A/N: WARNING: THE FOLLOWING PORTION OF EPISODE WILL BE SHOWN IN EXTREME-AIR-O-VISON, AS MOST OF THE FIGHTING IS AIRBORNE. FOR THOSE READERS WHO GET JETLAG, AIRSICK, OR ARE FAINT OF BLADDER AND HEART ARE ADVISED TO GO TO THE BATHROOM, TAKE A NAP, NOT EAT ANYTHING, AND STRAP IN BEFORE PROCEEDING.
WE NOW RETURN YOU TO YOUR SCHEDULED READING, ALREADY IN PROGRESS.
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Equipment Card: Tornado
Inventor: Daniel Prower
Purpose: To fly faster than any jet plane GUN has
Notes: "After eighteen unsuccessful attempts (one being because of GUN), I finally built a successful plane! I'm sure Chris would love to fly in this for an adventure or two!"
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Skies above Station Square- 09:17
Danny Prower could not believe that his best friend and one of his Chao jumped out of a plane towards rather angry looking flying robots. The first thing that came into his mind was that Chris was either really brave, stupid, or both to do something like that, as if the robots didn't kill him in midair, then the landing sure as hell will. The second thing that he noticed, though, was that Chris had some near beastly lower body strength! He had jumped pretty far off the plane, and wasn't even falling yet.
But one thing bothered Danny… what did Chris mean by, "What I'm about to do and say will freak you the hell out?" Well, he got his answer when Chris and Swift (who was still on Chris' shoulder) were suddenly enveloped in a bright blue light, and out of the light emerged a dark blue hedgehog that just punched through one of the flying robots, grab onto the bottom of the wings of the second one, flip up, and land on top of it, grabbing the wings to control it. The others swarmed towards him in an effort to attack, but Sonic's feet were too fast, rapidly dismantling each of the robots with his kicks. He then realized how far he was behind the Tornado, and he forced the robot to fly faster to catch up.
Danny knew that he shouldn't while flying a super fast biplane, but he had to stare. "Chris… what the hell just happened?" All logic just seemed to fly out of the window- his best friend just transformed into Sonic the Hedgehog after jumping off of a plane and into a firefight with robots.
"Swift happened," Miles spoke up, getting Danny back into reality. Danny focused on his flying as Miles explained, "You see, back a couple weeks ago when Swift and I entered your lives, we also brought that watch you saw with us- The Chaos Morpher that was almost complete at the time. I was exhausted after completing it, so I gave the Morpher to Chris to hold onto. And it turned out to be a good idea, as Chris and Swift are compatible with each other, and Sonic was needed to defeat that robot that attacked you guys."
"…So," Danny asked after taking all of this information in, "my friend is a superhero because of technology you made, and he never bothered to tell us, his friends who have known him for years?" Miles noticed the anger in his tone. Well, if your friend had been given super powers and has been living a double life behind your back, you'd probably be at least a little ticked off.
"Funny thing about that," Miles answered. "We sort of bound him to secrecy, like I'm going to bound you. And Chao promises can only be broken if deemed necessary- and right now, I'm considering this a necessary move, as Chris is probably in Sonic's head, thinking that you may be able to help us in our upcoming mission." Now this peaked Danny's interest.
"Engage autopilot," Danny simply announced. The plane then started to fly itself, allowing Danny to look Miles in the eyes. "What do you mean, 'upcoming mission?'" the young pilot asked. Miles looked dead serious as he got ready to explain.
"What I'm about to offer you is to be kept top secret at all times. If you tell anyone, I may be forced to erase your memory and the person or people you tell as well- and don't think that just because I'm a Chao I can't as long as I obey Chao code. This is something we're taking to the grave- whether it raises us to the gates of heaven or damns us to the flames of hell will depend on our success. But if all goes well… we may be able to give you the same ability as Chris has. Here's the story…."
Back with Sonic, he was holding onto the Egg Beetle (he just made up the name out of boredom) for dear life. 'Okay,' Chris admitted, 'maybe jumping out of a plane wasn't the smartest idea.'
'Well, we don't know if Danny's plane has any weapons on it,' Swift argued. Changing the subject, Swift noted, 'Speaking of Danny… have I ever mentioned how my Chaos Sense works?'
'You think after two weeks,' Chris sarcastically replied, 'that would have been one of the first abilities of yours that you would have taught me. So… how does it work, anyways?'
