Adventures of the Orange Flash
Chapter 30: A Clash in the Big City
Naruto and the others had followed Eggman's signal all the way to Grand Metropolis as they're currently standing atop a tall top tower and were overlooking the futuristic city which comprises of tall buildings and roadways made out of blue energy as numerous vehicles could also be seen flying around.
Naruto was using his Aura sight to scope out the area and frowned at what he was seeing "Eggman's been through here alright, judging by the large number of robots roving all over the city,"
"It seems like he has taken over the entire city," said Lilac as she put away the binoculars that she was using earlier.
"I suspect that it might have something to do with the HEXAeco energy company," said Nicole thoughtfully.
"Either way, we're not going to let this stand. Let's bust up every single robot in our way to rescue the city before going after Eggman," said Naruto with foxfire radiating from his fists.
"We're ready!" said Lilac with Nicole nodding in agreement.
"Alright, let's go!"
Music Start: Sonic Heroes OST; Stage 03 Grand Metropolis
The team started in speed formation as they dashed down a slope of the tower which they were on then launched off a dash ramp into the air before landing atop a sky-road made out of blue energy.
"This road seems to be propelling us forward," said Nicole as they ran along the sky road.
"Then we can use it to our advantage," said Naruto.
They ran along the pathway and went through a downhill shuttle loop to get to the end of the sky-road where they bounced off a wide spring to get over a large holographic signboard to land on a grounded area, they went across another sky road to move to the next area where a couple of Egg Pawns were patrolling before attacking them. Lilac rushed at the robots and used her Dragon Cyclone to strike in a radial attack then switched to Dragon Typhoon to blow them away. The team went up an uphill sky road to get to the next area where there were Egg Flappers hovering in the air over a wide gap with another tower at the other side.
"Guess we need to take an alternate route then, let's go!" said Naruto.
Lilac leapt at the Egg Flappers and used her Dragon Swoop to ricochet off the flying robots as Naruto followed suit with use of his Hirashin Kunai and Nicole simply flew after until they got to the other side. The team ran into another one of Eggman's robots and this one resembled a giant green turtle with a yellow underbelly and have short flipper-like legs while equipped with a cannon on top of its shell. The robot spotted them and took aim before firing a green hoop-like blast of energy at its targets, the group quickly got out of the way as Nicole was scanning it before speaking.
"My scanners identify it as a Cameron, it boasts of strong physical but its weak spot is the underbelly," said Nicole.
"In that case, Lilac-chan can flip it over while I go for the jugular," said Naruto.
Lilac nodded in affirmation "I'm on it!"
The dragoness dashed towards the Cameron and jumped into the air before using the Dragon Typhoon to scoop the robot into the air then crashing to the ground with its underbelly exposed, they quickly switched to power formation for Naruto to lung at it and used the Tailed Flail to destroy it easily in one hit. The laser field block ahead was deactivate and the sky road became active.
"Apparently Eggman was having his robots suck the energy off the roads for whatever he's planning," said Nicole with a frown.
"That's horrible!" said Lilac angrily.
"Another reason to find that petty doctor and kick his butt," said Naruto.
The team went across the sky-road to the next area where they ran into an Egg flapper guarding a laser fence, Nicole was swift to bring it down with a Thunder Shoot while in Flight formation to deactivate the laser field block and restore the sky-road but more Egg Flappers descended while firing at the team with their laser cannons. Nicole swiftly lifted them into the air to evade the shots then projected several pixilated spears to hover around her before launching them at the Egg flappers to take them down. They switched to speed formation and went across to the next platform before running down a slanted sky-road to bounce off a wide spring to ascend to an upper level where they encountered a group of Egg pawns and a Cameron.
"There's more of these guys, talk about mass production," Naruto mused out loud.
"I'll take care of them!" Lilac dashed at the robots and used the Dragon Swoop to take out the Egg pawns before using the Dragon Typhoon to flip the Cameron over then switched to power formation for Naruto to destroy it with a Tailed Flail attack. The team ran up an uphill sky-road and launch off a dash ramp to pass through a trio of rainbow rings and performing an air trick before landing on the next sky-road where they ran through a downhill shuttle loop which shifted into a corkscrew loop and launched off another dash ramp to send themselves flying through a large open window of a large building.
