I´ll be quick, the next part , things are getting weirder and weirder, and we are getting closer to the 1rst climax, jus sit and read calmly, once again, sorry for the writing mistakes...
HERE I GO!
Chapter 6: The Second Guardian
Act II: Gathering the pieces
Egg-Man ´s Base, 11:30 pm:
Things were relatively quiet and in place, Egg-Man kept quiet sleeping in his command chair while his henchmen were ... "sleeping" each one in their stations. Even the night was starry ... it seemed an ideal place for the romantic ones to spend time to gaze into the sky; But not today, because for the un-information of the egghead and company, not far from its location ... a huge clangor, and gnashing metal steps were approaching while you could see a sea of blue glitter approaching from a distance covering almost the entire horizon. The huskoids mobilized and some floated slowly while his master was guiding them. And once they were close enough to the base ... Tails stopped before making them also stop, then the fox transformed and created a plasma ball and threw it the huskoids imitated his master and then they also attacked it could be seen as a rain of plasma drew an arc in the sky before falling on the base shaking it from the ground and ... well ... activating the alarm ...
At that time egg-man deployed his robots ,the huskoids simply ran upon them while Tails watched with satisfaction as the huskoids easily outnumbered egg-man´s robots and every time a huskoid fell in battle it reformed within seconds and when one of them fell near one of egg-man´s robots, its parts and energy enveloped his rival knocking it them the victim was rised shortly after to serve to a new master ...
In a distant hill ...
"This better be good charmi!"
"I swear it Vector, I saw many strange things near this place and heard ... WHAT THE ..?!" – It was all the bee could say before see what was happening
Returning to the slaughter ...
The army of zombots and huskoids moved without resistance toward the base defenses and every time an enemy robot exploded its parts resulted in the creation of another huskoid; After passing egg-man's defenses they opened a huge hole in the wall and headed to the reactor chamber where emeralds were sheltered, defenses continued to appear but the more turrets and robots appear, more huskoids and zombots were created ...
"They're close, I can feel them" - Tails thought as he looked in all directions within the base, then looked a huge door and pouncing over it shattered with his halberd, jumping into what appeared to be an elevator shaft, his army followed a little bit later…
When they reached the bottom they found a huge place filled with copies of emeralds and a long corridor leading to another chamber ...
"I thought such things had ceased to be produced" - but Tails did not think more just because egg-man´s last defenses were against them, huge porcupine-like robots -"Is this all you have left egg-man ?, you make me laugh. Destroy the copies and seek the original emeralds, I´ll take care of these things! "
The huskoids scattered all over the place looking for the real emeralds and destroying the false while outside, a small helicopter with a kind of squirrel with a camera were hovering around and recording what happened ...
"Holy mother of nuts !, king maximilian will be shocked after seeing this"
Returning with Tails and "company"…
Tails was finishing the last egg-man´s robots while the others destroyed everything and when everything quieted a bit , a huskoid approached Tails with 2 emeralds ...
"Very good, obliterate this place!" - The huskoids and zombots began then to destroy all the places where they were, explosions occurred all over the place and Tails came out while his army followed him as if it were a swarm of wasps, the picture was daunting. It was like watching hundreds and thousands of flies coming out of a decomposing body; And once all metal debris turned into huskoids and that all possible zombots had been created ... Tails began to make whirls with his halberd as he pointed to the sky slowly forming a spiral of black clouds and a bright center from which started to fall lightnings moving through the dark clouds. After that all huskoids and all zombots were stripped of their energy, debris and bodies crumbled and that energy went up toward the eye of the spiral while mechanical broken bodies and all metal debris that were once the huskoids went up with it, when almost everything was gone Tails began to rise toward the eye of the spiral but not before one last blow, he charged a huge ball of plasma and fired at the base of the tower and shake the already weakened structure collapsing it ,when he enterd the spiral he shook the sky and clouds and everything disappeared again leaving the starry sky; Vector and Charmi only stayed on the hill stunned and speechless by what had just happened ...
