Chapter 6 Plus: Castle Royal
Hey! I'm back! I'm sure you guys are beginning to get sick of the old chapters and all, but once you've read through this one, it's full steam ahead for Sonic Skyline Plus!
Once I've actually finished Amber that is. I will finish it! Once I'm done here, I'll finish that, then perhaps, I'll move on to this or something else. We'll see. Anyway, enjoy!
Knuckles snored, and Tails was swishing his tails around over the edge of the bunk-bed which was tickling Sonic's nose. Sonic sighed. It was one in the morning and he was still awake. He wasn't tired in the slightest.
"Argh. Why can't I get to sleep?" He rolled over to get more comfortable…
And fell out of bed.
He grumbled to himself. He got up and grabbed his scarf and shoes. Leaving the building, he took off to find something to do.
…
The air was crisp, and Sonic was cursing at himself for not grabbing a jacket. There was almost no one around at this time of morning. Save for a few lights on in some of the buildings. He passed the Raceway, which was closed for repairs. He glanced in and sighed to see all the damage.
"Too bad really. I would have loved to run around the whole thing. Not just a small part of it."
As he wondered around, he eventually found himself outside the Raceway Island Café. It was a nice place. Sonic had been here with his parents before they fell with the island. It had been nine years since he'd been here. He remember that the owner of the café had a daughter that was his age. She was a shy one, but she always said hello to him. Sonic smiled as he remembered the girl.
The bell made a dinging noise as he entered. The café was almost empty aside form a few night animals that were buying early morning coffee or snacks. Sonic walked up to the counter. Behind it was a pink hedgehog with a red head band in her hair. She turned to see Sonic.
"Hey there. What can I get you?" Sonic smiled.
"Just a cup of water please." The girl grinned.
"Couldn't get to sleep?"
"Nah. One of my roommates' snores while the other swishes his tails in my face. Not the best combination." He bought his head down to the bench with a loud thump. "Can I just sleep here?" The girl laughed.
"Sorry, but no. I have to keep the customers moving." She grabbed a cup and filled it with water. She turned back to Sonic and passed it carefully to him. "I'm Amy. What's your name?" Sonic smiled.
"Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog." Something in Amy's eyes flickered.
"Wait. Are you…" She paused.
"No. Never mind." Sonic gave the cup back and wiped his mouth.
"Ok. Thanks for the water." Sonic walked out back into the street and back to Skyline HQ. Amy stood there thinking.
"Are you that boy from all those years ago?"
…
Tails tapped away on his computer while Knuckles punched the punching bag in the back room. Sonic was asleep on the couch. Well, he was before an alarm went off.
"Gah! What's that noise?" He sat up rather quickly and tripped over his feet. He crashed head first onto the coffee-table. Tails winced.
"Are… Are you ok?" By now, Knuckles had reached the computer and was staring at Sonic, who now had a red bump on his forehead. He gave him a funny look.
"What happened to you?"
"Just answer the phone already!"
Sonic got up and pressed a button on the control panel. The worried face of a familiar koala filled up the giant monitor on the wall. He seemed very worried.
"Sonic! We need Team Skyline on Capital Island now! We're under attack!" That got Tails' and Knuckles' attention.
"Slow down Geoffrey. What's going on?" Sonic tried to calm him and his head down but neither wanted to.
"The robots that attacked your island! Their trying to take the queen!" Sonic gritted his teeth.
"What on Skyline would he want with the Queen…" He paused. Tails opened his mouth to respond before Sonic raised a finger to stop him. "Don't answer that. I answered it myself." Geoffrey looked behind him in panic.
"Quickly! We require your robot smashing assistance!" his call cut out and Sonic sighed.
"Tails. Fire up the Tornado. We're going to Capital Island!"
...
Eggman's third Egg Carrier in one week, was looming over the city. Everybody was running in all directions, trying to get away from the robots. Eggman grinned as he watched the robots wreak havoc all over the city. He spun around in his chair with glee as Mephiles shook his head. As much as a genius he was, he was very stupid.
"Can we kidnap the queen now so that we can get out of here? The last time you pranced around after you took the Master Emerald, "Sonic" showed up and destroyed the ship." Eggman stopped and faced Mephiles.
"We'll be fine. I planted a disrupter as soon as we got here. There's no way they can call Sonic to come and rescue..." He was interrupted when several robots that had been flying by the control room blew up. A red plane flew through the smoke and did a right turn. Eggman's face fell when he saw an annoying blue hedgehog on the biplane give him a thumbs-up. Mephiles growled.
"You fool. Get the queen now! We can't let them stop us!" Eggman turned back to Mephiles with a sour look.
"I give the orders around here! Not you." He turned back to the control panel and grabbed the mic.
"Squadron B4! Get the queen now! Don't waste any time!" Mephiles rolled his eyes.
"Gee. What a plan. Not even I could come up with that." Eggman glared at him.
"Watch your mouth Mephiles."
"I don't have a mouth."
"Oh, shut up."
...
Tails veered to the left to avoid a laser from breaking a wing off. Sonic and Knuckles were hanging on for dear life.
"Tails! I don't want to be thrown off."
"Oops. Right sorry!"
He glanced toward the castle. He saw a few robots push past the guards that were guarding the entrance. He knew exactly what to do.
"Let go!" Sonic looked at him.
"What?!"
"Doing a barrel roll!"
"Wait wha-"
Tails did a barrel roll and propelled Sonic and Knuckles to the entrance. Knuckles screamed like a girl while Sonic just sighed. They bounced through the door and into the hall. Knuckles rubbed his backside.
"A little warning would be nice next time." He mumbled. Sonic glanced around and saw that the door to the Queen's Hall was open. Well, more destroyed than open.
"This way Knux!" He ran toward the door. Knuckles glared in his direction.
