Let me start by telling you all that I suck at writing titles! In the last chapter I barely tried because I was in such a hurry to get it started. Anyway I'll just get started with this one. Read and Review!
Chapter 13: Legend True! Path to Angel Island!
"Hey bar tender! Get off your drunk ass and bring me another beer!" Shouted an angry huge half-robot male. He was large in size and had visible, yellow-colored, and mechanical muscles. His whole body was covered in yellow metal. His arms, his fist, his feet, everything! He had one eye in the middle of his head that was V-shaped. He also had a yellow cape that matched his attire. The human form of him is locked inside the robot shell but for now he takes the identity of a robot.
"Okay. Here you are sir." Said the bar tender as he, while shacking, gave him the beer. The robot took it and chugged it down. He soon noticed the bar tender was staring at him weirdly. Come to think of it, everyone was looking at him strangely. It took him a few minutes to realize something was up. Then he processed it.
"…Oh I get it. You are all staring because I'm a robot who can drink beer. Well, let me inform you. I don't just drink the beer I taste it too. The best part is I can drink as much as I want without suffering alcohol poisoning. Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!" He said aloud. He can actually taste the beer but it has no health risking affect on him. Being a robot he had that advantage. The bar tender tried to act like it was any regular, normal situation.
"Okay then…" The bar tender got up and put the robot's check on the table. The robot saw it at the corner of his eye and picked it up. The next outburst that happened scared everyone.
"WHAT! 6 DOLLARS FOR 3 LITTER BOTTLES OF BEER!!!" The robot yelled. Everyone nearly fell out of their seat when he started to yell.
"Well yes sir… it is a lot of beer… and besides it's only 6 bucks?"
"A lot of beer? Any number below 100,000,000 is considered little to me!"
"So then why is 6 bucks high to you then?" Asked the bar tender. The robot stood in an awkward pose for a few minutes until his sweat dropped.
"… Because… Because shut up!" he yelled while slamming his fist into the wooden counter and breaking it in half. The scared bar tender ran from behind the counter and out the door. The now terrified costumers of the bar were about to leave when the door shot open. The robot turned and saw a man wearing a police uniform, black sunglasses, a blue hat, and had a toothpick in his mouth. The robot was suddenly intrigued by this person's appearance.
"There any trouble?" He asked in a cool, calm and laid back voice.
"And just who the hell are you?" asked the bulky yellow robot.
"I'm the sheriff. I'm sheriff McMussly! And you?"
"I'm known as Robot Commander Igneous Rock!" shouted the robot.
"Well Igneous, looks like I'm going to half to take you down town." He said while advancing toward him. As soon as he did the crowd cheered.
"Yeah! It's Sheriff McMussly! He'll save us like he always has!" shouted one man.
"Yeah! He even took down the Crab Crook the other day. He was on the FBI's most wanted list!" Shouted a woman.
"Go McMussly!" shouted another male.
"Heh, heh, heh." McMussly chuckled. "You hear that? Those people are all cheering for me. You do know the good guys always win right. The Crab Cook found that out the hard way and so will you." He stated.
"Oh really?" Igneous said unfazed. "You do know I'm a robot right?"
"I don't care if you're a robot. All robots are is mindless pieces of machinery slapped together in under a week. They all do what you say. So what if you have sort of a free spirit. It'll be easy knowing you won't resist." The sheriff said pulling out handcuffs. They weren't big enough to fit on the robot's hand, for his hands were bulging, but the sheriff didn't know that. Igneous smiled at this guy's stupidity. He decided to have a little fun with this.
"Okay you got me." Igneous said while holding out his hands. The sheriff kept advancing toward him with a huge grin on his face. Just then Igneous lifted up his foot and slammed it on the ground. The bar shook a little but nothing major happened.
"Heh, Heh, It'll take a little more then a small-UHF!!!" the sheriff started before a huge boulder burst through the floor he was under and slammed into him hard. The boulder then crashed through the ceiling and shot straight up in the air, taking McMussly with him. The whole crowd stared in fear and amazement. How'd the sheriff lose so easily?"
"You'd better watch who you're calling mindless. I also have the power to control all type of rock! Oh yeah and that Crab Crook guy was really your brother who you paid to do all those crimes then let him escape from prison as soon as you arrested him. I love snooping around in other people's business!" Igneous said while walking over to the counter, picking up a huge tub of beer, and left the bar. Everyone stared for a while before the boulder came back down and slammed into the bar. It created so much turbulence that it demolished the entire bar and took out a few trees in the area as well!
