Lost Hedgehog Tales
CHAPTER 9: SPAGONIA SCRAMBLE PART 2
Spagonia, Outside the laboratory
"The professor's been kidnapped!" the assistant screeched. Sonic and the others looked at each other in horror.
"What?!" they exclaimed. The assistant frantically beckoned for them to follow and led them inside the library. There, they could see the professor's desk flipped over with papers and books sprawled on the ground. A window was also broken and there were lots of shards of glass on the floor. Amy held Cream away from them while Tails, Rotor and Nicole scanned around. Sonic looked at the assistant who was close to sobbing.
"What happened here?" Sonic asked.
"Oh, it was horrible! Right after you guys left and beat those three other guys, some fat egg shaped man came here with some kind of robot and nabbed the professor right there! I was just heading back since my lunch break was over and I reached here right when I saw the guy take off!" the assistant cried.
"Egg shaped man...Eggman!" Sonic exclaimed.
"Hey look, there's a letter here!" Nicole exclaimed. Everyone immediatly rushed over to see what it was. Nicole opened up the letter and a hologram of Eggman appeared on it.
"Hohohoho! Guess what, Sonic? Looks like your dear professor is gone! Thanks for being distracted by the Hooligans long enough for me to come here and take him away! Who's ahead of the game now, hmm? Oh, and those Gaia Manuscripts? I also took those too! With the professor's help, I will find the other manuscripts and soon the whole world will feel the wrath of the Eggman Empire! Ohhohohohoho!" Eggman exclaimed. And with that, the hologram dissapeared and a message appeared on the blank letter:
"THIS LETTER WILL SELF-DESTRUCT IN FIVE...FOUR..." the message said in a robotic voice.
"THREE-" "Oh for Chaos' sakes!" Sonic interuppted by grabbing the letter and Spindashing it apart, stopping the self-destruct. Tails sighed and sat down. Team Fighters was down one step. Eggman had redeemed himself and taken back the Gaia Manuscripts when they swore they wouldn't let that happen. If only he...
"Nooooo! My idol was kidnapped, oh whatever will I dooo!" the assistant wailed. Amy grabbed him and shook him repeatedly.
"Calm down, will you?!" she exclaimed. The assistant continued to wail and cry but stopped.
"Hey, where'd you get that hat?" he asked Amy who was still wearing Nack's hat.
"Oh, don't worry about it", Amy replied. "Oh, okay". And he continued to cry and slumped down on his knees. Amy uneasily stepped away from him and tipped her hat down, not wanting to be apart of this.
"Well, what now? We really can't do anything without the manuscripts or the professor!" Rotor exclaimed.
"And worse, Eggman relocated the Death Egg as well, and that's probably where he took the professor!" Tails said. Sonic put his hand on his forehead, trying to think. Realization came into his mind after that. He quickly jolted the assistant up.
"This happened right after we trashed those three, right?" Sonic asked. The assistant nodded and Sonic pushed him away excitedly making the assistant cry out as he fell.
"That was just a few miutes ago! And knowing how slow Eggy's robots are, he couldn't have gotten that far!" Sonic exclaimed. Tails slowly stood up.
"So you mean..." Tails asked. Sonic nodded. "There's still a chance! Yo, assistant! Where did Egghead go?" Sonic asked.
"People say they saw him heading in the clock tower's direction. Why?" the assistant replied. Sonic grinned at the others.
"Rotor, get Sky Patrol ready! Tails, come with me! Where going on an Egghunt!" Sonic exclaimed.
"Yeah, let's go!" Tails exclaimed as he and Sonic bolted out of the lab. Rotor, Nicole and Team Rose thanked the assistant(who was still crying) and ran to their collosal ship. Once inside, Rotor strapped onto his seat as well as the others while Nicole just went in her digital form.
"Oh man, I hope Sonic's right about this!" Rotor exclaimed. "Of course he is! Sonic will definitly catch Eggman since he's the fastest thing alive, remember?" Amy said.
"I hope your right, Amy. Because we can't loose this opportunity", Rotor said preparing to take off.
New Mobotropolis, The Pit underneath Castle Acorn
In an old ancient altar, a figure appeared from out of the shadows. It was Geoffrey St. John, current dictator of New Mobotropolis. He had teleported inside the Pit with his Shadow Meld ability since there was no other way in after Castle Acorn had been rebuilt. Geoffrey walked up the stairs to the altar. The torches on the side lit up a green flame as he walked by. After he reached the top, Geoffrey walked to the middle where there was a circe of small steps and a green crystal pillar on top which reached up to the skunk's neck. Geoffrey waved both his arms in a jester way, emanating green energy.
