Chapter 12: The Final Struggle
"CLIFF! JUST HANG ON!" Char yelled as he rushed along towards the giant robot, super form long since faded. He started to pant heavily as he felt the exhaustion of the day hit him, but refused to slow down. The robot just kept seeming farther and farther away, and eventually the Lightning Flame Legend started draining of Air, and started falling to the ground as a result, taking Char with it until a hand reached out to grab him, and threw him onto turbulence behind him. Sonic grinned as Char nodded, gathering his Air all the while as the two rushed at the giant robot. They looked like ants from a distance, the burst of turbulence being all that really could be seen as they rushed towards it. Char gritted his teeth as the robot started turning them, arm outstretched as the Legend glowed, jumping from the turbulence and boosting up the arm as it ran past while Char grabbed Sonic and threw him upward.
"Char!" Sonic yelled as he was thrown past where Char was, hand outstretched but unable to grab him.
"I'll catch up! Go!" Char reassured him as he traveled up the arm, doing everything he can to rush up the giant arm, noting the robot slowly struggling to knock him off as he continued his boost. Char gritted his teeth, hoping there was something he could ramp on, hoping to get some more air as he boosted through the arm.
Sonic nodded as he landed towards the chest, nearly falling off as he used the Blue Star II to boost up the chest, taking a deep breath as he looked towards the head, where the left arm with Cliff's body rose to the head. "HEY EGGHEAD!" Sonic yelled as he boosted on up, weaving a careful path of turbulence ripping through the robot's body.
"Sonic! What are you doing here!?" Eggman looked shocked as he waved it off. "Not like you can stop me! Ohohohohohho!" He laughed as the robot's face opened up, Sonic barely even midway up the chest as he continued boosted on, Char meanwhile was not even up to the shoulder of the robot and was struggling to keep his Air supply up. Cliff's body went inside the robot as the head closed, both Char and Sonic struggling to keep going upward. Char looked towards the Legend and pleaded silently for something as it boosted on ahead, going nearly to the shoulder before airing out, nearly sending Char plummently a good fifty plus meter long fall to the ground if not for him quickly digging his claws into the robot, tearing through the armor loosely, barely even able to make a wide enough dent as he started falling downward, right into a waiting arm.
"AGH!" Char cried out in pain as it started squeezing him tightly, raising him high into the air as he struggled.
"CHAR!" Sonic cried out as he dodged the slow moving hand before boosting into it, hitting it hard enough that it released Char, who fell with a spin into Sonic's turbulence and quickly rode his way back up, racing the end of it as Sonic's Blue Star II spluttered out of Air, allowing Char to boost past him, slamming him into the turbulence as he rushed towards the face. Using the arm as a wall, he slid across it, jumping down and boosting immediately to finally get to the neck, to which the Lightning Flame Legend glowed as it attacked the robot's neck, trying to get through, not succeeding and just getting bounced back, Sonic tried next as Char boosted into it again, tipping the robot somewhat, and creating a small hole in the neck, one Char grinned at, jumping off of the Legend, he clawed and prodded at the hole, making it bigger and bigger until it soon allowed him to crawl on through into a bundle of wires sticking at him.
"Well hello there! I'm sure you, you, you, and you are no longer needed!" Char said as he ripped through multiple wires, Sonic following right behind him. Char took a deep breath before steeling himself. "Okay...Cliff first." he mumbled aloud, looking back to see Sonic followed behind. "You go that way, I'll check out over this way...don't die out there." Char added as Sonic nodded, simply running off as Char looked towards the path to the head. "Well then...Cliff, just hold on tight, this might get a bit bumpy…" Char mumbled again as he began his long trip up.
"Ohohoho! You will be a great specimen! I wonder what's so special about you that those little brats would try to rescue you." Eggman grinned as he stared at Cliff, who merely stood up, and glared at him.
"You won't get away with this." Cliff said as Eggman grinned.
"I couldn't imagine letting this gold mine of power just slip away! You hold on of such latent power inside of you and yet waste it all sleeping all that time." Eggman said as he pointed to Cliff's stomach, noting a light blue aura, "They inserted it inside you just as I asked them to, and soon it shall become my power source! I needed a core to harness it, and who better than a living being?" Eggman laughed maniacally as the two heard clawing noises towards the end of the room, turning over, Cliff smirked knowingly as the wall soon was clawed through and opened to reveal a pissed-off Char. "You pest! You just don't know when enough's enough!" Eggman yelled as Char grinned, though it wasn't the kind ones he gave his friends, before dusting himself off.
