If the Keyblader
needed anything now she needed a miracle.
Three years since
her journey with Sora and the other Keybladers something had crash landed in
the City Centre.
Of course, being
who and what she was, she couldn’t just go home once whatever it was started
blowing up buildings. She could hear the screams of civilians as she bolted
towards the explosions, her hood falling to let long black and cobalt blue hair
flow behind her, normally warm blue eyes hardening as she turned a corner and
finally saw who she was about to fight above the Skyscrapers.
It was huge. Black
and silver metal, over fifty times her size and like nothing she’d ever seen
before and she’d seen a lot in her twenty one years, from lions and mermen to
ancient Pharaohs and pocket monsters with weird powers.
“Oi!” She
bellowed, glaring at it. It had to be a robot, it certainly wasn’t a Heartless.
“What the hell are you doing?”
It didn’t answer
and blue eyes flickered to the police who were speaking urgently into
walkie-talkies and trying to herd people to safety. “Oi!” She shouted again,
this time calling her Keyblade to emphasise her point, “Who are you and what
are you doing here?”
The robot turned
to her, it’s optics taking in the human female with the strange key shaped
weapon that seemed to have flames encircling it without harming the wielder.
“I am M078.” The
robot said, “Where is the Planet Egg?”
“Planet Egg? I
don’t know what you’re talking about!” Sam snapped, “There is no Planet Egg
here!”
“Sensors indicate
Planet Egg in this direction.” M078 murmured to itself turning from her and
blowing up another building.
“Hey, don’t ignore
me when I’m shouting at you!” Sam snapped, uncomfortably aware of the staring
of the crowd. By the Goddesses of Hyrule, she was going to have to skip town
again after this. “FREEZE!”
Ice magic shot
from the end of her Keyblade, hitting the giant robot in the leg. The ice froze
over the metal but didn’t do more then annoy the robot who turned as she ran
forward, wondering if she was suicidal, ready to fight this thing if she had
to.
“Do not interfere
in my objective.” The robot lashed out at her.
She back flipped
out of the way in a technique she’d learnt fighting Heartless. She was luckily
still far enough back to land out of range. She still hadn’t mastered the
techniques of the first Keyblader, chosen of the Sol Blade of Light, Sora, who
was stronger and faster then the rest of the Keybladers, except Riku,
Twilight’s Keyblader.
Her heart ached as
she remembered her supposed friends, the ones who’d dumped her here three years
ago and hadn’t gotten in contact with her since, no matter how much she needed
to talk.
“I won’t let you
wreak this city!” She snarled.
No matter how many of my dreams have been
wreaked because the people of my world…
She ducked under a
flailing limb, getting close enough to bellow, “THUNDER!” and have her Thundara
strike the robot and send it crashing to the floor.
Who can’t leave me alone and expect me to
accept all the media coverage and the Government’s attempts to capture me…
The Keyblader was
knocked flying as a tentacle like thing with a pincer on the end whipped out
and smashed into her.
Civilians cleared
her flight path and then closed in around her and let her pick herself up. She
glared at those who weren’t running and winced against the pain of her ribs. It
was nowhere near the worst she’d suffered, but it certainly hurt like hell.
At least they’ve learnt that they can’t
fight these things.
She rushed
forward, ducking under one whip like tentacle, diving over another and actually
cutting through the next one with her flaming weapon, the Rising Phoenix.
Then she was
knocked flying again, this time having to cast Curaga before she could get back
up, the green energy surrounding her and healing the injuries caused by hitting
buildings hard enough to dent the brickwork.
But I don’t know if I can win either.
Heartless were
easy to fight, or they once had been. The Keyblade was a weapon specifically
designed to fight the creatures of pure darkness. It wasn’t meant to help her
against things like this robot, which had to be of alien origin and if it came
from Earth, she would eat her Keychain.
“STOP!” She
bellowed, casting Stop on her surroundings, freezing time for her enemies and
giving her allies time to get away.
She couldn’t help
shaking her head at the fact the civilians who had once been immune from her
spell, now counted enough in her subconscious as bad guys for them to be hit by
it too.
So much had
changed in the last couple of months alone.
“Thunder!” She
shouted, not quite as loudly this time, inflicting more damage on the robot as
the Stop spell wore off.
