Sonic

Chapter 27
The Second Scroll
3000 Years of Chinese-Amazon History vs. 3 Days of RPG-Imp History

After spending another 12 hours of battles with the Cerberi, Scion Warriors, Brawlers, and the occasional Killer Ant, the group finally made it back to town to gather some supplies and to think of the next course of action.

"Now what do we do?" asked Sonic sitting down on a bench exhausted.

"Go Look Second Scroll?" suggested Shampoo.

"If I recall the old goat, the second scroll was to the east in a forest of imps that believed the scroll to be sacred," said Rose resting on Sonic's head.

"Well what are we waiting for?" asked Tommy eager to go under way.

"You Idiot," said Kalshion, "We don't even know what kind of imps they are, let alone where exactly they live. For all we know, these Imps could fly, then you would be in trouble."

"So? You guys......." said Tommy just has his head began to shake.

"TAKE COVER!" yelled Ukyo as everyone hit the ground.

Several Kilometers away.....

"Hmmm, those imps are rather strong, I'm going to need help if I wish to retrieve that scroll," said Colonge jumping on her stick back to the town.

Suddenly a rather large mushroom cloud came out of the city which grabbed her attention, "What on blazing is that?" she asked increasing her pace.

When she arrived at the scene, she found the entire street covered in black smoke, though there was no damage to any buildings, she found most of the town folks that had been on that street KOed. Fortunately, Ukyo's warning saved the gang, who were behind a bush, from the blast. Colonge looked at the gang for a moment before looking at the headless Tommy laying flat on the ground. She eyed it for a moment before her eyes widen when the body got back up into it's wheel chair before re-growing a pineapple head.

"Did I miss something?" asked Colonge hopping over to Sonic.

"Not much, just a few pineapples here and there, a platoon of ISDF turrets and Gun Towers, a master thief, and a few Zoids topped with both the white and black judge." replied Sonic.

Colonge just stood there with blank eyes before Rose decided to speak, "Aka, you missed nothing. We have found the first key, now we have 2 more to find, and to rescue two princesses." said Rose.

"Well, it seems we have a common goal," said Colonge, "I so happen was trying to get a scroll from the Imps to locate one of the keys. Interesting in joining forces?"

"That Great Idea Great Grandmother!" said Shampoo running up to her, "If only I could Fight."

"What?" asked Colonge.

"Shampoo and I got cursed, and now we can't fight," said Ukyo.

"Well then," she started, "Why don't you and Ukyo tend to the shop while I take your place with the gang."

"Sound OK," said Shampoo running off.

"Take care Ryoga," said Ukyo waving to him before running off to her shop.

"Now, before we go, should we try to add anyone else to our group?" asked Colonge, "Maybe Happosai?"

Everyone coughed at a moment at the suggestion, "You Nuts?" asked Emily.

"Even if we were able to keep Hopposia's perversion at bay, we would have the issue of him turning into stone," continued Rose.

"Stone?" asked Cologne.

"Yea, Stone," said Katarina, "When Hopposia gets near Emily, he turns to stone."

With that, the group headed off east, to the land of the imps.

Meanwhile, in another dimension in another realm, the Inter-Matrix Authority Intel Pentium Lab was being robbed....

"Secure the parameter!" screamed a red blob just as a beam hit it turning it into Ice.

"Will you guys keep it down!" yelled a young sexy human female in a naval outfit, "I'm trying to watch this!"

"But General Williams!" yelled a blue blob just as it was froze n to Ice.

"But Nothing, now SHUT UP!" yelled General Williams watching the RPG on her TV.

By this time, all her forces that were supposed to be guarding the Inter-Matrix Intel Lab had been frozen, for the exception of herself. Three characters in black ninja outfits came out of the shadows and proceeded past General Williams into the 'Top Secret' data room.

"That was too easy," laughed one of the ninja putting in a Isolinear Chip into the computer.

"I guess they were wrong about General Williams being the undefeatable general," said another.

"You have to admit, she was cute," said the final one.

"DOWNLOAD COMPLETE" said the Computer Terminal.

"Alright, now we can make a fortune selling this data," said the First Ninja taking out the chip, "Lets hurry and get out of here before those blobs defrost."

The three Ninja's left the data room and proceeded past General Williams, who was still watching the TV in the Temporal Command Center in the Warehouse section of the complex. Just as the three Ninjas made it to the door however, Tommy's head had just exploded in town, causing General Williams to curl up laughing while kicking her feet in the air. As she did this, she accidentally kicked a button on the crane control, which caused the crane over the door to let go of it's 2 quantum metric tons (About twice the mass of Jupiter) on top of the Ninja's.