"Almost complete", he muttered. The crystal was glowing green as well as Geoffrey. In a few seconds, his health and energy was fully replenished. Geoffrey stopped waving his arms and turned around. The crystal remained glowing green like it was before. Geoffrey turned around to look at it once more.
"Once my new Crystal Wand is complete, I'll make sure I bring order into this world. Soon, the new Order of Ixis shall conquer the world and I'll be a god", Geoffrey said then looking up to find a purple emerald floating above the pillar, glowing energy.
"All because of one Chaos Emerald", Geoffrey said smirking. He turned around to leave but stopped when a huge headache washed over him.
"Arrrgghhh!" Geoffrey shouted slumping down on his knees, clutching his head. His eyes widened as he saw three other figures.
"Unngh-no what do YOU want now?" Geoffrey exclaimed. One of them, a yellow rhino laughed.
"Well well well, you thought you could escape us by taking control of another life form's body? You fool, we remain in your soul. Don't forget, we were the ones who made you", the rhino said.
"No...get out", Geoffrey said, but in a raspy voice that wasn't his.
"Look at you, so broken down not able to anything. How can you rule the world like this?" a purple bat exclaimed.
"Why you...I will do as I please", Geoffrey said squeezing his eyes. His body started giving off dark energy. His form was slowly changing.
"Haha, let us leave him alone now. I think we've given him enough trouble today", a red scorpion said.
"Get...OUT!" Geoffrey shouted in a completly different voice not. The three figures dissapeared eaving Geoffrey to recollect himself. The skunk was panting, completly exhausted.
"No...how can this be?" Geoffrey asked in his normal voice now.
"I thought I got rid of them, but they still followed me. Gah, no matter! Once my plan is complete, they'll be gone forever!" Geoffrey said getting up. He turned to the crystal altar and walked towards it.
"I am running out of time. Soon, I won't be able to maintain this body any longer. My apprentice should've learned his lesson anyway", Geoffrey said starting to rejuvenate himself.
"Once my plan is complete, then I shall rid of this body! Apprentice can have his body back but will be under my control! All will bow down to me, Ixis Naugus!" Geoffrey exclaimed cackling.
Spagonia, Rooftop Run Zone
"Yeah-hooo!" Sonic shouted boosting while grinding on a rail above many buildings. He spread out his arms taking in the air and flying through the confetti. He bounced off a spring at the end of the rail and homing attacked onto some balloons before shooting himself through a rainbow colored ring, where he did numerous combos and tricks in the air. Sonic landed on the roof of another baroque building and took off running, wasting no time. Tails flew beside him, enjoying the thrill as well.
"We gotta hurry up, Sonic!" Tails shouted. Sonic grinned at him.
"Don't worry, bud! Speed is my middle name!" Sonic shouted before boosting down the building and jumping off it to land on a lower roof. Tails just flew in the air and watched as Sonic sped through a narrow gap and Quickstep his way to another spring where he bounced all the way to Tails' height and the fox caught him by the arms and flew him to the roof of another building. Tails suddenly gasped when he saw Spinners and Egg Fighters waiting.
"Look, Eggman's robots!" Tails pointed out. Sonic nodded.
"I gotcha!" he said letting go of Tails' hand and homing attacking a few spinners, alowing him to get on the higher roof with the Egg Fighters where he boosted them all away. To the hedgehog's delight, he got tons of rings in the process. Sonic then ran all the way to the side of another building where he wall jumped up and homing attacked into a mini cannon where he pointed it up and launched himself up. Sonic then grabbed onto a zipline and rode onto a rooftop garden where he was careful to not mess up the crops remembering the angry owner of the hot dog stand when he crashed onto the box of breads. Shaking himself from that, Sonic jumped and landed on another rail and boosted him across. The rail was really long and it was taking him across the whole city. Sonic was flabbergasted by the incredible view and immediatly took out his phone(yes he has a phone and its touch screen, but he's not an addict to it) and took a picture of the view. Luckily, it somehow wasn't blurred in the picture and Sonic smiled to himself before hopping onto another rail since the previous one had a spike bomb on it. After jumping off and kicking a steel box onto an Egg Fighter, Sonic ran through the roofs again while boosting.
