"So, do you think we're almost there?" Storm asked.
"I don't know." Amy said. "Why don't you take a look?"
Storm shrugged, put on his gloves, and flew up to get a vantage point. He wasn't looking for a giant metal dome flying in the sky or anything that screams "Come at me, I'm a base", but more some subtle hints on the mountain sides or tree trunks.
"Hey, Storm?" Amy said, trying to get his attention. "What's that?" she asked, pointing in the sky.
Stoem looked in the sky where she was pointing, and guess what he found? A giant metal dome flying in the sky. And to make it even MORE obvious it was a "secret base", it had a giant face plastered on the side. There was one problem. It was in space.
"I'm assuming that's the secret base." Storm said. "I'm just gonna call it the 'Death Egg'."
"Why? Because it's a giant circular ship made by doctor Eggman to cause death?" Amy asked.
"No, because it looks like the Death Star." Storm said, and saw Amy's and Silver's confused faces. "Have you never seen Star Wars?"
They just shook their heads.
Storm sighed. "Tell Tails that I'm flying up there."
"Are you insane!?" Amy asked.
Instead of answering, Storm just flew up, towards the Death Egg.
ON THE DEATH EGG
"Doctor, someone is coming!" Bocoe said.
"And he is coming fast!" Decoe said.
Eggman looked at the surveillance screen, and saw a red hedgehog flying towards to the ship.
"Oh my." Eggman said. "This one could be a bother."
"How will you get rid of him?" Bocoe asked.
"You know, I always think of high tech ways to defeat enemies." Eggman said. "But this time, I feel that I should fight fire with fire."
"What does that mean?" Decoe asked.
Eggman pulled a button out of his jacket, and pushed a button, opening a garage door of some sort. "Behold, my latest creation. And the idea wasn't that hard to think of, since it smacks me in the face basically every day."
"You don't mean-" Bocoe and Decoe said at the same time.
"Yes. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I give you: Metal Sonic." Eggman said.
"How is that not high tech?" Bokkun asked.
"Whatever. Bokkun, I need you to deliver a message to the interloper for me." Eggman said.
MEANWHILE, STORM WAS:
"TIME TO BRING THE STORM, EVERYBODY!" Storm shouted.
"Excuse me, whoever you are." a little kid said. Storm didn't know if it was a robot or not, but he didn't care.
"What?" Storm asked.
"I have a message for you!" the kid said, and he pulled a television out of his backpack, and switched it on.
"Greetings, you little rat." the man on the TV said.
"Wow, haven't even met him yet, and he's already insulting me." Storm said.
"I'm pleased to let you know, although you will not be pleased, that any attempts you will have to break into this ship will be easily stopped." the man said. "Almost nothing is able to penetrate this thing."
"This is gonna explode, isn't it?" Storm asked.
"Yeah." the kid said.
Storm grabbed the TV, and threw it at the ship, exploding a tiny hole in the outside. "Honestly, he shouldn't make his messages explode." he said, as he flew towards the hole, and pryed it open so he could walk in. The hole patched itself up. "Neat security system."
"INTRUDER ALERT! RELEASE METAL SONIC!" the ship said.
"Correction. THAT'S the security system." Storm said, as he ran up the stairs, only to be hit by the wall by a blue mechanical hedgehog. "And I'm assuming you're Metal Sonic."
The machine nodded, and started spinning. Storm did the same, and they hit each other. They kept pressing against each other. Clearly, Metal Sonic was stronger. But was it faster?
Storm started moving backwards, and Metal Sonic chased him. They were gaining distance, which made Storm grin. He stopped spinning, and started running, because he moved faster like that. He was waiting for a place to turn around without stopping, but he couldn't find one, on the hallways were too narrow.
Then came what most people would see as a bad thing, but he saw as a good thing. A dead end.
