Things may get a little hectic with the stories since I'm working on two one-shots for Sonic, a one-shot for Naruto, an actual story for Naruto featuring Tayuya and Jiroubo, and this. I may not do the Naruto story, since I'm more eager to do the ScrapYard story for Sonic. Except late updates! Usually, I'll update on Saturday and Sunday each week or two. Sorry!
Characters (C) Sega, Sonic Team
Kiba (C) Me
Babylon Sky Hawk (C) Himself, and me. MY LITTLE ROCK LEE HAS GROWN UP SO FAST. manly tears of joy
Tomo: But you aren't a man...or named Might Guy.
WHO ASKED YOU, TOMO!
Ch. 14: Arks of the Cosmos
"Hey, Jet, where did ya get that bracelet?" I asked once we boarded the ship.
Wave pummeled Mighty before coming back on. Much to her displeasure, of course. She wanted Mighty to be near death, but Jet ordered her to come back on the ship or we'd leave her behind. Honestly, I thought Jet's response was rather cruel to his supposed girlfriend. Wonder what's eating him?
Jet glared over at me. "It's not a bracelet, stupid. It's an Ark of the Cosmos."
"Ark of the Cosmos?" Kiba repeated.
"Yeah! Hard at hearing today or are those headphones wound up to loud?"
Kiba didn't reply, but stared at her feet.
Storm decide to change the subject. "So, B-Boss, where did you get it?"
"That mission I gave you three was just to stall you guys from screwing this up." Jet stood up from his chair. We were in his office as Jet ridiculed us. His behavior was completely out of character. Well, Jet was mean, just not this mean. "Wave and I set out to the Gigan Rocks to the place where the shooting star landed. That star was this Ark."
"What does it do?" I asked, hoping not to upset him.
Jet appeared glad that I asked. "This baby can control gravity, like so." Jet lifted his Ark into the air. A greenish hue sparked on the Ark's center, and Jet began to float in air. A few seconds later, Storm and Kiba were floating along with him. Since I was hovering, gravity didn't apply to me.
Storm flew around like a little kid. "Whee! I can fly!"
Wave came in, flew on gravity, and nailed Storm on the head with her wrench. "Jet, I have some news to give you."
"News?" Jet repeated, disengaging the gravity unit. Storm pouted when he reached the ground.
Wave activated her computer orb. We gathered around. "The Ark of the Cosmos is an engine unit created by our ancestors to power up Babylon Garden. I'll need to analyze it further, but I think this stone's magnetic field is able to transmute a planet's mass energy, and create a singularity to-"
"Gah!" Jet cried. "Shut up, already, what this news?"
"Take a look at this."
The screen popped up to a newscast about MeteorTech. MeteorTech is an advanced technology factory chain located all around the world that creates robots to help protect the citizens. Some work at Twinkle Park, while other work as bodyguards. On the screen, it showed a MeteorTech robot crashing into Megalo Station's museum and stealing an artifact that looked like Jet's Ark of the Cosmos.
Jet gasped in realization. "That's an Ark of the Cosmos! Storm, set a course to Megalo Station on the double!"
"Roger that, Boss!" Storm replied, saluting him. Rushing out of the room, Storm slammed the doors shut causing that picture of Jet's father to fall on Jet's head.
Jet flickered his head up. Using the Ark's power, he lifted the portrait up, chucking it into his room. Wave sighed, shaking her head. "There goes the-"
Kiba Sniper paused at her computer. She couldn't think of an extremely high, yet stupid, yet completely original number to put there. Despite her randomness, her brain froze. Kiba poked the computer violently. Perhaps the fact that writing three one-shots was bad for her didn't matter. Or the fact that she just had ice cream didn't apply. Saving the document, Kiba shut her computer down.
"I need some random help, and I know the one guy who can help me," she muttered, taking out the FanFiction screen-name phone book.
She flipped to the Bs, wondering if he was even in the phone book. Somehow, he was. Immediately, she dashed to the phone and dialed the number, wondering if he was even awake.
Meanwhile, Babylon Sky Hawk was just about to fall asleep when the phone rang. It echoed throughout his room, making it louder. He rubbed his eyes, glaring at the phone. "Who's calling at eleven?" he asked to himself. "Hello?."
"What's up?" Kiba replied.
"Who's this?"
"Kiba-sensei."
"No!"
"YES!" Kiba shouted, nearly piercing her student's ear.
Babylon Sky Hawk stared at the phone for three seconds. "What?"
"You heard me."
"...Are you serious?"
"Yeah, now, name a number!"
"What? A number?" Babylon Sky Hawk scratched his head, thinking for a number. "Um, fifty-three?"
"Thanks! I love you! Now, write more Sonic Heroes!"
"But it's eleven!"
