Shadow ran through the complex, back to where Blaze, Mina and the others would be, or he hoped they would be. He had left so quickly before, he didn't even give them time to catch up to him. They could be anywhere. Zipping rapidly through the halls, he saw evidence of where he himself had been, fallen lights, busted walls, and broken doors. He didn't really care what he broke down, this was a monstrosity in the first place.
The black hedgehog finally made it to what looked like a hanger bay, but it was covered in blood.
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Abyss stared at the weasel and hyena, more flunkies of the crazed fox? She charged her bazooka, but then seeing how Mina, Copper and Ash were looking at the weasels under the control of the other two, she realized what had happened. These two knew that the weasels' comrades would come to rescue them, so they had made and army that could destroy their enemies in which their foe could not attack.
Dante eyed the hyena, then stepped forward. "Me and you, we have unfinished business... How fun."
Sentinel cackled, laughing and tilting his head in a crazy manner. "If I were alone, I would most certainly be terrified. But now I have the upper hand mongoose. Perhaps I shall have you as my own this time."
"You still think you can control me? What a pity, you ragged thing you." The mongoose smiled at him, finding amusement in this.
Fang did a double-take on Copper, he hadn't seen his cousin in quite some time, years in fact. Taking his gun out, he slung it back and forth on his finger, watching his relative, who was staring at him with hatred in his eyee.
"Still runnin' with the goody goodies aren't you? I would have though you would have changed by now!" Fange the sniper snickered.
"Join you? After what you have made our kind? I don't think so." Copper muttered as he watched his opponent.
"We'll see how good you are, attack them! Catch them alive, they will be fun play things!" The hyena yelled with a dark laugh to his slaves.
The weasels behind them charged without second thought, completely controlled by the hyena and their once fellow weasel. Fang hopped back and forth on his heels as Copper charged at him, and dodged nimbly out of the way.
"Oh I would have expected you to have learned more. Guess not. Hahahaha!" The fanged weasel leapt out of the way again and again, until Copper pulled out a machine gun.
"One thing hasn't changed, my taste for weaponry!"
Fang's smile faded as he began hopping about, trying to avoid the rapid gunfire now spewing from his opponents machine. Copper quickly stopped shooting, his cousin was too fast, even for this weapon, he was waiting until he rand out of bullets, so that he could be sure not to miss. But that wasn't going to happen this time, no he was going to be smart.
"You'll never hit me! Hahahha!"
Instead of aiming at the weasel himself, Copper aimed at hi effects. Off went the fedora, now riddled with holes.
"Hey! THAT'S MY FAVORITE HAT!" Screamed Fang, dropping his guard for a split second without realizing it.
Copper took advantage of it, and quickly shot his cousin in his right leg.
The purple weasel fell to the ground, unable to support himself.
"Arggggggggh! What the HELL?!"
Copper walked up to Fang the Sniper, now lying on the floor cradling his bleeding leg, and aimed at his face.
"Oh uh... I didn't mean it, I was never going to kill you, or anything you know! I mean how could a weasel kill family, it's dishonor..." Fang stuttered, staring at the muzzle of the gun.
"DON'T! Talk to me of dishonor! You were prepared to shoot me at any moment, being a thief, lier and scoundrel, and what you did to our kind! Handing them over to that insane creature you call a master because he pays you! After all that you speak of dishonor?! You may be smart, but it ends here."
"Does it?" Fang smiled evilly, snapping his fingers. A mutated weasel leapt from the group that was attacking the others and jumped onto Copper's back where he hadn't been looking, too busy focusing on his one main enemy. In the moments it took for Copper to pull the creature off of him, Fang was gone.
Across the room, Sentinel had surrounded himself with his slaves, making it difficult for Dante, Meiou, or the others to even get to him. The mutated weasels were attacking ferociously, biting and clawing without any heed to their once old friends, completely out of control.
The hyena pulled out a device, seeing that some of them were now being knocked out with the flat of Dante's large blade. Without warning, more appeared, this time weasels, mongeese, ermine, and many other species. Surrounding not only the hyena but his foes, they were also ready to attack their old kin.
Mina and Blaze could see that their forces, accept it seemed Abyss and Dante, were beginning to tire. Standing together, they used their powers to combine the magic they had been storing to create a shield aura, covering only their party, and keeping out the mutatnts.
