Chapter 6: In the Shadows of the Dark.
Our story continues as we meet the heroes in a lavish hotel room. Danny was sleeping on a soft bed still healing his wounds. Dexter had his nose in an encyclopiedia as usual, jake had his back to one of the walls as he was still unsure if he could trust the new blue friend they made. Ben was explaining how they got there in the first place.
Sonic:Man... that's rough. So your guys worlds have been takin over by these amazon pirates huh?
Ben:Yeah, and they took our friends and family too. We would'nt be here in the first place if they had'nt invaded us out of nowhere.
Sonic:So.., i noticed that you guys were playing keep away with a chaos emerald. Mind explaining that?
Dexter:Ah yes, the chaos emeralds. Said dexter as he closed the book he was reading. You know about the chaos emeralds too i assume?
Sonic:I know that anyone who has them means trouble. And people coming from different dimensions spells mondo trouble in my book.
Dexter:I assure you our intentions for the chaos emeralds are completly harmless. You see, we came to this world using a prototype warp gate i was working on. We came here to this world because we needed the emeralds to make the machine fully operational. For travel to and from our world.
Sonic:What's wrong with the way it is now? If it took you here, does'nt that means it works fine?
Dexter: Not exactly... said dexter as a sweat dropped. as i said it was a prototype. Jake:In other words it was a one way trip. We can't activate the portal remotley. So were stuck here for the time being.
Sonic:Oh, well that still does'nt explain why you need the emeralds.
Dexter:I believed ben already told you about the amazones pirates right?
Sonic:yeah?
Dexter:as you may already know, crossing dimmensions take alot of energy. And it's obvius those pirates came from another dimmension that i have yet to locate.
And even if i could track them down, the portal would'nt be stable enough to ensure us a safe voyage. It's likely that we could be scatterd across various worlds upon universes. And that would only make our mission that much harder.
Jake:So instead, we decided to use dexter's new spaceship to storm their base. We would be ready to go if it wasn't for one small problem.
Sonic:What's the problem?
Dexter:On board my ship is a warp engine. With it, my ship can travel to other worlds and hopefully find the location of their base of operations. I used it to transport my proto-type portal to bellwood. Unfortunetly, i never ran any test runs and the warp engine broke down during my first trip. But once it's repaired...
Ben:We get to their hq, we beat the crap out of them and get our families back!
Dexter:A little blunt. But yes, that is our main objective.
Sonic:So that's why you were after that emerald. Then the two girls you were chasing before...
Jake:Bingo. Pirates. Or in other words our so called family.
Ben: Those pirates corrupted their minds somehow. I don't know how, but i know the longer we waste time, the more of our folks get the same delux treatment like the two we fought earlier.
Sonic:Is that so? well then, guess i have no choice but to help you guys out.
Ben:what?
Dexter:come again?
Jake: your kidding right?
Sonic: Why not? Beside's, you guys would probably get into less trouble if you had me as a tour guide.
Sides, there's some things i need a little help with too, so we'd be helping each other. So whaddya say?
Ben:what do you guys think.
Jake:I say it'd be a big help. We'd probably draw too much attention to ourselves if we started using our powers around the city with no idea where to look.
Dexter:Agreed. This would prove as a valubale asset.
Ben:Well it's settled then. We'd be glad to help. But won't people think it's weird if were walking around with a hedghog?
Sonic:Oh,i would'nt worry about that. I have a feeling that they'll hardly notice me.
Dexter:Well, now that were working as a team, any suggestions on how we could speed up our search? I'm afraid walking isin't gonna cut it for me and johnny.
Ben:Speaking of which where is johnny anyway? Was'nt he with you dexter?
Dexter:He said he had a case of the munchies and went to go look for the food cart.
Ben:Of course... (sweatdrop)
Sonic:Well if it's transportation your worried about, no worries. I'm sure my friend would be glad to help out.
Meanwhile, Johnnathan test was stuffing his face in the dinning room...
Johnny had continued to wolf down the food as people began to leave disgusted by the eleven-year old's grotesque eating habbits. He was about nose deep in mashed potatoes and turkey. He was so busy stuffing himself that he hardly noticed someone walking up behind him.
?:You know, if you keep eating like that, your stomach's going to explode. Said a young female.
Jhonny:Who asked you? Jhonny had turned around to find out who interrupted his eating frenzy. The firey-headed kid sat silent for a minute as he noticed this girl looked oddly familiar.
The girl looked like she was in her early teens as she was only a bit taller than jhonny. She had white skin and black hair that was tied back in a ponytail. She wore a white shirt under a grey sweatshirt. and long black jeans with red and white sneakers.
Teen girl:What is it?
Jhonny:You look familiar. Do i know you from somewhere?
Teen girl:I doubt it. I just moved here today.
Jhonny:Hmm...Okay. Jhonny said turning back to his buffet.
Teen girl:Hey, quick question.
Jhonny:Yeah? Jhonny asked while his mouth was stuffed.
Teen girl:Do you know ben tennyson? Jhonny suddenly stopped eating realizing that it may be an amazoness pirate standing behind him. He tried not to act suspicious of her in hopes of preventing a fight in the middle of his meal.
Jhonny:Why do you ask?
Teen girl:This may make me seem like a doofus, but i've heard alot about him. One of his aliens saved my town one day. I thought it was just an alien until i saw him revert back to his human form. One of my friends had went to school with him in bellwood and told me who he was. I wanted to thank him, but the oppurtunity never came up.
Jhonny:Oh, well in that case i can take you to him. Uh, and you are..?
Teen Girl:Oh...sorry. My name's nadi.
Johnny:Johnny, jhonny test. Johnny had rose from his seat at the table and began to lead the girl to the hotel rooms he and the others had been staying in. But not before going back for an extra turkey leg. As johnny led her through the hotel hallways, the girl had started talking quietly into a wristcom.
Nadi:Hey hayley, you there?
Hayle:Yeah, i'm here. Hayley replied from the other end. Have you got the emerald yet?
Nadi:I'm about to. The test kid is taking me to their room now. Soon as they're gone, i'm gonna swipe it.
Hayley:Well just don't let danny see ya. With the exception of him, they haven't seen you in your human form. So they won't know it's the same ghost girl from before.
Johnny:Well, here we are. Room 510.
