Ch.4 City Life Sucks
"I can't believe that jerk! Who does he think he is? Does he think we know where we are? No, no he doesn't. Yet he still ran off like a jerk!" Rainbow Dash ranted. "The rudest, the biggest, and the one who actually knew what he was doing. Then he runs off! Good for nothing ."
"Uh, could you please stop murmuring to yourself? It's creepy." Sonic asked. "Besides, he probably would've been dead weight if he couldn't contain his anger. Right, Knux?
"You throw a good point there ol' blue. And jeez, what a hypocrite! You hate humans but you are one yourself! As for us…" He paused. "What did Chaos Control do to us?"
"Chaos what?" Dash replied.
"Chaos control: The art of transcending time and space. It must be why we're like this." Sonic stated.
"Whoa, so you do know how we got here?
"Never said that. Just know what caused it. How, I'm not sure."
"Well this sucks." She finished. Dash's stomach grumbled as she stared at her skinny belly. "I need to eat."
"Well first let's find civilization, then food." Knuckles said.
"Hey Knux" Sonic started. "I don't think it'll be hard to find."
He pointed to a flaming skyscraper. An explosion rattled off the top of it and sent debris flying onto the ground.
"How far away ya think it is?"
Dash took a good long stare. "I'd say about two, maybe three miles."
"Wait, how do you know?"
"One, my name doesn't have to mean the "speed of sound" to be fast myself. Two… I think that Kira guy is already over there." She stated. As she pointed to a red blur.
"What the!?" Sonic and Knuckles shouted together. A red blur blazed through the woods that they landed in entering the city. The three stared at each other in amazement as they saw it come closer to the blazing town.
Dash gaped in awe. "You think he's the one who's burning this town? I mean, he did just use fire. And the whole 'I hate the human race' thing."
"Well if he is, then we've got an obligation to stop him!"
Knuckles nodded in agreement. "No way that guy's going to do something like this on our watch."
"You guy's watch, not mine." Dash quickly added. "I'm a starving little girl. No thanks."
"Aw, what? Come on, please. We have no idea what's going on up there. Come on! Follow me!"
She sighed as the blue boy got into a runner's pose. "Seriously, do I have to do this? Welp, hopefully I won't blast past him." She extended her wings and began to flap and was knocked backwards by an amazing force. She got up and saw a blue blur head towards the town. She broke into a wide grin.
"Has he always been this fast?"
Knuckles gave her a confused look. "Yeah, why?"
She took off. A blast of force knocked Knuckles down. He watched as a spectra trail was left behind.
His eye twitched. He finally sighed and got up. "I'm wedged between a bunch of speed freaks now. Better follow."
He took off.
Kira looked up into the sky and saw the warships bring down hell unto the city. He got a sly grin. He saw the people around him scream and panic in terror. "Yes" he thought. "This is what these lowdown dirty bastards deserve. Total annihilation. Looks like the gods were trying to give me a front row seat to a feature presentation."
"Look out!"
"Hmm?" A girl with silver hair quickly pushed him across the sidewalk.
"Hey, what the hell do you think yo"- BOOM!
The boy shields his eyes from the deadly explosion. He looks at the girl desperately cringing in pain and someone over her crying in desperation to get her up. An unpleasant memory hits his head.
He shoves the little boy out of the way, picks up the bleeding girl, grabs the boy by the arm, and takes off through the crowd.
Rainbow Dash and Sonic blazed through the panicking city, quickly spotting the airships above their heads.
"So he didn't try and blow up this place?" Dash asked. "But then who is?
"Dunno, don't care. Just know I should be kicking his butt about now. Where's Knux?" Sonic replied.
"We blew him off land. Don't know where he is." They hit the breaks as a missile lands directly in between them. "I don't want to do this, but just because you're about as fast as me and I can use the challenge, looks like there's nowhere to go but up!"
"Hey, wait for me guys!"
The red-head finally caught up. He stopped and dropped to his knees. He panted heavily for a few seconds then got up and wiped his sweat-beaded face. He stared at the sky and continued to pant. The two speed demons before him each gave a quizzical look. Then he stood steadily with both spiked hands in a meditation pose. He sighed.
"Okay, now I'm ready! Let's beat the snot out of this guy!" Knuckles shouted.
The two speed freaks looked at each other and sighed.
"Took you long enough." They blankly said in union.
Knuckles' eyes went ablaze.
"I'M NOT SPEED FREAKS LIKE YOU!"
"I don't want to do this, but debt to repay is a debt to repay. Whoever the hell you are up there, prepare to get your shit pushed in."
The boy with the red hair sighed as the panicking crowds ran past him, screaming in horror.
"Let's do this."