"Damn right I don't, I'm sorry but you did a big no-no by kidnapping my friend, so…" Char said, stretching his claws out, metal and rumble dislodging from between them as he did.
"W-Wait!" Eggman spluttered out, pointing to Cliff, "If you take another step, I'll kill him!" Eggman said, though Cliff figured it was a lie. Char shrugged, stopping in place.
"Okay, then I won't take a step." Char said as his grin turned into a smirk as flame bellowed to his jaw. Faster than Eggman could react, Char jumped and flipped midair to headbutt Eggman with the force of the flamethrower that rushed from his mouth. Both being knocked back as Eggman hit the far wall, the cockpit of the head itself, with Char landing on top of him, claws dangerously hovering over his chest, "As I said, I won't take a step, now if you would release my friend, I won't have to maul you into tiny bitty pieces." Char said in a joking tone of voice, but with an equally dangerous amount of conviction behind the words. Eggman gulped.
"W-Wait! I-I can still kill him you know, you're not getting him out of there without me being alive!" Eggman begged for his life as Char smirked.
"Really now? I think I can find a way to break it." Char said as he angled his feet down a bit, letting the tip of the claw touch Eggman's chest, "So either you let my friend go, or I guess I get to experience what digging my paws into human flesh feels like." Eggman gulped as he looked around in a panic, before grinning as a noise rocked the ship, knocking Char off balance.
"I was wondering when that would happen, took a tad longer than I expected, oh well." Eggman said as he got up, grinning as he looked towards Char, before holding a remote towards him, "Ah ah ah! You move even a muscle and I press this button, and I'm sure you're aware what would happen if I do." Eggman said before Char could get up to go after him, confident grin fading into gritted teeth barely containing his rage. "That's a good boy, so you can watch as I turn your friend into my living power source." Eggman explained as Char's eyes widened, looking towards Cliff, who seemed to be yelling from the glass, but Char couldn't hear a word he screamed as Eggman activated the shutters around it. Char growled before leaping into action, sinking his teeth into Eggman's neck, but only tasting metal as a result, spitting out the neck of the fake Eggman, he ran towards the shuttered tube and struggled to claw his way through the tube, but it didn't budge a bit.
"CLIFF!" Char screamed as he continued onwards, Flames and all, but not a single part of the shutter budged. Laughter rang as Char looked around with gritted teeth. A monitor started lowering down as Char went to try and rip it apart in a rageful anger, but an invisible wall blocked him as the laughter carried on. He growled as the actual Eggman showed up, Cliff next to him with a gag over his mouth.
"Oh dearie me, I thought I told you to stay still!" Eggman grinned as he reached for his remote, Char with a look of utter fear on his face as he ran towards the wall he had clawed through, only to find that a new metal door replaced it. "Why would I ever forget that he was friends with the most overprotective pest I have ever met? Trapping you was childs' play!" Eggman once again laughed as Char growled.
"You won't get away with this you fat bastard! LET HIM GO!" Char yelled in vain, as the monitor disappeared, leaving Char looking around for a way to escape. Man I hope Sonic's having a better time than this! Damn I'm a goddamn idiot for falling for something this simple...come on Char, just think!" Char thought to himself, scouring the small room as he noticed it was becoming smaller, trying to trap him in and crush him. Char gulped at the thought. Ah shit, shit, shit… Char continued to think as he ran around in increasing panic.
Meanwhile…
Sonic ran through the web of wires as fires sprouted up and about alongside his path, only having the sound of Eggman's laughter to guide him as he rushed forward, until reaching a giant gate. "Hahaha! Sonic! I knew you would find this, so I designed a trap that you'll never get out of! Let's see how fast you really are!" Eggman laughed as a monitor descended from the ceiling, "I'm sure you would also want to save your other pesky friend, he-HEY WAIT, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Eggman yelled, before the monitor flashed out as the gate began to open.
"Alright Eggman, this is the last straw!" Sonic yelled as he grabbed his Blue Star II, running on through and throwing his board forward, jumping on top of it and boosting into the Final Factory.
