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~~~~~LEON

I got up out of the bed and stretched. It was definitely an improvement from sleeping outside. I walked out into the kitchen to find Tails and Sonic sitting at the table. Obviously they had been waiting for me to get up.

"Good morning guys," I said as I yawned. "I haven't slept that well in a while!"

"Morning Leon," Tails said. "Have a seat."

"Hmm? Something the matter?" I asked as I sat down.

"Well, we're curious. Where are you from? And most of all, how do you have the powers that you do?" Sonic asked.

I sighed. I knew this would come sometime. I took out my sword and instantly Tails and Sonic jumped up and took defensive stances.

"Chill out guys. I'm not going to use this on you," I said with a laugh. I held it out handle forwards to Sonic. He grabbed it and the blade shone with a blue light.

"Tails, now you hold it," I directed. Tails took the blade from Sonic's hands and the blade glew an even bluer color, if that was even possible since it was already lighting up the whole room.

"All right, that convinces me. I'll tell you everything," I said as I put the blade back into its sheath.

For the next hour I told Sonic and Tails everything I knew about myself and Mystic Island. When I finished, Sonic's eyes grew wide.

"Leon, you say that a warship came and just destroyed the whole island with one shot?"

I nodded. "Why? Is that unusual for a creation of Robotnik's?"

"He's never made anything this powerful before... We have to stop him!" Sonic yelled as he jumped up.

"What's the rush?" I asked.

"He could use that weapon on the city at any time! I'm surprised he hasn't already! Come on, let's go!" He yelled as he ran towards the door.

"Sonic, should I call Garion and Rolm?" Tails asked.

"There's no time! We have to MOVE!" Sonic yelled.

I got up and rushed outside. Sonic was holding onto Tails' hand and beckoned for me to hold his.

I grabbed it and Sonic shot forward, moving faster than I ever had in my life. Everything was a blur of colors as we zoomed towards Robotnik's lair.

"Well, this makes my job a bit easier!" I shouted. "At least now I don't have to walk all this way!"

Sonic had a look of determination on his face and kept quiet. I decided to do the same.

Within a minute we had reached the base. It was a lot bigger than I had expected.

Sonic kept going and ran right through the front door. We were flying down corridors, through robots, and around turns so fast that I was past them before I even saw them.

We reached the inner chamber in no time. Robotnik was sitting there on his chair, looking at a computer screen.

"Eggman!" Sonic yelled as he stopped. "We've come to stop that good-for- nothing warship of yours!"

Robotnik chuckled and turned around in his chair. "Then I'm afraid that you have come to the wrong place. I sent it to the city about a half hour ago."

Sonic growled and lunged forward. I grabbed him before he got to Robotnik.

"Sonic! There still may be time! Go with Tails and stop the warship! I'll take care of this loser!" I said as I looked at Robotnik.

"But, Leon..." Sonic protested.

"Just GO! You're the only one fast enough to get there in time, and I'm sure you'll need Tails to help you out. It's got to be much harder than this guy is. Now get out of here!" I shouted as I shoved him towards the door.

"All right, but you better get back to my house by nightfall or I'll come for you," he said as he took off with Tails.

"Well, you have a lot of courage, but I don't think that'll get you out of here alive," Robotnik said as he pushed a button on his control panel. The floor opened up and out came a weird machine.

"Let's see how you handle my Egg Walker!" he yelled as he jumped in.

"Hah! No problem! I'll take care of that bucket of bolts of yours and be out of here before Sonic even gets to the warship," I taunted.

"You talk pretty big for your size. Try this!" He yelled as he fired a laser at me. I jumped to the side and dodged it.

"You'll have to do much better than that," I said.

Robotnik growled and fired a stream of laser fire at me. I shot upwards over it with my levitation and countered by firing off multiple energy balls at the walker. They all hit and made a few small explosions.

"What the... How did you..." Robotnik was at a loss for words. I flew down and nailed his machine with a well-placed kick and flew backwards, doing a flip and landing on my feet. Smoke began to come out of his machine.

"Take THIS!" He yelled as he fired multiple rockets at me. I waited until they were inches away until I focused my power on a shield. A blue one appeared and absorbed all the energy of the missiles, causing them to fall harmlessly to my feet.

"I'LL DESTROY YOU!" he yelled as he fired a huge laser beam at me. I teleported behind Robotnik's machine and took out my Mind Sword. It was time to end this. I felt its energy and I focused my own powers into it, turning it a purple color. I slashed forward at the back of Robotnik's machine, cutting through all the metal and circuits as I did so. The machine suddenly collapsed onto the ground.

"For Spike, Klim, and Neki, and for all the others that you killed, I will destroy YOU!" I fired a final energy orb at the machine and ran out of the room. A huge explosion shook the base and I ran even faster to avoid it. I slashed through multiple robots as I flew down the long corridors.

'How much longer until the exit? It surely can't be this big!' I thought to myself as I ran. Suddenly I saw the explosion behind me. It was catching up to me.

"Ah, screw this," I said as I teleported out of the base.

I looked back at the base from a hill about a half-mile away to see a huge explosion erupt from the front of the building. A small fire burned for awhile in the doorway. I sat and watched it. The whole thing was too easy. Suddenly the entire base lit up in flame as the whole thing exploded. I fell backwards in surprise and got back up to see the base engulfed in fire.

