Adventures of the Orange Flash
Chapter 12: A Funky Funrun and Snow Biz
"Look Naruto, this place looks like fun! Don't you think so Cheese?" the little chao chirped in agreement to Cream's statement while she stands next to Naruto.
"You might be right Cream-chan, this place sure looks colorful," said Naruto.
There was more to it than Naruto's rather brief description as he and Cream gazed upon the landscape before. Like Naruto said it was a colorful place but what he left out was the fact that the zone seemed to be themed after music due to the colossal instruments like pianos, drums, trumpets and more which are incorporated into pathways for the to use.
"Anyways, let's not get sidetracked okay? We need to find Eggman and have him tell us exactly where your mother is kept,"
"Okay Naruto," Cream replied cheerfully.
Then Naruto took off with Cream and Cheese close behind as the duo wandered into the current zone with the purpose of fulfilling their main objective of their journey.
Music Start: Sonic Advance 2 OST; Music Plant Act 1
Naruto and Cream ran up and down the rolling hills with great speed before reaching a ledge where they leapt off a ledge onto another pathway through a loop and bounced off a diagonal pair of cymbals which acted like a spring to send them landing on a multicolored xylophone whereby stepping one a bar plays a musical sound while bouncing them lightly from one bar to another. The duo hopped along the bars to the other side whilst making a fun tune, they got onto a pathway where they saw a badnik modeled after a clown which is constantly swinging a hammer around itself while moving towards them. Naruto charged at the badnik with a fist reared back, he timed his strike for when the badnik swung its hammer at him before sliding around to appear behind it then he channeled chakra into the gloves to form a katana to slice the hammerhead from the handle before transforming into a hammer of his own and swung at the badnik to destroy it while freeing a flicky from within.
They resumed their run downhill and picked up more speed then came across a large colored bars of music notations. Getting an idea, Naruto jumped towards one of the bars and curled up into a ball as if performing his Kitsune Spiral Dash, Cream was quick to follow as well with her spin dash and they got to the other side of the ledge where there was a descending rail for them to grind along until arriving at the end and jumping off to step on a dash panel to boost through a pair of uphill loops then bouncing off a pair of cymbals which sent them spinning upwards to a higher level of the landscape. The path suddenly led into a narrow tunnel for them spin dash through into a large French horn which sucked them in before launching out at the other end like a cannon.
"This place really is a lot of fun!" said Cream excitedly.
"Chao chao!" Cheese chirped from the top of Cream's head as it held on tight to avoid falling off.
"That young rabbit is quite the excitable one, isn't she?" said Kurama amusedly.
"Kinda reminds me of myself back when I was younger," thought Naruto with a smile, he snapped into attention when an orange ball was flung into the air, forcing him to somersault and land on the ground to see just what threw the ball. It was another badnik modeled after a simian holding up an orange and gray circus ball with its feet whilst performing a handstand and kicking it into the air. Naruto waited for the moment when the badnik kicked the ball into the air before making his move, he quickly threw a kunai with seals drawn on the handle which embedded itself into the badnik and suddenly paralyzing it then the circus ball fall back on it resulting in an explosion.
Naruto and Cream ran into another giant French horn and were launched upwards to land on top of a long rail and grinded along it to a pathway and sprung from a pair cymbals upwards onto multiple platforms of large xylophone keys and they bounced along them to get to the other side where they stepped on a dash panel to boost them right off a dash ramp and land on the ground below before taking off once more.
"Even though this place is lots of fun, we still haven't found Dr. Eggman, Naruto," Cream spoke to Naruto while running alongside him with Cheese flying above them.
"Don't worry about it, I'm sure we'll find the doctor. Just need a way to-" Naruto suddenly into focus when he concentrated on locating Eggman hopefully within his range, which he did but then he detected another aura next to him and it was rather familiar "I found him Cream-chan, but it seems like someone I know is there as well,"
"Then let's go and meet them," said Cream.
"Couldn't agree with you more," said Naruto before running in the direction of where both auras are located.
