SonicANIME2010 here, bringing in the next chapter to the Sonic Adventure arc of Knight of the Night Sky. I recently started playing Sonic Adventure on my Xbox to remind me of the whole story for reference, well I got the most of it, only problem is that it's separated into different character stories, and not all of the quotes each character say are consistent within each scene, so it's giving me an issue on which version I can use for which scene. Other than that, there's not much issue and I should be able to put my crossover spin into the story. On another note, the Spring Semester has officially started for me this past Monday, therefore I'm not going to have as much free time as I used to, but when I do get the time aside from all the homework assignments and projects, I'll make the most of it on my stories. Okay, here we go!
[Non-Administrated Planet # 97 "Earth"]
[Station Square: TSAB Safe House]
[No BGM]
After a long night's rest and recuperation, both teams gathered in a dining and lounging area set up in their safe house for breakfast, which was served by Nanoha. After which, both teams gathered at the center of the lounging area to report in to their admiral.
Lindy, who just finished her morning tea herself, called everyone gathered to attention so she could give out their orders.
"Alright.. Well the Yellow Team already checked in before going off on their test run." Lindy noted, "In the meantime. I want the Red Team to start searching around for the missing pieces to the Master Emerald."
"It won't be easy." Knuckles was quick to point out, "Pieces went everywhere, but thankfully I can still sense them if they're around."
"You sense any here?" The admiral asked.
"Yeah..." Knuckles nodded after a brief moment to determine where he could sense them from, "There are six here in the city… I can at least tell that much, but I can't seem to sense an exact location."
"How many are closest?" Lindy asked.
"Three" The echidna was confident in his answer.
"Your team will search the city for them." The admiral gave her orders, "the Blue team has their own assignment, I assume?"
"Hai" Reinforce confirmed, "Search for any leads on that monster we faced last night."
"It must have a connection to the Master Emerald as well," Lindy noted, "Since it was first seen at Angel Island and arguably was responsible for the shattering of the Emerald. I suggest starting in places near water like the beach. Now, who's on rotation to go out in the field?"
Sonic took a quick glance at the roster line-ups that were set up beforehand by Reinforce, "Um... Me, Nanoha and Hayate... Since Reinforce-san is going to remain at the safe house, we are to take Zwei-chan with us, just in case Unison is needed."
"Speaking of which." The admiral mentioned, "How goes your training in it?"
"Um... I think it's pretty good" Sonic sounded unsure, he isn't one to brag too much about his abilities, "I can't really control it with Reinforce-san too much."
"He has improved." Reinforce answered further, "With me, he's able to hold some control for thirty seconds. With Zwei, he's able to hold control for a longer period, and we do help him with control."
"Glad to hear there's at least some progress." Lindy noted, "Now you all have your orders, get going."
"Hai!" both teams saluted and deployed out.
[OP: "Eternal Blaze" Mizuki Nana]
Sonic: Knight of the Night Sky
Chapter 35
Mystery of Chaos
[Mystic Ruins: Early Morning]
[BGM: "Believe in Myself" Sonic Adventure]
Unlike the others in their squad, Shamal, Tails, Arf and Zafira weren't exactly the type for fighting and such, while Arf was, and still is, Fate's familiar and Zafira is a Guardian Beast, they knew at the start of their team forming they'd be part of the support, and their role now is helping the young fox test his inventions. The concept of support was, initially, a little hard for Alisa Bannings and Suzuka Tsukimura, new mages-in-training and also childhood friends of Nanoha, to grasp.
As was reported to Admiral Lindy Harlaown, Shamal reported in early and let her admiral know that their test was about to begin. They were set to test a prototype engine; this engine was installed in a small biplane aircraft, a design much similar to the original Tornado.
Tails seated himself in the two-person cockpit with Shamal in the backseat, her job wasn't to drive, thankfully; the fox made the mistake of letting her drive a prototype, an experience he would seriously not wish to experience again. Instead the healing wind of the Wolkenritter had the task of monitoring the systems such as fuel and stability
"Alisa-san." Tails asked politely of Alisa Bannings, "Is the power source set up?"
Alisa, whose Barrier Jacket consisted of a short-sleeved red jacket with somewhat bulky shoulders much similar to other jackets; underneath which was a pink dress with a short skirt and gray gym-shorts that barely went to her knees, in addition, the hairbands tying her hair were red and she wore red finger-less gloves as well as a few ribbons just above her elbows, her shoes were red and had a few gems attached to the sides. The young heiress-turned-mage grinned a bit energetically as she adjusted something in the front propeller of the prototype aircraft.
"All set, Tails-kun." The girl answered, "I'm curious, why don't you let me drive?"
