SonicANIME2010 here once more, bringing you the conclusion to this two-part big episode, the importance of this episode is huge, it's a major turning point in the story. Once again, thanks to everyone who has followed since the start. Here we go!
-Opening: "Secret Ambition" Nana Mizuki-
Sonic Adventure: Lyrical Step
Chapter 24
The Day Everything Changed (Part 2)
-Central Ground TSA HQ: Night time-
- Insert: "Enemy Attack!" Final Fantasy X-
3 flashes collided with each other several times in a fierce battle, one red and one crimson red clashed with a yellow flash. Shadow and Vita were locked in a fierce fight with Zest who was unisoned with Agito. The three came to a clashing lock with Vita's hammer (in Gigant form) and Shadow's chaos energy empowered foot clashed with Zest's halberd.
"Zest, was it? Tell us just what you're planning and what you're after." Vita called to him in the lock.
Shadow added "This fight can be avoided, if it's reasonable the TSA will listen... otherwise you're not going to win against our combined power."
"You're young..." Zest noted about Vita and then about Shadow "You're confident...", then creating several flame bolts that were suspended in mid-air.
Vita responded by grunting and creating spells of her own with Shadow backing her up with Chaos Spears. An explosion occurred and the three stepped back.
"But.. you're both good fighters.." Zest complimented, though he could hear Agito scold him "Zest, stop praising them and fight!", he continued his fight with Shadow and Vita.
'Rein? Shadow? Are you noticing what I'm noticing about them?' Vita sent to them mentally.
'Hai, the timing of their attack, although slight, is off.' Rein replied.
'We have to capitalize on that weak point of theirs.' Shadow added.
On Zest's side, Agito informed him 'Their unison compatibility seems to be good, and that black hedgehog is ruthless.. and they keep coming at us together...'
"Agito, let's cancel out the unison. I'll take them both out in one hit with my Full Drive." Zest told her.
"You're kidding, right? You use your Full Drive, your body will..!"
"I won't go down." Zest was determined, "Not until we finish what we must do."
"Don't mess with me! I told you I would protect you." Agito (still unisoned) prepared a spell by holding her hands out and making flames appear on them. "I won't let them chip away at your life! I'll open a path for you! Extreme Blaze!", on the outside, Zest's Halberd became coated in flames. "Burning Sword!" Agito finished her spell.
-Underground Passage: POV: Sonic, Amy, Subaru, Ginga, Erio, Caro, Teana-
- Insert: "Challenge" Final Fantasy X-
The Forwards, with the support of Super Sonic, kept the Combat cyborgs at bay. Erio avoided Wendi's shots with ease by moving around with superior agility.
"Damn, he keeps moving around!" Wendi grumbled as she continued to fire.
"Wendi, you piece of junk, take him down already." Nove barked as she used her roller blades to ride what appears to be a yellow version of Subaru and Ginga's Wing Road that she created herself. She caught sight of what appeared to be Teana and tried to nail her with a powerful kick, only for "Teana" to disappear, revealing an illusion. But who was there was Super Sonic who had a smirk.
"Fell for it..." The super hedgehog nailed her with a powerful right hook, followed up with a kick to knock her back and ended his combo with a yellow chaos energy bolt that sent her to a wall. The hedgehog disappeared in a blue flash.
"Gah!" Nove grunted and recovered to meet with Wendi
"That was an illusion?" Wendi thought out loud and used her eyes to scan the area. What she saw shocked her, her imaging read at least five very convincing copies of Sonic, Amy, Teana, Erio, Caro, Subaru and Ginga. "You can't be serious!"
Through the smoke revealed Teana focusing on a powerful mass illusion spell with Caro supporting her and Super Sonic channeling his own support to keep them going.
"The load of the Silhouette control increases" Cross Mirage flickered
"The limit on the energy boost is near." Kerykeion said from Caro's glove.
Sonic pushed more support into the two mages "Oy.. come on, it's not over yet."
"To be able to fool my eyes." Wendi said in awe,"Does this illusionist know of the Combat Cyborg system?"
The gears on Nove's skates spun again "It doesn't matter if they're illusions or something else. I'll just smash them all" she said ruthlessly, her anger on the rise as she prepared a volley of bolts. But she didn't get too far with that as Subaru and Ginga caught her off guard with combined harsh punch that sent her a distance away, the combat cyborg practically bounced off the ground from the impact.
