Luigi Rush Part 6: Quickened Tempo!
^Egg Aircraft Carrier^
Aboard the EAC (Egg Aircraft Carrier) proudly stood a very fat man, said fat man was chuckling quietly as he watched two flashing blips of colour move quickly across a large radar in front of him. "EGGHOG!" Eggman shouts and the small flying robot quickly flew in.
"Yes Eggman?" Egghog asked looking at its master.
"I want you to fire at the Egg Armsen..." Eggman says without looking from the large radar, after a small pause Eggman turned around and glared at Egghog. "Why don't just float there! Shoot it down!" Eggman ordered.
"But isn't that Nega sir?" Egghog asked.
"Exactly, he is no longer needed." Eggman says while he grabbed a chair, he pulled it over and sat infront of the radar in the steering room, as he did a loud bang echoed through the metal ship. "Good job Egghog." Eggman says and frowned at the radar, Nega was still moving like before.
"That wasn't me sir." Egghog says. Eggman then stood up.
"Ready all cannons! It seems Nega has brought a friend!" Eggman says glancing at the heat sensors, which indicated that Nega had flown passed but another non-robot had landed on the EAC.
"Sir, all other members of the crew aren't build for combat." Egghog says making Eggman sigh sadly.
"Guard the controls and let me know if something happens..." Eggman sadly says as he slowly walked out of the control room, he made sure to climb onto his Egg Walker before going out onto the deck though. On the deck was a blue painted machine with fox tails painted on two sides.
"Eggman! Hand over those emeralds!" Tails yelled.
"You think you can beat me? HA!" Eggman laughed and pressed one of the many buttons that made up the control panel, a fragile looking glass dome slid over the cockpit. "Prepare yourself Tails! Things may get hot!" Eggman yells pressing the button to fire the 'fuck-you' cannon/laser...
"Your machine's power is nothing compared to mine!" Tails yelled firing dozens of missiles at the Egg Walker.
"WHY ISN'T THE CANNON FIRING!?" Eggman yelled quickly making the mech jump aside, the missiles flew passed before making a loop back at him.
"Doctor Eggman sir! I haven't yet attached the cannon!" Egghog pipped in from the open doorway, Eggman wanted to yell at his robot but he was preoccupied with dodging Tail's gunfire. Having dodged the ever persisting missiles again Eggman fired a few shots at Tails in hope that he's mech would be too slow to react, to his horror Tails' mech ran aside quicker then what Eggman's mech could boost. "I see you've upgraded the old Tornado." Eggman states loudly as he double jumped onto a higher section of the deck.
"Hand over the emeralds and I'll let you be!" Tails ordered glaring at the old man.
"That's no way to treat your elders ol' sport!" A voice says from behind Tails, landing with a loud clank Eggman Nega (piloting the Egg Armsen) slowly approached Tails.
"We have you out numbered Tails!" Eggman states as he locked onto the Tornado.
"Taste my POWER LASER!" Tails yells and fired a huge blue beam of light at Eggman's mech, the laser was too low and blew apart the upper decking of the EAC. Because of the now missing segment the Egg Walker fell down a bit, landing front first and unable to stand upright.
"Nega! Help me!" Eggman yelled as Tails' mech darted forward to finish him off. Tails locked onto the Egg Walker but a huge mechanical hand bashed him aside, almost knocking him off the boat.
"I am beginning to see why you've been having so much trouble with this one!" Nega yells making the Egg Armsen punch at the Tornado, after a few misses one of the huge fists made contact and knocked Tails overboard. "Good riddance!" Nega loudly says as he helped th Egg Walker upright. (With the arms)
"Do you still have those emeralds?" Eggman asked as he climbed out of the mech.
"You think I'll drop them or something? Here take them!" Nega says as he climbed out of the Egg Armsen and held the Blue and Green Sol Emeralds ready for Eggman. Just before Eggman grabbed them the Tornado flew into Nega and crashed into a wall. (With Nega crushed under it) Eggman gasped accidentally and quickly rushed to grab the bouncing Emeralds before they fell off the boat. Before grabbing the Blue one Tails flew passed swooping it.
"The price of flying the tornado into Nega is worth these two Sol Emeralds!" Tails says grabbing the other one.
"Egghog! Attack!" Eggman shouts as he attempted to reman the Egg Walker before Tails flew away, after getting in he looked up at Tails' small yellow furred body as it moved further out at see. "CURSE YOU TAILS! THIS ISN'T THE END!" Eggman yelled and led the Egg Walker over to the Tornado debris...
^A few hours later^
An inactive robot hidden deep within Pika city beeps a few times, with orange neon pupils flaring to life the robot activates. "Power up complete... processing situation..." [insert a few beeps and around ten minutes] "Data collation (not collection) complete... sending report...
^Around the time Tails is leaving the EAC | Sonic's apartment - Pika City^
Sonic and Luigi stepped out of the elevator that led directly to Sonic's lounge room. "You know what Luigi, I just have a bad feeling about all this." Sonic says walking to his couch.
