The Apocalypse 2: Rise of Zephiles [The Original]

Ch. 23

Silver picked up two more ore cars and slammed them into Zephiles' head. He let out a roar, ripped a tree out of the ground, and threw it. It landed on a tank, causing it to blow up. Soldiers started coming out of the tanks. "Oh, come on!" Zephiles took off toward a bunch of warehouses next to the hotel. Jason took off after him. He was stopped by a group of soldiers. They aimed their machine-guns at him. "Freeze!" one of them yelled. Jason stopped moving and put up his hands. Zephiles looked back and fired a fireball at the soldiers. Jason dove forward towards the soldiers. "I said FREEZE!" the soldier yelled again. He fired a shot that struck Jason in the shoulder, but that didn't stop him. He tackled two of the soldiers to the ground just as the fireball passed over them. Jason got up and took off towards Zephiles. "Did he just save us?" a soldier asked. Silver and Blaze ran past the soldiers and joined up with Jason at the warehouses. "You can't beat me Jason!" Zephiles yelled. A large crows of people, along with a few soldiers, and a tank, were approaching. "Silver." Jason said. "I have an idea. I'll need your help, though." "Sure." Silver said. "What?" Zephiles crawled on top of one of the warehouses. "Come on, Jason! let's finish this!" he yelled. "Where are you?" "Right here, Zephiles." Jason said, stepping out into the open. Zephiles tore a chunk out of the warehouse and threw it at Jason. It knocked him into the warehouse behind him. He slowly crawled out of the hole and back outside. Zephiles crawled off of the roof and made his way towards Jason, like a snake slithering over the pavement. Jason got up on his feet. "Ready to die, Jason?" "Are you?" he asked, with a smile. Zephiles didn't say anything. "NOW!" Jason yelled. Silver raised two cars into the air. Jason turned and ran towards one of the walls of a warehouse. He ran up the wall and kicked off, doing a back-flip, and drawing his sword. Silver brought the two cars down on Zephiles' head causing him to become slightly dazed. Jason dropped down on Zephiles' neck and drove the sword into his head. He let out a roar and then his tail stopped moving and he collapsed to the ground with a thud. Jason didn't move for a minute. He just sat on Zephiles' neck and inhaled deeply. He then slid off and put his sword away. The others gathered around to celebrate. "Nice work, Jason." Jet said. "You killed him." "He was getting on my nerves." Jason started to turn around. "Now to--" There were soldiers pointing guns at them. The general was standing in the middle. There was a huge crows of civilians who were watching the whole event. Just when Jason thought the soldiers were going to fire, civilians started clapping and cheering. Jason didn't know what to think. The soldiers that he had saved before dropped their guns and clapped, too. The general walked up to Jason. "What is your name, young man?" he asked. "Jason, sir." "Well, Jason. On behalf of the United States government, I'd like to personally thank you for saving the city of New York." "So you're not gonna capture us, lock us up in test tubes, run experiments on us? Something like that?" Jason asked. "No." he answered. "We were actually going to ask for your help." "Really?" Jason asked. "You want our help? What would we have to do" "Just do what you're doing; protect the people." Jason smiled. "That's all I ever do, sir. What about the others?" "The animals?" "Yes, sir. The animals." "They're in, too." the general said. "This is really weird." Jason said. "I thought the army would lock us up or something. Like--" "Like in the movies?" the general asked. "We're nothing like that. We have the ability to request help from those who obviously have the ability." "Does this mean that my friends here can go out in public without being shot at?" The general didn't say anything. "Because the only way I'd accept would be if we worked freelance. I don't want to have to worry about all the top secret, low profile crap." The general thought about it for a minute and then said, "Deal." "All right!" Tails shouted. Blaze and Silver high-fived each other. The soldiers started to leave. Blaze approached Jason. "We should probably go." she said. "We still have to save Wave and stop Mephiles." "Right." he said, turning back to the general. "Well, if you'll excuse us, we have a psychotic hedgehog to beat and one of my anthropomorphic friends to save." The general saluted him. "Good luck." Jason saluted him back."Thanks, sir." he turned to his friends. "All right, guys. Let's go bag us a hedgehog."