Chapter 6. Hero's Meeting
Sonic and Tails managed to catch up to the wagon, and found that it's passengers, the boy and the tiger were now floating in the water.
Ok not floating but they were holding on to a rock, with the boy on the tigers back clearly unconscious, and the tiger holding on to the rock.
Just then the tiger noticed them, and called out.
"HELP PLEASE HELP US!"
"Sonic they need our help" Tails said "What are we going to do?"
Sonic thought for a moment, then he noticed a CD player near the wagon tracks.
Curious he walked over to it, and turned it on.
Tails looked at him "Sonic how is a CD player going to-"
"Testing One Two Duck Duck Goose"
Sonic nearly dropped the CD player in shock.
"Who said that looking around" he asked.
"I did"
Sonic looked down and Realized that the voice came from the CD player
"You can talk?" Sonic said still surprised at the CD's players sudden ability to talk.
"Last time I checked, yes" the CD player said. "Say your not Calvin"
"Thank you Mr. Obvious" Sonic muttered.
"I demand to know, Where Calvin is and What you have done to him" The CD player said.
"He is in the river" Sonic said looking at the the boy and his tiger.
"Oh" The CD player said "How did they get there?"
"They rode the wagon into it" Sonic replied.
"Ah I Remember I must have fallen off during a bump" The CD player said.
"Anyway can you save them now" Sonic said "Because I don't think they can hold on to that rock for much longer"
"Oh right, by the way I didn't introduce my self My name is the MTM short for Mini Time Machine" The CD player said.
"Oh" Sonic said "Now How do I use you?"
"Oh it's easy just say a command and I will do it for you" The MTM explained.
"Erm, Deploy life-raft" Sonic said.
"Deploying Life-Raft" The MTM said.
Just then a life raft shot out of the CD player, almost knocking Sonic back, it landed in the water near the boy and the tiger.
The tiger noticing this swam over to the life-raft and got on, with the boy on his back.
Then two slots of the MTM opened, and arms came out, with hands, they then grabed onto the life-raft and dragged it towards them.
Sonic and Tails watched as the CD player dragged the raft towards them, eager to meet these strange visitors.
Hobbes was beginning to lose grip of the rock when the raft came.
He know as he lost grip that this was the end, trapped and drowning on a far away world, he didn't even get to tell Calvin how he really felt about his inventions.
Then he noticed a raft not far from him, and he swam to it and managed to get on with it Calvin on his back.
Then the raft began to slowly being dragged to shore, he then noticed two long arms that led back to a CD player.
Now that he was a bit closer he could see the fox and the hedgehog more clearly, The hedgehog was blue, had gloves on his hands, and red shoe's.
The fox had two tails, he also had gloves and red shoes.
At last the raft reached shore, and Hobbes got up with Calvin in tow, he didn't even thank them yet, instead what did he do?
Because of the excitement made him hungry, he got out 5 can's of tuna, preferably the bumblebee tuna brand.
Can you believe that? I don't.
After the 5 cans of tuna and licking off the tops of the tuna, it was then that he finally noticed them.
"Oh hello" Hobbes said "Didn't notice you there."
"We've been here for 5 minutes" The Hedgehog said "and now you notice us?"
"Hey I was eating 5 cans of tuna" Hobbes defended "How am I supposed to notice you"
"Forget it" The Hedgehog said.
"Okay" Hobbes said "Oh and thanks for saving me."
"No problem" The hedgehog said "The CD player actually saved you two"
"Oh Right" Hobbes said "Can I have the MTM player back?"
The Hedgehog then walked over and gave the MTM to Hobbes.
"Your Very lucky you know" Hobbes said as he used the MTM to scan Calvin "He usually zap's a person he doesn't recognize or plays along and then does something to them, it happened a few times."
Just then the MTM said "Calvin's alive but unconscious, don't worry he'll come wake up in half an hour."
"Hmm a half hour is 30 minutes" Hobbes said scratching his chin. "That's a long time, what should I do for 30 minutes."
He then turned to the hedgehog and the two tailed fox. "Maybe I could get to know these two." he said to himself.
Hobbes then smiled "Yeah that's a pretty good idea" he said.
He then walked over to the hedgehog and the fox.
"Didn't catch your name by the way" Hobbes said. "Names Hobbes by the way"
"Sonic the hedgehog" The hedgehog said as he shook hands with Hobbes "and next to me is Tails"
"Charmed" Hobbes said "So who want's to hear stories about tigers?"
Ratchet was trying to find someone who knew the planet he was stranded on, but so far there was no luck.
Now his goal was to try to analyze the planet up and down, but it's hard when sometimes the ground is floating in the air.
