Act one
Beginning
Chapter 4: Unwelcomed to the jungle
Lashanie falls from the hole in the sky and sees a branches quickly lands on top of it. She looks around, spotting unfamiliar things once again.
"Where am I now?" she said.
she suddenly felt something poking her on the forehead as she wears vines with spikes on them.
"ow..what the.."
then she looks down to see her wearing brown gloves. She also sees her shoes changed to boots with vines with spikes around them. But what freaked her out the most is she has a corset with spikes around them on the middle of it. Lashanie screams in horror. She skillfully slide down from branches to branches until she lands on the wooden deck. More deck sit in old bare trees and bright sunlight.
lashanie looks around the area and down to the tree capony while wondering where her friend is. As if her prayer was answered, she heard sonic's scream and ran over to see sonic running away from the bat, enchidna, and a cat as he leaps through branches, dodging the throwing spears.
"Jesus Christ..."
Lashanie was about to pull out her weapon when the green band around her wrist moves on its own and turns into a grass sword.
"what in the world.. Never mind.."
she immediately chases after them to rescue her friend. Meanwhile, the bat chases sonic with her spear as sonic avoids her. On the deck, echidna and a cat throws spears as sonic dodge and swings on a vine around the branch. He leaps to other branches and then swings on another vine as he screams along the way. He spins and land on the deck and stumbles to the edge. He keeps his balance and ducks a spear. He looks down then faces his attackers.
"hey, hey, hey, wait! I'm not the bad guy here. We're friends!"
just as they're about to attack him, a Tarzan yell catches their attention and turns to see Lashanie swinging on the vine towards to them. They immediately throw spears at her when she slashes them off with her grass sword as each handles break in half, shocking them. The bat throws another spear at her when Lashanie makes her grass sword turn back to a green band and catches the spear. She throws it back and catches sonic as they swing away from the attackers. Sonic's eyes lit up to see her.
"Lashanie!!"
"sonic, what's going on? What did you do?" Lashanie said, in a serious tone, slashing off more flying spears with her grass sword.
"I didn't do anything and..."
sonic's leg gets poke by the spikes that's around lashanie's shoes.
"Ow! Why do you have spikes around your shoes and your bangs and..." sonic looks at her funny, he gets cut off my Lashanie.
"Don't you even ask a question! It just happened! Not my doing!"
"Okay... But I realized something."
"what is it?"
sonic and Lashanie landed on another deck and spin away before the attackers could act. Lashanie catches the spear again that was thrown at them and throws it back almost straight to their head as they dodge it.
"They don't know who I am. Again! Which means we're not in New Yoke, we're in a whole new place..."
sonic looked at the attackers.
"...and you're all-new you's and..."
sonic's eyes widen and he face palmed himself.
"Oh, not again!"
"Great! Which is worse? My sudden change of clothes or this new world we're in?" Lashanie grumbled.
sonic runs between them the others as Lashanie catches up to him as they looked around the place.
"so this is another altered Green Hill. At least this one has plants."
"yeah... The boscage maze has super-sized plants that are suffocating the life out of this place. Thanks to the monsters." the bat explained, still holding a spear.
"monster?" Lashanie asked, turning to the group.
the bat, echidna, and a cat all gasped to see her, which made lashanie and sonic looked at them funny.
"S-spikes?" the bat said, dropping her spear.
"uh...what?" lashanie questioned.
the bat, echidna, and a cat starts a circle around her as they stare at her in amazement, disbelief, happiness, etc.
"how is she alive?"
"Maybe she would be either possessed as a demon or maybe God brought her back."
"that's impossible."
the bat slowly approaches to Lashanie and hold her face gently as her tears fall down her face.
"H-how is it possible?"
Lashanie frowns and gently removes her hand.
"it's...hard to explain, but i'm from another world..."
as she explains, the certain enchidna doesn't seem to be listening as he was busy taking a look at her in shock.
Lashanie noticed and she rolls her eyes.
"where you even listening?" Lashanie said, as she crosses her arms, raising her eyebrows.
The bat shakes her head.
"so, you're not... Spikes?"
"No... I'm lashanie. I'm guessing something terrible happen to her?..."
"Yeah..."
"I'm sorry..."
"it's alright... You look... exactly like Spikes."
"And sometimes angry, sometimes kind as she is..." The cat added with his ears down.
"Yeah..." The echidna said.
sonic quickly speaks of what was on his mind, breaking the awkwardness.
