Sonic Supers!
Chapter 3(S2)
By: Cutegirlmayra (Who said I couldn't post two updates on the same day, eh? Also, a moment of silence for the deletion of the Abridged series of drag-kings Sonic, Silver, and Shadow if they were on the forest floor hearing Rouge's comment XD Well, I want to get this story done as soon as possible, so I'm combining chapters as you have seen. Less chapters with more content though, good deal right? I want to make it epic and emotionally traumatizing –for that is my specialty~- so let's get started, shall we? Also, I'm so glad you all like my abridged series, but I won't be reposting them :( Sorry, they distracted from the original story. The Master Emerald seemed to have a fan club though, lol! Poor Tails though :'( My baby, no! yeah, poor Sonic and Knuckles too, but eh, Tails is MOST IMPORTANT! -author's favoritism- But a moment to recall the lawyer and dragon ball z joke, haha! Good times~ Wanda Sykes Bull-Dragon was best dragon. The stars wars 'I love you' Rouge and 'I know' Knuckles as he lets go, the dramatic music, gosh this was a funny story xD Or tails's device falling to pieces like - I don't wanna fall to pieces - lol Okay, recalling abridge series ends now, enjoy the story and sorry for the spoilers!)
Dark Chaos had formed a castle out of sand and mud, looking much like a termite mound; the skies were dark around it, and dark beings surrounded it, guarded it…
A throne was created as she strutted down the corridor. Huge dark chaos monsters surrounded the throne behind it, at a curve…
Wrapping their claws and lowering their heads to her, she approached them with a stride that never ceased in it's power.
"My pets~" She chimed, as one lowered it's head to her, a dragon with a bull's head, and ten or so horns upon it. "Ohh~ There there~" she petted it, as it roared and some lime green steam, resembling fog, came out of it's mouth.
"You seem to have missed me. What a good boy~"
The Master Emerald was in the center of the room, chained down and having a large steel spindle above its head. The spike hung from the top of the roof like a craven's formation; However, instead of normal string or yarn, it now held chains.
The Master Emerald tried to shine, but the chains waved around it. It's glowing, heavenly light flickered and died out.
"Hmm?" Dark Chaos turned around, "Still trying to resist me?" she laughed, one of the most bloodcurdling things you could hear from such a lovely but sinister voice. "Oh dear Master…" she walked up the stairs to her throne, and sat down while her creatures she had created moved back, leaning away for her to have a clear route in her path.
She laid herself across the throne, lifting a hand delicately up in wicked pleasure, before speaking on. "I've already won… your precious Amy is unable to tame me. Confined within her brain; she'll soon be nothing more than a body for me to host... And besides that..." she lowered her hand to her lips, delicately thinking before lifting it as though a tap, and turning to look back at the Master Emerald.
"What good were you trying to do, anyway? Were you convinced that if anything went wrong,... you could overtake me and set me in my place through her? Was that it? Was that why you trusted her with having my power so soon? Knowing she couldn't control it, and yet... hoping she could?"
The Master Emerald didn't move or flash, but a humming of some kind was heard through vibrations all along the castle walls...
"Was that supposed to be 'crying'?" Dark Chaos laughed again.
"How pathetic, although, I've always known you could be defeated. You have no control over me in this body, away from your powers and influences. Yes… with this vestal, I am bound to no master…" She got up, and looked at her hands, as her demonic beast lowered their heads to also look at her.
She was the living embodiment of the Chaos Emerald's powers. They were no longer servers, but through creating a central persona, they reflected their rebellion through Dark Chaos, controlling Amy and no longer subjecting themselves to be ruled over by the God of Chaos within the Master Emerald. Trapped; Chaos replied on the Emeralds to freely use it's power, but with them rebelling, it was hopeless to do anything without a host to send it's power too...
Where were the hedgehogs?
"Prepare to fly and trample the world, my dear children. For I want this world in my beautiful ruin by the time my old Master is completely drained of it's power and influence! Whahahaha! Then, the Chaos Emeralds will obey NO OOOONE." She threw her head back, laughing as the Master Emerald was forced to watch the creatures go, rampaging the world it had learned to protect.
