Alright everyone! I have finally added another chapter! Read & review! Also, I Only own Fangor Thunderbolt, Green Lightning, Dark Fangor (coming at the end of part 3), and Black Lightning (coming at the end of part 3) All others are copyright to Sega company. Thank you for reading. And now on to chapter 3!
Chapter 3: The rescue
Never forget a friend. I cherish the friends I have while they live, because after they die, I will be all alone. -- Fangor Thunderbolt, Guardian of the Master Order Emerald, Leader of the Knights of Justice, Prince of the Lightning Kintushians, Hero of the Prophecy
December 1
Fangor's POV
I dreamed that night, and in that dream I saw Tails strapped to a lab table, with many different machines around him. He turned towards me, saying: "Fangor, I'm scared! Please get me out of here!" "I will Tails. Remember the old saying: Friends forever, live forever. And we're friends forever aren't we?" "Yeah! Friends forever! Hurry Fangor! There isn't much time!" I then saw Robotnik step up to the table and put some sort of gas mask over Tails's mouth. His eyes went wide for a few seconds, then they began to droop as if going to sleep. Then Robotnik picked up his tools and the dream ended right there. Was it even a dream? Or was it a vision? Right then I entered another dream, this one was far worse. I saw myself, only it wasn't myself. It was as if I was seeing myself as a Dark Kintushian. He was facing away from me, but he knew I was there. He spoke: " Why do you care about your friends so much? Friends are for the weak! They hold you back! You can truly be strong only by getting rid of your friends and going on your own!" I spat back, in anger: " Friends make me strong! They give me something to fight for! Without them, I am nothing but a weapon, a tool of war!" " Then you are weak! So weak! We will meet soon, so you had best be prepared, foolish one. Remember: In the end, evil and power will triumph over good and friendship! Goodbye, Fangor. Guardian of the Master Order Emerald!"
With that, I woke up yelling. " Silence, foul creature!" Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to yell. I immediately had 4 pairs of eyes on me. " Is something wrong, Fangor?" Asked a pink hedgehog. Amy... I looked around and noticed I was no longer in my house. I sat up, and I was amazed that I wasn't having to look up to see everyone. I glanced over myself and noticed I was back in my normal body again. " Am I dreaming?" " No, we brought you to the hospital when you started having what looked like seizures last night. When we came back in this morning, you were like this, and a new patient was here as well. Do you know him?" She said this indicating the bed next to me. I looked over to it and saw a green and gold two-tailed fox lying in it, sleeping soundly. Green Lightning?! But how? Unless... I looked at everyone standing around waiting for an answer. Sonic was there, tapping his foot with an impatient look on his face. Sally was standing next to the other bed with Nicole, adding the new person to her database. Dr. Quack was in the room as well. This was the first time I had seen him. He was looking at the computer monitor next to Green Lightning's bed. Finally, I spoke. " He is Green Lightning, heir to the Kingdom of Mystics from more than one thousand years ago. It is what we now know as Mystic Ruins. I am going to have to enlarge my house to accomodate him. Hmm... Has Rotor finished his secret project yet?" " He said he was going to show it to us in the meeting this afternoon. I expect you will attend?" " Of course I will. I am eager to see what he has been so excited about working on that he would hole himself up in his workshop for so long." Just then, Green Lightning began to stir. His eyes slowly opened, revealing his green pupils. He looked around at everyone in the room, studying each face carefully. The first words out of his mouth were: " Where in Mobius am I? How did I get here? Last thing I remember is being attacked by swatbots after leaving the Echidna village... Who are you people?" He turned towards me with a confused look on his face. " I don't know who you are, but I feel as though we have met before... May I ask your name, sir?" " I am Fangor Thunderbolt. I already know your name. Tell me, how do you feel?" " I feel