"Monsters, overgrown trees, preverts, friend change of clothes, lost shards... Tricky situation. There's only one person who could help me and my friend figure this out. I gotta find—"
he was cut off by a loud Eagle like screech then there's a loud thud until they heard yelling. They look up to see a fox flying over them.
"Tails? Tails!"
sonic runs and grabs a falling fox by the tail.
"Gotcha!"
Lashanie sighs in relief that he's okay. Though, seeing another version of Tails reminds her of Nine's betrayal as she looks slightly angry about him. That bat, the echidna, and a cat stares at sonic in awe at his speed.
"he's fast" the echidna smiled.
"Fast enough to occupy the monster while we grab what we need." The bat said with a determined smile.
"What?" Lashanie questioned.
"Am I glad to see you! The world is all..."
sonic starts babbling as he moves his fingers up and down on the lips before stopping himself.
"you gotta figure out what's going—"
He was cut off by the fox growl and looks down as the fox glares up at him with his fangs bared, causing sonic to scream. The fox then bites him on the arm, causing him to yelp and holds him back.
"Ow! You mangey little—"
sonic gets pinned down by the fox as the fox attempts to bite him again with a snarl. He struggles to push him back until Lashanie charges in and grabs the fox by the back and pulls him away.
"Hey! Stop that! He just saved your life!" She said, glaring at him.
The fox turns and was about to attack her when his eyes widen to see her. His face changes to puppy look as he let's out a small bark and pounces on Lashanie. Lashanie yelps in shock as the fox starts licking her face.
"Ew! Gross! Stop that!"
The fox looks so happy to see her as his twin tails wags. The bat knew this has to stop as she files over and grabs the fox in the air.
"Hey, give it a rest. She's not spikes, sadly."
The fox let's out a question hum and looks at Lashanie, who wipes all the saliva from her face before giving him a sad smile. The fox let's out a small whimper and slumps. The bat drops him as he gives Lashanie a quick nudge on her legs using his face before running on fours towards the group and faces them. The bat helps both sonic and Lashanie up.
"Thanks for your help, stranger."
"It's sonic and you're welcome. But why didn't he just fly with all of his tails?"
The fox begins to scratch his head with his shoe like a dog. The bat looks confused of what sonic said while looking at the fox.
"Fly? Mangey doesn't fly."
"Mangey?" Lashanie raises her eyebrows as she tilts her head.
"wait, 'Mangey'? Really?" sonic questioned in surprise, raising his eyebrows as well.
"And im prim." introduced the bat.
"Hangry" The cat said.
Lashanie raises her eyebrow at the mixture of hungry and angry. The echidna Introduced last.
"Gnarly. But you already knew that. Didn't ya? Who sent you?!"
Gnarly goes up to sonic's face with a suspicious look and points his spiky boxing gloves at his face. Sonic raises his head up in surrender.
"look, you all seem like a lovely group, but me and my friend are trying to find our way back home and we're looking for some answers." he said while Gnarly keeps glaring at him suspiciously and following his move.
Lashanie comes in between Gnarly and sonic and Pushes Gnarly back with a glare.
"Back off, buddy."
instead of being offended, he immediately backs away with his hands up.
"Yes, ma'am."
"Do any of you know about the paradox prism?" sonic continued.
Prim and others stare at him with confusion.
"Okay... How about a shiny crystal Shard that may or may not have seen really weird powers? It's the only clue we have to getting back home."
"A shard? We don't know—"
Hangry was cut off by prim as she walks up to sonic and Lashanie.
"Why you waited so long to ask us about it?"
Lashanie raises her eyebrows and look at prim with suspiciously, but sonic didn't catch it and h was happy to hear it.
"So you know where it is? Can you take us to it?"
"Of course. But first come to our village. I'm sure we can help each other."
Lashanie looks at Gnarly and others for some explanation of what prim is up to. They only give her a shrug as they looked confused. Lashanie nods. They're now walking across the deck.
"We didn't always live in canopy. For years, we lived on the ground, room everything we needed from the jungle to survive. And then, th monster drove us up into a trees." Prim explained with a grim look.
"But why? Why would a monster do that? I'm sure there's a reason behind all of this." Lashanie asked.
"Don't know and I'd rather not care. That monster made its reason clear. Especially of what it did to our Spikes..."
Now Lashanie is curious of what happened to Spikes.
"Everyday in the boscage maze is a struggle to survive." Hangry said and grabbed sonic by the shoulders and shook him. "It's miserable!"
