SonicANIME2010 here with another continuation for the attack on the Cradle of the Saints; what's going to happen next? And how will Ginga and Quint fair against Subaru? We shall find out now.
Previously on Sonic Adventure: Lyrical Step
The massive campaign on the Cradle of the Saints began and an hour passed by on their 3 hour deadline. Cinque, Megane, Lutecia, Ginga, Quint and the Forwards were separated by the Numbers' attack and Cinque revealed herself to Nove, Wendi and Deed. Teana's leg is cut by Deed's attack. Sonic, Nanoha, Vita and Knuckles enter the Cradle with Vivio following them in stealth, Sonic and Nanoha head for the throne room with Vivio following while Vita and Knuckles head for the engine.. Fate and Shadow face down with Tre and Sette. Quint and Ginga face down with Subaru.. Will they survive? Only 2 hours remain..
-OP: "Massive Wonders" Mizuki Nana-
Sonic Adventure: Lyrical Step
Chapter 29
Pain to Pain, Ginga and Quint's struggles, Cinque and Teana's Resolve, Silver's defeat.
-Cradle of the Saints: Throne Room-
-No BGM-
Dieci and Quattro were typing up some commands in throne room whilst Emerl was still linked to the Cradle's systems. Quattro seemed to be enjoying herself quite a bit, while Dieci, not so much.
"Quattro, may I be frank?"
"Hai, Dieci-chan"
"I don't really like this plan." Dieci was blunt about her opinion.
"Why is that?"
"Using this machine to power this huge ship.. Do we really have to do this? I don't really know about this "Engineer's Revenge" either.."
"Oh, that? That's just the Doctor's excuse. Doesn't mean a thing."
Dieci turned her head towards the other cyborg "Is that true?"
"He's always had one goal. The completion of biomanipulation technology. And the creation of a space to do that" on the outside, the mages were fighting a heated battle with the gadgets and defenses of the massive warship, Quattro's explanation continued "The Yurikago is here to make that dream a reality. Well I'm sure a minimum of several thousand people are going to die here, but it won't even take a hundred years to make up for that. The Doctor's research is here to save people!"
The other cyborg tilted her head down in either shame or sadness, maybe a bit of both mixed with uncertainty.
"What's wrong, Dieci-chan? Have you stopped believing in your onee-sama and the Doctor?"
"No, that's not it" she told Quattro, but even then she was unsure of that response, it seemed more to herself than it was to her sister. "Not at all, but..." She looked at Emerl in a hint of sympathy, "When I see someone like him... being used like this.. in constant pain.. just to forward the plan.. I can't help but think maybe they don't have anything to do with this..."
"Before you saw them, you could easily pull the trigger, right?" Quattro asked still bearing that creepy grin.
Dieci sighed for a brief moment, "Gomen.. I got distracted for a second.. forget it." she retrieved her heavy cannon and held it so that it rested on her shoulder, "I'll do as I was ordered.. if I don't, it'll be bad for my sisters on the ground." She walked away from the throne room.
Quattro had other thoughts though, her sadistic side was showing, 'Baka Dieci, you're a boring girl like Cinque and Sein were..' she put up screens on display that showed everything from Sonic and Nanoha's advance to the Throne room, to the fighting on the ground, 'a weak life that can't do anything... It's no different from an insect's.' her screen showed Knuckles and Vita taking on a whole group of Type-IVs, 'No matter how many you kill, more will just keep being born. Playing with them and abusing them..' To put more pressure on the twin reds, Quattro typed on the display to summon more and more Type-IVs to surround the two, "Throwing them in a cage and watching them suffer, Its so much fun, nee?" she asked herself, with the creepy grin.
-Saint Church: Hospital-
Panic set among just about everyone in the hospital as the news rang out about the Cradle of the Saint's rising and and the Numbers making their attacks on the city.
In the same room, Vice was starting to wake up after his recovery. In a separate bed to his left and still in the same room, Zafira laid in wolf form.
"You awake?" the blue wolf asked.
"Hai.. how long have I been out?" Vice asked weakly
"It's been a week since Riot Force 6 was attacked."