Nadi:Gotta go. I'll call you back. She said before ending the communication. As johnny opened the door, he saw that the guys were getting reeady to head out.
Dexter:There you are johnny. I almost thought we'd lost you in that mountain of food down there.
Jhonny:Uh, we goin' somewhere?
Dexter:We're going to see a good friend of sonic's here. He has a workshop in the mystic ruins.. We also have reason to believe that a chaos emerald or two may be located there..
After hearing that, nadi had slowly backed away and started to run without letting herself being noticed by the boys. Hayley had suddenly came back on the wristcom.
Hayley:What are you doing? I thought you were supposed to get that chaos emerald from the boys.
Nadi:Well, i was. But then they mentioned that there may be more of the emeralds in a place called the mystic ruins. Ya heard of it?
Hayley:The data says that it was around for some time. About the same time period where the chaos emeralds were created. Hmm, maybe this place is worth checking out after all. We'll check it out, but we still have to get at least one of those emeralds back to hq.
Nadi:Right. With that, she cut the communication once again and ran out the front entrance of the hotel.
Jhonny:Hey ben, there's someone who wanted to meet you. I met her downstairs while i was eating.
Ben:Her?! Ben asked suprised Uh, where is she?
Johnny:Oh, she's right...huh? When johnny turned around to introduce nadi, he saw that she wasn't there. I could've sworn she was right there.
Jake:Dude, we don't have time for jokes.
Jhonny:But...
Dexter:Forget that. We have more pressing matters to attend to. Sonic,how do we get to the mystic ruins?
Sonic:By the train station. It's only a short walk away from here.
Ben:Cool. Let's go guys.
Sonic:I'll run ahead and meet you guys there. Look for the building on top of the hill close to the train tracks.
Sonic had dashed off leaving a blue streak of light behind.
Danny:Speedy little guy, ain't he?
Meanwhile back at the thorndyke household,
chris was sitting on the couch doing homework, cream and cheese were picking flowers again,the maid ella was preparing a meal, and everone else was preocupied with something else at the moment.
Chris:Let's see, if johnny had 15 apples in each basket and he had 5 basket of apples, how many apples would he- before chris could continue the current math problem, there was yet another news flash. (Welcome to station square 10 o'clock news. We bring you a story of the beautiful casino park being robbed some time ago.) grandpa thorndike had came into the room after hearing this.
G'Thorndyke:Casino park was robbed? I thought they had those new G.U.N robots gaurding the safes.
(Our reporters informed that the robots were completley decimated and all the G.U.N soldiers have dissapered right after the event.) The only thing that we could identify by these figures was that a group of female bandits took hand in the robbery.
The only clue our sources found was this symbol painted in red on each of the empty vaults. As they showed the image, it showed a skull and crossbones with a winking skull wearing a bow.
:Well,this is quite the delema.
G'Thorndyke:I'll say. First a hedghog imposter, a spacial rift, and now this.
Chris:What could they want with the soldiers, isin't the money enough?
G'thorndyke:Perhaps there after more then just gold and silver.
Chris:I sure hope sonic's alright. With all of this going on, who know's what kind of trouble he could be getting himself into.
:There is no need to fret. I am sure can take care of himself.
Ella:Has anyone seen cream and cheese? They've been outside for a while.
Chris:where is crea.. but before he could finish, there was a loud scream outside.
Cream:AAAAAAAH! Let go of me!
G'thorndyke and chris:CREAM! Everyone had quickly rushed outside to see that a female that was identical to the shillouette they saw on tv was hanging cream by her left arm. she wore yellow tinted armor on her left shoulder, wearing a taterd blue-green shirt with a black skirt wearing jaded boots. hear eyes wear devil red and her oupils seemed similar to a snake's. She wore here emerald green hair back.
Chris:HEY! LET GO OF CREAM!
Female bandit:Sorry kid, we need little cutie's like this in our army. I'm afraid i can't give her back.
Cream:Please help, i'm scared!
:I demand you release ms. cream this instant! Said as he got into karate position.
Female bandit:I really don't have time for this. She had activated the rockets built into her boots and began to take off.
Chris:Let her go! chris had jumped and grabbed on to the bandit's left leg before she got too high.
Female bandit:Hey ya little runt! Let go! chris had hanged on as he began to reach for cream. Chris:Cream! reach for my hand! Cream had began reaching for his hand as she was told.
Female bandit:Seems like you can't take a hint. The bandit had reached into her side holder and took out a high tech ray gun. Female bandit: Say good night kid. The female bandit was ready to pull the trigger as she was prepared to shoot chris point blank as they were now high above the buildings.
Cream:Chris! let go, now!
Chris:No! i'm not letting go till you give back my friend!
Female bandit: Bad choice kid. The bandit,with no hesitation had pulled the trigger and shot chris in his choulder.
Chris:AAAAAHHHHHH!
Even though the pain started to become un bareable, chris still clung on to the pirates leg. Female bandit:Your a real glutton for punishment aren't you? The pirate then had shot chir's other shoulder forcing him to let go and started plummeting to the ground.
Cream:CHRIS!
cream struggled, but she could only watch helplessly as she saw her friend plummet to his assumed death. everyone except g'thorndyke were to stunned to even move. G'Thorndyke:CHRIS! hold on, i'm comming! The female bandit had smirked as she flew off into the sky. Chris's life had began flashing before his eyes.
Chris: I...i could'nt save you... As he began to close his eyes, a green light had started flashing before him.
Chris:This light... i remember this light. As if by some miracle, the young boy was enveloped in a green light and dissapered. The next moment he had appeard face flat back in front of his home. everyone was shocked to see that he was still alive after his naar death experience.
G'Thorndyke:Chris, your alright. The boy was still uncouncious, but the blasts from that ray had cut his skin. It was clear that he was going to be out for a while.
Ella:Who was that vulger being? And how could she injure poor chris? G'throndyke:Whoever they were, i sure hope sonic doesn't run into them.
The female bandit had stopped high above the city dangling the rabbit by her ears.
Cream:Miss? Why have we stopped? Cream asked doing her best to contain her fear.
Female bandit:Wait for it. She told her as a ship had revealed itself from a cover of clouds. A door had slowly opened allowing entrance into the vessel. The door soon closed behind her as she flew inside.