"whoa! Easy! No need to be angry!"
"I'm not angry! I'm hungry. You ever tried filling up on bark?"
Hangry bites on the piece of the bark and walks away. Lashanie grimance, thinking it tastes terrible and hard to chew on.
" 'bark'? Don't any of the trees have fruits or nuts or something?" sonic asked.
"They used to, but they're trapped out. That's why we have to forage below, despite the monster." Prime said, before stopping and facing them as she holds her spear. "We're here."
they made it to the big area and what used to be nice a nice tree as it only shows branches everywhere without any leaves on sight.
"This is your village?"
sonic hope over and shakes the big leaf. Gnarly rushes over and stands infront of him.
"hey! Get away from my house."
Sonic and Lashanie were confused about the leaf being called a 'House'.
"Your— I mean, it's very rustic." sonic said nervously, backing away.
They heard mangey's snarling and turned as he climbs up and runs up with something in his hands. He uncloses his hands to reveal a berry. Mangey smiles and goes to take a bite when prim takes the berry from him.
"Ah-ah-ah! Hold that thought."
Mangey tries to take a berry back when she holds him back by holding his face and flies off. Mangey drops down and whimpers with his tails and ears down, making Lashanie feel bad a little. She sighs and gently pats him on the head. He smiles and leans into her touch. Prim flies up to sonic and goes around him.
"Sonic, we'll take you and Lashanie to the-the—uh—"
"shard." Lashanie corrected her.
"Exactly! But... First you'll help us by taking care of the monster so we can gather supplies."
prim tosses the berry behind her and hangry catches it. Gnarly and mangey goes to take a berry when hangry holds it away from them. Sonic and Lashanie watches in concern. Prim though was unfazed by it.
"Deal?"
"Oof! These guys really need some help." sonic commented.
Lashanie watches them for a moment before shaking her head with a sigh and start walking towards to them. Sonic and prim watches with worry and curiosity of what she's doing. Lashanie snatches the berry, making hangry, mangey, Gnarly turn to her. She tosses the berry in the air and in speed, she summons her grass sword and slices the berry, shocking everyone. As soon as she's done, she makes her grass sword turn her back into a green leaf band. Suddenly, pieces of the berry drops down on prim, mangey, Gnarly, and hangry as they catches it. They stare at Lashanie in shock as she rolls her eyes at them in annoyance.
"Now we can all have berry to eat. Ever learn to share instead of fighting like children?" she sassed.
prim and the others keep staring at her for a moment then to the pieces before taking a bite. They all look in bliss to finally get the taste of the berry. Prime looks at Lashanie softly.
"Thank you..."
"No problem."
sonic walks up to them.
"Good news! Everyone! Guess which special guests can handle a so-called monster without even breaking a sweat?"
Hangry, Gnarly, and mangey stare at him. Sonic deadpans at this and tries to translate it to them.
"it's me. It's obviously me and my friend."
They stare at him still with confusion on their faces. Lashanie groans in annoyance and nudges him by the shoulder to just get on to it.
"We'll help you. Berries for all, as many as you want!"
hangry, gnarly, and mangey runs up to sonic with excitement.
"you mean we could have two berries?" Hangry asked.
sonic nods, moving away from their closeness.
"The more the merrier." Lashanie added.
hangry, Gnarly, and mangey cheers at this news, hugging each other. Sonic smiles at them. Lashanie sighs as she looks down and shook her head as she crosses her arms, she looks up and smiles slightly.
Later, three vines drop into the dark jungle. Prim, Lashanie, hangry, mangey, and Gnarly slide down. Sonic jumped down to a twisted root then joins them on the ground and looks up along with Lashanie. They spotted the loop-de-loop just like green hill, only it's covered with trees and three yellow flickies flies up to it.
"That's the loop-de-loop. You were not kidding about the plants. They even looked bigger from down here."
"Shh!" prim shushed him and walked ahead.
"Right! Stealth mission." sonic whispered, tiptoeing after them.
prim then points at the leafy plants. Gnarly goes to them and clears some of the leaves. On all fours, mangey hops between them and sniffs the grass. The others follows him. Mangey squeezes under the twisted root. Gnarly rips it in two and moves on, causes lashanie to jump at the sudden snap like those poor plants just lost their lives. She starts to out two and two together of why the monster drove them up to the trees.
"we need to be very quiet. The monster could be anywhere." prim warned."
