Notes to Readers: Sorry for the delay in updating my fic folks. I've been a bit absent minded as of late trying to get this part of the fic finished as well as work on other things that I've been meaning to do. But I assure you that I didn't mean to get this fic this long. I guess that it's a habit of my for me to write this long. In any case, I should thank anyone who has review the chapters of this fic for their opinions. I would also like to extend my thanks to the group known as Generation-A and the person named Anime Master Zero. I don't know what I would be able to do without their support and stories. Well, with all that said and done, I'm going to end this note by saying that the characters in the story do not belong to me but to their own respective owners. Well later and enjoy the chapter!
Part 11
Just as soon as he was about to arrive at the scene, Lan soon found himself greeted by some nearby traffic caused by cars that have somehow crashed near one another as well as a large group of people that looked as though they were going away from an awful car accident. However, for when he saw the source of the disturbance, the boy soon found himself startled for he saw that the cause of the scene was a huge group of viruses that he heard about a while back starting to go on a rampage throughout the city streets. Metools as well as large groups of Spookies, Killereyes, Mushies, and even the powerful Scuttlest viruses are rampaging towards the streets of the huge city.
"MegaMan, it looks as though that the report about those viruses wasn't wrong after all!" Lan said to his Navi with a surprised tone hanging in his voice as he continued to watch the battle scene from afar.
"Well, I think that we both know about what we should do for when this sort of thing gets out of hand," he heard the blue Navi saying with a tone of both a knowing and proud tone noted in his own voice. "The question that only needs to be answered would be whether or not that you've brought it along with you or not."
As if to respond to his little blue friend's question, Lan began to reach into his pocket to see if he still has the item that MegaMan was talking about. After a moment of searching, the boy soon found what he was looking for: the Synchro Chip. It was the very same device that his own father created that would allow him to fuse with his own Navi using a new ability called Cross Fusion. The very same ability that allows him to take on the form of MegaMan as well as use his special abilities. Cross Fusion however could only be achieved with the use of the new Dimensional Generators that Sci-Lab had built thanks to the unexpected assistances of the former leader of World Three: Dr. Wily. If it weren't for either his father's invention as well as the former leader of the World Three, then he nor MegaMan would've been able to take care of the Darkloids, Nebula, Duo, or the Asteroid Navis all by himself.
Of course, there were others that were able to Cross Fuse with their own Navis and he wouldn't forget the experience that he just had. But before he could have the chance to even think about the people that were able to Cross Fuse, Lan's mind suddenly snapped itself back up just in time to see some of the virues beginning to advance towards him like animals. "Yikes! I'd better not waste any more time wondering about past memories!" he said out loud to himself just as he reached his P.E.T. and began contacting Mr. Famous in order to get a Dimensional Area as soon as possible while at the same time skating in order to evade any attacks launched towards his direciton. "Mr. Famous, I need a Dimensional Area over here on the double! Quickly!"
"I'll get right on it, Lan," he heard the voice of the Net Official saying to him with a rather serious sounding tone before speaking again. "And by the way, the name is just Famous! (Sighs) Also, both you and MegaMan have some rather explaining to do about that little behavior of yours for when you and Chaud finish wiping out the viruses! Over and out!"
As soon as the transmission ended, he saw that the entire portion of the city that he was in was becoming discolored with what appears to be a Dimensional Area over head. Then Lan began to once again see only the image of MegaMan right in front of the holographic screen of his Personal Terminal before he said with a rather defeated sigh, "Well, it looks as though that we're in for quite a long talk with both Famous and Chaud for after this is all done with!"
"Let's just keep our minds on getting rid of the viruses first and then worry about dealing with our chat with those two later, MegaMan!" the head-banded teen said to his Navi while at the same time reaching into his pocket and began to fish out his Synchro Chip again so that he could try to Cross Fuse. "Let's also be grateful that the P.E.T. was able to save all of the stored Battlechip data that I've had the last time we've had our battle! Now let's do this!"
With those words said and done, Lan began ready his Synchro Chip into position right near the port of his P.E.T. and began to shout out before downloading it., "Alright! Synchro Chip, in and download! Cross Fusion!"
With that command being shouted out and for when he slotted in his Synchro Chip, Lan soon found his entire form being engulfed in bright light that would always happen for whenever he did Cross Fusion with his Navi. After what seems to be like about ten minutes, the light began to dissipate and soon he was in a suit that nearly resembles that of MegaMan's. Everything from the helmet to his gloves and boots resembles that of his blue Navi's own suit. Even MegaMan's icon emblem was present right on top of his very chest for after it happened.
As soon as he faced the wild viruses which he saw were dumbfounded at what just happened, the young Netbattler began to raise his right arm while at the same time transforming into his main weapon, the Mega Buster, appearing in its place and he pointed it towards their direction. "Alright! Time to take care of business!" Lan shouted out before pointing his weapon towards the viruses that suddenly realized that they were in the middle of trying to figure out if the very being in front of them is really a human or Net Navi. "Time for us to show these viruses never to mess with the two of us for when we work together! Mega Buster!"
While having his own driver continuing to drive the limo at a great speed, Chaud was still trying to figure out what Lan had said earlier about the gem shard that he has in his possession called a Chaos Emerald. "It looks as though Lan is involved in something that might have to do with that mysterious person that could be responsible for all of those weird and unexplained occurances that have been happening around here," the black and white haired NetBattler saying to ProtoMan while at the same time seeing his limo speeding through the window. "But knowing the kid, he probably has reasons for hiding somethings from us. But the question is why?"
"I was about to get some answers from MegaMan for while I was questioning him, Chaud," he heard his red friend responding with a serious tone while at the same time seeing his entire image appearing right before his eyes. "But then the same disturbance that's been giving this city problems has chose that exact moment to intervene and cause our data to somehow become scrambled. But the weird thing about it is that it didn't corrupt or erase our data like a normal magnetic field would for when it reaches a computer or any advanced machinery like that. It feels as though it wasn't like any natural from this world."
"We could get all the answers from Lan and MegaMan later for when we take care of these viruses that have been appearing right in the middle of the city," Chaud replied to the long-haired Navi while at the same time pushing the button to the intercom of the limo and began speaking through it. "Stop right here, Hawkins! I would be able to walk from over here! Get to a safe place until I contact you. Is that understood?"
"As you wish sir," was the response of his private driver while at the same time feeling the limo coming to an immediate halt before starting to open the door.
As soon as he was outside of confines of his private transportation and moved away from it to see what the extent of the damage was, the skunk-haired boy began to see what he expected to see. What he saw were a horde of viruses that consisted of different variety and type attacking buildings as well as the empty cars that were unlucky enough to be in the streets which are now nothing more than burning scrap metal. But all of that soon changed for when he saw the streets as well as the very buildings themselves began to become multi-colored with what appears to be a Dimensional Area. As soon as he saw this happening, Chaud soon began to face his own P.E.T. towards him and began to say to ProtoMan with his usual serious tone, "Looks as though this party is already beginning without us, ProtoMan. Do you think we should crash it?"
"I'd thought that you'd never ask, Chaud," he heard the voice of his Navi saying to him just as the young Net Savior checked his own Personal Terminal to see if he'd equipped the right Battle Chips for the job that were stored in the data bank of the device.
He then began to fish through his pockets in order to find the very object that would allow him to gain the powers that his Navi has: the Synchro Chip. As soon as he found the very thing that would allow him to Cross-Fuse, Chaud began to position the device towards the slot where he would usually download his own Battlechips and shouted out, "Let's get this over with, ProtoMan! Synchro Chip in and download! Cross-Fusion!"
