CHAPTER 5 STREGHT CHECK
"The next challenge will be about streght! So better get those muscles ready!" Omochao anouced.
"Knuckles, getting ready I see!" Rouge was watching the Echidna exercise with a log.
"What do you want, Rouge?" he lifted the log, "I'm working out."
"Ah, Knucklehead! Why the effort if your team is going to loose?" she touched her nose.
"What are you talking about? I'm going to carry my team, they pick me and I win for them!" he tossed the log away.
"It's going to be a team game, Tails is not the strongest and Sonic is probably not going to think before acting."
"Like him going to believe you!"
"Ten rings tells you otherwise!" she challenged him.
"Sure whatever!" he rolled his eyes.
"Thanks in advance for the rings!" she walked away.
"-Lanolin. There you are." Whisper walked to the sheep, "-Hi, Big."
"Hello. Lanolin has been fishing with me, it's nice to have company."
"-Really?"
Lanolin got close to Whisper's ear, "I encountered one of Mimic's gang, she was scouting."
"-Who?"
"The gazelle. Her name is Judy, I noticed her sneaking around during the first challenge, she avoided confronting me and we agreed that there was no point in fighting, I think their plan is to kidnap Big." she pointed at him, he had just caught a fish.
"-Are you sure? He is well, big."
"I still don't know, but we still don't know what they are capable of!"
"-That's true. We have to watch the ones we don't know about."
"If you know your enemy and know yourself, you need not to fear the result of a hundred battles." Big said.
"Oh, Big! We didn't know you were listening!" Lanolin didn't want to startle him.
"Listening is one of the things I'm good at. Don't worry, I'll look after Froogy and me."
"-Thanks, Big. We should probably go back. The challenge will begin." Whisper make notice.
"You are right! Where's Tangle at?" Lanolin asked.
"-Looking for Jewel."
"Its always an important mission to search for a friend." Big got up and followed them.
Out of a bush, Judy popped up , "I'm having trouble with the target."
"And what do you want?" Mimic's voice could be heard trough the intercomunicator.
"Some help would be nice! Can't you get someone to help me?" she was almost screaming.
"No, the others are too big and easy to spot, and Toxic, well is Toxic, excuse me for a moment. Toxic, go catch some air! You are polluting the room!"
"Fine." he says, Judy then hears a glass window being broke.
"Did he just jumped out of the window?"
"Yup. He is currently falling hundred stores down. Once he hits the floor, he will comeback up the stairs."
"And what about you? Can't you kindly move your tentacles out here? You are better at this then me!"
"I know, but I'm waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike. Just go get some food, relax a bit. Time is on our side!"
He hang off, "Well, time to drink up." she took one of her flask from her waist, it was a purple liquid and drank almost all of it, "Always left a bit out. I don't want to go trough all that trouble again!"
"Tangle!" Lanolin called out to her friend when she saw her.
"Hey!" she ran to her encounter, she was smiling.
"So did you find Jewel?"
Tangle breath in before entering in panic, "No! I looked everywhere! Here, on the city, I went inside the museum and I even searched in her favourite places!" she was worried.
"-It's not normal of her."
"Have you phoned her?" Lanolin asked.
Tangle calmed down, "Oh, right?! I forgot!"
"Attention, everyone get ready for the strength challenge! Stop what you are currently doing!" the announcer spoke.
"Looks like I have to be in suffering for even more time." Tangle swing her tail around.
"Want a hug?" Big offered.
"Yes, please!" Tangle hugged him, Whisper petted her head.
"This is a team challenge!"
Rouge elbowed Knuckles, "You own me ten rings!"
"Later." he was grumpy.
"You all have to break this log! If everyone on your team manages to do so, your team will win a point! You have to break it with a part of your body, only one part! You can't just grabbed it and crush it, you have to do it by yourself! You can begin, first up its team Sonic."
"Oh, jeez!" Tails was afraid.
"I'll start." Knuckles went, smashed the log and walked back, "Your turn, Sonic."
Sonic spin dashed and broke the log quickly, "C'mon, Tails! You can do this! I believe in you, buddy!" Sonic cheered for his friend, so much so that others from the other teams, joined in.
"You got this, little dude." Vector was the first to join.
Tangle, Charmy, Cream, Amy, Silver and Marine, joined as well.
"Hit it hard, Tails!"
"Break it in half!"
"We believe in you!"
"Just whack it, don't hit it to hard, you might hurt yourself!"
"Just do it!"
"Let's go, mate!"
Tails closed his eyes, and breathe, "Here it goes." he karate chopped the wood.
"Aaiaah!" he yelled in pain, his hand was hurting, "It was no use."
"I wouldn't say that. Look!" Silver pointed to the log, it had a crack were Tails hit.
"I did it." Tails was happy, but Omochao was the cold reality.
"Sorry to say, pal, but you didn't broke it, you only damaged it a bit. So no points for you!"
The Fox got upset, but he felt a hand on his shoulder, it was Shadow.
"For someone that isn't a fighter, you did a good job. You remind me of Cream, when she asked me to help her get stronger. If you train your stregh a little you should be able to break it."
"What was that about Cream?"