Your probably wondering why Ratchet didn't teleport aphelion over to him, well the teleport was on cooldown for an hour and even if it was on, Ratchet was doing as the script says to do.
"Well Clank" Ratchet said "Look's like were stuck here, and we have not seen anyone that looks like they know the planet"
"Hmm I have no idea Ratchet" Clank said "and your Aphelion teleporter is on cooldown maybe we can wait for that too cooldown and then we can get out of there"
"Yeah good point" Ratchet said.
Then they felt the ground began to collapse, they looked down, and saw the ground falling.
Then they fell too.
Calvin began to woke up.
The last thing he remembered was hitting the water, and then he was on shore.
"Ugggg, my head" Calvin said feeling his forehead "Hobbes, where are we, and wheres the wagon?"
But Hobbes was nowhere to be found, just then he noticed the MTM next to him.
"Oh your awake early" it said "About 10 minutes earlier then estimated"
"What happened?" Calvin asked rubbing his head.
"Oh you just got in the water and went unconscious" The MTM explained "Hobbes managed to get you to surface, and two-"
"Spare me the details" Calvin said "We need to find Hobbes"
"Oh I already have him coordinated" The MTM said "Just follow the directions I give you"
Calvin followed the coordinates, to Hobbes before Calvin stopped, as he heard a voice.
"Hmm that is very interesting Hobbes tell me how it ended"
Calvin hid behind a nearby rock and peeked, out of his cover.
He saw Hobbes talking with two animals, a blue hedgehog and a yellow two tailed fox. Hobbes was telling them a story about tigers.
"and so after a long war, the tigers and lions made a truce, the lions would get africa, and the tigers would get asia. Ending the war between tigers and lions." Hobbes told them
"Huh" The Hedgehog said "that is pretty interesting."
Calvin stared at the scene in shock, no one could almost tolerate Hobbes stories. Then he made a plan in about three seconds.
Before the MTM could tell him that they weren't evil, Calvin charged at him.
"BANZI!" Calvin yelled as he charged.
Sonic was thinking on what he though of the story, when he heard the cry.
It was the same boy that Hobbes had on his back when he found them, he had yellow spiky hair, a red shirt, black pants, and red shoe's.
And he was charging right towards him.
Sonic easy sidestepped him, and the boy crashed into the ground.
Hobbes noticed the boy and sighed.
"Ah yes" Hobbes said "This is Calvin, the person I live with and creator of the MTM"
Calvin managed to get up and began to yell at Sonic, Tails and Hobbes.
"HOBBES HOW COULD YOU BETREY MY TRUST TO THESE TWO CREATURES? THESE TWO CAN BE KILLERS, AND STALKERS DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT HAPPENED LAST TIME?"
"Is he always like this?" Tail's asked as Calvin continued ranting.
"Yeah pretty much" Hobbes said "Usually this increases when he see's me with someone he does not recognize"
"THESE TWO COULD HAVE CAUSED DISASTERS, OR THEY COULD BE MIMES, AND DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH I HATE MIMES"
Sonic and Tails exchanged glances.
Then Sonic asked Hobbes "How long will he go on like this?"
"He usually stops at around the 10 minute mark" Hobbes said checking his watch. "and there still is 8 minutes left on the clock."
"Guess we'll have to make the best of it" Sonic said.
So Sonic told him about most of his adventures while Calvin continued to rant.
After about 8 minutes Calvin calmed down, and charged at Sonic again.
But this time Hobbes appeared behind him and grabbed him by the shirt.
How he got behind Calvin so fast I do not know.
"Whoa Calvin" Hobbes said "These two are friends"
"Yeah and how do you know that" Calvin said accusingly.
"Because they saved our lives" Hobbes said "If it weren't for them we'd be dead"
Calvin stopped struggling, "What do you mean?" he said.
Hobbes explained what had happened to them
Calvin paused and looked at Sonic and Tails.
"You two saved us?" Calvin asked bewildered.
"Yes" Sonic said
"You helped us out of the water" Calvin asked again.
"Yes" Tails said.
"You used the MTM to deploy a life raft and Helped us to shore?"
"YES" both Sonic and Tails said.
"Ok" Calvin said "Hobbes can you put me down so I can meet your two new friends."
Hobbes put him down, and Calvin walked over to Sonic and Tails.
"Names Calvin" Calvin said shaking Sonic's hand.
"Sonic the Hedgehog" Sonic replied "Introductions aside, do you two know how you got here?"
Now lets cut to Jak and Daxter, I know, I know you want to see Calvin and Hobbes tell Sonic how he got here, but bear with me, we need to focus on the story.
Jak was having no luck finding someone who knew the planet, and whenever he tried to contact someone from his world all he got was static, whatever happened in the portal messed up the communication devices.
