Ey, it's a-Mario and a-Luigi in the Super Casino Bros Chapter and… wait, that's not right.

Yo, we're back with another chapter of Sonic Forces. And well, time for something nice and chill after how intense the last two chapter were? I think we need it. Who's up for the Classic Trio up for some fun in the Mystic Jungle? I am! So let's begin the Classic arc with this very short chapter.

Wait, Mystic Jungle… Hey, you know what, that's close to the Mystic Ruins right? But more on that later. First, let's enjoy this chapter.

Trials of War:
Chapter 15-
Super Casino Bros

[M1]The boys were at it again as they made their way down a slope in the middle of the mystic jungle. The upbeat mood was set for them. The jungle was alight, from the bright casinos all around them, upbeat music was playing and the jungle was alive with excitement as Sonic was feeling better and Tails was in high spirits after what had happened in Station Square.

But what had them even more excited was the fact that they had almost reached their destination, they just had to make their way through the Mystic Jungle and would make it to Tails' lab at the Mystic Ruins in no time.

"We're almost there, Omega. Just a little bit farther and I'll get you fixed up in no time." Tails grinned.

"Aw yeah, let's roll guys!"

And like that, they were off through the forest.

Sonic and Tails made their way down a large incline before they were set rolling along through the forest.

They weaved in between trees, hopped over logs and stumps and the like before they arrived at the temple, itself.

The place was gigantic and made entirely of stone. It was finely lit with little torches at equidistant intervals down the halls. The temple was a maze that the trio had to make their way through.

Quickly, they found that they had lost their way in the temple and were lost.

"Alright, Tails. Where are we goin?" Sonic asked. "Cuz I honestly have no idea where any of this is but this temple is dark and dangerous."

Tails shrugged. "You got me. I just was kinda following you into the dark and dangerous temple."

"Great, so we're lost?"

"Not necessarily. Normally if we hit any of Eggman's robots, then we've found our way somewhere."

"Well do you see any Eggman robots around here?" Sonic asked.

Tails pointed at Omega.

"He doesn't count!" Sonic huffed to which the fox laughed.

"But for real, Maybe Omega has some sort of way to help us find the way out." Tails said.

Sonic narrowed his eyes at the robot. "What does the tincan have that can get us out of here."

"Omega, predict the most likely path that will lead us outside."

"Calculating."

Sonic rolled his eyes. "Oh come on, you don't think the robot's actually gonna be able to find his way out of here when we can't do you?"

"Optimum route found. Immediate execution initiated."

The thrusters pushing Omega forward suddenly let out a burst of speed and he raced down the hall.

Tails gave Sonic a sly grin to which the hedgehog groaned.

"Not one word." He stated before following Omega.

Omega lead them down numerous halls, several forks in the road and the like before finally they arrived at a chamber where wouldn't they know it, there were the Eggman robots standing around.

Ten Eggpongs were standing front and center before them, with their blasters trained on each of them.

"Oh, there are those Eggman robots you were talking about." Sonic mused.

At that, the trio got right to work.

Omega started things off by firing a rocket at the head of the group, causing it to explode into millions of tiny pieces.

The robot raised its fist in victory only for one of the survivors to fire a laser at its chest, leaving a scorch mark on his chest. Omega stared at the robot for a few moments, before quickly changing his arm into machine gun form and firing on both the one that left the mark and two other robots around him.

Sonic on the other hand, got to work by jumping up into the air and performing a drop dash that mowed down two of the badniks before he jumped out of it again and homed in on the last.

He uncurled from his position and dusted off his palms as if it were nothing.

And for Tails, he got to work, using his namesakes to slice and dice the remaining badniks like it was nothing.

Sonic and Tails fist bumped at this, seeing that the room was cleared. But now, they took a look at the chamber and realized one thing. They had reached a dead end.

"Oh nice one, Omega. There's nothing here!" Sonic yelled.

But at that, Omega's chest opened up and revealed a single rocket, to which Sonic and Tails looked confused only for the robot to fire it at the wall at the far end of the room.

A bunch of dust was thrown into the air at that, to which Sonic and Tails coughed and wiped their hands in front of their faces.

