Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic, nor PSO. insert standard after-disclaimer phrase here.
Yo all! Sorry for taking so long with this chapter, I just couldn't get the inspiration up. I actually only had about five actual 'writing' days where I wrote something. But I finished it, and here it is. Sorry if it's a little lacking, especially the hildeblue fight. Also, I hope I didn't completely mess up Eggman and Shadow's character.
"What the hell is that thing!?" Seraph yelled, as the new hildebear type thing in front of them took yet more damage, but refused to fall. It was similar to a hildebear, but rather than red it was blue. And a lot tougher. Chaos was currently the designated healer, and nobody could wait until Tails could use Resta to help.
Speaking of tails, he was currently casting foie at the beast. It didn't exactly help much due to the rain. But then again, nothing they did ever truly did help. The hunters were in the forefront, trying to do as much damage as possible.
"MRU! Use the lockgun!" Suikoshi yelled. MRU turned to look at Seraph, to see him nodding. Why didn't he think of this?
"Negative. It is not charged, nor can I use it again so soon." the robot explained. He was still firing, as they all were.
Another punch. Another direct hit, this time as Amy was sent flying. Sonic saw this, and he, as well as all the others, tried that much harder. "Resta!" yelled Chaos, going closer to Amy so he could heal her injuries.
"Thanks Chaos!" she said, jumping back up to her feet and against this beast of giant proportions.
"Think nothing of it!" he shouted back, gathering fire energy. "Stand back! I'm gonna try rafoie!" the line of fire was much smaller than back in the other forest, probably due to the rain. The others didn't hear him. Chaos, having been engrossed in his technique and couldn't cancel it, pushed the speck known as rafoie into the blue hildebear.
The explosion occurred, sending Sonic, Amy, and Suikoshi back into the ranger's area. They were standing well away, nearly 20 meters away. They expected to see bits of blue hildebear on the ground, because it did EXPLODE.
What they did see, was a giant fist coming for their torso's. "What is this thing!? It took a rafoie and LIVED!? That's not physically possible!" Seraph yelled. More shots fired, until finally...silence.
"What was that thing!?" said Suikoshi. She checked her id computer but didn't find a name for this thing. "Apparently this is the first it's ever been found. So we get to name it." Seraph said.
"Negative. Hildeblue already has name." MRU interrupted. "So this thing is known as a hildeblue?" Amy exclaimed, her wonder at this new world now shrinking back into a puddle of fear for herself, and her friends. If things this strong existed...what was the chance something even larger was nearby...?
"Relax Amy. I think that's the only one for probably miles. They're rare I think, considering this is the first we've ever seen or heard of one." Suikoshi comforted. It wasn't much of one, but it did relieve a little bit of the tension.
"Hey guys! Look what I found!" yelled Tails, who had been searching around to see if it dropped anything, much like most other natural enemies do. What he found surprised him. A sword, about as long as Tails is tall, almost rainbow colored. The blade was somewhat clear, with letter on the inside. He looked at the handle. Simply engraved was the name: Elysion.
"What is that thing Tails?" Sonic asked. Tails shrugged. He guessed it was just a sword called elysion. But who names their swords anyway?
Chaos grabbed the sword out of Tails' hands. "Holy crap! It's an elysion! You found it? Good find! It's an awesome sword, here, I'll hold onto it for a while." he said, pocketing the sword and started to walk away.
Seraph, who had basically sneaked up on the duo, took the sword immediately back from Chaos. "This is Tails', not yours. I'll give it back." he handed it back to the small fox, who was looking on in wonder.
"Aw...come on Seraph, just once? Let me hold that sword at least once...please?" Chaos pleaded. Puppy dog eyes and everything. Which looked really odd on the black haired human.
"No. You know what happened last time you got to hold an elysion for an extended period of time." Seraph said, pointing to Chaos' hands, which looked fine from any other view.
"Why what happened?" asked Tails, wondering what would happen if he even held this sword. Apparently everybody else was thinking the same thing too, as they all nodded their agreement. The rain was still there, but nobody noticed it, hoping they'd get an explanation.
