Chapter 16 - Final Battle
The heal continued making me feel warm and cozy. I was about ready to fall asleep when a yell brought me back to reality.
"I'VE HAD IT!"
I sprung back slightly startled and looked around for a second before I realized it had been Klim that had shouted. I looked down at him oddly.
"Well at least you're awake now. You came round sooner than I thought you would."
"Did you deal with Elemus?" asked Klim.
I gave a small chuckle to myself. Straight to business eh? Well ok then.
"Elemus? No sweat at all Klim. It's a pile of scrap metal now." I replied with a smile, "How else would I have been able to heal you?"
Klim sat up with a groan and looked round.
"What should we do with him?" he asked looking at Kat.
"I dunno yet Klim but I already got both his emeralds and the one from Elemus too."
"So my two, your two, Kat's pair and the one from Elemus…"
"…makes seven Klim. We have them all."
Klim looked stunned for a moment before he reacted.
"SWEET!" he cried happily.
"Not yet Klim." I replied.
"What?"
"Let's not go back yet."
"Why not?"
"I got a small score to settle." I replied looking away.
"Very well then but this'll be the last fight ok." replied Klim reluctantly.
"You got it. Jynx, Klime keep an eye on Kat for us."
"Will do Lynx. Good luck." replied Jynx.
Both Klim and myself hauled ourselves from the floor and ran across the room. At the far end, behind where Elemus had been, was an opening that led upwards. Klim motioned up the stairs.
"Up here?" he said.
"I think so. Nowhere else to go is there." I replied taking to the stairs.
As I climbed I began to wonder. Where would these stairs go? Where had Sonic and Tails gone? Where was Robotnik? The stair continued for a while and I began to think they'd never end. They did, finally, at a large metal door. We both stopped and looked at each other.
"Well this is it." I said.
"Yup." came Klim's reply.
I slowly reached forwards and touched a small panel beside the door. It beeped and the metal door slid open to reveal what was behind, the roof. We both walked threw the door a few paces before we saw our next test. A huge mech stood on the roof. When I say huge it was huge. Klim and myself barely came up to the top of the mech's foot.
"Oh my god!" said Klim slowly.
"This is not going to be as easy as I thought." I said looking up at the mech.
"You've interfered with my plans too many times!" boomed a voice from above, Robotnik, "However, you've also been a help. You've brought all the emeralds right to me and once I get rid of you there will be nothing to stop me."
"Oh yeah!" taunted Klim, "What makes you think it'll be that easy?"
"This." came a reply.
Moments later a huge gun barrel swung down to point at us both. The barrel was so big I could have walked down it with room to spare but I had no time to stare. The tip of the barrel flared with light, making ready to fire.
"KLIM! LOOK OUT!" I screamed as I dove to the side.
I rolled off to one side just as the cannon erupted causing a huge explosion and putting a huge hole in the roof. Landing on my front I rolled onto my back and looked at where Klim had been. I saw him charging the mech's foot with his spear but the attack did absolutely nothing. What's this thing armored with?! Diamond glass?! I scrambled to my feet and jumped into the air. My tails were feeling much better after the heal even if they were still a little sore. Drawing my sword I made several quick swipes in mid air and threw a number of energy waves at the mech. To my amazement each wave hit cleanly and bounced off fragmenting into sparks of light. I then noticed a flash of lightning streak across the roof and hit the mech causing only a small scorch mark. DAMN! Not even Emerald attacks were working.
"Give it up, you cannot defeat me." laughed Robotnik.
"Klim! There has to be a weakness somewhere! We have to find it." I cried.
"There is no weakness, not this time!" cried Robotnik.
As I had been yelling at Klim, Robotnik had swung the huge cannon round at me and fired. I noticed it but not in time as the blast seared past my person. The next thing I knew I woke with a start as I hit something.
"Lynx? Lynx you ok?" asked Klim.
I looked up at Klim as he held me. I guess I had fallen and he had caught me.
"Definitely felt better." I coughed in reply.
"It's over you fools!" said Robotnik.
I looked up just in time to see the massive gun pointing right at us. Klim shot to the side but with me in his arms he couldn't move fast enough. He was hit as he dodged and fell to the ground. I flew from his arms and landed a few feet away with a crunch. I could feel my strength just draining away and I just wanted to go to sleep.
"Aah, I can't take much more of this." groaned Klim as he crawled up next to me, "Lynx?"
I nodded slowly to myself. If only I could get to my emerald….wait! The Emeralds!
"Klim, we have to use the Emeralds. They're our last hope." I groaned
Klim looked stunned for a second before replying.
"What? Tell me you're not thinking of…..do you think we can really do that?" he replied.
"Normally no, but after this trip I'm ready to believe anything."