"Same reason I don't let Shamal-san drive." Tails shivered, "I wanna live."
"No fun..." the covert-tsundere of an heiress pouted.
"Alisa.." Suzuka giggled in amusement, she too was in her own Barrier Jacket, which was a little bit more conservative with the long-sleeved blue jacket over a white and purple dress with long gray socks that went up her legs, black fingerless gloves and shoes to match "Don't ruin a little kid's fun."
"We can give him fun." Alisa said with smirk that showed some mischief, "A lot of fun..."
"We are not tainting a little kid's innocence." The purple-haired girl was quick to decline, "
Tails cleared his throat in an attempt to grab some attention, it worked to some point as Arf and Zafira also stood at attention. The humanoid wolves stood ready to attend to a job.
"Arf-san, Zafira-san, Alisa-san and Suzuka-san," Tails asked of the four, "Are you going to watch us from the air?"
"Yeah, and we'll try to help in case the prototype crashes." The wolf-woman familiar Arf answered, she honestly was indifferent about the whole test. It was the brownie points with the fox that she was after.
Zafira gave a silent nod; the wolf Guardian Beast of the Wolkenritter rarely said anything. On the other hand, Alisa and Suzuka smiled in their reply and held out their devices, both in which took the form of staves much similar in shape to Chrono's S2U.
"Alright!" Tails pressed a button on the cockpit, which turned on the engines and made the front propeller start to spin, "Launch!"
The silver prototype bi-plane, took immediate flight after enough speed was built up in the acceleration. The plane was closely followed by Arf, Zafira as well as Alisa and Suzuka, both who had enough power to sustain flight, and also able to maintain their balance, tricks they learned from watching Nanoha and the others.
[Station Square]
[BGM: "Welcome to Station Square" Sonic Adventure]
Reinforce Eins watched as the Blue Team and Red Team split up to take on their own objectives. The Blue trio of Sonic, Hayate and Nanoha, accompanied by the young, mini Unison Device, Reinforce Zwei, searched part of the city with the hotel and train station for leads on the mysterious monster. The Red Team took off to search the city and find the pieces of the Master Emerald.
[BGM: "Lazy Days ~Livin' in Paradise" Sonic Adventure]
Her attention was drawn elsewhere as she heard a male voice cry out, "Kaeru-kun?" multiple times. When she turned to see who the source of the voice was; she saw something that one doesn't see every day. A large, bluish-purple, anthropomorphic cat, who, aside from the sandals and belt, was without any clothing, he held over his shoulder a fishing pole and on his face, a calm, but somewhat concerned expression.
Reinforce Eins, after cursing her luck of always having the weirder characters to interview, walked up calmly to the large and extremely bulky cat. With a sense of professionalism and patience she asked, "Excuse me, are you looking for someone?"
The cat was somewhat surprised at the forwardness, but he still appeared calm, and spoke a bit slowly, "Yes. My friend, Kaeru-kun... He's a frog and my best friend for a long time…I was sleeping in my hut in the Jungle, when something woke me up... I saw Kaeru-kun looking weird."
Reinforce quirked an eyebrow at this, she didn't know too much about the frog species, so she would just have to go with the cat's description, "Weird how?"
"Well..." The cat paused for a few seconds, "He grew a tail... and he was acting odd… and he also swallowed my lucky charm."
"Lucky charm?" The silver-haired woman asked.
"Oh yes, it was a yellow jewel thing..." the cat answered in the same, slow, tone, "When I fish with Kaeru-kun it glows... and I catch more fish"
'Yellow gem... glowing.. .' Reinforce thought to herself, her eyes opened wider in a sudden thought, 'Could it be?' she refocused her attention on the cat's story and sought to try a different angle, "You said he grew a tail?"
"Yes..." The cat answered slowly, after gathering his thoughts in a slow pace, "I woke up and saw Kaeru-kun, and he had this weird pointed tail... and some liquid drooling from his mouth; that's when he swallowed my lucky charm..."
"What does he look like?" Eins asked.
"He's big… green, and a frog." The cat answered.
"Helpful" deadpanned Reinforce, "any distinctive marks?"
"Dark-green and yellow stripes" the cat thought for about ten seconds, "and he has this pointed tail."
"Well." Reinforce finished, "Good luck in finding your friend, and be careful, mister?"
"Big!" the cat said in a care-free and laid-back tone, "My name is Big."
"Nice to meet you, Big-san" Eins introduced herself, "You can just call me Reinforce."
"Thank you, nice lady Reinforce." Big gave a friendly smile; that was the last the large cat had said before going off to search for his frog friend.
