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Sonic and Sash: Tides of Chaos 3
Phantom Forces
Act 2
Chapter 8: Bloodied Scarves
"And everything should be going stable over there?" Amy's voice asked through the monitor.
"About as stable as we can possibly have it." A female voice responded, belonging to a white snowcat wearing a black piece of cloth across her bust with straps at the center going around her neck and very short black compression shorts and a loose-fitting belt around her waist, with her white bangs going over one eye. "Eggman's robots are still running rampant across this entire section of Avalice. We haven't even been able to get anywhere more outside of Shang Mu with how dense the bots are around here."
"The Sentinels that bad, Neige?" Amy asked, concerned.
"Worse than you might think." Neige responded. "It's hell out here."
"Just try to keep holding out." Amy spoke. "We can try to get help sent over but I don't know if we can."
"If at least any could be sent, it'd be well appreciated." Neige answered. "I'll report back to the others and my Head Scarf and see what we can do in this situation."
"Alright." Amy spoke, about to end the communication.
"Hey..." Neige spoke, causing Amy to pause. "I'm... sorry to hear about what happened to Sonic and Sash..."
"..." The hedgehog fell silent. "...it's fine." She spoke. "Just be careful nothing the same happens to your group, okay?"
"Understood." The snowcat replied, before she cut the communications, sighing heavily. Stress had been heavily mounting on her as she soon turned and left the room and started walking down the corridors of the underground base, the crimson halls lined with piping and other doors with other members of the Red Scarves. Neige would be uneasy as she roamed the hallways before she hit the meeting room, swinging the doors open. Within the room were some of the other members of this Resistance Base on Avalice; The leader of the Red Scarves; a figure of power, the long black coat she wore hid most of her figure, but underneath was a pair of black combat boots, form fitting black pants and a black tanktop. A long, worn red scarf was around her neck, trailing down her back. The major noticable feature was the large golden helmet the figure wore, several parts molded into horns and a hole at the back, a long, dark lavender tendril coming out of the back of the helmet, with a bit of dark lavender hair wrapped around the base of it. The front of the helmet had a single round opening, tinted black so it was impossible to see into it. Another was a half-panda-half-cavy wearing a black vest and white pants with red shades, messing with a deck of playing cards and not paying attention to the surroundings at the current moment in time.
"Ah, Neige." The Head Scarf, Natalya, spoke. "Any word from the Mobius base about updates?"
"Well, some good news, thankfully." Neige spoke, taking a seat at the table. "They've managed to get Milla back from Eggman's prison, thanks to that new rookie we sent over to them."
"Good." Natalya spoke. "At the very least we have one of AvaMerc who's survived this crisis. Any word on Carol and her friend?"
"Still no sights." Neige answered, her ears drooping. "It almost seems like they disappeared off the faces of Mobius and Avalice once they heard news of what happened to Sonic and Sash..."
"I hope they are found..." Natalya responded, a disappointed look in her eyes.
"Well, can't do shit about that until we get a lead on where they are." The half-panda spoke, shuffling his cards. "Otherwise we'd be wasting nothing but time, energy, and resources."
"Indeed." Natalya spoke. "For now, we should focus on liberating the kingdoms, then expand to liberate the rest of our planet."
Neige would be silent for a bit as she pulled up a holographic map of the entirity of Shang Mu, showing all of the areas and districts in a real-time view, as several massive Death Egg Sentinels were roaming the city, and several destroyed and collapsed roadways, except for the main one of Phoenix Highway, which was the biggest one for traffic through the city. "Most of our normal supply routes above ground are destroyed throughout the entire city, no thanks to those Sentinels. Among that, we have an unspecified amount of casualties throughout the area from the attacks of those Sentinels alone, and possibly more unaccounted for from the collapses of the roadways."
"What about through the sewer system?" Spade asked.
"Those passages are still relatively intact, but there's fears there could be a pipe bursting and flooding the passages." Neige spoke. "Unless we can get them patched up and secured, we're going to be completely cut off from any resources."
