Sorry for being gone so long. Frankly, I just wasn't motivated to work on this story, so it took a while to feel like putting this chapter up. It is waaaaaaaay shorter (about a third of the length) than the last chapter, so you'll get a bit of a break before next chapter, which will be another long one, I think.
Enjoy!
Diclaimer: Blah Blah Blah see previous chapters Blah blah blah I do own Riku blah blah blah ...
Chapter 7 !!!!!1!!!1!!!!1!!1 Touch Fuzzy, Get Wasted
Rouge was once again hunched over her crystal ball, gazing at the image of the moron patrol skipping along the yellow bricked road while linking arms, acting as if she had never even attacked them. Even Tin Man was unusually cheery. That scared Rouge slightly. "Why isn't he curled up in the fetal position anymore?" she wondered out loud.
"You don't see why?" Rouge felt a sudden weight on her chest and looked down. She screamed when she noticed that Shadow's head was sticking out of her robe.
"GET OUT OF THERE!" Rouge screamed at Shadow. Shadow disappeared into her robe again, and came out from underneath it, a faint smile on his face.
"But seriously, Rouge, you don't notice that he's still crying?" asked Shadow calmly, acting as if he wasn't just in her robe a few seconds ago.
"Don't 'but seriously' me, Shadow! Why the hell were you in my robe?!" Rouge demanded. Shadow ignored her and continued on his subject.
"He's faking happiness because he thinks that everyone will stop bothering him about his obsession with you. It seems to have worked …" pondered Shadow.
"But that doesn't explain why you were inside my robe!" said Rouge. Shadow was silent for a moment.
"I … accidentally teleported into … there …" replied Shadow. He turned towards the crystal ball, away from Rouge so she couldn't see the newly formed blush on his face. Rouge stared at him for a couple seconds.
"What do you mean 'accidentally' ?! You don't just accidentally teleport inside someone's clothes! I should pound you into the flo-" Rouge ranted, but Shadow shushed her.
"They're almost to Emerald City. Shouldn't you do something?" he asked Rouge as he gestured towards the crystal ball. They were indeed almost to Emerald City. Away from where Rouge could attack Cream and get the boots.
"I'll have to slow them down somehow … OH!" thought Rouge, who had a sudden burst of inspiration. "Fuzzys …" she said to herself.
"What?" asked Shadow.
"Fuzzys will slow them down … and probably make them kill each other …" said Rouge.
"Oh, I hate Fuzzys! They always make me stumble around and they make the ground move too!" complained the dark blue stripped hedgehog from chapter 5, who was sitting on the window sill.
"Riku! Get out of here!" Shadow barked at his subordinate/clone. Riku was startled and fell backwards out of the window. When Shadow had turned his attention back to Rouge, she was waving her hands around the crystal ball, chanting a word over and over again.
"Fuzzys … fuzzys … fuzzys will make them sleep …" Rouge said to the crystal ball.
"They make you drunk, not sleepy." said a voice. Shadow looked at the window and saw Riku there again.
"Will you get out of here!" shouted Shadow abruptly. Riku was taken off guard again and fell backwards out of the room again.
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The quintet (oh my god! That's a real word!) were skipping along the yellow bricked road once again, when they noticed a light up a head. "That's the exit!" said Cream excitedly. Everyone else broke into a run and ran to the light, eager to get out of this green hell-hole. Suddenly, they all burst out into a clearing of brilliant, sparkling grass and saw tall, emerald towers reaching towards the sky in the distance.
"That's Emerald City!" shouted Fox as he pointed towards the towers. They all began to run towards the towers when they noticed that small white fluffs were descending from the sky.
"Is it snowing?" asked Cream, looking up towards the sky. As the fluffs came closer and closer to the ground, it was revealed that they weren't so small. In fact, they were twice the size of Cream! Everyone also noticed that they had beady little eyes as well.
"Is it just me, or is the snow coming after us?" asked Scarecrow. The fluffs were indeed floating after them from every direction, not just the sky. One of them got extremely close, so Cheese reached out and touched it. A siren sound went off as the fluff exploded on contact into small little specks that Cheese inhaled.