Mangey leaps ahead and gnaws on the thick stem. Gnarly pulls him off and peeks through a small gap of berry.
"Hey! I found one! I guess it's our lucky day."
He grins and shoves mangey away that'd attempts to grab the berry himself and reaches for the berry. With gloves, he rips plants apart, which worries sonic and Lashanie as some leaves flies on sonic's face.
"whoa! You know you might wanna take it easy on the plants." sonic said.
Gnarly turns to him.
"why are you on the plants' side?"
He roughly places his fist on sonic's face holding a plant up to his face.
"They've gotten to you."
Lashanie glares and snatches the plants from Gnarly.
"that's because plants, even trees, have life. All around us, the plants communicating. We just don't notice it."
she gently plants the plant back on the ground. Gnarly stares at her for a moment before he reaches further for the berry and picks it, Showing it to Lashanie. Suddenly, mangey bites gnarly's arm and hangry jumps on them. Mangey pulls gnarly and bumps hangry's head.
lashanie quietly groans in annoyance as she rolls her eyes.
"guys! Knock it off!!" Lashanie whisper yelled at them.
sonic sighs.
"So much for being quiet."
"shh! Do you wanna get us all killed?" prim shushed him.
"wait, wha—but, uh, he—"
"shh!"
Gnarly holds onto a berry, struggling to push mangey and hangry away from him. A little frog hops to it and grabs it by its tongue. This stopped the three from fighting as the frog hops away. They collapsed onto each other in defeat. A sound was heard, causing sonic to gasps. Prim, Lashanie, and sonic turn to see plants rustling. Mangey sniffs the air and hides behind sonic and Lashanie. Then they heard screeches. A pink blur speeds by. Prim turns to see more plants rustling.
"Run!!" she shouted.
hangry, mangey, Gnarly, Prim run. Sonic and Lashanie follows. But prim holds sonic back by holding her arm as she smacks his neck and then grabs Lashanie's hand.
"Not you! Go deal with the monster!"
prim runs off with Lashanie
"Right! I'll deal with the monster. You go find these berries. Take care of them, Lashanie!"
"Wait! Sonic!!" Lashanie tried to call him, but he already run off.
Lashanie turns and pulls herself away from Prim. Prim turns to her.
"what are you doing?!"
"I need to go after my friend! He could need my help!"
"He can deal with it himself!"
"Not without me!"
Lashanie attempts to go back when Prim blocks her way.
"No! It's dangerous! The monster could kill you!"
"I can handle myself! I'm not a baby! You can protect me like that just like my brother would always do!"
she pushes past prim and runs off. Prim tries to go after her but she's already gone.
"Please! Don't go! She will kill you! Please! Come back! PLEAAAAAAAASE!!" prime screamed as her tears runs down her face.
Lashanie continued to run in the jungle and try to look around for any sign of her friend as she grows frustrated with how big this mother nature is. She heard a screech an quickly followed after it, pushing through the big leaves. She eventually gets into the clearing and looks around and spots sonic as he ducks something.
"Whoa! Okay, so you're pretty quick. But how quick?"
"sonic!!"
sonic turns to see Lashanie running towards to him.
"Lash! Shouldn't you help others find supplies?"
"I thought you'd need backup."
"well, to be honest, I'm glad to have you back."
sonic and Lashanie runs and hops over bushes. Sonic trips and rolls up while Lashanie gracefully dodges anything that are in her way. They look to the side as pink flashes through the leaves.
"Did you see that?"
"Yeah! Who's back there? Show yourself, monster!"
They duck something big flying over.
"Yikes! On second thought, you're scary enough as is."
they hop and run through the jungle. A falling log just misses them.
"This places needs a monster-sized weed whacker! I can't hit the gas."
"Man, I wish I have my wings!"
sonic and Lashanie runs through the hall of log. They look back and glare with determination.
"That's it! Enough running."
They slide out and stop. More shrieking was heard as they looked around.
"can't fight what we can't see."
"but we've got other sense."
sonic and Lashanie pointy ears move as they listen closely for any noises. They then turn knowing where the thing is.
"there you go."
Something big lands, sending the hedgehogs friends rolling back and lands. They get into their fighting stances when they were surprised at what they see. The dust reveals a giant pink and white bird stalks towards them. Th bird raises its wing and screeches to Intimidate them.
"what the..." Lashanie gasps.
"you're no monster." Sonic chuckled. "You're just a giant flicky!"
