Well, this chapter is a little shorter than the others, so the real action is going to be in the next one and the final chapter of this arc, but at least some introductions and background stories are good to remember right?
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Chapter 37: 2 hedgehogs, 2 Chris and a war!
Boss Battle Song 1
GET
READY!
"X Tornado, Battle Mode engaged!" Tails shouted pressing a button and the X Tornado changed to a floating machine with 2 big hands "Ha! Now try to destroy this baby!"
"Why I'm thinking he doesn't says baby too often?" Ness wondered.
"Shut up! Take this!" Tails shouted and the X Tornado charged a quick punch at Ness, but Ness did a double jump in the air dodging the attack, Pichu took the opportunity to cast a thunder below the punch and the X Tornado was struck by the lightning and Tails gritted his teeths "You're so annoying, did you knew that?"
"Don't say that to him!" Pikachu said above Tails's window, Tails was too slow to react before Pikachu casted another thunder which came with a strong impact upon the machine.
"ARGH! TAKE THIS!" Tails yelled trying to punch Pichu, but Fox pushed him out of the way and they barely evaded the attack "STOP MOVING!"
"Look below you!" Pikachu said below the X Tornado, Tails tried to stay away from Pikachu but another thunder came from above but this time, the thunder broke through the glass of the cockpit and Tails was damaged badly inside.
Tails yelled in pain, that was the last thing someone could dare to do to him, but before he could retaliate, Ness was just inside the cockpit in front of Tails with a Baseball Bat, Tails's eyes widened and Ness started to hit him hard with the bat, but Tails managed to grab Ness using a hand of the machine and he threw the PK user to a wall, fortunately, Ness was able to evade the crash.
"THAT'S IT!" Tails said and he ordered the X Tornado to spin around the air with the hands extended at both sides, he moved to Pikachu and the hands slapped him hard enough to bury him in the wall, Pichu went to Pikachu's side, but the X Tornado was coming closer to them.
"AAAAHHHH!!" Pichu yelled terrified.
"PK THUNDER!" Ness shouted firing a ball of lightning directly to Tails and the fox with 2 tails stopped his attack to regain his composture, it was too late because Fox was hovering in the air with fire surrounding him.
"What th-"
"FIRE!" Fox was surrounded by fire and he turned into a blazing comet, the attack was fast enough to hit the right hand and destroy it in the process, Fox landed safely above the floor and Tails was shocked to see his machine being slowly destroyed by 4 little pests.
"MY-MY X TORNADO! STOP IT!" Tails yelled trying to beg.
However, Ness came back using another PK Thunder and he went blasting off to the other hand and it exploded with the strong blow of electricity, Tails was now defenseless at this point.
"WHY YOU LITTLE! FINE! IT'S TIME TO FIRE THE CANNON!" Tails said pushing a button, from both hands a blue light was starting to charge up and he pointed it at Pichu, Pikachu and Ness (Ness landed near them), that made Fox to grin a little and he stood in front of them with one hand in his belt "YOU WANT TO DIE FIRST?! FINE!"
The cannon was fired directly at Fox, but he took out his Reflector and he was surrounded by a diagonal shaped figure "A shield?! This cannon can break any kind of shield!"
"Who said it was a shield?" Fox asked smirking a little, Tails made a confused face and he thought what was Fox trying to say.
"Unless it's a...REFLECTOR! OH NO!" Tails said gasping. For his misfortune, the beam was abruptaly reflected back to him and the whole machine exploded with Tails inside, he yelled in extreme pain and after a blinding light coming from the explosion covered the whole area, it panned out showing Tails unconscious on the floor and the Shadow Bugs escaped from his body.
The crowd cheered for them and the music stops.
"It's over." Pikachu said getting up and shaking his head.
Pichu and Ness sighed in relief and Fox approached to Tails and kneeled "Hey, are you ok?" Fox asked.
