Team Sonic
By: The White Dragon Rider
Disclaimer: I own NOTHING! Are we clear? Good! P.S. Please don't sue me
Hello I'm back. Sorry it's been so long I had a lot of work to do on my stories. On my other story I posted two HUGE chapters that took me the better part of a month to write and all I got was a reviewer saying he hated my story. Am I the only one who DESPISES! people like that? Anyway here we go back to the story.
Note: As of now the official pairing is Takeshi/Amy but don't expect much
Chapter 10: Training
Amy's Room
All was calm and quiet in the room of Amy Stapleton
It was early morning just before the sun rose
The room still dark and the sky looked dull grey outside the windows like it usually does during the very early morning
The digital clock on Amy's desk said 5:30 A.M. in bright red numbers
Amy was sleeping peacefully in her bed
She was wearing sky blue pajamas and her hair was unkept
Luca was purring slightly as he slept on Amy's stomach
Everything was quiet, calm, and peaceful
BANG!
The quiet was broken by the sound of Amy's door being kicked open
"WAKE UP! TIME TO TRAIN!" shouted Knuckles at the top of his voice after he burst into the room
Amy's eyes instantly snapped open
Luca screeched and jumped five feet into the air in fright
Amy reacted instantly by trying to get out of bed so fast in shock she fell and landed on the floor face first
"Oww" moaned Amy as she got onto her hands and feet on the floor
"Come on get up!" roared Knuckles
"What's the emergency?" asked Amy still sounding drowsy
"Today we start training remember?" said Knuckles throwing a few punches into the air in anticipation
Amy looked at the clock and saw the time
"Its only 5:30!" said Amy in a tired moan
"We need to start early if we want to use up as much of the day as we can" said Knuckles
"Ughhh" moaned Amy
Just then Tails and Sonic came into the room
"Hey Knuckles I think you need to shout louder, I don't think some people in CHINA heard you!" said Sonic annoyed
"Good morning Amy!" said Tails happily
"It's not morning yet!" said Amy in a tired moan nearly going back to sleep on the floor
Amy was shocked back to attention by knuckles picking her up as easily as a leaf and running out of the room with her
"Come on Amy! Either you're getting up or I'm going to carry you!" said Knuckles as he ran carrying the screaming Amy
"Hey let me change out of my PJs first!" shouted Amy while being carried
The Living Room
"That's not how I want to wake up every day" said Amy with a slight yawn as she walked into the living room after she changed carrying Luca in her arms
'I agree, I nearly touched the ceiling' said Luca
"I hope we don't have to do this everyday" said Amy
'I wouldn't count it out' said Luca
"Hello Amy!" said Tails as he flew down right in front of Amy's face startling her for a second
"Hi Tails" said Amy to the flying fox
"I hope you're ready for our training, we haven't trained any humans before" said Tails
"So you've trained other animals like you before?" asked Amy
"Nope" said Tails
'That makes me feel a lot better' thought Amy sarcastically
"So what'll we do?" asked Amy
"Well we hard to think about it for a while, we had to consider that humans are a lot different from our kind and that you can't be expected to do everything we can" explained Tails
"What do you mean?" asked Amy
"Well humans can't move as fast as us so Sonic had to cancel teaching you how to run down the side of a tall building" said Tails
"Really?" asked Amy nervously
"Yeah and then we had to tell Knuckles humans aren't as strong as him so he couldn't throw cars at you and expect you to catch them" said Tails
Amy let loose a nervous laugh
'Glad they thought of that beforehand' said Luca
"So what did you decide on?" asked Amy nervously hoping it wouldn't kill her
"Well first we would show you some of our moves that I put variations of in your team playbook so that you would have a general idea how they are done" said Tails
"So I get to see you fight together?" asked Amy
"Yup, and then we'll teach you some moves hand to hand" said Tails
"Why?" asked Amy thinking this was suppose to be for her in the mech not on the ground
"You'll see" said Tails teasingly
Just then Sonic walked in the room
"Hey Tails Amy, are you ready?" asked Sonic
"Sure am" said Tails happily
"I guess" said Amy
"Ok good, let's get going then" said Sonic heading towards the door
"What do you mean?" asked Amy "I thought we would be training here"
"We can't" said Tails
"Why?" Amy asked confused
"Because if we practiced our moves in your house it'd be wrecked in no time at all" explained Tails
"Yeah, you can't expect a house to remain standing while practicing super powerful fighting moves especially in power formation" said Sonic
"Good point" said Amy realizing it was a bad idea
"Where are we going then?" asked Amy
"Deep into the desert outside the city" said Tails still hovering at Amy's face height
"Why there?" asked Amy confused they would need to go all the way out there
"It's the only place that's open and secluded enough to practice our attacks" explained Tails
That made sense to Amy
No one in their right mind would be wandering around in the middle of the desert so there was no chance they could be spotted by accident
Plus they could cause massive destruction out there without being noticed