"Yeah, well, I AM SENSEI."
Babylon Sky Hawk saluted, even though she wasn't present. "Yes ma'am!"
"Good Lee! Kiba-sensei is proud!"
Both struck the "Good Guy" pose before hanging up. Kiba sat back down at her computer and continued to type furiously, while Babylon Sky Hawk was trying to figure out what the heck just happened.
"...How'd she get my phone number?" he wondered just before he fell asleep.
"There goes the fifty-third portrait," Wave muttered, taking out a new picture of Jet's dad in its place.
Jet's father looked exactly the same as it had for the past fifty-two portraits. The same beady, stern yellow eyes, with that black cloak. As I gazed at him, I noticed Jet glaring up at his father. Jet's eyes were the same, but teal. For a split second, his teal orbs turned into a dark blood red. Shuddering, Jet glanced away. A certain sadness filled his eyes. I remembered that his father killed his mother before dissapearing and making him leader. Who could do that to their son? Just leave him in a cold world? Oh, yeah. My parents.
See, when I was younger, I was the prince of the GoldenHive Colony, but apparently, those two lousy bum parents of mine thought I was worthless. So they just left me to die in a trash can. However, Vector rescued me when I was on the verge of starvation. Vector raised me as his own. I was five months old when I came into Vector's life. Espio came into our lives when I was three or four. That's when Doctor Eggman captured us on Angel Island in his carnival-themed trap.
Jet shook violently for a few seconds. I caught a green shiny glint of light illuminating from his Ark, but it stopped after a second. Jet grinned, reverting to his normal self. Facing us, he apologized for the disturbance and left.
Wave hung up the new picture, accepting Jet's apology. "Something's wrong with him," she muttered to Kiba and I.
Kiba nodded. "Maybe it's just teenage angst."
Snorting at the idea, Wave gave Kiba a slap over the head. "Are you serious? Stop fooling around!"
"W-who's fooling?" Kiba rubbed her head. She placed her headphones over her ears before adding, "I'm probably right."
"Oh, you're right." Wave rolled her eyes, making a gagging noise. "If you were right, the world would end."
"Hey, my predictions were never wrong at Twinkle Park!"
"Stop fighting!" I shouted, stabbing them both with stinger.
Bad move, Charmy, bad, bad move. Both girls yelped and rubbed their shoulders where I had stung them. Glaring at me, I could feel their hatred towards me as they advanced. Wave brandished her wrench; Kiba had her bat. I was plowed against the wall with Wave's wrench, and I think you can guess what happened next. Cue me with a whole lot of cuts and bruises.
Well, I was hurt. Real badly. I seriously wondered how I was still breathing. Wave and Kiba really put a number in me. I had a large bandage placed on my forehead, and my arm was twisted backwards. Storm fixed my arm by twisting it in the right direction, but that made it hurt even more! The only good thing was that my arm was placed to the right position.
It was sort of late now, around three o' clock. The Babylon Rogues, Kiba and I were in Megalo Station. The MeteorTech robots were still in the area. Wave located the one with the Ark of the Cosmos. That specific robot was leading the pack. Jet ordered everyone to split up to distract the remaining robots. He added that he would kill the leader robot personally.
We all split up. Storm and Wave rode to the left, decieving four of the robots to follow them. Storm and Wave split up as well, taking two robots down seperate streets. Kiba managed to snag two robots to follow her down into the train station. That left me with two for myself. Jet chased the leading robot farther away from us while we kept in close range with each other. Two other robots that were previously chasing Kiba followed Jet. A few new robots replaced them for Kiba's sake.
The robots drove around in wheels that they rolled up in. It was strange, making them harder to anticipate. The robots had good, average speed, but poor handling. Whoever made these 'bots were either bored or just drunk since the robots did whatever they wanted. The robots that were chasing me decided to team up, and one got in front while the other got in back. I swerved away just in time so that the robot in back of me slammed into the robot in front. Both robots spun out of control and crashed into a car, destroying them in a feiry explosion.
"Suckers!" I shouted, zooming away to find the others.
First, I found Wave, but she had already completed her mission. Same with Kiba, but I couldn't find Storm anywhere. Rain started to pour. Both girls complained about their clothing and how the rain while ruin their hairstyle.
"What's the matter?" I asked.
"Ugh," Wave moaned. "I'm getting wet. Charmy, birds don't do well in the rain."
Kiba nodded. "I can stand the rain, just not a typhoon."
Shrugging, I had to agree. The winds were picking up; I was almost swept away until Kiba caught me. We rode on our Gears for as long as we could. Finally, after what seemed to be an hour, we managed to find Storm, but it turned out to be only five minutes.
Storm was holding one of the MeteorTech robot's arm. "S-sorry, guys. Where's Boss?"
