SONIC HEROES
Disclaimer: I do not own the Sonic characters, just the OC's
Chapter Nine: Big Gamble
Jet, Wave, and Storm were still lost inside the amusement park and decided to stop and rest after their encounter with the mechs. At the time, Wave took the opportunity to bandaging up the teams injuries. She and Storm were lucky enough to sustain minor injury, but Jet was not so lucky. The fight against the mech had once again shattered the bones in his left arm. "Honestly, Jet, how do you always find yourself in these spots?" Wave questioned irritantly as she change the bandages on Jet's arm. "Oh yeah, like it's my fault." Jet replied, equally irritated. "Listen, all I'm saying is that you need to be more careful. I'm really worried about you." Wave said worryingly. "Alright, I'll take it easy." Jet said. Thirty minutes ago, Wave sent Storm to scout the area and he still was not back. "Where is that idiot?! I mean, how long does it take to walk around and map the area?! I mean, really!" Wave flared, terrifying Jet. "Whoa! And I though she was hot before." Jet thought to himself.
Just then, Storm came back, carrying a whole mess of junk foods from chips to pizza. "Hey guys!" Storm exclaimed before stuffing his beak with another hot dog. Storm was too busy eating that he didn't notice Wave pull out her wrench until it bashed across his head, sending all the foods flying. The food splattered all across Jet as Wave continued to beat Storm to a pulp. among the food, Jet had somehow come across the yellow chaos emerald. "What a wierd place to hide this." Jet said as he held up the emerald. Jet was about to tell his teammates about the emerald, but he noticed that they were still busy and decided to keep it a secret. "What they don't know won't hurt them." Jet said to himself. "We have been waiting all this time and you have been stuffing you face?! I'm gonna kill you, Storm!" Wave yelled as she delivered another blow across Storm's head.
"Boss, help!!!" Storm screamed for help. "Alright, Wave, I think he suffered enough." Jet said coolly. After a minute, Wave finally calmed down, much to Storm's relief. "Storm, did you at least do your job?" Jet asked. Strom weakly got up and said "Yep, got it all right here." Storm held up a map of the amusement park. "Let me see that!" Wave demanded as she pulled the map out of Storm's hand to inspect it. "Hmm, apparently we have to go through Bingo Highway if we want to get out of this place." Wave said. "Alright then, Bingo Highway it is." Jet said as he got up and started to leave with Storm. "I just know this won't end well." Wave said before following the rest of her team.
Jet, Wave, and Storm soon themselves standing outside the entrance that leads into Bingo Highway. The only problem was that it was closed off due to repairs. "Come on, you've got to be kidding me!" Jet complained, as usual, to the repair man. "Sorry man, but some hedgehogs came tore up the track. But don't worry; we'll have it up in three days." The repair man said before walking away. "Three days?! We don't have that long!" Jet yelled. "Calm down. There has to be another way. Let's think for a moment." Wave said. The Babylon Rogues took a moment to think of a plan until Storm started screaming. "What's wrong?!" Jet shouted in a panic. "Brain cramp." Storm whined while clutching his head. Jet and Wave groaned. But while Storm was being...himself, a group of white fighter mechs were hiding behind one of the die shaped stands, aiming their guns at the birds. The mechs fired their guns, but missed as the ricocheted off the Extreme Gear board that Wave was carrying. "What was that?" Storm questioned when he noticed the bullets. Just then, the fighter mechs came out of hiding with a swarm of flying mech and two giant mechs. "Why do they always show up when you don't want them?" Jet asked himself.
