SonicANIME2010 here again bringing you another chapter, last one I left off with a set up to some action, well here it is.
- OP: "Secret Ambition" Nana Mizuki-
Sonic Adventure: Lyrical Step
Chapter 18
Riot Force 6's Day off (Part 2), Enter Silver and Agito, Battle in the sewers
-Alleyway on 3rd Avenue, F-23-
As Erio and Caro waited for Subaru, Sonic and Teana, they kept a close watch over the unconscious girl and her robot companion. Their wait was soon over when Subaru called to them "Erio! Caro!", she and Teana just arrived.
"Subaru-san, Tia-san" Erio noted. No sooner after they arrive did Sonic also speed onto the scene.
"Yo!" He announced himself.
"Sonic-san" Caro acknowledged him.
"Is this her" Teana asked, referring to the blonde girl "She's quite a mess"
"I believe they walked quite a distance in the sewers... and the robot looked like it did some fighting." Caro answered.
Sonic took a good look at the robot and nodded solemnly "Yeah.. that's Emerl for you... Gets his stubbornness from Knuckles"
"What do you mean, Sonic-san?" Erio asked.
"Well.. It's kind of a long story... but the short version is this robot is known as the "Gizoid", an age old relic from my world, and it has the ability to copy skills and even personality traits of anyone he meets... but... at one point, he absorbed too much and went haywire... last I saw of him he disappeared." Sonic explained. "I'm surprised to find him here, and now he's in recovery mode, he should be back up in a few minutes or so. Enough about that, did you seal the case properly?" the hedgehog turned his attention to Erio and Caro.
"Caro did it. There's no chance a gadget will find it, I believe" Erio answered, then held up the case and indicating the chains attached to it where another came off "There's also this."
"Another case?" Sonic questioned.
"I'm having Long Arch look into it"
Sonic put on a thinking gesture then informed everyone "Okay, I got a head start on this because I wanted to see the robot, but the Captains, Shamal, and Rein are going to be here soon. Until they get here, this is our baby, we have to keep watch over this area until they arrive. Shahra's on standby in her ring at the moment, I'm not going to call her unless we're going to Unison, otherwise it's just using her energy. Everyone understood?"
"Hai!" came the unanimous response.
-Long Arch: Communications room-
Hayate and the Communications group (Alto, Lucino, Shari, and Griffith), monitored the situation from the sidelines. She made an urgent call to Carim at the Saint Church.
"I see.. a Relic." Carim said after Hayate explained the situation.
"The fact that a young girl was carrying it worries me... And then there's this robot named "Emerl" that Sonic knew, and it looks like something was bothering him.. If any gadgets or the mysterious presence that attacked the Hotel Augusta a while back shows up, we're going to have a major battle on our hands. We need to get this matter settled as quickly as possible"
-Saint Church-
Carim, Signum and Admiral Chrono listened to Hayate's explanation.
Chrono spoke up first "Have you contacted any other forces in the area?"
"Yes, I contacted the city and coastal forces." Hayate answered
"Ah."
"We may need to get our trump card ready as well."
"I pray that doesn't happen" Chrono thought out loud.
"Signum, you should return as well" Carim turned her head to Signum
"Hai" came Signum's response.
"If Schach sees you off, you can get back right away." Carim offered.
"Arigatou-gosaimasu (Thank you Very Much), Knight Carim" Signum thanked her.
-Alleyway on 3rd Avenue, F-23-
The area was secure and the Captains were able to meet up with the Forwards and Sonic in the alley safely. Shamal was checking on the girl's condition.
"Her physical condition is stable. There are no dangerous readings either... there's no need to worry" Shamal reported.
"Okay" Caro was relieved
"I'm glad.." as was Subaru.
"I'm sorry that this happened during your vacation, everyone." Fate apologized
"Oy oy.. you worry too much Fate." Sonic noted.
"We'll take the case, girl and robot back via helicopter. You guys inspect the scene." Nanoha ordered then turned to Sonic "Sonic-kun?"
"Yes?"
"Supervise them."
"Okay!"