I slowly reached for and took out the four Emeralds I currently held. The cyan one was still merged with my blade but I brought it close to the others anyway. Klim took out his two and then each of the Emerald glinted brightly. I felt as though a thousand batteries had been hooked up to me and set off. Jumping to my feet every ache and pain in my body vanished in a second. I slowly raised my head and looked at the mech. My sword lay on the ground at my feet and with a swift motion I spun and grabbed it, jumping back a few feet as I did. It was then I noticed my change. My arm, which was normally white, was now a pure black colour. A quick survey found that all my white fur had gone black and the blue had gone a deep red colour. I took a look at my sword to find that it was pulsing with energy. So that's it. Both myself and my sword have a super form, amazing.
I swung my gaze to Klim for a moment. He had also changed, going a deep almost Sonic like blue colour with small white lightning bolt shaped patches all over him. Giving him a small smile I took off into the air.
"AH! I'll still destroy you no matter what you look like!" roared Robotnik.
Several rocket pods appeared on the mech's side and opened fire. I knew they were aimed at Klim but I felt as if I didn't have to look out for him this time. As I climbed a couple of missiles flew my way and I decided to test just how strong I'd become. Raising my foot back I kicked a couple of the just behind where the war heads would have been. The first missile spun back and hit the mech on the top. It didn't cause any real damage but it was fun. The second exploded as I kicked it but I felt no pain and as the explosion cleared I still hovered in mid air. I dove out of the sky towards the mech raising my sword back as I did. As I neared the mech I brought my sword down heavily on the side. The glowing blade split the mech's armour in a second and stuck in fast. I charged an energy wave on my blade and moments later the side of the mech exploded. I swung my sword round again and this time carved off a huge section of the mech's side armour. Jumping back and hovering, I started to charge my next attack. The shots fired at me slowed to a complete halt, I recognized the move from before. It was the one I had used to defeat Elemus.
"Let's see just how much more powerful this move is." I said to myself.
The landscape frosted over and soon my tails turned to ice. Swinging them forwards I threw the ice bolts at the mech and waited a second for my tails to reform. The blizzard erupted around me and I charged at the mech. The blow knocked it sideways and virtually disintegrated the entire left side of the thing. I quickly charged an energy wave on my blade and then used it to swat away a few missiles before laying into the mech's side with a mad flurry of strokes.
As I laided into the mech's left side I noticed a large bolt of energy fly across the roof and hit the right side. The mech made a few odd noises and the huge cannon dipped and went offline. Hehe! Trust Klim to find the perfect place to strike.
"No way! I can't believe this!" cried Robotnik, "Well I still have my backups. Secondary weapons fire!"
Leaping back, I saw several new missile pods and guns emerging from the mech. It was then that I noticed my fatigue. Like when I had been hit I felt like I wanted to go to sleep. I looked over at Klim who appeared to be flagging a bit too. I watched him destroy two missile pods before yelling to him.
"Klim we can't keep this up. We don't have infinite energy and if it's anything like Sonic we'll need rings." I shouted at him looking around, "And I don't see any!"
Klim quickly ploughed through another launcher before being hit. He was certainly getting sluggish and so was I.
"Dammit! We won't have enough time." he said.
"Holy cookies and cream!" came a yell from behind us, "Just what on Earth is THAT?!"
I turned to see a familiar looking red and white cat standing in the doorway, it was Kat.
"Kit Kat! You with us?!" cried Klim.
"I don't remember not being with you. " he replied, "Apart from when we parted in the mountains. But anyway what it that thing?!"
"Robotnik's new toy." I shouted quickly slicing a missile pod in two.
"Well if you're back with them you can die as well." cried Robotnik as several guns aimed in Kat's direction.
The guns fired but Kat was more nimble than anyone I'd met and easily dodged the volley.
"Lynx get to Kat! We have to get him the emeralds so he can go super too." said Klim quickly.
"You got it." I replied quickly swooping from the sky towards Kat.
As I shot towards Kat several missiles fell around me shaking me from side to side but I continued on. As I drew nearer I drew the emeralds I had and brought my sword into plain view. There was a sudden bright flash and I came to a skidding halt next to Kat. He had changed just like us. Orange fur and really light blue jeans. I gave him a small smile.
"Alright! Let's give him some!" cried Klim.
Looking back at Robotnik's mech I puzzled for a moment. We were causing damage but not enough. And if we dropped out of our super form before we'd destroyed it then we'd be finished. We needed a big attack, something huge. I began to wonder if I had a super move of any sort but Klim seemed to have other ideas.
"Let's focus our energy together. Throw everything you have at me and I'll send it back at him." he said.
"Hold on Klim! You sure you wanna do that?" I asked, "You have no idea what that kind of energy would do to you."
"We don't have any other choice. We have to bring this thing down….NOW!"
"Klim…"
"Don't worry I'll be fine. Just do it!"
