Off to the future by Herofox & Hellfox (Cassie and Sandy are in the woods out side the house.) Cassie: It's too bad about the Knux-Bot. Sandy: Yeah. It's a shame Espio crashed it at the harbour. Cassie: Pretty dumb place to put a bridge wasn't it? Sandy: Yep. (Patch comes running up.) Sandy: I better go now, Patch is kind of weird. Cassie: I think he's sweet. Sandy: Too bad it's me he's got a crush on. (She runs off.) Patch: Was it something I said? Cassie: Don't worry about it. (Suddenly. A net drops onto Cassie. A huge wolf-man snatches the net.) Cassie: Patch help! Patch: Mobius morpher transform! (Turns into Hound.) Hound: Drop her right now! ?????: Hound...Hummmm? I'll finish you off when I get back! (A blinding flash lights up the area. Cassie is unconscious. When she wakes up she is in a cage.) ?????: So you finally awake? Cassie: Who are you? And why have you brought me here? ?????: I am...(He steps into the light.) Storm. Cassie: Storm? Storm: That's right...Flash! Cassie: How do you know that? Storm: I have known your real name for about two years now. Cassie: Wait...you look different somehow? Storm: That's because we're in the future. Cassie: WHAT!? Storm: Yes. I have brought you five years into Mobius future. By the way, the war between the Acorns and the Freedom fighters? You lost. Sally now rules the entire planet. And Earth will be next! Cassie: No... How? Storm: Let me show you. This sword is little souvenir from my last battle with Tails. (She thinks for a while. Then it finally sinks in...) Cassie: You killed him!? Storm: Guess you're not such a bimbo after all. Cassie: But how could he be defeated by YOU? Storm: A little trick called genetic mutation. Long live DNA! (Storm walks into the light. He has bigger muscles, a few scars, and the face of an Earth wolf.) (Suddenly, the room they're in starts to shake.) Storm: Lower the view screen! (On the screen is the siluet of a dog holding a scythe up against the moon.) Storm: NO! It can't be! (The dog slices the legs off the giant walker that Storm is in. He then jumps 50 feet into the air, somersaulting all the way. His shadow appears on the moon again. This time his arms are folded. He swings them open and down comes a bolt of lightning in the shape of an X. The X blasts a hole in the roof of the mecha.) Storm: Now there is no doubt in my mind that you ARE my nemesis...HOUND! Hound: Yes...I have come to finally destroy you. You're an evil tyrant and I wont stand by and watch your tyranny ant longer! Cassie: Hound? But your so.... Handsome? Hound: Keep your comments till later, I've got a 5 year long score to settle with this blood thirsty Dingbat. Storm: Enough chitchat, Lets go. (They start to fight whilst the Mecha is still falling.) Cassie: Great, now how do I get down, I know... Mobius Morpher Transform. Flash: That's better. (She grabs hold of a nearby tree with her whip, and gently swings to the ground. Meanwhile...) Storm: I will now finally destroy you. Hound: What makes you think that you can? CROSS BLAST! Storm (Dodging the attack.): Hah, is that your best? What? Hound (Comes from the other direction.): Take this MUTT PUNCH! (This comment is just a joke.) Storm: ARRRGGG! No this can't be! Hound: Now I'll finish you. (Suddenly a bolt of lightning breaks the clouds and hits Hound. Hound then falls flat on his face and a voice can be heard coming out of the sky.) ?????: Storm, you did a wonderful job of distracting him for me. Storm: I will do anything for you my Queen. Flash: No, it can't be... ????: Yes it is I, Sally Queen of all Mobius, and soon to be queen of earth. Flash: How could you do this? Sally: Easy really, you see it was you who was brought here as a trap to bait Hound into coming to your rescue. Flash: But why use me? Sally: We know for some time that he has been carrying a torch for you, so we just acted on that impulse. But when we captured your future self and made her turn to the other side, he wasn't interested in winning you over, just on how to get you back to normal. So we devised this little scheme...we passed the word that you were coming from the past, and delivered what we promised, but he didn't know it was a trap. and so you have it. Flash: But you used to be a good guy, what ever happened? Sally: Since we have no further use for you, I'll tell you anyway. I'm evil and your not. That makes us enemies. (Flash falls over in stupidity.) Flash: Could you make it simpler! (She says sarcastically.) Sally: Sure. Storm...Kill her! Storm: Right! (Storm hurries over but a Cross blast hits him out of the way.) Sally: No. You can't be alive...I hit you with full power. Hound: And I thank you for getting rid of a bit of Rickets for me. My back was killing me. Storm: That's not the only thing that's killing you! SUPER CHARGE! (Storm becomes "Dark thunder Storm".) Flash: Looks like they got the Chaos emeralds! DTStorm: I have you now! (Charges at Hound.) (Flash sticks her leg out and trips Storm up and lands with his head stuck through a metal wall.) Sally: You idiot...I'm surrounded by morons, and nothing but morons. Storm: kiss me you fool! (He's delirious.) Flash: You dozy dunce, take this. (She throws a rock at him.) Storm: Owww. (He's knocked out for the count.) Sally: Hey you get back here! ROTOR! GET HIS THING STARTED!! Rotor: I can't! The starters stuck. Sally: Everywhere I look imbeciles surround me. (Hound Rushes Flash back to his temporary base. Along the way beating up every badnik in his path.) Flash (thinking to herself.): Wow this dudes a lot better than the Hound back in my time. I wonder if the Hound in my time will be as cute as this? (She starts to blush.) Hound: Hang on we're almost there. (They head straight for a tree trunk, and then instead of hitting it, they pass straight through it.) Flash: Cool, so who came up with that idea? Hound: You did 2 years ago. (They come to a full stop at the end of the tunnel and come too a large cavern.) Hound: Voice recognition on. (A voice starts to