The Gym Leaders and their Pokemon charged toward the horde of Badniks.
"Centiskorch!" Kabu yelled as he knocked away a Motobug. "Use Bug Buzz on the group of robots to your right!"
The centipede Pokemon let out a loud cry which overwhelmed some of the robots.
"Now Fire Blast!" Kabu yelled.
Centiskorch shot out a ball of fire which changed into the kanji representing fire and destroyed the group of robots.
"Machamp, use Close Combat on the hammer robots!" Bea yelled out as she avoided another
"Obstagoon, watch Machamp's back and use Close Combat!" Piers yelled.
As Machamp unleashed its fists to destroy the Egg Hammer in front of her, Obstagoon sped behind her and smashed up any Badniks that tried to charge at Machamp. The end result was that the two Pokemon then unleashed a flurry of attacks that destroyed any Badniks near them within seconds.
"Man these things are cake to destroy!" Gordie said as he had Coalossal punch away another Motobug. He then had it use Flare Blitz and slammed into two Egg Hammers before following up with Stone Edge to impale even more Badniks.
Suddenly, an Egg Pawn jumped on Gordie's back and wrapped its arms around him.
"Gordie!" Melony shouted as the Egg Pawn was holding him tight.
"Get off!" Gordie yelled as he tossed himself around to shake off the Egg Pawn.
"Centiskorch, knock that robot off him!" Kabu yelled as his Pokemon then dashed forward and used Fire Fang to bite down on the robot and rip it off.
"Thanks Kabu!" Gordie said as the Rock-Type Gym Leader as he then kicked away a Motobug. While Coalossal was holding the enemy back, he figured he should bring out another of his heavy hitters.
"Wait, what's that?" Gloria questioned as she pointed to a small avian that appeared from the destroyed Badnik.
Suddenly, the Gym Leaders began to see scores of animals appear from the wreckage around them.
"Is anyone else seeing those Pokemon coming out of the robots?" Gordie questioned as the animals were heading out of the area.
"Perhaps they are those animals that Sonic told Leon about." Melony said while putting a hand under her chin.
"Most likely." Kabu stated.
"We need to get those little guys out of here and hope they don't get hurt." Raihan said aloud as he flinched from the exploding rockets that landed close to him.
"Hatterene, use Psychic to float those animals out of the battlezone!" Bede yelled as his Pokemon lifted up the animals and floated them out of the area.
Eggman was shooting at Bea when he saw Hatterene moving the animals out of the battlezone. "Fire on that Pokemon while its distracted!" He ordered.
A few Egg Pawns opened fire on Hatterene with their machine guns as the bullets flew toward the Pokemon. Then Drednaw rushed in front of the bullets and took the fire, holding his ground against the fire.
"Drednaw, you alright?" Nessa said as she was considered about her partner's health.'
"Dred!" Drednaw said while smiling making Nessa clam down a bit.
"Alright, Stone Edge!" Nessa commanded as the Snapping Turtle Pokemon stomped on the ground with two of its legs. Then multiple stone pillars came out and stabbed through some of the robots of the ground and even nailed a few Buzz Bombers.
"Coalossal, Flare Blitz!" Gordie yelled as he pointed at one of the Egg Hammers. Coalossal surrounded itself in fire, and launched itself at one of the Egg Hammers. Several Egg Pawns fired rockets at the Rock/Fire Type as it managed to take the impacts of the explosives. It grunted from the weapons but it still held strong.
"Coalossal, you alright!?" Gordie yelled to his partner.
Before Coalossal could answer back, another group of missiles flew toward it.
Charizard then flew in front of the rockets and used Flamethrower on them, destroying them.
Gordie sighed and turned to Leon. "Thanks for the save man!" He then got out a Max Potion and sprayed it on Coalossal to help it recover.
"Hey Melony, let's combine our attacks!" Milo said, nearly avoiding fire from Eggman.
"Ready when you are Milo." Melony said as her Lapas and Milo's Flapple were now flying side by side.
"Flapple, use Leaf Tornado!"
"Lapras, use Blizzard!"
Both attacks mixed together as the Leaf Tornado was starting to freeze over due to the intensity of the frozen winds. It then turned into a solid ice sculpture, trapping dozens of enemy robots inside of it.