A couple of Egg pawns wielding spears and shields charged at them, Naruto was still in the lead so he empowered Nicole and Lilac with his earth aspect before using the Tailed Flail attack to smash through the robots' shields and strike them directly, then the bridge ahead became active as it positioned itself horizontally for them to get across to the next pathway. Along the way were long trails of rings over a chasm to which Naruto then called out to Lilac.
"Lilac-chan, try out the Light Dash that I taught you. We can get across easily with it," said Naruto.
"Okay Naruto," Lilac stood before the beginning of the ring trail then used her speed to move along the trail all the while collecting them until reaching the other side with Naruto having used his Hirashin kunai while Nicole held onto him.
The team took out a trio of Egg flappers while in flight formation before reverting to speed formation to cross over another chasm through a trail of rings via Light Dash, then went up an uphill sky-road to reach the next platform and found a locked door with a switch which they pushed into the wall to open it for them to pass through. The team dashed through the long hallway while Lilac took the lead in speed formation while using the Dragon Swoop to take out the Egg flappers along the ways since they're flying low enough for her to reach before dropping down to the lower floor and ran into a Cameron guarding a cage. Lilac and Naruto were quick to take it out and unlock the cage to reveal a ball switch which they activated to open the door ahead of them. Naruto took the lead in power formation as he used the Foxfire Slingshot to attack the Egg Pawns equipped with laser pistols in the hallways and destroyed them before reaching the end and bounced off a wide spring to ascend to the next floor which had a sky-road to propel them forwards, they went round a curve and took out a lone Egg pawn to unlock a cage it was guarding then pressing the ball switch to open the door. The group went through the door to launch off a dash ramp and land onto another pathway, there before another holographic signboard is a long vertical pole which is red and white-striped with an orange, beak-like arrow as a head to the top.
Nicole then spoke "Lilac, you can help us climb up the pole quickly,"
"How so?" asked Lilac confusedly.
"We can use the updraft from your Dragon Typhoon to propel us to the top before slinging off,"
"Okay I'll give it a shot,"
Lilac approached the pole then she used to Dragon Typhoon at the pole before grabbing onto it then Nicole and Naruto quickly grabbed onto her feet as they started spiraling up to the top before Lilac let go, flinging them over to the other side where they found a much taller pole and repeated the process to launched themselves to an upper pathway. The team ran through the long hallway with Lilac using her Dragon Swoop to get across a gap to the side before using a Light Dash to travel along a trail of rings to reach the upper level. The team took out the lone Egg pawn to open a door and reveal a pole behind, Lilac used her Dragon Typhoon to send then spiraling up to the top and slung off through an opening and landing before the exit which they passed through and jumped a cannon at the end. They shot off high into the air and landed atop a downhill rail which they grinded along and picked up speed, then they flipped off to land on the right rail which send they grinding in between some tall buildings before returning to the main pathway and jumped onto the center rail then entered a building where they bounced off a spring to ascend towards a hovering blimp carrying a platform atop it. There was another pole for Lilac to help use to launch themselves towards a chain of springs to be sent out off the building and landed back outside on a platform.
Naruto took the lead in power formation to take on a group of Egg pawns and a Cameron, he enshrouded Nicole and Lilac in their spinball forms as he held them in his tails before swinging left and right to smash the Egg Pawns into pieces of metal before charging at the Cameron with an idea in mind. He spun round and used the Foxfire flail in a form of an uppercut at the robot's head to send it toppling onto its back then brought the other tail down to finish it off. Another bridge ahead became active as it positioned itself horizontally for them to get across, they switched to speed formation right before boosting off a trio of dash panels as they ran down a long slanted sky-road then boosting off two more dash panel to rapidly move up a rising bridge and leapt off over a long gap to land at the other side and launched off a dash ramp to land right in front of what appears to be some sort of industrial facility.
Music End
"Looks like we took out a lot of Eggman's robots along the way," said Naruto.
"Yeah, but where are we now? It looks like some sort of industrial facility," Lilac looked around confusedly.
Nicole projected a Holo-screen to take a look at the map before speaking up "It appears that we currently standing before one of HEXAeco's energy generating facilities and there's a large number of Eggman's robots inside of it right now,"
"I bet they're also siphoning energy in there too, might as well clear them out while we make our way through there too," said Naruto, crossing his arms.
"That's pretty much the gist of things," said Lilac.