Music Switch: Sonic Advance 2 OST; Music Plant Act 2
Naruto and Cream ran along the path which then went downhill before leaping up to a higher platform with xylophone bars which they bounced along to get across and a bouncing off a pair of cymbals to ascend to higher ground before leaping over a row of spikes to avoid getting hurt then he used a half powered Rasengan to take down another one of the clown badniks in the way. At the end was a rail for them to grind along and somersaulted off at the end to land on the ground, there they rolled into a large French horn which shot them upwards to a platform.
Naruto and Cream stepped on dash panel to send themselves speeding through two uphill loops which ended with a dash ramp to get across a long gap to get to the other side. Several more badniks appeared and Naruto formed some shadow clones to attack whereas Cream surprised him by having Cheese charge in and destroyed each of them with one hit.
"Wow Cream, didn't know Cheese could fight," said Naruto.
"Cheese felt a bit left out whenever I do my exercises so he joined in on the fun and became super strong!" said Cream happily.
"I can definitely see the results,"
"Ditto," Kurama was in agreement to the statement.
After taking down the badniks and freeing the animals within, the duo continued on their way by jumping off the platform to get below to the lower levels. There they saw both the ceiling and floor made out piano keys, thinking quickly both curled up into their spin dashes and began to bounce along the keys which sounded upon contact as they went along until reaching the end and dropped down to another level. There they boosted off a dash panel and were bouncing off platforms comprised of xylophone bars a few times. They landed on top of a grind rail and rode along it upwards to a higher level and were running up the wall before reaching the top. The duo jumped off to land into the holes of a giant flute as it spouted them into the air, Cream flapped her ears and flew over to Naruto and grabbed his hand before carrying him over to the next pathway.
Naruto and Cream then ran into more badniks but they easily took care of them before running up and down the rolling hills as they jumped into another giant French horn to be launched onto another large colored bars of music notations for them to bounce along then grinding along a rail into a section with the piano keys again. At the end the duo boosted off a dash panel to speed through an upward loop then straight into a double downhill loop, they boosted via another dash ramp to run up a ramped wall to bounce off a pair of cymbals towards several more as they ascended all the way to the highest level before finally stopping.
Music End
"I think where close enough to where Eggman is, I can feel his aura getting stronger by the minute so he shouldn't be far," said Naruto with his eyes closed in concentration.
"Naruto, look over there! I see Dr. Eggman in his flying machine!" Cream suddenly called out to the fox whilst pointing at a certain direction. Naruto looked up to see that it was indeed the evil doctor flying in his Egg mobile and so they followed him to wherever it was that he was going.
Naruto watched as Eggman docked his ship on top of a new vehicle which appears to have three large totem poles stacked upon each other with each one being orange with gray spikes, under the totem poles is a red car-like vehicle with three wheels that are black and orange, and a yellow headlight. Then he mostly took note of something hanging off of a pole whom he instantly recognized.
"Tails!" said Naruto, it was indeed his friend and fellow fox is who is currently tied up in ropes and hanging off of the pole with Eggman looking at his captive with a sneer.
"Do you know him?" asked Cream curiously.
"Yeah, Tails is a good friend of mine and is Sonic's best friend too,"
Cream let out a gasp of surprise "You mean he's friends with the famous Mr. Sonic? Then we have to help him!"
"Took the words right out of my mouth Cream-chan, let's go!"
Naruto jumped down with Cream and Cheese close behind as they ran towards Eggman and the captive Tails with both gazing at the arrivals with annoyance and joy respectively.
"Naruto, boy am I glad to see you!" said Tails happily.
"Grrrrrrr, you again? Just how long are you going to keep getting in my way?" Eggman growled in anger.
"As long as you keep doing what you always do, then I always will be a pain in your butt. Now let go of Tails," said Naruto with a glare.
"Why don't you make me? With my Egg Totem, I would like to see you try!"
"This guy just doesn't get it, hang on Tails! We'll get you out of there!" said Naruto.
"Okay Naruto!" Tails responded.