'Let's start with something basic,' Swift began. 'Your ears… concentrate on nothing else but your sense of hearing.' Sonic closed his eyes, taking deep breaths while holding onto the Egg Beetle. He heard sounds all throughout the sky despite the air turbulence. He heard the propeller of the Tornado, the roar of the thrusters of the robot he hitched a ride on, part of the conversation Miles and Danny were having… and the sound of a second thruster coming behind him.
Sonic turned around, and saw a missile heading his way- a GUN jet plane Sidewinder Missile, to be exact. "HOLY-!" Sonic yelled before jumping off of the Egg Beetle, and using the Battle Scanner to lock onto the Tornado just as the Sidewinder slammed into the Egg Beetle. The resulting explosion actually propelled Sonic forward enough to allow him to use the Homing Attack to the Tornado, barely grabbing the edge of the bottom left wing.
As Sonic attempted to pull himself up, Danny asked, "Are you okay, Chris?" Sonic looked up, and saw Danny offering his hand. "You are Chris in there, right…?"
"Um yeah," Sonic awkwardly answered as he was pulled into the copilot's seat. "Thanks Danny, I owe you one." Danny then whapped him on the head. "What was that for!?"
"That was for doing something stupid and jumping out of a plane!" the pilot yelled. "How did you plan to get safely on the ground!? I mean, you may have a healing factor according to Miles, but have some common sense! There is no way that you would survive a fall from five-hundred feet in the air without a parachute!"
There was only one key thing in that Sonic caught onto in that rant. "…Miles told you everything?"
"Every single detail about the mission you signed up for," Danny answered. "To be honest, Chris, I'm pretty hurt. If Helen and Frances knew that you were risking your life fighting off killer robots, dodging missiles, outrunning cops, and trying to find seven gemstones before GUN or a mad scientist and they were left out of it, I'm willing to be they wouldn't be able to forgive or trust you, again. Not because you lied to them, but because they would know that while they're just sitting there helpless, you're probably getting yourself killed. Nobody likes it when secrets are kept from them. But… you had a pretty good reason to keep all of this secret- if GUN or this Dr. Robotnik guy got their hands on these 'Chaos Emeralds' that Miles told me about, then the world would probably burn. And if the mass public knew, there would be riots and wars all over the planet. The reason you kept it secret was so that we didn't have to worry about it."
"That," Sonic added, "and I was kind of forced to at the risk of the technology falling into Robotnik or GUN's hands. Speaking of GUN… where did that missile come from?"
"Guys," Miles announced, "we've got bigger bogies!" Both Sonic and Danny turned around, and did not like what they saw. About six GUN fighter jets were trailing them… and didn't exactly look like they were in any escort formation. In fact, they were more likely in attack formation.
"Attention unidentified aircraft," a woman's voice announced to the group on an open radio channel. "We have reason to believe that you are carrying a hostile unit. By the order of Colonel Passer, you must land and prepare to be searched. Failure to comply and we'll shoot you out of the sky. We request that you reply immediately."
Danny looked at Sonic, remembering what Chris said earlier. Do not stop flying the plane, no matter the consequences. Danny picked up the radio, and asked, "Out of curiosity, ma'am, what exactly should I be looking for with this hostile unit?"
"…Pilot, have you not been watching television?" the woman asked, getting annoyed. "It's Sonic the Hedgehog! He may have escaped onto your plane after seeing it and jumping off of Robotnik's robot! For your safety, you must land right now! I promise we'll go easy on you."
Miles, looking at the missiles under the planes' wings, announced with a swirl over his head, "Somehow, I entirely doubt that they'll be easy on us." Turning to Danny, he sighed, "It's a shame I don't know how to fly a plane, otherwise I'd attempt to take control of this situation. Now, I would have given you a bit more time to decide, but-"
"I don't need anymore time," Danny answered, shocking each of them. "After you told me about all of this, I took the time we had before GUN started to follow to consider my options. This Robotnik guy- I don't know who he is, but he's pretty damn cruel to try to kill people, especially my friends. But GUN? They have the possibility to be even worse. And your mission seems like a suicide mission for anybody, as you're probably going up against the most skilled warriors, greatest minds, dangerous criminals, and strongest governments in the world. But, if I had to choose the least of three evils… then it would be with you guys."
