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[indigo-ghost-girl]

Spoilers for parts of Sonic Frontiers...

Part 1

Part 6

“Go! We’ll cover you.”

“You can’t!” Knuckles shouted back, balling his fists.

“There’s no time to argue,” Amy muttered.

“Plan?” Came the soft, curious voice.

All eyes shifted, nervously eying the possessed hedgehog. The handle of Amy's hammer creaked under her anxious grip. The red hedgehog drifted to the floor, shoes trampling the fragile grass border between plant and stone. The broken stems seemed to steal its attention away for a split second.

“Knuckles, Go!” Tails whispered through gritted teeth as it looked away.

The red hedgehog crossed its arms, “Does this plan involve recharging the “chaos emeralds” perchance?” it questioned, its monotone voice drooping in disappointment.

Knuckles stiffened.

The red hedgehog laughed, gently amused.

“Your minds became open books the moment you began sharing my prison-”

The smile fell. Neon purple eyes shifted attention away from the three, staring into the horizon. Sonic’s head shook suddenly, a hand raising to the hedgehog’s forehead, “Cease your tantrum mortal,” it scolded quietly, snarling in mild irritation.

Knuckles took advantage of this distraction and bolted. Red blur rushing under the giant legs of the structure.

Tails and Amy exchanged a glance.

“Be silent.” It lamented.

“Hya!” Amy leapt up, hammer dipped behind her head.

It lifted a hand. Amy's hammer crashed down on him. The possessed hedgehog was unphased, the force behind the impact flowing through his body completely, manifesting in a small crater under his slightly melted shoes.

It snapped from its daze. Its arm swayed, throwing Amy over the cliff sending her plummeting towards the sea.

“Your companions are almost as persistent as you,” it tutted.

Amy used the air and the weight of her hammer to backflip onto land again.

“…and unfortunately,” It smiled, almost sadly, “I cannot allow that.” It took a moment to peel off a piece of Sonic’s smouldered glove from its wrist. A second blur shot down the cliff in a blink, blasting past the fox. Tails was knocked back almost instantly.

He caught himself mid-air, spinning his tails. “Hey!” Amy's head poked over the edge of the cliff. “We are your opponents!” she called after the blur.

Guilt scraped at the back of his mind as Knuckles pushed his speed to the limit. He swerved into the field of poppies, heading for the cliffside where, as arranged, Eggman waited in his Egg Mobile.

The doctor was leaning on his fist in boredom. “Took you long enough,” The doctor grunted at the echidna. “Did-”

“Eggman, incoming!” Cried Tails from his radio.

“What the-?”

A bolt of red lightning shot at him, forcing Knuckles to dive. Knuckles yelled as a metal claw yanked him away, a second bolt of red lightning frying the spot of grass he had been laying on.

“Hey!” cried a disgruntled Knuckles, dangling from the metal arm protruding from Eggman’s vehicle.

“You’re welcome,” Eggman muttered, grasping the controls and turning on the rocket boosters.

A flying bolder bashed into the side of the Egg Mobile. Eggman was sent into a hurtling tailspin. The human yelled, scrambling with the control panel to regain control of his vehicle.

Knuckles was flung from the arm.

A second moss adorned bolder came hurtled at the metal egg.

Crack! A giant yellow bullet collided with the bolder, disintegrating it in milliseconds.

“Leave father alone,” demanded the projected voice of Sage.

Supreme rose from the trees, enormous gun the length of a cargo train held in its only remaining hand. Blue patterns flickered across the robot’s surface, the multiple eyes on its red face glowing a cool blue.

Six pillars rose from the titan’s shoulders, clunking into place. They fizzed a cyan blue, four sets of blue lines flowing out from them. The lines raised, shimmering out with a flourish of blue sparkles.

Eggman flung his arms up, “That’s my girl!” he cheered.

The four majestic energy wings extended upwards and propelled the machine into the air with a single flap.

Knuckles caught his remaining claws into the side of the cliff. Stone tearing away in two broken lines as he slid down. He punched his second fist into the cliff, trying to catch himself on the other two. He was met with a stinging pain and the memory of his broken claws.

Luckily, the resistance from the rocks slowed him to a stop. He huffed out a breath. Salty sea spray licked at his tail as he craned his neck up the cliffside. He couldn’t see anything other than sky from this angle, but he knew something loud was happening.

The barrel of the giant gun turned to the smug red hedgehog. Blue light built up in the triangular metal tunnel, drawing on the reserves of chaos energy stored in the mechs core. The bullet of energy shot, warping the air around it with a thunderous boom.