After she saw that the cat was long out of sight, Reinforce immediately contacted Sonic through a communications channel. The visual screen she was given from Freiewind, Sonic's device, showed that his team explored the shore along the beach.
"Reinforce-san?" Sonic asked, curious as to why she called him, "What's up?"
"I may have found a lead to this creature." Eins was quick to her point, "It could be useful."
"Eh?!" the hedgehog blinked, "But we just started searching the shore because of the water.."
"Relax" she chuckled a bit; "You can keep doing that, but, keep an eye out for a large green frog with a tail. Apparently it ran away from his concerned best friend. I talked to said friend and believe that whatever happened to this frog may have been related to the monster we fought last night. In addition, this frog may hold, in its stomach, one of the missing Chaos Emeralds."
"Those went missing after Angel Island was moved." Hayate commented from the background, "We were going to search for them when we had the time."
"Now you have another reason" Reinforce's tone was serious, "If this monster is after the Chaos Emeralds, they have to be found before that thing gets to them."
"We'll watch out for it." Nanoha noted, "Arigatou, Reinforce-san."
Reinforce nodded and closed the feed on her end; with nothing else to add she returned to the Safe House to inform Alicia and Fate of this new development.
[Sky above the city]
[BGM: "Mini-Game: Twinkle Circuit" Sonic Adventure]
Tails flew the prototype plane he developed throughout the sky, taking a few notes of the stability and how well the control worked.
"All systems are normal" the fox observed, "Control is great and acceleration is working fine."
A few sputters of the front engine stopped the fox's positive reporting, "Ara?!" the sputters erupted even louder as the engine spouted out a trail of smoke, "Uh oh..."
"What's going on?" Alisa asked.
"We're out of control!" Tails cried as the plane started to spin, making a certain medic who was sitting in the seat behind the fox very dizzy.
Arf was a bit calmer in the situation, an attitude that was shared with Zafira, "Calm down and try to find a safe place to land."
[Emerald Coast]
[BGM: "Emerald Coast" Sonic Adventure]
With the channel closed, Sonic, Hayate, Reinforce Zwei and Nanoha went back to work on their investigation of the coast. They had to pause; however, as a silver bi-plane almost ran into them, thankfully it pulled up before anyone was injured.
"Whoa!" Sonic cried as he, Hayate and Nanoha were able to duck for cover beforehand.
Arf, Zafira, Alisa and Suzuka stopped in front of the trio and immediately apologized for the trouble.
"Sorry, Sonic-kun, Nanoha-chan, Hayate-chan." Alisa quickly apologized.
"We're fine..." Nanoha noted, shrugging in dismissal.
Sonic's attention was on the out of control plane that was about to crash land in a part of the beach, "Shoot! Tails!"
"We better go help them out." Hayate said.
With Arf and the others of the Yellow team guiding them, Sonic, Hayate and Nanoha flew to a clear path in the beach that was suitable enough for a plane to crash land in.
"Freiewind/ Raising Heart" Sonic and Nanoha respectively called out to their devices as a light-blue Belkan Triangle and cherry blossom color IS Template appeared at their respective feet, "Binding!"
"Restrict Lock!" the pair of devices confirmed mechanically. From the mages came chains of light blue and cherry blossom made purely of mana. The chains latched themselves to the wings. Combined with a holding net spell casted by Hayate, the trio stopped the plane, while the pilot and co-pilot were safe, albeit dizzy; the prototype was thrashed on impact from the crash landing.
The duo of Tails and Shamal dazily exited the airplane, it took a minute for them both to come back to full consciousness, when they did, both could detect a certain amount of amusement in their friends' expressions.
"You know, buddy." Sonic quipped, "If we weren't best friends, I'd have given you a ticket."
Nanoha and Hayate ruined the certain coolness the hedgehog gave off from the quip with cute little pats on his head, a complete abuse of their size advantage, much to the hedgehog's annoyance.
"Oy!"
[Station Square: Hotel]
[BGM: "Believe in Myself" Sonic Adventure]
Both teams met up at the pool area to talk about the crash. Sonic was generally concerned over the health of his buddy. Rarely has Tails crashed like he did, so something had to be up.
"Hey, Sonic" Tails greeted a bit cheerfully, "Thanks for your help."
"I'm honestly just glad you're okay." The hedgehog answered, "What happened? I know you're too good of a pilot to crash like that. And you never let Shamal-san drive after that one.. em.. incident."