As soon as he placed the Synchro Chip into the slot of the P.E.T., Chaud was soon engulfed in a bright light that surrounded his entire being. After what appears to be about a moment of being enveloped in the bright spectacle, the black and white haired Net Battler began to stand in front of the attacking viruses while at the same time seeing that he's now in his Cross-Fused form. It was much like ProtoMan's own suit. However, it was modified a bit in order to make it look a bit different than the red Navi's and even the hair that now flowed down behind his back was a mix of white and black almost like his own natural hair color.
As soon as he was aware that some of the viruses were beginning to approach his direction while looking poised to attack, Chaud didn't need to be told about what to do in the situation that he's in. He began to raise one of his arms in front of him and suddenly his hand began to shine with a red light which soon turned into the shape of a sword. As the light from his hand dissipated and revealed his main weapon, the now Cross-Fused NetBattler began to swipe at the approaching viruses while shouting out, "Sonic Boom!"
With those words shouted out, he saw what appears to be a blade of wind bursting from his crimson blade and charging itself towards the viruses direction. "I know that Lan must have his hands full with another group of these things," Chaud thought to himself just as he began to charge at one of the groups of Mushy viruses that began to notice his very existence and slashed at them one by one. "But what I'm most concerned about is how these viruses managed to get into this world without the use of a Dimensional Area. It couldn't be Duo that's doing this. So what or who in the world could be causing this to happen?"
With those thoughts done in his mind, the red-armored boy began to hear the voice of ProtoMan saying to him through his helmet while he charged towards a group of Metools that tried to shield themselves from his attack but to no avail, "Chaud, I've just got a message from HQ. It looks as though that most of the people that are in the area have either been evacuated or ran towards the undergrounds shelters so that they wouldn't be in the way. Also, apparently you and Lan aren't the only ones that are doing their best to fight off these viruses. The individuals that are attacking these virues along with the both you in order to either subdue these viruses."
"Well, it's good that we are receiving help that Laika and the rest of the others are giving us," Chaud responded to his friend as he swiped the blade of his sword towards a large group of Bunnies that soon disappeared one after another. He knew that Maylu was capable of Cross Fusion with her pink Navi Roll along with Dingo and TomahawkMan who are currently taking residents within DenTech City in order to help Dex with the deliveries in #1 Curry. As for the serious and precise soldier Laika from Sharo, he's still in his home country along with his Navi SearchMan in order to protect their country from any incoming invaders that would threaten it.
"I don't think that either one of the former Cross-Fusion Members have anything to do with sudden assistance, Chaud," he heard ProtoMan saying to him while he once again saw another group of Metools beginning to raise their picks and began to launch a huge shockwave towards his direction while at the same time dodging it. "You see, according to what the people at the main building heard from most unconfirmed sources, they say that the citizens were all saved and assisted by these strange human-like creatures that resembles animals."
The Chaotix immediately went to work for as soon as they've landed on the ground. Vector, being the leader that he usually is, charged head first at the first group of what appears to be computer viruses attacking the city. In his personal opinion, the green croc thought that they would be pretty harmless since looking the part. But after experiencing of what the strange things are capable of by nearly getting wiped out by their own attack, he wouldn't hesitate to turn these weird things into nothing but pixels. As soon as he was in close enough range within the little creatures, Vector threw one of his fists towards a creature that looked as though it could be used as a cute stuffed animal from the way that it look under its protective helmet.
But before his fist could collide with the small creature's hidden face, he saw it ducking itself beneath it's helmet and soon his fist collided with its metallic surface. Despite the fact that his natural abilities have been increased thanks to the power of the Power Rings, Vector could not believe that the little thing was able to defend itself against such as strong attack from his own fist. As soon as he backed away from the strange creature, the green crocodile saw that its many companions, which looked identical to their comrade, looked at him with furious expressions on their hidden faces. Then, what he saw next was that the cute looking helmet creatures beginning to raise what appears to be pick axes from into the sky and began to hit them towards the ground beneath their tiny feet. Like he saw before, a powerful shockwave was charging towards his direction while trying to hit their mark.
Just before he could have the chance to dodge or even react to the little creature's united assault, Vector soon saw Charmy flying quickly towards him with a great speed and before he could have the chance to protest, he saw the small bee beginning to emit a powerful aura of orange energy. Before he knew it, the two of them were surround by an energy dome that shielded them from the full impact of the attack. As soon as the attack finally passed, he saw the huge orange dome beginning to disappear only leaving a stunned group of the creatures to look at them with confusion written all over their face.
"Charms, just how in the world did you...?" was all that the green crocodile could say to his little friend before his words were cut short by what appears to be an earthquake of sorts.
Mighty just slammed both of his fists for when he saw that both of his friends were being attacked by the group of strange helmet creatures. The black and orange armadillo saw the result of the action that he'd just taken. The fissure that he created with his two fist charged itself towards the direction on where the little strange viruses are. He also saw both Vector and Charmy moving out of the way of the attack as if they were both running from a bull stampede. As soon as he saw the attack hit its mark, Mighty saw the slithering fissure turn into a monstrous crater and engulfing the little innocent-looking creatures within it the darkness below never to be seen again. He himself, along with the rest of the Chaotix, couldn't believe at the action that he'd just cause. Of course, the armadillo guessed that whoever had took all of their time to build the road in front of them would probably be a bit angry for if they saw the extent of the damage that he's caused.
"Whoa! Now that was some attack, Mighty my man!" Vector spoke with the amazed armadillo with an enthusiastic and amazed tone in his voice before turning his voice turing into a sort of growl of annoyance. "But would you care to warn us the next time you plan to launch an attack like that! I mean, that kind of punch would hurt more that peeling off a band aid!"
"Still, that's some attack that you've pulled with those helmet creatures, Might!" Charmy added to his green friend's words with both enthusiasm and excitement in his young voice. "Just how in the world that you were able to do that sort of thing anyway?"
Before the black and orange armadillo could have the chance to explain, Espio chose that exact moment to speak up while at the same time holding up on of his own shurikens out of his gloves with a serious tone, "We could all think about that later, guys 'cause we have more company on the way! I've already helped the local authorities to evacuate most of the citizens away from here, so we don't have to hold back."
As soon as the purple chameleon said those words, Vector, Charmy, and Mighty began to turn towards the direction where he's staring at in order to see what he's talking about. Before either of them knew it, another large group of the viruses creatures coming towards their direction. Only the group that they're looking at right now is made up in a strange variety. Some looked as thought they could be some type of living mushroom people. Another type of the viruses looked as though they could be mechanical bunny of some type with metallic-looking antennas for ears.
But just before either of them could have the chance to say anything, the Chaotix soon found themselves being attacked by the strange viruses creatures. The bunny-like creatures fired out bolts of what appears to be rings of electricity jumping out of their ears. The mushrooms that they've saw soon spurred out what appears to be yellow pollen from their own mouths and from their experiences on how a mushroom could contain different sorts of poison within their spores.
As the combinaton attack was about to hit their mark, Vector was finally able to step up in front of the viruses attack. Before either of his friends could have the chance to protest or shout out to their leader to watch, the green crocodile began to breathe in a huge amount of air into his lungs and the most amazing thing happened. What Vector did was that he let his mouth create a sonic blast attack that was so loud that it could practically crush anything within its path. Not only that, but it also caused most of the cars within the area they're in to blare out for as soon as the noise began. True to this, the assault was not only able stop the on coming attack that the strange computer viruses unleashed, but was also able to destroy the attackers as all four Mobians saw them disappear in a shower of pixels. As soon as the all of the noise caused by both Vector's attack and blaring sirens of the cars to cease, the Chaotix soon began to stare at the damaged buildings the huge croc caused.