"I do too, but I can't help but wonder how it all happened, there isn't an Eggman from my dimension that could've worked with those two... unless Nega is from my dimension but that makes no sense! Machines like his are considered impossible from where I come from!" Luigi exclaims, sitting down with Sonic.
"Maybe he isn't as technology advanced as we think, because if he is here {short pause} then wouldn't his machinery be in his dimension?" Sonic suggests.
"Possibly..." Luigi says sighing. The phone then rings.
"I'll get it!" Sonic says jumping off the couch and sprinting over, he takes the phone off the receiver and holds it to his ear. "Oh hi... {short pause} really? I think I may know of a reason, you see this alternate Eggman is here from some other dimension and I have some guy here who also claims to be from yet again a different dimension... {long pause} You want me to head over? {very short pause} Okay, I'll see you there, bye!" Sonic says hanging up.
"What was that all about?" Luigi asked.
"You and I are heading off once Tails comes back." Sonic says.
"Why when Tails comes back?" Luigi asked.
"We need to fly off to a floating island and without Tails' Tornado we can't get there." Sonic says...
It was around lunch time the next day when Tails finally arrived back at Sonic's apartment, he flew up to the balcony and landed in front of the broken glass door.
"Hey Tails! You're back!" Sonic shouts rushing to him as Luigi slowly walked over. "What took you so long? And where's the Tornado?" Sonic asked.
"Broken, but I got two Sol Emeralds in return." Tails says holding the two gems out for Sonic.
"Awesome, now can you carry both Luigi and me over to Angel Island?" Sonic asked.
"Luigi and I." Tails says before realising what he asked... "TO ANGEL ISLAND!?" Tails boomed, "Do you know how far that is!?" Tails yelled.
"Somewhere out at sea around a day or so away..." Sonic says shrugging.
"Why do we have to go there?" Luigi asked.
"A friend has some information about the Chaos Emeralds." Sonic says making both Luigi and Tails sigh almost in sync with each other.
"Alright... {sighs} hold out your hands..." Tails says and grabbed one hand of each of his comrades... "Prepare for a long and staggering flight..." Tails depressingly says before sighing again, he then started to spin his twin tails like a rotor and flew off...
^Angel Island the next day^
Sonic, Tails and Luigi land down on the edge of the huge floating island. "How is this possible?" Luigi asked watching some far off waterfalls stream down over the edge of the island and into the vast ocean below.
"Some sort of magical stuff..." Sonic says.
"Actually, the Master Emerald causes a magnetic field that disrupts the gravitational pull around this place, it once laid deep on the ocean bed but the gravitational pull tore it off and lifted it up high." Tails says.
"Master Emerald?" Luigi quarrels.
"It is a larger version of the green Chaos Emerald." Sonic says.
"And it has more power, it also controls all seven of the normal Chaos Emeralds and if positioned on the shrine here on this island it makes a tremendous gravitation pull that strangely only effects the ground." Tails says.
"Okay, so where is this person we're here to meet?" Luigi asked.
"This way!" Sonic says running off into the forest near them...
Zone 1
Angel Island
Act 1
Forest Outskirts
Sonic runs passed the first few trees and quickly jumped onto a low hanging branch, he runs up it and starts to jump from tree branch to tree branch. He looked down at some oversized bugs as he skimmed passed the deadly environment. "Hey bugs! Want some tasty Hedgehog?" Sonic shouts making the carnivorous bugs look up at him, they quickly began to fly towards him. "That should help the others..." Sonic mumbles as he starts jumping away again, this time with a swarm of around twelve bugs after him.
Having been jumping to and from trees for awhile Sonic decides to look back to see how the bugs were faring, to his surprise not only were they keeping up but more had joined the swarm forming a huge cloud of them. One such bug darted forward at him from his side while spitting a glob of deadly nerve numbing poison at him, Sonic dodged but by doing so fell down from his tree and landed in a large cluster of flowers (not an orchard because orchards are manmade)... Unbeknownst that the flowers were a weaker variation of the deadly Conium Maculatum (Hemlock for those who don't do Chemistry) named Paril. (Since I am making this flower up here is the effects of the toxins: Like Conium Maculatum it causes slow paralysis to the body, but unlike Conium Maculatum it is not fatal and the effects only last for around four hours, also only the limbs touched by the toxins will receive the numbing and/or paralysing effect.)
Sonic quickly got up and looked at the squished flowers. "Whoo, luckily these things broke my fail!" Sonic says before dashing off again, he had lost the Wasp like creatures when he fell...
^Moments earlier^
Tails and Luigi peered into the somewhat dark forest. "Anything that I should know about this place Tails?" Luigi asked as they both watched Sonic run up a branch and vanish off with the distant trees.
"War Wasps like to dwell here, they are quite large bugs that can spit either a glob of whatever they've been feasting on at their prey or a organic stinger that grows inside their large fang filled mouths... they also have deadly fangs with venomous tips." Tails says.