chatter.) Voice: Recognition active, please would the verifiers please give a voice sample? Hound: Say something. Voice: Hound recognised. Flash: Cool place. Voice: Flash recognised. Hound: Good now you're logged into my base. LIGHTS ON. (Suddenly a thousand blinks on the roof started to light up.) Flash: Cool, so who designed this? Hound: Again...it was you. Flash: Cool. So I AM a genius in the future. Hound: Yes, but now that you've been turned in to a bad guy, they know all the secrets as well, that's why each base is temporary. Flash: So you really had a crush on me huh? Hound (Blushes.): Well kind of. Flash: how long have you had it? Hound: Since the day we met. Flash: So what about the business with Bubble? Hound: I just thought she liked me. Flash: So how did Storm kill Tails? He's the best fighter I know. Hound: Well...he didn't kill Tails directly... You did. Flash: That's crazy! I'd never do anything to betray Tails! Hound: You see...after Storm captured you he planted a bomb inside your body. Then Sally ordered you to attack Tails. During the fight Storm pushed the detonator button and killed you both. Flash (tears in her eyes): That's terrible. Storm: Well you aren't going to have time to reminisce. Hound: Storm? How'd you find us so fast? Storm: The old Flash. She set up all the bases so if 1 voice recognition service was activated, the location would be sent to Sally's Computer. Hound: I didn't quite catch that one. Storm: No. But you'll catch this one. (Storm lunges at Hound with Tails's modified sword, and of course missed.) Hound: Storm, you're a worse aimer when you are mad than when you're not. Flash: Hey look out! (Hound sees that Storm is lunging from behind, and quickly takes off his belt, and uses it to wrap around the sword and threw it in a corner somewhere.) Hound: Thank for the sword back. Storm: No...you wouldn't hit an un-armed man would you? Hound: Thanks for the idea. (He punches Storm several times and kicks him out of the tree. Storm grabs his sword along the way and rebounds off the wall heading for Hound when Flash knocks him out of the way.) Hound: Thanks Flash, I thought I was going to die. Flash: You can't die yet, there's still work to be done. And besides you're too cute to give up now. Hound: (blushes.) Hey Storm, I got something you don't. Storm: Oh and what's that? Hound: A dance partner! (He grabs Flash by the hand and tells her to do her most powerful kick when she gets to Storm. He twirls her around him like a tornado then releases her at Storm.) Flash: Take this! (She kick's him as hard as she could and he goes soaring out of the holo-tree. Knocked out of course.) Hound: Well, it's my fault for telling you to do your most powerful kick. Flash: What the heck's going on anyway? Hound: Let me explain... You see, Storm went to the Miracle planet to find the time stones, he made a bargain with the natives and went back to kidnap you, any way I've got the original time stones so now you can go back. Flash: So it's as simpler as that? Hound: Sure, it's even easier that fighting Sally. Flash: That's all right then. Storm: Your not getting away that easy! Hound: That does it! (Hound flicks a switch on his scythe and the blade goes vertical and the handle shortens. The scythe had become a sword.) Storm: Nice feature but it can't save you from me. Flash: No, but both of us working together can. Hound: Flash stay out of this. Flash: Why? Hound: I let him take you once; I won't let that happen again Flash (blushes): Ok, it's your fight. Storm: Well are you finally ready, lover boy? Hound: Do you really want to die? Storm: If I die you're coming with me! (He lunges at Hound.) Hound: Not that again. (He hits the sword sideways then punches Storm in the guts.) Storm: Ooooh, now you will pay. C (The two dual skilfully with there blades. Each attack is countered by the opponent. Storm: Prepare to DIE!!! (He jumps into the air.) Hound: Forgive me. (He moves to the side them slash's Storm across the chest.) Storm: YOU! (He collapses on the floor.) (All of a sudden an insect like robot crawls out of Storm.) Hound: So that's responsible. (He slash's it in half.) (Storms fur changes from dark grey to white. He turns to face hound. His eyes are no longer red, but bright green. He smiles at Hound) Storm: Forgive me Hound, for what I have done. I didn't want to fight, but I had no choice cause of the bug. (Hound looks over to Flash and shakes his head indicating that he's not going to survive.) Hound: Just lie down old friend and get some rest, the pain will go soon. Flash: I knew it wasn't your fault, I knew it was something controlling you. Storm: I don't know how to admit it but while we were fighting, I felt as though we were related somehow. Hound: Even though we are not related I'll always consider you my brother. Storm: Good-bye...Patch. (Storm slowly collapses and his life force fades away.) Flash: He told us a lot about what was really going on. Hound: At least you can stop this from happening. Flash: Hey that's right, if I save him in the past he'll be alive in the future. Hound: Anyway, I'd better get you home. Then I'll destroy the time stones so no one can use them for evil again. (Flash rides on the back of Hound until they get to the floating islands. Hound activates the Time stones and they go back to the past. PN: in the next part, future Hound will be called DF Hound, which stands for Dark Future.) (Both Hounds stare at each other.) DF Hound: Err...Here? (He gives Flash to his younger self.) Hound: Err...Thanks? Flash (gets up on her feet.): Well...Thanks for rescuing me Big Hound. And thanks for coming to rescue me Little Hound. (DF Hound uses the time stones to travel home.) Flash: What a hunk! Hound: That's me? (Flash puts her arm around him.) Flash: Yep. (She kisses him on the cheek and Hound blushes.) Will this be a lasting relationship for Hound and Flash? Will Storm be a good guy once more? And will Rotors machines ever work? Find out on the next episode of Herofox!