"Well, look at it this way, Vec: you've managed to destroy those things without harming a single person," Charmy spoke for the first time since having his hearing checked in order to be sure that he didn't go deaf from the experience.
"I have to agree with Charmy on this one, Vec," Espio spoke to the green crocodile while at the same time trying to shake off the effects of Vector's surprising ability. "I mean, that attack you've just unleashed could've been loud enough to crush an entire army of those things. This makes me concerned about what other powers that those Power Rings gave us. But at least there's no one in this area that saw that just now or otherwise..."
"Uh, guys? I think that's it's too late to be relieved right now," they all heard Mighty saying while at the same time the three friends turned to see what the armadillo was talking about.
Before either of them knew it, the Chaotix soon found themselves being confronted by another large group of the same types of living computer viruses that they thought they've gotten rid of. "Aw, man! These things just don't know when to call it a day, do they?" Vector said out loud while feeling annoyed at the sudden appearance of the new groups of viruses before letting out a sigh of defeat. "(Sighs) Looks as though we get to see what else we're capable of, guys. What do you say we take care of this bunch too?"
"Well, if you want my opinion, Vec, I think that you're nuts if you think that we could take on this many," the purple chameleon said to the crocodile with a serious tone while at the same time readying his ninja star in order to throw it at the upcoming viruses. "But seeing that we're caught between a rock and a hard place, I guess that we have no other choice but to fight."
"Espy, you worry too much," Mighty said to his companion with a confident tone in his voice while at the same time cracking his knuckles while at the same time preparing for a fight. "You've forget that both Vector and I were able to take two groups on our own. Just image what the four of us would be able to do with the Power Ring's power backing us up."
"Might's got us there, Espy," Vector said just as he turned towards the large virus army's direction while at the same time cracking his own knuckles. "Now, if everyone's finished talkin', let's get down to business and show these guys why they should never mess with the Chaotix!"
As soon as the green croc said those words, both he and Charmy began to charge towards one side of the large army of strange looking viruses while Mighty and Espio charged towards the other direction of the army. Before either of the two groups of Mobians could have the chance to launch their attacks or fists towards their new attackers, they heard familiar terrified screams of young females coming towards their direction.
Both Maylu and Yai were still running for their lives for as the group of green pirate ghosts continued to tail them in the allies. The two girls were running for their lives for the past half hour since having separated from Sylphiel and now they're running for both of their lives with the bag that the shrine maiden had with her that contains her other clothing as well as the Chaos Emerald. Before either of the small girls could have the chance to take a moment to breathe, Maylu was the first to scream for when she felt a small hand pulling on the skirt of her new white dress. As she was about to give whatever just frighten her a boot with her shoe for when she saw that it was none other than the little cyber dog Rush ducking in order to endure what pain that she was about to bring.
"Rush! What in the world are you doing here!" the pink-haired girl said to her little strange companion while at the same time forgetting about the green pirate ghosts with a annoyed tone. "You nearly scared me half to death for when you've pulled on my skirt like that!"
As if to respond to her words, both she and Yai saw the little cyber dog barking and rushing furiously as if trying to mimic a play of sorts. Of course, neither one of them could make out what Rush was trying to say to them. "Maylu, I think that we might need Roll to translate for us on this one," the little rich girl said to her friend while at the same time feeling a bit confused at the weird gestures that Maylu's pet was trying to give.
"Yai's got a point there, Maylu" both of the girls heard Roll saying to the her NetOp while at the same time trying to calm herself down at what just happened. "I think that Rush might've found something for while you two are running for your lives from those green pirate ghosts."
"Aup! Aup!" Rush responded with a calm tone while at the same time nodding his head as if to confirm the pink Navi's suspicions.
"Okay, now that you're calm, think that you could tell us what you just saw while both Maylu and Yai were running from those ghosts creatures?" Roll patiently asked the cyber dog from the screen of Maylu's pink P.E.T. while both Maylu and Yai listened to what he had to say.
That was when the three of them saw Rush beginning to make his entire face into the shape of some type of wolf face. The then began to growl and bare what appears to be fierce claws appearing out of his innocent paws. As soon as they saw him reverting back to his normal form, both Maylu and Yai began to become confused with what they just saw the cyber dog perform. Glyde was the very first to state this fact.
"Miss Yai, I'm afraid that what Rush is saying is sort of foreign to me," the butler Navi said to his own NetOp while at the same time trying to understand what the brown dog was trying to say.
"I think I could make out on what he's trying to say," Roll said to her friend while at the same time trying to hear what Rush was trying to say through her NetOp's P.E.T. before speaking again. "Hmmm. This might sound weird to everyone but I think that Rush says that he's seen some strange werewolf man out here in the streets holding a weapon of some type and he's sniffing around the area looking for something."
As soon as the two of them heard those words come out of the female Navi's mouth, Maylu said to Yai with a now frightened tone, "Well, after seeing all of those pirate ghosts starting to appear out of nowhere, there's no way that I would stop believing in these type of things like werewolves coming to this world! But what I want to know is why those things are attracted to this Chaos Emerald that Sylphiel was holding onto!"
"I don't think that we would be able to find out the answer to that questions because those green ghosts have just caught up with us!" Maylu shouted out for when they turned to see that the group of pirates beginning to catch up with them with menacing grins on their faces for as they've approached the group.
"Arr! Ye thinks that you could get away from us for long, eh lassies?" one of the pirates shouted out loud while at the same time pointing his rusty-looking sword towards the two girls direction while at the same time seeing Rush cowering right behind Maylu. "Well, it looks like the end of the line for you two young lasses. But since I'm a nice fella, I'll allow you gals to make an offer that you be fools to refuse. Now, just hand over that Chaos Emerald that you've got in your possession and me along with me mates will leave you both alone without any trouble."
As soon as the ugly green pirate was done talking about his offer, the two girls were both shocked and confused at what to do. But when they both turned to Rush to see what he had to offer, both Maylu and Yai were both clearly disgusted for when they saw the cyber dog beginning to grab onto the bag that the pink-haired girl was holding for Sylphiel indicating that they should just hand the emerald over to the green spirits. The two girls glared at the dog for when they figured what he was trying to tell them.
"Well, both me and my friend here would like to say that we won't give this emerald to the likes of you...you...you monsters!" Yai said to what suppose to be the leader of the pirate group that were chasing them while at the same time seeing the confused and yet angered expressions on their faces.
"I agree with Yai on this one!" Maylu added to her little friend's words with both anger and courage in her voice while at the same time seeing the group starting to put their hands towards their swords. "If all of you want this emerald so bad, then you're going to have to take it from us in order to get it, you ugly creeps!"
With those words said and done by the two girls, they heard the leader of the ghost pirate group beginning to shout to them with fury in his voice, "Argh! Alright, girlies, I've tried to be nice with you and that dumb mutt yurs, but now you've lead me no other choice! Alright men, charge and take the emerald!"
As soon as they've both heard the command being giving by their leader, both of the girl heard the battle cries of the entire pirate gang beginning to erupt like an echo throughout the alley that their in. Yai began to hold onto her friend with her dear life while Maylu began to hold onto her little friend's body like a teddy bear while Rush was too frighten to even create a hole that would lead him towards the safety of the Cyber World. Both of the girls along with the cyber dog screamed for their very lives for when they were sure that tortures beyond their imagination would be coming their way.
But just as they thought that they were going to be caught by the green group of pirates, the three friends heard the shouting of a familiar young voice shouting out loud, "Leave both Maylu and Yai alone, you green creeps! Take this!"
