Adventures of the Orange Flash
Chapter 4: Visiting the Burnt Future
Naruto and Tails were currently charging at the squadron of mechs in order to serve as a distraction for Sonic and Princess Elise to get away.
"Remember Tails, we're only going to destroy a few to grab their attention and hold them back for a while before we pull out and return to the city to meet up with Sonic and the princess,"
"You got it Naruto!" said Tails as he took out capsule containing rings while flying.
"Yosh! Let' get wild!"
Music Start: Sonic the Hedgehog OST; Dusty Desert-Quicksand
Naruto got to the group as the white humanoid mechs aimed at him and opened fire, Naruto darted left and right to avoid the shots whit using a kunai to deflect any that almost got to him. "Swift Release: Bladed Shadow Dance!" he sped up, leaving behind afterimages as he weaved in and out of the mechs while slashing with his kunai.
Another group of the humanoid mechs showed up but they're colored red and had some sort of cannons on their arms, they aimed and shot rockets which raced towards him. Naruto flipped over them quickly but was surprised to see that they turned around in midair and headed towards him again. Then a capsule containing rings intercepted them and got hit which released the rings inside to hit the other missiles, causing them to spark with electricity before exploding.
Naruto looked up to see Tails flying above him with another capsule in his hand "Thanks for the assist Tails!"
"No problem Naruto, there's more ahead of us," said Tails pointing in a certain direction.
"Got it, let's go!" Naruto ran forward with Tails close behind, He ran through some ruins and those crablike mechs sticking to the walls and more of those humanoid mechs aiming their guns at him, he could see some sort of cage made of blue energy behind them.
"Naruto, those mechs seem to be protecting that cage for some reason. Maybe if we take care of them, the cage will open,"
"Then let's get to it, you take care of the wall crawlers while I handle the firing squad," Tails nodded in affirmation and then charged at the crab mechs who saw him and threw their bombs, he flew up into the air to avoid the explosions then he took aim at them and threw a capsule which destroyed some of the crab mechs while the rest fell to the ground and the bits of dummy rings fell on them, damaging them further "Score!" Tails pumped his fist in victory.
Naruto ran forward and slid between the legs of one of the mechs and slammed an exploding tag on the ground, he jumped away and formed a ram handseal before pulsing his chakra which made the tag catch fire before exploding which destroyed any mechs nearby. Then the cage opened up to reveal a spring, they bounced off it to reach higher ground and kept on moving until they ran into a fleet of robots that are built for flying, Naruto threw chakra infused shurikens at them while Tails did the same with his Dummy Rings to bring them down.
They reached the edge of the ruin and there was a bottomless pit in the middle of the path, and there was no wall for Naruto to use and he couldn't jump far enough. Tails flew above him and called out "Naruto grab on, I'll carry you over to the other side!" Naruto jumped and held onto his hands as they flew over the pit and got to the other side before Tails got too tired to continue flying.
"Thanks for the lift," said Naruto with a thumbs up, suddenly a mech appeared from behind and was about to attack Tails "Tails watch out!" Naruto threw a kunai at the mech only to realize that it wasn't the regular one, he felt a slight tugging within himself and the next thing he knew was that he stood in between Tails and the mech. He quickly reacted by slamming a Rasengan into the mech, destroying it. Naruto looked at the kunai he threw which is a Hirashin kunai and realized what he just did.
Tails snapped out of his shock before asking Naruto what he did "What was that you just did Naruto? It was like you teleported, and I thought only Shadow could do it with a Chaos Emerald,"
"It's called the Hirashin or Flying Thunder God, the user places a special seal on a marked location then they can instantly transport themselves to it no matter how far it is. Two people knew how to use it with one being a former leader of my village and the other my father, and I guess that I'm the third. My dad most often applies the formula on these kunai which gave him the moniker of Yellow Flash as that is what his enemies see whenever he moves in to attack,"
"And your being his son has allowed you to use it as well since you both share the same chakra signature," said Kurama.
"So this is the technique which you said I could now use?" thought Naruto.
"Yes, but you can't use it at far distances yet so watch how you use it,"
Naruto gave a mental nod before turning to Tails "Alright then, let's give it one more push before we get out of the desert," Tails nodded in affirmation before they continued onwards. They hit a dash ramp which sent them to the lower levels of another ruin where they found another bottomless pit only bigger and there several mechs hovering in the air before them.