Naruto shrugged his shoulders "Well we're started this extermination to begin with, might as well go all the way and finish it up,"
"Then I'll search for an entryway for us to gain access inside," said Nicole.
Music Start: Sonic Heroes OST; Stage 04 Power Plant
Later on, Naruto and the others are seen falling through an opening from above and landed on a platform before taking on the speed formation and ran along the pathway ahead of them, then they boosted off a dash panel to run up a ramped wall into a large green translucent glass sphere as they rolled around within it in their spinball forms before shooting out from an opening at the top like a cannon and landing on the next pathway. They passed through a formation gate which kept them in speed formation as they dashed along a sky-road through a corkscrew shuttle loop and bounced off a spring to reach up to an upper sky-road then entering a building where an Egg flapper guards a laser block field. Naruto took the lead in flight formation and used Thunder Shoot to bring it down then finished it off by firing a digital spear which deactivated the laser block field and a vertical sky-road became active, the team drew close to and were suddenly lifted into the air to the next level where more Egg flappers were seen patrolling.
"It's still your show Nicole-chan, take 'em out!" said Naruto.
Nicole nodded in affirmation "I'm on it!" she launched Lilac in her spinball form with Thunder Shoot as she ricocheted off the Egg flappers several times before launching Naruto next to destroy them completely, disabling the laser block fields and allowing platforms to rise from the ground and provided a way to the ledge overhead. The team climbed up and destroyed yet another Egg flapper to reactivate another vertical sky-road.
"Man, just what is Eggman planning to have this many robots siphoning energy from this place?" said Naruto after smashing through an Egg flapper again to restore a sky-road for them to advance and run up to the end and ascend to the top via its vertical path.
"I'm wondering about that myself, if Eggman is anything like Brevon then he must planning something very big," said Lilac.
"Those two are certainly birds of the same feather," said Kurama.
The team smashed through several more Egg flappers and ascended up further with use of a couple of pulleys and raised platforms until finally reaching the top. They took a left turn down the hallway and exited the building to find themselves before two alternate route with one involving a pulley to an upper platform ahead of them and to the right is a sky-road leading into another large green translucent glass sphere. They chose the right pathway and shot through the green sphere in their spinball forms to reach up to the upper platform, there was a small fleet of Egg flappers ahead so they switched to speed formation with Lilac taking the lead as she used her Dragon Swoop attack to bound off them and reach up to a platform as a form of a shortcut. They ran along a sloped sky-road to enter another section of the facility where a trio of Egg flappers were guarding a cage with a retracted pole in the ground.
The group switched to flight formation as Nicole used her Thunder Shoot to take them down and unlocking the cage to reveal a ball switch, they activated it to have the pole extend into the air before changing to speed formation for Lilac to use her Dragon Typhoon to help them spiral up the pole and slinging off to land on the upper platform. There they ran into a Cameron which Lilac used her Dragon Typhoon again to topple it and this time performing a dive kick to destroy it and disable the laser field block ahead of them. the team approached a massive hallway as platforms began sliding out from the walls before them, they switched to flight formation for Nicole to help traverse through them cautiously to avoid falling to the bottom, she landed on the last platform and grabbed on to the ring handle of a pulley with the others holding on before being lifted up to the top before a rail. Nicole swung off the handle and activated her digital wings to carry them over to the rail with Naruto's feet grinding along as she pulled them along, she quickly jumped off at the end of the rail to land on the next one and grinded to the end of the hallway where she used Thunder Shoot on the two patrolling Egg flappers before bouncing off a wide spring to reach up to the ledge above them.
The team boosted off a dash ramp to land on a large octagonal platform which began to rise upwards, it was rising partway when a laser barrier stopped it midway and Egg flappers descended from above along with Egg pawns armed with laser pistol as they proceeded to fire at the team. Naruto took the lead in power formation then used his Tailed Flail attacked to smash the Egg pawns in his way before flinging Lilac into the air to use her Dragon Swoop attack to knock the aerial robots down to the platform then he smashed them as well with Nicole wrapped in one of his tails. The laser field was disabled for the platform to rise again for a while before being stopped by another barrier with a group of Egg pawns wielding lances dropping down to engage them.
"Let me take care of these guys," said Lilac.
"They're all yours," said Nicole.
