Chapter 5: Attack of the Black Arms
Maria continues to watch as the Black Arms continue to attack the citizens. She remembers seeing them after they attack her Aunt Rouge, and destroyed her home. She knows that she needs to do. She knows that needs to be done.
"Maria! We need to get going," Melody screams.
Maria turns her head, and says, "Sorry guys, but I need to do this."
Maria then makes a run for the Black Arms.
Manic shouts, "Maria, wait!"
Maria continues to run with a determined look on her face. She can see one of the larger Black Arms cornering a few people.
She jumps in the air, and shouts, "Chaos Spear!"
Then creates a spear made of energy and throws it at one of the Black Arms and cause it to fall over.
Maria lands on the ground, "Hurry, you need to get out of here!"
Many of the grown up grab the children and hurry out of the mall with everyone else. Maria turns to see the Black Arm is getting up, and the others are glaring at her.
Maria glares at the Black Arms, "Alright Black Arms, I'm not going to let you get away attacking innocent people."
Maria then uses her hover shoes to skate towards them fast. She then rolls into a spinning ball and rams right towards them. Yong-Ho and the others are shocked and amazed to see Maria fighting them.
"Woah! I never knew she can do that," Manic says.
"Me either. She's so brave," Sonia says.
Maria rams right into the stomach of the Black Arm and sends them to the wall. She then spins back and lands on her feet on the ground. Yong-Ho and the gang are surprised to see this. Maria is able to attack another one of the Black Arm aliens.
Suddenly, the third one rams Maria to the wall, but Maria is able to hold on. She and the alien has their hands against each other as Maria has her feet on the wall. Maria is struggling to push the monster away.
"Oh no! Maria needs help," Skye worriedly says.
Melody steps forward, "And I'm going to help her!"
Melody uses her super speed to run super fast and rams him at the side, knocking him down. Yong-Ho then uses his strong knuckles to give him an uppercut.
Maria is able to get on to the ground, and says, "Thanks guys, but you need to leave."
"No way, we're not going to leave you to fight these creeps yourself," Melody says.
"That's right. You're sticking with us, so we're sticking with you," Yong-Ho says.
Chomper and the others come over.
"Yeah. We're not going to let you have all the fun," Manic says.
"We're going to fight too," Sonia says.
Maria is shocked to hear that her new friends want to fight alongside her.
Maira smiles, "Thanks. So, how will you all like to become Freedom Fighters with me."
Yong-Ho smirks, "You got yourself a deal."
"Then let's teach these aliens not to mess with this town," Maria says.
"Yeah!" Everyone cheer.
The Black Arms begin to charge and make their move on the team. Maria and her friends begin to charge at the Black Arm aliens. Maria starts by spinning into a ball and hit the aliens on the head. Then Yong-Ho and Chomper punch them in their faces. Skye tries to fly, but he ends up bouncing around like a pinball. He ends up smacking into one of the aliens in the back.
Manic and Sonia are making fun of the aliens.
"You can't catch us!" Sonia tease.
"Try to catch us if you can ugly," Manic says, sticking his tongue at them.
Maria shouts, "Chaos boost!"
She then moves super fast and gives one of the Black Arms multiple punches and kicks from different directions.
Mystic then uses his ninja skills to fight back at some of the flying Black Arm aliens. He throws shurikens and paper bombs at them. Twinkle manages to stings one of them with her stinger. She giggles when the big one yelps after being sting.
The aliens continue to try and attack the group of friends, but Maria and her new friends continue not making this easy for them.
Meanwhile in the city, Tails and the others are at their wits with finding the girl hedgehog. They have no clue where to search now.
"Where can a girl hedgehog be at?!" Knuckles shouts, getting frustrated.
"Calm down Knuckles, no one said that this is going to be easy," Julie-Su says.
"Yes. I'm just confused by this whole thing. I mean, Shadow having a daughter and Sally never mention this to anyone," Knuckles says.
Tails says, "I know what you mean. But from what Queen Sally said, her daughter Maria knew nothing about this until the Oracle told her. Now she is somewhere in the city without knowing anyone around here."
"I'm with Tails. We can't give up, Sonic and Sally are counting on us to find her," Vector says.
"Yes. It will be troubling letting a young girl travel around without a clue about Mobotropolis," Espio says.
"But we search almost everywhere. Where else can one black and red girl hedgehog go?" Charmy asks.
