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Adiraiju — XX Xenophobe - Novelization
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Published: 2016-09-04 13:17:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 4269; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 3
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This is a novelization of the final boss battle in Sonic Advance 2. I do not own Sonic or any of the characters mentioned below, all rights belong to SEGA, etc etc...-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Music: youtu.be/6uUVwc8KX0M
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The four heroes’ feet banged and rattled in a mad cacophony along the steel walkway. Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles Prower, Knuckles the Echidna, Amy Rose, and Cream the Rabbit were deep in the XX Zone now, the heart of the Egg Utopia was far behind them, and Eggman’s last machines were burning and broken on the floor.
“Mr. Sonic, isn’t this a bit much?” asked Cream, her ears flapping madly as she tried to keep up. “I think Dr. Eggman’s probably ready to be reasonable now…”
Sonic couldn’t help but chuckle. “You don’t know Eggman very well, do you, Cream? A few broken machines won’t change his mind.”
“Then why are we even...?”
“From what we’ve gone through,” interrupted Knuckles (missing the judgmental frown the rabbit shot at him) “He likes to put up a big final show with some huge robot that’s connected to the base itself. I’m not sure why, but…”
“He’s a born showman.” shrugged Tails. “He knows we’d trash the base after we drove him off otherwise, so he wants the base to either go down on his terms, or try to send us all up in the resulting explosion.”
“That doesn’t sound very nice…”
Sonic shrugged. “An Eggman who admits defeat is like, I dunno, a stupid Tails: it just doesn’t sound right.”
“Or a weak Knuckles” chimed in Tails.
“Or Sonic with an attention span.” snickered the echidna.
“Or Knuckles with a brain.” the hedgehog shot back.
“Or a responsible hedgehog.”
“Or a fun echidna.”
“Dope!”
“Beanhead!”
“Goof-off!”
“Nitwit!”
“Stop it, the both of you!” snapped Cream. Both Sonic and Knuckles glanced over at her in surprise.
“Now, you’ve been very rude to each other this whole time, and I’ve about had it! Let’s just get along, and go after that bad Eggman! Now shake hands, and let’s keep going!”
Knuckles cracked his fingers and offered his colossal mitt, a wicked grin on his muzzle. “Yeah, Sonic. Let’s shake and make up.”
Sonic’s hand zipped in before the echidna knew what was happening, and he pumped up and down at a speed that made Knuckles wrists feel like jelly. “Sure thing, buddy!” he cackled. “Let’s go!” before lunging out in front of the group.
The floor had been curving down, but now it flattened out before them, vanishing abruptly about fifty feet away over a silent void.
“I don’t think he went this way…” chirped Cream.
Sonic shook his head. “He came here, all right… and here he comes now!”
“Get ready, everyone!” bellowed Knuckles.
Before them all, a massive mech rumbled up from the darkness. It was roughly thirty feet tall, and somewhat resembled Eggman himself. Yet, it was thinner, much thinner, and to Sonic’s surprise, there was no steel moustache decorating its visage. Its elbows were peppered with massive spikes, and it raised its hands to the heroes, as if in some terrible greeting.
“Hey, Eggman! Don’t you have anything new?” cackled Sonic. “What, did you decide ‘cool’ didn’t fit in the ol’ Master Plan?”
“I can decide that YOU don’t!” boomed Eggman. Without warning, one of the massive arms shot out towards the assembled foursome, scattering them all in an instant.
“All right, go for the face this time!” yelled Tails. Knuckles was already on his way up, he had been farthest away from the mech’s arm when it lunged forward. His fist slammed into the mech, and a tortured howl of rending metal echoed across the XX Zone.
“My turn!” laughed Tails. He leapt forward, and then yelped in surprise. The tile he had bounced onto was suddenly rocketing towards the ceiling. He bounced off…
“LOOK OUT!” roared Sonic. Tails glanced up, and suddenly Sonic had crashed into his side, knocking him away from the great iron head.
“Sonic, what are you doing?” I could have…”
A tremendous beam of power lanced from the great mech’s eyes, and cut the darkness in two above them. Tails stared in horror at it for a moment before turning to Sonic.
“I could have been killed. Thanks, Sonic!”
“No problem, buddy. Think he’s ready for another whack?”
“Get ‘im, Cheese!” squealed a high voice.
At his friend’s words, a little blue blur shot through the night at the massive mech. Sonic’s eyes widened as the little chao crashed into the machine’s left arm, spinning around it at a speed that he couldn’t help but be impressed by…
…and with a terrific crack, the thing’s left hand crashed to the steel floor, and rolled off into the abyss below!
Sonic shook his head. “Remind me never to make that kid mad. All right, You know what to do, Tails!”
“Got it!”
