The Return of Emerl
Chapter 1: Arising
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The following story line takes place 5 years after the events in Sonic Battle.
All charters are copyright to Sage, I do not own any of them
Ages
Sonic: 20
Tails: 13
Knuckles: 21
Rough: 22
Amy: 17
Cream: 11
Shadow: (Immortal)
Vector: 25
Espio: 21
Charmy: 11
Mighty: 21
Big: 23
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"Where…am…I? Who…am…I?"
At the bottom of a lake a goldenrod colored robot activates after being dormant for years, he is tuck in the black murk of the lakes under belly.
"Wait…I…know…who…I…am…Emerl."
Indeed, Emerl the gizoid who was befriended by Sonic and company after being abandoned by Egg Man. Sonic and his friends had taught him allot and considered him a friend, that is before he went insane and self destructed, or so everyone though. When he detonated on board Egg Man's death egg he had all seven chaos emeralds with him at the time, the explosion had resulted in a miniature chaos control that teleported him to Twinkle Lake, where he sunk to the bottom and eventually bury in the mud.
"I…must…get…out…but…how?"
Emerl was trapped at the bottom of Twinkle Lake in the mud, the cold temperature and water pressure had him partly immobilized, and the mud had him nearly immobilized. But as Sonic had told him once, 'never give quit, and never give up' so that's what he did, he kept going. He squirmed until he got one hand free of the mud, then he used a nearby rock as leverage to pull his head out. His optics adjusted to the dark and he saw nothing but water, mud, rocks, and seaweed. Grabbing the rock he finally pulled himself out of the mud, but found he had another problem, his legs were disabled. He lay on the bottom of the lake and thought about his options, he would drag himself to shore but in which direction? Then he saw it, wreckage leading in one direction he decided to follow the trail, worst case scenario he would find a wrecked ship or something and he could find something to fix himself. He started to drag himself in the direction of the wreck.
After three days of dragging himself across the bottom of the lake following bits and pieces of junk he found the source wreckage that littered the bottom of the lake, the wreck of the death egg, the place where he had been 'destroyed'.
"How fitting, my grave is to be my sanctuary." He said with a smirk.
After pulling himself into the wreckage, he found the remains of another robot in some of the outlying debris, where he found the parts he needed to repair himself, then he stood and looked around. That's when he saw a faint sky blue glow coming from deep within the wreckage of the death egg. Curious about this Emerl made his way through the twisted maze of metals, and wires he found the source of the faint blue light.
"A chaos emerald? What luck, it must be left from my battle with...Sonic."
Emerl felt sad now remembering that he had fought his friend, or did he? He had been manipulated by Egg man and over loaded, the others probably thought he was dead, and maybe it should stay like that. No, his friends would forgive him, they had forgiven him after the battle just before he had 'exploded', he remembered that now. Looking into the emerald he had just found he watched as the light from it shimmered, then he heard a splash from above and looked up. A small piece of debris had fallen into the water, but from where this whole place was under water, wasn't it? As he looked up he saw a surface, there was an air pocket above him, Emerl pushed off from the ground and swam up to the surface. Once he broke the surface of the water he saw that he was in one of Egg Mans labs that he had aboard the death egg, looking around he saw that is appeared to be in fairly good condition.
"This could work to my advantage, but first I need to recharge."
Emerl found a spot against the wall and sat down, holding the emerald in his hand and opened a hidden panel in his chest and placed the emerald inside and closed the panel, finely he switched into power save mode and shut down for the night.
The Next Day
Emerl woke and looked around, nothing had changed from the night before, good he was alone for now that would be the best way to be until he contacted his friends. But first he had some things he wanted to do first; finding out where he was would be a good start. He looked at a nearby computer terminal,
"No power, I guess I could jerry rig the emerald to power it but would it give me any information?"
After examining the computer terminal for several minutes Emerl found that it was an independent back up unit for all of Egg Man's information, with a connection to this Egg net.
"Well I guess this will be helpful, so let's see what we can do."
Emerl set about looking thought the debris for any useful parts for making a emerald interface to power the terminal. After nearly three hours Emerl had the terminal powered and was running thought the data that was stored on the local drives. The information was outdated at best but it still had useful information in it such as common weaknesses in Egg Man's E-series robots, locations of Egg Man's bases; all of them, it also had the last log entry from the main computer before the death egg crashed. Egg Man was defeated Sonic but survived the destruction of the death egg and had headed to another base, no log as to which one he went to. The wreckage that Emerl was in was actually only a just fragment of the death egg that had broken off on reentry, the rest of the death egg had crashed on the main land. Emerl downloaded most of the usable data from the terminal and then started to accessed the egg net to find any current information that would shed some light on events since he had been gone. The first thing he did was find out how long he had been 'destroyed', the verdict was not good.
"Five years,' he said with despair. "I've been 'dead' for five years? Everyone has probably forgotten about me, so now what do I do?"
As if to answer his question, a new flash broadcasted across the egg net.