"So hope we don't run into them..." Luigi says.
"More like hope they don't focus on us, they're probably about the speed Sonic runs when he doesn't want to super fast but still fast." Tails says as he slowly walked in.
"Can't you fly us over the place?" Luigi asked hopingly.
"That wouldn't be interesting though... like why come to some exotic forest on a floating island if you're just going to fly over things!? Come on Luigi!" Tails says walking on without him, after realising Tails was seriously going to leave him Luigi quickly ran after him...
Tails and Luigi were slowly walking, keeping sure to watch for War Wasps, so far they hadn't been seen by any but had spotted a large 'cloud' as Tails called it flying around the tree tops. "This place sure is spooky." Luigi says looking at some weird mushrooms with spikes all over them, he was ignored in favour of keeping quiet. As they walked Luigi kept his palms held ready to conjure fireballs, an idea that after a few minutes of walking he found quite flawed because; If he was attacked he planned on throwing fireballs... in a forest.
"I think we should be nearing our goal." Tails says suddenly, since they had been walking in silence for quite a while Luigi was a tad startled by Tails' voice.
"O-Okay... what may I ask makes you think that?" Luigi asked quietly.
"I can smell smoke." Tails explained.
"I can't." Luigi states, his sense of smell quite inferior to Tails' Fox-like sense of smell.
"Hey look!" Tails shouts making Luigi jump and glance frantically for War Wasps, "Knuckles' hut!" Tails says excitedly as he flew (just off the ground) towards a wooden hut raised up on tall six foot stilts. There was a ladder leading down from the hut's wooden door and in front of the hut was a small fire, luckily this setup was in a small clearing or the fire would've burnt down the forest and/or hut.
Luigi looked worriedly at a weird red-furred creature as it inspected the fire. "What's it doing?" Luigi asked as he followed Tails with less enthusiasm.
"Ah Tails! I haven't seen you in quite awhile, did Sonic by chance accompany you here?" Knuckles asks as he pokes a stick at the tied up War Wasp he was cooking.
"He did, I would've thought he would reach you first though." Tails says landing down next to Knuckles.
"Who's that human fella with you?" Knuckles asked giving Luigi a stern glare.
"Oh he's Luigi, he comes from a different dimension..." Tails says.
"Oh! You must that guy Sonic spoke of, well you look sane enough to believe..." Knuckles says and looked back at his War Wasp. "You two must be feeling hungry after traversing to the centre of Angel Woods, want some once I finish cooking?" Knuckles asked.
"Ah no thanks..." Luigi quickly replied but Tails just nodded.
While the three waited for Sonic to arrive Tails and Luigi filled Knuckles in on what was happening while they sat in his hut.
"Well, I noticed something was up... The Master Emerald had been glowing all morning today so I preformed some telekinetic thingy with it to try and figure out what was wrong and was quite shocked when the emerald told me our world was merging with some Solar world!" Knuckles says telling his side of the story.
"You... spoke with a gem..." Luigi says slightly disturbed, he was more disturbed after Knuckles jumped out of the hut and after a moment of silence came back holding a very cooked looking War Wasp.
"Don't cha worry now, the heat cooks all that nasty venom away and makes these things quite delightful!" Knuckles says after seeing Luigi's face, Knuckles then broke the thing with his gloved hands and places a segment in front of Luigi to try.
"Don't be a bad guest Luigi, try it." Tails says as he starting eating his chunk.
"After I finish up I'll head off to try spotting Sonic, he may have been caught by them War Wasps, it's mating season and they're a bit agitated at the moment." Knuckles explains.
After quickly finishes his short meal Knuckles left Tails and Luigi in search of Sonic, giving Luigi the chance to question Tails about Knuckles.
"So who is he and why is he here?" Luigi asked after Knuckles 'glided' out of the hut and into the thickness of the forest.
"Well, Knuckles guards the Master Emerald, he stays here because of some apparent ancestral religious thingy that states that the Master Emerald should stay and if thouf should leave blah blah blah!" Tails says making hand gestures as he spoke.
"Sooo... {pauses} Shouldn't that emerald be around here somewhere, with him 'guarding' {waves his hands} it and all." Luigi asked.
"It is, the shrine is hidden underground somewhere in the middle of Angel Woods, which coincidentally just happens to be this little clearing." Tails explained.
"Fair enough." Luigi says, his mind elsewhere despite being the one who asked.
A/N: This was just a quick update I made, I really want to type this out but I've been working hard for school (Year ten at the moment, eleventh grade if you live... where I don't...) and I've been busy/lazy. I hope the update shows I haven't given up on the story... Thanks for reading and if you want to please give me feedback, either through a review, PM or email (on my profile). Bye.
By the way, I've typed this just in the Doc Manager since it is the only way I can upload correctly. (And I just did this in around one-two hours with breaks)