Chapter 1: Build Protection Fault
Oops, forgot that the stupid editor hates using things not in an even number... lemme fix that!
Chapter 2: AS-Continent
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Before Chapter Notes: This chapter marks the first where the trio meet up with a few certain people... you know who obviously. And without further Build or General Protection Faults, I present you Chapter 2: AS-Continent.
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It had been a long 15 minutes of walking before the trio made it to the temple. "Looks like some kind of Babylonian temple from millenia ago..." Lauren commented as they walked around the temple, looking for any sign of life. They eventually came to a door, reminiscient to that of doors that the Egyptian teams have in their cities and levels.
"I bet that this leads to some kind of city the Egyptian guys have," Brock said, half-serious, half-joking.
"..." Malcolm turned to the walls of the temple, looking at their inscriptions, studying them carefully. "I don't think so, these symbols don't look anything similar to the ones in Sun Temple, or any other Egyptian arena."
And with that, Malcolm pushed open the door, expecting to be greeted with either monsters or some team waiting to ambush them. That had happened before, and Malcolm was going to be damned if it happened again. But, the temple seemed to be completely empty...
"Huh... no one's here!" Brock said disappointedly, shaking his head as he looked around.
Malcolm ignored this, and just stepped forwards, intending to at least find something in this ancient temple. Frowning, Malcolm came to an intersection, leading in 3 different ways. Lauren and Brock only stood there, wondering what Malcolm was going to do. He looked left, and started to walk to that hallway when voices could be heard in the distance from the hall on the right. An explosion then boomed into the ears of the competitors, and they all ran to that hallway, very sure of a battle that just started.
"What idiot talks before they kill their opponent in the Tournament?" Lauren asked Brock as they ran.
"I dunno, never had one who taunts before the fight, but everyone taunts after winning their fights."
'That explosion sounded more like missiles than rockets...' Malcolm thought as they rushed to the place. They made a quick turn as the hall went left. Another explosion sounded, and several more afterwards made the hallway rumble slightly.
"This place better not fall on us!" Lauren shouted over the rumbling of the hall.
They soon reached a new bend in the hall, and this one led straight to a room, a large one at that. "Holy..."
Before them was a large robotic machine, just floating there. The object was more of a flying Leviathan shaped like a sphere than anything else, so the trio took it as a major threat, not knowing it was actually a very weak machine. Sitting in a cockpit on top the machine was a guy with a large mustache. Only his head was sticking out, but it still was a large target for a good shot, like Malcolm was. The guy was having the machaine facing the other direction though, along with his head, so the trio remained unknown to the driver of the contraption.
"I've got you cornered now Sonic! Say your prayers!" The guy in the cockpit yelled suddenly, hitting a button, and missiles flew from the sides of the machine.
"Shit!" Brock said out loud, enough for the driver to hear. It was still too late in any case for whoever was behind the machine, blocked out from view of the teammates.
"Speed! Invisible! Berserk!" the deep, booming voice of UT fame said as Malcolm went invisible, Lauren increased her speeds, and Brock went into Berserk mode.
"Wha?" The same guy in the cockpit wondered as he heard the voice behind him and then another voice say 3 random words out of thin air, and that second voice coming form everywhere, but nowhere. "What did you do Sonic!"
Another voice just said something after somehow dodging the missiles (as apparently since the trio never heard a death cry or scream.), "I didn't do anything! Wha?"
3 figures came rushing around the machine (one nearly completely invisible), all blasting away at the armor of the machine with various guns. Brock with his Minigun, Lauren with her HV Assault Rifle, and Malcolm with a Flak Cannon.
Almost immediately the robotic machine exploded, sneding the bare cockpit flying away, where it hovered around before the driver yelled to the 4, "I'll get you next time!"
"No you don't!" Brock yelled as he kept firing at the cockpit with the Berserked Minigun he held. Unfortunately, he had run himself out of ammo during the earlier rush. And then his adrenaline combo ran out too, ending the Berserk, reverting the Berserked Minigun to normal. "Aw, you've got to be kidding me!"
Malcolm just let the guy get away, knowing his Flak Cannon had no such range to shoot it down. And Lauren saw what happened to Brock, so she just tried to conserve her ammo, not wasting it on this guy.
"Hey, that was cool looking and all, but did you guys have to go all berserk and all and use guns on him?" The same voice, which now Malcolm associated with the name he heard earlier yelled by that driver, Sonic, asked the trio, even though they still hadn't looked over to him yet.
"Yes, yes I did. I mean- whoa!" Brock said as he turned around, and jumped back as he saw a 3 foot anthropomorphic hedgehog standing in front of him. "What the hell?"
