Chapter 4- Future of Destruction

Chapter 4- Future of Destruction

"We'll Ill be, if it isn't Silver of all hedgehogs," stated Sonic, "What are you doing here?"

Silver finished walking out of the portal and wasn't smiling.

"The future, it's lost…"

"What, what happened?" Sonic asked in shock.

"Eggman. He rules the future with an iron fist. A cruel dictator, that enslaves people if they disagree with his actions. Any human that tries to defy him are executed without warning. No one can stop him because he controls the future in an evil way, and no one has even grown close to de-throning him."

"And why didn't I stop this when I had the chance?"

"Sonic, Eggman slaughtered you and everyone else. He used his army of a million Warbots and attacked you and everyone else with full force. He killed you, Tails, Rouge, and Amy in his first encounter. The Chaotix, Cream, Cheese, and Big the Cat died in the forest fire started by him. Shadow and Omega put up a good fight, but they were both left to die after battle. Knuckles was the final person remaining and he put up the fight of his life, but died courageously. Eggman then stole the Master Emerald and combined its energy with the Chaos Emeralds to make himself immortal, then destroying Angel Island in the process. I tried and tried to de-throne him but was always nearly slain by it…"

"It?" Sonic asked.

"Eggman's most powerful robot ever created…it is the robot that slain every one of you…"

"Does it have a name?" Rouge asked.

"He calls it…Omega X…"

Everyone just stared at Silver in awe.

"Omega? Is it related to our Omega?"

Silver closed his eyes, "Eggman decided to make a leader of his army and base it off of one of his better robots, but he just improved to easily outmatch his original model…"

No one said a single word, and everyone felt the horrible feeling of Silver's pain.

"That is why I have come from the future, to stop this from ever happening. I want justice." Silver stated.

"Justice…the fourth hero…" Knuckles said quietly.

Sonic smiled and reached out his hand.

"We'll be happy to help you Silver…"

Silver smiled and gave Sonic his hand. Suddenly, a slight rumbling noise echoed in the distance. Silver gazed around the mountainous region. There he spotted a blue propeller plane coming towards them in the distance.

"Hey who is that?" asked Rouge.

"It looks like the Tornado, wait is that…" Knuckles said.

"TAILS?!" exclaimed Sonic.

The engine of the plane roared to life, causing the front end of the plane to blow open and smoke began to fly out. The plane began to curve downwards and evolved into a spiral. It spiraled down quickly, and began a crash course for the rocky wall next to the entrance to Red Mountain.

"He's going to crash!" exclaimed Knuckles.

Sonic, Knuckles, Rouge, and Silver dashed across the wooden bridge, trying to get to the spot where Tails was going to crash.

Too late.

Tails collided with the rocky wall, and a large cloud of smoke erupted into the air. Luckily, no fire erupted and Sonic even wondered why. The group rushed to the planes side and began to get nervous.

"Tails, don't go into the light!" yelped Knuckles.

The young fox's head popped out of the rubble and smiled.

"Wow, that was cool!" exclaimed Tails.

Sonic laughed, "That just shows the child in him."

Silver smiled and looked at Tails.

"You alright Tails?" he asked.

"Yeah I'm…wait, why are you here?"

Silver frowned and looked away.

"Lets just say I want Justice, and lets leave it at that."

Tails cocked his head but didn't worry about it for long.

"Sonic, why did you start those fires in Station Square?"

"What? I didn't start any fires!" Sonic said astoundingly.

"Well GUN caught you on tape and you are wanted all over the state by GUN. They have hired Eggman to hunt you down using GUN's equipment. They basically gave GUN to Eggman, and who knows what Eggman's plan is from there."

Rouge perked up, "But I was with Sonic last night, how is that possible?"

Tails looked at Rouge, "They want you too, they spotted you talking to Sonic on camera just before the fire erupted."

Rouge became flabbergasted; GUN was after their very own agent. She couldn't go back now, she had to set things right.

"It must to have been Metal Sonic," stated Sonic, "Eggman must have sent Metal Sonic to frame me!"

