspicious." Cranky replied. "I call it: Hurtus Cranium. Or for someone such as yourself: Chimpy Charge."
"Okay. Tha-"
"Wait a minute, sonny..." Shouted Cranky, getting Diddy's attention. "I have some information you might wanna hear..." There was an awkward silence.
"Well? Whaddya wanna tell me, Cranky?" Diddy angrily asked, getting impatient.
"Buh? Oh, right!" Said Cranky, just getting his thoughts together. "You have a living relative, far away from here." Hearing this, Diddy's eyes widened.
"What?" He asked. "But... I thought..."
"Yes, we all did." Cranky replied. "Well, your cousin has made quite the name for himself."
"Where is he, Cranky?" Asked Diddy, jumping onto the desk. "Please, tell me!"
"For another 5 Mobiums, sure." Diddy sighed as he gave Cranky 5 coins with a straight dent in the middle of them. "All right, here he is..." Cranky revealed a map, and pointed at the location where Diddy's cousin was, making the chimp gasp.
Back within Bowser's Castle, Julie-Su and Meg-Le easily snuck through the guards, quickly taking out any that spotted them. They soon made it to the dungeon, where 5 familiar Mobians were trapped in a cage, sleeping...
"Zzz... zzz... zz-ngh?" Snorted Vector as he suddenly woke up, and saw the two echidna girls in front of him. "Julie-Su! Meg-Le! Wake up boys, we're saved!"
"Wait a minute..." Julie-Su said, holding her finger up before pointing it at Mighty. "How come you couldn't just bend the bars to get out, Mighty?"
"Those Nocturnus goons caught me off-guard..." The armadillo replied as he woke up. "I was knocked out before I knew it."
"We all were..." Vector pointed out as Julie-Su shot the lock, allowing the door of the cage to open. "Even Mr. Invisibility over there."
"I can't believe I was discovered so easily..." Said Espio, who was invisible. "How humiliating..."
"Come on, let's get outta here!" Charmy told them. "The battery on my DS is running low. I gotta recharge it!"
"As soon as we find Knuckles, we're outta here." Said Julie-Su. "Where is he, anyway?"
"That Finitevus creep is interrogating him in my armory." Said a voice from another cage. It was a Mobian turtle, but had spikes on his shell, horns and red hair. "Good luck trying to get there. This whole castle is crawling with Nocturnus soldiers."
"We'll get him." Julie-Su told the turtle. "I'm not leaving without my boyfriend." After saying that, she led the Chaotix out of the dungeon.
Later, Dixie was watching Diddy in his house in the treetops pack a number of bananas and peanuts into his backpack.
"Diddy, do you have to go now?" She asked him. "I mean, we've still gotta deal with those Nocturnus creeps!"
"I know, Dixie..." Diddy replied as he continued packing. "...but, I've gotta find my cousin."
"You know where he is?"
"Yep. Cranky pointed him out for me."
"You sure he wasn't have a laugh at your expense?"
"I paid him, so he better not have..." While saying that, Diddy put his backpack over his shoulders, and started walking out of his house. Before he could leave however, something had grabbed onto his tail... it was Dixie's long, blond hair!
"Come on Diddy! Please, stay here!" She begged, but Diddy shook his head.
"I'm sorry Dixie, but I can't." He replied. "I have to do this."
"Well... at least let me come with you..."
"...Oh, all right." Said Diddy, not willing to argue with the other chimp as he removed his backpack. "We'll go after I grab some more bananas and Crystal Coconuts tomorrow morning." Dixie then hugged Diddy by pulling him to her using her ponytail.
"And that's why you're my boyfriend!" She said happily, making Diddy blush.
Soon, the Chaotix managed to bypass the Nocturnus soldiers, and made it to the armory, where they all saw Knuckles tied to a chair, and getting pummelled by a white echidna wearing a black cape.
"All right, Guardian..." He said to Knuckles. "...are you willing to talk about the whereabouts of your brother?"
"*groan* Not on your life, Finitevus." Knuckles replied before spitting in Finitevus' face. This resulted in two more punches to the head!
"You should learn to respect friends of the family, Knuckles..." He told Knuckles.
"And you're one of them?"
