Chapter 11: 90s Boulevard

"Really? You and your friends fought a real genie?" Will asked as he and Helen listened to NiGHTS' story.

"Yep! It was a genie alright," NiGHTS' smiled.

After the failed mission in Denmark, the Great Hurricane traveled to America. While waiting, the people within the ship did the usually things that they did to kill time, some wear fixing dinner. As for NiGHTS, she was with Will and Helen in her room telling them about the time when she and the other faced the Erazor Djinn.

"See, there's this genie called the Erazor Djinn that tried to take over this world and the other worlds that exist," NiGHTS continued, "He also had a bone to pick with Sonic. As we fought against him, we found out that genies are really space aliens."

"Space aliens?!" Helen gasped, "Is that true?"

"The genies are really an ancient race of aliens called Babylonians, the aliens that Trista mentioned earlier. They crashed landed into this world many years ago, maybe even before Nightopia came to be. They also have the power to control gravity anyway they want. That's probably how they can levitate."

"Cool," Will said in awe.

Suddenly, they hear a knock on the door and Moka stepped in. "Dinner is almost ready you three."

"Um, I have a question," Helen began, "Are you... really a vampire?"

"I'm living proof!" she smiled, "My sister Kokoa and another girl named Evangeline are vampires too," then she added, while bashfully pressing her fingers, "Ano... do I frighten you?"

"Moka is a little afraid of humans, even though she knows that some humans can be nice," NiGHTS whispered to them, "It's a sore subject for her."

"Well, we never knew that vampires could be as cute as you," Will told her shyly.

"Oh stop! You're making me blush!" Moka giggled. "Well, dinner is almost done so get ready," she said as she closed the door.

After a hardy dinner, the Great Hurricane landed in Chicago.

"Hellloooo Chicago!" Kurumu proclaimed proudly as the Mercenaries got out of the Great Hurricane.

"Alright, have as much fun as you want to and search for info about a Chaos Emerald or a Wonder of the Worlds," Sonic said.

(With Mao, Raspberyl, and Yukari…)

The three were at one of the sights where you can see the whole city from here.

"Ah, isn't this romantic, Mao? You, me and Yukari seeing one of Sonic's world's greatest cities from quite a view." Raspberyl said with her eyes full of sparkles.

"Eh…" Mao was looking through the telescope.

"Uh…." Yukari tried to tell Raspberyl what Mao is looking at, but failed.

"We could even write a romantic love poem!" Raspberyl squealed.

What Mao is looking at is a hotdog stand. Cause he's hungry.

(With Mana, and Sakuya…)

"So how much firepower we're talking about?" Mana asked the gun dealer in his shop.

"Oh we're talking about 300 percent fire power, the KG Rifle has excellent accuracy, one shot from this baby can fell an Eggman robot in one shot! " The gun dealer explained.

"Interesting… How much?" Sakuya asked.

"For a special discount today, I say about $210." The gun dealer offered.

"Shoot… I don't have that kind of money." Mana frowned.

"Don't worry, I'll pay for it." Renee came up from behind and paid for the gun.

"Thank you ladies, you won't be disappointed!" The gun dealer smiled.

"Arigato Renee…" Mana bowed politely.

"No problem." Renee nodded.

'Wow, she must be rich…' Sakuya thought to herself.

(With Naruto, Sakura H. and Sonic.)

"So Sonic. How fast can you go?" Naruto asked.

Sonic rubbed his nose and smiled. "Well, I can travel faster than the speed of sound. I can even reach cities in about 20 seconds."

"Wow. That sounds cool." Sakura H. whistled.

"Yeah! Maybe I can be as fast as Sonic!" Naruto energetically said.

(With Moka, Kurumu, Hikaru and Akiwo…)

"Step right up and test your strength! See if you can ring this bell and win a prize!" A prize giver stated.

"I'll do it!" Akiwo cracked her knuckles.

"Oh man… I have trouble with these kinds of games." Hikaru said as she adverted her eyes.

"It'll be a piece of cake!" Akiwo grinned as she took the hammer and slammed it into the plate, the ringer hit the bell and through it into the sky, Moka and Kurumu and the prize giver gawked as the ringer was out of sight.

"Uh… Here ya go!" The prize giver gave Akiwo 200 dollars of spending money.

"Thanks." Moka politely bowed.

(Meanwhile with Laharl, Etna and Asuna.)

Asuna and Laharl were practicing their swordsmanship in the park, suddenly the ringer from before landed and hit Laharl in the head. "G-Good night…" Laharl muttered before he went night night. Etna giggled while Asuna stood there trying to find out what the hell happened.

20 minutes later, the Mercenaries regrouped.

"Chicago is so cool!" Yayoi squealed.

"Yeah. I wish we had the time to stay a little longer." Madison agreed.

Suddenly, Sonic's ear's twitched as he heard THAT sound.

