Shout outs:
Bajy - We shall see if all of that will happen my friend.
Chapter 14: Stop the Sun!
Tails watches as the resistance charge into battle against Eggman's army, made by the Phantom Ruby, as he flies into the fortress. While the resistance fights off Eggman and his army, the fox decided to go find Saura. He owes her his life since she saved him from Infinite. Luckily, Sonic allowed him to go since the blue hedgehog has a feeling the masked jackal will be a part of army war. He arrives to the entrance of the fortress. Tails gets ready to enter; but suddenly, he sees a light fly into the sky. And then, the sun appears! "Oh no," he mumbles in disbelief.
"Tails, are you seeing this?" Sonic asks through Tails's communicator. Tails stares in awestruck. Was this the plan Eggman was talking about?
"This has got to be a joke! It's just a special effect, right?" asked Knuckles through the communicator!
"No, it's not! While we're under the Phantom Ruby's control, it's a part of our reality," Tails replies to Knuckles by speaking to the communicator. He continues watch with a devastated look, but soon hears someone coming out of the entrance! He gets ready to fly if it's a robot; but instead, he sees a blond wolf come out which caused him to smile instead. "Saura," he calls out to the wolf as he flies to her!
Once she got outside, Saura hears Tails call out to her. She turns and was soon hugged by the two-tailed fox. She flinches a bit in surprise, but she then smiles as she hugs him back. After their hug, Saura releases Tails for she noticed something bright in the sky. Looking up, the wolf sees the sun and stares at it in shock. "It's the Phantom Ruby," Tails says to Saura. The wolf looks to the fox with the same shocked expression. "As long as we're in its control, the sun is a part of our reality! Infinite and Eggman are going to burn us all," he added with no hope.
Saura stares back at the sun in disbelief. Is this what Infinite meant by burning the resistance to ashes? The wolf's hands had form to fists. She wants to stop this! She must save the resistance… and of course Infinite too. As if to hear her call, something starts glowing in the wolf's pocket.
Tails soon noticed something glowing in Saura's pocket. "Hey, what's that?" he asks Saura as he mentions the glowing object. Saura looks as well as well with a confused look. The fox watches as the wolf pulls out a gem from her pocket. The gem looks like the Phantom Ruby! Realizing how it started glowing the moment Saura arrived, he thinks there could be a connection. "I think it's reacting to the sun," he says while thinking. "You know, Eggman did say something about the Phantom Ruby prototypes when I was with the other Sonic," he recalls during his time with the younger Sonic. "Can I see?" he asks the wolf with his hand out. Saura nods as she hands the gem over to Tails. The moment the gem left Saura's hand, the glowing stops. Both, Saura and Tails, looked surprised. "Whoa, it is," he says with hope as he hands Saura back the gem. Saura took the gem back gently. "He said the Phantom Ruby prototypes only react to the person who activated it," he explains about the gem. The fox looks to the wolf and smiles. "And that must be you, Saura," he added eagerly.
Saura looks to Tails with shock as she points to herself. But how did she activate it to begin with? Tails nods to Saura. "Yes, you! Your courage and heroism are probably what triggered it," he added as he completely turns to Saura with an idea. "I might have an idea! Just maybe, if you use this-," he mentions the gem, now referred as the Phantom Ruby prototype- "it can make that sun disappear," he says to Saura!
Saura looks at the prototype and then to the sun. Can she really do it? What if the sun's effect hits her first? She could be- No, she must do it! She must be brave, just like her… friends. She has friends now and they need her help! Her grip tightens around the prototype as she looks to Tails, with the gem glowing a bit. "I'll do it," she says to Tails.
Tails looks to Saura with surprise. He expected the wolf to nod or even a thumbs up, not speak her answer. The fox smiles for he's happy to see the wolf speaking to him; then again, she did it before to save his life. He sees Saura starting to run. Tails uses his two tails to fly and follows Saura. The fox sees the wolf looking at him with a confused look. "I'm going with you," he replies to Saura's silent question. "I know you would do the same for me if I was in the same situation," he added. Tails watches Saura smile and they both start to head to the top of the tower.
Knuckles groans in defeat. "We made it so far. We were so close," he says to the group as he looks at the sun.
Vector clenched his hands to fists as he growls a bit. "Isn't there anything we can do?" he asks the group. He hopes someone can find the solution.
As if to answer, Tails's voice was heard through Knuckles's communicator. "Knuckles, can you hear me?" Tails asks through the communicator. "I found Saura and we have a plan," he added.
Knuckles looked surprised with the group as they smile when hope begins to shine on them. "Great work Tails, let's hear it," the echidna says to the communicator.
"Saura has something that can counter the sun. With it and if she can get close enough to the sun, that should cancel out its effect," Tails explains the plan through the communicator.
Everyone gasps in shock. "So, Saura is going to jump in to the sun? That's crazy," Silver says in complete shock.
Knuckles glares at the communicator. "No way Tails! She'll be burnt to a crisp before then! Both of you fall back now," he commanded. He hears Tails wanting to object but was interrupted. "Tails?" he tries to call out to the fox.
