Chapter two

Egg-CrusherV25

I had been awake for a while, but when I heard Bokkun's unmistakable laugh coming down the hallway I quickly pretended to be in a deep sleep.

The door opened slowly and a mischievous smile spread across my face. I heard him fly towards me slowly, and then felt a gentle poke on my back.

"BOO!" I yelled jumping up, scaring Bokkun half to death.

"Meane! You scared me! Meane!" He yelled at me though I could hear giggles between the words.

"Ha I know, I'm mean like that, "I said smiling. "But anyway what where you coming to tell me?"

He did a back flip in the air before answering, "Eggman wants you, the new robot is ready! We're gonna conquer the world!"

I smiled. "I know we are"

We joked around on the way back but my brain was focused on one thing and one thing only.

Shadow's death.

"Alexandria! Excellent! Excellent!" Eggman's voice came from the speakers surrounding me while his face smiled at me from a giant screen on the wall, not a pretty sight.

I waved at his giant mustache, which took up most of the screen. "Well what's the plan Uncle Ivo?"

"Come into the spaceship and I'll be glad to explain," While he said that a big metal door slid open beside me.

I walked through it and into a brightly lit hallway and followed Bokkun around the spaceship and into the control room where Eggman was waiting.

"Got lost?"He asked smiling.

I shook my head, "Bokkun led the way, but I would've if I'd been by myself. Everything looks the same to me."

His smile grew, "Yes or so it would seem but if you look carefully you'll see that. . ."

"And the plan is . . .?" I asked, cutting him off before he went onto one of his endless lectures.

"Right, right," He stepped closer. "This "Spaceship" is actually a battle robot, The Egg-Crusher V25, my finest creation yet! So what we'll do is travel up to the ARK and try to regain control of the Eclipse cannon and hopefully my grandfather won't have any more surprises. . ."

"So when do we kill Shadow?" I ask impatiently.

"Calm down child," He shook his head but I could see a proud smile form on his face. "He'll try to protect the ARK of course so he'll attack us and that'll be the end of him."

I felt the floor shake beneath my feet as we took off towards Shadow's precious ARK.

"Isn't the ARK the place where Aunt Maria got killed?"

He nodded sadly but said no more.

I felt the sadness grow around my "Evil" Uncle and quickly changed the theme, "So do I get a weapon?"

"Huh?" He looked up at me shaking the sad thoughts out of his mind. "Yes of course of course you'll need them! You will carry out the most important part of the plan didn't I tell you?"

I shook my head tingling with excitement.

Fluffing my light brown hair he explained. "I will distract Shadow by attacking the ARK while you'll be dropped off in the space colony by Decoe, Once inside you will locate the eclipse cannon and start it up."

I nodded taking it all in. "So I'll take the emeralds with me then?"

"Yes," He handed me a small light blue gun. "This is a very powerful laser gun; it'll go through ANYTHING so aim carefully."

I took the gun in my hand; the metal was cool and soft. "Whatever happens I'll kill shadow."

"I understand what you're feeling but you can't. . ."

"Please! It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do . . . ," I pleaded tears filling my eyes ignoring my efforts to push the back.

He shook his head, "Killing isn't such an easy matter, I admire the evil within you but if you ever want to do something big, and make the world tremble when they whisper your name then you must be able to control your hate."

"You're right I don't want to end up like YOU!" I yelled at him then ran off onto the maze of hallways behind me. I knew I'd gone a bit too far but I didn't care. He'd killed me one and only dream, the only thing that kept my heart beating after my parent's death.

I passed by a small window and stopped and stared as the ARK got closer. Angry tears filled my eyes and I allowed them to flow freely, knowing this was the only way for me to calm down and turn back into my real self.

The Egg-crusher V25 stopped in front of the ARK. "Alexandria, the emeralds are here. Ready to begin your mission?"

I turned to face Decoe, who handed me a black backpack with the emeralds inside. "Yeah let's get this over with,"

Following the robot I slung the backpack onto my shoulder feeling a bit bad for not apologizing to my uncle. We climbed into a small space car and I shook my head, getting rid of all the feelings, going into mission mode.

The window beside me showed my uncle's Egg-crusher beating the crap out of the "ultimate" life-form and an evil smile appeared in my face but the nervous feeling took over again when I climbed into the ARK and Decoe left me on my own.

"This place is bigger than I thought. . . " I sighed an hour later when I still hadn't found the stupid cannon. I dropped the backpack and sat on the cold metal floor taking a small break from all the walking.

There was a giant window placed in front of me, which almost covered the whole wall. I looked through it and groaned. Shadow and Eggman's robot were still fighting, but now it seemed my uncle was the one losing the battle.

"No!" I screamed as I watched my uncle shoot himself back to earth in his small emergency shuttle. "No! You ass-hole! I'm still here! Come back!"

I pounded the glass with my fists even though I knew he was gone and this was useless. I held tightly onto the laser gun when my eyes moved back to Shadow, who had just chaos controlled himself back into the ARK.

I was on my own.

On my own with the creature that had murdered my parents.