This is Dr. Egg Man to the inhabitants of this pathetic planet, surrender to me or I will crush you all! And don't think that Sonic will come to your rescue this time, HO HO HO HO HO HO (stupid Egg Man laugh).
Emerl just stared at the message text running across the screen, one phrase stood out for him 'Sonic will come to your rescue this time', why would that be unless...
"I need to get back up there, they need my help! But I can't do it by myself and I can collect any more emeralds unless I want do self destruct, I need to bring something with me to the fight, something to help me...everyone fight Egg Man, but what...?"
Looking around Emerl realized that this was one of Egg Man's robotics lab, it was filled with parts and equipment of all sorts and even several damaged robots, that's' when he got an idea. He walked over to one of Egg Man's old robots, a sixty foot long robot that look like a bird, Emerl set to work on building himself a plane with his own personal touches.
Two Day Ago In Central City.
Sonic the hedgehog was standing in Central City park at his favorite chilly dog stand just waiting to get two of his favorite snacks. Just as he was taking his first bite of his chilly dog he heard a familiar voice from behind him, a high pitch female voice.
"SSOOONNNIIICCCCC!!!!" Cried Amy.
Amy ran across the park to the cobalt hedgehog who was until a minute ago was enjoying two chilly dogs.
"AMY?!?" Sonic said as he looked for his escape.
"Sonic I've been looking all over for, Tails needs you at his work shop on the double, Egg Man is at it again."
With a site sigh of relief Sonic replied as he ate the last of his chilly dog.
"Say no more, I'm there."
Grabbing Amy in his arms he took off at a run towards Tail's workshop, little did either of them know that this adventure would be unlike anything they had gone on before. As Sonic skidded to a halt in front of Tail's work shop he had a funny felling like something was out of place, but he couldn't put his finger on it. The sky was blue just like every other day in Emerald City, but something just seemed off. That's when Tail's work shop exploded throwing both him and Amy across the street, Sonic stood shaking off the grogginess from the explosion and as the smoke cleared an egg shaped robot was standing where Tail's work shop had been.
"Tails!!" Sonic shouted wondering if his buddy was ok.
"HO HO HO HO, Tails is fine for the moment rodent."
"EGG MAN!"
"Yes Sonic it's me, and if you want Tails to remain alive you had better do what I say."
"Yah? Or what?"
"Look for yourself Sonic."
The robot that was facing Sonic opened its chest plate to reveal Tails trapped with in it, he appeared to be in some sort of cocoon with wires of all sorts attached to his body.
"What have you done with him!" Demanded Sonic.
"Tails is the bran of the robot, and with him all the secrets of your fighting skills are at my disposal."
"You asshole! this is a new low even for you."
"Oh but I haven't even started, see?"
"What?"
While Sonic had been distracted by Egg Man another robot had snuck up behind him and taken Amy, who was now in the same situation as Tails.
"Amy!! Let her go Egg Man!"
"But of core Sonic, right after they kill you!"
"What!!!"
Almost on cue the two robots launched themselves at Sonic trying to crush him, Sonic jumped to avoided them but then he saw that it was a mistake. The Tails robot had tentacles and one was already heading right for Sonic. There was another explosion and the tentacles disappeared in a flash of light.
"Chaos Spear!"
"Shadow!"
Shadow suddenly started to attack one of the robots, Sonic then realized that it would mean if these robots were destroyed, it would kill Tails and Amy.
"Shadow stop! Tails and Amy are inside those things."
"What? Shadow bellowed in disbelief.
"It's true, we have to get out of here."
Shadow only growled and took off to avoid fighting the robots more, Sonic fallowed and the two for the first time ran form Egg Man.
"HO HO HO, that's right Sonic run there nothing you can do now."
"We'll see about that Egg-face." Sonic challenged as he and shadow ran off to find Knuckles.
"No Sonic as long as he has our friends in there he'll have the upper hand, we have to find away to get them out."
"yah but how? Tails is the one who comes up with the ideas in this area."
"We'll have to make due until we get him back."
Sonic didn't like this one bit, his best friend and Amy were now being used against them as weapons, Egg man had crossed a like now Sonic vowed that once he got his friends back that he would personally kill Egg Man this time and end this whole thing, once and for all.
Angel Island: 2 hours later.
"Knuckles! hay Knuckles where are you?"
Sonic and Shadow had been on angel island for almost an hour and no sign of the red echidna, not even at the master emerald where Knuckles was almost always found. Finely the two ran in to evident of fighting, broken ground fallen trees, but worst of all three dead Chao.
"What the hell happened here?' muttered Shadow.
"I don't know, but if the Chao have been hurt the bigger question is, where is Chaos?"
"What do you mean?"
"Don't you remember? Chaos comes out of the master emerald if the Chao are in danger, and I think getting killed qualifies as danger."
No sooner did the words leave this mouth then Chaos appeared, metalizing from a pool of 'water' directly in front of Sonic and Shadow.
"Chaos!" Sonic exclaimed. "What on Mobius happened here?"