Rose:Welcome back number 27. Greeted rose. You sure got the job done. First of all,i have a name. It's raven. Second, it wasn't exactly a challenge getting a rabbit and her pet.
Rose:I wish some other subordinates had the same attitude you had.
Sonya:I heard that! Sonya shouted from the monitors.
Cream:What's going on? Where am i? And what are you going to do to us?
Raven:Sure ask a lot of questions don't ya? Don't worry. You'll find out soon. She said with a devilish grin which only made the rabbit and chao more afraid of what might be in store for them.
Rose:Alright sonya. Set course for our base in the red mountain.
Sonya:May i ask why we have a base stationed next to an active volcano? What if it erupts?
Rose:Because there's a chaos emerald hidden within that mountain. Our orders were to obtain as many emeralds as possible no matter what. And so far, we've got none. If you want to file a complaint, you can go to the captain to tell her yourself.
Sonya:Well,you don't have to get all snippy about it. The ship soon headed due north to the mountains.
Meanwhile,the boys had just arrived in the mystic ruins via the train station. The five began to take a look around trying to search for the hill sonic mentioned.
Ben:Okay. Sonic said that the workshop would bee on top of a large hill next to the train tracks. It took about a few seconds before ben spotted a staircase going up the side o a large hill. Hey,is that it?
Dexter:Well,only one way to find out. The five had walked up the staircase at the side of the hill. Upon reaching the top,they saw a building with a waterwheel outside and a hanger door at the back.
Johnny:Hey! That must be it! The five had ran to the workshop and headed straight inside seeing that the door was opened. Inside, they saw sonic talking with a young fox boy who had yellow and white fur. He had blue eyes, wore white and red sneakers with metal soles as well as a pair of goggles.. The most noticble trait was the two big tails he had.
Sonic:Hey,glad to see you guys made it!
Jake:This the guy you were talkin' about?
Sonic:Yeah. This guy's one serious inventor. Haven't known anyone else who builds stuff as well as this guy.
Dexter:Is that so? What is your name?
?:I'm Miles tails prower. But everyone just calls me tails.
After taking some time to introduce themselves, sonic had told tails of our heroes' situation.
Tails:I see. So that's who was causing that commotion in the mountains.
Ben:You've seen them?
Tails:I think so. Earlier today while i was flying my ship, the X-tornnado, i saw some ships head up the mountain.
Ben:Did they happen to have a weird skull and crossbones mark on the sides of the ship?
Tails:With the skull winking and wearing a pink bow?
Jake:That's them alright. But what could they be doing here?
Dexter:If i had to guess, they would be here searching for the emeralds. And if there are a large number of them here, than they must have a base stationed somewhere up the mountain.
Johnny::Let me guess. We're gonna trash it, aren't we?
Dexter:Well,they definetely deserve it. Plus,we could gather some useful data on their machinery and battle tactics. So yes, johnny. We're going to trash their base.
Johnny:Yes! Payback time! Johnny said as he began to make a beeline for the mountain.
Danny:Now hold on a minute! Danny said stopping the flaming headed kid in his tracks. We don't even know where on the mountain they've placed their base. Also, you'd probably pass out before we get halfway up there. Your going to need an easy way to scale the mountain.
Tails:You guys can use my ship if you want. It can get you to the top no problem.
Johnny:See? Problem solved. Let's go!
Danny:There's still the matter of locating their base.
Jake:Hey guys,check this out. Jake said calling them to come outside. When they got outside, jake had told them to look up. Through the clouds, they saw a lone a.p. ship that was heading towards the mountains.
Jake:We'd better go after that ship. It may be our only lead to their base.
Johnny:You heard the man! Let's get a move on! Unknown to the heroes, the black hedgehog known as shadow had watched them from the tracks.
Shadow:I don't like this. There's too much competition for the chaos emeralds. If the ultimate weapon is to be completed, all 7 are needed. Might as well try to finish this as fast as possible. Shadow had took out his chaos emerald and activated chaos control.
-G.U.N. HEADQUARTERS-
Somewhere in a secluded location, there were soldiers in camoflauged vests with rifles gaurding every point possible. High tech robots were flying around the skies watching for any intruders.
One of the gaurds at the front gate had spotted a shillouette approaching. Gaurd1: Halt! who goes there.
"Relax boys, it's just little ol me"' said the person in a calming tone. she removed the mask showing that she was g.u.n agent rouge the bat. She had then showed her i.d. to the gaurds.
Gaurd2:Ah, welcome back . The general is waiting inside. The first gaurd had gave the signal to open the gates to someone higer up controling the equipment. As the gates opened she had began to walk in. The second gaurd however could not help but look at the back of rouge as she walked in.
Gaurd2: Oh yeah.. The first gaurd had quickly noticed his companion had his attention drawn to something else.
Gaurd1:Keep your eyes in your head soldier! The 2nd gaurd flailed a bit and resumed his curreent position. -Inside G.U.N Hq
As rouge entered the meeting room, a tall man wearing a uniform decorated with about 12 medals had noticed her walk in. It was none other then the general of the g.u.n. army.
General:Ah, welcome back agent rouge. I assume you've attained some useful information?
Rouge:Yes, very intresting. But let's not forget your end of the deal.
General:(sigh) You there, soldier. The general had motioned one of the soldiers by the door. Soldier:Sir?
General:Bring in agent rouge's payment.
Soldier:Right away sir.
the soldier had walked twoards the vault in the back of the meeting room. the soldier enterd a secret code on the panel unlocking the safe. inside were about a bat cave's size of gems, jewels and many other valubales. The soldier had brought out a cart full of valubales and back to where the general and rouge were standing.
Rouge:Oh general, you should'nt have. But as she reached for the cart full of gems, the general had blocked her from going any further.
General:Hang on a moment, first you give us the information you aquired.
Rouge:Oh your so cruel. She said in a mocking tone. Fine then. you know those five boys they mentioned in the news awhile back? i think we can assume there not our average group of brats. she had then took out a small chip out of her communicater and inserted it into a slot near one of the mainframes.
the monitor had began showing a video recording of the battle the five heroes had with the two transformed fighters.
General:What in the world are these freaks?
Rouge:Not sure, but it's obvious they're not from our little neck in the woods. And take a look what they were fighting over. Rouge had zoomed in on the fight as it showed one of the pirates in posetion of a chaos emerald.
