I can't believe nobody attempted to answer the two trivia questions in the previous chapter! Nobody seriously know the answers to them or what? Those who catch up to Internet memes often should definitely know them.
Chapter 7
Storm the Airship! Operation Princess Saver!
The effect of the sleeping gas was starting to wear off and one could see people waking up. "Yoshi! What a nice sleep!" Yoshi said while stretching his arm. "But I was just in the middle of eating cinnamon toast crunch. Speaking of which, why do kids love them anyway?"
Mario got up and stretched his arms and said, "Yawn! How come I fell asleep-a just-a now?"
ROB came up to him and said to him, "There is urgent matter to report, but it is top secret. Nobody else asides from us Smashers can know this."
"What is it?"
"The risk of letting the secret slip out is high in a place like this. Let us gather at a place where nobody will hear us."
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Soon afterwards, most of the Smashers were all gathered together and ROB told them everything. Pikachu screamed upon hearing this, "What?! The princess is…?" But before he can finish shouting, the others shut his mouth fast.
"Don't say it out loud!" Pichu said to him.
"You no hear ROB?" Jigglypuff said.
"One does not have to worry, for Fox, Falco, Donkey Kong, and Diddy Kong had set off after Eggman with the help of Star Wolf Team," ROB assured them. "They will come back in the most minimal time possible."
"If that's the case, we do not have to worry about Elise," Captain Falcon said. "We can only trust them to get the job done now."
Meanwhile, inside the airship operated by Eggman…
Elise found herself locked up inside a prison room that had nothing at all. She walked up to the door before her and looked out the small window near the top of it, and she saw two guards next to the door. "Excuse me," she asked. "Where am I?"
One of the guards, a robotic chicken named Scratch, replied to her, "So you're awake, princess! You are currently inside Dr. Eggman Robotnik's personal airship! In case you didn't know, you were abducted by him again!"
"What?!"
"We were told to keep watch on you," the other guard, who was a green robot with drill hands and threads for legs, said—Grounder. "Sorry, but even if you are someone of royal origins, we cannot disobey our master's orders."
"Please let me out…"
"Too bad; we'll be in trouble if we let you out," Scratch told him. "You can do nothing but cry for help, and that will never come either!"
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Eggman was at the control room, resting on his chair and eating egg yolk flavored ice cream. "Things sure went smoothly this time!" he said in a relaxed tone. "With the princess in my grasp, I will be able extract the first half of Everything out of her! I'll go look for the second half afterwards and then combine the full power with the Chaos Emeralds to obtain unimaginable powers to take over the world!"
Then the computer radar gave off a siren and he took a look at it. "What's this? Someone is after us? Main screen turn on!" The main screen turned on and showed the three Wolfens. "What's this? Guards sent by the Soleanna Defense Force? Bah! I can take on them anytime!" Then the siren went off again. "More incoming enemy?" He switched to another screen and this one showed the Blue Tornado. "Blast! It's that hedgehog again!"
He quickly moved over to another part of the controller and spoke loudly into the microphone there, "Attention all troops! Prepare to engage the enemy and stop them from coming any further!"
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Out there, the 3 Wolfens were flying smoothly towards the airship. "We're nearing our target," Wolf said. "If we cannot find a way in, we'll make one ourselves." He then noticed incoming danger on the radar. "Looks like someone is here to welcome us!"
E-100 robots equipped with jet packs came out from an open hatch on the airship and flew in their direction and fired their projectiles. The Wolfens spread out in different directions and began firing down the enemies one by one.
Leon moved around in a zigzag formation to avoid enemy fire and shot down the enemy afterwards. The constant moving caused Falco to bump his head against the glass multiple times. "Ow! Don't you know how to pilot a jet?!" he cried.
"This is my Wolfen, so I can do whatever I want with it!" Leon snapped back.
Falco looked out the cockpit and said, "Things aren't looking good…" Apparently, several robots had them surrounded.
"Let's show them this trick!" Leon pressed a button on the controller and the Wolfen disappeared from the sight of the robots suddenly! They looked around in confusion and wondered how the jet disappeared.
From inside the Wolfen, one couldn't tell the difference. "Huh? What's with them? It's as if they can't see us!" Falco said.
"They can't see us! We're invisible!" Leon said.