"Well Jak" Daxter said "Looks like were stuck here for the rest of our lives all because you had to go on that stupid rescue mission"
"Hey, it wasn't as bad as the time we got ambushed by Bandits" Jak defended.
"I told you that was a trap" Daxter said "The next thing we know something might come up and try to kill us."
Just then the sound of a thud rang out, then a groan.
"Di..Did you hear that Jak?" Daxter stamered, pointing behind a rock.
"I heard it Dax" Jak replied as he put his back against the rock, and got out his MorphGun.
He then switched it to blaster mode, locked and loaded, and then slowly peeked on the edge of the rock.
What he saw surprised him.
And then we cut to a few minutes earlier with Ratchet falling.
You just hate me for doing this are you?
Anyway Ratchet landed face first, onto the ground while Clank was in helepack mode and landed safely.
Ratchet got up groaning, and looked at Clank standing near him.
"I don't get why you didn't attach yourself to my back so we both could have landed safely" Ratchet said slowly getting up.
"Oh sometimes I do that" Clank replied.
Ratchet rolled his eyes, and just then he heard the sound of a gun loading.
Ratchet and Clank looked at each other.
"You think their friendly?" Ratchet asked.
"Not sure" Clank replied.
"Always good to make sure" Ratchet replied, and clank nodded back.
He put his back against the wall and checked the ammo on his blaster, there was still plenty left.
Very slowly with his back against he went to the edge of the rock, an then brought himself over it, and what he saw surprised him.
Sound Familiar?
When both Ratchet and Jak rounded the corner, they found themselvs pointing their weapons at each other not knowing if they were a Friend or a foe.
"Who are you?" Jak asked, it was hard making a conversation with someone who was pointing a weapon at you.
"I was about to ask you that myself." Ratchet replied. "I assume you don't know this planet."
"No I don't" Jak replied "I just somehow landed here."
"So why don't you let me pass so I can continue on my way" Ratchet asked.
"Make me" Jak said.
Looks like we have a stand off.
Anyway they both knocked their guns out of their hands, making them use their melee attacks, Ratchet managed to hit Jak with his wrench, but Jak was expecting the next attack so he ducked, and hit Ratchet.
Now you wondering where Clank and Daxter were during all of this.
Well they were watching them fight, without making an effort them to help them.
"So you don't know how you got here either" Clank said looking at Daxter.
"No, all I know is that a vortex came up and pulled us in and there we were." Daxter replied.
"Hmm a vortex" Clank said. "We got here the same way."
Eventually all of Ratchet and Jak's fighting could not be seen, and a dust cloud had appeared.
And it rolled towrds Clank and Daxter, and they to were pulled into the fight.
Eventually they rolled down a hill and they here heading towards someone, or some people.
Let's zoom in on those people, keep zooming in.
And now were back to Sonic, Tails, Calvin and Hobbes, where Calvin and Hobbes were finishing up their story on how they got here, with the help of the MTM of course because when they were getting pulled into the vortex Calvin and Hobbes were screaming their heads off.
"So you were attacked by Robots, and then taken here by a vortex." Sonic said, thinking on the important details of the story.
"Yeah pretty much sums it up" Calvin said.
Sonic thought about it for a moment "My best bet is that those robot's were sent by eggman, the vortex however I can not help you with."
"Whoa whoa whoa Back up." Hobbes said "Who is this Eggman, is he like a half human half egg?"
"No Hobbes, Eggman is not a half human half egg." Sonic said holding back a laugh "He is one of my enemies."
Before Calvin could ask who Eggman was, he noticed a dust cloud that was heading towards them, before they could react they were consumed by the dust cloud.
All at once everyone was fighting so it was impossible who was punching who.
"Ow who's foot in my face!?"
"Get your foot off of my hand."
"Stop hitting me"
"I'm not hitting you."
"Then who is?"
"Give me my wrench back"
"Here's your stupid wrench."
"Ouch you didn't need to do that."
Needless to say this went on for quite a while
Eventually, the fighting stopped.
When the dust cloud died off, the hero's were bruised, and beaten up in many places.
They slowly got up, which wasn't easy when you have one person piled up on another.
For a moment they all looked at each other, trying to figure out what they all saw in front of them.
Then they started fighting.
Well except for Sonic, Tails, Hobbes, Daxter, and clank.
So technically only three of them were fighting.
"Honestly why would you have a orange rat on your sholdier" Ratchet yelled at Jak "At least Clank is useful, for somethings"
"Dax, is useful for somethings" Jak defended. "He's just not willing to do them that's, all"
"Oh Sure" Calvin said "I have two compainons with me now, one was a tiger who used to run away from danger, and this" He then pulled out the MTM.
