-ShaDuxX plays the Desolation theme as the heroes arrive-
Ynaffit
As we got off the plane, Sonic and Thystan came into Tails' plane. They went to the back and opened the cooler. Sonic reached for a Pepsi, Thystan for a C-V Coke. They popped 'em open and drank. After a long swallow, Sonic winked and stuck his thumb up.
"Yeah! Good workout!" Thystan nodded.
"Yes. You were competition. The waves became a nuisance at first, but when you brought the idea of going with them, they just made it easier." Everyone laughed, as we all got off the plane. Me and Miles were last.
"Miles, I love your new plane." Miles just stared. Then he took my hand.
"I love you." He kissed me. I did the same. As we started to go, he stopped me. "Wait! I got you something!" He went back into the plane. He came out with a small box. "For you." I opened the box, and there, in its slot, was a small ring, made of white gold and with a large amethyst in it. I was amazed.
"I LOVE YOU MILES PROWER!" I ran to him and jumped on him. He fell back with me on him. I kissed him over again. Frynic came walking up.
"Whoa. Good job Tails. But c'mon guys, no time for that. We've got to get serious." I kissed him again, stood up, and put on the ring. It sparkled as it hung around my finger. We walked up to the gang. Thystan was talking to everyone about the risks, chances, and deaths we might have to endure. Rouge frowned.
"So, we might die? Oh. Ok. I'm not afraid of death." Marcy frowned.
"Oh, I don't believe that." Rouge looked at Marcy.
"Oh yeah? Well I'm not. Got a problem with that?"
"Yes, I do! I'm the only one who's not afraid of death!"
"Well you just need to shut up sit down and be confused! You're just mad because you're the only one who hasn't gotten any ass besides Sonic!" This was funny. I couldn't help but laugh at my sister. I looked at Liartra, and then Sonic. We all three nodded. Marcy just sat down and shut up. I couldn't tell if she was confused or not. Well, then again, she's always confused.
Everyone
"Ok. It looks like she's in Sinatraya. We need to go there."
"It isn't that far, so just follow me and Thystan." Sonic threw his hand up in his usual 'Let's GO!' thing.
"OK! You guys ready? Break into groups and lets kick some pink echidna ass!" Everyone broke into their groups and started after the two new editions. It seems it wasn't five minutes before they were on a cliff, looking down at the city of Sinatraya. They progressed forward, finally arriving. The echidna could be seen from a distance. As they moved forward, Gerocina unleashed a blast that fell two small buildings and a large building.
"This city is small!"
"Yeah. She might have this done before we do." We stopped as she punched through a building wall. Thystan ran forward.
"Gerocina! Stop this, now!" She turned and looked at him.
"You again?" She looked around. "And you brought reinforcements? Great! Now I can take half the foreigners out too!" She shot a small wave of fire at Thystan. He dodged it and flew at her with his fist. She dodged and threw him into the wall. Frynic and Tails surrounded her, then closed in. Frynic landed a hit on the back, but she knocked Tails away into Marcy and Hitail. Frynic started a furious fist fight with her, as Sonic used his spin attack towards her. He tripped her, she flew into the air, and Frynic and Knuckles jumped into the air with her. She grabbed Frynic and threw him down. As she let go, he grabbed her arm and threw her into Knuckles, who caught her and threw her towards Sonic. He did a homing attack and knocked her back a few feet. Rouge ran at her, but Gerocina caught her with a small fireball. Sally jumped up behind her, but she countered with a fire kick, sending her back into a building. The group figured then, that jewel held fire power. As Sally went through the glass, the window caught her shirt and ripped a hole in it. Thystan regained power and dove at her along with Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, Frynic, and Team Restlex. Cornered, she unleashed a blast. They all flew back, landing on their backs. She smiled. "It's not over yet." She stormed off at high speeds, destroying small buildings in her wake. Eventually, you couldn't see her.
"That right there…." Said Knuckles as he stood up, "was some bull shit."
"Yea. Seems she's more powerful than we expected."
"So what now what?" Thystan looked in the direction she went.
"Let's go to our quarters. My house. In Adiana." They started after Thystan. Tails and Hitail fell behind.
"Tailsy, are we gonna wank all over that meanie?" Tails smiled.
"Yea, Hitail. Wank we will."
Shadow
I stood now, listening at this stranger's conversation with his friend. His name, I found, was Kamex, the chameleon.
"What did you find of her?"
"She seems to have gained power. I could tell that she will eventually become nearly invincible." I listened on.
