Well in pretty good time, I have another chapter. I meant to do another Ancients chapter first but I eventually changed my mind. I had plans for this chapter and wanted to finish it.

I decided to stop worrying about reviews and hits because I realized that if most people were going to read this story so they can understand my later stories, they are just going to read the completed one. So I will start caring about hits and reviews after I have finished with this.

This one is not as long as last chapter. (Thank gosh.)

Chapter 6

Air Assault

"Well it looks like Knuckles, Big, and Tikal managed to finish destroying the main gate. Now it is our turn to attack." Tails said looking through some binoculars at the rubble.

"Did all of those flying rocks have something to do with them attacking the gate?" Rouge asked.

"Yes. I guess something must have made Tikal angry or maybe she was planning on doing it anyway. Either way that was a really powerful attack. We should be careful around her." Tails answered.

"So what is the plan Tails?" Cream asked. "What are we going to do to help Miss Amy and Mr. Sonic and the others?"

"Well, around the entire base are tons of turrets and cannons and other weapons. These are mostly made to keep anyone from trying to drop like a bomb or something on the base. They are all anti-aircraft attackers. Basically, as long as they are there, nothing that has to fly through the air to reach the base can work. It makes it so the only way to really attack the base is through the front gate. Understand so far?" He asked mostly looking at Cream. Rouge was used to such protective devices as they were used by a lot of the people whose homes she had to infiltrate when she was on missions for GUN and was used to it.

Cream nodded slowly as she started to understand what Tails was explaining. "So how are we going to attack them if we can't fly?" She asked confused. "Weren't we made a group because we can all fly?"

"Well, at first we can use the Devil Cyclone to attack them." Tails started to say but stopped as Rouge and Cream gave him confused looks. "What's wrong, did I say something weird?"

"Well... yes you did." Rouge said slowly. "You said he had lots of anti-aircraft weapons and that we are going to attack him with a plane. I am a little confused of how that makes sense."

"Oh! I should have explained myself better. These weapons are more for guided missiles and planes that drop bombs. Since those planes have to fly high into the air so that they don't blow up themselves, and any other attackers can be tracked from far away, most of the weapons are extremely long range and extremely powerful. This makes it so they are programmed so that they can't shoot at close range because they would blow themselves up." Tails explained.

"Now I get it. So since they can't fire at close range they can put bigger explosives in it. Trading range for power." Rouge said as understanding dawned on her. The look of confusion on Creams face also disappeared.

"There will be some weapons that fire at close range but not that many and we can deal with those as we come to them. Shall we go now?" Tails asked. The other two nodded and they got back into the plane and flew towards the base remaining close to the ground.

They then flew up to the top of the wall. "Fire Clutter Missiles!" Tails shouted as tons of missiles flew out of his plane and hit the cannons and turrets. A few got dented but it did very little damage overall.

Tails then went and shifted a couple levers on the control panel. The front of the plane reshaped itself into a small cannon. "Fire Chain Lightning!" Tails shouted as the cannon started shooting out bolts of electricity at the turrets. The rubber insulators at the bottom of each turret absorbed the electricity and neutralized it. No damage was done by that attack either.

"Chain Lightning?" Rouge said looking at Tails. "Isn't that an attack from a video game or something?" Tails just nodded.

"Okay, let's try this attack." Tails hit a few more buttons and the planes front end changed into a cone that started charging. "Fire Plasma Beam!" Tails shouted as the plane shot super hot energy at the turrets.

That did the trick. Everything that was hit by the beam instantly was melted into a metallic goop. Tails continued flying around melting anything that either attacked him or looked like it could attack something.

"We really are not needed right now huh?" Rouge asked as she started drinking a soda she had found in a cooler under her seat.

"Um... actually I am going to need both of your help in about a minute." Tails answered.

"What's wrong Tails? Cream asked anxiously as she walked over to where he was sitting.

"Well Eggman seemed to be pretty smart when he made these wall defenses. They are only hurt by plasma which takes a lot of energy to make. Currently I have been using the energy that I stored up from one of the chaos emeralds. I normally use it to power this plane. So I have been now using the energy to power the plasma and the plane. And right now, we are basically out of power. I used up all the energy that I had stored up on the current attack. We are going to have to continue attacking normally."

Rouge then opened one of the plane's doors. "Well that is good. Now we can be useful as well. Come on Cream." She shouted as she glided out of the plane. Cream took one last look at Tails who only nodded and then jumped out as well. Tails then pushed a couple of buttons and landed his plane in one of the areas not in any of the cannons' range.