All around Sonic was a huge production line that navigated its way into a race track somehow, filled with miniature forms of the robot that Sonic and Char had destroyed before. Sonic closed his eyes as the Chaos Emeralds surrounded him, turning him into Super Sonic as he blasted forward, destroying multiple of the robots as he had to keep changing assembly lines in order to not fall into a pit of who knows how far, traveling through conveyor belt to conveyor belt before taking a grind rail that looped on up and dropped him into a top path that allowed him to jump on another set of grind rails to meet back up with the main track a bit further onwards, before he tricked off a ramp into a Flight ring and took the rings to go up to a QTE section that plopped him into the next lap. Annoyed that it seemed the gate wouldn't activate the turbulence he needed to have until the three laps were completed, Sonic continued on, thankful for the rings from the item box as he hit the row on this lap, before ignoring the grind rail in favor of just punching a weak spot in the wall for the power path, going into the wall into multiple dash panels that led a bit before the Flight Ramp, but was still faster overall, before he once again tricked off the ramp into the Flight path, finishing the second lap and doing the same thing for the third lap. The turbulence activated as Sonic jumped onto it, riding it as the Gate began to open for him as he rode upward to end up face to face with the Doctor himself.
Eggman looked in surprise at Sonic's present, the bright yellow still radiant in its power as Sonic walked forward. "Not so fast Sonic!" Eggman said as he pointed to the display, showing Char steadily getting crushed, "If you're not careful, the speed might increase!" Eggman said as Sonic's shocked face soon turned into a confident smirk.
"Oh really? I would think that it wouldn't matter if he's doing that." Sonic shrugged as Eggman looked at the display in shock, noting that Char eventually hopped on the Lightning Flame Legend and began boosting into the wall, and soon enough started blasting through it out of the robot itself, twirling in the air before landing towards the upper chest region outside. "Now, give it up Egghead! You won't win!" Sonic said as Eggman gritted his teeth.
"No! I don't want to host this blasted tournament again, but they keep forcing me!" Eggman complained as Sonic for the first time since walking into the room, frowned.
"And you think that kidnapping someone is the best way to go about it? Char wants to kill you right now, and I'm all that's stopping him. So give me a damn good reason to not turn a blind eye to this." Sonic said as Eggman spluttered.
"W-We-Well!" Eggman tried to spit out as Sonic glared.
"Release Cliff. And then we'll talk about you not hosting the Grand Prixs anymore." Sonic said as Eggman sighed, looking away in what looked to be defeat, but then he smirked, pressing a button as a punching glove attacked Sonic, knocking him out of rings as the super form drained. "AGH!" Sonic grunted out as Eggman grinned towards him.
"Why would I release him!? With Cliff, I could power an entire nation for centuries! He's a living, breathing, energy core! I could make millions of my robots and use them to get enough funding to get out of the Grand Prix hosting!" Eggman laughed as Sonic grabbed a ring, becoming Super for just a second as he ran at Eggman, attacking him with a powered fist before looking at him on the ground.
"You made this super elaborate plan, but you overlooked the most simple of things, why not just ask not to be the host?" Sonic explained as Eggman looked at him like he was an idiot.
"After what happened two years ago, no one wants to buy a robot from MeteorTech, and acting as the host of the Grand Prix is the only thing that is keeping it in business! If it wasn't for hosting the Second Grand Prix a week after that blasted robot tried destroying the world, MeteorTech wouldn't exist! I just want to go back to making robots and my work, but I never have any funds!" Eggman ranted as Sonic looked towards him with a bland look on his face.
"And you think that by trying to do the one thing that your robots are scared for doing, is going to win people over?" Sonic asked, pointing out a critical flaw within Eggman's plans, who just looked like someone told him that there is proof that pigs can fly.
Eggman silently released Cliff as he sighed, pouting in the corner. Sonic walked up to him as he helped Cliff out of the trap, who looked exhausted as he stepped out, the glow on his chest painting his normally snow-white fur a clean sky-blue. Sonic laid a hand of pity on Eggman's shoulder as Char burst into the room, eyes full of rage and jaw nearly aflame as he stomped towards them. Cliff struggled to try and stop him, but Char took a look over him, nodded to himself before walking back towards Eggman.
"P-Please! Don't kill me!" Eggman pleaded as Sonic stopped Char from going forward. Char snorted in anger.
"Please don't kill me!" He mocked, "You kidnapped my friend, nearly killed other friends of mine, kidnapped my friend right after he woke up from a one year coma, and want mercy? Sure then, I'll give a quick death as your mercy." Char growled out, voice dripping in bloodlust as Sonic continued to hold him back, Char nearly snapped at him, but Sonic spoke first.
