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Outside, a shadowy figure is climbing the nearby tree tops. He stops and looks up at the hill. “Seems like that energy spike came from around here,” it exclaimed. “Could it be…” it pauses, and shakes its head. “Nah... but I better go check it out anyways.” | Outside, a shadowy figure is climbing the nearby tree tops. He stops and looks up at the hill. “Seems like that energy spike came from around here,” it exclaimed. “Could it be…” it pauses, and shakes its head. “Nah... but I better go check it out anyways.” | ||
=== Chapter 5 === | |||
METAL RAVEN BACKSTORY HERE | |||
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Raven and Vultro appear in a bright flash, tumbling down through the tree tops until they hit the ground with a loud thud. They get back up, dusting themselves off. Vultro looks around, and smiles at Raven. “Wow... it actually worked! We escaped!” Their hands now free, Vultro jumps up to hug Raven. She returns the hug for a moment, quickly shaking her head. “Come on. Let’s find the others,” she says. Raven and Vultro make their way to the nearby cliff edge. Looking down, they see Cync and Frankie, who seem to be near the crash site. | |||
“Hey guys! Up here!” she yells at them. Frankie's ears perk up, looking over and smiling when she recognizes the voices. She leaps up into the air, flying over to them. “Vultro! Raven!" she said as she lowered her hands to them. They both grab on, and Frankie glides over to the crash site. "I’m so glad you guys are safe," she said as they landed. "Cync is okay, but Wreck went to try and find you. Um, Vultro—" | |||
“That's Wreck for you,” Vultro said, “Always getting into trouble.” “Vultro...” Frankie tries to interrupt. He continues. “Listen, guys. That wolf took the crystal back from me. If we can manage to take it again, maybe we can stop them!” "Frankie, where's Jenny?" Raven asked. Frankie takes Vultro’s hand. “I was trying to tell you. We don’t know,” she said. “Mist found us, and they got her... we tried to stop him.” Vultro frowns. “Great...” | |||
Suddenly, Frankie’s ears perk up. She hears a voice echo from far away. “Easy now, robo-freak! Hey, let me go!” “Wreck!!” Frankie yells. “Guys, grab on! Wreck sounds like he’s in trouble!” Raven and Vultro grab on to Frankie, who flies them towards Wreck's voice. | |||
Frankie lands in a small clearing, where Metal Raven has her arms around Wreck's neck. “Your connection with the Sol is strong, fox,” Metal Raven said. “Stronger than any Mobian I've ever seen.” Wreck breaks free of the hold, and steps back. “Sol? What are you talking about?" The robot ignored his question. "Wreck, isn't it?" Wreck tilted his head, suddenly recognizing the robot. "Hey wait... I know you! From the cave.” Metal Raven notices Frankie and the crew land nearby. Without hesitation, she leaps over to Frankie and grabs her by the arm. | |||
“If you won’t listen to me, maybe taking your girlfriend... again... will make you reconsider,” she said. “You put her down,” Wreck said. Raven turns and dashes towards Metal Raven, kicking her directly in the stomach. Metal Raven is knocked back, and let go of Frankie. Frankie turns and uppercuts Metal Raven’s jaw. | |||
Wreck goes in for a punch, but Metal Raven dodges and kicks him in the shins. He falls to the ground. Getting back up to his feet, he yells towards the crash site. “Cync, get over here! We need help!” | |||
Moments later, Cync glides through the bushes, in the form of a hawk. Metal Raven smirks, and disappears in a cyan flash. She appears in front of Cync, who tries to dodge but gets grabbed by the foot, and thrown to the ground. Metal Raven disappears, only to appear behind Frankie. Frankie notices and jumps up into the air, starting to fly. She lands on Metal Raven’s shoulders and begins covering her eyes. “Now’s your chance, everyone!” she yells. | |||
Once again, Metal Raven let out the ear-splitting mixture of a growl and a robotic screech. “Fools. Turns out I got your little friend after all.” Cync and Raven are running at her, but it’s too late. In a cyan flash she disappears, taking Frankie with her. “Frankie!” Wreck yells out. “We have to go after her!” Raven did not respond. She pauses to think. "I need that silver emerald. Maybe if we can find it, we can figure out what the hell is going on here." "But what about Frankie?" Wreck asked. "The more emeralds we have, the easier it might be to sense where the others are. And the easier it would be to defeat whoever these kidnappers are." | |||