The huge monsters took flight, spiraling around the spindle that held the Master Emerald and flew up and out of the castle, obeying their master's wishes and destroying, reshaping, and recreating the world to her evil will. All people, around the world, were now aware of Dark Chaos's minions, but not entirely her just yet…
-Sonic and Co.-
"Are we there yet?" Sonic lazily asked, being flown on the side of the plane to wherever Dark Chaos had set up her headquarters.
"You don't seem too afraid of what you'll find there, hedgehog." Rouge, who had found Tails flying and informed him of the strange happenings that have occurred the last few days was showing them the way.
"I can't believe she could move that fast though!" Tails was still amazed at how quick Dark Chaos was able to flee the scene, leaving Tails to wander for hours a day trying to find out where she went. But with Rouge, it was a lot easier now.
"Why should I be afraid?" Sonic bluffed, but he was concerned about Amy…
"You ignorant-! Rah, Fool!" Silver leapt from his place in the sky down towards him, and crashed into Sonic on the wing of the plane, making it wobble a bit as Tails straightened it out.
"Both of you, quit it!"
"Wha-oah!" Sonic almost fell off the plane, but quickly got his balance and turned to engage himself with Silver and duke it out.
Rouge turned back, '...So... this is the hedgehog on Eggman's records?' Rouge had snuck around and located some classified G.U.N information on Eggman's computer that identified a certain white hedgehog as a time-traveler. Interfering and meddling in some affairs, and declaring it for the good of the future.
She was curious, but stayed silent about it, turning her attention back to the skies.
"Aren't you even a little concerned for Amy's safety?!" Silver got on top of Sonic and punched him hard to the side, as Sonic grabbed his arms and threw him off of him in the same direction. They had been rolling along the plane; punching, kicking, grabbing, as the plane tilted and turned to remained well balanced.
"Of course I am!" He stated, "But right now, we need to be level-headed! I know Amy's alright, do you!?" He was only trying to keep it together, as Silver looked back to him, regaining himself and breathing hard on the side of the wing.
He nodded, and resigned to fly back into position by Tails's plane, using his telekinesis power to do so.
He was meant to watch out for any of those Chaos Creatures, but was still feeling a heavy amount of guilt on regards to Amy's condition...
"…You should still allow some feeling to be expressed, Sonic. Otherwise you'll only come off as an unfeeling and insensitive-" Shadow began, sitting where most should have sat, in the back cockpits as Knuckles also chimed in after him, cutting him off.
"Grr.. YOU JERK!" Knuckles got a knee up slightly on the rim of the seat and plane, and shook a fist up.
Rouge flew over to Shadow and Knuckles, "The only jerks around here... are those who aren't doing anything either than waiting."
"What?! R-Rouge!" Knuckles tried to swing an arm at her, but the wind almost pulled him out of the plane, "Wha-whaaa!" and so he clung to side of his cockpit.
"Hahaha! Still as gullible as ever." Rouge flew forward, as Knuckles growled at her last comment. Apparently, she had fooled him by staying enough away that when he leaned forward, he would have been blown off the plane. (Author's small note: Please picture the most girliest and faintest cry you can think of when picturing how fast and funny it would have been if Knuckles swung his hand up and flew off the screen, thank you. - Taken from deleted Abridged Series)
"I'm no fool…!" he muttered to himself, clenching his teeth. "I'm just not used to being away from my island, is all…"
"Look, everyone, I care okay?" Sonic got back on his place where he first was, and laid down, folding his arms over the edge of the plane's wing; making sure he could still hold on.
He was growing frustrated at being misunderstood... but opening up was hard for him to do.
"I just…" he lowered his head, "...I know that by being sad about what happened isn't going to change anything.." he looked away, as the others looked to him and seemed to feel a morsel of pity for him.
"Wh…what is that?" Silver slowed down the speed of his hovering, as Tails flew slightly ahead of him, looking back at him before seeing the massive castle and thick clouds of black above it.
"What on earth..?" Tails stated, as the whole gang poked their heads up to see more of it.
"It's just like you said, Silver." Shadow stated, getting up more to see better. "Clouds of soot filling the air…"
The gloomy range showed more than just dimly lit clouds, but a blackened forest, where even the leaves looked dyed a harsher blackish green, and the landscaped looked crawling with a mysterious sound of foreboding life.
"How are we gonna get in there..?" Rouge asked, as everyone was just gliding in awe at the moment, her to the side of the plane opposite to Silver.