"Nanoha, can you carry her?" Shamal asked
"Yes." came her reply
"Sonic, eto.." Fate gestured to Emerl.
"Oh he's light, you can carry him" the hedgehog reassured her before he took the Forwards to inspect the scene.
-Long Arch: Communications Room-
- "Battle" Sonic X-
On screens in the sewers were several small Gadget drones, as well as ones in the sky.
"The Gadgets are here!" Shari announced. Getting Hayate and Griffith's attention. "They're coming in small groups, total is 16.. no wait.. 20! And there's also 5 groups of 12 coming in from the sky!"
"That many.." Hayate started to think.
Vita reported in while soaring in her knight clothing "Stars-2 to Long Arch, Stars-2. I was practicing over the ocean; Major Nakajima gave me permission. I'm heading to the scene now. Along with two others.."
Ginga timed her report as well "108th Battalion, Ginga Nakajima."
Shadow announced himself as well "Lightning-3, Shadow the Hedgehog"
-With Shadow and Ginga-
"I was investigating another incident and happened to meet Shadow, but what we were investigating may have something to do with what you are investigating as well. May I participate?" Ginga requested.
-Long Arch: Communications Room-
"Hai, Onegai (please)" came Hayate's reply. She then pulled up Vita and the helicopter on separate screens "Okay, Rein, meet up with Rein. Cooperate and gain control of the southwest area of the sea."
"Southwest Area, roger!" was Rein's reply.
"Captain Nanoha and Captain Fate, you start with the Northeast" Hayate ordered the duo.
"Roger that" their unanimous reply.
"Can I leave the helicopter to you and Shamal, Vice?"
"Leave it to me" Vice acknowledged.
"We'll protect it." Shamal added
-With Ginga and Shadow-
"Ginga, you and Shadow meet up with Sonic and Subaru underground. While you're on the way, tell me about that other incident" Hayate ordered the duo.
"Yes ma'am." Ginga acknowledged.
"Understood, let's go." Shadow added and the duo ran off.
-Sonic and the Forwards-
"All right, everyone, hope you enjoyed that vacation, because now it's time to work. Let's kick their metallic butts back to their maker!" Sonic announced.
"Hai!" Came the unanimous reply from the forwards. The group shifted into their Barrier Jackets and Knight Clothing respectively and made their descent into the sewers.
-Nanoha and Fate-
The duo conversed a little before setting of for their assignment,
"Have the forwards become a little more reliable?" Fate asked
"We need them to become even more so" Nanoha answered with a giggle. The duo shifted to their barrier jackets in a flash of light.
"Let's finish up this incident and give them another day off." Fate said.
"Yeah.." Nanoha agreed and the duo took to the skies,
-Helicopter-
The back hatch opened with Rein about ready to set off.
"Be careful, okay?" Shamal cautioned her.
"Hai" came Rein's reply, the girl flew out of the helicopter, before taking to meet Vita she said to Vice "Sergeant Vice, I'll leave it up to you."
Vice acknowledged from the pilot's seat "Yes"
"Storm Raider, keep them safe, okay?" Rein asked the AI in the helicopter
"All Right my friend." came it's reply.
-With Silver-
The young silver hedgehog stood patiently waiting orders. Jail's assistant contacted him.
"The Numbers will get the material inside the case in the helicopter. Boy, you head underground for the other one."
"Yeah.." Silver replied.
"Where are Knight Zest and Agito?"
"We parted ways beforehand."
"You're alone?" the assistant sounded concerned.
"You don't need to worry about me" The silver hedgehog allowed himself to glow an aqua-green color. "I can handle this."
"If you need assistance, tell me, I will do my best to help" The woman closed the connection. The silver hedgehog took a deep breath then descended from his spot and headed for the sewers.
-Long Arch: Communications Room-
"Stars-1 and Lightning-1 are heading for the aerial drones, estimated contact in 1 minute" Alto reported
"Stars-2 has met up with Master Sergeant Rein" Lucino reported as well.
"Sonic and the Forwards are heading for the gadgets location, at this pace they'll get the jump on them" Shari informed
-In the Sewers-
Sonic and the forwards made their advance for the drones and relic quickly. Sonic contacted Ginga and Shadow along the way.
