Adventures of the Orange Flash
Chapter 11: The Nine Tailed Fox and the Rabbit
Naruto was currently running on the ocean with his sage mode active as he continues his search for the large source of negative emotions which he had sensed when he was meditating back at Emerald Beach.
"I can sense that we're getting closer to the source…over there!" Naruto looked ahead to see an unknown island that is a few miles ahead of them.
He put on a burst of speed and soon had arrived at the beach before bypassing it. After a few minutes of running, Naruto founding himself standing in the middle of a wide grassland with strangely formed mountains covered with greenery.
"This place is kinda similar to the Green Hill Zone back on the South Island," said Naruto.
"Maybe so, but we need to find out what exactly is going on here," said Kurama.
"You're right about that…what's that noise?" Naruto looked around to trace what sounded like buzzing, he located the sound as it was drawing close to him and saw what it was. It was a hornet made entirely of metal with a red faceplate, black torso, a yellow and black striped design for the backend where the stinger is located, and a propeller attached to the back.
The robot set its sights on Naruto and pivoted its abdomen with the stinger aiming at him before firing an orange energy ball. Naruto dashed to the side while channeling chakra into the gloves and concentrated to form a couple of shuriken which he flung at the flying robot. The robot hornet crackled with electricity before it exploded.
Naruto noticed something fall out and land on the ground, he took a closer look and saw that it was a little rabbit with blue fur.
"A rabbit? What was it doing inside the robot?" asked Naruto, the rabbit looked around fearfully until it saw Naruto and realized that he was the one who freed it before hopping towards him happily. Naruto crouched to its level and rubbed in between its ears, smiling at how it was enjoying the petting. He looked over the remains of the robot and came upon a rather familiar marking.
"I recognize that mark, it belongs to Eggman!"
"I think I know what's going on here, that man must be using these animals to power up his robots," said Kurama.
Naruto growled in anger at the statement, this must have been the cause of the negative emotions that he sensed earlier before and quite possibly there are more in the area. He looked down at the rabbit and smiled assuredly.
"Don't worry little guy, I promise to save the rest of your friends…now run along to somewhere safe,"
The rabbit seemed to understand him as it hopped away to probably somewhere it wouldn't be caught again.
Naruto crossed the middle and index fingers of each hand before calling out "Shadow Clone jutsu!" then a mass number of his clones appeared before him "Okay guys, let's find more of these robots and trash em!"
"Roger boss!" the clones split up to carry out their objective.
"Might as well do the same," Naruto armed himself with a Hirashin kunai before taking off at high-speed to see more of the zone.
Music Start: Sonic Advance 2 OST; Leaf Forest Act 1
Naruto was currently running up and down the hills before launching himself off a ramp into the air before landing on a ledge where he dashed to the other end and performed a long cartwheel jump to another one. Then he ran through a pair of downhill loops back to back before exiting the second to run through a long spiral loop to get to the other side.
Naruto bounced off a blue spring to propel himself high into the air towards a ledge above but couldn't reach it, he quickly created a shadow clone which grabbed him by the jacket and spun around once before throwing him upwards till he reached the ledge. He looked ahead to see a bunch of robotic monkey jumping towards him, he dashed forward and passed right through them as they were destroyed from the swift slashes with the animals within being freed. Moving on, Naruto hopped onto a long rail and grinded along it before launching off at the end of it with a spiraling somersault and landed back on the ground.
He then ran down a hill right into a water passage and channeled chakra to his feet in order to run on the water's surface in order to reach the other side of the passageway and exit it. Suddenly a handful of those robot hornets appeared from the sky and fired energy balls at him. He formed a gauntlet on his left hand to deflect the shots before throwing his Hirashin kunai towards them. He warped towards it to appear in the middle of the of the group "Swift Release: Fleeting Bladed Shadow Dance!" he kicked off one of the hornets towards another and slashed of it then bounced off to another hornet at high-speed with afterimages trailing behind him until all were destroyed and he landed on the ground with scrap metal falling around him.
He continued on his way, running through a big loop and exiting it to bounce off a diagonal spring to grab onto what appears to be a small red wheel attached to two spinning bars, making him spin around in one place. Naruto carefully timed his release before letting go to land on a platform ahead where he passed through a dash panel to launch himself forward and grind up a long rail onto a ledge, intensifying his speed through a combo of two downhill loops and a spiral loop with a ramp as the finisher.