Lilac took step forward while in speed form as a ring of water swirled around her feet before targeting one of the robots "Oceanic Torpedo!" she shrouded herself into water before towards the target began ricocheting off the robots upon collision before taking to the air above them "Water Cannon!" she formed a sphere of water before launching it with the impact powerful enough to smash some of the robots. Lilac landed back on the platform and manipulated the water to swirl around her right feet "Aqua Vortex Kick!" she lunged at the remainder of the Egg pawns with a jumping roundhouse kick which also formed a whip to smash them with a high enough impact.
"Nice one Lilac-chan, you're really getting the hang of utilizing your water powers," said Naruto giving the dragoness a thumbs up.
"Thanks, I've been practicing since we learnt that I have that ability to manipulate water during our training,"
"Certainly took you by surprise when she blasted you with water that time," Kurama snickered with Naruto chuckling sheepishly recalling it actually happening and how everyone laughed at Naruto getting knocked to the ground while yelping like a puppy until realizing that Lilac has water powers which makes sense given that she is a water dragon to begin with so they took to training her on controlling it.
The platform finally reached the top and the team encountered a Cameron which was quickly destroyed to disable the laser block field and restore the sky-road for them to run along then up a ramped wall into a large green translucent glass sphere as they rolled around within it in their spinball forms before shooting out from an opening at the top like a cannon and ran through a corkscrew loop to bounce off a spring to reach the next platform. Lilac took the lead in speed formation to run up a ramped wall to reach the next platform where they ran into a Cameron, then she knocked it over with her Dragoon Typhoon attack and finished it off with a Water Cannon. They moved on ahead to use a vertical sky-road to ascend to another horizontal sky-road overhead. Nicole found a pulley nearby which could serve as a shortcut and so carried the team to it in flight formation to ascend to the pathway and safely past a row of weight traps.
They made their way into the next section of the facility and found themselves in an area where large fireballs are seen hovering around, causing them to become very cautious at the sight.
Nicole scanned the floating flames before calling out to the others "Those fireballs are generating a large amount of energy, it's best that we keep away from them,"
"Sure thing, though we can always douse them in any case," Naruto pointed out.
They shifted into speed formation and carefully bypassed the fireballs as they went up the slope sky-road to reach the vertically variant to which they used to ascend to the next platform, Naruto took out a Cameron to disable a laser barrier to raised smaller platform climb up to the upper level. Nicole was the next to take the lead in flight formation to fly up to a couple of platforms up ahead before stopping at the edge of another massive hallway full of enemies and fireballs. Lilac took on the leadership role as she used her Dragon Swoop on the first trio of Egg flappers to disable the laser barrier for the platform to protrude from the wall for them to land on then she repeated the process on the next trio of robots to unlock another platform, however the next trio of Egg Flappers were too far for the Dragon Swoop so she and Nicole resorted to using the Water Cannon and Digital Spears respectively to take them out from afar. Nicole was now leading in flight formation to carry the team up to the upper platforms where they bounced off a spring to land atop a rail overhead then grinded along it before jumping to the next rail whilst avoiding the fireballs in midair then grinding to the end of the hallway.
There was a pole ahead so the team switched to speed formation with Lilac using her Dragoon Typhoon to send them spinning up to the top and slinging off to land on the upper platform where they launched off a dash ramp onto another large octagonal platform which began to rise to the top. Naruto and the others had to watch out for fireballs overhead so he activated his water aspect so he and Lilac use a technique called the Aqua Splash to fire a powerful stream of water from their hands to extinguish any that came close to them. The platform was stopped by a laser barrier as fireballs hovered around with Egg flappers firing at the team from above, Naruto and Lilac took to dousing the flames whilst Nicole shot down the robots with his Digital Spears to disable the barrier for the platform to resume it ascension until it arrived at the top. They quickly took out a pair of Egg flappers to restore the sky-road for them to run along it and run up a ramp wall into the largest large green translucent glass sphere so far as they rolled around within it in their spinball forms before shooting out from an opening at the top like a cannon and falling through an opening and entering the next section of the facility.
The team reached the end to encounter a Cameron so Lilac took charge in speed formation, she used the Aqua Vortex kick in a variation of a flip kick to knock the robot to its back then shifted to a dive kick to finish it off and restore the energy to the vertical sky-road for them to ascend to the next platform, there they launched off a dash ramp into some sort of chamber where the temperature is high to the point that they felt like they were standing in an oven of sorts.