"How is that possible?!"
"I like it better if my Wolfen behaves like me! Nobody will know what's coming to them!"
Taking advantage of the invisibility, Leon began shooting down the enemies one by one.
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Panther flew around with grace and style to avoid all the incoming projectiles. "Whoa! There are a lot of them out there!" Diddy said in awe.
"Fear not; the moment they set their eyes on my rose they have died," Panther said. He turned around his Wolfen to face his enemies behind him and shot out a smart bomb.
The bomb went to the center of the group of enemies and exploded, but instead of the usual big ball explosion, the bomb exploded into thousand of what looks like rose petals. The petals came in contact with the robots and stuck onto them, and then it glowed brightly and blew the robots away.
BAAAAANG!!
"Whoa!!" DK exclaimed.
"Wow! That's so cool!" Diddy exclaimed.
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Wolf charged straight at a pair of robots that were firing at him, but he kept on doing barrel rolls to knock them away. "Think you can take me down easily?" he said. "Wait a zillion years!"
The robots prepared to back off as Wolf got closer and closer to them, but they never had the chance to do so as Wolf flew right past them. At first, it seemed like nothing happened, but then the robots were sliced into pieces. Fox was amazed by this and asked, "How did you do that?!"
"Easy, the wings are sharp like blades!" Wolf explained.
"But I didn't install anything like that!"
"I modified itself myself afterwards, you know."
Wolf then looked around and saw no more enemies. "Looks like the coast is clear. Let's move out!"
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On the other side, the Blue Tornado was facing a number of E-100 robots too. "Eggman spotted us!" Tails gasped.
"Time for some company then!" Sonic said while doing stretches on the wing.
"I'll dodge the attacks and you take on them!" Tails said.
"Whatever you say!"
The robots fired projectiles in their direction and Tails quickly steered the plane away and zoomed forward. They made it near the group of robots and Sonic jumped off the wing and tossed himself at the nearest robot. He bonked it on the head and destroyed it and bounced off into the air and headed for another one and did the same thing. Using this method, he jumped from one robot to another and easily took out a large number of them before landing back onto the Blue Tornado's wing.
The remaining robots gathered together in front of them to form a barricade of sorts and they fired simultaneously. Tails quickly dropped altitude while Sonic jumped into the air. He spun like tornado in midair and bluish energy formed around him for a few second before shooting out in the form of a cyclone. "Sonic Wind!"
The blue wind went to the robots and literally tore them into pieces before blowing them everywhere. Sonic fell down and landed onto the Blue Tornado again. "They're all gone!" Tails said.
"Let's get going then!" Sonic said.
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Eggman was certainly not pleased that the good guys had busted down his army. "Dammit! Sonic I can accept that, but the defense force is just as good?! I'll show them that they are messing with the wrong person!"
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As the Wolfens approached the open hatch, guns came out from the airship wall and began firing at them. "He really doesn't want to welcome us, does he?" Wolf commented, and the three flew out of the way to avoid getting shot.
Each of the Wolfens flew around at a fast speed and performed barrel rolls to deflect the projectiles, and they shot back at the guns and destroyed them one by one. The hatch also took this opportunity to close up so that they cannot come in. "The hatch has closed!" Fox gasped.
"Like I said just now, I'll make an opening myself if there isn't one for us!" Wolf replied. He pulled a lever and his Wolfen began spinning like a drill at a fast speed. The jet shot forward like a missile and crashed into the hatch and drilled against it violently, and it finally bored through the hatch, creating a hole big enough for the other two Wolfens to come in.
"What did I tell you?" Wolf said, landing his Wolfen.
"This is worse than the barrel roll…" Fox said while his eyes swirled like crazy.
The riders in the Wolfens all came out and gathered together. "All right, we're inside at last," Fox said.
"Let's show Humpty-Dumpty whose boss!" Falco said, holding up his gun.
"We'll look for the princess and get out of here."
"Aren't we going to take down the mad scientist too?" Leon asked. "Where's the fun if we just let him be?"
"I agree," Panther said. "I will never forgive such a foul man for taking pleasure in kidnapping a beautiful princess!"
"Well, if he gets in our way, we'll take on him too," Fox said. "Try to avoid necessary fights if possible."
"You're going too soft nowadays, Fox," Wolf said to him.
