AN: If you didn't understand Janus in the last chapter, he's the one who
powered the costume spell, but it backfired when the Chaos Emeralds stole a
lot of his power to become Super Emeralds. So the guy has a reason to be
rather ticked off at Sonic and by proxy, Xander. Lets me use a recurring
villain without going into the repeating much, sure the Scoobies fought
Glory, but she wasn't really much more than a tank, little in the ways of
brains with far to much brawn, Janus also isn't out to destroy the world,
he just wants revenge. Also, it gives me a reason to use some Robotnik
style lines when his plans go wrong. Another side note, a friend of mine
who's been reading these before I post them asked me what I listen to as I
write them, namely the playlist I have is the theme songs from Sonic X and
the Sonic Adventures (the one involving the Freedom Fighters) and the song
Sonic Boom from the Sonic CD game.
Brutal2003- Mainly what would make it funny is when they both drop out of the forms and figure out what just happened.
JWolf- This chapter explains what they are, or at least the first of Janus' plans. The second idea is a great one, I need to go look at a lot of the episodes with Jenny in it. I can't remember if she revealed who she was before Angel assembled the Judge? But it's not going to happen for a few more chapters anyway, just some fore planning to keep from causing plot holes for people who don't have the time to always reread the other chapters, (I'm not putting anyone down, I do the same thing!) by replacing things. Though perhaps there is a way for the Chaos Emeralds to mess with it, or Janus causing more trouble.
Xander smirked as he waited outside the library doors listening to Giles try to explain how Sonic the Hedgehog showed up to leave a severed demon's head asking what it was, only to leave and apparently drive the principal insane and dangling from the top of the flagpole and leave him there.
He finally decided to enter, clamping down on the grin that had remained in place since the previous day's stress reliever. Mainly, what he used was his frustration at remaining unable to access the powers now contained within the Chaos Emeralds, not to mention the Super Emeralds.
"Hey all, what's up?" he asked, sliding into a seat.
"The speedy rodent showed his face in the school again," Buffy responded as she held up the lizard demons head, "And he left a severed head behind."
Willow gave Xander an odd look, one he clearly read as a 'what the hell were you thinking' look.
He shrugged back, trying to portray a 'it seemed like a good idea at the time,' prompting the redhead to respond by rolling her eyes in seeming annoyance.
"Buffy," Giles interrupted, "It wasn't just that he dropped it off, he seems to have ticked off a god, Janus, the one who was behind Halloween's fiasco, if he has turned his attention to the Hellmouth."
Janus smiled as his plan activated. He had to hand it to the chaos mage who started this mess, almost enough to deter that part of his wrath. One of the things that scared his foe the worst, a nightmare from the spell that brought the pest forth. All that was left was to send it on a rampage..
"Guys," Cordelia yelled as she entered the library at a full dash, depositing a pocket TV on the table, "You really ought to see this!"
They all turned to glance, Xander's eyes opening wider than even he had thought possible, "Oh shit! This is not good!"
"What the hell is that thing!" Buffy yelped as Willow stared straight at Xander.
The reporter cut in, "I repeat, this mechanical monstrosity is tearing through the Sunnydale Army Base, the only thing it has said is, and I quote, "Primary Mission Objective: Terminate Sonic the Hedgehog."
"So our resident rodent has managed to bring us even more trouble," Buffy commented as Xander nodded towards the door to Willow, who nodded back.
"How do we deal with this?" Willow asked as the screen showed the silver machine tearing through a pair of tanks like so much tissue paper.
"I go and leave it in the scrap yard," Buffy responded as she went for the weapons cabinet.
"Buffy wait," Giles interrupted, "If the army can't stop it, how do you expect to?"
"Well..." she tried to answer, "...I'm drawing a blank here, but I at least have to try something."
"Buff," Xander commented, "Running off to fight something that could blow you up from a mile away with a sword is not conducive to survival, much less even getting to use the weapon, our only current hope is for Sonic to show up, he faced this thing in the games at least."
"What is it then?" Giles asked, turning to face Xander.