"Nove!" Wendi called out, but this also lowered her guard for Erio to take an advantage. The young spear-wielder leaped high in the air wielding Strada which called "Form Three. Thunderstorm form"
"Thunder.." Erio said on his descent, as he started his attack Wendi and several drones prepared to shoot him down but it was inevitable as they were too late "Rage!" and slammed down on her with Strada. His target pulled up a barrier to defend herself, she didn't take too much damage, but the drones accompanying her the same could not be said as they all were destroyed by the young mage's power.
"Go!" Super Sonic called to the forwards as they took advantage of the disoriented combat cyborgs and split up to escape. Erio, Caro, Amy and Teana, who held all the devices went to deliver them to Nanoha and the others while Sonic secured Subaru and Ginga's escape.
"Damn it.." Nove cursed, but didn't get too far on her thoughts as Cinque called them both.
"Nove, Wendi, I've got the Type-0s in my sights, I'll help capture them, meet up with me" Cinque said.
-With Sonic and the others-
With Super Sonic guiding them, Subaru and Ginga continued their flight from the Combat Cyborgs, their road was soon blocked by the experienced, Cinque, who stood against them with her multiple daggers held.
"Great, another one. Get out of the way or I'll let you have it." Super Sonic said sounding irritated.
Cinque gazed at Sonic thoughtfully, as if analyzing him "You seem to have the most experience here.. But I can't let you pass. My targets are those two Type-0s you have with you." she said to him calmly with her daggers raised "And it would be wise to not interfere, my IS will pack a harsh sting with it."
The golden hedgehog sighed once more "Clearly you don't know who you're up against girlie. Currently I am practically invincible, so you'll be in for a disappointment if you think you can beat me so easily.. Never underestimate a hedgehog."
"Your kind is of an interesting one... but the fact remains, I can't let you pass... and if we have to engage in combat, then so be it" Cinque took an offensive stance with her daggers ready.
"Well okay. Bring it on then!" Super Sonic took his own stance, Ginga and Subaru followed suit.
-With Nanoha and Fate-
-No Music-
Nanoha and Fate walked through the underground passageways, the very same ones that the Forwards and Combat Cyborgs were fighting in as well. Schach met up with them, exhausted and out of breath, like she'd been running all this time.
"Captain Nanoha!" Schach called to them
"Sister Schach." Nanoha answered.
"Sister, Weren't you in the conference room?" Fate inquired, concerned because Hayate, Signum, and Carim were inside there too.
"Along with some other men, we managed to get the door open" Schach informed them
"What about Hayate-chan and the others? Are they alright?" Nanoha asked
"They're fine, they're explaining to everyone else the situation with the drones and cyborgs."
Footsteps were heard approaching the group, when Nanoha and Fate turned around they found Teana, Amy, Erio, Caro and Freid in a hurry to get to them.
"Oh. Nice timing!" Fate acknowledged.
"Sorry to keep you waiting!" Teana said as she held out Raising Heart, which signaled for Erio to hold out Bardiche and Amy held the devices for Hayate and Signum to Schach.
"arigatou" Nanoha and Fate said when they received their respective devices.
"I'll go deliver these right away" Schach said and ran off to deliver the devices she was entrusted.
"Where's Sonic, Ginga and Subaru?" Nanoha asked, sounding concerned because they weren't with them.
"We encountered some of the combat cyborgs on our way here. They were after Subaru and Ginga, so we split up to deliver the devices to you guys." Teana informed
"Sonikku? Sonikku?" Amy called but received no answer.. "This is bad.. I can't get any transmissions to Sonic, Ginga or Subaru."
"We have to go help them then" Nanoha informed, and Fate agreed silently
"That's not all.." Caro said, "Sonic also used the emeralds to transform into Super Sonic. And he said it was serious enough to get him to transform."
"Lightning-1 to Long Arch, Lightning-1 to Long Arch" Fate called in to Long Arch, but could only receive a staticy reply, Griffith's words were barely comprehendable "We're currently taking fire from gadgets and unknowns, evacuations have started.." the transmission was cut.
"Let's split up." Nanoha ordered "Teana, Amy and I will go ensure the safety of Sonic, Ginga and Subaru."
