"Let's do this," Sonic shouts to Tails and Knuckles. "We have to defeat Eggman and save Amy. We know the location."
"Alright! Hop into the Tornado," Tails orders.
Sonic rides on a wing. Tails sits in the cockpit while Knuckles takes the passenger seat. They fly off into the night sky towards Eggman's location. The moon is out and stars dot the sky. Sonic is standing on the left wing with his quills wafting in the breeze. Tails is piloting the Tornado while taking occasional glares at his radar. Knuckles is starting to get bored and nearly falls asleep. In front of the moon, Sonic can see a huge figure blocking it. Tails radar goes off and Knuckles almost jumps out of his seat.
"This is it," Sonic screams. "We'll finally get him for good this time!"
Tails brings the Tornado in closer. Eggman's starting to get a little stale with his design as this craft looks exactly like the Egg Carrier. Tails lands the Tornado on the runway. Sonic jumps off the wing and runs towards the control room with his friends right behind him. The many cannons on the deck starts to shoot missiles. Sonic dodges everyone while Tails grabs Knuckles and they fly over everything. Sonic jumps as high as he can. He's currently faced with a huge glass dome. He dashes his way through leaving a hole which Tails and Knuckles comes through. They are absolutely shocked. Eggman's not here. Instead they find someone else sitting in the captain's chair.
"What are you doing here," Sonic asks his foe. "Where's Eggman?"
"Eggman and I had a little disagreement," Shadow explains as he jumps out of his chair. "I took care of him myself."
"What," Tails asks him. "Then why did you lure us here?"
"I know that Sonic has the Chaos Emeralds and I need them." He slowly walks over to Sonic. "Hand them over."
"You know I won't do that," Sonic replies with a smile. "If you want them, then you got to take them from me."
"It's exactly what I plan to do," Shadow replies as smug as ever.
Sonic signals with his head to go look for Amy. Tails and Knuckles takes off in the door to the right.
"Let's get started," Sonic says as he jumps into the air and falls directly onto Shadow with his leg extended out.
Shadow moves himself to the side and punches Sonic in the face. He jumps back.
"You know that doesn't work on me and yet you try it every time."
"I'm just warming up."
He charges at Shadow. Shadow decides to do so as well and meets him halfway. Sonic comes at his foe with a barrage of punches that Shadow blocks by using the palms of his hands. He grabs one of the punches and flips the blue rat over his head. Sonic regains his balance in midair. He rolls into a ball and flings himself at Shadow. Shadow does the same. They collide in the air and the attacks cancel out.
"Stop this nonsense already," Shadow says. "You know we are evenly matched. You can't defeat me without the power of the Chaos Emeralds. Bring those out so we can get the real party started."
"Never. I'll prove to you that I don't need the Chaos Emeralds to beat you."
"Suit yourself."
He jumps into the air and opens both of his hands. Sonic stands there looking very confused and attentive. Shadow shouts Chaos Spear as purple lightning bolts come out of his hands. Sonic runs away while dodging each one. Shadow shoots out one final beam of energy the chases after it. Sonic stops running. He rolls into a ball and continues to charge up momentum. Before Shadow lands he screams Chaos Control. Sonic's spin dash misses. Shadow appears right behind him. He uses a spin kick which Sonic manages to block with his right arm.
"You blocked me coming out of a Chaos Cotnrol. Very impressive. You seem to have improved."
"You try it all the time. You know it never works."
Sonic flips himself under Shadow, jumps then kicks the black hedgehog in the back of the head. In the middle of this he carelessly dropped the Chaos Emeralds.
"Oh no," Sonic screams as he runs for them.
Shadow wakes up. He does Chaos Control once more and picks them up right before Sonic gets there.
"Yes," Shadow exclaims as he juggles the Chaos Emeralds. "Now I can take you down and start my own empire! I won't be under Eggman anymore. I'll be on top!"
"I'll never let that happen," Sonic cries out. "I refuse and will stop you at all costs!"
"Yeah right." Shadow takes in the emerald's power and starts to glow. Sonic gets closer and does the same. Super Sonic and Super Shadow blows through the ceiling of the ship while colliding with punches and kicks so fast that they can't been seen with the naked eye. While in the middle of this, Super Sonic notices Tails and Knuckles taking off with Amy on board. Once he sees that, he stops holding back. He disappears by using Chaos Control. Super Shadow does the same. They collide in the air over and over again creating shockwaves throughout the night sky. The Egg Carrier falls into the ocean creating a large explosion. Super Shadow stops with all of this back and forth. He lets out a huge Chaos Spear. Super Sonic moves to the left to dodge it. The evil hedgehog guards the spear around with his finger. Super Sonic releases a shockwave with a spindash. They collide and disperse. He sends out another Chaos Spear. Super Sonic notices that his enemy has to stay still for three seconds after firing it before he can control it. He cancels out this one with another shockwave. Super Shadow stays predictable and lets out another Chaos Spear. Super Sonic uses his power to transform into a lightning bolt. He caught Super Shadow of guard. He sends Super Shadow spiraling down with a kick. He then continues to follow. Super Shadow struggles to recoup himself before he hits the water.