Both teams gave a collective shiver, minus Shamal, who just looked down in regret. The young fox answered, "That was a test of a new prototype propulsion and engine system. They still have a few bugs to iron out obviously. The machine was wrecked, but luckily my Device was able to store the data, right? "
"Confirmed!" the orange gem in the fox's left glove chimed
Tails received his device, which he called "Gearhead", around the same time that Alisa and Suzuka had theirs, which were given the names "Godhand" and "Nirvana" respectively and each have a base staff form as well as an additional form that's tailored to their own specialty and special skills. In addition, all three shared the same type and magic style, and that was Mid-Childan with Intelligence Devices. The trio being new to the magic, the instructors thought it appropriate for them to get advice. Tails may not have too much magical strength, but his device made a great use in his tests of prototypes.
"You know." Sonic noted, "You can always use the Tornado if you want."
"I know." The fox smiled in pride, "But if I can get this prototype to work right, it'll run circles around that old thing. Especially with this new power source; show him Alisa-san!"
'Excuse me?" Alisa teased, "What do you say?"
"Please show him..." Tails relented, "Sorry."
"Only kidding, Tails-kun." The dirty-blonde giggled and showed the blue trio the purple Chaos Emerald.
"A Chaos Emerald?!" Sonic blinked in surprise, "Whoa!"
"You're kidding!" Nanoha added in equal surprise, "How did you get it?!"
"Stumbled on it during one of our test flights." Tails shrugged, "The gem has a lot of power, so I figured why not use it to power a plane, not only will it hold\d a lot more energy, but it'll be more powerful in the engines and attack systems. When you get the chance, you've gotta come to the workshop. I've got something I want to show."
"Well... girls?" Sonic polled Hayate and Nanoha.
"Reinforce-san did say that the monster could be after Chaos Emeralds." Hayate noted first.
"And now we know that one of them is accounted for." Nanoha added, "So I think we should stick around them for a while. Plus, I'd like to see how Alisa-chan and Suzuka-chan are going in their training."
"The fastest way to get to the Mystic Ruins, aside from the Dimension Transport" Tails noted, "and without drawing too much attention with it, is by train."
"Thankfully we managed to get free passes for the trains." Nanoha noted, "Your fame comes in handy, Sonic-kun."
The hedgehog shook his head, ever since he stopped the first few attacks by Eggman on the city, the public has looked at him and his friends in a more positive image, and with that, also came the "free" stuff such as food, transportation and such, generally speaking, him and his friends knew that if they were spotted in the trains and such, it would draw attention, but that's a sacrifice they had to make in order to keep their "cover". Most of the general public still has no idea about the existence of the TSAB and magic; quite frankly, until ordered otherwise, the kids had to keep it that way, much to their inconvenience. With Mystic Ruins as their destination in mind, the Yellow and Blue teams took to the commuter trains.
[Elsewhere in the city]
[BGM: "Speed Highway: At Dawn" Sonic Adventure]
If any random mage of the red team, save Knuckles, were asked about their job and treasure hunting; they'd give the general answer of it not being in the job description, so generally they weren't too prepared to search for three shards that were about as big as their hand.
Knuckles had detected one of the shards to be on the ground level of the city, the only problem they encountered was that the area of their search happened to be part of the highway and the cars were often driven fast.
"Great..." Knuckles growled, "I know where the emerald shard is, but if we tried to get to it, those cars would be a problem."
"Vita?" Signum asked, "I'm sure you can handle this?"
"Yeah." The iron knight agreed and called out to her device "Graf Eisen!"
"Gefängnis der Magie" the mallet confirmed the spell selection, within seconds the whole region was surrounded in a dome. The magic of the dome made all the cars and civilians disappear.
"Well that's convenient." Knuckles commented as the dome also made the shard piece of the Master Emerald glow a bit brighter.
"It disrupts any communication to outside of the field though." Vita noted, "So we better secure the shard quick."
With the Master Emerald shard in plain sight, Chrono flew to its location. With his device, S2U, he sealed the shard into storage.
"One down." The enforcer nodded.
"How many more are left?" Quint asked of the echidna.
"Let's see..." Knuckles thought to himself; "There's at least five more in the city, but I can't sense any others. But I know there's more missing."
"We have a long way to go then..." Megane sighed a bit.
"Welcome to treasure hunting." Knuckles said, "May not be the fastest, but it gets the most rewards."
With the dome of the Gerfangis Der Magie set up by Vita and Eisen still in place, the team of six continued their search for the shards.
Signum looked around for a bit through the dome and found another shard; calling to Chrono, she and the enforcer flew to the shard and secured it in storage.
"Two down." The blazing general noted
"Make that three!" Quint called from elsewhere, joining her comrades with the final shard, "I found this in a robot."
"Could Eggman be using them as power sources?" Megane asked as she had tailed her friend, "When we found this shard we saw a few other robots, and they all match the ones the previous reports identified as Eggman's."