"Ok" said Amy
"How are we getting there?" asked Amy hoping she wouldn't have to walk
"The Tornado Three" said Tails
"Come on!" said Tails happily as he flew towards the door being followed by Sonic and Amy
Deep Desert
It was about seven when they got out to the desert
The sun was shining and the air was hot and humid in the summer desert heat
There air over the sand was wavy when the Tornado Three landed on a flat patch of sand
The big blue plane came in for a horizontal landing blowing hot sand out from underneath its jets
When it landed the glass canopy opened and Sonic and Knuckles quickly jumped out of it
"Fheeew! Man it's hot!" said Sonic at the blistering desert heat
"It's not that bad" said Knuckles unaffected by the heat that could almost melt glass
"Forget you! I'm going for a run to cool down" said Sonic hoping the wind he would kick up would cool him down
He then started doing laps around some sand dunes at high speed
While he did that Knuckles sat on a nearby rock and relaxed until he was needed
Tails was busy shutting down the Tornado Three while Amy stayed in her seat and looked around at the endless desert
"It's amazing" said Amy
'Yeah, who knew such a horrible place existed?' said Luca
"Not that…" said Amy
"It's so different from the city and yet it's so close" said Amy looking at the desert dunes that were wavy in the heat
'All I know is it's hot' said Luca unimpressed
"I agree with you there" said Amy who had only been exposed to the hot desert breeze about half a minute and was already sweating
Tails got done shutting the Tornado Three down while Amy and Luca were talking and got out of the plane
When he was on the wing he looked back to Amy who was still in her seat looking around
"Coming Amy?" asked Tails from the plane wing
"Oh, coming!" said Amy snapping her attention back to Tails
She then began to get out of her seat
While she was getting out of the cockpit and onto the plane wing Luca jumped out of her arms and onto Amy's seat
"Luca aren't you coming?" asked Amy confused
'I think I'll stay here in the air-conditioned plane thank you very much' said Luca coolly
"Rub it in why don't you?" asked Amy slightly annoyed
Amy then jumped down from the Tornado Three's wing onto the sandy ground
Tails flew down next to her and hovered near her head with his tails
Amy took another look around to see Sonic running around some dunes nearby so fast he was creating mini sand tornados and Knuckles chilling on a rock
Amy wiped some of the sweat from her forehead thinking this place was going to be bad place to do any sort of exhausting activity
"Tails aren't you bothered by the heat?" asked Amy noticing the young fox was fine in the heat while he hovered
"Nope, I got air-conditioning" said Tails happily pointing at his tails that were acting as a personal fan for him as he flew
Tails then turned his tails and pointed them in Amy's direction blasting her with a cool breeze
"Thanks Tails" said Amy gratefully
"No problem!" said Tails cheerily
"So are we ready to go?" asked Knuckles impatiently
"Yup all we need is Sonic" said Tails
"Ok" said Knuckles calmly
He then got up from the rock he was laying on and walked in front of Sonic's path
"Hey Sonic!" shouted Knuckles to the quickly approaching hedgehog
Sonic continued blasting right towards Knuckles
When he got to Knuckles he stopped on a dime about a foot away from him
"What?" asked Sonic calmly
"It's time to get to work" said Knuckles
"Ok sweet" said Sonic
Sonic and Knuckles walked over to Amy and Tails
"Ok guys first I though before we did anything else we would show Amy some of our moves so she has a idea what they look like and might be able to get ready to try them in a mech" said Tails
"Sweet! I need to practice some fighting anyway" said Sonic
"Yeah, it's been a while since we used all of our formations and attacks" said Knuckles "This should be good practice"
"Which formation should we use first?" asked Sonic
"We'll go: Speed, Fly, and Power" said Tails
"Ok then I'll be my turn first" said Sonic happily
"What'll we attack?" asked Knuckles
"Oh yeah! Give me a second" said Tails remembering he forgot to put out the target
He then ran over to the Tornado Three and opened up a compartment
He rummaged around inside it for a few seconds
"Found it!" said Tails happily as he began struggling to pull something out
After a few tries he managed to pull out what looked like a square sheet of green metal
Attached to the sheet of metal was a giant red spring with a yellow and blue star on top
Tails began to drag the sheet of metal back over to the rest of the group
"What's that?" asked Amy curiously
"It's a giant spring" said Tails grunting slightly as he dragged the heavy thing
"I can see that but what's it for?" asked Amy
"We can use it as a target that we can't destroy" explained Tails
"What do you mean?" asked Amy
"If we hit the spring with our attacks we won't break it we'll just bounce into the air" explained Tails as he dragged the spring past Amy, Sonic, and Knuckles
"Perfect" said Sonic
"It should be alright to practice most of our moves on" said Knuckles as Tails set the spring up in an empty patch of flat sand
"Alright then let's get into speed formation" said Tails when he was done
Tails and Knuckles quickly got behind Sonic