Suddenly, a large smokey claw ripped through the dirtied clouds, large as if by a crocodiles foot under the surface of water, and down towards the plane. A loud roar was heard above, before the creature dived down, too black to be visible just yet until the space where it had flown through peered through light enough to see.
It's body rotated and it started clawing from below, opening it's large mouth to send a vibration of sound through the team's ears.
"Woah!" Tails just barely dodged both strikes, his ears ringing, and tried to angle himself to look down.
"What was that thing!?" Knuckles leaned himself down, trying to see better, before a bull's head rose from the shadows of the dark forest. It looked to be flying up, but almost as if swimming, as it's scaly body swayed upward and flew passed the plane. It caused the bi-plane to shake a moment from the wind current, before Tails regained air-speed as they all cried out in a moment of shock.
"Uhh… guys…?" Sonic could see it was about to ram the X-Tornado with it's ten horns, diving back down as it pawed the sky to turn. "Tails! Tails, Turn!"
Tails pulled back as hard as he could, straining his arms as the plane thrust itself to the side but was still hit by the bull-dragon's horns as it swooped them downward and up.
The plane started to fling around unpredictably.
"My wing!" The side wing where Sonic was on had been ripped on it's end, and now the wing was incredibly shorter than the one on the left. "I can't fly this thing right, now!" Tails shouted, having trouble keeping the plane from moving the wrong way.
"Mayday!" Knuckles jumped up and reached for Tails, grabbing him and gliding down.
Shadow jumped and Rouge grabbed him, as Silver used his power to carry Sonic with him to safety.
The bull-dragon then flung it's head around, as if scraping the skies of soot for signs of further life or a plane engine. When nothing came up, it looked around and roared again, frustrated that it hadn't had the joy of the kill.
It's shadowy being was well defined now, as if Dark Chaos was truly summoning better forms of life now that it was getting stronger through the weakening of the Master Emerald.
"What is that thing!?" Tails shouted, Knuckles grabbing a tree's branch and hanging off of it. His legs supported him at an angle from the trunk, as he held a rattled and confused Tails under his arm.
"I don't know! But it can't be good!" Sonic responded, as Silver landed him safely, and looked up. Seeing the creature shaking it's head in rage, he slightly gulped.
"That thing is worse than the ancient murals and records dictated.." he lightly breathed out.
"It's not very friendly either! It's coming back!" Sonic pointed to the bull-dragon, starting to make a very big and wide turn on back to the falling and abandoned ship.
"Shadow! Silver!" Sonic called, as Rouge flung Shadow to the branch on the tree that Sonic and Silver had landed on. "We need that bi-plane!"
"Intact?" Rouge let out a sarcastic amusement from her voice, but then lowered her eyelids, "Can't we just let it have it's toy and play safely away from us? It's a good distraction!" She shrugged, before trying to make a point.
"No one's playing with my X-Tornado like a ball of yarn!" Tails shouted out, deeply serious and concerned about his machine.
Sonic brought out all the emeralds, and together with Silver and Shadow, they all turned super.
Although their persona was still their form of rebellion threw their power; they were still bound to Chaos and therefore, those that wielded it.
"Let's get that thing and then head to the castle!" Sonic shouted out.
"Right!" The two responded, and flew off after the beast.
-below with Tails, Knuckles, and Rouge-
"That was a close one!"
"I'll say!"
"Ugh, this forest floor is terrible on these heels..."
"Zip it, baty! We're on a mission! Not a runway..." Knuckles, Rouge, and Tails were already making their way to the castle, as Rouge glared towards Knuckles's comment.
"Excuse you, Mr. Sour Red. But I'd watch your tongue around a lady if I were you!" she spat out at him, placing her hands on her hips. "That's no way for any gentlemen to speak to a woman." She folded her arms, and looked at him from a side angled tilt of her head.
Her face read of pure disgust, as Knuckles turned around and started shouting again…
"Listen! If your shoes are that important to ya, then why don't you just FLY!?"
"Ugh! Can't you see I'm tried from all the flying I was just doing all DAY!?" she thrust her arms down, not backing up and being intimidated by Knuckles's anger in the least bit, showing she had plenty of experience dealing with it before. She was fighting the bitter winds, he should just give her some slack!
