Episode 2
Tails' responsibility
Year, 3235. Month, May. Day, the twenty-third.
Tails had spent days on South Island in Emerald Town, he was recently left to look after the Gizoid known as Emerl. Nicolas the Holo-Lynx was left with Tails, in order to help him out. Tails understood that Emerl meant a lot to Green, but he was curious on what exactly Emerl was. "I have to say. It was very nice of Green to buy me a house and lab, he really is a kind guy." Tails said as he finished eating breakfast, in his house. Green used his money that he earned over the years, to buy property in Emerald Town, and as a result he made sure Sonic and Tails each had a house on the island. He also bought apartments for Amy, Cream and her family.
Some of Green's money came from his work at G.U.N, while most of it came from a combination of adventuring and selling artifacts to museums, and the wealth he had hidden across Mobius from his past lives. Being Nazo the Hedgehog, Green was able to reincarnate himself if he died while in his mortal form, or if he perished while in a clash between deities and beings of equal or greater power. Nazo has had seven lives so far, and Green was the most recent of his physical bodies and personalities. In the past he stored up tons of wealth, and had the favor of many people. When Green had left the leadership position of the Knothole Freedom Fighters, he spent at least a week locating his wealth in order to gain property. Though Green is careful in how much property he gains, he knew all too well that property needed taken care of, and to get a steward in order to help him keep the property safe. Green's old racing partners Woody the Woodchuck and Bruce the Badger looked after Sonic's House and Tails' House in Emerald Town.
Tails enjoyed getting to know the South Island Freedom Fighters, and was amazed at Techno the Cannery's technical prowess. Tails went to the beach in order to check on Emerl and Nicolas, who were busy training and enjoying time on the beach. "Nicolas! Emerl!" Tails said as he flew to the beach.
"Hi Tails." Nicolas said while in his holographic form.
"Hi, hi!" Emerl said. The Gizoid regained its ability to speak, but he was limited to saying only a couple words at a time, and he usually repeated them.
"I need to talk with you about Emerl. He's amazing and all, but I'm clueless on what exactly this Gizoid is." Tails said.
Nicolas moved his eyes to the lower right, he was processing information. And he thought it was best not to explain everything about Emerl, all at once. "Well Tails, if you use the Central Lab in South Central City. Then you'll be able to gain more secrets on Emerl. I'm sorry but my programming restricts me from informing people other than Green on… Delicate information…" Nicolas said as he twiddled his fingers, and lowered his ears.
"Alright, I'll take Emerl into the city and get information." Tails said, he then looked at Emerl. "Emerl, come with me." Tails said.
"Come! Come!" Emerl said as he eagerly followed Tails. The two took off for the city, and within minutes of running super-fast they made it.
Tails attempted to enter the Central Lab, but the lab (which is located in the museum) was restricted to the public and for authorized personnel only. Tails and Emerl walked on the streets for s short bit, after the fox got discouraged from his experience in the museum. However Techno the Cannery, was walking in town and she gave her G.U.N pass to Tails after he explained what had happened to him and Emerl. Thanks to Techno, the card pass enabled Tails to use the labs in the museum. Tails soon was able to hook Emerl, into the lab computer. However after barely getting information on what a Gizoid was, the lab computer overloaded and it claimed Tails was accessing classified information. The museum security systems sent Guard Robo units, which resembled the Chaos Gamma robot. Tails didn't pay much attention to the design of the robots, he and Emerl focused on fighting off the robots and getting out of the labs. Tails used new technology he made for his own personal combat, and two of these devices were spring based robotic boxing gloves he could pull out and use to whack an enemy. He also developed small explosives to use, and a robotic glove. This glove could be called upon if Tails was flying, and if he was over something he could deploy the glove and use it to flick something. He was also working on a laser cannon, which was specifically a Bot Buster type laser cannon. Bot Busters were used by the army of the Kingdom of Acorn in order to fight robots from a distance, they could cause mild burns on organic beings and knock them out, but were destructive to machines. Green and Fiona, worked on getting more Bot Busters created after Rotor vowed never to make weaponry again. Rotor's reason for that, was because while in a battlefield one of his machines accidentally hit Larry Lynx and nearly terminated his friend. The reason this happened, was because of Larry's bad luck aura which caused bad things to happen off and on to himself, and people or objects close to him.
Tails and Emerl escaped, and Emerl learned some of Tails combat abilities while battling. The Gizoid decided to mix in some of Green and Tails' combat abilities together, while he was in combat. The two had to head past the highway, and one of the big office buildings in order to head for the Holy Summit, Tails remembered that Knuckles was going to visit Max. Which meant that Tails could inform them on what he discovered. Tails and Emerl would encounter more Guard Robo units, as they made it past the highway and the office. Once the robots were trashed, the two headed for the Holy Summit.
Once there, Max spotted the fox. "Hey Tails. What's going on?" Max asked.
"A lot happened…" Tails said.
"Looks like you've been taking good care of Emerl." Max said.
"Emerl?" Julie-Su said.
"So this is that robot that Green talked about in one of his letters." Knuckles said as he looked at the machine.
