In a dark, windy, rainy, soaked forest, a lone Mobian sits there, resting, recollecting, remembering, of a better time, a time when he was surrounded by his friends, the Chaotix, that all changed, he was told to guard the agency while they went to save Mighty, after he was captured by Eggman, somehow, which he still hadn't figured out, Chaos Control was triggered, sending them all to Earth, including him, they had all met up, well he guessed they had, he was Ray the Flying Squirrel.
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Vector and the others were looking through the agency, Mighty found his wallet.
"Hey guys! I found my wallet!" He opened it up and saw a picture, one which shocked him, one of him and Ray "Guys, do you think Ray was brought to Earth with us?"
Vector stopped what he was doing "Ray? I ain't sure, I've been thinking of him, but I ignored it, because, well, because I didn't think we could help!" Might gave a slight nod as they returned to their duties.
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Ray stepped out of his little forest house, man, when he was on Möbius, all the girls went ga-ga over him, he had always shooed them away, at the moment he would kill for company of any kind.
"God, I miss Mighty and the others!" He said as he looked around, spotting an apple up in a tree, he flew up and grabbed it, then he returned to the ground gently and began to eat it slowly, savouring the taste "Maybe, maybe, I should look for them." He thought to himself, he up after finishing his apple, he got in the stream and got washed quickly, he then flew around a bit to dry off, before he flew out of the forest to look for his missing friends.
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Ray was out of the forest, he was now in some sort of ruined area, looked like it had been destroyed, a long, long time ago.
"Where should I look?" Ray thought, he flew down and decided to have a break, he had been flying for about an hour now, and quite frankly he was tired, he decided to walk around for a bit, after curiosity got the better of him he walked inside ruins of some sort "Wow, this place is quite cool!" Ray said as he looked around, behind him he heard something drop, the door had closed "Great, that could only happen to me!" He sighed, Ray continued to walk around the ruins, he looked out from a ledge to see what was below him "Water? God, why are you so cruel to me?" Ray could swim, yes, but the water filled the whole room, the room being the size of a stadium, with the depth of an underground village "I guess I will sit and think of a way out, huh?" he sat down against a wall.
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Mighty was walking around the city, he was still thinking of Ray, all sorts of questions floating around in his head.
"Did he get here? If so, where is he? If not, is he okay?" Mighty shrugged these thoughts off, Ray could take care of himself.
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Ray was still inside the temple when he heard voices.
"Hmm, someone is here!" The first voice said.
"Yes, doctor, they must be if the door closed!" The second voice said.
"Well, doctor, you have a key, open it!" A third voice chimed in.
Ray panicked, he wasn't supposed to be here, he jumped up and flew to the ceiling and hovered there, the door opened, a gold robot, a silver robot and a fat old man walked in.
Doctor Eggman? What is he doing here?
Eggman smashed a bit off of the wall, revealing a panel, he pressed a red switch there and the water drained, Ray watched intently, these weren't ruins, it was Dr. Eggman's base!
"Well, where is the intruder?" Eggman asked them.
"We don't know!" They answered.
Eggman then located a number pad on the same panel, he pressed the numerals 617-894-291, in that order and a metal lift hovered over, Eggman, Bocoe Docoe stood on it and it took them down to a lower level, Ray dropped from the ceiling, realising they had left, he looked over and saw that they had opened another door and walked through, Ray flew down and got under the door just before it closed, he followed them silently and kept a distance, Eggman used a control pad and some stairs appeared, he and his two cronies walked up them, then they disappeared, Ray just flew up and followed through the air silently.
"Docoe, Bocoe, this intruder must be stealthy, he didn't set off any alarms, leave any traces or make any noise!" Ray smiled as he followed closely behind. "Well, anyway, now I have the Chaotix's data, I can improve it and perfect it." Ray was wide eyed.
Chaotix data?
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The Chaotix were walking around in the jungle.
"Hmm, why are we here exactly?" Espio asked.
Vector shrugged "Why not? The weather is fine, so is the scenery..." He trailed off, Mighty was in his own world, worried out of his mind about Ray, he then noticed a funny looking temple.
"Hey, guys, wanna go exploring?" Mighty asked, they all shrugged.
"Might as well." Charmy chimed in, they then walked up to the temple door.
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Ray was watching as Eggman was in his swivel chair examining the Chaotix's data and moves on his PC, Ray looked interested, he then saw some of Mighty's moves, man, he missed them all so much, he spun around when he heard a clank, he flew backwards through the base to investigate and was pleasantly surprised by who he saw.
"The Chaotix!" He said to himself quietly, he then flew down and hovered behind them quietly, without them even noticing.
"You know, I have get an Eggman feeling for this place!" Charmy said to no-one in particular.
"You have good reason to!" They looked around and saw Ray, Mighty grinned the biggest.
"Little bud!" He said as he pulled the yellow squirrel into an affectionate hug. They the broke apart when Ray pushed him away.
"We will have to postpone that! We have something more important at the moment!" They all looked interested. "Eggman has your data somehow!" They all went wide eyed.
"Nack! Damn him!" Espio said, they then heard a hover engine's noise and looked around.
