I've been on a kick at this, so the other stories will have to wait I suppose! You know, I wonder if Sega will ever bring back the older characters, like Mighty. They brought back Vector, Espio, and Charmy. Not that I'm not happy that they did, I'm glad! By the way, if anyone cares, I joined Gaia under my screenname here, Kiba Sniper. So check me out there! Another thing, some of the information in here I just made up because I couldn't play SRZG and YouTube was blocked so I couldn't see the cutscenes. Bare with me on the info!
Another thing, in SRZG, on the MeteorTech buildings, it did say MeteorTech as aika08 pointed out, but as WhipOwnsAll pointed out, MeteoTech was just a pun since some of the characters say MeteoTech. Thanks to WhipsOwnsAll and aika08 for the help on clearing that up!
Characters (C) Sega
Kiba (C) Me, Kiba Sniper
Ch. 15: Secret of the Arks
It was getting later and later. I seriously wondered what adrenaline kept Jet going by getting these Arks. Perhaps it was the fact that Sonic accuired one. If my rival got something I wanted, I'd definately go after them. However, Jet seems to be getting really edgy. He just barks orders at us whenever we turn a corner.
MeteorTech, or MeteoTech is the nickname, is a facility where the robots that went berserk were created. It was a huge factory with smaller cylinder one surronding it. The inside was completely different from the barren exterior. Inside, where security robots by the dozen. With electrical wires spirling all over the place, I noticed that their were cameras and walls with lasers. It reminded me of Prison Island, except for the fact that this place was much, much cleaner.
We searched around for a few seconds, before a camera spotted us. The alarms blared on, making Kiba twitch. She held her ears.
"Gah, so loud," she muttered.
"Shut up, pansy," Jet ordered as five robots made their way towards us. Jet smirked and activated his Ark. We floated up in the air and crashed into the robots, destroying them.
All five of us landed directly in front of our targets: Team Sonic, Amy and Cream. Jet kneeled before getting up before a bewildered Sonic.
"It's been a while, Sonic the Hedgehog," Jet greeted, ice coating his voice.
"Jet?" Sonic asked, surprised.
Wave smirked at my twin-tailed rival. Waving she greeted as politely as she could. "Long time no see, Shorty."
I couldn't help but laugh at the comment. Tails growled at me. I suppose he was still upset about that comment I made about his orphanage. Well, so what? His parents were probably like mine and Jet's: losers.
Storm looked ready for a fight. "We're here to settle the score from last time!" Storm declared, putting up a battle position and ready to lash out at Knuckles.
Knuckles put up his own fighting stance. "Anytime, Babylon Rogues."
Glaring back at Storm, Jet hissed, "Cut it out, Storm!" Facing Cream, he ordered, "Alright girly, hand over the-huh? Where'd she go?"
Suddenly, Kiba screamed as Cheese latched onto her ponytail. She ran around in a circle as Cream tried to calm Cheese down who suddenly got angry with Kiba. Kiba looked ready to pass out until she dashed down a hallway. Cream gasped before flying after them. A moment of silence passed. And that's how we find out Kiba's weakness: She was terrified of chao.
"...Weirdos," I muttered, shaking my hand.
Jet cleared his throat, facing Amy. "Alright, girly, hand over the Ark of the Cosmos!" he bellowed, pointing at Amy's wrist that now held the Ark.
Amy glared at Jet. "What are you talking about?"
"Don't play dumb!" he shouted, making Amy gasp. His eyes swapped to a feindish red color. "Not after swipping the Ark of the Cosmos right under me with that bunny!"
Sonic intervened. "Hey, hold up a second. Girls hate guys who rush them, Jet."
The red color in Jet's eyes passed as Sonic finished. Glancing over to him, Jet grinned wickedly. "Rush? Heh, I'm the fastest thing in the universe, and today I'm going to prove it!"
Sonic chuckled, but the alarms suddenly blared on. Tails told Sonic that they should find Eggman. Eggman? What was he doing here? Sonic nodded, telling Jet to stay cool and rushed off. Jet helplessly ordered him to stay. Growling, Jet blasted off on his Gear behind Sonic. Wave and I exchanged glances before taking off with Knuckles and Tails.
