TIME REMAINING: 154 hours 47 minutes 32 seconds 78 milliseconds
The 'guests' at Tails's house had just finished setting up their beds when the sun finally set in the distance. Bark, who was finally feeling the effects of a much warmer climate, sought the cooling feel of Tails walk in freezer, where he kept food and some ingredients which he used for experiments, but would otherwise explode in the outside heat.
"This is more like it!" said Bark. He set up his sleeping bag on the ground and found a small, green surprise.
"Bean!" said Bark "What are you doing here!"
"Well, I didn't bring anything with me except my bombs, so I borrowed your sleeping bag."
"Get out of here, ok." said Bark
"Fine, but I'm taking this." said Bean, holding up an Ice-Pick. He was fascinated by it, as he had never seen a real one before, living in his bomb factory.
"Bean, give me back my Ice-Pick."
"Fine, fine. Well then, I'll go outside then... all cold..."
"Oh, fine! Here, you can have my sleeping bag."
"You mean it!"
"Sure! I have a spare anyways" said Bark, pulling another out of the bag he had on his back.
"Thanks!" said Bean as he clambered out of the sleeping bag, and began to drag it outside.
"Strange fellow that Bean." stated Bark.
When Bean was outside, he found that all the good places for camp were all gone. He looked around, but found most of the available spaces left were too smelly, too cold, too wet, too hard etc. Then, as he began to remember that he had an advantage over everyone-his flight, he found a new spot. It was on top of the work shop! From up there he had a good view of pretty much everything- Knuckles nursing his face up in a tree, Rouge trying to steal his shiny green emerald, Sonic and Shadow doing laps and Cream playing with her Chao. The Chaotix all seemed to be in a great big lump of people on the other side of the camp. When Bean leant down onto the roof, he could even hear Tails mumbling. Bean thought for sure he had found the perfect spot.
TIME REMAINING 148 hours 32 minutes 21 seconds 89 milliseconds
It was about midnight, and Bean woke up for his usual snack, but found that no food was out on the roof. He looked down at the sleeping shanty-town below, and saw that not everyone was asleep. He saw a shady figure lurking around the bags of everyone.
Nack finally began to put his plan into action. So far he had sabotaged as many people as he could, but as he wasn't very imaginative, he did simple things like padding Knuckles gloves, emptying the fuel out of Shadow's hover skates and stealing Espio's shurikens. He then heard a strange sound- a cough. He looked around but couldn't see anything. He heard it again. He looked around and saw something that scared him- a black, shadowy figure on the rooftop!
"Who's up there!" he called out, rather unintelligently. Realising his mistake, he ran to where he thought the cover of his rocket was. But it wasn't there!
'Oh no' Nack thought 'My escape ship! How am I going to get out of here when the planet blows up?'
When he heard Knuckles stirring in his tree, Nack ran and hid in the cover of the hangar, where he soon fell asleep.
TIME REMAINING 140 hours 49 minutes 58 seconds 07 milliseconds
The next morning, around eight o'clock, Tails was buzzing around waking people up.
"Oh Crap!" yelled Tails "We're late for the tournament!"
He ran off in a hurried dash for the train line. Everyone stood there.
"Well come on people, we don't have all day!" yelled Bean, who flew down from the roof. The crowd then sprinted off after Tails. They all caught the train to the center of Station Square. What a strange sight anyone else saw! When Sonic stepped off the train, he being the fastest, he saw tails already ahead of him. Not one to be out run, Sonic zoomed ahead of Tails, and by some unknown force, ended up at the right place. A huge, stone looking boxing ring with no ropes.
"Uh, Tails, why is this here?" Sonic questioned, having never seen it before.
"Oh, it just doesn't normally look like that, someone used to sell pies on there."
"Oh."
"Well anyway!" said Tails, then, seeing the others arrive "Let's get this show on the road, shall we?"
Tails looked to the chart he had pinned up on a wall nearby. "Ok" he said. "The first match is between Shadow and Cream."
