Chapter 31: Battle Part 1
"Tangle's log,
It's been about a week since we told everyone about us moving out. That is progressing… rather slowly. We know exactly where we want to build the place, it's everything else that we are waiting on. We'll get there when we get there though!
So, we actually made a new friend recently! A robot that Cream found around the house. We started calling it Emerl after Tails fixed it up. It seems friendly enough. Thing is weird though, it's like it can copy people's moves! It copied Sonic's spin attack the other day, and Rouge's Screw Kick too! Honestly though, I have no idea how it would be able to copy my moves, since it doesn't have a tail… might have to test that at some point.
Now, for the bad news: Eggman escaped from prison. He somehow got a bunch of home appliances to go on a rampage, and escaped while we were busy dealing with that. At least we took care of it before too much damage was done, and Jewel even helped out a good bit too! Proud of that girl! Yeah, she was right there with us when we were opening a dam to get water to the city, which is what the machines were weak to.
After that happened, we got to tail Eggman into a sewer to get an idea of what he was doing. He TRIED to capture us, but I taught him a lesson!… Right after I bust us out of the cage that he trapped us in… Oh, and Rouge came to help at some point! And I guess Emerl helped too… guess that robot is alright.
On a side note… Chris' old school teacher is totally some kind of spy… lamest spy ever though.
Anyways, the President actually called me, Sonic, Knuckles and Rouge to the White House just now, probably to talk about Eggman, so we are on our way there right now!"
"I mean… I guess it kinda sounds interesting…" Tangle said.
"It's not gonna be real fights though…" Knuckles said. "Can't really get pumped up over that…"
"Maybe if there was some kind of prize…" Rouge said.
"A prize?" The President asked. "Oh! How's about a Chaos Emerald then! We can have a whole tournament to decide who gets it!"
This, got everyone's attention.
"Seriously? An Emerald as bait again?" Knuckles asked. "Sorry, gonna pass."
"Aww, are you just afraid that you're gonna lose?" Rouge asked.
"So you're not going to enter?" Scarlet Garcia asked.
"Geez… I was kinda wondering how I would shape up against you Knuckles." Tangle said. "I guess this just means that I would mop the floor with you!"
"WHAT?!"
Everyone then began to throw taunts at the Echidna, hoping to coax him into entering the tournament, which he eventually relented.
"Hehehe…" Tangle started to chuckle.
"What's up?" Sonic asked.
"Kinda reminds me of that baseball game from all that time ago…" Tangle said.
"Yeah, guess you're right." Sonic said.
They all then shared a good laugh.
"Hey!" Knuckles said.
"What's up?" Tangle asked.
Knuckles then smiled. "Looking forward to our match!"
Tangle smiled back. "Bring it!"
"WH-WHAT IN THE WORLD?!" Tangle shouted.
"Yeesh, talk about bad luck…" Chris said.
"… Good luck Tangle…" Jewel said.
They were all currently looking at the bracket for the tournament, and while there were several interesting match ups, Tangle couldn't help but focus on who she was going to have to fight.
"I have to fight Tails round one… then I have to fight the winner of Sonic and Amy in round two… so probably Sonic… then probably ROUGE, THEN PROBABLY KNUCKLES?!" Tangle said, getting louder as she went. "WHAT KIND OF TERRIBLE BRACKET IS THIS?! I HAVE TO FIGHT ALL OF THE STRONGEST OPPONENTS!"
"Geez… just look at who I have to fight round one…" Jewel groaned out.
"Huh? Wait, you actually entered?" Tangle asked.
"Yeah…" Jewel said as she pointed to her name.
Then, Tangle saw her opponent…
Howard.
"That creep entered too huh?" Tangle asked.
"Looks to be the case." Jewel said. "Anyways, even if I win, I'll have to fight Knuckles after that… I'd probably just forfeit to him…"
"Listen, you don't have to do this…" Tangle said.
"I know…" Jewel said. "But… I don't want to run away! I'll… do what I can…"
"Right… good luck." Tangle said.
"Say, you two wouldn't happen to know who Bokkun is, would you?" Rouge asked.
"Bokkun? No, can't say that I've heard that name before." Tangle said. "Why?"
"Well, take a look…" Rouge said as she pointed to a name.
"Huh… well, good luck to him!"
He was fighting some guy named Hawk in the first round, who then had to fight Rouge.
"Still though… ugh…" Tangle said.
"Well, look at it this way, if you win that would mean that you really earned it!" Jewel said.
"Yeah, I know…" Tangle said. "Alright! Just gotta get myself pumped! LET'S DO THIS!"
End of Chapter 31
The brackets are gonna be quite different compared to the show in case you can't tell. We really will be focusing completely on the half of the bracket that Tangle and the others are in though. Fun fact! I actually went into a bracket maker to plan this out! Go me!
Now then, I also want to announce that a new story for a new series is going to be starting soon! It is a kind of similar to this one, but a lot shorter. I posted a preview of it on my profile, so give it a read before I post it tomorrow morning!
Anyways, the fights begin next time! So I'll see you then!
