The sounds of many creatures made themselves present within the thickness of the jungle. The ground is covered with a glow of green from the leaves blocking the sun above. There was barely any sun getting through the trees and only small beams of light were hitting the grass and dirt below them.
The blue hybrid slid down one of the tree roots and jumped onto the ground landing in mud.
"Oh...!" she said to herself. "Great, these clothes are now ruined." SNT took a little time to try and get the mud off of the clothes given to her by Princess Elise. "Well, I guess I am going to have to replace these clothes once I get back."
SNT then looked at the watch Subaru gave her to help her get her bearings. She saw on the map that the Sonichu ball she was looking for was just ahead. She looked ahead and grabbed the machete that was on her back and got ready. "Alright, nothing is going to stop me from getting that Sonichu Ball. Let's do this!"
ISLAND JUNGLE ZONE
SNT then cut her way through the bushes of the jungle and jumped onto the tree roots in which she used as grinding rails to get to different branches in the trees. She landed on a tree branch and then boosted onto the ground where she then went right into a bear that was unable to defend itself against SNT as she was too fast for them.
The area itself according to SNT was very hard to circumnavigate as there was no straight path through the dense forest. But interestingly enough there were all sorts of tricks that SNT used from her past adventures to get through it. Vines were very prevalent in the jungle as she would use them to swing to other trees in the jungle or if they were tied to the trees she could effectively use it as a trampoline to get to higher areas.
Mushrooms were also very promenade and would shoot out a poisonous gas at SNT causing her to become somewhat disoriented. It would cause the world around her to warp in mysterious ways. It would also cause SNT to hallucinate.
She thought she saw an enemy spanning over a gap in the forest and she wanted to use it as a way to cross the gap but ended up falling through it and landing face-first into the swamp below.
With mud now covering her face, she then whipped it off and pushed herself up onto her back.
"Getting a little dirty there, special one?"
SNT looked over to see a familiar white/pink cat creature licking her palms and laughing menacingly. "Sylveon?"
"That's right bitch I'm back. Even in the real world, you can't get away from me!" she announced.
"You must be another delusion!" SNT told the small cat. "Sylveon, you are not real!"
"You're not real!" Sylveon came back. "You're just a thought as much as I am. Did you know that?"
"Yeah, but you shouldn't exist in this world. At least not in mine." SNT mentioned.
"I exist everywhere, my little Sylveon Discount." She told her. "You know what is funny right now SNT?"
"What is that?" SNT asked.
Sylveon laughed, "Did you know you are talking to a snail right now?"
"No, I'm talking to... You?" SNT then noticed the snail that was on the leaf moving very slowly. "Oh... I'm hallucinating again."
She got back on her feet and brushed herself off then got close to the leaf again. "I'm sorry little guy."
"It's ok!"
"Huh?" SNT noticed that she heard a voice as she was preparing to leave. She looked back at the snail but it was just moving slowly across the leaf. It didn't say anything. "I should probably stay away from the mushrooms." She told herself.
She continued on her way as she looked down at her watch to try and figure out where the Sonichu ball was. She encountered a large scorpion while traveling and it was directly in her path. The red bug then attempted to sting the hybrid but she only dodged to the left and rolled on the ground. She used a tree trunk to flip herself back onto her feet then spun her body toward the tail of the bug allowing the machete in her hand to slice the tail off of the scorpion. Its green juices now flying out, SNT effectively rendered it useless toward her as it now ran from the hybrid only leaving its tail behind limp on the ground. The hybrid then continued on its way.
The zone then started to change as the map showed a large cave ahead on her watch. She reached the edge of a cliff revealing an opening to a cave bellow surrounded by tree roots and vines almost covering it up. In the middle of it was a large tree towering above her. The tree itself looked almost dead and had mushrooms and moss growing all over it. She then cut one of the vines then swung around the tree getting herself down into the cave safely. Her watch signaled that the ball had to be somewhere next to or in the tree it had to be down in the cave. She then continued her way through the cavern as it was covered in vines making it harder to walk on due to the reduced friction below her feet.