Suddenly, they hear a loud explosion. Everyone quickly turn around to see smoke and hear exploding sounds coming from there.
"What in the world is going on?" Melody asks looking confused.
"I don't know, but we better find out," Vector says.
"It looks like it's coming from the mall. We better get going before someone gets hurt," Julie-Su says.
"I agree," Charmy says.
The group then make their way towards the smoke and exploding sounds. They know that they need to search for the girl, but this seems important.
Meanwhile, Sonic and Sally are finish with their royal duties for the time being, and Sally is still concern.
"Don't worry, Knuckles, Julie-Su, The Prowers, and The Chaotix will find her," Sonic says.
"I hope so. I just can't help but feeling something might go wrong," Sally worriedly says.
"What the worst that can happen?" Sonic questions.
Just then some of the royal guards come hurring in the throne room.
The one in the middle says, "Your majesties, monsters are attacking the Shopping Center Downtown."
Sally firmly stares at Sonic.
"Not only that, but a mysterious black and red hedgehog is fighting them along with other children. Among them are the royal twins," The other guard says.
"What?! Is this true?!" Sonic asks in shock.
"Yes. Many witnesses confirm it," The third guard says.
"Great. Now our kids are endanger," Sally worriedly says.
"Come on, we got kids to save," Sonic says.
He picks up Sally and runs off in top speed.
Back at the mall the battle between Maria and her friends, and the Black Arms are continuing. Everyone continue to throw punches, kicks, spins, and other kinds of attacks. Everyone are starting to get very tired. Soon enough, they are able to take down every last one of the Black Arms that are here.
Maria sighs, "That was a tough battle."
"Yeah. But it was so cool," Manic says.
"Yeah. We fought real aliens," Sonia happily says.
"And we also got to pumble them," Chomper replies.
"I think we got all of them. Now let's get out of here before they come back," Mystic says.
"I don't think so," A mysterious voice speaks up.
Maria and her friends look to see a dark blue color alien with red stripes on the back of his quills and marks on his body, and glowing yellow eyes. Eclipse has finally make an appearance in town.
"I must admit, you surely did a interesting performance with my Black Arms," Eclipse says.
Maria glares at him, "So I'm guessing you're the ringleader behind the Black Arm attack and for attacking my home."
The alien chuckles with an evil smirk, "Yes. I'm Eclipse the Darkling and the Leader of the Black Arms. I can see that my Black Arms have given you a bit of trouble, but it looks like you were able to dealt with them."
"Enough talk! You took my Aunt Rouge, now where is she?!" Maria demands.
"Safe, for now. That is, if you give me what I want," Eclipse says.
"And what will that be?" Maria asks.
"The chaos emerald. I know you have it. If you give it to me, then maybe I'll think about letting her go," Eclipse says.
Maria becomes stunned to hear what Eclipse is after. He's after the emerald Blackberry has given to her for her birthday.
"I'm sorry, but I promised that I can't give it away. My aunt told me that it's very powerful and can be dangerous," Maria says.
"I thought you might stay that. It looks like I'll just take it the old fashion way," Eclipse says with a smirk.
"I don't think so. You won't stand a chance when I use chaos control on you," Maria says, and snaps her fingers to use her power. But it's not working.
"What?!" Maria asks herself in shock.
She tries to use her power again, but it still won't work.
"Why isn't my power working?" Maria asks herself in shock.
Yong-Ho shouts, "Maira, look out!"
Maria quickly turns her had to find herself being pushed and rammed to the hall. Her front body and right side of her face is being pressed against the wall as her left arm is being pushed from the back.
"You are fighting me now little girl, you live… and Die.. by my rules!" Eclipse angrily says.
"I don't think so," Maria says.
Then uses her hoover shoes to attack the alien, but he dodges it. Maria then tries to punch him with her chaos control, but she still can't get her powers to work. Maria is able to figure out why her powers aren't working, Eclipse has something to do with it. Her powers are working until he shows up.
"How are you blocking my chaos control?" Maria demands.
"Chaos control is just a part of us Black Arms. I wonder how you are able to use Chaos Control. Last I remember, very few mobians are able to control it," Eclipse says.
"I don't need to answer to about anything," Maria says.
Maria continues to fight him. Since she can't use her chaos control, she tries to use her fist and speed. She opens a spin and smacks Eclipse. Then skates around to corner him.