"Then those are to be our first priorities." Natalya spoke, pinpointing the key points of locations across the underground system. "These areas are where the pipes are at their weakest links, correct?"
"Indeed." Neige spoke. "These are the points of interest."
"Then we need to have our groups sent out and seal off those pipes." Natalya spoke. "Spade, you and Neige deal with the pipes and seal them off before any possible bursts happen. Understood?"
"Roger." Spade spoke, before a rumble occurred above ground, causing as distress voicemail came over the comms.
"H-Head Scarf!" The voice spoke. "We've got two bogeys out on Pheonix Highway! They're taking out everyone there an- GUAAAAAAG!" The transmission was cut off short as what sounded like an explosion came from the message. Natalya tensed up as the message ended, Spade and Neige looking onward at her.
"Head Scarf?" Spade asked.
"Keep to your objective." Natalya growled, getting up from her seat. "I'll sort out that issue on the highway."
"By yourself?!" Neige gasped. "Please, Head Scarf, I don't mean to doubt your combat prowess, but surely you can't be letting this anger go to your head!"
"I never said I was going myself..." Natalya spoke. "Now get to your tasks."
Spade would nod. "Yes, Head Scarf." He spoke as the dragon left the room. "Neige, let's go."
The snowcat hesitated, before nodding and following Spade out of the HQ into the tunnels...
Low growls would come from the training room as a figure worked away at beating the everliving tar out of one of the training dummies. The figure was a fiery vixen with blazing orange fur, with red hair that tapered to pink at the tips. She was wearing a black halterneck crop top and navy blue capris along with black boots with red laces, along with fingerless gloves and a red scarf. A growl ripped through her throat as she soon delivered a smashing kick to the tip of the dummy, bisecting it messily in half as both sides fell away. She panted heavily, glaring down at the dummy before a slow clapping came from the corner of the room.
"Well, good job destroying another dummy." The voice spoke, stepping out of the shadows to reveal a silver-furred hare with a black crew cut, wearing a red vest and green cargo pants with black boots. "Hope you realize those things aren't cheap."
"Hey, how else am I gonna keep my edge?" The vixen shot back. "After all, Head Scarf won't let us go out on our own and trash those bots."
"Because we are some of her highest valued Scarves." The hare responded. "We can't risk ourselves getting killed out of missions."
"Ain't that the thrill of the missions though?" The vixen said, her tail swishing slowly as soon the door to the training room opened, Natalya walking in.
"H-Head Scarf!" The hare spoke, he and the vixen standing at attention to the presence of their superior.
"At ease." Natalya spoke, causing the two Scarves to release tension. "Consider yourselves lucky; you've got a big mission today."
"Finally." The vixen spoke. "About time."
"Hanna, please." The hare spoke, before looking at Natalya. "Please, Head Scarf, continue."
"Thank you." The dragon spoke, before pacing in front of the two. "Recently, we've received word of two metallic figures attacking Phoenix Highway now, causing havoc and rampaging like they own it. I would hope you two are aware that if we lose the highway, transportation out of the city is completely crippled due to that mad doctor having control over air transport."
"You want us to neutralize this threat?" The hare asked.
Natalya would nod. "If that road falls, the city's transportation is crippled. Get there and stop the interference with as little casualties as possible. Understood?"
"Understood, Head Scarf." The hare spoke, nodding. "We will get on it as soon as possible."
"Good." Natalya spoke, walking to the door. "Your mission is effective immediately. Dismissed." And with that, she walked out of the room without another word.
Hanna smirked. "About time we got a mission. Ready to head out there and bust some tin asses wide open?"
"Hanna." The hare spoke. "You realize we can't afford to screw up this mission. There are lives at stake here."
"You say that as if I didn't know of it Rob." The vizen said, brushing her hair back a bit. "It's a simple three step plan. Step One: Get to the Highway. Step Two: Beat the shit out of those robots. Step Three: Return to base. Easy."