"I don't think I can carry you this far Naruto," said Tails worriedly.
"Don't worry about it Tails, I have an idea to get across," Naruto dashed forward and threw a Hirashin kunai at a mech close to him. When the kunai embedded itself in the mech Naruto flashed towards it, he appeared on top and yanked the kunai out before throwing it at another mech and then flashed towards it too, and he kept this up until he kicked off the last one and landed on a platform with Tails landing next.
In front of them stood a mech which was very different from the ones they've dealt with so far. This one looked like a golem with huge fists with yellow circle glowing at the chest. The golem aimed its fists at them, then they shot out of its joints and raced towards them, Naruto placed a palm on one of the incoming fist and vaulted over before making a straight dash at the now armless mech only for it to twist its upper body around while shoot machine gun rounds, forcing Naruto to use Shadow Dance to evade.
Tails provided support by throwing a capsule of dummy rings at the mech which didn't do much damage but the electrical surges slowed it down, Naruto jumped back and held his palm to form another Rasengan. Then he jumped into the air and slammed it into its energy core, causing it to explode.
Music End
"I think that's most of them," said Naruto as he dusted his hands.
"Yeah and there's more heading towards us," Tails pointed at a squad of Eggman's mechs heading their way.
"Looks like we finally got their attention, Sonic and Elise must be long gone by now so now it's time for us to make our way back to the city and meet up with them," Naruto crossed his fingers and formed to Shadow Clones "You guys know what to do,"
They nodded before forming a handsign as they transformed into carbon copies of him and Tails before taking off with the mechs.
"My clones will keep them busy while we get out of here,"
"Okay Naruto, let's go!" Tails flew off towards the city with Naruto running next to him.
Soon the two foxes had finally arrived back to the city, Tails split up with him saying that he wants to check something out in another part of the city and said that he would meet up with them later. Naruto was walking along the street in search of his fellow speedster and princess when he saw Sonic running nearby and he looked serious.
Naruto ran up to Sonic and called out to him "Yo Sonic, what's going on and where is the princess?"
"Oh Naruto, well you see. When we got back to the city…."
**Flashback Start**
Sonic and Elise were walking back to her castle when he suddenly sensed something heading towards them, he quickly carried Elise and jumped away just as cyan colored aura struck where they stood.
"I've been looking for you. You're the Iblis Trigger," they turned to see hedgehog float down to the ground. He is light gray with white fur surrounding his neck and tan skin, he has two large spines at the back of his head while at the front of his forehead there are five distinct spines flared up and back with the two final ones covering up most of his ears. He wears white gloves with gold cuffs and circular aqua symbols and white, navy and aqua boots with gold cuffs "Your actions will condemn us all,"
Sonic stood in front of Elise to protect her "Who are you?"
"My name is Silver and for the future of the world, I will destroy you!"
"I have no idea what he's talking about but I'd better defend myself," thought Sonic as he engaged this mysterious enemy.
He learnt that this hedgehog has the power to move objects around him with his judging from the fact random stuff are launched at him whenever the palms of his hands glow and he waves them around. However with his speed, Sonic was able to avoid the attacks as well as wear him down with several hits.
Soon Sonic had beaten Silver to his knees and was approaching to ask what he was talking about earlier "Hey,"
Silver quickly got up and used his psychokinesis to send Sonic flying into a wall, incapacitating him. Then he walked and looked down on Sonic who was trying to get back on his feet "Humph is this a joke? How could someone like you cause the destruction of our world?"
"What are you talking about?" asked Sonic.
"It doesn't matter, for the sake of the future the Iblis Trigger must be destroyed!" Silver raised his hand to strike the final blow when they heard Elise cry out, they turned to see that Eggman had shown up again in his ship with Elise in his clutches and was getting away.
"Elise?! Wait!" Sonic got up and tried to run after them but got knocked down when Silver used his psychokinesis on him.
"Don't you dare turn your back on me! It's time I finally put an end to this!" Silver was about to strike again when they heard someone say stop and stood in between them, both hedgehogs recognized who it was.
"Amy?" said Sonic in surprise.
"Get out of my way Amy! This is my mission!" said Silver.
"Absolutely not!" said the pink hedgehog adamantly.
Sonic got back up to his feet and looked at Amy "Thanks Amy, I appreciate it," then he turned ran in the direction he last saw Eggman.
