Wyndon Outskirts - With Victor's Group
After getting away from Eggman's forces earlier, the team had been engaged in a running battle with the robot army as they booked it to the city.
Civilians and their Pokemon hurried out of the area, though some did unleash some attacks at Eggman's forces.
"Hatterene! Use Psychic to send them back and protect the civilians!" The two Psychic Types glowed blue as they stopped the munitions in midair and then launched the back at the robot horde.
"Who said that was the only force I brought with me?" Eggman said with a large smirk.
A number of Aerodactyl-looking robots flew over the area dropped bombs around the team to blind them with a smokescreen.
"Quick, use protect! Bede yelled to his Pokemon as they combined their barriers to cover the team to stop the follow up barrage of missiles. The ground around them was destroyed as rubble flew around them and some buildings were damaged. Once the barrier was down and the dust was still hanging around, the Trainers took advantage of the situation.
"Morpeko, Discharge again!" Marnie said as she launched her partner into the air and shot out its bolt, taking out more robots.
"Grimmsnarl, use False Surrender!" She continued. Grimmsnarl rushed forward under some rockets, jumped up and slammed its arm on the head one of the Egg Hammers, causing enough damage to destroy it.
"Cinderace, Pyro Ball!" Victor ordered. The fire ball landed among a group of Egg Pawns and exploded like a howitzer shell.
"Rillaboom, use Drum Beating!" Hop yelled out. Vines come up from the ground as Rillaboom played on its drum. The vines moved quickly and swatted down several Buzz Bombers, some of them even slamming into their fellow robots and exploding.
"Hatterene, Dazzling Gleam!" Bede yelled out. Bright lights shone from the Psychic/Fairy Type as they then moved forward and slammed into a number of Motobugs and Crabmeats.
"Inteleon, use Hydro Pump on one of the big guys!" Gloria yelled. The lizard fired a large blast of water that went through the Egg Hammer and took out more Badniks behind it.
However, even with the attacks they unleashed the robots kept on coming at them. Scores of Egg Pawns were rushing toward the battlefield with either laser guns or bazookas.
"So care to give me the Emerald now?" Eggman said with a dark smirk on his face. The Trainers and their Pokemon continued to stare the mad doctor down until Gloria spotted something behind her when she looked to see if the area had been cleared of civilians.
"Guys, what is that?" Gloria pointed out to the incoming dust cloud. As it got closer, they began to hear something that was also getting louder at the same time.
Sonia then turned her head to have her left ear face in the direction of the dust cloud. "That screaming sounds familiar."
The dust cloud quickly stopped, revealing Sonic as he let Leon go. The former Champion was wide-eyed and his hair was blown back.
The Blue Blur then circled around the force of robots, causing a number of them to fly into the air. It then stopped in front of the group and allowed them to see who it was as the robots came crashing down. Sonic then dashed around and destroyed more of Eggman's forces as he stopped on top of a nearby building.
"Well that was... quite the rush." Leon said while shaking his head as he faced Sonic. "Next time could you give me a heads up before you do that?"
"No promises!" Sonic said with a joking tone as Leon sighed with a small face on his face.
"Lee!?" Hop said in surprise as he saw his brother show up with a strange blue being. "Where did you come from?"
"Hey guys!" Leon said to them as he stood up smoothed out his hair and clothes. "I'd like to catch up but I think we have more pressing issues at hand."
"Hey Eggman, hope you don't mind if I crash your little party!" Sonic said with his usual cocky attitude as continued to attack Eggman's forces.
"Of course you would still be alive you stubborn pest!" Eggman said in anger as he flew his Egg-O-Matic in pursuit.
"Well you tried shooting me out into space to get blown up, tried killing me with that skydive from your spaceship to Earth, and I almost was a goner with that pseudo-black hole you made with the Wisp's powers." Sonic said as he counted off Eggman's attempts to kill him while running backwards. "Oh the times you had Metal try to get me. No offense Egg Head, but you really need to try harder then that."
Eggman growled at that as the two were moving all over the place. Victor and the others were chuckling at the sight as Leon stood up and dusted himself off. Eventually, Eggman gave up chasing Sonic and groaned at the situation.