Naruto skidded to a stop and let out a whoop of exhilaration "Woooo, what a rush! I bet Bushy Brows would love to take a run through this place!"
"With his eccentricity, that's without a doubt," said Kurama, shivering at the thought of Rock Lee running around the zone whilst screaming about youth.
Suddenly Naruto felt a flash of memories flow into his mind, it was from on his clones. Apparently they were able to find most of the robots and destroy them to free the animals trapped inside, however one particular memory caught his attention. This clone had seen some sort of machine roaming around the area and dispelled itself to inform him of it.
"My best guess that it's Eggman operating that machine to capture the animals,"
"Let's go pay him a visit and file our complaint,"
Music Switch: Sonic Advance 2 OST; Leaf Forest Act 2
Naruto raced off through the hills and up a slope to send him up to an upper ledge where several sharp spikes burst from the ground to harm him. Naruto easily leapt over the hazard to the other side. He moved ahead to see a group of robot monkeys and smirked with an idea coming into mind.
"Time to try out that new technique that Sonic taught me!" he performed a small hop into the air and curled up into a ball as chakra surrounded him before dashing towards them in a high-speed rolling attack, knocking them into the air before they came crashing down on the ground and exploded releasing the animals trapped inside "Works like a charm,"
"I have to admit that you've adopted well to Sonic's technique, to the point of creating your own variations," said Kurama.
Like the fox said, since Naruto and Sonic had been sparring with each other, the blue hedgehog decided to teach him a few tricks of his own which included his signature Spin Dash given that Tails and his other friends created their own variations. It was tricky at first due to the disorientation from and after using it, but he eventually got the hang of it and currently thinking up different variations of it.
Still in the middle of his spin dash christened the Kitsune Spiral Dash, Naruto went through a downhill loop which then led him into a spiral loop before bouncing off a diagonal spring onto several to send him to higher grounds. He landed on top of rail which he grinded along till he reached the end before going through yet another spiral only this one contained a vertical path, he exited into a big loop and launched off a ramp onto another part of the zone. There Naruto sped through a pair of uphill loops with a dash panel in between to go even faster. More of the annoying spikes shot out from the ground "Swift Release: Shadow Dance!" Naruto broke out from the dash before darting left and right to evade then with trailing afterimages behind him, following that he went through a pair of uphill loops and entered a big loop again which had a gap at the top but he somersaulted in midair to cross it before finally making it out from there.
Music End
"I can hear the sound of an engine nearby, that must be Eggman," Naruto stood on top of a hill to scope the area when he heard the sound and traced it to find exactly what he was looking for.
It was an orange driving vehicle, having orange headlights, black and red tires, and a blue circle inside it with two arms. One arm is actually a large spiked hammer that is gray and yellow, while the other is a real arm and it's currently having someone in its grip.
It was a young anthropomorphic lop-eared rabbit along with what appears to be a small creature with light-blue body and has yellow markings at the tip of its head, hands, feet and tails, a bulb-shaped head, dark blue eyes, a floating yellow pompom ball hovering above its head, two pink butterfly like wings and a small circular tail, Naruto also noted that it wore a red bowtie.
At the driver seat was Eggman who looked to be proud of himself, well not for long if Naruto has anything to say about it! Naruto descended from the hill before stopping before Eggman and called out to him.
"Hey Eggman, I suggest that you let go of the girl before trouble starts brewing!" said Naruto with a frown.
Eggman looked at the newcomer in confusion, he was actually expecting his arch nemesis Sonic to show up to try and stop him as always…not a fox with nine tails for that matter "Who are you? And are you the one responsible for the destruction of my badniks?
"If that's what you call those robots I saw before then yes. Using animals to power your machines didn't sit well with me in the least bit,"
"Then that means you intend to get in the way of my plans just like that darn hedgehog!" Eggman leered at the newcomer.
"You catch on quick, as expected of an evil genius," Naruto responded sarcastically.
"Well my genius intellect will teach you just how much of a mistake it is to go up against me. With my EggHammerTank mark 2, I'll squash you like the truly insignificant bug you are!"