Rouge and Cream meanwhile were doing huge amounts of damage. Rouge used her powerful gliding attacks and her even more powerful kicks to crush through the iron turrets. Cream used Cheese as a weapon and shot her living projectile at the cannons. She managed to do enough damage that they would not be able to work properly which was all that was needed.

Tails decide that they were having to much fun on their own and flew up to the top of the walls. He then joined in the action by using his electro cannon to fry the weapons and his extendable boxing gloves to smash the remains. He also tried to attack with his tails but he decided that it would be more useful to fly with them then use them as weapons.

Slowly the group made it around the entire perimeter of the compound and ended up at the shattered front base. They then paused to regain their energy.

"Hey Tails. Why did your missiles not work but are attacks did work?" Cream asked once she had gotten her breath back.

Tails changed a little redder and did not answer at first. When he felt both of his companions staring at him he gave a small cough before explaining.

"It appears that Eggman was able to trick me. The missiles should have had the strength to do a good amount of damage to the weapons. However, a smaller weapon sent out a beam that detonated them before they reached the cannons and turrets. So it made it look like I did no damage and I was forced to use the energy consuming plasma beam attack." Tail said hanging his head.

"Well now we can go in, right?" Rouge asked.

"No. There are still some weapons we need to get rid of. There are three large towers that are a little further in the compound. They are used to attack anyone who makes it through the gate. It is to far away to be used to attack the gate if someone took it over but it is great to use against someone that is unwary and weak from using tons of energy to break down the gate. There is also a final control tower. If we destroy that then all outside defenses will be stopped."

"How do you know so much about this base Tails?" Cream asked.

"Eggman had me look at the designs when he was building it. He asked if I saw any major weaknesses that could be fixed. I did not see any but learned how the basic defenses work."

"It seems weird that he would let you see how his defenses are set up if he was planning to attack us." Rouge murmured.

"All I know is that we need to be prepared for the worst. So let's go and break the last four towers down!" Tails shouted.

Tails flew to the right to attack the right tower while Rouge glided to the central tower. Cream meanwhile flew to the left.

Rouge had difficulties from the beginning. Her tower shot really slow but really powerful bombs. Some detonated in the air while others detonated on the ground. The explosions sent wind rushing in multiple directions knocking her out of her glide. She crashed down while barely avoiding all of the different bombs.

"Well that sucked. Rouge said while rubbing her head. She then rolled out of the way of a few other bombs. The bombs kept flying all around. It took all of her maneuvering skills to escape being turned to dust. Finally realizing she was getting absolutely nothing done she flew backwards away from the tower. In retaliation the cannon shot a really large bomb at her. Rouge then took out a small smoke bomb and chucked it at the other bomb. They both exploded releasing tons of smoke and fire and debris. The tower then stopped its attack as it began to look for her. When nothing could be seen, it decided that she had been destroyed in the attack.

Meanwhile, Rouge had used the cover of the bombs to glide behind the tower. She then crawled up the side of the tower and got near the top. She then ripped open an opening in the tower and she crawled in. Inside she saw a control panel that controlled the tower. She at first tried to take it over on her own but it started to emit tons of sirens and a countdown appeared on the main screen.

Cursing silently to herself she took out an electronic computer chip and inserted it into the control panel. The chip let loose an electric current that neutralized all of the security protocols. She continued to mutter irritably to herself for having to use such an advanced and difficult to create program on the tower. "I only had one anyways and now it is gone. I wanted to use it on something that would get me lots of money, not on a stupid defensive tower."

She then started to leave the tower when an evil thought struck her. She currently had control of the computer. So she could use the tower however she wanted. She went back to the computer and slowly turned the tower towards the main base. With a slightly maniacal laugh she hit the button to begin shooting the base. However a separate defensive measure made it so the tower would not follow that order. No matter how much she pounded on it, it would not do a deed that would possibly harm his creator or his creator's plan.

"Well fine then. You want to play it the hard way? Well you got it! Self destruct!" Rouge shouted and typed in a code to start the countdown. Once again though, the computer stopped that command from being executed.

"I am going to find some way to get this to be destroyed if it is the last thing I do!" Rouge shouted. Then she checked herself. "Well maybe I won't go that far but I am going to find how to beat this machine." She then tried something different. She moved the tower's cannon away from the main base. She then started the process of sending out a bomb. When it was in the middle of the cannon she started turning the cannon towards the base. The security then stopped the bombs movement and it got stuck in the middle of the cannon.