She decided not to boost as it was harder to see ahead. But in a little time, she was able to see the light at the end of the tunnel and tried to climb up to see it. When she emerged from the cave she saw a bunch of vines being tied to the middle of the circular cavern where the sun beamed from above like she was in a dormant volcano.
Right where the sunlight touches the bottom of the cave was a pedestal created by the plants and right there in the middle was a corrupted ball of static making itself known as SNT could hear her name being called. That was when she knew she was looking at the Sonichu Ball.
"Alright, Sonichu ball number 2 here I come." SNT cracked her knuckles and started getting closer.
It didn't seem all that dangerous so SNT just casually walked up without any regard when all of a sudden, a 2 sided shell then closes the ball within itself and then brings it underground. SNT stopped in her place as suddenly the ground started to shake. "Huh... what is going on?" All of a sudden, a giant pitcher plant then arises from the ground. Its green skin with red vines oozing with sap now pointed directly at SNT. Little venus fly traps surrounding the main plant itself. The teeth of all of these satellites oozed with acids looking hungry for a taste of the hybrid hedgehog.
"I... I have to fight that?" SNT was a little grossed out but then realized that she has been through a lot worse. But this liquid was more acidic so she needed to try not to be digested by them.
SNT looked all around her to see how much room she had to fight. "I think this must be the monster from all of the rumors. If that is the case, I guess it's time to mow the lawn!" she bated.
DEFEAT THE PITCHER
The plant held its head back as a lot of liquid started to collect in its mouth like it was charging its attack. In the meantime, the flytraps around it then attempted to grab SNT. One trap came from SNT's right as she then spun to the left to dodge it. Then she jumped in the air to avoid two traps trying to grab her legs. But one trap then smacked her across the face causing her to be propelled to the wall.
SNT crashed into it with her back then landing on the ground. The traps now grab one of her hands and pull her toward the pitcher. She then took her machete in the other hand and cut the trap's vine letting her go. Then she used her boost to circle the plant carefully. "Hey, what's wrong, not rooted enough to catch me?"
The pitcher then spilled all of its mucus all over the battlefield in which SNT slips on and lands on her gloves."Eww... gross!" she tried to rub the green liquid off of her. "Eww eww eww how am I going to get this off of me!"
The mucus wasn't a strong enough acid so SNT's body wasn't burning but her clothes were starting to rip up. "Oh no, Elise's clothes. They were really good too." They were not withering all that much because these clothes were of good quality but she could tell that small holes were starting to develop.
The hybrid got back on her shoes and quickly limboed under to dodge another trap that was coming right at her face. But then another one came from above and picked her up by her head. SNT struggling to get the trap off of her head she felt the mucus drip down her face as she tried to cut the stem of the plant with her machete in which she was finally able to do it.
"Ugg... let... me... go you overgrown octopus plant!" SNT then attempted to attack it. She then attacked the head of the plant with her spin dash, but she ended up bouncing off of it right back into the sticky cave walls.
SNT landed on her face almost sticking to the ground with all of the mucus stuck to her fur. She looked back at the large plant unhurt by her attack. She then decided to use the attack that she used on Rookie's pod to set him free. She got her fist ready and then started to see the sparks coming off of it until electricity flowed through her body. "Alright, let's do it!"
SNT uses Thunder Punch
Suddenly she makes a direct hit right in the same place she targeted with her spin dash. This had the effect of stunning the plant and the surrounding satellite traps because they were all connected.
SNT decided to figure out how exactly to damage it so she kept trying to puncture the plant with her machete. "Prepare to be cut!"
She attempted to stab the plant but the skin was too strong. She was unable to pierce through it. One of the vines of the plants then smacked SNT away landing on her back.
