Ch 22: Higher Stakes pt.2
Tails and Shadow are making their way towards King Cinos' Castle under water. The Tornado3 is silent, except for the hum of the engine. They don't really have anything to say. Tails is too worried about May, and Shadow is just himself. Suddenly the radar detects the huge heat source emanating from an island just a mile ahead. "There it is...I hope she's alright. Lets go." Tails powers up the engines fully and heads up through the surface of the sea. Then he transforms the sub into jet mode and heads for the castle. Tails is heading right for the main gate of the huge castle. The Tornado3 goes into emergency mode right before impact. They smash through the doors and take out a few guards until the skid to a stop.
"EMERGENCY, EMERGENCY...INTRUDER ALERT!" Said a recorded voice as the alarms went off. Soldiers and knights surrounded the metal capsule. The top only opened. In a split second they all fell to the ground and Shadow appeared just an inch away from the Tornado3. Tails jumped out and closed the metal sliding door of the cockpit and made sure it was locked.
"Ok Tails where do we go." Shadow waits with an emerald in his hand. "This emerald is stronger than before, right?"
"It is stronger, but you'll only last thirty-five minutes in your hyper form. Other than the time limit, it wont explode otherwise. We gotta go to the heat source in the north tower." Tails has the elemental radar in his hand and the crystal sword in the other. They run to the nearest door and down the hall. A bunch of guards are up ahead, but Tails launches a blast of ice and they all freeze. "C'mon hurry the tower is up here." Shadow bashes the door down along with some hedge-knights.
"We're getting close, I feel his energy." To the right of the entrance to the tower there is a huge spiral stairway going along the circular walls. They run up it while avoiding the shots of guards up on the stairs. Shadow grabs Tails' arm. "Chaos Control!" Time slows to an almost stop around them. They hit all the guards really hard in the heads along the way. The Chaos control fades and all the guards fall, some of them fall off the stairs. They make it to the top and enter a circular room. "There you are! You'll pay for destroying that village!"
"Hmhmhm...hwahaha. I dont think you know what your up against. I'm Necro, I turn all who oppose me into ash." Necro is alone, and theres no sign of May.
"Where is she, what did you do to her!"
"Nothing, yet. You see shes right under us, and unless you surrender she will die." He pushes a button on his wrist com. The floor starts moving down at a quick pace. "You only have three minutes before shes crushed beneath this floor. Shadow mutters something under his breath and vanishes. "Haahaha...looks like your friend left you, your so pathetic. So easily I have beat you, just take the thing most precious to you and I can force you to do anything."
"You wont tell me to do anything!" Tails charges right towards him. Necro fires his flame thrower, but Tails jumps up over the flame. Necro vanishes and reappears behind Tails and smacks him with the super hot gun tip. "Ahh..." Tails falls down to the floor. Another huge flame is heading right towards Tails, but Tails blocks it with an icy sword. It splits the flame to his sides. Tails slowly gets closer to Necro while the flames still come.
"Oh no you dont, Incinerator fuel open." Suddenly the flame goes white hot. It is too much for Tails and starts pushing him back. "You fool, this fuel I have can even Match the sun's heat. Cinos created it for me, And now you will die!"
"Everything fuse!" Tails starts glowing yellow all around him and the crystal sword turns black and glows yellow. Tails starts pushing forward again. The force between them both explodes and they are sent flying into the wall. Tails loses the power of the crystals after his thirty seconds.
"Now you die!" Necro is about to fire his gun when Morgan ran up the stairs and grabbed onto Necro's back. She's holding him by the neck in one hand and holds up a gun on his fuel tank.
"Don't move an inch, or I'll end it right here. You think you can get away with what you've done! I sure don't! Tails get out of here! Shadow is down there with May, shes safe!"
"No, I can't let you die. You showed me who I really am, and my parents. I can still fight." Tails gets up but is tired from the fight, plus his elemental energy is still drained.
"Tails, don't get any closer, or I will shoot him right now. This is my redemption for my mother, It's the only way for me. Now GO!" Tails runs for the stairs with tears in his eyes. As soon as he was out of site, Morgan pulled the trigger. There was a massive explosion in the middle of the tower. Tails barely made it to the door where Shadow was waiting with May unconscious in his arms. Tails takes her and is gonna carry her. The rumbling is getting louder as the Tower is collapsing. A huge slab of wall blocks the doorway.
"Chaos control." Shadow grabs Tails and they run further down the stairs to the bottom floor. There is an old stone archway up ahead. Right as they go through it, time continues and the sound of the floor hitting the ground is tremendous. Tons of dust and debris shoot through the archway. Shadow runs until they reach a dead end. None of the dust even came this far. "Man, is it me, or every time we go in a tall tower it collapses?"
"May? It's me Tails...please wake up." Tails is just looking at her. She is coming to now.
