SonicANIME2010 here with another installment to the Attack on the Cradle of the Saints, this one focuses a lot on the battle in the throne room.. can they save Emerl? I don't own Sonic or Nanoha. Lets go!
Sonic, Vivio and Nanoha had their own sets of memories about the gizoid they were forced into battle against and briefly reflected on those.
Sonic was the first one to meet the robot several years ago "Our meeting was just by chance, I didn't know anything about you at the time. Nothing about who or what you were, and it was only too late was it revealed at the Death Egg.. when you were about to fire the Final Egg Blaster on Earth. I fought.. hard.. to save you from yourself."
Vivio came next "Onii-chan, you first helped me escape from those machines that attacked us. You helped me out of the dark and scary sewers.. If it weren't for you.. I wouldn't have met Nanoha-mama, Fate-mama, Sonic-papa or anyone else.
Nanoha finished "But now, here we all are, fighting to save you once more, just like Sonic did all those years ago. We will fight until you're free!"
Time resumed; Emerl had a deadly "Kaiserfarbe" or rainbowish aura about him. Sonic, in his unison with Shahra, left his imprint on the wall he was just thrown at and stared down the out of control Emerl with his fists primed and a flaming aura about him. Vivio was right behind him with her own rainbow-colored aura and Nanoha followed up the rear, a pink glow about her. Sonic, Nanoha and Vivio shared the same ending thought: "We will save you!"
[Opening: "Massive Wonders" Mizuki Nana]
Sonic Adventure: Lyrical Step
Chapter 32
Final Limit! Unison and Chaos Emeralds combine! The final battle to save Emerl!
[Cradle of the Saints: Route to the Engine Room: POV: Knuckles and Vita]
[No BGM]
The Type IV's may have been disabled because of the kaiser recognition problem, but that didn't stop Quattro from still providing interference with the drones that did not originate at the Cradle. The red duo still had to push extremely hard to press on despite the overwhelming pressure.
Vita took a moment to catch her breathe "Are you okay Eisen?"
"Kein Problem" the hammer replied, despite looking like it's seen better days. (AN: No Problem in German)
"Knuckles? How are you doing?" the red knight asked her partner.
A cough of blood was what she got as a response, nevertheless the echidna stood up strong "Yeah.. Sonic and Nanoha are already in the Throne Room.. this ship may have stopped, but I'm still taking my Master Emerald back..."
The duo enter the engine room to find the Master Emerald coated in a diamond shield, another diamond shield had the engine unit covered.
"We'll smash that thing to free the emerald.." Vita informed the echidna.
"Then I can use Tikal's Prayer to try to stop the Chaos Emeralds from losing anymore control." the tired echidna pounded his fist together, he wasn't giving up just yet.
"Limit Break..." The iron knight held her hammer high.
"Zerstörungsform (AN: Destruction form)" Graf Eisen declared and loaded several cartridges, the head morphed into a combination of the missile and giant form, with the large octagonal size changing ability of the gigant, plus the propulsion of the missile form, however, unlike the Missile form, this form had a drill at the end rather than a spiked tip.
While Knuckles had his own variant of a Limit Break. His fists pounded and stuck in that position to allow him to gather up energy, enough so that he was coated in a powerful purple aura.
The duo flew up above the barrier that held the Master Emerald, Vita took her first shot, a belkan triangle at her feet, she held the drill-hammer high above her head, "Zerstorungs..." she shouted, the device pumped out another cartridge as she slammed it into the barrier, the drill spinning at a rapid pace and more cartridges loaded themselves to boost the device's power, "Hammer!"
Knuckles followed his partner's attack with his own, his fists glowing with flame and power as he winded up his right arm for a powerful right hook "Maximum Heat..." after enough winding he rushed in with a powerful uppercut to the barrier "Knuckle Impact!"
Both attacks combined and an explosion followed closely. The duo caught their breath after working so hard, but to their surprise, the barrier was still there, intact, like it wasn't even hit.
"We have to try again Knuckles" Vita launched back off
"Got it!" Knuckles followed suit
[Arthra: Communications]
Shari relayed communications to Hayate, "45 minutes until the Fleet arrives. The Cradle has not moved since Vivio appeared in it."
"Which means that she's still fighting with Sonic and Nanoha to save Emerl.. How's Knuckles and Vita-chan?" Hayate asked
"We're receiving signals from their devices that they are having trouble with the barrier shielding the Master Emerald. And we have a bigger problem, Eggman's readying his heavy artillery on his Egg Carrier to launch a full scale attack on the Cradle, with our people still inside. We still have to worry about him."
[The Saint's Cradle: Exterior]
While the amount of units coming from the Cradle has stopped, there's still the matter of Eggman's robots, they started to attack the mages because to further their master's plan, the TSAB and the Cradle would have to be eliminated from his path.
"Hold the line! Someone else take over for me.. I'm going inside" Hayate ordered out.
"Hayate! You can't!" Shari tried to reason with the commander.
"I can't let Eggman attack that ship while everyone is still inside of it. Moreover, I can't let it reach orbit if the case that we fail comes true."
"This is Long-Arch-3!" Alto's voice rang out over communications.
[Capital City: Alto's Helicopter]
Alto flew her vehicle as fast as she could to the scene of the battle of the Cradle, "Hold on a little bit longer, Commander Hayate, I have something to deliver to you" the girl reported in with Reinforce Zwei in the passenger's seat, their aim was to deliver the Unison Device to her master.