"Nah." The echidna was quick to deny, "By themselves, the shards aren't too powerful, the only reason they were found in the robots is because the shards can implant themselves into them."
"Any other surfaces they can do this to?" Vita asked; she figured her team would be working a lot anyway, so she might as well know what else they can do.
"Yeah, underground." Knuckles shrugged, "But I doubt we'll have that issue..."
"Don't jinx it..." Vita glared as she dismissed the Gerfangis Der Magie.
[Mystic Ruins]
[BGM: "Mystic Ruins" Sonic Adventure]
The train ride was surprisingly uneventful as Sonic who was pushing Hayate in her wheelchair; along with Nanoha, Tails, Alisa, Suzuka and Shamal, they all disembarked from the train at the Mystic Ruins station; they had with them the puppy forms of Zafira and Arf, the duo had opted to shift to the mentioned forms in order to keep a low profile. The city had set up the wood structure station for tourists to explore. Despite the rumors of a strike building between the workers union and the train company after their lawsuit for more pay went down the drain, the trains continued to run so long as the workers were willing to do so, and they loved their job.
"I think I've said this before, Sonic-kun" Nanoha noted, the cyborg admired the background and scenery of the Mystic Ruins, the peaceful waterfalls and lush hills that overlooked the ocean, "When we're in your islands, you always seem to find the most beautiful sights."
Hayate and the other humans, plus the beasts Arf and Zafira, who shifted to their humanoid form, all nodded in agreement.
"Luck I guess." Sonic shrugged, "So where's this workshop?"
"This way!" Tails guided the group to a wide area hilltop where the fox had often worked on building his machines. The workshop was a flight of stairs upward and was connected to a straightway with palm-trees lined along the side. They soon found trouble as a distinctly familiar evil laugh echoed through the area.
"Oh ho ho ho!" Eggman floated down in his usual Egg-mobile, "If it isn't Sonic and his little harem."
[BGM: "Theme of Dr EGGMAN" Sonic Adventure]
Tick marks and some minor blushes were displayed amongst the majority of the group, the notable exceptions were Tails and Zafira, the former too innocent to understand the term and the latter who could care less, and in addition, Alisa and Suzuka, who didn't seem too interested. The rest were guilty as charged.
"Eggman..." Sonic quickly summoned his sword, which was sheathed in the silver-white with sky-blue trimmed scabbard. He held both hands on the sword, one on the scabbard, the other on the handgrip of the blade's hilt. The blade device had gotten a new design to it, with some maintenance, while the blade was still the, it was given a sleeker design which was extended to the cartridge system, which was now bolt-type action style like a hunting rifle; much like Signum's Laevatein, while it only held the capacity for three cartridges at once, it made up for it in efficiency. The hedgehog found that the sleeker design was more reliable than the bulky and outdated revolver. Still the conversation he had with both the swordswoman and original Master Program about the upgrades was fresh in his memory.
-Flashback-
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Sonic was initially surprised about the first design modification to his device, which was the straighter hilt that first showed during his mock battle with Fern Corrado. After the incident with the rescue, the hedgehog asked Reinforce Eins and Signum about it.
"Reinforce-san, Signum-san" the hedgehog noted first, "My device felt different"
"That's because during your rehab, we started to upgrade it." Eins explained, "The model of your blade was a bit outdated, initially it was on purpose because the newer models were more complex, but after your injury, it was decided that you were ready for the newer model, like Laevatein."
"Eh?" The hedgehog blinked, "But if I was injured, I shouldn't have been ready..."
"During your rehab, you were given instruction on moderation of your cartridges" Signum noted, "To help conserve the cartridges you use, we're going to upgrade Freiewind's cartridge system. The final model of it will be similar to mine, while it'll be able to hold less cartridges, the compensation is in the cartridges, they'll contain more concentrated mana for a longer boost, however, you must remember that after this upgrade, you should only load no more than one cartridge at a time otherwise it'll overload."
"And my super form?" Sonic asked, "What will this new design thing do to that?"
"Give some resilience to the strain and input of power from the super form." Reinforce Eins said, but added in a serious caution, "It hasn't been perfected, so don't use id if you can help it. And don't even think about loading cartridges in your super form."
"Now, on an unrelated note" Signum brought out her Laevatein along with its sheathe for demonstration, "After some consideration and discussion, we feel that you're just about ready to receive the saya to your device."
"Saya?" The hedgehog blinked then opened his mouth in realization, "Oh the thing Signum-san has."
"Correct... You'll receive that when your device is upgraded." Eins confirmed.
"Thank you very much..." Sonic bowed politely, "You didn't have to do all of this."