"Ugh...my head...where am I?" Tails said getting up slowly from the floor, then he saw the face of Fox looking at him "Who...are you?"
"Fox."
Tails got up completely and he cleaned his head from the smoke "Fox? Well, you're a fox like me, but is that really your name?"
"Of course, and I know your name is Tails and I think it's because of your 2 tails right?" Fox said looking at Tails's...tails.
Tails rubbed his forehead "Hehehe, you're right, but how did you knew my name?"
"Amy told us."
"Amy?" Tails looked around and he saw Ness, Pichu and Pikachu looking at him "There are more of you in this colony as well?"
"Yeah, my comrades headed that way." Fox pointed behind Tails to a corridor.
Ness, Pichu and Pikachu introduced themselves to Tails.
"Do you remember anything?" Ness asked.
"Well, I remember being covered by strange purple spores and Amy was also living the same situation...and...SONIC! HE DID THAT! I SAW THOSE STRANGE SPORES COMING FROM HIS HANDS!"
"Master Tails, I see you've been recovered from your mad state." A voice spoke close to them.
"Is that you Mr Tanaka?" Tails asked, the person inside the space suit came from another corridor and he approached to Tails, it was Tanaka, Chris Thorndyke's personal butler.
"What a relief to see you well." Tanaka said while his little japanese theme played when he appeared "I thank you 4 for saving him." He said bending a little.
"Well, thanks." Ness said.
"Master Tails, we must go on and find Chris before anything bad happen to him." Tanaka said.
"Yeah, I know, but...where is my X Tornado?" Tails asked looking around for his machine.
"My bad, you fired a big beam at us and I used my Reflector to return the attack at your machine and it exploded." Fox said rubbing his head and Tails looked down sadly but his ears perked up a little.
"Wait, Reflector you said?"
Fox took out his Reflector and showed it to Tails "This is the Reflector." Tails took the Reflector and he started to examine it.
"Amazing! I haven't see this kind of technology before in my life! Whoever did this is a total genius!" Tails remarked returning the Reflector to Fox and he kept it in his belt.
"Slippy will be happy to hear this coming from another inventor like you." Fox said.
"Ahem." Tanaka said.
"I forgot about Chris! We need to find him!" Tails said.
"Alright, you can come with us!" Pikachu said smiling.
Tails (And Tanaka) has joined your team temporaly!
"The direction where they went was...there!" Pichu said pointing to the right corridor, everyone nodded and they left the room.
Space Colony ARK
Near the Capsule Room
"Huh? Who are they?" Falco asked when he saw 2 strange robots running at them.
"They are the intruders! Seize them!" Decoe said.
10 seconds later...
Decoe and Bocoe were touching the wall with their backs while Lucario, Pit, Amy and Roy were pointing their weapons at them.
"Okay, tell us, where is Chris?" Chris asked with his hands behind his back.
"Why we should tell you?" Bocoe said and Lucario thrusted his lance just an inch away from his head and Bocoe sweatdropped "He-he-he is in the next room! Ju-ju-just follow this hall and you can't miss it!"
"Bocoe! You traitor!" Decoe said angry.
"It was either live or be punished by Dr Eggman...wait, that's worser!" Bocoe said gasping. Everyone else besides him and Decoe left running away to the Capsule Room "Just who were those guys? They don't seem to be one of Dr Eggman's rivals as Sonic is!"
"You didn't saw Amy with them? Any friend of Sonic or his friends is the enemy of the doctor!" Decoe said.
"We need to report this to him! I don't care if he menace us with punishments, he is going to listen this time around! Come on!" Bocoe said running away with Decoe.
"AAAAAHHHHH!!" A little robot with 2 horns came floating away scared.
"Bokkum! What are you yelling?" Decoe asked.
"Guys! It's horrible! The doctor, Shadow and Rouge...AAAAHHH!! I DON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT IT!!" Bokkum said moving his hands up and down.
"Keep it down! Tell us what happened to them!" Bocoe demanded.