"I think ... Sonic should know this Vector" - it was all Charmi could say
Great Desert, White Lightning, 12:30 am:
"It's been a while since the boss went out, what he meant by that he needed an army?" - asked one of the droids to RAMP - "I do not know, sometimes I don´t understand what he says"
At that time the sky darkened, the spiral of clouds and then a pillar of light fell to the ground shaking all over the place ...
"What the hell was that!" - Shouted Fenrir when RAMP activated external sensors - "... It´s the master" - when they came out to see, Tails in his common form was returning with a sea of metallic debris behind him
"Tails What is all this ?!"
"There are parts of my soldiers Isis, look" - and then Tails created a huskoid scaring a little everyone present
"A zombie robot, when did you learn to do this?" – Fenrir asked him - "It was something that I improvised. RAMP Take these and put them in a containment field "- then the Fox threw to his butler the emeralds from Egg-man´s base and ...
"And this is from our friend Rouge" - he Said giving an third emerald
"How did you ...?" - But before RAMP could say anything else Rouge appeared behind Tails but was emotionless; Fenrir almost lose his eyes
"WO HO HO HOW, Hello gorgeous, Tails Who is your friend?"
"Her name is Rouge" - Fenrir then approached her and - "Nice to meet you my name is Fenrir" - but he got no answer she was in a trance - "What's wrong?"
"Her soul is asleep, and as no one is at home. I took over her body"
"Could you do me a favor Tails?"
"I know what you're thinking Fenrir and the answer is no, I had to manipulate her by necessity not for fun, plus it's beyond your level and unless you show her a mine full of jewels ... She won´t even look at you" - That deflate the spirit the poor wolf
"Material girl, Fenrir you have a bad taste to choose" – Isis said
"How did you ...?"
"It was something simple RAMP: On my way to the base of the egg-man I found her, caught her and put her under my command ... believe me it was something that I am not pleased"
"What it is the purpose of all this?"
"Simple ... she will help me to get the emeralds from Acorn, now take her to the inside and place her in a room, she is technically a zombie but will obey you if you say something for now. Still she has her personality active "- answered Tails
"Ok Come on Rouge, let´s go to get you a room," - said RAMP - "You'd better give me a good room"
Tails house. Mini laboratory:
After arriving with Sonic, Vector and Charmi they demanded to communicate with the Kingdom of Acorn immediately...
"What …Egg-man´s base was destroyed?"
"That's right Maximilian I myself went to confirm. Everything was reduced to rubble and when you get to it...
Flashback
Sonic approached the debris field and then something came between them, it was egg-man´s mini ship with him and his robots. Apparently surrounded by a force field ...
"What the hell happened?"
"They came when we were sleeping, we could not even scream"
"Bocoe is right, we were resting when the whole base shook and when we noticed a army of freaks seized it," - Decoe stated
"And the worst of all ,they took my emeralds away!"
End of Flashback
"they were completely alone and say they lost their emeralds; Knucles visions are becoming true "
"Father, It´s hard to admit this even for me, I think it's time to prepare ourselves for the worst. Egg-Man was first, we follow "
"Elias' right, Dad. You have to call the Freedom Fighters and the soldiers of the GNU ...we shall need all the help we can gather "- Sally stated
"All right. Please send a statement to all our partners and tell them to be ready and alert to any event that looks suspicious "- Said the king of acorn on the screen
Great desert, White Lightning ,Laboratory:
"With these emeralds we have 4, how do you plan to take the missing emeralds Master?"
"I'll take an army of huskoids to the kingdom of acorn and pretend a frontal attack while rouge sneaks to the castle and takes the emeralds amid the chaos" – Tails explained to RAMP
"I understand but ... Would not it be better if you send her only ?,I just do not understand the point of bringing the whole army"
"Surely they already know what we did with Egg-Man, and must have tightened security at the castle. So we must be prepared, you are don with the new gear I asked you for Rouge? "
"Yes. The electromagnetic neutralizer will melt the circuits and any system that they might have and the enhanced armor will allow her to face any enemy there" - RAMP said
"All right, prepare her. Soon I will go out again "
"Master I don´t want to contradict you but ... Could not you take a break?"
