Last time on Weresheep X, the bomb I planted destroyed the script format, so I have to use normal story format from now on. Selena has also managed to subside her anger (as far as I know) about her little cousin going on a mission that would normally kill a boy his age, but I reassured Selena otherwise. Then Sonic, Tails and Big finally confronted who was behind all of this: Sturm.
Spock checked the star charts around the planet. Then he did a double take. After checking, he reported to me this: "Sir," said Spock, to which I replied "Yes, Mr. Spock?" He continued. "I have went over these charts and I'm afraid to say that we have bad news. The smaller meteors are heading this way."
"What?" I blurted out. Thinking quickly, I grabbed the comm link and relayed, "All hands, man your stations! I repeat! Man your stations! Meteors incoming! All non-military personnel, HANG ON TO SOMETHING!"
"Shields up, Mr. Data!"
"Shields are up and at maximum strength, sir!"
"Brace for impact! Our shields will keep the hull safe, but we'll still be rocked about! Aim lasers and fire at as many in front as you can!"
Both Spock and Data replied, "Aye, sir!"
The meteors, they were a comin'. I counted down to when they would make impact. When it comes, it would be harsh at first, but then hopefully, things would calm down.
5...4...3...2...1...
Lasers, pieces of meteors, and a satellite or two flew everywhere. The Dragoon was rocked about. "Keep her together, everyone! M-m-mister Spock-ck-ck, y-y-you take t-t-the h-h-h-helm. I'm g-g-g-going to m-m-m-make sure everyone is ok-k-k-k-k-k!" I tried to say. Mr. Spock nodded, a lot, so I would get the picture and I hurried out the door.
First room: "Professor! Are you in here!" I asked. There was a pile in the middle of the room, and after some shaking, the Bothan's head peeped out of it, saying, "Yes, I'm quite fine." "There's no time! Professor, we need to get you into a better room. Come on!" I said to Von Dyke after fishing him out of the pile, "Hey, what's that there?"
"This is my newest invention: A shield enforcer device. If I can calibrate the shield's wave link with that of the Master Emerald, I think we might just be able to extend the force field beyond the ship's hull and relinquish the shaking." said Von Dyke, "But it could take a bit, and without Masters Tails and Anth, it may take a little longer." Von Dyke grabbed the hand-held machine and we ran off down the halls and eventually split up; I would get the others to the room that held the Master Emerald (as the core of the ship, it is the sturdiest place in the whole ship), while Von Dyke would immediately go to the core room. On the way, I imagined what positions the others would be like when I'd get to them.
For the most part, I was right about them.
Rouge and Shadow's room: Rouge was on the floor. Shadow, still wrapped in bandages, was face down on that one place...
"Shadow! Get off my jewels!"
I got a big laugh out of that one, as well as ANOTHER shoe to my face.
The lounge: Cosmo, Vector, Charmy and Carl were all stuck on the chandelier...since when did I get a chandelier on the ship? I don't think that really mattered.
"Ok, just get down one at a time everyone!"
First Carl tried steadily to get off, but slipped, sending everyone on the chandelier to plummet off. I tried to run, but Carl landed on me. Then Vector (who half-swallowed Charmy before I had gotten in) and then Cosmo, who luckily just floated down. Man I wish I could do that.
"Man, could this day get any worse?" exasabated Carl.
Vector complied after getting Charmy out of his mouth. "If you jinxed us, you're next!"
Cosmo, the shallow girl she is, asked, "Is everyone ok?"
All I said was, "Get off."
Next room: Vanilla and Norris' room. This is way off what I would've thought. Chuck was wrestling an alligator that had somehow gotten onto the ship.
"Chuck, what the hell man?"
"Yeah, I know. Aghh! Grrr! I got it, though. Vanilla's ok. I told her to hide in the closet." sputtered Chuck as he wrestled the reptile. I just stood there at the door on the ship that was now only slightly shaking.
I needed an answer. "Norris, we need you and Vanilla to get to the core room immediately. Or when your done with that," I said, and as I was about to leave, I said, "Anybody hurt?" I made a quick check. No blood in the room, nothing. Chuck had the alligator by it's mouth and held it open.