Music Start: Sonic Advance 2 OST; Boss
Naruto and Cream ran after Eggman after the doctor started the vehicle and was driving away from them with the fox carefully keeping an eye for what sort of surprises he has in store for them and waiting for the right timing to get Tails out of there. Suddenly one of the totem like disks began to spin rapidly before flying towards them. Naruto and Cream quickly move to the side to dodge it before it returned to the vehicle then two more shot out and swooped towards them. Cream jumped into the air and flew above one whilst Naruto slid underneath the other, it was then he saw something protrude from the center of the disk and shot a red projectile straight at him.
Naruto quickly curled up to perform the Kitsune Spiral Dash to roll out of the way and from under the disk, he looked to the side and saw Cream also dodging the red projectiles from some sort of cannon. Getting a sudden idea, he jumped on top of the lower disk and then leapt onto the next one then finally lunged straight for the cockpit which Eggman is sitting in, channeling chakra to the left glove to form a single tonfa which he used to slam on top of the cockpit before flipping back to land on the ground.
"Go for it Cheese!" said Cream.
"Chao!" Cheese flew straight for the cannon and rammed into it with great force, enough to destroy the cannon with one.
"Keep it up guys, you're doing great!" said Tails.
Eggman gritted his teeth in anger of what was happening "Grrrrr, I'm not finished yet! See how you handle this!" he pushed a button to deploy all three spinning totems straight at them.
The cannons at the bottom came online and proceeded to open fire at the duo, Naruto quickly took out formed a chakra kunai in his hand and deflected the incoming fire then he flung a Hirashin kunai at Cream and flashed over to her once it got close enough. Naruto positioned himself in front of the rabbit girl with his arms crossed as the crystals on the gloves glowed brightly before forming a spherical transparently scaled shield the incoming fire.
"See how you like this, Shadow Clone jutsu!" Naruto formed a group of clones that charged towards the totem disks forming varieties of weapons with the gloves like swords, spears and gauntlets before lunging at the cannons and taking them out. Naruto then jumped from one totem disk to the other before taking a running leap and called out his next jutsu "Swift release: Shadow Flight!" he dashed in midair while leaving behind afterimages till he reached Eggman's cockpit with a Rasengan in hand before ramming it in and inflicting a lot of damage then somersaulting in the air to land back on the ground.
"Just a little more and Eggman's toast!" said Tails.
"No I'm not! I still haven't lost yet!" Eggman commanded the totems to return to the vehicle "Now let's see how you're going to attack me now that there's no footholds for you to use!"
"We'll see…Cream-chan catch!" Naruto tossed a Hirashin kunai over to Cream who caught it then passed it to Cheese. A shadow clone ran next to Naruto and together they began to form a much larger Rasengan much to Eggman's growing worry.
"Okay Cheese, you know what to do!" said Cream, Cheese chirped in affirmation before quickly flying up to the now critically damaged cockpit and tossed the kunai the best way he could at it.
Then in a yellow flash, Naruto and his clone appeared in midair with a large blue spinning sphere "Take this, Giant Rasengan!" they rammed the technique into the vehicle, causing instant destruction whilst the clone used a sharpened claw to cut Tails free of the ropes for him to quickly fly in the air by spinning his tails around like a rotor. They watched as the Egg Totem fell apart before finally exploding and when the smoke cleared, Eggman was nowhere to be seen.
Music End
"Darn it, he got away again!" said Naruto in annoyance, then he turned to see Tails land before him with a smile on his face.
"Thanks for the save, Naruto! Who's that with you?" said Tails.
"This is my friend Cream-chan and her Chao friend Cheese, I rescued them from Eggman over at Leaf Forest and I'm helping her find her mother whom we suspect is kidnapped by Eggman. But what happened that you got captured by the doctor?" asked Naruto curiously.
"I was just working on a new invention when Eggman just came from out of nowhere," said Tails.
Naruto looked deep in thought "Just what is Eggman up to?"
"We'll just have to keep tailing the guy to find out more of his plans," said Kurama.
"So how do we find Dr. Eggman now?" asked Cream.
"That's easy, I noticed that Eggman's ship got damaged from the explosion and left behind a trail of black smoke," Tails pointed upwards for Naruto and Cream to look up a see a long line of smoke trailing into the distance "So all we have to do is follow the trail and we find Eggman,"
"Guess you're coming along with us?" asked Naruto.