[The Saint's Cradle]
A lone pink sphere surveyed the halls of the ship, this is one of the few that Nanoha dropped in her route to the Throne Room, the spheres searched all around to find a certain target.
[Throne Room]
[BGM: "It has come to this" Sonic and the Secret Rings OST]
Emerl stared down his three foes with contempt and rage, he no longer recognized them as his friends.
"Emerl..." Nanoha spoke softly.
"You have no right to call me by that!" the gizoid held up its hand and tossed multiple spheres at the mage, an explosion indicated the impact, however the foe wasn't anywhere to be seen, when the smoke cleared.
Nanoha flew up behind the gizoid and pointed Raising Heart at him "Chain Bind" the spell was called out and at that a pink chain wrapped around the unstable robot several times to bind him in place.
"This won't work on me" Emerl broke out of the chain like it wasn't even there, at his power, but, doing so distracted his attention and lowered his guard.
Vivio took advantage of the opening, "This will!" with her teenage body and past life's skills, she delivered a strong right hook to the gizoid's cheek. She followed up with a left hook to his chassis (chest) and a strong kick with her right foot to knock him away.
U-Sonic took the opening to nail Emerl with a powerful spin-dash and dragged him into a powerful collision with the ceiling.
The Gizoid was not even close to giving in just yet, with spells he gained from his skill capture, he sent out several spheres that surrounded the trio, the spheres broke up and rained down countless small bolts on them, while the impact was shielded with a barrier, Sonic, Nanoha and Vivio still found themselves forced to the ground.
The robot followed up with a lone mana sphere shot at his foes.
"Panzerschild! (AN: Tank Shield)" U-Sonic's device called out while the hedgehog stood in front of the girls with a fiery-red belkan-triangle to act as a shield that he used to tank the damage.
"W.A.S Sector 1 complete, I am extending the search to the other sectors. This will take some time, Master." Raising Heart informed Nanoha.
"I'll try to stall for more time." the hedgehog caught his breath.
The Gizoid resumed his attack with a powerful spin-dash that was met with Sonic's gloved palms. The impact and momentum kept the two heading for another wall, at the last second, the hedgehog threw the robot into the wall with a crash.
Vivio followed her papa's attack with a powerful knee-strike to Emerl's center, which forced the robot to double over in a wince. Her skills greatly influenced her attacks, making them more threatening and powerful. Using the robot's status to her advantage she threw the Gizoid to the ground. The robot quickly recovered and went after Nanoha with an uppercut.
Nanoha still needed to buy time for her search, with little alternatives she called to her device "Blaster Two!"
"Blaster Second" Raising Heart declared and sent the robot away from her master with a powerful shock-wave and a boost of Nanoha's power. Two copies of Raising Heart's head unit were created out of Nanoha's magic. The copies soared around the gizoid and trapped his arms with a chain.
"Blaster Bit.. Crystal Cage.." Nanoha called out as one of the "bits" of Raising Heart pointed straight down over Emerl's head and spun to create a pink pyramid shaped cage, "Lock!" the Crystal Cage spell locked tight to keep Emerl in place. The white mage panted to catch her breath from the effort she was exerting.
"I already know of this too! I know all of your spells!" Emerl broke free of the bind and tried to punch his way out of the Crystal Cage.
"Damn it Nanoha.. he's trying to drag your power out.. The more you use that Blaster system, whether it bet spells or taking hits, the more your body takes the strain. That system's still experimental. And while it's powerful and nearly unbeatable, it won't work if Emerl keeps dragging that out!" Sonic thought to himself.
Sure enough, Emerl broke through the Crystal Cage and rushed in with his fist primed for a powerful blow.
While Nanoha prepared herself to take the hit, Sonic wouldn't let her have it "Nanoha!. Ugh!" he rushed in and intercepted the Gizoid's punch, which nailed him square in the gut. Emerl then followed up with a powerful left hook to the hedgehog's face and a sweeping left leg kick to send him into another wall, where he then rushed with another right hook.
U-Sonic caught the fist with a wince and countered with a straight right hook to the jaw, followed by a straight kick with his left leg to the robot's chest, another top kick to give some distance and finally a flare kick using his old break-dance moves.
"Now here's some payback from the time we fought at the Death Egg!" Sonic soared in pursuit until he was right above Emerl, at the right time he flipped for a powerful ax-kick that sent Emerl down to the ground so hard he bounced from the impact, the bounce let Sonic follow through with the same ax-kick and ground slam, there was another bounce just enough for a third ax-kick, which Sonic used to ground the Gizoid with no bounce.
Sonic, Vivio and Nanoha touched the ground all winded from their attacks.
"Shahra? Are you okay?" The hedgehog asked his genie in the mind-space she occupied in the Unison, which was slowly shorting out.
"I'll.. be fine... Just keep going..." Shahra replied weakly. The toll Sonic had taken on his body had equally affected the young genie as well. She poured more power in to keep up the Unison, but she wouldn't last much longer.
"Damn.. Shahra's not fairing.. Raising Heart, please tell me you're getting close!"
"Sorry, target has not been found yet, still searching, please give me more time." the device flickered in reply.
"Grrr.. Keep going then" The trio resumed their losing battle.