When the two of them heard that child-sounding voice coming from out of nowhere and before they knew what was happening, both Yai and Maylu began to see a rather powerful storm of green electricity beginning to collide with the ghost group causing them to disappear from existence. As the two female friends began to wonder about what or who could've thrown such a powerful electrical attack, both the girls and the cyber dog began to turn to see what kind of source was able to release such power. That was when they've both saw what appears to be a golden lit Charmy flying right in front of them while giving off a rather bright golden aura around his body.
"Charmy! Just how in world were you able to defeat all of those green pirate ghosts so quickly? And what's with this yellow light all around you?" asked Maylu asked the young bee right in front of her while at the same time still a bit confused at what she's seeing right now.
"We'll tell ya all about it for once we get you two young ladies to safety," they both heard the voice of the green crocodile saying to them with a rather heroic tone in his voice while at the same time seeing him appearing right in front of them as they've also saw the same golden aura being shoned off of him while at the same time turning towards their direction. "Right now, just leave these things to us and get to some shelter while the Chaotix Detective Agency sees to it that these things are no match for us with our brand new super powers!"
"Vec, let's just get this over with before you get a swelled head with those powers of yours," both Maylu and Yai heard Charmy saying to the older green Mobian with a rather annoyed snort just as they saw the young bee boy starting to hover right besides his older friend. "Besides, we've got a job to do and we've got to get rid of these things as soon as possible before any more of the people around here get hurt."
"Wait a minute! Just where in the world is Sylphiel?" the two girls heard the voice of the purple chameleon Espio saying to his two friends while at the same time sounding both worried and serious just as he appeared out of nowhere abnd faced their direction. "Wasn't she with the two of you for when you three went shopping? Just what happened to her and where's the Chaos Emerald that she was holding? Don't tell me that it's in the hands of those pirates!"
"Whoa! Easy, Espy! I'm sure that the girl could take care of herself as well as Miguel can," they both heard the black and orange armadillo saying to them just as the two girls saw him emitting the same golden aura as the rest of his friends. "Besides, Miguel is on the case while we take care of these viruses. Now, what we're really worried about is that Chaos Emerald that she had."
"Well actually, she gave the emerald to both me and Maylu just before the two of us ran from those green things," Yai responded to the outer worldly visitors while at the same time grabbing onto the bought store bag that both she and her red-haired friend was holding onto for the shrine maiden. "Miss Sylphiel said that she would be able to hold them off while we try to escape from the scene. I sure hope that she's doing okay."
"I wouldn't worry about that, Maylu. Like we said before, Miguel is right on the case," they heard the green crocodile saying to the two of them while at the same time seeing him facing what appears to be like about five dozen viruses coming their way. "Right now, we've better get our hides focused on taking care of these irrating critters right away before we become dog chow."
"For once, I have to agree with Vec on this one," Espio said while at the same time beginning to throw what appears to be ninja stars towards a group about like a dozen different viruses and saw them exploding right in front of their eyes. "I don't know that we would be able to keep these things from harming any people for long. It's a good thing that the people that live around here evacuated the area at the first sign of danger or otherwise a lot of them would've been hurt through the battling we've been doing with these things."
"You've got that right, Espy," Charmy said while at the same time throwing a bolt of electricity towards another group of viruses that soon exploded while at the same time. "I'm not too sure if we could take care of these things by ourselves even with the power boost that we've received from the Power Rings, those viruses keep popping up all around the place like ants in a picnic and we're on the menu!"
"Charmy's right about that, guys," Maylu and Yai heard Mighty saying while at the same time seeing him going head to head with what appears to be a huge Gaia virus throwing down its big hammer down on him while seeing the black and orange armadillo holding the heavy part of the huge weapon. "(Grunts) I'm not too sure how long would the power of the rings last. Their power is very limited and (Grunts) I think that we (Grunts) might be (Grunts) in need (Grunts) of some (Grunts) help!"
With those words said by their Mobian friend forcing the huge virus back with the mere strength of his arms and hands. While seeing the Gaia being deleted right in front of their sights, the two girls soon saw a group of a dozen Spiky3 viruses coming towards them while baring their teeth towards their direction. "I think that those things aren't too happy to see us," Yai shouted out while at the same time beginning to go behind her red-haired best friend with the cyber dog Rush before getting an idea. "Hey! I've got an idea! Maylu, can you and Roll still perform Cross Fusion like you did with those Asteriod Navis that appeared six months ago?"
"Cross Fusion? What are you girls talkin' about?" Charmy asked the young rich girl with a confused and curious tone to his voice just before seeing the little dog virus right next to her and Maylu. "And what in the world is that! It looks like one of those doggy cartoon characters that I've liked to watch on TV!"
"Oh, that's Rush, Charmy," Maylu explained to the little bee just before her voice's tone turned hasty. "But we'll talk about that later! Right now, Yai raised an interesting point! But even if we want to, we need to be in a Dimensional Area in order for Cross Fusion to work!"
As soon as the red-haired girl said those words, everyone saw the entire area that they're in beginning to become discolored. Before anyone could ask about what was happening, they turned towards the little brown dog-like virus beginning to quiver with fear of the thought of what his owner and her friend talked about. Before anyone could ask what was going on, a black hole suddenly appeared on the cemented ground and Rush started to run towards it. However, just before the brown cyber dog could have the chance to jump into the hole, he was then stopped by some invisible force that seemed to stop him in his tracks.
"And just where do you think you're going, Fido?" both girls heard the voice of Espio saying to the cyber dog floating in mid air just as they saw the purple chameleon appearing from out of nowhere like a special movie effect. "Just what is it that you guys are talking about that caused this dog to turn into a little scaredy cat?"
"We'll talk all about it for when this is over, Espio," Maylu responded to the purple chameleon while at the same time pulling out her own P.E.T. towards herself as she stared at the little cartoon-like brown cyber dog with a glare towards him. "Rush, now's not the time for you to start acting like a little fraidy cat! Right now, the Chaotix need all the help that they could get seeing that these viruses are coming towards us like killer bees! So turn into a Rush Synchro Chip already before we're all going to become a huge crater in the ground!"
With those words said by the red-haired girl, everybody saw the little cyber dog leaping into the air while at the same time shining with a rather white bright light. Before anyone could say anything about what has happened, they all saw what appears to be a gold and blue computer chip that's about the size of a potato chip that soon landed into Maylu's own hands. That was when Vector chose that time to speak after finishing off a few of the Spiky3 viruses with a sudden burst of water coming from his own huge mouth.
"Alright, would you mind tellin' us what's going on here now, girl?" the green crocodile said to Maylu while at the same time feeling confused about what just happened. "Why did that dog of yours suddenly turned into one of those huge computer chips that I've seen Tails used once in one of his huge inventions? Also why is this entire area all discolored like a broken TV set?"
"Well, you're about to see the reason why in a minute, Vector," Maylu said while at the same time holding up and positioning the chip towards her own P.E.T. while at the same time speaking with a rather serious tone in her own voice. "Okay, Roll, let's do this! Rush Synchro Chip in and download! Cross Fusion!"
As soon as she placed the device into her own Personal Terminal, Maylu began to glow with a white light that seemed to light up everything within its path. Even the upcoming viruses that noticed the phenomenon frozen in their places for as the pink-haired girl began to become engulfed within the light's embrace. "Whoa! What's happening with Maylu, Yai?" Mighty asked the little girl with a rather surprised tone in his voice while at the same time stopping his attack on the the wolf-like colored viruses that stopped their attacks because of the distraction.
"Well, you're about to find out soon enough, Mighty," Yai said while at the same time beginning to grin as she held the fashion bag that Sylphiel once held her clothes and the Chaos Emerald inside. "Let's just say that reinforcements have arrived!"