Tails nodded in affirmation "That's right, I'd like to help you guys stop Eggman from doing whatever he's planning,"
"Then welcome to the team,"
"Thank you for wanting to help us, Mr. Tails," said Cream happily.
"You're welcome," said Tails.
With the addition of Tails, the group followed the trail of smoke left behind by the Egg mobile until they found themselves crossing the border of Music Plant and into snowy terrain as night fell. They moved to higher ground to see exactly where they are. Before the group, a carpet of white snow covers the floor of crystalline blue-and-purple rocks, various metal loops and ramps frozen into the environment, while further ahead is a well-lit city.
"Any idea what this place is Tails?" asked Naruto.
"This place is called Ice Paradise, it's known to snow all year around," Tails responded.
"Maybe mom and I could come here to make snow angels," said Cream innocently.
"Kinda reminds of the Land of Snow back home, I'll tell you about it when we deal with Eggman," said Naruto.
"So what do we do Naruto?" asked Tails curiously.
"For starters, it's obvious that Eggman has covered his tracks since we can't see the smoke trail anymore. So Tails and Cream-chan will go together in search of him while I do the same on my own, we'll contact each other once we find Dr. Eggman,"
"Got it Naruto…let's go Cream!"
"Okay…please be careful, Naruto," said Cream before she and Cheese followed after Tails, leaving Naruto behind.
"No need to worry, Cream-chan. I'll be fine," said Naruto before taking off at high-speed.
Music Switch: Sonic Advance 2 OST; Ice Paradise Act 1
Naruto started off by running along the snowy pathway and launched himself off a dash ramp and onto a grind rail for him to ride along until somersaulting off at the end and landing on the ground below where he stepped on a dash panel to boost himself up a steep hill, Naruto boosted off another dash panel to grind along an ascending rail to an upper level and then descend another hill to jump off a dash ramp and landed on a ledge. Naruto jumped upwards to grab onto a gymnastic bar where he spun around a few times before swinging off to land on the ground and resumed his run.
Naruto jumped from one ledge to another as he descended till he landed on an icy path which sent him sliding downwards and bounced off a diagonally positioned spring and land on platform where he ran through an uphill loop before a shuttle loop with a dash panel in between for a burst of speed. Naruto heard a whooshing sound from behind him and looked back to see one of Eggman's badniks with this one having the appearance of a penguin laying on its belly with its inbuilt thruster boosting it forward towards him. Naruto skidded along the ground whilst spinning around to face the pursuing badnik and curled up to perform his Gale Force Dash to knock it away and smash into a wall, freeing the animal inside of it. Apparently it wasn't alone as Naruto still in his spin dash moved out of the way of an orange projectile and uncurled to look up to see another badnik with this one resembling an octopus with an inflated head and was floating in the air. With a look of annoyance, Naruto formed chakra construct of a windmill shuriken which he flung at the floating badnik to slice off a part, sending it crashing to the ground and freeing the animal inside.
Naruto continued on his way as he ran along the path which sloped downwards and running along a yellow-and-white wall to over a bottomless pit to get to the other side, boosting off a dash panel to climb up a steep hill and bounced off a spring to grab onto a gymnastic bar then spun a few times before letting go to land on a ledge with a frozen floor for him to slide on but he jumped towards a cliff wall to avoid falling off the ledge by sticking to the wall with chakra emitting from his feet. Naruto dashed up the cliff wall and flipped over to land on the ground and ran down to get onto a slide which he rode along before jumping off the end to pass through a red dash ring to launch him into several more and get onto another slide which led him to a platform for him to jump towards and continue his run.
Several more of the Balloon Badniks appeared from above and rained down on him with orange bullets, Naruto executed his Shadow Dance technique to evade the incoming fire before leaping towards them with the gloves forming a pair of kunai then he performed the Fleeting Bladed Shadow Dance to bring them down. Naruto boosted off a dash panel to pass through a downhill loop which led into another downhill loop before a steep uphill climb and launching off a dash ramp onto a grind rail to ride along and slid on an icy downhill at the end, finally skidding to a stop and was looking around.
