Return of the Knight of the Wind
Chapter 2 – The Egg Knight Army's Debut
"This place looks oddly familiar…" thought Sonic as the original trio rushed in between the gaps of the plentiful trees of the Deep Woods. "I know King Arthur was just a story, and a great one at that, but…"
"What shall it be? Will you abandon your sword and leave?" questioned Sir Lancelot as he challenged Sonic to a duel. Sonic and Lancelot were in the dusk of the Deep Woods as Sonic was on his way to see the Lady of the Lake. However, before Sonic could get there he was confronted by Lancelot, following the orders of the Black Knight.
"Sounds good to me!" said Sonic amused. "Fool! A knight never flees his foe!" scolded Caliburn…
"May I have your name, apprentice knight?"
Before Sonic could answer Caliburn jumped into Sonic's hand and stated, "He is Knave the Hedgehog, and he accepts your challenge!" "Hey wait a second here!"
"Very well, then! Brace yourself, Knave the Hedgehog!"
"Hello? King Needle Mouse we have company!" shouted Knuckles, snapping Sonic out of his thoughts and into the situation at hand. "We could use some help with these Egg Fighter things over here if you're not too busy!"
Within a second Sonic looked at what was going on. Debris from the once breath taking trees had fallen on the ground as a small army of Egg Fighters surrounded the trio. Furthermore, the Egg Fighters oddly emulated the style of knights of the middle ages with shining red and yellow metallic armor, a variety of long & short swords arming them, and shields with the dreaded Eggman logo dead center protecting them.
"Heh, this is new, Eggman never gives up does he?" Sonic confidently spoke. "Was this what you were worried about Tails? It'll be over in a flash!" Sonic then jumped up high and with a curling motion executed a flawless series of homing attacks, knocking down each target as he went. "Too easy, piece of -" Suddenly the Egg Knights rose up ominously and lunged towards the trio, raising their swords to strike the ground which the trio stood upon. Remembering an old technique, Tails quickly grabbed onto Sonic & Knuckles and quickly flew them to a tree still intact. "That was a close one, nice thinking with the ol' Flying Formation Tails! They're tougher than they look… Huh?"
The tree that the trio stood upon shook violently as a group of Egg Knights slashed the trunk. Sonic whispered to Tails & Knuckles and quickly acted by boosting down the trunk of the tree with Tails & Knuckles spin-dashing after the Blue Blur and head on with the foes. As they looked back they found the Egg Knights once again standing back up with nothing more than a few scuff marks. As the Egg Knights' swords started to glow, Sonic grabbed Tails & Knuckles and said, "Oh crap! We need to get away ASAP or we'll be deli meat!"
"Huh? Why- Whoa!" both replied as Sonic boosted them out of the Egg Knights' range. "What was that about?"
"They were about to execute a Soul-Surge, an extremely fast and powerful strike that could've killed us," replied Sonic.
"Ok... Well at least that's over with…" added Tails.
"Oh ho ho ho, not by a long shot kitsune."
"Eggman?"
"Don't you mean Baldy Nosehair?" corrected Knuckles. "Heh heh heh…"
"Damn you Sonic and annoying Wisps! I thought you forgot about that… Anyways, I expected you guys to arrive by now, so I had this created!" At Eggman's command appeared an Egg Knight with an extra amount of armor around its shoulders, chest, and knees, dual broad swords, and with the small legion of standard Egg Knights to boot, this didn't look good.
"What, no long, boring speech Eggman?" joked Sonic. Well that's better than the speech filled with annoying Amusement Park jokes…
"I've got better things to tend to than rant at a pincushion that doesn't appreciate my speeches anyways! Attack Egg Paladin!"
Author's Note: Well it looks like the trio has run into their first conflict hasn't it? I hope you enjoy and please offer feedback!