Now begins the first of the short 'Sagas', each one focusing on a particular character…sort of.
Updated once every five days, don't cha' know.
Song used:
City Escape – Sonic Adventure 2 (On Youtube, of course)
Metallix Saga: Chapter 5 – The Doctor's New Base (And he seems to have a lot)
It was the next morning within the house. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, the description was pretty basic, and the grass was green. We join Tails in the living room, lying on the couch and watching television. He looked bored as he flicked through the channels. Blaze walked into the room moments later, yawned and then saw down on the couch seconds after Tails sat up.
"Good morning, Tails." Blaze said.
"Good morning, Blaze, how was your sleep?" Tails asked.
"Perfectly fine. So where is Sonic right now?" She asked, looking around.
"He's out speeding down the streets."
Somewhere downtown, Sonic was atop a downhill road with a skateboard as City Escape from Sonic Adventure 2 began playing. He jumped on the board and went down the hill at blistering speed as he yelled, "Wooo!" After several moments he turned to the right at an intersection and dodged a few cars ahead before turning right and going down another road and hitting a ramp. Sonic slowly flipped while spinning several times, then after landing he dodged cars going down the left and right sides of the road.
He soon approached a gate and flipped off his skateboard and over the gate before touching the ground at 00:42. He ran on ahead and slide tackled a robot while going over a hump then spin attacked another before swiftly moving left and right through a park as he dodged trees in his path. He then hit a speed pad which faced left, and then he hit another just before spin dashing through more robots then going down a hill. He hit a spring which sent him diagonally left, and then hit a few more before landing on the streets again at 01:14.
He began jumping across cars for a short while before bouncing higher up using a spring, spin attacking several flying robots then going through an air hoop and hitting a few more springs before running along the side of a building at 01:29. He made it to the top at 01:43 and jumped across the rooftops then jumped onto a rail at 02:07, and started flipping to the left and right rails before jumping off moments later, moved left and right around cars and came to a halt at Tails' house.
Sonic entered the house and into the living room. As Tails noticed him, he got up and said, "Sonic, I know what we gotta do now."
"What?" Sonic asked.
"Go visit Eggman's base."
"Because he's behind almost everything that happens?"
"Yeah, that. And I know where it is."
"How?"
"I'll explain on the way there."
Knuckles walked in seconds later, looking a lot angrier than usual. "The Master Emerald was stolen again. I left it for like 10 minutes just to get something to eat, and then someone made off with it. I'm really in the mood to punch something right now."
"Good." Sonic replied. "Keep that attitude for when we arrive at Eggman's base. Let's go, guys!" Sonic said before running off.
"Good luck, and let me know if you see Eggman Nega or something." Blaze said before they left.
The news suddenly came on with some sounds being heard in the background. Moments later, a young teenage boy with grey pupils and brown hair with three long sharp strands of hair sticking up slightly walked on screen and sat down. He wore a black suit of armor with several spaces with neon green lights flowing around it and he had a titanium arm cannon attached to his right arm. He picked up some cards and read them out. "Hello, kind viewers, I'm now your host on this news network. Just call me Animan."
"I wonder if this kind of thing happens often…" Blaze said to herself.
Sometime later, Sonic, Tails and Knuckles approached Eggman's base in the middle of a forest. Tails landed the tornado near some trees and the three of them climbed out.
"So Tails, how did you know where Eggman's base was, all of a sudden?" Knuckles asked.
"With our help, of course." The trio heard a familiar voice reply. Shadow and Rouge dropped down from a tree nearby seconds later and walked up to them.
"Shadow, still showing up at the most appropriate times, I see." Sonic said with a nod.
Knuckles turned to Rouge and said, "Hey, did you steal the Master Emerald again?"
"Sorry to disappoint you, but I haven't tried to steal it recently."
"Yeah, I'm sure…"
"Well, talk all you want out here, I'm going in." Sonic said before running on ahead and into the base as the steel door opened. Knuckles ran in seconds later.
"So how did you find his base, Shadow?" Tails asked as he turned to him.
"By looking around, of course. By the way, have you seen any other hedgehogs running around at the moment?"