Rob would deadpan. "If you say so..." He spoke, shaking his head. "Let's just get going. We'll grab our ATVs from the launch bay and we'll head out for the highway."
Hanna would smirk. "Time to scrap some metal ass." She spoke, she and Rob leaving the training room.
Footsteps would echo throughout the sewer tunnels as Spade and Neige would reach their first pipe, and not a moment too soon. The sewer water was already starting to leak out of the piping hard, and any more leaking could cause a major flooding. With quick instinct, Neige shot a blast of ice at the pipe, freezing it shut and stopping the water for the moment.
"Alright, you sure that'll hold?" Spade spoke.
"It should." Neige spoke. "I've got the melting point of that ice set high; nothing's going to melt it unless it's a direct blast of heat straight to it."
"Alright." The half-cavy spoke. "Let's move onto the next one. There sh-" He was soon interrupted as he was struck with a gush of water from behind. He growled, looking behind him in anger. "What the hell?!"
Behind him was a watery figure, a white metal head with piercing lime optics staring it down, accompanied by several other of the floating metal heads behind it.
"Wh-what the hell are those things?!" Neige yelled.
"Artifical Chaos..." Spade growled. "Should've known that fat man would have those things after us. Don't stand around, fight!"
Neige would nod as the humanoid one lunged at her. She reacted almost immediately and froze its body, causing it to disconnect from the frozen chunk and the chunk to fall to the ground, shattering on impact. The head garbled some sort of angry techspeak before summoning in more water from the sewer they were beside.
"Dammit!" Neige cursed to herself before rolling out of the way of a slice from an Artifical Chaos tentacle. Soon enough she grabbed one of the tentacles that swiped at her and froze it, freezeing the water again as the metallic head disconnected from it. Neige took this as a chance and swung the body right into the head, the hard ice cracking the white metal casing open, showing its circuitry. Neige took the oppotunity and quickly flicked an icicle spike at the exposed head, the shard piercing it as it fell to the ground and broke apart.
Spade would soon slice open another head of a Artifical Chaos drone with his cards as it fell to the ground before being grabbed from behind by another one, trying to be absorbed into the creature itself, before he suddenly felt very cold as the water body froze. Soon enought the head of the robot would be sliced in half horizontally as it fell to the floor, the ice crumbling.
"Thanks for the save." Spade spoke.
"Anytime." Neige responded. "We need to get to that next pipe though. With all these... these things here, there's no telling that they might be deliberately trying to burst those next pipes."
"Agreed." Spade said as the two took off towards their next target, but a groan could be heard from within the sewers as... something seemed to be coming after them.
"You heard that?" Neige asked.
"Sounds like a sewer creature..." Spade responded, before a massive hulking fish serpent lept out of the sewer water. "Well shit, a Shade Eel. I though they were all taken care of a while back."
"Given that hound thing running around?" Neige spoke. "Safe to bet it's responsible for this thing."
"Then maybe we can use this to our advantage." Spade spoke, leaping from the side onto the Shade Eel. "With the speed this thing's swimming, we can use it to get to those pipes faster."
"Good thinking." Neige spoke, hopping on as she formed an ice lasso in her hand. "Allow me to drive." She said whipping it around the creature's jaw and yanking on it, causing it to rear up before continuing its breakneck swim forward.
"Much better transport for down here." Spade said, before his ear twitched. "Sounds like we got more company." He growled, brandishing his cards as several large silvery orbs with rockets started flying down the tunnel after them. Each one had a small vulkan cannon attachted to them, aimed at the Shade Eel as they opened fire.
"Super Turretuses, shit." Spade growled, brandishing his cards. "I'll keep them scrapped, you get us to the Pipes!"
"Make sure they don't shoot the Eel too much!" Neige spoke. "If they cause too much shots to it, it could cause it to become enraged and wreck the sewers!"
Spade would nod, brandishing his cards as he flung them at the flying turrets, each one going down after a couple of card blasts, but more soon spawning to take their places.