Bokkum sniffed "...I...well...this is what happened..."
Space Colony ARK
Capsule Room
"Shadow! What is wrong with you?! Stop! AAAHHH!" Chris yelled barely evading one of Shadow's Spin Dash attack.
"Orders from the doctor, you must be eliminated now." Shadow said in a serious tone.
"But I thought you were going to use me as bait for Sonic!" Chris protested.
"Him? No, you don't understand, he's already in our side."
"What?! That can't be possible! He'd never join you in his life!"
"Feel the truth kid, he's bad, a villain, admit it." Shadow said crossing his arms.
Chris looked at the floor clenching his hands "No...you're lying!" Unfortunately, Chris wasn't expecting Shadow and the hedgehog used another Spin Dash and Chris blocked his face and yelled in terror.
"HAAA!" A branch smacked the Spin Dash and Shadow was sent crashing to the wall.
"...Huh?" Chris opened his face and he gasped when he saw another human and more strange persons standing in front of him "Wh-who are you?!"
"Allies, now stay behind and try to not be attacked." Falco said glancing at Shadow.
"But how did you came here?"
"It doesn't matters!" The other Chris said and shook his head.
"So you're here, good, now I can kill all of you in one assault." Shadow said.
"Not if we attack first!" Popo said.
"Chris, run away with him, leave this to us." Mewtwo said glowing, he, Popo, Nana, Falco and Roy stepped in front of Chris, the other Chris, Amy, Lucario, Pit and Jigglypuff, Chris nodded and he told Chris to come with him and the group escaped.
"Fine, I shall kill them later," Shadow pointed at the current group in the room "You're next."
"So be it." Mewtwo said.
Space Colony ARK
Near the Capsule Room
"Wait! Just who are you?! Amy, you know them?" Chris asked while running.
"I just met them a while ago, they're a lot of help!" Amy said.
"But the only thing I can't understand is why is another kid like me doing here!" Chris said confused.
"Hey! I'm not a kid!" Chris protested.
"Haven't you see yourself in a mirror? You have the same height as me!"
"What are you talking abou-" Chris noticed that he was the same size as the other Chris "This world has also his own air?"
"Now I even more confused!" Chris said.
"STOP! PLEASE STOP! First, we must introduce ourselves!" Chris suggested.
5 minutes later...
"...Your name is Chris too?" Chris asked and Chris nodded "And they are your partners...even the angel?" Chris asked pointing to Pit.
"Even Pit." Chris said.
"And you're here to destroy that bomb which is going to explode right?"
"Correct."
"But I don't understand, why Shadow said Sonic was a bad guy?"
"This is going to sound very painful to you, but...Sonic has been turned into a bad guy just recently." Chris said looking away.
(To not confuse both kids (Chris: I'M NOT A KID!) with their names, we're going to call the Chris from Sonic's world Christopher outside the dialogue)
Christopher's eyes widened after hearing that Sonic was now a villain "But how? Sonic is not a bad guy!"
"It's the truth." Jigglypuff said.
"I fought him not so long ago." Lucario said.
"...Why? Who made him to act like that? It was me?" Christopher asked.
"You have nothing to do with this, Sonic was attacked by the Primids." Chris said.
"Primids?"
Chris, Lucario, Jigglypuff and Pit explained everything to Christopher.
"So they are the responsibles for this?" Christopher asked. Pit nodded "I can't believe this..."
"I'm can't believe it either, but in order to make Sonic a good guy again, we need to defeat him." Chris said.
"...Alright, I understand, but please, try to not kill him."
Christopher has joined your team temporaly!
"Oh, don't be afraid, I'll never die by them EVER in my life." A voice spoke behind them.
"Sonic!" Amy shouted.
"Sonic! So it's true!" Christopher said.
"It's true what? The fact that I'm going to kill you here right now?" Sonic asked smirking.
