Chapter 14
Finally, Matt caught up to Shadow... but so had Metal Sonic and the Shadow Hands.
"Forget it, Shadow! You've lost!" said Metal. He clicked his fingers and all the Shadow Hand merged together, creating two, full size, Master Hand and Crazy Hand replicas. The Shadow Pair.
"ATTACK!" commanded Metal Sonic, and two hands began. Matt dodged to the left and began to fight with the "Shadow Master" while Shadow took on the "Shadow Crazy". They had mostly the same moves as the real hands but they also could spawn smaller hands and shoot temporary clones as projectiles.
Matt eventually took down the "Shadow Master" with an axe kick and joined Shadow in fighting the Crazy clone. But bad guys play dirty and the "Shadow Crazy" smashed the ground hard, causing the cliff to crumble and make both Matt and Shadow fall from the cliff with the very ground beneath them.
"Shadow! Warp us back up!" shouted Matt, clearly panicking. Shadow didn't have an emerald though. Without one, there was no way he'd be able to warp even just one of them to safety. Shadow simply stayed calm and tried to think of a way out.
Metal walked to the edge of the cliff and watched the two plummet. "Hmph… That was almost too easy." He was about to turn and leave when he saw something flying across the ocean. He zoomed his eyes in closer onto the object. It appeared to be a space craft of some kind, but was relatively small. It was purple to the back end with a fin on each side and a spoiler on the back. The front end was golden yellow and was shaped a little like a beak. It almost reminded Metal... of a falcon.
The craft sped up and a small hatch opened up on the top and as Shadow and Matt fell towards the ocean, it blasted right beneath them at the last second, catching them safely before performing a U-turn and flying back out over the ocean. Metal didn't like this one bit. The base he was in control of was just taken down and that... falcon shaped flyer was heading out to ocean where another base was located. He needed to get there quickly. He signaled for the shadow hands to split apart and follow him as he activated his jets, and blasted off, after the craft.
When Matt finally came to, he didn't expect to see the inside of some kind of ship. He sat up, rubbing the back of his head which was extremely sore.
"Ugh... where am I..? Shadow? Are you there?" Matt called out as he began to get his bearings. He could hear engines running and jets too. He was clearly flying somewhere. With his mind finally clearing, he stood and looked around. Shadow was sitting not to far away. He had his eyes closed, but Matt could tell he was awake. "Hey, Shadow. Where are we?" Shadow didn't say a word and pointed to a door near his side of the room.
Matt didn't question him and walked over to the door, giving it a light knock before opening it. Opening the door lead him to the cockpit of the craft where the pilot sat. He seemed to be pretty tall, even though he was seated and wore yellow and white driving gloves. He was dressed in a form fitting Blue jumpsuit that showed of his abs and various other manly, manly, muscles. Around his neck was a yellow scarf and atop his head was a dark red helmet with a visor that covered his eyes. He turned to Matt for a second with a smile before turning back to the sky. "Oh! Hey kid! Good to see you awake."
Nameplate: Captain Falcon
He pushed a few buttons on the console to set the Falcon flyer to auto-pilot. "I hope you're more talkative than your friend in there. I was getting bored of just piloting." He rose from his seat and left the cockpit to head back to the room Shadow was sitting in. Matt followed. "The name's Douglas. But you can call me Captain Falcon!" He sat down opposite Shadow and gave the two his trademark 'show me ya moves' salute.
Matt sat down next to Shadow. "Not that I'm not grateful, Captain. But why did you save us?" Matt asked.
Captain falcon gave Matt an odd look. "You were falling from a cliff. Why would I not save you? Besides, I need your help in return."
"Hmph. Everyone wants something..." Muttered Shadow.
"Well what is it you need our help with?" Matt asked.
"I'm sure the two of you have you noticed the large grey spaceship things that are floating over the continent recently, right? Well me and one of my friends, Samus, saw is drop of a large section into the Sea. Samus went to investigate the main ship and I decided to check out the one out at sea, but it's just too dangerous for a one man job. Even if that one man is me!" Captain falcon explained.
"Hmm... Seems suspicious. I'm in!" Matt said. "What about you, Shadow? You gonna help us?"
Shadow knew right away that this part that was dropped out in the sea would have been another Hammurs Base like the one he was stationed at. He felt like an idiot. The only reason he was working for Eggman was that he though he'd be able to get them home. Why didn't it occur to him that Eggman wouldn't want to go home? He wanted to get back to Mobius and the quickest way possible and maybe if he helped thwart Eggman, that could happen. "Fine. I'm in."