[Engine Room]
Vita and Knuckles, both equally bloody and beaten from dealing with the security system, found themselves again repeating their attacks on the shield, but again nothing worked.
"Damn.. Why... why isn't it working?" Vita asked herself
"We have to break it.." Knuckles got back up from the impact.
[BGM: "Taisetsu na Koto (Precious Thing)" Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS OST]
"If we don't break it... I won't be able to protect.. Hayate, Nanoha, or Sonic." Vita slowly walked forward once more with Eisen in the Destruction form.
"If we can't break that shield.. there's no point... Long has my clan lived to protect the Master Emerald, and even if it kills me. I will break that shield and release the emerald!"
"Eisen!" Vita called to her device, which gave the reply "Jahowl (AN: "Yes Sir" in German)" and loaded several more cartridges.
The purple aura surrounding Knuckles flared up once more "All my power.. into one shot!" with his fist held high, he readied himself for one more punch.
"PIERCE IT!" They shouted and pulled off one final clash with the barrier, all their energy used up into that final blow. The same explosion occurred from the impact, but the shield remained.
Vita's hammer was shattered from the damage, both knight and echidna fell from the air, consciousness fading, the same thoughts went through their head, "We failed..."
"Hayate..." Vita whispered
"Everyone.." Knuckles added..
"Sorry..." their last words a whisper as they fell for the ground. All of a sudden, they saw black feathers and were caught in a white sphere. The duo's eyes opened suddenly to find Hayate, her hair turned platinum blonde from her Unison with Reinforce Zwei, had caught them.
[No BGM]
"You both have nothing to apologize for." Hayate held the Iron Knight in a bridal carry while Knuckles was over her shoulder.
"Hayate..." the shock from the red duo would have been evident if they weren't already worn out.
"The Knight of the Iron Hammer, Vita, Graf Eisen and the Guardian of the Master Emerald, Knuckles have fought valiantly and became damaged to this point." The mistress closed her eyes and watched as a piece of Vita's hammer and the dent caused by Knuckles' final attack caused the shield to crack "There's nothing the three of you can't destroy." at that last word the shield shattered and freed the Master Emerald from it's prison.
"T-the Emerald!" Knuckles reached out to it, only to groan in pain over Hayate's shoulder.
The commander set down the iron knight and her echidna companion, "You're both still too injured.."
"Tikal's Prayer must be recited.. it's the only way the Master Emerald can stop the Chaos Emeralds." Knuckles sent to her mentally, his final message before he finally collapsed
"Then I'll do it.. You and Vita have done enough." Hayate thought to herself, "Tikal's Prayer... What was it?" she dug deep into her memory, until something clicked from four years ago.
-Flashback-
Four years ago, Sonic had just arrived in Mid-Childa through the portal Eggman used on Earth. Hayate and Fate talked to him about his story in order to buy Nanoha some time in setting up a field to test the blue hedgehog's abilities.
"What are these Chaos Emeralds?" Hayate questioned.
The hedgehog in question revealed one of them to the two, "This is one of the emeralds found in my world. Seven in all, they've come in handy in the past for me.. There is one particular prayer that goes with them and the Master Emerald. "The Servers are the Seven Chaos. Chaos is Power. Power is enriched by the Heart. The controller serves to Unify the Chaos."
-Flashback end-
"That must be the prayer.. I just hope the Emerald can accept it.." Hayate concluded as she set Vita near Knuckles.
The Mistress of the Night Sky got down onto her knees with her hands folded and prayed out to the Master Emerald "Oh great Master Emerald, Gem of Miracles, I ask that you listen to my prayer. The Servers are the Seven Chaos. Chaos is Power. Power that is enriched by the Heart. The Controller serves to Unify the Chaos. I ask of you. Legendary Master Emerald, only you can do this. Please stop the Chaos Emeralds! I beg of you!"
The Master Emerald gave off a bright glow as if in response to the girl's prayer, a young voice called out to her, "I can sense a great amount of power from you. Who are you? Why do you know my prayer? Only those from my tribe can know of it."
Hayate stood up, "You must be Tikal, the girl who sealed herself with Chaos in the Master Emerald. I am Yagami Hayate, but you may call me Hayate."
"It is a pleasure to meet you, Hayate, but why do you know my prayer? Only the Guardian should know of the prayer."
"I'm sorry to say.. but your Guardian's unable to give the prayer.. He fought well with one of my most treasured knights to free the Emerald.. He needs to rest.. So I'm saying the prayer in his absence. I mean no disrespect."
"What are your intentions?"
"The Chaos Emeralds need to be stopped. A foul man has used them in his plans for unleashing his power on this world. And right now as we speak, my friends Sonic, Nanoha and their child Vivio are fighting a dear friend of theirs to save him. If we don't help them, the world as we know it will be in danger. So, please I beg of you, answer my prayer."
Tikal's spirit paused for a moment as the emerald continued to glow, it gazed deep into Hayate's eyes and looked through her memories, "I can see your memories, you've been through many trials. You treasure your friends deeply and will do anything to help them. You have a kind heart, Hayate. Very well, your prayer shall be answered."
"Thank you very much." Hayate bowed in respect
The Master Emerald gave off a powerful glow as it put the prayer the mistress made to work.
[Jail Scaglietti's Hideout]
[BGM: "Mugen no Yokubou" (AN: Unlimited Desires) Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS OST]
All of a sudden, the hallways were being sealed off, one by one, trapping Schach and Sein in a gap. The ground quaked underneath them.