Sonic then asked, "Does that mean…?"
"Yep," Danny grinned. "If you're involved, Chris… then I may as well tag along!"
Inside Sonic's mind, Swift was celebrating. 'All right! We have a pilot for the team!' the Chao cheered. 'Now, onto more pressing matters… ditching these GUN flyboys!'
"It's good to hear you're with us," Sonic announced. "But we have a new problem… how you plan to get us away from GUN?"
"I haven't shown you the upgrades of the Tornado," Danny deviously grinned. "Disengage autopilot." He placed his hands back at the plane's controls, still grinning. Sonic and Miles both looked worried at his grin. He then remembered their "don't kill innocents" rule that Miles was forming. "Don't worry; I don't plan to kill GUN troops, despite how much they piss me off. Just shoot them out of the sky at five hundred feet and hope that they're smart enough to eject before impact."
"This thing has weapons?" Sonic and Miles both asked. Danny casually pushed a button, and the bottom of the plane opened a compartment containing a turret.
"The missile shot at you was a Sidewinder, right?" Danny asked. Sonic nodded. "Good, because I haven't installed the homing missile launcher, yet. Now strap in. We're taking them away from Station Square." Sonic obeyed just as Danny pulled back on the controls, and the plane went higher.
"Pilot, you are doing the exact opposite of what we ordered," the woman on the radio. "If you do not land right now, then I will have my squad open fire on you." Danny, upon hearing those words, felt reminded of the situation that he was in after flying over Nevada. How he was shot down, brutally interrogated, and warned that if he ever did that again, they'd have to take away his pilot's license and lock him up. After thinking about that… Daniel Prower had only seven words that he wanted to say to her.
"You can't shoot what you can't catch." He then hit another button, and the Tornado practically rocketed away, leaving several confused GUN pilots.
"…Somebody find that plane, quick!" the woman ordered. All of the planes spread out, searching for the missing plane.
With the heroes, Sonic, Miles, and Danny automatically had to jerk their heads back by the sudden rush of wind into their faces. "Maybe we overdid it!" Miles yelled. "Kill the booster!"
"Yeah, I should!" Danny reached for the button, and pressed down on it. The three rocked their heads forward. "…Is everyone okay." He then heard the sounds of vomiting, and looked back at Sonic and Miles each hurling into their air bags.
"…We are never doing that again," Sonic moaned. Danny wretched at this sight- Chris had never been able to handle the five-star roller costar at Twinkle Park without vomiting not even a forth of the way through. Yet he just threw up after going several hundred miles an hour in a biplane that was the equivalent of a jet. Perhaps becoming a Neo Mobian built up his immune system.
"You always had a weak stomach, buddy," Danny grinned. Sonic just shot him a cold stare. Changing the subject, Danny announced, "But now, we should be far enough to shoot down GUN and not harm Station Square."
"And we probably should do it in turns," Miles stated, pulling a second Chaos Morpher from his vest pouch. The Morpher, unlike the first one that was the color of the Pacific Ocean, was a light shade of orange with a bit of white on the bottom and top. "…That's what I'd say if I had a partner."
'Hey, Chris,' Swift spoke up. 'Put your hand on Miles' head.'
'Why?' Chris questioned. 'Can you talk to him with contact?'
'Well, I can try,' Swift answered. Sonic just shrugged, and placed his hand on Miles' head, earning a question mark. 'Hey, Miles… can you hear me?'
'Swift!?' Miles asked, the question mark turning into an exclamation point. 'How the heck are we doing this!?'
'Good, your theory worked,' Chris grinned.
'Why are you two in my head?' Miles questioned. 'And how?'
'How is not important,' Swift announced. 'All you need to do is focus… I'm going to show you both something I've picked up by being around Danny long enough.' The world around Sonic and Miles started to glow a dark emerald green. There were streams of light spreading around them, and those lights seemed to be flowing out and around them. 'Welcome to True Chaos Sense, boys. This is how I keep track of my Emerald… and certain people.' Upon hearing that, Chris instantly thought back to when Swift managed to tail Chuck from Maya to the States with little difficulty. Had he been using this the entire time?
'So this is how you tracked my grandpa for a week with no real sense of navigation,' Chris realized.
'As impressive as this is,' Miles announced, 'you wanted to show us something about Danny?' Swift somehow spiritually manifested himself, and floated over to Miles.
