Chapter 7: The Perfect Hour for Chaotic Discourse
Just as promised, thirty minutes later, Amy, Knuckles and Sonic arrived. Sonic was the first to come into the home of the Freedom Trainees, zooming in in pure excitement.
"GOOOD MORNING! You must be Jewel! It's very nice to meet you! Oh I just LOVE seeing people get inspired by me!" Sonic said and he roughly shook Jewel's hand.
"Hey! Don't you go leaving us behind!" Knuckled yelled as he, with Amy, caught up to Sonic.
"He's just excited.." Amy said to Knuckles.
Suddenly, there was a loud screech that filled the entire house.
"OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH IT'S REALLY YOUUUUUUU!" Tangle darted into the living room.
"Woah! Looks like someone's a big fan!" Sonic remarked.
"Totally! You're my hero!" Tangle responded happily.
"Ya know, back in the day, Tails said that exact same thing to me… Maybe one day you'll be my sidekick too?" Sonic teased, which caused Tangle to squeal and happily run around the house and eventually bump into Lux, who along with Whisper, had come downstairs to see what all the ruckus was about.
"Why is it so noisy….?" Whisper asked, covering her ears. Lux gasped when she saw who's there.
"No way….!"
"Yes way!" Sonic gleefully responded.
"Hah! Now I can see why Tangle is so excited.."Lux chuckled. "But yeah, turn it down a notch." She said firmly. Tangle did so and giggled awkwardly.
"Oops… Sorry Whisp."
"It's… It's okay…"
"Anyway, there's a reason why we're here, and that's because of all this business with Miss Wilma Brevair!" Amy said, focusing the conversation.
"Oh yeah! I've been meaning to ask, what's that theory about Wilma you have?" Jewel asked.
"Oh! That! Yeah. I got totally cut off yesterday! Anyway… hear me out, but I think Wilma is a disguised member of the Black Arms! I just… I get that vibe from her! Back when I just met Shadow, back about 7 years ago, I just… He had a vibe to him, I could tell something was off about him. Come a year later, I found out along with everyone else that he's part Black Arms. I just have a good intuition about that kind of stuff!" Amy explained.
"Wait, Shadow is one of those alien things?" Whisper asked, confused.
"You didn't know?" Tangle asked her.
"No.. I don't really keep up with that kind of thing…" Whisper explained.
"But yeah, Amy's got a real knack for that! So I'm bound to trust her on this." Knuckles added. Sonic laughed awkwardly, like he knew something no one else did. Lux, Jewel and Tangle just shrugged it off, but Whisper kept note of Sonic's actions in the moment, and what Amy said.
"You really think so? I mean… That explains the complete lack of info of where she came from before just… popping into existence one day in mid-November 2005… Actually, looking back at the files… She first was seen on November 19th, 2005… Only a few days after the Black Arms' attempted invasion happened…" Lux said.
"But didn't Shadow blow up the comet?" Sonic asked.
"Didn't stop them from coming back around just two years later…" Knuckles remarked in an annoyed tone.
"Huh? What do ya mean by that, Knux?" Sonic looked at him funny.
"Oh, yeah, I kinda got involved with Team Dark dealing with this one escaped Black Arm… Name was Eclipse. If I ever see their face again, they're getting served a Knuckles Sandwich right in the mouth!"
"Oh yeah! You told me about them, Knuckles, and I even came along with you to find them. No luck though…" Amy added.
"WHAT?!" Sonic shouted, panicked.
"Don't worry Sonic! I was fine! I'm still alive, aren't I?" Amy assured him, he sighed.
"Yeah, I know… I just worry about ya, Ames…"
"... You sure do like to do a lot of worrying, don't you? Maybe you'd be less worried if you spent more time with me." Amy told Sonic.
"Anyway, how come you felt so inclined to come around now?" Jewel refocused the conversation with her question for Knuckles.
"Oh, it's just the way you described that Doctor Clysdale fellow… sounded familiar. But I thought about it more, and realized I could just be overreacting." He answered.
"Aw, ya sure?" Lux cut in.
"Yeah. Sometimes I just do that, ya know?"
"Well, sense we ARE here, maybe we should like, go storm their base or something? Works for dealing with Eggman." Sonic suggested.
"Yeah! Let's do it!" Tangle said excitedly.