"Ok, I'm so mad at you now! Give me back my Sonic!" Amy said with hammer ready.
"You're not the Sonic I knew before! The Sonic I know it's a good friend, a hero to many persons, a person who doesn't hesitates to stop Dr Eggman, a-"
"A person that leaves you most of the time while you enjoy your free time with Tails, Amy, Cream and Cheese and he will just come when you're in danger." Chris finished.
"...Umm...well...sadly that is true but...I know your friend also leaves you alone! And how did you knew about Cream and Cheese?" Christopher tried to taunt and asked.
"Who? Lucario?" Chris looked at Lucario and both laughed heartily "He doesn't leaves my side ever, I'm always taking him in every adventure and for your question, I know many things."
"...WHAT?!"
"He is right." Lucario said nodding. Christopher was now feeling a little depressed, everyone didn't noticed that he was ducking in a corner with black tiles surrounding his body as he was touching the floor with one finger.
"We just made him to act like an emo." Pit said.
"I'm NOT emo!" Christopher got up from the floor upset.
"Guys, we ignored Sonic again." Jigglypuff said pointing at Sonic while he crossed his arms.
"Are you done? Finally, now DIE!" He said turning into a spinning ball, Lucario thrusted his lance to attack, but Sonic moved far away in the hall and he came with great speed delivering a strong blow to them.
"Chris, go, leave this guy to us!" Pit said taking out his blades, Chris nodded and he along with Christopher ran further inside the colony with Lucario and Jigglypuff following them, Pit and Amy stood still in a fighting stance to stop Sonic.
"Let me pummel you!" Amy said jumping towards Sonic with her hammer ready.
Space Colony ARK
A part that resembles the Meteor Herd level inside the colony
"I think we can rest for now." Jigglypuf said sitting on the floor, they were standing next to an abyss with a half-constructed platform.
"Lucario, go and stay guarding us from anyone who comes here." Chris said, Lucario nodded and he ran near a corner, jumped and he held his position in the roof hiding in the darkness to attack anyone.
"Say Chris, I want to ask you some questions." Christopher said.
"What questions?"
Christopher looked away "Well...it's about you and Lucario, have you been together most of the time?" Jigglypuff was sitted next to Chris while she was hearing the conversation.
Traverse Town
Chris looked at the platform "Yes, he has been with me ever since I helped him recover from a horrible fever, after that, he hasn't leaved my side because he said I was so peaceful and kind for taking care of him," Chris looked at Christopher and smiled "I'm really happy to have someone like him as my friend, he always protects me from danger whenever I get into trouble and for sum that up, I live all alone in my house without my fathers because they travel around to do serious business, it's really fun to have company like Lucario."
"Wow, you're the same as me!"
"What do you mean?"
"I met Sonic one night and he fell to my pool in my house, I woke up and got up from bed to look who fell inside the water, I thought it was cat again, but after swimming inside, I saw Sonic there with crossed arms and an angry face since he hates the water so much, I swam to him and grabbed his hand to pull him to the surface and we got out and gasped for air, I asked what was his name and he answered saying "I'm Sonic the hedgehog!", after that, well, you don't want to know..."
"Oh please, tell us!" Jigglypuff said excited.
Christopher continued his story "The next morning, Sonic wanted to leave and find his friends as soon as possible, I asked him to stay just a little longer but he didn't listened and ran away, but I asked if he knew the city, after a second, he came back and lifted his arms and made a confused face with a weird smile, I knew he didn't knew anything about the city so he stayed with me, some time later, we found the others by searching, Tails was a great help back when we rescued Cream and Cheese from the military base."
Christopher looked at the floor "But after that, Sonic was always leaving me with Cream, Cheese, Amy and Tails in my house, the only way I could see him is if there was a Chaos Emerald to find or whenever we got in trouble by Eggman, and just to let you know, I also live alone in my house with them because my dad is an important business man and my mom is a famous actress, she was always asking me why my friends were wearing costumes, but after a while, she knew the truth."