"Hmph, he loves to hear himself talk," Kurama scoffed.
"Then what are you waiting for?" Naruto taunted.
Eggman started up his tank before zooming off in reverse "Just try to keep up with me if you can,"
Music Start: Sonic Advance 2 OST; Boss
Naruto took off after him but at moderate speed in order to maintain a distance from the hammer, he could dodge and destroy it with no problem but not without risk of hurting the girl in the process.
"I might as well go physical and take it apart piece by piece," thought Naruto.
"Aim for the cockpit, messing with his controls would make things easier for us," said Kurama.
He then increased his speed to close the gap between them, that's when Eggman operated the tank's hammer to smash at him but Naruto darted to the right at the last moment and charged forward with gauntlets made of chakra formed around his arms as he launched a punch straight at the bonnet, inflicting a dent upon it before flipping backwards from the vehicle.
"Why you little…I'll crush you!" Eggman launched the hammer at Naruto again for an attack but like the first time it was evaded and he countered with yet another punch on the same spot as the first strike.
"This guy is pretty much a one-trick pony, stop wasting time and take him down already!" said Kurama.
"Sure thing!" Naruto dashed forward once more avoiding the hammer before leaping high into the air as he held out a palm for wisps of blue energy to gather around it to take on the form of a spiraling sphere, then he dove towards the tank with the attack before him "Rasengan!"
Eggman was surprised to see the technique then he smirked evilly as he operated the arm holding the rabbit forwards as a form of a shield. Naruto eyes widened in shock but he quickly took a Hirashin kunai from his holster and flung it behind him to strike the ground and quickly flashed towards it and drove the jutsu to the ground, Naruto looked with a glare and Kurama could be heard growling at the back of his mind.
"Why that no good…the gloves are off!" Naruto got to his feet and shot towards Eggman at high-speed with the intent to finish this once and for all.
Eggman smirked upon seeing the fox appear again and taunted him "Hope you're not forgetting what will happen if you attack me?"
"Sure I haven't, which is why I'm doing this!" Naruto crossed the middle and index fingers of each hand before calling out "Shadow Clone jutsu!" in a puff of smoke several copies of the fox appeared running alongside the original much to the shock of the evil doctor.
"What?! How's that possible?! No matter, I'll just have to destroy you all! Switching to overdrive!" Eggman increased the power output of his tank, making the hammer attack with greater speed and soon he managed to eventually take down all of the evasive clones…only thing was that the original was nowhere to be seen "What where did he go?!"
"Over here!" Eggman looked around confusedly before setting his eyes on a kunai embedded into the bonnet, then there was a puff of smoke which dissipated to reveal Naruto standing on top of the bonnet.
"Now to end this!" Naruto formed the Rasengan again and this time rammed it into the engine, causing it to explode with pieces of the EggHammerTank flying in different directions which included the arm holding the rabbit to explode, tossing her and the little creature into the air but Naruto quickly jumped up after them and caught them in his arms before landing back on the ground.
"Nooooo, my beautiful tank!" Eggman hastily pushed a button for a flying mobile with him in it to take to the air as he glared at Naruto "You'll pay for this you meddlesome fox!" then he flew away into the distance.
Music End
Naruto let out a sigh of relief "That's taken care of for now," he turned to the rabbit in his arms before setting her on the ground "Are you okay?" Now that he took a better look at her, he saw that she wore a vermillion dress with a white collar and blue cravat, white gloves with gold cufflinks, and orange and yellow shoes.
The rabbit nodded happily with the blue creature chirping in agreement "I'm okay now and so is my friend. My name is Cream the rabbit and this my Chao friend Cheese, we're truly grateful for saving us?" the now named Cream and Cheese bowed to Naruto, causing him to feel a bit awkward as up till now he still hasn't gotten used to such levels of gratitude.
"It's no problem at all, my name is Naruto Uzumaki the nine tailed fox. Well I have to get going after Eggman so be careful on your way home," said Naruto before he turned to leave in the direction that Eggman went.
"Oh! Wait a minute!" Cream suddenly called out to Naruto, causing him to stop and look at her.
"What's the matter?" asked Naruto curiously, he could see that the little rabbit was worried about something serious.
"It's about my mom, we came here together for a picnic when Dr. Eggman and his robots appeared and we ended becoming separated with him catching Cheese and I. I think she's still in trouble!"