"Where the heck are we?" asked Naruto.
"We're standing in an energy storage tank," said Nicole.
Lilac looked over the edge to see orange liquid bubbling below and noticed something else which caused her eyes to widen in surprise "Guys, the energy below is steadily rising,"
Naruto snapped towards her "Say what?! We need to get to the top, pronto!"
"I'll take the lead!" said Nicole, the team quickly shifted to flight formation as the Holo-lynx hastily carried them up the stair like platforms with quick boosts from the horizontal dash rings to ascend. They reached the end of a platform with a group of Egg flappers hovering ahead whilst blasting at them with their laser cannons.
Lilac spoke up "I'll take it from here!" they changed to speed formation for her to use the Dragon Swoop to bound off the robots to reach up to a long trail of rings then used the Light Dash to zip along the trail and reach a higher platform, there they grabbed onto a pulley to be lifted up to the next stair like platforms but there was a laser block field obstructing their path.
"If it's anything like the previous ones, we need to destroy all of the robots to disable it!" said Naruto urgently, looking down to see the energy still rising.
They changed to flight formation with Nicole using her Thunder Shoot to launch Naruto and Lilac ahead to destroy the Egg pawns and Egg flappers as they climbed up the platforms and were able to take them all out in time to disable the barrier as they grabbed onto the pulley and were lifted upwards. Nicole activated her digital wings to carry them team up to a spring and were bounced upwards towards a platform where a pair of Egg flappers were guarding a cage. Nicole took the robots out quickly with Thunder Shoot to unlock the cage which revealed a spring, they quickly bounced off it to finally arrive at the top of the tower with an emergency hatch shutting beneath them to contain the energy much to their relief.
Music End
"Phew, that was too close…again," said Naruto using one of his tails to wipe a sweat off his brow.
"Yeah, I'm just glad that we made it out of there okay," said Lilac.
"And we were also able to clear out all of Eggman's robots from the energy plant," Nicole projected a Holo-screen to scan for any signal belonging to the robots and found none within the facility.
"Then we can consider that a mission accomplished, now to resume our search for Eggman," said Naruto.
"Yeah, but where to start looking for him?" asked Lilac confusedly.
"I can try to scan for his signal but we'll need to get to higher ground for better coverage," said Nicole.
"Then let's go look for a tall tower then," said Naruto with the two nodding in agreement. It took them sometime but they were able to find a good spot which happens to be atop the skyline of a tower as numerous vehicles could be seen flying about "This looks like a good place to scan,"
Nicole nodded in affirmation "Yes, I'll begin right now," she projected a Holo-screen and began typing away on the Holo-keypad to start the scan.
Lilac was looking around when she noticed something and called out to the others "Hey guys, looks like we're not the only ones occupying this point,"
"Hmmm…who are those guys?" Naruto turned towards where Lilac was pointing and saw whom she was talking about and apparently they are a trio.
The first is a large green-skinned anthropomorphic crocodile with red scales down his back to the tail and small black shoulders, He wears white gloves with black-and-white cuffs and shoes embellished with gold buckles, a large gold chain around his neck, and a pair of black wireless headphones.
Second is an anthropomorphic black-and-yellow striped bee with yellow-and-black striped antennae, he wears an orange vest with a bee emblem on the left, white and orange shoes, white gloves cuffed with black rings, a black pilot's helmet with a red rim and flight goggles.
The third is an anthropomorphic purple chameleon with a yellow horn between his eyes, golden eyes and a ridge of three black scales down his spine and a coiled tail. He wears a pair of Dark purple shoes with black accents, White gloves with violet pads, and Studded wrist and ankle bands with golden button/bolts and bandages.
Suddenly the chameleon turned round to face them, particularly Naruto with the others turning around as well "And you are…?"
Naruto was a little tense as he was sensing a vibe from the chameleon like he received ninja training from somewhere given that he formed a handsign when turning round but decided to play it cool for now "We're just passing by, no need to be bothered,"
"Really?" said the chameleon "I'm sensing a lot of energy from him which is most unusual,"
"Hey Vector look, that guy's got nine tails!" said the bee excitedly as he pointed at said appendages waving behind Naruto.
"You're right Charmy, only fox we know would be Sonic's friend Tails who has two tails. They could be related, what do you think Espio?" asked the crocodile identified as Vector.
