Chapter 23 - Now or never

We've been flying for 2 hours now. Lilly Fluff is the name of one of the female hedgehogs we picked up. Obviously, she likes flowers. The one we captured is her sister, Rosey Fluff. So... strange coincidences like this do happen. Lilly hasn't seen her sister for nearly 2 whole years. She says we should just keep her sister tied up for the moment. Her twin sister, to be exactly. She doesn't want to say what happened to them, but that doesn't really matter. A few minutes later, Rosey finally wakes up. Lilly is the first thing she sees.

Rosey: "YOU! I can't believe you're siding with these villains!"
Lilly: "You are the one that's siding with villains! I just met these people. And why are you helping The Malicious anyway!"
Rosey: "How do you know I work for him! And it's only been a couple of weeks."
Solar: "You used the same equipment as The Malicious and his buddies did. It's not that hard to find out you're one of them."
Rosey: "I didn't ask ya anything, stupid retard!"

Lilly tapes her mouth shut. She's a lot nicer to other people than her own sister... although she must have good reasons for it. We put her in a room, so she doesn't make too much noise. Lilly sighs. "She wasn't like this before... She hasn't changed one bit."

Then a big energy beam blasts through the ship, leaving a big hole. No one got hurt, but half of the engine got destroyed. Now the ship is on a crash course. I hasten myself to the cockpit, to ask what's going to happen. "Don't worry, boy. We will land soft, silent and safely." Robotnik tells me. Oh yeah, I nearly forgot. Robotnik worked with both Tails and Lexer on this newest Tornado. The Tornado 4. A few minutes later, we land on the ground. I didn't even notice when we were on the ground. We go outside. There's no one in sight, but the color of the beam was definitely the same as the ones Summers uses. Did he blast us from that huge distance? Lexer informs us that it will take about 30 minutes before the Tornado 4 can fly again. The holes will still be there though. But 30 minutes is still really impressive.

When it's done, we go into the plane again, and continue our flight to Evolutia. We arrive in another hour. During that time, Jody becomes conscious again too. I explain my plan to them, and the next day we're off to hunt Summers. Easily said, my plan is to beat the crap out of him, until he has no energy left. I don't know any other effective way, because none of us has an idea where his source of power is. But we can't just let him roam around either. A good strategy is needed for it, and I have it. Everyone goes, except for the twin sisters. Rosey won't be any help to use, and someone has to keep an eye on her. And that someone is her sister Lilly. Everyone thinks the plan is kind of far fetched, but it's better than running away each time, letting him do massive destruction. Besides, he won't have time to do anything.

We find him after only a few hours of search. From the looks of it, he is heading for Evolutia. But he's still very far away, and won't get there if my plan works. We all leave the plane, except for Tails. Everyone gets into position, and places a full out attack. First of all, Jody uses Exal to break his barrier. She gets blown away, but she was expecting it. After that, Robotnik uses his secret weapon, the Chaos Bazooka to stun Summers, over and over. Tails flies around and once in a while shoots a missile, that helps to reinforce the stun. Seria ties him up with her wires, so he won't go far anywhere. Then Regulus makes repeated use of his special ability, Bullet Blast, to do massive damage to him. The wires of Seria aren't enough to hold him, but that's where Overdrive comes in. He has to keep him in place too, and deal damage at the same time by using his special explosion ability, which he calls Overdrive. And Blaze keeps shooting fireballs to deal a lot of damage. The remaining ones, which are Lexer, Jody, Amy, Knuckles and myself, are doing close range damage to him in whatever way we can. I have a second task though, and that is to sense how much energy he has left and drain him whenever necessary.

After doing this for roughly 15 minutes, he's finally nearly out of energy. I quickly tell them all to stop, and Jody hands over Exal Grando to me. Then I proceed to drain the rest of his energy, because the sword allows me to absorb much more. Just when I thought he was completely empty, he grabs my left arm, which has Exal in it. He squeezes it in such a way, that my hand opens and I drop the Exal. He blast me away, and the moment he grabs the handle of the sword, a sudden flash blinds us all. It takes me several seconds before I can see anything again. Slowly, my sight recovers. Most of my friends are on their knees, or lying on the ground. Not one of them is knocked out.