"So you're Eggman." Leon said in a louder then normal tone. This made Eggman sit up straight in order to to face the former Champion.
"Ah, I see my reputation precedes me." Eggman said while making a grand gesture with his arms.
"No, Sonic told me who you were." Leon said with a neutral look on his face.
Eggman then fell forward and slammed his head of his Egg-O-Matic upon hearing that and grumbled under his breath.
"However, seeing this damage shows who you really are." He said while waving his arm over the destruction." So if you don't want this to end badly, I suggest you make like an Abra and Teleport out of here."
"No can do." Eggman said while wagging his finger. "I'm going to get that Chaos Emerald and use it for my purposes."
"Chaos Emerald?" Bede stated as he looked back to the gem that Gloria still had in her hand.
"So that's its name?" Sonia said as her Yamper was getting ready to attack.
"Indeed, so unless you want your friends to suffer, give me the Emerald." Eggman ordered as the robots got closer.
"Sorry, but that's not happening!" Leon said as he pulled out three Poke Balls. "Charizard, Aegislash, Dragapult! Come on out!" He then tossed them into the air as the Pokemon inside them had been released.
"Well this could be more annoying then I thought." Eggman muttered to himself. "Time to bring in reinforcements!" He then ordered a few more dropships to fly toward the battlefield and deliver more robots to deal with Sonic and Leon.
"Wait, didn't he already bring them in?" Victor questioned.
"He's used to replacing them." Sonic said while shrugging.
"I heard that you brats!" Eggman yelled.
"I'll cover you Sonic." Leon said as the Blue Blur nodded to him as he took off and attacked Eggman's forces. The Blue Blur lived up to his nickname as he bounced off of the robots, slammed them with homing attacks, or used his hand to hand skills to do a number on them.
"Charizard, Flamethrower! Dragapult, Dragon Pulse!" Leon ordered his Pokemon.
Both Pokemon unleashed their attacks as the robots moved to counter Sonic. The Badniks either exploded from the force of the flames or the green energy ball making contact. Then Charizard flew forward and landed a Thunderpunch on a larger then normal Egg Pawn wielding two bazookas.
Sonic then found himself under fire from multiple missiles flying at him.
However, Aegislash in its Shield Forme flew forward and blocked the missiles from hitting Sonic. It then quickly flew forward and used Iron Head to smash through the robots. It then positioned itself in front of Sonic. The Hedgehog smiled at the Pokemon's idea and dashed forward. He then landed on Aegislash's shield as the Steel/ghost Type went back to Sword Forme and swung its arm hard, sending Sonic into the air. The Blue Blur then started attacking a flight of Balkiries with homing attacks.
"Leon who's the Blue Sandslash?" Victor questioned.
"Long story." Leon said simply as Charizard knocked away a group of attacking Motobugs with its tail and slashed another Egg Pawn. "Just know he's on our side."
"So fast!" Bede said as he tried to keep the Hedgehog in his sight. "How is he pulling this off?"
"You could say he has some real Champion skills." Leon said with a smile on his face.
"Dragapult! Use Dragon Pulse!" Leon shouted as the Ghost/Dragon Type unleashed another green ball of energy and blasted a group of Egg Pawns.
Sonic used his Homing Attack to nail several Buzz Bombers before he was able to surprise Eggman by slamming into his Egg-O-Matic. Eggman yelled in annoyance before firing its machine guns at Sonic which he easily dodged. Several more Egg Pawns moved forward and fired at Sonic with their bazookas.
Suddenly, a flash appeared before the Egg Pawns as Opal and her Gardevoir appeared. The Psychic/Fairy Type quickly used Psychic to stop the missiles and sent them all back at the robots, creating a field of explosions in front of them.
"Excellent reflexes Gardevoir." The Elderly Trainer said with a smile. The Pokemon gave a small bow to her Trainer as Eggman was stunned.
"Ah welcome back everyone!" Opel said to Victor's group.
"Miss Opal?" Bede said aloud.
"Looks like the cavalry's here!" Sonic said as he spin kicked another Egg Pawn into a trio of its fellows.