"What! Oh no!" shrieked Cream.
"Humph." said Shadow. In one graceful leap, he was in the ring. Although, it wasn't really a ring, more of a platform. So he landed on the platform. Cream clambered up onto the other side, cheese pushing her up. (She is really short.)
"Ok." said Nack "It says in this rule thing Tails gave me that if you leave the ring you are out, if you are knocked unconscious you are out and if you exceed over 200 meters over the ring then you are out and better prey someone catches you. It also says that if no winner is determined after three hours, then the match is over and a vote on the winner will be held. It also says Nack is a HEY, TAILS! WHY'D YOU WRITE THAT! Grrr... Make you fight NOW!"
And with that, Nack leapt out of the ring. Shadow, who never missed a beat, was already leaping in the air for a quick finish with a homing attack. Cream however being smarter than your average rabbit, leaped to the side, and then did a spin on the spot that catapulted Cheese into Shadow's side.
"OOOF!" gasped Shadow from the sudden attack. As quick as it happened though, Shadow recovered. He leapt up above Cream, and then came back down with a flying kick. Her chao cheese, again, came to her rescue with a block, but was also hurt by the attack, and was sent sprawling away, to the othersider of the ring.
Cream, tired of playing the defensive, went in for an attack. She, partly chaoless, came up with a new move, on the spot. She spun around, with her ears spinning out. They struck Shadow many times, but he didn't even flinch. He then leapt into the air and preformed one of his favourite techniques, the Black Tornado. He spun in the air and a black wind encircled the ring and swept Cream away. But, rather than being thrown off, she used her large ears to fly her way back. Shadow knew he needed a new strategy. He then noticed that Cheese had been hurt, and the rabbit was already crouching over it. He leapt into the air, about to preform a homing attack, but then shouted
"CHAOS SPEAR!"
Thousands of orange- light spears shot down, but instead of hitting the little rabbit, they hit her chao cheese, who flew up in the way.
"CHAO!" it shouted as it was blown away.
"CHEESE!" Cream shrieked. Without thinking, she ran off the side of the ring.
"It's OVER ALREADY!" yelled Shadow, who had been hoping for a challenge.
"What? It's not over." said Cream. When she realized what had happened, she let out a cry. "Oh no! How could I be so stupid?"
"It's ok little Rabbit. Big will help. Big will help when it's his turn." said Big.
"OK!" announced Nack "It seems that the first match is already over, lasting a grand total of one minute and thirty seconds! Oh well, let's start the next one. Ok, Bean and Re-123, you're up, and make it last!"
Bean, with a booster from Bark, climbed into the ring. Re-123 used his Booster rockets to get himself up there.
"Ok mister robot, prepare to be blown up!"
"Negative, Duck. I will be the victor!"
"Alright then you guys." said Nack "FIGHT!!!"
Re-123, with his robotic reflexes, was the first to strike. He let out over 30 rounds in the space of a couple of seconds, but to no avail, as Bean was already flying above him.
"Activating interceptor missiles!" ordered the large mecha robot. From his shoulders, two small tubes on either side launched out a wave of missiles. Bean, who was still trying to comprehend how exactly he had managed to avoid the last barrage, had very little time to react. He decided, rather than letting the missiles hit him, to do a quick dodge to the right. The missiles were still closing in, but they missed him entirely!
"You'll have to better than that mister robot!" yelled Bean. But then, a missile whizzed past his ear. "AHHH!!!" He shouted. Realising that the missiles were in fact homing missiles, he changed his flight path so that he was looping in and out of the other missiles, to try and get them to run into each other. Success! BOOM! One of the missiles ran into another ran into another, destroying them both.
'Two more to go.' thought Bean. He then headed in a straight dive for the ground at speeds very familiar to Sonic, but pulled up at the last second, losing the third missile.
When he was again face to face with Re-123, he yelled out
"Ha! Eat missile!"