"They're sealing the hallways?" Schach thought out loud as she carried the unconscious Sein, "Rossa?"
Verossa held the unconscious and bound Uno in a bridal carry "Feels like they are activating some Self-Destruct device."
Shadow re-quipped his limiter rings when the quakes hit from the device, the quakes surprised both himself and Fate.
"What's going on?" Fate thought out loud.
"Eh heh heh." Scaglietti's chuckle commanded their attention "Quattro's decided to abandon this base after all."
"Stop her. You'll die too." Fate ordered.
"My copy is already inside of her.. I have no more use for this body. But you can die here.." The doctor declined in cockiness.
"Feh.. Fool.." Shadow spat at the doctor.
[The Saint's Cradle]
[No BGM]
Quattro activated the self-destruct signal in Scaglietti's hideout, she knew that the base had been compromised and her control over the Cradle has been mostly lost. But she operated what little she could and her influence over Emerl was still strong, she wasn't ready to throw in the towel just yet. Suddenly her attention was shifted from her work to a pink sphere that floated in front of her.
"That's.." she gasped in recognition.
[Throne Room]
"Wide Area Search successful. The coordinates are specific and distance has been calculated" Raising Heart informed her master.
"Found you.." Nanoha said out loud
"Alright!" Sonic teamed up with the Blaster Bits to bind the Gizoid in place.
"Gah!" Emerl struggled to break free but found his struggles stopped by a blow to the gut.
"Sorry, Emerl-onii-chan." Vivio apologized after dealing that blow.
"Leave it to Raising Heart to pull through.." Sonic gave the device a thumbs up.
[Quattro's Location]
The Wide Area Search had established Quattro's location deep within the Cradle.
"An Area Search? No way, they've been looking for me this whole time? But this is the deepest part of the Cradle, no way anyone could make it all the way down here" However something on the side screen made her gasp in extreme fear.
[Throne Room]
[BGM: "Ace of Aces" Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS OST]
Nanoha stomped on the ground hard enough to crack it, a Mid-Childan magic circle appeared at her feet as she held Raising Heart her sniper sight locked directly on Quattro. Her plan was to fire a Divine Buster diagonally from where she stood.
[Quattro's location]
"She's just going to blast through the walls? No way! Ridiculous!" the cyborg thought out loud to herself, however her fears grew even more as she recalled the incident at the Airport several years ago, when Nanoha blasted through the ceiling with her Divine Buster. After remembering that, her face had pure fear etched on it. The fear caused her to scream out in the upcoming defeat.
[Throne Room]
"Clearance confirmation: Firing Lock has been canceled" Raising Heart declared as Nanoha prepared to cast her Divine Buster.
"Blaster three!" she shouted and wings sprouted even wider from the tip of her Device and a powerful orb gathered at the tip "Divine..." cartridges were loaded and pumped out of the device, enough so that Nanoha had to change the clip to reload it. Through her scope on the device, Nanoha locked her sights dead on Quattro. "Buster!" the mage unleashed her almighty spell. The beam went through walls and tunnels, nothing stopped it from reaching it's target.
Quattro caught sight of the massive beam and screamed as her life flashed before her eyes, too petrified by fear to do anything as the beam engulfed her. A direct hit as the beam literally decimated the combat cyborg. Nothing was left of her as the buster proved to be the end of her, and the end of all the plans of the Doctor.
Nanoha breathed heavily from the effort she just put into that attack.
[Capital City]
[No BGM]
Everywhere, all the Gadget Drones fell down, lifeless and with nothing to control them.
"Sir! The drones are falling.. here and all the other sectors too" One mage informed Genya Nakajima.
Genya sighed in relief "Riot Force 6 has done it.."
[The Saint's Cradle: Throne Room]
Emerl broke free of the bindings on him once more and held his head in pain.
"Emerl/Onii-chan!" Sonic and Vivio rushed for him.
"Sonic.. Vivio! Get away! I can't stop myself!" The gizoid involuntarily the two away with a kick.
All of a sudden the Chaos Emeralds exited Emerl and gave off a bright glow, the Master Emerald's command stopped them from providing any more power to the Relic.
"The emeralds!" Sonic observed, "The Prayer must have worked!"
"I don't think so, Sonic-papa. Emerl-onii-chan's out of control!" Vivio pointed out.
"The Emeralds... Sonic.. Nanoha.. Vivio.. Please... the Relic's controlling all my actions, but I can give you the emeralds.. use them.. Destroy the Relic.. Save me!" Emerl cried out.
U-Sonic sighed, "Nanoha! Vivio! Stand right next to me for this!"
"Right!" the duo stood at his left and right.
[Insert: "The Finishing Blow" Sonic Generations OST]
The Unison hedgehog adopted a stance with his arms crossed as the Chaos Emeralds revolved around all three of them. Their powers were given to the three, and they were engulfed in a golden yellow explosion like aura and a bright flash followed. When the flash died down, the trio were drastically changed by the Chaos Emeralds
Sonic's quills turned upward like they do in their Super form, but the fur remained a pink in tone, only this time it was a far lighter pink and yellow highlights followed his quills, arms and legs. His eyes were hetero-chromatic. His left eye a light blue from his unison, and his right turned crimson red from his super form. Shahra was unchanged part from her outfit turning yellow. A blazing yellow aura engulfed him, now known as Super Unison Sonic.
