"Are you sure you're ready for this?" Tails Doll asks as they walk through the small town in the middle of the island.
"I have to be." Eggatha responds, following her small radar "If one of those creatures becomes active, they might destroy the world without anybody to stop them."
"Eggatha, this is serious." Tails Doll complains "I know you heal fast, but even you cannot start fighting monster when you were literally stabbed, electrocuted, burnt and exploded yesterday."
"And if I'm not here, who is going to save the world, hm?" Eggatha asks "You?"
"We could have just stayed home and warned the Sonic Team." Tails Doll responds.
"Ha, like I would ever lower myself so much and ask for the help of that Hedgehog." Eggatha says "And regardless, I have to try this new green dress somehow, don't I? Seriously though, Aurora will still have to pay for the one that got burnt while we were fighting."
"Do you even know where you're going?" Tails Doll asks.
"The sign seems to be coming from the center of the town, so I think there must be a way to get there somewhere around here." Eggatha says, looking around.
Neither of them has ever been on this town, and since it is really small, most people know their way around here anyway, so there's no need for maps; this makes it hard for newcomers to learn where things are, although this town hardly gets any newcomers.
"Well, let's see…" Tails Doll says as he looks around "Hey, excuse me, lady."
"What?" The tall purple hedgehog Tails Doll had called for asks in response.
"Do you know how to get to the center of the town?" Tails Doll asks.
"Oh, just go through that street, enter another one to the right, and then keep going on that direction, and you'll be there in not time." The hedgehog says, as she gives him directions.
"Alright, thank you." Tails Doll says, as he and Eggatha walk away.
"So, you just go around talking to people like that?" Eggatha asks.
"Yeah." Tails Doll responds "Nobody is going to mind if you're nice to them."
"Well, that depends on where you're at." Eggatha explains "In some town, people would probably think it's a robbery and you would get yourself a bullet in the head."
"I'm a robot, so, a bullet in the head would really do much." Tails Doll responds in a mocking tone.
"Well, then I really hope this next monster we're gonna face is using guns." Eggatha responds, also joking.
"I still think this is a bad idea." Tails Doll says "If you don't want to call Sonic, then fine, let me do it on my own; I'm a robot, so if I break, you can just fix me, but there's nothing I can do if you get destroyed."
"Don't worry." Eggatha explains "That is never going to happen."
"Why are you so confident of that?" Tails Doll asks.
"Because we're the main characters of the story." Eggatha responds "What type of story is that where the main character dies?"
"Well, that would be a death fic." Tails Doll responds.
"That's thing? I didn't know that was a thing." Eggatha says, thoughtfully "Well, it doesn't matter; let's just go beat the bad guy."
"So, where is it?" Tails Doll asks.
"It is…" Eggatha says looking around "Here."
"What do you mean here?" Tails Doll asks "The only things here are those flowers."
"Well, it might be hidden somewhere." Eggatha says "What if it's an invisible monster?"
"You broke the radar, didn't you?"
"Oh, shut up, I know what I'm doing." Eggatha says "It has to be around here somewhere, all we have to do is look for it."
"Ok, so let's look for it." Tails Doll says as he starts looking around.
Suddenly, a small metallic projectile, about the size of a ping pong ball, flies toward Eggatha; Tails Doll screams as he pushes her away, and she screams as well, as the sudden movement had made her wounds hurt again, for just a second. The projectile touches Tails Doll, and creates a small explosion, which sends him flying through the air, until he hits a building and goes through a window.
The people of the town get scared and start running around in panic due to the surprise of the sudden explosion, as Eggatha gets up and looks at the place where the projectile had came from. There, on the top of a building, sits a green hedgehog, with sharp quills, wearing a red vest and black spiked wristbands, doing a pose; he is probably trying to look cool, but he really just gives the vibes of an edgy teenager.
"Are you a monster?" Eggatha asks.
"Yes." He says "But not the monster you're looking for."
The Hedgehog pulls another small metallic object, looking exactly like the last one, and throws it at Eggatha.