"Like you didn't have to risk your life to save ours and Hayate's?" Signum countered
The hedgehog became silent, as he usually did when Signum, Reinforce or any of the Wolkenritter brought up the events of Christmas Eve, and they usually did it when he had feelings of modesty, such as underestimating his own effort's results. With their hedgehog silent, Signum and Eins felt that they needed to say no more, so they both patted the young boy's head and walked away.
-Flashback end-
[BGM: "Theme of Dr EGGMAN" Sonic Adventure]
Sonic taunted his familiar foe, "Well well well. If it isn't the giant talking egg himself"
"Silence!" Eggman cried comically, "I am Doctor Eggman, the world's greatest scientist."
'So this is Doctor Eggman' Reinforce Zwei thought to herself, the mini-Unison Device floated around her teammates to get a better look at the doctor and his machine. She hadn't seen the doctor in person yet since her creation, and she was curious, if not analyzing of the scientist, 'He doesn't look too threatening, but why do I get this bad feeling?'
"And the world's fattest" Nanoha's snark to counter the doctor's world's greatest boast woke Zwei-chan from her thoughts, "Did you put on more weight since last time?!"
"Grr. You're getting on my nerves." The doctor snarled, "Now then, I believe you have an item that I want."
"And what's that?" Sonic asked, his grip on his device and sheathe both relaxed, although he had a feeling he knew what the answer the ole doc would give.
"The Chaos Emerald" Eggman was direct, "I want them all! Give it to me or else!"
"Or else what?" Alisa challenged the doc, this was her first confrontation with Eggman and she wasn't ready to back down so easily because of an unoriginal threat.
"Or else I'll take it from you!" The doc piloted his Egg-mobile out of sight for a brief moment only to return with it attached to an engine booster that held additional engines, one to the left and one to the right. In front of the engines were two drill units, one on each side.
Hayate and Nanoha had their devices ready for a fight, but Sonic made no attempt to prepare, instead he kept his blade sheathed in its scabbard, and he held out his free right hand in a stopping motion of the girls.
"Eh?" both cyborg and human blinked; and they were both all set too; Nanoha was in her Combat Cyborg mode and Hayate had her Knight clothing active, "What's up?"
"Let's let Tails and his team take a shot first." The hedgehog smiled and gestured to the mentioned team of six, "Alright, take your best shot, I want to see what you six can do together."
"You sure?" Tails asked, "I think this is probably Alisa-san and Suzuka-san's first fight"
"You'll be fine." Sonic assured his little brother, "The three of us will step in if you're in a pinch. Besides, you've also got Shamal, Arf and Zafira to help as well."
Tails was reluctant at first, but the puppy-dog pouts he got from the duo of Alisa and Suzuka changed his answer in a split-second. With his device formed into a cannon attached to his right wrist, the fox went into action.
[BOSS: EGG HORNET]
[BGM: "ENEMY: Others (Egg Hornet)" Sonic Adventure]
Eggman attacked first with a volley of missiles at the trio, who were able to avoid it by rolling to the side just before the impact, a result of the reflex training they had. Tails fired back with an orb of electricity, it made a minor dent in the armor, but was ultimately resisted.
"Take this!" The mad scientist locked on to the young fox and attempted a downward ram with the drills spinning, he had hoped to impale the kid, it didn't work and the downside of the attack was that his machine was stuck in the ground for a few moments; perfect timing for the fox to counter with several tail strikes and a point blank energy ball, which he did. The doc growled in frustration and was able to free his machine before any further damage.
Another volley of missiles was fired from the machine, which, just like before, was avoided in its entirety. The doc's frustration and annoyance grew as his target shifted to Alisa, who got his attention with a rapid fire of small mana bolts, they weren't too powerful, but they were fast.
"You won't escape this time!" The doc attempted the same downward ram, but Alisa avoided it and, in a moment of cockiness, or just to annoy Eggman more, stuck her tongue out in a taunting fashion before she lashed out at the mad scientist with several melee attacks and a finishing Stinger volley that hit at point blank range. With frustration clearly evident, Eggman managed to free his machine.
In his frustration, Eggman unloaded all the remaining missiles he had left and fired them all at the trio; they were all intercepted by a Round Shield barrier that held the purple mana color of Suzuka. She held her ground strongly despite the pressure of the missiles and their impact on the shield.
Another reckless charge was initiated by Eggman and his Egg Hornet; the results were the same as Suzuka, in a show of agility, dodged. The young mage-in-training displayed quite an amount of strength when she struck the Egg Hornet's vulnerable body with Nirvana, her strength was enough to dent the metal, much to the surprise of just about everyone. Instead of the Doc being able to escape the hole in the ground, Suzuka forced him out with a powerful uppercut golf shot.