Music End
"So far so good but still no sign of Eggman," said Naruto as he scouted out the area.
"He knows that you might be nearby and so is making himself hard to find," said Kurama.
"Might as well use my sage mode to seek him out," Naruto sat down on the ground with his legs crossed and eyes closed, he was about to begin the process of absorbing the natural energy present around him when he felt a spike of negativity "I'm sensing fear and panic, someone must be in trouble!" Naruto jumped to his feet and dashed towards where the source of the negativity is located and apparently is on the move.
Elsewhere, a group of Pen badniks were currently in pursuit of someone who happens to be running away from them at high-speeds which is quite unusual since the person isn't Sonic the hedgehog. It appears to be a yellow anthropomorphic mongoose wearing a black hairband over her violet hair, a black midriff-baring tank top, green gloves with black knuckle dusters, khaki shorts, and green boots with black soles. She also had a satchel swung along her shoulder while she ran but her foot got caught on something underneath the snow which tripped her up and fall on the ground. The girl looked back with eyes widening in fear as the badniks closed in on her and closed them whilst bracing for the incoming agony.
Suddenly she felt a gust of wind blow by then the sounds of smashing and minor explosions before slowly opening them to see an orange anthropomorphic fox with nine tails standing with his back to her as she peeked over to see that all of the badniks had been destroyed much to her awe.
"Who is this guy that just saved me?" the girl thought, she snapped back into attention upon seeing the fox turn towards her.
"Are you okay? Here…let me help you up," the fox held a hand out for her to grab, which she took after a moment of hesitation before being helped up to her feet.
"I'm okay, ummm…thank you for saving me," said girl with a small smile.
"It's no problem at all for me, I wasn't going to just stand by and watch you get hurt. Plus I have a beef with those robots. By the way, the name's Naruto Uzumaki the nine tailed fox," said Naruto with a foxy grin.
"My name is Mina Mongoose, it's nice to meet you Naruto," said Mina.
"Same here, but why were those badniks chasing you anyway?" asked Naruto curiously.
Mina looked as though she was contemplating as to whether to tell him the truth or not. A moment later, it seemed like she made a decision since she reached for her satchel to open and bring out something which caused Naruto's and Kurama's eyes to widen in shock.
"T-That's…that's a Chaos Emerald!" Like Naruto exclaimed it was indeed a Chaos Emerald that Mina is holding, the red one to be exact "Where did you get it?"
"I was exploring the snowy hills when I found it sticking out from a pile of snow, when I went to pick it up, those badniks showed up and attacked me. I was able to take some of them down but there was just to many for me to fight against so I had to run and that's when you appeared and helped me," said Mina.
"It makes sense since Eggman would wanting the Chaos Emeralds to power up his machines, just what is he up to?" said Naruto with a thoughtful look.
"Ummm, why are you going after Dr. Eggman?" asked Mina.
"Because Eggman has been kidnapping animals to use as fuel for his robot and also I'm helping a little girl find her mother whom I suspect was also kidnapped, I made a promise to reunite them together," said Naruto determinedly.
Mina was visibly stunned by his reason "Wow that's so nice of him,"
*Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep*
There a loud beeping sound which caught their attention and it was coming from one of Naruto's gloves with one of the crystals flashing. Naruto tapped the crystal before raising it to his mouth and spoke to it.
[Naruto, Cream and I have found Eggman but you need to get over here fast before he leaves Ice Paradise!] said Tails through the comm link.
"Gotcha I'm on my way," Naruto closed the link then turned towards Mina "I'll have to get going, will you be okay on your if more badniks show up to get at the Chaos Emerald?" he could have offered to take the Emerald, but they just met and he doubts that she would just give it to him like that.
"….Actually, I think I'll come with you. That way we'll be able to keep the Emerald safe from Eggman," said Mina.
"Can you keep up with me? I'm pretty fast," said Naruto.
"I may not be as fast as the famous Sonic the hedgehog but I can definitely be able to keep up,"
Naruto thought deeply about this until he came up with an idea, he reached into his ninja pouch and took out four tags with seals inscribed on them which he then placed on Mina's knuckle dusters and boots. The seals glowed briefly before fading lightly with Naruto nodding in approval.