"I have no other choice," he screams. "Chaos Blast!"
Super Sonic stops dead in his tracks. He puts his arms up in front of his face as a last ditch effort to block the attack. This sort of worked, but his right arm took the blunt of the attack. He cries out in pain as his right arm just dangles there. Super Shadow sees this chance and takes it. She shoots out a Chaos Spear which hits Super Sonic on the right leg. He comes at him full force with punches and kicks that Super Sonic can no longer block. He forms a ball with both hands and brings them over Super Sonic's head for the big finish. He sends the gold hedgehog flying towards the ocean. Super Shadow starts coming down too.
"I'll end this here," he says calmly. "Chaos Spear!"
A huge Chaos Spear comes out. Super Sonic manages to open his eyes, but it's a bit too late. He hits the water and starts to sink like a rock. The ocean is completely dark and it gets worse the further down he goes. He can't hear a thing, and he sees is a huge purple light flying towards him. With all the strength he has left, Super Sonic let's a huge Chaos Control beam. Super Shadow is hovering above the ocean's surface and can't spot Super Sonic at all, but that doesn't mean Super Sonic couldn't see him. The beam cannibalizes the Chaos Control and hits Super Shadow dead center. As soon as it hits him, he loses his powers and the Chaos Emeralds fall out. Super Sonic flies towards to the surface. He grabs the Chaos Emeralds that are on the surface. Once he has all seven, he slowly floats towards the beach. As soon as he is over dry land, he cancels out his powers and falls down. He passes out even before he hits the ground.
"Ah man," Sonic says as he opens his eyes. He's lying in Tails' bed. "That was some dream. I thought Shadow broke my right arm and leg."
He looks straight across. He can see his leg in a cast. He then tries to lift his right arm, but notices that he can't.
"So it wasn't a dream," he says to himself. "So that means, I can't move? Noooo!"
Tails comes walking into the room.
"You finally woke up this time I see," he says. "You have been shouting random things all night in your sleep."
"Where's the Chaos Emerald?" Sonic's eyes quickly scan the room.
"Relax, Knuckles got them. We also managed to save Amy too."
"Ah, good. Where is she?"
"Did you look to the left?
Sonic turns his head. Amy's sleeping in a chair.
"Oh, she must have stayed up all night looking after me. What happened to Shadow?"
"I don't know," he replies as sits on the end of the bed. "When we came back to get you, we saw him floating in the ocean. We just left him there."
"So you mean I killed Shadow," Sonic asks seriously.
"You know Shadow. He never dies. He always comes back somehow. Anyway, you are pretty much done for about two or three months."
"Yeah, I see that now," he says as he sits up.
"I'm out for a bit. Call me if you need anything." Tails walks out and closes the door. The sound wakes up Amy, which Sonic didn't want to happen.
"Sonic," Amy says. "I'm sorry."
He had braced himself as if Amy was about to attack him, but this caught him off guard.
"What are you talking about? The fact that I'm hurt is not your fault."
"Yes it is. You came to save me. Nothing of this magnitude has ever happened to you before. I feel as if this is my fault," she explains as tears starts to form in her eyes.
"Stop crying," he replies. "I'm pretty sure you would do the same for me if you could. Besides, as long as you are ok then I'm happy."
Amy walks out the room while still crying and closes the door behind her. Sonic falls asleep once again.
Tails and Knuckles are outside. It's daytime and they are standing in front of Tails' workshop watching the clouds go by.
"So now what," Tails says. "If Shadow comes back then what are we gonna do?" He picks up a rock and throws it into the distance.
"We can take him," Knuckles responds. "If Sonic can beat him, then we certainly can if we work together."
"Yeah but, what if Shadow gets the Chaos Emeralds?"
"Then I go Super and beat the crap out of him."
"But what if he beats you and I'm left."
"Would you stop with the questions already! The point is, Sonic defeated Shadow and we won't have to worry about him anymore."
Amy walks past them with her head down. Tails runs towards the Tornado and pulls out a package.
"Hey, this came earlier," he says. "I don't know what it is."
"I don't want it right now," she replies sadly.
"But it's from your mom!"
"What," Amy says. She runs over the takes the package out of Tails hands. She opens it and finds something wrapped up with a note on it.
"Well, what it says," Knuckles asks.
I witnessed what happened last night and I think it's about time I gave you this. I think it will come in handy for future use.
Amy unwraps her present. It's a hammer. The hammer has a golden handle with a solid diamond head. Knuckles is staring at it like he wants to steal it. Tails is intrigued by it. Amy takes out her old hammer to compare sizes. They are the same size. She picks up the golden hammer which is noticeably heavier. She needs to use both hands to lift it up. The sun is reflecting off of the hammer forcing Knuckles to put on his sunglasses.
"What are you supposed to do with this," Tails asks.
"I don't know," Amy replies. "Maybe Sonic might know?"
"You just want to show Sonic," Knuckles says.
Sonic is sleeping like a baby. He starts to drool. His eyes open quickly once all three of them barge into the room.
"Woah, what's that," Sonic says. "That's a cool-looking hammer."
"My mom sent me this," Amy replies.
"You have a mom?"
