A/N: This story takes place only a few weeks after the events of my first story, The True Ultimate Life, and it is HIGHLY recommended that you read it before this one. Either way, it's a good read, if I say so myself
A huge metal fortress mangled by past explosions and the constant impact of meteors hung is space. At its heart was a wrecked laboratory. In the center of this laboratory was a hedgehog. He was about Sonic's height and pure white, with a crescent shape on his chest. His quills were reminiscent of Silver's. Thought dead by his nemeses, the white hedgehog lay unconscious. He had for weeks now, but no longer. The being stirred. Where am I? he thought with a fuzzy mind. What happened? He slowly stood, feeling a headache. He looked down and saw a piece of twisted metal with dried blood on it. As he picked it up, the memories came rushing back to him. He remembered waking up in the Space Colony ARK and then viewing Mobius. He remembered what his goal had been, to destroy the universe and build a new one in its place. He remembered the blue hedgehog, the fox, and that plant girl. He remembered sabotaging the parachutes in an attempt to kill the hedgehog and fox.
He remembered the fight at this space base.
He remembered the fox stabbing him with rage.
Nazo walked around a bit, his headache subsiding. He had lost because he had toyed with his foes, underestimating their strength and their rage. He wouldn't make the same mistake twice. Nazo knew now what to do. He would kill them all, leaving not one standing. He grinned evilly and began to work, to formulate a plan.
Upon hearing the doorbell ring, Amy wheeled herself to the door, eager to begin the process. The rest of the gang was outside. She happily let them in. They carried the Chaos Emeralds with them. Sonic, Tails, Cosmo, Knuckles, Amy, and Cream all stood (or sat, in Amy's case) around a table.
"Are you ready, Amy?" Cream asked. Amy nodded, and Sonic lifted her onto the table. Knuckles had been working on it, and he felt that he could now do what the doctors had called impossible. On his gesture, the Chaos Emeralds floated around the table.
"Chaos Emeralds!" he chanted, and the gems slowly began to spin. "I am your master! Do as I command!" The emeralds spun faster around the table. "Only you can do this. Cure the innocent and pure! Cure Amy!" A blinding light filled the room, and the gang was forced to avert their eyes. When the light subsided, Amy lay on the table. Slowly, she stood up on the floor.
"It worked," she said, and pure euphoria radiated from her. "I'm free!" Amy yelled, and ran out the door.
"Let her have her fun," Cosmo said, smiling. "I know what it's like to be…brought back." She briefly glanced at Tails. He grinned ever so slightly in response.
"So…what now?" Sonic blurted out.
Knuckles said, "I need to go back to Angel Island. Peace." and drove away on his ATV. Cream looked at her watch, and a look of surprise took her face. She said that she had to leave for dance lessons and left. Sonic, Tails, and Cosmo lingered.
Tails looked at Sonic. "Want to go skydiving?" he said jokingly. Sonic laughed, but Cosmo got annoyed, telling him that it wasn't healthy to joke about things like that. Most of the gang had gotten this spiel at least once, so Tails just waited it out. "You need to lighten up a bit, Cosmo," he said when she finished. Sonic nodded. Cosmo simply crossed her arms and wondered on the inside what they got from joking about near-death experiences. Sonic saw the clock and gasped.
"I'm late!" he said. "I've got 30 seconds!" And with that, he scrambled out the door.
"I wonder what that was about," Tails said. He made a mental note to ask Sonic later. "Let's go home." The couple walked to their duplex. Cosmo's side of the place was littered with flowers and other plants. Tails had had it designed that way. Tails' side of the duplex was relatively plain; it had some pictures of good inventions, but it was mostly a cluttered place that Tails didn't try dreadfully hard to organize or decorate. Under the whole duplex—underground, that is—was Tails' huge workshop, a place where all of his current inventions were stored and where he invented new ones.
As he prepared his own dinner, Tails faintly heard a noise underground. Perplexed, he walked down to his workroom and tracked the alarm which was now quite loud to the partially wrecked Blue Typhoon. He looked at the slightly mangled main control area where the sound was coming from and quickly disabled it. Tails proceeded to take a closer look and find out what was causing the alarm. The cause was a spike in chaos energy at the last preprogrammed destination, the coordinates 10, 0, 1,000,000. Tails grimaced. What was causing such a great spike in chaos energy over there? Perhaps the fake emeralds had somehow grown more powerful? Maybe…Oh, no, Tails thought. He ran to fire a photo laser. The mechanicals groaned wearily as the metal column, stale from lack of use, rose up from the top of the large space fortress. Tails set the coordinates and averted his eyes as the brilliant green laser fired. Due to the fight, the jammers around Nazo's base had long since been destroyed.
The unmistakable sound of metal straining struck Tails' ears. He looked up just in time to see the hurt laser begin to wobble. The recoil had been too much! Tails shook himself back from his initial shock and began to run, but it was too late. The metal beam that the huge laser cannon rested on toppled, and the large gun fell apart. Tails couldn't even get the scream out before he was buried in rubble and knocked unconscious.
Cosmo jumped as she heard a huge crash beneath her. She had heard the sound of the laser firing, but had thought nothing of it. Tails was probably doing something important, and she didn't want to get in the way. This racket, however, demanded her attention. What if Tails had been hurt? Cosmo ran over to his side of the duplex and called his name, which yielded no response. Worried, Cosmo walked down the steep stairs leading to her boyfriend's workroom, and an array of horrible ideas struck her imagination. She briefly saw in her mind's eye Tails, burning up in an accidental fire from a project, yelling for help. Cosmo shook the thought from her mind and began walking around the large work area. This place might as well have its own ZIP code, she thought, awed as usual by its size. She saw one open door in a huge area with multiple doors littering the walls. Dreading the thoughts of what she might find, Cosmo peered inside…
A/N: I know that this seems pretty generic, but don't worry. I have a plan—muhahaha. If you liked, review for more! If you didn't, gripe all you want about what sucked!