"Hmmm, I wonder if Eggman captured her earlier before?" Naruto muttered to himself.
"It would rather be surprising if he didn't," said Kurama.
"I need to go help her!" said Cream determinedly.
"Are you sure? Things might get too dangerous,"
"I know, but I need to save my mom no matter what!"
Naruto smiled at her declaration, she reminds him of back when he was younger that he wouldn't care for the circumstances as long as he protects those close to him…and he still does at this age.
"In that case, I'll help you find your mom," said Naruto.
Cream looked up at him "Really? You will?"
"Of course, if we stop whatever Eggman is up to then we're sure to rescue your mother and that is a promise!" Naruto gave the rabbit a foxy grin and thumbs up which made her beam with happiness.
"Thank you very much Mr. Naruto!" said Cream.
"Chao, chaoooo!" Cheese seemed to be in agreement.
Naruto smiled at them "Just call me Naruto, I'm not one for formalities,"
Cream nodded in affirmation "Okay,"
Naruto went down on one knee with his back to her "Hop on, I'll carry you two to where Eggman headed," Cream hesitantly climbed onto Naruto's back while Cheese settled himself on his spiky hair "Hang on tight, cause here we go!" he took off at high-speed while leaving behind a trail of dust.
After miles of running, Naruto, Cream and Cheese had long since gone past the boundaries of the Leaf Forest zone and had now found themselves standing on a hill which overlooks a massive volcanic construction site with flowing downhill, machines at work near rivers of lava, there was a signboard calling the place the Hot Crater zone. Naruto could feel the heat getting to him a bit no thanks to his fur.
"I bet Eggman would be around here somewhere," said Naruto scoping out the area.
Cream waving herself with her hand "This place is very hot,"
"I know, the sooner we find him and get him to tell us where your mom is, then sooner we can leave,"
"Okay, let's go!" Cream ran off with Cheese flying after with Naruto shaking his head in amusement before running after them.
Music Start: Sonic Advance 2 OST; Hot Crater Act 1
They stared off by running down the hill and picking up speed, there they jumped towards a descending handrail and grabbed on to it, sliding down to the other end where they stepped on a dash panel to launch themselves forward at high-speed and take to the air via a ramp, landing on a grind rail which they went along to jump off at the end. However a robot appeared in midair and headed straight towards them, it resembled a jellyfish and it was swinging a flaming chain-ball underneath itself towards them. Naruto quickly formed a chakra kunai in hand before flinging it at the badnik, successfully destroying it before he and Cream landed safely on the ground.
"I have to admit Cream-chan, you're pretty strong to be able to keep up with me despite your age," said Naruto.
"Thank you, my mom taught me that exercising makes me healthy and strong so I do it every day," said Cream.
"And she's right about that, keep it up and you'll only get stronger," Cream happily nodded in affirmation.
They ran along the pathway to bounce off a spring and ascend to the next, then they dashed though a downhill loop then through an uphill loop towards a wall but lucky there was a spring at the end for them to bounce to the top. Stepping on another dash panel, they boosted towards a vertical pole.
"Cream grab my hand!" said Naruto stretched his hand out to Cream.
"Okay!" said Cream.
She grabbed onto his hand before Naruto grabbed the pole with his other hand, they spun around several times before performing a U-turn to descend through a downward path and hit a spring to redirect them down another path and through a loop into a ramped wall to ascend to the top. Naruto and Cream slid down a handrail to a platform where they encountered a new badnik, this one was a blue tortoise with wheels for feet. Naruto armed himself with a chakra gauntlet and lunged at it with a haymaker punch, however the shell on its back bounced off the attack and launched him into the air.
"Naruto!" Cream jumped into the air and started flapping her ears, enabling her to fly towards Naruto and grab him by the back of his jacket, grunting with the effort of carrying him.
"Cream-chan, you can fly?!" said a surprised Naruto.
"Yup, I learnt how to during one of my exercises with Cheese but I get a bit tired if I fly for too long or carry someone,"
"Well that's a creative way to use your ears. You can let go now so that I can finish off that badnik,"
"Okay," Cream let go of the jacket for the fox to dive towards the robotic turtle with a Rasengan in hand and this time the shell couldn't deflect this attack and exploded, releasing a piglet from within. Naruto created a shadow clone to take the little animal to safety before continuing on their way.