"Oy, Ginga, Shadow, you there?"
"Yes, Sonic, you in charge here?" Ginga asked through communication.
"Yes.. I can give orders.."
-with Ginga and Shadow-
"Head for area F-94 in the southwest.. We'll meet up with you along the way."
"Understood" Shadow responded.
"And if there are any gadgets we face?" Ginga asked.
"They'll be a nuisance if they get in your way, take them out." Sonic answered and closed the connection.
"You ready for this?" the ebony hedgehog asked
"Yeah.. Let's go Blitz Caliber" Ginga told to her device, which model was similar to Subaru except the gem was purple.
"Yes Sir!" came it's reply, in a flash, Ginga shifted to her Barrier Jacket, which consisted of two white-silver Revolver Gauntlets with matching Roller blades, her outfit was a little more conservative, long white pants which lie under her roller blades, with a short sleeved black jacket and a breastplate.
-In the Sky with Nanoha and Fate-
Fate and Nanoha soon encountered the aerial drones in their area. Neither had too much trouble as they managed to destroy a wave in little time.
-Long Arch: Communications room-
"Stars-1, Lightning-1, engage" Alto reported
Hayate sat at her post, Ginga and Shadow reported to her about the incident they encountered.
"What I found at the scene of the accident that I was called to was a bunch of destroyed gadgets and a broken life pod" Ginga reported.
Shadow followed suit "I was there because I felt a familiar power, it was synthetic, but familiar, that in mind I went to investigate. The life pod was big enough to hold a human child of age 5 or 6."
"There were marks nearby that looked like someone was dragging something, we were following them when you contacted us. Also I've seen something similar to this life pod in another case" Ginga added
"Me too" Hayate agreed.
"The primary cultivation body called for in the artificial mage project."
-in the helicopter-
Shamal was caring for the young girl and her robot companion, who was still in recovery mode, she gasped when she heard Ginga's report.
"This is just a guess, but that girl was perhaps created as material for an artificial mage."
Shadow added his guess "And that robot is what our friends called "Emerl". But it's also known as the "Gizoid" and ancient weapon of war. My guess is that the Gizoid remembered his link with Sonic and simulated part of his personality, breaking the girl out of the pod to prevent this, odds are the gadgets on scene didn't take that too well, and while the gizoid fought back, if it just awakened it wouldn't be up to it's normal state."
-Sonic and the Forwards-
"Artificial Mage?" Caro asked when she heard Ginga and Shadow's reports.
"Children fabricated from high-quality genetic material, then receiving injections and cybernetic material. Which produces the possibility to give them powerful magical abilities" Subaru explained
Sonic followed suit "And this type of practice dates back to at least 55 years ago even in my world, with Project Shadow, created by Professor Gerald... At that time our world's government, GUN, commissioned the creation of the project, course there was a lot of corruption but I digress"
"Ethics aside, there are many problems with using the technology and the cost wasn't worth it. So unless someone was crazy, they wouldn't bother." Teana finished.
A flicker from Caro's device got everyone's attention "Coming movement reaction perception and gadget drone"
"Incoming! Six small gadgets!" Caro declared.
"Get ready! Here they come!" Sonic ordered as everyone prepared.
-With Vita-
Vita and Rein finished taking out their own assigned waves. But the worst was yet to come. More units were on the way.
-In the sky with an unknown individual-
One lone woman stood in midair above a green magic circle, she wore circular glasses and brown hair styled so that it's flaring to the left and right, wearing a blue outfit with a silver cloak with fur around the neck. The woman spoke "Quattro's Inherit Skill: Silver Curtain. These lies and illusions are going to make you dance for me." she created illusions of real aerial gadget drones to go after Nanoha Vita and Fate.
-Long Arch: Communications room-
On the map were dozens and dozens of red dots, indicating all the aerial mech signals.
"The signals in the air are multiplying... This is impossible!" Alto was shocked as she informed
"What is this?" Griffith thought out loud.
"Waveform check! It has to be some computer error, right?" Shari asked.
