Chapter 2: Meeting the Destructix
In the forest of Angel Island, Maria is walking late in night to find the campsite so she can return the ring to the others. She feels that she should tell the others, but she is mostly going to go to the camp drop off the ring, and get back before anyone notices.
Maria looks around, "Let's see, I remember walking that direction and the camp should be close by."
Maria walks further and further in the forest until she walks past the trees. She looks to see the same clearing with the campsite.
Maria sighs, "Good. I found it, and it doesn't seem that everyone is around."
Maria quietly walks to the camp to to the table where the rings and other supplies are. She carefully takes the ring out of her pocket and is going to place it down.
Suddenly, she hears a voice, "Well well, what do we have here? Do my eyes deceive me or if there's a young girl at my camp."
Maria looks up to see someone standing on the other side of the table. There is a white Echidna looks likes a young adult, with red rings, black eyes with gold in the middle. He has a gold diamond on his head, four gold rings on his arms and bandages on his hands. He is wearing a black cloak with gold clasp with crescent moons on it.
That causes Maria to become stunned and sweating bullets, "Oh I'm sorry, I didn't mean to come snooping around! I was trying to um, give back the ring that I uh, accidently took from your camp by mistake when I came here yesterday afternoon!"
Maria then presents the ring to the Echidna, "I apologize for taking the ring from earlier. I came this way to give it back to you. Again, I'm sorry."
The Echidna doesn't say a word. He takes the ring and places it back on the table.
"I do appreciate of you returning this. I become quite curious to find one of my Warp Rings to have disappeared," the Echidna says.
Maria says in thought, "Warp Rings? Isn't that the instante teleporter that Knuckles and the others told me about."
"So, what brings a young hedgehog like you on to Angel Island?" The Echidna asks.
Maria look at him and his yellow color eyes. Something about him is making her body feel cold and speechless.
Maria manages to say, "I um, was on a camping trip with my friends at the shrine where the Master Emerald is. In fact, I should really get going. My friends will be worried if they realize I'm gone."
"Aww, but won't you say for a little while," A sinister voice says.
Maria turns her head to see someone in the dark and is right by a large ring, which is actually a Warp Ring. Then five more figures begin to come out of it. Maria can't see who the being is and squints her eyes a little to see who it is.
Confused, Maria asks, "Sonic, is that you?"
"Close blondie, but not close enough," A voice says.
"Now babe, let's not be too difficult with this little girl. She doesn't seem like the fighting type," A girl's voice says.
The two figures come out of reveal their faces. One of them is a hedgehog and is similar to Sonic. But this hedgehog has green fur, blue eyes, and has two scars on his stomach. He is wearing a black leather jacket with flames, black and green boots, and red sunglasses.
Next to him is a red color fox a with dark red hair on her head, and light yellow muzzle and on the tip of her tail. She is wearing a black tank top, black fingerless gloves, black pants and shoes with a belt, and a yellow ribbon on her hair.
Maria gulps nervously, and asks, "Who are you?"
"Names Sourge, blondie. And this is my girl, Fionna," The green hedgehog says.
The fox, Fionna asks, "So, what a little hedgehog like you doing on Angel Island with your friends? From what you said, I assume that you know Sonic."
"Um yes, I'm friends with him," Maria nervously says.
"Friends you say. Then I suppose you know Knuckles as well," The hedgehog, Scourge replies.
Maria becomes uneasy about this, "Um yes. Why do you ask? Are you um, friends with them?"
"I wouldn't call ourselves friends, but it's nice if you can hang out with us for a while," Fionna says.
"Yeah blondie. You should stick around for a while. Besides, it will be bad if they know about our presence here."
Maria nervously gulps, and says, "That does sound nice, but um, I need to get back to camp. My friends will um, become very worried if they know I'm gone."
Maria then super speed away as soon as possible.
Scourge super charges his speed, "Get back here blondie!"
Then speeds away to catch up with Maria.
Fionna sighs, "They always run away screaming."
Then turns to echidna, "Do you want us to capture that girl, Dr. Finitevus?"
"Bring that girl here before she reaches the Guardian and her friends," Finitevus says.