"How could my ex….. just turn on me like this? Its weird she'd just fuck me so many times and leave…." I was confused. So this Gerocina thing was this person's girlfriend at some time?
"Hahaha! You know, I just thought of something. I saw a large group of people fighting her in Sinatraya. A few were kids, and some echidnas and hedgehogs, a bunny, a squirrel, oh, and that Thystan with his friend Frynic." I listened harder now.
"Thystan? Ha. Trying to stop her again. Ahh, if he succeeds, I will shoot myself in the face and be damned to hell." I smiled. He was right. Without me, they stand no chance. I got up to walk away, bored with this dull conversation. As I stood, I tripped over a small stub, which was inconveniently placed under the window which I was under. I groaned as I fell.
"What the hell?" They came running out. I stood up.
"Who are you?" I looked at Kamex.
"Shadow. The hedgehog. I was created to be the ultimate life form." They looked on. They didn't seem to buy the facts.
"Right. What do you want?" I folded my arms.
"I'm here to watch over Sonic and his friends. They seem to get in situations, so I thought I'd sneak around and help if it gets sticky."
"Wait, Sonic. Does he hang with someone named Thystan?" I nodded.
"Oh. Ok. I'm also a hedgehog. My name's Yuri. Yuri Lakive."
Hitail
"Science! Has failed! Our world! Dun, na na na na na na!" I loved that song. I couldn't get it out of my head. Vector was listening to it on his new headphones, and we were having fun listening to it.
"Science! Has failed our mother Earth!" I looove that song! We were in Thystan's coolio house. It was big, a perfect place for Wankonots. I love Wankanots too!
"Science has to recognize the single most, important element of human existence." We were both having fun, and eventually Tailsy and Sonic came in to listen. We all laughed and had fun awhile, drinking punch and dancing, when Thystan came in.
"Ok, guys. Enough messing around. We've got to get down to business." I stopped singing.
"Aww! I wanna sing!" I was mad. Stupid Thystan. I don't care for no whoopidy busy ness.
"It's ok Hitail. I've got something for you first." I jumped up.
"REALLY!" I was excited. "OHH! A BONUS?" Thystan laughed.
"Yes, Hitail. Bonus." I followed stupid Thystan to the basement. It was scary down there. I wish Creamynot was here to comfort me. He reached on top of the shelf and held a small figure. I jumped.
"IS THAT A GREEMONOT ACTION FIGURE!" Thystan jumped up and down. "Yes! Ooh, the good times!" I jumped up and down with him.
"Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!" I looove stupid Thystan! We proceeded up the stairs out of the scary basement.
Everyone
"Ok guys. Here's the plan. We need to split into groups. If we all stay together and lose track of someone or something, we're screwed." Sonic nodded at Thystan's comment.
"Yeah. We could find something out, too." Frynic got an idea.
"OH! If we split into groups, we could approach from different directions! Her lab is up on Grey Hill. She goes there every night. If we catch her, we could easily get a chance!" Tails nodded.
"That's right. I don't know anything about her lab, but everything else sounds good." Mijjett also nodded.
"The jaguar with unusually long tails is right!" Thystan's cell phone rang.
"Hello? Hey man." There was a long pause as Thystan listened. Hitail smiled.
"Is it the Pizza Guy?" Liartra shushed him down.
"Ok. We'll be there. Aight, I'm bringing some friends, too. Ok. Ok. No, I don't. Ok. Bye."
"Ok. Groups. Come outside and we will make groups." Everybody went outside. Once in a line, Team Restlex and Team Flux broke into a group. Knuckles, Tikal, Rouge, and Team Chaotix did the same. The rest of Team Sonic went with Team Chix and Bunni, but Kari decided to go with Team Flux. Sally would find her own way. They talked a while more, then they were off. Knux's group stayed behind for a minute.
"Knuckles, is the Master Emerald ok?" Tikal was worried. She also was still regaining memory from when Knuckles found her at the great Echidna Temple. Knuckles didn't mind her questions, though.
"It's ok, Tikal. I'm sure Shadow or Manic will watch it." Tikal's eyes sparkled in delight at the fact that the emerald would be safe.
"Ok, guys. Let's move ahead. This looks like it will take all we've got." Said Espio.
"He's right. Let's go." They took off in the direction that Sonic and the others did.
Team Restlex and Team Flux
Hitail was singing Alice In Chains' Angry Chair as the two teams progressed through the ruined southwest part of the jungle, and Team Restlex was having one of their usual races. Kari started to complain.