The hedgehog held out a palm towards the bullet, catching it like it were simply a tennis ball. Anything left of the white cotton glove disintegrated instantly.

Its eyes examined the energy much as it had before, however unlike before, a mild apathy settled on its face. The energy popped in its hand, agitated. The thing seemed indifferent to the growing light purple lightning scars engraving their way down Sonic's hand and wrist.

“Artificial intelligence, you are aware the titans adapted the power of the chaos emeralds, correct?” It said, its more feminine vocals taking charge for a moment. It studied the power in its palm. A very Sonic like triumphant grin formed, “You are also aware, that this body conducts that power effortlessly, yes?” The sparking blue bolt morphed into a neon purple.

It took another moment to examine the energy fondly, transferring it to the other hand, possibly only to burn away the other glove.

“So, in essence, that little trick can no longer hurt me,”

Its right hand waved casually, dismissing the energy. With a crackle, the purple beam shot from his palm, shooting straight into the giant blue diamond of the large structure. It hummed, giant violet-red cracks breaking out in spiderwebs across its surface. A great crack smashed through the air, the diamond shattering like glass. A blinding ball of red light engulfed the structure. Giant chunks of stone hurtled into the air, decorating the cold morning sky.

Amy and Tails threw up their hands to block the light from the explosion. They were luckily far enough away not to be caught up in it but they were forced to scramble away from the giant chunks of falling building raining from the sky. Both blinked quickly as their vision recovered.

Tails yelped. A stone the size of a small fridge landing on his left leg.

“Tails!” Amy turned, sprinting up to him, zig zagging around other falling debris. She swung her hammer, knocking the stone off his leg.

“Look out!” Tails warned, pointing up.

A looming shadow engulfed the two. The pink hedgehog grabbed Tails’ hand, running to the edge of the shadow. Her boot caught a stray stone, sending them both tumbling into the lake of red flowers. Amy curled protectively around the fox, pink spines pointed outwards.

Knuckles leapt onto the scene, jumping from one falling rock to the next, launching himself up. With a yell of rage, he punched upward, encountering resistance before breaking through the giant slab of rock. It split clean in two, sending the two pieces sailing harmlessly into the ground either side of the other two below him.

Red petals flew up around him as he landed next to the others. Knuckles cringed, rubbing his arm to reduce the painful throbbing. He remembered before on Ares when he had tried to punch that signal thing. It hadn't even budged.

“Chaos-” Started the possessed hedgehog unhurriedly, raising his palm to the titan. All three creatures looked up in horror. “-spear,” A giant neon purple spear shot from the earth. It tore through the titan’s armour, impaling it straight through its abdomen. The tip of the spear burst out its head.

The red hedgehog tilted its head slightly, palm becoming a delicate point. The robot was hit with a sudden barrage of enormous neon arrows, pincushioning the mighty machine. Each attack impaling the giant mech with an unhealthy crunch.

The communicator on Eggman’s headset sent a loud anguished cry of pain shooting through his left ear.

The ancient technology sputtered, joints creaking, blue glitchy squares leaking out like plumes of smoke.

“Sage!” Eggman cried desperately, hand shooting up to his ear.

The spears flickered out, air hissed from underneath the great shifting panels of the mech. Large triangular chunks of alien metal detached from its surface, hitting the ground in a stream of weighted thuds.

The trio watched the wrecked titan fall to the earth with a mighty crash, launching small rocks and clumps of dirt into the air.

“Okay, new plan,” Tails squeaked, his tails twitching anxiously behind him, “We need a new plan,” the fox ran his fingers quickly through the fur on his face. Amy crawled off him.

The fox’s eyes settled on the tall, keyhole like structure of a cyberspace portal on a nearby hill then to a pile of crates full of Eggman tech. Tails nodded to himself, but if this new plan was to work, he needed a distraction.

“How dare you!” Eggman howled, voice amplified through a loudspeaker.

The red hedgehog flinched at the doctor’s voice. Static leapt up into the air, bolts of red zapping furiously from the grassy floor of the island. Its neon purple eyes gleamed intensely, staring down at the doctor.

Eggman’s fury melted away into uncertain anger. He was still furious, rancid even but the usually quiet logical part of his brain was blaring warning alarms at him.

“Dr Ivo Robotnik,” it monologued calmly, yet its tongue warped around every word in disgust, “You contained the mortal on a ship in the atmosphere, restrained him for 6 prolonged months.”