Running in the forest, Maria is trying to get back to the others and warn them about the Mobian. Just the, Scourge appears in front of Maria and kicks her in the stomach sending her down on her back.
Maria holds up as she clutches her stomach, "Ow!"
"That's what you get for trying to run. How about you be a good little girl and come with us, or are we going to have to do this the hard way," Scourge says.
Maria scrambles onto her feet and starts running away as she screams, "AAAAAHHHHHH! SHADOW!"
Her screaming ends up being heard across the island. At the camp, Shadow hears the scream and quickly get up. Then exits the camp to see what is going on. Sonic and the others come out of the tens to hear the screaming.
"What was that?" Vector asks.
"I don't know, it sounded like a scream," Sonic says.
Amy comes out of the tent in a panic, "Guys! Maria, she's gone!"
Julie-Su begins to suspect, "You don't think that was Maria screaming just now."
Suddenly, Shadow speeds off on his rocket shoes and into the forest.
"I'm taking that as a yes. Shadow can tell when Maria's in trouble," Vector says.
Knuckles says, "Come on we gotta go after him."
Everyone head off into the forest to find Maria and see what's wrong. The way Shadow has storm off, they suspect Maria is in trouble.
In the forest, Maria is running as fast as she can away from the hedgehog. Scourge is not far behind and is actually having fun chasing the poor girl like this.
Scourge laughs, "You can't get away from me and my team that easily. I'm sure my friends wouldn't want to leave so soon before we have a chat. Besides, you haven't met the rest of my Destructix Crew."
Maria continues to run as she feels tear around her. She doesn't know what to do. She knows that she needs to get back to camp and warn the others. Suddenly, a Warp Ring appears and a giant brown gorilla comes out of it. The gorilla is wearing a green army helmet, pants, black boots, a large straps of bags hanging over his shoulder, and a green armband with a yellow symbol.
"I suggest you don't run little girl," The gorilla says.
Scourge comes forward, and says, "Meet Sgt. Simian."
Maria begins to run in a different direction. But then another Warp Ring appears, and a green frog appears. This frog is wearing a white scarf, a light brown pilot hat, with matching pants, elbow pads, and boots.
"Hi hi hi! Cutie cutie cutie! Name's Flying Frog, and I like to play with you," The frog happily says.
Maria isn't having and tries running to a different direction. Just then, another Warp Ring appears, and two more Mobians come out.
One of them is a blue hawk with a yellow beak. He's wearing a red hairband with matching gloves, and boots with yellow buckles on it. He is also wearing a light blue belt over his shoulder.
The second one is a beige lynx with black hair and fur on the ears. He is wearing blue boots and gloves.
"I'm Lightning Lynx, you won't be able to run from a ninja that easily," The Lynx says.
The Hawk smirks, "Predator Hawk, kiddie."
Maria becomes so cared to find herself surrounded by many Mobian who are rough and dangerous.
"Um listen, maybe we can find some common grounds. I understand that you don't want me to snoop around and I promise not to do that," Maria scaredly says.
Just then, Flying pulls her into a hug, "Sorry girlie girlie, but we can't let you go that easily. Aren't you the most cutie, adorable, blondie blonde, blue sky color eyes and soft haired hedgehog you ever seen."
"Um, thank you?" Maria says, confused.
Just them the Echidna, Dr. Finitevus comes walking in.
Scourge turns to him, "Well, we caught the girls. What do you think we should do with her?"
Flying comes over hugging Maria, "Oh please can we keep her boss? She can be our mascot or our newest Destructix member. I'll feed her, take her for walks and name her Teddy."
"Knock it off Flying. We don't need your brand of crazy for tonight. Besides, only Dr. Spooky gets to decide," Scourge says rolling his eyes.
Suddenly, someone shouts, "Chaos Spear!"
A spear made of Chaos Energy wails to the group and explode, but they all quickly doge out of the way.
Suddenly, they hear someone shouts, "HEY!"
Everyone run to see Sonic, Shadow, and Knuckles who have anger, especially Shadow.
Knuckles angrily shouts, "You let go of Maria, Right Now!"
