Sorry about the long wait. But here's something long for y'all.
8
Green Hill Zone Has Dragons?
"Hey, Tails!" Sonic said, running backwards in front of his car. Amy was driving it again, while Shadow and Rouge were riding on the motorcycle while Knuckles, Number Four, and Number Five were riding the quad-bike. "You know the song that just came on the radio?"
"Yeah? What about it?" the fox asked. Number One was quietly singing it, because miraculously the same song was popular on our planet, too.
"Wait until the chorus, and I'll show you." Everybody got quiet and listened to the song, which was at the bridge.
"Upon the hill, across the blue lakeee! That's where I had my first heartbreak! I still remember how it all chaaangeed, yeah!" Number One and the song on the radio sang.
"Her father said; don't you worry, Honey Boo-Boo Child! Your mom has some coupons for you! Don't you worry Honey Boo-Boo now! Yeaaaaaaahh!" Sonic sang, making a change to the lyrics that made just about everyone laugh.
"Sonic, you're an idiot," Shadow said.
"Wait, I'm not done!" there was a bit of a musical-playing-thingy before the chorus repeated again. "Don't you worry Honey Boo-Boo Child! TLC has a show just for you! Don't you worry Honey Boo-Boo, now! Yeaaaaaah!" I began to giggle.
"That was really funny!" I said.
"Thanks, Number Three! I try my best!"
"That was really annoying," Shadow muttered.
"Thanks, Shadow! I try my best!"
"I will strangle you. That sucked."
"You think that sucked? you come up with a better lyric-alteration-thing, then!" Sonic challenged.
"No. I refuse."
"Why? Are you afraid it'll suck?"
"Not at all. I have two perfectly good reasons not to do what you're asking."
"Explain please, dear alien-friend."
"…reason one; you're trying to drag me down to the level of an idiot, so you won't be alone. Two, the artist obviously wrote the song that way for a reason,"
"Shadow's chicken! Bawk, bawk!"
"Am not!"
"Am too!"
"Am not!"
"Am too!"
"Am not!"
"Then alter a freaking lyric!"
"Fine! Wait until the next song!" Shadow muttered. Sonic chuckled to himself with a smirk as we waited to see what song Shadow would have to sing. Before long, the techno beat of 'Don't You Worry Child' by the Swedish House Mafia was replaced with the sound of an electric guitar and a feminine voice. Everyone began to laugh as Shadow's eyes widened in fear.
"Please tell me I don't have to sing this song!" the black and red hedgehog groaned.
"Yes, you do. And in a feminine voice!" Sonic smirked, by now sitting on the hood of the car.
"Do you hear my voice! I'm clearly, like, a bass singer. Taylor Swift is a freaking soprano!"
"You're the Ultimate Lifeform. You can do anything! Or do you admit that you're not the Ultimate." Rouge teased.
"If I find out any of you are videotaping this, you're all dead." Shadow said. He took a deep breath and began to sing in a shrieking voice. "You knew you were in trouble when you walked in! Shame on you now! Your sister blew it; you know you just got grounded! You should feel ashamed 'cause you knew you were in trouble when you walked in! Shame on you! Did I mention your brother said you stole my cookies? And now you're lying on the cold hard ground like OW! Ow! Spankings, spankings, spankings!" by now, Shadow's voice was beginning to get a little hoarse.
"I hate spankings!" Number One muttered.
"Especially Count Spankulot!" Number Five added.
"OW! Ow! Spankings, spankings, spankings! There, done; ya happy?"
"This is SO going on YouTube!" Sonic exclaimed, putting away his camera.
"You are so dead." Shadow growled.
"Why do you have to sing so negatively?" Rouge asked.
"Because I feel like it."
"We're here!" Sonic exclaimed, leaping to his feet and still on the hood of the car.
"Sonic! I can't see!" Amy said
"I know; I cant wait either!"
"I can't see, Sonic! And I don't wanna crash!"