"You'll see."
Next up were the Babylon Rogues, Storm smashed it with his fist, Jet
used his beak and Wave elbowed it.
"You see what happens when you also train your body and your brain, kid? You skipped all the days it seems." she taunted the poor Fox, that was still applying ice to his hurt hand, that was given to him by Amy.
Team Chaotix, also destroyed the log, with Espio splitting it in two, Charmy did four and Vector smashed to bits with his tail.
Tangle did a similar feat, while Whisper used the same tecnic as Espio and Lanolin decided to literally use her head.
"I don't do this often! Let me rest a bit." she seat on the ground.
"-Nice work. You did it." Whisper smiled.
"Oh yeah! Lanolin is the goat! Well you're a sheep, but you get what I'm saying!" Tangle vocalized her support.
"It's the goat, she don't miss, she don't miss!" Vector joined in, "Sorry, I say that to Charmy and Espio to motivate them! I didn't want to interfere."
"The more praise the better!" Tangle made a thumbs up with her tail.
Team Dark, also gain the point, all of tge members used their feet to smash tge wood, although Omega's kick send him to the ground, which made him land on top of the log, "I do not have the agility or flexibility to preform a roundhouse kick."
"Don't worry, darling! This also worked." Rouge patted the fallen robot.
Team Dimension was up next, and with Blaze's fist and Marine's side chop, Silver was the last one, he was thinking, "How do I do this? I don't want to admit, but I might just be like Tails, if not worst!" he looked down at his shoes, for no particular reason, "I've got it!"
He flyed up and then looked down, with his feet pointing downwards.
"Twenty rings in how he breakes his legs!" Vector declared.
"Twenty more in how he destroys the log!" Charmy joined his boss.
"Are you really betting if he's going to get hurt?" Blaze didn't approve of that kind of fun.
"-Do you really think someone will join you?" Whisper joined by her side.
"Can we bet against you?" Marine and Tangle asked.
"Sure thing!"
"Marine! Tangle!"
"You want to watch this enfold in silence with me?" Espio was sitting with his arms crossed.
"-Sure."
"What else can we do?" Blaze sat down, she could predict the outcome of this, and it wasn't pretty.
Silver closed his eyes and plummit towards the log, everyone hold their breath. He opened his eyes mid fall and then his brain clicked, "Wait this is stupid." he tried to slow down, but he was falling too fast, "Aaaaaaaaah!" Silver closed his eyes.
The only thing he could feel was something fluffy and warm, he opened his eyes, Big was laying under him, he had cushion his fall.
"Are you okay, Silver?"
"Yes, thank you Big." he tried to get out, but his legs were stuck in Big's belly, "This is awkward." Silver was embarrassed.
"Don't worry, Froggy's got this, right Froggy?" Big turned to his amphibian friend.
"Ribbit."
"Just relax, once he grabs you with his tongue, he is going to lift you."
"Once he, huh?" Silver didn't quite get it, but Froggy jumped into a tree and stuck his tongue on Silver's head, "How is this going to work?"
Then Froggy begin slowly retracting his tongue to his mouth.
"Wait? It's working! I don't understand how, but it is!" Silver couldn't believe, he was being pulled by a frog, he could feel his legs getting free each second,"Almost there!"
With one last pull he was free, "Yes, thank you so much!"
"Are you done? You lost!" Omochao clapped ironically, "Congratulations, you are a failure!"
"C,mon! You're exaggerating."
"Well, my legs weren't going to be snapped like a pair of dry twigs, if it wasn't for Big. So yeah, you stupid boy!"
Silver sat down next to Espio and Blaze, "It's useless."
"Silver, are you feeling good?"
"Sonic, just because I didn't said, "It's no use," that doesn't mean I'm sick, I know synonyms!"
"A man that knows how to say one word in hundred different languages is less impressive than a man that knows hundred different ways to say a word speaking only one language!" Espio declaimed.
"Wow! That was cool Espio." Sonic gave him a thumbs up.
"-Did you come up with that?" Whisper asked.
"Yes, as a matter of fact, I'm starting to write a poetry advice book."
"That's neat, how is it going?" Blaze asked.
"It's still a work in progress, my goal is to have hundred and three poems, I currently have trn, but I will complete this task in no time."
"Well good luck with that, buddy."
"Thank you, Sonic."
"Enough with the chit chat, in about ten minutes, the next challenge will begin!" Omochao announced, "It's going to be a spin!"
"What do you mean by that?" Strom asked.
"See you all later!" he left.
"What did he mean by that?" Storm scratched his head.
"Who cares? I'm going to rest until it begins!" Jet started to left.
Everyone else also left the area, going back to the main area, where the public was. This was the perfect opportunity for Judy to get out of the bush she was hiding, "Finally! I hate spying, it's so uncomfortable!" she brushed some leaves and sticks from her fur.
She holded out her flask with the purple drink, it was almost empty.
"I cannot refull here, it should last some minutes, at least two." she looked at her empty flask, "That frog is too strong for this flask, it would definitely break it, I need another way to take it! Come on Judy, do what the boss told you to do, go relax a bit! Whatever that is!"
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