SONIC HEROES
Disclaimer: I do not own the Sonic characters, just the OC's
Chapter Sixteen: Castle Catastrophe
After their failure to defeat and capture the skillful thieves, the Babylon Rogues, Team Chaotix were now currently on a mission assigned to them at Hang Castle. "Listen up, here is your next mission." The voice said over the walkie-talkie. "Hey! I've had enough of these stupid missions! When are we gonna get paid?!" Vector screamed until Espio pushed him away. "Vector, calm down. If you yelled at our client, we'll never get paid for our success." Espio said calmly, despite Vector exploding temper. "So what do we do now?" Charmy asked curiously. "To complete the next part of your mission, you must first find the three keys that are scattered around the castle. Only then will you be able to enter inside." The voice explained to them. "Sounds simple enough. Ok team, let's split up." Vector order. "But bad things happen when people split! Don't you watch the movies?!" Charmy coward behind Espio. "I told you not to let him watch that horror film." Espio said disappointingly to Vector. "Who cares?! I say we split up and that's what we're doing!" Vector snapped before walk away. "Espio shook his head for a moment before jumping away, leaving Charmy alone. "Don't leave me here alone!" Charmy cried.
"Humph! That Espio. Who does he think he is anyway? I'm the leader of this team and they have to listen to what is say." Vector grumbled as he walked along the outside wall of the castle. Vector noticed that Espio had been taking charge during their recent missions and the crocodile didn't like it one bit. He was supposed to be the leader, not some scrawny, ninja-wannabe chameleon. Vector continued to complain about Espio until he caught sight of the key he had been searching for. He thought it was kind of strange that the key would be just standing right there in front of him. Or at least he would if he took the time to think. "Hah! This is just too easy. That'll show Espio who's in charge!" Vector cheered as he ran closer to the key. But the minute he reached out to grab it, a large spike came from nowhere and nearly pierced Vector's heart if he didn't move away in time. Vector looked up to find that his attacker was a flying yellow mech with a large spike stinger at the end. "You think you can take me? Then bring it on!" Vector challenged and the mech accepted.
The mech fired its spike towards Vector, but the muscular croc grabbed the spike with his jaws and crushed it in half. "Hah! You'll have to do better then that to beat Vector the Crocodile, super genius detective!" Vector boasted as an ugly sunshine banner appeared in the back ground. The yellow mech sweat dropped at the sight. Then, the yellow reloaded its spike and fired once more. But instead of just one spike, the yellow mech fired twelve spikes at once. Vector screamed for his life as he turned to run away, only to crash into the castle wall. The spike came closer to attacking their target and crashed into the wall with Vector, creating a large cloud of dust. When the dust cloud settled, the mech figured Vector was finished and turned to fly away until. "Man, that was too close for comfort." The mech looked back to see that Vector had just barely avoided the spike that were pinned around him. The mech tried to reload, only to find out that it had run out of ammo. "Out of gas, huh?" Vector said in a sinister manner as he grabbed the mech by its head. "Don't worry; I'll help out with that." Vector said as he held one of the mechs spike into view. Don't expect to see that mech again.
Charmy was buzzing around the castle garden at a regularly slow pace, too afraid to make any sudden moves if fear that something might happen like in horror movies. The garden was filled with withering plants and dead, leafless trees that cast sinister shadows on the walls. Charmy really wished he didn't beg Vector to stay up so he could watch, this place reminded him too much of the movie. "H-hello. A-are the any g-ghosts here?" Charmy stuttered. Just then, a single red leaf came from out of nowhere and flew past Charmy's face. "AAH! GHOST!" Charmy screamed before quickly turning around and flying away as fast as his wings could carry him. Unfortunately, because Charmy was in such a panic, he didn't notice the upcoming wall and crashed into it, face first. The collision shook loose a single brick that dropped down and crashed onto of Charmy's head. Good thing he was wearing a helmet. "Ow." Charmy said as he rubbed his head. He looked to the brick and noticed that a key dropped out along with it. "All right. It's my lucky day." Charmy said as he flew over to grab the key. But the second he got close to it, a whirlwind of leaves came from nowhere to block the bee's path.