However the chameleon identified as Espio was now looking critically at Naruto "Nine tails…Could he be a member of that clan? But we were told that they had disappeared years ago and no one had heard from them ever since. Could his presence here mean that the Yakan has returned? I'll need to make sure before reporting back to the clan,"
"Kit, I'm beginning to suspect that chameleon is a member of the Shinobi clan who were supposed to be secret allies to the Yakan clan," said Kurama.
"I'm getting the same feeling too, and I think he has the same ideas about me," thought Naruto.
"Vector, Charmy, I'll need your help against them," said Espio much to their surprise.
"How so, are they enemies?" asked Vector.
"Not exactly, but I need to make that he is whom I think he is,"
Charmy piped up "Alright, I'm ready!"
Lilac saw that they were beginning to act aggressively and was tense "Naruto, what's going on with them?"
"Looks they want to fight us," Naruto responded.
"But why?" asked Nicole.
"I don't really know, but we better be ready to fight back," Naruto and the others took combat stances as they prepared to clash with the other team.
Music Start: Sonic Heroes OST; Boss: VS Team Battle
Both sides charged at each other with Espio going for Naruto, Charmy flying towards Lilac and Vector aiming for Nicole as they temporarily split up for a one on one fight with the opponents.
Naruto and Espio were currently going at it with close combat, both ninjas easily seeing that the other is well versed in the ninja arts. Naruto went in with a low sweep kick but Espio leapt in to the air to evade before descending with an axe kick, the fox used his tails to catch the leg and tossed him to the side. The ninja chameleon flipped in midair and flung a handful of shuriken towards his target then Naruto countered by throwing a handful of shuriken as well to knock the incoming projectiles out of the sky before dashing at high-speed to lash out with a jumping roundhouse kick.
Espio formed a handsign "Ninja arts: Camouflage!" then he completely disappeared from sight and Naruto missed with his attack. Naruto looked around for his opponent then he heard something flying through the air as he quickly dashed sideways to evade several thrown kunai from behind him, more ninja tools were being thrown at him from different directions. Naruto activated his Aura sight for the surroundings to become monochrome and seeing the blue auras of the others especially that of his current opponent who was descending towards him from above then he parried the strike with one hand and retaliated with a fist empowered with foxfire to knock Espio back, causing him to lose focus and expose himself.
Espio rubbed the place where the punch landed with his eyes focused on the fox "That was the legendary foxfire, I'll need to be more careful now," he retook his stance before charging towards Naruto once more.
With Lilac, she was engaging Charmy who just doesn't to want to stay in one place and is always on the move. The dragoness darted from left to right in order to avoid the stinger aiming her way. She channeled her water powers and fired a Water Cannon at Charmy but the hyperactive bee was quick to evade the attack and struck back with a double kick, Lilac performed her Dragon Cyclone to parry the attack then used the momentum to strike back with a powerful roundhouse kick and sent Charmy flying back till he righted himself in midair.
"Owwww that hurts you meanie!" Charmy whined while rubbing his head in pain.
"Well you shouldn't expecting me to be pulling any punches in a fight," Lilac responded.
"Then I'll get serious too, here I come!" Charmy began flapping his wings at high-speed which generated a powerful gust of wind and was pushing Lilac off the edge of the platform. The dragoness thought quickly then used Dragon Boost to fight back against the wind pressure and broke through it before using Aqua Splash to knock Charmy down to the ground though he was quick to recover and flew at her again.
Nicole was evading the punches thrown at her by Vector, she had already caught a glimpse of his strength from the dent on the floor when she had evaded one of his punches earlier before. Nicole activated her digital wings and used short flaps to move from right to left constantly and at times hovering momentarily as she used Digital Torrent to fire powerful streams of data to knock him back whenever he got too close. However Vector wasn't giving in as he continued to lunge at Nicole with his fists and now jaws to press on for the attack, Nicole was finding it harder to dodge the attacks as if he was predicting just how she was going to react and had just gotten a graze from one of his punches before moving away for the moment.
"This doesn't look good, I'll need to change my stance to suit the current situation," Nicole held her hands out as clusters of data materialized before molding into a quarterstaff then she took a stance, Vector launched a straight punch at her but she parried the attack before quickly jabbing him hard in the chest before swinging it low to knock him off his feet then stepping back to wait for any retaliation strike.