"*chuckle* Why, yes. In fact, your father and I were quite close before I began executing my plan, all those years ago..."
"And that makes you a friend of my family?"
"Like I say, once a friend, always a friend." Before either echidna could say anymore, Julie-Su and Meg-Le ran in, shooting at Finitevus.
"*chuckle* You fools really think you can stop me?" He said while avoiding all of the girls' attacks.
"No." Julie-Su merely replied. "That's why we're distracting you."
"What?" Before he knew it, Vector smacked his fists onto Finitevus' head, before Mighty punched him into the wall! However, Finitevus used one of the Rings on his wrists to avoid hitting the wall.
While this was happening, Espio used his ninja stars to free Knuckles from the chair.
"All right, let's get moving before he comes back!" Knuckles shouted, but a Ring suddenly appeared before them, and Finitevus emerged from it.
"And where do you think YOU'RE going?" He asked them, making Knuckles mad.
"Away from you. Thunder Arrow!" Knuckles then threw arrows of Chaos Energy at Finitevus, but the white echidna had let another Warp Ring appear before him. Before Knux's attack could enter the Warp Ring however, Meg-Le fired on of her dreadlock lasers, hitting Finitevus' leg, making the Warp Ring vanish, and allowing the Thunder Arrows hit their target! Knuckles then punched Finitevus into a different wall, creating a hole for them to escape! "Now's our chance! Let's get outta here!"
As the Chaotix jumped through the hole of Bowser's Castle, Finitevus watched them from the castle's entrance.
"I'm not through with you just yet, Guardian..." He said to himself. "I'll get what I need from you and your brother soon..."
Meanwhile in Freedom HQ, Tails was in his lab, when he saw a flash coming from the bedrooms. When he made it to TodStar's bedroom, he found the green echidna with a familiar lynx on his bed.
"TodStar! A-and you found Nicole!" He exclaimed. TodStar didn't look so happy.
"Yeah... but she's not one of us right now..." He replied, holding out her fake Chaos Emerald.
"What happened?"
"Those Nocturnus creeps somehow turned her against us!" Tails gasped when he heard this! "Reckon you can fix her?"
"I'm not sure... it may take awhile, but I'll give it my best shot."
"Thanks, Tails." TodStar replied as he placed his hand on Tails' shoulder as he walked past.
"Hey..." Said Tails, getting the green echidna's attention. "It's good to see you, TodStar."
"Heh... likewise, mate." When TodStar walked out to the living room, he found a familiar blue hedgehog and brown squirrel. "Sonic?"
"TodStar!" Sonic shouted in joy as he and the green echidna high-fived each other. "Man, I thought you were dead!"
"Mate, these guys've been tellin' me that you were dead!"
"Hey, what's this?" Asked Sally, holding a letter in her hand.
"It's from Amy." Sonic pointed out as he read it.
"Amy? What's she sayin', Sonic?" Asked TodStar, as Tails walked in. "(Where is she, anyway?)"
I'm sorry, you guys...
But with Sonic now having a thing with Sally, I just don't feel like I belong on the team anymore. So I'm going back to my roots, and I don't know if I'll ever come back...
Tails... you're like my little brother, and I'll always love you like a big sister should...
TodStar... you're my best friend in all of Mobius. I hope we'll run into each other again one day...
And Sonic... I love you... so much that, I don't want to hurt you anymore. And that's why I'm leaving the Freedom Fighters. I wish you all the happiness in the world, Sonic. All of you guys. I'm going to miss all three of you so much. Especially you, Sonic.
Goodbye...
Amy
After reading the letter, the guys were really upset.
"*tearful gasp, before a sniffle* Tails... you said she came from Mercia, right?" TodStar asked before Tails nodded, unable to speak. "I'm goin' after her."
"TodStar, wait." Said Sally, as she grabbed the echidna's arm.
"We can't let her do this!"
"We have to. Amy just needs time to think, that's all. Right, Sonic?" They looked around, but Sally, Tails, nor TodStar could see the blue hedgehog anywhere. "Sonic?"
"W-where'd he go?" Asked Tails.
Sonic was standing atop Freedom HQ underneath the bright moon in the night sky, letting at least one tear fall from his cheek. "Amy... I'm so sorry..."
END OF CHAPTER