"So you're saying we need to find your stupid emerald instead of saving Frankie?" Raven grabbed Wreck by the collar. "Wreck, I am not going to let anything happen to Frankie. Nothing. But we HAVE to find that emerald if we stand any chance of fighting back." She let go of Wreck, who was now glaring angrily at her. After a moment, he sighs in acceptance. "Alright. Where to?" | |||
They decide to make their way back to the crash site. Along the way, they notice a clearing that they had not seen before. "Wasn't the crash site right over here?" Vultro asked. Wreck shrugged. At the edge of the clearing, they notice a red hedgehog and a pink hedgehog, who appear to be standing over something. Raven grits her teeth, now on guard. | |||
“I can't believe we found a Sol Emerald!” the red hedgehog said. “You think the others are here too?” The pink hedgehog nodded her head. “Let’s keep searching. Someone or something had to have brought them here.” | |||
“Give me that Sol Emerald right now!” Raven roars at them. They jump and both turn around. “Wh--why should I?” asked the red hedgehog. “We need these for research on the Sol dimension. We found it fair and square.” Raven scoffed. “The Sol dimension...? I'm the guardian of the Sol dimension!" | |||
The pink hedgehog glances at Raven's belt and notices the green emerald. She pauses for a moment to think. "Say, I thought Blaze was the Sol guardian?" she asks innocently. She smirks as she looks back up at Raven. | |||
“First of all, Shimm didn't steal it,” she said, “he found it. Aaaand, we can loan it to you, if you help us locate the other emeralds. Deal?” | |||
The pink hedgehog reaches her hand out to shake. Raven gives a disapproving look to Vultro, but reluctantly shakes hands with her. “When we need it, you'll give it back,” the red hedgehog said. “Understood?” | |||
Raven ignores him, clearly not intending to hold up her end of the bargain. The red hedgehog hands over the silver Sol Emerald. Raven adds the stone to her belt, next to the green one she took from Vultro. "What I really need is my chest plate back," she said. "Metal Raven took it from me." | |||
“Who are you two anyways?” Cync finally asks. “I'm Shimmer the Hedgehog,” says the red hedgehog. “But you can call me Shimm.” The pink hedgehog smiles. “And I'm Penelope, or Penny! And we just made a deal with you, so now we're a part of your team!! Right?” Raven rolls her eyes. Cync waves at the two. “Um... cool. I'm Cync.” | |||
“Nice to meet you Cync!” said Penny. “I'm Vultro the Fox." Vultro shakes both of their hands. Penny giggles. “Hi Vultro!” | |||
“We've lost our friends, a bat named Frankie and a fox named Jenny, to a bunch of villains,” Vultro said. “We could really use your help.” Shimm nods. “I’ll help you guys, but only to get those emeralds. I got nothin' better to do anyways.” Penny elbows him. “Ow!” he says. She turns to Vultro. “Don’t worry Vultro, we’ll find your friends ''and'' the emeralds. Let’s do this!” | |||
"I have an idea," Cync says. She slowly transforms into a the form of a yellow blood hound, complete with floppy ears and a fancy looking utility belt. "Tracker," Vultro said with a smile. Cync returns the smile, answering in the voice of their old friend. "You bet." She points her snout into the air and begins sniffing. After a moment, she points away from the building. “Yeah. I definitely think I smell something that way.” | |||
Raven holds her head up and begins to sniff as well. “Well... I smell a fox, and that has to be Jenny. It’s coming from the direction of the building.” Cync crosses her arms. “Let’s split up,” Vultro says. “We can cover more ground that way.” Wreck could only chuckle. "Yeah, that's worked so well for us this far..." Vultro heads west towards the building, taking Wreck and Raven with him. Cync starts to head the opposite direction, leaving Shimm and Penny standing there. Shimm looks over to Penny, who shrugs. They decide to follow Cync, and head into the nearby bushes after her. | |||
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