The traps then grabbed her by her hair covering it with its mucus. SNT screamed at the force from her ponytail and then quickly grabbed onto its stim and ripped it off. She was then dropped right in the middle of a circle of traps now ready and able. All of them charged at her as she then jumped into the air and rolled herself into a ball then ground pounded admitting a shockwave around her.
The shockwave was enough to flick the traps away. She then took her machete and sliced the traps right in front of her leaving them decapitated.
SNT started charging her fist again and then charged at the pitcher at full force. Her punch bounced off of the plant but left it stunned for a few seconds. Once again she tried to stab the knife into the skin but it was still so strong that she ended up bending the knife after the extreme force was applied.
"Oh, whoops!" SNT looked at the bent knife. "I hope Subaru won't be too mad!"
She then threw the machete away rendering it useless as it's trapped once again grabbed her legs and pulled her upside down. SNT responded by using her strength to pull herself up and choked the stems of the plants with her hands and pulling them off herself.
The pitcher plant once again started filling itself up with mucus as SNT dropped to the ground to dodge more of the traps trying to grab her. Suddenly, they started to shoot their mucus at the hybrid.
This mucus coming from the plants was a little sticker than usual. SNT was hit in the leg and was almost glued to the ground. She was able to pull herself free from the ground and was now dodging an entourage of mucus from these satellite plants. "AAAHH... NOO!"
Suddenly, the pitcher then spilled once again its mucus all over the ground then growing a tongue and sweeping it across the field, whipping SNT off of her feet. Landing right on the new liquid now covering her face. The satellite traps use this chance to cover her with the thicker mucus.
"No... no... please stop!" she said as her movement was taken away in a matter of a few seconds. Once she was barely able to move from the ground. "Ugg... I can't move!" The traps then started picking her up by her legs and carrying her toward the mouth of the plant.
"Oh no, please no! Let me go!" she yelled in desperation as the traps then dropped her right into the mouth of the plant. SNT attempted to fly out but her tails were glued together by the mucus making flying impossible. Darkness then begins to surround her body with the only light entering from above suddenly splashing into the pool of mucus lining the bottom of the plant ready to digest.
She emerged from it and took a deep breath as she was suddenly stuck in the sticky substance. She set her hands free and then looked at herself with the only source of light coming from above. "Ugg, this smell! It is going to take weeks to get this out of my fur." She then looked around her to see other bugs already dead and rotting inside of the plant. "Eww... nooo!" She wanted no part of that.
She knew she only had a little time to escape before the mucus started to digest her. "There must be a way out of here." She asked herself. But that was when she started to hear her name. She quickly looked around and when she looked down, she saw a bright light right at the bottom of the plant. She heard her name being called from it.
"Is that... the Sonichu ball?" she realized. "Maybe this plant has been feeding off of its power for a long time? Well, I guess I have to fix that." She held her breath then attempted to charge her fist again just in case she needed it. Then she submerged herself in the mucus and started the process of retrieving the ball as she performed a thunder punch to propel herself to the center of the plant. I am probably going to regret this but let's just get the ball and I can teleport back!
Electricity started to surround her as the thunder punch released energy all around. It stunned the plant once again but because it was on the inside. It was hurting it more as the smell of burning was present. SNT reached the bottom of the pitcher and then saw the Sonichu Ball within its pedestal still. The hybrid then once again charges her fist yet again to give herself more power and to keep stunning the plant and to give her the energy to pull the ball out of it.
Come on come on, please let go of your weed! SNT told herself hoping for the best. After a lot of force, the ball was then released from the plant. Suddenly the liquid started to shake as the plant itself was shaking. It was like it was screaming on the inside without making any noise. Suddenly, the insides of the plant started to close in on itself at a rapid pace. The room quickly decreases around the hybrid. "Oh no, if I don't hurry, I could be crushed on the inside!"
SNT quickly started to charge up her fist on a hunch. "I don't know if any of Sonichu's moves are going to work but I can try and use it to my advantage." She then goes to the wall of the plant holding her breath to keep the mucus out of her mouth and then starts to slice at the walls of the plant. It was gross touching it with all of the hairs touching her fur also tangling her to the wall to keep her. But she didn't give up. She kept slicing at it and she noticed it started to pierce through.
