You ever realize that if you don't update in a week the story never gets finished? No seriously, if you forget about it, it's automatic fail. I mean, look at all the other oneshots I tried to do: A Stove, Silaze one (Babylon Sky Hawk: WHAT?!), and JetWave one (JetWave fans: YOU SUCK!) and one about Jet and Storm...NOT AS A COUPLE, WHIP, BABYLON SKY HAWK, AND...everyone else.

Oh, yes, and thank you to Josky for making a sprite tribute to Charmy Rogues. You rock!

Disclaimer:...Uh...yeah. Screw this. Go read the last chapter if you forgot.

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Ch. 18: Revenge from a Bomber

With Jet back to normal, we all raced towards Eggman's lair. Storm, Kiba, Knuckles, and even Amy bashed the MeteorTech robots out of the way, but Jet and Sonic lead the way. Apparantly, Sonic asked Tails how to get to Eggman's core base, and the fox told him. But Sonic led us around random corridors at least fifty times before we realized something: WE WERE OUTSIDE.

"YOU ARE SUCH AN IDIOT!" Wave screeched, slamming Sonic over the head with her wrench.

Sonic held him head in pain. "Well, sorry!"

Tails sighed, explaning that Sonic forgot to go right instead of left. Sounds like the idiot authoress when her dad tried to teach her how to drive. (Shut up Charmy! Not my fault I can figure out my left and right.) The fox guided us back inside the place with Amy and Wave screaming at each other about Sonic's general...what's the word? Oh yeah, retardness.

"I think I should lead," Jet interjected.

"Please do, as if you knew where you were going," Knuckles retorted.

"With my help, of course!" Sonic jeered.

"IT WAS YOUR FAULT WE GOT LOST!" Wave shouted, as did I.

Sonic flinched, but than he bluntly ignored us and went on ahead.

After several minutes of hearing Sonic, Wave, Jet, and Tails argue about which way to go, we finally came up to a huge door. Eggman's core base! Sonic and Jet smirked at each other. Without any warning, they rammed the door down. Cream commented on how sensitive her ears were, but it went unnoticed. Sonic and Jet slammed into Eggman, taking away the Arks of the Cosmos he was holding.

"Game over Eggy!" Sonic shouted.

"My Eggmanland plans are ruined! After all these years," Eggman moaned, holding his head in distress.

"Deal with it Eggman, you're through." Sonic and Knuckles approached Eggman, ready to take him down.

However, a loud crash was heard just above us. Two people were shouting at each other, a boy and a girl I presumed. Two other voices interpoded, trying to calm the fighters down. Once told to "shut up", the two other voices were silenced. A gunshot was fired, and everything went silent. One voice started to speak, but was immediately silenced by the one that shot the gun.

"Why the hell can't you just listen to me for one minute?" the male yelled.

"Listen to you?" the female shrieked, her voice trembling. "After what you just said?"

"Said what?"

"Guys, shut up!" a voice begged, sounding worried.

Both voices stopped. The voice that previously talked said something, but it was hardly audible. Another voice interrupted, saying something about an assassin. No one else spoke for quite some time. Footsteps rattled above us until a bomb was thrown down into a shaft and rolled out onto here. I noticed the bomb first, instantly crying out on contact as it tapped my foot. I threw it to Wave, who threw it to Sonic, who threw it to Knuckles, who just stared at it, but than he gasped and chucked it at Cream. Cream just stared at it, petrified by the fiery fuse. Cheese grabbed it and threw it at Eggman. Of course, it exploded once it made contact with Eggman's face. Eggman screamed like Cream and fainted. He was kicked in the face by a person coming from the smoke.

It was Team Dynamite! Nack grabbed at Eggman's goggles, yanking him to his knees. Tomo looked exceptionally weird. By weird, I mean she looked miserable, sad. As if she regretted something. Bean began to poke Eggman's nose, calling it a banana. Bark sighed in disbelief at his comrades.

"What are you four doing here?" Amy demanded, pulling out her hammer.

Nack glanced up at her. "Lookin' for Arks."

Jet blinked in confusion. "How did you know about them?"

Every Dynamite member pointed to Bean. Bean smiled brightly. "Just to let you know, cousin, I'm Babylonian as well. Least you forget." His last words were harsh, like slicing butter with a hot knife. HIs gaze bore a hole through Jet, not concentrating on anything else.