"No. Well, except that we lost Hachi."
A turban was coughed from the belly of the beast and I caught it. I asked if there was anyone else. Lo and behold, he replied whilst Chuck had the monster in a headlock, "Actually, yeah. This time it's the last one. The alligator also ate Uhura!"
Her corpse was coughed up, too. A red-shirted guy came out of nowhere, checked Uhura's pulse and said, "She's dead, Jim." He got eaten, too. That's for calling me JIM!
'Who was next?' I thought to myself. Seeing silhouettes every there, I had made quick checks to make sure everyone was ok. Tikal and Chaos were already in the core room, as that was where the Master Emerald was. And so was Knux and Storm.
Next was Jet and Wave. I had this sensation flow through my body before I opened the door. It wasn't a feeling of dread, sickness, or fear. I sorta recognized it a little. We were just fine. The shields could hold out for a while longer. What was it? Then it hit me. Like a frickin' train.
I'm sensing a time paradox! This almost never happened! And it had something to do with Jet and Wave, I was sure. Time Paradoxes can only take place during a direct change of thought in the future, causing a fic to become dysfunctional. 'It may have to do something with my Oneshot about Tails and Cosmo!' I figured. After all, it's the only fic so far to take place in the future. No matter. Shaking it off, I opened the door. Nothing special here.
And I expected that. Wave was asleep, as was Jet. They can sleep through anything, as that's what birds kinda do. A lot. Not that this didn't bother me, just...
"Man. I don't wanna drag their asses all the way to the core room. I'll grab 'em and get some help."
On the way to the next room, I got help. Lando and Carl. Carl had a neck brace on, so I assumed he broke something other then Vector's and Cosmo's fall. They took the unconscious birds. Gladly...perhaps TOO gladly...what was going on with them? I shook that off as well.
'Gotta keep moving!' I reminded myself.
Meanwhile, Sonic and his group had a little trouble of their own.
There he stood; Sturm. Or rather "Lord Sturm" as his subordinates would call him. Sonic was not in the least moved by his presence. Sonic grinned his usual, goofy smirk, and said, "Sturm, huh? Haven't heard of ya."
However, I think Tails has. He was also unmoved, but with a steely gaze on the evil alien. Though his teeth showed, in no way was Tails smiling.
"Sonic, I think Were has mentioned him before." Tails said.
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah. It was a few days ago. Anth was dominating in 'Axis and Allies'. Were said it reminded him of when an evil dictator like Hitler, and started talking about how a sadistic being incited a world against it's own people and tried the same thing?" continued Tails. Sonic looked back at him, his smile almost gone. "Yeah, what about it?"
"Sonic, Were said that one guy's name was Sturm!" Tails shouted.
The commander seemed humored by this, as his breathing stopped as he let out a freakish alien laugh.
"Geh he haw haw haw! So, I'm more then I thought I was!" bellowed Sturm.
Sonic still seemed undeterred. Not a smile on his face, neither a frown was visible. His silence broken when he said, "But didn't Were say that you died during your second campaign. So are you like a ghost or something?" Now I think Sonic was starting to annoy Sturm.
The breathing got deeper and sounded slightly more frustrated. And he surely sounded that way.
"Or so you all THOUGHT! There is no way in Heaven nor Hell could I have been killed. Even my right hand pawn Hawke could not see that it was a fake that was destroyed. I don't pick fights I cannot win, after all."
After what he said, Tails and apparently Big were affected in some way, but they held their ground. They had a job to do, and by God they were going to do it. But not Sonic. He just smiled. " 'Don't pick fights you can't win', huh? I like that. Ya know, I've been doing something like that for a long time, but I could never find the right words for it. I guess you're right when you say that. Except for one thing," hinted Sonic.
"Oh, and what's that, worm?" questioned Sturm.
Sonic prepared a spin dash and instantly launched himself at Sturm.
"You were referring to me!" he galled.
As he neared the oppressor, he grew excited. And more. And more. Finally, Sonic felt impact. Then he felt himself being swayed from side to side. Curiously, he stopped spinning to see what was going on: he was caught by something! He looked down to see that he was caught by a tentacle protruding from the middle of the room. Kicking around a bit, he asked, "Hey, what the hell-?"