Vice gasped as he sat up, he turned his head to the wolf.
"It seems that a new incident has occurred. Everyone in Riot Force 6 who can moved has been deployed."
"Without a heli?.. Shimatta at a time like this I..."
A young female voice cut him off, "Alto-san is piloting the helicopter." the source of the voice closed the door behind her.
-BGM: "To Zanarkand" Final Fantasy X-
"Huh?"
In walked a young girl with hair a lighter brown than Vice, wearing a green jacket, dark green shirt and a long light green skirt that matched the jacket, in addition matching green shoes. Notably this girl had a white eyepatch covering her left eye and her right eye was light purple in the iris, "Signum-san and Alto-san told me." She walked towards Vice, her attitude was bright and she carried an optimistic feeling about her.
"Laguna..." Vice recognized his younger sister.
"And they said that you were hurt and I should go see you. Onii-chan, daijobu?"
"Yeah..." Vice looked down.
"I heard your wounds were nothing major. If you'll stay in the hospital they'll heal right away"
"Yeah..." The wounded pilot still sounded ashamed.
"Ano.. about that time..." Laguna was quick to the point as they both remembered that incident where her eye got shot, "After that, you and I... never really spoke. But I was hoping we could go back to how we used to be.. My left eye.." She removed her eyepatch, revealing a fully recovered left eye, albeit it didn't have a certain shine like her right but it still bared the same color, "It's fine now" the revelation made Vice gasp slightly, Laguna continued "They said I won't have to wear an eyepatch anymore."
A female nurse walked in and gasped a the sight of Laguna, "You're a visitor? You need to evacuate soon." and started to pull Laguna away from her brother, "The patients will be evacuated soon."
"When you're all better can we talk like we used to?" Vice's sister resisted as she tried to finish what she was saying,
"Gomen, but you can talk after the evacuation is done." The nurse pushed her to the door.
"Onii-chan I..." the door was shut, cutting off whatever Laguna was about to say..
Vice looked down and talked in shame. "What a pathetic story.. I ran from my failure, my responsibility.." he flashed back to Silver knocking him out, "I screwed up again, and I'm like this. I haven't gotten over anything. I can't even look Laguna in the eyes. I can't hold her, Storm Raider, in my hands."
Zafira stood on all fours on the ground, he was able to walk the whole time, "How you live, how you fight... you're the one to decide that. Alto and the others asked me to watch you until you woke up, but that's done now."
"Oy. Where are you going all beat up like that?"
Zafira opened the door, "There's something I must do." he left, leaving Vice alone.
"Hey!" Vice tried to sit up, only to feel a sting in his legs, he caught sight of his device on the desk near him "Storm Raider"
-Capital City: Silver Battle-
-BGM: "Blinded by Light" Final Fantasy XIII-
Even though he was grounded by his foes, Silver still wouldn't bow out just yet, he reached out with his ESP and tried to make any type of debris float to send at them.
Caro wouldn't allow for that, taking advantage of Silver trying to concentrate, she rushed in and nailed a good, painful knee strike below the belt and roundhouse kicked him away.
Amy Rose grimaced at the phantom pain from the below the belt strike as did everyone else momentarily, "Ano.. dumb question.. why doesn't he wear a cup if he's going to be taking shots like that?"
"They probably don't make them that small" Lutecia joked, which drew some stares from her allies even Garyuu, "Nani?"
Megane found her palm meeting their mutual friend, the face, with that comment and question, "Nothing.. focus on the fight."
Garyu took the initiative to get a couple of blade strikes in with his wrist blades and kicked the off guard hedgehog to Erio.
The young spear wielder took his initiative while Garyu dealt his attacks with a great leap upwards and with great timing he slammed down on Silver with Strada. Delivering a harsh attack and with the blunt face of his device he sent him in Amy Rose's direction.
The pink hedgehog held Blutenblatt quite menacingly and took her initiative with several hard hits to Silver's body before sending him to a wall.
The hedgehog was weakened and just about unable to fight any longer, he coughed and tried to plead, knowing his fight was lost "W-wait!"
The others stopped their attacks, Amy Rose took authority and asked, "Why are you doing this then?"