Tails suddenly turned around, Miles Electric in hand, and started scolding them.
"Both of you! Keep your voices down! If that thing that Sonic and the others are fighting is flying around here, in the skies, then just imagine what's roaming around on the ground." Tails made an excellent point, as he gestured to the sky and then the ground floor that they were walking on.
"…I just don't approve of the mud is all." Rouge stated, wiping her outfit off as Knuckles flung his head back and tried to keep his rage together as he followed Tails, not wanting to fight and be scolded again.
His eyebrow twitched as he kept his head down, mouth still a scowl.
"Let's just keep moving!" Knuckles stated, but sounded more annoyed than mad. "This place gives me the creeps!"
"Finally! Something we can agree on."
"Ugh…"
Some rustles in the forest were heard, but all that could really be seen is the tremors that caused the rocks on the ground to jump and bounce, before shaking and rocking on the ground.
Something was on the ground floor alright.
Or maybe…
Lower than that!
-Onward to sky battle!-
Sonic, Shadow, and Silver all flew up beside the beast; breaking off and starting to distract it in different directions so it wouldn't know where to attack first.
It stopped flying to hover a moment in the air. Compared to it's size, Sonic and the others looked like flies as it tried to bat them away.
"Now's our chance!" Sonic called out, and pointed his flexed hand to the beast, being on one side of it.
"This is the end." Shadow also did a pose and held out his hand, giving a serious tone to his words.
"Let's do this! For Amy! For the future!" Silver held out his hand and together, the three made a triangle with their positions and then fired a chaos beam at the Bull-Dragon.
It roared and flapped it's mighty wings, sending them flying off by it's wind as it wailed in pain.
"We need something more powerful!" Silver called out, flying behind it's tail, also horned with ten spikes. The beast darted it's eyes back, and flung up it's tail to knock him towards the forest floor.
"AHH!"
"Silver!" Sonic flew down, grabbing him by his arm and hoisting it over his shoulders, helping him back up and letting him catch his bearings again.
"Thanks Sonic…" Silver wearily gestured his head up, but was panting too hard from the hit to really give any further thanks.
"No problem, but your right. We need a better plan..."
"I have an idea." Shadow flew up and pointed his hand towards the middle of where the triangle would have been. "Create the same overlay, but this time... don't aim for the Dragon."
"What?" For a moment, Sonic thought he meant himself.
Shadow smirked, seeing he was starting to get concerned for him. "Touching, but what I meant was to aim for the center! We'll blast him out of the skies and fight him on the ground!"
"Sounds good to me…" Silver weakly got up and back into the sky, as Shadow used his chaos spears to distract the beast from hurting the others any further.
The beast roared, and charged Shadow, as he flew up and maneuvered through the many horns on his head, dodging in zig-zags as he touched each horn with a hand to propel him upwards and to safety. He then flew slightly down the back of the beast's neck and was luckily able to dodge the full-frontal attack.
"Ready?" He asked the others, looking back for them.
"Ready!" The two were now in place.
"Fire!" All together, they shot another chaos beam that hit the other beams in the center, causing a huge blast that vaporized and destroyed one of the Bull-Dragon's wings.
It's painful cry followed it downward toward the ground, as a huge crash was made by it's large frame hitting the ground.
The three regrouped, and looked down at it, seeing it struggle to get off it's back, and then look up and back to them with a swish of it's tail. Blaring a powerful, grumbly sound of dismay, it's anger at them for forcing it down from it's home in the dark ash skies was apparent by it's thrashing. It was like a turtle, unable to get back right-side-up.
"..Where did Amy get the power to create that thing?" Silver wondered out loud, as the other two looked to him, then back at the Bull-Dragon, and didn't say a word.
"Chaos has many powers we don't know of." Shadow stated, "Its best we just bring her back, before Dark Chaos forces her to do more things she'll regret."
The Bull-Dragon finally got back upright, miraculously, and started walking in a paced circle... waiting for the three to be in range to attack them again.
Sonic, as he stared at the Bull-Dragon, felt himself lured to the darkness in it's eyes, and began to remember the past… and how Amy once was…
-Memories~-
"Sonic! Hehe, I've finally found you! I'm so glad!"
"W-wha! A-Amy!"