Captain falcon gave a grin. "H'yes! Looks like we have our team all ready to..." Before he could finish his statement, a loud clang could be heard on the upper hull of the Falcon Flyer. "...What the heck is that?"
Captain Falcon opened up the hatch in the roof of the room and jumped out, followed by Shadow and Matt, onto the roof of the craft. There stood Metal Sonic and a swarm of Shadow Hands.
"Shadow. I cannot allow you to interfere anymore. I will destroy you and your companions myself." Metal said. He clicked his metallic claws again and the shadow hands once again fused to become the Shadow Pair. But the disadvantage from before was gone. The Falcon Flyer was much more stable than the ground they fought on at the cliff.
Shadow Crazy dived at Matt who deftly dodged to the right before delivering multiple kicks to the pinky finger. Shadow Master got into it's gun-finger position and fired a powerful shot at Captain Falcon, who rolled backwards out of the way. Shadow then leapt up and fired a barrage of Chaos Spears at Shadow Master. While it was being impaled by the spears, Captain Falcon jumped up and gave it the Falcon Knee Of Justice™ Causing Shadow Master to burst apart into multiple small shadow hands that dropped like flies into the ocean.
Matt was busy beating on Shadow Crazy with all his might but Shadow Crazy began dropping bombs from it's fingers onto Matt. He was blasted backwards and hopped up, rubbing his arm, before charging back and delivering a strong punch into Shadow Crazy's palm to cause him to burst back into small Shadow Hands, just as Shadow Master did.
"Haha! I did it! I beat him!" Matt cheered but that's when Metal Sonic dashed in. He slashed at Matt with huge force, sending him flying off the Falcon Flyer. He had barely any time to react and quickly slipped of his Kickboxing belt. He whipped it towards the Flyer and latched onto one of the jets, keeping him from falling. "D-don't worry, guys! I'm fine. You just take down Metal Sonic!" He tried to pull himself upwards, but he really didn't have that kind of upper body strength, so he just decided to hang around. It was then that her saw the Ocean Hammurs base off in the distance. "Captain! The base! We're nearly there! We need to stop Metal now!"
Metal ignored Matt and focused on Shadow. He grabbed onto him and threw him to the ground, burning him with his jets afterwards. Shadow responded by doing the same basic thing right back to Metal with his jet shoes. Captain Falcon interfered with a raptor boost, hitting Metal into the air with a powerful flaming uppercut. He followed up with a Falcon dive and he jumped upwards, catching Metal and giving him a series of electrical shocks.
"Guys!" Shouted Matt up to them. "I hate to rush you, but we're almost right above the base!"
Shadow had to stop playing around. He warped behind Metal and gave a strong kick, knocking him towards Captain Falcon. He prepared a Falcon kick, but Metal activated his impenetrable black shield to stop the attack. When the shield harmlessly bounced away from Captain Falcon, Metal deactivated it and fired down his chest laser at Captain Falcon.
Shadow was still in the fight though. He warped up behind Metal Sonic and gave him a powerful kick down to Captain Falcon, who pulled back his now flaming fist. "Falcon... PUNCH!" He released, crashing his fist into Metal Sonic's face and sending him flying off of their ship.
Metal was still dazed from the punch so he was unable to activate his jets. By the time he recovered, it as too late. He with the water with a large splash. Shadow watched him drop from the side of the Falcon Flyer while Captain Falcon pulled Matt back up. "Well, that went well! Clearly I chose some top class fighters to help me with this mission!" Matt gave him a salute and Shadow just re-entered the Flyer.
"C'mon. We need to land this thing!" Shadow said. Matt and Captain Falcon agreed and climbed inside too. The Captain sat down in his pilot's seat once again a deactivated the auto-pilot. He took control of the wheel and brought the ship down for a landing on the top of the large ocean base. He left the engines in stand-by mode and, along with his new team mates, exited.
"Ok then. How do we get inside?" asked Matt. The three of them looked around their immediate area, looking for any weakspots or entrances. Shadow suddenly began charging up a chaos spear and fired it off at an A/C vent. "Hmm... Cliché, but it'll have to do."
Shadow nodded in agreement and Captain Falcon jumped in first. Shadow followed and Matt after him. They were ready to take down a Hammurs Base.
OOC NOTES TIME:
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