Falling Stars
Hurricane winds scream and whip around the grassy lands of the picnic area. Sonic groaned at his black and bruised chest as he staggered upwards, eyes wincing at the blinding winds of splintered chunks of stone and wood. Sally hugged her beloved heroic hedgehog tightly as the others did the same. Rotor, Bunnie, Tails, and Antoine hugged tightly.
The French soldier whimpered "Zis is ze end Mon amies".
The dark energy storm approached. Flashing beams of chaos green and ring gold powerfully energized this colossal cyclone of energy. The tornado marched effortlessly towards the hapless Freedom Fighters, as if the storm had only come for the purpose of finding these creatures.
"Don't fret guys, where there's a hedgehog there's a way, I'll think of something guys……I hope" Sonic said.
Sally half smiled "Hey I got an idea" she said.
The gang turned to Princess Sally, she held out the power ring with her brown paw and placed everyone else's hands onto the ring. It was the spare power ring Sonic always kept in his backpack.
Sally quickly explained "No matter what force made this tornado, long as we have this power ring we still have a chance. Everyone grab onto the ring and hold onto it as tightly as you can, that way no one can be separated once the cycle passes through us. Plus the power from the ring will protect us from harm".
Sonic nodded and tightly gripped his white glove over the ring, Tails and the others did the same. With a screaming gush of violent air the tornado slammed right into the young warriors with tremendous power.
"HERE IT COMES, HANG ON EVERYBODY" Sonic screamed.
The force of the tornado yanked Sonic and his friends right off the ground, in seconds they were sent into a spiraling spin inside the tornado. The ring glowed brightly.
Matt groaned as his tired eyes weakly tried to stay open on the dreary road, finger bones literally shot to hell from all that work.
"Come on say something with caffeine in it" Matt said.
He grabbed a small bottle next to his car seat, he guzzled down the alcoholic contents and tossed it back down. Feeling thrashed, tired, destroyed, and pretty much dead inside and out, Matt had little care to what was happening in front of his rapidly speeding car. To Matt, his life was similar to that of a cockroach's, pointless and meaningless. Black shoes press slightly harder on the gas pedal as Matt speeds down the express way with little reaction.
Slowly Matt turned the radio up higher, trying to wake his dead and dulled senses. Inside Matt's soul felt as empty and dead as his growling stomach. Nothing could grab this poor lost soul's dwindling attention, not even that chaotic green hole opening in the sky.
Twirling faster and faster, the heroes screamed with their eyes held shut, and hands even tighter. The tornado was spinning so fast everything on the outside world appeared as nothing but a foggy blur.
"How much longer must we endure zis barbaric tsunami?" Antoine asked.
Rotor replied "It's not a tsunami it's a tornado and hopefully if my calculations are correct, bout 1 more minute".
But the longer the tornado took to die, the faster it became. Sonic opened his eyes, preying to god everyone is still able to hold on. Sally, Bunnie looks fine, Rotor looks like he's getting a bit air sick but he's good, and Tails is……NO. Tails screamed as his twin tails were getting sucked deeper and deeper into the cyclone, the tails length are dragging him down.
"Sonic please help me, I can't hold on for much longer" Tails cried out.
A violent gust of strong wind forced Tails to let go from the power ring.
Sonic screamed for his falling friend, "Tails" Sally said as her blue beautiful eyes watched in horror as the poor fox fell deeper into the cyclone. Suddenly brown furry hands wrapped around Tails white gloves, Antoine had grabbed the young boy before he had fallen in too deep. The young coyote is actually using his red boots to hold onto the ring.
"I have gotten you monsieur Tails, pleaze hurry, climb up my body to get ze ring" Antoine shouted to Tails.
At first Tails shook his head no, he hated the fact that someone was risking their life just to save his butt, but Antoine insisted and Tails gave in. KRAKKAROOM! Thundering energies forged into a powerful bolt of lighting that struck the power ring. Tails screamed as he was immediately electrified the instant he touched the ring, the rest of the Freedom Fighters felt the shock as well. Antoine squealed as the blast force shocked him off.
