The Return of Emerl

by Lasair Nova

What if Emerl hadn't really been destroyed? What if he survived, and now Sonic and company need his help more than ever. Five years after Sonic Battle Emerald has returned just in time to help Sonic save the day form Egg Man and his new tricks.

2. Chapter 2

The Return of Emerl

Chapter 2: Home Coming

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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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Emerl had wasted no time in completing his plane, using the chaos emerald we build the plane at near light speed. Once he was done he looked his work over, and satisfied that it was done he took a minute to take in his creation. It looked like an ordinary jet air plane, twin engines with swept back wings, and a bubble cockpit with seats for two. He walked back to the terminal he was using and took one final look at the images on the screen, Central City was partly on fire from riots, emerald town was occupied as well as angel island and Night Babylon, things were bad out there and he needed to do what he could to help.

"Time to see if this can stack up to Egg Man's robots, but even if it can't I still have my chaos emerald so that should even the field."

Emerl jumped into the pilot's seat and started up the engines, they hummed with a mechanical wine as they powered up. Emerl was still in the depths of the wreckage and had made a way out, he pushed a small button on a box and half of the wreckage exploded outwards and the ocean rushed in. once the water hit the plan the engines coughed but kept going, Emerl looked back and gave a grin (or he would have if he had a mouth). He pushed the throttle up and the plan lurched forward and plowed out of the debris and towards the surface.

Emerald Town

Sonic and his team were almost to emerald beach, and to Egg Man who was ironically still on emerald beach.

"He's waiting for us."Remarked Shadow.

"So be it, let's get this over with." Replied Sonic in a icy voice.

The group walked to within sight of Egg Man's new Egg fort, it was uglier than usual with black on purple panted hull, and it looked like a banana riding a watermelon. It was parked don the water's edge with the three Egg Cells and Chaos standing half way up the beach staring at Sonic and company.

"HO HO HO HO HO! I wasn't sure if you were going to show up Sonic, but now that you are we can get down to business."

"Yah Egg Man, let's get this over with so I can add this to my score card." Sonic taunted trying to sound brave and cocky as usual.

"Oh I don't think so Sonic, you see I have more surprises just for you!"

Suddenly several small versions of the Egg Cells rose out of the sand and faced Sonic.

"What?"

"I don't like where this is going Sonic." Said Vector.

Suddenly one of the mini Egg Cells leaped at Sonic in an opening move, Sonic simply spin dashed his attacker and knocked it to the ground. When it hit Sonic was shocked to see a Chao in side, it seemed to be alright and was even trying to get out, but just as it got one arm free a red light blinked inside the Egg Cells and the robot exploded, killing the Chao inside. Then it hit Sonic, Egg Man didn't care if he defeated him here, because if he won Egg Man would have made him reasonable for the deaths of so many. He couldn't do it, he just couldn't bring himself to fight these contraptions.

"Sonic! There attacking!" Yelled Espio.

At that moment the first two rows launched themselves at them, but before they were even a foot off the ground over half of the first row exploded in mid air.

"HA HA HA HA! If you refuse to fight then I'll just activate the self destruct on my servants, or do you surrender?"

"Never Egg Man! Every one try and find out a way to get the Chao out before the Cells explode, it's our only chance."

"Right!" Every one replied every one, everyone except Big that is.

Suddenly Big charged right at the Egg Cells containing Amy, Tails, and Knuckles. The miniature Egg Cells containing the Chao broke ranks and cleared a path for Big.

"BIG! What are you doing!?!?" Cried Sonic.

Big didn't answer he just keep running and running until there was an explosion and Big was gone. Looking at the spot there was a creator twice the size of Big, he had stepped on a land mine,

That's why Egg Man waited two day, he mined the beach! Sonic thought to himself.

"Everyone the beach is mined!"

Everyone got the message and stayed back while they fought the Chao Egg Cells; Charmy was wrestling with one when it exploded, taking both the Chao inside and Charmy.

"Charmy!" Yelled Vector.

"Sonic we can't win this, and if we do there might not be any one left!" Shadow shouted.

"If we can take Egg Man with us for good, then I'll agree to those terms."

This was a new for Sonic; he was willing to give up everything including his life if Egg Man could be killed too. And Sonic was about ready to do that as another Egg cell exploded near by killing another Chao.

"This has to end."

North Emerald Beach

Cream the rabbit was standing under a palm tree; she could see the smoke and hear the explosions from here. It scared her and she was afraid for her friends also.

"I hope everything is going alright." She said in her quiet voice.

The sounds of the battle were suddenly drowned out by the wine of jet engines directly behind her. She let out a loud scream but she could hardly hear herself over the noise, then just as suddenly as it started the noise stopped. Cream felt herself to make sure she was still in one peace looked around, it was darker than before, then she looked up and saw that a jet had landed directly behind her, it was standing on its engines and remind her of Tail's X-Tornado when it walked, but this plane was much smaller and had only two wings instead of four. She cautiously looked up to the cockpit to see if she could see the pilot, the cockpit was open but no one was inside.