Nanoha had a drastic change from the emeralds. Her eyes turned crimson red and her hair a platinum silver. The whites of her outfit turned pink and the blues a golden yellow. As part of her transformation, her hair grew even longer, enough so that it broke free of the hair ties, allowing it to flow, while her body was enhanced, particularly her bust grew in size a bit. Raising Heart did not change from Nanoha's transformation. Super Nanoha allowed herself to be engulfed in a flaming pink aura.
Vivio had similar bodily changes to Nanoha, as for her outfit, the blues turned yellow and her hair turned platinum-blonde. The rainbowish aura she had was broadened and enhanced greatly. Super Kaiser Vivio was born.
The three gazed at themselves in awe as they took in their new appearances. They also felt more powerful than ever and all of their wounds and strains completely healed like they were nothing, much to their surprise.
Hayate opened a feed to the trio from her device and almost doubled back at the sight of Nanoha, "Eh? W-what's going on? N-Nanoha, is that you?"
"Yeah? Why?" Nanoha was a bit confused.
"You look like... Reinforce Eins.. see for yourself." Hayate opened the feed beside her to reveal a mirror.
Nanoha was shocked at the resemblance, "I d-do.."
Hayate also took notice of Nanoha's increased bust, but in the presences of Sonic and Vivio, she made the very wise choice of not pointing it out, "In any case.. what happened? I felt a massive magic power spike, the ranks have went up to SS!"
"Ah heh heh.. that would be because of the Chaos Emeralds. We have them on our side now." Super Unison Sonic chuckled
"Well, good luck then" Hayate giggled and closed the line.
"Okay... that was odd.." the hedgehog blinked
"Yeah.. now for Emerl.." all attention shifted to the gizoid, who was still unable to control himself.
"Emerl... Always causing trouble... Even in the end... It's time for one final party!"
[Insert: "What I'm Made Of" Triple Threat: Sonic Heroes Vocal Traxx]
The throne room was littered with flashes of yellow, rainbow and pink clashing with another rainbow. As Super Unison Sonic, Super Nanoha and Super Vivio clashed with Emerl, the battle siding far more in the favor of the trio versus the gizoid.
Emerl rushed back in to engage the trio with fists primed, only to be intercepted by Sonic with his spin-dash and up-draft kick to set up for Vivio to follow.
Vivio, with her skills inherited from her past life an power boosted from the Chaos Emeralds, intercepted the upward Gizoid with a powerful sweeping kick and followed that with a barrage of rainbow-colored bolts.
Nanoha took advantage and blasted the Gizoid with her empowered Axel Shooter, the bolts impacted the robot hard an forced him into the ground, her attack successful, she landed with Sonic and Vivio in tow, "We will save you, Emerl!"
[Insert music stops]
"What's the point? It's no good.." Emerl got back up, "I never knew who my creator was.. I'm always dangerous and uncontrollable.. a weapon of war...This Gizoid thing.. that's all I really am.. a heartless, soulless weapon made only for death and destruction.. I have no other purpose other than to destroy.. I'm not fit to have any friends or family.." his self-degradation was put to an end with a fierce fist to his face. "ugh!"
"Get a hold of yourself!" Sonic shouted at the robot, "You know that's not true! You have friends here, friends who love you. Hayate laughs at your jokes; Vivio thinks of you as a brother. The forwards loved having you around. Cream especially hasn't taken her eyes off you since you came here. And you can always come to me, Nanoha or Fate if you need a role model with advice. We can help you. So don't let me hear anything from you about being just some weapon! You have a soul! Remember it and Bring Hope to Humanity!"
Those last four words rocked the systems of Emerl deep, those key words, in any other case, these words would have erased his destructive data.. however, the Relic blocked them from working. The gizoid looked up and saw the tears from the faces of Sonic, Nanoha and Vivio and he relented "Save me.."
[Insert Song continues]
"We will.." Nanoha declared. On her signal. She, Sonic and Vivio had their respective magic circles appear at their feet. A bright pink Mid-childan circle for Nanoha, a light blue Belkan triangle for Sonic, and a "Kaiserfarbe" or Rainbowish,triangle appeared under Vivio's feet. Their super forms shining brightly with their auras blazing.
"Restrict Lock" Raising Heart declared. Binds once again held the Gizoid in place, which bought enough time for Nanoha, Sonic and Vivio to charge up their respective most powerful attacks. Nanoha charged the energy for Starlight Breaker, all the while the four Blaster Bits from her Blaster System had charged up their own Starlight Breakers.
"This one might hurt a bit, Emerl.." Sonic gave the very fair and called for warning..
"We'll blow through the defenses and take that Relic out in one shot.. you ready, Vivio? Sonic-kun?" Nanoha asked
"Ready anytime." Sonic gave the thumbs up while a large blue sphere was gathered in front of him.
"Ready! Nanoha-mama!" Vivio confirmed with her own Rainbowish sphere in front of her.
"Clear to go, Master" Raising Heart confirmed.
"Zeryoku Zenkai!" The trio shouted at the same time (A/N: "Full Power" in Japanese)
"Starlight..." Nanoha held her staff high, ready to strike the orb.
"Soul..." Sonic and Shahra called as the hedgehog winded up his right fist for a strike.