"Whoops! My bad!" the blue hedgehog leaped off the car and zoomed alongside us. Now I could see a small village on a hill, with houses made of wood and metal. And the hill was covered with the brightest green grass I had ever seen, and a clay-colored checker-board sidewalk.
As soon as Amy stopped the car, Cream and I leaped out and began to pick the yellow flowers sprouting from the ground. Shadow stopped his motorcycle, and Knuckles parked his quad-bike-thing nearby. Then we walked and skipped towards the village.
It felt like a ghost town. Everything was empty, and it was so quiet you could hear a Rainbow Monkey fall on the floor. The lights in all the houses were off, and the air seemed cold. The only way we knew people lived here was the feeling of a thousand eyes staring at us. Sonic looked around suspiciously.
"Something's not right here…" he muttered, muscles tensing.
"Yeah, isn't this place supposed to be bright and cheery?" Amy asked warily.
"Because now its just…kinda creepy." Tails added.
"Where is everyone?" I asked.
"Maybe they're all dead," Shadow suggested. Everyone turned and glared at him "What? It was just a suggestion."
"Hopefully, they're alright and are just partying in another section of the village or something." Knuckles said.
"Hel! Help! Somebody!" a voice shouted. We all turned around to see a little Mobian cat girl running towards us, eyes wide. When she came over, she bent over panting. Sonic knelt down to one knee so that they were eye level with each other.
"What's wrong?" he asked her.
"My parents…huge dragon…need help…" she gasped, looking up at him.
"Since when did dragons move in here?"
"Its not a real dragon! Its really big and scary, and it's shiny and looks like metal, and there's these two weird guys in there!"
"Describe the people, quick!" Sonic said, snapping his fingers.
"One of them's really fat and ugly and has this big mustache, and the other guys is really skinny and looks like a shadow with eyes!"
"That's Eggman!" Knuckles gasped.
"What could he possibly want from this place?!" Sonic growled to himself.
"Probably the Chaos Emerald near the city?" Number Two suggested.
"Stay here; I'm gonna go help your parents." Sonic said to the cat girl.
"Be careful!" she said, eyes wide in awe and gratitude. Sonic nodded before zooming off.
"Sonic! Wait for us!" Tails said, him and Knuckles running after him.
"Stay with the kid!" Sonic said, stopping for just a second "This could be a decoy, and Eggman might come and get her, too." Then he zoomed away too fast for anyone else to follow him. With a sigh, Tails and Knuckles walked back to the group.
"Is he going to be okay?" the girl asked.
"Sonic can do anything. But still; I wish I could go help…" Tails murmured.
"But he also hasn't fought a robot by himself in a long time. And if there's two people in the robot this time, he might get outsmarted." Shadow stated. Everyone turned around to glare at him "What? You can't deny it's true."
"I guess. But please don't remind us that. We have to hope." Amy said.
For a few minutes, we sat there talking. We discovered that the girl's name was Allison, and that she had water powers she was still getting used too. She also admitted that she had been too scared to use her powers when her parents were nabbed, which Shadow criticized her for very harshly. Then Number Five slapped him on the arm with her hat.
After another ten minutes passed, Tails stated "Sonic usually doesn't take this long to defeat one of Eggman's clunkers."
"Yeah, I'll admit; the slowpoke is usually a lot quicker than this." Shadow agreed.
"Shouldn't we go after him, then?" I asked "If he's in trouble, we should go rescue him!"
"Yeah, but he told us to stay here!" Tails said, his twin tails twitching. He looked nervous and scared now.
"So we'll just stay here until Egghead crushes him underfoot, right?" Knuckles said sarcastically.
"That's only if he's in danger." Rouge pointed out.
"Yeah, what if he isn't in danger?" Number Five asked.
"Then he'd be annoyed to find out we didn't have any faith in him." Amy stated.