"Knux? Just you wait until I find a stupid nickname for you." He ran after Sonic.
The robots had made it to the Queen's Hall. Currently they were surrounding Queen Flare, Geoffrey, Blaze and Silver. Blaze stood in a defensive position with her hands engulfed in flames while Silver seemed fearless apart from the terrified look on his face and the shaking of his hands. Sonic had arrived just in time. Eggman's face filled a small screen that was being emitted through one of the robot's eyes.
"...to fulfil my plan, I need your family's special flame. I know you possess it and I need you to hand it over to me." Queen Flare had a mocking look on her face.
"You know, even if I knew what you were talking about, I still wouldn't hand it over." Sonic smirked. That was his cue.
Sonic curled up into a ball and spin-dashed straight into one of the robots. He then used the air he got from destroying it to charge up an Air Strike. He fired off which destroyed the rest of the robots. He landed in front of the robot with the camera.
"Hiya Eggy!"
"Sonic!"
"I'd love to stay and chat, but I've got your robots to destroy. So, Ciao for now!"
He kicked the robot up into the air. It came back down as Knuckles ran in. He saw it coming and put a fist through it. It made quite a nice explosion. Sonic turned around to face the queen with one of his trademarked smirks on his face.
"Is everyone alright?" Silver nodded.
"We are. At the moment, we've got a girl with a hammer that came to the castle today, willingly fighting off the reminder of the robots in the castle. The rest of the guards are cleaning up too." Blaze stared at Sonic.
"Why don't we just blow up his ship? I know I could do that easily." Sonic waved a hand.
"Nah. I've destroyed two of them this week already. I'll destroy that one next week." Blaze laughed.
"You certainly have a lot of confidence for a hedgehog." Sonic grinned.
"Well I'm not call Sonic the Hedgehog for nothing!" Silver stared at him with admiration.
"Wow. He's so cool."
"Brace yourselves! There's more robots incoming!" Knuckles voice rang out.
Sonic looked toward the broken door just in time to see robots fly in. They surrounded Team Skyline and the others. Eggman's face appeared on another screen.
"You're a confident little rodent, aren't you? Well prepare to meet your match with my new Dark Powered Bots!"
Sonic looked at the strange looking robots. They seemed like the normal robots that Eggman used, but these ones had pitch black smoke seeping out from the seams. He shrugged.
"We'll see about that." He got into a fighting stance. Everyone else followed his action (with the exception of Queen Flare and Geoffrey, who was hiding behind the queen.). They all stood there. Waiting for one side to make a move.
However, it was neither side that made the first move.
A pink hammer came down on top of one of the robots. It made an unusual noise as it crushed the robot. All eyes turned in that direction to see a pink hedgehog with a pink and white dress and a red headband in her hair. Everyone watched as she swung her hammer onto her shoulder.
"What are we waiting for? An invitation? Attack the robots!" That sparked the attention of Knuckles who pounded his fists together.
"That was what I was waiting for. Let's rumble!"
...
Eggman's face fell as he watched Sonic pull a face to him as the screen went to static. Mephiles pinched the bridge of his nose.
"See? You did it again. If we had just captured the queen as soon as we got here, then we wouldn't have had to worry about Sonic. But no. You had to wreak havoc all over the city. That informed the guards and your disruptor must have been a dud!" Eggman scowled at Mephiles.
"Watch your mouth."
"You walked right into that one again. I don't have a mouth."
"Grrr. Shut up. Let's go back to the island." He piloted the Egg Carrier away from Capital Island and toward Nightlock Island.
...
Sonic dusted his hands off as the clean-up crew arrived. He smiled as he saw everyone celebrating their small victory. Sonic knew however, that there would be more to come, and at some point, Eggman would claim his own victories too. Sonic jolted as someone patted his back, pulling him from his thinking.
"The Egg Carrier just left. I'm going to assume we won?" Sonic grinned to the two tailed fox.
"You bet buddy. We'll keep beating him until this war is over. Count on it." Tails smirked.
"Good to hear!" he glanced to Amy, Silver and Blaze. "You know, this'd be the perfect opportunity to recruit new members."
"Well, what do you know. Great minds do think alike!" Tails laughed.
"Go on then!" Sonic walked away from Tails and made his way over to the little group that was Knuckles, Amy, Blaze and Silver. He planted a hand on Knuckles' face and shoved him over.
"Sorry to interrupt, but I have a question for you."
"Ow."
"Are any of you interested in joining Team Skyline? You get to beat up Eggman on a regular basis."
"Seriously? What was that for?" Amy grinned.
"Sure! I'm down. It'd be much more fun that standing behind a counter all day." Blaze shook her head.
"As much as I would like to, I can't right now. I've got my duties here." Silver looked at her with a horrified look.
"But, if you don't join…"
"You're going to have to stay here with me. As much as I would love to throw you into the misted of the battle, but I know mother wouldn't approve of that. I still need a bodyguard." Silver sighed dejected.
"I guess I'm a no then too." Sonic patted him on the back.
"Don't feel too bad. You'll join sooner or later."
"Yeah…"
"SONIC!" Sonic jumped as Knuckles slugged him in the arm. "What the hell was that for?"
"Oh right. Sorry, your face was in the way."
"Why you! I'll fight you here and now!"
"Alright then. Let's rumble!"
The two began to tussle as everyone else looked on with disbelief. Amy chuckled nervously.
"I hope this isn't a regular thing." Tails shrugged.
"Not really. It's just whenever they feel like it.
"Gee. And that makes me feel SO much better."
Ok! First seven chapters rewritten! Yay me! Look out for a new chapter when I've finished Amber. Also, be on the look out for a quick sequel for a quick one-shot I posted not too long ago… See you all later!