"Man how many more of these scrapheads are there?" Gordie yelled as he barely jumped out of the away of a bazooka shot. He was blasted back and rolled on the ground, but he wasn't badly hurt. He then had Coalossal to use Rock Slide to smash up more Egg Pawns.
"Good idea guys!" Leon said with a grin. "Let's try some more combo attacks! Milo with me!"
"Right behind ya!" Milo said.
"Charizard, use Flamethrower!" Leon yelled aloud.
"Flapple, use Leaf Storm!" Milo yelled out.
Both attacks were launched at the same time and the flames mixed with the mass of leaves. The end result was a large raging inferno which flew toward the robots. Eggman and some of his aerial robots flew out of the way but a good amount of the ground forces were set on fire and exploded.
Bea pivoted around another Egg Pawn that attacked her with a sword. She then slammed her fist into its face and spin kicked another Motobug hard enough to send it into two more. Machamp followed behind her and destroyed several more robots with Close Combat, its arms appearing as blurs.
She then jumped over an Egg Pawn that tried to stab at her, front flipped and slammed an axe kick onto a Crabmeat.
"Durralaon, use Dragon Rush!" Raihan yelled as the Steel/Dragon Type surrounded itself in a red-purplish aura shaped into a dragon.
"Coalossal, Flare Blitz!" Gordie yelled as his Pokemon then unleashed a larger fire then before as it charged.
Both heavyweights then combined their attacks and slammed into a trio of Egg Hammers. The resulting explosion caused by the combined attacks knocked down any nearby Badniks.
"Calm Mind." Opal said as Gardevoir continued to keep her Light Screen up. She felt her Psychic powers increase upon using the move.
"Psychic." Opal said as her Pokemon's eyes glowed blue as more robots were picked up and tossed around. Her Gardevoir even tossed some of them in front of incoming rockets and bullets, taking out more of them and preventing her follow Gym Leaders and the others from getting hurt.
"Now Shadow Ball." Opal commanded as Gardevoir fired the attack into a Motobug tank and blew it up.
"Gloria, want to team up?" Nessa yelled out to the country girl.
"You bet Nessa!" Gloria yelled.
"Hydro Pump!" Both girls yelled out.
Both Water-Types unleashed their attacks and combined into a larger version of the move. It punched through a few Caterkillers and made a large explosion of water which spread over a good amount of the Badnik forces.
"Whoa, now that's what I call wet and wild!" Sonic said before he then used multiple homing attacks on a flight of Buzz Bombers.
Marnie then smiled at the sight of the soaked robots. "Alright more Morpeko, use Discharge!"
The Dark/Electric Type jumped into the air and unleashed another large blast of electricity which with the water conducting it, took out even more robots.
However, a Balkiry then flew in fast and captured Morpeko in its mouth.
"Peko!" The small electric mouse said while panicking.
"Morpeko!" Marnie yelled as she was about to run after it.
"I got it!" Sonic yelled as he quickly jumped up to the height of the Balkiry and slammed into it with a homing attack. He then caught the little Pokemon in his hands and landed in the ground.
"You okay little guy?" Sonic said to the Dark/Electric Type.
"Morpeko!" The little Pokemon said as it hugged Sonic with a smile on its face.
"Be a bit more careful of your surroundings alright?" Sonic said while putting it down. He then gave Marnie a thumbs up and dashed back into the fray.
Marnie breathed out a sigh of relief. She then turned to a group of charging Egg Pawns and frowned. "Grimmsnarl, use Darkest Lariat!" The monstrous-looking Pokemon formed its hands into fists and spun around, turning into a vortex. It then dashed forward toward a large group of Egg Pawns which were charging in with lances and swords. However, Grimmsnarl was easily able to overpower the group and knocked them all away when they clashed. Several Egg Pawns were destroyed and others flew back into more Badniks, causing more losses for Eggman.
"If we were bowling, I'd call that a strike!" Sonic glad with a grin as he kicked away another Egg Pawn.
"Agh!" Eggman yelled in anger. "How is this happening!?"
"For a supposed Genius, you sure aren't acting the part." Milo said as he avoided getting tackled by a Motobug.
"Silence you!" Eggman yelled as he was about to open fire on Milo. However, he was forced to fly away from a large Shadow Ball fired by Alistair's Gengar which hit a group of Buzz Bombers.