"The Doctor... He promised he'd help me return to my world if I helped him with the Relics.. The world I come from.. the future.. is barren, sad, and desolate.. I wanted to save it..he promised me he'd help me save my world and return to it with the Relics.. Zest and Agito would be gone soon.. but when this is over the Doctor promised he'd help save my world.. Then I can have a beautiful home to come back to, and a family I can live with.."
"That's not true! You've been tricked.. Scaglietti's just using you! He only said that so that he can use your powers for his own evil and horrible deeds! We can help you.. TSA, Riot Force 6, Lightning Squad: Amy Rose!"
"Same squad, Erio Mondial!" Erio introduced himself.
"Dragon summoner of the Alzas. Also of TSA Riot Force 6, Caro ru Lushe."
"TSA Investigator.. Megane Alpine."
"Civilian, Lutecia Alpline."
"Just listen to us! We can help you!" Amy pleaded.
"Ah ah ah.. Silver-sama.. you can't be listening to the enemy now.." Quattro opened a comm to the area, "Their words are poison.. if something gets in your way, kill it and move on.. we still need yo-" bzzzzt. Crash!
Amy Rose slammed her hammer into the comm channel, severing the link, and Caro followed suit by shooting a small ray into Silver's ear and destroyed what looked like an earwig device.
-Cradle: Throne Room-
Quattro was shocked, she planned to trick Silver with words and get him to attack again, but her communication was interrupted, and to make matters worse, she couldn't contact him again.
-Capital City again-
Silver stood there, confused as he scratched his ear, "Nani?"
"Oy! That lady's voice is like a banshee! So annoying.." Amy rambled.
"H-hai." Caro agreed then turned to Silver, "Scaglietti wouldn't give you what you promised.. I promise, we and the TSA will do whatever we can to help you.. We don't need to fight anymore."
"Scaglietti just wanted to use your ESP as a tool for his plans." Amy agreed
"Demo.. what about Cinque-san?" Silver asked.
Amy tried to get through a contact with Cinque, and thankfully she was able to, the Cyborgs can't jam their own transmissions, with that she opened a com to the eyepatched cyborg.
"I'm kinda busy at the moment. What is it?" Cinque asked, Teana turned her head in the background out of confusion to face the others.
"Talk some sense into the kid.." Amy asked and directed the cyborg's attention to Silver.
"Cinque-san! You're alright!" Silver as excited, over the time when she cared for him, he kinda grew attached to her and saw her as like a motherly older sister, so hearing her capture was saddening for him.
"Hai, I'm fine, gomen, I must have worried you.."
"These people claim they can help me better than the Doctor.. I'm not sure if I can trust them.. and Quattro-san tried to tell me something but they stopped her"
"Quattro is no different than the Doctor, I'm afraid. She was just going to use you like another puppet... These people from the TSA you have a much better chance of attaining your own goals with rather than him. Honestly, I defected from the Doctor's control to save my imoutos like Wendi, Sein, Nove, Deed and Otto from being used further as puppets.. If you remained loyal to him.. I'm afraid you won't get what you want with him.. However, the choice is yours.."
"Demo.. Cinque-san, what if I choose to join these people?"
"Then I would support you.. the choice is still only in your power; now I must go.. I have my own to save"
"H-hai.."Silver thought to himself, weighing the choices, within a few seconds his hands lost their glow and he relaxed, "I'll help you.. Seeing Cinque-san with you.. I can't help it.. I respect her too much.."
-Scaglietti's hideout: Interior-
-BGM: "Challenge" Final Fantasy X-
Two yellow flashes clashed with a pink and purple one as Shadow and Fate were locked in a fierce and albeit slightly losing battle with Tre and Sette, neither of them were making and progress. They just kept getting negated, the cyborgs have vastly improved since Fate fought them last.
Sette threw her twin boomerang blades at Fate, only for the mage to avoid them and try for a powerful counter with her Zanber form Bardiche, the blade met with her barrier as Sette's blades reappeared. And to make matters worse, "IS: Slaughter Arms!" the original boomerangs changed course and headed right back for Fate.