"Hello Cream." Said a soft familiar robotic voice from behind her.

It couldn't be, could it? She thought, as she slowly tuned around to see a goldenrod colored robot with blue 'eyes', and they were staring her right in hers.

"Emerl? Is that really you?"

"Yes Cream it me, I'm not sure how I survived but I'm glad I did."

"Mr. Sonic is fighting Egg Man, and it doesn't sound like it's going too well."

"I know, that's why I'm here I'm going to help them. Would you like to come, the last time we worked together you helped me a lot."

"But I don't like violence, you know that."

"Yes but Sonic needs your help, I need your help."

Cream looked down at the sand for a minute thinking about whether or not to go with Emerl, it was true she had helped Emerl grow and ultimately defeat in the end, maybe she could do that again.

"Ok I'll help."

"Thank you, now hold on."

Emerl picked up Cream as if she was as light as air; he jumped to the cockpit of his plane and helped her into the back seat. After strapping her in, he got into the pilots seat and closed the canopy. Grabbing the controls the plane purred to life. The cabin walls of the plane were smooth and suddenly lit up and displayed the surroundings with tactical information; all in all it gave Emerl a three hundred and sixty degree view around the plan. The plane lifted off and shifted back into normal fight mode, lurching forward with sudden momentum. Cream was thrown back into her seat, looking around she saw that they were already over the battle, and it wasn't going well for Sonic and company, several were lying on the ground either injured or dead.

"What on Mobius are those?" Asked Emerl, not intending on getting an answer from Cream.

"What's in them?" She asked.

"Huh?"

"Look, you can see something in them just before they explode."

Emerl looked at the monitor in front if him and was about to look at the play back when an explosion shook the plane.

"We'll have to find out later, there attacking us!"

Emerl put the plane into a loop and brought it nose down at the battle and opened fire with his twin plasma guns, instantly vaporizing a small area of enemies, but the surrounding ground exploded, more than it should have. Emerl switched to infer red imaging and discovered why, mines.

"The beach is mined; we'll need to clear them for Sonic. Cream I need you to keep a look out for any of Egg Man's robot that try and attack us."

In truth Emerl could have done that by himself, but he could concentrate on clearing the mines if Cream watched their tail.

"Ok, here comes one from seven o'clock low." Cream said reading off the angel from the wrap around screen in the plane.

"Got it." Replied Emerl as he dodged and dove left to avoid the oncoming robot.

AS the robot passed it opened up and reveled a very scared Chao inside, then it exploded. Cram could only gape at the image she just saw.

"Emerl there are Chao in those robots that are exploding!"

"WHAT?" Cried Emerl.

If that was true then he had just killed several of them, he pulled his plane skyward as he rethought his straight.

Ok, they detonate on proximity. So how do I disable them without killing them? Emerl thought to himself, and then an idea hit him. He flipped his plane and charged at Egg Man's ship increasing speed.

"Emerl what are you doing?" Cream said nearly screaming

"Ending this madness, don't worry we'll be alright."

Just then Emerl hit a button on his joystick and the whole plane shuddered, on seconded it was an ordinary plane then it transformed completely in to a robot, and was still accelerating towards Egg Man's ship. Two gun barrels extended from each wrist and let out a deadly lance of plasma that impacted Egg Man's ship. The plasma cut right though the hull and Emerl crashed right through.

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"We can't keep this up Sonic." Yelled Shadow

"I know but what choice do we have?"

Sonic looked around and surveyed the battle, Vector was down Espio was missing and the GUN robots were almost all destroyed. Things were defiantly not going well at all, and then he heard a new sound in the background. He looked around and finally spotted the source of the sound, a jet was flying over the battle and it looked like it was ready to join. Then something exploded near the plane and it swerved and aimed for the Chao Cells, then it opened fire and a dozen Cells exploded along with several mines. Sonic knew that the pilot didn't know about the Chao, but he started to look for a way to let him know they were in here. Then he saw one leap at the plane, their plane dogged and the Cell exploded near the cockpit. The plane flew striate up for a moment then dove at Egg Man's ship, after a moment the plane shuddered and transformed into a robot. The feature weren't clear form this distance but Sonic could see arms, legs and what looked like an over sized rifle on its back. The robot plane continued to dive at the ship and fired from somewhere Sonic couldn't see, the hull of Egg Man's ship exploded and the plane crashed though.

"Whoever that was I don't think they are going to survive for very long in there."

"Or maybe there the help we need." Shouted Shadow.

Sonic didn't get a chance to reply, while they had been distracted all by the Chao Cells and the plane that he didn't see the Egg Cells with Tail's, Amy, Knuckles and Chaos approaching. Now they were literally on top of them, the Tail's Cell had grappled Sonic and had him pinned on the ground. Sonic was doing his best to get free but to no avail, Knuckles was hammering what was left of the Chaotixs and Amy was fighting Shadow, Chaos was handling the rest.