"What?" Lauren said as she finally turned around, and then was confronted by the same sight Brock saw. "Oh my god... what... the... hell... And to think I'd seen it all with the Tournament..."
Malcolm still was looking at the exit the mustache man used to escape, thinking over how the hell they didn't succeed in getting the guy. He was so into thinking about it, that he even forgot what he was doing, and then was even ignoring what his teammates were saying at the moment.
"So... what's wrong now?" Sonic asked the 2. "And what's up with him? He's just standing there!"
"Uh, nothing's wrong! That'd be Malcolm, he's just probably thinking right now. Oh, by the way, what's your name? I'm Lauren, this is Brock."
"I'm Sonic the Hedgehog, fastest thing on 2 feet!" Sonic exclaimed with an air of confidence.
Malcolm finally stopped his thinking and he turned around, but was not taken back by how the person they saved wasn't a normal being. He'd been in the Tournament too long to be surprised by much anymore, so it was just something he rarely ever showed. "So, now what?" He asked the small animal before him.
"Whoa, going a little fast here, eh? I still have to find what I even came here for!"
"And, what would that be?" Lauren stepped forward.
"A Chaos Emerald."
"A uhh... what?" Brock asked, completely confused by what Sonic just said.
"A Chaos Emerald!" Sonic said again.
"Uh, we don't even have any clue to what the hell a Chaos Emerald is, so it'd be better if you actually told us what one is," Malcolm stated flatly.
"Oh great... Long story short, Chaos Emeralds are extremely powerful and if you have all 7 of them, you'll become probably the most powerful thing in existance, or something of that description. For me, it gives me a Super form! And right now, Tails and I have 2, and the one at this temple is the fourth... so if you excuse me for a second, I need to find it!" And with that, Sonic took off, leaving the three in wonder on how he ran so fast.
And then, only about a minute, the anthro returned, holding a ruby gem, perfectly cut out to a perfect shape. "And this is a Chaos Emerald!" Sonic said before he used a wrist-mounted comm-link. Tails! I've got the 3rd Emerald! I'm gonna go back over to the workshop, and I've got a few other people with me too!"
"Uh, that's a ruby..." Brock said as he looked at the object in Sonic's left hand.
"No, it's a Chaos Emerald. They come in 7 colors. Don't ask me, but they're all still called Emeralds, even though only 1 really is an emerald." Sonic explained.
"Right... so, you going somewhere?" Malcolm interjected, not wanting an explaination of much else, other than how to get back to the Tournament in time for the finals.
"Uh yeah, I was about to go to Tails's workshop. You wanna follow?" Sonic asked.
"Eh, what other choice do we have?" Lauren asked Malcolm.
"Let's go then," Malcolm ordered his team.
"Got it." Brock replied.
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Whoo! End of chapter 2! Review please!
-Da man, Adam
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William: And here I am again, ready to answer the questions of the curious...
Flak Cannon: My personal favorite of the original Tournament weapons, the Flak Cannon is a shotgun basically, but a really high-tech one that shoots red-hot flak (or metal fragments). Primary fire shots the flak normally like a shotgun, but secondary shots it all in a ball that explodes on impact ot any surface.
Minigun: Tournament classics with some extreme power! Primary fire shoots the minigun (a gatling gun) at top speed, and is a little less powerful than the secondary fire's slower, cased rounds. Nothing else to it.
HV Assault Rifle: THe FHI overpowered version of the Assault Rifle. Primary is the same as the AR, but it more powerful, and secondary shots a straight shot grenade that explodes semi-massively.
Assault Rifle: The Tournament starting weapon, it is very weak (but the HV one is overpowered), and only does 7 damage per bullet. It also is horrible at accuracy. The grenade secondary fire must be charged to make it fly anywhere, due to it being a gravity affected weapon. Uncharged greandes only go about 5 feet...
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William: Now for the Adrenaline Comboes...
Speed: Increases speed of the user...
Berserk: Increases speed of the user's gun by double...
Invisible: Makes the user mostly invisible, but white spots are over the body of the user still... pretty useless...
Booster: The best one, this gives health back to you every second, 5 at a time, even where it will get you to 199 and then start to charge up sheilds to 150. The only limits to these adrenaline combos are the amount of adrenaline you have left. You have to have 100 to use, and it depletes rapidly.
Pint-sized: Makes the user tiny. Only available using the Bonus Combos mutator.
Camoflauge: Makes the user look like a rock or a skyscraper part. Only available using the Bonus Combos mutator.