Chapter 38: Invasion
"Tangle's log,
About time I found this thing! I've wanted to find this dang book for the past six months! Turns out, I never packed it and it's just been in Tails' workshop this entire time!
Ok, let me explain. It's been a whole six months since the last time I wrote in here. After Sonic finally showed up, building our new place sped up a LOT, and we got it finished up in about a week! The others coming by to help out sped things up too. So, we quickly gathered our things, and moved in!
… And I somehow missed my notebook… which means for the last six months, I've been looking for something in our house… that wasn't even in the house…
Yeah… not that smart of me.
Anyways, it's not like much really happened these past six months. Yeah, there were a few birthdays, including Jewel's fifteenth, but really, it was just a lot of 'Eggman's doing a thing, let's go stop him!'
Nothing really out of the ordinary… that being said though, I think I saw Sonic fly into the sky in his super form earlier… I hope everything's alright.
Anyways, we're all gathering on a hill near Cream's place to watch some meteor shower tonight! That's gonna be a fun time!"
That night
"I… am… so… bored…" Tangle groaned out.
"Come on, it's going to start soon!" Tails said. "I promise that you'll love this!"
"I mean, I was excited for this at first… but thinking about it? How exciting can a bunch of rocks be?" Tangle asked.
"Very!" Jewel said, clearly very excited. "A meteor shower is supposed to be one of the most beautiful displays that you can ever see!"
"And this only happens every five hundred years!" Tails added. "We are really lucky to just be able to witness this!"
"Uh… huh…"
"Hey, did I ever tell you about how shooting stars can grant wishes?" Cream asked.
"They can?" Tangle asked.
"Yeah! If you say a wish three times before a shooting star disappears, it'll come true!" Cream explained.
"Where… did you hear that?" Amy asked.
"Chris' world…" Cream explained.
"Oh, well… they sure have some weird superstitions there!" Amy said.
Tangle smiled at this. "I wonder what they're all doing right now…"
"Who knows… I do miss them though." Amy said.
Everyone then took a moment to remember the fond memories they had with Chris and the others.
"Oh hey! It's starting!" Jewel said.
Sure enough, a large amount of shooting stars began shooting across the sky.
"Oh wow… that really is cool!" Tangle said.
"Told you!" Tails and Jewel said at the same time.
Tangle ignored their little remark and just continued to watch, enjoying the spectacle.
'This… really is a nice change.' She thought. 'Things have really just been boring lately… I wish something interesting would happen already…'
At that moment, Amy noticed something.
"Say… doesn't that one look a bit weird?" Amy asked.
One of the stars wasn't moving… no… it was getting bigger.
"Is… is that one getting closer?" Jewel asked.
Realizing that they were suddenly in danger, Tangle was the first to react.
"GET DOWN!"
She then used her tail to get push everyone to the ground, as the star flew over their heads and crashed nearby.
"What in the world was that?!" Jewel asked.
"I dunno… everyone, stay behind me." Tangle said as she began to walk over to the impact site.
When she got there though…
"What in the world…?"
"Is that… a girl?" Tails asked.
Sure enough, a… rather green looking girl was laying out cold in front of… something…
Quickly running over, Tangle got a good look at her.
"Out like a light… we should get her somewhere where she can rest." Tangle said.
"Cream's house isn't too far. That'll be a good place." Amy said.
"Right." Tangle said before lifting the girl with her tail. "Let's go!"
Before long, they were back at Cream's house, and waiting for the girl to wake up.
"Where did she come from…?" Amy asked.
"Well… it's obvious that she came from that star that crashed… so maybe that thing she was with was a space ship…" Tails deduced.
"So… an alien?" Tangle asked.
"It's possible…" Tails said.
"Great… you think she'll try and eat our brains when she wakes up?" Tangle asked, mischievous grin on her face and wiggling her fingers like she was trying to creep everyone out.
"That's zombies, and no." Amy laughed out.
"Ugh…"
"Hey, she's waking up!" Vanilla called over.
The group then rushed over to watch the girl open her eyes.
"Hey… you alright?" Amy asked.
The girl didn't respond, and slowly attempted to sit up.
"Take it easy… you were pretty messed up back there!" Tangle said. "Falling from space kinda does that…"
"Um… are you from another planet?" Cream asked.
"…Yes…"
"Welp, the alien invasion starts now! I'm gonna go home and prepare!" Tangle joked, lifting her leg up horizontally and turning towards the door.
