SONIC HEROES
Disclaimer: I do not own the Sonic characters, just the OC's
Chapter Seventeen: Rescuing Espio
Vector and Charmy opened the doors to the inner castle, being as cautious as they could possibly be. In other words, they were basically crashing into everything they could find inside. Ever since Espio had been captured by Eggman, Vector and Charmy were clueless at how to proceed in the current situation. "What do we do now?" Charmy asked. "I told you, we're rescuing Espio, you idiot." Vector said. "I know, but how do we find him?" Charmy asked again. "Well we...uh...Maybe be if we..." Vector had no clue what to do. Espio was usually the one who came up with the plans and he was just the muscle. Charmy was hollering with laughter at the sight of Vector's stupidity. "Vector is dumb! Vector is dumb!" Charmy sang, which received him a bonk on the head. "Ow! That hurt!" Charmy cried. "This is no time for games! We're on a serious mission! And if we fail, we'll never see Espio again!" Vector proclaimed. "But he's the only one that's ever nice to me!" Charmy cried. "Then stop your blubbering and start looking!" Vector ordered. "Ok." Charmy's mood instantly changed and buzzed on ahead. "There's something wrong with that kid." Vector mumbled before following Charmy.
As they entered further into the room, they noticed several statues of mechs lined along the wall and many portraits of mechs in between. As they reached the end of the narrow room, they found a dead end wall with a large portrait of a giant mech on the wall. "What kind of person owns a roomful of pictures of robots?" Vector questioned. "These are only a few examples of what you will be seeing when my army invades." A loud, booming voice echoed through the castle walls. "ALIENS!" Charmy screech as he latched himself to Vector's snout. "Get off me, you idiot!" Vector demanded. "You say that a lot." Charmy stated the obvious. "I remember you two. I remember how you and that accursed echidna and chameleon defeated me. That is not something I am willing to forgive." The voice said. Suddenly, the statues started to crack and the portraits began to move on their own. Soon, white fighter mech broke out of their portraits and broke out of the statues and turned to face the witless detectives. "Uh oh." Vector and Charmy said simultaneously. The mechs fired their guns, but the two separated and jumped to the sides.
Vector landed on his feet and found himself being surrounded by half of the fighter mechs as they aimed their guns at him. "Uh...Can we talk?" Vector pleaded, but the mechs didn't listen. "Guess not." Vector said. "HELP ME!" Charmy cried as he was being chased around by the other half of the fighter mechs. Weather through good planning or just dumb luck, Charmy flew over the group of mechs that surrounded Vector and caused them to collide with each other, making one huge pile. The two groups were caught in each others armor or gears and were unable to move. "Good work, Charmy. Leave the rest to me." Vector said. "Go, Vector!" Charmy cheered. Vector jumped as high into the air as he could and dropped down onto the pile of mechs. "Belly flop!" Vector yelled and crushed the mechs under his weight. "Yay! Do it again! Do it again!" Charmy demanded with his usual annoying voice. "Cut it out, we need to find Espio." Vector said. Just then, a loud thud was heard from behind. "What was that?" Vector asked, not really wanting to know the answer.
Vector and Charmy turned around and watched as the portrait with the giant mech took one step outside its painting. Charmy coward behind Vector as the giant mech took one more step to fully escape the portrait. "You have got to be kidding." Vector complained, as usual. The giant mech raised its fist to transform it into a giant metal ball and threw it at the dense duo. Vector quickly opened his wide jaw to grab the ball, cry a little from the impact, and closed his jaw to crush the ball. "Hah! Beat that!" Vector exclaimed. Just then, the mech raised its other fist to transform it into another metal ball, this time with spike. "Go Vector! I'll be cheering for you...Way over here!" Charmy said from the other side of the room. "Thanks for the support!" Vector yelled sarcastically. The Vector looked back at his opponent and watched as the mech reeled back its hand to throw. Just then, a large shuriken came through the empty portrait and wrapped itself around the mechs arm with thread. "What the?" Vector questioned. Just then, Espio jumped through the portrait holding the thread. "Espio!" Charmy exclaimed. Espio smirked as he pulled back on the thread to force the mech to fall on its back.
Espio quickly jumped over the giant fallen mech and ran to the rest of his team. "Espio, where were you?" Vector asked. "Trust me, you don't want to know." Espio said. "How did you get out?" Charm asked. "Again, trust me, you don't want to know." Espio said. "Come on, tell us!" Charmy whined. "Alright, fine. Listen." Espio said. Espio motioned the two to move closer to himm and started whispering in their ears. Vector and Espio had disgusted looks on their faces and jumped back away from Espio. "EWW! That's nasty!" Vector and Charmy said simultaneously. Espio nodded his head in agreement. "But it wasn't all bad. Take a look at What i have found." Espio said as he reached behind to pull out the purple chaos emerald. "The chaos emerald!" Charmy cheered. "Way to go Espio!" Vector said. Just then, the mech broke free from Espio's thread and stood back to its mechanical feet. "Get ready!" Espio said as the team moved into their fighting stances. The mech raised its new fists into the air and transformed them into metal balls. Just as the mechs was prepared to attack, the ceil began to shake and fell off for no reason. The rubble landed on the giant mech and crushed it like a can.