Ever since leaving the two girls to run for their lives, Sylphiel started to charge herself, along with her magical flaming sword in hand, towards the green pirate spirits that wanted to get the Chaos Emerald from them before. Fortunately for her, the powerful gem along with the girls are out of harm's way and now that she was in a place with the green entities that's totally deserted and doesn't have a single speck of life coming from it, the shrine maiden wouldn't have to worry about anything but her own safety. But the thought of having to take care of an entire group of creatures by herself even with the powers of her flaming weapon as well as her now enhanced abilities.
"I just hope that it would be enough to get me through it," Sylphiel thought to herself while at the same time concentrating on attacking the pirates one by one, colliding her fiery blade's with one of the ghost's own weapon. "I'm sure that the girls would be able to get away and get some help in no time. But what am I going to do in order to keep those things at bay? I'm not too sure if I would be able to hold them out on my own even with my new powers."
The shrine maiden soon ceased her thoughts for when she saw the blade of one of the green pirate ghosts slashed its blade towards her direction. Sylphiel have just barely managed to avoid the attack for it just managed to slash at the cloth of her new yellow sun dress that Yai had bought for her. For when she was far enough away from the ghostly creatures that cornered her while keeping her fiery sword towards their direction, the young woman surveyed the damage to herself to see if the green creatures caused any further damage to her. From what she could see, most of the gashes from the sword swipes that she'd received from the first moments that she was attacked from behind were starting to subside while the new ones were just flowing with her own blood.
But despite most of the energy that she lost in order to defend herself from their attacks, the shrine maiden is still willing to give the creatures a good fight no matter how injured she would become. Just as she kept her magical fire weapon towards their direction, Sylphiel heard the voices of one of the green pirate spirits saying while using a rather menacing tone in his voice, "Arr! Well, lads, I'd say that we've played around with this young lass long enough. What do you all say that we have our little fun with her?"
The shrine maiden heard the entire group shouting out with a loud "Arr!" to their voices while at the same time noticing that they were enthusiastic about their comrade's idea. From what she'd learned from her own world, Sylphiel knew that there would be bandits or thugs that would want to take advantage of helpless young women. But soon she would show those thugs that she was no longer the helpless young woman that she was before she arrived at Miguel's world for the very first time. Sylphiel then soon began to discard her own fiery weapon by making it vanish from her hands and began to position herself for a spell.
"Oh, source of all power, light which burns beyond crimson," the shrine maiden began to say while at the same time gathering what appears to be crimson energy within her hands, "let thy power gather in my hands!"
Just as she was about to finish the rest of her spell, the young woman heard the leader of the green spirit group saying with a rather confused and irrated tone in his voice, "What witchery are you planning, woman? From what we could hear from Master Dilgear, this world has no record of magic ever being used in it."
As soon as she heard those words, Sylphiel finally began to chant out loud while at the same time pointing the red crimson fiery energy towards the green group of ghosts, "FireBall!"
With those words shouted out, the shrine maiden found herself throwing the crimson ball of fire towards the group of the green pirates at a great speed. Before the collision of the magic ball of fire could be made with its targets, the young woman quickly managed to get herself away from the resulting explosion by shouting out, "Chaos Control!"
Just before the explosion could spread all across the narrow alley that she was in, Sylphiel saw time all around her beginning to cease. Before she knew what was happening everything around her very being; the movement of upcoming vehicles; the sound from any source of noise ceasing to existence; and possibly even the movement of any person that was nearby the entrance of the alley way. Just as the shrine maiden began to run out of the way of the soon coming explosion that was about to occur in a couple of moments, she looked around the outside of the city area to see if anybody was still in where she is now. Luckily, Sylphiel saw that not a single human being or animal was in in the area just as she exited out of the narrow pathway.
As soon as she was out of the way of the alley's entrance, the shrine maiden then began to focus her mind on allowing time around her to start up once again. While seeing everything around her beginning to move as it once did before, the young woman soon heard a loud explosion coming from the place that she was once in. While trying to avert her eyes from the sight and covering her ears so that the loud commotion wouldn't cause her to go deaf, she then began to duck for cover near the entrance of a abandoned building so that any debris fallen off of the buildings nearby wouldn't collaspe on her. As she felt the explosion ceasing, Sylphiel then uncovered her ears, opened her eyes, and came out of hiding from the building in order to see the extent of the damage that she had caused with her own FireBall spell as she began to walk towards the alleyway entrance.
What the shrine maiden saw for just when the smoke of the entrance cleared, she saw that the small ball of fire that she unleashed upon the green creatures didn't do much damage to the buildings that were nearby them. As for everything else that was in the narrowed just before her spell, well it's safe to say that nothing of value was damaged to say the least. "I just don't know how Miss Lina was able to do this sort of thing for whenever she faces a group of bandits," Sylphiel thought to herself while at the same time breathing deeply in order to put some oxygen into her lungs after leaning herself against the wall in order to rest. "But doing the Chaos Control in order to freeze time itself wasn't easy for me either. It took a lot of energy from me in order to keep it going while trying not to collapse under the pressure.
"At least no one was in the area when I've launched that FireBall at those green pirates. I'm so surprised that it was that powerful to cause such a big explosion. I guess that most of the Chaos Emerald's energy is starting to increase my own magic and abilities as it did with Miguel's own natural abilities. Well, the important thing is that those things are no more and I should be able to rest easy without..."
Her thoughts were soon cut short for when she felt a person's hand grabbing onto her arm with a strong and greasy grip. Before she knew what was happening, the shrine maiden saw a multitude of emerald-green hands and arms beginning to grip onto her arms and her legs in order to prevent her from escaping. Just as she was about to scream to the top of her lungs, another green hand appeared from behind her and sealed her entire mouth shut while at the same time prevent her from screaming for help.
As she was frantically trying to struggle away from her captors' greasy grip, Sylphiel saw the entire group of pirate ghosts emerging from within the walls of the two buildings that they were in. While trying to figure out what was happening, she saw the leader going up to her while at the same time pointing his dull-looking and huge-bladed sword towards the nape of her neck. The young woman was terrified for as she felt the cold steel of the sharp blade touch her chin carefully.
"Har! Well, it seems that we've got ourselves a little live wire here, boys!" the shrine maiden heard the leader saying to his comrades while at the same time seeing the green ghost grinning at her with a menacing grin to what appears to be nearly crooked-tooth face. "I must admit that that little stunt of yours did caught us off guard and managed to give us some damage, lass. But I would assure you that we would not allow that to happen twice!"
"Hey, boss! Why don't we take her as a hostage and force that boyfriend of hers as well as the rest of her little friends to give us the Chaos Emerald? Har," Sylphiel heard one of the green spirits saying to his leader with a sort thoughtful tone in his evil-sounding voice.
"Arrr. That's not a bad idea there, Swampy. If fact, it's just perfect," she heard the leader saying while at the same time feeling a bit frighten about what the one called Swampy suggested to his leader. "I'm sure that Master Dilgear would be pleased with this fine young lass along with Lord Shade. Arrr. As soon as we get the Chaos Emerald, I'm sure that he wouldn't mind if we keep this fine young lady so that we might have some fun with her. Har! Har! Har!"
As soon as she heard those words, Sylphiel's mind began to fill with panic for when she thought about what those green spirits were about to do to her. "Oh my...please don't let me pass out like this!" the shrine maiden thought to herself while at the same time beginning to lose her consciousness. "I'm beginning to lose my...energy and strength fast. Using...the Chaos Control and running out of the way of the explosion...costed me a lot of energy. Someone please...help me. Father...Anyone...Miguel...!"
Just as she was about to lose the her consciousness, the shrine maiden suddenly heard a familiar male voice shouting out, "Leave Sylphiel alone, you sick freaks!"