Eggman's anger was quickly replaced by shock, "How did you?! I reinforced this body armor with titanium!" the anger returned, "It doesn't matter... I'll take you all out with this! Full power!" Sparks flew from the machine as it powered up to a dangerous level, the drills spun at an extremely rapid pace and the rockets from the rear exploded in power as the Egg Hornet literally charged right at them in an attempt for a full-power ram, it moved so fast that they couldn't see him coming.
The trio closed their eyes and braced for impact and brought out whatever shields they could in a futile attempt to stop the Egg Hornet from ramming them. It wasn't needed however as the loud sound of a clang resulted from Eggman's mech intercepted by another force. When Tails, Alisa and Suzuka opened their eyes they were quite shocked.
There stood Sonic, completely calm, cool and collected, with his right hand holding Freiewind, and in his left, the sheathe, which he used to parry the Egg Hornet's horn-drill rush. The sheathe of Freiewind was coated in a sky-blue aura, which protected itself from any damage from the drills.
"Eggman… Eggman… Eggman..." Sonic shook his head in a verbal tsk taunt which he added at the end of the last Eggman, "Did you skip your Anger Management class again?"
"What the?!" Eggman was completely shocked, "The sheathe?! Sonic?!"
Sonic's use of Freiewind's sheathe to parry Eggman's attack came only to the surprise of Tails, Alisa and Suzuka. The others weren't too surprised; Nanoha in particular recalled Signum's use of Laevatein's sheathe to parry one of Fate's attacks, in particular the Haken Slash, she knew that if the sheathe to Sonic's device was anything like Signum's it could be used as a surprise parrying tool.
"Great job you three" Sonic complimented the trio behind him, "I think I'll take it over from here. Freiewind! Cartridge Load!"
"Explosion!" the female voice from his blade replied; the bolt-action cartridge system clicked and pumped in a single cartridge, a light-blue belkan triangle sigil glowed bright at the feet of the hedgehog. The double-edged sword- blade was coated in flame.
"Shidden Issen!" The hedgehog called out and dismissed the sheathe of his device, with a leap he brought his flaming sword down on one side of the Egg Hornet and separated the unit to the right of the mobile. Sonic back flipped away and leaped for the other horn and engine attachment, with speed unmatchable, the hedgehog swung his blade downward with both hands and cut off the other attachment. The hedgehog finished his attack with a powerful diagonal cut that made the Egg Hornet, or what's left of it, explode, leaving Eggman in his original Egg-mobile.
[Boss Clear]
[BGM: "Round Clear" Sonic Adventure]
Sonic dismissed the flames to his blade and properly sheathed it in its scabbard; his knight clothing was still active as he wasn't quite sure he could count the doctor out just yet.
"Wow…" Tails, Alisa and Suzuka just watched in awe as they held their devices to the side, inactive and passive, "That was cool."
"Signum's taught you well." Shamal complimented.
"Heh heh..." the hedgehog smiled in a bit of modesty
Any celebration was quickly halted as Eggman showed his determination; from his downed Egg-mobile, a claw came out and quickly grasped the Chaos Emerald right from Tails' hands. The engines kicked up and brought the mech to a float.
"Hey!" The others quickly turned on the doc, now Nanoha and Hayate held their devices in a threatening and battle-ready stance. The blue hedgehog glared and tightened the grip on his device and its sheathe.
"All too easy" Eggman laughed, his anger replaced with confidence, "Now it's time to initiate my plan. Chaos!"
"Chaos?!" Nanoha wondered.
[BGM: "Strain" Sonic Adventure]
An all too familiar puddle of water that Eggman called to formed into the same monster from the night before; the very same one responsible for the shattering of the Master Emerald and the one that Sonic, Alicia Testarossa-Harlaown and Reinforce Eins fought; the creature kneeled down as it was called, either a sign or respect or obedience.
"Sonic-kun?" Nanoha asked, "Doesn't that look creature familiar?"
"Yeah." The hedgehog confirmed, "It's the same one Reinforce-san, Alicia and I fought last night."
"Correct" Eggman laughed, "This is Chaos, god of destruction, and I've got a little present." The doc threw the purple Chaos Emerald that he just stole to the beast. It formed into a puddle and absorbed the emerald's power. The beast reformed much similar to its original form, only change was a metallic "bone" that made up it's right arm, which made it appear bulkier compared to the left arm.
"You made it change shape" Sonic observed
"Well aren't you smart." The doc smirked, "his strength increases which each Chaos Emerald. When I get them all, he'll be invincible and under my control. We'll destroy Station Square and I'll build Eggmanland in its place! From there, I'll use Chaos to conquer the world and beyond!"
