Fun in the Sun- Emerald Coast, Station Square

[Jamie Lee]

Metal blinked, staring at the loathsome hedgehog irritably. "Lead the way... where?"

[Shiny Unicorn Music]

By the time she reached the beach, the lobster and... the thing had run off into the city. This was crazy. Everything was happening at once. Amy wondered briefly if other peoples' lives were more evenly-paced before grabbing her discarded bag and heading back to the train station. However, there was a surprise waiting for her there too...

"WHADDYA MEAN, THE TRAIN'S STOPPED?"

The ticket taker put his hands up in the universal sign of "look, I'm unarmed." "Sorry miss, but an oil line broke right over the tracks. It's impossible to get a train through right now. You'll have to wait until the track's been cleaned up." The hedgehog sighed. "Well, I guess I could get a taxi or something..." She borrowed the restroom to change back into her dress, headed out to the street again, then turned towards the apartment complexes on an impulse. Hey, noise meant things were happening, right?

[L]

He flopped down the street, curiously looking from left to right. "What are you doing?" Crunch asked nervously. "TELL ME WHAT YOU'RE DOING!"

The creature's eyes drifted towards a nearby building. "Station Square Train Station" the sign read. It looked rather interesting. "Meh." He said, flopping off towards the train station.

The ticket taker gave him and Crunch an odd glance as they entered. Obviously, they'd never seen a mutant with a lobster hanging from its head before... not many people had, though Karle couldn't grasp how people would find this weird. He flopped up to the train platform. Empty. Darn. He was looking forward to seeing what was normally there. He looked over at a travelling business man sitting reading the newspaper on a nearby bench. "Meh. Meh meh meh meh?"

The man looked over his paper and noticed Karle. He got up from the bench with wide eyes and slowly inched off the train platform. "Meeeh." he moaned in disappointment. Why did people keep doing that?

[Sora]

Sonic looked at Metal, "Well, take it to Eggman! I wont follow... as Im sure that would get you into SERIOUS trouble, now wouldnt it? But I would like to be a part of the fight!!"

[Jamie Lee]

Where he capable of doing so Metal would have scowled. The hedgehog wasn't making any sense. First he tells him to lead the way, then tells him he won't follow him? Right. Like he would lead him anywhere anyway. Except perhaps off a cliff overlooking the deep sea.

Hoisting the robot up so he was side-hugging it around the throat, he turned and looked over the cliff that Tails' house sat beside, eager to get moving and get away.

"There is one thing more you should know."

Flying overhead just then, passing over Tails' house, was a rather exhausted looking praying mantis. In his arms he carried a small unicorn. Panting and gulping for air over having carried the boy for such a long distance, he was pretty near at the end of his stamina. Both his arms and wings ached from strain.

"Listen... I've gotta... set you down..." the mantis panted, "Train station's ahead... can take that... to Station Square..."

He began dropping altitude rapidly, passing less then gracefully right over Sonic and Metal's heads, before skidding to a landing on his bottom a short walk from the train station. Scythe let off a loud gasp of both relief and pain. His bottom was gonna be raw, but the stress was off his wings and at least Zizzle seemed okay.

He motioned to set Zizzle down beside him... and in the process accidentally sliced one of the appendages to Zizzle's hover wings with his arm blades. Scythe gasped and immediately panicked. "OHCRAPI'MSORRYIDIDN'TMEANTO!"

[Sora]

Sonic looked at the Unicorn for a moment and then looked back at Metal and said "Yeah, I'd like to follow... but I dont think that would look to good to Eggman. You know, you showing me where his base is. So I changed my mind. Now, what were you saying? Something I should know."

[Wez]

A warning flashed up in Zizzle's eye screen and he caught the severed appendage. His first impulse was to scream or cry, but it hadn't been the other's fault, he was sorry and it could be fixed. Almost mechanically, Zizzle pushed his alarm away.
"It's okay. I can fix it." His head pounded and he clung to the wing. He struggled to his feet and nodded to the mantis.
"Thanks for carrying me, it was very kind of you."
He felt a vague feeling tugging him in a direction back from where they'd flown and he winced, putting his free hand to his head when a spasm of pain followed the feeling right on its heels.
"Metal? Is that you? Or a light up signpost?"

[Jamie Lee]

Scythe nodded, making what was obviously a forced smile... giving quite an obvious indication to the perceptive that such accidents weren't uncommon.

"Yeah, no problem," he said, spinning on his heels so he wasn't facing the unicorn and took to bonking himself on the head with a fist, mumbling berating things to himself. "Stupid! It was an accident! You're stupid! Shut up!"

Metal had noticed the duo flying overhead, and had even recognized Zizzle. He didn't pay any further attention than that though. That is... until he heard Zizzle call out his name, causing the robot to ignore Sonic for a moment.

"Light... up... signpost?"

He felt quite insulted.

[Wez]

Hearing his voice brought a flood of relief, Zizzle got up and ambled unsteadily towards the voice, one hand out and clutching at the air sporadically.
"C-can you come here. I can't see right. It's all blurry. I hit my head and now it hurts and it's all blurry."
The most important thing to do here was not to panic. He focused on not panicking.
He didn't know he was heading towards the tracks though. His feelings were not very directional when he had a savage beating headache.

[Jamie Lee]

Metal just stared. "And what exactly do you want me to do about it?"

Sure, he could tell Zizzle was in pain, but he also lacked the sense of caring or compassion that would otherwise spring a normal person into action to help a wounded.

Scythe ceased scolding himself, wings fluttering in alarm. Did that kid just say the name he thought he'd heard?!

"Pleasedon'tletitbehim." muttered, spinning back to confirm it his face went pale when he spotted the demonic looking cobalt colored metallix up on the hill. Sonic was also there too, he noted. That was a good thing, right?!

Then Scythe's eyes went wide when he looked back over at Zizzle wans realized which direction he was heading. "... SNAP! LOOK OUT! THAT'STHECLIFF!"

[Wez]

"Where's a cliff?"
Zizzle's foot hit empty air and he plummeted. His wings activated instinctively but with one wing down, they screamed a hard left and he crashed into Metal's unyielding legs with a bang. Luckily, his head didn't hit, just his shoulder. Not so lucky for his shoulder. He bit down on the desire to scream again.
"Got to tell responsible adult ... need a doctor ..."

[Jamie Lee]

The metallix's eyes flashed with irritation, his first thoughts to kick the boy away from him. But, remembering his present company, decided against the idea. Glancing back at Sonic his eyes narrowed. "... I believe this is your job."

Scythe wasn't sure whether or not to sigh in relief or yell out in horror. The kid missed plummeting to his death, sure, but only to end crashing directly into that terrifying machine. Why wasn't Sonic doing anything?!

((Continued in Mystic Ruins - Much Ado))

[L]

((Yeah yeah. Give me a minute.))

Another trail pulled up to the platform. As the doors opened, he flopped his way into the vehicle. "Where are you taking me?" The lobster demanded.

"Meh." Karle replied.

It wasn't his fault that the lobster had chosen to cling to his head, he thought, as the doors closed. The train began moving.

((Yes, the mutant is going to follow you all until you notice him >( ))