"We don't really know," Wave replied, seeming ticked about Storm's tardiness. Thankfully for Storm, she let it slide. She was more concerned with finding Jet.
Storm hung his head in misery.
"Hey, it's okay, Storm," I said, trying to cheer him up. Just before the wind came to wipe me off my board, Storm caught me before I flew off. "Thanks!"
"Anytime."
Wave took off, making us scramble to follow her. "Come on, I don't think Jet's even within the city boundaries anymore!" she shouted over the high winds.
"You sure?" Kiba questioned, shielding her eyes from the rain.
"Of course I am! When was I wrong?"
Storm appeared deep in thought. "Never!"
"Right!"
Wave guided us out of the storm and into the forest. In the forest, the rain didn't affect because there was some sort of energy barrier around the lush trees. The barrier looked like it was composed of glass, but Wave told us she saw some computerized technology that created a perimeter around the forest. The barrier originated from them. Honestly, I had no idea what gadgetry or technology Wave was spouting. I just liked the really long words. That's when I realized that we were in the Botanical Garden.
The forest ended, but came out to a paved road. Up ahead, was Jet looking extraordinarily angry. In front of him were three MeteorTech robots. The one that was leading was the leader robot with the Ark of the Cosmos.
"Heh, too slow!" Jet cried, leaping into the air. He crashed down upon the robot to the left, and kicked away at the robot to the right. The leader robot glanced back at Jet before darting into the air. Activating his Ark, Jet used a move called Gravity Control which lifted him up into the air. Spreading his wings, he dived upon the leader robot and kicked him into the forest. "Shoot, lost it!" Using the Ark once more, he dived down at amazing speed, which nearly propelled him into the trees as he attempted to catch up to the robot.
"Jet!" Wave cried as we began our agonizing chase, praying that Jet was okay.
I wondered if Jet was ever suicidal because that was extremely reckless. Jet was acting more brazen and bossy now. As Vector would say "pissy around others". I asked myself why Jet would behave so stupidly. Honestly, he was acting like Nack just alot more bratty.
The robot was out of commission. It released the Ark of the Cosmo onto the grassy land. Unfortunately, we weren't there quick enough to find the robot or Jet. A few somebodies completely unexpected decided to pop in at the wrong time to snatch the Ark as their own.
We found Jet kneeling at the edge of a cliff. He was overlooking...Sonic? What was that punk hero doing here anyway? To make matters worse, Tails and Knuckles were backing him up. The robots that Jet pursued were unharmed and apparently looking for them. Two figures creeped up on the unsuspected hedgehog.
"Guess who?" a feminine voice asked.
Sonic looked annoyed. Two gloved hands were covering his eyes. "Amy?"
Amy chuckled. "Not just me! Cream's here too."
"Great, just make my life worse!" I thought, rolling my eyes.
"Why are you two here?" Sonic asked.
"Don't you know? Fated lovers are always drawn together, silly!" Amy replied, her green orbs sparkling. Instead of her usual dress, she had a white top on with a pink stripe with matching pants, but just switch the color scheme of the pants. Cream had a similar color scheme outfit, but had shorts instead of pants. From her pants pocket came a round metal object.
"What's that?" Tails asked, inspecting the object.
Cream picked it up and held it close. "The cause of all our troubles."
"We picked it up, and those stupid robots came after us!" Amy added. "Oh, I was so scared!" She latched onto Sonic, making him squirm.
Jet glared hatefully at the group. He began to twitch and grunt, almost uncontrollably. Kiba halted my gesture of trying to shake him. When I asked why, she pointed at the group. They were still talking.
Tails appeared deep in thought. "So that's what they're after: this stone."
"Right. Then I guess the key to solving this mystery is MeteoTech," Sonic proclaimed, clenching his fist.
Knuckles shielded his eyes from the sun. "Sonic, we've got company!"
Coming at top speed, were the three robots that Jet supposedly dismantled. The Sonic Heroes leaped onto their Extreme Gear and went forth towards MeteorTech. Cream was holding onto the Ark of the Cosmos. Unlike Jet's, this certain Ark had a purple center.
Jet growled and continued to twitch until they were out of sight. Flinching, Jet felt a warm hand pressed onto his shoulder. He glanced back at us in surprise. "You four?"
"We heard them, too," Wave said, trying to make his temper simmer. "Let's circle on ahead to gather information."
Jet stood up, rage vivid on his face. "Huh, just wait Sonic the Hedgehog. They won't call you fastest for long."
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Next: Reunion! Fight at MeteoTech!
Hey, a question: Is it MeteoTech or MeteorTech? I've seen both titles in the game and I'm pretty confused on which on to use. MeteorTech sounds more formal then MeteoTech.
jabs Babylon Sky Hawk with pencil for no good reason