Sonic Adventure 2

Cream the Rabbit's Story

Chapter 6

Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Cheese, and I explored the inside of Eggman's base, destroying any Eggman robot that got in our way and opening the various doors with the card-key Rouge stole from Eggman and gave to us. As we wandered the base, we wondered how Rouge would survive Shadow, let alone help him with Maria's death.

We then arrived at the center of the base, where in front of us was a doorway leading to one of Eggman's rocket ships leading to that space station Rouge called the "ARK". "Well," said Sonic, "we're almost there."

"And to think," said Knuckles, "that we'd never make it here had that thieving succubus not given us that card-key."

"Once we enter the rocket ship leading to that ARK or whatever the space station with the giant cannon is called," said Tails, "there's no turning back. Not until we stop Eggman and save Shadow from himself."

"No wonder I couldn't find my card-key in one of my lab-coat's pockets," said a familiar voice. We then turned around and spotted Eggman himself, as he looked down upon us and said, "It's because Rouge the bat betrayed me again and gave it to you, right?"

"We don't know what Rouge's intentions are," Amy said to Eggman, "but even though she's a thief, she's also our friend and an innocent forest-animal like us!"

"You won't get away with threatening us with that space station with the giant cannon," I said angrily to Eggman.

"Chao, chao," said Cheese.

"Also," said Knuckles, "you were watching us, right? Tell us, is Rouge okay? Did she survive Shadow?"

"Of course she had, you stupid egg-laying mammal," said Eggman. "I was hoping that Shadow would finish her off after defeating her in battle, but he had to go all soft on that thief and spare her life, just because she said something to him that caused him to calm down! Perhaps the six of you and your bat-thief friend really are capable of saving Shadow from fifty years of torment."

"Wait," said Sonic, "I understand the 'torment' part, but the 'fifty years' part?"

"We forgot to tell you," Amy said to Sonic, "but despite Shadow looking like he's fifteen, he's actually about fifty-years-old, as Eggman said."

"Your female counterpart's right, Sonic," Eggman said. "Fifty years ago, Shadow was discriminated by the GUN army for being a fake hedgehog created by my granddad, Professor Gerald Robotnik. So, they killed Maria in front of his eyes along with every other person on the ARK that knew about Shadow, Gramps included, and imprisoned him on Prison Island, which I freed him from in hopes that he'd be useful to my schemes. Losing his girlfriend - my cousin - and fifty years of solitary confinement warped his mind so much, that I highly doubt any of you or that bat-thief can fix him! With his fifty years of pain and sorrow combined with his powers, I can easily use all that to my advantage in my campaign for world domination, and he'll kill all of you just by thinking about it before you could do anything to save him from himself!"

"You don't know anything about us," said Tails.

"My friend's right," said Sonic. "We can easily destroy vast armies of your robots ending with you and your most powerful machines! You slowly become more and more powerful and capable of yourself every time you'd return, and despite your ever-increasing strength we defeat you anyway, and grow more powerful every time we'd do so! And if we can defeat someone as ever-increasingly strong as you and your robots, then surely we can save Shadow!"

"Then allow me to test you," said Eggman, "to see if you're really that worthy of saving Shadow and turning him and his powers against me!"

Suddenly, we could feel the ground shaking underneath our feet, as we turned around and discovered behind us, to our shock, a giant, stone robot golem menacingly staring down upon us, getting ready to fight. "You may be capable of destroying anything larger than yourselves," Eggman said to us, "but if you can find a way to destroy my Egg-Golem just as you could my previous machines, then surely you might stand some chance at saving Shadow! Although, really, to be honest, I highly doubt you will. After all, you and your speedy-blue friend keep getting in the way of my plans for world-domination, and for that you'll have to die one way or another." The door Eggman was behind then closed behind us, and we were trapped in the giant room, left at the mercy of the Egg-Golem.

"What are we going to do," I asked Sonic.

"Chao, chao," said Cheese.