"Wait, where's Storm and Amy?" I thought, glancing around.
Sonic and Jet were far up ahead so that I could barely make them out as specks of blue and green. They were fighting from what I could see. Wave was a few feet in front of me, trying to hit Knuckles with her wrench. Knuckles blocked every hit, attempting to shove her back. For some reason, he was trying not to harm her. Oh, yeah, harm Kiba, not Wave.
A swift turn was coming up. Tails was right next to me. I ignored him as we turned. Tails barely made it since I was so close. Tails swerved in front of me, making me stop.
"Whaddya want?" I demanded, seeing Knuckles and Wave go faster.
"To talk," Tails explained. "Do you know what happened yesterday?"
"No, what?"
Tails told me that the Ark of the Cosmo he found outside his house was a meteorite that came from space. He chuckled at my gaping posture. Tails added it was that this stone was making the robots out MeteorTech go insane.
"Wow, really?"
Tails nodded. "Would I lie?"
"Hm..."
"Stop it!"
Feeling guilt wind up in me, I glanced over at Tails as we began to catch up to the group.
"Um, Tails?" I began as we took a shortcut via flying through these air hoops to catch up.
"Yeah?"
"That...that thing I said about your parents. I wanted to say...sorry." I muttered the last part weakly. "You're right. I do know the same pain as you, but so does Jet. Sorta."
"Jet too?" Tails' eyes widened.
"Well, his dad killed his mum, so yeah."
Tails shook his head. For once, he couldn't comprehend the fact of someone murdering another, especially couples. Okay, that last part was sort of a lie. He could understand the fact of a spouse killing his or her husband/wife if Vector or I set them up.
"Charmy, I forgive you," Tails said finally as we both landed from pulling a trick.
"Really? Cuz if I were you, I-"
"Charmy, don't push it."
I obeyed, giving him a false salute. Before I knew it, two MeteorTech robots were zooming at us in the ball forms. Tails ordered me to take the left one. Turning around, I created a mini tornado that destroyed my robot. Tails still had his long, electrical cord and zapped the robot into decommision.
"That thing's weird," I said as we jumped off our Gear.
"This?" Tails inspected his cord. "Nothing's wrong with-"
Before he could complete his sentence, Sonic and Jet came flying at us. Jet was looking angry while Sonic was smirking. On Sonic's wrist was the Ark of the Cosmos that Tails was talking about. Jet looked ready to explode. His face was gnarled into a scowl with glaring beady eyes. However, Sonic still maintained his calm composure until he saw us.
"Tails, Charmy, look out!" he shouted.
"Idiots," Jet bellowed. "behind you!"
Tails and I turned around just in time to see a trio of MeteorTech robots coming at us. Sonic used his Ark to blast away the robots using Gravity Control.
Jet was in awe. "You can use that power too?"
"Pretty handy really," Sonic replied, giving Jet a thumbs-up.
Tails and I obediatenly followed pursuit of the two fast Gearists. Wave and Knuckles found us a couple seconds later. A huge door was coming up. It seemed to be an ant from the distance, but morphed into a huge tower. Well, to me it was since I'm...little. Grr, I hate being small!
Sonic and Jet blasted through the door, hitting something. We all flew off and got off our Gears.
Knuckles placed a hand over his forehead, making a visor. "What went flying just now?"
The thing that Sonic and Jet hit was flailing on a large computer table. The figure leaped up into a leather chair. It was Doctor Eggman!
"Do I look like a ball to you?" he demanded, dusting himself off.
"Eggman!" Sonic gasped. "So you are behind this?"
"Behind what?"
"Don't play dumb! I'm talking about the global robot rampage! Did you hack into MeteoTech's system or something?"
Eggman laughed at that. "What do you mean? I own this company!" He burst into another howl of laughter.
Most of us gasped, except for Jet who looked mildy surprised. More or less, he probably didn't care. He crossed his arms, waiting for something interesting to occur. Wave and I exchanged another look of despair over Jet. Jet was certainly changing, but Vector always told me to never doubt my instict. My instict was telling me that these Arks of the Cosmos were changing Jet's entire behavior.