"Lightning will return to Riot Force 6 to help fend off the attackers" Fate informed her squad.
"Hai!" came the reply from the others. Nanoha and Fate took their respective squads to their assignments.
-Back at Riot Force 6-
The whole base was set ablaze. Shamal, Zafira and Emerl were the last lines of defense for it. Vivio was safe for the moment with the housemother in another location.
"You have done well by yourselves..." an extremely androgynous girl (really.. you couldn't tell if I didn't tell you) with brown hair and wearing the Combat Cyborg suit uniform, "But you won't last long against my IS: Ray Storm" the cyborg, known as Otto sent several green rays after them
"Klairwind! Protect us!" Shamal held out her hand, "Yes" came the reply and green walls intercepted the Ray Storm that Otto sent.
Zafira went on the offensive and tried to attack Otto, but the cyborg had a partner with her.
"Deed" Otto signaled, and out of nowhere his partner, who also had brown hair but looked much more feminine then her partner (the differences is in the... chest development, sorry, it was noticeable).
"IS Activate: Twin Blades" Deed said emotionless and sliced at the large wolf with her twin red energy blades, sending Zafira to the ground. The shock surprised Shamal enough for the Ray Storm to pierce the shields and explode on impact.
Zafira and Shamal were left defenseless and it looked like hope was dim for them, if they were to fall before Fate and the Lightning Squad gets there, it wouldn't be good.
"Sayonara.." Otto said as she started to end it with one last spell, but before she could do it, both she and Deed were struck hard by a brown.. spin-ball?
Emerl stood defiantly defending the duo from any harm "Hmph. Rustbuckets, like hell am I going to let you harm my imoutou or Zafira or Shamal.."
"Otto.. this was unexpected..." Deed said emotionless once more.
The robot's tone changed to a more confident one "What else is unexpected is that you used your Inherent Skills in front of me who has the ability to copy them..." Emerl held out imitation IS that copied Deed's Twin Blades, only creating gold versions of them "Let's see how you handle a taste of your own medicine!" the Gizoid launched into battle and hit the duo off guard with several slashes...
"Deed... If he can copy.. The Doctor could have some use for him as well" Otto informed..
"Agreed.. Let's capture him along with the Vessel.." Deed said.
"If you two ladies are done talking, you might notice this! Chaos..." Emerl disappeared only to reappear in front of them "Burst!" and unleashed a blast of Chaos energy... Doing so he sent signals to Sonic and Shadow.
-With Hayate-
The pain of Zafira and Shamal was felt by Hayate, who cringed and hoped that her knights would be alright.
-Back with Sonic, Ginga and Subaru-
- "Challenge" resumes-
Sonic and Cinque clashed blow for blow with seemingly matching strength, although Super Sonic was clear to have the upper hand at the moment, albeit slightly. Ginga and Subaru engaged the cyborg as well when Sonic backed off for them. Cinque matched them as well, her experience paying off well as she ensured that the battle would be drawn out by her defensive IS "Shell Coat" (it's the gray coat she wears) that provided her barriers with additional AMF protection.
Cinque threw at least a dozen of her daggers at Sonic, and even though the area to dodge was narrow, the hedgehog still managed and taunted "Please don't tell me that's all you can do.."
The eyepatched cyborg replied "Not even close... IS Activate: Rumble Detonator. Overdetonation!" she called and surprised Sonic when every dagger she threw at him exploded where they were at, covering the hedgehog with explosions and ensuring he was caught in the blast.
"Ugh!" he braced for the massive explosions..
"Sonic-san!" Subaru called to him, but after receiving no response her anger peaked once more, "GRAAAAAAAH!" she roared and encoated herself in a blazing blue aura and dealt a powerful punch to Cinque's gut, forcing the cyborg back a good ways.
Ginga tried to calm her sister down "Subaru, please.. your temper!", her plea was listened to, but Subaru's eyes were still yellow. The two looked back to the smoking area where the explosions occurred.
On Cinque's side she was sure she nailed the hedgehog with her attack, but what she saw when the smoke cleared shocked her just as much as it shocked Ginga and Subaru. There was Super Sonic, completely unharmed by the blasts, with an annoyed expression on his face.
"Oy.. oy .. Aside from annoy, your explosions did diddly! What part of "Invincible" did you not get?" Sonic snarked in annoyance.
