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The arrangement for the consul of “Freedom Fighters” as the group of mobians called it were to meet in the Mystic Ruins. The ruins—as old as they were happened to be a sort of ancient wilderness where it would be fairly easy to detect technological activity as the only settlements across the archaic jungles were small villages and hamlets originally hoping to live in peace away from the arm of aristocratic politics. In a way it was rather ingenious for Tails to set up shop in the Mystic Ruins though it did come with a danger as well. Isolating themselves as a base of operations made them an easier target for Dr. Robotnik’s raids if he had ever thought to attack them straight up if they become more trouble than they were worth. In addition to the Egghead himself the Mystic Ruins was home to a variety of creatures that the ancient civilizations call “obelisks of beasts” – but maybe all of that great monster stuff was a lot more story rather than reality? Sonic didn’t want to take his chances personally.

Tails believed the best course of action was to be quiet and careful about their approach; if they were going to do more damage to the good doctor then they couldn’t make mistakes or risk lives of other mobians by setting up shop in a severely populated settlement. As far as the other freedom fighters were concerned—it was an agreeable choice… to everyone but [b]Johnny Lightfoot[/b]. Lightfoot never felt comfortable near anything that smelt of the abhorred technology that Robotnik created and Tails for the most part was the second coming of the man as he held several inventions he created to counteract Robotnik in addition to having a lot of Robotnik’s technology lying around to be studied by the two-tailed fox. Johnny was just too absorbed in his own emotional hatred, though Sonic understood his feelings given the circumstances. But sometimes you needed to chill out and take it in stride.

It is for the greater good. That’s something everybody could agree on. Sonic leaned back against an old pillar that came up from the tall jungle grass on a slight slant. It was pretty sturdy for its age and it gave some good support as Sonic looked over the rest of the freedom fighters that had gathered together. In addition to Johnny Lightfoot and Miles “Tails” Prower they also had a pretty good assortment of problem solvers. [b]Amy Rose[/b] was a sort of odd one who devoted her time to two things: being Sonic’s “number one fan” and being the best expert they had on the Mystic Ruins and its folklore. He had pondered what threw him off about Amy but it definitely had to do with her interest in the weird sort of things—sorcery, evil spirits, soul reading… the girl was a bonified freak; but she was kind of cute.

Speaking of cute there was also one more lady of the group—but this one was more experienced in reconnaissance and combat. Definitely more on the Johnny Lightfoot side of personality problems and in a way she kind of scared Sonic personally. Sonic wasn’t sure if her real name was [b]Honey[/b] or if she came up with it to push aside all of her past connections. Robotnik had ruined a lot of people’s lives and she happened to be one that was affected by that. Her skills were… pretty much in martial melee fighting and Sonic had once heard a story from Tails that she had taken down a tank-type badnik in one single punch. Scary stuff.

The meeting outside of Tails’ workshop was going pretty much how he had expected it to—Johnny and Honey wanted to physically hurt things [i]right now[/i], but Tails insisted on giving him more time as he scanned the island with what little power he had from the workshop, and Amy was studying some type of item that she believed had ties to the ancient people who lived in this valley for whichever reason. In a flash all of this impatience, study, and observations came to a sudden halt however when a loud noise cut through the nearby mountains with a sound that Sonic couldn’t quite describe—it was so loud and painful to hear it shook his very being. As the sound drew closer the rocks of the mountain in front of them by about a good mile or so was tore open from the inside by what Sonic immediately recognized as a new invention from Robotnik himself.

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“So he’s managed to rebuild his metal boat and make it fly, huh…” Sonic muttered under his breath.

“What is that?!” Tails said as he shot a glance toward this… thing.

“Whatever it is; it smells like Robotnik.” Sonic quipped before the rocks attached to parts of the emerging vessel began to drop—and drop hard they did.

“Look out!” Sonic yelled as he narrowed his brows—the rocks could crush his friends if they didn’t take cover now. It was a good thing he was the fastest thing alive.