Lucino reported "No problems in the system. All checks show them to be real units! Nanoha and Fate said they have visual as well!"
Hayate stood up "Griffith-kun.." she looked towards him
-With Nanoha and Fate-
The duo stood back to back as they continued attacking drones, some of which their attacks destroyed, but others were revealed to be illusions that broke on contact
"Their formation contains illusions and real drones.." Fate observed.
"We can hold the line here, but there are a lot of them" Nanoha added
"If they are going this far, it would mean..."
"Their main forces are heading for the helicopter or underground."
"Nanoha, I'll stay here and take care of them, you go with Vita."
"Fate-chan!"
"Even together, if we fight normally, it'll take too much time. If I release my limiter, I can do a wide range spell and destroy all of them."
"That's true, but..."
"I have a bad feeling about this."
"But.. Fate-chan" Nanoha started but then was interrupted when Hayate contacted the two of them
-With Hayate-
"Sorry to intrude. Long Arch to Lightning-1, as commander I refuse that plan, as well as the limiter release." Hayate informed through communication, as she stood in the sky, now clothed in her knight armor.
"Hayate-chan, why are you in your knight armor?" Nanoha asked.
"I have a bad feeling, too. I've decided to get permission to release my limit from Chrono-kun. I'll take care of these. So you guys go back to defend the helicopter." She also opened a call to Vita and Rein "Vita, Rein, you guys meet up with Sonic and the forwards. Help them secure the case."
"Roger!" Rein and Vita acknowledged.
-Saint Church-
Chrono and Carim were also talking to the commander.
"Right now, Knight Carim and I can only grant you permission to release your limiter once apiece. It's hard to get that renewed. Are you sure you want that?" Chrono asked
"I don't want to reserve power that I could use and regret it later." Hayate answered
"Considering your location, I can't grant permission for an SS rank. I can only release three ranks, will that do?"
"S rank... That's more than enough" Hayate agreed.
Chrono announced "Approve Limiter Release for Yagami Hayate, three ranks. Release time, 120 minutes." He pushed a button on a interface.
-With Hayate-
Hayate's closed her eyes as a white belkan triangle appeared at her feet "Limiter release!" she commanded and a flash of light emitted. She ascended above the clouds and called a small tome in addition to her staff.
"Alright, this'll be the first time I've used long ranged magic in a while."
-Sonic and the Forwards-
"Looks like there's trouble with everyone above" Teana observed while she and the others fought the drones. Sonic destroyed the last one with a spin-dash.
The hedgehog added "Yeah.. though from what I'm hearing, Hayate's gonna help out; also Rein and Vita are heading our way."
Caro observed her device flicker, "we're close to the relic now"
Sonic closed his eyes for a moment "That's not all.. looks like our mysterious presence from the hotel's heading for the relic too. Get ready for anything" soon after he said that, part of the wall they were near broke with an explosion, they got ready for what was to come, only for Shadow and Ginga to come out.
"Gin-nee!" Subaru exclaimed.
Sonic gave a thumbs up to Shadow "Hey! What kept you Shadow?"
The ebony hedgehog dusted himself off "Even in the sewers, traffic can be murder."
"Let's go looking for the relic together" Ginga offered.
"I agree.. Also Shadow, that power from the Hotel incident is back too.." Sonic informed
"I can feel it too. We have to be ready for it." Shadow noted.
"I think we took out most of the gadgets on the way here." Ginga informed.
"Yeah.. nice entrance" Sonic snarked
-Long Arch: Communications-
"Long Arch-1, Shario, to Long Arch-2, Commander Yagami." Shari contacted Hayate.
"Hai!" Hayate responded.
"The Sighting Support System is ready. We've finished compensating for the Schwertzkreuz synchronization error." She informed.
"Sorry to bother you with all this; without Rein I'm a total klutz with long-range sighting and accurate fire" Hayate apologized.
"Leave that to us."
"Thank you"
-With Hayate-
Hayate held up her staff, opened her tome and began to chant "Come forth, the wind of snow, and become the fletching which falls from the heavens." when she finished, one large white sigil spun and around it spawned 4 smaller ones that also spun slowly.