"Ok then!" said Kat, "Come on Lynx lets go! Before Roboegg decided to finish us."
I really didn't want to do this. What if he got hurt? Or worse, killed? What if….? Snap out of it Lynx dammit! Just do it!
I looked up to see Kat already at work. He was glowing brightly and I could see a red coloured ball of energy forming in Klim's hands.
"FIRE!" cried Kat.
Swinging my sword round and slamming it down into my other palm I took a step backwards. I felt a strong surge of power from the emerald and my sword went a blinding blue colour. Moments later I felt it slipping away as my thoughts focused on Klim. The ball in Klim's hands went an icy blue colour as my energy merged with Kat's.
"ICE!" I cried.
A moment later the ball of energy went a yellow colour and started to crackle.
"LIGHTNING!" cried Klim.
The ball in his hands started to spin faster, changing colour frantically until at length it stopped. The ball went a white colour and an overwhelming surge of energy ripped through my body. I was sure I was going to pass out before suddenly the feeling faded and the ball erupted. First a tiny beam of energy aimed directly at the mech but then it changed. The beam expanded changing into a huge ray of energy that cleaved the giant mech clean in two. The top of the mech fell off to one side but the bottom just exploded instantly. However I only saw this happen in my peripheral vision. My mind was fixed on Klim as he suddenly dropped from his super form and collapsed. The emeralds fell from his body and clattered to the floor a few meters away. I raced to his side and shook him.
"Klim! Klim you alright?" I asked.
He didn't respond but before I could shake him again I felt a hand on my shoulder.
"Don't worry about him. He'll be fine." said Kat.
I sighed slowly as I checked for and found that he was breathing still.
"Yeah I guess so Kat. Boy that was…"
A laugh slowly broke the air.
"Don't think it's over yet fools."
Wha…what?!" I said turning.
Out of the smoke caused by the mech's lower half exploding I could see something. It hovered in the air and as it slowly moved forwards out of the smoke I gasped. It was the top half of the mech we had just fought. It hovered on several jets that had appeared out of its side. The arms were still there but now had a number of large spikes sticking out of each of its fingertips. On the top of the mech were two new cannons, not as big as the one from earlier but still large.
"But but but…" I stammered.
"HAHAHA! You thought that blast had stopped me? Think again!" said Robotnik.
The mech's arm lunged at me trying to spike me with its new claws. I jumped to the side and the claw dug deeply into the roof top causing it to cave in. It swung at me but again I dodged. I suddenly felt an odd sensation in my arms. Looking at them I saw that the black colour was fading back to white.
"No I'm changing back!" I said.
"HAHAHA! Now you're mine!" cried Robotnik.
I looked up to see the claw coming down again. I dodged a final time but the roof couldn't handle another blow like that. Splintering the entire section between the three strikes caved in. I cried out in horror as I saw that Klim was lying on this section as it caved in. I could do nothing but watch as the roof caved in with him on it. I looked up to see that Kat was springing around dodging rapid fire shots from the cannon whilst firing fireballs at the thing.
"KAT! Get Klim!" I cried.
Not waiting for a response I spun and raced to where the other two emeralds had fallen. Scooping them up as another hand strike landed behind me, I slowly felt a surge of energy. It wasn't much and I didn't have much time left. Turning back to face the mech I slowly began to focus on my energy. There had to be something powerful about this form or why else would I be able to use it? There had to be a super move of some kind here. But what? As I focused I slowly opened my eyes. The entire area had turned into one huge blizzard again. No not this move again! I needed something more! Something….WHAT THE HELL?!
I just starred straight ahead as suddenly a white fox stepped into view. It looked like he had appeared out of mid air and he looked just like me apart from having deep blue rather than cyan on his tails. As I looked around I noticed several more white foxes. Some had different coloured tail tips and some were slightly more grey or blue rather than white but they all looked like me.
"What the hell is going on?" I said.
"Don't worry."
"You again! What's happening?"
"Don't worry. You asked for this and you got it."
"What? A super move?"
"Yes but be quick. You know what to do."
The emerald went quiet again and I suddenly realized what to do. I looked to the side of me. A white version of myself with orange tail tips looked back and smiled. I smiled back before looking back at the frozen mech. I raised my sword above my head and spoke.
"Let's end this….CHARGE!"
I sprung forwards running towards the mech. A flurry of calls erupted and I saw several other versions of myself charging forwards too. A number stayed back charging long distance moves like my Ice Breaker move and a few I didn't even know about. My blade turned an almost black blue colour as the energy charged on it. The fox next to me suddenly started to move in slow motion. Leaping into the air and raising his sword he looked like something out of the Matrix. So that's what my Time Strike move looks like!
I looked back at the mech and jumped at it swinging my sword.
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!" I screamed.
The cry was echoed by the other foxes before all our moves contacted with the mech at the exact same time. Everything went white and then faded to black…