"I think he'd be more annoyed if he died and found out somehow that we sat here arguing over whether or not to go help him." Number Four said.
"Hey!" Tommy shouted.
"What, Tommy?" everybody snapped but Allison, who was a bit spooked by the sudden yelling also.
"Number One's gone. He told me he was leaving to go check on Sonic for himself."
"Crap; now we've gotta go after him, too!" Shadow grumbled before stomping off into the woods, glowing red energy crackling around him and a few trailing branches on the trees catching on fire.
"We should probably go after him before he starts a forest fire," Number Two stated. With a few murmurs of agreement, we all ran after Shadow and Number One. Before long, we caught up to each other.
"I'm still worried," Allison stated. "I hear grunting noises."
"Yeah, me too." Rouge agreed.
"What if the dragon's eating him or something?"
"Knowing the Doctor, that 'dragon' is probably just a robot based off of a dragon." Shadow stated.
"But still. What if Eggman uses that dragon-robot to incinerate Sonic into ashes?" Knuckles added.
"Can we please stop talking about Sonic dying?" Amy pleaded.
"Yeah, we should have more faith in him! He's saved the world a lot of times!" Cream added firmly. Then we all froze.
A large white dragon-looking robot was in the middle of a clearing in the woods. In one 'paw', it held two frightened Mobian cats, who looked like they could be Allison's parents. And in the other paw, Sonic was knocked out and hanging limply by a foot in between two metal 'fingers'. And as if that wasn't enough, inside the 'brain' place of the dragon was a huge glass dome that revealed an really ugly fat man that reminded me of a rotten egg with skin, clothes, and a mustache sloppily glued onto it, and a shockingly familiar figure that looked like a shadow with yellow eyes and outlined in glowing red energy. In the dash board in front of them were two Chaos Emeralds; a red one and a yellow one.
"Eggman!" all the Mobians shouted but Allison.
"Father?!" all of Sector V exclaimed, including Tommy.
"Mom! Dad!" Allison wailed. The two villains in the dragon laughed maniacally.
"Looks like I was right, lets go home," Shadow said, turning around. But Rogue grabbed him by the shoulder and forced him to turn back around.
"Well, Shadow, we meet again!" the fat man said cockily "Did you enjoy your little nap?" Shadow began to growl and glow red again.
"Why, you fat old—" he muttered, his glow pulsing and getting extremely hot again.
"Temper, temper, Shadow! I wouldn't be so quick to perform you Chaos Blast, rat. After all, you might hurt your friends as well as us all the way up here. Especially this pitiful blue one here…" Father rumbled.
"Who are you calling pitiful?!" Amy roared "Sonic is not pitiful!"
"I have no friends. Not anymore, at the least." Shadow muttered. Never the less, he took himself out of bonfire mode and looked away with his arms crossed.
"Anyways, now that you're all behaving, I have a compromise for you." Father said.
"We don't wanna listen to anything you have to say! Just put the Mobians down!" Number One snapped.
"Oh, it involves that. I know you have a Chaos Emerald with you. If you don't give it to me right this second, we'll slam these Mobians into the ground and take it from you! If you give it to us, then we'll put them down, no harm done. The choice is yours," Allison turned and looked at us with big, pleading eyes.
"Please," she begged "Don't let the mean men hurt my parents!"
"What do we do?" Tails asked.
"We cant give him the Chaos Emerald, that's for sure! Think about what he'd do with it!" Rouge stated.
"But what about Sonic and Allison's parents!" Amy pointed out.
"Should we save three lives today, or prevent millions from dying and being Roboticized tomorrow?! What do you think?" Shadow stated. "I say we just take the Chaos Emeralds and leave."
"Shadow!" Number Five scolded, slapping him with her hat.
"Shut up!" Shadow said, just *this* close to slapping the girl back "I have a point and you know it!"