-With Nanoha and Fate-
Knowing what their friend was about to do, Nanoha and Fate quickly hightailed it out of the area.
-Hayate again-
"Okay, here comes the first wave!" Hayate declared, the glyphs started to slowly charge up power. The brunette shouted "Hræsvelgr!" and first fired four beams from the smaller sigils, then after a delay, a massive one from the large sigil.
-Long Arch: Communications room-
"Hræsvelgr, first wave fired." Shari reported. "Fire arc, okay" the spell was being tracked on screen. A countdown to impact for the first group was started.
-In the skies-
A few aerial drones tried to fly away to avoid the beam, but when it stooped it caused a massive explosion that annihilated all the drones and even the clouds alike.
-Long Arch: Communication room-
"Group A destroyed." was reported. The other beams hit their mark as well.
"Second wave fired!"
Griffith gave an order "Shari, calculate the discrimination pattern for the real units and the false with the data from their destruction. If there are any clues we'll be able to find them!"
"Yeah, I'll find them!"
-Sewers with Sonic, Shadow, Ginga and the Forwards-
The underground group quickly made their advance, demolishing any and all small drones that got in their way.
Erio had no issue slicing and dicing them with Strada. And combining her magic and hand-to-hand combat training, Caro proved herself to be far more formidable than whatever the small drones could use, Freid backed her up with his fire too. A few large ones also started to roll their way. Ginga and Subaru teamed up one of them.
"Subaru, can you handle this?"
"Yeah!"
"Are you Ready?" Mach Caliber, Subaru's device asked Ginga's
"Yes sir!" came its response.
"Let's go aibou (Partner)!" Subaru ordered
"Load Cartridge" was its reply, cartridges were loaded into Subaru's gauntlets to increase her power.
The drone attempted to fire lasers but Ginga intercepted them "Tri-Shield!" she shouted as she guarded it with a belkan triangle that was used as a shield. She then spun the revolvers on her gauntlets and punched the metallic arms to keep them busy for Subaru to finish it. Subaru leapt up and delivered a powerful punch
"Divine..." She shouted, then when her fist hit the core "Buster!" she finished and fired a powerful blast that finished the job. Ginga gave her a wink for approval..
Sonic and Shadow ran ahead, the blue hedgehog shouted back "Oy! That's Nanoha's thing! You start spinning and we'll sue!" The duo encountered their own drone. They nodded towards each other.
"Double-spin?" Shadow suggested.
"Read my mind there Shadow. Here we go!" Sonic agreed and the duo spun into their spin-dashes, after that they spiraled around and blazed straight through the drone's arms then it's center, destroying it easily.
After the drones were destroyed the group searched for the relic. Caro soon found it.
"I found it!" she got their attention, but was shocked when the case started to glow aqua, and all of a sudden a powerful burst of power from an outside source sent her into a wall in pain. She recovered and ran for the Relic, but it floated into the hands of Silver.
- "Dreams of an Absolution" -
The silver hedgehog held his right hand in front of Caro "You're in my way." And grasped her with his ESP, then flung her into Erio and sent them both into another wall. The hedgehog held the Relic and began to walk off, but didn't get too far when he felt Teana's dagger to his throat, the girl had him in a hold.
"Sorry to play rough kid, but that object is dangerous" She said
Silver thought about his situation, any attempt at using his power would cause Teana to strike and he wouldn't be able to do anything, he was in a bind, until he heard a female voice ring in his mind
'Boy, close your eyes on the count of 3' the voice said. Silver acknowledged
A figure who was the source of the voice spoke "Ready,.. One... two.." and grasped a purple orb in her hand.
Silver quickly closed his eyes for what was to come next.
"Starling Howl!" The figure threw the bolt down into the ground, causing a massive flare, although it didn't hurt anyone it was bright forcing the forwards and Ginga to shield their eyes.