fine, although a little confused. How is it I am here? I should be dead... and what happened to my body? I thought that ritual my mother and father performed was just a fairy tale of sorts.... did it actually work?" Yes," I answered, " It worked. You are now in Knothole more than one thousand years after your death. Now, if you wish, there is to be a meeting this afternoon. I would like for you to attend, if that is ok with the rest of the group. What do you say, guys? Can he attend?" They all nodded their heads. " Well, I am going to go get my house prepared for you to be able to live there. Amy? Can you get him some clothes to replace those rags?" I immediately regretted saying that. She got a very dangerous look in her eyes: She was going on a shopping spree at the Knothole mall. She grabbed Green Lightning's hand and bolted out of the room dragging the confused fox with her. "Well, guess we had best get ready for that meeting. See ya there." With that I left the hospital to modify my house's insides to accompany more people. Along the way, many people stopped what they were doing and stared at me as I was walking down the streets. Apparently rotor had read more of my technology books than I had thought, because there were cars passing me by. I barely had to move to avoid them, because they were many times slower than I reacted. Note to self: Get a safe. An hour later I had finished modifying my house. On the outside it looked like a hill, but on the inside it looked like a cross between an inn and a mansion. Satisfied with my work, I decided to head to the palace at the north end of Knothole. I saw a line of people standing outside, leading out for about 10 feet from the palace and going all the way in it seemed. Hmm... wonder what they are up to.... They looked at me with fear and curiosity in their eyes as I passed, backing up out of range of my tail-blade. A few of them made some remarks about my appearance: " What is that thing?" " It looks like a walking weapon... Why would the freedom fighters let it just walk around like that?" I just let these roll off my back like nothing. I reached the front of the line which was in front of a door marked: Robotnik survivors please form a single line in front of this door- Sally Acorn, Leader of the Freedom Fighters.
I teleported into the room, right next to Sally, just as someone left it. " Sally? Who are all these people? Where did they come from?" She looked up from the papers she was looking at and spoke. " They are people that survived Robotnik invading their towns and cities. Fewer and fewer arrive every day... Is he slacking off his invasion? Or are fewer escaping? I had feared that if you had not awakened, we would have lost to him with his new henchman... It's almost time for Rotor to show his invention... You had better get going now, if you don't want to be late." She smiled, amused at what she just said. " Then again, we can't really expect you to be on time, can we?" " Nope. Not in a million years Sally!" I laughed. I started to leave, but Sally stopped me. " Tell me how you and Green lightning know each other later. I will be here going over these papers, trying to find proper accomodations. You may go now." With that, I left for Rotor's workshop.
When I arrived, Rotor was the only one there. " Hey, Rotor? Did I miss it?" He smirked. " You're early for once, Fangor. Congratulations." That was highly unusual. Oh, well. Better just sit down and wait for everyone else to arrive. It took a little over an hour for Sonic and the others to arrive, minus Amy and Green Lightning. "Well, we can't wait any longer. What is it Rotor?" Said Sally. Rotor walked into the back and brought out something on wheels covered by a tarp. " This is what I have been working on guys! A de-robotosizer!" He pulled off the tarp, revealing a metallic, cylindrical tube. " Great! Now we can return all who were robotosized by Robotnik to normal!" Said Sonic. " We strike at sunset tonight, everyone, so get prepared. Anthonie has already come up with a plan, in case Fangor ever returned to normal. He said he would present it after we ate tonight, so be sure to attend. And, Fangor? After this mission, I would like to know how you came to know Green Lightning. Dismissed." With that we milled out, all heading for my house to eat.