"Silly Ray! I bet you honestly thought that you were undetected?" Eggman grinned as Ray snarled.
"So what? I ain't scared!" The defiant 14 year old snarled at him, Eggman sighed.
"I see, you want to do this the hard way? Well.. GET READY!" Eggman said after tapping into his keyboard. Just then, he and his craft suddenly disappeared, and the temple began to collapse.
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Eggman and his three loyal servants appeared outside.
"Ho oh ho oh! The holographic-o-matic does indeed work well, doesn't it?" He laughed hysterically "Chaotix won't escape and even if they do, the Lady Ninja will annihilate them!" Eggman and his servants laughed as they escaped.
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Meanwhile inside the base, Chaotix were indeed in a spot of trouble.
"Mighty, that wall, we can use it to escape!" Mighty nodded, as he knocked down the wall as if he was a bulldozer.
"Okay, guys, time to go!" Charmy called as he flew ahead. They all nodded and chased him, they come into an ascending sort of hall way, except the stairway had collapsed.
"Damn it to hell!" Vector growled, just then Ray walked up to a control pad and pressed a few keys, a moment later, a pod appeared "Great work, Ray!" Vector winked as the five of them climbed in and hovered to a higher level, they then run out as fast as possible as the temple began to collapse inwards.
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They jumped out and landed huffing and puffing.
"Whew, great job, you guys!" Mighty said as he gave a thumbs up, he then saw a human like figure standing there, it asked in it's feminine voice.
"Are you the Chaotix?" Mighty nodded "Good to meet you, anyway, time to die!" She jumped into the air and brandished a ball on a chain and started to swing it.
"Well, some lady you are!" Charmy snorted.
"Well actually I am, I am the beautiful, mysterious, unbeatable Lady Ninja!" she cried as she jumped in the air, she swung the ball, Mighty jumped out of the way.
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Espio run forward and jumped into the air, she did the same, he brandished a Shuriken star suddenly and threw it, he was aiming for the chain, trying to disarm her, she anticipated this and swung the ball in a anti-clockwise direction and batted his star out of the air and into the soil, Espio evaded as she swung the ball at him, he grabbed the chain and swung on it, aiming to deliver a kick directly to her face, she used her free fist and socked him one before, landing back on the ground safely, he also landed, except he done so face-first.
Vector looked on wide-eyed.
"Okay, Lady Ninja, you may be able to defeat a fellow ninja, but can you defeat me?" He asked, before she could answer he sped forward and jumped at her, she threw the ball, he used his strength to grab it and threw it away from himself, he jumped toward her and began to throw his fists each every way, she used her own strength to easily counter his attacks, this surprised him but he tried nonetheless, they continued this for ages, until he was finally tired.
"Hmm, round two also goes to the Lady Ninja!" She laughed, swiftly using a sweep kick, before he could fall to the floor, she uppercutted him and sent him flying far away.
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"Next?" She asked smugly, Mighty flexed his muscles.
"Stay still, Lady Ninja, it won't hurt as much that way!" She used her weapon of choice, the ball and chain, Mighty growled as the weapon became closer and closer, until...
SMASH!
Mighty's fist was held in mid-air and loads of metal pieces were all around the floor, even the Lady Ninja was surprised by this as she simply sweat-dropped.
"Ohhkay." She said, a bit baffled as how someone so small can possess so much power "Even unarmed, I am the deadliest ninja around!" She said smugly.
"Prove it!" Mighty replied as he run toward her, she jumped into the air and got into a strange position, he went to punch her, she simply spun around and sent her powerful foot into his face, he was a bit dazed, but he continued to fight, he attempted, to punch her in the stomach, she blocked the attack and with a karate chop, rendered him unconscious.
Charmy and Ray were the only ones left, the bee angrily charged, the Lady Ninja simply sighed, she used her right hand and simply swatted him out of the sky, then Ray had a realising thought.
"I get it now! The Lady Ninja is winning because she has the all of the Chaotix's data, well almost, they forgot about me!" Ray smiled, he flew into the air and hovered above the Lady Ninja.
"Don't even think about it, my fight was with the Chaotix! I am not a threat to you!"
Ray shook his head "You see, that is where you are wrong, I am a member of the Chaotix!"
She began to whirr "Lies! Your data ain't on record!"
Ray smiled even larger "I don't lie! Just because your useless master didn't get any data about me isn't to say I don't exist!" He then flew toward her, she was frozen to the spot, she tried to kick him in the right temple, he ducked under it and flew into her stomach. She was shocked and stunned at this display, he saw this as a chance, he flew around her continuously damaging her with punches and kicks in all the right places. He then struck her a final time, head-on, sending her flying, far, far away.
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The Chaotix woke up back at their apartment, or office, they saw Ray there.
"Where is the Lady Ninja?" Espio asked.
"I didn't keep track of her after she went spiralling away!"
Mighty's eyes widened "You beat her?"
Ray nodded "That is right! The only reason she was able to beat you was because she had your data! Although I admit, my flying skills gave me an advantage, if I was in hand-to-hand combat with her, she woulda won!"
They shrugged "You weren't and you won, so there you go!" They all laughed.
TBC