The mech once again shot their guns and the rogues scattered. Jet did a one hand back flip and found himself facing off against the white fighter mechs...alone. "So much for teamwork." Jet said to himself. The fighter mechs raised the arm guns and fired out at a rapid pace. Thankfully because of his races against Sonic, Jet was able to move fast enough to avoid the bullets. Unfortunately, Jet was headed for towards a wall and the bullets were gaining on him, so he did the one thing he could think of. Jet used his undamaged hand to pull out his feathered fan, jumped up, and waved the fan to create a mighty gust of wind that shot him back behind the mechs. Upon land behind the mechs, Jet sprang forward to cut the mechs in half with his fans. "This is just too easy." Jet boasted. Just then, more fighter mechs dropped from the sky. "I really need to learn how to keep my beak shut." Jet told himself
Wave was riding the Tsunami in the air while trying to avoid the gun shots from the flying mechs. "These guys just don't know when to quit, do they?" Wave said. Unknown to Wave, one of the flying mechs shot ahead of the group and was floating above Wave's head. The single mech aimed its gun downwards and fired a single bullet at the genius swallow. Luckily, the bullet missed Wave, but shot through the head of the Tsunami, causing Wave to fall flat of her beak. As the flying mechs moved in closer, Wave turned to them with the flames of rage burning in her eyes. "You...ruined...my...GEAR!!!" Wave yelled furiously as she pulled out her signature weapon. See the enraged swallow, the flying mechs attempted to escape, but Wave anger gave her amazing speed. She zoomed around the mechs, crushing their heads as she passed by, until there were none left. "That'll show you not to mess with me." Wave said. Just then, even more flying mechs floated around her. "Oh boy." Wave said.
While Jet and Wave were busy with the smaller mechs, Storm was stuck with the two giant mechs, not that he was complaining. "Alright, show me what you got." Storm challenged. The first of the mechs charged at Storm and raised its fist before being it down on the albatross. But being the superior in strength, Storm quickly grabbed the mechs fist and swings it over his head. While the mech was still down, Storm quickly grabbed the mechs head and ripped it off. "Who's next?" Storm turned to the last giant mech. Unlike the previous mech, this mech had black balls for hands, which it threw at Storm. Storm was caught off guard by the sudden attack and was pelted to the wall. "Ok, that hurt." Storm said. Storm pried himself from the wall just in time to see the mech throw another black ball. Think fast...ok, scratch that. Storm caught the black ball and kicked it back to the mech, lucky enough to knock its head off. "Oh yeah, oh yeah!" Storm cheered while doing a ridiculous dance. It was quite an embarrassing sight. Storm instantly stopped when five walker mech dropped from the sky. "Oh no!" Storm yelped.
The Babylon Rogues were trapped and forced to regroup together after being surrounded by the army of mechs. "You know, somehow, I just knew it would end this way." Wave said. "Are we really gonna die?" Storm asked. "Unless some miracle happens, we're as good as dead." Jet said. And just as Jet said, a miracle happened. Several small black balls landed on the ground and exploded in a cloud of black smoke. "What's going on?" Jet questioned. A minute later, the smoke had vanished and the mechs were found in pieces. "Is this what you meant by a miracle?" The Babylon Rogues looked to the top of a destroy mech to find none other then Recter Rose. "Yeah, thanks." Jet said. "Don't thank me. I wanted to be the one to defeat you three." Recter said before jumping down from the destroyed mech. "Ok, now I'm lost." Jet said. "The only reason I am here is to retrieve two special items from you. The crystal box and the golden ring." Recter stated. "What?! It'll be a cold day in hell when that happens!" Jet shouted. "Very well, have it your way." Recter said as he moved it his Taijutsu fighting stance.
"I don't care who you are! There is no way you are going to get to the boss, unless you get through me!" Storm stated. "Seems simple enough." Recter said mockingly. Storm quickly grew angry and charged at Recter recklessly. "Storm, you idiot, get back here!" Wave called out, but her pleas were not heard. When he came close, Strom threw a might punch to Recter's face, but the red hedgehog made no effort to move. Recter held his hand out and pushed away Storm's fist like it was nothing. "Whoa! This guy is good. But not good enough." Storm thought. Storm picked himself up and swung around for a hook, but Recter quickly ducked down. "Too slow." Recter said. Recter spun around to trip Storm and then pushed him away hard to send him flying into a nearby wall. The force of the attack was so strong that it left Storm out cold. "Who's next?" Recter challenged.