"Sacred..." Vivio did the same with her fist
"Breaker!" They all shouted out and struck their respective orbs at the same time, and bombarded Emerl with, count them, four Starlight Breakers from the Blaster Bits, one Starlight Breaker from Nanoha, one Soul Breaker from Sonic and one Sacred Breaker from Vivio. All add up to seven breaker beams, all impact the Gizoid at the same time and pierce the armor, which revealed the Relic. The gizoid cried out in the pain from the beams.
"Break...Shoot!" The trio boosted the power of their respective Breakers, the results were the Relic shattering and a massive explosion from the impact.
[Insert Song ends]
The dust settled to reveal Nanoha, her super form burnt out from all the energy she just put out, though her hair was still flowing freely, albeit it returned to their regular length.. her bust size did not decrease for some odd reason, strangely enough she was unharmed at the end and able to stand up so long as she had Raising Heart to support her initial standing. Sonic soon followed suit, his super and unison canceled out to return him to his true blue form. Shahra went to an immediate rest inside her ring. Sonic was not able to stand without the assistance that Nanoha gave him.
They quickly found Vivio, once again in her child form due to the Relic's destruction and both went to help her up.
"Stay back!" Vivio called to them in their minds. The girl tried to stand up on her own, she made it to her knees when she sent telepathically "I can do this on my own" and sure enough she stood up on her own and leaned against the wall for support, "I promised that I will be strong." that was all they needed to embrace their daughter with tears.
"Okay.. now that Vivio's okay... let's check on Emerl" Sonic smiled tiredly and pointed to the crater from the Breaker's explosion. Where the dust was lifting.
The dust lifted to reveal Emerl, back in his original form, and in a kneeling position.
"Hey, Emerl! You alright?" Sonic asked
"You lied.." were Emerl's first words.
"Eh?" The three were confused and hoped that they didn't have to fight him again.
"You said it would only hurt a bit! That hurt like hell!" the robot stood up and walked to the three.
Sonic chuckled "He's alright!"
"I better be! I just got blasted by seven extremely powerful beams." Emerl pouted.
"Nanoha! Sonic! Vivio!" Hayate and Reinforce Zwei flew into the Throne room with Knuckles and Vita in tow.
"Hayate-chan." Nanoha nodded
"Eh heh.. you guys sure trashed this place." The echidna snarked.
Alerts ran throughout the Cradle "Attention! Real Kaiser confirmed! Orders have been reset! All systems awaiting orders!" the ship was fully operational and recognized Vivio to be it's Kaiser.
"This gives me an idea." Sonic had a few thoughts on his mind.
"What is it?" Hayate asked.
"Vivio, go sit on the throne." he pointed to the intact seat.
"Sonic? Are you sure?" Nanoha asked
"Trust me.. if this thing thinks Vivio is it's controller than she should be able to get this thing ordered to make a safe landing." the hedgehog summarized his idea.
"I'll go alert the fleet.. The Egg Carrier's in the way." Hayate opened up the feed channels.
[Arthra]
Shari relayed Hayate's latest reports to Chrono, whose fleet just touched airspace in Mid-Childa, their new directives were changed to help clearing the field for The Saint's Cradle to make a safe landing.. anywhere will do.
[The Saint's Cradle: Throne Room]
Vivio hesitated a moment before finally sitting down on the control throne, surprisingly enough she felt no shocks or anything, the only thing she felt was confusion, "Um... how does this thing work? Vivio doesn't know."
"Come on Vivio, you're the clone of the last lady that could ever use this thing, can't you remember it or something?" Sonic asked.
The young child thought hard, "Nope.. sorry Sonic-papa.."
"Then push a button and see what happens. It's not like this ship will actually hurt you if it can help it." the hedgehog pointed out.
"Right, Sonic-papa!" Vivio held her right index finger out and pressed a green button. A screen appeared in front of the group and revealed the Egg Carrier, which was about to fire it's Egg cannon.
[Egg Carrier]
In the cockpit room of the massive airship, Eggman had his robots ready the most powerful cannon he has in his disposal.
"How long until the Egg Cannon can fire?" the doctor asked one of his robots.
"1 minute!" came the reply.
"Good.. I won't let that ship ruin my chances of conquering Mid-Childa" Eggman made a power fist thrust in excitement "Ho yeah! Eggman is back!"
[Exterior]
A medium sized cannon opened up from the Cradle of the Saints. It opened fire with a large beam that impacted the Egg Carrier dead on in the center. The power of the ship's cannon far surpassed the armor of the Carrier like it was nothing. The Carrier exploded on impact, the force of it sent Eggman flying.
Several mages intercepted the doc in mid-aid, "Doctor Eggman, you're under arrest."
"Oh shoot.." The doc sighed.
[Chrono's warship]
Admiral Chrono Harlaown just blinked at the display, not really sure what to think of it other than ask over the comm feeds, "What was that?"
"The Egg Carrier's been destroyed! We've recaptured Eggman as well." one mage reported.
"That's good news.. but I still want to know what the hell caused it." The admiral sighed.
All of a sudden, Vivio's face appeared over the communication. One could hear several bursts of giggles and laughter from their location.
[The Saint's Cradle: Throne Room]
"Ah heh heh.. Sorry! Vivio's fault.. this ship doesn't have a manual" Vivio apologized from her seat.