They advanced forwards and saw appears to be a chute tunneling into the wall to who knows where and is a bit small for their current, however Naruto had an idea "Cream-chan, follow my lead!" as he curled up and performed his Kitsune Spiral Dash to enter the chute with Cream performing the spin dash too and Cheese simply flew in after them. The chute was straightforward before it shot them upwards right into an ascending loop and launched off a ramp to a platform where another ramp sent them into the air again. Naruto saw a crane hook and came up with another idea "Grab on!" Cream did as such with Naruto channeling chakra to his glove to form a grappling hook and fired it at the hook for the crane to lift them up to a platform. With that they zipped through series of grind rails until it appeared that they found themselves within the deeper regions of the Hot Crater zone.
"We've gotten far inside but still no sign of Eggman," said Naruto as he looked around.
"Maybe Mr. Eggman has left the zone?"
"I hope not, we wouldn't know where else he could have gone,"
"Surely you haven't forgotten that you could use Sage mode to track him," said Kurama.
"True, but we're surrounded with lava which takes much longer to gather nature chakra than when in places like the forests or oceans," thought Naruto.
"Chao! Chaoo chao!" Cheese suddenly chirped up, catching their attention.
"What is it Cheese?" asked Cream curiously.
"Chao!" Cheese pointed at something and they looked to see a rather familiar flying machine heading somewhere.
"That's Eggman, let's go!" Naruto.
"Good job, Cheese!" Cheese squeaked happily at Cream's praise.
Music Switch: Sonic Advance 2 OST; Hot Crater Act 2
They dashed along the pathway and bounced off a diagonal spring onto a descending grind rail and launched off towards a fleet of badniks where they aimed and were about to fire, Cream flapped her ears to fly out of the way, Naruto reached into his ninja pouch and took out a handful of low level exploding tags then he threw his Hirashin kunai at them before flashing towards it and appearing in their midst "Swift Release: Fleeting Shadow Dance!" He bounced off one robot after one in a pinball fashion with trailing afterimages before jumping away from them with the tags pasted on each and every one of them. Naruto formed the tiger handsign to activate the tags remotely for them to explode and release the animals and again summoned clones to transport them to safety.
They went through an uphill loop in combination with a downhill variation and boosted from a dash panel to grind along an ascending rail onto a pathway, then they shot through a chute leading them downwards and launched off a ramp into a dash ring, pushing them forwards right into another chute which led them to the other side.
Naruto and Cream were getting closer to Eggman, they ran through multiple variations of loops with dash panels in between them, and then a group of badniks came in their way in order to obstruct them. Naruto performed his Kitsune Spiral Dash but this time he called out "Gale Force Dash!" he unleashed wind chakra from his whole body to create a powerful windstorm, causing the badniks to be blown away in his path.
They suddenly ran up a ramped wall to bounce off a spring which send running back down in a new path, then hitting a diagonal spring they ascended to a handrail to slide towards a pathway with a ramp and slid along a grind rail. This kept up until they've finally caught up with the evil doctor.
Music End
"Hey Eggman!" Naruto called out loudly.
The said villain turned his Egg mobile around and frowned upon seeing who it was "You again? What do you want this time?"
"Where's Cream-chan's mother?!"
"And why do you think I'll tell you?" Eggman sneered at the fox.
"Because you wouldn't want me to make you regret not answering my question!"
"Then I have a much better idea, I'll just have to destroy you here and now!" he turned his ship around and flew off with Naruto and Cream running after him, then they saw him dock his machine on top of yet another tank only that this one differed greatly in terms of appearance and function. It is a six-wheeled tank with a gray with blue and orange stripes paintjob, it has yellow headlights and the front of the cannon is black "Allow me to introduce to you the Egg Bomber Tank!"
"How nice of you to introduce it so that it can be smashed, then we can resume with you telling where Cream-chan's mother is!" said Naruto.
"Hmph, I would like to see you try!" Eggman drove off with Naruto in pursuit.
Music Start: Sonic Advance 2 OST; Boss
Naruto ran after Eggman in his tank, unlike before when Cream was held hostage, Naruto could now get to bust loose.