"Sonic-san!" Subaru came to her senses at seeing her sub-commander unharmed, "You're alive!"
"Ye have little faith, Subaru... Back off for a bit you both.. I'm gonna teach ole patchy here a lesson or two." Super Sonic disappeared instantly, only to appear behind Cinque and nail her with a roundhouse kick. "Here it comes!" he followed up using his spin-dash to knock the wind out of her, then followed up in close range with kick after kick, causing harsh damage on each kick impact, and finally followed by an upward kick to send Cinque airborne "You're outta here!" "Chaos Shot" came the voice of Blue Star (this was in german), and Sonic then created a large yellow chaos energy bomb and held it up, then he followed Cinque, first dragging her up in the air more with the large sphere, then slamming it, with her on it, down to the ground, causing a massive explosion on impact. "Game set, Winner: Super Sonic!"
The remains of the explosion revealed an unconscious Cinque, who took a lot of damage to her systems with wires coming out of her..
The yellow hedgehog felt a pull from Emerl's chaos powers and his expression turned serious once more.. "Afraid I'll have to leave you two... Something big came up.. I can't stay.."
Subaru looked a bit confused "Sonic-san, what is it?"
"I'm sorry, I have to leave.. it's important." 'Shadow? Can you hear me?' Sonic reached out to his ebony friend.
'I'm assuming you felt the Gizoid's power too..' Shadow knew what Sonic was going to say.
'Yeah.. Can I leave Ginga and Subaru to you? These guys are attacking home base and I got a promise to keep with someone there.' Sonic requested.
'Very well.. I shall assist... Go' Shadow replied.
'Thanks, Shadow' Sonic ended the connection then turned to the Nakajimas, "Anymore of these guys comes up, take care of them.. I'll give you both some of my power.. use it well" the yellow hedgehog transferred some support to the duo before turning away from them, "Okay.. time to keep a promise.. Chaos Control!" with that Sonic disappeared in a blue flash from Chaos Control.
-With Shadow and Vita-
The battle was at a stalemate when Shadow received Sonic's mental messages. The ebony hedgehog informed Vita of it.
"Forgive me, but Sonic reported that there's trouble at the home base, he's heading back via Chaos Control to back up the forces there, it didn't sound good.. and Sonic also had a promise to keep.." Shadow told her
"Relieve Sonic then... I'll take care of these two.. their Unison isn't too compatible, it won't be hard." Vita ordered while wielding Eisen.
"You sure?" Shadow asked once more
"I can handle them here. Go relieve blue boy!" Vita ordered.
"Hmph.. Understood.. Chaos Control" Shadow disappeared in a blue flash, leaving the Unisoned Vita to take on Zest on her own. She was confident that she didn't need Shadow's help.. this may or may not be correct.
-With Fate, Erio and Caro-
The lightning squad made their first stop at Angel Island to ensure the defenses of the Master Emerald with Knuckles and Blaze. Before they were about to leave however, Fate caught sight of a pink bolt heading straight for their position.
"Sonic Move" Bardiche called out, Fate quickly intercepted the bolt with a shield, her speed was boosted by her spell.
The source of the shot was Tre and Sette, and Fate knew right from the start who they were already "Combat Cyborgs..."
"Looks like they're here already.. Let's take them down" Knuckles glided to Fate's side, now in his Knight armor, Blaze followed suit in her barrier jacket.
"Erio, Caro, go on ahead to the base.." Fate ordered
"But, Fate-san" Erio argued on top of Freid with Caro.
"We can handle them here, now go!" Fate told them firmly. The duo obeyed the orders and flew off.
Blaze allowed her flames to coat her in an aura "Fate.. get ready, these cyborgs seem powerful.
"Bardiche... third form" Fate called to her device.. "Zanber Form" came it's reply, the haken opened up and changed shape to form what looked like a sword hilt, energy came out from the hilt in the form of a large yellow blade. The mage wielded this against the two cyborgs, intending to defend the Master Emerald.
-With Vita-
- "Enemy Battle" resumes-
After Shadow left, Vita and Zest continued to match blow for blow, fatigue was hitting the smaller mage hard, but she pulled through.
"Hmm.?" Zest lowered his halbard "Several S+ mages have begun to move... Have their defenses recovered enough?"
