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Adiraiju — Charge of the Egg-X - Novelization
Published: 2014-05-10 10:45:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 2341; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 2
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This is a novelization of the final boss battle in Sonic Advance. I do not own Sonic or any of the characters mentioned below, all rights belong to SEGA, etc etc...
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“NOT AGAIN!!!”
As the machine’s form vanished in a fiery blast, the Egg-Pod whipped away into the blackness surrounding this bridge of the Cosmic Angel’s X Zone…
Sonic chuckled. “Eggman, I bashed that thing apart once, what made you think I couldn’t do it again?”
Amy smiled. “So that’s the Drill-Tank you and Tails fought in Emerald Hill?”
“Yeah, and it was just as lame then as it was there!”
Knuckles picked a scrap of twisted metal off of one of his namesakes. “That isn’t saying much. Is he gonna throw anything new at us?”
“Looks like it. Heads up!” yelped Tails.
The mad genius arose from beneath the bridge once more, chortling and bouncing about in awful glee, piloting something completely new.
It resembled a massive, orange spinning top, with four tremendous cannons buried in the sides, each gaping silently at the foursome. Eggman grinned furiously at them all from the cockpit atop the machine.
“Like it? I call this the Egg-X!”
“Ran outta names, did you?” cackled Sonic.
“No, I just thought I’d ex-terminate you stupid vermin with it!” laughed Eggman. One of the cannons rotated towards the four heroes, and a tremendous blast echoed around the bridge…
…but none of the foursome were there anymore.
“You mean you’ll egg-sterminate us, right?” chuckled Sonic.
“I wonder what sort of processes you used to make this alloy.” said Tails, as he thumped his foot into the cockpit’s Plexiglas. “It looks a little tougher than your usual grunts. ‘Course that’s not saying much, but…”
“Oh, you’ll find it’s plenty tough.” cackled Eggman. Indeed, the machine didn’t seem to have taken any damage at all; and now the massive, spinning bronze core of the machine rose up before them, blocking the cockpit from view.
The mech began to whirl about like a tornado, and thundered towards Amy, who happened to be closest. She jumped high, and the terrible steel cyclone shot past in a roar of power.
“Hey!” she snapped. “Tackling us in the machine?! What is this, the Little Planet!?”
The Egg-X froze, as if it heard her, and then one of the cannons whipped about to aim at the four heroes – all of whom suddenly realized they were standing much too close together.
“Scatter!” yelped Tails, and a moment later, a bright orange ball shot through the space where they had just been.
The foursome raced up to the Egg-X, which was lowering the barrier around its cockpit now… revealing a suddenly horrified Eggman sitting within.
“Oh, for pity’s sake…”
“No pity for you!” laughed Knuckles, and then a hurricane of pounding fists, sneakers, and a single pounding hammer launched a mosaic of cracks across the cockpit’s Plexiglas.
“All right, enough of this nonsense!” boomed the mad genius. The bronze barrier rose back over the cockpit, forcing all four heroes away once more.
“All right, now what’s he up to?” growled Sonic.
The machine spun in place for a moment, and then an immense, gray, mechanical hand, trailing a long, many-jointed segmented “arm” with a hundred bulging joints, lunged out of the nearest cannon, punching at the hedgehog like a colossal whip.
“Hey!”
“I’ve been trying that for years, Eggman, it doesn’t work like that!” laughed Knuckles as the arm lashed about after Sonic, missing again and again as the hedgehog bounded away with practiced ease.
The arm suddenly froze, and then clanked back into the cannon like a recoiling snake.
“Tails, watch out for that other cannon!” yelled Amy. The fox’s eyelids fled in alarm, and he leapt into the air just as a colossal beam of pure energy lanced out of the machine. It shot past him like a runaway train, and vanished into the darkness beyond.
“Playing hardball now, are we?” yelped Tails.
Without warning, the massive, rotating shield retreated beneath the cockpit, and the four heroes stared stupidly at Eggman for a second.
“I’ve really got to fix that glitch…” moaned Eggman as he frantically keyed something into his control panel, but it was already too late. As one, the four heroes pounced on the machine, and in a sudden flurry of fists, feet, and fury, the Egg-X seemed to disintegrate like sand in a whirlwind.
“OW, OW!!!... I promise it won’t end like this!” thundered Eggman. Before any response could be made, the eyes of all present were rendered useless by a tremendous blaze of light and sound…
*****
…Amy was dimly aware that she was falling. She turned over, and suddenly the wind in her face peeled back one eyelid enough for her stomach to threaten to bail out on her.
She was over a mile above the ground, and dropping like a brick. High above, the dying remnants of the Cosmic Angel were raining down around her like an industrial hailstorm. She twisted about desperately, trying to get a glimpse of what was going on, and she had barely enough time to catch a glimpse of something red barreling towards her before…
*THUMP!*
“Gotcha!”
Amy raised her head to see a grinning young fox in front of her. Adjusting her weight, she stood upon the upper wing of the Tornado and smiled down at her friend.
“Hi, Tails! Nice catch!”
“Thanks Amy, but where’s Knuckles?”
*WHUMP!*
“Check the lower wing.”
Tails craned his neck around. Sure enough, the echidna had glided to a less-than-graceful landing on the plane’s lower wing, and now he was clambering up to Amy’s vantage point. The plane started to heel, and Amy stepped over to the far side of the wing as quickly as she could, balancing the weight.
“Did you see Sonic?” Amy uttered, concern sieving through her voice. Knuckles flatly shook his head.
“No, but I know two things: when I came around, the chaos emeralds I was holding were gone…”
Amy’s eyes flew open, she patted her dress frantically. “Mine are gone, too!” she yelped.
Tails’ voice echoed hers from within the cockpit. “So are mine!”
“Secondly,” continued the echidna “the chaos energy around the Cosmic Angel machine was going nuts a minute ago; I can sense it pretty clearly.”
“You think he went Super?” piped Tails.
Knuckles nodded. “That too, but there’s something else: Notice anything about the moon?”
Both hedgehog and fox glanced up at the curve of the moon, visible above the horizon, the orb that had been blasted apart less than a month ago…
…the moon that was now fully intact…
“What’s going on?” whispered Amy. “Did Eggman repair the moon?”
“I don’t know, but I’m getting to that: the core of the chaos energy I sensed tore away from the planet – and it just plain doesn’t do that naturally.”
“So you’re saying…”
“I don’t know where Sonic is now… but wherever he is, I hope he’s all right.”
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