Flinching at the words, Jet muttered something I couldn't hear. Wait, they were cousins? I must've forgetten since so much has happened. All of us together. Wow, something bad is going to happen. I just knew it, I could feel it creeping inside my tissue.

Nack held up something round and silver. No, not the hedgehog, you dolts. It had a yellow hue emitting from the center. The Master Ark of the Cosmos. He smirked as the Arks suddenly resonated out of Sonic and Jet's hands and over to him. He grinned deviously, watching them circle around his wrist. Nack glanced over to Bean, whispering something to him that not even Rouge's amazing hearing couldn't decipher probably.

"Finally," he muttered, watching them fall into a suitcase Bark held. "we can sell these babies on the black market!"

There was a hushed silence. Jet's and Wave's eyes started to twitch. Kiba smacked Nack upside the head, making Storm impressed. The panda growled at Bark, who growled back in response. Bears, what can you do with them? Kiba tackled Bark to the ground, and they started a comical fight with a smoke cloud and loads of bad words.

The suitcase flew into the air. Nack cried out, trying to catch it, but his nose was met with Wave's Wrench O' Doom and plowed into the wall. She caught the case with her hand, but as soon as she did, an earthquake happened. Random, I know. I flew over to a window, watching something amazing. There was an island floating over to us.

"Is that Angel Island?" I asked, pointing to a utopian city on an island in the sky.

"No," Sonic said, "Babylon Garden!"

"The resonance between the Arks must've brought it over," Wave explained, looking at the suitcase.

Sonic smirked and looked over at Jet with a confident smile. "All yours, Jetto."

"Wh-what? We haven't settled anything yet." Jet looked on at Sonic with confusion as he began to leave. "Running away with your tail between your legs, Sonic the Hedgehog?"

"Running away?" Sonic asked. Looking over his shoulder at my green-feathered boss, he added warmly, "See you at the next World Grand Prix, Jet."

Jet smiled, giving Sonic a peace sign. "Lookin' forward to it."

And with that, Team Sonic began to walk away. Cream flew over to me and hugged me tightly. I was afraid to let go of her, fearing I would lose her forever. Cream did something totally unexpected: She kissed my cheek. I fell on my butt, rubbing my cheek in absolute awe and bliss.

"Bye-bye Charmy," she said. "We'll play together in the flowers soon!" She flew off with Team Sonic with Amy right behind her.

Of course, there was a collective, "Oooh" behind me. I blushed, flipping them off. A technique I learned from Vector. Bean and Jet both returned the gesture, but Jet noticed Bean had his other middle finger jabbed at him. So what does Jet do? Tackle Bean to the ground and start a fight, just like Bark and Kiba who finally stopped.

"We can't let those meteorites go near Babylon Garden!" Tails shouted, suddenly.

Everyone turned to him. I was ready to ask why, but a crash was heard. The robot that attacked Amy, Cream, Storm, and Kiba flew awkwardly inside. It was rusted with electricity buzzing about. Heh, buzzing. Just like me! Oh, anyway. the robot targeted Wave and smacked her down, taking the suitcase for itself.

"Good work, my dearest ABIS," a voice as cold as ice said, coming from the shadows of the room.

No. Dear God, no. That voice That...that sinister voice. So heartless, so painful to listen to like fingers on a chalkboard. That voice of a murderer. The voice of the devil himself. The voice of the one who stole my Chaotix, my Espio, my Vector.

Rodrigo the Crow.

Rodrigo still had his black feathers, but his talons were revealed and sharp. His wrists, however, had tattooed flames on them. He had a brown cloak on with a pair of sunglasses. Oodly, he donned no sort of feet protection.

"Oh," he muttered ominiously. "someone I forgot to kill. No, make that three." By three, he meant that he forgot to kill Storm and Wave when they were younger, but slaughtered their familes.

"Why the hell are you here?" Storm demanded, his muscles itching to fight.

"Because I am." Rodrigo ordered ABIS to fly onto Babylon Garden and wait for him there.

Finally looking like her confident, yet pridefilled self, Tomo decided to take a stab at Rodrigo. "Just where do you think you're goin' with our loot?"

The crow glanced back at her, smirking evilly. His smirk was forever driven into the core of my feebly body. Let me tell you all something: I wish I were stronger. Stronger so that none of this happened. Strong enough, so that one of the Dynamites didn't have to...die. Rodrigo vanished in an instant, appearing behind Nack.

