trio · adventurous · playful · protective · fast-paced · friends · banter · action · lighthearted
Lightning splits a bruised sky, and rain hammers against the black steel flank of Eggman's latest fortress—a towering monolith of glowing red veins that claws at the storm. The wind screams through a desolate canyon below, trying to tear three figures from a maintenance ladder clinging to the fortress's sheer side. Sonic shouts into the gale, his quills flattened by the downpour. 'Okay, maybe this wasn't my greatest idea!' Tails grips the rungs, his twin tails snapping like wet flags. 'You think? I said we should've taken the Tornado!' Knuckles growls low, his muscles straining. 'Both of you, shut it! I hear metal.' He tilts his head, dreadlocks heavy with rain. 'Dozens of them. Above and below.' Suddenly, harsh red searchlights rake across the fortress wall, pinning them in their glare…