"Alcreamie, Dazzling Glow!" Opal called out as her main Pokemon appeared from its Ultra Ball. The Cake like Pokemon then unleashed a large pink glow of energy which impacted several Egg Pawns and blew them up. This included Crabmeats that tried to rush at Sonic as he built up a Spin Dash and slammed through the body of several Caterkillers.
"Thanks for the assist!" Sonic said to Opal before he dashed off again.
"Well I must admit young Sonic truly is a sight to behold with his speed." Opal said with a smile as she saw Sonic tear through Eggman's forces.
"Wait, you know that speedy Blue Sandslash Miss Opal?" Gloria said with a confused look on her face.
Opal giggled at that. "Yes, but those questions will have to wait."
"Stay out of the way you old hag!" Eggman shouted at the former Gym Leader. "I don't have time to help you keel over!"
"Well that was hurtful Doctor." Opal frowned. "However, I didn't come alone." She then smiled as a number of attacks flew over her and blasted away a large part of his forces and took out some of the larger Badniks.
"What!?" Eggman shouted.
Victor and the others heard rushing footsteps headed toward them and turned to see the other Gym Leaders coming to the area. They looked tired as a few of them had to take a few breaths.
"Leave our Champion and his friends alone!" Gordie yelled at Eggman and his forces.
"Sorry we're late!" Raihan said while taking a breath.
"Nice timing everyone!" Victor said as he turned to Cinderace. "Let's make things more even, multiple Pyro Balls!"
Cinderace then looked around and quickly gathered several pebbles in its paws before throwing them into the air. It then began to kick them around in a circle, trading feet as they built up fire around them. Once they were ready the fire rabbit then launched them in the air before jumping and kicked so quickly the balls looked to be a literal second behind each other.
The end result was something akin to an artillery barrage, taking out even more of Eggman's robots.
The Gym Leaders took advantage of the attack and brought out their main Pokemon to the field.
One of the Egg Pawns aimed a bazooka at Hop when he wasn't looking, about to take the shot and take him out.
Bea then rushed at the robot kicked the bazooka before the Pawn could fire. The rocket flew out from the weapon and nearly hit Eggman.
"Watch where you're firing you idiots!" Eggman yelled.
"Nice one Bea!" Sonic said while giving the Fighting-Type Gym Leader a thumbs up. She nodded with a smile and then punched away a thrust from another Egg Pawn as her Machamp grabbed two more of them and smashed them together.
"No one gets away with hurting my little sister!" Piers said with a look of anger on his face as he pulled out his microphone. "Obstagoon, tear up these tin cans with Shadow Claw!"
The Dark-Type Pokemon charged forward as its arms were covered with dark energy in the shape of claws. Obstagoon rushed forward and hacked up a number of Badniks
"Now knock 'em dead with Dark Pulse!" Piers said while snapping his fingers.
Obstagoon then fired what looked like a beam made out of black circles out of its mouth as it destroyed a large version of a Motobug.
"Where was he keeping that?" Sonic questioned as he grabbed a lance from a fallen Egg Pawn, spun around, and tossed it like a Javelin at another Egg Pawn. The force behind the toss was so great however, it continued forward and speared more Badniks and made them explode, releasing the animals inside.
"He always has it on him in his bag." Raihan said as he dodged a thrust from a lance using Egg Pawn as his Flygon swatted it away with its tail. "Durraladon, Flash Cannon!"
The Steel/Dragon Type charged up a shining orb of energy in its mouth before it fired it off at one of the Egg Hammers which was trying to smash Bea. The beam easily cut through the robot and caused a large explosion which took out several more Egg Pawns and Motobugs.
"Alright everyone, let scrap these robots!" Leon stated.
Yeah I know, I'm evil for leaving things on a cliffhanger.
Don't worry, I will have the battle up really soon. It's just that I'm busy with filling things out for my next chapter of Flight of the Twin Eagles. Since C&C Remastered came out recently (no I sadly don't have it), I feel like I should get a chapter out soon because of this.
But yeah, the real battle will be in the next chapter so stay vigilant and keep an eye on your alerts.
P.S. Do you guys think I should make my overall chapters shorter in order to have things out sooner or use longer chapters in order to make them more worth the wait?