"Tangle…" Jewel groaned out. "Don't mind her, she can be like that sometimes."
"Hey! You know I was joking!" Tangle said, placing her hands on her hips and wearing an exaggerated frown on her face.
Deciding to ignore their friend's antics, Amy and Cream decided to start a conversation with the girl.
"What is your name Miss?" Cream asked.
"… I'm sorry…"
"Ms. I'm Sorry?" Cream asked.
"No… I can't talk about that right now." The girl explained. "There is a great hero named Sonic here… I have something important that I need to tell him!"
"So… you can't tell your name to anyone but Sonic?" Tails asked.
"That's correct."
Seeing Amy getting rather annoyed at this, Tangle knew what was about to happen if she didn't say anything.
"Well, we have no idea where Sonic is right now… as per usual… but we're his friends!" Tangle explained. "The name's Tangle by the way!"
"I'm Jewel."
"I'm Cream! And this is Cheese!" "Chao Chao!"
"Everyone calls me Tails!"
"Hmmmm…" Amy growled out.
"Amy…"
"Fine… I'm Amy… Sonic's girlfriend." Amy said, putting emphasis on the word "girlfriend."
"ANYways! Maybe we can take a message for you?" Tangle asked.
"… Sorry…"
"No dice huh?" Tangle asked. "Oh well, he'll turn up eve-"
At that moment though, a loud noise came from outside, as well as the feeling of the planet itself shaking, putting everyone off balance.
"WHAT WAS THAT?!" Jewel said frantically as she lifted herself off the floor.
Looking out the window, they saw a giant, iron… thing, standing out in the forest.
The girl, who had climbed out of bed with Vanilla's help, immediately knew what this was.
"Metarex…"
"Meta-what-now?" Tangle asked.
At that moment, the monster began charging something, before it began destroying the nearby forest.
"WHOA!"
"It's destroying everything!" Amy said.
"Tails! We gotta go stop that thing!" Tangle said.
"Right! I'll fire up the X-Tornado!" Tails said as he ran out of the room.
"Wait… let me come too!" The girl said.
"No way, you can barely walk!" Tangle said.
"Please!" The girl pleaded.
"…" Tangle didn't say anything, it was clear how important this was to the girl. "Alright…"
She then crouched down in front of her. "Hop on, you can ride in the X-Tornado's cockpit."
"Thank you!" The girl said before climbing on.
"Hurry up! You need to stop that thing!" Jewel said.
"I'm going, I'm going!" Tangle said as she began to rush out of the house.
Before long, they were airborne and rushing towards the monster.
When they got there, they saw that Knuckles had already beaten them to the punch… quite literally.
"His punches aren't doing anything!" Tangle said.
"That thing's armor must be really thick… hang on!" Tails said as he increased their speed and began to fire.
When above the monster, Tangle hopped off the plane and hit it on the head with the strongest Tail Hammer she could.
Unfortunately, aside from bringing it to its knees for a very brief moment, it didn't seem to do much damage.
"Geez, what is that thing made of?!"
"No clue, but we gotta stop it!" Knuckles said. "Any idea what it is though?!"
"Nope, nothing!" Tangle said. "Come on! We can worry about that later!"
Tangle then leapt into action and attempted to restrain the monster with her tail… but that just resulted in her being chucked through roughly three and a half trees.
"Hey… this tree is over a hundred years old! NEAT!" Tangle said as she composed herself.
The monster then attempted to attack her with a giant, clawed tentacle…
Only for something incredibly fast… and blue to stop it.
"Heh, about time he showed up!" Tangle said.
Sonic was here, and he did not look happy.
"Hey! Any idea how to fight this thing?!" Tangle asked.
"No clue… let's just keep at it!" Sonic said before charging at the monster.
"What the…?"
Was Sonic… going slower than usual?
Deciding to worry about that later, Tangle and Knuckles leapt into action and tried their best to help him in stopping the monster…
But to no luck.
The monster's armor was far too sturdy. Even though they were capable of slowing it down and knocking it backwards, they really weren't capable of damaging it.
"Dang it… Sonic! You need to use the Chaos Emeralds!" Knuckles said.
"Uh… yeah… about that…" Sonic said. "I may or may not of… lost them in space…"
"…"
"…"
"…huh?"