After the flare expired. Teana tried firing a bullet at Silver, only for it to run into an aqua barrier which barely defended from it. A small figure floated up to Silver
"Jeez, this is what you get for running off without saying anything, kiddo. You know we were worried" she said. The figure was a girl with light purple hair tied in tails that flare out to her left and right, and purple eyes. She wore long purple boots, a short white skirt that flared at her waist, and the only thing on her upper body was a small purple bikini... which didn't really show much... flat fairy much.. her wings at her side were a reddish purple, and her gloves a dark purple.
During this Sonic and Shadow and Ginga joined up with the other Forwards.
The girl smirked "Well now don't worry.. After all, I, Agito the Genius of the Burning Flames, am here!" she announced and to add to her entrance she created small fireworks that exploded all around her.
Sonic snarked "Nice fireworks shorty, but there's no holiday to celebrate. Unless you two got married. Who are you anyway? And kiddo you have no idea what the heck you're dealing with so why don't you take that little pixie friend of yours and skedaddle before you get hurt?"
"My name is Silver.. And for the sake of the future, I can't let you have this." Silver answered.
"And I'm" Agito started, but didn't finish
"Yeah, yeah, the great "Genius of the Burning Flames".. Yeah come on that's kinda redundant, girlie.. If you're gonna make some grand entrance and speech, get some cheesy theme song first and also some dialogue that isn't redundant like "Burning Flame" , because I rank that performance a 3 for annoyance.. tsk amateur hour" Sonic retorted
"You sure have a big mouth on ya blue boy, can you back up what you say? Now all of you, Bring it on!" Agito declared. And both sides got into respective stances to rumble!
-End of Main Chapter, HAH! CLIFFY!-
-Omake: Hayate's Cosplay Bet: Final Fantasy X (part 2).. warning: humorous content approaching, hide the kids-
Hayate wasn't quite through with Sonic cosplaying yet "All right next outfit"
"You're kidding..." Sonic face-palmed when he saw an outfit of yellow shoes, dark blue shorts with a red emblem, dark blue overall vest with a short yellow undershirt that went to the elbows, a blue shoulder-pad on the left shoulder with a yellow gauntlet for the left hand, the right hand having a black glove. Finally a white hood which was laid on the back was included. The prop here was a medium length light-blue sword.
"I think it's missing something.." Sonic noted
"Nope. It's Tidus from Final Fantasy X" Hayate said
"How short are those shorts? It kinda looks a bit girly" Sonic noted.
"It's not girly! It's Bishounen! I tell ya this guy's got so many fan-girls.. probably more than you"
"Why not pick another lead from another game then?" Sonic asked as he reluctantly put on the outfit
"Well I thought about Zidane, but your tail's too short.. Speaking of which.. I heard you got a lot of attention from the time with the tux. Specifically from Nanoha and Fate" Hayate thought out loud..
"Wha? Didn't they say they couldn't keep their hands off it?" Sonic remembered.
Hayate giggled.
"Waaaait! They didn't tell you, did they?" Sonic realized he was tricked
"Nope.. Well at least it was much more compensating for the other side.."
Sonic was speechless and wide-eyed...
Hayate caught the expression and tried to console him "W-wait, you're a hedgehog it's supposed to be small... and..."
To make matters worse for Hayate, Nanoha and Fate entered and caught Sonic's look, after hearing what she said they sent him outfit-free, to their room.
"Hayate-chan..." The duo glared daggers at her. Causing Hayate some shock.
"N-now.. Nanoha... Fate.. You know I didn't mean anything by it.. It just..uh.." she was sputtering and grew even more scared when the duo called their devices out...
"W-wait, please.. don't.. not the.. AAAAAAH!" She screamed into the night as Nanoha and Fate blasted her for their punishment
- "Hoshizora no Spica" Yukari Tamura-
Author's notes: Uhoh.. Hayate Hayate Hayate.. Open mouth insert foot.. and get blasted.. Way to hit a guy with that blow.. And I included the Tidus cosplay as a request from one who has followed this story from the start. And I'm leaving a challenge for those who can identify the reference made in the omake. And here we are introducing Agito and setting up the next chapter for even more action! And a Cliffy too. I'm getting good at this. Well as always, I appreciate reviews and constructive criticisms. Don't be shy to tell me what you think, I can use it to improve. Until next time, see ya.