General:Please tell me that's not a chaos emerald.
Rouge:Fraid so. it seems that little beauty was the center of the fray. Unfortunatley that kid who transformed into that pyro guy made some kind of blinding attack, and i wasn't able to see who got the emerald. But it's obvious either our boy scouts or the amazons have the emerald.
General:We already have enough trouble with that blue hedghog running around. But we can't make any sudden moves just yet. For all we know there could be more of them. And we still haven't figured out what the other two boys can do.
Rouge:All i could get on him is that he's got a strange symbol on his glove. Looks like some sort of alchemy symbol.
General:I see. Rouge,take your reward, but continue gathering information on these five children. If we can even classify them as children.
Rouge:And what about the good doctor? I'm sure he's going to be busy with everything going on. General:Oh don't worry, this won't be any drastic change to your current mission. Just keep an eye on these five. If your not careful, they could steal some of your precious gems.
Rouge:Ha, i'd like to see them try. at that moment, one of the R&D scientists had came into the room.
R&D guy: General, we've located the position of both sonic the hedghog and the five in the mystic ruins.
General: And the others?
R&D guy:Well, we suspect the pirates to be somewhere in the same area.
General:Is that so? Rouge, if you would?
Rouge:I know i know, recon mission. But you know it's gonna cost ya.
General:Isin't it always?
Rouge:Good boy.
General:They'll be a cabin set up for you in the mystic ruins near the old temple. It should already be set up when you get there.
Rouge:Thanks general, knew i could count on you. She said as she winked then left the meeting room and off for the train station.
R&D guy:Remind me again, why are we keeping her here?
General:The president requested it. And going against him would put me from general to grunt.
R&D: guy if you say so.. as the r&d guy had walked out of the room, no one had noticed a small metal bugg with a weird smily face on it had flew out one of the open windows. the bug had returned to a weird looking black robot wearing a jet pack, white gloves and red boots.
(Oh boy! the doctor's gonna flip when he hears this!) thought the robot in an easily annoying voice.
The robot had flew off without anyone knowing his pressence...
Meanwhile at red mountain...
Our heroes had flew up the side of the mountain searching for the base that the amazoness pirates had set up there. While ben flew up as stinkfly, danny and jake had took to the skies in thier altered forms, and dexter and johnny had flew up the side of the mountain with tails in the x-tronado. While sonic had chose to take the hard way and began running, jumping and climbing up the mountain.
Tails:Hey guys,i think i've found the base. It's only a bit further ahead.
Johnny:Sweet! Time to kick butt!
Dexter:Hold on, johnny. If we're this close, then they must know we're coming. And must be preparing the defensive system now.
Johnny:Well i don't see any defense system. Suddenly,while sonic was running, a robot had shot out of the ground underneath sonic and had almost cut him with it's blade. The robot was tinted bright red and had a sword in one hand and a pyroblaster in another.
Johnny:Oh,mever mind. Multiple robots had shot out of the ground ready to either sish-ka-bob the hedgehog or barbaque him. Ben,danny and jake had stopped in mid-flight ready to go to sonic's aid.
Sonic:Don't worry about me! I'll catch up with you guys later. Sonic said giving a reassuring smile.
Although worried,our heroes continued towards the base.
Tails:Don't worry, he'll be fine. He's been destroying robots scince he was a kid.
Johnny:Seriously?
Tails:Yeah. I'll have to tell you about it sometime.
Dexter:But right now, we got problems. Incoming homing missles comin' in fast!
Ben:Okay! Let's do this! Ben shouted as he and the others began to take evasive action. The a.p.s were keeping a close watch on the approaching intruders as they tried everything they could to keep them bay. They could only sit there and watch as the heroes blasted through everything they could throw at them. The heroes in the sky either caused the missles to crash into each other or shooting them before they could reach them.
Sonya:Man,no fair! It took us hours to set up that security system!
Rose:Calm down sonya. We still have those special traps we set up for them.
Soon enough, all the missles were destroyed and the base had came into view.
Ben:Hey, they stopped firing!
Jake:Guess they gave up. Jake had spoke too soon as a cannonball was fired. The cannonball had popped open to reveal a net made of sphinx hair. Sphinx hair! Jake had quickly dodged the first shot. But he wasn't fast enough to dodge all or them. Soon,three simultanious shots were after him. But just before they entangled him, they were shot down by an ecto-energy blast. Courtesy of danny.
Jake:Whew,thenks man. I tell ya that sphinx hair is some nasty stuff.
Danny:Don't thank me yet. Here comes round two. Out of the ground rose cannons with violet rings around the front of the cannon. Oh great. Looks like they got to my folks' ghost hunting tech. The cannons had began shooting dark pink lasers at our heroes. The heroes dodged the laser blaststhe best that they could. Danny especially had to avoid them knowing he could be seriously damaged if they had made contact.
Tails:Let's take care of those cannons.
Johnny:I got this! Johnny said as he began firing missiles towards the a.p's base. One by one the cannons and lasers were destroyed. Haha! Eat missle! Johnny shouted as he soon turned his attention to the base.
Dexter:Hold it johnny! Let's wait until after we've gotten some valuable data from the base before we bow it up,okay?
Johnny:Fine. Let's just get this overwith.
-Amazoness Pirate mountain base-
Sonya:Tch! Annoying little fox boy! What now?
Rose:Now, we let them come to us. Moments later, our heroes had arrived at the front doors of the base. But were shocked to see that there was a hole in the door. Sonic had apparently made it there before them.
Johnny:Aw man! Don't tell me sonic already got here before us!
Tails:Well,he is the fastest thing alive for a reason.
Johnny:Well come on! We gottta hurry before he hogs all the action!. Johnny had pulled his right hand back before shooting a ball of fire from his hand blasting the doors apart. Ben and tails seemed to be the only ones shocked by johnny's sudden display of power.
Ben:And since when could you do that?!
Johnny:Mutant powers remember. I told you this back at mount rushmore. Now let's go! Johnny had charged headfirst into the base with the others following close behind. Moving through the interior of the building, they saw dozens of pirates knocked out with several cuts and bruises. Multiple machines were destroyed and were either set on fire or gave off static discharges.
Johnny:Woah...Didn't know one little hedgehog could cause all this destruction. Awwwwwwwesome! Johnny said admiring the destroyed machinery.