"Geh he ha ha! Did you think I didn't come prepared? If you've heard of me, then you'd know that I can be dangerous when I want to!" laughed Sturm. From this distance, Tails and Big knew that he didn't have a mouth. But if he did, he would have been grinning evilly.
A massive beast emerged from the center of the catwalk. Then, as it turns out, they all realized that this was an arena! And the thing that had Sonic...
Sonic looked down at the thing that had him and instantly recognized it. This was a Meteor Parasite! And a darn big one at that!
"A Meteor Parasite! Now you're really twisted, Sturm!" he mocked.
Sturm only continued his steadily annoying breathing and said, "Oh, so you've met one? Or rather, killed one? Oh that's no good for you then, worm! This is no ordinary Parasite; it's a QUEEN Parasite! And I had it here just for someone like you to come and be killed by."
Tails only watched in horror as his best friend was in a deathtrap. "Sonic! Hold on!" Tails tried to reassure Sonic. Hell, Sonic had to fight one of the lesser species to save Tails from that coma a while back. And even then that one was a menace. Can he beat something this powerful? Especially since Sturm was there?
Tails didn't know what the alien was even capable of. Then again, evil nowadays is sort of a stereotype.
Tails yelled, "You let go of him, right now!" But even Tails had a plan. He turned his head towards Big and winked. Big kinda knew what to do...Ok, NOW he knew. Tails inched closer to Big, yelling a distracting, "You let go of him, or I'll...I'll-" "You'll what? Tell your mommy, worm?"
"Now, Big!" announced Tails. The fox grabbed one of Big's fishing rods and threw it at Sturm as hard as he could, but Sturm slowly yet easily dodged it.
"Oh, is that it? You couldn't even hit me- Uh oh!" unfinished Sturm, as Big had hurled the bomb at him that time. The alien managed to duck that one and watched in anger as the bomb damaged the computer, yelling, "You insolent! That's it! Kill them all!" The Queen P. complied willingly and gladly, revealing it's head/weak spot. Like the Parasite from Sonic's first encounter, it was like a devolved fish with wings. Really ugly.
Except this one was bigger. And more powerful looking. A slight bulge was noticeable near it's stem, revealing what appeared to be an egg sack. Definently a queen alright.
'How am I going to get out of this one?' Sonic thought to himself.
Aboard the Dragoon...I had gathered everyone at the core room. However, things were looking bleak as Data phoned me in.
"Sir, our shields are at 20. At this rate, we won't hold out much longer." reported Data. To which I replied, "Noted, Data." I turned to Von Dyke and Wave, as they tried to calibrate the frequency of Von Dyke's device. Wave had only an effort enough for a tired person, as she had just woken up.
"All yawn systems are ok." said Wave lazily.
"You could at least TRY to sound hasty, Miss Wave. Now, let's see if this will work..."
A bunch of jabber followed between the two. Tech stuff. Too cool to me, too boring to you. Either way, it wasn't fast enough. A larger meteor (though smaller then the lead meteor) was heading right towards the Dragoon. Not enough power to get us away in time, but the shields won't hold. We were screwed.
Or so I thought.
A powerful blast came out of nowhere and destroyed it!
"What the hell? Who sent that?" I asked, this question going to anyone at this point. Then a familiar, young voice sounded from my comms unit.
"Hey guys! We're here!"
It was Chris!
END OF EPISODE 20
Spontaneous comic: (Sonic sat in the movie theater watching this fic, and said, "What? Ending the episode where I get screwed? No way! The producers said they wouldn't cut that part short!" A familiar, sadistic figure sitting next to him was also watching. He said, "I'm getting some cool spotlight here, so I'm not complaining. Hand me some popcorn." Sonic still watched, and shoved a mouthful of popcorn into Sturm's mouth, as he didn't have hands. Darth Vader-esque breathing and now he has to feed a limbless alien. What unholy contract had he signed?)
Note to captain deoxys: Sorry I couldn't add your character in right now. If I did, this would be way too long. Then again, I don't think I made any promises, and if I did, my first "M" rated fic will make up for that. It will be a gift to you, I guess. He'll be in the next one. Still no promises.
