Note To Readers: I know, the last chapter sucked. It was short and full of errors. Yet, I will keep pressing on and I will try to write better fight sequences. Please comment and review if you have a page. I really want to see how you feel about my story. I value opinions. So go ahead and tell me the pros and cons. I do not bite. Much Love…
Chapter 4: A Unlikely Reunion
Tails opened the wooden door into his examining room where he had left Knuckles. The machine continued to beep as Tails began look through the computer looking at the red echidna's vitals. They are all normal. He looked over at his friend and eyed his where his bruises were suppose to be. He looked over the scars and most of them had healed. He removed the bandage that covered his shoulder wound and saw how much the scar has healed. It must have something to do with his connection to the emerald. Suddenly a red light flashed in Tails face. Tails closed his eyes and swung wildly at the air, and opened his eyes again to find nothing. "That was weird."
"What?" Tails looked over at Knuckles who opened his eyes half way. "How long have I been out?"
"A day," Tails said. " You seemed to have healed most of your scars."
"I knew he was fooling me Tails," Knuckles said sitting up. "He couldn't have just done all that just to test Metal Sonic."
"Well that was the first time I've seen him in a long time," Tails said smiling. "He is clearly up to something. I just don't have a clue about what it is."
"We could. We just need to go back to Angel Island!" Knuckles said. He winced in pain at his shoulder. He gripped it and pushed it hard, causing a popping noise. Knuckles removed the bandage and stretched his arm. "Let's go." Tails looked shocked as the only a few seconds ago near-death guardian stepped out the room as if nothing ever happened.
Knuckles left the examining room and entered a living space, where Sonic sat impatiently, tapping his foot. He looked up and saw Knuckles. "Hey, you alright?"
"Yeah," he said. "I owe you one." Knuckles looked over at the chaos emeralds that were sitting in a new glass chamber that Tails had built. " I guess you know we have bigger problems now."
"At least we are ahead of the game." Knuckles turned around and saw Shadow leaning against the wall with his arms folded. "We have two chaos emeralds."
"He's not after the Emeralds," Knuckles said. "He told me himself. He said he had other plans."
Shadow chuckled. "You really are gullible. You actually trust his words?"
"You don't know a damn thing about me!" Knuckles growled. "Let's not forget how easily you trusted him."
"Whoever said I trusted him?" Shadow grinned. "You just fell for another trick. I had other plans…"
"Yeah!" Knuckles raged. "Thanks to you, half of the moon got blown away!"
" My actions are not the issue at this moment!" Shadow hollered back. "You're trying to hunt the hunter. By the time we actually catch up to him, he would have all of the chaos emeralds and a missile ready to blow away the entire planet."
"It's not a missile." Everyone looked over at the door way and found a curvy white bat standing there, with a folder in her hand. "You should really change the locks. I picked it without losing a sweat."
"Rouge!" Tails said. "What are you doing here?"
"And more importantly," Sonic said, standing up and walking over to the bat. "What is Eggman building?"
"GUN gave me a mission to invade Eggman's Egg Fleet. In my search, I found the layout of his new plan. It's called the Egg Incubator." Rouge lifted a manila folder up and handed it to Tails. " I think this should help a little bit with whatever plan your putting together."
"Why are you giving us this?" questioned Knuckles, his heart beating quickly from her presence.
"I don't know," she said seductively. She ran her gloved finger across the echidna's muzzle. "I kinda like you…guys." Knuckles rolled his eyes, even though he wanted to faint at the moment. She walked over to the couch where Sonic was previously sitting, and plopped down and crossed her legs. "We all need to work together again. All we need is Omega and…"
"Omega is dead," Shadow said, completely unfazed by his own comment. Rouge looked up at Shadow and put her hands over her mouth. She felt a cold tear pour down her cheek. "I honestly could care less about the world, but unlike Omega, you have feelings. I am only avenging him for you."
"Sorry Shadow," Sonic said. "Metal Sonic is mine."
"You don't know how powerful he is," Shadow warned. "He was damaged and weak and managed to destroy Omega. Now he has new powers. We can't determine how powerful he is."