Eventually, her tails started to touch the other side of the plant slowly starting to crush her. "Oh no, I'm running out of time. Come on you stupid plant open up!" she started to speed up.
Adrenaline then started to come into her blood as she suddenly charged her arm as she felt the skin of the plant touch her back. She then jabs with all of her power at the wall of the plant causing it to burst open letting her through. Mucus gets forced out along with her landing on the rock surface of the outside world. SNT landed on her face but quickly turned around to witness the now opened plant retreating into the ground with its power source now taken away.
SNT got back on her feet and then started to get the slime off of her fur. "Ugg... I might need to sleep in the bath tonight, this may take weeks to wash off."
THE PITCHER DEFEATED
SNT GOT THROUGH THE ISLAND JUNGLE ZONE
RANK S: STICKY
The hybrid then laid on her back to examine the next Sonichu ball still looking all corrupted but was covered in mucus from the fight. "Yep, It got the next ball. Too bad I smell like... oh god." The smell gave off a familiar place in which she went through that she didn't want to think about.
"Writer, can I go through 1 fanfic without me going through anything gross?" she yelled. She then looked at her watch and started to mess with some of the controls. "Well at least the watch is waterproof... or mucus proof... whatever!" SNT looked at all of the apps on the device to look for the teleportation feature. Once she found it she then pressed on it.
The hybrid's body then started to tickle a little as a power suddenly surrounded her body. Her fur started to glow in a light blue she was not used to. The world around her suddenly disappears into a blanket of white.
When reality started to come back. SNT found herself inside of a chamber in which she saw the familiar sights of Subaru's workshop. All of her friends now standing there noticing her arrival.
"SNT!" Alicia called for her as she suddenly started to run up to hug her. But when she did that, suddenly, she realized that she was covered in goo. "Oh come on, I just washed these."
"Oh... I'm so sorry, but you might want to wash up quickly as your clothes might melt kinda as mine did.," SNT admitted.
"Eww... What did you even do Ni-chan?" Saki looked at her sister closely noticing all of the slime slowly dripping onto the floor below her.
"Yeah... I kind of got a little messy while looking for this." SNT then proceeded to show them the uncolored Sonichu ball hidden.
"You got the ball!" Subaru ran up to take a closer look but realizes it's also covered with slime.
"Yep, 2 balls down, 5 more to go," SNT announced proudly. "Now, I need to go check on Rookie to see if he is ok." The hybrid then attempted to walk but quickly found out that she was unable to. Her legs were stuck in a small wooden box causing SNT to fall over onto her face. The sounds of a splat echoed through the room as more of the goo hit the ground. Everyone around covered their faces to protect themselves. "Ouch." SNT was face-down almost feeling that she broke her nose. "Why am I clipping into a box."
Subaru took a closer look at the box SNT clipped through. "Hmm interesting, it looks like you didn't puncture the box but was clipping through it without any damage appearing. Maybe I shouldn't be putting storage where the teleporting is. But again. Teleportation is still an emerging technology."
"Please get it off of me!" the hybrid demanded.
"Well I can't just pull it off, that would only damage your leg... but what I can do is... Oh... hehe!"
"Um... Suburu... why are you laughing?" SNT looked at her facesitting up.
"Oh... it's nothing... just thinking to myself. SNT... just sit still and I will get you out of there momentarily." Subaru cracked her knuckles and tiptoed a little closer to her.
"Subaru... please, you're scaring me. What are you going to do?" SNT asked.
The blue tomboyish fox then gave off a huge malicious smile on her face., "Oh... you'll see... hehe... HAHAHA!"
"Subaru, please... NOOOO!"
...
After the hybrid was set free from the box. She found out that her friends were blocking her from seeing Rookie simply because she was too dirty and smelled awful. SNT was forced to go home and take a bath.