"Ok now the main thing about speed formation is that the fastest member must be in the lead" said Tails pointing to Sonic
"And you must always hold this formation" added Knuckles gesturing to how Tails and Knuckles were behind Sonic
"Why?" asked Amy
"We'll explain the way speed formation works is that even though me and Knuckles are slower than Sonic we can still keep up with him in speed formation. This is done by me and Knuckles riding the air-current behind Sonic when he runs at top speed" explained Tails
"So you use the current to move faster?" asked Amy
"Correct, when Sonic runs as fast as he can he creates a powerful air current that me and Tails run in. This current reduces wind resistance and that allows us to run faster and keep up with Sonic. So when in speed formation me and Tails always are behind Sonic" said Knuckles
"We do stuff like that all the time in the IG-1, when someone wants to pass a enemy on the track or give a damaged mech a speed boost we'll ride in the slipstream created by another mech. Fantine is an expert at it" said Amy
"Really?" asked Knuckles
"Yeah I've just never heard of a formation using it before" said Amy "We always try and keep moving when in formation and spread out so we can all fight"
"Well there are some interesting attacks that can only be performed in this formation" said Sonic
"Like what?" asked Amy
"We'll show you using that spring" said Sonic
Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles all faced the spring
"Ok now the first move is the homing attack" said Sonic
"That's the move Sonic used during the race right?" asked Amy remembering the video of Sonic curling into a ball and slamming into the Sledge Mama mech
"Yes, the homing attack is done by jumping into the air and slamming your opponent with an attack from above" said Knuckles
"Amy in your playbook instead of curling into a ball and ramming your opponents all your mechs have to do is leap at you enemies and give them a powerful body blow" said Tails
Amy remembered how Tails had dodged the Induraga Mano using an attack like that
"The advantage to using an attack like that is that unlike a punch or kick which can be blocked easily a full body blow isn't easy to block or dodge" said Tails
Amy imagined a entire mech coming right at her with a lot of power on the track and realized that their was no way even a large mech like Liz's could easily stop an entire mech coming at it with that much power even if it was a small midfielder one
She couldn't imagine how powerful an attack like that from a large mech like Liz's would be but she knew it would be a deadly attack to any enemy mech on the field
And considering how large a mech was it would not be easy to dodge it done at close range
The only downside she could see was slight damage to her mech upon impact
"We'll show you how it's done" said Tails
Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles ran forward in speed formation towards the spring
When they got near it they jumped, curled into balls, and then rammed the spring with full force
When they hit they bounced off the spring high into the air
After a second they landed back on the desert sand
"See?" said Tails when he landed
"A classic but powerful" said Sonic
"It might be simple but sometimes simple equals good" said Knuckles
"Ok" said Amy with a nod
"Another advantage of this move is that it can be performed by an entire team at once on a single target. An enemy might be able to dodge one attack but three is a death sentence for sure" said Knuckles
"The last thing your opponents will expect is an entire team coming down on one mech" said Sonic
"Makes sense" said Amy
"Alright then the next move is the Rocket Accel" said Tails
"What's that?" asked Amy
"The Rocket Accel is a powerful attack that can only be performed in speed formation, it works by having the other team members push the speed team leader at high speed into the enemies so he can deliver a powerful ramming attack" said Tails
"It is done by the other team members lining up in order behind the speed team leader. When they are in place the power team leader gives the fly team leader and speed team leader a powerful punch that sends them flying forwards at high speed" explained Knuckles
"Yeah, and then the fly team leader hits the speed team leader to send him down the track at high speed" said Tails
"This not only can be used as a powerful charge attack but it can also be used for a speed boost" said Sonic
When they were done explaining they ran forward and got into order
They quickly turned around to make a pass by Amy
Knuckles who was in the back gave Tails and Sonic a powerful punch to the back pushing both forward at high speeds
After they got some distance from Knuckles Tails gave Sonic a powerful kick to the back
Sonic curled into a ball and used the added boost to roll past Amy so fast she could barely see him
"Takeshi's going to love this move" said Amy after Sonic passed her knowing his love of speed
"I know I do" said Sonic as he walked over to Amy
Tails and Knuckles caught up with Sonic a few seconds later
"Alright guys let's show her fly formation next" said Sonic to Tails and Knuckles
"How's that work?" asked Amy
Tails walked into the middle of a clearing and gestured for Sonic and Knuckles to come over
When they came over Tails took off and hovered in the air
