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Chapter3:"Round 1, Keep fighting!"
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During the midfight break, Nack took his chance to sabotage. Again.
"Hmmm...There's no way to sabotage that hedgehog!He's too fast!Unless..." said Nack in the shadows, with a devilish grin creeping onto his face. Knuckles kept a close eye on Nack normally, but due to the fact that he was now 'resting his eyes', he couldn't. When the five minutes was over, Nack realised that he hadn't been able to sabotage anyone. However, He had formulated a plot.
When he got to the ring, the contestants were already waiting in the ring. They were Amy and Rouge. Amy was twitching nervousley. Rouge was filing her nails.
"Okay, ladies!" announced Nack, who was quite looking foward to it. "FIGHT!"
Rouge flew straight up into the air, using her flight to it's full advantage.
"Get down here you stupid bat!" yelled Amy.
"Why would I want to do that, Pinky!" retorted Rouge. She then swept down to attack Amy, but missed and got hit with a full blown slam from the piko-piko.
"What was that for!"
"Well I have to win don't I?" said Amy. Rouge, in anger, Charged down at Amy in a drill dive. It hit. Amy was then sent underground by the force of the hit. When she came out, she yet again slammed Rouge. But rather than let the now airborne Rouge attack again, Amy threw the Piko-Piko at her. Rouge was hit fully on target, right in the head.She fell down on the ring in a dive. Amy went to check if she was hurt, only to receive a kick in the head.
"What'd ya plan to do now you don't have that Hammer of yours, Pinky?" said Rouge.
"Oh, you know. Duck."
"What?" said Rouge. She was then hit by the hammer from behind. It landed on the ground between the two fighters. They both made a mad dive for it, but it was Amy who got there first. She turned around, but Rouge wasn't there. She looked up in time to be hit by Rouge, screaming; "Look out below!"
Amy was hit hard, but wasn't unconcious. She then began to spin around on the spot, twirling around her Hammer.
"You know Amy, unless that gets you up here, you're ruined!"
She spoke to soon. Amy began to rise. Slowly at first, but gaining speed fast. Pretty soon she was level with Rouge. She turned to the side and charged feet first. Rouge was hit in the stomach, then again as Amy passed over her.
"Where'd she learn that!" asked Knuckles, down the ground. Up above him, Amy was begging to regret her descion. She slowly drifted to the ground where Rouge had crashed and began to stagger over to her.
"I feel... dizzy.."said Amy, as if she were drunk. Rouge rose from her crater and looked quizically at Amy. Realising that Amy had made herself sick from spinning so much, Rouge saw an oppurtunity and took it. She leapt off the ground, and prepared for a spinning kick. She was about to hit Amy, but the pink hedgehog looked up and said;
"Tricked 'ya!"
She grabbed Rouge's leg and spun her around and around, then slammed her very hard against the ground. She then flipped into the air and came down very hard on Rouge's side. Rouge got up a little, then fell back down, unconcious.
"And that's the game!" announced Nack, looking very shifty indeed. "Ok the next match is... Knuckles Vs. Big."
Knuckles and Big both clibed on the arena floor, when Tails realised he had forgotten something.
"Uh, guys, I think I need to re-cement the floor."
The yellow-Orange fox climbed up onro the tornado to check how much cement was left.Unfortunately, with the previous battles causing so much damage, there was no cement left.
"Hmm... I guess it's time to break for lunch." said Tails "I'll whip up some more cement while you guys do. So, everybody left for lunch. Sonic, after working up a mighty apetite from fighting Vector, headed to the chilli dog stand across the street. He went back to the arena to talk to tails, and was just about to take his first bite when he had to help tails out of the mixer. While Sonic was away, Nack crept out of his hiding spot and drippe a srnge, black liqiud out of a dropper onto the food. He snuck off as soon as he saw Sonic turn around.
Time remaining: 138 : 12 : 19 : 27 :43
Now that the cement had been made and hardened on the field, Big and Knuckles could fight. They, yet again, clambered onto the ring. Nack sat back lazily in his chair and waited as the two got in to position.
"3..2..1..Fight!" he said in the most sarcastic, yet monotonous voice he could muster.
Knuckles burst into a flurry of brutal punches, all hitting the purple behemoth is the stomach. Big didn't even flinch. As soon as Knuckles stopped punching, Big just backhanded him, and sent Knuckles sprawling on the floor. Knuckles, shaken but not hurt, got back up. He went up to Big and was about to punch him, so Big was about to back hand him again, but Knuckles just did a sliding kick, which tripped up big. Knuckles got up from his slide and did one of his special moves:
"THUNDER ARROW!"