"I'm not a big fan of violence, okay?"
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"What?! They were the Smashers all along?!" Eggman gasped as he saw everything from the screen. "No wonder they were so good!"
Then another siren came up and this made him frustrated. "Argh! What now?!" He looked at another screen and saw Sonic and Tails entering into the airship through a hole that looked unfamiliar to him. "Now it's Sonic! And he made a hole on the wall too!" He turned to a microphone and then shouted into it.
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Scratch and Grounder were asleep in front of the prison door when suddenly a nearby speaker screamed out, "THE TWO OF YOU!!"
This immediately rocked them up and got them onto their feet. "Yes sir, Dr. Robotnik!" they both said in a salute pose.
"Sonic and his fiends are here! You two better keep an eye on the princess and make sure they don't snatch her away!" Eggman's voice said.
"Don't worry, boss! We'll make sure they never snatch the princess away!" Scratch replied.
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Fox's group ran through the hallway and beat up every single robot they came across. They eventually came to a fork on the road and Fox looked both ways and decided which to go. "Now where do we go?"
"Guess we have to split up," Falco said.
"I'll go with my team to the left, and you take the right," Wolf suggested. "How's that?"
"Not a bad idea," Fox thought. "Okay, we'll do as you say." And thus Star Wolf took the left and the Smashers took the right.
The Smashers kept on moving until they came to another fork on the road. "Oh man! Not another fork!" Fox said.
"We'll go left!" DK said.
"Then our team will go right!" Falco said.
"You know… I was wondering why forks on the road are so common and clichéd…" Fox said, but nevertheless, they split up again.
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The Starfox characters quietly went through the hallway and kept an eye on their surroundings. Falco noticed a camera on the ceiling, and thus he quickly shot it down with his gun before proceeding through the place.
"I wonder where the princess is," Fox said.
"We'll find her after we question the fatty," Falco said. "We'll make him spill the beans no matter what!"
Suddenly, something blue and yellow zipped past the hallway in front of them in a moment's notice, and they were startled. Falco ran out to the hall and pointed his gun in the direction they went and said, "All right! I know you're there! Come back here and fight like a man!"
Then the blue blur turned around and zipped back to Falco, and it was so fast that he had no time to react as the blur kicked the gun out of his hand. "Gah! So fast! Hey, it's you!"
"Whoa! What are you guys doing here?!" the blue blur, who turned out to be Sonic, said.
"You guys are here too!" Fox said as he ran over, and Tails joined too.
"We spotted this airship and believed that it belongs to Eggman, so we came over trying to reclaim the Chaos Emeralds," Tails explained.
"Well, we came here because the princess was kidnapped," Falco told them.
They both were shocked to hear this news. "What?! Princess Elise is kidnapped by Eggman?!" Sonic gasped.
"That's the truth…" Fox said. "And we're here to rescue her."
"If that's the case, you have my help! Let's look for her together!" Sonic said.
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Scratch and Grounder were both up in arms standing in front of the prison door and they kept awareness in both directions. "If anyone suspicious shows up, shoot him down!" Scratch said with a club in his hand.
"You can bet on me to do that!" Grounder replied, and he had one hand changed into a gun.
Unknown to them, Diddy and DK were poking their heads out from around the corner. "The door looks suspicious," Diddy said. "Perhaps the princess is inside and they are guarding her?"
"We'll bust them down!" DK said. DK was going to step forward but Diddy grabbed him by the arm to stop him. "What?"
"We'll cause a ruckus like this! We'll try to distract them!" Diddy told him. He reached under his hat and got out a peanut and then tossed it onto the same hallway as the two robots.
Scratch heard the sound of the peanut rolling and became suspicious. "Who's there?!" And he slammed down his club on the peanut rapidly like crazy.
"I'll help you!" Grounder said as he rushed over and began firing at the peanut while Scratch clubbed it constantly.
"Whoa… Worked better than I thought…" Diddy said in awe.
The two robots finally stopped their onslaught and saw a flattened and fried peanut on the floor. "It was just a nut!" Scratch said. "We've been had!"
"Why is there a nut here anyway?" Grounder wondered, and then he saw several more peanuts on the floor and it formed a trail that went around the corner. "Hey! There's more here! Let's follow it!" And they went along with the trail of the peanut.