Sonic quickly grabbed onto Tails' legs and held on
Knuckles did the same to Sonic
When they were done Tails lifted both of them into the air
"Like this" said Tails as he flew around carrying Sonic and Knuckles
"Cool but Tails, my mech can't fly so I can't do that" pointed out Amy
"I know but I figured out a way for your team to use the fly formation attack the Thunder
Shoot" said Tails
"How?" asked Amy
"Well it'll take all three team members and a lot of coordination" said Tails
"That could be a problem" said Amy
"You'll need both of those to perform this attack" said Sonic
"How does it go?" asked Amy hoping it wasn't that hard
"Well since your mech can't fly I had to develop a new way to do it. The first step is for the power team leader to launch the fly team leader/midfielder into the air" explained Tails
Tails walked over to Knuckles
Tails jumped into the air as high as he could without his tails
Knuckles caught Tails feet on the way down with his hands
Knuckles then gave Tails a huge push that sent the little fox high into the air without Tails using his tails to fly
"Then the power team leader/defender throws the speed team lead/forward into the air also" explained Sonic hurriedly as he ran towards Knuckles
Sonic jumped into the air like Tails had and was then given a huge push by Knuckles sending him high into the air after Tails
"And when both of them are in the air the fly team leader/midfielder gives the speed team leader/forward a kick in the direction of what they want to hit" explained Knuckles as Tails gave Sonic a powerful kick towards the spring they had set up midair
Sonic curled into an electrified ball and slammed into the spring with amazing force
Sonic bounced off the spring so hard he passed Tails who was falling back to earth
Tails landed first followed shortly by Sonic
"That's amazing but why would we need to do that?" asked Amy
"Let's say another team tries to attack you with a jump attack, the enemy mech can't change course once it's in the air. With this attack you can shoot any mechs that try to attack you with high jump attacks right out of the air" said Tails
Amy thought about it
He was right this move could be useful for quiet a few situations
It would be a perfect counter attack for any airborne attacks
"That could be useful" said Amy thinking about how they could use it in a race
"That's fine but can we get onto my formation?" asked Knuckles impatiently
"Hold on Knucklehead!" said Sonic annoyed
"DON'T CALL ME THAT!" screamed Knuckles angrily
"Enough you two!" said Tails getting in between Knuckles and Sonic who were getting into fighting stances
"Knuckles if you want to hit something I got the perfect thing to show off power formation" said Tails going over to his plane and rummaging around in the compartments again
"What?" asked Knuckles curiously
Tails pulled out what looked like to Amy to be the ugliest robot she had ever seen
It was bright orange and a little shorter than Amy
Its torso and head were round
And its face was absolutely hideous with an ugly smile and huge pointy nose
It looked like it was inactive
"Oh yeah!" said Knuckles happily cracking his Knuckles in anticipation
"What is that thing?" asked Amy in disgust looking at it
"An Eggpawn, Eggman's main style of robot" explained Sonic looking at it curiously
"Where'd you get it?" Sonic asked Tails
"I found one of Eggman's abandoned factories after the incident with Metal Sonic. Some of the machines to make them were still operable so I decided to take them back to my workshop" explained Tails
"Why?" asked Knuckles
"So I could make an endless supple of Eggman's robots to practice destroying" said Tails
"Why didn't you tell me about this?" asked Knuckles angry he had been left out on the fun of destroying Eggman robots
"Cause I had to pay to get the metal to make them and I didn't want to waste a fortune on you" explained Tails
"So how many to you have with you?" asked Sonic
Tails took out a handful of robots that looked like they had been shrunken with his shrink ray
"Plenty for a demo of Power formation" said Tails holding the miniaturized robots in his hand
"Yeah!" shouted Knuckles happily
Tails went out into a open field of sand and began placing robots all around the field in groups of five
When Tails was done he took out the size changer and blasted all the robots until they were normal size
"All right! I been wanting to do something like this for weeks!" said Knuckles happily
"Tails let's hurry and get into power formation before Knuckles levels half the robots without us" said Sonic
Sonic and Tails ran over to Knuckles and got on the sides of him
"Amy you might want to stand back" said Tails to Amy
"Why?" asked Amy
"Trust me" said Tails
Amy had learned to trust Tails when he said something so she quickly took shelter on a sand dune overlooking the small clearing
"Alright now Amy the sole purpose of power formation is mass destruction" said Tails to Amy having to yell a bit for her to hear him at those distances
"It increases the power team leader's/defender's strength by using the other team members to increase the damage they can do. You got that Amy?" yelled Knuckles over to Amy
"Got it!" she yelled back
"How does it do that?" yelled Amy to Knuckles
"It uses the other team members as weapons from time to time" yelled Knuckles in reply