"Interesting!" Jigglypuff said.
"But is there a way to be useful to Sonic?" Christopher asked.
"Well, I don't know what can you do." Chris responded.
"And I don't know what can you do either, you just smacked Shadow with a branch." Christopher said crossing his arms.
"Oh, you don't know me very well." Chris put his hand in front of his face and little sparks of energy came from it, Christopher gasped after he saw that.
"What the-how did you do that?"
Chris stopped his demostration "I have special powers to learn abilities in battles, it helps me so much when I'm in trouble, luckily, I'm not a burden to my friends."
Christopher looked away "A burden...that is the thing I've been doing ever since I found Sonic."
"Hey! How can you say that to yourself? Don't be so harsh please, I know you can be of some use to Sonic!"
"But, tell me! What should I do? The reason I'm here it's because Shadow kidnapped me!"
"Certainly, I don't know for what thing you can help, I'm sorry for not answering that question," Chris blinked "But try harder and find your way to help them out, that's the only thing I can say if that cheers you up."
Christopher closed his eyes and opened them after 3 seconds "Thanks, I'll remember that for sure." He smiled at Chris and Jigglypuff and him returned the smile.
The music stops "...Wait, did you said Chaos Emeralds just a moment ago?"
"Well yeah, I did, why? The Chaos Emeralds are here inside the colony in the core."
"Oh no...we're in serious trouble now..."
"Why?" Jigglypuff and Christopher asked.
"Who knows what could happen if Sonic OR Shadow gets in possession of the Chaos Emeralds while they're possesed by the Primids."
Christopher gasped "You...You're right! The way they're acting right now could be serious trouble if they manage to grab the emeralds!"
"Then you know what to do right?"
"Of course! We need to get the Chaos Emeralds before they can get them!"
"Nobody else is approaching." Lucario said approaching to Chris.
"Lucario, we have a new mission," Chris stood up "We need to retrieve the Chaos Emeralds from the core before Sonic or Shadow can take or touch them!"
"Then let's go!" Jigglypuff said jumping from the floor, Christopher stood up and they nodded and looked at the platform "Talking about narrow to walk..."
"We have to watch our step." Chris said.
"That won't be necessary." Lucario said.
"Why?" Chris asked, just then, Lucario grabbed Chris with one arm (since the other was occupied with the lance) and he jumped to the other side and put Chris down to the floor "I see!" Chris said, Lucario jumped back and he grabbed Christopher, since Jigglypuff can float in the air for a time, she made it without problems.
"I really admire Lucario now." Christopher said.
"Where are you going boys?" A female voice spoke in the platform, they turned their backs so see who was talking to them.
"Rouge!" Christopher revealed the bat girl, which was being surrounded by the same dark aura.
"Now where is Knuckles? I want to recover the shards of the Master Emerald." She asked.
"Sorry, but we don't know where is Knuckles now." Chris said.
"Too bad then, I have to stop you 4 and wait for him to appear."
"I know the perfect way to call him though." Christopher said.
"What?" Rouge asked raising an eyebrow.
Christopher placed his hands in front of his mouth "HEY KNUCKLES! SOMEONE SAID YOU'RE TOO WEAK TO EVEN LIFT A PEBBLE!" He shouted.
"...That's it? The only way to call Knuckles is with an insult?" Jigglypuff asked. Just then, the roof above them started to shake and it was destroyed by a white glove with spikes, then it revealed to be Knuckles and he landed in front of the group.
"WHO SAID THAT TO ME?!" Knuckles asked enraged.
"Calm down, nobody told you that." Christopher said chuckling a little.
"Hey Knuckles." Rouge said, Knuckles turned his back and saw Rouge on the platform and he jumped and landed in front of her.
"Rouge! What happened to you?" Knuckles asked.
"Why, I joined another side which promised me more jewels and you know I can fall for them so easily." She said smirking a little.