"Take this!" the evil doctor fired a black cannonball at the fox but Naruto dodged to the side only the projectile to hit the ground and explode. He formed a Rasengan and dashed forward to ram it at the side full force before backing away only to see a few scratches on it much to his surprise and Eggman gloated out loud "Surely you didn't think that I would take precautions for that attack of yours? I used top grade metal from this place to make this tank impervious to external damage!"
"In other words, I need a strong enough attack to pierce through it!" thought Naruto, he jumped to evade another explosive cannonball while looking for any sign of a potential weak spot. His eyes settled on the cannon itself, giving him an idea "Weak point found!"
He reached into his ninja pouch to take out a handful of explosive tags and regular kunai, wrapping the former into the handles of the latter. He dashed forward to catch up with the tank. Eggman launched another cannonball at him, however Naruto performed a replacement jutsu to switch out with a wooden log much to the doctor's annoyance before appearing at the side, there he flung the first volley at one side of the cannon "That's the first set, now for the second,"
Naruto pulled back a bit to ready another handful of kunai loaded with explosive tags. While he was at it, Naruto created a group of shadow clones that rushed towards Eggman. They utilized chakra shurikens to strike at the cannonballs and detonate them early. With them as cover, he quickly threw a Hirashin kunai to the other side of the cannon and quickly flashed over to it and fired his second volley.
"You're wasting your time, your puny knives won't do a thing to my tank!" said Eggman with a smirk.
Naruto smirked back "Normally yes, but normal is overrated when I'm involved!" he performed a handsign and the tags ignited before unleashing a chain explosion with the smoke clearing away to reveal the cannon completely destroyed and a gaping hole was left behind as the aftereffect.
"My cannon! Why you- I'm not through just yet!" Eggman pushed a few buttons then cannonballs began to come of the hole despite the absence of the cannon itself. The projectiles rolled towards Naruto and his clones, exploding once close to them.
"Well too bad, cause you are!" one of his clone ran close to him and together formed a much larger than normal Rasengan, the next clone held out Hirashin kunai and threw it before quickly weaving through a set of handsigns and called out his jutsu "Shadow Kunai jutsu!" the single kunai suddenly multiplied in a large volley with a majority striking the cannonballs for them to explode while a few others got past and had gotten within range of the Egg Bomber Tank "Take this, Giant Ball Rasengan!" they rammed the jutsu right into the gaping hole where sounds of grinding metal could be heard until they emerged at the other side of the tank with it beginning to explode.
Music End
"No, not again!" Eggman hastily detached the Egg mobile from the Egg Bomber Tank a few moments before it blew up and glared at Naruto "You're truly becoming as annoying as Sonic! You're definitely going to pay for this!"
"Like I care, now where's Cream-chan's mother?" asked Naruto.
"Like I would tell you anything, I dare you to come after me!" Eggman turned around and flew off again like before.
Naruto was about to give chase when he heard Cream call out to him from behind, he turned around to see her and Cheese approaching him.
"Mister Naruto, have you asked mister Eggman if he's seen my mom?" asked Cream.
"Yes I did but he was being stubborn and refused to answer, so we'll have to go after him again," said Naruto.
"Okay mister Naruto, let's go and asked him again!" Cream was about to move when Naruto poked her in the forehead with a smile.
"I told you before Cream-chan, none of that mister stuff. Just call me Naruto, okay?"
"Okay mist-err I mean Naruto," Naruto rubbed between her ears which she found to be pleasant.
"You're learning, now let's get going!"
Naruto then took off with Cream flapping her ears to take flight and follow with Cheese next to her as they went in search of Eggman to stop his unknown plans and find her mother.
This is Hussbek online with the latest chapter, this is the first chapter of the Sonic Advance 2 arc. Naruto arrives at an unknown island where he finds animals being imprisoned robots to serve as power source, afterwards he rescues a young rabbit by the name Cream and her Chao friend Cheese. They request his help to rescue her missing mother with this whole situation originating from the sinister plans of doctor Eggman.
I had to do a lot of replays via VisualBoyAdvance GBA emulator and Screen recording in addition to the Sonic wikia (Lots of kudos those guys) in order to make this story more appealing to you guys. There would be two zones per chapter so be sure to look forward to it.
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