Instead of Tails's voice, the group hears another voice. "C-Commander, I appreciate your concern. But if I d-don't do this, then everyone else will s-suffer from the sun. And, don't worry a-about me. This is something I h-have to do for e-everyone else's lives. Thanks for all the t-training you taught me. I-if it weren't for that, I w-wouldn't be here today," the feminine voice says through the communicator. "Sonic, thanks for sh-showing me what it means to have a f-friend. A-as for the rest of y-you, I kn-know I d-didn't interact much, but I'm s-still glad I got to meet you all. W-we'll be back once this is o-over," the voice added.
Everyone looked at their communicators in shock. "Hey, who's this?" Knuckles asks to his communicator as everyone looked continued to stare at their own communicators. Well, everyone except for the older Sonic. He knows who that is. When there was no reply from the other line, Knuckles growls a bit. "Hey, answer me," he says to his communicator.
"Make peace with your fate," the group soon hear Infinite say. Everyone looks up and noticed the masked jackal floating into the sky. "Because, your lives are now over," he added as he gets ready to send the sun down on them as it starts glowing.
The older Sonic flinches and starts hearing Dr. Eggman evil laughing and counting down. He glares as he turns on his communicator. "Go get'em Saura," he shouts to the communicator!
After Saura finished her message to Knuckles, Sonic, and the others, she hands the communicator back to Tails despite Knuckles asking who it was that spoke. The two finally made it to the top of the tower closest to the sun. Once there, she also handed her wispon to Tails to hold on to for a bit. She's going to need a free hand. The wolf looks up at the sun as she gets the prototype out of her pocket. She looks back to the gem and glares in determination. The gem glows in response as Tails watches. "Go get'em Saura," the wolf hears Sonic through Tails's communicator! Saura takes a deep breath and glares at the sun. She runs and uses her grabbling hook to any objects closest or even in the sun and jumps in.
The moment Saura is in the sun she feels the pain from the heat. She needs to stay in it for a bit longer. But oh man, the heat hurts. Saura yelps a bit when she feels her neck and shoulder burning a bit where she had the bandage at. She uses her free hand to cover her neck and shoulder while whimpering from the pain. "J-just a bit longer," the wolf mumbles to herself. She feels the pain from the sun starting to increase a bit as she grips on to the prototype more. "P-please, save them… save everyone," she pleaded. The gem starts glowing brighter and the glowing soon began to spread around her and in the sun.
Tails watches Saura jump in to the sun and hopes the plan will work. Once the wolf is in the sun, he notices the sun starts glowing. He waits while holding the wispon. Suddenly, the fox hears Saura yelp a bit as if she's in pain! He becomes worried and that worry increased when he sees something glowing red in the sun. "Saura?" he tries to call out to the wolf with worry! When he got no response, his anxiety deepens. Now, the fox is reconsidering the plan and tries to find a way to get the wolf out of there. After a few seconds, the sun disappears. Tails smiles; the plan worked! Before he can celebrate, the fox sees a bright red light heading towards him from where the sun was at. It's Saura and she looks hurt! He couldn't get a chance to break her fall since the wolf had already crash landed on the tower with a groan. Tails flies to Saura and sees the prototype still in Saura's hand with cracks all over AND there are burn marks on her neck and shoulder. "Saura, are you okay?" he asks with worry.
Saura deep breathes as she places her free hand back on to the burned side of her neck while her eyes are shut. She nods a bit as she tries to get up but falls back down. "I-is it… gone?" she asks quietly to Tails.
Tails nods as he helps Saura up by having her arm around his neck and gets up with her. "Y-yeah! Everyone is saved thanks to you," he replies to the wolf. Once Saura is on her feet, the fox sees Saura smile weakly. When he saw the wolf's burnt marks, he looks down in shame. "I'm so sorry Saura. I shouldn't have sent you off into the sun like that if this would've happened," he apologizes as he mentions the burned marks on Saura's shoulder.
Saura shakes her head as she continues to smile to Tails. None of that matters now; everyone was saved and that's that. "Impossible," they suddenly hear a voice shout out! The fox and wolf turned around and noticed Eggman in his hover craft pointing at the prototype in the wolf's hand. "I thought all the prototypes were destroyed," he added in anger!
Tails glares at Eggman. "A costly oversight, doctor," he says to the human. "This is why I always check and double check as any good scientist would," he added.
The human glares at Tails and Saura until he sees Infinite floating down. He lets out an evil smirk and chuckle. "Infinite, go destroy these two while I check on the rest of the army," he tells the masked jackal as he uses his hover craft to fly off.
Upon hearing the glitching noise and Eggman telling the name, Tails and Saura shiver as they see the masked jackal float down while Eggman leaves. "So, it was you who took out the sun?" he asks mostly to the wolf? Saura opens her eyes weakly as they had a red glow, but it disappears when she blinks. The wolf looks to see what the fox is staring at. Saura sees Infinite watching her and Tails as he adjusts his mask.
Author's Note:
Hi guys! Here is another update! I decided to upload this a bit early before finals week. Afterwards, I will not upload for a bit to focus on finals. I do not really have much to explain for this chapter since this part had been a bit explained in the game. ^^; Well, except for two parts, but I won't talk much about them. I'll give you guys some hints that are a bit important for the next 5 chapters.
1. Pay attention to what Saura says in this chapter.
2. Why did the prototype not shatter yet?
3. "Just Give in, Never Speak Again"
One of these hints will not be in this chapter, the 3rd one. That will be a one-shot fanfic that will be out after this is uploaded. So, be sure to keep your eye out for it.
Thanks for reading and please review! :)