"...Let's just leave them alone." Christopher said, they nodded and ran away in the other hall.
"Huh? Wasn't that Chris? And who were the others?" Kunckles asked turning his head to see them disappearing.
"You asked just now? My, you're so slow." Rouge said, a red toon vein popped out of Knuckles's head and he gritted his teeths (or fangs) and turned to Rouge.
"Okay, now that's it! You will give me back the shards of the Master Emerald now!"
"Humph, try me!" Rouge said taunting.
Space Colony ARK
Near the Capsule Room
"And that's pretty much it." Bokkum said finishing his story.
"Unbelievable! The doctor and the others got possesed?" Bocoe asked terrified, Bokkum nodded a little scared "Now what are we going to do Decoe?"
"I think it's time for Sonic and friends to stop him this time, we can't do anything by ourselves, let's just face it, we're useless right now."
"Oh, who are they?" Bokkum saw Fox's group approaching to them.
"Intruders! Seize the-" Decoe was interrupted by Bocoe.
"Stop, we know what is going to happen now." Bocoe said frowning.
10 seconds later...
Once again, the poor pair of useless robots (along with Bokkum) were being questioned while their backs were touching the wall.
"So that happened then?" Tails asked, the trio of robots nodded.
"Absolutely, the doctor is in trouble now." Bokkum said.
"Let's go and find the others soon!" Pichu said, after a second, everyone ran further inside.
"This was more humiliating than the last time." Decoe said.
"Why?" Bocoe asked.
"There was a little big headed kid with them and we got questioned by 2 yellow rats."
"...We're the laugh of the villains right?"
"Afraid so."
1/4 of the screen suddenly shows Mewtwo's group fighting Shadow.
"He's good, what are we going to do?" Roy asked to Falco.
"What else? Just keep fighting back!" Falco answered.
"That's the plan." Mewtwo said telepathically while dodging Shadow's Spin Dash.
Another 1/4 of the screen suddenly shows Fox's group running to the capsule room.
"I'm feeling a strong dark energy coming from a room!" Ness said.
"Got it." Fox said nodding.
Another 1/4 suddenly shows Pit's group fighting againts Sonic.
"He's so darn fast!" Pit said panting.
"I know...it's hard to hit him while he runs." Amy said panting.
"See this?" Sonic was holding a yellow emerald and Amy gasped.
"OH NO! THAT'S A CHAOS EMERALD!"
"A what?" Pit asked confused.
"It's a powerful crystal that holds an amazing power, whoever knows how to use it can turn into a powerful being!"
"Let me guess, Sonic knows how to use it right?" Pit asked, Amy nodded and they saw Sonic's hand shining and turned into a better version of the Spin Dash attack and he prepared to attack them.
The final 1/4 of the screen shows Knuckles fighting againts Rouge.
"UGH! (Something is wrong with Rouge, what the hell is the dark aura for?)" Knuckles thought inside his mind while dodging one of Rouge's kicks.
Then, the entire screen shows Chris's group being surrounded by Primids.
"They are the Primids?" Christopher asked while pointing to a Metal Primid.
"Yes, they were the ones who took Sonic." Chris said.
Preview of the next chapter
"We're doing a race to the core of the colony?"
"Yes Pichu."
"But how are we going to make it before Sonic and Shadow, Tails?"
"We need to try at least or the Earth is doomed!"
"Bah, it was doomed from the beginning."
"What'd you said?"
"I mean, it still has hope to survive!"
"...Next time: The cheapest thing in fights!"
Do you want to save your data?
Yes
Overwrite file?
Yes
Space Colony ARK
Chris, Lucario, Pichu, Roy, Mewtwo, Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Pit, Ice Climbers, Fox, Falco, Ness, Amy, Tails, Christopher
So there you go, I was feeling a little inspired this time, maybe if I hear more music while writing the next chapter can make me more entusiastic, read and review please!
And luckily, Christopher evaded being emo. XD