Requesting Ashlyn to set up the bath, SNT once again found herself in the middle of the largest tub in her life-giving off an unimaginable scent. She was given a sponge to help her wash off the mucus from earlier. Once she took a few minutes to get used to the bath she started rubbing down her fur abrasively to try and get every little bit of mucus out of her fur.
Her old clothes were washed and ready to go once she got out of the bath so she was looking right at them hanging on a handle on the side of the door. It was nice to get into something familiar to her again.
The hybrid then soaked the sponge in the bath and then ringed it out over herself to wash her hair. She still had her scrunchy on her head which she decided to keep on anyway.
Once SNT was done washing her hair she then proceeded to wash her face, closing her eyes to scrub it and to keep her eyes from burning. While she was doing that. She then hears a sudden thud coming from the hallway. When the scrubbed off of her eyes to look out the door. SNT was met with a shock. Ashlyn came into the room.
"SNT!" she called the hybrid's name.
"AAAAH!" the hybrid was shocked to see her again. "Why do you keep barging in here? Have you ever knocked in your lifetime?"
"I have knocked enemies before," The maid admitted, "But I am not going to knock you right now."
"What do you mean by that?" SNT asked, blushing while covering herself up in embarrassment.
"I was wondering if you needed help washing your back?" she asked.
"Ok, why are you always offering that?" the hybrid asked the manticore in an extremely forceful attitude. It made sense because this was the second time she asked this.
"Oh it's because I am the maid for the Princess and you are our guest," she replied. "I'm only doing it because it's my duty. I wash the Princess and because you are her guest, I must do it for you as well."
The rich and powerful must be so smart that they forgot how to wash their bodies themselves. Am I the only one who is seeing the irony of this? SNT asked herself then sighed, "Fine, if you want to wash me, I guess it's ok. Plus if you wash me again, you might be able to see spots I missed."
"Yes SNT, thank you for allowing me to wash you. I will do my best!" Ashlyn then proceeded to then take off her ancient style shoes and then walked into the water as she then grabbed a bucket on the side of the tub then dipped it into the water to fill it. Then she grabbed more soap to mix it into the water with a sponge. Once she was done, she then got closer to the hybrid with the bucket setting it down next to a higher place in the tub. The tub was as deep as 4 feet but there were places where there were steps up where you could sit. Ashlyn put the bucket on one of those raised platforms in the water and rang out the sponge again. Then she proceeded to rub the hybrid's back.
SNT relaxed into the massage she was given as the way Ashlyn was doing it was quite relaxing. "Hmm," the manticore said, "There is still some of that gack from earlier but I hope that this should get some of it off."
"Wow really?" SNT asked.
"Yeah, you can't see what is on your back I guess but that is ok. This is why I am here." Ashlyn smiled in response as she then continued to scrub her down.
SNT made a realization. Maybe this is why the rich and powerful hire maids to wash their bodies. Not because they don't know how to do it themselves but to help them get the dirt they can't wash away without help. SNT could get used to this. To her, she has never really been in a mansion as Sonic never lived in that.
"Hey, SNT?" Ashlyn asked, "Why didn't you undo your hair? I still see dirt in it that needs to get out."
"Oh really, well I guess I missed it." SNT laughed it off.
"Oh don't worry about it. Here let me help you," Ashlyn then proceeded to touch the hybrid's scrunchy.
"Um... Ashlyn, you might not want to touch that, please let me wash my hair." SNT insists as she then takes both of her hands and holds on to her pink ponytail preventing the manticore from removing it.
"SNT, let... me... wash... your... hair." Ashlyn tried to pull off the scrunchy but SNT kept fighting against it.
"Please let go! It's dangerous! Please stop, let me wash it!" SNT insisted.
Eventually, Ashlyn won the fight and was able to pull the scrunchy off of SNT's head causing her hair to be undone. "Finally, now I can get to all of that gack in your hair."