"Now Obstagoon use Dark Pulse!" The Punk Rocker commanded.
"Gengar... Shadow Ball." Alistair ordered with a serious look on his face. "Combine with Piers's attack."
Both attack went off and combined as the Shadow ball was surrounded by the dark rings, almost resembling an atom as it impacted a large part of the Badnik forces and destroyed several dozen of the enemy.
"Well when I said earlier in the morning that things could be getting interesting today, I didn't mean this!" Raihan said as he punched away an Egg Pawn. He then picked up a lance from the ground and stabbed it into the stomach of another Egg Pawn. "Thank Arceus for self-defense lessons!"
"I'm definitely glad for Master Mustard's teachings now!" Leon said as he backfilped away from an Egg pawn trying to skewer him before sending it away with a spin kick.
Charizard then flew forward as it flew over blasted more of the Badniks with Flamethrower. Sonic then landed on the back of the Fire/Flying Type as Sonic grabbed one of the lances.
Leon smirked as he saw a good move to make. "Charizard, fly Sonic up to one of the dropships!"
"Let's go Charizard!" Sonic said as lower the lance like a jousting knight. The fire lizard nodded and pushed himself to go even faster.
Charizard used Flamethrower at any Badniks that were about to fire on him as he flew higher. Sonic also helped out by stabbing any robots that tried to slam into Charizard, even flinging any that were impaled into their fellows.
Eventually, they flew above the dropship. Sonic then jumped off of Charizard and landed on one of the Fire Lizard's clawed hands. The fire lizard spun around to build up momentum and tossed Sonic as hard as it could. Sonic held the lance with both hands and slammed it into the head of the large robot.
The dropship exploded and fell into two pieces. One of them almost fell onto the Trainers, forcing them to get some distance from the impact site. The second part did some damage to a few buildings, but it wasn't all that bad.
"Oof." Leon said while cringing. "That's my bad."
"They can be fixed, at least it didn't land on anybody." Raihan said. "Durraladon, Flash Cannon on the second dropship!"
"Aegislash, you use Flash Cannon too!" Leon commanded.
Both Pokemon unleashed their beams at the same time. The beams crossed each other and formed a much larger beam which was able to easily reach the dropship, blasting it apart and the badniks within. The captured animals were falling to the ground, but Bede's Hatterene caught them using Psychic and moved them to safety.
Sonic then appeared and kicked the Egg Pawn away before nailed the other half a dozen with a flurry of punches and kicks. He then grabbed onto one of them, spun it around and tossed it into a crowd of Badniks. He then used his Spin Dash and rocketed into the down Badniks, bouncing around like a pinball before he slammed into the face of an Egg Hammer with a dropkick.
Some Egg Pawns fired rockets and missiles at Sonic when he leapt into the air to destroy some Buzz Bombers.
He then grabbed the rockets while in the air and tossed them back at the Egg Pawns before he landed on a large one and began riding it like a surfboard.
"Oh yeah!" The Blue Blur yelled as he flew the missile into of the few remaining Egg Hammers and destroyed it.
"Missile surfing?" Raihan said with his mouth opened before he grinned. "That was pretty damn Ace."
"Unless piles of scrap!" Eggman yelled over the battlefield. "How are you losing this badly!? I had plans to deal with their Pokemon!"
"Guess you're gonna lose big time again Egghead!" Sonic said as he landed on a streetlamp.
"Well there are other ways to get what I want." Eggman said with a smirk while looking at Gloria. Sonic looked to the country girl and saw she was focused on calling out attacks for her Pokemon. He then sent an order to one of his Balkiries to swoop in and take the Emerald. Sonic had destroyed another Egg Hammer with a powerful Spin Dash when he noticed the aerial Badnik coming at the country girl from behind.
"Green hat, behind you!" Sonic yelled to Gloria.
"What?" Gloria said as the Balkiry dashed at her and launched a smoke bomb. Victor and the others were coughing from the smoke as the Balkiry snatched the Chaos Emerald from Gloria's hand, keeping it in its beak.
"Hey!" Gloria yelled as the Balkiry flew toward Eggman. It stopped and dropped the Emerald into Eggman's out-stretched hand, a wide grin on his face.
"He he he, now I have the Emerald!" Eggman laughed as he raised the Emerald up high.