Tails laughs uncontrollably. "We don't know what to do with it. Maybe she needs to activate it or something."
"And, why are you guys showing me? I don't know what to say."
"Well, how do you activate the Chaos Emeralds?"
Sonic thinks for a bit. "To activate the Chaos Emeralds you need to have good or bad desires. The strength of that desire determines the amount of power you'll get from the emeralds. For example, every time I activate the emeralds my desire is usually to save the world or Amy. If you can draw the maximum power from it then you can transform."
"Really," Tails says with confusion. "Is that all there is to it?"
"Yeah. I don't know how that would apply to a huge golden hammer though. Now if you guys don't mind I'd like to take another nap."
Knuckles walks outside. He can faintly hear something to his left. He turns his back towards that direction and proceeds to take a walk down the road. Tails and Amy decides to stay behind. For no reason at all, the ground beings to rumble.
"What in the world," Tails says. "What's going on?"
A huge drill rises from out of the ground. It's attached to a tank. The tanks stops right in front of Tails.
"Hey, whose in there," he asks.
He gets no response. A hatch opens on the top. Someone jumps out that makes even Tails perplexed.
"No way," he screams. "What are you doing here? And what's with that get up?"
"I'm here to right the wrong and avenge Shadow," Maria says as she walks even closer to Tails. He starts to get nervous.
"You are not getting in this house," Amy screams. "I'll make sure that you don't."
"With what, your hammer? You can't hit me with that thing."
Tails sighs and walks out of the way. Maria's current attire consists of a black dress with red high heels. The dress is frilly with red outlines and gold around the neck of it. The wind starts to pick up to reveal her red panties which makes Tails turns his head in shame. Amy tightly grips that hammer and builds up a strong desire to protect Sonic from the new invader. The head of it starts to glow. Tails and Maria shield their eyes from the light which engulfs Amy. Her current clothes disappear. Knuckles was coming back. Upon seeing this, he hides behind a tree and continues to look on with a big grin. Amy lands back on the ground with a white skirt, black boots, a clear hammer, and a golden crown. She looks at herself though the reflection that her huge hammer gives her. The sudden change in clothes makes her downright scared, but she also notices that the hammer is lighter and she can't remove the crown. Either way, she points the hammer at Maria.
"You shall not pass," she says menacingly.
Maria is obviously a little more attentive because of the sudden change. "You think a costume change is going to stop me," she asks with hesitation.
Amy gives her hammer a fake swing in order to see what happens. She shoots out a shock wave which sends her airborne. She lands on her back.
"Whoa," Tails says. "The hammer is cool!"
Maria struggles to get back up. She pulls out a remote control.
"That was nothing. Now then, time to get serious. Go drill-kun!"
"Drill-kun," Tails asks. "What's with the kun?"
"It's a suffix alright?"
"Whatever." He jumps out of the way. "Amy, it's practice time for the hammer. Try to see what you can do with it!"
The drill burrows underground. Amy listens for it. It's right under her. She slams the handle of her hammer down right on top of where the drill should be. Within seconds, they hear an explosion. The head of the drill comes flying out of the ground. Maria jumps out of the way. She nearly avoids it. Amy stares at her weapon once more. She doesn't have any idea as to what's going on with it.
"You destroyed my drill," Maria shouts. "I'll be back!" She presses a gold button on her dress and a rocket pack comes out. She flies off into the sky.
"Wow, if I didn't see the transformation then I wouldn't know that this is Amy," Knuckles remarks.
"You looked at me while I transformed," she asks. Knuckles starts to inch away, but Amy clocks him on the head as she starts to blush. "I was naked you idiot!"
He lays there with his head in the ground. Tails takes a closer look at the hammer.
"We really need to find out what this hammer can do," he demands. "It seems like it has electrical properties."
"I noticed something as well. The golden handle of the hammer has disappeared. Maybe it turned into the crown on my head?"
"That makes sense. So maybe you have the power of electricity? We should practice."
"Ok, can I do it on Knuckles?"
"Sure."
She swings the hammer at Knuckles and hits him with a shockwave on his butt. His screams of pain are muffled because of his head still being stuck in the ground.
"That's cool. You can swing you hammer to make a sonic boom. Try the handle thing next."
She slams the hammer down on Knuckles back. A lightning bolt came out and shocked him. This made him jump out of the ground.
"Ok, I'm sorry alright? Man, that hurts."
"So I can make electricity with this hammer." She looks at it some more. "That's all I think I can do."
"Oh well, maybe we'll find out more things later on. For now, I wonder what would possess Maria to dress up like that and attack us."
"I got an idea," Knuckles says while rubbing his head. "Maria probably rescued Shadow. Shadow must have been almost dead like Sonic was. She got mad. She probably came here and saw Sonic down and out so she decides to come after us and get the Chaos Emeralds instead."
"Ah, that explains it," Tails replies. He faces Amy. "I don't understand all of this weird power stuff, but what I do know is that we'll be counting on you more than ever. From now on, we'll need you to protect Sonic and the Chaos Emeralds. I just hope Maria doesn't start to go overboard with her inventions. Tomorrow, I'd say we relax and try to figure out what the hammer can really do."