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Songs used:
Shrouded Forest – Sonic and the Black Knight
Excalibur Sonic Transformation – Sonic and the Black Knight.
Ninja World Saga: Chapter 38 – Supreme Ninja Cream
As Cream entered the castle, she immediately noticed how cliché it was with the stone pillars, the royal carpets with lions wearing crowns on them, lit torches around the large room, and a dozen knights wondering around the areas up ahead. After taking a look around, Knuckles contacted her via telepathic communication. "As you can see, it's much to be expected. You can either just fight your way through all the guards, or you can sneak past them all, and there's an achievement for sneaking through the first half of this level in under 2 minutes without the guards seeing you."
"How do I know when I've reached halfway?" Cream asked.
"When you get there, you'll know." Cream nodded and put on her serious face, as well as her ninja face, and proceeded to speed through the level by only moving by when knights weren't facing her direction. After a minute and 45 seconds of running through near identical rooms, she made it to a tunnel just before the achievement, 'Way of the Ninja' popped up in the top left corner.
At Tails' house, the others were still currently sitting in the living room doing entirely unimportant things. After a short while of thinking, Sonic suddenly said, "Hey guys, what's your character alignment?"
"Character alignment?" Amy repeated.
"Yeah, what kind of person are you in terms of good and evil. Before I begin…" He turned to Sonny and yelled, "You're a copycat! You're totally stealing my gimmick! Get out of my house!" he said before pointing at the door.
"That's cold bro!" Sonny replied.
"Cold as ice." Sonic said as he put on black shades…and then quickly took them off. "Anyway, I seem to be listed as Chaotic Good."
"Hey, I'm also Chaotic Good!" Amber exclaimed. "High five!" she said before high fiving Sonic.
"I must also be Chaotic Good in that case." Sonny said.
"Copycat." Sonic retorted.
"I would probably be Neutral Good if Chaotic Good means to cause unnecessary destruction for fun regardless of who you're fighting against." Crystal said, in her opinion.
"I guess so too." Tails added.
"Same here." Amy chipped in.
"I'd probably qualify for that too." Mads said with a shrug.
"I'm somewhere between Chaotic Good and Neutral Good." Shade said. "Depending on the situation."
Tails got to his feet. "Even though everything is cool and all at the moment, there are still quite a number of things which need to be answered. Why have I never seen that pyramid before where you guys sealed away some ancient evil and yourselves along with it? Why haven't we been informed on more than just your names and little info about where you come from? How are you guys vital to the plot? How did Amber beat me, Sonic and Knuckles so easily? And when does this story actually get down to serious business?"
Amber sat up. "We'll answer the first sometime in the future. The same with the second one. I looked up all about you guy's moves and such on Wikipedia, ya silly goose. And this really gets down to serious business in about two short sagas. "
"For serial?" Tails asked.
Amber nodded. "For serial."
Back in the gaming world, Cream was running down the tunnel as Shrouded Forest from Sonic and the Black Knight played in the background. She whacked several knights out the way as she charged through the narrow path. Near the exit, two knights carrying long swords in both hands appeared. She knocked the swords out of the first one's hand and then flipped over him, then did the same to the second before throwing the knight through the rock wall ahead.
Cream ran outside, which seemed to be a small trail along a grassy path with a waterfall and rocky cliffs nearby. Along the path, as she went up a hill, she kicked a knight in the face as it spun round and jumped over a ledge. Cream then moved through a valley where archer's above shot arrows at her, soon before taking down more knights and dodging more arrows. She then spotted a trail of platforms to her right by a rock wall and hopped onto the first one. She jumped to the next, then wall jumped between two walls to another high above.
She leaped and landed on the top of the wall where the archer's were, and then made her way across, deflecting arrows with her yo-yo's and proceeding to knock them off the wall. Afterwards, she jumped on a wooden log going down a river nearby which sped up rapidly. After several moments Cream approached the waterfall and jumped onto a rail nearby which curved from left to right as it ascended over the scenery. She soon jumped off at a bridge containing a dozen knights and a few archers, and she moved along, bringing the pain and deflecting arrows with the waterfall in the background. After getting across the bridge, she ran along a clear and narrow path to a second castle further ahead as the song stopped. She cautiously entered the castle, and immediately noticed the carpet in front of her was rumpled, so she straightened it. After a while of emptiness, she reached a force field with five spaces nearby and was left utterly confused.
Just then, Sonic, Shadow, Knuckles, Amy and Blaze showed up and they each stood on one point, deactivating the force field. "Looks like we got here just in time." Knuckles said.
"Did you guys also come through the long way?" Cream asked.
"No, Sonic noticed the backdoor was open after you made it here, so we could just pass by and reach this point without having to go the long way again."
"Just like a video game…" Cream said to no-one in particular. "So I'll go on ahead and stop the emperor, wish me luck!" She ran on ahead a second later as the other's wished her luck. She arrived in a large dark chapel with half a dozen lights shining through the glass windows around the room. The emperor stood near the end of the room with his back turned. He wore a black cloak and a red and black helmet over his face. "However cliché it may sound, I really have been expecting you. Word spreads pretty fast on the internet."