This did not make Amy feel good
She didn't like the idea of being used as a weapon especially if it she was going to be at the hands of Liz
She didn't want to image what would happen to Takeshi if he had to do it too
"What attacks does it use?" yelled Amy to the others
"The first attack is Fire Combo; it is basically a series of running punches that form a powerful combo attack with a deadly finishing slamming attack that decimates enemies. Since Liz is good at Kung Fu it should be no problem for her" yelled Tails to Amy
Knuckles and the others then started running forward
When they reached a group of robots Sonic and Tails curled into balls and began spinning rapidly around Knuckles' fists
Knuckles then started doing a powerful series of running punches
After each punch a small burst of flames would appear from his gloves burning the ground
Knuckles began rapidly tearing through the robots with his powerful fire punches
Amy watched as each robots was torn apart like wet tissue from the force of each of Knuckles punches
After each punch there was an explosion from each robot destroyed
Amy now knew why Tails told her to get back
She quickly got down and covered her ears as the defining sound of explosions filled the air along with flying metal debris that rained down all over the place
When it was all over Amy looked over to see a huge cloud of black smoke where the robots were
When the smoke cleared the only thing standing was Knuckles, Tails, and Sonic
"That's why we needed to come out here" said Amy remembering how Tails said they needed to go somewhere to practice super powerful attacks
"(Whistle) Nice one Knuckles!" said Sonic impressed looking around at the ruined robots and the ground that looked like a war zone
"That's only the beginning!" said Knuckles cracking his knuckles
"Amy are you alright?" Tails called over to Amy
"I'm fine!" yelled Amy back
"Ok now the next move is one your team will probably find useful" yelled Tails "It's called the Fire Dunk"
"Ok!" yelled Amy so Tails would know she could hear him
"In our variation it is a jumping move where me and Sonic jump into the air and curl into balls, Knuckles would then slam us towards the enemy with great force like cannonballs" explained Tails
When he was finished he, Sonic, and Knuckles jumped into the air
Tails and Sonic curled into balls and spun around Knuckles once
Then Sonic went right in front of Knuckles
Knuckles did what looked like to Amy to be a volley ball spike and slammed Sonic towards a group of robots
While Sonic was in a ball flying towards the robots he turned into a fireball
The fireball hit the group of five robots with a giant explosion
Amy put her hands in front of her face to protect herself as the explosion rocked the area and sent more metal debris into the air
When Amy lowered her hands to look again where the robots had been a huge smoking crater was now there with Sonic standing right in the middle of it
She then turned back to Knuckles
The yellow ball that was Tails flew right in front of Knuckles
Knuckles repeated what he had done to Sonic to Tails
With a powerful volley ball spike Knuckles sent the fireball that was Tails flying towards another group of robots on the ground
The result was the same as with Sonic; a huge explosion, flying metal debris, and a huge smoking crater afterwards
Tails looked over to Amy after he got back up
"What do you think?" yelled Tails over to Amy
She did not want to try that in a mech
But she knew Liz might be willing to
"I don't think we can do that Tails" yelled Amy to Tails
"Well as I said that was our variation, your variation that I put into your playbook is just a modified version of the Rocket Accel" explained Tails
"What do you mean?" asked Amy
"When in power formation Liz will hit you and Takeshi in the back sending you forward towards enemies so you can do a powerful running attack down the track" explained Tails
Amy being a child genius knew about Kinetic energy and knew the blow to the back from Liz would give any charge attack they did a powerful boost since force and motion transfer
This attack could work if they needed to deliver a strong attack quickly and at a distance
All these new attacks plus the old ones Tails had fixed up would definitely catch Team Sledge Mamma off guard and give them the edge they need to win
Things didn't look so hopeless now
"That's great Tails but what about that last move? The Satomi Overdrive?" asked Amy remembering there was one more move he put in
"Tails you put in a Team Blast?" asked Sonic
"Yes but It'll be kind of hard to explain it to her since it's different from ours" answered Tails
Tails turned to where Amy was sitting
"Amy I'll explain how to do the Satomi Overdrive later, right now we'll show you our Sonic Overdrive" yelled Tails over to Amy
Tails turned to Sonic and Knuckles
"Come on guys let's show her our Team Blast and destroy the rest of these ugly robots" said Tails to Sonic and Knuckles
"Already?" asked Knuckles wanting to have more fun in power formation first
"Ready!" said Sonic happily with a thumbs up
"All set!" said Tails happily
Knuckles grabbed onto Tails' feet and started spinning the little fox around
Tails grabbed onto Sonic's feet and held onto him as both were spun around by Knuckles