"Uh...what just happened?" Charmy asked, having no idea what caused the ceiling to fall. Vector and Espio were equally confused at what happened. "I happened." A voice came from inside the rubble. Parts of the rubble started to shift a little before it completely blew off. Now stand in front of the team was the vengeful red hedgehog, Recter Rose. "And who you are?" Espio questioned. "Who I am is of no importance. I hear that you three have been investigating on Eggman; I want to know what you have learned so far." Recter said. "Sorry, but our investigations are completely confidential." Vector said. "Yeah, so buzz off!" Charmy exclaimed. "A little insect just told me buzz off." Recter said to himself. "All right, if you won't tell me, then I'll just have to beat it out of you." Recter said. "Just try it!" Vector challenged. "Yeah, just try it!" Charmy repeated. "You three have just made your final mistake." Recter said as he moved into his Taijutsu stance.
Vector and Charm attacked at once while Recter reached behind his back to pull out three black balls that Espio quickly caught sight of. "Vector, Charmy, watch out!" Espio warned, but it was too late. Recter threw the balls on the ground, which created a thick blanket of black smoke. "Hey! What 's going on here?!" Vector exclaimed. "I can't see!" Charmy cried. "Let me help" "Oh, thank...AHH!" Charmy screamed as Recter appeared right in front of him. Recter pulled back him hand and crashed his palm into Charmy's small chest, sending him flying out of the smoke and into Espio's hands. "Charmy, are you all right?" Espio asked. "I don't want to go to school today, mommy." Charmy said in a daze before fainting. "He's fine." Espio said. "Hey what's going on out there?!" Vector shouted. "Gotcha now!" Recter appeared behind Vector. "Thousand years of death!" There was a short pause before Vector jumped out of the smoke holding his behind, screaming in pain. "That was just a simple poke in the butt. Just who is this wierd guy?" Espio thought as his left eye twitch in disturbance.
Recter walked out of the smoke casually with a large grin on his face. "So, ready to give up?" Recter mocked. "Not In the least." Espio said as he threw Charmy away. "HEY!" Charmy exclaimed. Espio quickly reached into his cuffs and threw a series of kunai in Recter's direction. As the kunai came closer, Recter swiftly pulled out a long needle and blocked everyone of the kunai. A few seconds after, Espio came out of nowhere and swung at Recter with a kunai, which Recter block with a the needle. "Hey, you're not half bad." Recter said. "I see you use needles. Most likely used to aim for my pressure points, right?" Espio guessed. "Wow, fast and smart. You're family must be proud. Too bad it has to end here." Recter said with a grin. Espio looked confused until Recter swiftly pulled out another needle with his free hand and threw it at Espio's left ankle. Espio yelped in pain before Recter kneed him in the gut and delivered a mighty punch to the face that sent him back a few feet.
Espio tried to get up, but fell back down on his butt in pain. Espio pulled out the needle from his ankle just as Recter came up to him. "Look's like I win. Now, tell me everything you know." Recter demanded. "Never." Espio refused. "I didn't want to do this, but you left me no choice." Recter said as he made an attempt to reach for another needle. But before he could reach one, Vector came from nowhere and trapped Recter in his mouth. "Hey! Let me out!" Recter said as he continually tried to punch his way out. "You heard him." Espio said. "Cannonball!" Charmy screamed as he charged at Vector's gut, forcing the croc to spit Recter out. The force sent the red hedgehog flying through the roof of the whole castle and land directly over the nearby hills. "Well, he's gone." Vector stated. "We should probably get out of here before he comes back." Espio said as Vector lifted him on his back. But as Team Chaotix made their way to the exit, a pair of blood red eyes was watch and scanned them. "Espio the Chameleon, Charmy Bee, Vector the Crocodile. All data... successfully copied. Now my power is at its greatest. It is time to begin my reign!"
Unknowingly, the six teams were all resting in the same area, resting from all the battles they faced. Just then, the sun suddenly went out, which quickly caught the attention of the heroes. They looked to the sky and all gasped in shock at what they were seeing. "What is that?" Sonic, Amy, Chaos, Jet, Knuckles, and Espio unknowingly said simultaneously. In the sky was a large feet of airborne battleships that would easily put the Egg-Carrier to shame. Amongst the fleet of red battle ships was a blue battleship that held a tower of Eggman where he most likely stayed. "Mwahahaha. Gaze and cower at the sight before you, simpletons. Today begins the day of a new rule. MY rule!" Eggman said over the loudspeakers. "Look's like break is over. Come guys, time to rock and roll." Sonic said to his teammates, not knowing that the other teams were thinking the exact same thing.
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