"He is just like me," Sonic proclaimed turning his back. "Unpredictable." Sonic turned around and walked over to the chaos emeralds inside the new containment field Tails placed them in. He grabbed one and tossed the other one to Tails. "I say we go for the last five remaining Chaos Emeralds and stop Eggman…whatever it takes to stop him from winning."
"Alright," Tails said grabbing his PDA and pressing the touch screen and revealing the Earth hologram. " The closest Chaos Emerald is located in the Mystic Ruins, in the Jungle. The next Emeralds are located in Holoska, Chu-Nan, Central City, Station Square I believe, and one that is moving towards it at the moment!"
"Eggman! Me and Shadow will head to the city," Sonic said. "Knuckles and Rouge, can you guys handle finding the Chaos Emerald in the jungle?"
"No sweat," said Knuckles. " Fully healed and ready to rumble."
"Alright," Tails cheered, picking up a suitcase that was slid inside his closet. He opened it to reveal 5 yellow ehaos emerald radars. They each take one and they split up on their search. "We'll meet back here."
"Got it!" Sonic said as he put his arm on Shadow's shoulder and they vanished into thin air. Knuckles and Rouge sped out of the living room and out the workshop.
Station Square, Central City United Federations
The pink hedgehog held her bag tight in her grip as she rushed through the city streets, rain crashing down on the small borough that was Station Square. Amy hurried under a restaurant canopy, as the rain poured harder. She groaned as the rain covered the streets and turning the beautiful blue sky fade to grey. She looks for a nearby alley, an slipped away into the darkness.
"Come here!" Amy looked around the dark alley and saw a group of men running into a huddle.
"Leave me alone!" said a female voice inside the hurdle. "I didn't do anything wrong!"
"You stole my chain!" said a voice. Amy looked around and found a nearby fire escape. She put her bag down behind a dumpster and began to climb up the ladder onto the platform the peered over the crowd. Inside was a hooded figure clutching a bright red chaos emerald. "I want it back now, or else I will have to bust up that pretty face of yours."
"Bust this!!!" Amy leaped off the fire escape, Hammer held high, ready to smash the thugs circling around the small figure. The group jumped back as the crater from Amy ripped the concrete ground apart. "The next one will be your head" Amy didn't get a good look at their faces, due to the darkness of the alley, but she knew who was calling the shots. He looked at her then pointed to the exit of the alley, and ran off with his pack. " Hey, you okay there?"
Amy bent down and helped the small hooded figure up. Amy looked up and down and eyed the girl. She wore sandals with a short colorful skirt, covered in a large black hoodie sweatshirt that covered her upper half of her body including her face.
"I'm fine," she said. She gripped the sides of her hood, and pulled it down slowly. Amy looked surprise when she saw who was under it. The echidna shook her peach colored locks and smiled at the pink hedgehog. " My name is Tikal. What's yours?"
"Oh my goodness,Tikal!!!" Amy lifted the peach echidna up and bear hugged her tight. " I haven't seen you in forever!"
"Put me down, please," She begged. " I…can't breathe…" Amy realized her excitement and put the girl down. "Who are you?"
"I'm Amy," Amy said pointing to herself. "We saved the world together, remember?" Amy circled the girl. "You shrunk!"
"I'm only 12!" Tikal said.
"You must have forgotten," Amy said with a smile. "Come with me to my apartment, and we will work this entire thing out!" Amy gripped the poor scared girl and pulled her by the wrists and sped out into the rain, only to double back to grab her bag behind the dumpster and run back into the storm and to her apartment.
Moments later in the alley, Sonic and Shadow arrived in the alley. "There it is!" Sonic said running over to the red chaos emerald. "One down…" Sonic stepped back slowly, after noticing the crater in the ground. "Uh-oh," Suddenly Sonic began to back away and pick up speed until he ran into shadow.
"What's your problem?" Shadow said turning around.
"Amy has been here," Sonic said nervously. "I can recognize that crater anywhere."
"Well, maybe we should pay her a visit," Shadow said. "She could help us a lot."
"Why, so I have something to save at the last minute?!" Sonic said folding his arms. "Yeah, right. Let's get out of here."
"Okay," Shadow said, smiling maliciously. He sat his arm on Sonic's shoulders and the vanished in a bright light.