"That's it! You're dead, hedgehog!" Jet shouted as he attempted to attack Recter, but was pulled back by Wave. "Wave, what are you doing?" Jet asked. "Jet, you're still injured from the last fight. Let me handle this." Wave said as she walked over to Recter, wielding her signature wrench. Wave was itching to fight, but Recter was having a little trouble, which Wave noticed. "What's wrong? Scared?" Wave mocked. "I am sorry, but I cannot fight a female." Recter said. Just then, Recter was hit across the face by Wave wrench and was thrown back over ten feet. "Don't you know chivalry is dead?" Wave said. "Recter picked himself up and faced Wave again. Even though she was attacking him, Recter just couldn't fight, so he decided do the only thing he could. "I apologize in advance for what I am about to do." Recter said to Wave. "Huh?" Wave questioned. Recter charged at Wave and she retaliated by swinging her wrench down. Unfortunately, she missed, which gave him a chance to run behind her. Recter then chopped Wave in the back of her neck, which knocked her out and caused her to fell to the ground.
"Wave!" Jet cried out to his love. "I have defeated your little comrades. If you know what's good for you, you will hand over hand over the items I seek." Recter said. "Wave, Storm. You hurt them. Now I'm gonna make you pay for that!" Jet flared, but Recter was unaffected. Jet charged recklessly at Recter with his fan held high. Jet threw the fan down to swat at Recter, but calm hedgehog quickly grabbed jet by his wrist and forced the fan out of his hand. "Your finished." Recter stated. Jet tried to break free of Recter's hold, but was too weak. While trying to wiggle free, he caught sight of Shahra's ring and smirk. "You want my ring, you got it." Jet said as his ring began to glow brilliantly. "TIME BREAK!" In a flash, Jet had disappeared from Recter's sight. "Where did he go?" Recter questioned. "YO!" a voice came from behind. Recter looked back for a moment and when he did, he found a red boot connecting with his face. Recter was sent skipping across the ground with Jet smiling victoriously. "Look's like I win." Jet boasted.
But Jet's victory was cut short when Recter got back to his feet without showing the slightest bit of exhaustion. Recter used his glove to wipe the blood that was pouring from his mouth and stared at it. "You know, you're the second person that ever did any actual damage to me. It looks like I can't hold back on you anymore." Recter said. Recter reached behind his back and pulled out three simple needles. "Needles? You expect to beat me with needles?" Jet laughed. Jet wasn't laughing when Recter threw the needles. Two of them were only used as a distraction to catch Jet's attention while the third nailed him in his right shoulder. "Hah! Too bad. My turn." Jet said. Jet tried to move his arm, but found that he couldn't "Hey, what's going on?" Jet questioned. "I attacked the pressure point in your right shoulder to render it useless." Recter said. "But how?" Jet questioned. "To understand this, you would need to know the basics of anthro anatomy. It's something I learn from a group of trackers. Now, to finish the job." Recter said. Recter charged at Jet and swiped him across the face to knock him back. Then he kicked Jet upwards and brought his fist down to plow Jet into the ground. The attack was so strong that Jet fainted on contact.
With Jet, Wave, and Storm all unconscious, it was simple for Recter to obtain what he was looking for. Recter removed the golden ring from Jet's finger and the crystal box from his feathers and began to walk away. While he may have successfully completed his mission, Recter couldn't help feel that what he was doing was wrong. "I know I want to Sonic, but does that mean I have to become something I'm not?" Recter asked himself. He thought it over for a moment before coming to a decision. Recter placed Jet's ring and box next to his body and left, choosing to find Sonic on his own instead of becoming an evil thief. But unknown to Recter, a pair of blood red eyes were watching him leave before turning back to the knocked out birds. The figure took a chance to scan them. "Jet the Hawk, Wave the Swallow, Storm the Albatross. All data...successfully copied."
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