"There's too many of them!" Spade yelled. "We need a way to lose 'em!"
"Hang on then!" Neige yelled, cracking the reins around the Eel's mouth as it screeched and dove under the water. Spade was caught off guard as he clamed his eyes shut and held his breath as best he can while Neige guided the massive beast through the underwater tunnels and away from the horde of flying drones. It wasn't long before the Eel resurfaced next to the next burst pipe they needed to seal.
Spade coughed a bit. "Coulda given me a warning to hold my breath..."
"Sorry." Neige spoke. "Let's just get that next pipe sealed up."
Spade nodded as he and Neige got off the Eel to seal the pipe. "Wonder what's going on up on the surface..."
The roar of ATV engines were prevelant as the vixen and the hare made their way towards the highway that spanned over the entire city. Larger Death Egg Sentinels were already attacking the bigger buildings, causing them to collapse down onto the roadways. The ATVs would be maneuvering across the rubbled area as the two made their way towards Phoenix Highway, avoiding as much contact from Eggman Forces as possible.
"How close are we?" Hanna yelled over the roar of the ATV engine.
"Entry ramp is Fifty meters and enclosing!" Rob yelled back. "Keep your eyes open, we don't know what we're dealing with!"
"Oh please, like I'm concerned!" The vixen shouted, her ATV pulling ahead as more buildings collapsed. Of course, it wouldn't be far until the roar of other engines would soon start coming from behind them, soon several bi-wheeled mechs rearing up over the rubble and giving pursuit to the two ATVs.
"OH you've gotta be shitting me!" Hanna growled. "Not these damn Meteor Rollers!"
"Go for their wheels!" Rob yelled, unsheathing one of his sais. "They'll spin out!"
Hanna would growl, unsheathing one of her nunchaku as it spins in a flaming circle near her hand. "Well let's see 'em try to stop us!" She yelled soon slamming to the side of a Meteor Roller, the nunchaku on fire shredding through the tire of the Roller, causing it to spin out of control before crashing into another one, causing a chain explosion that threw several other ones into the air.
"Rob, over to you!" She yelled, drawing the attention of the hare on his ATV as he saw the blasted up Meteor Rollers. With a quick flick of his wrist he had flung his sai at the airborne mechs, piercing them like a shishkabob as they hit the ground, deactivated. Rob's ATV would soon roar by, picking up his sai out of the broken robot as he continued with Hanna towards the highway. Though Hanna would soon see a problem...
"Rob!" Hanna yelled. "The on ramp is destroyed! We can't get up there!"
'Dammit!' Rob thought to himself. "Without that ramp, we can't get up there! Aren't there any other ways up?!"
"Hold on!" Hanna said, making a hard right.
"Where are you going?!"
"I see an opportunity!" Hanna fired back, heading for a collapsed building.
"I know, and that's what worries me!" Rob fired back, following after the vixen as the ATVs started climbing up the collapsed building side. "What are you thinking?!"
"If we can't get on the ramp," Hanna yelled, soon having the ATV ramp off the building. "WE MAKE ONE!" She yelled, soon landing hard on the highway with her ATV, Rob following suit.
"Next time, can we do a suggestion that doesn't get us nearly killed trying to get to our objective?" Rob deadpanned at the vixen as they continued down the highway, avoiding the crashed and burning cars.
"Eh, probably not." Hanna responded. "Just keep moving."
Rob would roll his eyes as the two continued onwards towards the location of disturbance...
Screams of panic were heard as civilians were fleeing for their lives as the robotic kitsune and wildcat were tearing up the area. A magenta laser fired from the robotic kitsune's palm as explosions threw several soldiers into the air, where then they were impaled by magenta energy daggers thrown by the metal wildcat.
"Hmph, the prototype's abilities are working rather well!" The metallic feline said. "Look at them, they can hardly stand a chance!"
"It's pathetic, really." The synthetic kitsune spoke. "And here I thought our leaders would be giving us something more fun to do."