Satisfied with what had just happened, Igneous decided to head back to his base. Just then his communicator began beeping. He didn't hesitate to answer it.
"Hello! Igneous Rock here. Who are you and why the hell should I give a damn?"
"What was that Igneous!" Shouted Eggman from the other side.
"Oh, Eggman! It's you! I was just saying that to uh… I got nothing."
"Okay then. Listen I'm in a good mood today and I want to keep it that way. That's why I'm sending you out on a mission to Angel Island."
"Angel Island?"
"Yes. Darkness said the cruise ship exploded so the next thing to happen in the prophecy is for them to go to Angel Island. I want you to go there and steal the Master Emerald. That gullible echidna I talked to will think Sonic and Tails are there to steal it. So while he is fighting them you sneak by and take it."
"But sneaking isn't what I do. I'm am a body builder, not a ninja."
"Body Builder? You're a freak' in robot!"
"… Oh alright… where is this Angel Island?"
Meanwhile in an unknown area
"… Ugh… what the hell happened? I feel like I was pounded on by a jackhammer…" Sonic's eyes opened and his was staring at a man wearing a white outfit with bagging white pants that folded into his pointy and small shoes. He also has white bandanas around his head and wrists. Sonic lied up and saw that many other men were behind him that had the same attire on.
"Hello. It seems your awake."
"Yeah… who're you?" asked the curious and confused hedgehog.
"I'm make that clear when your friend finishes awakening." He said pointed to the fox on the bed next to his. Sonic looked at the bed beside him.
"Tails?" He said. The fox stirred and opened his eyes to see many people and Sonic staring at him.
"AHHH!" Tails shouted in fear.
"It's alright… I think…" Sonic tried to reassure.
"Who are all you people?" Tails asked.
"I am known as King Watts. This is Watt palace." The king said gracefully.
"Wow… really…well how'd we get here?" asked Sonic.
"We heard an explosion below us and then heard a crash on the roof. I had my men check outside and we found you two lying there unconscious. It's a good thing you weren't in any bad shape." King Watts stated.
"Whoo Hoo! My plan worked!" Sonic shouted.
"What plan?" Tails asked.
"My plan was that I'd crash through the ships generator and cause it to explode. Once that happened we would get jet propelled in the sky. Odds were we would land on land."
"The odds were probably A million to one." Tails explained.
"Boy am I glad the one came through huh." Sonic said before laughing. Tails just sighed.
"Really now? It could've been due to the fact that our palace has its own magnetized polarity. This could've caused you to crash into our roof since you were close enough to it." Explained King Watt.
"… Oh… well thanks for saving us. Come on Tails." Sonic grabbed Tails' arm and jetted out the room and down the hall.
"Oh mister hedgehog, I must inform you that…!" King Watt started but the speedy demon was already gone. Sonic ran toward what seemed like the front door and sure enough was. Sonic opened it and stuck his foot out. His foot, however, felt nothing touch it. Sonic looked down at it and saw that he was also looking down at clouds! Sonic looked all over the outside area and saw that they were in the sky. The hedgehog quickly put his foot back inside and slammed the door in a panic. This made him let go of Tails in the process.
"WHAT THE HELL!!!" Sonic shouted completely confused and freaked out.
"I tried to warn you." King Watt approached them both. "When you were blasted in the air you never came back down. Instead the spiritual powers of the castle pulled you both toward the roof since you were close enough. Watt Palace is a palace in the sky." He explained.
"Really?" Asked Sonic.
"That's cool! I love being in the sky!" Tails said aloud. The fox's fascination with flight had only been fueled by the newly acquired information. In reality, the minute he woke up, he could tell they were in the sky. He always got this weird yet comforting sensation when he was in the air. It made him feel at home and at peace.
"Actually it isn't as cool as you think Tails. We're here with no way to get back down there!" Sonic shouted.
"Actually we have flight transportation that can help you accomplish that task." King Watt explained.
"You do?" Sonic asked calming down a bit. The King nodded. "Great! So is their any food to eat here?" Asked a hungry hedgehog.
A few minutes laterSonic and Tails were seated at a large rectangular table with many residents of the palace seated around it. Sonic sat at one far end off the table, Tails sat beside him, and he King sat at the other end. Not paying any attention to their manners, the fox and the hedgehog began to eat vigorously to no end. The people across the table watched the disturbing scene of them eating till their hearts content.
