Episode 13: A Valentine' from heaven or hell? Pt.1
The sun rose above the mountain, dousing the house behind it in sunlight. The suns' reflection in the lake cast the illusion of glitter, a beautiful effect. However, the peace was not going to last for long.
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A shrill voice pierced the air for miles around, causing some random holy dude mobian a few hundred miles away to throw his arms up into the air, scream something about the apocalypse and duck for cover under a cardboard box. However, said random dude is not the point of this story, so let's move on.
The house had been covered from head-to-toe (or, from base-to-roof) in pink decorations, balloons and banners' reading 'Happy Valentine's Day!', and a certain pink hedgehog was trying to find a certain blue one.
Sonic burst into Shadow's room, yelling "HIDE ME!!" Shadow quickly seized the blue hedgehog and threw him in a closet, just as Amy entered the room.
"Have you seen mu Sonikku?" she asked. Shadow thought quickly.
"Erm...he said he'll be at Prison Island for the day...yeah..." his eyes shifted from side-to-side. Fortunately, Amy was just too stupid to notice the obvious signs of a blatant lie.
"Really? Oooohhhhh...he makes me mad! He promised to take me out on a date! I'm coming, Sonikku!!" She ran off again. When he decided it was safe too, Sonic stepped out from his hiding place.
"Thanks." He wheezed out. Shadow laughed. (Yes, he can laugh!)
"Did you really think I was gonna let her get her way? I can be mean, but not THAT mean!" he moved closer to him. "Did you REALLY ask her out on a date?" Sonic stared at him.
"Oh, come on! Do you really think I'd do that? She can believe what she wants, but it doesn't going to mean it is gonna happen...maybe now she'll be gone for the day, I'll get the chance to ask..." He quickly covered his mouth, realising what he just said. Shadow smirked.
"Oooohhh...Sonic's in luuuuuuurve!" he started taunting his old rival.
"...yes."
Shadow started to grin, trying not to laugh.
"What?!"
"It's just that...nothing. So...who is it?"
"I'm not saying. And if you speak to anybody about this, I'll tell the others about your fear of Roller coasters." Sonic said. Shadow stopped laughing immediately. "Plus, that includes writing, recording, miming, etc, Ok?"
'Darn it.' Shadow thought to himself.
Later...
As Sonic and Shadow came downstairs, they noticed the others in the kitchen. Rouge's face was buried in a jewellery magazine. Shahra was trying to use the toaster, WITHOUT burning her fingers. Tails was in a daze, occasionally muttering the word 'Cream.' Knuckles was...who knows where, even though there were some suspiciously large holes in the garden, and the words 'MASTER EMERALD!!' could be heard.
"I see you got out of Amy's clutches, then." Rouge said, not putting down her mag.
"Yeah. She'll be on Prison Island anytime now..."
Prison Island:
"SONIKKU!!"
Back at Sonic's:
"Probably." Rouge paused. "Say, has anybody heard from the old Egg-Head, recently?"
Tails shrugged.
"He hasn't been sighted since this whole thing with Doom and Djinn started. Maybe he doesn't want to get between us and them, or something."
"As far as I'm concerned, the longer he stays away, the better." Shadow muttered.
"Better for him. I've still got A LOT of pain to inflict on him." Sonic said coldly. He still wanted to break Robotnik's neck for what he'd done all those years ago.
Tails saw the look on Sonic's face and quickly decided to change the subject.
"Say, does anybody know where Doom and Djinn actually know each other from?"
"Nope. Who knows how long they go back?" Rouge asked.
"I wonder if they're celebrating Valentine's day?" Shadow wondered aloud.
"Doom, will you be my valentine?" Shahra said, in a very good impersonation of Erazor Djinn, causing them all to laugh.
Their morphers chose this time to start beeping. They all groaned.
"Another attack?" Sonic said into his morpher.
"Yes, this one in Westopolis, but...they don't look like Doom or Djinn's forces...just get down there, OK?" Blaze said back.
Westopolis...
The five arrived at the source of the commotion. A large group of strange Shadow-like (like actual Shadows, not like the black hedgie over there who wants to tear my head off for what I did to him in Truth, Lies and Secret Family...sorry, getting off-topic, back to the story) with one red eye were busy attacking the city, blasting holes in buildings and throwing things everywhere. Some had wings and were trying to tear apart the upper parts of buildings.
"What are those things?" Sonic asked.
"No idea." Shadow said.
"We can't just stand here, let's go!" Tails said, and the five moved in, unmorphed.
The strange creatures stopped and went for the heroes, and the fight was soon underway.
Rouge back flipped over some picnic tables, and then stood up and kicked two of them face, sending them to the ground. Another one tried to leap on her from behind, but was also cut off by the bat's foot.
"Sorry, but I don't date losers like you." She kicked him into the crowd, knocking several down. She then raised her hand, and violet coloured lightning crashed down onto the group of creatures, obliterating them.
Shadow was Chaos Control to warp around the battlefield, each time he stopped he would kick another one of the creatures in the head.