"Chaos control!" She screams as the red emerald in her crown grows, and she vanishes right before the bomb explodes.
Eggatha reappears right behind him and attacks, however, before her punch could connect, she notices an object in the Hedgehog's hand, and throws herself to the ground, right in time to dodge the bullet he had shot at her, but since he was already expecting her to dodge it, he manages to catch her with a kick to the face as she goes to the ground. Eggatha puts her hands on her face in pain, but manages to get up and jump out of the way of three more bullets.
"So you really are trying to end me for real, aren't you?" Eggatha says, as she cleans the blood from her face "Alright, who sent you? Metal Sonic? Aurora? Santa Claus?"
"Don't worry; you will never need to know." He says, as he pulls out something else from his vest, and throws it towards Eggatha.
Eggatha pulls out a laser gun and shots the object before it could touch her, which gives her a chance to see what the object is: a rose, which explodes in a cloud of pink smoke, making Eggatha cough heavily, but she thinks quickly, and activates her rocket boots, which takes her out of the ground, right in time not to be hit by a bullet, which would for sure have killed her instantly.
Eggatha looks down and… wait what? How is she so close to the ground? She could have sworn that she had flown towards the sky! Well, it doesn't matter, she was within a punching range of her opponent, and he seems to be distracted by something, so she throws a punch, and hits…. Nothing. She was swinging her arms against air, hitting nothing at all; the Hedgehog picks up another of those small bombs and throws it towards the sky, hitting Eggatha with an explosion; Eggatha had never came close to the ground, she was in the sky the entire time, and now she is on a free fall.
As the explosion suddenly throws her senses back into normal, she manages to reactivate her rocket boots just in time not to hit the ground, but as she looks up, she is instantly hit by multiple punches to the face by her opponent, which sends her flying down from the building they were in, and hitting the ground below.
"T-that rose…" Eggatha says, as she tries to get up "It was a trap, wasn't it? That smoke that came out of it, it messed up my sense of distance, so I thought far away things were close and close things were far away."
"Oh, you're so smart." The Hedgehog says, as he jumps down from the building, preparing yet another rose.
"Do you really think I will fall for this same trick again?" She asks, as she gets up, but suddenly, she fells an excruciating pain coming from her chest, and falls down to the ground once again, as that last hit had made the wounds on her body open, and that same place where Aurora's umbrella had pierced her was now bleeding intensely.
"Don't worry, I don't need you to." He says as he throws a rose right at her chest, hitting her in the same place as the wound.
The rose explodes, releasing the same type of smoke inside her body, as this virus courses through her veins. Suddenly, as she tries to get up again, she finds her body moving extremely slowly; she slowly falls down the ground once again, and slowly looks up, to see the hedgehog slowly pull the trigger of his gun, which slowly activates, making the bullet slowly coming towards her; she tries to dodge it, but her body moves way too slow, so the bullet slowly hits her, and she slowly falls to the ground again, as the pain slowly courses through her entire body, making her slowly lose consciousness. That last rose had affected her perception of time; only a fraction of a second had gone by, but to her, it felt like entire minutes. Who knew roses and guns could make such a deadly combination?
"You're gonna be knocking at the heaven's door soon." The Hedgehog says as he points the gun towards Eggatha's head "Good luck."
"Chaos Spear." A voice screams as a spear of energy comes flying, knocking the pistol out of the Hedgehog's hand right in time, making the bullet miss Eggatha's head "So, you believe in heaven?"
"You're still alive?" The Hedgehog asks.
"No, I'm a ghost." Tails Doll says sarcastically "I'm obviously alive, I'm standing right in front of you."
The Hedgehog throws a bomb towards Tails Doll, which he dodges by teleporting; the Hedgehog uses that distraction to get his pistol from the ground; Tails Doll teleports right in front of him and punches him to the ground, but he quickly looks up, and from the ground, he shots Tails Doll in the head.
"You are a really strange fellow, aren't you?" Tails Doll says, as he uses his chaos powers to pull the bullet out of his head "You believe that heaven exists, but you are still trying to kill people. Where exactly do you think you are going to end up after you're gone?"