Before she knew it, she suddenly felt the arms of her captors releasing their greasy grips on her arms and legs as well as her mouth. Not only that, she could've sworn that she'd just saw a silver blade slicing through the limbs of the green bandits just before both her eyes were closed and darkness quickly taking hold of her sights. Just as she felt herself falling to the ground, Sylphiel felt the arms of someone trying to keep her from colliding to the solid ground below. From the way that the person was able to get a strong but gentle hold on her waist, the shrine maiden immediately knew who it was immediately.
"Miguel...I knew that I could always...count on you to...look out for...me...," was all that Sylphiel thought just before the last of her energy left her body and she soon felt herself drowning in a sea of unconsciousness.
As he carried Sylphiel's unconscious body by the waist with his free arm, Miguel pointed his Star Sword's blade towards the group of pirates that just managed to re-group and huddle so that they would show him that he was clearly outnumbered. But the teen didn't care at the moment for when he turned his full attention towards the shrine maiden. From what he could see, he saw that the young woman was wearing what once was a new yellow sleeveless sundress that has rips all over it. He could also see that from the look on her face, the shrine maiden was clearly exhausted from trying to fight off the green pirate ghosts that were now in front of him. The cuts that looked like that there were caused by a knife or sword is what really set him off just before he began to speak to the green spirits out of the world he's in now.
"I don't know why you bastards are here for or why you even exist at all, but you've made three mistakes," Miguel said to the group of pirates while at the same time gently laying Sylphiel sleeping body towards a nearby wall while at the same time keeping his weapon's silver blade towards the group as his voice turned dead serious and angry. "The first thing you did was showing up into this world at all with those ugly faces of yours. Secondly, attacking Sylphiel and threatening to put her up for ransom for the Chaos Emerald that you would never get your hands on. The third and final mistake that you guys made was trying to pick a fight with me! So back off or I'm going to show you guys what it means to be a victim!"
The teen saw some of the pirates of the group to back away from his direction while others managed to stay in their place without showing a hint of fear on their faces what-so-ever. Miguel then began to hear the voice of the leader saying to him with a rather smug tone in his voice while at the same time giving off an evil cackle, "Har! Har! Har! Har! Har! Well, it seems that this little young land lover has a thing for the young lass over here, fellas! Ain't it romantic?"
As soon as he heard those words finish, the teen began to hear a series of evil and sick laughs coming from the entire green group while at the same time feeling his anger rising. Before he knew it, a very power aura of amethyst light began to envelope his entire body. Just as he continued to hold onto the Star Sword's handle with a strong grip while being surrounded by the dark aura, Miguel heard one of the pirates saying to his leader with a confused and yet terrified tone in his voice, "Arr, this guy's giving me the case of the chills, Davy. Perhaps, we should retreat while we still can before that land lover does something..."
"Shut your trap, Swampy! We're here because we've smelt the scent of the Chaos Emerald around the woman!" Miguel heard the leader of the green pirate group saying to his companion while feeling the dark energy within his body starting to gather within his own mouth. "Besides, I'm a smellin' a powerful scene of he jewel's power being emitted from that young lad's body. Now that we've know this, we could take both him and his lovely girlfriend to Master Dilgear so that he may take them to Lord Parasite."
As soon as he heard those words come out of the pirate leader's mouth, Miguel's temper suddenly rose to his limit for when he heard the pirate saying the name of the powerful creature that he and his friends had fought with the first time over a year ago. That was when he say to the green creatures while at the same time putting on an evil smirk on his face, "Here's something that scum like you aren't going to like and it's not something that you would forget either for when you get to Hell. It's a little something that I've picked up a while back while helping out a friend of mine. Heh! Heh!"
With those words said from his mouth, the teen began to take in a huge amount of air into his lungs while at the same time shouting out loud in a huge boom, "Dark Roar! Rrrroooaaaarrr!"
Before he even knew what was happening, Miguel felt a powerful vibrations of force going through his throat just as he began to let out a powerful and dark electrifying beam of electrified wind towards the green pirate group. As soon as the stream of wind and dark electric energy collided with the green pirates, the teens saw each of them fall apart into nothing while at the same time being shocked by the dark electricity it carried. The small tremor that it caused was almost enough to cause the buildings near him to collapse at any given moment. After a moment later, for when he ceased the attack that he'd unleashed, Miguel saw the amount of damage that he did to the buildings that he and Sylphiel were in between in. But that wasn't what caused him to become frozen with surprised for as he stared at the damage that he'd caused.
"That attack that I've used. It was from that fusion Monster that both Kanzel and Mazenda created a while back," the teen thought to himself while becoming a bit frighten for as he recalled the memory of the battle with the huge and horrifying Monster named Kanzenda entered into his memory that caused him to shudder. "Kanzenda's Dark Roar attack that he'd used for while he was fighting both Shadow and Mana for when they've met each other for the first time. I can't believe that among all of the special abilities and techniques that I've gained at that time, I had to get that one. Sure it was able to wipe those pirates out of existence, but what does it mean to me for when it caused that small earthquake and...?"
Miguel's own fearful thoughts were soon cut short and forgotten for when he heard the tired moaning of the shrine maiden coming from behind him, forcing him to start focusing on the safety of his female friend rather than his own thoughts. As soon as he reached towards Sylphiel's own semi-unconscious body, the young man began to concentrate on gathering white energy surround his entire hand and then placed it over her head while holding onto her body with his free hand. As the white energy began to jump off of his hand and flow all around the shrine maiden's own body, Miguel could see that the damage that she'd received from her own fight with the green spirits had started to disappear and not leaving a trace of their existence. However, the rips of her new yellow dress were still visible which also caused him to blush a bit in embarrassment.
However, the embarrassing thought was soon forgotten for when he heard the stirs of the shirne maiden becoming more active than the previous one. Before he knew it, Miguel saw Sylphiel beginning to regain the rest of her own consciousness thanks to the energy transfer that he made. As soon as he saw both of her emerald eyes open, the teen said to her with a quiet and gentle tone in his voice while stopping the while glow on his hand, "Hey, Sleeping Beauty. It's about time that you've woke up. Good thing that I was able to get here as soon as I did with the Chaos Control or otherwise you would've been in a real tight spot with those pirates. Oh, and I'm sorry that I wasn't able to fix your new dress while recovering your wounds."
A moment of silence followed as soon as Miguel said those words while looking onto Sylphiel's exhausted but smiling face. Before he knew what was going on, the teen was soon glomped by the shrine maiden for as he heard her saying to him in a happy tone while feeling her arms all around his neck that could've nearly choked him to death, "Miguel! I'm so glad that you saved me! Those things that attacked me wanted to use me to get you and the others to hand over the Chaos Emerald to them! Then, after that they plan to...to...to...!"
While hearing those words muttered out and feeling her arms loosening their strong hold on his neck, Miguel soon began to hear the shrine maiden beginning to sob onto his own shoulder just as he held her into his own embrace. This action caused the teen to blush a bit for as Sylphiel continued to cry underneath his shoulder, soaking his white shirt with her tear. "Shhhh, it's alright, Sylphiel. You're going to be alright now, shhhh," the teen said to the crying young woman in his arms with a soothing tone of voice while patting her back in order to calm her down like a parent would do for his own baby son or daughter.
As soon as he heard her sobs turning into calm and normal breathing, Miguel soon saw the shrine maiden beginning to face towards his face while at the same time seeing her cheeks still soaked with her own tears with a rose colored tone on them. "Th-Thank you for the comfort, Miguel. That really helped me out," he heard Sylphiel saying to him while hearing her hiccuping the last of her sadness away just before he saw her noticing the position that the two of them are in. "I must be a real burden to you crying like a little baby. I'm..."