"Chaos is, as you know, a high level force. He was," Seraph said, before getting interrupted by Chaos. "is." Seraph looked put out. "is." he corrected. "one of the best scientists Pioneer 2 had. It was due to this and his knowledge as a force that he was given one of the best kept secrets to date. A sword, much like the one you're holding Tails, to study and figure out what it is."
"But, while experimenting with it one day, he accidentally activated the sword's ability. It forcefully drew out his energy and stuffing it into a mock-up of a foie, it launched the fireball by itself. However, this drawing out of his energy left some marks. Specifically, second degree burns." Seraph explained.
"Second degree!? Ouch! Tails', better not to use that for a long time!" Sonic said. A sword that had the ability to shoot out a fireball, great! The same sword that left second degree burns on the user's hands? Not so much.
"I wasn't planning on it." Tails' said. "Hey...you guy's said the sword's ability. Does that mean other weapons have abilities too?" he asked. He saw MRU take down an enemy in one hit with that pink handgun of his, maybe that was another ability?
"Yeah. Some do. Most don't. Best example would be MRU's lockgun. We call it the Hell. MRU is the only one that we know that can use it, and for a good reason. The Hell doesn't draw out normal energy that we use in techniques, but rather the dark energy that soul's use to stay within a body. MRU, who doesn't have a soul, is perfect to use it. However, because this dark energy is forcefully drawn out, it also clouds the user into what is usually a homicidal rage to everything nearby. MRU, who's programmed specifically to counter that effect, makes it even better. But noone knew about the Hell when we gave him the gun, and we never patched him, so I wonder if that was just chance or what..." Seraph explained.
"Negative. I was programmed prior to being delegated to this team." MRU spoke with his monotonous voice.
"Uhm...hey...I don't think I'm quite cut out for this to be honest... swords that can burn hands? Guns that can turn the users mind on themselves? I'd much rather if we just left..." Chris said. He knew he was scared, everybody knew he was scared, but they couldn't do anything about it.
"It's ok Chris, you can just stay back at the ship when we get back." Sonic put in.
"Ho ho ho! Look who we have here! Blue boy, fox boy, oh look even the wimp is here as well!" said a voice that everybody that knew who he was, automatically wished for anybody but him. Unfortunately, riding down in his little egg-mobile, came Dr. 'Eggman' Robotnik himself. Chaos felt himself draw into a defensive stance. After that battle with the hildeblue, they weren't really ready for another fight.
"I'm not here to fight, so you don't have to worry about that!" Eggman said. His normal robots that hung around him looked as if they had taken a beating recently.
"What do you want Eggman!" Sonic said. Amy and Chris instinctively went a little closer to Sonic. Tails, who had long since conquered his own fear of Eggman, stood ready for a fight.
"I decided to come warn you with a warning! Bokun couldn't make it down here, he was so upset by that fact alone that I wouldn't be surprised if he was crying is little eyes out!"
"Why?" Seraph said. He, unlike the others, had long since put up his rifle straight for Eggman's face, finger on the trigger, and ready to fire anytime. He didn't know what photon would do when put against humans, but he'd guess he'd find out soon.
"What, you can't expect me to not give any compassion for my dear rival now can I? I can't let him just die! Unless it's by my hands of course."
"What's the warning?" Sonic said, tensing his legs to get ready to run or jump. Nobody could ever predict Eggman, but it didn't necessarily hurt to be wary.
"Now now Sonic, can't we have a little chat first? Tell your gun friend over here to settle down, then I'll tell you."
"Seraph, put the gun down. At least relax!" Sonic said. Seraph nodded a negative.
"No." he said simply.
"Well, I guess we're in a draw here now aren't we? You won't stand down, and if you don't stand down I won't give you the warning that I came down here specifically to give you. Oh well. Shadow, shoot him!" the large man commanded. A bullet rang out of nowhere, and hit Seraph's gun near the trigger. He pulled his hand back instinctively and couldn't hold the rifle well with only one hand.
Sonic reacted on instinct, and dodged some of the other fire that came out of nowhere. Or seemed like it anyway. "Shadow, that's enough." Eggman commanded, and slowly Shadow stepped out of the bushes, holding two handgun type guns, one in each hand. Each gun though was a little bit longer than most handguns, but they still had the glow of photon weaponry.
