Message #869340

[Marie Rose]

Don’t you just hate it when you think something is all fine and good, and then you go back and notice you missed several typos? That really grinds my gears, for serial.
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Escort Saga: Chapter 44 – Taking on All Challengers

At Tails’ house, which surprisingly never was used as a primary location in chapter 43, Shadow was sitting on a table in Tails’ laboratory while Tails looked at a small chart close by.

“So what did you find out?” Shadow asked, as Tails looked deep in thought.

“It seems it’s a virus.” Tails said as he looked up.

“Yeah, I think I’ve noticed.” Shadow replied as he narrowed his eyes at him. “Can you tell me anything more?”

“Well, it looks like something made its way into your body from these three somewhat glowing marks on the inside of your chest. It somehow replicated and transferred a copy of some of the biological DNA it had into your bloodstream and slowly grew over time. Then when it felt it was strong enough, and gained a mind of its own, it made it’s way to your brain, and it was able to control your body and powers, while providing you with its additional power. Quite fascinating if I do say so myself.” He rubbed his chin as he finished.

“...Well is there anything you can do?”

“Well, I could use these magnabots which I created for the very purpose of exploring the insides of people’s bodies. I could find the problem and neutralize it with a self-made injection from yours truly, which will make the virus work with you, instead of against you. Luckily, I came prepared for such an occasion.” Tails walked over to another table and pulled back a sheet, revealing a variety of injection needles, antibiotics, unnamed containers with multi-coloured liquids in them, and scans of a giant dancing robot.

Shadow smiled. “If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you saw this coming.”

“Nah, I’m just Crazy Prepared.” Tails replied as he picked up one of the injections.

Back in the middle of nowhere, Team Chaotix and Cherry were still walking through the woods when they saw a large crab speed by some bushes to their right. Espio noticed but chose to ignore it. He then saw another crab move by from the left. “Hey guys, I think some crabs are coming after us...”

“Really?!” Charmy replied. “Are they giant ones?”

Suddenly, the two crabs leaped out of the bushes and into the air. Espio grabbed Charmy and jumped out the way while Vector grabbed the Fujin Gem and shoulder barged one into a tree. Cherry promptly hid in a tree and then yelled, “Mess ‘em up, guys! You can do it!”

“Behold, ninja power!” Espio began chucking shuriken at one crab, who caught them all easily, and then giggled.

“Your ninja power sucks!” Charmy yelled, seconds before Espio punched him.

“That’s mean of you, Charmy.” Cherry said, poking her head out.

While this was going on, Vector ducked under a crab which tried to claw his face, then shoulder barged it again, just before whacking the second with his tail as it came from behind. As the crab was getting up, Vector grabbed a rope nearby and stomped his foot repeatedly, and then as the crab spun round, he gave it a big kick to the face, which made the crowd roar in excitement as a voice yelled, “Sweet chin music! Vector just showed that crab his collection of sweet chin music!”

As this happened, Espio charged at the second crab and launched a high speed illusion attack, continuing to knock the crab further back with blazing martial arts kicks and uppercuts.  As it landed on its back, and couldn’t get up, Charmy dropped down from the sky with his stinger and hit him in his weak spot, dealing massive damage as the words, “Ultra Combo Finish!” flashed on a yellow and orange screen.

Cherry then came out from the tree and thanked them. “You guys were awesome! And Charmy, shouldn’t you be dead?”

“Huh? What do you mean?”

“You used your stinger...”

“Oh, well neither heaven nor hell want me, so I’m allowed to do that as much as possible.”

“It’s probably possible.” Espio added. “So it’s most likely justified.”

“I still say ghosts should die in the sun.” Charmy randomly said.

“I still say bees should die after they sting their stingers, regardless if neither places want you.” Cherry retorted.

At Tails’ house a little later, Tails had finished operating on Shadow, since he had mad skillz at playing the game ‘Operation’. “Well, it should be more of a power up now, instead of a Superpowered Evil Side.”

“I appreciate the help.” Shadow said. “And why were there capital lett-”

Just then, Sonic and Sonya arrived and greeted Tails and Shadow as they came in.