"What would these do?" asked Mina while looking at the tags in curiosity.
"Those are something that I invented called burst tags, in each of them I sealed a large amount of chakra which releases a minor amount in a small but powerful burst upon impact with the seal. This should make your fights against the badniks much easier," Naruto replied.
"That's pretty amazing, I've never heard anything like this before," said Mina.
"I can explain later but now we need to get a move on and get to Eggman,"
"Right!"
The newly formed pair then ran off with Naruto in the lead as he was currently homing in on Tails and Cream's life signature.
Music Switch: Sonic Advance 2 OST; Ice Paradise Act 2
Naruto and Mina dashed along the pathway and were just running down a hill, Naruto was mildly impressed with Mina's ability to stay close to him. Even though she's not exactly as fast as Sonic, she could still keep up with him just like Cream does. The duo launched themselves off a ramp to cross over a large gap to land on the other side where they ran up a ramped wall to ascend to the top and took to the air where there was a rail for them to grind along and jumped off to land on the snowy ground, they ran across a red bridge and boosted off a dash panel to run through a shuttle loop towards a tall wall where there is a spring for them bounce upwards into a upward guiding loop then running along another one of the yellow-and-white walls to cross over a pit full of spikes.
Naruto ran to the edge of the platform and jumped up to grab on to gymnastic bars above him and quickly called out to Mina "Grab onto my tails and swung out to the other side!"
Kurama widened his eyes in shock and called out "Kit wait! Don't let her grab the-" but he was too late with the warning as Mina grabbed two of the tails and Naruto let out a yelp when he felt them being squeezed too hard but withstood it as they spun around.
"Why did my tails hurt like that?" thought Naruto.
"That's because you're a Kitsune now, our tails are very special hence why they're so sensitive,"
"I wish you had told me earlier," Naruto grumbled.
Mina finally let of the tails much to the fox's relief and landed on the other side, but up ahead she saw a small group of Pen badniks who upon seeing her charged in to attack. Mina hesitated a bit but recalled the seal tags as she reared a fist back before thrusting it forward to smash into one of the badniks resulting in a small burst of blue aura and a loud bang to send it flying into a wall and breaking apart to free the animal inside. Feeling more confident, she attacked the remaining badniks and took them all down then Mina heard Naruto land beside her and looked at him with a smile.
"They really worked! Thanks for giving them to me!" said Mina happily.
Naruto smiled in return "You're welcome, just glad that they're working like they're supposed to. Now let's get a move on!"
The duo dashed up and down the rolling hills whilst slowly gathering speed before launching off a dash ramp and onto a grind rail which they somersaulted off to ride in an ice slide but quickly jumped off at the end to avoid falling into the bottomless pit below. They ran through a pathway which led to a shuttle loop above and down a sloped hill. Several Balloon badniks appeared above ready to so Naruto signaled for Mina to launch off his back to attacked to which she complied and was airborne before unleashing a combo of punches and kicks to take them all down then landing back on the ground next to Naruto.
"It's time to shift in turbo Mina, grab my hand!" said Naruto whilst holding a hand out.
"Okay!" Mina took his hand was surprised when she saw Naruto accelerate rapidly and everything was a blur around her. Naruto was dashing through the area leaving behind a trail of afterimages. He sped through multiple loops and grind rails, even ignoring the lack of traction in the icy terrains, and bouncing through a chain of springs to ascend to the upper levels. A large group of Pen badniks charged at the duo with the intent to intercept them but were knocked out of the way like bowling pins, unknown to Naruto was that a miniscule breeze was swirling around one of his tails as he ran. Soon he saw Tails and Cream in the distance, and began skidding on his heels to brake to a stop right next.
Music End
"Hey guys!" Naruto called out to them.
"Hey Naruto…who is she?" asked Tails upon seeing Mina.
"Oh this is Mina Mongoose, she was being chased by the badniks for possessing a Chaos Emerald before I helped her out," said Naruto.
"It's nice to meet you Miss Mina, my name is Cream and this is my friend Cheese," said Cream with a bow.