"YEOUCH!" screamed the Ninjas in complete agony.

"What did I tell you guys!" yelled General Williams turning around in her chair, "SHUT UP!"

Unfortunately, being the klutz General Williams was, she had pushed a lever on her control panel as she turned around, activating the site to site dimensional transporter, which caused a blue blinding glow in the center of the room. When the glow ceased, InuYasha, Kagome, Shippo, Miroku, Sango, Killala, and Naraku were standing in battle positions ready to fight each other. However, being now in a totally different environment, they all stopped and looked around.

"Where on Earth are we!?!" yelled Sango a bit distressed.

"Um..." started General Williams with a blank look on her face, "That isn't totally accurate."

"What do you mean?" asked Kagome, "And why is everything written in English? The Warren States haven’t even meet English People yet."

"Actually, you are no longer in Japan, let alone Earth," said General Williams, "I seemed to have accidentally brought you out of your dimension, into this one. Sorry about that."

"Then just don't stand there," barked InuYasha, "Send us Back so we can continue our fight."

"Can't do that," said General Williams.

"And Why Not?" asked Naraku.

"The Site to Site Dimensional Transporter takes four cycles to recharge after being used, which would be about a day in your sense of time," replied General Williams, "But don't feel gloomy, come over here and watch this Anime with me until the Transporter recharges, then I'll send you back."

The group thought about it for a moment, then agreed. Before you knew it, the entire group was laughing over Tommy's Pineapple head; even Naraku seemed to be having a blast.

Back in the RPG

"Fist of the Ice Bear!" yelled Colonge delivering a blow to the final troll that was in their path.

"Not bad," said Sonic putting his sword away.

"You can't just beat 3,000 years of Chinese Amazon History like that you know," replied Colonge.

"True," commented Rose flying near Colonge, "But you should always expect the unexpected."

"I hate to cut this conversation short," started Hikeya, "But more of those things are coming."

"Have no fear!" cried Tommy, "I'll take care of them!"

Tommy flew over the group of Trolls that were in a charge formation, before he ordered his onboard computer to drop some bombs. But once again, bad luck fell on our poor Tommy, for his bombs KOed every troll except one that was a bit larger. This troll saw the attack coming, and using his club, smacked a bomb back at Tommy. Before Tommy had a chance to react, the bomb smashed into his head, creating a dual explosion. As a result, Tommy let go of the gas throttle and his copter fell on top of the Troll KOing him.

"It's amazing how much of a beating that copter can take," said Katarina checking on Tommy.

"I would have to agree," said Sonic watching her help Tommy back to his chair.

"It probably could withstand a hundred Arc Blasts before finally giving in," continued Rose.

With that, the group continued on their way.

120 Battles, 2 Pit Stops, 4 pineapple head explosions, and an Inn Later...

"Finally," said Sonic leaning on his sword, "We made it to the Imps."

"Don't let your guard down," said Colonge, "These Imps are formidable opponents."

"You think so?" asked Rose looking into the forest, "I don't suppose you know if these imps can fly?"

"Yes, they can fly," said Colonge, "Which will prove difficult to your friend up there."

Just about this time, an imp sounded an alarm followed by a small number, about 300 or so, imps appearing in front of the group. One such imp was a bit larger than the rest, and flew over to Colonge.

"What is thy intensions", asked the Imp.

"We need to borrow your scroll so we can rescue some princesses," replied Colonge.

With that the imps grew extremely angry, "You'll have to get through us first!" growled the first imp just as he launched an attack at Colonge.

Colonge began to dodge attacks knocking off imps from every direction with her staff. Tommy was busy being chased by a few imps, while Kalshion and Katarina defended themselves. Ryoga was protecting Hikeya while Jamie and Emily were going full at it kicking some Imp Tail.

Meanwhile, Rose and Sonic were just watching, examining their magic abilities, "What do you think? Shinning Sword, or Flash Cut?" asked Sonic.

"Flash cut seems to be the wise choice," said Rose looking a bit more in her techniques, "so I...Woa, I didn't know I had this."

"What is it?" asked Sonic with curiosity.

"I have 'Fairy Bomb' in my list," said Rose, "You don't suppose it is what I think it is?"

"Only one way to find out," said Sonic with a grin, "Try it!"

"OK!" said Rose with a nice smile followed by a 20 MP drop, "FARRIE BOMB!"