"Um…" I murmured quietly. Nobody heard me because they were still arguing about what to do with the emerald. I then, out the corner of my eye, saw Sonic's ear twitched before he woke up. The blue hedgehog looked right at me and signaled for me to look for something. I looked around, but I didn't see anything, so I turned back around and shrugged. But he had fallen limp again, because Father's suspicious gaze had fallen on him. Once the man looked away, Sonic held up his hands in the shape of a Chaos Emerald, and gestured towards the cockpit of the dragon-robot as if he wanted me to give Father the emerald. I shook my head stubbornly. I wasn't gonna give those mean men the Emerald! But Sonic just held a thumbs-up, which probably meant 'I know what I'm doing'. And since Sonic was really nice, I trusted him and turned to the villains in the dragon.
"So you promise that you'll let Sonic and Allison's parents down if I give you the Chaos Emerald?" I asked them warily. Everybody turned to me with shocked faces, even Eggman and Father, who looked like they didn't expect us to 'give up' so easily.
"Number Three!" all the Mobians groaned.
"What are you doing?!" Number One said.
"I've got this!" I assured.
"Last time she said that, we almost got killed." Number Five muttered.
"Yes, I promise." Eggman sighed, his head on the dashboard of the robot as if he was bored with me.
"Pinkie promise?" I added.
"Yes, pinkie promise." Father groaned, lowering the hand of the dragon that had Sonic in it, the pinkie finger being held up. As soon as the blue hedgehog neared the ground, I sneakily handed him the emerald while wrapping one of my hands around a section of the robot's large pinkie. Then the hand moved back up, with Sonic still in it. A small slot in the dragon's front side opened up to reveal an emerald-shaped socket. "Now just put the emerald in there, Kuki."
"Oh I would, but I don't have it. Not anymore!" I said with a smirk.
"What?!" everyone exclaimed.
"Then who does?" Shadow asked. Suddenly, there was a hideous, ear-piercing noise as we turned around to see one of the arms on the robots being sawed off by a flash of green energy. Then the energy seemed to 'run' across the robot to the other arm and rescue Allison's parents. Once it fell still for a few seconds in front of us to set them down, I realized that it was Sonic with a greenish glow to his quills.
"Sonic!" Number Two exclaimed.
"You guys can help now, if you wanna," he said before darting back to the robot and sawing off its snout.
"Yeah! Let's do it to it!" Tails exclaimed. At that, we all began to pummel the robot with attacks, with Number One, Two, Four, Five, Tommy, and I using our 2x4's.
Before long, the robot had been reduced to a heap of scrap metal with the only thing still together being the head. Sonic had sliced everything to bits, while Shadow scorched it with his Chaos Attacks. Knuckles and Amy had put tons of dents in the head and cracked the glass in about a million places, while Allison used her water blasts to short-circuit the robot bit-by-bit and I shot giant rainbow monkeys at it with my T.H.U.M.P.E.R. Some parts of it were also coated in mustard from Number Four's M.U.S.K.E.T. Also, in the midst of the battle, the two villains still hadn't noticed that Number Two and Tails had snuck onto the ship, taken the two Chaos Emeralds that were powering the robot, and snuck back out.
"You rotten kids!" Father exclaimed.
"I hate those Mobians!" Dr. Eggman growled, shaking his fist at us through the glass.
"We'll get you next time!" then, before we could do anything about it, the glass dome suddenly lifted off the ground and flew away. Allison prepared to shoot some water-rockets at it to bring them down, but Sonic told her not to.
"It's too far away now, and if you did hit them it'd just tick them off." He said.
"Anyways, now that that's done with, what's up with the rest of the town?" Knuckles asked. "They were acting kinda spooky."
"When the giant scary monster robot came, everyone ran away and hid in their houses." Allison stated.
"Oh? That explains why they didn't run out when they saw you!" I said to Sonic.
"Yeah, I guess so. Lets go back and tell them that the dragon's gone." Sonic suggested. With a few murmurs of agreement, we walked back to the village.