"Oh really?" Raihan stated with a smirk as he kicked away a Motobug.
Eggman was confused about what the Dragon Type Gym Leader said until he felt a chill on his back. He felt something was wrong as he felt a cold hand on his shoulder.
A massive shadowy specter appeared behind him and laughed demonically.
"GAHHH!" The mad doctor screamed as the frightening shadow then swiped the Emerald from him and zoomed to the ground next to Alistair. It then quickly changed into that of a regular Gengar who then made a number of faces at the evil scientist after giving the Emerald to his Trainer.
"Ace job Gengar." The young Ghost-Type Gym Leader said with a smile under his mask.
"What!? How could I have fell for that!?" Eggman yelled in realization.
"Nice one kiddo!" Raihan yelled over from him and Leon's side of the field as he and Leon kicked a couple more Egg Pawns away from them. "Durraladon, Dragon Rush!"
The Steel/Dragon Type charged forward as a bright blue aura shaped like a dragon formed around it. It flew straight into a large group of Badniks, making a large explosion and destroyed more of them.
"Charizard, use Flamethrower, max power!" Leon yelled.
"Centiskorch, use Fire Blast!" Kabu yelled.
Both fire attacks went off and combined into one giant blast of fire. It impacted the front of the Badnik horde and destroyed dozens of robots.
"Machamp, use Cross Chop followed up with double Brick Breaks on the hammer users!" Bea yelled as she karate chopped a Buzz Bomber at one of its joints.
Her strongest Pokemon crossed its lower two arms as he dashed toward one of the remaining Egg Hammers. the robot swung its hammer at him, but the Superpower Pokemon was more then strong enough to break through the weapon and smashed through the robot. It then used its two upper arms and smash up more Egg Pawns as Nessa's Drednaw used Crunch on another Egg Hammer and Gordie's Gigalith used Rock Slide on several more robots.
Sonic used his high speed to help thin the herd as Leon's Charizard then unleashed a large scale Flamethrower to destroy more of the robots. Sonic then landed on Charizard as it flew forward through a volley of missiles spinning around the explosives. Sonic then revved up his spin dash and launched off Charizard's back as it used Flamethrower and destroyed more Egg Pawns. Sonic slammed into a group of Crabmeats before jumping into the air and and slammed into the head of a Burrobot with a dropkick.
Sonic soon saw another dropship heading toward them, bring more robots into the fight. While he could hear that police sirens were on the way, it would still be a while before backup arrived.
"Hey can one of you guys launch me up to that other dropship?" Sonic yelled.
"I might have a way!" Victor said. "When I saw your rolling attack, I had an idea of how to help you out." He then motioned to Cinderace which destroyed another large robot with a Double Kick. One to the head and another to kick away the hammer of another and sent it flying to a group of enemies.
"I get your idea, let's do it!" Sonic said with a smirk as Victor nodded.
"Cinderace, get ready!" He called to his partner after avoiding another attack from one of the robots.
"Cinder!" The Fire Type responded as it took position. Sonic jumped over to Cinderace curled up into a ball for a spin dash.
"Hatterene, use Psychic on the wreckage and take out more of those scrapheaps!" Bede yelled.
Bede's Hatterene then picked up several large pieces of wreckage and shot it toward some of the remaining robots, taking out more of them in process.
"Target him now!" Eggman yelled to his remaining Egg Pawns as they fired their bazookas at Sonic as he was still spinning in place to increase his speed.
"Light Screen!" Bede yelled as a yellow barrier appeared over Sonic and blocked the rockets from hitting him.
Cinderace got itself pumped up and then kicked Sonic up like it a ball. Soon enough, flames began to surround Sonic, but they looked like they formed a flame barrier around him. Cinderace then kicked Sonic into the air before jumping to follow him as it then powered up a Blaze Kick.
"DO IT!" Victor yelled as his partner kicked Sonic into the air toward the head of the dropship. The power behind Cinderace's attack blasting Sonic forward like a meteor as the flames around the Hedgehog grew stronger. When he impacted the dropship, a colossal explosion followed as Sonic kept going before his momentum stopped.
"Whoa!" Sonic said as he was failing to the ground. "That was like when I use the fire shield but stronger!" He then smirked at this. "That's gonna be fun to know for the future!"