"Kuso... Kuso.. (Damn it, damn it)" Agito cursed from her place unisoned in Zest.
"Vita, Signum's heading this way!" Rein informed the Iron Knight
"Let's retreat!" Zest canceled the unison, returning his hair, eyes and boots to their original color before the unison.
"Vita! Above you!" Rein alerted her partner. The mage looked up to the sky and saw Agito holding a large fireball above her head.
"I'll smash you down right here!" Agito declared angrily. Vita flew up to intercept it, but it was a trap for Zest.
"Full Drive Start!" Zest's unnamed Device declared, and in a near instant Zest clashed his device with Vita's, hitting it so hard it cracked the hammer's surface. With a loud roaring grunt, Zest put more of his power in and finished his strike, sending Vita into a building with a harsh destructive impact on the building's roof.
Vita cursed from her position "Bastards..." only to feel her Unison expire as Rein fell unconscious, 'Rein! Rein!'
"Agito.. we are to retreat!" Zest told the small unison device.. who couldn't say anything, only screaming until she fell asleep, with her in his hand Zest flew off.
-With Signum-
The swordswoman was solo in her flight, she caught sight of Zest flying away from a scene, but lost sight of him soon afterward as he flew off..
'Signum!' Vita called to her mentally.
'What is it, Vita?'
'Rein... and Eisen!' Vita cried from her position, holding an unconscious Rein in her hands. Eisen laid beside her, half of it was cracked and smashed from Zest's vicious attack.
-Underground passage: POV: Nanoha, Amy, Teana-
Even though Amy wasn't the fastest hedgehog compared to her friends, she still was fast enough to take the lead ahead of Nanoha, who was carrying Teana, to meet with Subaru and Ginga..
Nanoha felt Sonic's energy leave "Sonic left here.. Where do you think he went?"
"He probably heard about Riot Force 6 being attacked and went to support them." Teana offered.
Amy held Blutenblatt over her shoulder as she continued her quick stride "I just hope we can make it in time to help Subaru and Ginga."
"Me too... Amy.." Nanoha replied, "Me too..."
-With Ginga and Subaru-
Ginga hoisted the unconscious and beaten Cinque over her shoulder "Where do you think Sonic went?"
"I don't know.. but he left with a bang..." Subaru replied, but was suddenly caught by surprise when Nove showed up with a harsh kick to her gut, knocking the wind out of her, the force sent her into a wall where she banged her head and lost consciousness. Wendi flew in on her board and helped Nove hoist Subaru's unconscious self onto it
"Subaru!" Ginga cried after her sister. Only this got the other cyborgs' attention.
"She's the other one.. let's take her.. she will pay for hurting Cinque." Nove spoke as she and Wendi slowly approached Ginga, only for a yellow energy spear to impale the wall to the side after flying right between them.
-Insert "Otherworld" Final Fantasy X-
"Going somewhere?" Shadow said, suddenly appearing in a blue flash.. the ebony hedgehog had a confident grin to his face as wave after wave of Chaos Spears floated in mid-air "Chaos Spear" Black Shot displayed, "Not on my watch." with grunts he unleashed his attack on them, only for the spears to hit a barrier they created.. a clash ensured as the blasts struggled for superiority.
"Kuso... Sein! Help!" Nove called out for her sister.
"Got it!" Sein, through the use of her IS Deep Diver, rescued her sisters by making them disappear into the wall.
Shadow grunted in frustration "Kuso..." he turned to Ginga "I'm sorry I wasn't here sooner to save her."
Ginga had tears on her face but she managed to keep her emotions calm for the moment, thankfully she still had the unconscious Cinque on her shoulder.
-Music ends-
Nanoha, Amy and Teana soon arrived at the scene, they quickly took notice of Subaru's absence, it was a teary scene when Teana broke down at that moment.. crying for her partner being taken.. Ginga followed suit, unable to keep her calm.. The others looked away and hoped that Subaru would be alright.
-RF6: POV: Silver-
The silver hedgehog let a detachment of Gadget drones on the burning remains of the dorm rooms. Although the drones with him were met by some resistance, Vice was there to shoot down the drones heading for Vivio.