The bird shrieks at something that made them understand not liking the words it just said.
"whoa! Who taught you that kind of language?!" Lashanie glares.
"you're gonna regret saying that."
Sonic knocks the bird back using his spin dash before landing besides Lashanie.
"Gotcha!"
The bird get back up and glares at them.
"You wanna dance? Let's party!"
Sonic and Lashanie dodges the birds attacks. Sonic hits the birds back and jumps down. From the hole in the canopy after they went forcibly flying back where they belong, prim and the others watch Sonic spin up the tree while Lashanie stand her ground facing the bird. The bird chases her and Lashanie goes to run not knowing she made the ground underneath her move on its own and move to the other side in speed, surprising herself.
Lashanie looks up as the bird chargers towards her. She took a step back facing the bird. Prim and the others watches with worry. As soon as the bird comes closer, Lashanie ran towards it and attacks the bird, hitting pressure points and immobilizing it before flipping back and lands. Her face darkens with her glaring lime green eyes that glows as she stays in her stance.
The bird dropped to the ground with a loud thud as Lashanie stood up slowly. Sonic was shocked and appalled at his friends actions while Prim and the others are surprised. Mangey and hangry were in awe while Prim and Gnarly werw shocked that her attack against the bird was amazing.
lashanie looks back at the bird and she quickly calms down and looks at the bird with concern.
"I-I am so sorry! Don't be scared. I-I just know the pressure points to paralyzed, I sweat this is not an animal abuse! It was a self-defense! Really!"
The bird who is laying on the ground with wide eyes and muscles paralyzes for a certain amount of time was trembling in fear. Lashanie frowns, not meaning to hurt it. She kneels down and places a palm of her hand in the bird and giving it a soft, gentle rub. The bird calms down and stares up at Lashanie, immediately recognizing her and screeches softly.
"Sorry, I'm not Spikes. My name is Lashanie. Nice to meet you."
Sonic smiles at this scene while Prim and the other are still speechless. Sonic looks up at them from the hole.
"you can come down now, Lashanie defeated and tamed the monster."
"that's not the monster. That's the monsters pet!" Prim said.
Lashanie clears her throat and looks up from the hole.
"excuse me?" Lashanie raises her eyebrows.
Sonic looked confused.
"say what now?"
a foot covered in leaves steps down. Green eyes peer through bushes. Something hits Lashanie and she was sent flying elsewhere as she lands into the berry patch. She gets up and sees a lot of berries, including the big one.
"this is what they're looking for."
Thinking fast while knowing Sonic is in danger, she grabs some leaves to make a leaf basket for as much as she can before picking the berries from the patch while being careful with the roots that needs to be grown. Once that was done, she summons her whip that is now a rib vine, but she couldn't careless. She attached the basket with a whip before spinning it and releases, throwing the basket up to the hole of the trees.
Lashanie goes to run to her friend's rescue when she took a step forward and suddenly started earth surfing. She struggles to control it until she manages to get a hang of this as she goes faster. Meanwhile, Sonic falls into the thorn and plucks out thorn out of his cheek.
"Spikes? I hate spikes!"
A hammer misses him twice and sonic quickly crawls under vines while dodging the hammer that kept coming down on him. He then stands after getting out of the vines only to fall to the ground. Sonic looks back to find a vine is wrapped around his leg. He was about to get it off when the bird drops down and lands besides with the figure with the hammer. They start walking behind Sonic, who struggles to get free from the vine crawling. The hammer scapes through the grass as the hand grips onto it as Sonic kept crawling. The vine snaps, freeing him, but the hammer knocks Sonic against the tree. He falls off into the ground and looks upside down at the figure leaping close to him. He turns right side up and looks at the pink hedgehog with a huge hammer, glaring daggers at him.
"Amy? You're the monster?" Sonic gasps, getting up chuckling. "Ugh, oh, those guys up above have really got it—"
he was cut off by the hammer smacking against his chest, causing him to grunt.
"—wrong"
"you hurt my jungle and birdie!"
The pink hedgehog knocks Sonic back.
"I hurt you!"
she starts hitting him with the hammer when he dodges every attack being thrown at him.
"Amy, stop! We're friends! You liked me, to some extend."
he jumps away from the hammer as it slams against the ground before being brought back up.
"Get out!"
above them, Prim and others still watches.