"Woooooo!" Sonic shouted slamming into every robot he saw. Suddenly, three robots appeared and flew in front of him. Sonic grinned, immediatly recognizing the three Aero Chasers. One of them suddenly charged up a blue laser and fired it, but Sonic Quickstepped to the left. The other one fired it but Sonic Quickstepped to the right so now he was in the middle. He saw an Egg Fighter and immediatly boosted into it, sending it flying into one of the Aero Chasers, destroying it. With two left, Sonic Quickstepped to the right and slammed another Egg Fighter into the Aero Chaser, but it didn't destroy it. Sonic quickly Quickstepped two times to the left when both Aero Chaser charged their lasers and fired.
"Annnd another one!" Sonic exclaimed boosting an Egg Fighter into the middle Aero Chaser, taking it out leaving only the one on the right. At this point, the Aero Chaser couldn't really do anything except move left to right trying to hit Sonic, who was easily able to dodge the lasers. He then boosted an Egg Fighter into the Aero Chaser, taking it out before boosting up to a spring and bouncing onto a rail which led him to the clock tower.
"Here we gooo!" Sonic shouted as he boosted on the rail all the way to the top of the clock tower.
"OH...MY...CHILI DOGS!" Sonic shouted when he saw the breathtaking view from the top. He then screamed with joy as he plummeted down on the rail from the top and boosted. The rail made a long turn to the right and he soon landed on another roof of a building. It was then Tails decided to show up and fly beside him.
"I lost you for a few minutes and then I saw you at the top of the clock tower!" Tails shouted.
"Dude, you're going up there after this!" Sonic shouted. They both sped up and eventually saw the familiar Egg Mobile flying in the distance. Grinning, Sonic sped up and was soon right beside Eggman, running next to him. The doctor didn't seem to notice since he was apparently jamming it out to "I am the Eggman", a song he had made a long time ago. Sonic knocked on the glass and Eggman nearly passed out when he saw Sonic grinning there.
"Hey, Eggy! Miss me?" Sonic asked.
"Wha-how-gah! What are you doing here?!" Eggman sputtered. Orbot and Cubot waved to Sonic, who waved back.
"Let the professor go and give us back the manuscripts!" Sonic shouted.
"Hah, never!" Eggman sneered. He then pressed a button and soon a loud whirring was heard behind Sonic. The hedgehog glanced behind him to see Tails fly faster with a troubled look on his face. Sonic gasped when he saw a large robot fly over his head and land in front of Eggman. Grinning, Eggman steered his Egg Mobile into the slot inside the robot and clamped it shut. The "Eggman" song was still playing as the doctor seated himself in the middle with Orbot and Cubot on each side in the arms.
"Meet the Egg Devil Ray, you're death!" Eggman shouted. Sonic just sighed. This wouldn't be anything new. Just trash Eggman's robot and that's all.
"Do your worst!" Sonic shouted. What was hilarious was that the Egg Devil Ray looked like some kind of fish. Sonic coudn't help but snicker.
"Laughing at my creativity, hedgehog? You won't be laughing when all your bones are broken!" Eggman shouted firing a laser from a cannon, which Sonic dodged. Sonic tried to go in for a homing attack but Eggman put up a shield and Sonic just bounced off.
"Hahaha! What now, Sonic?" Eggman shouted.
"Yeah, you get im boss!" Cubot also shouted. Orbot agreed until Eggman told them to shut up. Tails flew beside Sonic.
"Sonic, that shield doesn't look too powerful. You can still boost into it and take it out", Tails explained.
"Then what? Where is it's weak spot?" Sonic asked. Tails looked closely but couldn't find anything.
"No matter, it'll show up eventually", Sonic said boosting into the shield repeatedly until he broke through and hit the fish. The Egg Devil Ray sputtered as it took some heavy damage but then Eggman put up an electrified shield to counter Sonic's boost attacks.
"Hohoho, now it's my turn!" Eggman said suddenly firing a laser cannon. Sonic gasped and slid under it but Tails was hit by the cannon and was sent flying back.
"Tails!" Sonic shouted but had to leap out of the way as Orbot fired a mini laser in his direction.
"I'm not done yet!" Eggman shouted suddenly flying to the side of the roof where Sonic couldn't get him. Eggman then released a barrage of missiles, to which Sonic easily dodged, but was hit by the last one. Eggman laughed before firing a laser that moved in a circular motion. Sonic gasped and boosted, running away from the laser. Eggman growled and moved back to the front of Sonic where he barked at Orbot and Cubot to fire the mini lasers but Sonic once more dodged them.
"Stay still you pest!" Eggman shouted trying to hit him with the massive cannon.