"Well, it serves him right," I said as I walked through the grass. "Now to find Sonic."

~~~~~SONIC

"Tails, distract the guns! I'll get inside!" I shouted as I ran around the ship.

"All right, Sonic!" he shouted as he flew up towards the top of the ship.

One of the things he was great at was dodging attacks while airborne. I knew he would be all right.

I waited until I heard laser fire. When I did, I jumped into a ball and cut through the armor of the warship. I was inside.

I ran down the darkened corridors, looking for the control room or the engine room, whatever one I came upon first.

I ran into the control room. I found two robots at the controls. I quickly destroyed them and looked at the controls. They had set it to auto- pilot! I looked up through the window to see the city straight ahead. We might not make it...

I ran down the corridors again. Our last hope was for me to find the engine room and stop this thing. A couple of seconds later I was there. I bashed the engine with my homing attacks until it fell apart. The warship fell to the ground and couldn't move. Well, that pretty much...

I looked out the window again to see the cannon outside charging.

'It must run on its own type of power!' I thought as I tried to break through the window. I just bounced off of it.

"NO!" I yelled as the cannon started to glow.

I rushed out of the room and headed back to where I had gotten in as fast as I could.

~~~~~TAILS

I dodged another laser and looked down to see the cannon glowing. How much longer was Sonic going to take?

Looking back at the ship I too late noticed a laser coming at me. It hit me in my arm and pain rippled up through my arm and everything became blurry for a couple seconds. I flew downward and landed roughly on the ground.

"It's all up to you now, Sonic," I said as I held my bleeding arm.

~~~~~LEON

"What the...! They should've taken care of this by now! Good thing I teleported!" I yelled as I ran as fast as I could towards the cannon. I could tell it was almost ready to fire. I flew up towards it and landed on it. I considered my options. I could try cutting off the cannon with my sword, but it still may fire, so no, I'll have to...

I put an energy shield around the end of the cannon just before it fired. The energy inside of it was trapped and forced backwards. The whole warship exploded, sending me flying through the air...

~~~~~SONIC

I had just jumped out of the warship when it had blown. What had caused it to backfire, however? I looked ahead of me to see Tails holding his arm. He was shot!

I ran over to him and checked to make he was OK. He wasn't too horribly injured, and I could bandage it when we got back to my house. Nothing too horrible there, except... how had the cannon blown?

I looked to my left to see a figure covered black struggling to get up. In a millisecond I was at his side.

"Leon!?" I shouted in surprise as I recognized him. "I thought you were with Eggman?!"

"Well, Sonic, you're not the only one that works fast," he said as he coughed. "Dang, this hurts, though."

"Are you OK?" I asked as I helped him up. He brushed himself off.

"Nothing major. I just got a nasty jolt," he said. "Whoa! Tails are you all right?!"

"I'm fine," Tails said. "But I do hope we go home soon."

Within a few minutes we were back at my house. I bandaged Tails' arm and Leon sat down in one of the chairs and closed his eyes. He looked beat. But then again, fighting does that to you.

After helping Tails the two of us sat down by Leon.

"So, what do you plan on doing now that you've had your revenge?" I asked as I smiled as Leon. He returned it.

"Well, to tell you the truth, I've never thought about it," he answered. "I've only thought of getting back at Robotnik lately. I've never thought beyond that. As a matter of fact, I have no where to go now. My island is destroyed..."

"Well, if you want to, you could stay with us," I said.

"Want to?! I'd love to!" Leon replied with a smile.

"You'll be able to thwart Eggman's plans about seven days a week," Tails added.

"What? I destroyed him!" Leon said as he looked at us.

"He always manages to find a way out of every situation. Trust me, he'll be back with another new scheme tomorrow," I explained.

"Oh...cool! I get to pick on him again!" Leon said as he laughed.

"What exactly did you do to him, and the cannon too for that matter?" Tails asked.

Leon explained what had happened with Eggman, and how he had used his energy shield to block the cannon's beam.

"Man, Leon," I said. "You're a lot more powerful than I thought you were at first glance."

Leon beamed at the compliment. "Thanks, Sonic. And sure, I'll stay here, if it's all right with you guys."

"With Leon, we shouldn't have any problems at all against Eggman anymore!" Tails shouted.

"Don't count on it. He always thinks of something... Well, anyway, welcome to the team, Leon," I said as I held out my hand.

Leon shook it and stared hard into my eyes. He gave me a little nod. I returned it. He was one of us now.

~~~~~EGGMAN

I got up from the pile of rubble and coughed. Smoke was still all over the place.

"I've got to stop putting those nitro cans in my bases..." I said as I looked around. There was nothing except debris all over where my base had been.

"That stupid kid... I thought that I had wiped out all the Mystics about a week ago... I knew they would get in my way if they ever got off of that stupid island of theirs.... No matter. I will get some new supplies shipped here from my supply base and rebuild... And next time, that kid won't be so lucky! BWHAHAHAHHHA! He will pay..."

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That's the end of the Leon series! So now he is a part of the team! Yay! You'll see more of him later. Until, then, adios!