'If being Sonic long enough has taught me anything,' Swift continued, 'it's that every human on Earth has the same Chaos Energy output as a specific Chao. And using this unique ability I have, I can probably spend several lifetimes matching every human and Chao on the planet to make Chaos Morphers for. I am not doing that, though, because it would be a waste of reincarnations, and we don't need that many teammates. (A/N: Random Chao Fact- when its time for a Chao to die, if they received proper care and had a good life, they will be enveloped in a pink chrysalis that leaves an egg that, when hatched, is a reincarnation of the very Chao that just died.)
'Moving along, I'm going to show Miles his partner for the second Morpher.' Swift then pressed on Miles' head, and a yellow light floated out of the fox Chao… and towards Danny. Chris and Miles were shocked.
"Hey," Danny questioned, "are you guys okay? Don't tell me you have to throw up again!" Sonic and Miles both returned to reality, and looked at Danny.
"Uh, no," Miles stated. "We just had a rather interesting mind to mind conversation. And you won't believe what we've got to tell you-"
"Can it wait?" Danny questioned. Miles gave a look of confusion while Sonic looked back. There was a GUN plane behind them, and the missiles looked locked.
"Oh crap," Sonic breathed. He looked at the Morpher- not much time on it. He pulled out his Chaos Emerald, and recharged it like he did the first time he transformed. "We have to protect the plane- I'm not a huge fan of burning to death, especially when it involves heights of over fifty feet up."
"Alright, hang on!" Danny then pulled the plane up, and flew upside-down right over the GUN jet. As he was doing this, Sonic leapt out of the Tornado, and landed heavily right on the glass chamber sealing the cockpit to the opposing plane.
"This situation looks a little familiar," Sonic reminisced, drawing back a fist. It didn't take long for the GUN pilot to see what was about to happen in this scene- he and just about everybody in the entire country saw how this one Mobian hedgehog destroyed the Speed Team- particularly the way he defeated Hector Drags. "So, do you wanna save me the trouble, or should I do a repeat performance?"
The pilot decided to save him the trouble- not just because that it was easier on both of them, but because that the pilot thought that after the boost that the Tornado made earlier and Sonic would have no time to react to the sudden cockpit opening that he would be taking the hedgehog out with little to no recovery time for any potential rescues to be made. So, he quickly reached over and pressed the eject button.
Like the pilot thought, Sonic didn't have enough time to react to this sudden chain of events. Well, even if he did, he did not have enough room to avoid being flung off of the plane by the glass flying off, much to the shock of Danny and Miles- who had an exclamation mark over his head, I may add.
Danny stared at the airborne hedgehog plummeting to his death. He didn't know what to do. Luckily, Miles already had a plan- jump into the front seat, force the Morpher onto Danny's wrist, and take the Tornado down after Sonic. Once Danny recovered from the sudden brain freeze, he noticed Miles flying the plane. "Have you done this before?"
"Nope," Miles answered, "but there's a first for everything. Like how we're going to have to use that Morpher to save our buddies!"
"What!?" Danny asked. "Autopilot engage, and follow that hedgehog!" The plane oddly enough obeyed, letting Miles turn to Danny. "What do you mean by use this thing around my wrist?"
"Chris can turn into Sonic by combing his human body with Swift's chaotic soul," Miles summarized. "So, why shouldn't we? If Sonic's speed powers are influenced by Swift's abilities, then I'll be able to allow you to fly fast enough to catch Sonic and recover."
"And if this screws up?"
"Well, we're all going to be paste on the ground, but if we don't, our friends are going to die anyways." Danny didn't need another reason why not to do it- he was going to lose a best friend if he didn't, and how the hell was he going to explain to France and Helen that Chris died because of an act of selfishness on Danny's part by staying in the plane?
"If this doesn't work," Danny warned Miles as the two stood up, "I will see you in hell!" Without anything else, the duo jumped out of the plane, Danny yelling, "Chaos Soul, Take Flight!" Miles disappeared in a yellow-orange light as Danny started to transform, gaining fox ears, three long strands of fur at the top of his head, two long tails, and his eyes being a clear sapphire blue.
Back with Sonic, he was falling fast. He couldn't see how close he was to the ground, as the wind was rushing into his face and his sunglasses weren't over his eyes, so the air resistance was forcing his eyes shut. 'Okay,' Chris admitted, 'that was a really bad idea to offer him a choice."