"Silver Sonic, developed by Doctor Ivo Robotnik to deal with Sonic the Hedgehog, and it was one tough bot to deal with in the game, in the comics it was also designed with data taken from the roboticized version of Sonic, making it even more lethal."
"We ought to all just go home and let the professionals deal with this, it's more than we can deal with at the time," Giles said somberly, "Let us hope that it can be dealt with."
A scream filled the room, erupting from the television as it was hit by what appeared to be a laser blast that sent it spinning away from the base as Buffy noticed something familiar just before it smashed into a building, "It just blew up Willy's!"
None of them noticed Xander slipping out, nor Willow following him.
"Xander, pleasetellmethatyou'renotgoingtodowhatIthinkthatyouaregoingtodo!" she almost pleaded.
"Wills, you know as well as I do that the military can't face that monster," Xander answered as he grabbed the power rings, "I have to face him, if for no other reason then to find out just how the machine got here."
"Well, please be careful," she said as he transformed.
"Hey, I'm me, ain't I? Be back in a flash!" Sonic responded before blasting off.
"That's what I'm afraid of," she whispered.
Sonic broke seven hundred miles an hour on the way to the base, reaching the point where he literally flew, pavement rupturing beneath him and leaving a trail of dust behind him.
The fence blasted inwards as he entered the base, raw fury in his mind as he slid to a stop and leaped atop a bunker to survey the damage caused by the mechanical menace.
There were fires burning everywhere, the cries of the wounded filled the air, drowning out the cackling of the flames, Silver Sonic was still destroying everything in sight.
"This is so not cool," he commented, "Well, I guess it's time to ring the doorbell."
Sonic activated another Power Ring and leaped skywards, nearing his foe.
The metal warrior turned to face the blue hedgehog, eyes glowing crimson through the dust, "Target identified: Sonic the Hedgehog, Primary Objective: Terminate said target!"
"You have got a serious problem with that one tracked mind," Sonic answered with a disgusted shrug, "Metalheads don't really have any multitasking ability anymore!"
Both the mechanical and the organic hedgehog charged, mirror images as they moved, Sonic countering laser blasts with brief flashes of his instashield.
For a brief instant, time seemed to slow just before impact, Sonic and Silver Sonic collided, sending out a shockwave and tossing both combatants outwards like rag dolls to smash into buildings as the blast flipped the few remaining military vehicles and threw the few soldiers.
They were on each other half an instant later, spiraling as blurs that mixed the colors into a light metallic blue as the dust cloud blocked out all prying eyes.
Sonic evaded a trip by launching into the sky, the power rings giving him flight by raw speed. The machine responded by activating its thrusters and joining the hedgehog in the air.
The two circled slowly, each watching for some weakness, some opening to strike. Then they both moved like lightning.
Silver Sonic launched a pair of missiles from it's gauntlets as Sonic tore forwards in a Spindash, avoiding the missiles that swerved, acquiring attack choppers for targets, sending flaming debris and parachuting pilots out of the air.
"Well, it looks like you can program an old metalhead a few new tricks," Sonic commented as he watched the blasts, "But you still can't teach one table manners."
Then they both attacked again, Sonic triggering even more rings, but he took a hit, sending him plowing through the armory, throwing up a cloud of dust that Silver Sonic's sensors couldn't penetrate.
The machine readied another set of missiles as the dust cleared.
It fired as soon as it could spot through the cloud, but it's programs instantly changed the prediction of what would happen as the sensors identified what the blue streak was holding, a Stinger Missile launcher.
"Bang baby," Sonic quipped as he fired the missile.
The stinger, being faster, though weaker, drew the two missiles off course only a foot away from the machine, all three collided at that point in a blast that's light penetrated the dust cloud as Sonic's modifications of every grenade he could find and tape to the warhead went off in a cascade reaction of blasts.
Sonic shielded his eyes through his sunglasses as the white light surrounded him as he was knocked off his feet, "Overkill?"
The dust light died down enough that he could see, but what he saw almost made his eyes pop out, the machine was standing there, undamaged save for some dents and a missing spike.
"No way," Sonic managed to say as it charged him, a punch sent him flying and a kick sent him crashing through a bunker, stopped by the rubble, laying there, barely able to move.