"Go make sure Cliff's safe, I'll deal with him." Sonic told him as Char grunted his disapproval, "This robot will explode soon, we destroyed too many wires and this thing is crumbling over itself, I saw the production line as I drove the turbulence, and it looked like it was falling apart on itself. We have to get out of here, and this one will get the justice he deserves, so don't worry about that right now." Sonic explained as Eggman gulped, still victim to Char's disdain. Char nodded reluctantly before turning away.
"You better be right on this one." Char left the threat hanging in the air, not at all hiding his disapproval at the task. Had it been under other conditions, Sonic might have made a comparison between Char and Shadow, that or Jet even, on how much of a stick-in-the-mud he was being, but now wasn't the time for jokes, not with lives at stake. Sonic looked towards Eggman and offered a hand up. Eggman took it nearly instantly, if only to not be by Char for a second longer.
Explosions started to rock and rumble through the hall, Char instantly turning to shield Cliff from the rumble, grunting at them hitting his back as Cliff's fur glowed once again. They started floating in the air as they stared at Cliff. "DID YOU SERIOUSLY USE THE RINGS AGAIN!?" Sonic cried out, "DIDN'T YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENED THE LAST TIME!?" Sonic continued on as Char flashed his paws.
"Nononono! That isn't the Gravity Ring from last time, Sonic!" Eggman hurriedly denied, "That's a replica I made using the technology of it, but of a much weaker scale, more used as a power source than anything else. With it, the user can enter a state of reduced gravity and infinite air, but not be able to boost across at the speeds you all were traveling at! With this, it reduces the strain on the…" Eggman rambled, going into a multitude of science jumble that even Char, for having a somewhat decent understanding of the subject, could only have a question mark over his head, much like what would happen whenever he would listen to Tails talk to Sonic about something. Char nearly forgot his rage for a moment, one that he regretted mentally as Cliff tapped his shoulder.
"It's okay, really." Cliff said as he led them along through his Turbulence Ring, "This was how I was even able to recover to begin with, the power from this ring keeps my blood pumping and my brain registering. So don't hate him for that." Cliff said, incorrectly guessing what was on Char's mind.
"I don't hate him for saving you. I hate him for kidnapping you and threatening to kill you twice." Char said, his rage returning at every word while he glared towards Eggman once again, nearly reaching out towards him if not for Sonic.
"Calm yourself! We're almost out of here!" Sonic said as Cliff nodded, blasting their way through the side of the robot's right upper chest region, making a huge hole as they heard a countdown beeping.
"Uh, what's that noise?" Sonic asked as Eggman gulped.
"The….self destruction countdown, and the activation of an intercontinental missile." Eggman meekly pointed out. All three stared at Eggman for a moment before Char and Sonic looked at each other.
"May I at least claw him across the face?" Char asked nicely as Sonic contemplated allowing him, but they both had to refocus when Cliff started falling, Char effortlessly catching him and riding on his Lightning Flame Legend. "Damn it Cliff! Of all the times to faint, you choose now!?" Char complained, dodging an exploding hand as the head opened up, a giant missile starting to peek out of it. "WHY IS THERE AN ACTUAL MISSILE!?" Char yelled as he boosted past, rage turning into pure terror at the sight, "IF THAT THING EXPLODES THIS WHOLE TOWN COULD BE SCREWED!" He continued, his fear taking over as he looked back towards it, Sonic picking up the slack with his boost. Eggman seemed to disappear amidst the chaos, but Char had more important things to worry about. The missile looked like it would do a lot of damage if it was allowed to explode, so Char boosted ahead of Sonic and went straight up.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Sonic yelled over the rushing air around them.
"TRUST ME, WE NEED THAT TO NOT EXPLODE NEAR THE GROUND!" Char yelled back, unsure of if Sonic heard him.
"WHATEVER YOU SAY!" Sonic yelled back, but Char couldn't hear it as his ears popped from the altitude change, noting that Sonic's did as well. Angling his board a bit downward, the missile finally launched, immediately locking in on them as its target. Char gulped as he forced Sonic to pass him by, before using Sonic's back as a springboard, launching him and the Legend off towards the missile. Flipping half forwards and sideways, Char grabbed and ran his claws across the frame of the missile, moving it upward as a result and causing some sparks to start jumping around the surface of it. Sonic and Char shared a gulp as Char let go of the missile, before looking at them all.