Sonic glared at Eggman. "So, you are in charge of this!"
"Actually, not quite."
Sonic and Knuckles walked forward, both looking agitated by Eggman's lack of help.
Eggman flinched, waving his arms. "Okay, okay, calm down! I'll let you in on something. Apparently, the robots appear to be following a leader. The robot has a stone similar to yours that is transmuting a magnetic field that is haywiring the other robots to do whatever the leader wants."
"Huh?" Knuckles asked, scratching his head.
Bapping Knuckles over the head with a screwdriver, Eggman barked, "Shut up and listen! The robots are trying to gather the five pieces of these gravity-controlling stones for the leader robot."
"But why do they want the stones?" Sonic asked, staring at the map Eggman placed on the screen.
Shrugging, Eggman shook his head. He didn't know.
Jet opened his eyes after listening to their converstation. "They're drawn to each other."
"What?" Eggman asked, whirling around on his chair.
"These aren't just some rocks." Jet appeared to be in a trance. He clecned his fist, looking at his Ark. "They're spoken of in Babylon clan legend as-Ah! Girl! Give me the Ark of the Cosmos!" He whirled around, expecting to see Amy.
But she wasn't there. Niether was Storm. Kiba and Cream were probably still running around. The monitor of Eggman's computer began to beep radically. Eggman turned to it. A few glimps of different colored lights were on. He activated his satellite monitor to reveal Amy running away from Storm in a place called the Aquatic Capital. Not to far behind, was the robot leader! Coming from the opposite direction, was Kiba being chomped on by Cheese with Cream chasing after them.
"Ah, Amy!" Sonic cried, grabbing his board. "Tails, Knuckles, we gotta save Amy!"
Knuckles and Tails nodded, rushing off after the blue hero.
Jet glanced over to us, ordering us to leave. Before leaving, however, Jet turned back towards Eggman.
"We'll be in contact again, my dear Jet," Eggman chortled, waving at him.
Disgusted, Jet flew ahead of Wave and I. Wave had a worried expression on her face.
"Wave, you okay?" I asked.
"Jet's worrying me," she replied in a meek voice. "He's never been like this, so cold."
I nodded. Jet was terrifying me. "Was it because I poured syrup on his bed?"
"No, stupid." She bonked me on the head with her fist.
At the same time, Storm was chasing Amy down a long metal road overlooking a river. Storm was panting, asking for her to wait. Amy groaned, wanting to stop herself. She skidded to a stop, facing Storm.
"Why do you keep following me!" she demanded, stamping her foot.
"B-because Je-Jet needs that-that Ark!" he replied replied through short pants.
Amy growled. Fed up with the antics, she reeled back her arm with the Ark of the Cosmos. "You want it, well catch!" she shouted, throwing the Ark.
Storm barely managed to glance up and smack! The Ark slammed into Storm's beak. The force propelled him onto the ground. He was sprawled out. He muttered something about pretty colors and that pots were from Mars. Amy hovered over him, glaring down. Storm quickly grabbed the Ark and hid it behind his back.
"Um, hi," Storm whimpered, waving.
"Because of you I got seperated from Sonic, you big jerk!" Amy declared.
"GET AWAY FROM ME, BLUE BLOB!" Kiba screamed as she tripped onto Amy, making both of them fall onto Storm.
Storm held his stomach in pain since Amy elbowed him there. Sitting up, Storm flinched when Amy was shaking Kiba roughly from the shoulders. Back and forth went Kiba's head. He caught her glasses, looking scared. Kiba made a groaning sound before falling over after Amy's rage wasc completed. Cream finally caught Cheese who appeared to be as dizzy as Kiba.
Amy glanced back over to Storm who was now standing. "So, you two are going to find the way out! Am I clear?"
Dragging Kiba to her feet, Storm scratched his head, muttering, "C-crystal clear, ma'am sir."