"Guys… We have company…" Sonic said seriously, the Mercenaries turned around and saw Terror Bites crawling up to them.

"Yikes! Exit, stage left!" Flonne yelled as she high tailed out of there.

"Time to test this baby out." Mana got out the KG Rifle and fired at the Terror Bites, destroying half of them. The rest of the gun slingers and fire users continued destroying them till there were none left.

"Manfred!" Shion frowned as the Mercenaries saw Strikeans and Surveillance Eyes drop to the city below. They then fired upon…

"Saimyoushou?!" Inuyasha gawked.

"Do you think Naraku's after one of the 8 Wonders of the World here?" Serena asked.

"Negative. My sensors detected no 8 Wonder of the World here, but an Chaos Emerald…" KOS-MOS stated.

"Oh no… Do you think Naraku and Manfred learned about the Chaos Emeralds?" Ruby gulped.

"I hope not. There is one way to find out," Saliva said as she pointed to three Bladeriders revving up to them.

"Lovely Egg!"

"Lighting Rod!"

Rolly and Etna both used their attacks to destroy the Bladeriders.

"Come on! Let's go get that Chaos Emerald before Manfred or worse, Naraku beats us to it!" Ririka shouted as she and the Mercenaries rush off to the Chaos Emerald's location.

They had to dodge collapsing obstacles like lamp posts and falling steel bars. They then had to deal with Heavy Magnums who blocked their path, but they got through them. They next had to get across the bridge, but 10 Heavy Fists got in their way, but they managed to get through them, then they have to get past the traffic with Bladeriders and Terror Bites adding to the traffic, sooner or later, they made it to the streets.

When they walked towards the main street, Moka saw a huge robot with laser cannons and wheels for legs go down near the heroes. It was called Big Wheelie and it was rolling away.

"After it!" Knuckles shouted.

BIG WHEELIE (Theme: Boss Attack 2 from Time Crisis 4)

The Mercenaries chased after the Big Wheelie through the highway and is was proving to be very hard. The Big Wheelie fired it's cannons at them, make the Mercenaries scramble around a bit. "That thing is pretty fast! But it's going to pull over anyway!" Rozalin shouted as she took out her Inferno Cricket and fired a blazing shot. There was a huge explosion on the Big Wheelie but it continued going. "You are not getting away! Blades of Blood!" Inuyasha yelled as he unleashed blood red blades at Big Wheelie. "Hit the mark!" Kagome yelled as she fired her sacred arrow at the Big Wheelie to added to the attack. "How is that thing still moving? It should have gone down by now!" Umi panted. "Look out! It's up to something!" Li noticed. Missiles appeared behind it's back and fired right at them. Avoiding them was much more difficult. "Take this!" Ririka shouted as she fired her Angel Beam attack, making it burn across the Big Wheelie. As the battle went into the highway, the Big Wheelie fired some more laser blasts at them. "Emerald Cyclone!" Fuu yelled as she sent green wind blades at the Big Wheelie, making the damage increase. "Raging Dragon!" Priere roared as she engulfed herself in demonic energy and rushed at the Big Wheelie. She made a huge dent as she collided. "Okay! Venus Love and Beauty Shock!" Venus shouted as she fired a ball of light at the Big Wheelie to double the damage." It's almost down! Let's take it!" Akiwo yelled as she grabbed Hikaru and flew over the smoking Big Wheelie. She let got as soon as she was high enough. "Pull over!" Hikaru shouted as she landed on the Big Wheelie and pulled it down with a smash. The Big Wheelie ended up a huge wreak.

"That was some fight. Let's see what we've got," Rozalin said as she walked to what was left of the Big Wheelie. She dug through the trash and pulled out a yellow Emerald.

"The second Chaos Emerald," Sango smiled. "Just five more to go now."

Just then, a swarm of bugs appeared and engulfed all of them. They screamed and yelled as it happened. After a few short seconds, the bugs flew off. The blinked at one another, they all appeared unharmed.

"What was that?" Kurumu blinked.

"I don't think those were Terror Bites," Gin shrugged.

Rozalin shrugged as well, but then she gasped when she looked at her empty hand. "The Chaos Emerald is gone!"

And an evil echo of laughter fill the night air.

"Well now. So this is one of the seven gems said to be more powerful than the Shikon Jewel!" Naraku's voice mocked.

:Well nice to meet ya, sort of, Naraku! Name's Sonic the Hedgehog!" Sonic challenged.

"Hmph! Very nice indeed… Let us see if you're true to your name and find out who gets the Chaos Emeralds and 8th Wonders of the World first!" Naraku taunted as his voice echoed throughout the city.

"Ah man! Now Naraku knows about the Chaos Emeralds!" Mao frowned.

"Hey no worries! We can beat him to the other Emeralds and Wonders of the World yet!" Knuckles cheered everyone up.

"Yeah, we got to save Tails, the children and the hostages! Let's go team!" Sonic grinned.

TBC

Next time: Casino City