"There we go.. I haven't lost it just yet.." Vice remarked, confident, but his confidence dropped when he saw Silver.. The fact that Silver was just a young kid gave Vice a horrible flashback of a few years ago.. in a hostage situation he was assigned to shoot down someone holding a little girl hostage.. but he missed his shot and hit the girl's eye... to make matters worse, the girl was his sister Laguna... These thoughts suddenly showing up stopped Vice in his tracks
Silver turned to the man "Forgive me... you're in my way.." and threw Vice aside with his telekinesis.. After doing so he grabbed Vivio and started to fly away after reporting to Uno... His grip was sent to a complete halt when Vivio woke up, the young girl struggled violently to break free.
"Let me go! Let me go!" she pouted, but suddenly something in her awoke as her dangling free leg managed to nail a harsh kick between Silver's legs, disorienting the young hedgehog and forcing his hold on her to be released. The young girl started to fall to the ground, but, thankfully, Super Sonic caught her just in time.
"Oy.. Vivio, nicely done" Super Sonic complimented her.
The young girl opened her eyes, first unable to recognize Sonic by face but by his voice "Sonic-papa?"
"That's Right! Sorry to keep you waiting" Sonic winked at her.
"You kept your promise..." Vivio said.
"Of course I did. Ye have little faith, what is it with me and little faith today?" Sonic ranted a bit, but stop short when he saw the still recovering Silver, "Oy.. Leave now.. you're not getting Vivio.."
Silver knew that in his condition, he wouldn't be able to fight Super Sonic and be able to capture Vivio, these thoughts in mind, he slowly flew away while he was given the chance.
After Silver left, Vivio became scared for her life when she saw the burning Riot Force 6 Headquarters "S-Sonic-papa.. I'm scared.."
The golden hedgehog stroked the young girl's hair in a hug"There... Don't worry Vivio.. nothing's going to hurt you now..." However what happened next shocked him too. Angel Island fell into the ocean suddenly.
"No... Not the Master Emerald.."
-With Emerl-
The Gizoid managed to keep Otto and Deed at bay, but when he saw Angel Island fell, he was shocked
"Knuckles!" Emerl cried out, only for his guard to be let down long enough for Otto and Deed to knock him out and secure his capture. The cyborgs left with Emerl secured.
-Angel Island-
While Fate, Blaze and Knuckles engaged Tre and Sette. Quattro was able to use her sisters' attack as a distraction to steal the Master Emerald while everyone was busy.. After securing the emerald Quattro left on an aerial gadget drone.
With the battle, things were at a stalemate. Fate's sword clashed with Sette's twin blades while Knuckles and Blaze found their attacks canceled out by Tre's own defensive close range experience.
At the current stalemate, Fate tried to probe for information about Scaglietti's location "Where is Scaglietti? Why would he cause something like this?"
"If you want, we can guide you to him" Tre started
"Of course, that's if you comply with us." Sette finished
"He's a criminal! The worst kind!" Fate argued.
"Please don't say such sad things.. the Doctor, as well as for the boy, black hedgehog and others, is your birth father." Tre said, while Fate looked angry as Tre continued "You guys have life because the doctor established the framework for Project F-"
"Shut up!" Fate had enough
"I guess there's no helping it" Sette remarked as Tre started her Wide Impulse and get ready to warp her and Sette out of Angel Island "I believe we'll meet again" Sette said before departing.
"Oh and you may have realized this, but.. when we meet.. you won't be able to defeat us" Tre left her last words and warped with Sette in tow.
-The Lake: POV: Erio and Caro-
Flying on Freid, Erio and Caro encountered Otto, Deed, and Silver who were trying to escape with Emerl.
"That silver hedgehog... They have Emerl too!" Caro said.
Erio had a flashback from the current situation.
-Flashback-
Several years ago. A younger Erio was about to be separated from his parents by TSAB officials.
"Stop this!" Erio's mother cried.
"What right do you have for this?" his father added
One man in a suit and glasses retorted "I should be asking you the same question. The son of the Mondial family, Erio, has already died to illness"
Erio was shocked to hear this and even more so when a display pulled up his parents mourning over his gravestone.
The man continued "Born by using the terrible fabrication technology of Project F, a degraded copy."
After hearing they were caught, his mother lowered her arm, giving up.. This incident came to an even more shock to the young kid. As he tried to struggle back "Mama! Papa! Tasukete! ("Save me" in Japanese, pronounced Tai-ske-te I think..)