When we did tell everyone else that the dragon was gone and Eggman ran away, they began to throw a giant party! A bunch of them lifted us up on their shoulders and carried us around like we were heroes! Everyone was enjoying themselves but Shadow, who was leaning against a tree with his arms crossed, muttering to himself. After awhile, he got up and began to ask people if they had seen any chaos emeralds around.
"But we already found them!" Number Four and I stated.
"No, we didn't. The emeralds in Eggman's machines don't show up on the Emerald Trackers Tails makes. There was an emerald here before Eggman and Father got here, and we need to find it before they do."
"I had almost forgotten!" Tails exclaimed, flying over. "But I still have the tracker! Lets go find it!"
"Yeah! Let's do it to it!" Sonic exclaimed, after sneaking up on Shadow. I expected the ebony hedgehog to jump in the air in surprise. All he did, though, was slam his fist into the blue hedgehog's face. "Ow! Dude, why'd you do that?! I already got beaten up by a giant robot today!"
"Then this should teach you not to sneak up on me." Shadow stated, as if it was obvious.
"I think you broke my nose…!"
"Do you want me to induce Chaos Blast so your body will be at an equilibrium?"
"Wha…oh, no thank you!" Sonic exclaimed, warily backing away from Shadow, who had a slightly malicious smirk on his face "I'm fine; the nose is good."
"Lets get a move on, then!" Knuckles said "We need to hurry up and find that emerald!"
"Okay! Lets do it to it!" Sonic exclaimed, snatching the emerald tracker out of Tail's hand and running off at high speed towards the mountains. In about five seconds he came back, looking slightly angry. "Tails, it isn't working anymore!"
"That's because it can't catch signals while you're moving that fast yet. Slow and steady wins the race, Sonic." Tails said, taking the emerald tracker/phone and walking away slowly, the rest of us shrugging and following him.
"Since when did slow people win races?! You have to be fast to win a race!" Sonic shouted before sighing and jogging after us.
After walking for a few miles, the emerald tracker started buzzing like crazy, with the screen flashing and an alarm blaring. Quickly, Tails shut off the phone and began to dig at the ground.
"Uh…what are you doing?" Number Four asked.
"The tracker said we're right on top of the emerald. So we have to dig for it now." Tails said.
"Move aside, Tails; I've got this." Knuckles said, stepping forward with two metal spikes on his hands. Then he began to dig. Really fast. Dirt was flying up in torrents, slamming just about everyone in the face. And Tails' hole, which I had thought was pretty big before, grew into a small crater. And in the midst of it all, Knuckles had accidentally thrown up a blue gem into the air. It landed in the 'little' dirt pile before immediately being buried under more dirt.
"Knuckles; stop!" Sonic shouted. Immediately, dirt stopped flying in the air as Knuckles stopped digging long enough to poke his head over the wall of the crater.
"What? I didn't reach the emerald yet!" he said.
"Actually, you did. And you buried it again in that pile of dirt over there." Number Five stated, pointing towards the mound of dirt. Knuckles groaned in exasperation before stomping towards it.
"Oh no you don't, buddy!" Sonic said, skidding in front of the red echidna. "We don't want you to bury it again! Let Tails or somebody else—"
"Found it!" a voice exclaimed. We turned around to see Cream and Cheese with beach buckets full of dirt, toy shovels, and the blue Chaos Emerald in their hands.
"Good job Cream!"
"We found it?" Tails asked, glancing up from his phone for a few seconds. "Okay, good. We need to get moving again; Eggman and that Father guy are already a few hundred miles ahead of us."
"How do you know where they are?" I asked.
"When Hoagie and I filched the Chaos Emeralds from their robot, I managed to slip a tracker inside the cockpit too. Anyways, we need to get to Holoska fast if we wanna get the next Chaos Emerald before they do."
"Holoska?! Oh, dear Mobius," Sonic groaned.