He jumped onto the wall, and then jumped off, giving him a boost towards to metal hedgehog. Without stopping or spinning, he planted his foor on the ground and ran towards Metal Sonic, with his arms out. He ran into him, and blasted him with fire, all the while grabbing him, and he started spinning. He threw the metal hedgehog at the wall, and it got incredibly damaged on impact.
With Metal Sonic out of the way, he ran through the halls looking for some cells.
"Listen. Eggman, is it? Just tell me where you're keeping Sonic and you won't end up like that robot." Storm said.
"Please." Eggman said. "That robot was merely a prototype. The final project is yet to come."
"Well, you have me intrigued." Storm said. "But you won't be able to finish that in a matter of seconds."
Eggman sighed. "Fine. Since I have no more use for him, I'll drop him into space."
"Hey, as long as he's out." Storm said.
"But before I do that, I have someone I would like you to meet someone." Eggman said.
Storm stopped next to a map to try and find the jail cells. After finding the directions, he questioned why a so called "genius" would put a map on a wall, and ran to where the cell was.
"CHAOS SPEAR!" he heard someone scream, and he saw a yellow arrow made entirely of some sort of energy heading towards his face. Storm jumped towards the wall, planted his feet there, and just ran as if it was floor. Well, since they were in space, would anyone be surprised?
He looked to the floor, and saw a black hedgehog with red stripes on his spines running alongside him... Well, more sliding.
"And who would you be?" Storm asked.
The black hedgehog grunted. "I could ask you the same thing." he said.
Storm grinned. "So, you're a wise guy, I see." he said. "That's just fine."
"Don't even think of pulling any tricks against Shadow." Eggman said over the radio. "He can see right through them."
"Oh no, there goes my whole strategy." Storm said.
"Don't get cocky!" the black hedgehog, whose name was apparently "Shadow", said.
"If that's a challenge, I accept." Storm said.
"Pure confidence will get you nowhere." Shadow said.
"Skill will, though." Storm said. "As well as strategy."
Storm stopped running, and jumped towards the overhead light, and started spinning, making the glass cave in on the source and canceling the lumination.
"Fighting me in the dark won't do you any good." Shadow said.
Storm ignored him, and continued to destroy a couple dozen more lights until the entire hallway was pitch black.
Now, for a name like Shadow, Storm wasn't expecting his fighting style to get worse in the dark. That wasn't his plan, though.
AS FOR SONIC
Sonic looked outside his cage, but couldn't see anything. He did hear some weird things going on, though.
"Now the games can begin." the mysterious red hedgehog said. Sonic couldn't hear anything, but from what he could tell, either Shadow, the red hedgehog, or both tried to spin dash. All he could remember was Shadow screaming out in pain. Someone stronger than Shadow? He was getting curious.
"CHAOS SPEAR!" Shadow shouted.
"Darkness rush." the red hedgehog said. Sonic saw a bit of light from Shadow's Chaos Spear, and from that light, he saw the attack get split in half as the other hedgehog tackled Shadow through a wall.
The other hedgehog walked up to Sonic's cell, and phased through the bars like they were nothing. "Your friend Tails sent me. It's either this, or you get dropped into space."
Sonic nodded, and the other hedgehog, grabbed his arm and ran through the bars. Sonic winced, expecting his face to smack right into them, but instead he past right through. The red hedgehog, still holding Sonic's arm, ran him towards a door, and phased right through, Sonic still following, and finally there was light.
The red hedgehog let go of Sonic's arm. "You should be able to run yourself out from here."
Sonic looked at him confused. "You know I can't fly, right?"
"SONIC!" he heard Tails shout from outside.
"It's true that you can't fly." the red hedgehog said. "It's not true that you don't have a ride."
"What about you?" Sonic asked.
"I'm destroying this thing." the red hedgehog said. "It'll just take a couple of seconds."
Sonic nodded, and ran over to the hangar, where Tails landed his plane.
"Where's Storm?" Tails asked.