"Leave it to me," said Amy.
"Don't worry Elise, my friends and I will definitely save you," thought Sonic as he ran.
**Flashback End**
"…and that's what happened, I just don't get why he keeps calling me the Iblis Trigger," said Sonic.
"Well back at Wave Ocean, I met a girl whose name is Blaze. She said that she and a friend of hers came from the future, and that their world was destroyed by the flames of disaster whom they also call Iblis," said Naruto.
"I'm sure that hedgehog is the friend of the cat," said Kurama.
"Then why are they targeting me?" asked Sonic.
"Someone told them that you were responsible for releasing the flames into the world, something that I believe is a lie," said Naruto.
"You're right, it rather sounds like something that Eggman would do which makes it very important that we save Elise before that happens," said Sonic with Naruto nodding in agreement.
"Oh no, this is terrible!" the duo turned to the voice and saw a man in a black suit, wearing a top hat and a monocle on his left eye, and he was pacing around looking clearly distressed. Sonic and Naruto walked to know what's bothering the man.
"Excuse me sir, but is there something the matter?" asked Naruto.
"Indeed young sir, Eggman's mech have appeared in the New City and I need to let everyone know right away!" said the man worriedly.
"Don't worry, we'll take care of it," said Sonic with Naruto nodding in agreement.
"Thank you kindly,"
Naruto and Sonic took off, they to the north-eastern side of the city where they came upon the large gate which was open for them to gain access to the New City, they were about to pass through when Sonic's bracelet beeped and they could hear Tails's voice through it.
[Sonic can you hear me? Knuckles wants to see you. Head to the town's warehouse!]
"Who's Knuckles?" asked Naruto curiously.
"He's another good friend of mine, he possesses great strength but also a short temper so be sure to watch out for that," said Sonic with a smirk.
"Got it, let's go!" then they passed through the gate and found themselves running through the tall buildings of the New City, "First things first, we need to find and destroy Eggman's mechs," he summoned a Shadow Clone who ran up the side of the building to scope the area, then it puffed into as Naruto received its memories "Eggman's mechs have been spotted at the warehouse,"
"That's where Tails and Knuckles are waiting for us, let's clean up and meet with them," said Sonic, they ran towards the warehouse area near the docks. When they reached the walls surrounding the place, Naruto and Sonic easily jumped over it with no problem, there they saw Eggman's mechs moving around.
Let's go, Shadow Clone jutsu!" Naruto summoned his clones as they charged in and proceed to destroy the mechs with their techniques, with Sonic not far behind with his Homing attacks and Spin Dash. Soon enough they were standing among scrap metal with not a robot functional.
"Naruto, Sonic!" They turned to see Tails running towards them "There you are, Knuckles is right over there, come on!" they followed him to the other side of the warehouse where they saw someone standing there.
He is a red echidna bearing a white crescent mark on his chest, he wears white gloves similar to boxing gloves and has two spiked knuckle-claws on each hand, and he wears red and yellow shoes with green cuffs and gray sextuple-bolted plates on top.
"Knuckles," said Sonic, the echidna turned to face them.
"Hey Sonic, who's the new guy?" asked Knuckles.
"The name's Naruto Uzumaki, the nine tailed fox ninja. I'm working with Sonic so that we can save the princess," said Naruto with a wave of his hand.
"Sure thing, anyway I saw Eggman on the outskirts of the city. He wanted me to give this to you," Knuckles tossed a red card that he was holding over to Sonic who caught it, suddenly a hologram of Eggman appeared and he started to talk.
[Sonic the hedgehog. If you want me to return the Princess, you must give me your Chaos Emerald. Meet me at my base in White Acropolis.] said Eggman, the recording ends and Sonic tosses the card back to Knuckles who lets it drop to the floor and crushes it with his foot.
"Huh, he's pretty cocky," said Knuckles with a frown.
"And with good reason, right he has more to gain than we have to lose," said Naruto with his arms crossed.
"It's most definitely a trap. I don't think Eggman with honor his agreement," said Tails worriedly.
"The kit is right, we haven't known that human for long, but he's just as sneaky as Orochimaru," said Kurama.
Sonic took out the blue Chaos Emerald and looked at it for a while before finally speaking "I'm going,"
Tails looked at him in surprise "Sonic?"