The machine hovered there aiming it's lasers at the injured hero.
"It can't..." Sonic stammered, "It can't end like this!"
Sonic groaned as he felt a surge of energy, the rest of the Power Rings had slipped from his pack, his chance.
Silver Sonic fired, the lasers and all four of its remaining missiles into the smashed bunker, all to slay its target.
The blast was a deafening roar with a gout of white hot flames burst into the air and a spray of rubble that rained down around the destruction.
Brutal2003- Mainly what would make it funny is when they both drop out of the forms and figure out what just happened.
JWolf- This chapter explains what they are, or at least the first of Janus' plans. The second idea is a great one, I need to go look at a lot of the episodes with Jenny in it. I can't remember if she revealed who she was before Angel assembled the Judge? But it's not going to happen for a few more chapters anyway, just some fore planning to keep from causing plot holes for people who don't have the time to always reread the other chapters, (I'm not putting anyone down, I do the same thing!) by replacing things. Though perhaps there is a way for the Chaos Emeralds to mess with it, or Janus causing more trouble.
Xander smirked as he waited outside the library doors listening to Giles try to explain how Sonic the Hedgehog showed up to leave a severed demon's head asking what it was, only to leave and apparently drive the principal insane and dangling from the top of the flagpole and leave him there.
He finally decided to enter, clamping down on the grin that had remained in place since the previous day's stress reliever. Mainly, what he used was his frustration at remaining unable to access the powers now contained within the Chaos Emeralds, not to mention the Super Emeralds.
"Hey all, what's up?" he asked, sliding into a seat.
"The speedy rodent showed his face in the school again," Buffy responded as she held up the lizard demons head, "And he left a severed head behind."
Willow gave Xander an odd look, one he clearly read as a 'what the hell were you thinking' look.
He shrugged back, trying to portray a 'it seemed like a good idea at the time,' prompting the redhead to respond by rolling her eyes in seeming annoyance.
"Buffy," Giles interrupted, "It wasn't just that he dropped it off, he seems to have ticked off a god, Janus, the one who was behind Halloween's fiasco, if he has turned his attention to the Hellmouth."
Janus smiled as his plan activated. He had to hand it to the chaos mage who started this mess, almost enough to deter that part of his wrath. One of the things that scared his foe the worst, a nightmare from the spell that brought the pest forth. All that was left was to send it on a rampage..
"Guys," Cordelia yelled as she entered the library at a full dash, depositing a pocket TV on the table, "You really ought to see this!"
They all turned to glance, Xander's eyes opening wider than even he had thought possible, "Oh shit! This is not good!"
"What the hell is that thing!" Buffy yelped as Willow stared straight at Xander.
The reporter cut in, "I repeat, this mechanical monstrosity is tearing through the Sunnydale Army Base, the only thing it has said is, and I quote, "Primary Mission Objective: Terminate Sonic the Hedgehog."
"So our resident rodent has managed to bring us even more trouble," Buffy commented as Xander nodded towards the door to Willow, who nodded back.
"How do we deal with this?" Willow asked as the screen showed the silver machine tearing through a pair of tanks like so much tissue paper.
"I go and leave it in the scrap yard," Buffy responded as she went for the weapons cabinet.
"Buffy wait," Giles interrupted, "If the army can't stop it, how do you expect to?"
"Well..." she tried to answer, "...I'm drawing a blank here, but I at least have to try something."
"Buff," Xander commented, "Running off to fight something that could blow you up from a mile away with a sword is not conducive to survival, much less even getting to use the weapon, our only current hope is for Sonic to show up, he faced this thing in the games at least."
"What is it then?" Giles asked, turning to face Xander.
"Silver Sonic, developed by Doctor Ivo Robotnik to deal with Sonic the Hedgehog, and it was one tough bot to deal with in the game, in the comics it was also designed with data taken from the roboticized version of Sonic, making it even more lethal."
"We ought to all just go home and let the professionals deal with this, it's more than we can deal with at the time," Giles said somberly, "Let us hope that it can be dealt with."
A scream filled the room, erupting from the television as it was hit by what appeared to be a laser blast that sent it spinning away from the base as Buffy noticed something familiar just before it smashed into a building, "It just blew up Willy's!"