She’d never been
that great at magic, after all, she’d chosen the path of the warrior. She had
worked at Curaga until it was perfect and her Elemental Heart, that of the one
of Fire, had powered up her Fira to Firaga, and she’d only mastered Blizara and
Thundara because of Beau, the Keyblader of Water, and his endless patience.
The robot snarled
at her in another language, lashing out with it’s pincers. She slashed through
one, dodged another but was slashed by one set of pincers, wreaking her top,
and another knocked her flying, sending her crashing into the side of a car.
“Ow.” She
muttered.
“My Porsche!” A
man’s voice bellowed.
“Thanks for your
concern.” She grumbled, getting up. “Thunder!” Lightening struck a third time,
causing the robot to freeze temporarily.
She staggered
forward, pain filling each step, crashing into metal hurt almost as much
crashing into bricks.
A long tentacle slammed
into her again, she hit the Porsche and ricocheted off, landing in the middle
of the road.
The loud bangs and
rumbling ground were the only things stopping her from passing out as she
attempted to get to her feet, her arms refusing to work, refusing to aid her in
anyway as a shadow passed over her. A foot shaped shadow…
“Die.” The word
filled her pain fogged brain and she instinctively tensed up as the foot came
down.
Then there was a
rush of wind, blue wind…
Pain dimmed cobalt
tried to see through the fog that had invaded her mind and the darkness
nibbling away at the edges of her vision.
“Are you alright?”
The blue shape asked.
“S…Sonic?” She
asked. “It is really you, right?”
The hedgehog was
startled that a human from another world would know his name, but nodded,
“Yes.” He looked at her, concerned, “Are you alright?”
“F…fine.” She
choked out.
Sonic launched
himself at the robot, knocking it back as Sam called her Keyblade back to her,
distracting Sonic slightly, but not enough for the alien robot to hit him.
“H…Heal.” She stammered. Green energy rushed around her, healing all her
injuries and any the hedgehog was hiding from his friends, along with any other
allies in the area.
As her vision
cleared properly she took in the scene. Sonic wasn’t her only friend here, the
X Tornado was overhead and probably had a Tails in, Knuckles was attacking too,
Amy and Cream, along with some girl the Keyblader recognised but had never met
before, were looking around for something.
In her backpack,
which she’d discarded when the fighting had started, something was glowing in
response to the thing in Amy’s hands. The Keyblader rushed over and opened it.
The huge red gem
she’d located when it had fallen from the skies a couple of weeks ago, was
glowing brightly and she smiled slightly at the warm energy she could sense
from it.
Behind her the
robot exploded in a flash of bright, white light and she yelped and ducked as
the shrapnel went everywhere.
She was helped to
her feet by a white gloved hand attached to a hedgehog who looked from her
Keyblade, to the Emerald and then finally to her face, his emerald green eyes
widening as she smiled softly, her cobalt blue ones dancing.
“Hi Sonic. It’s
been a while.” She murmured.
“Fox Faker.” Sonic
breathed, then he looked wary. “Sam? It is you, right?”
She nodded
excitedly. “I knew you’d recognise me, even in True Form.”
Sonic’s head
tilted slightly to the left as he thought about this. “So, you’re a human
normally?”
She nodded.
Sonic shrugged
with a small grin, “Where did you get the Chaos Emerald?”
“It crash landed
in my backyard.” She said with a small, worried smile, “What was that thing?”
“It was a Meterax,
one of a bunch of alien robots who are trying to take over the universe.” Sonic
answered as the others rushed over. “You all remember Sam don’t you?”
Everyone grinned
and started talking at once but Sonic held up his hand, “Before the general
chat gets going, we’re going to need that Chaos Emerald.”
“I can give it to
you, but I have one condition.”
Sonic frowned,
“What’s that?”
“I want to come as
well. If the Meterax are that powerful, you’re going to need all the help you
can get.”
“But who’s going
to be defending your world if you come with us?”
Sam considered the
recent threats, “No, my world will be fine, the Heartless come for me, not for
my world, and it’s not like my world is defenceless.”
“You’re sure,
Sam?”
“Yes.” She nodded.
“Please Sonic, don’t leave me behind.”
“Alright, good to
have you on the team.”