"They eat as if they had black holes for stomachs." One guy whispered to another. Sonic had just finished eating his 4th chilidog that was surprisingly supplied in this palace. Tails had just finished eating his 3rd and was moving on to his fourth.
"Uh…so mister hedgehog, where pray tell are you headed?" Asked King Watt. Sonic picked up his 5th chilidog and began eating and talking to the King at the same time. This made smacking sounds inside his mouth every time he spoke.
"We're 'smack' on our way 'smack' to Angel Island." Sonic said to everyone. The crowd gasped when they heard that. Sonic and Tails both stopped eating.
"Is that bad?" asked the confused fox.
"My good man, it is nowhere near safe to go to that island." King Watt stated.
"So it really does exist?" asked Sonic.
"Oh yes. It does exist."
"What's so bad about going there?" Tails asked.
"For years me and my men were aware of the island's existence, however, we never actually sent anyone to explore there. Once I tried it. I sent my toughest warriors to search and explore there and we waited for their return. But they never came back. I sent more and more there to find out what happened to my warriors but the result stayed the same." King Watt explained.
"Sounds scary." Tails admitted.
"Indeed. My soldiers were very tough I might add. It would take an incredible force to take them down. The only report we got back was a letter from the island."
Sonic raised an eyebrow, clearly intrigued.
" It read that whoever is there has defeated my men. It also read that if we ever try to capture the master emerald again we would pay the price. That was basically it." The king continued.
"The master emerald?" Sonic asked.
"Yes. It was said to be an enormous sparkling green emerald that was past down from generations to those who lived in the echidna clan. It's history reached back to before 4000 years ago."
"That's a long haul!" Sonic said surprised.
"We don't know much about the island or who is guarding it but if they have the Master Emerald then they can't be up to any good."
"Why? You said the Master Emerald was passed down to a bunch of echidnas right? So whoever is guarding it is an echidna." Tails said. The King shook his head in response.
"Impossible. Legend also says that all the echidnas in the echidna clan were taken out by a powerful being known as Perfect Chaos. Whoever is there is obviously not an echidna or at least one of the echidna clan." Explained the king.
"Are you sure that not a single echidna survived that attack?" Sonic asked.
"Positive." The King stated. Sonic sat and thought long and hard.
"Okay then I've decided!" Sonic said getting up and putting his foot on the table.
"Hey I just cleaned that!" Shouted a man in the background.
"You've decided what Sonic?" Tails wanted to know.
"I've decided to go to Angel Island and bring all your men back!" Sonic announced.
"Really? You'd do that for us?" the King asked surprised.
"Of course." Sonic merely said.
"But Sonic, it sounds scary. I don't want to go to an Island and never come back." Tails pouted. Sonic smiled at the fox and winked.
"Don't worry Tails. You're big bro won't let his little bro disappear." Sonic reassured.
"Big Bro…little bro?" Tails mumbled hearing the words from the hedgehog's mouth for the first time. "You mean we're not just friends but… brothers? COOL!!!" Tails shouted completely pumped up. This made Sonic smile wider.
"People of Watt Palace! I vow to go to Angel Island, defeat the force that has captured them, find your soldiers, and bring them BACK…" Sonic shouted. The whole room flooded with cheers. "…After I get six more chilidogs." Sonic finished. Everyone immediately stopped cheering and made an anime fall.
Outside the castleKing Watt led Sonic, Tails, and everyone else out the back door. This lead to a huge path way in the sky. Sonic and Tails both looked down the seemingly long stone pathway that reached across the sky and penetrated the clouds. It seemed that they had a long way to go.
"This is the 'Halo path'. It is the very path my soldiers took to get to Angel Island. Go across it and you will reach Angel Island in a few months." Explained the King.
"DWAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!" Both Sonic and Tails shouted. "A FEW MONTHS!!!" They shouted again.
"Why yes. This path is extremely long. At normal passé it would take a few months like I don't know 28 months."
"THAT'S NOT A FEW MONTHS!!!" They both yelled again.
"Maybe, but it is the only way to get there."
"Oh well. It's not a problem. I'll just run there I should get there in a few…uh…days tops." Sonic said unsure.
"Actually if you go extremely fast you will still be moving at a passé' that only gets you there in a few months." The king said.
"What! Why?"