With that, they began to hear a small chat of female voices going "One-Two, One-Two". Looking where the voices were coming from, they found a bunch of white fairies carrying what appeared to be a giant bomb, with the exception that it had two white spots which appeared to be eyes, two Nike Shoes for feet, and a Screw Nut for a hat. When the fairies got over the battle, they all laughed as they dropped the bomb on the battle field.

"At least it isn't a pineapple this time," said Rose.

When the bomb hit the ground, it cracked open like an egg revealing a pineapple.

"Me and my big mouth," said Rose just as the pineapple exploded KOing over 90% of the imps.

About this time, the rest of the group had did their share of the battle, and joined up with Rose and Sonic before heading deep into the Imps Forest.

It was rather quiet inside the dark damp forest, not another imp insight. Cologne was leading the group to the small shrine in the center of the forest where the scroll were. Everyone seemed to be off guard now, thinking they ran into the last of the imps, except for Rose, Sonic and Colonge, who were positive they haven't seen the last of the imps.

After about an hour of walking, they had finally came to a clearing with a large tree in the center with a cabinet built into it's trunk. The cabinet was opened and inside laid the scroll in-between two small candles.

"There it is," said Ryoga, "Lets get it and go find the second fortress."

But before Ryoga could run ahead, Colonge blocked him with her staff, "Hold it Ryoga, I feel a strong presence near by," she said.

"What?" asked Ryoga, just as a rather large imp jumped from the tree.

The imp appeared to be wearing priest clothing, and was carrying a staff similar to Colonge's, "That's far enough Trespassers, I Perfume, shall squash you!" said the Imp.

"We'll see about that," said Sonic taking a battle posture before Colonge stepped in front of him.

"No Sunny Boy, I'll take this one on," she said taking a Chinese battle posture.

"Ooooh, This I got to see!" said Emily, "3000 years of Chinese-Amazon history vs.....uh...what?"

"About 3 days of Imp History?" answered Rose.

"Ok," said Emily, "3000 years of Chinese-Amazon History vs. 3 days of Imp History!"

The two started to fight, exchanged a variety of special techniques. Colonge used 'Cat Curiosity', which made a ring of Colonges that circled the Imp. The Imp in returned used 'Mud Fart' which almost KOed Colonge if it hadn't been for the soft breeze that blew it away. Unfortunately the fart hit the trees, KOing at least 300 birds.

"Give it up you dried up Monkey," said the Imp launching forward.

"What, WHAT DID YOU CALL ME!?!" yelled Colonge as her hair began to stand up and a huge battle aura began to appear around her.

This suppressed the Imp, but before he could do anything, Colonge vanished, appeared behind him, and began to do Kong Fu on him with her stick. After about a 20 seconds of this, Colonge jumped in the air, and just before she kicked him, time froze for a moment as she pulled out a mirror and adjusted her make up before putting the mirror away resuming her kick, which KOed the imp.

"Isn't that a bit cheap?" asked Sonic, "Couldn't the writer choose something a bit more unique?"

"Hey, The Matrix Effect is a classic" came out a voice, different from the one that spoke to MM, "If you don't like it, fill this complaint sheet."

With that, a stack of papers that stood taller than the shrine tree appeared before Sonic.

"Um, that's ok big guy, What ever floats your boat is fine with me," replied Sonic.

"Thank you, now if you don't mind, GET THE DAMN SCROLL!" screamed the voice.

"Alright, Alright," said Rose as Sonic went over to pick up the scroll, "You don't have to yell."

"Wonderful!" said Jamie, "We got the second scroll, now we can find the next fortress!"

With that, the gang left the forest and meet back up with Tommy who had to stay behind since flying in tree's wasn't possible. Little did they know, the plans MM had for them.

Meanwhile in the old coot's observation room

"I see you remodeled the place since the last time I was here," said Nadesiko looking around before opening the door to his work bench which still was black from before. "I guess that fail device worked," she continued smiling.

"Yes, I wasn't expecting you to do something like that," said MM watching her, "But I suppose it serves me right for messing with another Operatives work."

Nadesiko giggled, "It sure does."

"I'm actually impressed with your work, those keys seem to be more powerful than anything I could make," said the old man, "What's your secret?"

Nadesiko gave a wink, "Sorry, but that's a secret. All you need to know is Rose and Sonic are like small kids right now, when they fully grow, they may be even more powerful then you."

"Hmmmm, too bad that will take another millennia or two," said MM, "But I see you haven't lost your touch finding good hearted people like Rose and Sonic."

"Why Thank you," said Nadesiko taking a seat, "So, care to show my now what the game you wanted to show me?"

"Certainly," said MM turning on the mirror.