"Chaoooo (Whoooaa) …" moaned Cheese. He fell out of Cream's arms and began stumbling around. To Cheese, the ground was moving up and down likes waves on the ocean, and Cheese couldn't control his body anymore. He felt completely stoned out of his mind, dude.
"Is Cheese ok- whooooaaa …" asked Fox, who was nudged by a fluff who came up from behind him. Fox began to stumble around as well. "Are we on the ocean?" he asked slowly.
"What are you talking about?" asked Scarecrow. A fluff came up from behind him and bumped into him, also exploding, but Scarecrow only noticed the siren sound from the explosion.
"The fluffy thing didn't affect - yoooouuuu …" said Cream as she was also struck with a fluff. Scarecrow observed that Cream, Cheese, and Fox were stumbling around, hitting other fluffs, and Tin Man had a mental breakdown and is now crying his eyes out again.
"Get a hold of yourself, Tin Man, or you'll rust again!" shouted Scarecrow. "We need to help them!"
"We're all doomed!" screamed Tin Man in agony. He then curled up on the ground into the fetal position. "Help, help!" he began to shout.
"That's not going to help out here!" yelled Scarecrow. He then turned around and began shouting, "Help, HELP!" All of a sudden, the image of Amy appeared on the field.
"Don't worry, I'll help." she said sweetly to Scarecrow, and she flicked her wand and disappeared as quickly as she came.
'Weird …' thought Scarecrow. He then heard a rumbling noise off in the distance. He looked over to the west and thought that he was looking at a … rainbow … coming at them. Scarecrow ran over to Tin Man. "Tin Man! There's a funny lookin' rainbow coming after us too!" Scarecrow told Tin Man.
"We're all doomed! First Fuzzys, now killer Rainbows!" Tin Man sobbed. Scarecrow looked back at the rainbow and noticed that there were individual pieces to the rainbow. They looked like little dinosaurs.
"I think it's a herd of dinosaurs …" Scarecrow said to himself. He then heard a unified cry come from the rainbow dinosaurs. "… Yoshi?" said Scarecrow. The dinosaurs were upon then now, throwing spotted eggs left and right, destroying the Fuzzys. Then there was only one Fuzzy left, who exploded under pressure. The dinosaurs rejoiced and stampeded there way in the opposite direction that they came in. Scarecrow looked around and noticed that everyone was lying on the ground. Cream got up first and scratched her head.
"What happened?" asked Cream groggily. Cheese and Fox got up too and moaned. Scarecrow looked over to Tin Man, who was still curled up on the ground.
"You can get up now, Tin Man, we're not dead." Scarecrow hollered at Tin Man, who didn't respond. "… Tin Man"? Silence again. Scarecrow walked over to Tin Man and noticed that he was frozen stiff. "Must have been all that crying …" he muttered to himself. Grunting was heard from Tin Man. Scarecrow laughed a little and went over to help up Cream.
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"Grrr! Damn that Amy! I'll have to go to Emerald City myself, now!" Rouge yelled angrily at the crystal ball. She then fetched her broom and got up on the window sill again.
"What good will that do?" asked Shadow, who hadn't moved from his spot next to the crystal ball.
"You'll see." she told him simply. Rouge then kept looking behind her to see if Shadow was going to attempt another "free shot". She finally decided that it was safe to go and jumped off the window sill and flew off towards Emerald City. She didn't notice that her panties were now around her ankles as she flew, courtesy of Shadow. He watched her go with a smirk on his face.
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After the group recuperated after the Fuzzy incident, they all looked up at Emerald City and began to skip towards it on the road, happy that they had finally reached The Eggman. Little did they know that there journey was far from over.
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They've finally reached Emerald City! Took them long enough --
I love Yoshi! He's my favorite video game character (sorry, Shadow), so I had to include a yoshi reference somewhere. If you've ever played Yoshi's Island, you would know where I got the chapter title from. Ah, Yoshi's Island ... I should go replay that ... I still haven't unlocked those secret levels (at least I beat the game, unlike my brother ...)
See you next chappie 3