None of them noticed Xander slipping out, nor Willow following him.
"Xander, pleasetellmethatyou'renotgoingtodowhatIthinkthatyouaregoingtodo!" she almost pleaded.
"Wills, you know as well as I do that the military can't face that monster," Xander answered as he grabbed the power rings, "I have to face him, if for no other reason then to find out just how the machine got here."
"Well, please be careful," she said as he transformed.
"Hey, I'm me, ain't I? Be back in a flash!" Sonic responded before blasting off.
"That's what I'm afraid of," she whispered.
Sonic broke seven hundred miles an hour on the way to the base, reaching the point where he literally flew, pavement rupturing beneath him and leaving a trail of dust behind him.
The fence blasted inwards as he entered the base, raw fury in his mind as he slid to a stop and leaped atop a bunker to survey the damage caused by the mechanical menace.
There were fires burning everywhere, the cries of the wounded filled the air, drowning out the cackling of the flames, Silver Sonic was still destroying everything in sight.
"This is so not cool," he commented, "Well, I guess it's time to ring the doorbell."
Sonic activated another Power Ring and leaped skywards, nearing his foe.
The metal warrior turned to face the blue hedgehog, eyes glowing crimson through the dust, "Target identified: Sonic the Hedgehog, Primary Objective: Terminate said target!"
"You have got a serious problem with that one tracked mind," Sonic answered with a disgusted shrug, "Metalheads don't really have any multitasking ability anymore!"
Both the mechanical and the organic hedgehog charged, mirror images as they moved, Sonic countering laser blasts with brief flashes of his instashield.
For a brief instant, time seemed to slow just before impact, Sonic and Silver Sonic collided, sending out a shockwave and tossing both combatants outwards like rag dolls to smash into buildings as the blast flipped the few remaining military vehicles and threw the few soldiers.
They were on each other half an instant later, spiraling as blurs that mixed the colors into a light metallic blue as the dust cloud blocked out all prying eyes.
Sonic evaded a trip by launching into the sky, the power rings giving him flight by raw speed. The machine responded by activating its thrusters and joining the hedgehog in the air.
The two circled slowly, each watching for some weakness, some opening to strike. Then they both moved like lightning.
Silver Sonic launched a pair of missiles from it's gauntlets as Sonic tore forwards in a Spindash, avoiding the missiles that swerved, acquiring attack choppers for targets, sending flaming debris and parachuting pilots out of the air.
"Well, it looks like you can program an old metalhead a few new tricks," Sonic commented as he watched the blasts, "But you still can't teach one table manners."
Then they both attacked again, Sonic triggering even more rings, but he took a hit, sending him plowing through the armory, throwing up a cloud of dust that Silver Sonic's sensors couldn't penetrate.
The machine readied another set of missiles as the dust cleared.
It fired as soon as it could spot through the cloud, but it's programs instantly changed the prediction of what would happen as the sensors identified what the blue streak was holding, a Stinger Missile launcher.
"Bang baby," Sonic quipped as he fired the missile.
The stinger, being faster, though weaker, drew the two missiles off course only a foot away from the machine, all three collided at that point in a blast that's light penetrated the dust cloud as Sonic's modifications of every grenade he could find and tape to the warhead went off in a cascade reaction of blasts.
Sonic shielded his eyes through his sunglasses as the white light surrounded him as he was knocked off his feet, "Overkill?"
The dust light died down enough that he could see, but what he saw almost made his eyes pop out, the machine was standing there, undamaged save for some dents and a missing spike.
"No way," Sonic managed to say as it charged him, a punch sent him flying and a kick sent him crashing through a bunker, stopped by the rubble, laying there, barely able to move.
The machine hovered there aiming it's lasers at the injured hero.
"It can't..." Sonic stammered, "It can't end like this!"
Sonic groaned as he felt a surge of energy, the rest of the Power Rings had slipped from his pack, his chance.
Silver Sonic fired, the lasers and all four of its remaining missiles into the smashed bunker, all to slay its target.
The blast was a deafening roar with a gout of white hot flames burst into the air and a spray of rubble that rained down around the destruction.