//------------------------------// // 17: More Koco And Emeralds // Story: Spike's Frontier // by dragonfan101 //------------------------------// Spike and Sonic had proceeded to move their way back to the island, Spike gave Sonic a ride as they figured it would be easier to fly across the place. they soon found Tails with another Koco with goggles on its head. "You were right, guess i owe you 50 rings" Sonic said as he lost the bet. "We'll focus on that later, let's go see what Tails is doing." Spike suggested, Sonic nodded in agreement and they headed down to him. Spike landed on the ground leaving a small impact and Sonic got off of him, they walked up to Tails to see what's going on. "Yo!" Sonic told him. "Everything okay Tails?" Spike asked confused, Tails then turned to them. "Hey, this Koco is an apprentice to their top pilot. they need to find parts to finish their final weapons." Tails explained to them. "Pilots? does he mean the people we saw in those visions?" Spike asked Sonic. "Could be." Sonic said thinking it over, but he decided to think it over later. "I'm sure you two have run into this scenario before, what'd you do?" Tails asked "Well we helped them out." Sonic told him. "Yeah, our friends on the other island needed our help keeping them safe." Spike explained recalling the last times they helped the Koco. "But isn't that... cruel? Their battle is long over, it feels dishonest" Tails questioned "It may seem like it, but it's not, we're just trying to bring them to peace" Spike tried to explain to him. "Yeah Spike's right, we're not fixing the problem they think they have, we're just bringing them to peace" Sonic said agreeing. "Well when you two put it that way." tails said with understanding, he then turned to the Koco" Let's get to work!" Tails told it, and Spike nodded ready to help as well. They all took a look around trying to find out how to help. They came near a lava flow near the edge of the island. The koco told tails something and he nodded and turned to them. "We need a few more pieces, but we're having trouble finding them." Tails told them. "I'll take care of it, lava can't harm me one bit, this won't be a problem for me." Spike offered. "Do your thing buddy, just be careful" Sonic told him. "Your kind is lava proof?" Tails asked surprised. "Yeah, it may seem strange, but just watch." Spike said as he walked into the lava pool, Spike sighed in relief as it felt like a hot spring at its best. "Wow, that's really amazing!" Tails said amazed, Spike soon decided it was enough and walked out and shook it off. "Yeah it really is, all right guys stay here, I'll be back." Spike said before going off looking for the parts. "He really is something else." Tails said still surprised and Sonic nodded. "He really is, just hope things turn out well for us at the end." Sonic said as they watched Spike go off. Spike had to do a little game where there where floating platforms that had craters on them, the larger they were the more parts that were in them, Spike needed to collect at least 600 of them to have all he needs, Spike jumped from platform to platform taking out each crate and collecting parts. "Thank goodness i have Hammerspace" Spike said as he put them all away, Spike proceeded to take care of it all almost avoiding the platforms that fell down if he stood there for to long, eventually though he got all of them and landed near the cliffside. The green emerald appeared before Spike and he smiled at that, he gladly grabbed the emerald and did a backflip into the air before landing on the ground and holding the emerald with a smile to the camera. Spike caught up with Sonic and Tails as they were near a large cannon of somekind. "I got the parts! And another emerald!" Spike said as he gave the Koco them and showed them the green emerald. "Great work!" Tails said really glad at that. They watched as the Koco had inserted the parts into the cannon and they made sure to help when they could, eventually they all finished and sighed in relief. "Well that's it. The cannon is complete" Tails said as they were done. "Thank goodness." Spike said in relief. The Koco then started to make what were like sounds of worry and they look concerned. "What's wrong?" Spike asked concerned "They're worried about something, their hero didn't show, worried somethings happened." tails told them. "Who was their hero?" Spike asked, he then noticed Tails was looking a little sad. "It's how what i was like after Infinite attacked. One wrong turn.. and i fall apart.." Tails said sadly, Spike was surprised as he heard that, it made him remember all the times he was sidelined back home and couldn't do anything to help. "Yeah... one wrong turn.." Spike said sadly as well agreeing with it. "Woah what?" Sonic asked surprised as he didn't expect them to say something like that. Tails then looked at the Koco. "Listen to me, the others are counting on you! I'm here to help, so don't give up okay?" Tails asked it. "Yeah, we're here for you." Spike said as well and Tails looked grateful for that. Sonic then looked at both of them concerned. "You two got me worried guys, you wanna talk?" Sonic asked concerned, but they shook it off. "Not right now, let's focus on finding the emeralds." Tails told him and Spike nodded in agreement. 'Yeah, the sooner we find them the better." Spike said agreeing, Sonic still looked concerned but he decided to focus on it later. "All right, let's get going" Sonic said as they started walking off again. The two of them made they're way around the island even more, they found another Cyberspace portal and earned more vault keys and it opened the yellow and white emerald vaults, making things easier for later, they then headed to another cannon that was near a smaller island off in the distance, the island also housed the yellow emerald so that makes 3 left to get. "Pretty convenient that it was here huh?" Spike asked as they continued. "Yeah , it really is." Sonic said agreeing as they made their way to the cannon. Tails was currently working on it as Sonic was holding his arm as he still felt weak from the corruption, he then noticed them and smiled. "Hey guys! almost done here!, think you can take our friend here to find more parts?" Tails asked looking at the Koco. "Sure thing." Spike said with a smile. "Can do." Sonic said a little tired, They then walked off with the Koco as tails waved goodbye as they left, Once they were gone Sage then appeared in front of him. "Yipe!" Tails said in surprised. she then teleported right behind him. "Miles Prower, you have know Sonic most of your life" Sage started to say, Tails then turned to her confused. "Yeah? And?" Tails asked, she then teleported behind him again. "Your imprisonment within cyberspace, the defeat of the Ancients titans, do you trust how he is handling it? With your life?" She questioned. Tails then looked up at her. "Of course! I'll admit he isn't perfect, but he's overcome impossible odds again and again. I know he'll save us all, as well as Spike." Tails said with confidence. She then teleported behind him again. "So your saying you have faith in him? in both of them?" Sage questioned. "It's not a matter of faith, I've got a lifetime of data to back up my observations, and I'm sure Spike will do great things like him." Tails told her. "Your loyalty is founded in empirical data, i can appreciate that, the feelings they inspire with you and the others.. is that a facet of being alive?" She asked "And yet all your love and loyalty will amount to nothing, it cannot be prevented" She said looking away for a moment and Tails looked confused. "What are you talking about?" Tails asked and she then realized she said it out loud. "Your new friend may be our only chance at this point, do us a favor and make sure that he makes it through this." Sage told him. "Are you talking about Spike?" Tails asked confused. "I did not foresee him coming in the millions of scenarios i've foreseen, but he may be what we need to save us all." Sage said looking through more simulations of him using the emeralds. "Save us from what?" Tails asked again, she then floated away into the device. "Perhaps it is kinder that if you don't know." Sage told him before disappearing, Tails looked confused at that. "What could she mean by that?" Tails questioned thinking over what she said about Spike.