Heyo, I'm back with another chapter!
You know, I honestly cannot wait for the new Transformers movie. I mean, Shia Lebouf isn't in it (Thank God), and he has been replaced with Mark Wahlberg (Thank God). Plus, it looks like the Dinobots are making their debut! Grimlock looks fantastic, and I hope that the others look as good.
BTW, fans of roosterteeth may know by now about the upcoming movie done by the creators of Red vs. Blue, called Lazer Team. A sci-fi comedy done by some very funny people. Oh, I cannot wait!
I don't own RWBY or Sonic the Hedgehog, but I do own Natalia "Tali" Williams. Enjoy!
As the Aquaria-1 made its descent, Ruby stared in wide-eyed wonder at the aquatic life surrounding the sub.
"Wow… This is so cool!"
"Yep, ain't it great? No matter how many times I do this, I never get tired of this job," said Tali. She currently had the sub on autopilot and had her legs up on the console.
"Hey, about that… I have two questions on that subject."
"Fire away, Sonic."
"Okay, first question, why does the Normandy have such a junked exterior?"
"Oo, good one, bro," agreed Tails.
Tali looked back at the trio. "Well, sometimes we have to go into unsavory ports to do jobs, and having a clean exterior- well, might as well paint a bulls-eye and hang a sign saying 'steal me' on the hull."
"Hmm… Never thought of it like that," pondered Ruby.
"What was your other question?"
Sonic looked at Tali in the eye. "Why did you choose this life?"
Tali adopted a sad look in her face. "I was actually working for the government in my previous occupation. Even there, racism was abundant, and even though I was a gifted engineer, I was only ever going to get a dead-end desk job because I was a Faunus. I was so bored after a few months at it. I was approached by John a few years ago. He asked me to join his crew because he was looking for the best, and I was it. Everyone on the Normandy has a similar story. Most of us are ex-military who wanted to do more to help people."
"And when did you caught the eye of the esteemed captain?" teased Ruby.
Tali laughed. "Oh, that's another story. How's it looking Tails?"
"We are nearing the bottom. The Chaos Emerald should be near here."
Tali swung her legs off the console and put on a serious face. "All right, turning the autopilot off."
The Aquaria-1 moved forward, with Tails' Chaos Emerald radar as its guide. Tali maneuvered the sub skillfully up and down the rock formations as the radar beeping gradually increased in frequency.
"Look! That light up ahead!" shouted Ruby.
Everyone followed her finger towards what looked like an overhang about fifty feet away. In the shadow of said overhang was a cyan light.
"Yup, that looks like the Chaos Emerald, all right. Does this thing have a grappling arm to reach it?" asked Tails.
"Is Sonic afraid of water?" responded Tali with a teasing wink at the hedgehog. Sonic just rolled his eyes as she removed one of her gauntlets and inserted it in a hole in the console. Tali then activated something else and a large arm unfolded from the sub.
"Why did you have to put your gauntlet into that machine?" Ruby asked with a curious expression.
"Well, my silver-eyed companion, my weapon of choice is a claw shot. From what Tails told me earlier, Chaos Emeralds wreak havoc with unshielded electronics. Fortunately," she continued while pointing at the arm which had her green gauntlet attached now, "my weapon can grab the Emerald without shorting all the equipment out on the sub, and we don't die of asphyxiation."
"Wow. That's handy," said Ruby.
Tali carefully manipulated the arm around the Emerald using a joystick control. She pulled a trigger on the stick, and the claw grabbed the Emerald. Precious cargo in hand, the arm retracted, and the machine extended Tali's claw shot like a ticket dispenser. She pulled it out and hit the release, dropping the Emerald into Sonic's hand.
"Well, mission accomplished! That went better than I expected," said Ruby happily.
"Just wait, Ruby. I am speaking from experience when I say that nothing is ever this easy," warned Sonic.
"Only too true," groaned Tails.
"Normandy to Aquaria-1, Normandy to Aquaria-1, come back please," the radio crackled.
"Normandy, this is Aquaria-1, mission complete, retrieval is a success," answered Tali. "Heading back to the surface."
"Aquaria-1, this is Shepard. Good timing, because we have incoming airships."
Tali frowned. "Is it the harbor patrol?"
"Negative, Tali-
Normandy Bridge
"-it's the White Fang. Repeat, the W.F."
"Understood. Returning to base. Can you hold on for five minutes?"
Shepard grinned. "Have you forgotten what this ship is capable of? See you topside, Aquaria-1. Over and out." Shepard put the radio back in the holder.
"Sensors detect priority target! Eggman is nearby!" shouted Omega as he stormed out of the bridge.
"Eggman?!" Shadow adopted a feral grin and skated after the robot.
"Guess we better go follow them and make sure they don't kill anyone," said Blake.
They found Shadow and Omega on the starboard side of the Normandy standing next to a blue container. Suddenly the ship shook violently, and everyone ended up of the floor.