Fate barely managed to avoid them and knocked the ones she couldn't avoid with Bardiche. She soon found Tre almost out of nowhere trying to take her head off with her arm blades. "Thunder Arm!" the mage, just in the nick of time, guarded the attack with her arm that now glowed with magic and acted like a shield. It was a powerful clash as neither mage nor cyborg backed down. It all changed in an instant.
More of Sette's Slaughter Arm blades came to impale Fate, who saw that she was in a bit of a bind. Shadow wouldn't let that happen however, in his spin-dash he careened into Tre and slammed her into a wall, he then uncurled and blasted the blades away with his Chaos spears. However he too was sent into a wall courtesy of Sette's knee to his gut.
Everyone fell back to the ground, Sette's blades returned to her while Tre was still ready for more. Shadow and Fate were forced to their knees to catch their breaths.
'Shadow.. the AMF's slowing us down..' Fate sent to her partner.
'Hai.. we have to defeat them and move on to capture the doctor..' Shadow sent back.
'I can't use my Sonic Drive or Riot Blade.. and your limiter rings are out of the question, we use them now we can't use them later when they are needed more...' Fate held Bardiche defensively.
'Shimatta.. and we can't help the others out either.. we have to end this now.' Shadow sent back and started to regain his footing.
Jail opened a comm to taunt them "Ah.. Enforcer Fate Testarossa, and Enforcer Shadow the Hedgehog. How are you doing?"
-Capital City-
Somehow Jail's reach extended also out to Silver and the TSA agents with him, "And the Legacy of Project F and the summoner who were fighting my hedgehog "friend".. although I am not sure I can call him that now.."
The others listened to the Doctor's ramblings..
-Scaglietti's Hideout-
-No BGM-
Jail continued, "The first part of my festival is already at its climax"
"Festival? More like a bloodshed" Shadow spat in anger
"You're a felon who plunged lives into chaos!" Fate added
"Felon?" Jail asked, "Do you mean the Artificial Mage or Combat Cyborg plans? Or do you mean the basis for Project Shadow that I designed for Professor Gerald or the Project F that I designed and your mother, Precia Testarossa, completed?"
"All of it!" Both Shadow and Fate spat
"In every era, revolutionaries are despised." Jail argued
"That pride... you played with people's fates and lives..." Fate said in anger
"I haven't destroyed valuable ingredients or killed without reason.. I just turned worthless, useless lives into valuable experimental subjects... And I see that you both aren't doing so well.. so let me let you in on a few secrets..." Jail's feed to the hideout ended (his other one at the capital remained), only for the doctor himself to show up in person, he addressed them personally, "Have the two of you ever wondered, why you both seemed so similar.. like kindred spirits or a family.. you can relate to each other?"
Fate and Shadow stopped speechless and listened, the doctor did have a point.. they did always wonder why they saw themselves in each other.
"Surely it can' be too hard to miss.. but I'll tell you anyway." Jail told his story about them
-Flashback: Space Colony ARK-
Jail narrated, "Back when I was working with Professor Gerald on the Space Colony known as ARK, we were tasked with creating the ultimate form of life for GUN to exploit and use to their own benefit." Jail Scaglietti and Professor Gerald finished their creation, and their laid Shadow in a pod, "We created the ultimate form of life, Shadow the Hedgehog.. But my success was short lived.. The Professor was scheming to hide something from me.. and he was.. the Gizoid.. I was outraged, how could he mistrust his sole benefactor to his success?" Jail snuck into the labs late while Gerald and Maria were sleeping, "I wanted him to know his true place.. so I stole numerous samples of Shadow's Genetic DNA and cultured them in tubes.. With those in my hand, the ultimate power that the project had would be mine to use in further experiments" Jail had a smirk as he stole the vials containing Shadow's DNA.. and to cover his theft.. he unleashed the Biohazard prototype.. "And to act as a cover for my escape and theft, I activated The Biohazard for it to run amok.. furthering GUN's distrust.. and that sent them to the ARK in that attack.. I let the government do my dirty work in covering up my theft. Ha ha ha .."