"If I must be punished, I will take it gratefully, but right now, I must make a living." He says shooting Tails Doll several other times, to no effects.
"So someone did send you, hm?" Tails Doll says as he gets up and starts to punch the Hedgehog several times, who blocks most of it, except for one good punch to the face.
He quickly recovers and kicks Tails Doll's light body to far away, shooting him several times, without ever missing, but Tails Doll simply jumps back to his feet, and throws several spears towards the Hedgehog, who dodges them, and throws several roses around Tails Doll, which explodes in clouds of smoke. Those roses will accelerate his perception of time, making everything seem like it is moving extremely fast, with minutes going by like they're second, making it impossible for him to dodge or react.
The Hedgehog shots the piece of the Chaos emerald on his head, making it fly away; no more Chaos Powers today. The Hedgehog lands right in front of Tails Doll, and punches him; Tails Doll dodges and punches him back several times, knocking his pistol out of his hand.
"You are aware of the fact that the poison from those roses doesn't work on robot, right?" Tails Doll asks.
The Hedgehog kicks Tails Doll, making his damaged arm fly away. Tails Doll punches his face to the ground, and then stomps it.
"You're breathing heavily." Tails Doll says.
"You're not." The Hedgehog responds.
"I don't get tired." Tails Doll says.
"Well, I do." The Hedgehog responds.
"That anomaly we detected, it wasn't a monster at all, was it?" Tails Doll says "The energy generated by your roses, it is extremely similar to the one generated by the creatures; it was all a trap."
"Don't get cocky." The Hedgehog says "If you do, you're not going to heaven."
"You don't know how to defeat robots, so the person who sent you couldn't have been Metal Sonic." Tails Doll explains "Aurora doesn't have enough money to pay a bounty hunter. It wasn't Santa, was it?"
The Hedgehog attacks Tails Doll's legs, taking his feet out of his face, and trying to run towards his gun, however, Tails Doll quickly throws a rose at him, which he had stolen while he wasn't looking, altering his perception of movement, making him feel like his body was frozen.
"I got to admit, you're pretty thought." Tails Doll says as he approaches him "One could say you are one in a million. Anyway, right now, I really want to watch you bleed."
Tails Doll takes out one of the bombs hidden in the Hedgehog's vest, takes some distance, and throws it right at him, creating a massive explosion, which sends him flying towards that same building Tails Doll had hit previously.
"Alright." Tails Doll says as he goes towards the unconscious Eggatha and picks her up, as he starts walking back to the exit of the town "I hate to say I told you so, but… actually, no, I don't hate to say it; I told you so."
"Yo kid." A voice says "Get up, you lazy."
Manic opens his eye, to see a purple weasel standing right in front of him.
"Fang?" Manic asks, as he gets up "What are you doing here?"
"Oh, I was just passing by, and I heard my bastard apprentice was foddered by a toy." Fang the Sniper says sarcastically.
"He's stronger than he looks." Manic says "Doctor Robotnik told me to go kill his niece, but he didn't say anything about a robot."
"Yeah, alright. Just keep in mind that I'm never gonna let you forget this moment." Fang says, as he gives Manic his pistol back "So, how's your mom?"
"As well as she can be in this situation." Manic says "It's not easy to keep moving on in a new universe after your reality was destroyed."
"Yeah, alright." Fang says "So, I have to go hunt down a woman in Kentucky, want to come?"
"Alright, I haven't been to the city since the civil war." Manic responds "But you are gonna give me half of the money, right?"
"Maybe 40%, if you're lucky." Fang says, as they walk towards a purple car.
"What's that?" Manic asks.
"I call it, Speed King." Fangs says "What do you think?"
"What happened to your Marvelous Queen?"
"Oh, Sonic destroyed it, so I brought this." Fang says, getting inside the car "Brand new, made in Japan."
"Fang, you're crazy." Manic says, entering the car.
"Well, I've always been a highway star, haven't I?" Fang says, turning on the car.