Before he could allow the shrine maiden to begin her next sentence, the teen silenced her with the gentle touch of his index finger while at the same time saying to her with a friendly smile on his face, "Shhhh, don't apologize, Sylphiel. You didn't do anything wrong. It should be those greens creeps that deserve the blame. Besides, I don't really mind saving a beautiful damsel in distress like you."
With those words out of his mouth, Miguel began to blush profusely for when he found out what he just said and turned his face away from the young woman in order to hide it. He then heard the shrine maiden within his arms' embrace starting to giggle at the reaction that he was having just as he soon noticed that the two of them are still latched onto each other like little kids. This in turn caused the young man to blush into a brighter shade of red than the last one. After a few moments of being embarrased about the situation, Miguel turned his head to face Sylphiel once again only to have to stare deeply into her emerald-colored irises that her eyes have. From the way that the shrine maiden looked into his own eyes, he could tell that she didn't object to it. The two of them didn't say anything to one another as they both continued to look at each other straight in the eyes. Time seemingly standing still for the two of them as they stared at one another with confusion and yet affections towards each other.
Before either he or the shrine maiden could say or do anything that might make their moment with one another a bit more special, Miguel heard a familiar voice suddenly shouting out loud with rage in it, "Here's what happens to those that mess with the Ultimate Life Form! Something that I think that all of you would never forget on your way to Hell where you and those dogs came from! Chaos...Blast!"
As soon as the voice shouted out those words, the teen heard and then felt a powerful explosion erupting from within the deep part of the alley that both he and Sylphiel were in. While seeing some of the buildings cracking as a result of the powerful explosion, Miguel felt the arms of the shrine maiden beginning to grip onto him even tighter as much as he was doing with his own. As he felt the explosion dying down a bit and the rain of dust and debris ceasing their fall, the teen began to wonder to himself while not noticing that he still had the shrine maiden wrapped around his arms. "What the hell was that explosion! It was powerful enough for the two buildings between the two of us to nearly collaspe and fall on us! Talk about rotten timing and ruining a perfect moment. What shocks me even more is the person that shouted out the words, 'Chaos Blast.' The sound of his voice is so familiar too. Could it be...?"
Just before he could have the chance to finish the rest of his thoughts, Miguel heard Sylphiel's voice saying to him with a rather confused tone in her voice, "Miguel, what in the world was that explosion? And why is this area becoming discolored all of a sudden?"
As he heard those words, the teen began to look around the area in order to see what his female companion meant. True to her words, Miguel saw that the entire area that they were was becoming a discolored with an array of colors mixed in together like paint for a house. That was when a thought struck his mind like a ton of bricks. "I've seen this sort of thing before," he thought to himself just as he continued to unknowingly holding onto Sylphiel within his own arms just as he stared at the buildings around him more closely. "And if this is what I think it is, then things around here are only going to get worse before they get better."
While trying his best in order to get the green groups of pirates away from the crowded part of the city that he was in, Shadow saw that they were floating after him at a great speed. Not only that, but they were also causing a massive panic to arise within the public as they've passed by them as if they were aliens from another planet. "Which is actually true," the black hedgehog thought to himself while jumping over a random colored cars in the process while at the same time hearing most of the human people around him shouting either in surprise or fright. "Damn, I can't let these green creeps cause any harm to the people of this world. But I can't unleash any of my attacks on those ghosts without risking the lives of these people either. I have to get them away from these people before anyone get's hurt.
"Judging from the way that they're focus is only on me, I'd say that they're only interested in me more than any of these people. If I could find the most secluded part of this huge city or get them to fly in the air, then I would be able to unleash my full power on them without having to worry about the safety of these people. Now, if only I knew where to go in order to attack."
As if to answer his thoughts' question, Shadow heard a powerful explosion that erupted in a area that's about ten miles away from where he is run in now. While curious about the phenomenon that had just occurred, the Ultimate Life Form saw what appears to be a stampede of scared and frightened people coming towards him from the area that he the explosion coming from. "Well, at least that answers my question," the black hedgehog thought to himself just as he began to use his shoes in order to glide through the streets like a roller blader and jumping on random cars while at the same time leading the huge group of green spirit pirates away from the crowded area. "Judging from the way that those people are running from that area, I'd say that something else is going on around here. If that's true, then the area that they were in would most likely be abandoned. That's good, because these green things are really starting to irritate me and I feel like unleashing my wrath on them right here and now! Also, those people over there are panicked enough with whatever has caused them to run for their lives without our presence."
True to his thoughts, Shadow saw that the group of green pirate spirits continued to chase after him despite the fact that most of the people within the now crowded and active streets noticed their presence and started to panick even more than before. While trying his best to move out of the way in order to get to the place that he saw the explosion occur, the black hedgehog turned his head back just in time to see some of the green ghosts starting to catch up to him. With an irritated growl, the red and black hedgehog continued to glide his way onto the supposed deserted area while trying to gain more speed in order to outrun the flying green pirates still on his tail. As soon as he saw that the approaching streets that he's entering were all ravaged and abandoned with whatever caused the explosion that he saw while running before.
"This place is as abandoned as I thought it would be," the Ultimate Life Form thought to himself while at the same time stopping his own fast movement and turned his full attention towards the green pirates that stopped their pursuit of him. "That's a good thing too. Now I won't have to hold my own power back in order to destroy these things."
With those thoughts said and done, the black hedgehog faced the group of green pirates with one of his menacing looks that he gave his foes for whenever any enemy would get in his way. Shadow then heard the voice of the leader that calls himself Captain Blood looking at him with a rather menacing look on his face while at the same time unseathing his rusty-looking sword. "Arrr! Well, Well, Well, lads. It seems that that this black and red creature has finally stopped running and is ready to face all of us. He must be askin' to be killed if he thinks that he could take on all of us! What do you say that we put this spikey creature out of his misery?"
As if to answer their leader's question, Shadow heard the entire group of green pirates shouting out with a united 'Arrr!' to their voice while at the same time unseathing their own weapons in order to ready themselves for the attack. Just as the black hedgehog began to ready himself in a fighting position, he suddenly saw the ugly faces of the human-like spirits starting to become frighten. Before he could figure out what was happening, the Ultimate Life Form saw most of the green spirit creatures beginning to back away from him.
"Hee! Looks like I've managed to scare those creeps off and showed them what happens for when they mess with the Ultimate Life Form," the black hedgehog thought to himself with a grin on his face just before he noticed that the faces of the pirates weren't pointed directly at him. "Hmm? What are those green ghosts looking at? Looks as though they themselves are looking at ghosts themselves. Just what is it that caused them to tremble in fear like...?"
Just before he could have the chance to finish the rest of his thoughts, Shadow was suddenly struck on the back with something that felt like one of Lina Inverse's FireBall spells that he once felt. There was one thing that the Ultimate Life Form hated the most and that was being attacked in back while not knowing about it. While being enraged about the surprise attack, the black hedgehog turned to find the source of what caused the heat of fire to strike his back. What he saw next wasn't what he expected to see. What the Mobian saw was a huge group of dog-like blue creatures that appeared to be more like a pack of wolves getting ready to pounce on their prey.
"Just what in the world are those things?" Shadow thought to himself while at the same time beginning to glow a crimson light all across his body as his anger began to rise to the point to which he is willing to unleash it towards both sides in order to let them know how exactly he'd felt right now. "Well, it doesn't matter now. Those dog creature made a very big mistake by throwing that fireball at my back and made me angry. And when I get angry, those things and the green pirates are going to get a real bang out of the surprise that I'm going to give to them."
With those thoughts done within his mind, the black hedgehog began to turn his full attention back towards the green pirate ghosts for as he heard the leader Blood saying with both a confused and bewildered tone of voice, "Arrrgh! What trickery this be! Are you a sort of witch or something, you black pin cusion?"