"No ... This must be done as quickly as possible, so I can be one step closer to ending this trip"
"I do not mean to put it off until another day, but rest at least 2 hours. You must be exhausted or something "- the robot suggested him
"I think you are right. I'll take a break ,be sure that Isis and Fenrir not try to kill each other, they have been somewhat hostile "- and after that Tails left the laboratory
Angel Island 1:45 am:
While Knucles was resting after the scare of the master emerald, something woke him up and when he opened his eyes ...
"Sonic ?, What are you doing here so early?"
"Sorry Knucles but we have an emergency at hand, remember the vision where the base of Egg-Man was made pieces?" - The echidna just nodded - "Well actually turned to be true, whoever did that , is here and has the egghead´s emeralds "
"What?!, Then that he explains things that have been going here"
"What do y..." - It was everything that Sonic said as Knucles continued - "A few minutes ago the Master emerald sent its energy into the sky and disappeared while in the coast an enormous green flash could be seen, if the things are like you tell me ,whoever is behind this will go after emeralds, yours, and acorn´s ... "
"Wait ... What rouge was not an emerald?" - These words made knucles placed an expression of fear - "Sonic you have to find Rouge, every emerald that the enemy can use against us will be an opportunity down for us"
And with that the hedgehog left , leaving knucles with his thoughts - "I hope she is right"
Great desert, White Lightning, Hangar:
All non-metallic crew and RAMP were ready to receive their next instructions ...
"Well I think we're ready to proceed. Isis and Fenrir, you will go to my base with a droid and bring me some things we might need later. Fenrir ... your drive, the droid will guide you"- explained Tails, Fenrir nodded with a look of excitement and satisfaction ...
"Master, How you are going get the emerald from your friend Sonic?" - He asked RAMP
" I'll see that later, what matters now is that we hurry up. RAMP you will watch around Angel Island. You have your instructions, execute them ... "
"RIGHT!" - And then the hangar doors opened, while Fenrir and company traveled in a cargo ship right through a mini transwarp conduit, Tails and Rouge traveled right through another mini conduit ...
"Well ... time to work" - was all RAMP said before going to the bridge ...
Acorn Kingdom, Throne Room:
"Lord Maximilian, we received confirmation of the freedom fighters and the GNU, their forces are being prepared and will come to meet us as soon as possible" - said a messenger
"Very good" - But then the earth shook and then the alarm was heard - "What is going on ?!"
"MY KING, We are under attack!" - Someone shouted over the loudspeaker
Indeed, Tails and his army of huskoids were besieging the eastern border of the kingdom , all available guards were concentrated there, but as they all tried to stop the attack, did not know Rouge came through the other side, using her new weapons and artifacts to pass undetected ...
Meanwhile in the front lines:
"I do not understand, in this video they defeated Egg-Man´s robots effortlessly. Why...? "- Maximilian then tied the ends and ..." Guards to the vault room "!
Then they ran to the castle but when the vault was open...
"The emeralds are gone!"
"My Lord, the invaders are retreating!" - Said someone from the loudspeaker
"This was a trap ..." - it was all Maximilian could say while Rouge reunited with Tails in a distant place far away from acorn´s territory...
"Where are they?" - Rouge answered Tails by showing him the two gems fromthe vault ... - "Well, we must return to the ship ..." - And while Tails communicated with the WL ...
"Can I keep them when you leave?"
"Only if you are still conscious" - Tails answered the bat which only thought ... - "I don´t like the sound of that"
Tails´ House:
"Mr Sonic, we are receiving an emergency transmission from the Kingdom of acorn" - Haid said as Maximilian's worried face appeared on the screen
"SONIC WE HAVE PROBLEMS!"