-Flashback End-
"So you see, my dear Enforcer.. you were created from Shadow's DNA.. Stolen by me to use in Project F." Jail finished
Shadow and Fate were truly shocked. In one way, Shadow was Fate's grandfather, all their similarities were explained.. but still a fierce rage hit them both..
"You! Murderous! Bastard! Maria died at the hands of GUN when they attacked.. YOU KILLED HER!" Shadow roared in anger and blasted full speed for the Doctor.
"You ruined the lives of many when you did that.. you scum.. You use innocents in your experiment.. Scaglietti!" She and shouted that at the same time as Shadow, they both charged.
The doctor had a smirk and with a flick of his wrist, red wiring trapped them both in mid-air. "Shadow the Hedgehog.. such anger.. as to be expected from a weapon of war.. Enforcer Fate Testarossa, calm and gentle but prone to lash out in anger or sadness.. a personality adopted from Precia, her mother." with a snap of his fingers the wiring broke Fate's blade and cut Shadow's skin under his fur.
"Shimatta" Fate and Shadow cursed
The doctor then blasted them from the sky with a red bolt, then with more red wiring, the mages were trapped.
-Capital City-
"Fate-san!" Erio and Caro called out.
"Shadow!" Amy also cried in concern.
Megane and her daughter Lutecia felt that they'd better leave the three to support their friends, while they had their own to worry about, Quint and Ginga were going to need all the help they can get, that resolve drove the mother and daughter duo to fall back to help the other two. Silver chose to wait with Amy, Erio and Caro.
-Ground Forces HQ: Exterior-
-BGM: "Vela Nova" Sonic Rush-
Literally flames were flying all over the place on this battle, Blaze and U-Signum were locked in a heated clash with U-Zest. However, the tide of battle favored the duo of mages over the dying artificial. His Unison could barely bring any flames, and even when he did, much to their surprise they were quickly negated by Blaze's true pyrokinesis.
"Nani?" Agito asked within Zest, "How d-did she do that?"
"I don't know.. this is not good.." Zest coughed
"My control over the flame is on a level far above yours, this battle is already over." Blaze powered her flame aura, with a spin like a top, she careened into the artificial mage, "Signum!"
"Laevatein!" Signum called to her device and then put it into its sheathe "Schlangeform!" came the response as the device loaded a cartridge.
"Ennetsu Kasoku (Flame Acceleration)." Reinforce Zwei called out from inside Signum. Lighting the woman's bladed snake sword on fire, "Kiryuu Issen! (Flash of the Winged Dragon)" Both Rein and Signum called out and sent the snake heading for Zest.
The cat withdrew from her dash just in the nick of time for Signum's attack to score dead on and sent the artificial mage into a building rooftop.
Zest canceled out his unison with Agito and floated in front of the two flame-wielding mages, with a shake of his head, he knew this was clearly a battle he could not win, "I concede defeat"
"Mister!" Agito cried to him, "Why? Why are you quitting now? You said you had something to do... If these two are in the way, I'll take care of them!" The small unison device fired a large fireball in her blind rage.
-No BGM-
The royal cat shook her head and merely swatted the flame away with her powers, "Hear your friend out first before you strike at us again."
"You bear a regal tone about you.." Zest observed
"Arigatou.. In my world I was a princess.. although, my behavior when I was younger wasn't quite so royal.. my powers have made me feel isolated from others... That has left me with some time to practice them.. Now, carry on sir knight."
The halberd wielding mage coughed a bit more, his condition was not getting any better, only worse by the minute, "Very well.. gomen, Agito.. even if we unison, I can barely use your flame anymore.."
"I don't care! I've got lots of ways to protect you, we don't have to give in to these TSA people" Agito argued.
Zest shook his head and addressed the two, "You called yourselves Signum and Blaze, right?"
"Hai." Signum nodded, her unison with Rein still in effect.
"Hai." Blaze added
"You're both good fighters.. such skills and firepower.. suitable candidates for being Agito's "Lord".. Signum, your stance and style is that of a true Belkan Knight. And Blaze, you have a great affinity for the flames like Agito...I'm afraid I don't have much time left before I have to return to the dead... When I do.. I ask that you both take care of Agito.."