"Isn't Storm that grey guy with the hoverboard?" Sonic asked.
"No, this is a different guy." Tails said. "This guy isn't a complete asshole."
"Did you mean the red hedgehog that won a fight against Shadow easily?" Sonic asked.
"Yeah, that r- wait, Shadow?" Tails was baffled. "He's alive!?"
"He's survived worse." Sonic said.
Tails thought for a second. If Shadow survived, then maybe...
"Tails, move!" someone shouted.
Tails snapped back to reality, started up his plane, and flew off the Death Egg, with Storm skydiving alongside him. "This is a pretty neat plane." Storm said. "Does it have a name?"
"Yeah." Tails said. "I call it the 'X Tornado'."
Storm nodded, and doubled his speed. Tails doubled power to the engine, and followed, as the Death Egg exploded behind them.
AMY AND SILVER'S TURN, GUYS
"What's taking them so long?" Amy asked.
"What if they didn't make it off?" Silver asked.
"Don't say things like that!" Amy said. "He made it off. I know he did."
Silver looked at her. "You really like him, don't you?"
Amy looked back at him. "None of your buisness!" she exclaimed.
"HEY GUYS!" Sonic shouted from the wing of the X Tornado.
Silver looked up at him. "Finally."
"SONIC!" Amy shouted. She ran over towards where he was landing, but Silver got in her way.
"I finally found you, blue hedgehog." Silver said. "You're the Iblis Trigger."
Sonic looked at him as Tails continued flying down. "I'm the what!?"
Silver flew up to him, and threw him off the wing. "DON'T PLAY DUMB WITH ME!" he shouted.
"SONIC!" Amy shouted as he flew off the wing. Silver flew over to where he was landing.
"Ow! What's the big idea?" Sonic asked.
"Your actions will cause the destruction of our world. I'm here to stop you!" Silver shouted, as he threw Sonic through a bunch of trees.
"Things are looking pretty rough down there." Tails said.
"Want me to deal with it?" Storm asked.
"Sure." Tails said, and he extended his arm. "Take this. You may need it."
Storm looked at what he was holding. It looked like some sort of ring. He grabbed it, and flew down towards where Silver was. "SILVER! STOP ATTACKING HIM RIGHT NOW!" he shouted.
"Hm?" Silver hummed, looking up, and seeing Storm falling straight down towards him.
Storm extended his arm, and punched Silver in the face, using some fire for an extra boost.
"ARGH!" Silver cried out. "What was that for!?"
"I'm not letting you hurt him!" Storm said, and his body was suddenly covered in flames. "Not for as long as I breathe!"
"Then I suppose I'll have to make you stop breathint." Silver said.
Storm tightened his grip around the ring. With his body still on fire, he started spinning towards Silver, who held his hand out and tried to stop him from moving. "It's no use!" he said, as Storm stopped moving. "Take this!"
Silver swung his arm, and launched Storm through a bunch of trees.
"Great. He's gonna do that whenever I get close, isn't he?" Storm asked. "Unless..."
"Come back here and fight me!" Silver shouted.
Storm ran back to where Silver was. Silver tried pointing his hand at the red hedgehog, but he couldn't move his arm fast enough.
"Squirmy little bastard!" Silver said. He then pointed his hand at a tree, and lifted it out of the ground. "How 'bout this!?"
Storm quickly turned around, and struck Silver before he threw the tree. "How 'bout THAT!?"
Silver got launched through a tree, and landed flat on his back. "ARGH!" he said after every bit of impact.
"You know, if I knew you were gonna be this easy to defeat, I probably wouldn't have tried as hard." Storm said.
Sonic got up, and ran over to Silver. "You okay?" he asked.
Silver got up, and slapped him with some weird telekenetic energy or something, sending him into another tree. Because if there's one thing I love, it's writing about sending people into trees.