“Hey Tails.” Sonic said, while Sonya just waved.

“Hey Sonic, have you guys heard about this awesome website called TV Tropes? It’s got all these tropes about TV shows, and games, and movies, and fanfiction. It’s so cool, it’s awesome.”

“You’ve been using a lot of those lines recently...”

“Hey Sonic.” Sonya nudged him. “Who’s the black hedgehog?”

“That’s Shadow. You’d better not become one of his fangirls, otherwise I’ll disown you as being my opposite sex clone.”

“Of course not! Have you forgotten who I was cloned from? I’m a fangirl for no-one, I keep it real!”

“You said it, Me! Show them haters how we do!”

“You know it, Me!” Sonic and Sonya then touched fists.

“...Am I really seeing two Sonic’s?” Shadow asked, raising an eyebrow.

“It’s a long story.” Tails replied. “The others are fine with it, though Amy wasn’t too happy with those two spending so much time together...and having a better figure than her...and then asked for some of those female hormone pills...”

Meanwhile, back at the woods, Team Chaotix and Cherry were walking along quite casually, once again, when Cherry suddenly noticed the Noid running right towards her from behind. Cherry took off running as she yelled, “AHHHH! It’s the Noid!”

“What?” The three said in unison, just before the Noid ran by them. Vector tried to tackle him, but missed.

“Cherry! You’ve got to avoid the Noid!” Espio yelled.

“But I can’t!” Cherry yelled back as the Noid began to slowly catch up.

“Run diagonally! GOGOGO!” Charmy yelled randomly after eating a sugar bar.

Cherry did so, which didn’t prove to be very useful. “He’s still catching up, guys! I can’t avoid him!” She then started running in circles, which gave Espio enough time to sneak up on him and knock him out with an elbow to his forehead. Cherry sighed in relief as he did so. “Thanks Espio. The Noid almost got me! I’m sorry that I couldn’t avoid the noid...” She frowned.

“Don’t worry, Cherry, most people find it hard to avoid the noid when he shows up.” Vector said as he and Charmy caught up. “Now let’s get going again.”

“Right!” Cherry nodded. The four of them moved on once more.

In an area far away, but not really so far, Virus, Rose and Lily were walking through the same forest. Lily was currently dressed as Hatsume Miku from Vocaloid for some reason. Virus and Rose were ahead of Lily as she began talking. “So, we’re doing evil stuff once again, and it sure feels good. We’re like a villain team. Virus is like the Big Bad/ Magnificant Ba-”

“What on earth are you talking about?” Rose interrupted her.

“Rose is like the Dragon/Tall, Dark and Snarky, and I’m like the Plucky Comic Relief/Perky Female Minion, but not in that way, if you know what I mean...just give me another few months, then I’ll be perkier...”

“You seem to have a lot of free time on your hands.” Virus commented. “And a very perverted mind.”

“Why thank you. You know, my boyfriend broke up with me a long time ago because I had an overactive imagination. Men are such jerks.” She crossed her arms and then nodded. “That’s why I went back to women.”

“Wait, are you serious?” Rose asked. “If so, those comments you made in your sleep earlier really disturb me...”

“Well I lie a lot, so it’s hard to tell if I’m kidding or not.” Lily said with a cheerful smile.

“Your evilness impresses me, Lily.” Virus smirked.

“Thank you, Virus.”

“Are you done with the stupid jokes now?” Rose asked.

“Actually, yes, because I can’t use too much, otherwise I’d run out awfully quickly, and if that happened, my popularity would go down! And that would be horrible!”

“You seem to have a knack for stealing almost every scene you’re in...”

Meanwhile, Sally Sue was watching Team Chaotix and Cherry through a pair of binoculars as she stood on a mountain in a deserted canyon area. “These four won’t get by me! I shall show them what happens when you mess with one of the most glorious, magnificent, strongest, and most beautiful girls in all existence! Sally Sue, hahahahaha! Robot monkey ninjas, attack!” she pointed ahead, and the monkeys made their way down the mountain towards Team Chaotix who were slowly approaching the area.