As soon as he heard those words, the Ultimate Life Form gave the group of pirate spirit his own evil and menacing grin on his face as he answered to the leader as well as his other companions, "Hee! Hee! Hee! Well, I'd just thought that you would like to know that those blue dogs over there made a very big mistake for when they've struck me in the back while I'm not looking. When they did that, I get very angry and when I get angry, my anger is like a powerful bomb which you're about to see first hand! Good thing that the people of this area evacuated which means I don't have to hold back what I'm about to unleash!"
With those words said and done, the black hedgehog began to emit an even more powerful aura of crimson energy beginning to surge throughout his entire body just as he looked around himself and saw both parties becoming afraid about what's going to happen. The blue dog creatures that the threw the fireball at him suddenly started to whimper and coware with fear like little puppies trying to hide from a storm that's about occur. As for the green group of pirate ghosts, well he saw that most of them are starting to tremble with fear and anxiousness about what's going to happen while some try to hide their fear with their usual ugly faces showing their own bravery.
After what appears to be five minutes of waiting for the energy within him to charge, Shadow soon let out a mighty shout that was loud enough for him to be heard from five blocks away, "Here's what happens to those that mess with the Ultimate Life Form! Something that I think that all of you would never forget on your way to Hell where you and those dogs came from! Chaos...Blast!"
With those words shouted out from his throat, the black hedgehog soon radiated with a powerful burst of crimson energy that soon erupted into an explosion. The eruption of red Chaos Energy was so powerful that it felt as though about ten sticks of dynamite were being set off. The black Mobian looked around himself and saw the results of his attack appearing right before his eyes. The green pirate ghosts that once terrorized the restaurant that both he and Mana entered in their human forms as well as the blue dog-like creatures that attacked him from behind were soon erased from existence thanks to the destructive power of his Chaos Blast. As soon as explosion of energy ceased, the black hedgehog looked around his surroundings as he took in a breath of air into his lungs. From what he could see, the destruction that his Chaos Blast attack did was a bit more destructive than he thought it would do.
"(Sighs) On a brighter note, no innocent humans were caught in the blast for when I've activated it," the Ultimate Life Form thought to himself while still trying to catch his breath from all of the strain that he'd put on trying to perform his destructive attack. "I've really got to watch my temper for when I use that move. But what I'm really more concerned about is what were those blue dogs that I've just saw a moment ago? They don't seem to be demons since I didn't detect any type of magic coming from that ball of fire that they've launched at me before. But they're different from what I've come across. Just what...?"
Before he could have the chance to finish the rest of his thoughts, Shadow saw the entire area around him become discolored. The buildings, abandoned cars, everything within the area had become discolored with different colors all over them. Before he could think of anything that could've caused this, the black Mobian then heard a familiar voice shouting out to him while at the same time feeling a bit annoyed, "Shadow! What the hell! You could've blown both me and Sylphiel to Kingdom Come with that attack of yours! Just what were you thinking!"
As he turned to the source of the voice in order to see who it was, he soon saw that it was none other than the very person that he had been sent to find along with the Chaotix: Miguel Angel Arias. Despite the amounts of smoke that he had caused, the black hedgehog could plainly see that it was definitely the same human from the time first time that he was freed from possession caused by the mad wizard Ixis Naugus a long while back. As soon as he saw most of the smoke clear, Shadow could see that the shrine maiden Sylphiel Nels Lahda was with him as well. When he saw the both of them running towards him, the Ultimate Life Form could plainly see that the two of them were holding each other's hands as they both come up towards him.
"Well, it's about time that the two of you finally showed yourselves. I was starting to think that I would never be able to find the two of you," he replied to his two human friends while at the same time giving the two of them a sly grin as he turned his full attention towards their intertwined hands. "It seems that the two of you are having fun in each other's company while in this world."
When he said those words, Shadow saw both Miguel and Sylphiel turning their full attentions towards their hands just before quickly releasing them from their own grips and blushed at what they just did. Before he could come up with a comment about the whole thing, Miguel was the first to speak for as he said to him with a rather flustered tone while seemingly trying to change the subject, "Shadow, now's not the time for you to start taking shots at the two of us. Vector and the guys have already given the two of us enough trouble with their own shots as it is."
"Oh, so it seems that the Chaotix have been with the two of you after all," the Ultimate Life Form said to the teenaged human while at the same time looking towards Sylphiel's direction. "But what I'm most concerned about is how did Sylphiel managed to catch up with you guys into this world to begin with? I mean, Tails tried to see if he could pick up a trace of her own Chaos Energy within her own world, but didn't pick up a trace of anything."
Just before he could hear either of them give out a response to his question, Shadow suddenly heard a loud explosion far from the distance. Before either he or his two human friends knew was was happening, the black hedgehog saw that the three of them are being surrounded by a what appears to be a band of spider type creatures all around them. From the way that green arachnid type creatures were looking at them, he could tell that they were angry and annoyed.
"Miguel! Sylphiel! Did the two of you know where the Chaotix are right now?" the Ultimate Life Form said to the two human friends while keeping his crimson eyes on the creatures that were slowly approaching them. "If you do know where they are, then it would be wise for the three of us to warp where they are using the Chaos Control. I don't want to risk using another Chaos Blast on these spider creatures."
"Well, if you must know, Shadow, they're off dealing with viruses appearing in this world," he heard Miguel saying to him with a serious tone while at the same time feeling confused as to what he meant by what he said. "Don't ask why! It's a long story and we could talk about it as much as you want as soon as we get the Chaos Emerald out of harm's way!"
"Chaos Emerald? Are you serious!" the black hedgehog exclaimed with a very serious tone in his voice while at the same time turning to face his human. "Is that how the two of you and the Chaotix got to this world to begin with? If that's the case, where is it now?"
This time it was the shrine maiden's turn to answer his question for when she spoke to him, "It's now in the hands of two young girls that we've met up with recently. You see, the three of us were just going to the place where Miguel and the Chaotix are for when we were ambushed by the green pirates. The two of them managed to get away while I stayed behind to hold them off."
"Well, that would explain the rips on that new pretty yellow dress that you've been wearing, Sylphiel," Shadow responded to the young woman while at the same time turning to see her blush with embarrassment before turning to the matter at hand. "But now's not the time for us to getting to that topic! We've got to get to where the Chaotix are right now and get that Chaos Emerald away from this world's sights now!"
"I'm afraid that's easier said than done, Shadow," he heard Miguel saying to him with the same serious tone in his own voice. "I mean, the Chaotix are easy to find since they've absorbed the power of fifty rings each so it shouldn't be too hard to find them. The Chaos Emerald on the other hand is a different story."
"Well, then we'll just have to get to them first before focusing on the emerald," the black hedgehog responded to his human friend while seeing some of the spider-like creatures beginning to ready themselves to pounce on their prey. "We should be able to get to where they are using the Chaos Control since now their bodies are brewing with Chaos Energy. On the count of three, we'll warp to where the Chaotix are using Chaos Control. Are the two of you ready?"
While turning to see his two human friends nodding as a response, the Ultimate Life Form began to count while keeping his eyes on spider creatures that were about to pounce on them, "Okay. One. Two. And...three!"
As soon as he said those words, he along with both Miguel and Sylphiel began to shout out in unison while seeing the monsters pouncing towards their direction, "CHAOS CONTROL!"
With those words shouted out by the three of them, Shadow soon found himself along with his two human friends being engulfed in a brilliance of emerald-colored light before all three of them have found themselves being transported to their destination while at the same time not leaving a trace of their existence to anyone, not even the spider creatures that missed them during their own pouncing assault.
End of Part 11