Omega on the other hand calmly walked out and stated, "Optimum escape route acquired."

Sonic and Tails crawled out from the hole made in the wall and just looked dumbfoundedly at Omega.

"Well, that-that's certainly one way to do it." Tails said.

Sonic just shock his head. "I am both shocked and impressed. Robots, man. Do I get one of these in the future, because I think I want one."

"Uh… not really."

Sonic snapped his fingers. "Darn."

Now they were out on the outsides of the temples where they could see the casinos all around them again, the glowing neon lights in both signs in the air and on the path themselves and the massive buildings contrasted heavily to the plain stone pathways with light moss growing on them along with the trees, vines and leaves all around.

The trio made their way down an incline where they suddenly lost their footing and to their surprise landed on what could simply be described as a gigantic neon pinball bumper it pushed them right on the path and through a loop.

Sonic laughed at this. "Haha, gotta thank Eggman for leaving all kinds of stuff like this to give us a little boost here."

"Maybe this is some sort of entertainment for the guests?" Tails asked. "I never really understood the functionality of these things in all the casinos we've been to."

"All the casinos? You mean there's more than Casino Night?"

"Tons." Tails said. "I think that Eggman has a gambling problem."

Sonic shook his head. "Guy needs a hob- Oh! Slot machines!"

Tails looked at where the hedgehog was pointing and true to his word there was a massive slot machine around along with a few more of the pinball bumpers.

Sonic didn't waste time bouncing off the bumpers and into the top of the slot machine. Tails could only stare in wonder as the different slots began to spin round and around before they finally landed on a Sonic head and two rings.

With that, Sonic got dumped out the bottom along with a pile of rings.

"Aw yeah!" Sonic cheered.

Tails chuckled. "Nice one. Now what are you gonna do with that money?"

"Nothin' I just like watching the colors and stuff." Sonic shrugged. He then waved both of them forward. "Come on, we've still gotta keep movin' on."

With that, he continued down the path and jumped onto more of the flippers that lead him up to a path that soon lead down a slope and down to more flippers. From there, they bounced their way up.

In their path, a few Eggpongs stood in their way that didn't even get a moment to react before

Sonic spindashed into them and made his way down another slope.

From there, Sonic, Tails and Omega continued their way down the path and soon, they found a bunch of circular bumpers that they easily hopped above to get across.

Tails groaned. "I hate casino zones, I am not a pinball."

Sonic hopped up a few platforms, taking out an Eggpong along the way to which the robot and the fox just flew after him.

"I live for this stuff, what a rush!"

From there they hopped off the path and landed on more platforms which knocked them across to a plunger that lead them up to a few more flippers that lead them up to the top path.

From there, they were lead down a slope that curved up into a ramp that sent them flying into the air.

Sonic cheered at this as the trio flung their selves right in front of the largest building in the casino.

A gigantic, neon archway stood proud and tall above them leading into a temple, outfitted with all kinds of different lights.

Sonic frowned. "Hmph, Eggman's really made a mess of this place with the whole, casino thing. Taking a forest, a temple and making huge casinos like this. It's awful."

Tails frowned. "Yeah, with the world like this, Eggman can pretty much do what he wants with absolutely no repercussions."

Sonic frowned. "What if we head into this huge place and see if we can find anything important. Ey, Tails?"

Tails grinned. "Let's do it!"

Together, the two boys ran into the casino and they were incredibly impressed by the grand hall that was before them. Golden statues of Eggman lined the halls, red carpet was laid out on the ground and all kinds of real lotto machines were set out into rows. All sorts of imagery of the Eggman could be seen all over.

Classic Eggpawns could be seen waving signs all around at this only to spot the trio at the door.

For a moment, they just stared at the trio, processing what exactly they should do with Sonic, Tails and Omega in their presence.

Sonic and Tails' faces perked up into smiles, trying to look as kindly to the robots as possible.

The robots stared.

Slowly, Sonic and Tails began to awkwardly try and shuffle their way past the Eggpawns.

At that, the robot's eyes went red and they began to brandish their signs in preparation for battle.

At that, Omega who hadn't moved since they entered the room, lifted his arm and shifted it into machine gun form.