"Ohh i'm scared of the CD player" Ratchet said sarcasticly.
Calvin then fired the laser out of the MTM.
It then electrocuted Ratchet, but he got back up.
Meanwhile The people who were not arguing were starring at the argument that was before them.
"So how long is this going to go on" Sonic asked.
"To be honest I do not know" Hobbes said "At least with Calvin's rants I can tell when hes done"
"I have nothing" Daxter said, and he turned towrds Clank "You know when this is going to be finished?"
"No I'm afraid not" Clank said.
And they watched as the argument continued.
"Honestly, for a six year old, isn't that a bit to advanced for you?" Jak asked looking at the MTM.
"Would you rather have a laser hit you?" Calvin asked holding up the MTM at Jak.
Jak instantly went quiet.
"Thought so" replied Calvin with a smirk on his face.
And so the arguments continued.
By then Sonic had enough of the arguing.
"Ok I think that's enough" Sonic said.
Instantly the arguing stopped just in time to because the argument was breaking down into a fight, and everyone looked at Sonic.
"Look I already know that we don't really know each other much, but that does not give us a reason to fight." Sonic said.
"True" Hobbes said.
"So it's best that we all know each other" Sonic continued "First I want to know where your from, and please one at a time."
Jak went first "Well me and Dax are from Haven City." He said.
"Haven City?" Sonic thought to himself "That's doesn't look like a place around here."
Then Ratchet came up "Me and Clank from the planet Veldin." he said.
"Veldin?" Sonic thought "Now that's a planet I do not know."
Finally Calvin went up "Me and Hobbes are from Earth." He said.
Sonic thought about it for a moment thinking of the places that the group has told.
"So my best guess is that you are all from different planets." Sonic said to the heroes.
"That guess is probably as good as any." Ratchet said.
"I agree" Jak said
"I agree too" Calvin said.
"Ok now that we all know where your from can you tell me your names?" Sonic asked.
Oh look the camera is panning up, watch that camera pan.
Keep watching it, and then we see a drone, and at that point the camera stops panning up.
Oh look were zooming into the drone, and now were going to its lens.
And now we are in a base and it has a computer screen with the the hero's introducing themselves.
Then we see a man, the same man we have seen back when he picked up Eggman, and Called the 3 villains a while back after Calvin went into the vortex.
And right now he is not happy.
"This is exactly what I had feared" The man said slamming his hands on the table. "If they unite and work together, all my plans go down the drain."
He looked out of his window, which viewed the emptiness of space, thinking of what he should do.
"I know that Eggman isn't sending any more of those assassin robot's, but I can override the machine that makes those robot's, and send them out to kill the heroes." The man said with an evil grin on his face.
Then he walked towards the table and pulled out a laptop, then he typed in a few commands, clearly an override code, made the machine make 8 robots, and then he sent them against the heroes.
"I know they can handle 2 robots, lets see if they can handle 8" The man said.
And at this point he would have done an evil laugh, but he didn't, he was a diabolical mastermind, he didn't have time to do villain cliches.
Now lets get back to Sonic shall we.
Right now the hero's had told each others name, and had finished describing how they got here.
"Ok so you were all attacked by robots then sucked into a vortex." Sonic said.
"Yeah that pretty much sums it up" Jak said.
"Ok all we know how we got here is that we got sucked up into a vortex and then brought here, and before that you got attacked by robots." Sonic said remembering all the details of each of the heroes stories.
Then Jak noticed something passing behind a rock, suddenly one of the robot's that attacked three of our hero's jumped out, lunging towards them.
Jak acted fast and shot the robot, but unfortunately, not in the head
"Guys" Jak said "We have company."
Everyone turned and saw the robot that was slowly getting up.
"Well at least it's one robot" Calvin said.
Just as he finished the sentence, 7 more robot's came up.
"I stand corrected." Calvin said, with a more worried look on his face.
The robots then surrounded our hero's in a circle.
"This is bad" Ratchet said looking around at the robot's surrounded them.
"Indeed" Clank replied "I don't know how were going to get out of this one."
"You know Hobbes remember how I said on how I wished something exciting would happen." Calvin said. "Looks like I got my wish, but not what I expected."
"Agreed" Hobbes said. "I'm gonna need a bunch of tuna after this."
The robot's then got their weapons ready.
"So anyone have ideas on how were going to get out of this?" Sonic asked the group.
Authors note: And another cliffhanger, Looks like our heroes are in a bad situation, how are they going to get out of this?
Also Don't be afraid to Review, Just because the story is in progress doesn't mean you can't review it, and I would really appreciate it if you did. Anyway see you next week.