"Great. Just what we need, Sonic, the Knucklehead, and stripes," Scourge says.
Shadow suddenly teleports to where Flying is and punches him in the face, and making him drop Maria. Shadow grabs Maria and teleports himself and Maria to the others.
"Hey! That's my little teddy!" Flying screams.
"Teddy?" Sonic asks.
Shadow looks at Maria, and asks, "Are you alright."
"Yes. I'm sorry. I never meant to cause trouble. I-I accidentally took one of their rings and was going to give it back and head back to camp. They then start to gang up on me because I told them I was friends with you. Why are they being so mean?" Maria says, as she begins to shed tears.
"Because they are nothing but jerks," Knuckles says.
Sonic says, "Not cool Scourge, ganging up on an innocent girl and making her cry."
"Aww, cry me a river. I think it's a good thing you came. Now it's time for some pay back," Scourge says, evilly smiles.
Scourge then spin dashes and hits Sonic on the stomach. Then is hit to the tree. That's when Amy and the others arrive to see what has happen.
Amy gasps, "Sonic!"
Shadow then takes Maria and hides her behind the bushes.
Shadow says, "Stay down. I'll take care of this."
"Okay," Maria says with a nod.
Julie-Su who is with Cream, Cheese, and Tails, comes over, "I'll keep an eye on her."
"Thanks," Shadow replies.
Then leaves to join in with the fight. Shadow manages to strikes a punch at Predator. Sonic and Scourge are at a showdown, spin dashing each other. Espio, Vector, and Charmy attack Lightning, but Espio and Lighting are evenly match considering they're ninjas. Mighty, Ray, and Knuckles battle out with Flying Frog, but the Frog has some strange tricks up his sleeves. Amy Is trying to smack Fionna after the way the fox has toyed with Sonic and Tails , everything is turning into a very hard brawl against the Freedom Fighters, the Chaotix, and the Destructix.
Hiding behind the bushes, Julie-Su is watching Maria, Tails, Cream and Cheese.
Maria sadly says, "I'm sorry. I never meant to cause so much trouble."
"It's not your fault. You couldn't have knows that the ring you found belongs to Finitevus," Julie says.
"What are we gonna so? What if they find us?" Cream scaredly asks.
"Chap chao," Cheese says from Cream's arms.
Tails says, "Don't worry, I'm sure Sonic and the others will do fine. They battle with the Destructix before, and I'm sure they can beat them again."
"I hope so. Shadow didn't seem too happy with them," Maria worriedly says in thought.
Everyone continue to look out for signs of trouble. However, they're unaware what something begins to open under their feet. A gold ring appears, and enlarges to open a portal. Everyone scream as they fall through the ring. Cheese manages to fly long enough to see the ring closing from beneath him.
Cheese panaics, "Chao chao chao chao chao!"
The flys to the others. Back at the fight, Sonic and the others continue to fight with the Destructix. Suddenly, Scourge opens a warp ring.
Scourge kicks Sonic off, and laughs, "See you around Sonic, hope you don't mind we have a few of your friends over."
The other Destructix smack and all run through the portal. Soon, they all disappeared.
"What was that about?" Knuckles asks.
"What did he mean having a few of our friends over?" Amy asks.
Suddenly, Cheese flies over in a panic.
"What's wrong Cheese?" Amy asks.
"And where are the others?" Sonic asks
Cheese then grabs one of Shadow's inhibitor wristbands and place it on the ground. He shows that he ends up going through the ring.
Espio suspects, "If I have to translate, Cheese is saying that a mysterious ring open and the others got sucked in."
"Chao chao," Cheese answers with a nod.
Shadow clutches his fist, "That means, those creeps took Maria and the others."
"And Finitevus must have caught them while we were gone. He took Julie-Su too!" Knuckles says in anger.
Amy gasps, "And he took Cream too."
Sonic says, "Don't worry, we'll find them and we'll get those creeps after what they did. Nobody messes with my little buddy."
"Right," Knuckles says.
Shadow grits his teeth and clutches his fist in anger. Then says in thought, "Don't worry Maria, I'll save you and I'll make those guys pay for what they did."