Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic the hedgehog only the plot and my OC's.
Sonic and Tails had just completed the second test and now were going to face Killer the cheetah. Both of them have confidence in themselves that they could defeat him just like any other villains they faced.
Being with each other for 8 years, they had faced many challenges and escaped death whenever it was around the corner, except for Sonic being killed by Mephiles.
Tails never forget about that, at first everyone forgot about it since it wasn't supposed to have happened, but over time he and the others slowly started to remember that event. Ever since he remembered that, Tails had been scared, afraid for Sonic's safety.
After Killer declared for the battle to begin, Sonic and Tails were transported like they did before when they faced Slicer. They transported to their battle arena where they would face Killer. Looking around Sonic instantly recognized where they were.
Instead of being in a white world like when they faced Slicer, they were now at StarDust Speedway. This is the same place where Sonic had raced Metal Sonic to get to Amy, it brought back many memories for him.
This part of StarDust Speedway was a long narrow one way path that went on for a while. If you looked right underneath the pathway you would notice that this area is high in the air. If you were to fall off the pathway, well let's say your screwed.
"Are you ready to begin this battle or are you going to stand there all day and stare at this place?" Killer asked irritably.
Sonic snapped out of his trip down memory lane and nodded his head. "Yeah, sorry it's just that this place brought back many memories."
Killer growled. "There is no time for a trip down memory lane! Dark Nega is at large! So get yourselves in gear and fight me!" he said with annoyance.
"Somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning." Sonic mumbled under his breath.
Killer who obviously heard it growled at him. "I heard that you know."
Sonic rolled his eyes. "Whatever, can we just fight so we can move on?"
Killer nodded his head and started slowly walking across the path, with Sonic and Tails walking next to him. Killer than started running faster as well as Sonic and Tails.
Killer being a cheetah, who is supposed to be the fastest animal there is, easily kept pace with Sonic and Tails.
Killer than extended his claws, which measured to be 5 feet long. That was longer than Sonic the Werehog's claws were.
Sonic and Tails' eyes went wide before Killer swiped his claws at Sonic who was at his left side, while Tails was at his right.
Sonic jumped out of the way, which he soon regretted. He wasn't fast enough to fully avoid it and ened up get cut in his right leg. Blood started pouring out and Sonic started to slow down a bit because of the pain.
Killer saw this chance and was about to slash at Sonic again, but was stopped when Tails punched him at the right side of his face.
This was a mistake because Tails punched to hard and ended up making Killer knock into Sonic making both of them fall over the edge.
Since Sonic was the closest to the edge he was knocked off first followed by Killer. However Killer grabbed the edge of the pathway before he flipped back up on the pathway.
Sonic couldn't grab on the edge of the pathway because of Killer and continued to fall. Sonic tried to stay clam because he knew Tails would come after him.
He was right because Tails flew down toward him reaching his hand for Sonic to grab it while Killer was watching with amusement. After Sonic grabbed Tails' hand, he flew back to the pathway.
When Killer saw them coming he started running again, with Sonic and Tails trying to catch up to him. Killer than turned around and started running backwards, while maintaining the same speed.
Sonic and Tails' eyes went wide before they kicked into high gear getting closer to him. Sonic was upset that Killer could run backwards like he could. Sonic shook his head before curling up into a ball and flying toward Killer at intense speed.
Killer smirked waiting for the right time. When Sonic was about to hit him, he jumped and flipped right over Sonic and than ran toward Tails punching him in the face sending him flying backwards a few yards before he stopped.
Sonic who was still in his spin dash, turned around and tempted to strike him again. Sonic than boosted in his spin dash making a blue aura surrounding him. Killer who was still facing Tails' direction didn't see Sonic coming toward him.
By the time he noticed it was too late. He was struck in the back and was sent flying toward the direction where Tails was when Killer punched him.
Since Sonic used his boosting ability to put more power in his spin dash, Killer was sent flying past Tails by 8 yards.
Tails stared wide-eyes where Killer had landed. He than looked at Sonic with a shocked expression on his face. He never seen Sonic boost before, so of course it was a shocker.
"Wow Sonic, since when could you do that?" Tails asked him.
Sonic smirked. "It's a little something I learned a while back. I've used it a lot but you were never around to see it."