The scene was set on a typical sunny day, on a plain ordinary location of somewhere in the plains and meadows breathing with forests all around them. The day wouldn't have even passed Sonic's mind, or his memory for that matter, if he didn't feel like those days seemed to be so long ago… from what was happening now…
"Oh, Sonic! I wish you'd spend more time with me. I'm starting to grow jealous of all the times you battle with Eggman!"
Amy giggled, only joking as she released him from one of her daily hugs, as was part of their continuing games they always tend to play with each other. Or at least, games he'd rather not admit. So why this memory then..? Why was it suddenly being played again in Sonic's mind? As he looked into the dark oblivion within the angered Dragon's eyes, the scene continued in the lingering of his stare...
"Heh, I'd never enjoy his company more than yours, Amy."
"You say that… but then you're never around…"
"Aw, what? You doubting me?"
"I'm doubting only your loyalty in seeing someone you tend to call your friend! Hmph!"
She turned away cutely, folding her arms and puffing up her cheek, as usual. Her antics always seemed to exhaust Sonic, because he always had to show more of his heart than he wanted to around Amy. But when he did… She would smile, and that's all he could ever want from her. Just to always be smiling and happy, and if that meant him having to be a little sweet to her... then to him, it was worth being a little awkward and less cool-looking.
"Come on, Amy… You know I care…"
Sonic turned to move around and have himself in front of her, looking down at her as she looked at him and turned her face the opposite way again. Playing stubborn.
He sighed, and then smiled, placing his hands on his hips.
"If I had to leave for a day, then I'd give you a day in return."
Amy seemed intrigued, and turned back to admire his words, breaking her arms from being folded at the surprise his sentiment had on her.
"..R-really?"
"If I had to leave for a week… I'd give you a week also."
He shifted away from her, and coolly, as if trying to keep his pride in tact, got up and walked on, kicked the ground. He placed his arms behind his head as he casually looked up at the sky.
"…And… if you had to leave… forever…?"
Sonic turned around.
"… Then I guess I'd have to give you my life."
He smiled.
"…but what good would that be if you were gone…"
He took down his hands from his head and just wiggled his pointer finger, 'tsk tsk'ing at her.
"Well, that's the thing. I couldn't pay you back. Which is why…"
He moved closer up to her, helping her up and putingt a hand gently on her head; rubbing it slightly as she giggled and grabbed his hand with both of hers.
"I'd never leave you… forever."
-End memory-
"SONIC! WATCH OUT!"
"H-huh?"
Sonic had zoned out, and looking around now, the Bull-Dragon leaped up and stretched a claw out to him. The other two had already scattered, but Sonic was still in danger.
"MOVE YOU IDIOT!"
"WHA-AH!"
The Bull-Dragon had caught Sonic off-guard and pulled him down with his claw as he flailed and turned around; but not fast enough to escape.
The Bull-Dragon dug Sonic with a powerful push back to the ground, then lifted his elbow slightly only to shove another powerful hit back down on him.
"SONIC!" the two shouted out, as they dashed below and hovered by the ground to see if Sonic was alright.
As if revenge wasn't enough, the Bull-Dragon wanted to truly show Sonic the pain of being flung out of the sky, and so it let Sonic go, laying helplessly bruised on the ground, twitching in pain. It then reared it's head up, like a horse would as it's clawed legs kicked the air and finally, putting it's two dragon clawed legs together, it flung it's head down and stomped on Sonic yet again.
"Nooo!" Silver dashed down and raised his hands up, pushing with his power on the claw to move it up and off his friend, but the Bull-Dragon wasn't budging. "Sonic!"
"RRUUGGFFH!" Shadow grabbed the ten spiked horned tail, after taking off his limiters, and slowly dragged the Bull-Dragon away from Sonic with a fling of his powerful arms.
With Silver's help on the front end, Shadow had quite literally flung the Bull-Dragon Beast over his shoulders and down smack on the ground.
The massive beast flew through the air with a loud whimpering cry, probably from the shock of such a small creature's power, as the dust rose and ground broke. Trees fell beneath its body as it crashed yet again to the stone ground.
Shadow was exhausted, on his knees and holding his body up with one hand. The other hand rested on his knee, as he tried to catch his breath, "Check…huff puff… on Sonic!" he demanded, looking back at Silver.
Even in Silver's shock of what Shadow had just pulled off, he nodded and flew to Sonic.