Eclipse becomes so angry that he change form into a larger, stronger, and frightening form. Maria and her friends are shocked to see Eclipse has grown so big and scary from before. Maria knows that she needs to stop him before he can do harm. She knows that she can't use her powers while he's around, so she goes to the alternative.
Maria performa a powerful spin and roll towards Eclipse, but he manages to catch her like a ball.
"Nice try kid," Eclipse says. Then slams Maria to the ground breaking the floor.
"Maria!" Melody screams.
Maria groans to the pain of being crushed down. Eclipse picks her up by her shirt and holds her close to his face.
"You see, I am able to limit your chaos control and have a strength ten times. In other words, you are as good as dead," Eclipse says.
Maria groans feeling the pain, and she will be finish if she doesn't think of something. She then remembers that she has something that can help her.
In thought, Maria says, "I have no choice."
She reaches into her pocket and takes out the chaos emerald as she clutches it.
Maria shouts, "Chaos control."
Just then, the emerald cause the whole area to be stopped in time.
She then shouts, "Chaos boost!"
She then uses the extended speed to punch Eclipse super fast in top speed.
She then makes her hand admit a powerful aura, and shouts, "Chaos blast!"
She punches Eclipse so hard that he is pushed out of the skin of his other form and is back to his normal lands on the ground, and ends up on her knees in exhaustion. Eclipse is able to stand on his feet and is glaring at Maria in anger.
Eclipse shouts in anger, "You are just as stubborn as Shadow the Hedgehog!"
"My dad?! You know my…" Maria asks in shock.
But then, blaster amos appear on the scene and cause Eclipse to jump back. Everyone look to see The Powers, Team Chaotix, and the Guardians. King Sonic and Queen Sally appear as well. Eclipse grits his teeth in anger.
Eclipse shouts, "Chaos Control!"
Then he disappears into thin air. Many of the Black Arms disappear as well. The grownups and children are shocked to see them disappeared.
"He got away, but he will be back," Sonic says.
"That's the least of our worries," Sally says.
"Mom! Dad!" A young boy shouts.
Everyone look to see the kids running towards them. Excluding Sally and Sonic, the other grownups are shocked to see them.
"Kids, what are you doing here?!" Mina asks in shock.
"We were taking our new friend to the mall when the Black Arms attacked us," Melody says.
"You should have seen it Dad! Maria began to fight those aliens off. We join in to help battle them too," Manic says.
"Maria is amazing," Sonia says.
"It's true dad. We know battling with the aliens are dangerous, but seeing Maria trying to save us, we decided to help," Skye says.
"She also made us Freedom Fighters too," Melody says.
"Freedom Fighters? When did you kids grow up so fast? I'll have to talk with this Maria about this," Mina asks with a smile.
"But mom, she was trying to help us," Melody says.
"I know, but you all could have been hurt. Thank goodness it didn't lead to that," Mina says.
"Where is Maria?" Skye asks.
Everyone look to find the girl. Sally gasps in shock. Maria has collapsed on the ground. Sally quickly runs to Maria and kneels down to pick her up. The chaos emerald has fallen out of her hand and to the ground.
"A chaos emerald?" Knuckles asks in shock.
"Is she going to be okay?" Mystic asks.
"Yes. She's just very tired," Sally says.
"Dad, she's needs help. Her aunt was kidnapped by those aliens. We need to save her," Sonia says.
"I know. But first, we need to help Maria," Sonic says.
"Do you know her?" Chomper asks.
"We know her," Sonic says.
He turns to the twins and says, "Manic, Sonia, this is Maria, your sister."
"Sister?" The twin asks in surprise.
The other children gasp in shock.
Meanwhile, Eclipse manages to get himself and most of the Black Arms to safety. He is not pleased that he and his brethren have been beaten by a bunch of kids, especially Maria. He ponders on how she is able to use chaos control and her resemblance to Shadow is not to be missed.
Suddenly he remembers Maria saying, "My dad?!"
"When I say she is stubborn as Shadow, she said about him being her dad. Could that be why she resembles him and how she can use chaos control?" Eclipses asks himself.
He turns to a star shaped flying alien and says, "I want you to find that girl hedgehog and make sure you listen to everything. I have a feeling I know who that girl really is. And I must have a use for her."