"Because there are powerful forces that lurk across the pathway. If you can defeat them or get by them then the time limit to reaching there would decrease. Say it's 28 months now; it will be 28 weeks when you defeat the first obstacle. Then it would be 28 days, then 28 hours, and then 28 minutes, to 28 seconds." Summed the King.
"Okay. So all I gotta do when I get to these obstacles is to kick their asses and then I get there faster, sounds easy enough." Sonic said while stretching.
"I can help to." Tails said still fired up.
"I know you can buddy." Sonic said. The hedgehog wasn't that worried about the fox. Should a problem arise that kitsune demon inside him would always go off. Sonic wondered how that was affecting the fox physically. He wondered if every time he transformed into that monster it was destroying him. Tails might be strong but if that kitsune demon gets to strong for Tails' body to handle, he might…
"Are we going now Sonic." Tails asked.
"…Huh? Oh yeah. Lets go!" Sonic said grabbing Tails' arm and sped down the pathway.
The King watched as they ran and said one last statement.
"Good luck… suckers!"
On an unknown island"I can't believe that we made it out of that one alive." Bartleby stretched himself out as soon as he and Amy got out of their escape pod.
"…Uh huh." Amy merely said sadly.
"I mean never in a million years would I suspect that such an event would occur and that we would be one of the few survivors. It truly is a miracle!"
"…Yeah." Amy said again with a huge amount of noticeable sadness in her voice. Bartleby quickly caught up on the fact that she was sad and in need of comforting.
"Something troubling you Amy?" He asked as he approached her.
"…Well…I…nothing."
"I see…so your worried about Sonic right?"
"How'd you…"
"Oh please. It's written all over your face. You have a crush on him don't you."
"Well yeah, I mean, I do, but since you're here"
"Amy, don't worry about me. You're parents put the future husband and wife hold on us. Now that they're both gone I'm not your fiancé any more. You're free to date or crush on whoever you like." Bartleby explained.
"…Yeah…I guess but…"
"Don't worry about the hedgehog. He will be fine."
"Are you sure?"
"If you can survive facing off against deadly super weapons like those robots and face huge airships complete with multi functional cannons and lasers then I think a sinking boat won't be a problem."
"I guess but…he can't swim in water."
"He probably doesn't need to swim."
"You sure?"
"Positive."
"...Okay then...I guess it will be okay." Amy was getting her confidence back.
"Let me tell you a little secret. I really wasn't that attracted to you." He admitted.
"Hey!" Amy shouted playfully.
"Oh come on. Deep down I know you felt the same way."
"Well…I guess your right." Amy smiled, as did Bartleby.
"I guess you're not the rich tyrant I thought you were. Thanks Bartleby." Amy said.
"Anytime."
"Listen…I'm going to stay a little longer on this island and find out if anyone knows anything about Sonic here. You take the escape pod and head toward land which I'm sure is due North of here." Amy suggested.
"Are you crazy? If I leave you might not have any way of getting back?"
"I'm aware of that." Amy said.
"What on Earth could make you want to decide to stay?"
"…True love." Amy merely stated.
"You…you know where we are don't you?"
"Maybe you should hurry up and leave. Don't worry about me I'll be fine." Amy said.
"You are an amazing girl." Bartleby said walking toward the pod and hopping in. "I bet you're happy you're not a rich girl anymore." He said closing the hatch and taking off across the water.
"More than you could ever imagine." Amy said before she walked off into the snow-covered forest of the island.
Back on The Halo Path
Sonic's feet were getting seriously tired from all this running. This usually happened very rarely but it was happening now. Eventually his feet came to a stop. Him and Tails sat on the stone pathway and panted.
"It's taking so long Sonic. Are we there yet?" Tails whined.
"Well I don't know Tails. Does it look like we're there?" Sonic said through numerous panting.
"I thought we would at least meet the first boss by now." Tails said while lying on his flat back.
"Yeah it has been an hour. Actually I'm not completely sure how it works here on this path but I know in reality it has been a hour." Sonic explained.
"Whoa! We're far!" Tail said looking at the direction they came. Sonic got up and looked down the same direction. No sign of the palace was visible.
"Wow we have gone far!" Sonic turned his attention to the rest of the path. "And I think we still have a long way to go." Sonic said getting up and walking instead of running this time. Tails immediately followed the hedgehog's actions.