"More hedgehogs? Not really. So anyway, I should catch up with those guys, take care." Tails waved as he ran off.
In Eggman's control room, he watched Sonic and Knuckles speeding through his base with Sonic spin attacking robots, flying off ramps and using springs while Knuckles beat up robots, pulled levers, climbed walls and unlocked doors as they proceeded. Eggman switched off the screen and waited a few moments. After a few explosions, the door flew off its hinges and Sonic and Knuckles walked in.
"It's been a while, Sonic." Eggman said as he spun round.
"So what have you been up to these days, Eggman? Has Metal Sonic turned against you again recently?"
"Indeed he has."
"Well you don't seem too bothered." Knuckles replied.
"I've been quite busy recently, so as long as he doesn't interfere with my plans, he's free to do what he chooses."
"One more thing, did you take the Master Emerald again?"
"I can assure you I haven't been anywhere near it in sometime now, after all, there are others besides me."
"But you cause most of the problems."
"True, now if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to work." Eggman said before spinning round again.
Sonic looked left and right before saying, "That's it? No ambush of robots? No gargantuan robot with your face on it? Not even a witty remark making fun of me?"
"I wasn't exactly prepared for your arrival, so you'll have to forgive me for not living up to your expectations."
"Whatever, you keep making robots and I'll keep knocking 'em down." Sonic said as he slowly walked towards the exit.
Knuckles glanced over at Sonic, and then looked over at Eggman. "So, where is Metal Sonic right now and why is he smuggling things with an army of robots?"
"I know nothing of his methods, nor does it concern me. The exit is behind you."
"I've still got my eyes on you." Knuckles said as he walked backwards towards the exit while pointing at Eggman.
As Sonic slowly walked back, Tails came towards him and stopped. "Sonic! Did you see all those Eggman's robots? There were like, dozens of them!"
"I know. Let's get outta here."
"Okay."
Back at Tails' house, Blaze was still watching the television when she heard Amy rush down the stairs and into the living room.
"Where's Sonic?" She asked.
"Sonic, Tails and Knuckles went to Eggman's new base...so, um, yeah."
"Well he'll most likely be back in a few hours; in the meantime, you could come shopping with me."
"Sure, why not, I was getting bored of the news anyway. Do all news reports last an hour?"
"Not the ones I've seen."
Back in the forest, Sonic, Tails and Knuckles made it back to the tornado within a few minutes and flew off into the sky. Shortly after the plane took off, Crystal appeared beside Sonic.
"Good morning, Sonic." Crystal greeted him. "How are you this pleasant morning?"
"A little confused with all this weirdness going on. So where were you earlier today?"
"Well I stayed up late last night, so I didn't wake up early and earlier, I had a long shower, and did some hero stuff this morning."
"That's great...I guess."
Tails and Knuckles glanced at each other, and then continued with what they were doing.
"So I found a chaos emerald." Crystal said before taking out a purple one and giving it to Sonic. "Those Metallix guys had one."
"You beat them up by yourself? I'm curious to find out how good you are, I assume you'll most likely be overpowered."
"I'm not overpowered; I'm just cool like that."
Tails looked over the edge and saw something glowing red within the dozens of trees in the forest. Tails landed the plane near the light and the three hopped out while Crystal watched. The red sparkling light quickly became a circle of fire as psychotic laughing was heard which Crystal recognized as she floated down to Sonic. "Well, we seem to have found one of my friends."
"Your friends are weird." Sonic glanced over at Tails and Knuckles. "But then again..."
The fire suddenly disappeared and there stood a figure. In the form of a young teenage girl, she had red hair which she tied with a blue bow at the back of her neck, and red eyes. She covered herself with a black cloak with flames painted on at the bottom. She also had red demon wings and a long tail and underneath the cloak she had a standard black attire which covered the necessary parts...and flames. She had a scythe which had a blue point at the bottom, the rest of the stick was red and the blade at the end was blue.
"Haaaaaahahahaha! How dares to challenge the great demon lord, Wildfire?" She said with a grin.
"Wildfire?" Sonic asked, looking at Crystal.
"She couldn't think of anything good. Her real name is Amber."
"She has a pretty cool scythe."