Dexter:I hope he left something useful in tact. Otherwise,this mission would just be a waste of time. The six had soon came to a four way intersection of hallways.
Danny:Looks like we'll have to split up from here.
Ben:Alright. Danny, your with me. Dexter and tails, you guys see what you can find on the left hallway. Jake and johnny,you guys cover the middle two halls.
Dexter:And just when did you become leader?
Ben:There's no time to talk now! We gotta move before they send backup! Ben said as he ran down the hall on the far right.
Denny:Should i follow him?
Dexter:(Sigh) Might as well. With his watch timed out, he won't be of much use on his own. Contact us if you find anything.
Danny:Right. Danny had advanced down the same hallway ben had took while the others split up as ben instructed.
-Ben And Danny-
The alien kid and ghost boy had been passing several rooms now. Each one seemed to be sleeping chambers for the pirates.
Danny:Judging by the multiple beds we've seen so far, i'd suspect that we're in the cabin section of the base. This is where they rest and restore their stamina. Dosen't seem to be much down here.
Ben:Except for this one. Ben said as he stopped paces behind danny. He was standing in front of a door labled experimentation laboratory number six. The electronic door,which had it's control panel smashed earlier, was cracked and had eminated an ominous yellow light. Letting his curiousity overtake him, ben had pulled the door opened and went inside.
Danny:Hey! Wait a minute! Danny had followed ben inside the lab. Several disection tools were placed on the tables and multiple bodies, both animal and human ripped open. Danny had to swallow his vomit to prevent himself from hurling. Oh...I think i know what happened to those guys they abducted.
Ben:Woah. Danny, come look at this. Danny had followed ben's voice and found him standing in front of a medium-sized capsule filled with water. But it was what, or better yet, who was in the capsule that caught their attention. In the capsule floated a young boy who was roughly jake's size. Which meant he must be a young teenager. He had spikey-raven black hair and white skin. The only thing he was wearing was a clean pair of white boxers. He looked like he was asleep.
Danny:This must be one of their prisoners. I'm guessing he was caught not too long ago.
Ben:But what's he doing here? I thought all the people those pirates caught were all sent to the h.q.
Danny:I don't know, ben. But i do know that we can start putting an end to their twisted experiments by freeing this guy. With ny luck, he won't be under their mind control yet.
Ben:How do we do that? Ben asked as he unkowingly laid his hand on the "release" button. Soon,the water was drained from the capsule and the air mask was removed. The boy had fell to the ground still slightly unconcious.
Ben:Oh,i guess that's how. The boy slowly began to stir as he began to open his eyes revealing them to be blue. He could only see blurs at the moment.
Danny:Hey,you okay? Danny asked the boy.
Young Boy:Uh...who...are you? He asked groggily as his vison began to become clearer.
Ben:We're here to get you outta here. We're friends.
Young Boy:F..friends? He asked as his vision finally returned allowing him to get a clear picture of ben and danny. But with them,he saw a gaurd robot behind the two heroes unaware of it's presence. It had it's laser aimed at the back of ben's head. With only lttle time to react, the boy had sprung off his hands into the air, preformed a front flip and landed a powerful kick to the head of the robot. One kick was all it took to incapacitate the robot. Danny and ben had stood there with a shocked expression on their faces.
Young Boy:Man,i've been waiting to do that for so long. Thanks for breaking me out of there.
Ben:Uh...no problem. I'm ben tennyson. And my snow-haired friend here is danny. Who are you and how did you get here?
Chiro:My name's chiro. And as to how i got here, it's a bit of a long story.
Danny:Well chiro,glad we could help. Although i'm afraid your story's gonna have to wait until we get out of here.
Chiro:Why? Are there more pirates coming?
Ben:Nah. A friend of ours already took care of all everyone of them here. But we suspect that backup is going to be on the way soon.
Chiro:In that case,i need to get something. Hold on a second. The boy had closed his eyes and raised his right hand into the air.
Ben:What are you doing? In a bright flash of light, a strange looking medal had appeared in chiro's hand. It had a lightning bolt though the middle with an antenna on the top. There were two eyes on the sides as well as ears. After placing the medal on his chest, he suddnely transformed. Seconds later,chiro was wearing a white button jacket with matching pants and orange gloves and black boots with an orange scarf. He had orange streaks leaving from the bottom of his eyes andstopped at his chin.
Danny:Your not a normal kid are you?
Chiro:Not exactly, but first we should get out of here. it's not safe here. As ben and danny had rescued a new comrade, dexter and johnny had came into a room with multiple machines and beakers with different smell of chemicals in the air.
Johhny:Aw man it reeks in here! i thoght girls were suppose to be all nice smelling.
Dexter:I can only assumee that these chemicals are used to weaken a captives grip on reality. bly to cause illusions and disrupt the said captive's state of mind.
Johnny: you mean, like drugs?
Dexter:Something like that. let's move on to the next room. as dexter and johhny went passed another double slid doors, they had stopped in their tracks when they saw what was in that room. There were multiple schambers that looked big enough for someone to be put inside. So far there were only five, but there were three already in the chambers put into a deep sleep. Johnny:What is this place?
Dexter:The rehabilitation room i assume.
Johnny:Wait, maybe dukey's here! johnny had quickly dashed off around the room hoping that one of the chambers had his long time friend in one of them. but it was usless.
Johnny:Dukey! Dukey, where are you?
Dexter:johnny, he's not here. Johnny:But this is their hq isin't it, he has to be here!
Dexter:This is not their hq, this is a standard region base. i'm sorry but your friend is not here. Johnny had looked down in dissapointment as he thought he was close to finding his friend.
Dexter: Come now, there's no need for dissapointment, i'm sure we will find your friend. maybe one of their data banks hold some useful information.
johnny had then looked up back to the capsules holding the captive women.
Johnny:What should we do about them?
Dexter:I suggest we take out the leader's of this base first. we don't have any way of getting these women away from here wiithout being caught. the authoritiesw will probably be enough to send them back to their home. Johnny:Should we meet back up with the others? Dexter:yes. weve gathered all the information we needed from here. as dexter and johnny left the room, johnny had looked back still having second thoughts about leaving those women there in those capsules. he had shook it off and continued out the room back to the main hallway.
Meanwhile, jake was still walking across the seemingly endless hallway.