The three of them looked like a blurry tornado to Amy as she watched the three spin around wildly
After a few rotations Knuckles let go of Tails' feet sending him and Sonic flying high into the air
Amy watched as the two soared through the air over the desert
When Tails and Sonic were high up Tails used the force of the throw to give Sonic a powerful kick
Sonic curled into a ball and was sent flying by the kick
The blue ball that was Sonic was now a fireball that had electricity flowing around it
The ball flew up into the air then back down to the desert floor
When the ball was at ground level it began rapidly striking robots while pillars of blue energy burst out of the ground
Amy watched the scene of destruction in awe as robots were destroyed so fast she couldn't even see were Sonic was
All she saw was the trail of electricity he left behind
Robots were blowing up at such a rapid rate the explosions reminded Amy of videos she had seen of war on TV with bombing raids
Amy quickly dove to the ground to avoid some flying debris sent her way by accident
When she got up and looked at the field again it looked like it had been through a bombing raid
The small clearing was now full of robots scraps and smoking sand
Small holes caused by explosions covered the clearing and could see shards of glass in the sand from where the heat was so intense it melted the sand to form glass
In the middle of the clearing amongst all the chaos and destruction were Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles standing smiling
"Oh my…" said Amy in awe
Until now Amy had know Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles were strong but it wasn't until now that she knew just how strong they were
At this moment Amy finally understood the power of what she was dealing with
"How was that Amy?" yelled Tails over to Amy
Amy was speechless
"I'd say she's impressed" said Knuckles smugly
Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles then walked over to where Amy was
"Amy the variation I put in your play book is quiet complicated so I will have to explain it in detail to you later, ok?" said Tails
"Ok" said Amy finally getting over the shock of what had happened
"Ok now with that out of the way we can move onto your training" said Tails
"What do I do?" asked Amy
"We are going to teach you some hand to hand combat on the ground" said Knuckles
"How's that going to help me in a mech?" asked Amy
"The reason is that learning to fight on the ground will help you be a better fighter on the track" said Knuckles
"I still don't get it" said Amy
"Amy do you know any pilots that know some form of hand to hand combat in real life?" asked Sonic
"Yeah Takeshi, Liz, River, Yamma, Cunningham, and a lot of other top pilots…wait!" said Amy
Then it hit her, she was naming some of the best pilots in the league
"I get it! All those pilots use the skills they learn while fighting normally on the track" said Amy
"Right, I used some of the skills I learned while fighting on the ground in the simulator. If you can learn some fighting style in real life you might become a better fighter on the track" explained Tails happily as his tails wagged a little
"But I don't know any fighting styles" said Amy
"What do Takeshi and Liz do?" asked Knuckles
"Takeshi uses a sword and Liz uses Kung Fu, but I can't do either" answered Amy
"Why?" asked Tails
"Well I don't think I'm strong enough to use Kung Fu and I don't think it would be a good idea for me to handle a sword" said Amy in a defeated tone
"I don't think it's a good idea for Sonic to handle a sword either but that didn't stop him" said Knuckles pointing to Sonic
"What's that suppose to mean?" asked Sonic slightly annoyed
"Wait, Sonic uses a sword?" asked Amy curiously
"Yeah, let me go get it" said Sonic
Sonic quickly ran over to the Tornado Three and opened a compartment on the underside of the plane
He then began throwing things out of it rapidly while he looked for his sword
"Hey careful!" shouted Knuckles as he was nearly hit by a air board Sonic threw out of the compartment
"Got it!" said Sonic holding up his sword
Sonic's sword was a custom made Samurai sword with a handle wrapped in a deep blue cloth and with a blade that was a very light shade of sky blue
It was a rather big weapon considering Sonic's size but was light enough for him to swing effortlessly very quickly
"Wow it's beautiful!" said Amy at the blue blade
"Nice huh?" said Sonic playfully swinging it around a few times
"Where'd you get it?" asked Amy
"Shadow" answered Sonic simply
Shadow had given it to him on his birthday
Shadow had no idea what to give Sonic as a gift so Shadow being Shadow had decided to give him sword with a card that said
"Here's your gift try not to impale yourself"
Sonic had actually quickly grown to like the blade and he and Shadow had begun sparring with their blades quiet often
The sword was the only weapon Sonic would touch in contrast to Shadow's arsenal of guns he carried along with his Samurai Blade
While Sonic was busy showing off with his sword Knuckles noticed something on the ground on Sonic's feet
It looked like a small tube made out of yellow metal
Knuckles ignored Sonic and walked over and picked it up
"What's this?" asked Knuckles turning everyone's attention away from Sonic
Sonic stopped his showing off and asked Knuckles "What have you got there?"