"She stole it from some demon princess who looks like a little girl. Amber isn't really evil; she just does nonsense like this to scare people, but it never works."
Sonic turned to Tails and asked, "Hey Tails, you scared?"
"Not really."
"Told ya." Crystal said with a nod.
Amber pointed at her. "Hey! Shut up, Crystal!"
While Tails and Knuckles were totally confused, Crystal pointed at Amber and responded with, "No, you shut up!"
"Let's take our business to another area."
"Fine by me." The two of them left, while Sonic, Tails and Knuckles stood in silence.
"Let's just forget this happened." Knuckles suggested.
"Agreed." Tails nodded.
In some random city centre, Amy, Cream and Blaze were travelling down a row of shops, with Blaze carrying half a dozen of Amy's bags while she continued to keep buying things. She ran over to a Sonic plushie stand and said, "Oh my gosh, look at that!" She then ran over to one shop with a blue Piko Piko hammer with the Sonicteam logo on it in the window and yelled, "Look at that!" She then ran over to SA2 who was selling kunai and yelled, "Look at that!"
"Buy something or go away." SA2 replied.
"Amy, can we please go?" Blaze asked. "You're buying too much."
"Oh, this is nothing; you should see her on Sunday's." Cream replied.
At Tails' house, the trio soon arrived and found Shadow and Rouge waiting there for them.
"What're you guys doing here?" Tails asked.
Shadow cleared his throat. "If I recall correctly, you invited me yesterday."
"Oh, right."
"But that's not really why we're here."
Rouge threw them a card as she said, "We found this."
Knuckles picked it up. "Da hood of Metallix?"
"It's a secret organization where those Metallix members meet up, discuss things in meetings, and plan out their world domination tactics. Team Chaotix helped out with this research, though I still have to pay them..."
"You'll think of a way." Shadow replied.
Tails stroked his chin as Knuckles handed him the card. "So now that we know the name of this place." He then turned it over. "And the location, apparently, so how do we find out more?"
As the five of them were in a deep state of concentration, Blaze walked in and up to Sonic. "What's going on here?"
"Some evil business as usual, where did you go?"
"Shopping with Amy, it wasn't that bad but it was sure tiring. The next thing you know, I've gonna start asking if my usual outfit makes me look fat."
"Let's hope that day never comes."
Shadow stood next to Tails before saying, "I think someone needs to build a robot, complete with decent voice acting and camera, then we sneak it into the base among its fellow robots, then learn what we can about this organization."
The others nodded in agreement.
"Now we just need someone capable of building a highly advanced and convincing robot." He then nudged Tails. "I repeat, we need someone with good machinery skills." He nudged him a few more times, much to Tails' annoyance. "We need a-"
"Alright!" Tails yelled as he threw his hands up. "I get it! Fine, I'll go waste hours building it right now for you impatient guys who don't take me seriously!" Tails sighed as he walked away.
"That's our Tails." Sonic said as he gave him a thumbs up.
Thought I'd try something new...
Song used:
Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
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It was late at night and Sonic was wide awake, lying down in bed as the song started. He slowly got up and rubbed some sleep from his eyes, then left the room and slowly walked down the hallway, down the stairs, got his gloves and shoes on and then left the house. He closed the door, spun around and took off at 00:39, running along a straight path for a few seconds before bouncing off large rocks then leaping off the last one.
Seconds later he moved through traffic so fast he knocked cars out the way before hitting three springs, flipping then speeding along a rail. He flipped off and ran along a tall building, towards the ground then through the streets again as he picked up speed at 01:05, leaping as he spun into a ball and bounced across several cars. He quickly drifted round a corner and jumped over cars coming his way, then grabbed a lamppost and spun round another corner and ran past a woman at such a speed her dress flipped up. Sonic quickly ran back seconds later and handed her a note before quickly taking off again at 01:22.
Sonic leapt up onto a rooftop and ran along it, jumping across two others then hit a ramp at 01:30 as he closed his eyes and sang along moments before slamming right into a brick wall.
Sonic limped into Tails' house a bit later and up to his room. As he walked down the hallway, Tails opened his door and saw Sonic. "You got stopped, huh?"
"I still had a good time, either way."