-Flashback End-
Erio stood up with determination and called to his device "Strada.. Form Two!"
"Jet Form" came Strada's reply, the head sprouted several yellow metallic jets
"Erio-kun..." Caro said, surprised
"Caro.. back me up, onegai (please)" Erio leaped off of Freid
"Erio-kun!"
As Erio descended towards Silver and the cyborg group, Strada loaded a cartridge "Explosion"
"Booster!" Erio ordered.
"Start!" The booster jets on Strada ignited and propelled the young mage even faster, aiming to stop the enemy flat.
Silver took notice and immediately forced Erio back with a powerful psychic push. The young kid twirled in mid air and launched off again for them
"You won't get Emerl!" Erio shouted in fierce determination, only for Deed to appear behind him.
"Excuse me.." she apologized and sliced at Erio and forced him into the water.
"Erio-kun!" Caro called after him, but she too was soon dragged into the water by chains made by Otto.
"Was that one of the remaining F kids? Well I'd imagine they're not dead.." Deed said
Silver nodded, though his face showed he felt that he failed.
"Hey.. Kid.. this was your first time in a battle like this... You did your best, that's what counted.." Deed encouraged the young hedgehog, "We'll leave the rest to the gadgets."
"I'll head back.." Silver flew off.
-With Sonic and Vivio-
Sonic could only sigh at all the destruction that happened, feeling no more need for it, he dismissed the power of the Emeralds and held them all in his hands, with Vivio on his back, he was about to start taking down the remaining drones, but before that could happen there was one last surprise in store.
In an instant, Tre appeared from her Wide Impulse, even though she caught the hedgehog off guard, she only managed to snag all the emeralds from him before warping off.
In serious frustration, he snapped his fingers and held onto Vivio tight, not willing to let her go.
-Insert "Someday the dream will end" Final Fantasy X-
The scene was a devastating one to see, Shamal and Zafira were out cold, beaten and bruised, fires flaring all over the place as the gadget drones flew above, an announcement rang out for everyone who was alive to flee for the base was to be destroyed. The intention was only for destruction, and they wouldn't bar anyone from fleeeing.. but Caro, could not accept this.. tears of sadness fell from her face. Erio's unconscious body laid near her.
"Why... did this..." Caro cried more, a large summoning circle appeared at her feet "Dragon Mount Summon..." surrounding part of the lake behind her was an even larger summon circle. "Voltaire!" She cried out, her voice echoed out in the distance as her call was answered. A gigantic dragon with huge wings and overwhelming power came out, spread his wings, and roared loud in anger. "Don't destroy..." Caro said tearfully as Voltaire charged up several powerful beam-like blasts.. "Don't destroy our home!" she shouted, Voltaire unleashed on the gadget drones, decimating them all with powerful blasts.. Not one remained in sight.
-TSA Ground HQ-
- "Someday the dream will end" continues-
Jail Scaglietti opened up his own broadcast live to gloat about his victory to everyone on the room of the press conference
"Mid-Childa Ground TSA members, did you like it? While it's somewhat small, this is my present to you. I hope you'll consider this present a gift from all the brilliant engineers who, even having brought about great advances of legitimate technology..."
Hayate was saddened when the live feed from the Riot Force 6 base that was her home was burnt down by the sheer brute power Jail's forces had.
Jail went on "were oppressed under the flag of "maintaining order" and "keeping the Lost Logia from causing harm."
-Cut to Jail's Lab-
The mad scientist's speech continued while Uno was playing what looked like green piano keys.
"But, I am also one who loves humanity and life. I tried hard not to shed any blood in vain... to not spill any blood and to be as human as possible..."
-With Silver's group-
With the use of his telekinesis, Silver flew back with Emerl's unconscious self on his back. Deed and Otto followed suit with their flight.
The speech went on "Technology which can completely conquer the enemy, whom should you hate... Do you think I've done enough to show that?"
-Ground TSA once more: POV: Nanoha's group-
As Ginga and Teana cried over the kidnapping of their beloved Subaru at a nearby wall. Nanoha took command in clearing out the remaining Gadget drones, their leaders gone. The drones had no support and fell under the fierce counter. Cinque of the Numbers, still unconscious from Super Sonic's powerful counteroffensive, was under Nanoha's direct custody for the moment.
