Rescue, Manuscripts, and Temples Part 1

"What!" exclaimed Jackie "Professor Pickle's been kidnapped?"

"I'm afraid so." Said the librarian in a timid voice considering he was talking to a group of complete strangers. "It was right after the tremors hit. There was this explosion and the next thing I saw was this green scaly lizard guy and he carried of the professor and the manuscript."

"Did you see anything else suspicious?" Ignitus asked the librarian in a very calm tone so that he didn't frighten him.

"Well I did see something else." The librarian whom the gang found out was named Voltaire after the musical composer Voltaire which sounded similar to one of the guardian dragon elders. "The lizard had wings and he flew off and after that" Voltaire continued "a whole squad of robots just showed up and carried off the lab data."

"That sure sounds like Eggman." Sonic noted before he and everyone else covered their ears from Uncle's reaction.

"AIYAA!" screamed Uncle surveying the ransacked library "We are too late. Forces of Darkness have the Gaia Manuscripts and Professor Pickle and Drago has Sky Demon chi."

"We got to do something and help the professor" Sparx exclaimed. "He's probably getting cold and hungry by now. I'd be pretty hungry to"

"Calm down Sparx, I'm sure this Eggman character is feeding him." Sasami replied to Sparx "even he must not be that cruel."

"Still this is most troubling." Ignitus stated. "If the forces of evil have taken the professor then it will be difficult to locate him and they'll have probably hidden him in a remote location."

"Actually, I overheard the robots say that they were going to Mazuri." Voltaire replied to Ignitus. The librarian was still uncomfortable with the thought of talking to one dragon after seeing another kidnap his mentor and friend but before anyone could ask more Jackie's cell phone began to ring.

"Hello?" Jackie answered. "Captain Black, What Happened?"

"Jackie, we've got problems," Black replied over the phone "a pack of robots have invaded section 13 and this time they've taken the rest of the demon chi powers."

"What how did they get in anyway?" Jackie shot back stunned that section 13 was penetrated.

"Well, there were some strange creatures that looked like gorillas only with scorpion tails that bashed through most of our defenses and blue ghoul creatures that used boxing techniques on us." Black explained over the phone.

"That sounds really serious." Jackie interrupted.

"It gets worse, somehow the access codes to the vault and our increased security measures were shutdown for the duration of the attack and now our whole system is fried completely." The Section 13 boss continued. "Now a whole pack of strange dark creatures suddenly appeared are causing even more damage. I need you and your team to get back here at once."

"Okay understood Captain Black." Jackie answered and then turning to everyone else he relayed his conversation with Captain Black.

"AIYAA!" yelled Uncle "Drago already has stolen demon chi which means it will be difficult to remove them now that dark energy is active and stronger."

"Sensei since the Chi-O-Matic can only hold one demon power at a time." Tohru asked his teacher "How are we supposed to recover the rest of the demon chi from Drago if he's already got 6 powers?"

"Uncle does not yet know how to do such a thing." The chi wizard replied to his apprentice.

"Enough with the chit chat already." Spyro spoke up clearly annoyed and taking charge of the situation "we can't just sit here and do nothing. We have to save the professor."

"Spyro is correct." Ignitus added picking up where the purple dragon left off. "The longer we sit here the more our enemies continue to grow stronger so we'll have to split up into 2 groups."

"Dragon Elder makes very valid point." Uncle replied "We'll have to return to Section 13 while saving Professor and the Manuscripts."

"Sounds good to me old timer, I'll just kick back at the base with the rest of you and not get killed." Sparx spoke up only to be met with a glare from Uncle and Ignitus.

"Jade, Sonic, Sasami, Sparx and Spyro will have to go and rescue Professor Pickle while the rest of us make haste for Section 13 for a couple of reasons." Aku-Aku explained. " One if the mutants are guarding the underground base then Crash will need my magic to put them under his control while Jade can do this on her own since she absorbed enough mojo during her battle with my brother in space." He was about to continue before Jackie interrupted.

"I'm very sorry Aku-Aku but sending Jade alone is out of the question." He responded only to get wacked in the head by his uncle.

"Jackie stop interrupting." the chi wizard reminded to his nephew. "Mask is not sending Jade alone. Were you not paying attention?!"

"As I was saying," the voodoo mask continued from where he left off. "The rest of us will go back to Section 13 to put up more safeguards around the base to protect it from the enemy."

"Okay it sounds like we have a plan but there are a few problems with your plan Aku-Aku." Sparx started to say.

"1) who is going to take us to Mazuri, Africa? 2) How are we supposed to find the professor when we get there and 3) what do we do if we run into more of those creatures that Captain Black mentioned?" the dragonfly listed.

"Relax Sparx, I'll take us there myself." Jade answered and with that the tattoos on her hands started turning into a monkey and she turned into the dragon she used to battle the Egg Cauldron.