“He may not declare it aloud, nonetheless…”

The doctor connected the dots. The logical side of Eggman’s brain won. He smashed his fingers into the keypad, grabbed the two handheld controls activating the jets and rocketing off.

“HE DOESN’T FAVOUR YOU.” Boomed the voice after him.

Eggman’s egg fleet rumbled in over the horizon. Some blinking into view, dropping their camouflage. Giant fish like metal tanks, blacking out much of the sunlight. There were so many they caked the sky like an angry thunder cloud.

The doctor smashed the big red button on his console with his elbow. “Attack!” commanded the doctor in a desperate shout.

All the cannons pointing towards the hedgehog fired at once.

Tails watched the bolt of red lightning shriek after Eggman. A hailstorm of yellow energy bullets thundered down on the possessed hedgehog. Tails flattened his ears, Amy covering hers, both of them still burdened with the high-pitched ringing from the previous explosion.

“That works,” Tails gulped, pushing himself to his feet. He cautiously put pressure on his leg, hissing when a white-hot pain shot through his foot.

Amy opened her mouth.

“I’m fine,” Tails winced. The fox span his tails into a helicopter whirr, lifting his injured foot from the ground and flying over to the metal crates.

“Tails, where are you going?” Amy called after him, following in a quick limp.

[canaryatlaw]