The young fox sped towards the giant machine’s right arm. Foreseeing the doom that awaited him, Eggman launched the right arm at Tails with indescribable speed…
…a speed that was dodged with ease, and as the arm began to slow down off in the distance, Tails slammed his namesakes into the empty wrist… again and again and again…
There was a massive creaking noise, and slowly drunkenly, the hand began to slowly float away into the darkness. Inbuilt magnetic fields were still keeping it afloat, but the systems attaching the war machine to it had been reduced to silicon dust…
“Need a hand, there, Eggman?” laughed Sonic.
“No thanks, I’ve got this!”
A blast of power shot from the machine’s eyes, searing the steel into slag, and filling the air with a sickly metallic odor…
…but then something small, blue, and impossibly fast slammed into the mech’s face.
“No!”
Sonic thumped back onto the floor, that knowing grin back on his face as the tremendous mech reeled backwards, a massive, sparking hole in its cranium.
“Gotta say, Eggman, that one wasn’t up to your usual standards! Got any backups?”
The machine began to fall back into the darkness, the sparks in its head flying madly, the thing’s frame shuddering madly as its systems and programming fell apart. A thousand motors and servos ground madly into uselessness as the mech began to fall apart, fire racing about its howling joints…
“Huh, doesn’t look like it!”
The hedgehog turned back to his friends, grinning widely as a muffled explosion came from far, far below. “And that’s how you scramble an Eggman! Any questions?” he snickered.
He couldn’t help but smile when Cream raised her hand, her expression mortally serious.
“Didn’t you say the base would explode after we beat Eggman, Mr. Knuckles?”
“Why, yes, I…”
There was an awful silence for a moment, and then a far-off booming roar sounded the Egg Utopia’s death knell.
Tails began speaking very quickly. “Sonic, grab my hand! With any luck, the Egg Utopia’s gonna hit the atmosphere before it falls apart completely, and…”
The boy winced as his friend’s larger hand threatened to crush his palm. A thunderous crash of dying steel and shattering plastic echoed across the darkness, and as an immense span of blue slowly began to loom about the foursome, their eyes met – some determined, some reluctant, some resigned, but all four together in this moment of truth…
Far, far below, Vanilla the Rabbit was wracking her brain for ideas. This E-Mail to those nice “Chaotix” would have to be worded as precisely as she dared… where Cream had gone, she had no idea…
A sudden bloom of light from outside the window barely caught her eyes, but the following boom that rattled the windowpanes made her jolt upright. Wincing at the sudden pain in her neck, she twisted about in her chair to see something massive in the distance, something huge and metallic descending into the mountains with a mighty roar…
Vanilla didn’t even notice herself knocking the chair over, or slamming the door as she darted outside at the speed of horror. What on Earth was that?
She stared at the falling steel ball off in the distance, and shook her head. It looked like the “Egg Utopia” that had been on the news so often lately, but it was dropping to Earth at a terrific speed, falling apart in the atmosphere. She shook her head numbly as a hundred worries blossomed like poisonous flowers in her mind. Had Cream been taken up there? Was she still in there? Was any of it relevant? Above all, was she all right?...
As the massive space station thundered down behind the mountains, there was a moment of silence before a brilliant flare of light pierced into her eyes… and then a tremendous, rattling boom almost knocked her off her feet.
Kneeling down, she stared off into the distance, suddenly strangely unaware of herself… Please, she thought, please let Cream have been somewhere else…
“That your mom down there, Cream?”
“Yup! Hi, Mama!”
Vanilla blinked slowly, then glanced all about her. That sounded like…
“Up here, Mama!”
Wondering if she had lost her mind, Vanilla glanced up into the sky.
High above, four dark figures were silhouetted upon the brilliant blue. As they drew closer, she saw who they were, and her eyes grew wide with astonishment.
The largest figure suddenly separated into two, and one of them landed on the ground in front of her. He was a familiar-looking young blue hedgehog with a cheeky grin, and he walked up to her with unnerving speed before extending his hand.
“Sonic the Hedgehog, ma’am! Good ta meet’cha, your daughter’s told us about you!”
Vanilla stared, slightly stunned, as the reality began to sink in. This was the famous Sonic the Hedgehog?
“It’s, um, a pleasure to meet you… oh, my goodness, did you say Cream told you about me? Do you know where she is? I, I thought I heard…”
Sonic jabbed a finger skyward, still grinning.
Vanilla glanced up just in time to see her daughter thump to the ground in front of her, a wide smile on her face, Cheese smiling silently by her side.
For a moment, Vanilla simply stood, and then limply held her arms out.
As Tails and Knuckles landed, Tails couldn’t help but cock his head, wondering why the rabbit-lady was hugging Cream and crying at the same time. He started towards her, but suddenly felt two strong arms wrap around his own, and begin marching him away.
“Um, Sonic, why?...” he began, but his best friend cut him off.
“We’ll tell you later, Tails.” chuckled the hedgehog.
Knuckles nodded. “Yeah, let’s come back in an hour or two. She deserves an explanation, at least.”