Sonic and Tails' eyes widened.

At that, the robots' began running at Sonic and Tails to which they both prepared for battle only for them to be shot down by Omega.

Sonic and Tails dropped their battle poses and just stared at the pile of busted robot parts while Omega came over to them.

"Well that was anticlimactic." Tails deadpanned.

Omega met them and Sonic patted him on the back. "Thanks, buddy."

Omega just stared at him for a moment before he lifted his right arm and gave him a thumbs up.

The three continued on, running through the slot machines and running into more and more of the Classic Eggpawns waving signs around.

Quickly, they found their way through and made it to a stairwell that lead them down to the basement of the place.

They were surprised when they got to the basement of the base to find a mess of Eggpongs standing in front of a gigantic bank vault.

Immediately they all trained their guns on the trio.

Sonic chuckled. "We- we come in peace?"

They fired to which the hog quickly dove to the side and curled into a spindash. He reared his way around and slammed into some of them, knocking them over as if they were bowling pins.

Tails on the other hand, jumped into the air and began to fly around the room, to which some of them trained their blasters on him.

He whizzed through the air laughing all the way while they missed each and every shot before he flew into the fray. With their simple programming, they kept trying to fire at him only to fire at each other.

As for Omega, he simply tanked most of the blasts before his body sprung open revealing all kinds of weaponry.

Sonic and Tails saw this and both gasped. "Hey wait, Omega-"

He fired to which Tails quickly flew up into the air while Sonic dove away from the blast.

Smoke filled the room and Omega simply stared ahead. Soon, the only visible thing left was the glowing red eyes of the robot.

Soon, Sonic and Tails began coughing before they waved their hands in front of their faces.

Coughing, Sonic walked up to the robot. "Chaos, Omega. Don't do stuff like that again."

Tails coughed too. "Yeah, you really overdid it there."

From there, they shook the soot off of their bodies and went over to the locked vault. There, they quickly opened the door and found massive piles of gold.

"Woah!" The brothers exclaimed at the mere sight of the sight.

Sonic and Tails walked in and were wide eyed at the sight of all the riches before them. Silver and gold, diamonds and gems, extraordinary wealth of all kinds. It was unreal. Like something out of some sort of storybook.

The two looked in awe as they walked in a path that was filed out.

"This is insane." Sonic gaped.

"Tell me about it." Tails added. "I- I can't believe Eggman has all of this money."

"Right?" Sonic frowned. "I- I hope it's all his."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, this world is in his control, everything bends to his mercy. How do we know that he didn't just take it from everyone?"

Tails frowned now too. "We don't… But knowing Eggman…"

The two went silent at that, not really having other words to say but hating the fact that Eggman had taken more from homes from the people of Mobius. [M1 End]

Soon they arrived at the end of the vault and were surprised to find a shelf of some kind that had all kinds of things on it. There were old crystals from Quartz Quadrant Zone, some of the stone used in the ancient Gaia temples, various alien plant life from Planet Wisp, all kinds of incredibly rare and priceless objects. But among them all was the piece de resistance.

Sonic and Tails gasped as they took in the sight of, "A Chaos Emerald!"

They were right though. Standing before them among the artifacts was in fact the green chaos emerald and they absolutely couldn't believe it.

[M2] The two looked at one another and nodded, immediately racing to go for the emerald only for them to be stopped dead in their tracks as three figures dropped into view.

Both jumped back at this, surprised at the sudden appearance of newcomers.

"I- wha- who?"

But Sonic was only met with a sharp chuckle. "Heh, thought you could make your way off with the treasure, did you, Sonic the Hedgehog?"

"What?!

The figure turned around and reveal himself to be what appeared to be a green hawk Mobian with a white tuft of feathers on his chest and flame tattoos running down his arms and legs. He wore red boots, white gloves with red cuffs and goggles resting on top of his head along with a smirk that really rubbed the younger hedgehog the wrong way.

"Jet?!" Tails gasped.

"Who else, shorty?" One of the other figures asked, turning to reveal herself to be a purple swallow with her own flame tattoos. She wore white pants with the same flame design along with a white bandanna and sports bra. She eyed the young foxkit with the utmost scrutiny but also maintaining a cool, calm and collected air about her.

