Hey guys, sorry I'm late with this upload. I have had a lot of work lately. I am now eligible to participate in my company's 401K plan, though. *confetti*
I admit to using time I could have spent writing playing Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time 3D. I am actually almost through with it. I honestly cannot believe I was able to get the Heart Piece and the Biggest Quiver from the Horseback Archery minigame in the Gerudo desert in less than 5 minutes. Being able to tilt the Ds instead of moving a joystick around really does help. I am actually pretty surprised at how well I am doing. Heck, I even caught the Hylian Loach! I was so annoyed it was only catch and release for that sucker, though. D:
All I have left to do in that game is get the Ice Arrows, defeat Ganondorf, and acquire a cow from Malon!
This latest episode of RWBY was AWESOME! Cinder is a f***ing Badass! I was a bit creeped out by Jaune in a dress though. *shudders in fear*
I don't own RWBY or Sonic, I only own the plot.
Beacon Campsite, 7:30 a.m.
The sun shone brightly on the damp campsite. Seeing that she was the only one awake, Ruby unzipped her team's tent and walked out, breathing in the fresh air. She noticed that Sonic's hammock was empty, but she didn't worry too much. He was always running off doing who knows what, but he would always come back.
Team JNPR was already up, and Ren was getting a small stove burning. Jaune and Pyrrha were walking back to the campsite.
"Did you guys see Team CRDL's tent?" asked Jaune.
"No, why?" asked Ruby.
"Apparently, Cardin really wanted a water bed, because he got one!" Jaune laughed. "I've never seen so much water in a place where there was none the night before!"
Upon further questioning, Ruby found out that the depression where Team CRDL had set up their tent had gotten six inches of water, and all four members were completely soaked. Also, all their extra clothes had gotten wet, so they could not even change into something dry.
"Man, karma sure is nasty," said Pyrrha. "Anyone feel sorry for them?"
"Nope," said Jaune. "Maybe if they did not pick on the Faunus so much, I would have a little sympathy for them. As it is, I do not."
Team Dark appeared later on when everyone was awake. They did not see or hear anything unusual, and began to eat breakfast with everyone else (with the exception of Omega, of course). A certain hedgehog was still missing, though.
"Hey, where's Sonic?" asked Amy.
"Don't worry, he'll probably respond if I say he's your boyfriend," said Nora.
"I'm not her boyfriend!" said Sonic, who was standing on a tree overlooking the area.
"Called it! I knew he was around!" said Nora proudly. Sonic just jumped down from the tree and began eating his breakfast.
After everyone packed a bag lunch and set up miniature turrets to protect their campsite, they all walked over to the teacher's site, where most of the other students had gathered.
"All right, students," began Professor Port. "The ruins we are going to were built before humans and Faunus had encountered the Creatures of Grimm. Many superstitions pervade this place, but most of them are, of course, superstitions. Still, it may not be a good idea to touch suspicious objects."
"These ruins are some of many structures that were abandoned before the people of Remnant set up the four main kingdoms," said Professor Oobleck rapidly. "As such, they must be treated with the utmost respect."
"Remember, the only things you can take here are pictures. So leave it at that, students. That goes for our Mobian guests as well," finished Glynda sternly.
"Believe me, Miss Goodwitch, the only way these ruins will be destroyed is if a battle takes place. Even in the unlikely event that happens, we will make sure not to disturb the ruins," promised Sonic.
"Can't really say the same with Omega, though," muttered Rouge.
As the assembled students and Mobians walked to the ruins, there was a feeling of anticipation in the air. No one knew what to expect to find, as the only ruins most of the students had seen were destroyed with Team RWBY's fight with the Nevermore on their initiation.
As the most traveled of the Mobians, Sonic had seen his fair share of ruins during his adventures, and he was wondering if these were going to be any different from the ones he had seen on Mobius.
After a few minutes of walking, the group finally had arrived. The ruins were pretty large, and showed only small signs of wear and tear from the elements. It could only be described as a town of sorts, with a large pyramid structure in the middle.
As they passed the entrance, which was guarded by more Atlesian Knights, Tails and Rouge flew up to get an aerial view of the place. The bat thought she saw something shiny, but it turned out to be a combination of a water trail left by Team CRDL and a candy wrapper left by Cardin. Rouge made a mental note to tell Glynda that Cardin was littering and resumed her search of the ruins for the Chaos Emerald.
Silver was walking near the pyramid when he saw a faint glimmer half-buried in the ground. He knelt down and dug the object up, which was a small pendant made of three triangles. He pocketed it, thinking it might be important later on, and continued looking for the Emerald.
Yang noticed that a certain echidna wasn't as excited about looking around at the ruins. "What's wrong, Knux?"
"This place… It reminds me of my island, and the reason why I'm the last echidna," he said solemnly.
Yang looked at him with a concerned glance. "What happened? If you don't mind my asking, that is."
"Many millenia ago, my people, the echidnas, were locked in battle with a rival tribe, the Nocturnus. It seemed that my tribe was going to lose that war, were it not for the intervention of some higher power called 'Argus'. This Argus teleported the Nocturnus clan to a dimension called the Twilight Cage, and it appeared that my tribe had won the war. However, the leader, Pachamacac, wanted to make sure that we never had the lower hand again. He wanted to use the power of the Chaos Emeralds from a nearby shrine that was populated with Chao.