"Don't worry," said Sonic. "It may outsize us but we outnumber it." Sonic then pointed toward the top of the Egg-Golem's head as he said, "See that switch?" The rest of us looked up and discovered that on top of the Egg-Golem's head was a giant, red button. "One of us has to reach that conveniently-placed button while the rest of us distracts that thing."

"Or," said Knuckles, "we can always toss you to the top of its head so that you can reach it without the need for your plan."

"Right," said Sonic, "how stupid of me!"

"Look out," cried Tails, as the Egg-Golem was about to slam its fist at us.

We managed to dodge the attack on time, as Knuckles then said to Sonic, "Curl into your ball form! I'll toss you high in the air!"

"Right," said Sonic, as he curled into a spinning ball. Knuckles grabbed Sonic in his ball-form as he spun around as quickly and powerfully as a tornado, tossing Sonic high in the air as he managed to reach and hit the button on time, damaging the Egg-Golem.

However, the Egg-Golem still stood up and continued to fight us. Despite its size and strength, each of us had a method of attacking it. Tails had a hand-cannon that fired a strong energy blast that reached the button on top of its head, while I had Cheese for my Chao Attack to reach it from afar. Knuckles would toss Sonic in his ball-form at the button, while Amy would hit Sonic in ball-form with her hammer to help him do more damage to it. After about half an hour of fighting the Egg-Golem, we've managed to do enough damage to truly destroy it, as it fell down onto the ground motionless.

"We did it," I said as I high-fived Cheese.

"Chao," said Cheese.

"Don't pat yourselves on the back, yet," said Sonic.

"He's right," said Tails. "We still need to head to the rocket ship and chase down Eggman!"

The six of us then ran out of the room where we fought the Egg-Golem and into the launch station. In front of us was a rocket ship, and in front of it was Eggman himself. As us and him faced each other, Eggman said, "You really have grown more powerful than when we last met! But, even if you're capable of evading the GUN army, breaking and entering into my base, and destroying my Egg-Golem, I highly doubt you'll still save Shadow and foil my plans like usual!"

"You said that you wanted to test us," said Knuckles, "and to do that, you pitted us against your Egg-Golem."

"We've managed to destroy that giant thing," said Amy, "and succeeded your test! We're more than capable of saving Shadow so that he can help us defeat you!"

"Then you're all even bigger fools than I'd expected you to be," replied Eggman, as he escaped into his rocket-ship and was about to blast-off into outer-space.

"Quickly," cried Sonic, "get yourselves on that ship before it blasts off!"

"Right," the rest of us said in unison. We then jumped on top of the ship as Knuckles opened the roof-compartment door with his super-strength, allowing us to stow-away into the ship while hoping that Eggman doesn't catch us.

The ship then blasted-off from Eggman's base to outer-space itself. Next to us was a window displaying space and the planet Earth, and next to it, the giant space station with Eggman's face underneath it, which Rouge said to us was called the ARK. We also saw the moon, and it was that point Knuckles looked out the window and said to us, "I sense the last three Master Emerald shards on the moon."

"What are you talking about," I asked.

"Chao, chao," said Cheese.

"I don't know how three pieces would fly their way on the moon," said Knuckles, "but I know they're there. If you'll excuse me, I need to finish fixing the damage Rouge created on my emerald."

"But Eggman will capture you when he spots you leaving the ship," said Tails.

"So what," asked Knuckles. "He probably knows we're here anyway, because he has some security cameras placed all over this rocket. He's probably luring us into some trap or whatever, meaning that it's okay if he sees me escape to collect the last Master Emerald shards."

"Then don't blame us," said Sonic, "if Eggman spots you and tries to capture or kill you."

"Thanks for letting me complete my mission," said Knuckles, as he left the rocket's compartment we stowed away in, and escaped the rocket to fly toward the moon with the last Master Emerald shards.

"What are we going to do without Knuckles," Amy asked.

"Don't worry," Sonic said as the rocket slowly flew toward the ARK, "I'll have to think of something."