The laughter came from everyone else, although Vivio looked like she had her own time to laugh.
The feed rotated Chrono's view to show Sonic, Vita, Knuckles and Emerl on the floor in their laughs due to the embarrassing defeat Eggman had to suffer. While Nanoha, Reinforce Zwei and Hayate were giggling nearby.
"Great shot, Vivio.. just great shot!" Sonic cracked up.
"Bad enough Eggman lost as he was coming back.." Knuckles started
"Now he just got curbstomped" Emerl took the middle
"By a kid younger than me!" Vita ended the joke.
A clear of Chrono's throat commanded the attention.
"Yes, Admiral?" Hayate asked.
"I do hope you have a plan for what you're doing." the admiral noted
"Yes, sir. Since Vivio's been recognized and confirmed by the ship to be it's Kaiser, she's going to try and direct it to a safe landing." Sonic explained his plan
"How can she do that if she doesn't know how to pilot the Cradle?" Chrono asked.
"Uh.. did I mention there was a slight flaw in my plan?" Sonic gave a cheesy smile.
"Make it work.. we'll do all we can to help." Chrono sighed and ended the feed
"Alright, you heard him. We have to do all we can from in here to make sure this ship can land." Hayate declared.
"Roger" The others acknowledged.
[Capital City]
While Subaru was escorted into an ambulance, Shari called up anyone who was still able to participate.
"New orders from the Admiral. Sonic, Vivio and Nanoha have done it, they saved Emerl and have taken control of the Saint's Cradle. However they have no idea how to operate it and neither does anyone else. So I need anyone who's still active to help guide them to a safe landing."
Signum and Blaze nodded to each other "We can do it." the swords-woman acknowledged then turned around to the others, "Anyone else?"
"I can.." Teana replied after ensuring that the cyborgs were in custody.
"I'll go too.. " Ginga added
"We can take my helicopter." Alto confirmed.
"Good.." Blaze noted, her attention was shifted to Agito when the Unison Device poked her.
"I'd like to come too.. In the memory of Mister.."
"Very well then." Signum confirmed once more as her group boarded the helicopter.
Silver, Cinque, Quint, Megane, Lutecia and Vice stayed behind and watched as the helicopter took off to head for it's destination and objectives.
With the Cradle now under Vivio's command, the objective now shifts to getting it to land safely. Will they be able to survive a possible crash landing? Or can they even land the ancient warship at all? The safety of everyone is at stake and all ties to Sonic's gambit, will it work? And will Fate and the others be able to leave Scaglietti's base safely?
[End of Main Chapter]
[Omake Collection! Part 2!]
[Omake #1: Alt: Sonic and Nanoha saving Teana and Subaru]
In Subaru and Teana's first mage rank test they were unable to stop and close to hitting the wall.
From close by, Sonic and Nanoha watched.
"Active Guard and a Holding Net should work" Nanoha noted
"I'll go guide them in with gravity" Sonic hopped on his Blue Star.
"Active Guard with Holding Net" Raising Heart flickered then, "Besides that, let's blast the rubble into the sky with magic as well. It'll be faster and more, shall we say, boss-like"
"Fine whatever, Just activate the magic already!" her master shouted in annoyance.
"Mowing down enemy and ally alike with Maximum Power, the White Devil of the Administration Bureau" heard that rumor going about you? " Sonic deadpanned in his telepathy.
"Several times..." the white mage sighed.
"All because of that trigger happy device" the hedgehog concluded
Well one of the first fan-subs gave the device the name "Raging Heart". With the Engrish it was hard to tell.
[Omake #2: Unison, FAIL!]
First Sonic's original Unison with Shahra, it was all accidental, but the results were rather humorous. While Sonic's fur and body were the same, his outfit changed to Shahra's genie clothing, even as far as the gold ring at the end of his fur quills.
"What the?" Sonic blushed in embarrassment
"Sorry!" Shahra apologized
Vita laughed so hard at the sight she was on the ground rolling..
Cue to just when she met Shadow to engage Zest she and Reinforce Zwei unisoned. Only this time, again her hair remained the same, her outfit changed to a loli-maid's.
"What the?" Vita yelled at the Unison Device
"Sorry! I messed up your clothing." Rein apologized, she was thinking about the time she was working in the maid outfit Hayate put her in some time ago.
That is the first time, Shadow would ever break out into full blown laughter at the sight.
Karma strikes Vita!
[Omake #3: Neither! Alternative!]
Fate and Shadow stared down Sette and Tre of the Numbers
"Lady Fate, Shadow the Hedgehog, Is this your homecoming? Or is it a revolt?" Tre asked.
"Neither." Fate replied calmly.. then shouted out with a comically lovestruck blush "I need to get rid of the pervert doctor fast as he's delaying my wedding with Nanoha and Sonic!"
"..." Shadow, Tre and Sette had nothing to say to that..
[Omake #4: Vivio moments, first meeting]
Sonic and Nanoha watched over the young Vivio in the Saint Church Hospital bed
"Mama..." Vivio called in her sleep.
The duo stoked the girl's cheek.
"Don't worry. I'm here.." Nanoha assured the girl.
"You have nothing to worry about little one.." Sonic added
However what Vivio said next blindsighted them, "mama.. peepee.."
"Eh? Wait? What?" Sonic and Nanoha shouted in surprise
That was their first job as parents.