"Since Eggman went to the trouble of telling me where Elise is. I think I should thank him personally,"
"Count me in, I owe that egghead a knuckle sandwich," said Naruto, then he turned to Knuckles "No offense,"
Knuckles shook his head "None taken, since I myself have one for him too," he punched his fists together just to prove it. Then they headed out in search of the way to White Acropolis.
Somewhere else in Soleanna, Silver the hedgehog was sitting on the sidewalk thinking of the conversation which he had with Amy.
He told her that Sonic was the cause for the destruction of his world and he must kill him to prevent it from happening. Amy refused to believe him and told him that Sonic would never do that, even if it was true she would choose Sonic over the world before leaving him.
So this is where you are, I've been looking all over for you," Silver snapped out of his thoughts and turned to see his friend Blaze walking up to him, she noticed that something was bothering him "What's wrong?"
"Well um Blaze? To kill someone to save the world, is it really the right thing to do?" asked Silver.
"You can be so naïve sometimes, whether it is right or wrong, I can't say. But I do know is that if we don't take this chance, then the future will remain the same," said Blaze
"You're right, since he's after Dr. Eggman, let's sneak into Eggman's base," said Silver, Blaze nodded in affirmation before the two time travelers set off after Sonic.
Meanwhile, Naruto and team Sonic had found the cave gate which led to the icy mountains of White Acropolis. After making their way down the mountains, they found themselves before the gates of Eggman's base with a mech battalion waiting for them. When fighting through the horde, they got spotted by a searchlight which alerted more robots to their locations so Naruto used his stealth and shurikens to take out more searchlight to avoid a repetition which Knuckles would take down any golem type mechs that show up. There were a few switches that couldn't be reached but Tails was there to help out with his talent for flight to activate them.
Soon they found their way to the inner sanctum and were running through a long hall before stopping in front of a door which opened for them to pass through into a circular room.
"You're late," they looked up to see Eggman standing in a room behind a glass window and was looking down on them.
"Well, we had to deal with you little pets," said Knuckles.
"And they were quite rude, you could have taught them manners ya know," said Naruto with a smirk which was shared by Kurama.
"You're just as annoying as Sonic," Eggman growled in anger.
"Where's Elise?" asked Sonic.
"My, aren't we impatient," Eggman reached over and roughly pulled Elise into view.
"Sonic, Naruto!," shouted Elise, Sonic and the others got ready to fight while Naruto crossed his index and middle fingers in preparation to create some Shadow clones.
"Ah, ah, you better not move," said Eggman with a smirk "Now, the Chaos Emerald," Sonic held it out for him to see "Now place it there," He points to a pedestal which rises from the floor, Elise shakes her head as if telling them not to do it, but Sonic walks over and places the Emerald on it and it went back into the floor. Naruto's eyes narrowed when he saw Eggman smile evilly and press a button, suddenly a pink force field generated from the ceiling and surrounded Sonic and the others much to their surprise.
"Huh, wha?!" Tails was looking around confusedly, then Knuckles moved up to the force filed and punched it only to get knocked back.
"Let me give it a try Knuckles," said Naruto as he formed a Rasengan in his hand, he slammed it into the force field but it still held strong against his attack "Damn, I knew that we would walk into a trap. But we never expected this!"
"It's no use, it's too powerful for you to overcome," said Eggman "Now allow me to introduce to you my latest creation. This is the Solaris prototype,"
Elise let out a gasp while Naruto narrowed his eyes when they heard the name "Solaris? Isn't that the name of the Sun god? What is he talking about?"
Eggman chuckled evilly as he walked to the other side of the room and pulled the lever "With this machine, I'll be able to control the flow of time itself!"
The machine started to suck them upwards, Naruto and the others tried to resist but the suction was too strong and they were pulled into the vortex and force field disappeared with them. Elise leaned against the window as she saw them vanish without a trace.
"Rest assured...they're not dead…yet," said Eggman "They've just been teleported by my glorious invention to another time. Who knows where they'll end up? It could be the distant past or far future. But my machine still requires some fine-tuning. In fact, what my machine needs in order to be complete, is your power,"
"My power?" asked Elise.
"Yes, I can finally complete my plans….Now that I have the Chaos Emeralds, and you…" Eggman pointed at her "The Princess of Soleanna. That's all I need to revive the Flames of Disaster. And with its power, I will be able to control everything and rule the world. So, you would be wise to remain on my 'good' side," he walks off, leaving Elise to look back at the room her new friends once were.
