Sonic Waves pt 2- Bang
I was speeding through the streets dodging cars and using the down hills to go faster and faster. Anyone with super speed has at least 3 gears of speed. I was running at the high end of gear two.
Gear one is combat speed, faster than most people but slow enough to use inside buildings crowded areas and in a fight. Gear one is easiest for most people with speed and it doesn't take too much energy to use.
Gear two is street speed. Its faster than most cars and good for getting across town . Its not good in a fight because when going this fast motion is locked and harder to come out of. Its also not good to use inside of buildings or crowded places because its to fast to change direction or stop to evade things that start close. It is good when battling others with speed but that's rare. Gear two is harder for some people with speed to use because it takes a lot of energy to maintain and go faster. But I can usually recover or push through it. I was using all the down hills to minimize how much energy I had to us.
Gear three is disappearing speed. Too fast to use around anything typically a person with speed only goes this fast when crossing large distances like an ocean in hours. If used right this speed can be used to mimic flight when running and jumping from rooftops. It can be used to pass through solid objects. And on the really high end it can be used to go through time. This speed has more range than the other two gears so its typically where a person with speed finds out how fast they really. Gear three also takes the most energy and time to recover from using. By the time I made it to the source of the explosions I was nearly in gear 3 . I had to make a loop around the building in order to slow down and come to a stop.
I was at the docks, the explosions seemed to be done but there were flames everywhere. It looked like someone was using explosives to break into warehouses. I used gear one approaching gear two to put out the flames as I followed the trail of fire. It didn't take me long to make it to the action so I knew whoever was responsible had to still be close by.
Thing about super speed is that no matter how fast you can run there will always be a hundred places to check when looking for someone. The trail helped but the fire stopped just as it was moving inland. I was ready to give up on finding whoever made the explosions and move on but he made the mistake most people do. People think that when a person has super speed they are bound to find you , so they often attack you before you can find them. If you hide well enough its easy to overlook hiding places.
He threw a bomb at me from the roof top of a building. I was lucky that it was only a flash bang. Speed doesn't mean you cant be surprised , and he knew that. He must have known taking out my eyes was a good idea too, I cant use gear two if i cant see well enough.
I ran up the side of the building to catch him as he ran away, he threw more flash bangs at me. In gear two it is possible to out run a person with speed if you have a few advantages , and he already had one. But it take me long to recover and get my sight back well enough to move faster. I realized he was moving faster too . I was almost past gear one when I noticed he was jumping from rooftops so far apart he had to have speed like me.
With my eyes back I could finally see well enough to make some details out about him. He was wearing a black cape and hood with gold shoes. I couldn't see what he was with his back turned to me but as I finally neared catching him I reached my hand out to grab his cape. I was a fingers length away when he turned around and jumped from the roof top down to the street. As he fell he looked back up at me standing on the rooftop and saw he was a she. She was a white hedgehog with gold eyes. Just as I was about to follow her down the building she thew a hand full of flash bangs into the air blocking her path from the roof down to the street in bright explosions.
As the light faded I looked back to the street and knew I had lost her.