"Wave?!"

"Better believe it, pipsqueak."

He did the same, but in his case, did so with an extra stomp. This one was a grey albatross who also had his own flame tattoos. He wore gigantic yellow gloves for gigantic hands, a necklace made up a few silver pieces and like the others, goggles resting on his head.

"Storm?!"

Sonic clenched his fists at his side and was in position to run. "Who are these guys, Tails?"

Tails frowned. "The Babylon Rogues."

"Who?"

At that, Jet steamed. "Who?! Who?! Are you kidding me, Sonic the Hedgehog? I am your greatest rival!"

"That's debatable." Tails rolled his eyes.

"Hey, don't talk about the boss that way!" Storm glared at him, to which the fox rolled his eyes.

"Rival, huh?" Sonic smirked, he then cracked his knuckles. "Does that mean I'm gonna have to knock some sense into them, then?"

"No, I don't think so." Tails chuckled. "Although, I think Jet may challenge you to a race."

"While that would be fun, I don't really have time to prove I'm the fastest thing alive, Sonic."

Sonic rolled his eyes. "You the fastest thing alive? You look slower than my grandpa, bent beak."

"Oh is that so, pipsqueak?"

"Yeah!" Sonic grinned. "Come on, let's take a few laps around the Mystic Jungle, right here, right now!"

"You better think about what you say, I've been practicing!" Jet smirked.

"Practicing getting your butt whooped by a hedgehog?!" Sonic retorted.

"You wish!"

And the two just kept going on and on while Wave and Tails just went to their own conversation.

Wave nodded to the collection of treasures that were sitting on the shelves. "Storm, bag the loot. We at least should get this done while Sonic and Jet keep going at it."

Storm nodded and pulled out a burlap sack that he quickly went to piling things into.

"Wave, what are you guys doing here?"

Wave laughed. "Isn't it obvious? We're here robbing Eggman."

"What?!"

"Duh. Why else would we be out here in the middle of the Mystic Jungle? Sightseeing, gambling? Not a chance, squirt."

"And you decided one of Eggman's strongholds would be the best place to rob him?"

"Normally no." Wave shrugged. "But after you resistance guys did a number on the place it gave us the perfect opening. With most of Eggman's robots busy with reconstruction on the other side of this place, it was easy pickings."

Tails frowned. "The resistance was here?"

"Yeah. A few weeks ago." Wave said. "Aren't you with them? Here for the Emerald or something?"

Tails looked away from her, not saying anything.

"Oh…"

"Wh-what about you guys?" Tails asked. "Are you with The Resistance? I mean, I know it's not exactly your thing to get involved with stuff like this but you've helped us before…"

"Heh, they wish." Wave smirked. "Eggman isn't our fight. Not really. The world may be in danger but the way we see it, with him in control, snagging treasures has been so much easier. When you're dealing with a guy who has everything in the world, he doesn't exactly notice a few things going missing here and there. Makes it incredibly easy for a group of thieves."

"I guess that makes sense…"

"Now your turn to answer a question. What's with legs over there? Did you guys find the fountain of youth or something? Is that a thing you guys have now? I dunno. Your adventures are always weird."

Tails laughed. "No, no. It's rather complicated, you see the whole war thing has kind of caused a bit of a mishap in the timeline and so I guess it brought us the Sonic of the past to help us save the present if that makes any sense."

"Time travel?" Wave raised an eyeridge. "And here I thought that us being aliens was a weird."

"Yeah… I'm not really sure on the why either but I'm happy that he's here to help."

Wave patted him on the back at that. "Well, that's good for you, I guess."

At that Storm came back and looked at Omega. He stared at the robot while the robot stared back.

They took a few moments scrutinizing each other before Storm finally opened his mouth. "Why's the red dude a robot now?"

That ripped each and every one of them out of their conversations to which they stared dumbfoundedly at the albatross.

Wave furrowed her eyeridges. "Storm, that's not Knuckless, you dolt. That is E123 Omega. One of GUN's star operatives."