Summers... he's standing there, with Exal Grando leaning on his shoulder. And I see a smile on his face. What exactly happened?

End of chapter

Chapter bonus!

The Malicious was watching our fight from a distance.

Malicious: "Hmpf, not exactly how I thought it would go, but at least he's normal now. Not much longer until I can claim what is mine."

Jackal: "It shall take approximately 3 months before the source is ready."

Malicious: "Why don't we go entertain ourselves until then?"

Zero: "Hah, I can't wait to beat up that stupid Solar in the tournament!"

Revenant: "And I still need to settle the score with that power guy, flame guy and the bratty foxhog.

Jackal: "No matter who Jackal fight, Jackal shall prevail!"

Malicious: "I'm curious to see how strong Hero really is. How much has he grown? When any of you fights against either Hero or Summers... lose the fight then. Those are the 2 that will be mine."

Jackal: "No worries. Jackal take care of that."

New characters

Name: Lilly Fluff
Age: 16
Gamefaqs member name: Fictional character created by myself.
Color: Lightblue
Spike style: Pointing a down, long until halfway of the back, much like hair.
Others: Wears a yellow headband with the image of a lily on it (that's a flower). She wears dark blue jeans, and a dark green T-shirt with a pink heart on it.
Side: Good
Time in the Hedgehog Mania world: about 5 years before she gets introduced into the story
First appearance: Chapter 22
Role: Do-good-girl that has to take care of some personal affairs with her twin sister.
Personality: Sweet girl, saving others and doing good deeds are what she does. Her heart is too big for her own good.
Backround: Lilly and Rosey come from a very rich family. Lilly was playing with her sister Rosey in the garden before they got transported to the Hedgehog Mania world. They were both 11 back then. 2 Years later, Lilly's sister got a boyfriend. About 1 after that, her sister was dumped by him, and she was devastated about it. Shortly after, her Rosey became corrupted and mean. They got in a disagreement, and Lilly got beat up by her sister, who then went away. They haven't seen eachother since then. Lilly started a journey to help as much hedgehogs as possible. She traveled a few months together with Jody and Summers. Rosey's whereabouts are unknown.
Special power: She can make herself untouchable

Status growth:
Power: 4/10
Battle speed: 10/10
Endurance: 4/10
Melee fighting: 9/10
Strategy: 9/10
Running speed: 10/10

Name: Rosey Fluff
Age: 16
Gamefaqs member name: Fictional character created by myself.
Color: Almost as blue as Sonic
Spike style: Spikes are formed like a rose
Others: Wears a white headband, with the image of a rose on it. She wears black jeans, black sweater and black-grey sneakers.
Side: Evil
Time in the Hedgehog Mania world: About 5 years before she gets introduced into the story
First appearance: Chapter 22
Role: Twin sister of Lily that's on the evil side
Personality: A very mean girl. She doesn't even know anymore how trust anyone, but for some reason she can't commit suicide either. She randomly beats people up too. She became a bit nicer during the last few weeks though, ever since she met The Malicious she learned to respect others a bit more but she's still a mean and feisty hedgehog.
Backround: Lilly and Rosey come from a very rich family. Lilly was playing with her sister Rosey in the garden before they got transported to the Hedgehog Mania world. They were both 11 back then. 2 Years later, Rosey got a boyfriend. About 1 year later she was dumped by him, and she was devastated about it. Shortly after, she became corrupted and mean. She got in a disagreement with her sister, and beat her up, who then went away. They haven't seen eachother since then. Rosey tried to make as much people sad as her during the last few years. A few weeks before her entry into the story she stopped mostly with that though, since she met The Malicious. Lately she has been too busy to ruin other peoples lives.
Special power: Fly

Status growth:
Power: 8/10
Battle speed 8/10
Endurance :5/10
Melee fighting: 8/10
Strategy: 7/10
Running speed: 10/10