"Man, how do I get rid of that electric shield without frying myself?" Sonic wondered. He then saw Eggman releasing some projectiles his way and an idea came into his mind. Sonic jumped and kicked one of the projectiles into the electric shield, damaging it.
"Gah!" Eggman shouted as the Egg Devil Ray was rocked as a result of the impact. Sonic smirked before kicking two more projectiles and Spindashing one into the robot, eventually breaking through the electric defense.
"Oh no! Get the shield back up, GET IT BACK UP!" Eggman shouted at Orbot.
"It needs to recharge. Sonic damaged it alot!" Orbot exclaimed. Eggman screamed before firing a laser at Sonic who easily evaded and homing attacked the arm Cubot was in.
"Aahhhh!" Cubot shouted as his part of the machine was rendered useless now. Sonic then boosted into the seat Eggman was in and sent the Egg Devil Ray bouncing away uncontrollably.
"Good job!" Tails shouted after he had managed to recover himself and fly back. Sonic flashed a toothy grin but faded when Eggman recovered and put the shield back up.
"Damn it!" Tails shouted.
"No worries, I got this!" Sonic replied. Eggman flew to the side and fired his circular laser again where Sonic just boosted away from it but Tails got hit once again and was sent tumbling back.
"Not agaaaiinnnnnn!" Tails shouted as he flew back. Sonic just facepalmed and sped up to the Egg Devil Ray which was now in front of him launching the projectiles. Sonic just did what he did before and kicked the projectiles back into the shield. It needed one more hit and Sonic tried to kick another projectile.
"Yeeeowwwch!" Sonic shouted getting burned from the projectile that was on fire.
"Hohohoho! Thought this would be easy?" Eggman sneered. Sonic growled and dodged another fiery projectile before kicking a regular one into the shield, disabling it.
"Not again", Eggman muttered trying to hit Sonic with his laser while the electric shield recharged. Sonic homing attacked the arm Orbot was operating, rendering that useless as well. Eggman howled with anger while Orbot and Cubot nervously shook.
"And, FLY!" Sonic shouted boosting into the middle again sending the Egg Devil Ray tumbling. Tails caught up again and grinned at Sonic.
"And he said this would break my bones!" Sonic shouted. Tails shook his head.
"Man, what a joke! I wish I could stop getting hurt!" Tails said as Eggman put up the electric shield one more time.
"This is it hedgehog! Now you've made me mad! Go, full power!" Eggman shouted suddenly releasing a barrage of homing missiles at the duo. Sonic and Tails scrambled to get out of the way while Eggman grinned, knowing he had it. However, all of the missiles missed Sonic and homed in on Tails whose eyes were wide.
"WHY ME?!" Tails shouted as he was hit with all the missiles and was sent rocketing back again. Sonic glanced uneasily back.
"Whoo boy, he sure is gonna be mad", Sonic said shaking his head and speeding away from the circular laser. However, Eggman, who was on the side launched another circular laser, this one on the other side of Sonic.
"What the?!" Sonic shouted as both lasers closed in on him, trapping him.
"You're done now!" Eggman laughed. Tails had somehow managed to fly back and shout at Sonic.
"Sonic, just stay where you are! The lasers don't reach all the way to the middle so you'll be fine!" Tails shouted. Sonic heard him and did as he was told. As Tails said, the laser dissapeared right before they could reach the middle. Sonic grinned while Eggman fumed.
"That's it! I'm ramming him down!" Eggman shouted steering the Egg Devil Ray behind Sonic and speeding up, attempting to run him over.
This is the second time someone tried to make me roadkill!" Sonic exclaimed sliding under the robot, which zoomed by. Sonic got up and prepared to kick the multiple projectiles back into the electric shield. This time, Eggman launched a bunch of fiery projectiles as well, some hitting Sonic and scorching the hedgehog.
"Stay down you rat!" Eggman shouted. At that point all of Sonic's fun faded away and replaced it with anger. No one called him a rat-especially Eggman! With a loud scream, Sonic kicked a fiery projectile back into the electric shield, shattering it in one go. Eggman slackjawed and muttered "oh no".
"Maybe you shouldn't have said that boss", Orbot said. "Oooh, he done now! He done!" Cubot shouted dancing. Sonic then homing attacked the middle and boosting into it sending the Egg Devil Ray tumbling once more.
"Finish it off by boosting, Sonic!" Tails shouted.