But while Ashlyn was rubbing her hands in shampoo, suddenly she started noticing that SNT's hair started to spark up and glow. At the same time, SNT was shaking and glowing. The manticore then slowed down and watched as the light in the room was suddenly being absorbed by the hybrid. The room was almost literally going to black in pulses of darkness.
"SNT, what's going on?" Ashlyn asked as suddenly for a second SNT's form changed. A power so great suddenly illuminated the water causing the manticore to get shocked with electricity from the power. Ashlyn saw SNT's new form for a split second but her color then becomes normal again as she then dropped into the water face down with only some air escaping from her mouth.
"SNT?" the manticore touched the hybrid's body as it floated there and then proceeded to rock it awake. "SNT... what happened? SNT... SSSSSSNNNNNNNTTTTTTTT!" That was when the hybrid's sense of consciousness ran out.
...
"Ugg..." The hybrid woke up in a trance as all of her friends surrounded her on the bed.
"Oh! She's awake," Elise took notice of her eyes opening up. "Looks like she is going to be fine."
"SNT!" Rookie surprised the hybrid by coming from her left and hugged her.
"Rookie, you're ok!" The blue hybrid noticed that his chest has a bandage over it but he felt ok.
"I'm glad you saved me out there. I don't think I would be here... with all of you if you didn't step in." Rookie smiled and blushed at the same time trying not to look at her too much to keep his heart rate low. But it wasn't possible. With that hug, SNT gave off a little more of that aura and on top of that, he could also feel every heartbeat coming from her chest.
"Oh, Rookie!" SNT smiled, "It's ok, I just did what I thought was right. How is your heart?"
"Bursting for you... wait... did I just say that. I mean it's fine." Rookie got off SNT before he lost himself within his thoughts.
"Ni-chan!" Saki then came up to hug her, "I thought you were a goner there!"
"What happened to me?" the hybrid asked.
"It seems that you were knocked unconscious by that absorber slash inhibitor ring on your head," Elise explained.
"I am so sorry for doing that to you, I didn't know that your life energy was tied to that ring!" Ashlyn apologizes to the hybrid and bows to her.
SNT then looked up at the manticore. "It's ok, you didn't know."
Rookie kept looking at the hybrid intensely which was sort of scarring SNT. "Why are you looking at me like that?" That was when she looked down at herself and noticed that she still had her towel on. Just when she looked, some of her towels dropped down a little lower causing the hybrid to freak out. She quickly grabbed the top of the towel and held on to it to keep it from revealing any more of her body then yelled at her friends. "Everybody, please get out so I can change! PLEASE!"
Everybody started to line up at the door as SNT held the towel covering her body. Everybody followed directions and left the room with SNT still inside. "We're sorry Ms. SNT, I left food for you on the dresser and more PJs," Elise announced as she left the room.
"Thank you I appreciate it but please let me get changed." The hybrid shut the door behind her and put her back against it. Then she took a deep breath and sigh of relief. She looked back at the door and thought to herself. It's nice that they care about me and everything but sometimes I do need my privacy. Now that I think about it, some of those characters seem extremely familiar but I just don't know where I met them. Well, at least they have a positive impression of me. I think that is all that matters. Then she looked at the food on the dresser along with the clothes that are next to them. Once she got changed into her PJs, she then started to eat the food.
It was a special potato soup that was still warm and inviting for the hybrid that it made her a little sleepy. SNT tried not to burn herself as she blew the food carefully. "Man, Pumpkin should be a 5-star chef, I can't stop eating this!"
SNT finished the food up and set it to the side. Then she picked up the Sonichu ball that was still all staticy and looked at it closely.
"Well," SNT said to herself. "I don't know what to expect with you but... there is only one way to find out." She proceeded to lay on her side and she slowly tried to drift off to sleep holding the ball tightly in her arms. Once she was completely asleep, the ball shined brightly once again welcoming the hybrid back into the realm of the Sonichus.