-Later-
Sonic and Nanoha introduced themselves to Vivio.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Takamachi Nanoha."
"I'm Sonic the Hedgehog, can you say your name?" the hedgehog asked
"Vivio.." the girl replied.
"Cute name for a cute girl" Sonic patted her on the head.
"Vivio, where did you want to go?" Nanoha asked.
Vivio's response was sobering.. the girl shook and twitched "Bathroom..."
"What! Again?" Sonic and Nanoha shouted out.
-later, during the flashback-
"Mama.. papa..." Vivio looked at the duo
"What is it Vivio?" Sonic asked
"Mama and papa look unhappy.." the girl replied.
"Really?" Nanoha asked
"Yea..." Vivio confirmed... then her excitement grew as she adopted a cute as can be face with her fists in front of her, "Do you need to go peepee? Because Vivio can bring you to the toilet!" her excitement gave rise to a few sweat drops from Sonic and Nanoha
"No, mama and papa can go by ourselves. Thank you for asking.." Nanoha politely declined, she sent to Sonic through telepath, "More like we don't need to go.."
"It's nice that she can do it on her own... and kids do like to show their parents what they can do.." Sonic added in telepathy.
Vivio kept that cute and energetic expression about her. Ah.. Vivio.. too cute as always..
[Omake #5: Mystery of the peepers]
A rumor went out through the HQ of Riot Force 6. Someone's been spying and taking pictures of most of the female staff while they were showering.
One particular morning after the instruction and training, Sonic, Nanoha and Fate wandered around their field.
"Uwaah!" the hedgehog tripped over what appeared to be a hole, "What the?"
"It looks like there's a tunnel from here.. let's follow it and see where it leads" Nanoha hopped in first followed closely by Sonic and then by Fate. The tunnel was long and dark, but eventually they found the end, rather Nanoha did.
"Ow!" she bonked her head on what appeared to be a tile.
"This is the end of it..." Sonic slowly managed to push the tile away to reveal the inside of the girls shower room, and he met face to face with Subaru, who happened to be looking down in her shower, steam covered her body.. but the unfortunate hedgehog saw.. "Eeep! Sorry!" he quickly backed down behind Nanoha.
"Eh? Tia, Caro, look over here." Subaru motioned the mentioned girls to the site of the tile and hole, "I just saw Sonic-san there."
"Could he be the pervert peaking on the girls?" Caro asked.
"If he is he's in for a world of hurt." Teana reached down into the hole and managed to pull Sonic out.
"Uh.. h-hi. Girls...um.." the hedgehog was seriously intimidated by the looks he was getting from Teana and Caro... Subaru didn't seem to mind actually.
"Wait! Everyone!" Nanoha followed suit with Fate in tow, "This is a misunderstanding we just found this hole after we dismissed the training."
"Oh..S-sorry.." Teana released the blushing hedgehog, who quickly turned away.
"I don't think Sonic-san or Nanoha-san are the perverts.. Sonic-san's too afraid to even look at us directly..so.. what should we do?" Caro asked
"We could set a trap for the real culprits" Nanoha offered as she moved the tile back the way it was.
"Good idea, Nanoha-san.. now all we have to do is wait." Caro and the other two left and returned fully changed.
There was a long wait while the group leaned against the wall in wait for the perverts to show themselves. Finally movement came about as the tile moved to the side.
True to the rumor a camera held by an apparent male hand came out and started to snap wherever it could. However, before it could get anymore pictures, it was grabbed by Teana. The girl pulled out the source to reveal Knuckles and Vice!
"So you guys are the perverts!" Teana concluded
"Knuckles must have used his shovel claws to dig their way here.." Sonic added
"Uh.. this isn't what it looks like" Vice tried to defend himself.
"Yeah.. we were just doing.. uh.. research! Yeah we were doing research.." Knuckles added..
"Yeah. Sure.. "Research"... Perverts" Fate shut that one down.
Later that day, Vice and Knuckles were admitted to the hospital with multiple injuries all around.. most actually below the belt.
With the mystery solved Sonic, Nanoha and Fate reported to Hayate what they found about the rumors.
"It's good that we got to the bottom of that.. now everyone can bathe in peace without some pervert watching them.. did we find their stash?"
"Under Knuckles' spot at the Master Emerald and Vice's bed in his room." Sonic informed.
"Good.. well I'd like to analyze the evidence.. just to make sure it's legi- ACK! OW!" Hayate's perverted thoughts were put down by paper fans that the trio whacked her with.
So the mystery is solved.
[Ending Theme: "Beautiful Amulet" Tamura Yukari]
[End of Chapter 32]
Author's Notes: So long.. and centered on the fight to save Emerl, I said I'd focus on it.. hopefully this worked out well..7 breakers.. ouch.. in canon Nanoha used 5 Starlight Breakers on Vivio to break that Relic.. the transformations bit was more of case of me wanting to put a little bit of fanservice there.. Explaining a bit, The Blaster Bits are copies of Raising Heart's head unit.. they can use the same spells being cast at that moment,. Capable enough to use their own Starlight Breaker.. And I did use a bit more english here.. that's how it's gonna be.. just to keep things understandable.. however I will keep some japanese things in canon.. such as the nick name every now and then. The Zenryoku Zenkai is Nanoha's catchphrase. I will be doing no justice to it if I did not include that. The StrikerS arc is almost at a close here so stay tuned!