Jet raised an eyebrow at that. "Wait, GUN?! You mean to tell me you're tangling around with those creeps now!"

Sonic rolled his eyes. "As if! Omega's cool. We're trying to get him fixed."

"Eh… you don't have to do that." Wave said. "No offense, but I'd rather not have an angry robot chase after us."

"Why'd he be after you guys?" Tails asked.

Wave laughed. "Don't you know? The Babylon Rogues are some of GUN's most wanted. You steal from the Queen of Soleanna one time and suddenly they want your heads."

"Last time we take Storm's advice for a gig." Jet grumbled.

"Hey! I didn't know the queen would miss her dumb princess crown when she has a queen one now?!"

Everybody gave him bemused faces once again to which the albatross sighed.

Wave just shook her head and rolled her eyes. "Gimme the sack, stupid."

Storm nodded and handed it over to her.

Wave riffled through the sack and pulled out the Chaos Emerald, handing it to Tails. "Wait, what?!"

"I think we're done here." Wave shrugged. "And seeing that you guys probably need this more than we do, we'll just be taking our leave."

"You guys are just going?" Tails asked.

Jet nodded. "Sorry kid, we've got more of Eggman's stashes to rob. With everything going on in the world. Staying any longer might invite unwanted attention."

"So where are you guys going after this?" Sonic asked.

"Wherever the next place to loot decides to show up." Storm said.

"And you guys really don't want to help at all?" Tails asked. "The resistance can lose fighters like you."

Wave simply shook her head. "Sorry, not our fight. But I do hope that you guys win."

Tails frowned at this and for a moment, Wave really did feel bad for the kid but she simply shook that off.

She joined her fellow Rogues as they jumped onto their gears and rode off.

The Rogues flew in silence for a moment before Jet asked a question. "Did Sonic look shorter to you?"

"Time travel apparently?" Wave shrugged.

"This is why I stay out of their stuff." Jet shrugged. "I'll take treasure over any of that nonsense any day."

The three rogues agreed at that and flew off. [M2 End]

~Trials of War~

Deep within the Mystic Ruins, Sonic and Tails had finally arrived at Tails' lab and had deactivated Omega.

Tails stood behind him messing with the robot but this time with the proper tools to fix him while Sonic impatiently tapped his foot waiting for him to finish.

Finally, Tails closed the hatch on the robot and turned him on.

Sonic and Tails eagerly watched as Omega began to power on before them.

Soon, red eyes shone brightly before them.

"O-Omega?" Tails asked.

"I am E123 Omega, The worlds' most powerful robot and one of the top ranking GUN Operatives under Team Dark."

Sonic and Tails cheered. "We did it! Omega's back!"

"Haha, yeah!" Sonic grinned. "I knew you could do it, buddy!"

Omega looked at them. "Tails, where is Infinite?"

At that, Sonic and Tails looked at each other unsure of what to say to the robot. But they knew that something was going to happen.

Mystic Jungle: Cleared!
33% of the world saved!

EPISODE OMEGA UNLOCKED

[M1] Casino Forest, duh.
[M2} Sonic Riders Zero Gravity Options

And we're done with this chapter. Short one, I know but didn't really have a lot of ground to cover with the whole Casino Forest deal. But yeah.
Also, in regard to the whole "Mystic Jungle: Cleared thing" that's something I've been wanting to do for a while but just didn't because idk. But yeah, as we wrap up certain areas in this story, more and more areas will be cleared like in the game. So with this chapter, we have officially wrapped up all chapters in the Mystic Jungle and won't be returning to it. The other places that have also been completed so far are Sunset Heights, Studiopolis, Station Square and Adabat.
The Babylon Rogues are some of my favorite characters and I have waited a long time to appear in this story. I'm so happy to finally get them in. It was nice seeing them and keeping up with them here in the war. At least somebody's happy with everything going on.
So yeah, next up, we've got Episode Omega to continue the Classic arc and that one is gonna be a long one, but a chapter I am very much looking forward to. When I started the Classic Arc, did you really think that things were gonna be just about Classic Sonic? Nope. We've got full important for Tails and Omega too and I can't wait to dig into that one. But don't expect it as soon as this one came out. Shooting for sometime in July or early August though. Hopefully before I go back to classes on the 22
nd of July.
And yeah, that was Super Casino Bros.
Now, onto the Review Replies.