"Maybe not so powerful after all. Am I right?" Prim asked with asmusement.
just then, the lead basket was thrown towards the group as each hits them on the head. They look over to see the basket full of berries. They were surprised while looking happy at the same time.
"but how did—"
prim was cut off by a loud sudden earth shake and they looked to see lashanie surfing her way towards the pink hedgehog that's chasing sonic through the jungle. Sonic runs up the trees when the bird is on top of the tree and doves at him, causing him to fall on the ground. The pink hedgehog twirls her hammer.
"And stay out!"
Just as she goes to throw a blow on Sonic when a voice called out.
"NO!"
she turned to see lashanie jumping towards her with her grass sword raised as she goes for strike her down. The pink hedgehog quickly blocks her with her hammer. Lashanie was surprised that her grass sword didn't break. Their weapons clash as they block each other's attack until they collided against each other as the two girls struggle to push each other. The pink hedgehog's eyes widened in recognition as lashanie glares at her.
"Spikes?"
Lashanie raises her eyebrows and immediately glares as she pulls her sword and strikes at the pink hedgehog's shoulder with one swing at her blade.
"Ugh!" she grunted in pain, holding her shoulder.
The bird backs up in fear at seeing Lashanie. Lashanie rushes over to sonic's aid.
"Sonic! You alright?"
The pink hedgehog glances at them.
"Y-yeah I'm fine. But that girl you're fighting the one they call a monster is Amy." he said, pointing at her.
Lashanie turns to her in shock.
"Amy...?"
The pink hedgehog though speechless as she stares at her.
"Spikes."
Lashanie glares at her.
"My name is Lashanie. I don't know what you have against people going into the jungle, but I don't appreciate you hurting my friend like that. And now i'm going to return the favor."
she runs at the pink hedgehog with her grass sword raised. The pink hedgehog though starts to have flashbacks to Spikes smiling at her, hugging her, and then to her dying her last breathe as the pink hedgehog was staring down at her own hands in horror.
"No! You get away! You're not her!!"
The pink hedgehog hits Lashanie and sonic with her hammer, sending them flying up to the hole of the tree. Prim and the others happily eat the berries Lashanie gave them and watch sonic and lashanie fly up, flailing. Most are worried for Lashanie.
"Man, never knew she would have that kind of strength from her hammer!" Lashanie commented.
"First rusty, now this?" Sonic said in frustration.
Sonic spin dashes and flies back down. Lashanie struggles to find a way to get down safely when her shoes starts glowing. Bubbles comes out as they spread around the sky, catching prim and others' attention as they stare at them in confusion. With determination, Lashanie dives down and begins her parkour as she jumps down on each of the bubbles as she bounces off. They watch her go down as she starts to fall once the bubbles fades away. Lashanie brings out her hands and the jungle shakes a bit and she summons a big column of earth as she lands on it before making it bring her down.
Back to sonic as he tries to talk to the pink hedgehog that kept attacking him with her hammer as he dodges them.
"So how about we put down your big hammer and just talk, Amy?"
The bird lands behind him and the hammer slams onto his chest again.
"My name is Thorn rose, and you are finished!"
Thorn knocks him through the air. Two yellow flickes snuggles on a stump. Sonic hits the stump and rolls through them and fall on the ground. One of the flickies get stuck in mud as it struggles to get out. Sonic sees the other flicky can't reach its friend and goes over to them and goes over to them and pulls the first flicky out. He blows on it and wipes it off. Thorn watches from the branch of the tree she was on.
"There you go."
Thorn was surprised that he helped them until they went wide to see Lashanie landing safely with the help of earth she summons. Sonic was amazed at her ability.
"you can control the ground?"
"I think I can control earth. Pretty cool, right?"
"awesome."
Lashanie looks at the flicky then to the other as she outs two together as she realizes Sonic helps them. Sonic lets out the flicky go as it flies along with its friend.
"you're free now, little flickies."
Lashanie smiles at this, but it gets wiped off when they hear a growl. She and sonic get into their fighting stance back against each other. They look around for any more enemies they need to deal with as leaves and bushes rustles. Then, a black figure jumps out and goes to pounce on them when Lashanie quickly acts and flips the figure over to the side and it lands on its feet. It gets up and the light reveals a black Panther.
"It-It's...It's a black Panther!" Lashanie gasps.
"Oof. That's dangerous." Sonic gulped.