"However, he didn't want to stop at just the Chaos Emeralds. He set his sights on the most powerful gem in the shrine: the Master Emerald. With it, one could control the seven Chaos Emeralds. Unfortunately, it was guarded by Chaos, a being that was made out of water. Pachacamac, disregarding the requests of his daughter, Tikal, attempted to seize the Master Emerald, not caring about the Chao that were living there. Chaos was enraged at the harm done to his Chao and Tikal, whom he thought of as a trusted friend. Using the negative energies of the Chaos Emeralds, he turned into Perfect Chaos, a large water dragon and wiped out all but a handful of echidnas before Tikal trapped him and herself in the Master Emerald. Because Tikal feared a day when someone of evil heart might want to release Chaos, she tapped into the Master Emerald to raise the shrine and some of the land up into the sky, creating Angel Island."
"Wow," said Yang after a few seconds. "When did you find out about this?"
"Eggman flew up to Angel Island and broke the Master Emerald, releasing Chaos. After a series of adventures with Sonic, Tails, Amy, and her friend Big, we stopped Eggman, but Chaos was able to acquire all seven Chaos Emeralds to form Perfect Chaos once again. He ended up destroying most of Station Square with his rage. Fortunately, Sonic was able to use the positive energies of the Chaos Emeralds to become Super, and he defeated Chaos. This resulted in Chaos losing his anger against the world, and he became a peaceful being once more."
Knuckles put a hand on a wall. "Because of the greed of my ancestors, I am the last echidna. The only other living echidnas left are those still locked away in the Twilight Cage." He looked down in sadness. "I'm all alone."
"Knux, don't you dare think like that!" said Yang sternly. She kneeled down in front of the red echidna, purple eyes locking with each other. "Even though you may be the last of your species, you aren't alone! You have lots of friends who care about you, including me. So don't be all mopy just because you're ancestors did some stupid things. The past was their time, and this is your time."
Knuckles slowly smiled. "Thanks, Yang. I needed that." The two bumped fists, then resumed the search for the Chaos Emerald, the echidna's spirit buoyed by the blonde.
A few hours passed by, and there was still no sign of the Chaos Emerald. Teams RWBY and JNPR and the Mobians looked everywhere, but Tails could not get an exact location of the Emerald. They saved the pyramid for last, since that was the building the rest of the Beacon students first looked at. After eating a brief lunch, the group entered the pyramid.
Sonic was impressed by the inside. The walls were decorated with murals of the local scenery in ancient times, and all of them were very well preserved. When he asked how that was, Pyrrha informed them that the people who lived here had found a type of Dust that preserved images so they would not be affected by the march of time.
"Wow, this is so cool!" gushed Ruby, her voice echoing faintly in the pyramid walls.
"I never thought that ruins like these would be so fascinating," said Silver in awe. "The only ruins left in the time I came from were burned or burning wrecks, but they were mostly skyscrapers made of steel and glass."
"Hey, check this out!"
Everyone rushed over to Tails, who was in front of a large wall that had an image of a large Creature of Grimm no one had ever seen before. However, it did resemble a certain mythological creature of fame.
"Is that a… dragon?" asked Jaune in shock. The mural did indeed depict a large dragon-like Creature of Grimm attacking a small town. If scale was anything to go by, this creature was massive.
"Good god," said a visibly shaken Shadow. This surprised everyone else more than the dragon on the wall. "That's bigger than the Biolizard, maybe even Solaris."
"Solaris?" remarked Sonic incredulously. "That thing looks bigger than Dark Gaia!"
"Unfortunately, the name of the creature has been scratched out," said Tails. "However, it does tell a story about how a young warrior defeated it." He pointed at a section of the mural that featured a young man with bear ears on his head wielding a sword and striking down the dragon. A small caption labeled his name as "Mogar."
"Oh, wait, I think I remember this story!" said Weiss. "The creature's name was forgotten, but the warrior was hailed as a king before he died of old age. His age was a time of peace before the Great Wars."
"King Mogar…" murmured Blake sadly. "What would you think of this era now?"
Any further musing of the subject were interrupted by a rumbling in the ground.
"Earthquake! Everyone, get out, now!" shouted Sonic. The humans, Mobians, and one Faunus ran for the entrance, but Silver tripped on a loose tile. He hit his head and became unconscious as a large part of the ceiling fell and blocked the entrance.
Outside, everyone was gasping for breath at their escape. Amy did a quick count and found they were missing someone.
"Where's Silver?" she asked, fear creeping into her voice.
The eight humans and eight Mobians looked around in a panic. It seemed they had left Silver behind in the confusion.
"Let's get back in there!" shouted Nora and Amy as they prepared to break the slab blocking the entrance with their hammers.
"No, don't!" yelled Blaze. "If you break it, the whole building might collapse on him!"
Amy and Nora paused just as their hammers were about to hit the slab.
"Well, what do you propose we do, then?" asked Shadow harshly. Before the pyrokinetic cat could answer, the sound of gunfire reached them. Soon after that, the various teams of Beacon Academy could be seen running towards the ruckus.
"What the heck is going on over there?" Sonic asked a passing team, which turned out to be Team CFVY.
"The Atlesian Knights are going haywire!" responded Velvet. "They're destroying the ruins!"
"Well, that's our cue!" said Ruby.
"But what about Silver?!" cried Blaze. She seemed fairly distraught.
"Don't worry, Silver's alive," Tails reassured while looking on his Miles Electric. He had pulled up a screen that was like a heart monitor with pictures of each Mobian on the left. He pointed to Silver's picture. "According to his health monitor, he's unconscious, but otherwise unharmed."
Pyrrha put a hand on Blaze's shoulder. "We'll get to him, Blaze. But right now, we have to make sure these robots don't make his situation worse."
Blaze stared at the entrance to the pyramid. "We'll get you out, Silver," she said softly. She then drew Okibi out from its sheath and dashed to the sounds of battle. The others followed, hoping that Silver could hold out long enough for a rescue.
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