Chaos only stared back at them growling at them and looking very angry.
"Chaos, what's wrong?" Asked Sonic.
"Nothing is worn my dear hedgehog." Egg Man's voice was coming from Chaos now.
"What!?" Sonic and Shadow asked in disbelief.
"OH HO HO HO HO, I have control of Chaos as well and that's not all."
Suddenly another egg shaped robot appeared, but this one was different. Instead of tentacles and legs it had treads and drills, Sonic instantly knew what that meant, Knuckles.
"Knuckles!" Shouted Sonic
"He can't hear you rodent, none of them can. There now all my servants and will do my bidding, but I'll give you a fair chance to try and defeat them."
"Like anything you have ever done here is fair Egg Man!" Shouted Sonic.
"If that's your answer then I'll just for go my offer and kill the tow of you right here."
"Fine, we'll lesion."
"I knew you would see it my way hedgehog. Here's my offer, meet me on Emerald beach in two days to face off against my agents, if you can disable my robots I'll release your friends, if not then I'll get to kill you. Or you could meet me in two days and just surrender, then you and your friends would live for certain, your choice hedgehog. Oh and to prove I'm sincere with my offer, my new Egg fort will not leave emerald beach for two day, that's right I'll leave the rest of your friends alone. So do we have a deal?
"See you in two days, Egg-fucker."
"Till then Sonic, HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA."
Chaos and the captured Knuckles disappeared into the jungle and the island fell silent leaving the two hedgehogs with nothing but the wind.
"So what's the next move Sonic?"
Sonic just looked down at the ground and spat.
"We get everyone who isn't captured together and find away to beat these...Egg cells."
"Heh, nice name. So I'll get Rough and GUN, you go and see if the Chaotix are still here."
"Sounds like a plan Shadow, where should we meet?"
"GUN HQ it the safest place now, I guess."
"Ok, let's get this over with."
"Oh by the way Sonic, I've never heard you curse at Egg Man or any one before."
"He never gave me a reason to."
With that both sonic and Shadow head off to their destinations to recruit all the help they could get. Sonic found the Chaotixs at Vectors office and after a quick recap of what had happened the entire crew was onboard including Mighty and Big. Shadow had no trouble in convincing Rough to join the team and immediately left for GUN HQ, after a quick overview of the situation GUN was onboard. Sonic and the Chaotixs arrived soon after and they set about figuring out how best to defeat the 'Egg Cells'.
"No, that could kill the occupants. We been over that option before, we need a new angel."
"General with all due respect, we've beat the shit out of this problem for the last twenty-four hours strait, we need a new opinion."
"Shadow, I think we need to get some rest. We've all been edge since this started and now were pushing our limit."
"Enough!" Everyone in the room turns to Sonic, his red eyes were emphasized against his blue fur.
"Were all exhausted, we all need some sleep even if we don't have a plan beyond blowing the Egg Cells up."
"But Sonic what about Amy, Tails, and Knuckles?"
"I don't know, but Egg Men is playing a new game, so do we."
Every one nodded and then looked at each other, they were indeed all tired and it showed, so they all decided to call it a night, or morning at that point.
The Next Day
Shadow woke with a start, the buzzer of his door was going off. He got up and saw the time, 16:30.
"Damn!"
They were suppose to face Egg Man at 14:00 that after noon, they were two and a half hours late. The buzz sounded at his door again, this time he opened it and saw Sonic there with a look of pure fear in his eye, and Sonic was almost near afraid.
"What happened?"
"Its Egg Man he's making every one think we abandoned them, come take a look."
Sonic led Shadow to the main control room where Egg Man was on the main monitor repeating his threat to Mobius.
" This is Dr. Egg Man to the inhabitants of this pathetic planet, surrender to me or I will crush you all! And don't think that Sonic will come to your rescue this time, HO HO HO HO HO HO!"
Images of Sonic and Shadow fighting the Egg Cells and then running from them were playing while Egg Man's speech played. No one in the room spoke, then the message went blank and restarted, then the audio was muted and the people returned to their work stations, Sonic and crew walked over to the general as he tuned to them.
"Egg Man anticipated that we would over extend ourselves and was ready to use this as a scar tactic."
"Its working sir," A voice called from somewhere in the sea of computers. One of the monitors switched to a view of Central City, on the screen people were rioting demanding that GUN and the government step down peacefully.
"Great, now it looks like Egg man has won."
"NO, not as long as I'm alive!" Declared Sonic as he tuned to run out.
"Wait Sonic, you're going to need our help!" Called Vector
"Wouldn't have it any other way."
"General, is Egg Man still at emerald beach?" Asked Shadow.
"For the moment, we'll send a squad of security drones to help, good luck Sonic."
"We'll need more then luck this time, we are going to need a miracle."
Sonic looked back at the image of Egg man laughing as the threatened Mobius, the images were broadcast all over the world via the egg net, and anyone with access to the egg net could see it. Even some one at the bottom of Twinkle Lake.
End of chapter 1, to be continued...