Rouge then started a countdown process for a different bomb to be sent in 20 seconds. Any longer and the computer would have realized the trick. She quickly ran out of the opening in the back of the tower. She then flew high into the air. The second bomb then started to be sent out and hit the first bomb. They both ignited and then ignited the other bombs inside the tower. The chain reaction was amazing and released so much energy and heat that Rouge was blown about 100 feet higher into the air. The explosion had completely crumpled most of the walls that were around the tower.

"I guess Tails was right. They are weak against point blank annihilation." Rouge said stunned.

Meanwhile Tails was trying to avoid being barbecued by the plasma shot that his tower was shooting. He was not making very much headway because his attacks were not that strong and he had to constantly avoid the plasma shots. He then took out a small grenade hoping that it would do more damage then his tails were doing.

The tower also got tired of not making any hits on the fox. So it released a powerful energy wave. It smashed into Tails and he blacked out. His tails were still keeping him afloat but his conscious had stopped. His brain slowly flew into a world of games and technology and awesome food.

Meanwhile the tower began charging another plasma bolt. It released it straight at Tails.

However, the explosive in Tails' hand exploded waking him up and knocking him out of his flight. The bolt seared a little of the fur at the very top of his head but besides that he was okay.

The tower then readied another plasma shot. But Tails decided that it deserved a taste of its own medicine. He took out his energy cannon and set it to electro magnetic waves. The energy wave hit the tower and it stopped it attack. However, the plasma energy was still there and it kept charging until the tower could not sustain it anymore. Finally the entire tower just melted. The plasma then went out of control and continued destroying huge areas of the walls.

Tails just stared wordlessly at the chaos he had so quickly created. He then shook his head and looked to where Cream was fighting the third tower.

Cream's tower just attacked rapidly with multiple random guns and cannons. Cream wasn't able to get even remotely close to the tower. It was a defense and attack in one. One of the attacks' shockwaves actually hit her and she spun rapidly downward to the ground. Luckily Tails was nearby and he flew quickly downward and managed to grab her before she hit the ground.

"Are you okay Cream?" He asked concerned. He could tell immediately that she did not have any major injuries but it was better to be on the safe side.

"No. I am fine. Thank you Tails" Cream said blushing slightly. She began to blush even deeper when she watched Tails look up and down her body to make sure she was okay.

When Tails saw Cream blushing he started to blush himself. They stayed looking at each other for a while until Rouge walked up behind them. "Save the romance moments for later."

Tails gently set Cream down and she slowly got up. "How should we attack this tower, Tails?" Rouge asked.

"No problem. I have Cheese coming with a solution." Cream said cheerfully. For the first time Rouge and Tails noticed the disappearance of the Chao.

The group waited for a while until Cheese came back with the "solution". Tails and Rouge stared wide mouthed as a small army of Chao flew at the tower. The tower instantly showed its supremacy with dealing with lots of foes as it began aiming at every single chao. At first the chao were able to avoid the blasts and actually managed to hit the tower. However they were not nearly powerful enough to deal the needed amount of damage. Also, the longer the tower attacked, the more it got used to dealing with the small creatures and began hitting them more often. Luckily for the Chao, it mostly used sleeping darts to attack. Eggman had obviously decided that fighting a furious Chaos was not what he needed right now.

After about ten minutes had passed, all of the Chao were sleeping around the tower. Cream then flew up and picked up the chao and moved them out of the area of the tower. As she flew back towards the group Rouge finally spoke up. "What did you just accomplish? You just sent a large group of Chao towards an early nap time. Was that your whole plan?"

"Well I guessed the tower would not actually hurt them. If it did then we would have just called on plan B and asked Chaos to obliterate the entire base." Cream said smiling. "But now the tower is used to the shape, size, abilities and strength of all kinds of chao."

"What is that going to do?" Tails asked confused.

"The big tower is going to get really confused when we attack him with these guys." Cream said gesturing behind her.

Tails and Rouge looked, saw nothing, and then looked at each other puzzled. They then turned to look at Cream.

"See. You can't see them. They are invisible chao. They are see-through. So it will confuse the machine." Cream said gesturing at the empty space behind her. Tails and Rouge jumped as a large smile suddenly appeared seemingly out of nowhere.

"Attack secret Chao!" Cream yelled and the chao flew at the tower. They started attacking the tower in tons of different areas. The tower started to get confused and started shooting randomly thinking that it was being hit by a far away target. But then its sensors realized that it was being attacked by Chao.