"But how do we do that..?" Whisper asked.
"Good question! Let's get to planning! Can any of you four draw?" Knuckles asked.
"I'll try..." Whisper offered.
"Great! Y'all got paper?"
"Yeah! Let me go get it!" Jewel piped up, and flew off to get some paper.
"Before you start planning, and pinning us places, just know that Jewel really doesn't like violence..!" Tangle warned Knuckles.
"Is that so? Don't worry, I won't force her into anything she doesn't want to do! We've already got enough people!" Knuckles assured.
Soon, Jewel came back with the paper, and gave it, and a pencil, to Whisper. After around 45 minutes of drawing, Whisper had a full drawing of the clinic and house combo.
"I hope this helps…" She said.
"Thank you! Yeah… This looks great!" Knuckles grabbed the map and placed it on the kitchen table. "Okay, so Wilma, Clysdale, Relic, Shadow, and possibly Omega… That makes five, and there's seven of us… Six now because of Jewel being excluded from being part of the fight."
"Hah! Easy!" Sonic laughed.
"Actually, there should be four of them, cause yesterday Lux and I had a run in with Relic and I… Broke her arm." Tangle confessed.
"Oh! Then a 6v4 huh? Sounds easy enough to me!" Knuckles said with pride. "Anyway, six of us… that means we can evenly split into two groups of three! Alright, this is my idea… Sonic, …. What's your name?" Knuckles looked at Lux.
"Lux."
"Ah, of course. Sonic, Lux and I will go in first. I think that Shadow and Omega will be the first to attack, so this part is just a bunch of brutes going off. Second half is Amy…"
"Tangle and Whisper." Tangle finished for him, pointing at herself and then at Whisper.
"Right. You three come in second, and are most likely dealing with Wilma and Clysdale. Strategy."
"Not to dump on your ideas, Knux, but shouldn't we have a good strategist in with the two fighters, and a fighter in with the two strategists? Ya know, to ensure that both halves have a good personal plan? Besides, I feel like the enemy team would do the same." Sonic suggested.
"Oh.. yeah. I'm really lucky that you're a smart guy, Sonic. Good thinking."
"Oh please, Tangle's no strategist." Jewel chuckled. Tangle rolled her eyes, but she agreed.
"Okay okay… So how about… Amy, Tangle and I first, and then Sonic, Whisper and Lux?"
"I could go in first on my own, with you, Tangle and Amy going in soon after me. I make good bait for Shadow."
"Fine! Sonic first, then Amy, Tangle and I, then Whisper and Lux! Final plan, I'm not budging!" Sonic couldn't help but laugh a bit.
"Jeez… Sonic and Knuckles are always like that with each other…" Amy sighed, seeming slightly annoyed.
"So, Let's do it then!" Lux asserted.
Sonic ran to the clinic, and Shadow automatically noticed him.
"What do YOU want?" Shadow approached Sonic angrily. Doctor Clysdale stepped out of the clinic to aid Shadow in the situation.
"Is this blue hedgehog giving you trouble?" They asked.
"I know you fuckers are working for that Wilma chick!" Sonic yelled.
"Shut up Faker." Shadow kicked Sonic in the face, which began a quick paced battle between the two of them. Amy ran in with her hammer, attacking Doctor Clysdale with it, though he quite quickly and forcibly threw her off.
"Their strength… their aura… Knuckles, you were right! I can tell, they're one of them!" Amy yelled out.
"Hah, You're well connected for a half-blood!"
"Half… what?!" Knuckles appeared, defending Amy from Doctor Clysdale.
"Oh, Knuckles! It's been awhile, hasn't it? Surprised you're seeing me again? Thought I was just gonna walk off and die?" "Clysdale" giggled, taking their hair out it's ponytail. "That's what you all thought, huh? How awful… How dreadful…!" They started to transform.
"No… It can't be..!" Their amber eyes pierced into Knuckles soul, as he saw the truth, the truth that he himself predicted, and yet, thought was impossible.
"You really think that you could get rid of the "Ultimate Alien" that easily, dear?"
"What the hell?!" Amy cried out.
"I won't let you hurt my friends again, Eclipse!" Knuckled declared.
"Oh, please, I do hope to see you try~!" They said mockingingly. "The deciding factor is in my court now… Your end is nigh!"