"Well what are we waiting for lets go." Sonic yelled and with that he Spyro, Sparx, Sasami, and himself hopped on and took off for Africa flying through the open gap which was surprisingly big enough to fit a large dragon. The rest of the group was staring dumbfounded before regaining their senses and heading off to Section 13.

When Jade's group arrived in Mazuri it was nighttime. She immediately reverted to her werehog form only this time the transformation process was so painful and everyone else didn't seem too shocked. The team immediately asked the villagers if there was any sign of the professor or anything that would lead them to their objective. One villager was kind enough to mention a strange orange dome out in the middle of the African plains so the team decided to investigate.

"so what's the plan to get to the dome?" Sparx asked Jade. Earlier the group had decided to make Jade the leader of the team since she's already been in battle against the supernatural before.

"Well if memory serves me well then I'd venture a guess that there's a warp pad that should take us to the general location of the area." The young werehog replied and true to her word there was a warp pad with a holographic number 1 in the center of a crescent moon glowing. The group wasted no time in racing to the warp pad which was big enough to fit everyone there. The pad started to glow and they were instantly transported to a ruined structure located a great distance from the village.

"Whoa where are we?" Sasami exclaimed once everyone reappeared in a flash of light. "Hey what happened to Sonic?"

Everyone else noticed that Sonic the Hedgehog had instantly changed from a tall blue wonder to a dark blue short stout creature that looked like Jade's Werehog form. The only differences were that the shoes were bigger and had spikes on the bottom. Not wanting to get distracted from the mission the team returned to the task at hand. Jade using her impressive werehog strength moved a heavy block on to a blue switch that caused the citadel door to open which allowed the team to enter. Upon further exploration Jade demonstrated more of her new werehog powers with Sonic the Werehog making every obstacle passed seem like a walk in the park which led everyone to believer that the Werehog had been through this before.

"Sonic, how exactly did you do all of the stuff I did that took me about 20 minutes to accomplish in only 3 seconds?" Jade asked the Werehog as soon as they were through half the citadel.

"Well it comes naturally to me I guess." Sonic replied to the feminine purple werehog and just as he was about to continue about his exploits Sparx started to get nervous and his teeth started chattering which in turn caused Sasami's crystal hair beads to glow a dark red color.

"Uh guys," the dragonfly began nervously "I think we have company." And true to his words a whole pack of nightmarish dark blue creatures of shapes and forms surrounded the gang. They looked light the stuff that would come from nightmares which led the group to dub them nightmares.

(Sonic Unleashed OST Werehog Night Battle Suite begins to play)

Spyro easily took out the ones that were coming after him with a quick flame attack followed up by a ground melee and a toss to the air. Sonic and Jade were back to back but they easily used their impressive strength to knock out the nightmares that had surrounded them by double teaming them. Sasami meanwhile was cornered but for some reason she used some martial arts maneuvers and managed to take down the nightmares with Sparx warning the group about any approaching enemies that were still coming through. The battle went on for a few more minutes with more nightmares coming only this time they were accompanied by a pack of robots and Rhinorollers. Thinking quickly Sonic dispatched the nightmares while Spyro dealt with the robots leaving Sasami and Jade to face the mutants. Sasami stunned one with her martial arts skills allowing Jade to jack it and control it to not only eliminate the rest of the pack but to open the gate that was barring the rest of the team from going through.

(Song ends)

"That was tough." Exclaimed Spyro as he and everyone else was still recovering their energy from the sudden ambush.

"yeah no kidding." Jade said as she used the horse talisman power of healing to help anyone who might have suffered some damage her tattoos changing into the shape of a horse head in the process on each arm.

"Gee kid you're not half bad in battle." Sparx said noticing that everyone except Sasami was giving him a hard glare but then he noticed something everyone else didn't see.

"Hey Guys I think we're almost there." The dragonfly exclaimed and everyone noticed the orange dome was just about a mile away and the team started racing down to the dome as fast as their feet would carry them.

"Um guys." Sparx started again once they were within 50 feet of the dome. "I don't like this."

"What is it now Sparx?" Sonic responded in annoyance

"We're here but doesn't this feel like it's too easy?" the dragonfly replied.

"Sparx may have a point." Spyro added "When I was about to rescue each of the guardians, some kind of monster or Cynder herself was waiting. I think that there is something here."

"Uh guys." Sasami started to say noticing a cloud of darkness near the entrance "I think you might want to move right now."

"Why?" Everyone asked and as if on cue a huge nightmare with one eye, short legs and a massive wooden club appeared out of nowhere. It had huge feet, giant shoulders and let out a massive battle cry.

(Sonic Unleashed OST Night Battle Mini-Boss Music begins to play)

"Look out!" Sasami and Sparx yelled and as if on cue the gang jumped and dodged before the Titan nightmare slammed his club into the ground.