"HOLD ON TIGHT!" Char yelled as he took a deep breath, before letting out a mighty flamethrower, blowing the four back as Char would have hit the ground had the Lightning Flame Legend not glowed and angled him towards the air towards the remains of the robot, a new stage called Ruined Fortress. Falling onto a grind rail, Char gulped as he grinded backwards, thankful that Cliff and Sonic weren't injured, and annoyed that Eggman wasn't either.
"Look!" Sonic pointed out as the flames started exploding the missile. "It looks like we're safe!" Sonic grinned, but soon that grin turned into shock, "Oh you have got to be kidding me!" Sonic cried out as the missile started breaking off into five smaller missiles that started rushing towards the group of four. Sonic jumped off the grind rail to take the lower path and dragged two of the missiles away, while Char went straight forward, taking Cliff with him. Eggman gulped as he was forced off the rail and took the main path, foot clenched on his accelerator button as one of the missiles went towards him, the remaining two hot on Char and Cliff's tail.
Char gritted his teeth as he rode out the grind rail, being sent into a tunnel that used to be one of the robot's arms, quickly riding around the tube to dodge stuff away, he continued on onto another grind rail, one that took him a bit forward before dropping him midway of the stage, Eggman pretty far back and Sonic a little bit behind Char. Char looked towards the missiles, desperately dodging through them as they took a hard right turn, Eggman busting down a Power path that used to be the chestplate of one of the robot, while Sonic took a grind rail around, and Char leapt up on the far left side through a fly path, landing on top of the chest and boosting right on past, leading one of the missiles to fall into the robot chest, and it seemed like the one following Eggman also exploded. "HOW MUCH LONGER!?" Char yelled at the doctor, nervously dodging the remaining missile on his trail.
"Not much further!" Sonic yelled as he jumped from behind, leaving Char to look annoyed when he realized he was back to dodging two missiles. Gulping, he continued on, both him and Sonic taking a somewhat suspended grind rail that seemed to be the main bone structure of the other arm, and it took them back to the starting line, ending the metaphorical lap. They didn't notice if Eggman was still behind them and gulped.
"We have to get them to explode!" Char said, looking towards Cliff.
"Don't try it! We don't know if they'll start launching smaller missiles if you do that!" Sonic warned, making Char blank at the thought. "The door's opening!" Sonic said as one of the three gates opened up, the two dashing past into it and being sent left for another pathline, Sonic jumped on the grind rail as Char simply boosted past, having to take a short right into a hard right to not bump into some ruined robot parts as he jumped into a Flight ring, it leading him through three rings to drop into the upper chest region of the robot, and right after it, Char hurriedly jumped on the grind rail and noticed that Sonic just had done the same thing and was right behind him, the two missiles doing everything they could to catch the three. Cliff groaned a bit, waking up a bit as Char held a pensive expression on his face, still focused on trying to not get blown up, doing a trick off the grind rail as they landed back on the track, before noting they were once again at the door, and the second one was opening up.
"Is this this stage's gimmick!?" Sonic asked as Char nodded.
"Probably! Maybe each section we do will open up the next door?" Char said back, covering his ears as one of the missiles blew up against the other, and the two nearly stopped riding before noting that a new missile, looking as big as the original one, was now after them, and that Eggman was controlling it.
"EGGMAN!?" Sonic yelled out as Eggman grinned.
"Sorry boys, but I really must be saying goodbye! It's about time for the great Sonic the Hedgehog to be put to rest, oh so sorry!" Eggman said as he tried to run away, before Pika and the rest of the Team Wildvolt blocked his path. "GAH!" Eggman said in shock as he dropped his remote control, it cracking. "Oh, now look at what you did! Now no one's in control of that missile!" Eggman said as the missile started to crackle up.
"CHAR!" Pika yelled as Char dodged another attempt the missile tried to take advantage of to pass him by, "DON'T YOU DIE!" Pika continued as Char simply gave a thumbs up alongside Sonic.
"LET'S GO!" Char yelled as Cliff woke up fully, jumping off and onto the missile, knocking it down using his paws before getting out his Speed Balancer, mostly red with a black accent rather than the normal black with red accent, and riding towards them. "Cliff!" Char said in surprise, before blanking at the ten missiles coming after them. "ARE YOU FUCKEN KIDDING ME!? HOW MANY MISSILES DOES HE HAVE!?" Char complained as he joined Cliff and Sonic on the grind rail path.
"LESS COMPLAINING AND MORE RIDING!" Sonic shouted back as Cliff gulped.
"IT'S GAINING ON US!" Cliff yelled as Char and Sonic nodded.