Jake:man, how long do these hallways go on for? i sure hope the others found something. Tails: i'm sure we'll find something. but as they continued to walk, thhe soon heard voices coming out of a nearby door.
Voice1:You sure we should go through the trouble of taking those kids out? i mean there all gonna be bowin down to the queen soon enough anyway. Voice2: You know what she said. these kids could pose a serious threat if we don't take care of them.
Jake:This sounds intresting. "Ear of the dragon" Jake had turned his right ear into dragon form and put it against the door. Tails did the same but with his regular fox ear. By this time jake could confirm the first the first voice was haley's.
Voice1:Well if she so worried about these guys then why don't we take care of them now and be done with it.
Better yet make them our own little play things? she asked with a sadistic smile.
Voice2: Because these guys are heroes, and even with the enhancements, she said there is still a chance we could lose against them. The enhancments only made us aware of our power. No one ever said it'd be enough to beat the crap out of anyone we wanted. Haley:(sigh) then what now. Voice3: we were told to meet down in the main room. Seems like we got a few recruits already. Haley:What about that boy you guys found?
Voice2:Her and the dorks are doing genetic experiments on him already.
Haley:Genetic experiments you say? sounds like fun.
Voice3:Easy their girl. We can't break him in just yet. Still have a few more tests they need to work on.
Haley:Fine. But when there done i get first shot. Jake could'nt believe what he was hearing. It only made it worse that it was his little sister saying those things.
Voice3:well we should probably head to the main room.
Haley:Bleh, you mean that tacky room with the big red doors?
Voice2:yes that room. and i do hope you'll try to act civilized.
Haley:No promises toots.
Jake:well, you hear em tails,let's get moving.
Tails:Right. At that time jake had got up and ran back down the hall he came from. Meanwhile with our blue friend..
He had continuosly been taking out everything in his path.
Sonic: Come on, this is too easy.
About 10 gaurds had began firing at sonic, but thanks to his legendary speed he could dodge all of the blasts without even trying.. he had then ran around the cgaurs in a complete circle about 15 times sending them flying . Sonic had looked up at the still airborne gaurds and waved.
Sonic:Happy trails! After that he had dashed off again soon coming to a big red door.. Sonic:If this does'nt send a giveaway i don't know what does.
Without hesitation the hedghog had bursted through the doors. All though as he started to look around him, the room was empty. But the silence broke as someone had shouted twoards him. "YO, BLUE IDIOT! sonic had looked up to see who had made the remark.
Sonic:Alright, who's the smart guy?
"It's a girl doofus. sonic had saw a young female hedghog/fox. she had light yellow fur with dark green eyes, she wore a shaded saphire chest armor that coverd about half of her upper body wearing black and green geens with silver sneakers. "I see your the first one to get here. i expected as much. "
The hedgfox had jumped down and landed on the same floor as sonic was.
"Let's start with introductions, my name is LilLith Cyber" and i assume your sonic the hedghog.
Sonic:You assume right. I'm the fastest thing alive!
Lilith:Is that so, then i assume you won't mind testing out one of our newer models for us. As she snapped her fingers, the floor in front of sonic started to open.
Sonic:Woah! what's going on? as the floor continued to open, a high tech gigantic robot had started to rise out of the ground. the robot was a gigantic silver and pink robot having the amazones pirate symbol on it's chest plate. The robot had large mechanical arms that had mini missle launchers installed. Sonic:where do people keep getting giant robots?!
Lilith:This isin't just any robot, it's a prototype model of one of our best weapons. Xb-242, or buster for short. we can't have you heroes busting up our plans so our buddy here will keep you busy for about 20minutes or so. with that lilith had jumped on the robot then to a nearby door. Sonic:You runnin away? Lilith:Not running away. but i really don't feel like getting my hands dirty so i'll just watch the action from here.
"buster crush him" with that the yellow tailed hedgfox had sat down and crossed her legs as the robot had activated and begun moving twoards the hedghog. Sonic:Heh, you think this is gonna stop me, youmay be big, but that does'nt mean your fast enough to touch me! sonic had dashed off starting to speed around the robot. but to his surprise the robot had quickly kicked him up with his left foot sending him flying into the air. it then quickly followed it with a left hook that sent sonic into a wall. Sonic:Agh... what in the, how did that thing hit me so fast?
Lilith:Fire! The robot did as instructed and shot off a round of missiles at our speedy hero.
Sonic:Crud, somehow sonic managed to get up and started running again. Sonic:Ha! amy hits way harder then your bucket of bolts. as sonic continued to run, he noticed something shining in the left eye of the robot. something he new all to well.
Sonic:What the... is that, a power ring?! Lilith:That's right. we've been doing reaserch on how you used your powers and came across that little beauty. but instead of explaining, why don't i give you a demonstration of what it can do.
Buster, show our blue friend here your dissapering act.
With that the giant robot had suddenly dissaperd.
Sonic:What the, how does something that big just disa.. before he could finish his sentence he was suddenly sucker punched into the wall again.
Sonic:Gah, thats.. cheating ya know... Lilith:Says the hedghog who's suppose to be the fastest thing alive. your not giving up already are you? buster's just getting started. the gigantic robot had smashed his fists together and dissapered again. soon sonic was taking multiple beatings trying to fight something he could'nt see. sonic had tried getting back up on his feet,
but the robot had contiued to land multiple blows on the blue hero.
Sonic:Ugh.. i'm getting my but kicked here... how can i fight something i can't see?!
Meanwhile... our young heroes had met back up in the hallway.
Jake:Looks like we all found something out of here. Ben:Yeah, we found him what had seemed to be a genetic testing lab.
Chiro:The name's chiro. i assume your friends then. Jake:Yep, looks like it. Tails:Dexter, what did you and johnny manage to find.
dexter had adjusted his glasses ab=nd looked down. Dexter:It would seem that we had the unfortunate luck to come across a rehabilitation center. Ben:Rehabila whata? what's that?
Danny:It;s a room where people are usually brainwashed. they use unusual methods and mess with the mind and completley rewrite it. Ben:Oh.
Johnny:we can mope about that stuff later, but right now does anybody know how we get to the center of this place?
Jake:Got it coverd. i overheard some of them talking about a room with big red doors. wich should be just down that hall.