"This isn't good... Though I can fight my true skills lie in deceit, not this. They can't be fooled, they're controlled through chips in their minds, linking them to the hyena. Cobalt was smart, he knew I'd be among the ones to come." Meiou said.
Silver was standing next to the healers, holding their hands, lending thme his psychic energy to help keep the shield up. "Isn't there some way, to stop them all at once, besides just knocking them out one by one? We don't have time, or the numbers to round them up one at a time and put them in the ship!" He asked.
"It's losing battle, to just take a few of them and come back for the rest, the fox will get more slaves, even if it's not from us. He had the portal to the human world as well. He'll take the creatures from that land if he has to, if only to get new stest subjects." Dante said, they had forgotten he'd been here before.
"How many portals does he have? Does he have the QuickTails one as well?" Meiou wondered with a grin on his face. And idea had come to the rabbit.
"If he didn't how do you think he got to the QuickTails in the first place?" The mongoose replied.
"Perhaps we do have chance then. Brove knows if we come back, that we'll be bringing back either mutated captives, or weak creatures that have been under a lot of stress. As a back-up, he's sure to have a force waiting, to handle our needs." The rabbit began.
"Oh yes, he will. We know the royal fox, he tried very hard not to be unprepared. He's had experience with Cobalt before." Blaze the cat replied from her spot in the center of the groupd with Mina and Silver, her eyes blazig with the magic of fire.
"Good then we need to get them," Meiou getsured to the mutants attempting to break into the shield, "to the portal. Once we can get them through, willingly or not, Brove will most definitely have nough of his Kitsune Warriors to handle them. Besides, they have the Organization to help as well." Meiou finished.
"Well, let's get started, we don't have all day!" Dante said, just as the shield broke apart, the healers unable to hold it up any longer.
Dante the mongoose leapt upwards, if they were to try to trick the mutants into going towards a portal, the hyena woul dhave to go. As stupid as he was, the hyena would see the trap, and order them away, using robots to take their place if he had to.
Landing on a rafter near Sentinel, obviously the hyena thought high places were safe the mongoose swung his heavy sword about in a circle in one hand. This was going to be easy. The hyena was still stupid enough. Sentinel leapt away, attempting to flee, he had surrounded himself with hi slaves, and then was foolish enough to leave their protection by going to the rafters. And now, they weren't even in the room with him, his foes on the gorund had lead them out of the room while he was distracted. Even if he called them to him now, it would be too late, they would never get to him on time.
He stopped running, and though a coward he was, he had one last trick up his sleeve. Unlike Fang, he had allowed experimentation on him to a more extreme level. He had had the dark gene of the Black Arms copied and placed in him, he was tired of being weak.
Flicking his tail back and forth, he concentrated hard on the gene, activating it, bringing it to life in his system.
Dante stopped a bar away, the hyena was up to something, he was standing there, unmoving. Sentinel suddenly opened his eyes, they were now glowing a bright yellow, the pupils unseen. His fure began to ripple, growing longer, thicker, his claws also lengthening, and his teeth becomes fangs. Growing nearly triple in size, he no longer looked like the weak, ragged hyena. He was a monster beyond the mutations that Cobalt had originally created.
"Oh good. It's about time you turned and fought, I wasw getting bored." Dante said to him, not disturbed at all by the transofrmation. He had faced far worse then this before.
The mutated version of Sentinel howled and roared at him, having loswt its mind due to the change. That was a thing he hadn't even though of trying to fix, and he was going to pay for it.
Not waiting for a signal to charg, sentinel attacked recklessly, his cowardice gone and replaced with blind rage.
The mongoose leapt easily out of the way, nicking the beast with his sword here and there as he went. It wouldn't take long for a creature this big and reckless to make a mistake, and then he would deliver a killing blow.
The hyena didn't slow down from what were now scratches fromt he sword, he continued to claw at his attacker, always missing though, something his size was not agile, he had only brute force.
Finally, an opening appeared, and the mongoose took it slicing downwards. As thick-boned as the mutant was, the blade cut through the flesh at the ankles of Sentinel, and the monster fell to the floor stories below, his right leg severed.
Hitting the bottom of the hanger with a sickening thud, the creature lay sprawled, unmoving. Dark blood pooled around him, his mouth forever open in a howl of rage.