"Aw don't worry about them." The feline responded. "Just keep tearing them open; that should be more then enough to deflate their mor-" She stopped herself as she heard what sounded like a motor. "Do you hear that?"
"What is that?" The kitsune responded, both figures glancing around the area before the motor sound grew louder. The two didn't have time to react before the ATVs came out of nowhere from above, nearly flattening the two as the impact sent them sprawling.
"WHAT THE-" The metallic wildcat yelled before rerightening herself. "Alright, who the hell has the gall?!"
"I do, that's who." The vixen growled as Hanna and Rob stared down the two robots. "And quite frankly, you two are just insulting. Making robots out of AvaMerc? Now that's just trying to live up to too high a standard."
That phrase made the metallic kitsune insulted, a magenta orb formed in his hand. "You wanna repeat that?"
"Not worth repeating to terrorists like yourselves." Rob spat.
The wildcat hissed. "Oh you'll come to regret saying that..." She growled, brandishing several magenta energy blades. "You're going to die. You know that already. You're nothing compared to the Ruby's power."
"Blah blah blah power wank." Hanna mocked. "Just shut up and fight already, you're boring me."
The wildcat hissed, throwing a flurry of magenta energy daggers at Hanna. The vixen would play along and dodge roll out of the way of them before running ahead and cloaking her fist in flame, colliding it with the metallic wildcat's chassis. The synthetic foe slid back a fair amount from the impact before rushing forward at Hanna, claws extended to slice into Hanna's flesh. The vixen would start spinning her nunchaku as rings of fire appeared in their places as she soon charged at Metal Carol. The two clashed at the center as Hanna slammed her flaming nunchaku right into the wildcat's head, while she herself took claws to the abdomen. She growled in pain as she felt the blades pierce her flesh, but she slammed her fist into the wildcat's head before leaping back, blood dripping from her midriff.
The metallic feline's eyes would glow before throwing several sawblades from her tail at the vixen. Hanna soon lunged at the robotic wildcat, feeling the blade whiz by her cheek as she tackled the robotic wildcat to the ground, driving a flaming first straight into the robotic wildcat's optics. The wildcat hissed before throwing the vixen off, before leaping up into the air as a magenta sheen covered her. She roared in anger before summoning massive magenta blades, throwing them all at the vixen. Hanna would dodge out of the way of the incoming blades, soon trying to press an advance back onto the Metal Carol.
Rob meanwhile would be dodging past the lasers from the metallic kitsune, leaving him in a pickle of dodging room as one singed the ground right by him. He clutched tightly to his sai before leaping for the kitsune, embedding the blade into the robotic skin. Metal Tails would flail his harm wildily to try and shake Rob off, but the hare held firm, soon delivering a kick straight to the synthetic vulpine's abdomen. He roared in pain before smacking Rob across the face, causing him to lose focus and lose his grip on his embedded sai. The synthetic vulpine would then throw his blade back at him at high velocity; it was lucky for him it didn't impale him as he managed to dodge the projectile.
Rob soon grabbed a metallic hubcap off of a wrecked car and flung it at Metal Tails like a sawblade. Metal Tails would whack it back with his tails at Rob, who then whacked it with his sai back at the metallic kitsune, the hubcap slicing through the metal forearm like butter. The kitsune hissed in pain before rushing Rob, sparking forearm pulled back and coated in magenta lightning as he soon jabbed it into the hare's side. Rob screamed in pain before stabbing the twin-tailed titanium terror in the head with his sai. The kitsune would back off on his assault before ejecting the sai from his head, it skidding along the ground back to Rob.
"You've got a lot of nerve..." The metal kitsune would growl, sparks coming from the pierced area on his head.
"I could say the same to you." Rob spat back.
