Seeing how short the last chapter was, I decided to bring you the next chapter early. And guess what? We have another fight scene which was a blast to write, and a bitch to check because everyone decided they needed me just as I decided to sit on this. Oh well, at least I did it and it's now up.
BTW I totally forgot to mention this in the last few updates but, Rayman turned 19 in the beginning of September! Happy Birthday you limbless creature! God, I feel so old right now.
Enjoy and please review !
Back in Sonic and Tails's house.
As the group waited for Sonic and Michelangelo to return; they took the time to talk to each other more. After all, it's 1 thing to fight alongside someone; it's another thing to say you know them.
Tails was showing the Universe Jumper, as he called it, to Clank. The robot was impressed with the technology. "How did you manage to master such power and ability?" He asked Tails.
"Well, thanks to Rayman's visit here, we discovered the key was this." Tails pointed to a glass containing a little red light with wings, which seemed familiar to Clank.
"Is that a lum?" The little robot asked. "The ones I've seen Rayman use were yellow."
"Well, I guess this one is different. Seeing how it started out black, and with a mind and personality of its own." Tails theorized.
"There are quite a few types of lums." Both fox and robot turned their heads towards Rayman, who walked in on the conversation. "The most common are they yellow ones, which also serve as the energy source for my world and my golden fists ability." He showed them his fists when he mentioned them. "The red ones are more rare, but also way more powerful. It is possible to survive a life taking attack, as long as you hold one." He told them.
From some distance, Ratchet, Jak and Daxter saw Rayman talking to both Tails and Clank. "I never thought Rayman was able to speak "nerd"." Ratchet said.
Jak turned to face him. "Well, it is a subject he knows a lot about." He countered. "It's like if I let you and Daxter talk about guns."
"I guess you are right." Ratchet shrugged.
"How did you 2 survive being around each other for so long if you don't even speak the same damn language?" Daxter asked.
"Well, we have other subjects that we talk about. And plus, when you travel all over the galaxy with someone, you are committed to bound with them." Ratchet answered simply before a thought crossed his head. "And how can you 2 survive each other when Jak is so quiet, and Daxter is so loud?"
Well, you see," Daxter started while hanging from Jak's shoulder. "Back when we both met, he didn't talk at all." He pointed to his best friend. "So, it was only fitting that I will lead him in the wonderful journey of life!" He said dramatically. "When he got all that Dark Eco inside of him and started to open his mouth, he already worshiped me enough to not let me go." He finished while crossing his hands, and nodding triumphal.
Jak shrugged with an amused smile at Daxter's speech. "He is on to me."
While everyone talked, Hiccup tried to help Merida bound with Toothless. She was standing in front of the dragon, bow and sword on the side, her arm in front of the dragon's nose, and she tried to remain calm. "The trick is to show him that you are not going to hurt him." He told her.
Merida took a deep breath and moved her arm a bit closer in the direction of the Night Fury's nose. After a few seconds, she actually made contact with it. A gasp of amazement escaped her mouth when she saw Toothless purr at her touch, and she felt the dragon's warm skin under her hand. Hiccup smiled from the side at a job well done.
Everyone seemed happy and relaxed at the moment. But then, the ground started to shake, causing everyone to rush outside to see what was up.
Coming towards the house, was a 200 feet white robot with a red eye on its middle top. Its head was pointy, and it also walked on 8 mechanical legs, which caused a mini earthquake with each step it took. The group looked in horror at the sight, knowing full well what the meaning of it was. The pointy top of the robot opened up to reveal none other than Eggman and Razorbeard. "Hand over the Chaos Emeralds and surrender quietly." Eggman threatened.
"Yeah, like we will give them to you!" Rayman told him, followed by a roar from Toothless.
"So, you want to do this the hard way?" Razorbeard asked, as him and Eggman locked the cockpit up and started advancing towards them.
The group all stayed back a little. "Any ideas?" Hiccup asked.
Out of the eye, a red laser was fired, coming right towards the team. They all jumped to a different side in order to avoid it. Once another laser was ready to fire, the head of the robot was tangled up with a metallic chain. Swinging from it was Michelangelo, who got his other Nun-Chuck in his free hand and slammed it into the robot's eye. "Booyakasha!" The turtle shouted as he released his gripe from the chain, and landed on the ground, happy with his entrance and ready to take on the enemy.
"Where is Sonic?" Tails asked when The Tornado landed down near the house, no one in the pilot seat.
A second later, a few streaks of blue could have been seen running through the robot's legs, causing it to lose balance and fall to the ground. In front of the robot appeared Sonic, facing his friends with a smirk. "So… What did we miss?" He asked as the robot got back up.
"They want the Chaas Emeralds." Merida updated him.
"They can get replicas at the jewelry shop." Sly said, reading his cane. "What's the plan?"
"The eye does seem to be its weak spot." Rayman noticed.
"So are the legs." Sonic said, before he turned to face Ratchet, Jak and Sly. "I want you to defend the house. They are far from it; they are far from the emeralds." The trio he addressed nodded and got into position. Clank reading himself on Ratchet's back, and Daxter taking his place at Jak's shoulder.