'Ya think!?" Swift sarcastically remarked. 'You know, if I didn't do land based missions most of the time, I'd say this is an ironic way to die.'
Suddenly, Sonic was quite literally jerked out of his thoughts by a tug on his leg. Sonic then opened his eyes to see that he was somehow floating in midair. He looked up, and saw a large, two-tailed, blue-eyed, yellow-orange humanoid fox spinning his tails rapidly like a propeller. The fox was wearing a pair of flight goggles perched on his forehead, dark brown cargo pants, a tool belt around his waist, a pair of tan work gloves, a light yellow vest over a white t-shirt with the fox's face on it, and a pair of boots that were red in the back and white in the front. Sonic was so shocked, that he barely had enough time to catch the Chaos Emerald still in his pants pocket.
"You know," the fox began in a voice that sounded like Danny's, yet at the same time wasn't exactly like him, "you really need to actually think about how you're going to get back in the plane after you defeat our enemies."
Sonic gasped. "Danny? Miles?"
"I guess I'm the mix of the two," the fox answered, ascending to a decent height. "This Chaos Morpher stuff is actually true."
'Why wouldn't it be?' Swift chuckled. 'I mean, Chao are rumored to be aliens who brought seven supernatural gemstones that could destroy the entire world if we don't do anything about it. This makes sense somewhere.'
'I can hear that, you know,' Danny announced. Now both the fox and Sonic were shocked. 'Whoa… how can I do that?'
'…This is just a theory,' Miles announced, 'but since physical contact between us earlier when we used Chaos Energy allowed all of us but Danny to mentally communicate, since there are two Mobians in physical contact when exposed to a source of Chaos Energy, we can all talk telepathically.'
'Cool,' Danny and Chris agreed. The Tornado was coming back to pass under them. The two Mobians landed in the seats, and the fox shut off the autopilot.
"…We can't risk doing that again," the fox announced. "If any more GUN pilots show up, we're taking them down my way. We're just shooting them down in self-defense, and retreating back to the lab."
"Yeah," Sonic agreed, looking around. "Let's try to get out…oh crap." The fox turned around, and saw another GUN plane- no, three GUN planes tailing them.
"Hang on!" the fox yelled, pulling up yet again. The planes followed the Tornado, trying to get a lock on the plane. The pilot of the small plane knew what would happen if he sat still for but a few seconds- and he didn't like the sound of being blown to bits by a homing missile.
"Alright," the woman's voice yelled over the radio, "this is seriously your last chance to surrender yourself and land. I will not hesitate to kill you- my unit has been ordered to eliminate Sonic the Hedgehog at all costs! I'm not about to let some flyboy like you get in the way of my duty." The fox casually picked up the radio.
He casually replied, "I don't exactly think I would have tried to outrun you the first time when you had seven jets on my tails if I was interested in landing."
"Wait… Tails!? As in, you have more than one tail!? You're just like that Sonic we've been chasing!"
"Yes, yes I am," the fox boy smiled. "…You can call me Tails." The fox boy, now known as Tails, grinned- if only he could see the shock on her face. Well, he wasn't about to let the sudden shock go to waste- Tails preformed yet another loop while all three pilots were distracted, and got behind them. "Have a nice day," he breathed into the radio before jamming down on the gun's trigger, shooting out the first plane's engine. Sonic watched, stunned as their second GUN plane went down, and the pilot ejected.
The two GUN pilots recovered from their first shock immediately after they saw their buddy's plane going down in smoke, and attempted to get out of the Tornado's line of fire, but to no avail- Tails had kept shooting, hitting one of the plane's in the wing, and the other's engine, having that one join its fallen comrades.
"You're an excellent pilot," the female GUN pilot complimented Tails. "To think we haven't noticed a guy like you."
"Are you about to tell me that if we met under different circumstances, I could be a great GUN pilot?" Tails casually asked while turning his plane in the opposite direction of her turn.
"No," the female pilot replied, shocking Tails a little bit. "Even if we met under different circumstances, remember that you're still like Sonic. You're an outcast in this world of ours… so I probably would've been ordered to kill you, even if it weren't for the hedgehog."