The black Panther roared. Lashanie stood still, completely unfazed. The black Panther then ran forward. She stood her ground, eyes narrowed. When the black panther tried to strike her with his claws out, Lashanie just simply moved out of the way. The black panther tried to use his tail to whip her, Lashanie used that move against him and flipped him over. The black panther sprang to his feet and when he went for another strike, she dodges it and flipped him over again. The black slides through the ground, but his paws slipped, he forward—right onto the injured paw. He roared in pain. Lashanie quickly gets concerned and sees a thorn stuck in his paw. She starts to think of a way to help him.
she eventually took a deep breathe and started to approach the black panther, worrying Sonic as he watches along with Thorn. He growls at her with a warning but she kept coming closer with a weapon in hand as she stares at him. The black panther calms down a bit as Lashanie kneels to his level. She gently took his paw, which earned a growl again. She ignored him and grabbed the thorn, and pulled it free.
suddenly, the black panther roars in pain and then pounces onto her and pins her to the ground as he stood over her, snorting hot breath. He opened his mouth. Lashanie stares at his fangs.
"Lashanie!!"
Sonic goes to rescue her.
"Wait!! I was only trying to help!" Lashanie pleaded.
The black Panther lowered his head and... Began to lick her cheek the nudges her face, purring. The black panther walks around her, moving its body closer to her like it's giving her attection. Lashanie was surprised by this as she watched him pull himself away from away from her and lick his paw. She slowly raises her hand and places it on his head. It looks up at her and stares back as their eyes glows like they're connected to the spirit.
"What's your name?"
The black panther growls something that made her understand.
"T,Challa. Amazing name."
Sonic smiles with thorns expression softens with a hint of smile. T,Chalia looks around and growls. Sonic and Lashanie looks to where the black panther was looking and gasps.
"What happened here?" Sonic asked.
Sonic and Lashanie looks around at more stumps. The giant bird land with thorn on its back.
"You're what happened here." Thorn said. "You and your kind above, hacked and slashed, and nearly destroyed it all!"
"My kind?" Sonic and Lashanie questioned in unison.
"you scavengers took everything the jungle had to offer and left this."
Thorn gestured to broken branches, mud piles, and small plants.
"I'm bringing back nature. By force, if I have to!"
Thorn jumps down with her hammer and misses Sonic as they almost hit between his legs. Sonic takes it with his leg and holds onto it.
"That's right! Mine now!" he laughed.
The giant bird shrieks at them and T,Challa roars back at it, surprising Thorn that it's protecting them, especially Lashanie. Thorn notices the rings on Sonic's shoes are glowing along with Lashanies grass sword.
"That glow."
Sonic looks down at his shoes while Lashanie looks at her grass sword, feeling it.
"Huh? Yes!"
"That means there's gotta be a share nearby."
"Shard? No I've seen that before. It looks like a great green."
"It's pretty powerful stuff." Sonic said.
"And dangerous to use." Lashanie added.
"Can you help me and my friend find this 'great green'? This jungles giving me, uh, a little bit of trouble."
"Not me. I have a nature of spirit in me." Lashanie said, letting the black panther who purrs.
Thorn scowls and Sonic powers the hammer.
"Look, I believe it can help me and my friend get back home and then we'll be outta your hair."
He approaches Thorn and the bird and offers the hammer to her. Thorn stares at him for a moment and the bird shrieks at Sonic again.
"Trust us. Trust me." Lashanie said, facing Thorn.
Thorn softens and eventually accepts her hammer as she takes it back.
"Fine. I'll help you. As long as it means you're out of my jungle. For good."
The bird proceeds to shriek at Sonic again when Lashanie glares back as she growls, making it shut its beak and follows thorn after, who's walking away. Sonic and Lashanie follows them along with T,Challa.
"You say the scavengers did all this?" Sonic asked.
"Yes, we all used to live together in harmony with nature. But then they got greedy, always taking, never considering the harm they doing to the world around them. They even... Caused the death of my best friend, Spikes..." Thorn said before frowning at the end.
Lashanie frowns, making her think there's more to it than.
"I'm...sorry to hear that. And sorry if you mistaken me for Spikes."
Thorn glances at her for a moment before looking back ahead.
"You may not be her, but... you have her spirit and kindness to the nature around you. You even have the power of Mother Nature as I saw you."
Lashanie slightly smiles, taking that as a compliment.
"So that's why you chased them off and went all... whatever this is." Sonic said, not wanting to anger her.
The giant bird lands behind Sonic and shrieks at something that made it sound offended.
