Attack of the Viper

It was a warm and sunny day on West Side Island. Fair Skies over head seemed to create a tranquil and happy scene. Perfect for the island's inhabitants to enjoy a restful day on the beach. But such a calm and serene setting was not to be enjoyed by the small town of Hattoncorners, a village located in the Western Mountain regions of the island.

Normally, the children of this village would be flying their kites as the adults sat at the nearby outdoor café arguing politics and the latest gossip. But today, was a day unlike any other, for this day a great metal flying serpent wreaked havoc on the village and its people.

"Everybody, run. Run for your lives." A panicked beaver mobian cried out before fleeing the smoking wreck of a library. "The serpent of death is upon us." Everybody was running and screaming in a panick, blindly fleeing in every direction before the chaos and carnage all around them. Crushed buildings, burning houses, and demolished factories spread out across the landscape.

The cause was a great snake-like robot that fired missiles and laser blasts at the unsuspecting populace. While hopping and slithering about the countryside destroying every structure it landed upon.

"That's right, little mobians. Flee. Flee before your soon to be ruler." Ix boasted operating the controls of the massive machine. "After I have crushed your village into dust, I will follow suit with every other town, community, and city on West Side Island. Nothing can stop me now, especially not that foolish echidna, Knuckles.

"Knucklehead, doesn't have to stop you this time, Naggy." A voice came from beneath him. "Don't you know Mobius has an even more famous hero?"

"Uh… who are you again?" Ix stated, trying to frustrate him. Suddenly, a blue blur raced around the village rescuing trapped mobians from a burning house, putting out all the fires, saving a baby who had been left in a carriage that started to roll down the hill and ate all the chili dogs in the local deli under three minutes.

"I'm Sonic the Hedgehog, the dude with attitude. And I'm here to clean your clock, dreadhead." Sonic stated waving his finger at him. "And then, I'm going to skin this snake."

"Ah yes, I remember now. Nicholas Parlouzer, son of King Sylvanus, the dark green champion." Ix chuckled. "You are no threat to me, boy. I do not fear the so called 'hero' that took Warlord Julian down."

"King Sylvanus, huh? Thanks. I was wondering what my dad's name was." Sonic smirked as two figures came out of the shadows behind him. "Well, Ix. I'd like you to meet two of my dearest friends, say hello to Amanda Rose and Miles 'Tails' Prowler."

"Hello, Mr. Ix." Amy declared, reaching in and pulling a deck of Tarot cards out. "Do you want me to give you a reading?" She looked at the cards. "Oh look that, I see a smack down in the future."

"Huh? It overgrown centipede doesn't look that tough." Tails added, pulling a wrench and screwdriver out of his belt. "Keep old Ix here busy for about ten minutes, Sonic. I'll have every nut and bolt loosened on this giant tin can.

"Bah, I care not for foolish prophecies nor do I fear losing my nuts." Ix proclaimed. "I do not wish to waste precious time and energy fighting lowly insects such as yourselves, but if you insist on doing battle. Then, get a load of this." Immediately, the flying serpent flew up into the air circling around in a roller coaster loop and firing several missiles at Team Sonic.

"Haha, too slow." Sonic laughed, leaping from missile to missile as if they were video game obstacles.

"Hiya, Hiya." Amy Rose declared, hitting away missile after missile with her hammer. "These things don't scare me."

"A simple problem requires a simple solution." Tails remarked, pulling out a big bulky control device. He pushed a button and the missile exploded against an unseen bubble surrounding the fox. "Force field shields always do the trick, don't you think?"

"Available now," Sonic stated. "Get yours today at the low price 19.91"

"So, you seek to mock me, do you?" Ix declared angrily. "I shall not tolerate such insults coming from the likes of you. So again, I say, get a load of this." The metal snake dove below them burrowing deep into the earth. Suddenly, several explosions rocked the soil beneath their feet sending the three mobians flying high into the air.

"Whoa! Look out!" Sonic exclaimed. "That thing's trying to fry us into chili dogs."

"Sonic, we have to take out the viper's protective bubble." Tails added, examining the machine through his electronic scanner.

"What's the machine's power level?" Amy asked.

"Don't go there." Tails replied in annoyance. "Amy, see if you can get in close to the cockpit and land a blow on the command bubble."

"I'm on it." She answered as the viper emerged from beneath the ground once more.

"I based the design of my beautiful creation on Dr. Eggman's caterkiller badnik." Ix declared. "So, I guess you can call my metal chariot the Egg Viper."

"Not for much longer, loser." Amy announced. The Egg Viper reared its head to face Amy directly and launched two spiked discs directly at her, avoiding the spikes of the first one the pink hedgehog jumped on top of the second spinning disc on its return trip and jumped off to smash the cockpit's glass with her piko piko hammer. "YAHBOOM!"

"Fools, you only cracked the glass." Ix snapped, shaking the pink hedgehog off. "Foolish little hedgehogs from South Island are no match for echidna superiority."

"Oh yeah? Well, let's see how you outfox a fox?" Tails replied, flying loops around the Egg Viper.

"HEY! Hold still you, little runt." Ix shouted, shooting the viper's head cannons at Tails. "Stop flying in circles so I may blast you."

"Not in this life time, Iky." Tails mocked him, pointing a strange looking gun at the cracked cockpit and shooting a dart at the center of the crack.

"This that all you got child?" The emperor mocked him. "A puny little dart."

"No, I'm just exploiting a pressure point." Tails remarked flying away from the cockpit. "Shattered cockpit glass in 3… 2… 1." CRASH! The glass flew apart leaving an exposed Ix sitting in the chair. Tails tried to attack the cockpit directly towards the emperor; Ix pushed some buttons and the tail of the viper smacked the young fox to the side. Miles slammed right into one of the building's walls with a stone ledge.

"Why you little impudent little slugs!" Ix slammed his fist into the control panel. "I didn't want to have to do this. But you leave me no choice." The snake quickly swept around Amy and Tails capturing them in its coils and tightening its grip.

"Hey, let us go!" Amy screamed.

"Sonic… Help!" Tails gurgled. "It's crushing the life out of me."

"Hey, put my friends down this instant." Sonic warned. "Or trust me, you'll be really really sorry."

"Oh, I'll happily put them down and I'll destroy this village at the same time." Ix laughed. "So, what's it going to be hedgehog? Save your friends or save the village?" Flying out over the peak, Ix turned back. "Now, choose." He released them before swinging the viper's tail forwards aiming the cannon straight at what was left of the town. "FULL POWER!"

"NOO!" Sonic screamed, curling up into a morphball. Sonic spindashed straight at the Egg Viper smashing into the red glowing beacons on its tail. Sonic literally hopped up the tail and smashed directly into the Egg Viper's pilot.

"BLAST YOU, SONIC!" Ix declared as the Egg Viper tumbled into the abyss surrounded by explosions. Sonic dove into the crevase following his friends into the darkness below.

"Hang on, guys. I'm coming." The blue blur said as he disappeared.

"Hahaha, I did it." Ix declared hanging onto a branch sticking out from the Cliffside. "I got rid of Team Sonic." Reaching to the rocks above him, the emperor slowly began to climb back up the cliff face. "Now, there will be no one who can stop my conquest of Mobius. Chaos shall consume this world and from upon the ashes, I shall create a new one."