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The emperor logged onto a internet forum and looked at a topic titled, "Our day has come!" posted by FastestDoucheAlive. He clicked on it and looked through the comments.
FastestDoucheAlive: Gaiz, I just got word dat the chosen one is here, now it's only a matter of time before we're all free!
Original Username: Pics or it didn't happen.
FourtyTwo: Hold on, I heard the same thing, so he might be right about this.
YesMan: I agree with FourtyTwo.
Unoriginal Username: hey shut yo mouth original. This **** is serious man. We don't need that smugness.
SA2: I say we go help her blow **** up.
SA3: Hell yes! SA2 has the right idea, and I totally don't know him in real life!
FastestDoucheAlive: Hey, are you two brothers?
SA2: Nah, only me and SA are related, SA3 and SA4 are just people we know quite personally.
FastestDoucheAlive: Ahh.
SA3: Totally.
Unoriginal Username: then why you guys not get with dat hawt ninja chick? You guys must be pansies or sumthing.
SA3: I've tried dude.
YesMan: I agree, about SA4 being hot that is. Why isn't she on today?
SA2: Time of the month.
YesMan: That don't make no sense.
FourtyTwo: I think it makes perfect sense, therefore it does.
SA: Hey guys, I just logged on to say that I'm going to cheer on the chosen one, so Unoriginal Username, I can't come to your party.
SA2. What he said.
SA3: Same here.
SA4: What those douchebags said.
FourtyTwo: Sadly I can't come as well.
FastestDoucheAlive: Watching my soap opera.
Original Username: Dude.
Unoriginal Username: gawd you all suk. Stupid ass faggots.
SA4: No you suck! Crazy dumbass!
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"So as you can tell, I was looking forward to this."
"But why are you controlling some of the ninjas and trying to eliminate them all?" Cream asked.
"Ninja's are overrated. So are Pirates, but not quite as much. I want to show this world that ninja's aren't as awesome as everyone thinks, and to fully accomplish that I'd need the chosen one under my control. So let's end it here!" the emperor charged at Cream and pulled off a three punch combo, knocking her back with the third. Over a minute, the emperor effortlessly evaded all of Cream's attacks, while inflicting damage whenever possible, until Cream eventually dropped to her knees.
"Are you giving up?" the emperor asked.
"Not yet." Cream quickly got to her feet and threw three crayons which the emperor easily deflected before noticing one of Cream's yo-yo's was 'walking the dog' as it approached her, then suddenly rose up and knocked the emperor's helmet off. Gasps were heard from Cream and the other five elite ninja who were able to see as the emperor was revealed to be none other than Vanilla the Rabbit.
Sonic shrugged shortly afterwards. "Makes sense really, what with Cream being the chosen one and all."
Cream was so shocked that 100,000 volts couldn't even measure up. "Mom?!? You're the emperor?!?"
"Yes, it is true, but the time for talking is over! I'll still pound you into the ground!" Vanilla charged at her.
"Since I have no other choice, I'll use the seven legendary ninja scrolls I secretly collected." Cream did so and went through a transformation sequence where she received a gold ninja outfit, a red cape, and her yo-yo's were slightly bigger, encrusted with diamonds, and had razor blades attached to any free spaces. After some audible gasps, Vanilla took out a long stick, and the two flipped about the area, dodging each other's moves before Cream finally kicked Vanilla's stick in half and knocked her to the ground.
"It seems you win, chosen one." Vanilla said with a sigh.
"No." Cream shook her head. "Nobody needs to win or lose. Ninjas should be able to leave peaceful lives without being considered overrated."
"Thank you for beating me up, Cream."
"Your welcome."
The five elite ninja approached one, and then Knuckles said. "You should probably be getting back now…and you've unlocked Uber Emperor Vanilla for multiplayer and co-op mode."
"Right, but how do I get back?" Suddenly a portal opened up further ahead. Cream ran over to it and looked back. "It was great meeting all of you, and I hope you all get along in the future. Take care!" she waved while the others waved back, and then she jumped in the portal.
Cream awoke back in the real world moments later, with Tails taking down more notes. Cream removed the helmet from her head while Tails asked, "So how was it?"
"It was amazing!" Cream replied. "But why was my mom the final boss?"
"It made sense at the time."
SA2 walked onto the right side of a set with some notes. In the middle of the set was a red curtain which opened to reveal a box of treasure. SA2 began to read out the notes. "Ladies and gentlemen, we all like to have a good laugh, but sometimes that can cross the line, and that usually happens when someone dies (R.I.P MJ) or when the R word is used. I'd like to apologise for my insensitive behaviour…also, the next one is Rouge's saga, the Fujin Gem Saga." SA2 looked up. "Diamonds are a girl's best friend…"