"What's wrong?" Tommy and Cream asked.
"First off, our Holoska is what you'd call…I can't remember if you call it Alaska or Australia…"
"It's the Arctic, Sonic. You were closer with Alaska." Tails stated.
"Yeah, that place. And the other thing is…lets just say weird things tend to happen when I'm in Holoska."
"What do you mean?" everyone asked. Even Shadow's ears perked up in curiosity.
"Tails, Amy. Code: Furry."
"Code: Furry…Code: Furry…" the two Mobians murmured, trying to think. Then their eyes widened as they exclaimed "Code: Furry?!"
"Yeah, Code: Furry."
"Will someone tell us what a Code: Furry is?!" Knuckles and Number Four exclaimed impatiently. Meanwhile, Cream and I noticed some flowers and began to make bouquets with them.
"Uh…if we leave now, we'll get to Holoska before night falls." Tails stated, Sonic sighed.
"What's so bad about nighttime in Holoska?" Rouge asked.
"I believe the nights can get rather cold in Holoska." Shadow stated with a shrug. "Could be wrong, but it isn't very likely."
"Oh…does Code: Furry mean fur coat?"
"…yes." Sonic, Tails, and Amy said.
"Although some of us might have more than a fur coat." Tails snickered. Sonick elbowed him in the gut with a strained smile.
"Shut UP, Tails," he grunted.
"Lets go to the store to buy some winter jackets, everyone!" Amy said, leading the way back to the town. The rest of us followed her there, Sonic and Tails muttering in the back of the group.
While we were in the store, looking through the racks of coats, Tails and Sonic randomly started beatboxing. Sonic smirked before he quietly started singing.
"I'm gonna pop some tags, only got twenty rings in my pocket! I-I-I'm hunting, looking for a come-up! Cuz we're so awesome," he said. The two Mobians snickered before continuing their search.
"Number Three! Number Three! I found you a green one!" Number Four shouted from across the store.
"Really? Thanks, Wally!" I exclaimed, running over to claim my jacket.
A few minutes later, everyone had bought a coat to wear to Holoska. Sonic walked up to Shadow and tapped his shoulder.
"WHAT?!" the grumpy hedgehog snarled, turning around.
"Guess what?" Sonic said with a smirk on his face. Behind him, Tails was signaling in every way possible that Sonic was gonna die or something if he did what he was planning.
"…what?"
"I'm in your granddad's clothes! I look incredible! I'm in this big ole coat from the thrift shop down the road!" he sang. Tails facepalmed as Shadow's eye twitched. Then the ebony hedgehog slammed a fist into Sonic's stomach, which threw him backwards a few feet, smashing through a few trees before landing.
"Do not insult my lineage." He growled.
"Dude, you have no lineage! You were born in a freaking test tube from the DNA of—oh."
"Can we just get to this Holoska place already?! We need to stop Father!" Number One exclaimed.
"Alright, alright, keep your pants on," Knuckles muttered, herding everyone to where we parked the cars.
"Tails! Where'd your plane go?!" Sonic exclaimed.
"I didn't bring it, remember? I was riding in your car." Tails stated "That's why I said we needed to hurry up, so I can get to the lab, get the plane, and get to Holoska before Eggman gets there."
"Gah! We'll never make it in time!" Knuckles groaned "Eggman'll probably be terrorizing the locals by the time we get there!"
"Not if we hurry up!" Number Five shouted. At that, we all jumped into the cars and zoomed off to Tail's lab.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Hey, go ahead and tell me your favorite part of the story so far! I wanna try and make it more enjoyable for you all!
But before I go, I do not own the songs Don't You Worry Child (it's by Swedish House Mafia), Trouble (Taylor Swift owns this one) and Thrift Shop (Macklemore…I think that's how you spell it…). However, I did come up with the alternate versions of Don't You Worry Child and Trouble that Sonic and Shadow sing.
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