Storm dragged Kiba along since her head was spinning from Amy's barbaric assualt. Cream was trying to get Kiba to pet Cheese, but Kiba bluntly refused. Glancing behind, her eyes dilated when she saw Amy's Piko Piko Hammer getting longer.
On her tippy-toes, Amy whispered into Kiba's ear, "Do what Cream says, or else."
Nodding, Kiba shakingly extended her hand over Cheese's head. She hesisitated for a few moments until Storm smacked her head onto the chao's head. Cheese winched, but his personality bubble changed to happiness when Kiba started to rub his head. Cheese chuckled when Kiba picked him up with one hand. Kiba blushed, glancing away. Cheese waved his tiny arms in the air, wantig a ride.
Cream giggled. "I think he likes you Miss Kiba."
"Uh, y-yeah..."
Amy blinked curiously at Kiba. "You're afraid of chao?"
Kiba glanced away towards Cheese who placed himself on her shoulder. "Uh, alot of chao bite me. Don't know why." She patted Cheese before Cream gently reached up for Cheese, plucking him into her arms.
Storm shoved Kiba. "Aw, that's so cute."
"As soon as we go home, I'm kicking your a-"
Before Kiba finished her sentence, Amy elbowed her. She crudefully reminded Kiba that a child was present. Kiba wasn't the least bit happy, but continued to trudge along. Storm poked fun at her until he was slammed over the head with Amy's hammer.
"Not to fun is it, big guy?" Kiba retorted.
"Sh-shut up," he muttered, rubbing his sore beautiful head.
The readers paused at the second to last word. At the same time, one thought ran through whoever read this chapter's head: Weirdo.
The four walked for quite some time. At least a half an hour passed in awkward silence for Amy. In her heart, she felt that something was wrong. The way Jet treated her was completely unlike him. The pink hedgehog, bit her lip, hoping Sonic was okay with that insane hawk. Cream and Cheese continued to bombard Kiba and Storm with questions about theivary. Storm politely answered most of the questions Cream had, until she asked on particular one that made all three flinch.
"Mr. Storm, where do babies come from?" she asked, eyes twinkling.
The three stopped in their tracks. Kiba hid behind Amy so Storm couldn't ask for help. Storm stood there, looking like an idiot. The albatross was flustered, face red, eyes wide, heart stopped. He rubbed his forehead, looking for some sort of distraction.
Luckily for Storm, Amy was that distraction. Her ears perked up, and she shook Kiba off. "What's that noise?" she asked, hearing a rumbling sound.
Storm thanked God for Amy.
The four turned around just in time to see the robot leader charge at them at full speed. Cream hid behind Amy with Cheese quivering behind her head. The four cried out when the robot leader suddenly stopped in front of them. The robot shone a red laser on them. Unknowingly to himself, Storm held up the Ark of the Cosmos right in front of his face, and the light shone on it. Without warning, the robot exploded and crashed onto the ground.
Approaching the robot, Cheese flew over and kicked it. He then held his foot in extreme pain. Cream cradled her chao, asking if the robot was alright.
Storm leaned over the robot, inspecting it. Something made him gasp: Inside was an Ark of the Cosmo!
"It's the same!" Storm cried, leaning in on the robot. He pulled out the Ark, revealing two Arks of the Cosmos. "This is just like the stone Jet and Wave found at the Gigan Rocks!"
"The Giga what?" Amy repeated, confused.
"And now this makes two of them!" Facing Kiba, he announced, "We gotta get back and tell Jet!" Storm took off in a full run.
"Gah, hey! Wait!" Kiba barked, chasing after Storm.
Storm never felt this feeling of redemption before. He screwed up the Master Emerald scheme by allowing me to talk him into forgetting the mission. Well, wasn't my fault. I just wanted to see Mighty. Grinning stupidly, he noticed Kiba staring at him as they ran.
"What?" he asked.
"Can't we just use our Gears?" she suggested.
Storm slapped himself in the face forgetting the fact they used Extreme Gear. "Thanks for taking my moment away."
"Sorry, Storm."
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Next: Final Bout: Team Sonic versus Team Babylon!
I couldn't help adding that part of babies coming from. Cream just seems to cute not to ask!
Kiba Sniper