"Way ahead of you, buddy!" Sonic shouted repeatedly boosting into the machine making it crash harder. Eventually, the machine went flying and exploded in midair, sending the Egg Mobile flying away with Eggman, Orbot, and Cubot screaming as it crashed on the ground a good distance away. Sonic stopped running and struck a victory pose before slapping Tails a high-five. It was then they noticed Sky Patrol finally arrive. The rest of the heroes stepped out and congratulated Sonic before walking up to Eggman.
"Where's the professor?" Rotor demanded. Eggman sneered at him.
"Safely locked away in one of my many prison capsules on the Death Egg! As for the manuscripts, they are secured inside the Death Egg as well! Thank you, Egg Devil Ray!" Eggman exclaimed kissing the air.
"What? Well give them back!" Sonic shouted.
"Never, you fool!" Eggman retorted.
"Ugh, he isn't gonna crack like this. Looks like we have to do it the old fashioned way", Amy said pulling out her hammer. Eggman's mustache drooped and he immediatly threw a flash bang on the ground, blinding everyone before grabbing Orbot and Cubot and taking off in his Egg Mobile. Everyone was left stumped.
"Since when could he run that fast?" Nicole asked in her lynx form. Sonic shrugged.
"Eh, he must have built a treadmill in the Death Egg or something. I don't know", the hedgehog answered. Tails growled and kick a rock.
"But we couldn't save Professor Pickle and get the Gaia Manuscripts back! Worst, Eggman escaped! Now what?" Tails asked. Sonic uneasily took a step back. No one noticed it, but him. Tails had really started to become grumpy and sour. Ever since the Holoska madness, Tails had been more angry. Sonic had noticed it for a while now. When they lost their chance to destroy the Death Egg in Holoska, when Geoffrey wrecked the Tornado, and even when everyone was wasting time with getting ice cream. It was just adding to the fox's annoyance. Sonic made a mental note to talk to Tails about this later.
"Well, nothing we can do at this point so might as well head back" Rotor said. Everyone agreed and got inside Sky Patrol. Once everyone was ready, the ship took off back to New Mobotropolis. Even though Eggman got away with the professor and the manuscripts, at least they accomplished what they came here for, and that was to find out what the manuscripts meant.
Somewhere in Central City Park
A few hours after Team Fighters had left Spagonia and had returned to their respective homes, it was almost midnight. The cool breeze given off by the air blew briskly. At this time, no one was in the Central City Park. Everyone was home either sleeping or doing something else. But not two people. In the night, a warp ring suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Out stepped a boot and then a figure. He was a green hedgehog sporting a leather jacket with red flames, red shades, green boots and had twin scars on his stomache. Another figure then popped out followed by four other figures. The hedgehog, who was the leader stood beside a female fox who had her hand around the hedgehog's shoulder.
"Alright, listen up Destructix", the hedgehog said. He grinned at the four, one being a massive gorilla, a blue hawk, a brown lynx and a green frog. He turned to the red fox and wrapped his arm around her waist.
"Tonight, we finally come out of hiding and strike. After what we found out on Moebius, we're gonna need alot of firepower for this one", the hedgehog said. The fox smirked.
"You said it Scourge. That's why your the leader", the fox said kissing Scourge on the cheek. Scourge smiled and pulled her closer.
"That's right Fiona. And we're all aware of what we have to do, right?" Scourge asked. The four nodded.
"We know what the plan is. Keep the soldiers busy while you nab that Chaos Emerald", the gorilla answered. Scourge grinned.
"Good job Simian. Predator, Lightning, Flying and Fiona, you guys know as well, right?" Scourge said.
"Babe, you know I got this", Fiona replied. "Those fools won't know what hit them", Predator Hawk said.
"Being a ninja, I can guarantee you victory", Lightning Lynx said.
"Goohahaha! People are gonna go squishee! And then kablooey!" Flying Frog exclaimed in his stupid way. Scourge grinned and pulled his shades up.
"Good. Now let's move. Raiding G.U.N HQ ain't gonna be easy", Scourge said leading the way with the group following.
TO BE CONTINUED
Author's note: Another chapter down. Yes, it's good to be finally updating this again. Next will be another chapter in "Mario and Sonic: The Malevolent Wars", so go check that out soon. Anyway, Egg Devil Ray and Rooftop Run? Some Sonic Unleashed shit going on here. And the professor's been kidnapped along with the manuscripts? Ixis Naugus has possessed Geoffrey's body? And the Destructix?! What the actualy fuck.
Next chapter we'll see the epic raid the Destructix do on G.U.N HQ for the Chaos Emerald. Just what is going on Moebius? What did Scourge mean by "alot of firepower"? Find out next time on "Midnight Heist"!
EPIC Out!