"T-tails...you rescued me, look, I'm so sor-" Tails suddenly hugs her. May puts her arms around him. She notices that he's crying. "Tails, I'm fine now...you can stop crying, I'm right here."
"It's not just that. It's every one, that died because of me. Even when I was born I caused people to die. My parents died saving me...since I came here, I've been nothing but trouble." Tails just has his head down now.
"That's not true...your trying your best to save everyone. Your such a kind person and you don't have an evil bone in your body."
"Many people died because of me. Master Zuken...Ace...Morgan...and everyone on kit isle is probably dead. If I wasn't so stupid." May gets up and slaps Tails across the face.
"Stop it, just stop it! None of it's your fault. I know you, I love you. Ever since you got here, I've been so happy. The most I've ever been in my entire life. You've always protected me and stayed with me. I know you are from here originally, so I think no matter what you tried you were destined to come here, to end the tyranny and to meet me. And I will stay by your side forever. Even if it means leaving here. Some day I wish to marry you, when we're older of course." May goes to Tails and kisses him. "It'll all work out, ok."
"Yeah your right, thanks May. I promise you I will stay with you no matter what." Tails hugs her some more.
"I hate to burst your bubble, but we gotta stop Cinos, err...I mean Sonic. Well there's no way out, Im going super."
"Ok, just take us to the armory. We might find more useful stuff there." After Tails gets up Shadow is already super. "It's here on this map. Look."
"Lets go then." Shadow grabs Tails and May by the arms. He shoots upward like lightning and goes through the roof. They are instantly up above the castle, the entire complex is huge. But before Tails or May could look around they shot back into the castle. They are now in the armory.
"Wow, that was fast. Ok May look around, Take whatever you like." The room is pretty big and dark. There are huge crates everywhere. Over in the corner there is a big cabinet with a blue light on top.
"Ooooh, what's over there." May approaches the cabinet thing. It's made of steel. She opens it and finds many grey tech cloth sheets. There is a sign above the cabinet. "Touch tech cloth to begin personalization. Ok." The instant she touches it, it begins to slide across her body. It slides under her clothing and underwear until her whole body is wrapped in the grey cloth. "Um, that was weird. Well, I guess I'll just wear this for now." May gets rid of her clothing over the tech cloth.
"Wow, uh-you look nice." Tails said as he blushed. "You, missed some more directions. It says, think of a color and battle attributes. Hmm, what kind of battle attributes?"
"For the love of Maria, hurry up! A battle attribute is like, speed, power, or agility. Ok, May just think of a color, and then think of a speed and agility battle attribute." Shadow is just looking at them. In a second May's tech cloth is pink. She starts punching and kicking the air at fast speeds. "There you go, now go over there to the armor cabinet. Obviously this is the place where the grand cross gets their armor."
"Ok, this is so cool." May runs almost as fast as Shadow would go. At the second cabinet she gets scanned by a camera.
"Subject: Unknown...Analyzing...Species: Fox, Gender: Female, Size: 3.10 feet...Tech cloth: pink with speed and agility...Computing best armor matches...Found matches: 4...Preparing selected armors." The cabinet opens with four sets of eight piece armors. They all look the same except for the weapons and color. The first is a silver and yellow armor with a high tech sword, then there is a silver and light blue armor with a pole that's has a blade on each end. Next there is a shiny black and red armor with a high tech great axe, and last there is a shiny orange and dark blue armor with a katana. "Touch button in front of armor to select...then step inside the armorizer to the left." May pushes the button in front of the light blue armor and then runs into the armorizer. It is a big cylindrical booth. The sound of machinery can be heard outside of it. Suddenly a metal arm grabs her around the waist and lifts her about half a foot in the air. Doors open in front of her and behind her. Two halves of armor attach to her chest and back, they clamp together magnetically. Two more doors slide open, and a metal arm holds her tail straight up.
"Oh geese, this is weird." Then two more armor pieces attach to her behind and front. The arm lets go of her tail. Pieces attach to her wrists and her calves. Another metal arm removes her shoes and puts on the jet boots. The big arm holding May's body lets go and the entrance opens. Before she goes a bin opens from next to her. May takes out the retracted pole and a high tech helmet.
"That's the first time I've seen that armor not expecting a fight." Tails is staring at her.
"I guess I must be pretty, if your staring at me. Heehee." The instant she said that, Tails goes red and looks away.
"We gotta stop Sonic now, are you ready May?"
"Yeah, The helmet visor told me everything about this armor. I don't feel like I'm wearing armor its so light and snug." She goes over to Tails and jumps in his arms. But she knocks him over with the weight of her armor. "Oh Tails, I'm so sorry, here." She picks him up onto his feet.
"I think the tech-cloth makes you stronger, that armor is very heavy. Ok are you ready now?" Said Shadow.
"We gotta end this once and for all. Sonic here we come." They all run out to the exit of the room.