"It's nice to meet you too," said Mina with a nod.
"That explains why Eggman hasn't left yet, he must have sent his badniks to retrieve the Chaos Emerald to power his inventions," said Tails thoughtfully.
"Yeah, and here he comes now," Naruto pointed out for the group to see.
It was a flying craft similar to the Egg mobile but slightly larger different body frame with a paintjob of mostly blue and gray with some orange. It also has three spiked balls that are attached to rear with a hanging plate on the end to form a long tail, giving one the impression of a flying snake at first glance.
"According the scanners, the Chaos Emerald is located right around he-you again?! I thought I got rid of you once I repaired my ship?" Eggman broke off his musing upon seeing Naruto and the group before glaring "Apparently one of you has the Chaos Emerald, so hand it over and get out of my sight!"
"Sorry but you forgot to say please, plus we wouldn't give it to you did anything," said Naruto with a quirked eyebrow.
"And you have a lot to answer for Eggman!" said Mina standing next to Naruto with her fists up.
Eggman rolled his eyes behind his goggles and sneered "Oh cry me a river, with my Aero Egg I will be getting that Chaos Emerald on way or another,"
"Why does this human always add 'egg' to everything he names? He could at least be more original, even Minato 's naming sense was slightly better," said Kurama.
"We'll see about that…Tails, you and Cream will remain behind while Mina and I handle this guy…again," said Naruto.
Mina took off her satchel and handed it over to Cream "Could you hold on to this for me please?"
"Okay, I'll be sure to keep it safe," said Cream.
"Are you ready Mina?" Naruto flexed his fingers and hopped a few times.
Mina clenched her fist, ready to fight "Yes, let's go!"
Music Start: Sonic Advance 2 OST; Boss
Naruto and Mina pursued Eggman in his Aero Egg he flew above them, he suddenly pushed a button and a hatch opened at the bottom of the aircraft, then something fell out from the hatch towards the ground below and they saw it to be a grey missile which instinctively alerted them to move to the side just as the projectile impacted the ground and exploded with debris flying everywhere. Apparently it wasn't the only one as more missiles fell from the aircraft towards them and the duo resorted to evasive action to avoid any kind of damage from the incoming attacks.
"What do we do Naruto?" asked Mina.
Naruto looked at the Aero Egg for any kinds of openings until his eyes settled on the plate floating the end of the 'tail'. Further moments of observation gave him as he called out to Mina.
"We can use the plate as a stepping stone so that we can get at Eggman, I'll start things out by going first…Shadow Clone jutsu!" Naruto formed his signature handsign to create a clone much to Mina's surprise which ran ahead before turning around and cupped his hands while in the move for the original to step on it and was boosted into the air. Naruto reached the plate and vaulted off it whilst channeling chakra through the gloves to form a Bo staff, he twirled it a few times before slamming it on top of the Aero Egg to inflict damage, and then he flipped off to land back on the ground and continued to run alongside Mina.
"I see now, then it's my turn!" said Mina.
"Not yet, look…" Naruto pointed for Mina to see that the plate had rotated vertically, voiding its use as a stepping stone "We'll have to wait for it to back again, so until then we gotta be on the defensive," Naruto rushed to position himself in front of Mina and twirled the Bo staff like a propeller before him to deflect the falling debris before dodging the explosive missiles once again. It a few more minutes till the plate became horizontal once again "Now's your chance Mina, I'll boost you up!" he held the Bo staff horizontally to the side which Mina stepped on and he swung it to launch her into the air, Mina bounced off the plate and punched the Aero Egg with the burst tags kicking in to inflict additional damage, and then landing back on the ground.
"Let's keep it up, just like this!"
The duo continued the process of striking at the Aero Egg multiple times whilst evading the missiles until the aircraft looked to be in its most critical condition, forcing Eggman into a slight panic and anger at getting close to being defeated yet again. To him, losing to someone other than Sonic is a major blow to his ego. Which is why he ascended higher into the air and began to drop bombs at a much higher rate and the plate remained completely vertical.
"How can we reach him so high up?" asked Mina.