"NOW JUMP!" The two yelled as they jumped off, Cliff a bit delayed, landing on the track below and heading through the last door, rushing on into a deep cave area that was nearby.
"Where even are we!?" Cliff yelled as he slowed a bit to join back with Char and Sonic.
"No idea! Just keep going, cause I rather not be blown to bits right now!" Char yelled back as the three rushed forward, taking three different grind rails that lead out of the tunnel on a huge web of grind rails, sending them all through different parts of the rails with the missiles still after them. Some attacked on the rail and started blowing them to pieces as about three remained when they finally reached ground, just boosting ahead to try and reach the third door, which had begun to open up. The three boosted forward, noting the missile accelerating as Char looked back to Cliff, hand extended.
"CLIFF!" Char yelled, catching his attention and throwing him through the door, before drifting back to face the missiles, and boosting forward to steal their attention away, causing two to blow up over themselves.
"CHAR WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Cliff yelled as Sonic led him through the now closing gate.
"It'll be alright, he knows what he's doing!" Sonic reassured him as the gate closed, showing the finish line right there. Cliff was about to cross it as Sonic shook his head. "Let him deal with the missile first, that way the gates don't reset, he just has to go through another lap probably." Sonic explained as Cliff gulped, looking back towards the now-closed gate.
"You better be right…"
Char took a hard right as he once again jumped on the middle grind rail, the missile right behind him and sparking as he rode the grind rails once again, having to jump over and around to dodge the broken parts of the grind rails that scattered through the web, while the missile was still tailing him, nearly catching up at certain parts as Char gulped.
"Legend...I trust you, so please let this work!" Char said, thinking of doing something incredibly stupid, and he knew it would probably not work, but when he saw the familar glow of the Lightning Flame Legend, he took a deep breath and jumped, flipping and landing on the missile itself, leading it heading up into the sky while it worked through its fuel tank.
Pika was probably yelling at Char's stupidity as Char laughed to himself, leading the missile downward towards the blown head from earlier, hopeful that it wouldn't be that disastrous as he saw the looks on his face. Gulping as the Earth became closer and closer, he waited before jumping at what was probably the last second before impact, before the missile tilted up and surprised him.
Staring death in the face was...odd to say the least. Some would say it was fast, but Char felt like time itself had slowed, and he couldn't help but have regrets pulling him, but he simply looked towards the missile with a glare before grabbing it with his arms again and trying to pull it downward, gritting his teeth as he had to turn once again, and boosted towards the ground, releasing the missile right before hitting the first grind rail, hearing a mighty boom before it destroyed said grind rail, forcing him to the air and nearly running into a stray pole, but the Lightning Flame Legend moved itself up, getting up enough to start a grind, much to Char's surprise.
He merely stared at it before nodding with a smile, not even bothering to question what had saved his life as he went towards the final gate once more, seeing it start to open and unaware of the second trying to close. One more boost left him out of Air as he used his Flamethrower to push him through, dragging the three of them into the finish line, or what had once been the cockpit of the robot.
Char couldn't help but start laughing at the ordeal, if only to keep himself from crying out of fear, even Cliff and Sonic joined in as they looked for an exit. "Uh...please say we're not trap-AHHHH" Char tried asking as the ground seemed to open up underneath them all, dragging them into a dark abyss before launching them high into the air from outside of the room.
"AHHHHHH!" Char screamed as he soared.
"WOOHOO!" Sonic and Cliff cheered as the three did some tricks, landing onto the ground with X ranks and boosting towards Eggman. Eggman gulped from his restraints, seeing as he was bound by rope.
"Well Egghead, I guess you got your wish, you can't be the host of the Grand Prix from jail!" Sonic laughed as Char stayed silent.
"You know, before I would have spared you." Char started as he brought out his claws, "but now I really want to rip you to shreds. Stay away from me and my friends." Char threatened, Cliff and Sonic ready to stop him as he walked away, looking towards Team Wildvolt. "Now guys, c'mon! We gotta make it back in time for the finals!" Char grinned happily, as if the threat never happened, before boosting on over in a cold burst of air, leaving the tatters of his exploded jacket behind.
"He...doesn't realize that his clothes blew up, doesn't he?" Pika asked as Cliff laughed.
"Just like old times huh?" Cliff asked as everyone grinned, "Well, what are we waiting for!? Let's get going!" Cliff said as he hopped on his Gear, everyone following on Char's turbulence, dragging Eggman along with them all the while. He was not pleased at the dirt he was eating.
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