"Antoine, quick grab my OOF" Rotor groaned as a flying stone suddenly bonked his yellow capped head. The purple walrus collapsed and now only Sally, Bunnie, Sonic, and Tails were holding onto the super charged ring. Another bolt of lighting suddenly struck the ring and a golden explosion erupted. Pillars of smoke and gray clouds circled the flying furry friends as they seemingly vanished into the sky. The storm finally began to die down.
Antoine moaned "WAHHHH OOF oh me oh my, I feel like my lunch is about to misplaced".
Rotor replied "It's lose your lunch Antoine, not misplace your lunch".
The purple walrus was stuck upside down in a tree branch. Antoine was below his inventor friend under the very same tree, the cowardly coyote carefully pulled the branch down to help Rotor out of it. However as they looked to the now crystal clear sky, both were wondering.
Rotor and Antoine blinked "What happened to everyone else?".
Dimly lit highway lights barely kept the dark and dreary old eyes of Matt as he drives on and on. Thundering storms clouds crackle and thunder their wailing cries above the cars passing by, including Matt's.
Matt scowled "Great, first I get fired then I get shit on by a bunch of rain clouds, what's next?".
BUMP! All of the sudden Matt was staring eye to eye with a green eyed, blue colored, giant sized cartoon looking hedgehog.
Matt screamed as he suddenly jammed the wheel to the right, Sonic screamed as his white gloved hands held onto the car's windshield wipers. The thunder storm cloud had some how broken the barriers between Mobius and Earth.
"DUDE SLOW DOWN" Sonic shouted behind the windshield of Matt's car.
Sonic continued to panic and scream, suddenly Matt realized his car was going to go right off the highway. Screeching tires slam to brake as Sonic is hurled off the car and off the highway. The blue hedgehog tried to maneuver a speedy trick to stay afloat, but was falling too fast and ended up landing in the river under the highway. Another thundering burst forced a second creature out of the sky.
Tails gasped as he wavered in the sky "WOAH talk about major tail turbulence".
The force of the dimensional transporting had made Tails too dizzy to stay afloat.
"No way, no way, this isn't happening (slap) this is NOT happening" Matt said to himself.
A massive semi truck suddenly passed by, the driver turned to the side to see Matt and his car crashed into the side of the highway. THUMP! Tails was now plastered on the truck driver's windshield.
The driver screamed "AHH get off, get off".
The driver spun the wheel in all directions. Tails screamed as he flew off just before the truck flipped onto its left side.
Matt's eyes bulged out as the other half of the truck was heading right for him!
"SHIT" Matt yelled as he leapt away from his car.
The truck smashed into it and immediately exploded in a massive fire ball.
Two more powerful blasts surged from the bustling night sky; Bunnie and Sally were suddenly ejected from the night sky. Huge gushing bolts of lighting splashed over the highway car crash, hurricane winds suddenly blast the falling female friends.
"WOAH" "Awe hold on there Sally girl, I got ya" Bunnie said, extending her cybernetic arm out towards Sally's.
ZAP! A powerful thunder bolt blasted Bunnie's robotic arm, she screamed in pain as Sally was propelled away from her.
Sally screamed "SONIC".
She then vanished into the falling phantoms of the shadow filled sky, Bunnie gasped she realized she was heading for the highway.
"Better put the brakes on" Bunnie said nervously.
Jets popped out of Bunnie's robotic feet, bursting gushes of hot air and flames gave slowed Bunnie's landing down immensely. Blaring sirens of arriving cop cars and fire engines stung Bunnie's large ears. Flames, cracked metal, mangled cars, and constant panic filled the citizens locked on this hell blown highway.
Bunnie blinked "Something tells me this ain't no Robotropolis".
The rabbit cyborg was fully aware she was far, far from home.
HONK! A car was racing towards Bunnie, its horn blazing as the driver inside screamed with fear.
Bunnie turned around and growled "Ya'll want to play rough? WELL UGH".
