*This is where the Sonic Adventure/Rush story mode come into play.  Both sides WILL be different.  Trying to combine the two result in a confrontation so big it'll jumble the upcoming chapters.  If any questions arise about any mistakes, or issues with the characters involved, please read the Preface on Chapter 1.*

Chapter 7 - Same World, New Twist

     The two conflicting warriors were nearly finished regaining their strength to go another round until the icy feline spoke.  "~Now I see why Blaze had a hard time with you.  I'm impressed.~"  Klonoa smiled at the compliment and responds ~Heh, you're pretty skilled too.  So let's just say we end this alright?~  The blue fire hero answered "~No way.  I'm still taking you in.  Besides...!~" as he slowly draws his ice sword from the sheath on his back and finish by saying "~...I'm just getting started.~"  The dream traveler stepped back in surprise as more of his dream began to replay rapidly in his mind.  The outline of the silhouette and the look of the frozen adversary's sword.  No doubt he was the one that was in his dream.  From out of nowhere another voice asked ~Well, I hope I'm not too late to the party.~  Klonoa looked back in relief to see his lupine companion with his guns out and ready to help.  ~Guntz!~ Klonoa shouted as Blaze looked to the wolf across the way and jumped in front of Cream to protect her.  

     "~A gun slinger huh?~" The ice cat responded as he holds both sweeper and sword in each hand walking slowly towards the two opponents.  But before Klonoa could even say anything about the dream, he noticed a small shadow that was quickly growing bigger over the ice cat's head.  Quickly he looked up and noticed a gigantic spike ball falling directly at him.  Klonoa yelled out ~WATCH OUT!!!~ as he transformed his ring into his beam sword.  The blue fire feline looked shocked to see the ring change.  //~I have to be quick~// he thought to himself as he pulled his arm back and yelled ~"WHIRLWIND CUTTER"~ and slashed his sword down creating a powerful piercing gust of wind blowing the startled mobian off of his feet and out of harm's way.  Unfortunately by the time that the ball landed the edge of the cliff slowly started to fall down taking the ball and the ice warrior with it.  Klonoa ran toward the falling cliff edge yelling ~Wait!~ but was stopped by Guntz recent discovery ~Up there.  What is that?~ the wolf asked.  

     The dream traveler can only see faint spiky shadows among the dust that was rising from the collapsing ground.  They seem to be part of that spiked ball until three pairs of eyes started to glow through the dirt clouds.  The two outer ones were glowing green while the center one glowed purple.  Before the remaining heroes could see it they shot forward in pink, red, and blue.  Klonoa quickly held his beam sword up and made it transform into the triangular shield just in time to block the red stream as it bounced into the air and crashed landed on the ground.  But the hit was so strong that it turned the slightly worn hero around only to see the blue streak grabbing Guntz and the pink streak grabbing Blaze and Cream.  ~No...Guntz, Cream!~ Klonoa yelled. Ugh! ~Let me gooooo...~ "Klonoaaaaaaaa....." his friends shouted faintly as the streams were out of his sight.  //~No, I've got to save them!//  As Klonoa quickly tried to go after one of his friends, the red thing immediately jumped off of the ground.

     ~What?!~ Klonoa said in shock looking at whatever it was that tried to capture him. The entire body was mostly red fur as it's chest has a white stripe around it's neck wearing what looked like tropical colored shoes.  The head is oddly shaped as he never encountered the species before.  All he can make out are the many long dreadlocks that droop over it.  The face however is the same tan color as the ice cat when suddenly it's purple eyes started to turn red like the two tailed robot fox that he faced earlier.  He then heard a few loud clanging sounds noticing that it came from it's fists which has two knuckle spikes on each hand.  //Uh oh...I really have to be careful with this one.// as he thinks up a nimble strategy.  

     The crimson robot lifted his right arm upward and slammed it's fist into the ground.  The small quakes head towards the dream traveler as it starts to become more wide spread.  Klonoa had no other option but to jump above the oncoming quake.  The careful calculation made the dreadlock robot lifted off from it's crouched position and glided directly into the midsection of the wind warrior.  The impact caught Klonoa off guard as the robot applied his body over him with his fist still pressed at the warrior's stomach.  Klonoa only had mere seconds before being smashed onto the ground but he noticed that something was off the moment he was hit.  The long eared cat used exactly those, lifting them back far enough like wings and push himself away from underneath it's somewhat steel fists.  The red robot roughly land on the ground making a small miniature crater beneath him.  

     //I though so.// Klonoa cleverly thought as he was rubbing his stomach. //If that was really metal, I would have been pierced.  Which means...// The moment the dream traveler lands the dreadlock robot ran straight towards him with a flurry of punches.  Klonoa was fortunate to avoid most of them and saw an opening from one of it's swings.  He then countered the robot's right hook and delivered a strong right hook of his own that connected square in it's face.  They both backed up a few paces as a bewildered Klonoa looked at his hand. //Wait...that didn't hurt?//  Before he could look back up he was struck under his chin again by the robot's fiery uppercut.  The feline use the painful momentum to flip over to land on his feet and finished by saying ~But that did.~ while rubbing his chin.  He suddenly spotted something funny about its feet as wheels starts to protrude from the heels. It then started to pull it's right arm back as it begins to start on fire.  