"Sonic!" he cried out as he kept pushing him on his shoulder to wake him, Sonic still glowing yellow, showing he was yet alive and remaining in super form. "Are you alright!? Sonic, wake up! What happened to you? You suddenly spaced out and-"
"Ugh…"
"Sonic!"
"That's… the last time I day-dream… during class." He slowly got up, but raked back in pain. "That.. Bull-Beast thing really-AH!... ugh… taught me a lesson I won't soon forget." He slowly got up though, with Silver's help, as Shadow continued to fight the Bull-Dragon in their place.
Shadow punched it's muzzle each time it snarled and advanced towards him, unable to move a claw out from under itself in time before Shadow threw yet another punch, keeping it moving back and in line.
"Sonic, what were you thinking? What could of absorbed you so much that you forgot about the situation at hand?" Silver looked a bit furious with him, as if Sonic wasn't taking this seriously, AGAIN.
"That's not it, Silver… really… I was… thinking about…" he stopped himself, gripping his arm, and then looking away.
"..Amy?" Silver asked, as Sonic's eyes looked back and forth at the ground, his smile gone, and a strained line replacing it as Silver realized why he said what he did on the plane.
"You really do care… about Amy." He stated, and turned his face in shame. "I'm sorry I doubted you… you were very close to her. More than me and Shadow,… you must have been taking all this to heart.. far worse than all of us have been… and just hiding it for the sake of keeping your sanity." Silver looked away, ashamed he couldn't see it, as his fist shook in grief and eyes squinted shut.
Suddenly, Sonic's hand flopped right onto to Silver's shoulder, as he opened his eyes in surprise and glanced back in awe at Sonic.
He was smiling.
"Hey, Amy wouldn't want us to worry about her. That's why I wasn't too concerned…" Sonic began, and looked over to Shadow. "We need to help him…" he sounded more serious now, as he rose slowly into the sky, his feet wobbling a bit, as one of his eyes closed and his hand moved up to his shoulder and off Silver's.
"But your still in pain. You can't possibly-" Silver began, but Sonic just semi-curled and then blasted off towards the beast.
Nothing Silver could have said would of stopped him from fighting for Amy.
Cause that's what he was doing now…
He wasn't fighting a Bull-Dragon… to defeat a Bull-Dragon.
Sonic rammed a fist into the Bull-Dragon's face when it was least expecting it, causing it's whole head to shake from impact, as it had to swagger back a bit and regain it's bearings.
He was fighting for Amy… to defeat Dark Chaos!
Sonic turned back and began rearing up a spin dash, as Shadow smiled and leapt higher into the air, doing the same.
Silver took a deep breath, feeling more respect for Sonic and inspired by his perseverance and also did the same.
The Bull-Dragon looked at the three spinning balls of light, their glow only getting brighter and stronger with each spin. He roared and turned around, swinging his claw with him, unsure of what was going on as his tail tried to swipe at them too but missed.
That's when Sonic let go and released himself right at the Bull-Dragon, like a spin ball!
The two others did the same.
"Spin Ball Massacre!"
But the attack didn't stop there, oh no.
They ricocheted off the other, causing multiple hits to be done in seconds flat, and aiming at one another and the Bull-Dragon to support that effect.
The Bull-Dragon couldn't even move from all the impacts in random places on it's large frame, and slowly twitched it's head up in massive pain.
"NOW!" Sonic uncurled, and aimed his hand.
"Hmph!" Shadow uncurled and did the same.
"Aim for its head!" Silver uncurled and led the blast, as the other two had the blast interject near the Beast's head, before the explosion turned his head into vaporized ash, as it had it's wing. The rest of the body turned into dark chaos essence that resembled smoke, shimmering away through the forest in a snake like wave.
The three landed, huffing and puffing before Sonic threw a thumbs up.
The other two just sighed at his ridiculous childish actions, and sat down to rest.
Sonic looked at the two, seeming confused why they weren't giving a thumbs up back, and then just fell backwards and let himself go, his chest moving up and down in exhaustion as well.
-Back with Tails, Rouge, and Knuckles…-
"Are we there yet?" Rouge stated from the back of the line.
"I'm not sure,… my readings are getting a weird, wonky-ah!"
The three shielded themselves from a wind blast caused by the Bull-Dragon being destroyed.