When we arrived, Amy was standing outside with Green Lightning, both wearing fur coats because of how cold it was outside for them. I stepped forward and unlocked the door using my 'magic unlock' spell. ( I didn't trust keys, so I used magic instead.) I opened the door and waited for everyone else to walk inside. I waited outside for thirty minutes before Antonie finally showed up. " Zis weather! 'Tis merciless, no? Vat are you doing vithout a coat on?! Are you crazy?!" He said when he approached. I simply replied: " The cold has no affect on me. Get inside quickly. I'm cooking tonight." He looked awestruck at my remark, but walked inside, eager to get out of the cold. I walked into the main kitchen, off the east side of the lobby, and immediately began creating the ingredients I would need, once again using my magic. Let's see if I can remember it correctly... two spoonfulls of iganite ash mixed in boiling water.... three cups of wortnar root... and a dash of dried molectus moss.... stir vigorously until thick... then pour over nazledur leaves for a healthy meal. I was using a recipe passed down to me by my Kintushian father and mother before I left, and was just now getting a chance to use it because the stove was working for me now. It took me ten minutes to get it properly made. After taking it off the electric burner, ( I was an environmental nutcase, doing the best not to polute.) I quickly washed the plates and silverware, being careful not to drop any. afterwards, I plazed the nazledur leaves on the plates and poured the sauce over them. Hope this is as good as when my dad made it... well, here goes nothing! I had used the rarest cooking ingredients from my planet to make this special meal. It was always eaten before a war on my planet, supposedly to boost our awareness, although it never seemed to work for me. I levitated the plates in front of me all the way into the dining room, being careful not to crash them into the walls and doorways. After passing through the door to the dining room, I could hear the rest of the group already discussing the plans for getting into Robotnik's base, shutting down his robotosizer, shutting down the device that controls those who are robotosized, and getting the robotosized people out of there. " Dinner's ready!" I said as I walked into the room. Everyone looked up from their discussion to see what I had cooked for them. " What in Mobius is that?! It looks like a leaf with slime all over it!" Exclaimed Sonic upon seeing it. I smirked and replied: " Family recipe. It tastes far better than it looks." I walked around the table, setting the plates down in front of everyone, watching most of their disgusted expressions. Green Lightning was the only one that didn't seem grossed out by it, and was the only one to eat it at first. He ate it graciously, savoring the flavor. " This is excellent Fangor! I haven't had a meal as good as this in quite a while! Even the salad I had at lunch wasn't as good as this!" He said, after he had finished it. " Salad? Why a salad? Surely there are tastier foods out there." I said in reply to this. Amy got a disgruntled look on her face and answered for him: " He's a vegetarian, Fangor. It was the only food in the food court that didn't have meat in it." "So, are you going to eat or not? This IS the first time I have ever cooked here, so I want to know how it tastes." With that, they started eating. The only one that 'forgot' his manners was Sonic, eating it in a single bite like he did any other food. " Sonic! Where have your manners gone?!" Spoke Sally upon seeing this gross act. Sonic burped then replied: " Sorry 'bout that, Sal. Won't happen again." After the meal was over and the plates were washed, we discussed the battle plan based on the information that scanners had found out. I pointed out the dim dome that was around the fortress. " How far from the fortress is that?" Antonie leaned in close, squinting his eyes to see it. " Sacre Bleu! Vat iz zat thing? It appears to be surrounding the base from five hundred meters out!" " It's a disentegrator field, Antonie. Touch it, and there won't even be a hair left of you. We are going to have to dig under it. That means we are going to need Knuckles and his shovel claws." Sonic sped off to get Knuckles and came back a few minutes later. The meeting didn't last much longer. We had a simple strategy: Knuckles would dig a hole leading under the forcefield, Green Lightning would follow him and input the passcode to shut down the forcefield, after the forcefield goes down, Sonic and Sally were to go in through the air vents, find the robotosizer, destroy it, get back in the air vents, find the device that controls those that are robotosized, and destroy it. By this time, Green Lightning and Knuckles were supposed to already have gone through the air vents and gotten to where the robotosized and non-robotosized prisoners were kept. After the control device is destroyed, they are supposed to escort the prisoners out of there. After Sonic and Sally find Tails and get him out, I was supposed to destroy the base, making sure this would not happen again. The rest were supposed to stay in Knothole. After the final discussion, we got ready, grabbing the supplies we would need for the trip.
