Chapter 23 Puppet & Madness
Vector, Espio and Jets team was having trouble hitting a red male rabbit as they ran across the land. Jet swing his feather fan-sword at the foe but miss and almost fell from his board. Storm drove his hover bike to Jet side. "boss are you okay?". "what are you doing! Go fight!" yelled Jet. "sorry boss! Yes boss!". Storm pulled away from Jet and was now next to the rabbit and tried to punch him but the rabbit easily dodge it and smack Storm in the face with his long ears. Storm almost crash his hover bike if it wasn't for Espio who appear out of nowhere and help Storm balance out. Just then Wave and Vector pulled be hide the rabbit with their boards. The rabbit turn around and was now running backwards. "the name is Puppet. You can't hope to win!". "we will!" said Vector as he did his fire breath move. Puppet was now cover in fire but didn't look like he wasn't in any pain. Wave took out her long wrench and smack Puppet into a huge crater. All five stop and saw Puppet standing up and rising his hands. Soon millions of wire came out of his hands and fiend like puppets appear. "…five vs. million. Like I said before. You can't hope to win. Now go my children's!". Jet and the others quickly fallback as the puppets took chase. Wave and Jet hit a few with their weapons while Vector and Storm punch and destroy like twenty or so. "…we can't outrun them forever! We must target the puppet master" said Espio as he took down a few with his large throwing stars. "but how can we get close?" said Wave as she help Espio on to her board. "one team fights the puppets while the other the team takes down the puppet master". "sounds like a plan!" said Jet. Vector just grab two puppets and crush their heads and turn to Espio. "so who will take the puppets then?". "we'll take the puppets. The two of you take down the rabbit!" said Jet. "okay then! Lets go Espio". Espio jump off of Wave board and him and Vector turn around and ran toward Puppet while Jet and his team started to fight the puppet fiends.
Meanwhile in a valley, Shade and Rouge was fighting a brown bear who was laughing like a mad man. "this is fun! More! More pain!" laugh the bear as Shade and Rouge hit him. The bear wildly tried to attack them but kept missing. Rouge use her hip drop and the bear became stun long enough for Shade to use her leech blade on him. "FUN!" yelled the bear as he somehow broke the stun and did a bear hug on Shade. "MADENESS! MY NAME IS MADNESS!" yelled Madness as he squeeze Shade even more till Rouge use her black wave on him. Madness let Shade go and was now confuse as he attack the air. Shade grab Rouge hands and Rouge use her thunder shoot and Madness was hit and stun again. Shade jump from Rouge and attack Madness chest with her blades. Madness use his roar attack and Shade went flying into Rouge. Both girls got up and rush to Madness. Madness tried to tackle them but both girls dodge it. Rouge got close and did her screw kick on him. As Madness step back, Shade grab him and tried to do a sleeper hold but Madness jump back and slam her under his body. Madness then rolled out of the way as Rouge did her drill kick and hit Shade. Rouge was then grab in the face by Madness and he slowly crush her head. Shade crawl to Madness and use her Leech blade on his chest. Madness then wildly toss Rouge and pick up Shade and did a other bear hug on her again but this time Shade head butt him. As he lay on the floor, Rouge pick up Shade and did a tag team move. Rouge use her hip drop on Shade which sent her flying at Madness. Shade started to spin and took out her blades. Madness couldn't get out of the way in time and Shade drill right through his chest. "DIE? FEAR!" scream Madness as he disappear. Both girls watch as a brown emerald disappear into the sky.
At that moment Jet and his teammates was taking care of the fiend puppets. Wave grab one puppet with her huge wrench and crush it then threw a pack of TNT at a group of puppets. As the TNT went off Storm came driving out of the smoke and ran over ten puppets. Then punch a puppet over to Jet. Jet cut the puppet in two and continue to cut down rows of them. While back with Vector and Espio, they jump into the crater and rush over to Puppet. Vector jump into the air and did a hammer drop and smash Puppet into the ground. Then Espio threw a throwing star at him. Puppet summon a puppet fiend to take the hit. Then he jump out of the ground and detach the puppet fiends wires from his left hand and threw his wire at them. Espio and Vector dodge it and counter by throwing Espio at Puppet. Espio went into ball mode and tackle him. Then use his tornado attack and sent him flying into the air. Vector jump and grab him and slam him into the ground again and fire his music notes breath at his chest. Puppet quickly grab Vector head and his wires cover Vector body. Suddenly Espio saw Vector rushing over to him. Espio was about to block Vectors punches. "Vector! What are you doing?". "…I can't control my body!". Espio saw the wires and realize what he must do. "hold on!". Espio took out a dagger and tried to cut the wires but couldn't. "sorry but my wires are harder than steel". Espio curse under his breath and jump off of Vectors back and threw the dagger at Puppet but he was able to catch it in time. "good try but…huh?". suddenly he realize the dagger had a paper bomb. Puppet right hand was blown off. "you'll going to pay for…what!" said Puppet as something block out the sun and quickly charge at him. Puppet went spinning as Jet pass him. "Wave!" yelled Jet. Wave threw a c4 clay on Puppets chest and active it. "NO!" scream Puppet as he blew up. As the smoke clear, a yellow emerald disappear into the sky. Vector was free from Puppets control. "where's Storm, Wave?" said Jet. Suddenly Storm landed on Jet. "did I miss the fight! Hey where the boss?". they pointed down and Storm freak out. "Boss! I'm sorry!". "…STORM!".
End of chapter 23