Jade, Sonic, Sasami, and Spyro went on the offensive by rushing the nightmare only to be knocked back by its huge club and slammed by the shockwave.

"Okay so that plan didn't work." Spyro noted. "Sonic, Jade do either of you have any ideas?"

"Well if we can somehow distract it then attack from behind then it should work." Jade replied.

"Sounds like a good plan." Sonic noted just to avoid a narrow blow from the Titan. Sasami quickly pulled the werehog out of the way.

"Okay everyone," Jade addressed "We only have one shot at this so we have to make it count." And with that the group put the plan into action. Sasami got its attention by doing a random series of complicated martial arts maneuvers while Jade and Sonic each pelted it with a few fits to the face on either side. Spyro was behind the big behemoth and when he had a clear shot he launched a massive ball of fire that seemed to completely cover the Titan.

"Did we finish it?" Sparx asked cautiously knowing that monsters like that were never easy to defeat. Sure enough the Titan was looking a little crisped when the dust and smoke settled down.

"Man that thing is still not down." Sparx noted.

"Don't give up so easily." Sasami encouraged "there must be something you have yet to try."

"Actually there is one more thing." The purple dragon yelled in a voice that could imitate Uncle and before anyone could respond he just closed his eyes and folded his wings at the Titan which was stepping closer to eliminate the purple dragon while said dragon was glowing with an orange light. Everyone was worried that Spyro would be crushed by the giant club. Just as the attack was about to make contact Spyro opened his eyes and unfolded his wings at the Titan while letting off a huge blast of fire which this time incinerated the beast for good. The team was protected by a magic shield that Sasami had created on instinct with her crystal hair beads and everyone looked pleased with the purple dragon.

(Song ends)

"Look there's the entrance." Sasami yelled after Jade had finished restoring Spyro to full power with the horse talisman power. And everyone raced to the holographic ring with the red star in the center allowing the door to the dome to open.

(Sonic Unleashed OST Stage Clear plays then stops)

When the heroes got inside the dome they could see that an elderly man wearing a brown suit with hair around his head and a white mustache. He was being held in a suspended container with only seat and a force field that let oxygen in and out the container. He seemed to be complaining about something.

"Excuse me. Professor Pickle? Are you alright? We got here as fast as we could." Sparx asked as the heroes got closer to the professor. Spyro and Sparx were flying to the top of the container.

"Um Professor?" Spyro asked hoping to gain a response from the elder only to hear him chattering about something else.

"How dare they call this culinary concoction food?" Pickle said to the duo

"Look here do you see this sorry excuse for a sandwich? The bread should be no less than ¾ of an inch thick. Upon it one tablespoon of mayonnaise and a pinch of black pepper"

"The contents FRESH cucumbers sliced THINLY if you please!" He asked the stunned Spyro. "Am I quite right you 2?"

"I know I learned something here today." Sparx added and on cue everyone but Pickle shot him a very annoyed look.

"Well how was your trip? I can say the menu was hardly worth it." The professor asked the team just as Spyro was flying towards the button which opened the container.

"We're here to rescue you sir." Sasami announced.

"Oh right how rude of me." Pickle answered as he stepped out onto the floor. "Right then, First things first. It's about time that somebody taught the chef here how to make a proper sandwich."

"You can take your complaints to Ignitus who I'm sure will fix you a good sandwich when we see him." Jade responded.

"Let's get out of here before Eggman's welcoming committee shows up." Sonic added.

"Oh yes quite but first let us be sure to grab the contents of that vault before departing." Professor pickle explained and on cue Jade immediately walked to the vault and used the super strength talisman to smash through the vault which caused the tattoos on her arms to take the shape of an ox head. Acting quickly Spyro flew in and flew out with a scroll.

"Thank you young one." Pickle replied to Spyro then turning to the group he answered. "These documents are our only hope for surviving this crisis. Come let us depart. I'm half starved after being fed nothing but those terrible sandwiches"

"You poor man." Sasami noted then reaching for her back pack she pulled out a bar of chocolate which surprisingly didn't melt. "Want some chocolate Professor?"

"Why thank you miss. Don't mind if I do." Said the professor and he accepted the bar of chocolate leaving the rest of the heroes stunned but the shook it off and with that the group headed away to seek shelter deep within a rock cave for the night since they were all worn out from the battle with the sentinel.

Next Time

The heroes wake up and head back to the village only to find it being terrorized by Drago, Eggman, and Cortex. The heroes strike back only to find themselves having to chase them into a fight with Eggman's newest robot.

(Author's Note, To those of you who played Sonic Unleashed you may recognize a few familiar lines if you read this story carefully and yes I put them into the story and no I only did it to add to the flavor. Also you'll notice that I'm having them spend the night in Mazuri instead of sending them back to the university. Thank you that is all.)