"Calm down, what happened?" - Said the Hedgehog
"The same army that swept Egg-Man attacked the kingdom but it was just a diversion , when we realized what was going on… the emeralds were stolen" - The answer alarmed Sonic - "How was that possible ?! It was supposed to have renewed security systems "
"And they did, but it seems that whoever was could bypass them"
"Mr Sonic,I do not try to panic you but the next victim surely will be you " - Haid's statement was both strange and terrifying
"You are right dwarf ,For that I´ll get out of here. I'll take a communicator to keep me abreast of everything until reinforcements arrive "- And after saying that Sonic left the house and the transmission was finished but Haid received another call ...
"Hello Haid, I guess the news that acorn was" robbed" reached Sonic´s ears"
"That's right Master, but I can give you his precise location if is required, it has his communicator linked to our computer "
"Thanks but it´s better to make him come; I'll be at home to execute our next step. I need you to make Amy Rose comes first ... "- Tails said
"I think that can be arranged"
Meanwhile, Sonic was in the nation of wolves, or at least on its borders bringing the emerald with him but …
"Are you there Sonic?" - Said a voice over the comm ...
"Amy?, How did you get this number?"
"I asked to the little robot, I need you to come here quick" - and without much thought the hedgehog went back in an instant. Amy greeted him with a chili dog in hand ...
"Here I am, what happens?"
"I know it's not much but I wanted you to try this new sauce, I thought you'd want" - said Amy innocent mind
"I do not know what to do so late with this but ... I've never been able to resist a Chili Dog" ¬ Then the blue hedgehog gave a huge bite of Chili Dog ... - "Mmm this good ... though it ... need some ... sa ... salt ... "- and then Sonic fainted by a powerful narcotic hidden in the Chili Dog while amy expression became like Rouge´s while Tails appeared behind a tree ...
"He he, you were right Master. Sonic does not deny those things"
"Exactly Haid, now ..." - Then Tails took the unconscious emerald from the hedgehog - "... we have the 7 emeralds, time to go back to the ship. Remember your alibi Haid "
while Haid was returning to the house Tails and Amy vanished from there in a cloud of light ...
Back to WL, Laboratory...
"Well ... this is the last one, now what Master?" - RAMP asked him
"I must think about a few things, I will return in a while ..." - Tails then left the lab, but RAMP noticed a slight look of confusion and sadness in his master so he remained silent ...
Tails´ room:
Tails approached his rosebush and stroked it tenderly but then he was interrupted by some and annoying character ...
"I must say I am very proud Tails, I knew you'd find a lot of useful things in the book but ... to Create an army of metal zombies with the remains of your old ship?!, Ha ha that was masterful. You learn quick…"
"Seledrin ...I should have known you'd show up at a time like this" - said the annoyed fox
"Calm down, Don´t let the fur of your Tails gets bristly. I Just come to see that things are going well "- Seledrin answered him
"Well ... Ahh ... the Emeralds are complete, we just need to prepare the place for ritual ..."
"Yes Tails ... but there is something that I have not said. You see the 2nd Guardian is a being of plant origin, your partner, and the ritual of reincarnation need to forge a new body for him. To do this we need ... a very special plant "- Tails do not knew why, but Seledrin´s words froze his blood
"W-W-which plant do you refer?"
"Your ... Rosebush" - Tails was horrified by what he heard, Should he sacrifice his own plant ?, that plant for many months ... he nurtured and cared for?
"So ... was that why you made me to bring the rose ... you ... you knew this would happen" - whispered the still shocked and stunned by the revelation
"Tails listen ..." - But when Seledrin tried to explain
"NO !, NEVER, I refuse to do that!"
"Tails you're letting your emotions cloud your judgment again"
"Shut up Seledrin, will not shred it only for a stranger who I don´t even know who he is or if he will agree with us back from the dead!" - Tails shouted him with some tears coming out of his eyes and embracing the flowerpot tightly...
"Tails ... I did not say anything to you before because I knew this would be your reaction .. But remember this is for the greater good"
"... We cannot use another plant?" - Sobbed Tails with regret as he watched his tears falling on the most beautiful and bright rosebud ...