'Chris,' Swift finally spoke up, 'we need to hurry this up and help take her down so we can retreat to the lab without drawing any attention to ourselves. Any ideas?'
'Just one,' Chris replied, but I don't like it.' Since Swift and Chris shared a mind, Swift didn't even need to be told the plan.
'Dude,' Swift yelled at him, 'that plan is too risky, even for me! We're either going down in flames or breaking every bone in our bodies!'
'I'm not getting any better ideas from your half of the mind!' Chris retorted. 'Besides, it's the only way Danny and Miles are guaranteed an escape, and they might have time for us.' Swift reluctantly agreed to the plan, and Sonic turned to the pilot of the Tornado.
Sonic announced, "Hey, Danny… no, Tails." The fox boy looked at his hedgehog friend in confusion. "Can you fly me over her plane?"
"What?" Tails gasped at the question. "What are you up to!?"
"I don't doubt that you can take that pilot in a fair dogfight," Sonic replied. "But if we don't either finish it quickly while her wing is pierced or distract her, she may call for back-up. And we need to get back as quickly and quietly as we can manage." Inside Tails' head, Miles instantly picked up.
'I get it!' Miles realized. 'Sonic jumps on the plane and removes the radio or removes the pilot out of the situation- preferably the radio.'
'With one of those two options gone,' Danny concluded, 'she can't call the rest of the pilots to her position for back-up to give chase!'
'We'll have to pick up Sonic,' Miles noted, 'but we need out of this mess soon, and this is the fastest way.'
Tails noticed that the Tornado was directly facing the GUN plane, which was about two football field's length away from them. "I admit you were a good opponent," the female pilot announced over the radio. "But I really need to bring this cat and mouse game to an end. Goodbye, Tails." She then pressed a button, and a Sidewinder missile flew from under the undamaged wing.
Now, most people would think that you couldn't beat a homing missile with a machine gun. Well, it really depended on the missile part of the equation. If it's a Sidewinder, then if you shot the warhead, you'd blow it up. And that's exactly what Tails did, much to the shock of the GUN pilot as the Tornado passed through the smoke overhead of her, dropping some not-so-friendly cargo in the form of a smirking blue hedgehog.
"Sorry, lady," Sonic apologized as he landed on the cockpit, axe-kicking straight through the glass. Sonic then saw who was chasing him through the skies- a woman in her mid-twenties with short, light brown hair, shock-filled sky blue eyes, lightly tanned skin, and soft features of her face dressed in a traditional GUN uniform. She reached for the Glock pistol that was in her side pouch, but Sonic was faster, grabbing her hand with one of his own, and grabbing the gun with the other, pointing the firearm at her.
Realizing that she was outmatched by this hedgehog and the mysterious new ally of his, the woman looked at Sonic with a mix of fear and anger in her eyes. "…Well?" she asked, looking straight into his eyes. She questioned, "What are you waiting for? This is the part where you pull the trigger." Sonic removed the safety from the gun as the pilot closed her eyes, waiting for the inevitable.
BANG!
The woman felt no pain… odd, when you just got your head blown off. However, when she opened her eyes, she saw the hedgehog pointing the smoking pistol at what used to be her plane's built-in radio. Sonic removed the clip of ammunition right in the woman's lap, and blew out the smoke. He casually threw the gun out into the open sky, and placed a calling card in the hand he was still holding before climbing out of the cockpit, leaving the woman to stare at the calling card.
Sonic started to travel to the plane's right wing when he saw the Tornado coming from behind the plane, shooting out the last engine. Sonic turned toward the cockpit to see the woman ejecting from the plane, still staring at the card. Sonic gave her a mock salute before jumping on the passing wing of the Tornado.
(A/N: THIS MARKS THE END OF EXTREME AIR-O-VISION. YOU MAY NOW RELAX FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EPISODE.)
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Chuck's Garage- 18:21
"So," Chuck began while looking at Danny's Morpher, "we now have another ally in the battle against Robotnik." They were all back at Chuck's place- Sonic and Tails had returned to normal hours ago (although Tails had trouble deactivating his Chaos Morpher), and were going over the battle.
"Yeah," Chris yawned, lying on the couch. "Danny saved my life a few times today, and you should have seen him dogfight as Tails." He looked over to Karin, who was finishing up examining the two Chao while Danny watched in interest.