After an hour later of walking and stopping a few timesSonic and Tails were now in a different section of the path way and they could tell. The once blue sky filled with loads of white clouds was now a gray sky filled with fog as thick as pea soup.
"I guess we are entering the first obstacle. Be on your toes and watch out for anything that hints of danger." Sonic warned as he continued ahead. Tails nodded and as soon as he did his foot hit something.
"What the…" Tails looked down and saw a skull at his foot. Tails was about to scream when he remembered he was not supposed to get scared. Tails saw that Sonic was a little ahead of him so he went in pursuit after him.
"Boy, I wonder if there is anything out here after all." Sonic said looking sideways when he really should be looking down. Tails walked past many areas that Sonic did and found skulls and other bones found in an individual all over the place. Tails had to clamp his mouth shut to refrain from screaming.
"Sonic…I sense danger." Tails said while poking Sonic's shoulder when he finally caught up. Eventually Sonic felt his feet hitting something as well. Not only his feet but also his legs too. Sonic looked down and saw many, many, many bones covering his feet. He looked over at Tails as well. The poor fox was shacking with fear, he had tears welling up in his eyes, and he had his mouth clamped shut for no apparent reason.
"I think we're almost there. Hang in their buddy." Sonic said as they approached a wide spaced area. Both Sonic and Tails stepped into the area that was equally covered in bones and junk and looked around the quiet area. They couldn't advance anymore because there was no walkway past this point. They both tried to make out two figures at the end of the wide spaced area. When the fog cleared from their spot they were both visible.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" Tails shouted releasing all the screams he had saved up till this moment. Sonic ducked when Tails screamed as if it were a barrage of bullets shooting at his ear at once.
"Whoa, whoa, chill out. They are just statues." Sonic informed him. Tails looked at them more closely and found that Sonic was right. They were two giant snake statues sitting at the end of the area.
"Heh, heh, I knew that." Tails said while calming down.
"Sure you did." Sonic said.
"WHO DARES TO ENTER OUR DOMAIN!!!?"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" Tails screamed again at the sound of the scary voices. Sonic looked around the whole area to see who it was and he found nothing. Then his eyes fixed on the statues. Their stone eyes were now shining with red.
"It's…It's the statues?" Sonic asked.
"STATE YOUR BUISNESS HERE!!!" Said the statues again. Sonic didn't know what was going on but he decided to give them an answer.
"We've come to get by you and reach Angel Island." Sonic said formally.
"IF YOU WISH TO PASS THEN YOU MUST FIRST DEFEAT US IN A DUAL TO THE DEATH!!!" The statues shouted.
"And how am I going to fight you? You're both statues." Sonic asked. Suddenly there was the sound of crackling rocks coming from the statues. They began to rumble and no sooner had they turned from sheer rock to live snakes with flesh covering their bodies.
"They're alive!" Shouted a freaked out Tails.
"Ha, Ha, Ha, this will be fun." Sonic said getting into a fighting stance.
"PREPARE TO BE DESTROYED!!!" They both shouted.
"No thank you." Sonic said advancing toward them. The snakes held their ground. Sonic jumped up and met their faces. Before he could do anything, however, he was met with large gusts of purple haze that emitted from the snakes' mouths. Sonic fell backward when the haze contacted his face and landed hard on the ground. Tails immediately ran up to him.
"Sonic, are you alright?" Tails looked down at his friend a bit worried. Sonic said nothing. Instead he smiled, put his thumb in his mouth, and started sucking.
"Ga Ga." Sonic mumbled.
"W-what happened to him." Tails asked.
"YOU'RE FRIEND WAS MET WITH ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF OUR PURPLE HAZE. WHEN THE HAZE MAKES CONTACT WITH A MORTAL IT MALFUNCTIONS THEIR BRAIN CELLS UNTILL THEY HAVE A MIND OF AN INFANT!!!"
"You mean Sonic thinks he's a baby?"
"CORRECT!!!"
"No! Sonic snap out of it! I can't fight them alone!" Tails said nudging the hedgehog's body. Sonic did nothing but roll slightly on the ground and chuckle.
"YOU HAVE NO CHOICE!!! NOW FACE US OR DIE!!!" The snakes lunged at Tails and the baby brained Sonic immediately after the statement was said.
"Why couldn't it have been me?" Tails asked himself.
There you are. I hope you don't mind that it is a little shorter than the last one. My computer is still on the fritz. Will try to update soon. Review please.