Chapter 2
Meteor
(A/N: I have returned. Sorry it took a while to update, but I brought a new chapter with me!)
"Oh, oh, oh COME ON! Tails, can't you just pretend to be new at Halo?" Sonic shouted playfully; the score was currently Sixteen-Love.
Guess who was ahead?
Tails grinned. "Look, Sonic, just because you snapped me out of my funk doesn't mean I'm gonna go easy on..."
"SWORDCANCEL!"
"AAGH!" Sixteen-One.
Tails gripped his controller and patiently waited for the re-spawn counter to hit zero. Suddenly, Sonic held up a finger, staring at the cieling. "Wait, Tails."
"Nice try, Sonic."
Sonic slowly shook his head. "No. Don't you feel that?"
Tails paused. "No."
Sonic put his finger down, but continued to stare at the ceiling for a few seconds, then looked at his friend. "Seriously. I felt something really weird. It was like a sense of foreboding, like something...or someone really bad's coming..."
"DROPPED YOUR GUARD!"
"DAMMIT!" Seventeen-One.
"Repeat after me...I, Rowan..." Said Nebulous, trying to restrain himself from smashing the monitor with his scythe handle.
"I, Rowan..." Said Rowan.
"Will never, ever again..."
"Will never, ever again..."
"Take off without my master..."
"Take off without my master..."
"Or else." The Seedrian assassin finished with a murderous snarl. He had to jack a guy's speeder, hotwire it, chase after his ship, and dock with it while the cruise engines were running. And worst of all...he had forgotten his latte. Needless to say, he was reasonably pissed off. However, he controlled himself and sat down in his chair. "Okay Rowan, now you can take off to Mobius."
"But sir, you just got through saying..."
"NOW, ROWAN!"
"There it is..." Said Nebulous, staring through the invisi-steel windshield at the blue and green planet below. He reached out and pressed a button.
Instantly, Dark Oak appeared on the screen. "Yes?"
"I have arrived at Mobius. I shall start the mission immediately." Said Nebulous eagerly.
"Remember." Said Dark Oak. "You are not to harm her."
Nebulous pulled out a cloth and began cleaning his scythe casually. "Yeah, yeah, I know. A dead Seedrian's not too good for a sacrifice, is it?"
"Yes, so I say this seriously...don't screw up."
"Okay, okay, I'm going!" Shouted Nebulous, throwing his scythe down on the floor and running off with the cloth. He stopped, then walked sheepishly back to the scythe, picked it up and dropped the cloth, then ran to the teleporter. Dark Oak rolled his eyes, then blinked out.
Nebulous stepped into the teleporter and prepared for transfer. "Okay, Rowan. Beam me..." No sooner than he said it when the entire ship gave a sickening lurch, knocking the bravo clean off his feet. "ROWAN!"
"It was not me, sir! It is a meteor storm!"
"SAY WHAT?!" Nebulous tore out of the teleporter room and into the control room. He grabbed the joystick and pulled the accelerator. The ship's cruise engines fired, propelling them out of the shower of detritus. He stood up again and staggered back to the teleporters. "I'm gonna have an ulcer by the time this crap is over."
There was a knock at Sonic's door. Sonic stood up and put down his controller. "Who could that be?" He walked out of the family room, paused, then glanced back at Tails. "No free kills while I'm gone."
Tails stood up. "Don't worry, I'll come too." He said, running to Sonic's side as he opened the door.
"Amy!" Said Sonic. "What's up?"
Amy Rose the Hedgehog looked, to say the least, in a big hurry. "Sonic, Tails, get out here. There's this huge meteor shower!"
"Wow..." Said Sonic. Thousands of points of light lit up the skies, burning brightly for an instant before vanishing into nothingness.
"There's so many..." He looked around and saw the three were not alone; There was Cream the Rabbit, Vanilla, her mother, and Cheese, Cream's pet Chao, who were sitting on a picnic blanket. Knuckles the Echidna was leaning against a nearby rock and gazing up at the spectacle with a bemused expression on his face. Sonic stared up at the sky, and he felt a soft hand slip into his own. He glanced over at Amy.
Well, maybe just this once.
Suddenly he heard an odd choking noise next to him. He looked at Tails. The poor kitsune was quivering like a machine on overload about to fly apart. Tears dripped down his muzzle, and he looked like he was trying to compose himself before he fell apart completely. Suddenly, he turned around and dashed back into the house, slamming the door behind him. Sonic stared.
"There was a meteor storm when Cosmo first came to Earth." Amy explained. Sonic nodded.
"Oh, that explains it..." Suddenly, he felt someone pull on his hand. He looked down to see Cream staring up at him.
"Um, Mr. Sonic? Can I go see Tails? Maybe I can cheer him up."
Sonic smiled. "Sure thing, Cream. Go right in." Cream smiled, beckoned to Cheese and ran into Sonic's house. Sonic grinned.
"Life is good." He said, looking back up at the meteors.
Unfortunately, the team did not notice a cold blue eye staring at them from a nearby tree. Nebulous grinned. "Well, well...So these are the great heroes Dad told me about..."
"YES, AND IF YOU UNDERESTIMATE THEM, YOU WILL BE MAKING THE SAME MISTAKE I DID." Oak's voice boomed through Nebulous's earpiece, causing the Seedrian to scream in agony and fall out of the tree.
Sonic looked up. "You hear something?"
Amy looked around. "No."
Nebulous gripped his ear and panted for breath. "Dad...the volume..."
There was a soft click over the earpiece and then Oak's voice, at a normal volume this time. "What happened? Was the volume too high?"
"Too high?" Nebulous laughed painfully. "Yeah, let's just leave it at that...Anyway, you wouldn't believe who's watching a meteor storm on this planet...the blue rat, red anteater, pink rat, fox, rabbit, the whole deal. The problem is, Cosmo's off the grid: she's not here."
"Hmm." Dark Oak murmured. "Okay. Nebulous, you are not to harm any of them. You are not to be seen. They may come in use later. For now, you are to find out where Cosmo is. Do some reconnaissance to find White Seed."
"Got it, Dad." Said Nebulous. "Nebulous out." He tried to stand up, but thanks to the tremendous blast of sound directed right into his left ear, the semi-circular canals in his ear that kept his balance were still disturbed. The result: he found himself flat on his face. "Dammit."
"It looks like they're slowing down." Said Sonic. "Anyway, that was quite a windfall." He turned to Tails. "Feeling better?"
"Yeah." Said Tails. Cream giggled. "We talked about the good times we had with Cosmo, and it made us both feel better."
"Cream! Cheese!" Called Vanilla. "Time to go!" Cream stood up.
"Goodbye, everyone." She called as she ran after her mother. Knuckles sat up.
"I'd best be heading back too." He said, waving goodbye as he ran off to Angel Island. Tails wound up and flew off with a goodbye of his own. Finally it was just Amy and Sonic.
"You know..." Amy began. "Falling stars are meteors like we saw today. With so many falling stars our wishes are bound to come true. What did you wish for, Sonic...Sonic?"
He was gone.
"SONIC, YOU ALWAYS DO THIS!"
End chapter 2
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