Frostbite Alps: Beware 2

"…for the time to call a truce has long gone!" Sonic could remember Eggman saying before departing from their last battle, "And you will now be the one to pay for your ignorance...Beware…"

He had made the same mistake now as he did then. He plummeted toward his death…or so he thought.

"Sonic!" yelled Knuckles from above him. Sonic opened his eyes long enough to see a large fan swiping on the bottom of a large shaft. Sonic and Knuckles were about 45 feet above it and were dropping fast.

"Knuckles!" Sonic screamed in confusion, "What do we do?"

"If we skydive over to that platform near the bottom of the shaft, we should be okay!" Knuckles pointed toward a small outstretch of metal that jut from the wall.

"Got it!" Sonic exclaimed and instantly boosted through the air toward the platform. Knuckles glided after him.

Sonic touched down on the platform down on one knee. Knuckles landed on the wall next to him and looked back toward the upper level door they had just fallen from.

Knuckles gasped, "Sonic!"

Sonic turned on the platform to see Jet, after regaining consciousness, and two other Knotholean soldiers firing shots towards the two heroes.

Sonic looked at the door posted on the wall of the platform and kicked it in. Inside laid a large glass pathway over the icy chasms of the snowy mountain.

"Knux…I gotta BAD feeling about this…" Sonic said, as he turned back toward the soldiers who began jumping off the high platform.

Knuckles hopped over to where Sonic stood and gripped his shoulders. Sonic turned his head in confusion.

"Hey buddy. Not to burst your bubble, but you must be mistaken if you thing I'm gonna go in this direction…first anyway."

"Would you shut up, you pervert! Just BOOST us outta here!" Knuckles yelled from behind.

"Oh yeah! Why didn't I think of that!?" Sonic exclaimed.

"Because you're an idiot!" Sonic sped his way through the door along the glass platform as blocks of glass started crumbling behind them. The path turned along the radius of the building curving upwards.

Knuckles held on for dear life as looked down toward the jagged rocks, "Sonic! You better not fall or I'll kill you!"

"Relax, Knucklehead" Sonic reassured, "I've been to a lot scarier heights than this! We just have to find an exit!"

"Way ahead of you!" Knuckles said. He drilled one of his fists into the side of the tower. Shards of glass and metal broke off the sides as Sonic continued running along the spiraling platform. But disaster struck as Sonic gasped at the sight of the huge building falling right through the platform; cutting off the path.

"Onto the building! Now!" Knuckles shouted. The two heroes vaulted over the edge, onto the falling shard of metal just before it started sliding along the snowy mountain.

Just in time too. Sirens started blaring along the outpost and tower walls. Knotholean soldiers with jetpacks and motorbikes started after them. Sonic and Knuckles held along parts of the building as it flew past the soldiers and blocked most of the bullets.

"THIS IS THE WORST IDEA YOU'VE EVER HAD!" Knuckles shouted.

"IT WAS YOUR IDEA YOU KNUCKLEHEAD!" Sonic retorted.

"YOU COULD'VE STOPPED ME! IT'S YOUR GAME FOR GOD'S SAKE!" yelled Knuckles.

"ON THAT NOTE, I HAVE A QUESTION! CAN THE PROTAGONIST DIE BEFORE THE LAST EPISODE!?"

Sonic and Knuckles looked toward a huge ramp made of ice. They both screamed at the top of their lungs as the jetpack soldiers stopped at the cliff still shooting towards the chunk of metal. In an instant the heap flew over the pass.

Sonic and Knuckles, once clear off the cliff, jumped toward the soft snow below. The chunk of metal, still flying father into the trench, soon disappeared without a trace.

"Let's go!" said a soldier from above, "We still need to defend this base from that disturbance near sector 6." A few crunches and boosts of rocket energy were heard and silence quickly took over.

"I think we're okay…" said Knuckles standing, looking toward the cliff. Sonic hopped up and joined his friend. The echidna dusted snow off of his light brown uniform, "Well, I need to get back to the outpost. Could you—"

Before he could get out the rest of his sentence, a short, jet black, metallic blade toss Knuckles against the snow in the opposite direction.

"Knux!" Sonic yelled. Slow crunches of snow came from the right. Sonic looked toward the direction the blade came from.

The figure, silhouetted by the nearby trees, chuckled softly as he stopped in his tracks, "You Japanese Caucasian types really psyche me out sometimes. You yell in fear of the inevitable…when your really only worried about your own publicity. Look at what happened to Naruto. Can you guess how many fans that douche lost when Sasuke turned evil?"

Sonic tilted his head in confusion, while still holding his ground, "What the hell are you talking about?"

The figure moved closer, again speaking in a young adult ebonic voice, "I'm just givin' you examples of similar preferences that represent the current scenario…what, you thought I was all hood and no brains?"

Sonic was starting to make out the figure. He was tall, about 3'9''; had spiked hair hanging over the side of his head, the gleam of roller-skate wheels, and a long extended object jutting out from behind him. Sonic had never seen an animal like this. And he also didn't know what this unknown species was capable of.

"Wait a sec…" started Sonic, "you're that gang leader that's been working for Outer Mobius, aren't you?"

The creature walked out of the shadow completely to reveal himself, now that the mystery's been solved; "My, my; aren't we clever, Sherlock. But I only go where the money takes me. When it's all said and done…"

The mysterious character instantly grew four large, jet black flails from behind him, while pointing an SMG toward our hero. Sonic stood his ground, but even Knuckles, who was only slightly conscious from the blade that had cut his leg; could tell he was incredibly uneasy.

The animal grinned, sealing victory with a nasty glare, "…Scorp Reptiliaux works for no one…"