"Nani? Mister? Why? Why would someone like them be in the TSA?"
"Hayate-ojou-sama saved me in a way.. as part of her knights, I am bound to protect her.. but she gave me and the other knights freedom." Signum said
Blaze added her story, "Ever since I was young, I've isolated myself because of my abilities. However, it's thanks to Sonic and his friends that I am here. They helped me realize
"Agito.. her armor and the cat's fur even matches your color.. they are probably the best candidates for being the "Lord" you seek... Which is why I asked of them."
"Demo, they are the enemy.. you don't have to do this for me.."
"They don't have to be enemies.. neither do their comrades.. we can't win against them anyway."
"Demo, what about Silver?" Agito asked
"My time is too short.. I can't look after him anymore.. I'd like to think the TSA can do better for him than he was with Scaglietti... I suspect they have something to tell us as well.. let's hear them out."
Signum nodded and brought up another topic, "Cinque told us of your history with Regius Gaiz. You blame him for the death of your teammates Quint Nakajima and Megane Alpine during that incident 8 years ago."
"Cinque's on your side?"
"Hai... and now its our turn for explaining..." Blaze requested.
"Go ahead." Zest told them, Agito chose to listen to them, mainly out of respect for her friend
"During that incident, your sacrifice saved their lives, they still live; here and now, today. But now they are in jeopardy for their lives. Quint-san's youngest daughter, Subaru, has fallen under Scaglietti's control. Her mother and sister are both desperately trying to save her. Megane is also there with her daughter, trying to help as much as they can. They could use your help to save her." Signum opened a display com to reveal a live feed of Subaru slamming Quint and Ginga into a nearby wall fiercely. "They need your help.. you may not have much time as I am aware, but you do have enough in you to help them."
Zest's eyes widened in shock of seeing his former comrade still alive, when he first heard, he couldn't believe it, and even with proof, its still just as unbelievable, "This is real?"
Signum tweaked the display to broadcast the sounds, and they could hear Quint and Ginga's pains and groans. "Sadly.. it is..They need you Knight Zest."
The artificial mage took in all that was heard, and with a quick glance at Agito, he nodded to the other mages, "And as for Regius?"
"In custody and will definitely see justice delivered to him for his crimes and corruption... We foiled an attempt on his life by another Combat Cyborg working for Scaglietti." Blaze informed.
"Nani? He tried to have my old friend killed?" Zest asked
"And the High Council.. the cyborg admitted to their deaths before they came after us and I ended her life there with Laevatein." Signum, "Knight Zest.. Will you take up your device one last time and help your comrades in their fight?"
"Hai... Agito.. take a dying friend's last request.. when I die, try to consider Signum and Blaze for your "Lord".. it's very possible that they are.."
"H-hai.. Mister.." Agito was hesitant but relented.
"Lead us to where we can help." Zest called to the others.
"Hai.. follow us" Blaze and Signum took off with Zest and Agito in tow.
-Capital City: POV Quint and Ginga-
-No BGM again-
Subaru was not willing to back down, she couldn't see just who she really was beating to a pulp.. all she saw was "Enemy and Enemy" and treated them as such, her revolvers spun as she wiped some blood from her cheek, courtesy of a lucky shot by Quint. A light blue belkan triangle appeared at her feet
Quint and Ginga looked far worst, bruises and blood.. Regardless, they weren't ready to throw in the towel just yet.. Purple and blue belkan triangles respectively (blue for Quint, purple for Ginga) appeared at their feet.
Whilst the roller bladers were duking it out, Blitz Caliber, Ginga's device, tried to call out to Mach Caliber, Subaru's device, to try to bring Subaru back, unfortunately it failed. "Mach Caliber, no response!"
"Her AI's been messed with, kaa-san.." Ginga observed.
"We have to save her... we must.." Quint added.
"Load Cartridge!" Blitz Caliber did just that, with Quint's doing the same, both their revolvers spun on their gauntlets as their resolve burned fiercely, respective wing roads shot out. Only for Subaru's to do the same. The three launched off into a fierce melee combat with Subaru shutting down both her mother's and sister's attacks with the same emotionless expression.