"Well, girly, for that outburst, your friend here..." Rodrigo pulled out a scythe, Grim Reaper style. "...shall die!"

Nack didn't have enough time to react, but Tomo did. She shoved him out of the way as the scythe slashed into her stomach, about above the eight and ninth rib. A centimeter from her heart. She gasped, heaving in suctions of air as she lurched away from the scythe. The scythe slickly came back into Rodrigo's hands, and he looked smugly happy. Nack's mouth opened, than shut. His crimson eyes were watering as he knelt down beside her.

"Tomo...Tomo? C-c'mon, come on," he whimpered, shaking her. "Get up! GET UP, GODDAMMIT!" He pounded the ground with his fists next to her. He stared at her blood oozing out of her. "Please, please, get up. Don't leave me like-like this. Not after everything we've gone through..."

"Stu-stupid!" Tomo gasped for breath, surprising everyone that she was even alive. The chameleon struggled to sit up, but she collapsed back onto her back. She looked at Nack's weeping. "You cried for me?"

"Why wouldn't I? I-I-" Nack stumbled on his words, looking away. "I'm sorry."

"Don't...be. Not after where I am going."

"Hell?"

She weakly nodded, looking at Bean's tears and Bark's trembling body. "Hey, come on guys. Stop it. It's annoying."

Bark knelt next to her, looking miserable. "You were always the tough one. I just can't-"

"Believe she's here lying on the floor, bleeding to death?" Rodrigo burst into sick twisted laughter. "I love watching my victims die slowly! However, I must be on my way to ABIS, it's worrying about me." With that same technique, he teleported himself out.

Bean glared at his dissapearance. "Argh! Nack, Bark, come on! We gotta kill him for this!"

Without warning, Babylon Garden trembled once more. It was crumbling apart into peices. Another earthquake occured, making Tomo shout with pain, and flop over. She was...dead. Nack picked her lifeless, cold body up and hugged it tightly as he cried. Suddenly, a giant black hole appeared inside Babylon Garden. Babylon Garden transformed itself into some sort of spaceship with crystals jagging out it. Storms started, pulling us in. We grabbed onto anything we could. Bark shield both Bean and Nack. Nack was still in a state of trance, holding Tomo's lifeless body.

"A black hole!" Knuckles screamed, shielding his eyes as glass exploded from the screen.

"This is what I've been trying to tell you!" Tails shouted. "Since ABIS stole the Arks, once together and on Babylon Garden, a giant black hole will form! That's why the Babylonians couldn't control the Arks!"

"What?" Jet shouted in awe. If he had gotten the Arks, the same thing would've happened.

"Who cares?" I snapped. "We gotta go get Rodrigo!" I looked over to Nack, who flinched at Rodrigo's name. "And for you Nack.We've both lost loved ones. I'll avenge us both."

"Right, and at this rate, the whole world will be sucked up in about one or two hours!" Tails shouted. The storms took him by surprise, lifting him off his feet. Sonic grabbed him before he could go to far.

"Wave, how do we stop this storm?" Jet asked, holding into Kiba's arms for dear life as he couldn't grab anything else.

"If we can retrieve the Master Ark, all of the Arks will instantly follow its leader. That's should do the trick," the genius explained.

"We'll go on ahead!" Sonic cried, heading off with his team.

The Babylon Rogues flew off, but Storm noticed I was still hanging on. "Charmy, what's wrong?"

"In a minute!" I shouted, noticing Eggman fled during the pandemonium. Storm decided to let me be and followed his friends out. I flew over to Nack and hugged him. "We've lost so much, weasel. Rodrigo both tore precious people from us, impacting us greatly." My shoulders heaved as I got a look as Tomo's pain-filled face, but her smile seemed serene. "I'll avenge us both."

Nack stared at me, smiling wirily. "Thanks...Charmy."

I saluted him, flying off. I don't know why, but Nack ordered his team to follow me. Bark and Bean agreed, Bean saying something about revenge on Jet. Bark just wanted some excerise for the day. Seriously, was this a time to think about excerise?

Inside Babylon Garden was a place Wave called Mobius Strip. Mobius Strip not only had the name of our world in the title, but was filled with fantastic devices. Computers, satellites, Extreme Gear, even a few video games secret to them. Which I never got to play. The first thing my eyes saw was ABIS fully destroyed with no suitcase. Sick laughter filtered from behind us.