When the whirlwind had disappeared, the only thing standing was a purple mech. "Espio?" Charmy mistaken him for Espio since it was too dark to see. The purple mech performed a hand sign and slowly disappeared into the darkness. "Hey! Where'd he go?!" Charmy panicked...again. Just then, a single kunai was headed for Charmy's direction, but the hyper bee quickly took to the skies to avoid it. Unknown to him, the kunai was just a distraction to catch Charmy's attention. The purple mech reappeared sticking to the side wall before jumping forward to grab the bee by his wings and smash him into the ground. With Charmy unable to move under the mech, the purple mech grabbed another kunai and held it over the bee's head. The mech brought the Kunai down only to realize that Charmy wasn't there anymore. "Hey! Over here!" Charmy waved over from the side. The purple mech ran up to Charmy, but noticed that the bee made no attempt to move. "Look down." Charmy said. The mech did as he was told and looked down to find that he was stand on...nothing. Apparently he mindlessly walked off a cliff. Gravity finally took over and pulled the mech down the dark chasm.
Espio was walked along the castles inner walls, actually more like walking on the walls, looking intently for the key he was asked to find. "Hmm...This castle is enormous. The probability of actually finding the key is very slim." Espio said. But, to Espio's surprise, here found the key standing atop a small pedestal on the ground. Espio jumped down from the wall, but stood far away from the wall incase there might be any traps. "Hmm...Strange. There are no traps at all, but why would Eggman leave something so important unprotected." Espio said. Espio cautiously walked up to the key and reached out to grab it, when all of a sudden, and metal claw grabbed him by his wrist and flung him to the wall. "Why is it always me?" Espio complained before he fell off and flopped to the floor. Espio took a moment to regain his senses before standing up to face his opponent. Apparently, his opponent was a large, well-build green mech that obviously held tremendous power. "So, I have to get past you in order to get that key. Well, that's fine by me." Espio smirked.
Espio reached into his cuff and pulls out and extra large shuriken. "One might not be enough. Then I'll have to try two." Espio said as he pulled out a second extra large shuriken. Espio jumped into the air and hurled the shuriken towards the mech, but the mech caught one of the shuriken with its claws and the other completely missed. "Gotcha!" Espio exclaimed with a proud smile. All of a sudden, the second shuriken made a swift turn and spun in circles around the mech. It was then that the mech realized that the shuriken was being held by a thin, nearly invisible string and was being controlled by Espio. As Espio pulled back on the string, the mech was forced to topple over as it was caught in Espio's trap. "Now, to end this." Espio said he began to form a hand sign. It was just then that the mech found that there special tags on the both of the shuriken wrapped around him "Release." Espio commanded and the tags exploded. "Too easy." Espio said as he walked over to the, almost forgotten, key. Espio grabbed the key and turned to leave when the green mech came from out of nowhere jabbed Espio in the face, sending him crashing into the wall.
Espio groaned in pain as he slowly sat up to face his opponent. The damage done from the previous attack was shown as chucks of the mechs armor fell off, but it was still standing. Espio tried to stand up, but let out a yelp of pain and fell back down. "I can barely move, meaning I can't you my weapons." Espio thought as the mech moved closer. "It looks like I have no choice. I must you my chaos, even though my sensei forbid me. But if I do, I'll just be more like...My sister." Espio thought as he remembered his sister's cold, heartless laugh. As the mech reached for his neck, Espio realized he had no other choice. "Forgive me, sensei." Espio thought as he started performing a series of hand signs. "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu" Espio took a deep breath and then breathed out a large ball of flames that incinerated the mech. Once the mech was destroyed, Espio collapsed to the floor from exhaustion. "I have to remind myself that I don't have nearly as much chaos energy as my sister." Espio said before fainting.
Charmy was buzzing around in circles while Vector was waiting around the main entrance door. The two were waiting for Espio and Vector was becoming very impatiant. "AHH...where is that guy. We've been waiting for hours!" Vector yelled. "Yeah!" Charmy agreed. "Sorry...I'm late." Vector and Charmy looked to the side to find an injured and exhausted Espio. "What happened to you?" Vector asked curiously. "Never mind. let's just end this mission." Espio quickly changed the subject and moved towards the entrance. Vector was still suspicious at first, but decided that it wasn't important. Team Chaotix walked up to the entrance and placed their keys into the locks and opened the entrance wide open. "That was easy enough." Vector said. Espio was the first to go through, but the second he did, a trap door opened underneath him and caused him to fall inside. "Espio!" Vector and Charmy exclaimed simultaneously. "Mwahahaha! Too bad! Let's see how far you two get without the brains of the team." Eggman's voiced echoed through the castle. "What do we do now?" Charmy asked. "What do you think, you idiot! He's always saved us now it's our turn to save him! Come on, it's time to rescue Espio!" Vector proclaimed. "Yeah!" Charmy cheered.
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