Enemies Merge (A Sonic / Mega Man Crossover)

XXX. Sonic the Hedgehog

Tempo was down and out, and only I could see the big, giant, ugly spider guy Wily was controlling.

All in all, it was going great.

At first, I tried to direct Mega Man (or myself) and tell him where to hit the cockpit. But that always ended in getting slapped by the legs. We were just exhausting ourselves and putting Tempo in more danger.

 "Tempo needs to get to safety." Mega Man started. "I need you to-"

"Heads up!" I interrupted, pushing him over then leaning back so the spider leg just barely missed the both of us. "Sorry, go on?"

"Distract it while I get Tempo out of here!" He shouted, somewhat panicky. "You can do that, right, Mr. Hotshot?"

I sighed. "Yeah, sure, just leave me with the giant killer robot..."

"You deal with these all the time!"

"They aren't all this killer robot like!" I tapped my foot. "What are you waiting for? Go!" The not-so-friendly neighborhood robot spider was going to attack again any second.

Mega Man threw me a nod and ran towards Tempo. I didn't think Wily would go immediately after him, but he did. Turns out he wanted him dead - er, destroyed? - first.

"Hey, Ugly!" I called. The spider stopped. "Oh, sorry, I wasn't talking to you. I was talking to lemon-shooter boy. You're Grotesque. The girl's Temper. Get it?" I snickered for effect, though it was a funny joke. "'Cause her name's Tempo, and I named her Temper... The two, like-"

"I don't have time for this!" Grotesque said. Without any warning, he lifted up two of his robot-y spider legs and started to lift them up to stab them into Temper and Lemon-Shooter Boy. But distractions don't let that happen. Especially distractions like me.

Then again, I wasn't the smartest distraction. I ran over to the legs in front of Mega Man, as if I thought they wouldn't stab me and cut my arms off or stab me. Maybe I should have changed Grotesque's name to Temper. Tempo could keep her name. I winced as the leg came towards me, and I wrapped my fists around the robotic appendages...  I caught the robot's legs.

"What?!" Wily shouted. "You should be dead!"

It was my power that was coursing through the machine; but I couldn't steal it back. The most I could do was level with it and make sure it wouldn't crush me. But he had more tricks that I didn't know about. I was ready for them, but I didn't know what they were. "You've met your match, Wily." I panted. "Give up!"

"Never!" He screamed. I looked up for a moment, but not in enough time to catch the next legs coming for my shoulders. I barely grabbed the ends between my fingers, but they were digging into my shoulders. I couldn't spin dash - I was under just a bit too much pressure.

"Mega Man!" I shouted. "I need help!"

One of the legs backed away and stabbed at me, and I dropped them all and slid under them. They dug into the ground.

"We need a strategy!" I yelled to Mega Man, holding my neck. "I'll attack-"

"Sonic, we need to back down!" He called. "You're-"

"We're this close!" I told him. 

"You're bleeding!" He yelled.

I looked at my shoulder. "It's nothing. We can't back down now."

He looked unsure, but he followed my orders. "We need to find a way for my to see him. Otherwise, there's no way we can win."

"Just keep hitting the middle of the cave!" I said. "I have a dumb idea!"