He then used his Homing Attack on a few Balkiries which were trying to fire machine guns and missiles at him. However, when it looked like he was going to be hit with several missiles, Milo's Flapple flew up and used Leaf Tornado to destroy the munitions.
Sonic gave Milo a thumbs up and Milo returned the gesture.
Eventually, the continual attacks by Sonic and the Trainers left none of Eggman's Badnik standing and left the Doctor by himself.
"Looks like you're out of toys to send Egghead!" Sonic said as he landed in front of the Galar Trainers.
"Ugh! If you want something done right, do it yourself!" Eggman yelled as he clicked a button. Suddenly, two large boosters appeared with smaller ones on the outer areas. It also had an area that looked like something could fit there.
"Are those giant jet engines!?" Milo said aloud.
Eggman's Egg O'Matic then combined with with the boosters as six large spikes formed on the front of his vehicle along with large autocannons.
"The Egg Hornet?" Sonic said with a raised eyebrow. "Surprised that you're bringing back a machine I completely smashed Egg Head!"
"True, but this time I took the time to upgrade the old Hornet." Eggman said as he had his arms out wide. "Behold! The Egg Hornet Mk II!"
"Is the Egg part necessary?" Marnie said while tilting her head.
"Yep. Eggman always has to include "Egg" in any of the robots he pilots. Pretty much his trademark." Sonic said while crossing his arms. "Stay on your toes, when that thing charges it can hit hard. And watch for the missiles and autocannons unless your Pokemon think they can take the punishment."
"Noted." Leon said. "Charizard close the distance!"
The fire lizard shot forward at high speed as Eggman opened fir with homing missiles. Charizard countered this with Flamethrower and destroyed the munitions. The resulting smokescreen gave Charizard cover and it appeared in front of Eggman.
"Quick use Thunderpunch!" Leon yelled.
Charizard charged its left claw with electricity as he threw the attack at the Egg Hornet Mk II as Eggman tried to fire his autocannons at him. The impact caused some damage plus shocked Eggman and sent him back.
The Mad Doctor then opened fire with the autocannons, forcing Charizard to evade.
"All systems, full power!" Eggman yelled as he increased the speed of his machine to the max in order to ram into Charizard. The fire lizard charged two Thunderpunches and threw both at the Egg Hornet Mk II and caused a large explosion.
"Why doesn't he just start these at full power." Sonic said while crossing his arms.
Sonic then came in from the side and unleashed multiple Homing Attacks at Eggman, rattling the Egg Hornet.
"Stop that!" Eggman yelled as he spun his machine in place to knock Sonic away.
However, he was hit by both Durrandal and Aegislash's Flash Cannons.
Eggman grunted in anger as he unleashed a swarm of missiles toward the two Pokemon. Multiple explosions occurred from the impacts as Eggman grinned.
When the smoke cleared however, his grinned dropped. Both Pokemon still stood tall, only having some scuff marks on them.
"Rillaboom, Drum Beating!" Hop yelled. More vines came out of the ground and to attack Eggman. He then flew his Egg Hornet out of the way of the attack.
"Keep using Drum Beating!" Hop ordered. He knew that Eggman couldn't keep avoiding it and had to counterattack at one point or a certain move was used.
"Gardevoir, use Psychic!" Opel commanded.
"You too, Hatterene!" Bede ordered.
Both Psychic moves were able to hold Eggman in place and then slammed him down on the ground.
Then, multiple vines appeared and slammed the Egg Hornet without mercy. Eggman yelled in frustration.
"Dragapult, use Dragon Pulse!" Leon commanded the Ghost/Dragon Type as it fired its green energy sphere at the Egg Hornet and further damaged it.
"THAT TEARS IT!" Eggman yelled. "I'M GOING TO RUN YOU OVER LIKE ROADKILL!"
"Here he comes!" Leon called out.
The rainbow barrier formed as Eggman dashed forward, a mad grin on his face. However, a blur dashed in front of him and placed itself in front of his charge.
"What the!?" Eggman yelled as his Egg Hornet Mk II was slowing down suddenly. He looked down and saw that there was a certain gray colored, four armed Pokemon, holding his machine as it held its ground.
"Nice work Machamp!" Bea yelled as her partner was holding down the large vehicle. "Now keep using Bulk Up to hold him down!"