"Yes… Emerl is a Gizoid…" Tails said as he panted a little, he was wore out from all the fighting and running he and Emerl had to do.
"Sonic might be interested, in seeing Emerl." Julie-Su said, as she scratched her chin and looked at the robot carefully.
"Sonic is here?" Tails said.
"Yeah, he arrived with us. He thought you'd be needed back at Knothole, especially after that mess with Shadow and the Metal Sonic Troopers that we had not too long ago.
"Well since he's here, we should tell him too." Tails said.
"He's down at the beach, last time we saw him." Knuckles said.
"Okay time to fly!" Tails said as he led the group. But then, Chaos Gamma appeared again, Tails was still confused if it really was Gamma or not. But Max and the group fought it, they defeated Chaos Gamma. "I must be getting stronger." Tails said as he smiled upon realizing they won.
But then the robot got back up, but Max said he'd handle the robot. "I'll catch up with you guys once this tin plated junk pile is toast!" Max said as he fired shots from his blaster at the robot.
Tails and the group made it to the Beach near Emerald Town, within minutes. And they informed Sonic on everything, Tails then explained what he learned about Emerl. He learned from the computer in the Central Lab, that Emerl is some kind of weapon, and that he can infinitely copy attacks and technology. And that if Emerl did this to many times, the robot would overload and possibly go berserk. "Is there anyway we can just make him a normal robot?" Sonic asked.
"There is a way." Rouge the Bat said as she swooped in out of nowhere.
"Rouge?!" everyone said. They recently had bad experience with Rouge, and most of them felt like knocking her out.
"Before anybody does anything! Stop and wait for me to know what's going on!" Green the Hedgehog said as he came out of a Warp Ring.
"Green!" everyone said.
"You're back from Mercia." Tails said.
"Yes. And may I ask what is going on?" Green asked. He was soon informed on what happened since he left about five days ago. "I see, well I can tell you guys that part of my plan was to fix Emerl. Well technically change his core programming." Green said.
"How?" Julie-Su asked.
"The Chaos Emeralds are the key." Rouge said.
"That's right. And once I have all of the Chaos Emeralds, I'm going to reset Emerl." Green said.
"So the Chaos Emeralds are all you need, in order to make Emerl an ordinary robot?" Julie-Su asked.
"Well… Not quite." Green said.
"What? Are you saying something else is needed?" Sonic asked.
"Yes Sonic. As I explained in my letters, I knew Emerl back on Colonial ARC, when I was Nazo in my sixth life." Green said. "My memory has been slowly coming back since I first became Nazo, again. I'm hoping that I can remember the answer in time, because I want to help my friend Emerl." Green said.
"I can understand that." Sonic said.
"Well I guess I'll get going." Rouge said.
"Not so fast!" Knuckles said.
"We have a few things to ask you about." Sonic said.
"Some other time boys." Rouge said.
"Hey Rouge… I get it that you know some stuff about Emerl. But could you explain why you haven't talked much with Emerl?" Green asked.
"Simple. The robot won't bother with me or anyone else unless you order him to." Rouge said.
"Oh right." Green said. "Hey Emerl!" Green said, his robot friend came to him. "Listen buddy. I need you to listen to my friends here, Knuckles, Julie-Su, Sonic and Rouge." Green said.
"Listen! Listen." Emerl said with joy.
"Well I'll take my leave." Rouge said as she left.
Shortly after Rouge left, Knuckles and Sonic practiced and Emerl watched them and practiced with them. Once it was sunset, the group went to the South Island Freedom Fighter base, and talked with their friends and allies there. Emerl then suddenly activated an automated message from Prof. Gerald Robotnik. "Prof. Gerald's Journal Entry on the Gizoid 2: … I am no longer able to ignore the possibility that this robot did in fact destroy the Fourth Great Civilization. I have discovered a stone tablet that explains as much. According to the tablet "When the figure falls from the heavens, and the Stone of the Gods is joined, all that exists will become one again." Though it is difficult to believe, this robot has been watching my movements, and mimicking all that I do. I was amazed by my scans of this being. Surprisingly, reams and reams of data scrolled and caused my most powerful computer to crash. More intriguing was that the data was all about melee combat and weapons of that age. Eventually, if this being is ever restored to its former state, it will put all that data to use, and recreate all the weaponry and combat abilities it once had… And that's not all. If my guesses are correct, it will also have the ability to absorb modern weaponry as well. What have I done? I have uncovered a horrible weapon…" and the journal entry ended.
Everyone who heard the entry felt a bit uneasy around Emerl, but Green assured them that the journal entry that they heard. Was from a time before Gerald met Nazo, and before he learned about the full secrets of the Gizoid. Everyone was still unsure though, but they hoped that Green could help Emerl.
Days later, Green would travel with Max and his girlfriend Dalila
What a series of events. Can Green and Nicolas make Emerl into a regular robot in time? What all happened that caused Shadow to fight with the Freedom Fighters days ago? And what are other villains such as Dr. Finitevus up to? Find out all of that and more as the adventures continue, and be sure to read Green Universe ARC 2 for more interesting stories.