"What the heck was that?!" shouted Silver.
"Large mass attached to Normandy," droned Omega. As if to emphasize his point, two large metal tentacles appeared from the water and slammed into the ship. They hauled up a huge robotic squid that had the Eggman symbol where the middle of its face was. A hatch opened up, and lo and behold, Eggman was behind the wheel.
"I would say it's nice to see you again, but I'd be lying," the mad doctor said.
"Same to you, Baldy McNosehair!" retorted Knuckles. Once again, everyone had a good laugh at Eggman's expense.
"Oh my gosh, Knuckie, you finally came up with a good insult!" laughed Rouge.
"Truth is, Sonic came up with that one," admitted the echidna.
"Speaking of the blue rat, where is he? Hiding under a table?" taunted Eggman.
"Nah, I did that already."
Eggman whipped his head around and saw Sonic standing on the Aquaria-1. There was something pretty interesting going on with the miniature submarine, however; it was hovering 30 feet in the air. Tails and Ruby jumped from the sub to land on the Normandy next to everyone else, and Tali lowered Aquaria-1 back in the water.
Sonic did a spin dash at one of the tentacles holding the Egg Kraken onto the Normandy. Cobalt Shard flashed, and when he stopped in front of the group, many tentacles lay twitching on the ship. However, they somehow reattached themselves to the robot, so it seemed that no damage was done.
At this point, everyone started to pelt the giant squid with their ranged weaponry, but no matter what they did, the robot just kept repairing the damage. A large tentacle whacked everyone to the ground, and Eggman started gloating at the group.
"Moo ha ha ha ha! I should really thank you! Using this material you call 'Dust' that my colleague, Mr. Roman Torchwick, gave me, the healing factor of the Egg Kraken is supercharged! And thanks to the power of the dark creatures, it's practically invincible!"
"Really, you had to spoil my dramatic entrance, did you?" the criminal replied from the airship that just arrived. He was flanked by two members of the White Fang, who were pointing their guns at Team RWBY and the Mobians.
Before anyone could despair, a voice rang out from a speaker:
"Attention, this is captain of the Normandy speaking. Get the heck off my ship or I will use lethal force."
"Psh, you? Weapons? On this rust bucket?" Eggman scoffed.
"Very well, don't say I didn't warn you," Shepard said as he inserted the tip of his peg leg into a hole near his seat. When this happened, the fake containers on the ship unfolded and revealed many mounted weapons that were hidden inside. A few missile pods pointed themselves at Torchwick's ship. Roman saw what was happening and quickly got in the pilot's seat on his airship and moved it before it was blown out of the sky by a streaking missile. He then decided to make like a drum and beat it.
The captain of the Normandy then pushed a button that activated several rotary guns. "Let's see how your 'invincible' squid measures up to ten thousand rounds a minute," snickered Shepard. "Sonic, you and the others keep your heads down and cover your ears." He put his hand on the control stick, locked on the Egg Kraken, and pulled the trigger.
The sound of a buzz saw filled the air as a rain of bullets hit the Eggman robot. Each round was an incendiary, high-impact, and armor-piercing round, and very quickly, various pieces of flaming robot started hitting the water and the ship with no chance of being recoverable. Eggman quickly ejected his Egg pod and high-tailed it out of there shortly before the Egg Kraken exploded, leaving a badly singed and quite dead Beowolf on the deck of the Normandy.
Silver used his powers to deflect and catch bits of shrapnel that came their way, and as the smoke cleared he let the pieces fall to the ground."Okay, Yang, I gotta ask again. How the heck did this guy owe you a favor?" he asked.
"To be honest, he was the one who insisted," she replied while shrugging. "But hey, I, for one, am not complaining."
"HELP!"
"Was that Sonic's voice?" Ruby asked. Everyone looked over the edge and they indeed saw Sonic flailing his arms in the water. Evidently, he was thrown into the water by the explosion.
"SONIC! Man overboard!" cried Amy.
Silver tried to lift him up using his powers, but he was exhausted after protecting everyone from sharp pieces of metal. Fortunately, a hatch on the deck opened up, and Tali popped up. She quickly ran to the edge and shot one of her claws at a pole in the middle of the ship. She then jumped down and shot her other claw at Sonic's hand. Tali quickly retracted the chains, leaving Sonic wet and panting on the deck, but alive. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hah, hoo, thanks, Tali," wheezed Sonic.
"You know, you really should take swimming lessons, Faker," sniggered Shadow.
Sonic just gave him a dark look.
Alright, there you go! Sorry about not cranking these out on a set schedule, but I have to confess something. I am making this up as I go along. I haven't even written the whole story out yet, so I have no idea how long it's going to be. I do know that this isn't even halfway through, yet.
Oh, and for Tali's Claw Shots, think of the Claw Shots from Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, except green, and when they aren't in use, the claws are retracted into the wrists, so she still has use of her hands. Hopefully that makes sense.
Well, thanks for reading, and please leave nice reviews!