"Chaos...SPEAR!!" he let out several bolts of the yellow energy, one by one they slammed into the creatures, forcing them over.
"You're all through! Black Storm!" he summoned up a ball of Black coloured lightning, then launched it at his opponents. The resulting explosion was all he needed to know that his attack had worked.
"I'm the Ultimate Life-Form, nothing can match up to me."
Some of the flying ones were targeting Tails, blasting him with red lasers. However, the Twin-Tailed fox weaved his way in and out of the blasts, before going into a Rapid Tails Attack and smashing his way through the army, then summoning up a huge torrent of water and sent it crashing it down on the creatures.
Many were (Trying) to gang up on Knuckles, but the warrior echidna was easily throwing them off, as though they were rag dolls. The ground started to shake, sending the mystery creatures to the ground. He then jumped up, summoning two big balls of fire.
"FIRE DUNK!!" he slammed them into the ground, severely burning the creatures. He then launched into a Drill Dive and slammed into them, easily finishing them off.
Sonic sped through the aliens, before stopping in the middle of a crowd of them. He then used using a flurry of Martial Arts, sending them down one by one. One of them swiped at him, but Sonic jumped over the punch, then Homing-Attacked the thing right in the chest. The blue hedgehog began to charge up a tornado, then commanded it to rip through the army, which, it did.
"What's the matter, can't keep up?" Sonic asked.
"I don't think these are Doom or Djinn's creatures..." Tails said.
"HAHAHAHAHA!" A new monster appeared, similar to the others, only with blades on its arms, and its body was a Navy blue instead of black. AND, it was the size of a skyscraper.
"Say, aren't they meant to grow big AFTER we blow them up?" Knuckles asked.
"My name is Darcon, the master of shadows." The thing explained. "And as soon as I'm through with you, my master shall take over this puny planet!"
"Doom and Djinn can go stick their heads in a sewer. They're not gonna take over!" Rouge called out.
"So, Doom and Djinn are here? Hmph. They're nothing compared to master! Now prepare to die!"
"Without Amy here, we can't use the Sonpujin Fury...since I've yet to install an autopilot battle system..." tails said. The others groaned at him.
"We'll just have to do without. She'll be more concerned with finding me than the battle..."
Prison Island:
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Back at the battle...
The Falcon, Tiger, Shark, Bear and Jaguar machines soon arrived on the scene.
"Ready?"
"Ready!"
"Ninpuu!"
"Darkrai"
"Shinobi Change, Haa! Ninpuu Sentai, Sonicanger, has ari-i-i-ved!"
The five of them leapt into the cockpits and activated the respective battle modes.
"Sonpujin, Gattai complete!"
"Darkraijin, Gattai complete!"
"You think you can match up to ME?" Darcon asked.
"Ha! We're more than a match! Let's go!"
As the two robots moved forward, Darcon slashed at the air, producing purple waves of energy, each of which slammed into the machines, sending them down. Darcon approached the two, laughing manically. Suddenly, the Sonpujin kicked Darcon in the chest, hard. Darcon stumbled backwards, taken by surprise. Shadow and Rouge used the chance to steer the Darkraijin back to its feet and grab Darcon, holding its arms behind its back.
"Powerdisk!" Tails inserted his medal into his slot and the Sonpujin's chest opened and produced a Karakuri ball No.2, which revealed the Power Blaster.
"Move outta there!" Sonic called, and the Darkraijin quickly moved out of the way as Darcon was hit by the pure Chaos energy.
"Let's finish it!" Rouge inserted her Shinobi Medal into her slot and the Karakuri ball produced opened up to reveal a Violet coloured mace with a lightning pattern and a silver chain.
"Thunder Mace!"
The Darkraijin tossed the Thunder Mace, which hit Darcon hard, sending him sprawling.
"Full power!!"
The thunder mace started glowing with energy, and the Darkraijin spun it around a few times, before slamming it into the mysterious creature.
"HAH! Don't think you've one, my master shall destroy you all!!" Darcon screeched before exploding.
The heroes leapt out of their machines.
"So, it wasn't one of Doom and Djinn's monsters...so who sent that thing?" Sonic asked.
"Um, I think you've got a bigger problem to deal with..." Shadow said, pointing behind him.
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Reviews:
Brave Kid:
Glad you liked!
Kitsune Disciple:
Yeah, I wasn't so sure if people were really going to like that part, but I'm glad you liked!
Twilight the Gecko:
Shadow: HEY! I AM NOT NUTS!!
Knuckles: AND I'M NOT AN IDIOT!!
Me: Points into Piranha filled pool Hey, look, the Master Emerald!
Knuckles: MASTER EMERALD!! Leaps in pool and starts screaming
ReaderADV:
Don't worry, Knucklehead won't grow brains for a loooooooooooong time. As for 7&8...you'll have to wait and see.
Renzokuken666:
Yep, they finally get along! And, you just got a new weapon, now...
Thanks for your reviews, everybody!