"My warning is this: the Metarex will find you here. I have detected signals being distributed from this planet. Be wary, a leader of the Metarex might be here." Eggman said. "Shadow, stay with these fools and report to me if they find anything useful."
"You know doc, it might be best if you didn't outline your plan right in front of us." Sonic said, tapping his foot to an imaginary rhythm. The group, minus Eggman, sweatdropped at this.
The back of Eggman's head suddenly was wet with sweat. He seemed to have forgotten who he was in front of...but oh well. To the next time. "What makes you think I didn't want you to hear my plans?" he asked, before flying away leaving Shadow in front of the group of eight.
"Damned Eggman...leaving me here with these idiots..." Shadow said. He was ordered by Eggman to go with them, but that didn't mean he had to like it.
"What makes you think you're coming with us Shadow? We're not any happier about this either. Better hurry up, or we're leaving you behind!" Sonic taunted. Most of the group had already left, to move on further into the forest. The light drizzle of rain was still there, and something told them it wouldn't go away for a while.
Shadow stood still, and Sonic just walked away. "I'll let them have a little lead first...then I'll come at them...I'll show them the true power of Chaos Control..." Shadow whispered. A raucous roar sounded off to Shadow's right. "Looks like I'll have something to do for a while then..." he said. Cocking his guns, he sped off to the right, away from the way that Sonic and the others went.
"Are we really going to leave him here?" Amy asked. She knew even Sonic didn't like Shadow all that much, but to abandon him here in this forest? That's just insane!
"I see no reason too. He'll come to us if he needs our help." Seraph said. The ranger was getting fed up with the rain, and the arrival of someone who practically shot his gun out of his hands, with a mechgun of all things!, wasn't doing anything to help his mood. Also, Chaos acting like a little kid definitely wasn't helping any.
"Hey! I think I see a warp over there!" Suikoshi said. Just across the field, there was a tiny triangle on the group. Lines, much similar to the ones that brought the team to this new location from the other forest, shaped like a triangle rose a bit into the air.
"Affirmative. Warp location confirmed. Warp destination confirmed." MRU sounded. "Destination?" Seraph asked.
"Well, wherever it goes we're going there!" Sonic said. He immediately ran for the warp and engaged it.
"The Central Dome." MRU answered. The human hunters balked at this. They had been walking around for this long, trying to find the Central Dome, and here was a warp in the middle of nowhere that led straight to it? But, trying not to show off their surprise, Seraph shrugged.
"Well, since Sonic's already there, let's go." he said, and engaged the warp on his own. After a small amount of time, all the others were at the central dome as well.
They went too fast however, because if they had gone a little bit slower they would have noticed a black blur, similar in shape to Sonic, running towards the warp as well.
As Tails stepped out of the warp, he noticed that the rain had increased from a light drizzle and mist, to something that could truly be called rain. It wasn't hail, and it didn't hard enough to be hail or anything of that sort, just more water than what was at the other forest.
The central dome was a light grey. From where they had appeared, the Dome was well over their heads. If they turned around, there could see the forest that they had gotten lost in not that long ago. And if they had really good eyes, they could even see their position back at the original forest they came in nearly a day ago. A bright yellow orb barely shown through the clouds showed that it was nearing sunset, and it had been early in the morning when they had left.
A thud sounded throughout the metal of the Dome. The group looked over, and a hildebear had blocked their way. After their experience with the hildeblue, a single hildebear wouldn't make any difference. "Ha, you think you can block us!? You've got another thing coming!" Chaos said, putting his hands together for the barta technique.
"Chaos...I don't think it's alone." Seraph warned. He had long since put his gun in the ready position, and everybody else had gone into a fight or flight reflex stance.
Chaos looked around. Indeed, it wasn't alone. It was the only hildebear, but considering they were surrounded by boomas, gigoboomas, goboomas, and even the occasional rappy. This was bound to be a fight none of them would be walking away from without getting hurt.
"Oh, that's what you meant."
Yep, that's chapter 5. Hopefully I didn't completely mess up Eggman or Shadow's character. If I did, feel free to flame. After all, it tells me what I'm doing wrong. D
Constructive criticism/reviews are greatly appreciated! Also, hopefully chapter 6 won't take this long.