"I hope you're all safe, wherever you are," Elise thought with hope that they would come back.
Naruto, Sonic and the others emerged out of the vortex and plummeted towards the ground. Sonic and Naruto were able to land on their feet while the others didn't land so well.
"Are you guys okay?" asked Naruto.
"Yeah, but I feel a bit dizzy," said Tails as he slowly got up to his feet and started to look around "Where are we?"
"I believe the right question is when are we? Doesn't the room look familiar?" said Naruto.
Tails took another look around "You're right, this rooms looks the same as the one we were in before,"
"Naruto, there two strangers approaching, but they have no ill intentions," said Kurama.
"Oh look who's here! I didn't expect to see you guys," a feminine voice spoke out, they turned to look up a ledge to see two figures there.
One is a white female bat with her muzzle and torso somewhat tan, and her wings are colored dark purple. Her short white hair flares out to the back and she wears powder blue eyeshadow as well as pink lipstick. She wears an attire of black chest-high jumpsuit with pink heart chest plate, elbow-long white gloves with pink cuffs and high heeled white boots also with pink cuffs.
Naruto looked at the other and could have sworn he was Sonic's twin except that he was a total contrast to the blue speedster. He is a black hedgehog with red stripes in his quills with four of them pointing upward while the two point downwards, and he has two spines on his back and a small tail. He wears white gloves with black and red-tongued cuffs, his shoes are white with black heel regions and soles, and what seems to be red strips of metal on the rear and front of the bottom of each shoe. What Naruto noticed the most was the rings on his wrists and ankles.
"He seems to be holding back a lot of power within himself, almost like it was sealed away," said Kurama.
"Rouge and Shadow!" Tails said the names respectively as they excluding Naruto were surprised to see them here.
"Hi. Long time no see! And who happens to be the handsome grownup fox with you?" asked Rouge, Shadow looking at Naruto with a hint of interest.
"This is our friend Naruto, he's a nine tailed fox ninja," said Tails.
"A ninja huh? I'd like to see how sneaky you can be," Rouge gave a flirtatious wink which made Naruto blush and he could hear Kurama laughing at him.
"There is something you need to see, come with us," said Shadow before he turned and walked off with Rouge following, Naruto and the others looked at each other before they followed him as well. They walked out of the facility and found themselves standing on top of a cliff but were shocked at what they were seeing. Before them is a city in total ruin, burning and knocked-over buildings, destroyed highways and ground submerged in molten magma.
"This is the distant future, far removed from our time," said Shadow.
"This place is the future?! No wonder why Blaze and Silver wants to change the past so badly," thought Naruto.
"Indeed, I've never seen this kind of devastation since our battle with the Juubi," said Kurama.
"The future? Then that means Eggman's machine can control time! But it doesn't seem like he has full control over it," said Tails.
"Eggman's got some nerve dropping us here," said Sonic.
"So then how do we get back to our time?" asked Knuckles.
"You need a space-time rift, but this requires a lot of energy," said Shadow.
Sonic immediately caught on to what Shadow was talking about "I get it, you mean by using your Chaos Control will open a rift to take us to our time,"
"Yes, but that alone is insufficient,"
"In other words, we need to work together to find the Chaos Emeralds," said Naruto, getting a silent nod from the stoic hedgehog "Geez, this guy is just as much of an emo as Sasuke,"
"Tell me about it," said Kurama.
"Okay guys, let's go. The sooner we can find those Chaos Emeralds, the sooner we can get back to our time and rescue Elise," said Sonic, then they took off into the city with Rouge and Shadow watching them.
"That foxy boy is quite an interesting one, would you agree Shadow?" said Rouge.
"Yes, I could somehow sense great power sleeping deep within him. It makes me curious how powerful he could be," said Shadow before they left as well in search of a Chaos Emerald.
This is Hussbek online with another chapter, Naruto and Team Sonic have ended up in Silver's future and sees the reason why he wants to change it, what else will they learn as they venture through the ruins of the destroyed city. Also I plan to have Naruto get a tagalong partner from the comics and a pet to follow him, but I won't tell you yet. Please read and review as always.
This is Hussbek from Ghana.
Signing out.