The two rushed at eachother again, the contact sending sparks flying everywhere. Rob's eyes narrowed as he soon lept to the side, causing the metallic kitsune to crash into a destroyed vehicle. The kitsune didn't like this as he soon had his remaining hand coated in magenta energy, lifting the car along with several others as they were hoisted into the air. Rob tensed up as they were soon fired off at the hare; Rob quickly acted as the vehicles were turned to scrap metal upon collision with the road. Rob used these as stepping stones as he went after the synthetic vulpine, soon making a leap off the last car and drop-kicking the bot square in the face. That did enough to set off the robotic kitsune as he soon charged straight at the hare. Rob had baited him, now all it took was one well-timed attack...
Rob would then slice his sai at just the right angle as he dodged the charging kitsune, time seeming to slow down as the metallic kitsune slowed to a halt... then fell to shambles as Rob looked back on the rubble. "One down..." He said as Hanna and Metal Carol rolled in a pile right by him. "One to go."
"You incessant furball!" Metal Carol hissed, summoning a large amount of magenta daggers, all aimed at Hanna. "JUST DIE!"
Hanna would growl as the volley of magenta energy knives were flung in her direction. After a quick dodge roll she flung a fireball straight at Metal Carol, who smacked away the attack with ease before rushing at Hanna. The vixen tensed up before cloaking her fist in flame, waiting for Metal Carol to draw near before she drove her fist forward, enacting a flaming punch that drove straight through the metallic feline's head, causing it to collapse and deactivate.
Hanna would pant, exhausted. "Like I said..." She breathed. "Power wank."
"You alright Hanna?" Rob asked, moving to the vixen's side.
"A little 'burnt' out, but I'll be fine." Hanna responded. Rob groaned at the pun causing Hanna to smirk a bit. "Either way, just to make sure..." Hanna would walk over to the metal wildcat and crush her boot into its head, completely destroying it.
"Good call." Rob spoke, walking over to the synthetic kitsune and crunching its head in with his own boot... but then would notice what appeared to be a small magenta crystal-like object in the robot's abdomen. "Hm?"
"Ya find something Rob?" Hanna asked.
"I think so..." Rob said, pulling the magenta crystal out of the robot's abdomen. "Now what is this?"
"What's what?" Hanna said, walking over next to the hare's side. "Now what kind of robot would be going around with some kind of jewelry?"
"It's not a Chaos Emerald, I can tell you that much." Rob said. "I'm not entirely sure exactly what this thing is..."
"Should we bring it back to base?" Hanna asked.
"We probably should." Rob said, pocketing the stone before activating his comm unit. "Head Scarf Natalya, Rob here." He spoke. "The metallic threat has been neutralized."
"Excellent work." Natalya spoke. "Minimal casualties?"
"As minimal as we could make it." Hanna responded. "We've also managed to grab ahold of some sort of stone. Shall we bring it back for analysis?"
"Yes." Natalya spoke. "Make sure it is intact. Now report back immediately."
"Understood Head Scarf." Rob said, ending the comm unit call.
"Back to base?" Hanna asked.
"Pretty much." Rob said, heading for his ATV. "We'll head on back and try to make sense of the situation going on. Have Natalya send this thing to the R&D sector and see exactly what it is."
"Better than nothing in my book." Hanna said, hopping onto her ATV. "Let's go."
Rob nodded, and then the two took off for the base...
"Ah, welcome back you two." Natalya spoke as Hanna and Rob entered into the building. "The stone?"
"Right here." Rob said, handing the small stone to Natalya. "This was inside one of those metallic doubles."
"I'm thinking it may be related to those magenta energy attacks they were using on us." Hanna responded. "After all, it's gotta be something powerful if that fat fuck would give something like these to them."
"We'll be sending this to the R&D department for investigation." Natalya spoke, setting the stone down on the back cabinet as she turned back to the two. "You've done fine work today you two, but I feel there may be more for you to do."
"I'm game." Hanna spoke. "What else is wrong?"
"I've not yet heard word back from Spade and Neige yet on their work." Natalya spoke. "I'm concerned, as they should have been back by now..."