It then used all of its camera's and still could not see its assailants. As the attacks came faster, more and more error codes started to come across the main computer screen. As the chao's attacks started to finally do something, the tower finally had enough. The tower started to glow purple, then blue, then green. Once it turned green the chaos all flew back down to the ground. The tower then turned yellow and then orange and then to a dark red.

Something clicked in Tails' mind right then. With a shout of "GET DOWN!!" he grabbed Cream and pulled her close to him and pulled her to the ground. Rouge instantly recognized the danger and dropped down as well.

The tower turned black and then self-destructed. It released a wave of destruction that obliterated all of the remaining weapons on the nearby walls and opened up the way to the last control tower. However nothing behind it was injured as it made sure not to harm its master's ambitions in any way.

With a little bit of coughing the trio managed to get up and survey the damage. All that was really left standing was a couple pieces of the walls and one or two cannons. Everything else was a soup of melted metal and charred ground. And just in front of the group was the final, large, control tower.

"Once we defeat that our duties will be over Rouge said happily. She looked behind her and chuckled slightly when she saw that Cream and Tails were standing a little further apart then normal and each of their faces were crimson. Kids, it is so funny to watch them interact.

"Since you two look too distracted to work right now, I will stop this one. I have a device that will work perfectly." Rouge said as she flew up to the tower. Slowly she read the instructions on the device.

Type in location of a major outside power source. Place main core of this device on any electrical structure. It will then draw energy from the outside source you have chosen and will cause a power surge in the electrical structure that will make it inoperable.

Rouge flew forward and put in the location and set the device on the tower. She moved backwards and tons of electricity started to be pumped through the tower. With a victory cry Rouge started to fly away. Then to her surprise the tower started to sink into the ground. Once half of it had sunk, the entire tower flipped over revealing a huge cannon that had been underneath the tower.

The tower then began charging up using all of the excess electricity that was coursing through its system. Rouge barely made it out of the way before the cannon sent out a humongous electrical beam that was about the size of a medium sized house. The beam kept moving and smashed straight into a mountain top completely obliterating the top half.

"What are you doing!?" Tails shouted after witnessing the attack. And where were you draining that energy from anyway.

Meanwhile in the White House

"Are we having a power outage or something?" The President asked his secretary. "Why is it so dark?"

Back at the base

Rouge decided not to reply since she knew she would get in more trouble if she said she stole power from Washington D.C.

"Well regardless, if we are even brushed by a beam like that we are dead. Tails said. We need to find a way to stop it from attacking again. Since it has so much energy in it, then it can't be remotely activated. There must be somebody or something nearby that controls the cannon." Tails said sighing.

"There. I see a robot. He is right under the cannon's left side." Cream shouted.
Tails and Rouge looked up. There was a robot but a model they had not seen before. It was covered in what looked like 5 different layers of armor. It also had a shield and other protective gear. Since all it needed to do what control the cannon. Eggman had only focused on making sure that it would not be destroyed.

Since the trio could not get to the cannon without getting shot, they sent Cheese instead. Cheese flew in the cannon's blind spots until he got close to the robot. The robot turned and was about to swat it when it looked at the chao's face. Cream had told Cheese to start crying when the robot saw him so the robot would be distracted. When the robot saw the crying chao something in its CPU overrode the robots objective to shoot the beam.

The robot, who was known as model V-135 started to go to pet the crying chao. At that moment Cheese darted forward and head-butted the robot off of the wall. The robot fell and the trio flew up to the side of the cannon.

"We got to break this control panel somehow." Tails said. He was stopped as Cream summoned a large blue hammer and smashed it into bits. Tails and Rouge stared wordlessly at her.

"Amy taught me." Cream said happily.

Okay. Now I REALLY don't want to make her mad. Tails thought to himself. His thoughts were stopped as Cream closed her eyes and collapsed to the ground. Tails looked around and tried to find the attacker and was hit as well.

Rouge ran away and called the Chaotix. "We are being attacked. Just like Knuckle's group. Be careful he used sleep darts. It-" She cut off as a dart hit her as well. Slowly she collapsed on the ground.

The Chaotix looked at each other. "I think we need to bring some antidotes to those darts, Espio." Vector said.

"We will just have to be careful. We will do our job effectively. Just like we always do." Espio answered.

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Well the chapter was still a lot longer then I thought it would be and took longer as well. Oh well. It is now finished. Hopefully next chapter will be up soon. Please review.

P.S. Cream/Tails FTW