"How long is this gonna take? My feet hurt." Tails looked at his sister with disgust.
"Dammit Kari! We haven't been traveling ten minutes and you whine?"
"Miles, honey, leave your little sister alone." Tails sneered. Kari took out her old brush and threw it at him. It hit him in the back of the head. He fell on his face. Hitail jumped into the air and yelled.
"BONUS!" Tails stood back up and leered at his sister. She stuck her tongue out. Tails dove at her. Just as he did, Liartra tripped and fell right in front of him. Tails did a front flip and landed at Frynic's feet, and Liartra just laid face down.
"It seems that the race has been forfeit…" he said into the ground. Frynic used his tails to pick Tails up. Mijjett laughed.
"Ha ha! Master, you can't let kids push you around like that!"
"Stop it. We need to move forward." Tails brushed his face off and nodded. Liartra got up, tagged Madrix, and they continued their race. Frynic laughed. "Hahaha… well, lets follow the hyper ones." Everyone laughed and they followed Team Restlex.
Team Sonic, Team Chix, and Bunni
From where they were, they were 103 miles from Gerocina's house. Sonic had a song stuck in his head.
"Eeeeeeeeeeeating seeds as a pastime, activity." Thystan chuckled and sang the next line.
"The toxicity of our city, of our city." Sonic went into drumming motions as he sang the chorus. Everyone laughed.
"When I became the sun, I shone life into the man's heart, when I became the sun, I shone the life into the man's HEART!" Everybody laughed harder this time.
"I wonder what Manic did with my necklace? Ya know Amy, the one that used to become a guitar on my command?" Amy thought for a minute.
"Didn't Manic take it?"
"I just said 'I wonder what Manic did with my necklace?' Jeez. Anyway, Thystan, you know where we are?" Thystan shook his head.
"No. But we're going in the right direction."
"That's all we need to know." They stopped for a minute. "Hey, Sonic… Isn't it getting sort of misty and dark?" Everyone looked around.
"Yeah. But it's only 3! Probly just the forest." They heard a high pitched sound, and looked around to see nothing. Everyone brushed the deal off.
"Ok. Bunni, show us the map."
"Sure thing, Sonic." Bunni pushed a button on her robotic arm and a huge screen popped out. Marcy was daydreaming.
"Ok. So we're here, and we need to be here. So, we've got, say….. four hours to go?" The gang, except Marcy, groaned.
"Better move, then." Amy shook Marcy.
"Come on, Marcy!" Marcy woke.
"What? Why? Oh… ok. Where are we going again?" Amy's face turned dark red. She slapped Marcy. They then continued.
Knuckles, Tikal, Rouge, and Team Chaotix
They had just entered the forest where Sonic had previously passed, but they did not know this.
"Ok, Tikal. Did you see anything else in the Master Emerald?" Tikal thought.
"Yes. I did. It was….. some sort of echidna."
"We already know about her." Tikal grabbed Knuckle's hand.
"No, it was a purplish blue echidna. By some sort of fortress." Knuckles and the group stopped.
"Fortress? What are you talking about?" Tikal looked onward.
"I think………. I think there was another survivor!" Knuckles stared at her, surprised. Knuckles was never surprised.
"Another survivor……" Knuckles bowed his head. Vector looked at Knuckles.
"You ok, Knux?"
"Yeah…" Knuckles mumbled as he looked down. All of a sudden, an image flashed before his eyes. Scared half out of his own piss, he fell back.
"AHH!" Tikal ran towards him.
"Knuckles! Are you ok?" Knuckles was breathing hard.
"Yeah. I just…. Never mind. Lets go." They moved on. Charmy started feeling uneasy.
"Is it just me? Or is it getting darker and... foggier?" Everyone nodded.
"Reminds me of Amityville." Said Espio, looking around. They walked about ten more minutes, when they heard a faint high-pitched sound, like a glowing diamond makes in a video game. They stopped.
"What the hell?" Vector looked around.
"Vector, is your damn headset having feedback again?"
"No." Knuckles looked to the right.
"Knuckles, are you ok?" Knuckles just stared. He looked at Vector.
"You guys go ahead. I'll check it out." Everyone gasped.
"But how are you going to find your way to Gerocina's house?" Knuckles flashed his cell.
"Take care of Tikal." Tikal grabbed him.
"NO! I'm not leaving you!" After having a very short argument, Knuckles and Tikal went deeper into the forest as the rest of the gang moved on.