     Klonoa was anticipating the next attack and surely he was right.  The moment the robot lunged his flaming punch while using the wheels to propel itself at him, the wind warrior transformed the shield into his spiked mallet and swung it pinpoint at its fist stopping the mechanical creature to move forward as the wheels skid more into the dirt.  Klonoa focused as much as he could from the robot's element and used his position to his advantage.  Quickly he took his mallet and pulled back causing the robot to continue as it shot forward and did a quick turn around.  As it goes for another pass, it's dreadlocks positioned itself back from it's head.  The dream traveler head a big swoosh while witnessing the dreads becoming more like miniature rockets.  It was preparing to deliver the final strike but as it was ready to use the same attack it noticed the fire missing from it's fist.  

     The long eared cat suddenly smiled and asked ~Looking for this?~ as he was holding up his mallet to see a red orb on one of it's spikes.  Without calculation the crimson robot proceeded with it's all out attack and with one simple quick step, Klonoa dodged the attack and swung his mallet across the robot's face.  Heavily damaged it flipped upward and landed on its back spinning out of control digging itself lower into the dirt.  The wind warrior believed the robot to have stopped functioning until he felt something from under his feet.  Suddenly he felt a massive explosion lift from the ground.  Backing away he changed his mallet back into his triangular boomerang shielding himself from the rocks flying towards him.  The radical malfunctioning robot was spiraling out of control with fire and propel jets surrounding but it's targeting systems was still focused towards it's enemy.  Klonoa then lunged his boomerang at the robot slicing the crimson metallic menace in half.

     Klonoa gave a long and faint sigh of relief. ~Finally it's over.~  He then changed his boomerang back to his ring as he walked over the wreckage of the slain robot.  Leaving a few trails of sparks, the slightly worn out feline examined the pieces.  He suddenly became startled to notice something as he picked up some of the pieces.  ~This robot is...soft?~  The curious cat the felt across the robot's body and realize that it almost has the same feel as a real life person.  But judging by the eternal wiring and metal components on some parts, it is still a robot. Unexpectedly, the robot's arm was making beeping sound while it was moving around.  ~What the?  Now what?~ He asked.  It was at that time he realized that it was a communicator as a voice spoke from it.  

     "I understand you have captured everyone if the vicinity?...Excellent!  Proceed South-West from your location and await further instructions."  The robot's arm began to move again.  When it finally rolled to it's proper side, Klonoa realized two antennae lower from it's wrists and suddenly see a holograph of an arrow pointing to the location the voice specified.  As he prepares to head to the specific location, thoughts were running through his head.  //What was the deal with that robot?  I can punch it without getting hurt but it still looks metallic with attachments.  And the ice cat... The look and his sword...he’s definitely same one in the dream that I've had before all of this.  But something tells me that I think he was holding back from the start...// As he replayed the embarrassing moment when he got the upper hand on the blushing blue flame feline.  //And he made the fire cat and Cream...// Suddenly he remembered them and his friends being held captive by the other two robots before he trailed himself off.  ~Lolo, Gunts, Popka, Leorina, Tat.......Cream...~  As he lowered his head for being helpless to prevent such an event.  When he fully collected himself, he rose his head up towards the direction he needs to go and says ~...Don't worry.  I'm going to save you all!~ as he run back into the forest he came from.  

	Continuing to battle his way through the few oncoming robots he noticed something completely different with the landscape the more he pressed on.  As he continues to run through the forest he was suddenly bopped on the head with an oncoming cocoanut from above.  ~Ow!  Who threw that?!~  The dream traveler looked up and notice a robotic monkey hanging from tree as it lobbed another cocoanut as him.  But Klonoa shot his wind bullet into the fruit and tossed it back at the robot.  The moment it exploded, he could see a small little bird fly out from the debris.  It circled around him a few times and flew away.  Klonoa gave a warm smile seeing the bird off into the sky.  As he was about to walk forward he was suddenly lifted off the ground.  Shocked like a kid at a roller coaster ride, the wind warrior uses his floppy ears to slightly hover to get a grip on what just happened.  It was at those few moments in the air that he realized that everything has completely changed within the forest.  He was seeing more robotic monkeys, as well as blue with black stripped bees and crabs moving about along with different colored springs, posts, circular star balls, and some odd machines with miniature rolling wheels at the base connected with a little conveyer belts attached.  Klonoa landed and kneeled down in surprise.  ~What is this place?  What happened to Lunatea?~  He looked forward to get an idea on what to do next. The dream traveler stood up to regain his morale by saying ~In order to save my friends, I have to get through here!~  as he runs into the mysterious unknown path before him.