Ben:How do we know that's the right way? after a short moment there was a large boom that shook the ground beneath them. Johnny:I think we can assume that we can go that way. after regaining there balance, they had headed down the hallway.
Meanwhile back in the room where we last left our blue hero, he was barley standing after the series of attacks he had continued taking from the robotic titan.
Lilith:Well i'm surprised you've managed to last this long. i suppose the robot does still need work. but practice makes perfect and all that junk. anyway's, buster, no need to toy with him any longer, finish him. the robot had changed it's right hand into a laser cannon and began charging power. Sonic:Crud, if only i could get to that power ring. before the robot could finish charging, a green energy blast was blasted into the cannon causing it to backfire destroying the cannon. Lilith:Oh great what now? the heroes had made it just before the robot could finish sonic off. Sonic:Heh..bout time you guys showed up.
Johnny:Crud dude what happend to you? Sonic:Eh, it's nothin, just got a little beat up by a robot is all. Lilith had quickly turned her attention to chiro noticing he was awake. Lilith:Hey! How'd the monkey brat get out of his cage! THis is just what i need! BUSTER! CRUSH EM ALL! the robot had drew a giant mechanical sword and rusehd at the heroes. Chiro:Look out! All of them had jumped out of the way to avoid the ground crushing blow. Dexter:What in the world is that mechanical monstrosity? Chiro:It's one of there prototype mecha's. there suppose to be making more of these things with multiple power sources. this one should be running on two.
Jake:hey dexter, got any fancy gadget to detect those power sources? Dexter:As a matter of fact i do. dexter had pressed a button on the right side of his glasses and activated a scanner. Dexter:There are two energy readings coming from it's right leg and right eye. there seems to be a chaos emerald in the leg.
Jake:Any ideas on how we can get to them? Dexter:Perhaps. i suggest we go for the eye first. on it. hey Guys!, aim for the robot's eyes. Ben:On it! this looks like a job for accelerate!
Ben had slammed down the omnitrix in hopes of getting accelerate, but instead he had got stinkfly.
Stinkfly:Sometimes i really hate this watch! Dexter:Hang on,that could be useful. ben, fly up to that robot's eye and spit in it. Stinkfly:OK, but i don't see how this will do anything.
stinkfly had flew up twoards the head of the robot as it was distracted by trying to fight off the other heroes.
meahnwhile dexter was tending to sonic's wounds. Sonic:Ugh, thanks dude, remind me to stop fighting giant robots.
Dexter:Noted. but right now were gonna need all the help we can get. Sonic:Hey dexter look out! dexter had turned behind him and quickly trasmuted a wall out of the metal floor blocking the incoming kick of lilith cyber. Lilith:Well, seems like someone's got good reflexses. Dexter:excuse me, but i'm trying to tend to a friend in need, so would you please not waste my time with your childish taunts?
Lilith:Well someone's confident. sorry, but i'm tired of watching. and there's no chance your getting off scot free.
Lilith had readyd herself in an 0ld style japan karate stance. Dexter:Sonic, can you move? Sonic:Barley, but yeah. Dexter:Good, tell jake and johnny to shoot their fire attacks after the robot is coverd with stinkfly goop. tell em not to hold back either.
Sonic:Got it! with that sonic had dashed off twoards the battle against the giant mech. Lilith:Ha, you really think you can take me on by yourself? Dexter:not really, though i think i can at least distract you for a few minutes or so. being a gentlemen i shall grant you the first strike. Lilith:well, this is gonna be fun. lilith had charged at dexter ready to kick him straight across his face. but he only used his right arm to block her attck. Lilith:What the? Dexter:Hmm, that attack was adequate at best. dexter had knocked the hedgfox away to a distance after the attack. of course she had landed on her feet.
Dexter:Now i believe it's my turn. dexter had claped his hands then started to pull something out of the ground. Lilith:So your the kid who can pull off alchemy. guess i should have done more homework. dexter had finally drew a giant iron wrench out of the ground with an alchemy symbol at the end of the wrench. Lilith:You sure you can fight me while luggging that thing around? Dexter:Why don't we find out?
as the boy genius and the hedgfox started to fight, the rest of the heroes were busy fighting of the giant robot.
the robot had begun firing missiles at johnny, wich he had destroyed with a couple of his fire blasts. Chiro had jumped into the air dogging the fists of the robot and tried kicking the robot in it;s chest plate, but it only seemed to do little damage, Chiro:Gah, how do we beat this thing. we can't even damage this thing let alone beat it. at that time sonic had quickly caught up with them. Sonic:HEy guys, try combining bug boys goop and your fire powew. Danny:Would'nt that be kinda dangerous, the aftermath would... Ohhh. danny had got what he was getting at. Danny:Hey ben!
Stinkfly:What? Danny:We need you to cover this thing in stinkfly barf! Stinkfly:The whole robot?! oh, i'm gonna wake up with such a stomach ache in the morning. stinkfly had begun covering the robot in green slime as it continued trying to swat stinkfly away. while it was'nt looking, danny had fired a ecto energy blast right in it's right eye causing it to break but still alowing it to move. before it could retaliate danny had quickly ripped out the power ring from the robot's right eye. Danny:Hey sonid! Heads up. sonic had quickly grabbed the power ring and started to glow.
Sonic:ALright! time for some well deserved payback! sonic had turned into spindash form and started realesing a flurry of blinding attacks against the robot which had started forcing it to move back. meanwhile with the boy genius, dexter was having little problem using his giant wrench as a battle weapon.
but lilith had begun gaining the upperhand as she started using a barrage of combo's wich dexter could barley defend against. she managed to find a blind spot and kicked dexter a few distances away from her. as dexter regained his stamina he saw that she was quickly rushing at him again. Dexter had quickly transmuted stone pillars to bar the hedgfox's path.
she easily doged most of his attacks as she manuverd most of the stone barriers he brought out. but one of them had caught her by surprised and had sent her flying. she had hanged in the air for a bit before she started to descend back to the ground. before she hit the ground dexter had ran twoards her and had struck her in the back with his giant wrench sending her crashing through six pillars.
lilith could still stand, but she had a bit of trouble standing. Dexter:now, do you wish to continue or do you give. Lilith:Heh, i'll admit your not bad for a squirt, but that does'nt mean yo've won.
when lillith dashed again it looked like she was moving faster then last time. dexter could'nt keep up as well as he did before as she easily knocked him back again. Lilith:Well, haven't had to actually try in a while. hope your not tired yet, cause we are far from done. Dexter:Gnh.. i hope they'll hurry this up. not sure how many more hits i can take. dexter had raised his wrench and got ready for the next round.