"Not if I have anything to say about it!" Sonic drew his blade and dismissed the sheathe, "Freiewind! Let's put a shock to it! Lightning!"
"Yahowl!" the sword chimed back, the flame that originally coated the blade was quickly replaced by a powerful stream of lightning that crackled and coated the sword. No cartridge was loaded as the mana boost from the first load was still in effect, which made Sonic a very happy hedgehog for the efficiency and reliability.
The hedgehog leaped up and performed the same attack as before, the Shiden Issen, with a lightning variant this time as he made a diagonal slash on the beast. Chaos raised its right arm and prepared to parry the shot. Sonic let his blade strike the arm regardless, and smirked when he saw the lightning along his blade do its work and give a powerful electric shock to the beast's watery body. Bubbles were made as the liquid was superheating to the point of evaporation, and the hedgehog continued his attack and sliced diagonally through the beast; it exploded on impact into smaller puddles.
"Gah! Chaos!" Eggman cried in surprise, "Retreat now!"
Upon its "master's" orders, the remaining puddles of Chaos 1 disappeared, to where it went was unknown and unable to be tracked, much to the annoyance of the mages.
"Don't think you've won yet, Sonic!" Eggman threatened as he turned his Egg-Mobile's engines on full throttle for an escape, "I'll be back!"
[BGM: "Mystic Ruin" Sonic Adventure]
Sonic returned Freiewind to its sheath and dismissed not only the blade, but also his Knight Clothing in its entirety. The hedgehog knew the battle was over for the moment; and seeing their technical "leader" dismiss his weapon, the other mages and familiars did the same with Hayate returning to her wheel-chair, which Nanoha was quick to grab.
"Okay" Sonic started, "Now at least we know who this "Chaos" beast is working for."
"And what its goal is." Zwei added, "The Chaos Emeralds."
"So, Tails." The hedgehog turned to the fox, "You said you had something to show us at the workshop?"
"Yeah" Tails confirmed, "Just up the stairs."
The fox led the team up the stairs to the workshop; outside of it was the area where Tails launched the first prototype from as evidenced by the screwdrivers, wrenches and bolts lying around. In his embarrassment, Tails quickly cleaned up said mess in order to make the workshop somewhat presentable, much to the humor of the others.
"Come on in" the fox said as he held the door into the workshop open. With lingering thoughts of the mysterious Chaos beast present through their minds, the teams went into the workshop.
[To Be Continued]
[End of Main Chapter]
[Omake: Eggman and weight issues]
Eggman appeared before both teams as he boasted about his intellect, "I am the world's greatest scientist!"
"And the world's fattest!" Nanoha countered with a taunt.
"What?!" Eggman stood up from his seat, "How dare you!"
"We dare because it's true," Hayate smiled, "You really should exercise more, it's not healthy to be at that much weight."
"Grrr!" Eggman snarled, "I believe you have something I want!"
"The secret to losing those annoying pounds?" Nanoha asked jokingly, "Sonic-kun discovered it with Hayate-chan's help. Maybe it can help you. If you're too overweight you won't fit on that seat of yours"
"Nonsense!" The doc was a bit angry, but it was quickly replaced with a sudden realization, "Although I have noticed my chairs get this annoying sound when I sit… Grr it doesn't matter!" The doc sat back down on his chair with plenty of force from his emotion. Alarms rang out from the Egg-mobile
"Alert! Maximum weight exceeded!" The alert displayed, "Ejector seat activated."
"What? Ejector seat!?" Eggman was surprised, "No! Turn it o-gwaaaaaaaah!" whatever he tried to say was halted when the seat underneath him sprung up and literally threw the doctor off with the amount of force. The scientist comically landed on the ground with an "oof!"
"Told ya so" Nanoha giggled in amusement.
All those who saw that coming raise your hand (does so!)! Go Nanoha!
[Ending: "Spiritual Garden" Tamura Yukari]
[End of Chapter 35]
Translation notes:
Shidden Issen: Purple Lightning Flash, it can be said as Sword-flash, but in the context of how it was applied, the first one applied.
Saya: Sheathe/Scabbard, reason I'm using the Japanese term for this is because A: it sounds cooler, B: I find a bit of redundancy in using the term "Sheathed in its sheathe".. scabbard would have been more appropriate in the context, but face it, saya is cooler to say
Author's Notes: Whoo! Over 6000 words, a quality chapter! With great coverage and everything, I think I did great here! Anyways. The humor from the omake I got from the inspiration from listening and watching my local news here in Utah. There's been more awareness in that issue, I wanted to put a little bit of awareness too in a joking fashion, just to get some people aware, I apologize if anyone is offended.