"You want us to go and investigate?" Rob asked.
"If you could, please." Natalya responded.
"Eh, no problem." Hanna said. "Where are they anyways?"
"The sewers, repairing pipes that are in danger of bursting." Natalya responded, turning away from the two. "I need a report from them, understood."
"Understood, Head Scarf." Rob spoke, bowing. "We shall be on the mission immediately."
"Good." Natalya responded. "Dismissed."
Hanna and Rob would exit the room, leaving Natalya to herself.
"DAMMIT!" Spade yelled, dodging out of the way of a massive hulking spikeball. "Who the hell is this guy and how did he follow us here?!"
"I don't know!" Neige responded. "Just keep fighting!" She yelled, soon firing a volley of icicles at the assailant; a lanky pink-skinned creature controlling a gigantic Orbinaut-class Badnik.
"Just hold still while I crunch you like a bug!" The being yelled. "Good ol' King Orbi here oughta mash you into next week's hamburger!"
Spade would growl as another massive spikeball was thrown at him, it rumbling across the ground before smashing into a pipe, releasing steam into the sewers as the visions of Spade and Neige were clouded in the area.
"Shit!" Neige yelled. "With all this steam I can't use my ice affinity! There's too much humidity in the air!"
The figure merely cackled like an insane man. "Precisely my point! An even playing field!"
"How is this even?!" Neige yelled.
"All advantage to me, none for you!" The figure yelled, the Orbinaut now unleashing a massive attack brigade of spikeballs on the two. With thick steam, Spade was having a hard time dodging the incoming spikeballs with only a few seconds to react to each one flying his way. Neige was struggling more, barely getting clipped with each spikeball thrown her way before getting slammed hard with one of them, knocking the wind out of her as one of the sharp spikes had stabbed her in the stomach and slammed her against the wall. Neige could barely move or speak as the spikeball was forcefully removed from her stomach, the blood slowly oozing out of the hole. Her fingers would merely twitch as her pupils dilated.
"Neige!" Spade yelled, glaring daggers at the figure that attacked her. "You're going to be dead meat." He growled, brandishing a flurry of cards before throwing them right at the Orbinaut. The attacks would connect with the massive orb-shaped robot, but they would only become stuck in the metallic robot's frame while the figure laughed crazily.
"Whassa matter, don't got any more of your fancy card tricks to use?" The figure taunted, his cyan tongue hanging out like a rag as his eyes twitched, staring down Spade. "Maybe go and join your friend!" Another flurry of spikeballs were launched at the half-cavy, him trying to dodge more and more as the kept colliding with the walls, causing them to crumble a bit.
"Are you trying to bring this entire place down on top of us?!" Spade yelled.
"Of course!" The figure yelled back. "Now get buried! Six feet under! GYAAAAAHAHAHAHHAAHAA!" At that point the spikeballs would be rumbling across the walls of the sewer, trying to cave the entire place in as they were hurtling for half-cavy clamped his eyes shut... and then heard a violent snap as the spikeballs never reached him. He had reopened his eyes to soon see the familiar figures of Hanna and Rob were now there, the figure on the ground, dead from a snapped neck.
Spade would sigh in relief before rushing over to Neige, Hanna and Rob seeing this and following suit. "Ooooh, That's a nasty one." Hanna commented.
"Looks like a major intestine piercing." Rob said. "Get her wrapped; we need to get her back to HQ pronto."
Spade nodded, getting some medical tape out and wrapping up the wound as tightly as he can before hoisting the snowcat onto his back. "Let's get going. The longer we stand around here the more likely we're going to get ambushed."
Hanna and Rob would nod, before the three took off back to base with an injured Neige...
With an injured ally from a recent assailant, it looks like the Avalice side of the Resistance is struggling just as much as the Mobius side is. However, with the new stone in their posession, will they be able to turn the tide of the battle? Or are things only going to draw worse and worse as time goes on? Stay tuned next time for Chapter 9: "Cat's out of the Bag"...