She got both her hands to hit their barriers, "Revolver..." her hands themselves started vibrating with her IS "Oscilating Knuckle" kicked in as wheels appeared at the edge of her knuckles, and pierced the barriers like they weren't even there, "Cannon" Her attack was a point blank blue blast spell that sent both Ginga and Quint flying. The cyborg didn't stop there, she followed them with her Wing Road and kicked them back down to the ground with a painful impact of bouncing off the ground. Subaru landed and stared at the two.
The two cried out in pain "Subaru!"
-Cradle of the Saints: Interior: POV: Sonic and Nanoha-
Vivio watched from the shadows above as several lower type gadgets bared the path of Sonic and Nanoha's advance, they tried to shoot the two down with their lasers. Keyword there being "Tried".. No sale and Nanoha just seemed to fly right through them, and Sonic spun in his spin-dash, cutting through a wave and letting Nanoha's shooting spell cut through the rest.
As the two advance, Nanoha and Sonic had a flash back about Vivio, their "daughter" who as far as they knew, were waiting for them back at the Arthra when in reality she was in fact right there with them;
-Flashback-
-BGM: "Yuna's Theme" FFX-
Sonic and Nanoha were at the Saint Church, after they were informed by Cinque of who Vivio was a clone of. Fate say in a nearby chair while Vivio had fun playing with Arf. The wolf-girl showed off her wolf-like features and played with a light blue ball. Vivio waved at Sonic and Nanoha, who were talking to Sister Schach
"She seems to think of her parents as people who are nice to her. Treat her kindly." Nanoha waved back
"It's sad, but she won't ever have a "real" kaa-san." Sonic waved back as well.
"Are you both going to adopt her? She's quite attached to you both." Schach asked.
"We're looking for a place to take her. A warm family that accepts her and needs her." Nanoha answered
"She won't like that.." the nun argued.
"I don't think I can make her happy" Nanoha said a bit down.
"Me neither." Sonic added
"Why not?" Schach asked.
"I'm always busy with myself, I don't have the right to be a gentle mother for Vivio." Nanoha answered
"And my track record isn't too good either.. Emerl was proof of that.. I had to fight him at the Death Egg when he went out of control... he could have destroyed the world if I didn't stop him.. now I have to do it again.. some father I'd be.." Sonic added.
"And more than anything, I'm a person of the sky" Nanoha looked up.
"And I'm like the wind that flows through that same sky with that person. Always driftin." Sonic added, his hand consciously or unconsciously met Nanoha's in a grasp.
Schach realized what they said and argued, "You can't say that!"
"It's a possibility.. I've been shot down once already." Nanoha replied.
"And my record in parenting sucks.." Sonic snarked.
Vivio walked up to them, curious, "Mama? Papa?"
Nanoha sat on her knees to Sonic and Vivio's level to talk to her, "What's wrong, Vivio?"
"Mama and Papa looked sad.."
"Really?" they both asked.
The young girl reached up to pat Nanoha's hair with her left hand "Mama, be a good girl." and with her right hand, stroked Sonic's fur, albeit not much reaching was needed here "and Papa, be a good boy.."
Tears found their way out of Sonic's and Nanoha's eyes, "You're nice Vivio". Nanoah scooped up the girl in a hug "I'm fine. As long as Vivio is smiling and happy, Nanoha-mama will always be happy and smiling too."
"Sonic-papa too!" Sonic chimed in.
"Really?" Vivio asked.
"Of Course, baby." Sonic said with a wink and thumbs up gesture.
Vivio's giggles opened the flood gates for Sonic and Nanoha to laugh in the cute scene.
-Flashback End-
-BGM: "Ungravitify" Sonic Riders Shooting Star Story-
Sonic and Nanoha were jolted back with lasers from more drones up ahead that they avoided. Up in the shadows, Vivio herself had the flashback too, only remembering that she comforted her sad papa and mama.
"We can't take them all on Sonic.. we'll have to try something else. Raising Heart?"
"Alright, Strike Flame!" The tip of the spearhead device spouted a pink blade through the trident and wings came off from the head.
"Blue Star, Gear Dismiss! Shahra!" Sonic dismissed his device and called to his genie.