Bean pulled off a very tricky manoeuvre that had him do a bicycle kick off Re-123, not damaging the robot, but instead sending the stupid missile right into him!
"What the!" shouted Vector from the crowd as he saw the spectacle at hand. Despite the fancy techniques of the Duck, there was the fact that the 4th missile hadn't done a thing to Re-123 in the least!
Re-123, using the ducks disillusionment, attacked him with a simple punch. Because of his weight, Bean was sent sprawling back into the floor, forming his own crater!
"What the hell!" said Bark as he saw sparks rising from the pit. Then, to everyone's amazement, a black sphere come sailing out of the pit. A bomb. It landed neatly in front of Re-123's foot. The robot barely had time to recognize the threat before his left leg was sailing in front of his face, bent by the explosive.
"That Ducks got some serious fire power!" said Sonic
"I hope I don't have to fight him!" shouted Amy
"As if you'd get past me..." muttered Rouge.
When the twisted metal landed, Tails was shocked, as none of Tails weapons could do any damage to that robot!
"And now for my final move." said Bean. He leapt into the air, and landed atop the now immobile robot. He then stuffed some dynamite into the things chest, just below the part where the robotic eyes joined on. In a second, the fuses burnt out, destroyed not only the insides of the robot, but destroyed the entire ring as well!
"Holy crap!" yelled Knuckles, marvelling at the fireball he just witnessed. And then at the size of the shrapnel falling around him from the robot.
"Well..." said a singed Nack. "I guess Bean wins. But what are we going to do for a ring?"
"Aha!" said Tails "I thought of that!"
Tails then ran outside and came back in with the tornado, now looking very much like a cement mixer. He then poured the cement into the holes on the court, and in a second they were solid again.
"Whoa! Tails! What'd you put in that!" said a stunned Bark.
"My own formula, Ultra quick dry cement. Have to keep it wet or it dries in the machine though."
"That's great. We could really use that to patch up the office." said Mighty.
"Can we get this tournament over with ? I'm late for the mayor!" yelled Ray.
"Well ok." Said Tails. "The cement has dried. The next match is...oh, Ray versus Charmy."
"Ok guys, Get in the ring!" said Nack. When they had finished getting in the ring, he simply announced
"FIGHT!"
Ray, desperate to get the fight over with, jumped into the air and punched the little bee in the head. Charmy flew backwards from the hit and was sprawled on the ground near Ray. He didn't move. Ray moved forward towards the Bee and inspected him.
"He can't be unconscious already-ARGH!" yelped Ray as he received a quick sting in the shoulder.
"That was a rotten trick!"
"Sorry, but if you've gotta win, you've gotta win. Which I'll do NOW!" roared Charmy as he charged at Ray, fists flailing. But, due to his size, Ray could just hold out a hand and push him back.
"Ha ha ha!" laughed Ray "You puny bee! You couldn't hurt a fly!"
"Oh yeah!" chirped Charmy "Then watch this!" Charmy then bit Ray's hand!
"OW!" gasped Ray. Charmy, taking advantage of Ray's shock, head butted him in the side.
"I like this kid!" said Nack, enjoying the dirty tactics which Charmy used. Charmy then flew up into the air, and bombed down, stinger out. Ray, quickly thinking, stepped to the side and batted Charmy away. While Charmy was still in the air, Ray leapt up and slammed both his fists on the bee's back, sending him sprawling. Charmy got back up and with the unstoppable force of a freight train, rammed into Ray. Ray flew off the side of the ring, but using one of his natural skills, glided back onto the ring.
"Hey! You never said you could do that! That's cheating!"
"Said the pot, calling the kettle black."
"Alright then! Take this!" Charmy replied, who then flew up to Rays head and did a bicycle kick, which sent him straight up, and then he flew into the air, grabbed Rays back, and began a dive for the ground, near the ring. Going at top speed, there was a second before impact. But the sharp minded Ray had an idea. He flipped over in mid air and Charmy was heading for the ground instead! At the last second, Ray launched himself off the youngest Chaotix and landed in the ring.