"Look, up there!" Amy shouted.

...What the hell was Amy doing here? And Cream too? Oh, no. This'll end up badly.

From what Amy was pointing at, was Rodrigo. His feathers were now a vivid azure color as he absorbed the power of the Arks of the Cosmos. His cloak flew off, hitting Knuckles in the face. His talons grew as sharp as katanas, so did his beak, now a red color. The Arks of the Cosmos were on his neck, wrists, and ankles. His eyes were pitch dark yellow, the color of...pee. Ha ha! PEE! Wow, I am so mature.

Kiba: Yeah you are. (sarcastic)

aika08: Totally mature. (wiggles eyebrows)

WhipsOwnsAll: (laughs hysterically) Lol, pee!

Babylon Sky Hawk: You all are weirdos. (backs away, holding a bat...for safety reasons)

Kiba: Stole mah bat son! (chases Babylon Sky Hawk)

Charmy: Screw your butts!

Before I was rudely interrupted by retarded-(the authors growl at Charmy)-I mean wonderful authors who write the best stories, Rodrigo let out a scream filled with an intensity that made even Sonic twitch.

"Yes, yes!" Rodrigo screamed in ecstasy. "All this power at my control, to slaughter! To kill!" He noticed Team Dynamite, grinning wickedly. "Just like that little chameleon."

Nack growled. "She would kick your ass!" His eyes dashed between Bark and Bean, make nods towards both of them. I believed this to be a signal of attack.

Rodrigo lifted his palm and an energy-filled circle bomb converted from air. The crow aimed at Nack, but Nack was quick. He pulled out his gun from his holster without looking and shot a bullet. However, the explosion expert caught the bullet like catching a snowflake. He crumbled it in his palm, letting it fall to the ground. Bean snapped his fingers, creating a bomb and tossed. Same thing. Frowning at their insolence, he chucked the bomb at them. Bean tried to retalite with his own bomb, but somehow it was sucked into the bomb which made it larger. Nack let loose a sentence filled with colorful language seconds before the bomb struck them. Team Dynamite was tossed a few feet back. Bean's eyes rolled into the back of his head, out for the count.

Amy decided for an offence strike. She, Wave, and Kiba charged, hammer, wrench, and bat ready to smash respectively. Wave jumped on her Gear, swerving around him to his back. Amy jumped up, smashed her hammer onto Rodrigo's skull. A sickening crack was heard, making me cringe. I never liked the sounds of bones cracking. Kiba lurched forward, hitting the fiendish crow in his back. Wave's wrench went straight at his...privates.

Rodrigo held his "area" for a few seconds before realizing we were all laughing at him. Even Bean, who was still unconsious. Don't ask how the works, I still don't know. The crow placed his finger on Amy's forehead, blasting her away with gravity from his arks. He hovered on top of Kiba and Wave. His ankle Arks slashed them up with gravity and threw them in different directions. Wave landed on Kiba's stomach, making Kiba wince before passing out.

Sonic chased after Amy before she collided with the pavement. He screeched to a stop and caught her. He sighed in relief, placing her down. She kissed her hero and hugged him tightly, thanking him. Excuse me while I throw up.

"What can I do?" I thought, watching Rodrigo smash his fist into Storm's face. "Bean and Kiba are out. And Amy's mauling Sonic with love, so I don't think he'll be much help at all, but..."

That's when I noticed Cheese flying towards Rodrigo with Cream following, shouting at him to halt. My heart raced. Cream was going to get herself killed! She couldn't stand up to him! I had no choice. I flew towards Cheese.

"Insolent brat! Get away!" Rodrigo shrieked as he slammed his fist in Cheese.

Cheese was sent into the ground, creating a crater. Cream run to her pet, hugging him. Rodrigo raised his hand once more and a beam was sent straight out her. My mind was racing because like I said: I had no choice. I shoved Cream out of the way.

And the blast ruptured my body.

All I could feel was a mixture of warm and cold. Warm being the blood spurting out of me. Cold being the feeling I was getting in my heart. My ribs were clearly broken, and I could hear someone's frantic voice screeching my name. It was too late, however. My eyes were becoming heavy. The last thing I every saw was Cream's tear-streaked face.

I, Prince Charmy the Honeybee, died.

But, than again, you are probably wondering how I am writing this story, no? Well, that's the ironic part.

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Next: Reunion: Espio and Vector