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Akane
“So you believe I will be that simple to take down Shadow?” Eggman was taunting us again. “Well, the good sir Avarus gave me a few gifts for helping him out here. One of them being this tower!” The tubing coming from his little cockpit went taunt across the ground; shimmering with electricity. A few seconds later, the ground began moving. His cockpit rose up, and walls began circling upwards towards it. He was going to seal us up in here.
“Move!” Shadow said, grabbing me and leaping out the closing walls. We fell for a few seconds when a man I recognized as Tien grabbed onto Shadow.
“Gotcha!”
“Put us down over there!” Shadow yelled up over the slowly increasing storm. We settled down on the roof of a building below us the streets were filling with water, it might have been close to ankle deep already. Above us the whole tower was moving as four pillars running the length of the tower became visible and moved away of their own accord. The outer wall seemed to form plating as it shifted, leaving a skeleton of the former tower behind. I could see Neko and the others fighting at the new top; meanwhile Eggman's machine settled down. The four enormous legs consisted the bulk of the craft, but all along those legs were plates and I could make out gun turrets along move of the machine. At the top rested the comparatively small cockpit.
“What's the plan?” I asked turning to Shadow.
“Usually when he gets these big things we just climb on top of them and make our way to the cockpit. But those legs are a sheer climb, and without the Crystal there's no way I could run all the way straight up.”
“There's several of us that can fly up there though.” Tein said.
“Not the best idea, there's a lot of turrets waiting for anyone to get close, any minute now they'll go online and we'll be flying through a storm of bullets.”
“Then we need a distraction.” I pointed out. “Some one who can fly fast enough to draw fire while someone else gets flown up.” Shadow nodded a little thinking.
“The problem is we've got to rely on the natural fliers, the airships have been grounded by the storm.” Tien said.
“We might be able to cripple it though if we can get close enough.” I turned to the new voice to see Piccolo standing behind us. “Those legs are fairly bulky, but they taper down to a much smaller point near the top.”
“We might even be able to cut through down here if we put enough muscle into it. We surely have enough.” Tien said.
“Let's start there then, if we can do some damage at the base we might be able to stop it immediately. Or at least cripple it enough to get higher.” Shadow said. “Go gather the strongest people still able to fight, we might be able to take this thing apart, even if its piece by piece!”
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