"Don't worry about it, just gonna have to take a page from my Naruto Handbook! Shadow Clone jutsu!" Naruto created several more of his clones then scooped Mina up in a bridal carry, causing her to squeak in surprise and blush at how close she is to him. One of the clones began to grab each of his fellow copies and fling them high into the air before turning to face his original and Mina by linking his hands to together and beckon for him to step on.
Naruto did just that and was launched into the air towards the other airborne clones, the first clone grabbed him by the back of his jacket and tossed towards the second clone who flipped in midair for his feet to serve as a platform then kicked upwards to send him to the third clone that grabbed him before spinning around several times to gain momentum and threw towards the still vertically positioned plate. Naruto somersaulted with chakra emitting from his feet latched on to the plate, forcing it back to a horizontal position and jumped right above the Aero Egg then he let go of Mina as they dove towards Eggman.
"Let's take it to him Mina-chan!" Naruto reared his fist back radiating with chakra.
"Got it!" Mina reared her fist back as well.
Both lashed out with a double straight that impacted with the Aero Egg, sealing its fate with destruction as the aircraft plummeted to the ground and crashed before exploding with Naruto landing back safely on the ground with Mina in his arms again.
Music End
"Why you! You'll pay for this!" Eggman had undocked the Egg mobile from the Aero Egg before it crashed to the ground and was glaring at the group with anger before ascending towards the sky.
"He's running away!" said Mina.
"Yeah, something he's very good from past encounters. But this time I can track him properly," said Naruto.
"Really how?" Tails asked when he showed up alongside Cream with the latter handing the satchel back to Mina.
"I placed a chakra beacon tag on his aircraft which I can locate, and from what I'm sensing he's ascending way up in the skies,"
"By what you're describing, it sounds like he's heading for Angel Island, he must be targeting the Master Emerald!" said Tails.
"Then we must head over there and stop him!" said Mina.
Naruto looked at her confusedly "We? You still want to come along with us?" he thought that she was just going to help fight Eggman and be done with it.
"Of course, looks to me like you could use some help and I'm willing to give just that,"
"Okay then, now how do we get up there?"
Tails was quick to speak up cheerfully "Not to worry, I just contacted my Tornado via remote control to fly over here then we can use it to get over to Angel Island,"
Naruto ruffled the hair on Tails head fondly "Smart thinking Tails!"
Soon enough, the group heard the sound of an engine and looked up to see a red and white colored biplane flying towards them. Later they all got onboard with Tails at the pilot's seat, Cream and Mina at the passenger's seat and Naruto stood on the top wing. Tails started the engine and took off from the ground towards the fabled Angel Island where one of his companions reside.
This is Hussbek online with the latest chapter, Naruto and Cream ventured into another zone which was quite musical from their perspective where they rescued a kidnapped Tails from Eggman before pursuing the doctor to a zone of icy terrains. Along the way, Naruto saved a girl from a group of badniks for having a Chaos Emerald in her possession. The girl teamed with him to send Eggman packing, however Naruto and Tails figured his next destination to be Angel Island so the latter called on his biplane to help give chase. But was the strange unknown activity around Naruto's tails?
After some discussion with some of my fellow authors, I've decided to include Sonic Archie comics, Sonic Boom and Sonic X though there will be a different approach with the games being a major part of the story as well as a certain fanmade game which I'm sure you're all familiar with. Here's the complete harem with slight chances of change:
Honey the cat
Rouge the bat
Blaze the cat
Shahra the genie of the ring (Secret Rings)
Merlina (The Black Knight)
NICOLE
Bunnie
Barby koala
Sonar the fennec
Mina mongoose
Julie Su The echidna
Tikal The echidna
Clove the pronghorn & Cassia the pronghorn
Fiona the fox
Sally acorn
Lumina Flowlight(fuse void to become whole again)
Coral the Betta
Perci The lady bandicoot(sonic boom)
Lupe the wolf pack leader
Leeta the wolf & Lyco the wolf sisters in wolf pack
Sash Lilac the water dragon
Carol tea the wildcat
Milla the hound
Send your suggestions via PM if you have ideas which you want to discuss with me concerning this story.
This is Hussbek from Ghana.
Signing out.