Remembering is just the half of it…
Amy was walking down the street, making her way to Tails' workshop. She passed Vanilla's flower store, passed Rouge's bar, some other venues and finally arrived to her chosen destination.
"Okay, so what's this new experiment Tails wants us to try out?" She asked out loud while closing th door behind her and taking a seat on the stool next to the work table. This was where Tails would usually work, but it if it was something dangerous; he had a special room to the side where he had extra protective gear.
When she didn't receive an answer she started to feel a bit concerned. She got up and walked down the hall to the side and opened a little window the showed the storage room for finished projects. It was void of living creatures. She turned around and saw that the door on the other side of the hall was slightly ajar. She approached the door and pushed it open to see Rouge sitting on the couch used for relaxing when they hung out here. She walked in and saw that Knuckles and Shadow were talking to Tails on the other side while Rouge was talking on her phone with a bored expression on her face. She walked over to her and sat down on the other side of the bench. As soon as she hung up the phone she turned towards her.
"Blaze is on her way with Cream." Rouge said with a greeting smile.
"So any idea what Tails is going to show us?" Amy asked with a curious glance towards the talking boy in the corner. She was surprised to see Silver had arrived some time. She wondered for a second if he was always there and she hadn't seen him, or if he had just gotten there.
"No idea, but I did see some chaos emeralds. I tried to take one, but Shadow caught me said not to, then Tails put them in a special case to control their power levels or something." Rouge said pouting and turning to Shadow.
"Well, okay then," she said getting bored quickly. "When will they tell us what they're planning?"
"Hopefully, when Cream, Blaze and Sonic get here."
"Yeah, where is my Sonikku anyways?"
"Well, knowing him, he's probably out on a run forgetting we had a meeting today."
She sighed, "Yeah, probably."
They kept having idle chit chat with no particular interest in anything, even when Blaze arrived with Cream; they still had no real interest in the conversation. Eventually Cream got up and went over to Tails to ask him when we were going to start because, well, they were all bored.
"We can start as soon as Sonic gets here." Tails said to Cream. The guys had stopped talking a while ago and were just as bored as we were.
"Can we just start without him?" Rouge asked getting impatient.
"Well, he is pretty late, he would understand." Tails said as he brought out a gun like thing that was long and had 3 indentations on the top, chaos emerald shaped.
"What's that for?" asked Cream looking at the device skeptically.
"It's supposed to enhance Shadow's powers when using chaos emerald by letting him use three at a time, and shooting outwards with this. It's still a prototype but both Shadow and I wanted to test it out, so we asked Knuckles if he thought the chaos emeralds could handle that amount of power and that was what we were discussing.
"There is also a possibility that if I manage a way to make a version able to carry all the emeralds that maybe Sonic or Silver would also be able to channel their chaos energy into attacks like Shadow's. I know this may sound dangerous, but we need to try it, in case a large threat ever comes out way just to be prepared." Tails concluded taking a sip of a water bottle he had on a table nearby.
"So basically it channels chaos energy?" a voice asked from the side. Nearly everyone jumped when they heard it; nobody was expecting Sonic to have arrived in such a secretive manner.
Tails regained his composure first and said: "Yeah, basically. Do you want to try it out?"
"Yeah, sure. But I don't want to be the only one!" he said as he walked over to Tails and picked up the gun.
"Well you will each have to take turns because there is only one gun," Tails said taking the gun back. "Shadow can go first to see if it works, because he actually knows how to use the emeralds and because I trust him more not to blow it up, no offence Sonic."
"None taken, lil buddy. I know how much you work on your science stuff."
"Okay, so now comes the reason why I called you here," Tails said pressing a button on a control opening the large door leading to the runway used by the X-Tornado. He started to walk outside as everyone followed him. "Amy, I want you to launch rocks into the air for Shadow to see how much control he has over it, as well as Blaze with fire and Rouge, I need you to guard the emeralds. If anyone can keep them safe out of the workshop, she can. Cream, you need to make sure Rouge doesn't run off with them, she may keep them safe, it's only a matter of where she keeps them safe!"
Amy and Blaze nodded, walking a nice distance to a pile of rocks previously set up for this. Amy got out her piko piko hammer and threw a rock in the air and hit it as hard as she could to see how far she could hit it. It flew a nice distance just a little farther more than where the others were standing. "Okay, this sounds like fun… When do we start?" Amy asked, giving Blaze a wicked smile.
"When he gives us the signal, I guess. Do you think it'll work?"
She flipped the hammer upside down and rested on it, thinking about Blaze's question. "Well, they are chaos emerald so you never really can tell. But this is Tails we're talking about! If anyone can make it work, he can!" Amy got off of her piko piko hammer and sung it around a little.
"Look, Tails is waking a green flag, think that means go?" Blaze said while pointing to Tails.
"Well, we're about to find out!" Amy said while hitting a rock hard into the air sending it to Shadow's direction. She hit a couple more rocks seeing them fly off with balls of fire towards Shadow.
Shadow closed his eyes in concentration focusing all his powers on the ray gun willing all his powers to bend in the gun, flowing like water, yet boiling with power. If anyone else were to touch the gun right now, they would surely be burned by the intensity!
The power got stronger and stronger with each passing emerald eventually making its way to the tip of the gun and concentrating in one point. The power got big, and it got bit fast. It needed to be released and it need it release fast. Shadow thrust his hand forward in one fast yet fluid movement causing the power to erupt moving in a ball of swirling purple tinted projectile. It looked small and Tails had a look of disappointment on his face, but Lady Luck was on their side today for the purple projectile smashed into one of the rocks Amy had thrown!
When the purple chaos projectile smashed into the rock, it exploded in a massive array of colors causing everyone to stare in awe at the sight.
This whole process took less than thirty minutes, so when Shadow fell to the ground from the impulse of the energy leaving the gun, nobody noticed. All they saw was a color full blinding light. Shadow opened his eyes to stare up at the colorful sky feeling a slight pulls from the impact. He eventually pulled himself up as he heard Tails screaming the next tests he had to perform in vivid detail and such, but Shadow heeded him no mind. He walked over to the charred remains of the rock now left laid on the ground purple smoke coming from it, he bent down and picked it up only to have it removed from his hands by an excited Tails and put into a safety box.
Shadow still ignored everything he said along with everyone else's excited chatter about the surprising results. Shadow just remained quiet because the headache he got when he used the new power gun was slowly starting to make his head pound and his vision blurry.
When Shadow fell to the ground, tripping on thin air, you can say that everyone did indeed notice. When he didn't respond everyone got worried. When he got a high fever now have been put on the couch to rest, everyone was in a frantic panic by then.