"Machamp!" The Superpower Pokemon yelled out. Her arms and legs (already orange from an earlier use of the move) turned to a reddish-orange as he keep using the move to improve her power. Soon, she was able to take a step forward despite Eggman pouring on the engines to full power.
Eggman panicked as he began to try and force the power of the rear engines to the front to fly out of Machamp's grasp.
"I don't think so!" Gloria yelled. "Inteleon, Snipe Shot on both those engines!"
The Water Type put its hands in the usual sign its makes when using its signature move and fired off twin water blasts into the Egg Hornet's engines. The water attacks were able to destroy them, meaning Eggman couldn't fly away.
"Time to bail!" Eggman said as he was about to detach his Egg-O-matic.
"I don't think so! Lapras, Blizzard!" Melony commanded her Pokemon to attack Eggman. The move was able to freeze the machine completely, especially with it freezing the Egg-O-Matic in place.
"Oh no!" Eggman yelled as he couldn't get out of his machine now and he himself was frozen to it.
"Machamp, spin around as fast as you can!" Bea yelled.
The Superpower Pokemon then began to spin in place as its exerted its great strength to hold the machine in its grip.
"I'm gonna be sick!" Eggman yelled as the rotation kept getting faster and faster.
"Now toss him!" Bea ordered.
"MA... CHAMP!" Machamp yelled as it tossed the machine high into the air.
"Cinderace, Pyro Ball full power!" Victor ordered his best partner. The Fire Type quickly kicked up a rock and began to make a much larger version of its move. When it was around twice his size, the fire rabbit kicked it into the air at Eggman.
The fireball then stuck the Egg Hornet and caused an immense explosion. The resulting gust of wind caused some of the others the cover their faces and blew around loose clothing.
The pieces of the Egg Hornet fell apart from the blast as Eggman was covered in soot. The Egg-O-Matic flew toward the ground and crashed.
"Ace work pal!" Victor said as he and Cinderace fist bumped each other in victory.
The Gym Leaders and Victor's friends all cheered at their victory. Sonic looked on their celebrating with a smile.
'Looks like they really can get the job done.' He thought.
*COUGH COUGH*
The sudden coughing sounded around the area as they saw that Eggman and his machine were getting back up.
"AHHH! Don't think you're off the hook for this Sonic!" Eggman shouted. "I will get the Chaos Emeralds and not only take over both this planet and Mobius, but also finally get rid of you permanently!"
"You can try Egg for Brains!" Sonic said as he tossed a damaged Egg Pawn's head away. "Of course, I'm not gonna be alone in kicking your butt all the way back home!"
"We'll see about that!" Eggman said as he activated a bright flash from his Egg Mobile, blinding Sonic and the others. While a few of the pokemon recovered quickly, Eggman flew away at max power in order to avoid getting hit by any of their attacks again. When the blur in their eyes died down, the heroes realized they were the only ones left on the battlefield (besides the freed animals).
"Dammit he's gone!" Raihan shouted as he looked around.
"Who does that fatso think he is!?" Gordie said in anger. "I'm gonna have Coalossal smash him into paste for thinking he can go around and attack innocents!"
"Calm down the both the both of you." Leon said as Charizard, Aegislash, and Dragapult flew toward him. "If he comes back, then we'll really show Eggman how we Galar Trainers fight."
The others were all nodded at that.
"So now that the fight is over..." Bede said as he spoke calmly before opening his mouth again. "Can some PLEASE tell us what happened at the stadium that caused this!?" He said while gesturing to the scrap around him.
Sonic looked over the small animals that were freed from Eggman's robots. He then turned to the Gym Leaders with a small smirk on his face. "So... know anyone that could take care of the little guys?"
At last we have a real fight scene! Hope you guys liked it.
Anyway, next chapter will feature one of Sonic's friends waking up to see that they aren't in their world any more along with meeting another Gym Leader. Let's just say that if they ever work together, they'll give new meaning to the phrase "mind over matter".
Anyway, expect a writing challenge soon enough along with an update for Remnant of Flames.
This is Blazblade, signing off!
Update: Due to the release of the Isle of Armor DLC, I've changed Leon's dialogue to fit with him having trained there.
Also, expect both forms of Urshifu to appear soon.
