Stroke 2: Blue Star chapter 12 preview

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 Well now, I mentioned that I would be providing writing in addition to artwork and such, and since I haven't scanned anything new to show artwise, I'll give you all a small preview of the start of part 12 of my fanfiction, Blue Star. This part isn't quite finished yet, but I'm working on it :P

More to be read after the jump!


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The clouds drifted past the small, red biplane as it flew through the sky, followed by a flock of bluebirds. The pilot turned the stick and the plane followed his command, diving through the air, before turning upwards again in a loop. The Alta birds kept going forwards on their migratory path, so the plane ended up behind them, following them for a short while, before it turned to go back the way it had come. It flew low over the ocean, and a pair of dolphins leaped out of the water alongside it. The pilot laughed at the splashing animals, shaking water they spat at him from his quills, and tossed the Aquas a ball. One of them dived below the water and slapped it back at him with its tail.

Sonic put up a hand to knock it towards them again, keeping the other on the controls of the plane to keep it steady. The other dolphin jumped out of the water to flick it airborne again with its beak, then passed through the gap between the wings of the plane before landing with a splash back in the water. The first dolphin mimicked the action on the other side of the plane as Sonic caught the ball again, resulting in an alternating pattern of splashing that raced along after Sonic's aircraft. The hedgehog may not have liked water much, but dolphins were amusing. And a playing with them was great way to relax. Sonic went out there regularly to hang around with this pair in particular, as they often broke away from their pod to join him. The others weren't so keen on the biplane.

Sonic waved goodbye to his aquatic friends as he flew off towards the shallow reef around the northern edge of South Island, and they flipped in mid-air before splashing off to head back towards their pod. The hedgehog watched them leave over his shoulder, then pulled back on the plane's controls to take it higher, allowing him to fly above the eastern side of South Island, and letting him observe it from the air. It had been over a year since he'd left the Green Hill Zone, and in that time a lot had changed. He watched as he passed above the remaining wreckage of the Scrap Brain Zone. Robotnik hadn't decided to rebuild it, so his robots were clearing up the Zone's mechanics to be put to use elsewhere. The few remaining villages on the east side, including the Marble Village, were going to use their own power sources, so the Scrap Brain was no longer needed. Sonic frowned at Starlight and Spring Yard as he passed them, knowing they were both going to be incorporating generators into their builds. The computer that he'd found on his travel had turned out to be Porker's, one of the people who'd helped him after Scrap Brain exploded on him.

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That's all you're getting for now, anything that is confusing can be read up on in the previous chapters :P  Enjoy ^_^ Hopefully this part'll be finished in the next couple of weeks, but we'll see, I'm a terrible procrastinator :D