The speech goes on, still from the live feed "I shall leave it here today. If you have any need for this wonderful power and technology, feel free to contact me anytime with a request."
-POV: Shadow-
The ebony hedgehog took command of a separate detachment of mages, and under this command, the remaining gadgets underground were eliminated.
-POV: Hayate-
Jail's speech came to its final conclusion "I'll hand it over to you under special circumstances" to further his gloating, the doctor laughed maniacally and proudly.
"We couldn't stop the prophecy.." Carim said solemnly to Hayate..
"Not yet..." Hayate remarked.
-RF6 Ruins-
Fate, Knuckles and Blaze met the still saddned and crying Caro where she stood. Erio still laying unconscious from his wounds. The blonde mage, feeling that her girl would need it, hugged her tightly and stroked her hair. Both echidna and cat could not even bare to look at the scene, turning their heads away in shame.
Sonic, still cradling Vivio, approached the others present. Fate was slightly relieved to see Vivio was still there. The young girl fell asleep in the hedgehog's arms, clinging to her plush bunny. Angel Island, stripped of the Master Emerald that kept it airborne, was grounded, but thankfully, due to it's location above the water, it didn't cause any more damage.
Sonic and the others looked into the horizon, some tears escaped the hedgehog's eyes, but a fierce determination was shown in his expression. "This isn't over..."
Both Sonic and Hayate had the same last words from their respective locations "Riot Force 6... We're not done yet."
- "Someday the dream will end" stops-
-End of Main Chapter-
-Omake: The Differences in parenting Vivio-
While we know that Sonic and Fate aren't as strict as Nanoha when it comes to raising Vivio, but let's view some examples of just how different they are.
-Scene 1: Vivio and falling down, How Nanoha would handle it-
Vivio once again fell onto the grass, only one around was Nanoha.
"Nanoha-mama.. I fell" Vivio cried
"Come on, Vivio, you can get up on your own.. it didn't hurt that hard." Nanoha replied.
The young child tried to get up on her own, she was close, but couldn't get it just yet.. she pleaded once more for Nanoha's help "Help me.. nanoha-mama"
"You almost had it, come on, you can get up on your own." Nanoha cheered.
Vivio tried once more, almost getting it once more.. and... could go all the way... and she's up..
"Yay!" Vivio cheered.
"Come on, Vivio, let's get you some ice cream" Nanoha guided Vivio inside
-Alternate: How Sonic and Fate would handle it-
Same set up, Vivio, on the grass once more.
The two quickly went over to help her up, after getting Vivio back on her feet, they took her in for ice cream... Well their methods weren't the same, but they agreed on the ice cream.
-Sleepy time-
At night, Sonic, Nanoha and Fate were in bed and were about to fall asleep when some movement under the covers alerted them.. When they pulled the covers off, they revealed Vivio clinging to Sonic and sleeping cutely.. an internal thought between the three was shared 'aweeee.'. And with that, they all fell asleep for the night.
-Ending: "Hoshizora no Spica" Yukari Tamura-
Author's Notes: Yeah... a lot of things happened here.. Such a sad episode because of the losses. It should be noted that Jail is partially right, no one died during this attack. Erio's past has been revealed too, he too was created in Project F, to replace the dead son of his family. Vice's flashback reminder was that Silver was a young teenage kid; during that last situation, he missed his shot for the criminal and instead hit his younger sister in the eye, she survived thankfully, she did survive, but Vice still felt extremely guilty for it. Now for the final tally of what happened: The Numbers stole the Master Emerald and Chaos Emeralds, they also managed to get away with Subaru and Emerl, in the anime it was Ginga and Vivio who were taken, but I played it differently for a good reason. Bottom line the numbers now have the Chaos Emeralds, Master Emerald, Subaru and Emerl. But they lost Cinque, who is by far probably the most experienced cyborg they had. Cinque was seriously injured in the anime by a berserk Subaru, again I wanted to be original, so instead Subaru did go berserk for a short time, but instead Super Sonic injuring Cinque with his powerful counterattack, and the cyborgs weren't able to rescue her. And on another note... Aweeee.. how cute and adorable is Vivio... This isn't over yet, more to come in the next chapter