Meanwhile the robot was starting to slow down considerably. Danny:Finally, It looks like that thing is slowing down. Stinkfly:Can i rest now? stinfkly asked being obviously exhausted. Danny:Yeah that's good ben. johnny and jake will take it from here. Stinkfly:(sighs) good, stinkfly had descended back to the ground and transformed back into regualar ben tennyson.
Danny: Johhny! Jake! you guys ready? Jake:Ready. Johnny:Yeah, let's blow this place sky high!
Danny:ok, Everybody take cover! Johhny and jake had launched the biggest fire ball they could scrounge up and blasted the robot still coverd in goop causing a huger explosin covering the entire area. dexter had quickly transmuted a alchemic wall to protect himself while danny had put up a ghost shield protecting him and the otheres except Lilith.
As the smoke cleard the robot was in scorched pieces on the ground.
it took some time before the others could get up.
Johnny:YEAH! that was awesome!
Dexter:Glad to see you had fun.
Chiro:At least it's over now.
Sonic had began to catch his breath when he looked up on top of the destroyed robot and saw a rather unsetteling face.
Sonic:What? he had saw the same black hedghog that was framing him for the black hedghog's crimes. It was shadow the hedgog. He had held up a green gemstone from the robot.
Shadow:It all starts with this, a jewel containing ultimante power.
Sonic:That's a chaos emerald. Now i see what's going on, everyone's been blaming me for crimes you did. so, where do you think your going with that emerald? The ebony hedghog had remained silent as he watched the blue hedghog approach him. Sonic:Say something you fake hedghog!
Shadow:Chaos Control! in a green flash of light the black hedghod disssaperd. In an instand shadow had passed sonic and the others and was already at the other side of the room. Chiro:What in the world? did he teleport?
Sonic:Wow he's fast. Hey, it's not his speed but he must be using the chaos emerald to warp.
Shadow:My name is shadow.
I am the worlds ultimante life form. i have no more time for games. Farwell!.
with that once again the black hedghog had dissaperd.
Danny:What was that all about.
Sonic:That's the faker that's got G.U.N on my tail in the first place.
Ben:G.U.N?
Sonic:It's a military fraction here in station square and they think i've been the one pulling of recent crimes because of that shadow.
Tails:They also have secret agents that watch people when they least expect it. tails had flew down to them with an unconscious cream in hand.
Chiro:Where were you?
Tails:I went on ahead to see if i could find something, and i found cream laying uncounscious.
Ben:She looks pretty beat up. Do you know how to get her home? Tails:Yeah, she'll be fine. Ben:Well, we did'nt get the chaos emerald and we pretty much beat up the base, i think now is a good time as any to get out of here.
Johnny:Agreed, sticking around this place is starting to give me the creeps,
Hayley:And just where do you think your going? An irritated hayley asked blocking their way out.
Jake:Oh yeah, forgot you guys were here. Hayley took a short look around the totaled room and then spotted chiro.
Hayley:What the-? Okay, who woke up monkey boy?
Chiro:I have a name you know!
Danny:Where's dani? I'm not sensing her anywhere.
Hayley:Wouldn't you like to know? Not like it matters right now. We've got you right where we want you.
Ben looked around to see that hayley was right. Dozens of pirates surrounded our heroes preventing any route of escape.
Johnny:Woooah,didn't see this coming. Johnny said as they all backed up to the center of the room, What now?
Dexter:Weather we surrender or go down fighting, we'll still end up getting caught. Ben suddenly remembered the teleportation move that the black hedgehog had use to escape. It was a long shot, but it was the only option they had at the moment.
Ben:Dexter! Give me the emerald! Hayley was suprised to hear that he was carrying a chaos emerald with him.
Dexter:Just had to let them know didn't ya? What do you plan to do with it anyway?
Ben:Just hand it over! Dexter hesitantly reached into his left coat pocket and handed ben the bright red gem to ben.
Hayley:Well, that saves us the trouble of finding it ourselves. All right girls. Get 'em. She said as she snapped her fingers. The pirates began to move in on our heroes. Jake:Ben, if you got a plan, now would be a good time to tell us.
Ben:Don't worry, i'll get us out of here. CHAOS CONTROL! He shouted as he raised the emerald high into the air. But there was nothing but an awkward silence.
Johnny:Dude,that was your plan?!
Ben:Well,had to try something. Hayley was about to order the pirates to capture them, until a bright red light had shone from the chaos emerald. It grew larger and brighter until it enveloped sonic,tails,cream, and our heroes in it's blinding light, After a flash of energy, they disappeared,
Hayley:Damn it! She shouted in anger. Losing two emeralds in one day?! The old hag ain't gonna be happy about this.
Meanwhile,the group reappered just outside of the base. All of them a bit confused at what just happened.
Danny:Ben, how did you do that?
Ben:Don't know. If that shadow guy could do it, then i should've been able to do it too.
Dexter:Well, it dosen't matter now. We might want to take this chance and leave before they discover we're still here.
Tails:Right. I'll take care of cream. Tails said as he put cream into the x-tornado.
Ben:Hey,you said your name was chiro right? Why don't you come with us?
Chiro:Well,i don't really have anywhere else to go. And i'm ceartinly not goin' back in there.
Dexter:Hmm,there's not enough room in the tornado.
Johnny:I got this! Shapeshifting powers,go! He shouted as johnny suddenly morphed into apteradactyl.
Danny:Since when were you able to do that?
Johnny:For a while now,why?
Danny:Never mind. Let's get out of here,
Sonic:I'll meet you guys back at the hotel. Sonic said before dashing off.
And so our heroes may have lost a chaos emerald during this excursion, but they have also saved a life and gained an addition to their team, So far, our heroes have two chaos emeralds, while the mysterious hedgehog also has two, and the pirates have none. With only three emeralds left between them, who will gain the upper hand? Next time,our heroes decide to go after the black hedgehog ruining sonic's name and cross paths with a certain egg-head villain.
Next time on the BSSC, Chapter 7:An egghead's pyramid scheme.