"No we can't go down like this."

The Tail's Cell stared at Sonic with its red bar of an eye unmercifully and looked like it was ready to kill him, Sonic closed his eyes and waited.

The Egg Fort

The roof collapsed under the strain of weapons fire and the weight of the robotic plane, when the dust settled a thirty foot robot stood in the cargo bay. Three Behemoths entered the room and opened fire at the intruder, Emerl reacted quickly and deployed a shield from his robots left forearm and deflected the assault. Emerl reached for the large rifle on the robots back and poked the mussel around the shield and returned fire. The rifle fired 44cal. armor piercing rounds at the attackers, making short work of them. Emerl stood and surveyed his fallen appoints, stratified that they were down for good he turned his attention to the monitor in front of him.

"We need to find the bridge and find a way to shut down the robots outside."

"I think I have an idea as to where it is, I was looking while you fought off Egg Man's robots."

"Nice work, show me so we can put a stop to this."

A map appeared on Emerl's screen with an out lined path to the bridge, Emerl noticed something a little off about the layout of the ship.

"Cream, the hallways and rooms are big enough for this robot to walk through, that doesn't make sense why would Egg Man need the inside of his ship that big?"

It was a rhetorical question because he knew Cream didn't have the slightest clue why Egg Man had built his ship like this, but she gave an answer any way.

"Maybe he has bigger robot's, or he got that big?"

Heh I would love to see an even fatter Egg Man then before, it would be funny to see him fly apart. He thought to himself.

Emerl drove his robot along the path Cream had found for him, they didn't run into any more resistance, and that made Emerl concerned. If Egg Man had gone to so much trouble to fight Sonic, why wouldn't there be dozens of security robots in here? His questions would have to wait because at that moment he was at the door to the bridge, which was still as large as the rest of the ship. Emerl punched the door and it collapsed, he found the last thing he expected. There standing in the middle of the room was a giant robotic replica of Egg Man himself.

"HO HO HO HO HO. Well who do we have here? Sonic and his pathetic band are outside and I've captured the rest, so tell me who are you?"

Emerl made some adjustments in his control panel and changed the sound of his voice as it was projected by his robot.

"My name is of no concern to you, Egg Man." He retorted in a harsh voice.

"Oh but it does, it does. You see I like to know the names of the people I kill, not just some face less pilot."

"Sorry to disappoint Egg Man, but I'm not in a talking mood, so let's get this over with."

Emerl's robot raised its gun and a bayonet lashed out from a hidden compartment under the muzzle. Emerl pointed the weapon at Egg Man and was ready to fire, when Egg Man spoke again.

"I wouldn't do that if I was you."

"Oh and why not?"

"Because if you do your friends will die out there."

"What are you talking about Egg Man?"

"You are one of Sonics' pathetic friends are you not?"

"I am a friend of Sonics', but I am not at all pathetic."

"Oh we'll see about that, but no mater I have Tails, Knuckles, and Amy in those pods outside. One command, or my death and they die."

Now things started to make sense to Emerl, the Chao pods were cannon fodder and the larger ones he had seen making their way up the beach were pods with Tails, Knuckles, and Amy in them. Now he had a whole new set of problems to worry about, if he attacked Egg Man he risked killing them and any one near from the explosion, but if he didn't fight him and try to stop the pods Sonic and the others would die. He needed to come up with a new plan and quick, he doubted if Egg Man was going to let him sit here and sort this all out, or was he? Egg Man had been interested in talking, or at least trying to find out who he was, that could buy him some time to figure out a way to beat him and save the others.

"Ok Egg Man I'll bite, what's your game here? I know you want to conquer this planet but this isn't your style, so what changed?"

"Ah you see I've seen the light, I have always been too easy on Sonic and his friends, if I want to win its going to take drastic measures, and killing them in the process is only a bonus."

"So you're going to kill them no matter the outcome?" Now Emerl had a plan, he just needed Egg Man to spill a few more beans to formulate a complete plan.

"Of course I am, but if your thinking of attacking me anyway, I have a live ink to the pods, so as long as that link is up the pods will stay in one peace."

Got yah you fat bitch!

Emerl quickly scanned the area for any transitions so he could mimic them, Egg Man didn't say that the link had to come from him, only that there had to be one. Emerl found the transition and locked on, copied it and started broadcasting his own. He leveled the gun and Egg Man one more time, switched off the voice scrambler and told Egg Man.

"My name is Emerl, you Egg f..."

Emerl didn't get a chance to finish his insult because it was cut off by an explosion behind Egg Man, the controls were nearly destroyed and on fire. But as the dust settled Emerl could see there was something else there, or rather someone was standing there in the fire. No in the fire, the fire was around him and he had something plugged into the panel, then he looked at Emerl's robot nodded and launched a fire ball from his hand, right at Egg Man. Emerl didn't know who this was but at the moment he didn't care, he was helping and that was all that mattered.

He was helping fight Egg Man...

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