"I don't know" said Knuckles looking at it
"Hey Tails is this a part of the Tornado Three?" asked Knuckles showing it to Tails and Amy
Tails looked at it and recognized it at once
"My staff!" said Tails grabbing it
"Your what?" asked Knuckles confused
"It's a telescopic staff I made to fight with" explained Tails
"Ok first off what's a staff? Second what's telescopic mean?" asked Sonic
"A staff is a weapon that is basically a large stick to hit people with and telescopic means this…" said Tails calmly
Tails hit a button on the side of the tube and suddenly the ends of the tube extended to form a full staff made out of yellow metal
Tails twirled it around a few times to show off before he stopped and held it at his side
"Cool" said Sonic mildly impressed
"Neat Tails" said Amy
"When'd you learn to do that?" asked Knuckles curiously
"After seeing Wave use her wrench in the air board races I decided I needed a better weapon than a huge plug so I decided to learn bow staff" explained Tails
"Bow staff?" asked Knuckles
"Yeah, I actually know quiet a lot about it" said Tails
This gave Amy an idea
"Hey Tails maybe you can teach me how to fight using one of those?" asked Amy
For some odd reason she thought she might have better luck with the bow staff than a sword or Kung Fu
"That's a great idea!" said Tails happily
"Yeah Takeshi and me have swords, Knuckles and Liz have Kung Fu, and you two will have the bow staff" said Sonic
"That's perfect" said Knuckles happily
"I'm willing to teach if you're willing to learn" said Tails to Amy
"I'm ready" said Amy in anticipation
"Perfect we can start now!" said Tails happily while doing a flying back-flip
Amy let out a giggle at the display
Tails handed Amy a spare staff he kept in the plane and began teaching Amy some basic moves while Sonic and Knuckles watched from the side
Later after the First Lesson
It was nearly sunset when Amy fell to the ground exhausted with the staff in her hand
"Why'd we have to come to a desert to train?" she asked panting as she talked
They had practiced all day in the blazing desert heat
Tails would show her a move and all the motions one had to go through to do it and explain what it was used for then Amy would try and copy it to mock attack Tails
The heat and all the practice had gotten to her and she was very hot and her entire body hurt as she lay on the ground
Tails walked over to her with his staff in his hand
"Those were only the very basics!" said Tails spinning his staff once
Amy just let out a tired groan like the ones she gave that morning
"I can't take as much as you" said Amy still panting
"Yo! Tails! I think you should end the session for today before she dies of exhaustion!" shouted Knuckles from the sidelines to Tails
Tails looked down to see how beat Amy was and decided Knuckles was right
Humans couldn't take as much as his kind and had much weaker limits
"I guess your right Knuckles" said Tails to Knuckles
Tails walked over to Amy and picked her up by her waist and got her back on her feet
"That was a good first lesson Amy" said Tails
"(Huff) thanks" said Amy breathlessly
"We'll come back here everyday when you don't have to go into the garage" said Tails
"Great" said Amy sarcastically at the prospect of doing this everyday
"Hey Sonic, Knuckles we're going home!" called Tails to Sonic and Knuckles who were near some sand dunes
Knuckles was practicing his Martial Arts while Sonic chatted with Takeshi on Watch World
Both quickly stopped what they were doing and headed to the Tornado Three
"Need some help getting to the plane?" offered Tails to Amy who looked like she was going to pass out any second
"I can do it" said Amy as she began walking over to the plane
Amy got over to the plane and got up onto the wing and opened the cockpit
She saw a sleeping Luca in the seat she was sitting in when they arrived
"Have a nice nap?" she asked the sleeping cat
'Yeah but it was hard sleeping with all those explosions earlier' complained Luca as he got up
"Poor thing" said Amy sarcastically
She then moved Luca aside and got in
Words could not describe how good the comfortable seat in the air-conditioned plane felt to Amy as they headed back to her house
Two weeks later at the Desert
Amy and Tails were having a sparring match among the hot desert dunes
The last two weeks of Amy's life ad been mostly training out in the desert
Satomi had not called any meetings for some reason despite the race with Sledge Mamma was soon
Amy would have thought that to weird if she had time to really think about it but since she was so busy she didn't
Amy turned out to be a natural with the bow staff and learned quickly
Tails said it was move than likely no human had ever learned what she did in such a short time
Amy and Tails had begun sparring with their staffs out in the desert while Sonic and Knuckles looked on
Amy was getting very good but was still nowhere near good enough to beat Tails…yet
Amy gave a wide swing to Tails' head which he countered with his staff effortlessly
Tails then did a back-flip over Amy and tried to attack her from behind with a downward swing
Amy spun around and blocked with her staff and then tried to trip Tails with her staff with a sweeping blow
Tails simply flew into the air to avoid it and used his staff to jab at Amy
She dove and rolled out of the way just before it hit
Amy counterattacked with a rising blow as she got up
Tails flew out of the way to avoid her attack and tried to get Amy with a horizontal blow to her right
Amy blocked it with her staff and then tried to use the end of her staff to jab at Tails like he had done to her
Tails dropped to the ground to avoid the high aimed attack and proceeded to attempt to strike Amy in the legs with a sweeping blow
Amy saw the attack and did a black-flip to avoid it
She then tried to finish Tails who was on the ground with one powerful downward blow
Amy watched as Tails almost seemed to warp in front of eyes
All her staff hit was sand
She quickly looked around to try and find Tails but it was too late
Amy felt cool metal pressing against the side of her head and knew she had been beat
She turned around to see Tails hovering with one end of his staff held next to her head
"You win again" said Amy slightly disappointed
"Don't act like that Amy, you've come along great! I even had to use my speed to win this time!" said Tails happily
"Yeah, I bet you could handle most ordinary humans now" said Sonic as he and Knuckles walked over
"Just don't expect to beat us anytime soon" said Knuckles
"Thanks guys" said Amy gratefully
"It's nothing" said Tails modestly
"No it isn't, with your help we might be able to win the Championship this year" said Amy happily
"Yeah there's nothing that can go wrong!" said Knuckles with a thumbs up
(So of course..)