Shortly after they turned around the corner, they came flying back and through the hallway and crashed into a wall violently.
CRASH!!
DK and Diddy came out from the same corner afterwards, so you should know what happened. They ran up to the door and Diddy looked into the window and saw Elise. "I see her!"
Elise was happy to see the Smashers. "I knew you would come rescue me!"
"I'll open the door!" DK said. Diddy backed off and allowed DK to punch the door.
BANG!
But the door was really hard and DK hurt his hand instead. "Ow!"
"Whoa, the door sure is hard…" Diddy said, tapping the door. "It's not even bended..."
DK looked at the door again and saw the window had iron bars on it. "If we can take down those bars…"
Then Scratch and Grounder came back up again. "Hey you! You must be friends of Sonic!" Scratch said. "You're not taking the princess anywhere!"
"Yeah! Prepare to meet your maker!" Grounder said.
DK and Diddy got into fighting stance. "We can take on you anytime!" Diddy said.
"Oh yeah? Get them!" Scratch shouted, and they both ran to the Smashers with their arms raised as if they are bogeymen.
CRASH!
But they flew back and rammed into the wall instead. "Ow… They sure are strong…" Scratch cried.
Grounder got back up and said, "I'll show them why the boss favors me more (not true)!" His stomach opened and a boxing glove came out. "Take this!" It launched forward in the form of a spring-loaded glove and punched DK in the chest, but the gorilla wasn't flinched at all.
"A mosquito bite hurts more than that," DK said.
"Uh oh… Looks like he's no pushover…" Grounder said in fear.
"But we cannot let them take the princess away!" Scratch said. "We'll do whatever it takes to bring them down!"
Diddy got into kung-fu pose and said, "Are you guys going to take on us seriously?"
"I'll show you!" Scratch reached for the wall behind him and opened a secret door that had a hidden bazooka. He got out the bazooka and pointed it at the Kongs as they got into defensive stance. "Haha! Take this Egg-O-Zooka!" And he pulled the trigger. But strangely enough, the shot came out from behind and blasted Grounder.
BAAAAAANG!!
"What?!" Scratch turned around and looked at his busted friend and then the bazooka. "Sorry, it was facing the wrong direction..." DK used this opportunity to sock him in the face.
SMAAAAAAAAASH!!
"YEOW!!" And the robot chicken fell over and joined his friend.
"That was too easy," DK said, cracking his fist.
"Yep, too easy!" Diddy said.
DK noticed that Grounder also had a drill on his nose, and thus he picked up his head (it fell off the body) and went over to the door. "Hey! What are you going to do to me?!" Grounder asked.
DK held him up against the iron bars and said, "Start drilling!"
"I'll never let the princess free!"
"Don't ask for fee or else I'll crush you!"
Grounder felt DK tightening the grip and was afraid. "Okay… I'll drill!" And he spun his nose and began drilling against the bars.
Little by little, the bars were taken down until they were all gone. "Thanks for the help," DK said, and he tossed Grounder aside. "Princess! You can come out now!"
Elise ran over and looked out the window and said, "Through here?"
"Yes! We'll help you out!" Diddy said.
"Um… All right…" Elise first stuck both her hands through the window and DK helped her out by pulling her hand, and slowly, she lifted her body through. It was a bit of a squeeze, but she managed to come out smoothly until she reached the hips.
"C'mon," DK said.
Elise tried to pull herself out, but her hips refused to follow through. "Um… I'm stuck…"
DK pulled back and tried to pull her out, but the princess remained stuck at the small window. Even with Diddy's help, the two Kongs couldn't get her out. "Something tells me that the author is having a fun time typing and imagining this part!" Diddy said.
"It's no use! The window is too small for me!" Elise cried.
"Intruder alert!" said a robotic voice.
The three turned to the source of voice and saw another E-100 robot, but this one was somewhat taller than the past ones and had the words E-102 Chaos Gamma written on his body. "Oh no… At a time like this…" Diddy said.
"Intruder is attempting to free prisoner," the robot said. "Must terminate intruder and prevent the freedom of prisoner immediately."
TO BE CONTINUED
Yes, that's Scratch and Grounder from the old cartoon show Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. There's nothing wrong with using them, right?