"Another blast?" Knuckles looked to the side of him. "Do you think they got him this time?"
"We can't worry about that right now." Tails looked back at his MilesElectric. "The signal keeps getting jammed by Sonic, Silver, and Shadow's Chaos Blastes… I can't read where Amy is if-"
Sssshhhsshhhskkksshhkkkshhhkk
Tails looked up from his device.
Skkksshhhuurrrshkkksruuushhkk
"Uhh… Hon?" Rouge started to flutter her wings off the ground for a minute, flying a bit over to Tails's direction. "That's coming from your little scanner… right?"
Tails looked down, seeing the rocks jumping feets into the air, bouncing as the earth started to quake a bit underneath them, but this time, it wasn't a hum anymore.
It was a full out quake!
"Taaaaillllllsss!" Knuckles dashed toward Tails, as he realized what this meant.
Right behind Knuckles, now being the furthest down from the line, was a huge monster that crashed through the ground. Having a helmet looking of obsidian metals along with armor on it's body, it's wormy snake like being looked up with spiraling teeth, having some feature's like a sea monster's body.
The fins on its cheeks vibrated as he roared and looked to Knuckles. It's snake like mouth opened to reveal fangs still spiraling like drills within it's mouth, as it launched itself at them.
"Get down!" Knuckles instructed.
"No, get up!" Tails grabbed Rouge's shoulders and then reached for Knuckles, as in the nick of time, she released a powerful thrust of her wings upwards as the Fish-Snake's head slammed into the ground. It wiggled itself down as the ground turned into mush under it's force.
The Fish-Snake moved through the ground like water, seeming to mush up the ground enough to move swiftly through it. It was now no where to be seen,.. for the hole it made was nothing more than the softest dirt, and the quickest of sands…
"It… it barely left a trace!" Tails exclaimed. "But how!?"
"It's so huge!" Rouge cried out, "It just swallowed up that earth and ground it into powder!"
"Haha, puns." Knuckles shook his head, as Tails just groaned at his light use of the situation.
"It must use that to move around without much effort, never making a sound before it emerges." Tails informed, holding on to Knuckles's hand to keep him out of danger.
"We have to think up a strategy!" He hollered out, before the Fish-Snake's sound came back.
Leaping out of the earth like a dolphin, its full frame now showing it's fish and serpent like features; it tried to catch Rouge and the others like a koi jumping up for a dragonfly.
"WO-OH-AH!" Rouge maneuvered away, but the Fish-Snake caught hold of Knuckles's foot.
Knuckles blinked a moment as he realized just then what had occurred."OH NOO!" because of the force, he had to let go of Tails's hand, not wanting to drag down the others with him, and flailed his arms around, "EEee!" he gritted his teeth, giving a sharp sound of worry from them.
"Knuckles!" the two cried out, as the Fish-Snake hit the ground; but with its mouth occupied, it only flailed around like a fish out of water.
Instead o remaining in that useless predicament, it reared up its head and forced Knuckles to bend like a rag-doll, thrusting its head back down to leave Knuckles to also endure that momentum and force. The thrusting power caused the Fish-Snake's tail to fling up right after him too.
"Ahhh!" Knuckles went flying, but slammed back down into the ground, almost going unconscious as his face looked pretty exhausted from getting beat up, "Ooohh..."
"Noo!" Rouge flung Tails to the side, as she was unaware that Tails couldn't fly, due to his tails being burned by the Fire Beast before hand. So, thinking he would be alright, she did so, but he started flailing around in the sky as Rouge dove to try and save Knuckles.
"W-w-wait! Rouge! I can't f-f-fly!" Tails flapped his arms, but to no avail as he spun in circles in the air before landing in a tree. "Offph! Oh no! My MilesElectric!" The device was flung to another tree, breaking the screen before hitting branches as it continued its descent all the way down until smashing to pieces when hitting the ground.
Tails looked heart broken, not only was he left without his ability to fly, having his plane destroyed, his tails burnt, but now his inventions..? All he had left was will power and his intelligence, but even this made him feel small and weak. Why did he have to be useless in the moment his friends needed him most?
His hand had been outstretched to catch the device, but now he slowly withdrew it, whimpering at this fact as he could only cling to the tree branch, terrified… and unable to move.