A lightning bolt appeared from the clear blue sky and hit big, stunning him, but not knocking him out. Knuckles took his chance to attack. He lifted Big high above his head and threw him, but due to his weight, Big didn't travel far.
"It's not nice to throw people." satated Big as he stod up, now a little shaken and a little bruised. He stood up, and lumbered over to Knuckles. He then picked up Knuckles and slammed him down on his head.
Knuckles, despite such a blow, stood back up. Nothing would stop him from winning. Now especially, as Big's voice really annoyed him. He then went into a fury of punches, but there was difference this time: He was aiming at big's feet. Big began to toppel over at this, and was waving his arms about. Knuckles then punched him really hard in the stomach. He fell over and Knuckles then picked up his feet. He spun sround three times and released Big upwards. Big nearly cleared the troposphere, then came crashing down at sonic speed. Just before he hit the floor, Knuckles hit him with an uppercut, which sent big flying right back up. Big landed much faster this time. And he left a bit of a crater. He was left lying in this crater for ten seconds before he was declared unconcious.
"YEAH!" yelled Knuckles, jumping about in celebration. the Tornado then filled in the crater as soon as Big was out of it.
"Well."said Nack, who was steadily becoming more and more bored."The next match is...Oh! Mighty versus Tails! This might be interesting!"
Tails and Mighty both got into the ring, eager to start the fight.
"HA! This'll be easy as anything!" said Mighty.
"I don't think so." said Tails. He held out his hand, showing his palm. "See this glove? It looks completely ordinary. That's because it is. But this other one" continued Tails,holding out the other glove which had several wires with energy currents flowing through them."This other one allows me to control all energy and convert into it's purest form. So now I can blast you!"
"Geez you foxes like to hear yourselves talk." said Mighty. Tails responded by firing a blast of pure energy at Mighty. Mighty just barley had enough time to curl up into a ball and use his armoured shell to deflect it. Tails left a crater infront of him. Mighty leapt up into the air and said;
"You'll have to do better than that to beat an Armidillo!"
He came crashing down with a mean right hook. Tails then hit back with a bycicle kick. It allowed for Mighty to be sent airborne long enough for Tails to blast him back down and body slam him. Mighty got back up and did a fake right hook and then did a puch with his left Tails in the gut. He then, while Tails doubled over, hit him in the back. Tails rolled up to meet him and stuck his palm out. He then blasted Mighty upwards. He then flew up, following him, and used the same maneuver that he did for Team Blast and sent Mighty sailing back down. He flew back down and waited for the dust to clear. But then a shadow from inside the smoke leapt upon him and punched him hard in the chest.
"Hah! My armour made sure that I was left unscathed!"
Tails then began to seemingly spin around on the spot. But, instead of staying there, he moved foward and was whipping about!
"Beat this, armour boy!" said Tails, moving closer. As soon as he was in range, Mighty turned around. Tails simply bounced off. Mighty then turned around to strike Tails, but he wasn't there. He looked into the crowd and saw Bark nod upwards. He looked up in time to receive a facefull of energy. He fell to the floor. Tails came and looked down at him, but Mighty kicked him in the face.
"Ha! It'll take more than that to-"
"Beat an Armidillo, yes yes I know.But you won't be able to beat this!" said Tails. He charged up his strange glove again, but this time instead of the pale orange energy of last time, this was a crystal blue energy, and it was shining bright.
"What is that!" asked Sonic.
"This" said Tails "Is the most powerful weapon you'll ever see."
Tails let loose the huge wave of energy from his glove. It was slowly forcing mighty backwards, as if it were a solid wall. In a last ditch effort to save himself, Mighty rolled into a ball. Strangely, this deflected it entirely.
"WHAT!" exclaimed Tails "No one can out smart me!"
"Well, as I said before, It'll take more than that to beat an Armidillo!"
"Forget this!" said Tails, chucking his glove's equipment away. "I'll do this the old fashion way, not the Saturday morning cartoon way!"
But Mighty, tired of playing the defensive, fought back this time. He rolled into a ball and began to spin around on the spot, taking a leaf out of sonics book, and chaged up a spindash. He let it loose on Tails, who was tripped down to the ground. Still in a spindash, Mighty turned around and ran over him.