"Well, Miles," Swift casually smiled, "do I know how to pick them, or what? Danny's the perfect second recruit and a good partner for you to talk geek with." Miles gained a swirl over his head in annoyance, while Danny coldly stared at the hedgehog Chao.
"My only concern about all of this," Tanaka spoke up, "is that you all neglected the falcon robot that attacked the city."
"I know," Danny sighed. "While we were dealing with those four pilots, the others went after the falcon and destroyed it… at least that's what the news reports from this early evening said."
"Well," Chris admitted, "we can't be the heroes all of the time…." He thought back to that female pilot he met. She had just stared at the calling card as he left her. It was almost as if she was expecting him to kill her. Almost as if she had been forced to think that he would have placed a bullet in her skull if given even the slightest chance- that clip was mostly full when he last checked. But when he didn't, though… she was stunned. Like her life was just revealed to be a lie.
'If that's just GUN's way of corrupting soldiers,' Chris thought to himself, 'then we really need to hurry up before they find out about the Chaos Emeralds. …We're going to need all the help we can get for this while keeping it secret.'
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Echidna Chao: So, you're the ones who are responsible for all of this.
Swift: Responsible? Responsible for what?
Echidna Chao: Don't play that game! I know you two are Sonic, and I know you stole the Emerald from Angel Island. If you know what's good for you, you'll hand it over before I get rough with you!
Chris: Emerald from Angel Island? Swift, do you know about this?
Swift: No! I don't even know where Angel Island is!
Echidna Chao: You're going to regret making me use force! My partner and I will beat the answers out of you if we have to! I swear it as the last of the Guardians!
Swift: Next time on Sonic Chao Chronicles: Knuckles the Echidna, Guardian of the Master Emerald!
Echidna Chao: Don't get in my way!
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Kingdom Rider92's Notes: Okay, I apologize for making you all wait for two months and make it seem like it's rushed towards the end. I was trying to meet a deadline I set myself. But hey, I add in a character that is considered an easter egg (imaginary holiday turkey to whoever guesses the character), and I leave the year with you guys expecting the third main Sonic hero (well, Shadow's an anti-hero, and even if he was a hero, he wasn't introducted until Sonic Adventure 2). I've been too busy with real life... applying to college and all that. I'm almost temptd to not do these reviews... Kingdom Rider92, out!
Swift's Notes: Well, dang, if you're not in the mood (and since my birthday in the Chao Chronicles universe is December 24th), I'll answer them! Where to begin...
Salamander Hanzo: ...Are you sure you're not a zombie? Because I happen to know a few guys in the video game universe who deal with your kind on a regular basis. Anyways, thanks for liking us. And if you are a zombie, thanks for not eating my brains. Though the others do say I'm kind of air-headed.
SPark681: Sorry to disappoint if Tails' first field mission with Sonic was nothing more than a firefight with GUN. We were running low on time, and Tails will do actual physical feats later in First Lap. At least that's what I'm told. Chaos, I hope Danny and Miles help me and Chris in the field. We have Knuckles to fight, next, and I don't want to do that alone!
White Hunter: Well, I hope the first paragraph answered your hopes. We'll try to update in January... no promises, though, people.
Zohaku: Card Passer being evil... well, he and a few other characters that we've had slight cameos for already are a big reference to the Sonic X comic. Just go look around and see if you recognize any names. In the meantime, yeah, Danny and Miles have some similarites. In the actual Sonic franchise, Sonic and Tails are best friends. In Sonic X, before Sonic showed up on that Chris' world, Danny was Chris' best friend. That's why Kingdom Rider92 decided that Miles and Danny were going to be partners. Some pairs you've already found that work. Moving right along.
SuperSpeed: Thanks for the compliment, and love the penname! Now, despite how original it seems, I'm pretty sure that Kingdom Rider92 is not the first Sonic the Hedgehog fanfiction writer who has a group of Chao as the main characters, gives a human boy the ability to transform into an anthropomorphic hedgehog, or even attempts to rewrite Sonic X so it actually appeals to a more mature audience without throwing in buckets of blood, gore, intense language, or a sex scene. I doubt he'll be the last, though... they never are.
Well, it's been a fun few months since we got this started, and it's already the end of 2009. I was hoping for a little more screentime, but personal lives do get in the way of this website. See you in 2010, people, and have a happy holiday! This is Swift, signing off!