Vector got back to his feet and focused on Nicole "Not bad, but now it's my turn!" he tossed a gum into his mouth and began to chew it quickly as he rushed at Nicole to throw punches continuously with her constantly deflecting and attempting to counterattack. She hovered in the air and swung her quarterstaff at Vector's head when he suddenly opened his mouth and blew a bubblegum which popped with the shockwave knocking her back. Nicole got up to see Vector blowing smaller bubbles her way, she quickly channeled her digital powers to conjure javelins overhead then launched them at the bubbles to pop them as she charged towards vector once more while the white arcs of energy coursing through it.
Naruto flipped backwards several times then quickly grabbed a hold of the sheathed Hazy-Moon to bat away the incoming shuriken "Shadow Clone jutsu!" he created a couple of shadow clones which dashed towards the chameleon to attack him "Leaf Swirl!" but Espio conjured a whirlwind around him to blow the clones away and at the same time camouflage himself again, Naruto triggered his Aura Sight and saw Espio making his way for Lilac "Oh no he doesn't!" he quickly reached for the kunai holster and drew out the Hirashin kunai before throwing it towards Lilac and warping there in time to grab and use it to block an unseen strike before knocking him back with a palm thrust towards Charmy.
"Thanks for the help, Naruto!" said Lilac gratefully.
"No problem, let's take them down," said Naruto as they retook their combat stances.
"Whoa, they're pretty strong!" said Charmy.
"Indeed they are," said Espio in agreement "Especially the Kitsune," moments later, Vector came to their side whilst Nicole hovered next to Naruto and Lilac.
"Alright boys, let's take them on together!" said Vector.
"Roger/Okay!" Espio and Charmy affirmed respectively then they went into power formation as both went into their spinball forms and were held in between Vector's jaws.
"That's kinda cool, now it's our turn to team up," said Naruto, both girls nodded in affirmation before switching to flight formation.
Vector launched his teammates from his mouth at them in the form of fireballs but Nicole quickly lifted into the air out of range of the attacks then she used Thunder Shoot to launch Lilac at Charmy then bounded off to strike Vector though Espio managed to evade, then she launched Naruto next to hit Vector again and knocking him out this time.
"Hey that was mean of you, I'll show what I can do!" Charmy took the lead this time in flight formation and he too used Thunder Shoot to launch Espio at them, hitting Nicole for them to fall to the ground.
"We'll just see about that!" Lilac got up and took the lead in speed formation "Dragoon Typhoon!" she twirled rapidly to launch a tornado towards the remaining duo, disrupting their flight stability "Water Cannon!" she took aim and fired a ball to hit Charmy in the head and knocking him out also.
"There's just you left," Naruto took up the leadership role in power formation.
"I'll fight to the very end!" said Espio brandished a pair of kunai to engage them.
Naruto smiled at that "I can respect such spirit…" then he disappeared in a yellow flash, Espio scanned for the vulpine ninja when he felt something strike the back of his neck and he barely held onto his conscience to hear the last words "…which is why the Yakan made that secret alliance with your clan and why we're returning to help once more," then he collapsed to the ground.
Music End
"I guess that takes care of them," said Naruto rejoining the girls.
"Yeah, but were they really our enemies?" asked Lilac.
"Not exactly, it was more of a test from that ninja to find out if I really am a member of the Yakan clan,"
"I guess it does make sense since the clan was gone for a very long time without a trace," said Nicole.
"Yup, maybe I'll meet him again after our search for Eggman and disruption of his plans are over and done with,"
"It would be interesting to meet these ninja clans personally," said Kurama.
Nicole projected a Holo-screen to take a look at the radar "I was able to locate Eggman, the signal is coming from the northwest,"
"No rest for the best then, let's get a move on!" said Naruto, the team then began to follow the route towards where Eggman could be.
This is Hussbek online with the latest chapter, Team Maelstrom had arrived at Grand Metropolis where they discovered that Eggman had taken over the entire city and was having his robots steal energy from the automated energy plants much to their anger. The team took to destroying any and all robots in their path until arriving at the main power plant where they continued with their demolition of the robots.
After completing their self-assigned mission, Naruto and the others ran into a trio with one of them being a bit familiar with the fox and his clan but wanted to confirm his speculations via, forcing him and the others to defend themselves. With the Battle over, Naruto and the others resume their search for Eggman in the next area.
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