"Yeah, we met Metal Sonic last night and he and Sonic got into a huge battle." Rouge mentioned.

Tails rested his hand on his chin, "Well I had to fly over here and warn you about this."

"Fly…" Knuckles said quietly.

Everyone turned and faced Knuckles.

"The Flight hero. Tails must be the Flight hero."

"Flight…hero?" Tails pondered.

Knuckles began to circle the group, pondering his thoughts with his eyes closed and his arms folded.

"Speed, Power, Justice, Stealth, and Flight…Tails', you fit this hint of this legendary hero."

Tails jumped in the air. "I'm a legendary hero? How awesome!"

"Yeah, so all we need to find now is Fire, Iron, Chaos, and Love." Sonic stated.

"LOVE?" shouted a loud muffled voice.

Amy burst out of the rubble and leaped towards Sonic with hearts in her eyes. She wrapped her arms around Sonic, restraining Sonic from moving.

"There is a Love hero? Is that me?" Amy asked excitedly.

"Yes Knuckles, IS it her?" Sonic stressed, gritting his teeth.

"Well…she does fit the hero…" Knuckles answered.

Amy leaped with joy and knocked Sonic on his back. Sonic winced in pain as the pressure was placed on the stitches sewed on his back.

"So that leaves three heroes remaining." Mentioned Silver.

"Yes, but I really couldn't think of who they would be…"

Sonic stood back up and itched away from Amy.

"Well if we're going to stop Eggman, then we had best find the Chaos Emeralds." Sonic suggested.

"Sounds like a good idea. Let's start with this one." Stated Knuckles as he pulled out a green Chaos Emerald.

Everyone stared in awe as the emerald sparkled in the sunlight.

"I have one placed in the Tornado's engine." Said Tails as he ran towards the Tornado.

"Hey, that's why there was no fire!" said Sonic as Tails ran towards his fallen plane.

Knuckles, Silver, and Sonic then looked at Rouge.

"Fork it over." Demanded Knuckles as he held out his palm.

"What are you talking about?" Rouge asked.

"Don't play dumb, we know you have a craving for emeralds." Sonic said, also with his palm out.

"But I don't have one…"

"Rouge…" said Silver with a low tone.

Rouge heaved a sigh and pulled out a purple Chaos Emerald from her pocket and gave it to Knuckles. Tails came back with the red Chaos Emerald in his hand and also gave it to Knuckles.

"We have to find the remaining four Chaos Emeralds. We can use this Emerald radar I brought along to track them." Tails said.

Everyone nodded and began walking towards the tunnel, except Knuckles. Sonic stopped and looked at him.

"Sure you do not want to stay and watch over it?" asked Sonic.

"The Master Emerald is my duty, but I'm sure it will be fine. Besides, chances are it wont be stolen anyway."

Sonic smiled and ran ahead, and Knuckles soon followed, giving one last look at the Master Emerald before departing.

Dr. Eggman walked down the hall of GUN headquarters, with his hand behind his back, heading towards where only he knew where. A GUN lieutenant ran up and saluted Eggman.

"Commander Eggman, what is your orders sir?"

"Yes, I would like you to retrieve something for me."

"What would that be sir?"

"I want you to head to Angel Island and retrieve the Master Emerald for me."

"But sir, that belongs to Knuckles."

"Lieutenant, Knuckles is now an enemy now that he has relations with Sonic. He is now wanted as well, when you go to Angel Island, arrest him and bring him to me if you do happen to see him."

"Yes sir!" chanted the lieutenant as he marched away.

Eggman then walked down the long corridor of GUN and entered a lonely room that was filled with darkness. A lone test tube sat in the back center of the room, with many computers aligned beside it.

"It's time to awaken my ultimate creation." Eggman stated.

Eggman began to punch in some keys on the keyboard, followed by a loud beeping. The test tube lit up. The figure had its eyes closed as Eggman punched in its keys.

Suddenly, the machine roared to life, and Eggman began to laugh.

"Join me in my Eggman Empire, Omega X."

Eggman cackled silently as the eyes of the robotic figure roared to life in a blood red color.