Silver walked over to Sonic's limp body, and looked down to talk to him. "Do you think this is a joke? The destruction of our world will be caused by your actions, and I'm going to end it!"
He picked him up, and was about to slap him again, when suddenly...
"STOP!" Amy shouted, and she ran between the two of them. "Don't hurt him."
"Get out of my way Amy." Silver said. "This is my mission."
"I'm going to have to agree with the annoying pink hedgehog." Storm said, walking next to Amy, and looking at Silver. "If you want to harm him, you'll have to go through us."
Tails also flew over, using his tails as helicopter blades, and protected Sonic.
"I'll fight you all if I have to!" Silver said.
"As much as I would like to join in a fight," someone said. Everyone turned, and saw someone with long red hair. "I'm gonna have to ask you not to harm my friend."
"Knuckles!" Tails shouted.
The red echidna walked over to Sonic. "You ok, buddy?"
"Yeah, just great." Sonic said, as he stood up.
"You should probably get out of here." Knuckles said. "We can handle this guy."
Sonic nodded, and he ran for the ruins where Rouge was going earlier. He still wanted answers.
"HEY!" Silver shouted. "YOU GET BACK HERE!"
He tried to rush towards Sonic, but was quickly stopped by Knuckles's fist, which had spikes on it.
"How about you tell us who you are, and why you're here?" he suggested.
"I am here to kill the Iblis Trigger." Silver said.
Storm's eyes widened. "What did you just say?"
"I said I'm trying to kill the Iblis Trigger!" Silver repeated.
Storm stood there in shock. "Where have I heard that word before?"
"He's acting like Shadow does when he hears the word 'Maria'." Tails said. "Is something wrong, Storm?"
"Yeah... Just questioning some things." Storm said.
"A good person like Sonic would never be the cause for the destruction of the world!" Amy shouted.
"Believe it or not, it's the truth." Silver said. "Now get out of my way!"
"NO!" everyone else said simultaneously.
Silver sighed. "Fine. He's probably long gone by now anyways." he said, and he started walking away.
Storm turned around, and started walking the other way. "Iblis... What's with that word? It sounds so... Familiar..."
"Storm?" Amy said, trying to get his attention. "You feeling ok?"
"Huh?" Storm said, looking at her. "Yeah, I'm fine."
"Are you sure?" Tails asked.
"Yes I'm sure." Storm said. "Just thinking."
"About?" Tail asked.
"I could ask you the same thing." Storm said. "What is always going on in that little head of yours that leaves you so distracted most of the time?"
Tails started getting angry. "My life has nothing to do with this!"
"Neither. Does. Mine." Storm said, in a very angry tone. "I'll be sleeping outside tonight."
With that said, he started running towards what looked to be an island that was in the air. Odd, he could have sworn it was on the ground only a month ago.
"Nice, isn't it?" a voice said, running next to him. Storm turn his head to see Knuckles.
"Wasn't it practically swimming about a month or so ago?" Storm asked.
"I'll explain it when we get there." Knuckles said. They both turned their heads back to the island, and saw that there was a green flash.
"What was that?" Storm asked.
"Is he seriously coming again?" Knuckles asked. "He almost got stuck here last time!"
"Who's coming? What are you talking about?" Storm asked.
Knuckles just laughed. "He's just an old friend of mine." he said.
Storm looked at him curious. "You are a pretty two faced guy, you know?" he said. "One second, you're angry. The next, you act as if nothing bad has ev3r hqppened in your life.
Knuckles just shrugged, and the two of them ran faster and faster to the floating island.
For those who knows who Knuckles is talking about, yes, I'm bringing him back. Yes, Eggman sent him back to his own world. But no one ever said the portal wasn't usuable. And I made it so the master emerald was put back together, so in theory, he could use the portal to go back to Sonic's world, and possibly if it doesn't get destroyed... Again. Anyways, favorite this story, put it in your alerts, leave a review, and I'll always be accepting OC ideas. See you next time.