"Hiccup, you and Toothless are on the air. Merida will fly with you and act as a backup with her arrows. Aim for its eye" Rayman said as Hiccup was already on Toothless's back, adjusting the mechanic tail and safety lines. Merida quickly joined him.
"Mikey, you go with Tails on the Tornado. Try hitting it with your Kusarigama." Sonic said to the ninja.
"You got it." He answered as he rushed towards the plane, while Tails was starting the plane up.
The large robot was ready to attack again. It continued to shot red lasers from its eye at its enemies; and even though he shot them at a good rate, he still missed both Sonic and Rayman.
Toothless was circling the white robot endlessly, dodging lasers that came in his direction, as Hiccup focused on controlling the dragon's tail, in order to allow such complicated maneuvers, and Merida was already ready with an arrow in her bow. After a few more circling, Hiccup noticed Sonic getting the robot's attention again. "Okay, bud; we have an opening, Merida, take aim." He told both of them as Toothless made a sharp 180 degrees turn and headed straight for the eye. Toothless fired his plasma blast right at the eye, damaging the robot. Merida also released her arrow, which hit the target dead in the center.
"In yer face!" Merida screamed with joy as Toothless turned away from there.
Just then, Tails and Michelangelo came in The Tornado, shooting missiles at the robot's body. The turtle was rising from the backseat of the plane, and made it to the front wing with his Nun-Chucks spinning. When they got close, Michelangelo jumped from the plane and hit the eye with both of his weapons. The robot was losing its altitude, just when Rayman flew up with his helicopter hair, and delivered a charged punch right into the red eye; knocking the robot down.
Inside the robot, Razorbeard and Eggman nodded at each other, they knew it was time to unleash the power they had. With a push of a button, the robot shot up again and this time, his legs proved to be more dangerous.
Out of one of the legs, came out thousands of smaller versions of the robot which headed towards Sonic's and Tails's home. "Looks like it's our turn to have some fun." Ratchet said while getting his flame thrower out.
Jak loaded his shotgun. "Let's see what these guys got."
Sly spun his cane in his hand, also ready to fight.
The robots charged. Ratchet held his flamethrower directly in front of the incoming robots, burning them with no real effort. Jak shot a few of them with his own weapon, blasting them to pieces. Sly might not have a gun, but he had good reflexes and agility to make up for that; as he swung the cane at the robots while avoiding their attacks.
One of the robot's other legs, was now in front of its eye; and the leg grew green as it made contact with the eye. Daxter noticed this, and he wasn't going to keep the information to himself. "It's using Green Eco to heal itself!" He shouted to the others.
Sonic growled at the sight. "We need to take that leg out!" He said as he curled into a ball and lunched at the part of the leg that was connected to the body. Sonic spun into it as fast and as powerful as he could, but it wasn't enough to damage the leg. The robot then swung the leg at Sonic, sending him away from it.
Michelangelo got his Kusarigama ready, and he ran straight towards the leg, cutting it a bit with the weapon's knife and letting sparks fly out of it.
Hiccup and Merida looked at the events from the air. Sonic and Rayman were trying to get rid of the leg, while Ratchet, Jak and Sly were fighting the group of robots. "I have no idea if this will work." Hiccup started to say. "But it's worth a shot." He locked up Toothless's tail in gliding mode and removed his safety wires.
"Hiccup?" Merida asked from the back of the saddle. "Whit are ye daing?"
Hiccup turned to her. "Keep your feet at the operating mechanism so that Toothless can stay afloat."
"Why? Whit are ye…?" But before Merida could finish, Hiccup jumped off of Toothless. "Hiccup!" Merida screamed in half terror and half shock as she tried to operate the dragon's tail. When she managed, she saw Hiccup spread his arms to the sides, with pieces of fabric attaching his arms to his body and acting like wings.
Merida stared in awe as she saw Hiccup glide towards the group of small robots by himself. The trio protecting the house was also surprised at the sight once Hiccup told them to stay back. Hiccup glided right between his friends and robots, while releasing a green gas from a metal piece he was holding. "Lights up!" He said and pressed a small button on the metal he was holding. Small sparks came from it, igniting the fog and causing an explosion to happen which blew up the robots.
When Hiccup landed on the ground, he saw Ratchet, Clank, Jak, Daxter and Sly giving him signs of both gratitude and amazement. Hiccup nodded at them and turned to face the large robot. He turned the metal around and a fiery blade ignited from it; Hiccup charged at the robot's Green Eco leg and cut his sword through it, damaging it more.
Sonic let out a whistle of acceptance. "Awesome blade." He told the Viking.
"Dude! That was so awesome!" Michelangelo said as well.
"No time to cheer now." Rayman reminded them, just as an arrow cut through the remaining of what connected the leg to the rest of the robot, making it detach from it. The arrow proved to come from Merida who landed near them with Toothless.
"Not bad, Princess." Hiccup told her.
Merida giggled a little. "Nat ta shabby yerself, Viking."