"Yeah, got into a jam and used Chaos Control to send them away! Hehehe…" Sonic said, then he noticed the irate look on Knuckles' face, and the terrified one on Tangle's. "…Sorry?"
"YOU IDIOT!" Knuckles shouted.
"Why in the world would you do that?!" Tangle asked.
At that moment, the robot attacked them again, sending the three of them flying.
Then, moments later, there was a bright light. And from that bright light, a crystal flew up from the ground.
This seemed to be what the monster was after, as after taking the crystal, it began to fly away.
"YEAH! YOU BETTER RUN!" Tangle shouted out.
"Uh Tangle?" Sonic asked.
"Yeah?"
"Look around us…"
Tangle complied… and what she saw was horrifying.
Everything… the trees, the grass, the flowers… everything was dying right before their very eyes.
"What… what in the…?"
"Did… that crystal do this?" Knuckles asked.
Without thinking twice, Sonic and Tangle tried to stop the monster from getting away, but they were both swatted away effortlessly.
Knuckles acted quickly, and caught Sonic before he could hit the ground… Tangle was not as lucky.
"Oof, I see how it is…" Tangle said.
"Oh quit it… Sonic was already really hurt going into this if you hadn't noticed." Knuckles said.
"Oh… so you noticed too huh?" Tangle asked. "Sonic… what happened to you?"
At this moment, Amy, Cream and Jewel joined them.
"Are you alright?" Amy asked.
"Eh, it's nothing!" Sonic said.
At that moment, Jewel noticed something out of the corner of her eye.
"Hey… is that?"
They all looked up to see that girl from before floating down towards them.
When she landed, she faced Sonic.
'Probably gonna be hesitant to talk to him… this is their first time meeting after all…' Tangle thought.
"Hello, my name is Cosmo, nice to meet you!" Cosmo said.
'THAT QUICK?!'
"Oh uh… hi? I'm Sonic…" Sonic said.
"So you are Sonic! Please, great hero who controls the power of the Chaos Emeralds! Save the universe from a great peril!" Cosmo pleaded.
…
…
…
"What?"
At that moment though.
"HEY GUYS!" Tails called over.
"Huh? Tails? What's up dude!" Tangle called over.
"The Master Emerald! It's glowing!" Tails explained.
"WHAT?!" Knuckles shouted before running off.
"Come on… let's see what's happening now…" Sonic said as they all ran over to the X-Tornado and boarded.
When the group arrived, they saw Knuckles already standing there, looking worried at a glowing Master Emerald.
"So uh… any idea what's happening?" Tangle asked.
"… No… I have no clue…" Knuckles said.
"Great..." Tangle said. "What about you Tikal?"
The silence in the air only confused Cosmo.
"Uh… who is she talking to?"
"We'll tell you later…" Sonic said.
"She says… that some kind of outside energy is reaching out to it or… something?"
"Or something?" Sonic asked.
"Don't look at me! She's not sure what it means!" Tangle said, defending her friend.
This conversation only continued to confuse Cosmo.
Suddenly, the Master Emerald was glowing even brighter, adding to everyone's worry and confusion.
That is, until a very familiar… yet at the same time, unfamiliar face appeared.
"Oh… my… what?" Tangle said.
The group could only stare on in awe… cause Chris was here…
And he looked VERY different.
End of Chapter 38
Bit of a long one, but this is the start of Season 3! I had to go all out for it! I'll be changing quite a few things for this season, and you might be able to figure out one of them from that ending. If not, I'll let it be a surprise for next time ;)
That note was written over 2 years ago lol.
These first few chapters actually have been ready all this time, so if you are familiar with my more recent stuff and this seems to be a bit of a step down quality wise compared to that, that's why.
Can't apologize enough for the incredibly long wait on this. I explained the full reason as to why this happened on my twitter, but yeah, unacceptable. I hope to not have this happen again.
Update dates will be… sporadic, not gonna lie there. I at least will have it updated weekly for the next three weeks (including today) to get out what was already done up until this point.
And for those of you who are wondering on my Amphibia and The Owl House content: I am still working on it, don't worry. It shall return.
I don't remember if I had a twitter back when I was updating this story, but I do now! The handle is 77Xfire (just like on here) so please follow for updates on everything I do!
Also, this story is too long, I am NOT crossposting onto AO3, it'd take a whole day to do that and I am way too busy for that…
Anyways, see you next time!