"It can´t be another and I will tell you why; A plant which origin was a seed born from the remains of a noble heart being, protected from the most jealous and fierce form, bred and cultivated with the deepest love and affection ... for the hand of a guardian ... There is no better choice for be the receptacle for the soul of 2nd guardian "- then Seledrin saw a sharp pain in his ..." protege "... So he tried to mitigate the situation ... - "I know this is very painful ... but I assure you will receive a great reward for all this. "
"I hate you, you know?"
"I know, so ... Will you?" - Then once calm the storm in his brain , the fox nodded - "Well ...I´ll go to make sure that things are good in the spirit world"
Seledrin then disappeared leaving Tails alone...
"I know this is the right thing, that is ... to help everyone. But still I not want to. And despite everything I've done to forget this pain, all the time that has passed ... HOW ... I MISS YOU! "- After that Tails fell to his knees as he wept bitterly with his face sunken among the leaves and flowers of the rosebush, meanwhile RAMP had heard and seen all right through the half-open door ...
"Oh ... Master"
White Lightning, bridge of the ship:
"You know Isis, I think in the future I will come to live on Mobius, just if I do not find any important position at home"
"Why Fenrir?"
"Cute girls abound here" – the Comment of the wolf did Isis to feel some disgust by remembering that Fenrir drooled just seeing rouge, but hes gaze was directed towards a RAMP who was just entering the bridge ...
"What´s wrong with you RAMP?" – Fenrir Asked
"It's not me, it's the Master"
"What happens to Tails?"
"What happens Fenrir is that ... he must give his rose bush to complete the mission for which we came to Mobius. It is very sad "
"Poor Tails" - Isis said as if he knew what Tails was feeling
"I do not understand why he gets so blue , How important is this plant?"
"I should not tell you this but ... this plant was born from the remains of the only girl who the boss loved with all his heart, an original seedrian called Cosmo ... ..." - RAMP explained him
"Awww, how romantic and sad too ..."
"Bluargh, Isis're so ... mellow. I do not understand why Tails suffers by a stupid plant "- That comment made RAMP walked rapidly and violently towards Fenrir
"Ahh, you think that ?. Well it's funny that you put it that way. But Fenrir you forget a small detail, If wasn´t for that ... "stupid plant" ... YOU, YOUR FATHER AND ALL THE OTHERS IN DORIOS 8 COULD BEING EATEN BY WORMS RIGHT NOW! "
The violent and emphatic statement made for RAMP not only made Fenrir feel bad about what he said and put blue of fear, but also made Isis felt admiration for the devotion and deep respect of RAMP towardsTails ...
"It is obvious that you are a materialistic Fenrir, Tails is a good person who does not look for what's out but looking for the good what is inside. I would like to meet Cosmo myself, for him to feel something so beautiful for her, she must have been a great person ... "- But Isis and all the others fell silent at the sight of Tails enter the bridge with his rosebush in arms and his eyes all puffed and red ...
"Master?"
"Set a course toward Angel Island… RAMP, It´s time of continue with the next phase of the plan"
Angel Island:
The night was still far from over, and Knucles was still confused by what happened before, he suddenly felt a presence behind him ...
"Who's there?" – Then he noticed Rouge, but was she was wearing a strange costume and his eyes were as lifeless ... - "What do you want?"
"She just wants you to go away" – Knucles turned and saw a strange robot as if it be made of junk, but he did not know he was RAMP in a costume ...
"Who are you ?, And why this Rouge with you?" - the Echidna Asked
"That does not matter, what matters is we take this place for the Master. Would you be kind enough to take care of him Rouge "- And with that the bat lunged on Knucles
"No Rougue, Wake up!" - But she was not listening and without any chance Knucles felt a blow to his head, as he turned to see only managed to distinguish amy using a modified version of her Pico-Pico hammer and Rouge together wearing the same blank expression and just before passing said one thing ... "Wh ... why?"
After that the Angel Island was covered by a huge shadow, it was the Lightning White but with a more sinister and scary look ...