Inside the robot, Eggman started to panic. "They took down the Green Eco leg!"
"Don't panic." Razorbeard told him. "This is not over yet…"
One of the remaining legs was lifted from the ground, it seemed to aim for Hiccup, and a yellow shot came out of it right at the Viking teen. Toothless jumped before his best friend and shot a plasma blast, blocking the shot and causing an explosion.
"They also have Yellow Eco!" Jak screamed; Daxter seemed angry and tense at the villains.
"Change in plans, guys." Sly spoke up. "We need to take down those legs. Save the eye for later."
"Sly is right." Rayman agreed.
"12 of us, 7 of these legs." Sonic analyzed as he dodged a Blue Eco laser coming from another leg. "You figure out how to make this equal." He told everyone as he sped away from the laser.
Ratchet ran towards the leg that spun more mini robots. "Clank, get me the plasma whip." The robot obligates and handed his friend one of his favorite weapons. The whip ignited with bluish purple plasma, as Ratchet used it to tangle the leg up and cut some of the connections down.
Sly then ran up the foot, when he got to where the cuts were he threw his hat between them and activated the self-destruct feature. The hat exploded and the leg detached; Sly jumped on it and ran along until he made it back to where Ratchet was.
"Dax, you're up." Jak turned to face the ottsel.
"Aye Aye, sir!" Daxter said with pride and a small salute, as he jumped from Jak's shoulder and ran towards the electricity shooting leg Sonic was dodging. The orange animal hurried across the leg; getting a wrench in his hand as he did and started working on getting this leg detached.
"Anytime now, Dax." Sonic said as the laser was still following him.
"Hold on a sec…" Daxter continued to work on it until he felt the leg was starting to shake off. "Done!"
Sonic quickly turned around and homed in on the leg, causing it to detach as well. "That's 3 down!"
While Daxter was helping Sonic out, Jak got near 2 of the legs. He could have felt the power coming from them; they were filled with Dark and Light Ecos. Jak made contact with one of the legs, his skin and hair turned purple and his eyes turned deep black. With the Dark Eco inside of him, Jak managed to use the Eco inside the leg to his advantage and break the leg containing it with the added strength. Once he was done with that leg, he moved towards the other one; only this time, the light eco inside of him shined through. Now all blue and with glowing white eyes, Jak used the wings he had in this form to cut the other leg. "Make it 5 legs down!"
With only 3 legs left to hold it, the robot started losing altitude. "We almost got it! Aim for that eye!" Rayman screamed.
"Way ahead of you!" Tails came in The Tornado, shooting everything it got at the said eye.
Toothless started heading towards the eye again; Hiccup and Merida on his back and both were ready with their weapons. Merida notched an arrow in her bow while Hiccup lit it up with fire from his blade. The princess shot the eye with the burning arrow, and Toothless fired his plasma blast at the eye as well.
Once that was done, Ratchet and Jak both shot the eye repeatedly while Sly climbed up to the head of the robot, and hit the eye with his cane. Michelangelo got his Kusarigma chain ready and threw the sharp side of it at the top. Sly grabbed it, impaled the top of the robot's head and slid down the chain in order to get out of harm's way as the turtle pulled the robot down to the ground.
As the robot fell, Rayman delivered a well charged up fist directly to the eye. Sonic followed up with a spin dash to the same place. Eggman and Razorbeard both ejected a second before Sonic could hit them and they ended up on the ground near Sonic and Tails's house.
As Sonic came out from the other side of the robot, Tails picked him up in The Tornado and they landed near their friends.
"That was so awesome!" Michelangelo shouted with joy.
"Definitely a worthy fight." Clank added.
Toothless let out a load roar that signified victory. "I think Toothless approves." Hiccup responded to that, causing everyone to laugh.
The group looked at the fallen robot, all satisfied with their accomplishment. Their happiness, however, was shored lived as they heard laughter coming from behind them. "Didn't you forget something?" They all looked backwards to see Eggman grinning evilly, while Razorbeard held the Chaos Emeralds along with the Master Emerald.
Sonic was quick to react, rushing towards them, but when he was just an inch away from reaching them; they portaled away. "No…" Was all Sonic could say at the moment.
Everyone's face fell to the ground with disappointment; they did so well destroying the robot that they forgot the reason for its attack in the first place.
"Sa, whit naw?" Merida was the first to speak.
"Tails, what's our fastest way to get to TCRI?" Sonic asked.
"The same traveling arrangement we had back at the forest." The fox replied.
"Not fast enough." The hedgehog slammed his fist towards his palm angrily.
"I think I have a faster way." Ratchet said, everyone turning their gazes towards him. "Clank, where is The Dimensionator?"
Clank pulled the said helmet like machine out of his container and gave it to Ratchet.
The lombax put the helmet on his head and told everyone to hang on to each other, which they did. "Take us to TCRI." He said before he pulled the string operating the helmet, teleporting them to a point near the said lab.
Now, it was time for the real fight…
Wasn't that a fight?
We are not far from the ending guys! Infect, the climax pretty much starts in the next chapter! Almost there!
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