Tails smiled before remembering that they were in battle. He than looked in the direction where Killer had landed only to find him gone.
Tails looked at Sonic with a worried expression on his face. However before he could ask Sonic if he saw where Killer went, something came out from underneath Tails, punching him resulting him being sent high in the air.
It turns out that it was Killer was the one who punched him. When Sonic was distracted by talking to Tails he had jumped off the edge and used his cat-like ability to grab the pathway from underneath. He then silently crawled toward Tails and when he was distracted punched him from underneath.
Killer was about to jump in the air to grab Tails when Sonic tackled him. They wrestled for a bit trying to overpower the other.
Sonic only wanted time for Tails to recover so he can rejoin the fight. In the end Killer overpowered Sonic and grabbed him by his injured leg and threw him at Tails.
Tails finally recovered only to be hit by Sonic making them both fall toward their supposed doom. Once again Tails grabbed Sonic and flew back to the pathway.
When Tails dropped Sonic back on the pathway, Sonic was holding his injured leg which started bleeding again because of Killer's tight grab.
Tails looked worried seeing how bad the leg was bleeding. "Sonic, are you alright?" Tails asked his older brother.
Sonic gave a thumbs-up before turning his attention to Killer who was staring at them both with mixed emotions.
Than Killer started charging toward them with his claws out to slice them. Before Killer could slice them in half he was shot with a yellow energy ball sending him flying back with a surprised look.
Sonic who was confused looked at Tails to find a red canon attached to his arm. It was the same one he used against Nazo.
Sonic looked at him with a questionable look. "How come you never used that before?"
Tails shrugged his shoulders. "I never thought about it till now."
Sonic was about to comment when Killer got back up with a pissed off look. "You are so going to pay for that Tails!"
Tails smirked. "Yeah, sure I will. If your so confident than why don't you just try it?" he said sounding a lot like Sonic.
Sonic couldn't help but to smile at that. After Tails was since he was toddler, it would make sense that he would pick up his attitude because Tails was at that stage in life when he could copy and learn from those around him.
Tails didn't meet his other friends till years after he met Sonic. He was only 5 when Sonic introduced him to Amy. He met the others when he was 7.
Killer didn't like Tails' statement and he roared before running on all fours toward them jumping in the air to hopefully cut Tails to pieces.
Before Killer could strike Tails, Sonic did him homing attack at Killer knocking him back a bit. He than started running to Killer and began a hand to hand fight with Killer trying to cut him and Sonic dodging at striking whenever he had a chance.
While Sonic was doing that Tails began to charge him red canon for a powerful attack. When he was done he shouted at Sonic to move.
Sonic obeyed and Tails fired a large blue beam that struck Killer head on before he could move out of the way.
Killer screamed in pain before the blue beam was gone. He fell to his knees and was panting almost out of breath.
Sonic and Tails looked at each other nodding their heads knowing that it is the time to end the battle. They than used a new team attack that they learned to finish Killer off.
Sonic and Tails jumped in the air grabbing each others hands with Sonic upside down. They both started spinning fast until they were rolling like a ball toward Killer.
Killer who was still panting looked up and saw a blue and yellow ball coming toward him at intense speed. He was too weak to move out of the way and was struck by Sonic and Tails' rolling combo.
The power of the blow was strong enough to knock him over the edge of the pathway. As soon as he was out of sight Sonic and Tails were transported back to PalmTree Panic.
Killer than reappeared in front of them. "It would seem that you have beaten me, well done."
Sonic and Tails gave each other a thumbs-up before turning back to Killer waiting for him to tell them of their next destination.
"Now you must go to Crisis City, to face the guardian's final test. If you succeed in defeating them, then you have proven yourselves worthy of being gods."
With that said he disappeared and they where left alone. They took in everything that they were told before realization struck.
"Wait did he say Crisis City? The place that doesn't exist anymore?" Sonic said.
Tails sighed and nodded his head. "Yeah, he did say Crisis City. Wait didn't he say guardians? As in more than one?"
Sonic than remembered that too. "Yeah he did. But how are we supposed to get to Crisis City?"
"I can help you with that." A voice came out from behind them.
Looking behind them they saw the one person who they didn't expect to see.
The person who said that was none other than Silver the hedgehog who was standing behind them with a smile on his face.