Enemies Merge (A Sonic / Mega Man Crossover)

XXVIII. Mega Man

Rocks started falling on top of us. And I'm not talking about little pebbles - though those were there too. These were nice sized boulders. I looked Sonic in the eye. We seemed to read each others' minds, because we both knew we couldn't get Tempo out in time. I grabbed his shoulders and he grabbed mine, and we created an arc over Tempo as the rocks fell over us. We curved our backs and moved our feet, manipulating the rocks to move where we wanted them to.

"Hey, dude." Sonic said. "I can't keep this up forever."

I looked up at him. He was shaking and his eyes were tightly shut. I kept forgetting he wasn't a robot.

"I... can't-!" He fell to his knees, keeping the arc in his back. 

"Okay, hang on, I'm coming!" What would I do?! My powers... Which one...? Fire! I could mold the rocks together, and when we calmed Tempo down, she could help us get out!

I turned to Flame Man, and started with our feet. I got around Sonic, and had him shift around to get my side. It was a really small space.

"There we go." I said, turning back to my Mega Buster.

"Good." He said, out of breath. "But there's another problem."

"Huh?" I turned my head. "We could practically live here forever! Well, if we wanted to."

Sonic shook his head. "Can't... Breathe."

I hadn't thought about that. He had taken a lot of oxygen in helping build the 'adobe'. "I can check the levels." I told him. I touched the side of my helmet. It showed the toxicity levels of the area. "Fifty-seven percent of the area is covered with oxygen. So... You have about an hour left. Which means..."

I looked at Tempo. She was hugging her knees and hiding behind them, as if something was in the distance and coming to get her. "Tempo, we need you."

She shook her head. "We're gonna die."

"We can get out of here. We just need to take some precautions. Remember? We did it before, and we were fine."

She didn't do anything. She just looked straight ahead, as if focused on something.

"Please." I said, almost begging. "I need you. The city needs you. Sonic needs you."

I looked at the levels. They were increasing like I had predicted.

"I..." She said. "Can I...?"

"Yes!" I nodded a bunch. "Of course you can! You could save the world!"

She blinked. "Okay..."

I copied her drill power from her, and we got to work. Sonic was rubbing his temples and taking quick breaths. "Hang in there," I told him.

He nodded, and we continued working. At one point, Sonic had seen a flaw we hadn't seen. We had been trying to make sure the entire thing didn't collapse (as he sat around), but Tempo had missed something. I don't know how Sonic got to her in time or how he saw it, but the entire ceiling above Tempo collapsed. She would have been crushed if Sonic hadn't rammed into her, ultimately ramming them both into me.

"You... How?" She asked.

He rubbed his head in confusion. "You know... I'm not really sure. I just... had a feeling. In my gut. So I ran."

"Thank you..." She said, then went back to drilling, which amazed me. I would have expected her to stop again.

"Mega Man..." Sonic coughed. "How much longer?"

I checked. "Half an hour."

"I meant until the wall was done, not until my doom."

"Oh. We don't know." I went back to work.

Twenty minutes flew by. It wasn't looking good for Sonic.

"Tempo, we have to do something." I told her.

She knocked on the rock in front of her. "It's right there! I can feel it!"

"I really hope you're right." I replied.

Five more minutes past. Nothing. I gritted my teeth and pressed the drill into the rock, still aware of the rock around.

"Guys..." Sonic moaned. "I'm getting bored."

"Oh, sorry." I said. "The hallucinations weren't enough?"

"No." He replied. "I want a new movie."

"Yeah." a chuckled, shaking my head. "A movie."

"What were we talking about...?" He asked, sincerely confused.

"Ponies and dresses."

"Wait!" Tempo shouted. 

"But I wanted to hear his reaction to that..." I pouted. "What if he-"

"Air!" She said.

"Where?!" I asked.

She pushed her drill in a bit more, then pulled it out. "Yes! It's the open. Keep going!"

We left that spot open, hoping to bring some new air in. The level of oxygen rose slower than I wanted, but it rose nonetheless. We poked more holes in, creating a door that I would mold together with fire. It took some time, but it gave Sonic some time to be able to actually breathe. It didn't take him too long to feel better.

"So what was your question?" He asked.

"What?" I replied. "I didn't have a question."

"Oh." He shrugged. "Well, let's not go into anymore suspicious hollow things, okay? That gives a major headache, and I feel like I'm on a cloud. Made of... Made of... Something."

I nodded. It was a great idea. Especially for him.