Well, today was kind of blah, mostly because I'm still in the same shitty mood from yesterday. And now that I'm back here even though I have a handle on most of my things I still feel ridiculously stressed out and can't stop my mind from racing and I could really use some fucking Xanax right now (I only say that because I'm awaiting my prescription for it from the company, I don't normally throw around comments like that). Ugh. But anyway. My alarm went off at 9:45 and I got up, got my things together and got ready, then ate some breakfast and my dad took me to the airport. I made it through all my goodbyes okay, despite having the feeling in my chest that tears were lurking right below the surface, waiting to be set off at the smallest trigger, but it somehow subsided and I was okay. The airport is small, so I made it through security and to the gate in no time. The first flight was fine, nothing spectacular. I mostly worked on my appellate brief, fixing citations and breaking up sentences (because I have a habit of making 4 line sentences, grammatically proper but I know my prof won't appreciate it) and just generally trying to get my word count up. We landed in Baltimore pretty soon and my next flight was in an hour, with the gate pretty close by to where I was. So I grabbed some sushi that looked appetizing from one of the places then sat at the gate and took advantage of the free wifi I finally managed to hack into without actually paying (it's not actual hacking, it's just knowing how to navigate the system). And with that wifi I looked up and downloaded the rest of the cases mentioned in the trial court fake opinion so I could use them for the second section of my paper. Flight boarded soon, and when we were in the air I started reading cases and working on them, and made a solid amount of progress. Landed after not too long, took for-fucking-ever for our bags to come, and then my uber app flipped out on me and kept saying my request wouldn't go through so I'm like fine whatever I'll use Lyft, so I do and the driver gets there a lot quicker than they usually do since the airport makes them wait in a special lot until they get a pick up. So I get in the car and we started chatting, apparently they had been leaving the airport after another pick up planning on going home but had their app on to see if they'd get anything going north towards where they lives and they got me haha so they turned around and so we went. And then I get a notification saying my uber driver was arriving now and I'm like ????? I bring up the app and it doesn't even have a trip going, so I'm like wtf....and then a few minutes later the poor guy calls wanting to know where I am and I'm just like....I didn't order an uber?? Haha it was strange. But my driver and I established pretty early on that we're both tumblr people, so that kind of set the level of understanding of each other for the rest of the conversation haha. So we talked about a lot of things, they talked about figuring out that they were non-binary and picking a new name, and of course we eventually got into religion and it's social effects and I was happy to hear that they were still actually a Christian even after having grown up in a crappy conservative Christian environment and dealing with all that shit. So they were telling me how much they love their church and I in turn told them how much I love my church, and yeah, it was nice. Got home soon enough, and as expected my white canary boots had arrived, so I had to try on my whole costume to make sure they work of course, haha (I'll post a photo when I'm down here). They fit, thankfully, and they match the costume pretty well- they're a little darker than the actual suit, but the jacket is a darker gray so with them together they just look awesome, so I'm very happy about that. So I settled in and started catching up on my tv shows, which I'll try to comment on if I can remember what I watched, lol. But I kept working on my appellate brief until I had about 4700 words (out of the maximum 5000). I had one more case I was gonna cover but the opinion was so confusing and its relevance to our case really tenuous, so I said ah screw it and called it there. Hopefully I can make up the last 300 or so words in final edits and adding transitory and other necessary things. I'm not worried though, which is good. I've said this a million times before, and I fucking hate it so much, but every single time I have to write something I get scared I won't be able to write as much as needed, even though I pretty much always exceed the word count and being too short is almost never an issue, and while knowing this, I still think it, and 5000 words was looming over me this whole week as some unattainable goal, so now that I'm a lot closer to it I'm feeling better about it. So yeah, tv. I initially picked out my recording of powerless, only to find out the dvr had actually recorded the premiere of trial and error. Okay, well I wanted to watch this anyway, so I might as well keep watching, and holy Jesus this show is amazing haha I already love it so much, although I know the legal inaccuracies are gonna kill me even when I'm telling myself it's a comedy ffs (but in the episode they were pulling shit like "oh homosexuality as a crime was never repealed here" and I'm like uh bullshit Lawrence v. Texas much???? Lol). But I enjoyed that a lot. I think I went to Designated Survivor next, which was a thoroughly epic episode, fairly major spoilers ahead (you've been warned) but ahhh I can't believe just like that MacLeish is dead??? The Vice President is dead?? And how that's just gonna look so much worse for president Kirkman and not just that MacLeish was a dirty traitor....ugh. I was glad to at least see my girl Hannah FINALLY getting vindicated cuz I was like ahh yes you go girl cuz I've hardcore been pulling for her this whole time, lol, so that was cool. But yeah, really intense and awesome episode, I liked it a lot. Riverdale next I think, and holy shit that episode was so sad???? Like dang man, Jughead's life is really fucking depressing. I was of course calling major bs when the sheriff supposedly took him in on literally no evidence and then had his school record because that's not fucking illegal or anything?????? Ugh. I'm glad he's at least living with Archie now though. Veronica continues to be awesome, and with the whole Betty and Polly situation I was thinking the whole time yo do not trust the Blossoms they evil AF so of course I was right there. Good episode though. Then I started last week's episode of Time After Time, which I managed to start in time to finish right before this week's episode started without actually meaning to at all haha so I watched the two episodes back to back. Continues to be an intriguing show, I think it's still finding its footing a bit, but the twists have been very interesting so far. I'm not sure how sustainable it is in the long run, like I'm not sure I can see it going more than one season really, which is unfortunate because it's clever, the plot just doesn't really allow for it. They also love killing people off haha I guess that's what happens when you have a show featuring Jack the Ripper. HG Wells continues to be an gem ("he came over right after world war 2" ".....there was more than 1???????") and the rest of cast does well too. So when that was over I knew I had just missed the live episode of Chicago justice, but I didn't really have much else to watch at this point so I watched the second episode. It wasn't bad, annoyed me less than the first, though that's likely just because they spent less time in the courtroom, lol. They're not quite mastering the time jump thing yet, where they go from crime to investigation to trial in one episode, without any real inference to time passing, which makes it feel like it all happened over like 3 days, which isn't just unrealistic, it's confusing, because they're like "oh who are we gonna bring to the grand jury?" and then the next scene is "the grand jury returned an indictment!" and you're just like da fuck?? Lol. The episode itself was interesting though, I wish they tied in their twist a little sooner, it seemed like too much of an afterthought with the entire plot they had come up with, but it was a well-thought out and well-played twist for sure. It kind of annoyed me that through the entire episode everyone was like "oh you know any cop who gets put on trial is gonna be found guilty" when that's pretty much categorically false, as cops are almost never convicted for officer involved behavior?? Lol, like I get that they're connected to Chicago PD or whatever but they gotta get that down a bit better. And yeah, when that was over I let the news play for a bit while I finished up the queue for the week on the company tumblr. Throughout the night I also wrote my "speech" (it's like a paragraph and a half) for the PAD election speeches tomorrow- so needless to say I decided that I would run. I had kind of come to that decision last night and was gonna text the justice (president) but I was already falling asleep, then I woke up and started doubting it again, but then came back to that conclusion and went for it. I'm not running for justice though because I know that would be too much, so I'm running for service chair (my current position) and vice justice. I don't know the current state of people running, but I have to imagine it's not gonna be all that many. I guess we'll see tomorrow though. And yeah, that's about it. Tired and about ready to fall asleep, back to real life tomorrow. So goodnight friends of mine. Hope you had a relaxing weekend.