TheGameNGuyner:
Nah, no worries. Life happens to everybody.
Well, I'm sure this chapter was a nice relief after the length of the last one. Thank you.
And we continue the trend of everyone is here with the Babylon Rogues.
We're all looking forward to the reunion. Still gonna have you all wait for it but it's coming, don't worry. This arc is actually a very instrumental piece leading up to the reunion so that's exciting. But nah, Tails is going to have a few moments moving forward and I'm excited to move forward with him. Along with the reunion, there's another Tails scene that I am very looking forward to as well and hope to do him justice.
Thank you. Next one will definitely take some time.

KelWelPower:
Haha. We definitely do have a little bit of inspiration from Operation Big Wave. Glad to have kept you entertained.
Shadow was definitely one of the most fun to write here. Lyric, Rough and Tumble were fun. They were all throw away jokes, especially Lyric. Starline's gonna be fun though.
Sonic's interaction with Eggman was fun. And you'd be right that would be their first interaction since the Death Egg. They'll definitely be having more confrontations but it'll be a bit of time. But they'll be fine.
They're gonna be back to back chapters.
Things are hard for Celeste, but things will get better.
Thank you for the advice.
Hope you enjoyed this one. Thank you.

Guest1:
Time will tell for Starline.
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Duly noted on the Mortar Canyon second.
Thank you.

Guest2:
By worse than Sega, I was referring to the oversaturation of Classic Sonic.

tekina fiction:
We talked on Discord already, so I'll keep this short.
-Fierro's kids almost didn't make it into the story because I was unsure of whether or not it would be too mature for this story. But when Celeste decided to do what she did in Chapter 13 for what we got here.
-The contrast between their parenting and how they went about things was what I wanted to do and I'm glad that it came across well.
Thanks again!

Animated Adventures:
Haha, we're all alive here!
Yep. And… no. Actually the name is Spanish/Italian. Admittedly, I wanted to go with the Egyptian theme for the kids since cats are a huge part of Egyptian culture and mythos so that's where that came from.
Oh yeah, Cream is definitely part of Sonic's core circle and that's something I've always thought from her inception. Generations definitely helps. Some of them like Amy, Knuckles and Tails especially are a lot more famous then you've got faces like Cream, Big and Mighty who aren't as famous for various reasons. Cream's age definitely has a lot to do with it, but the Sonic Heroes love her.
Cream's moment is far away, but is gonna be great for her character.
Eggman's totally original gameshow was fun. A bit of a spur of the moment idea that I was glad to work it into the chapter.
It's gonna be a while till we get back to the resistance but we've got going now is going to be very necessary for the story moving forward.

Guest4:
I'll see what I can do about that Star Wars reference.

Guest5::
Thank you.
Unfortunately, I'm just a writer but if you know any artists that would be up to make a comic lemme know. At one point, I actually considered making this a YouTube series but don't know the right people to do that, especially for free. So fanfiction it will remain.

Guest6:
Thank you and if necessary, yes.

SpiderDom321:
Ey, man! I was wondering where you went. No worries though, life happens and all of that. You good. Still need to read that one.
I'm happy you enjoyed it.
Had to shoot for that nostalgia reference. Haha. And thanks so much.
Welcome. Your work with the two characters showed that they work really well with the main cast so I decided to give it a shot. Balancing characters is becoming tricky as you probably saw in the last chapter, but I'm hoping to get a better grip on it in my next large scale mission for the resistance which is a little while away but still.
Thanks as always and I look forward to when you get back to this story.

Guest7:
To be fair, Vanilla is pretty justified since it's not just your typical Eggman plot. The whole world has been taken over. Charmy doesn't really have a mom to stop him.
I'm sure these characters will get a crack at the Emperor at some point.
Someday for Shadow, someday.
Thanks a bunch!

SharpDragonKlaw, Guest3:
Thanks!

That'll do for this one and see you next time in EPISODE OMEGA.