"Hey! I meant as a compliment. I mean, this is way less creepy then the last you we met."
Thorn looks back at Sonic with confusion.
"Last me?"
"It's a long story." Lashanie said.
"if you used to live in harmony with the others, why don't you just bring everybody together and, you know, work it out?"
"He's right. I'm sure there's a reason for what they did to your jungle was wrong. They'll understand why. Don't they deserved to survived to?"
Thorn sighs and faces them.
"Do you ever stop talking?"
"Eh, not really." Sonic said.
"Not much, but sorry if we talk too much." Lashanie said.
The bird shoves Sonic to move on. T,Challa makes Lashanie go on his back to make the ride more fun and faster. Above, prim and the others watch through the canopy.
"Don't like this one bit. Where are they going with the monster?" Gnarly said.
"They've betrayed us." Hangry said in distress.
"No. Lashanie would never betray us. I'm sure there's a reason." prim said.
"...You do have a point." Gnarly said, looking at Lashanie who's riding a black panther.
Thorn pushes through the leaves and they smack Sonic in the face.
"Ow!"
Lashanie snickers as she and T,Challa along with the bird walks over them and follows Sonic.
"Listen, I get that you and the tree peeps don't see eye-to-eye on stuff."
Sonic eye on his glowing shoes.
"But isn't calling the scavengers a little... Dark?"
The bird shrieks at Sonic, making him quickly get moving. T,Challa growls at the bird, which Lashanie gently tells it, knowing the bird have good reasons to defend Thorn.
"What else would I call them?" Thorn asked.
"I don't know, how about happy, happy, fun upstairs people tryin' to live?"
Thorn places a hammer on his chest threatenly as she faces him.
"There's nothing fun about destruction. It's all they know."
"Hey. Not everyone is heartless. I'm sure they never realized this or they just don't see it." Lashanie said, defending her friend.
Thorn scoffs and walks on. The bird passes them to follow her through dark, lush jungle. Sonic hops on the log to keep up with them. He struggles through the bushes as he pop his head out as Thorn, Lashanie, the bird, And T,Challa watches him unamusment.
"How do you make your way through all these thorns?"
Thorn waves her hammer.
"This way!"
Sonic climbs a hill to Thorn, Lashanie, The bird, and T,Challa. They eventually reach a clearing.
"behold...the great green."
Light glows at the bottom of the huge palm tree.
"The palm..." Lashanie gasps in awe, mounting off the black panther.
"its—"
Sonic was cut off by thorn.
"Magnificent? Yes." She said, smiling for a moment before glaring at Sonic, point a hammer. "Now do your thing and get out of my jungle!"
Sonic walks closer to the tree's glowing roots.
"If my kicks are right, and they always are, the shards is buried down here."
He opens his spikes from his gloves and digs. Lashanie giggles, feeling like just what knuckles would do.
"I found it!"
sonic spins out and moves to the far distance to grab something.
"but I can't touch it or I..."
He runs back to them with a leaf in his hand.
"...You know, poof!"
"It's true. It happened to me as well." Lashanie said.
He dives back down into the hole he made and comes back with the leaf wrapped around the small green crystal. Lashanie smiles to see it while Thorn was in awe and... greedy.
"Magnificent!"
"Yeah, it's pretty, but trust me, this thing is—"
"Mine!"
Thorn hammers it out of Sonic's hand, shocking Lashanie. Sonic files back and falls and slides over the grass. Lashanie turns to Thorn as T,Challa growls and gets into pouncing stance.
"What are you doing?!"
"Doing what's right."
Thorn picks up the crystal and holds it. lashanie pulls out her grass sword and points it to her.
"Give it back, Amy."
"It's thorn, and I can't do that."
She then attaches it to the top of her hammer. Vines wrapped around the hammer and crystal.
"No! What are you doing? We need that!" Sonic shouted, getting up.
"As if I would give the heart of my jungle to a stranger. You're just another scavenger like the rest of them."
"Oh, yeah? And what about me?" Lashanie glared, gripping onto her sword tightly.
"You're... You're different. But you have to understand why I have to do it."
"That crystal is nothing but dangerous. It could lead to more disasters. Do you really think this is what Spikes would want?"
"I..."
Thorn struggles to find the words, but she shakes her head and glares back at Lashanie.
"Sorry, but there's no point in changing my mind. I have to protect the jungle."
"And I have to protect My friends and my family... From you! Hi-yah!"
Lashanie and Thorn leaps at each other.