The car's front hood was smashed in by the bionic knuckles of Bunnie's robotic arm. The tremendous force of that powerful blow sent the car skyward, flipping completely over Bunnie's head. CRASH! The car crashed down in front of a most terrified audience.
"Whoops looks like I'm in the lime light this time" Bunnie said.
"Sonic, Sally, HELP" Tails cried.
Bunnie quickly turned to see Tails quickly falling down towards the river. Police Officers surrounded the car crash scene in seconds; every cop aimed his/her gun directly at Bunnie and Tails.
An officer shouted "Drop your weapon and put your hands in the air".
Bunnie blinked "But my hand is my weapon sugar".
"BUNNIE" Tails shouted.
Bunnie said "Right sugar fox, here I come", ignoring the officers.
The cop shouted "OPEN FIRE".
Bullets sprang forth from the officer's guns in a hailstorm of heated metal; they wasted no time in taking down Bunnie. PING!
"ARGH I'm hit sugar fox" Bunnie said, feeling bullets striking and disabling her jet boots.
Tails grabbed onto Bunnie as she too fell downwards, both of them spiraling and dodging to escape the bullet parade. SPLASH, the cops watched as the 2 furry figures landed in the river.
The head officer shouted to his troops, "I want that river circled, surrounded, and locked down. Make sure you keep your fire arms loaded and at hand at all times. We don't know or what were dealing with so take no chances, you, call an ambulance down and clean up this mess".
Officers quickly headed towards a dirt hill next to the highway's breach, heading down to the river. Bubbles started to sprout from the dark waters of the highway river, cops immediately aimed their rifles and pistols at the bubbles.
"We got possible suspect activity here sir" an officer radioed to his chief.
Few moments later both Tails and Bunnie burst their heads out from under the sea.
"FREEZE" the officer shouted.
Bunnie and Tails gulped and raised their hands in surrender. Tails furry cheeks soaked with water dripped down as he stood.
"Take it nice and slow, now drop the weapon and take off those kiddy costumes, SLOWLY" the cop said.
The 2 furry travelers looked at each other in confusion. Neither Tails nor Bunnie wanted to give the cops reason to shoot them, but they had no way of complying with either of their demands.
Tails cautiously answered "But sir were not wearing any costumes".
The cop growled "SHUT IT, whatever game you're playing it's not funny. Now if you don't get those costumes down by the time I count to 3, the next thing you'll be wearing is a body bag".
Bunnie and Tails gulped; the click of the cop's pistols only added to their fear.
"1" the cop started.
Tails whispered "Bunnie what are we going to do? They won't listen to us".
Angrier he continued "2".
"I only wish old sugar hog was here" Bunnie said worriedly.
The furry freedom fighters both closed their eyes and waited.
ZOOM! But before the cop could finish the final fatal number, a rushing sonic blur knocked the officers right off their feet. Bunnie and Tails opened their eyes to see Sonic.
The speedy hedgehog grinned "Awww did you guys miss me?".
"OPEN FIRE" the cop yelled.
Sonic speed dashed away from the cops towards Bunnie and Tails, he grabbed their arms and held onto them tight.
"Time for a ride on the sonic express guys, where's Sal?" Sonic asked.
Bunnie replied "I lost sight of Sally girl when we landed sugar, I think she fell round right over there".
Sonic nodded to where Bunnie pointed and dashed right across the river. The stunned officers watched in awe as they vanished, using super sonic speed to run right across the river.
A pale faced officer stammered "Um……did we just see a talking hedgehog, a robotic rabbit, and a two tailed fox run across the river at warp speed?".
The other officers slowly nodded in response.
"I was afraid so" the officer said.
The rest of the police were rounding up the injured from the disastrous car crash on the highway. No fatalities were confirmed, and the officers were still unable to explain just who or what those furry creatures were. However little did they or Sonic know that there was still one person that DID see them, up close, the very same man that is now walking away from the crash.
Matt gulped "Would someone please tell me what the hell just happened?".
To be continued……