"This matches winner, much to my disappointment, is Ray!" said Nack. "Ok, let's hurry it up people, next match. Sonic versus Vector."
"Yes" said Sonic "I get to face some one easy!"
"Your lucky I don't crush you now, squirt!" grumbled Vector. They Sonic entered the ring.
"C'mon, Vector, get in the ring!" said Nack.
"I'll take all the time I need, Weasel!" roared Vector. When he finally entered the ring, Nack just waved his hand. Sonic took it that this was the que to fight. He ran right up to Vector and hit him with a right hook. It didn't do anything to the huge croc. When Vector hit Sonic with one of his right hooks, it sent him sprawling. Sonic then leaped into the air and did a triple flying kick into Vectors head, sending a spray of sweat from his brow off. Vector then balled up Sonic into a pincushion like form and threw him. Sonic uncurled in midair, and in a split-second was already using the infamous homing attack into Vectors head. The croc just caught him in his jaws and sent him back.
"How can Sonic beat this guy ?" asked Knuckles.
Sonic back in the ring, thought he had an idea.
"Hey, lizard face, can ya catch this!" taunted Sonic, who then ran in a circle around Vector, speedily increasing speed. Vector then swatted at Sonic, but he missed him. Sonic pretty soon hit top speed, at which, Tails braced himself for the very aptly named Sonic Boom. In a second, the loud noise of the hedgehog hitting the speed of sound put Vector off balance- just what he had been hoping for. Sonic then jumped and in midair unleashed his attack- Sonic wind. But Vector, who was a large beast, was only tripped over, but sent over the edge. Vector then ripped a chunk of cement out of the ground and heaved it at Sonic with all his might. Sonic just turned into a spin dash and destroyed the huge rock. Sonic leaped into the air and preformed another of his favourite techniques- Sonic wind.
"Sonic Wind!"
"Aargh!" screamed Vector, the sharp winds of blue energy whipping at his face.
"It's time for me to finish this!" yelled Sonic. He homing attacked at Vectors left foot, unbalancing him. He then Kicked out vectors other foot and hit him in midair, sending him flying again, but this time, a lot further than before. When Vector finally landed, he was at the edge of the ring (Even though it was a square.). Vector then got up and slammed into the ground, and hard as he could, sending Sonic up into the air because of his light weight. He tried to punch him in the air, but missed. Sonic hit the ground running, and was soon doing loops around Vector. Confused that Sonic was just running, he didn't respond. But then he noticed something strange- Sonic was getting lower. Vector then noticed that it was because Sonic was running so fast he was burrowing through the ground! Vector knew he had to stop him, so thinking quickly, he stuck his tail out, which sent Sonic to the edge, where he ended up supporting himself with two fingers.
"Hiya!" yelled Sonic as he then flipped himself over and landed a head butt into Vectors chest. In one clean sweep, he knocked Vector of his feet and triple kicked him over to edge, where Vector landed. He got up and growled, having verylittle strength left. He summoned up all the strength he could muster and let loose a punch at Sonic. Knowing sonic would dodge however, he stopped mid punch and kicked out Sonic's feet. Sonic hit the ground with a thud. Then Vector punched him. And punch him is the lightest term for it- Sonic was hammered into the ground with such force it felt like a truck was running in to him. Vector stepped back to admire the hole he just made. When he looked down into it however, Sonic wasn't there. He then found otu where sonic was. A sharp kick into his back gave him the clue. Then, as he turned, the roundahouse to the head. And with a the last move, a spindask-flying kick to his gut, which sent Vector flying extremely fast. Extremly fast into a wall, where he made yet another crater. And where he lost the match.
"WELL it's another victory for Sonic the hedgehog!" said Sonic.
"Let's get the next match over with." said Mighty, disinheartened that the strongest member of their Team could be beaten by Sonic the hedgehog.
TIME REMAINING: 139: 48 : 21 : 04