"Hai! Unison in!" Shahra and Sonic called the last two words out at the same time and Unisoned, transforming Sonic into Unison Sonic (U-Sonic)
"ACS Driver!" Nanoha called to her device and received the reply "Charge!" She and U-Sonic blazed through the waves of drones like they weren't even there. Although at some cost, her cheek and left arm got a minor cut or two, Sonic sported similar cuts, though with Sharha's magic givin him a boost, they didn't seem to matter.
-Throne Room-
Quattro typed in more watching Emerl power the Cradle, she received a call from Dieci.
"It's no good Quattro, I can't handle them both."
"That's as we thought though.." Quattro answered back like she barely cared about the safety of her own sister, the cyborg looked ahead at Emerl, "They will die here in the Throne Room." Her display showed Quint and Ginga's losing battle with Subaru, Teana and Cinque (she could care less about her) behind a wall in their battle with Deed, Nove and Wendi (all expendables to her..) "They are all doing rather well though." her display also showed Knuckles and Vita moving on slowly to the engine room and Fate with Shadow trapped in the red wire cage.. "Better than we thought.. but it'll all end soon. We'll just have to stand here and wait."
-Back with Sonic and Nanoha-
Determination filled Nanoha's flight as she wiped the blood off her cheek. U-Sonic flew just beside her, determined to save Emerl no matter what. Unbeknownst to them and anyone else in the whole warship, Vivio tailed them from above in flight.
The Cradle will Reach Orbit in 1 hour, 44 minutes. Time was ticking The legendary "Seio no Yurikago" was almost half-way to its destination. Will the warship be stopped?
-End of Main Chapter-
-Omake: Cinque and Silver's Bonding time- (Oh this'll be good)
So originally Jail Scaglietti wanted to put a Relic inside Silver to assert some control over him, and what a better person to do the job of that than the one the kid looked up to, Cinque, and things got a little awkward. Little being an understatement of course.
"Ano.. Cinque-san.. what are we doing?" Silver was stripped naked (well.. technically only his shoes and gloves had to come off) and laid on a soft bed
"I'm trying to find a good place to implant this relic" Cinque's fingers slowly caressed the hedgehog's skin under his fur, she did find a certain spot between his head quills and stroked it.
The hedgehog felt a wave of pleasure and relaxed, that point seemed to do wonders, but still wouldn't be enough for an injection.
Cinque stroked that spot again, it intrigued her and the more she stroked the more effect it had on Silver, up until he blushed a crimson dark. Finally the eyepatched cyborg backed off and thought that she wouldn't be able to implant any relics so she had to settle for a 2 way earwig.
Silver blushed even more when Cinque was really close to his face, the girl didn't even notice the blush until she finished putting the earwig in, "What is it Silver? Your face is red"
"N-nothing! Cinque-san. Gomen.." Silver tried to deny it though he failed, he could barely handle the closeness and the blush, within a matter of seconds he found himself unconscious.
-End Theme: "Beautiful Amulet" Tamura Yukari-
-End of Chapter 29-
Author's Notes: Oh boy.. The battles are heating up.. So I said I'd explain why the fights with Silver went by a little too quick, I wanted to put more action in on the other new peoples. Why am I not surprised that Lutecia went there... I guess she would know a bit about short size jokes. But come on, below the belt.. Now for Zest conceding defeat, he considered the circumstances, his strength is diminishing with every second he's close to dying, he can barely keep up a Unison that's why the flames were weak and Blaze was able to stop them and set Zest up for that attack...And yes.. The biggest revelation so far, Project F used Shadow's genetic DNA blood samples as a template to help create a clone such as Fate and Erio.. I dipped a bit of Shadow the Hedgehog there with the Shadow Androids also being clones of Shadow so that is possible. Oh boy, the battles are getting real good! You don't want to miss a second of this! Because as they always say and rings true for the Combat Cyborgs and Jail, what goes up, must come DOWN! The Omake I wanted to dip into Cinque and Silver a bit there.. Awe.. the flashback with Vivio was CUUUUTE! I grew teary eyed typing it, and I think I nailed the song choice perfectly there!