We set out from Knothole, dragging ourselves through the snow, everyone, except for me, was very cold. We stopped six hundred meters from the base, with the end of the forcefield in plain sight because snow had not fallen through it, and Knuckles strapped on his shovel claws and began to dig. Five minutes passed before he emerged. Green Lightning dove into the hole and emerged at the other end within ten seconds, the openings of the holes were one hundred meters apart from each other, just to make a note of the distance traveled. He ran over to the main entrance and accessed a control panel next to it, shutting down the forcefield. We all took our positions; with Shadow, Bunny, Antonie, and myself outside as back up. I pulled up my own personal computer and surveyed the inside of the base, using com-links developed by Rotor for this kind of work. We planned to rescue those who were inside, robotosized or not, shut down the robotosizer, and bring an end to Robotnik once and for all. Green Lightning and Knuckles entered through the air vent with Sally and Sonic, while I kept an eye out for traps on my hand-held scanner. " Green Lightning and Knuckles, take a left here. Sonic and Sally, take the third right you come across. And, Sonic? W-A-L-K. There are traps in your path that only detect high speeds, so you need to walk, not run. These traps cannot be outran. Green Lightning and Knuckles? There are no traps along your path, but proceed very slowly. You must wait until the control device for those who are robotosized is destroyed, otherwise you and them are going to get hurt. Now, move out troops!" And with that they headed along their paths, with Green Lightning and Knuckles stopping in the area of the vent above where the robotosized Mobians were held. Sonic and Sally set bombs at the control device and the robotosizer machine, and then accessed the main computer. " Hey, Fangor! Where's Robutnik? We've gone into his most precious chambers and I haven't seen him anywhere! Something's not right..." I checked my scanner for other living creatures, and I only found flashing yellow dots inside the base, indicating they were alone in there. " Sonic? There are no other beings in there... not even Robotnik... Strange for him to leave his base ungaurded like this... he must be planning something... Have you found Tails?" " Sorry, bud. We don't see him. If he isn't robotosized then he is either dead, or he escaped. We have the files from Robotnik's main computer, and we are getting out of here now! The bombs are in place and will detonate in 5 minutes! Over and out!" Green Lightning came on the com-link after the bombs went off, just as Sonic and Sally rejoined the group. " He isn't here either! They say he escaped, but not before Robotnik did something horrible to him! We're coming home! Get ready to destroy the base, Fangor!" Just then, I felt my anger rising up within me. It's my fault he's gone... I should have acted sooner! It's all my fault... Robotnik will pay for this! With or without his henchman!
After Green Lightning and Knuckles arrived with those who were robotosized or who had become cyborgs, I prepared to destroy the base but was stopped by a sense of foreboding. I had a vision... I was standing there, charging up a flamestrike spell while holding the red Order Emerald, but then my anger took over... Instead of hitting the base, my body was infused with fire... The fire was released across the planet... It destroyed everything in it's path, plants, animals, buildings, robots, mountains, even the planet itself... I awoke from the vision to find everyone staring at me, waiting for me to destroy it. " I cannot perform this task... My anger would get in the way and cause me to destroy the planet. Green Lightning will have to perform this task. Bunny? Could you bring him back to Knothole after he is done? This task will drain him of all his energy, but he is the only one who can do it." Both nodded grimly, knowing that what I said was true. Everyone except for those two left for Knothole.
Bunny's POV
Well, after the others left, Green Lightning went fishin' around in his backpack for somethin'. " What ya lookin' for, sugar?" He spoke without lookin' up from his bag. " The red order emerald... All I know about it is it enhances the power of fire. I am going to need it for this job." He then pulled a red stone out of his bag that looked like a chaos emerald, only a bit larger and brighter. He turned towards the base, holding the emerald with both hands. He let go of the emerald and, my goodness! It was floatin' in the air on it's own! Then he said something I couldn't understand. Then his hands started glowin'! He grabbed the red order emerald, held it above his head, then brought it down, straight in front of him as though he was swingin' a sword! Immediatly a meteor came down on top of Robotnik's base and fire started rippling across it as it collapsed, like a stone thrown into a still pond! My word it was a sight to see! Just then the red order emerald floated into his bag, his bag zipped itself up and placed itself on his back, and he fainted! I caught him before he hit the ground and, goodness was he pale! " My goodness! That takes alot outta ya don't it, sugar? Well, better get you home so's you can rest." I scooped him up into my arms and carried him back to Knothole to tell everyone some news and to give the little guy some rest. At last we could have some peace for a while! But, as Robotnik had said before, at the destruction of his doomsday device and his death egg at the hands, or should I say swords of Fangor, this is only the beginnin'. Robotnik would return. But this time, we would be ready for him.
Alright all! Another important chapter in my fan-fic! This part, Part 2, is coming to a close. Stay tuned to find out what happens next! I assure you, some of it will surprise even myself! Read and review everyone!