"AUGH!" cried Tails as his chest was crushed. He coughed up blood. But, still not out, he got back up.
I'm going to win one way or another ! thought Tails. In a flash, Mighty leapt out of his Spindash.
"Had enough, Fox boy? Or have you had enough?" mocked Mighty.
Ther are very few people who could recall what happened next. Tails, as quick as lightning, leapt into the air and landed on Mighty's head. Mighty was then Knocked to the ground.
"Don't call me fox boy. I hate being called fox boy."
"It'll take more than that to beat an armidillo!"
"WHAT!"
"Try this one!" yelled Mighty. He himself leapt into the air to try one of his special moves.
"IRON SHELL!!!" he yelled in mid air. As he did, his shell flashed to silver and came crashing down on Tails.
Tails was soon at the bottom of a three foot crater, moaning, until he finally passed out. Mighty had just gotten one hell of a victory. And unfortunately for Tails,Tails just got one hell of a beating. After Tails was taken off and treated by an ambulance with a black hedgehog and a white fox in it, he was okay. But while he was seen to, the others fixed the field.
"Why suprise suprise it's time to have another fight."said Nack."Well then, Bark, Espio, shall we dance?"
"Shut up and call the fight, would ya?" growled Bark.
"Yeah all right, don't get fussy. Get into the ring. You guys ready?" The two nodded. "Then let's go, 3,2,1 FIGHT!"
Bark and Espio both leapt into action. Bark started out with a heavy punch, but Espio leapt up over it and withdrew a throwing star. He threw it skillfully at Bark, but Bark had reflexes faster than any cat, and he caught it. He threw it back and watched as Espio back flipped into it, deflecting it away. Epio then did one of his favourite abilities- Camoflauge. He swiftly diapeared from veiw, leaving Bark very stunned. But Espio didn't waste time. He sprung up from behind Bark with a flying kick, hitting him between the shoulder blades. Bark whipped around, but by then, Espio had already moved. Bark was hit again, this time in the side. He doubled over and coughed. After a fit of coughing, he got back up.
He looked around, hopefully to spot Espio. After a couple of seconds, he whipped out a heavy punch towards his front. Strangeley, he connected with something. Espio flickered out of camoflauge.
"How did you know where I was?"
"You attacked in a pattern." said Bark.
"Either that or a very lucky guess." said Sonic nochalantly to Tails.
"Well, either way, it doesn't matter. Prepare for defeat !"
Espio whipped out another two ninja stars. He threw them at Barks feet. They pinned him to the ground so that he couldn't move from the spot. Espio then began a series of kicks to Barks back. Bark couldn't do anything to fight Back. Except for one thing. With great effort, he bent down and slowly withdrew the painful things from his feet. Espio didn't waste a bit of time. He leapt out with a flying kick that sent Bark sprawling onto the ground. Slowly, the Polar Bear got back up.
"It seems you're better than I thought." Bark taunted "Guess I'll have to go for one of my special moves! QUAKE PUNCH!"
Bark then slammed the ground with his fist, sending huge vibrations not only down the ring, nor the town square they were in, but the whole city! The shockwave wasn't enough to knock the cityfolk down, but it was more than enough to have Espio lying on the ground. As soon as he was, Bark picked up the chameleons feet and twirled him around. Espio was hurled out of Bark's grip and was sent sailing to the opposite edge of the ring, where he landed on the very edge, balancing himself only by two fingers. But he didn't give up then. Instead he flipped over and charged at Bark, with a brand new reform. As soon as he was within a metre of Bark, he rolled up into a spindash. He tripped Bark, then leapt up into the air behind the polar Bear and preformed a backflip onto his back. Espio then punched him in theback and flipped off as soon as Bark was back on his feet. As soon as Bark was back on his feet though, Espio was charging at him at full speed. He didn't stop this time. Instead he just charged at him and knocked him down. He was down at the edge of the ring. Espio then took his chance and did what could have been a abaseball slide and slid right into Bark, finally forcing him off the ring, winning Espio the match.
"AND THAT'S THE GAME!!!" yelled Nack.
"I guess we should all head home for dinner" said Tails, as it was now getting late.
"Yeah, those three fights did take us a while." said Knuckles.
The seventeen people all walked back to the train station. Well all of them walked except for Sonic and Shadow, who were racing. What was strange though, was that Sonic looked to have a bit of trouble keeping pace, or at least Tails thought. It didn't matter though.
TIME REMAINING: 133 : 19 : 45 : 87