Team Satomi Garage, Satomi's Office
It was sunset when Miss Satomi, Andrei, Mark, and Jessie met in Satomi's office
Everyone still couldn't believe what was going on
"Are you sure about this? Couldn't there be a bug in the system?" asked Satomi in disbelief
Mark nodded no
"No I checked and rechecked the systems, the scans all say that the test run was done by someone in the pod using a midfielder mech" said Mark
"Are you sure it's Amy? Couldn't Takeshi or Liz have done it?" asked Jessie not believing it either
"Who else around here uses a midfield mech?" pointed out Andrei
"Plus I found this in the pod afterwards" said Mark holding up some white hairs
"What's that?" asked Jessie
"White fur" said Mark
"There's only one thing around here with white fur, Luca" said Andrei
"I still can't believe it, how could Amy be that good?" asked Satomi
"I don't know but whoever did that test run is probably the best in the league" said Andrei
"What about the playbook?" asked Satomi to Andrei
"I haven't seen plays like this in all my years but they are some of the best I have ever seen, truly the work of an amazing racer. This Satomi Overdrive is the work of a genius" said Andrei holding up the book
"How do we know Amy did that?" asked Satomi
"When I put the book in the rec room that morning it was normal, when I went back in there after Takeshi, Liz, and Amy left it was changed" said Andrei
"I saw Amy looking at it when I told her to not be late for the meeting and there was a pen on the table near her with it's cap off and I thought I heard writing before I got in the room" testified Jessie
Satomi sat at her desk and put her hands on her head
She kept wondering if all this was really true
Could Amy actually be holding back so much?
Could she actually be the best racer in the league but was just pretending to be a lot weaker?
Her head hurt from all this thinking
"I can't believe it, could Amy actually be that good?" asked Mark
"Well based on the test run I say she can be" said Andrei
"Why would she hold back then?" asked Jessie
"Who knows? She could have a million different reasons. The thing now is what are we going to do about it?" asked Andrei
"Should we tell her we know?" asked Mark
"How do you think she'll react?" asked Jessie
"Well she either admit it or deny it as much as she can" said Andrei
"But she might race like she did in the test run if we tell he we know" pointed out Mark
"What about Takeshi and Liz?" asked Jessie trying to imagine their reactions
"I'm not sure about Takeshi but I know Liz won't like it" said Andrei
"Why?" asked Jessie
"If Amy is stronger than Liz and Takeshi it'll mean Liz will be the weakest member of the team and I bet she won't like that" said Andrei
"It's your call" said Andrei to Satomi
Satomi looked up at them and thought seriously for a second about it
"We have to confront her, we have to worry about winning so if it means getting her to play like that we have to tell her" said Satomi
"I can only wonder how Takeshi and Liz will react" said Andrei knowing this wasn't going to end well
End Chapter
(Not bad right? Not my best work I admit but at least I thought the end was good)
(By the way I'm currently accepting ideas from readers for the Satomi Overdrive attack so please feel free to send me them and I shall make the best on the Satomi Overdrive for the rest of the story)
Next Chapter:
Chapter 11: Suspicion
Amy goes to the garage one day and is confronted by the rest of the team thinking she is responsible for what Tails did and thinking she is the best pilot in the league! She denies it but her denial falls on deaf ears and no one believes her. Takeshi can't believe it while Liz becomes extremely jealous and violent towards Amy. Tempers run high as Amy has to deal with Liz and the rest of the team.
